Clone of the heavens: I activated spiritual energy recovery

"My dear, you can use half of the iron produced by Zhouzhi Iron Mine. With half of the iron from Zhouzhi Iron Mine, I think it will be enough for you to make iron farm tools. If it is not enough, you will have to find a way to solve it yourself."

Ying Zheng thought about it and found that he had fallen into a misunderstanding. The iron in other iron mines had owners and could not be moved, but the newly discovered Zhouzhi Iron Mine had not yet been allocated.

Letting Zhang Shi freely control half of the iron output of Zhouzhi Iron Mine has two advantages.

First, it allows Zhang Shi to farm better and realize his dream of tripling or fourfolding grain output.

The second is to stimulate Zhang Shi, so that Zhang Shi can work harder to create more advanced mining methods and increase Daqin's iron production again, or Zhang Shi can discover a few more iron mines, increase the amount of iron ore mining, and increase iron production in disguise.

No matter what, Ying Zheng will not lose.

"Your Majesty, you can leave this matter to me. I will not let you down."

[Hey, with half the iron from Zhouzhi Iron Mine, my plan can start. 】

[Brother Zheng is indeed generous. I hope Brother Zheng eats milk as I said, otherwise the heavy metals in the body will not be excreted and the harm to the body will become more and more serious]

Ying Zheng was in a good mood at the moment, and Zhang Shi was indeed interested in him.

Of course he is eating milk. He has been eating it for five or six days. His health is indeed much better, and his energy and energy have recovered a lot.

At this time, Ying Zheng had given up his pursuit of immortality, or he had accepted his fate.

Living a few more years has become Ying Zheng's new pursuit.

Human beings are human beings. Before they can evolve into immortals, their lifespan is limited after all. Immortality is just a fantasy. Instead of wasting resources to pursue immortality, it is better to cultivate one's moral character, delay aging, and extend lifespan in disguise.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen is here for the first time and has no one. I wonder if I can assign some people to Wei Chen to manage [-] farmers. Wei Chen alone is unable to do anything."

"Zhang Shi, I have already arranged this for you. You go to Chang'an Township to find Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi will assist you in managing [-] farmers. You only need to give orders."

Ying Zheng knew that Zhang Shi had just arrived and had no foundation and no one he could use, so he made arrangements for him and also set up a team for him to do the farming.

With Ying Zheng's support, Zhang Shi did not continue to stay in Xianyang Palace and prepared to do things first.

Ying Zheng did not keep Zhang Shi around. He was recently planning to figure out some things, kill some people, and purge the group of people who acted around him.

So he was very busy. Even if he wanted to talk to Zhang Shi more and ask for advice, it would take some time until he solved the problem and Zhang Shi arranged the farming.

After leaving Xianyang Palace, Zhang Shi prepared to act according to the plan.

The fertile land and farmers arranged for him by Ying Zheng are already in place. In Chang'an Township, not far from Xianyang City, it can be said that more than half of the land and people in Chang'an Township have been given to him.

Ten thousand rural households, calculated as a family of six people, total at least 6 people.

Ten thousand hectares of fertile farmland is more than 300 million acres of land.

On average, a family can be allocated one hundred acres of land.

However, farming is hard work. A family of five or six people cultivates one hundred acres of land. Even modern farmers have various agricultural machinery to assist them. Farming is still very tiring.

Taking four slaves with him, Zhang Shi rode straight to Chang'an Township.

Chang'an Township belongs to Wang Ji's land. There is no fiefdom owner yet, and it is directly under the management of the imperial court.

"May I ask if it's Mr. Zhang Xizhang?"

"I'm Zhang Shi, are you Zhou Yi?"

"Back to Mr. Zhang, my subordinate is Zhou Yi."

Entering Chang'an Township, Zhang Shi quickly found Zhou Yi. He was also a resolute person and did not exchange too many pleasantries. He immediately asked Zhou Yi about the situation of Chang'an Township.

Zhou Yi was worthy of being the person arranged by Yingzheng to assist Zhang Shi. He was very capable and managed ten thousand farmers in an orderly manner. Ten thousand hectares of fertile land used for farming were also registered and re-divided.

With Zhou Yi's assistance, Zhang Shi can relax a lot.

Zhang Shi's plan is very simple, or he is ready to cheat.

The first step of the plan is to take the blacksmith and carpenter to make curved shaft plows and iron farm tools. At least a thousand curved shaft plows must be made, and each family will have one iron farm tool.

If there is not enough iron, Zhang Shidu is ready to let the main body support a batch of farm tools. He will start smoothly first, and then wait for Daqin's iron output to be sufficient before mass-manufacturing iron farm tools and curved shaft plows.

Second, dig diversion canals to divert water from the Wei River into farmland areas to make use of water conservancy advantages.

Third, gather strong laborers and use cattle and manpower to plow the farmland first, and at the same time clear the rocks and hard soil in the farmland to improve the quality of the farmland.

If the fields are not good, there will naturally not be much food grown.

Fourth, obtain fine grain seeds for future generations from the main body, and also take out the two crops of potatoes and sweet potatoes in advance, cultivate the first batch of seeds, and then spread them to all parts of Daqin.

Cheating has to look like cheating, and it can share items with the main body, and there are ways to connect the technological era of later generations. There is no need for Zhang Shi to use the seeds of Da Qin. It would not be better to directly use the seeds cultivated by later generations.

At best, things are done secretly, so that no one knows the source of the seeds.

Fifth, study chemical fertilizer technology, build a youth version of chemical fertilizer factory, apply chemical fertilizer technology to farming, and greatly improve field fertility.

The five-point plan is only a general summary. How to implement it specifically requires Zhang Shi's on-site guidance and full control.

Zhang Shi is responsible for issuing orders and conducting research, macro-control and general direction, solving various problems that arise in the plan, and making suggestions.

It was naturally up to Zhou Yi to communicate supplies and arrange work for people.

The two of them cooperated, and [-] farmers in Chang'an Township took action.

In the Chang'an Township workshop, Zhang Shi took the blacksmiths and carpenters arranged by Ying Zheng and got busy. A steady stream of wood and pig iron was sent into the workshop, and finished tools were sent out of the workshop one by one.

In the workshop, under Zhang Shi's guidance, a handful of curved shaft plows and a handful of iron farm tools were manufactured. As the craftsmen became familiar with the process, Zhang Shi no longer needed to follow up and could do other things.

By the way, Zhang Shi continued to give lessons to the blacksmiths and carpenters in the workshop, imparting some professional knowledge to later generations and cultivating the craftsmen's abilities.

After all, manpower is sometimes poor, and no matter how strong a person is, there is only a limit to what he can do, so Zhang Shide continues to train craftsmen so that they can understand the drawings he gives and create the appliances represented by the drawings.

Before the curved shaft plow and iron farm tools were manufactured, farmers could not be idle. Zhou Yi took the lead in digging diversion canals and building waterwheels to introduce Weishui water into farmland areas so that it could be irrigated in the future.

Zhou Yi can arrange this kind of thing.

This kind of small project is completely inadequate in front of Da Qin.

Even the Great Wall can be built, but digging a few aqueducts in Chang'an Township is not a simple matter. As long as the people are in place and work according to the blueprints designed by the craftsmen.

Another ten days have passed. After non-stop construction by 500 farmers, a water diversion canal with a total length of [-] kilometers, two meters wide and one meter deep has been completed. Every [-] meters, there is a wooden waterwheel to divert water.

The design and manufacture of a waterwheel is not difficult. Zhang Shi just took out the drawings and told the carpenter some design ideas. Daqin Carpenter built the waterwheel in just one day.

In these ten days, the workshop also produced [-] shaft plows and [-] iron farm tools, which was completely insufficient.

So Zhang Shi temporarily asked the workshop to stop the production of farm tools and focus on making curved shaft plows. As for the missing farm tools, he naturally let the main body support them.

Otherwise, based on the output of the workshop, it would take him three months to produce farm tools and plows that fit his plan, but since sowing would begin in half a month, he didn't have that much time to wait, so he could only cheat.

Unlocking was naturally extremely smooth. The main body supported a total of [-] unmarked iron farm tools, as well as [-] kilograms of grain seeds, and [-] kilograms of potato and sweet potato seeds.

Since he is cheating, he should open it wider, otherwise others will think that he is cheating and he has to be secretive and not grand.

With the farm tools in hand, Zhang Shi immediately arranged for farmers to plow the land before sowing to optimize the fields and improve field utilization.

"Master Zhang, this Quyuan plow is really powerful! One person and one plowing ox can do as much as ten people working all morning, and the ground is plowed deeper. When sowing, the seeds can be absorbed deep into the soil. The fertility of the place.”

"This is also my goal with the Quyuan Plow. Only better farm tools and more advanced farming methods can increase food production and feed the people of the world."

"Master Zhang is highly righteous. With Master Zhang in our country, the Qin Dynasty will surely become more powerful."

On the edge of the field, Zhang Shi and Zhou Yi laughed as they watched a man and an ox plowing the ground, plowing the ground with ridges of wet soil.

Zhang Shi smiled because he knew that he succeeded. This move would definitely change Da Qin and the world, and put Da Qin on a new path in advance. If nothing else, Da Qin would have the potential to dominate the world.

Zhou Yi smiled, simply happy.

He was originally a farmer. He spent the first 20 years digging food in the fields and knew the hard work of farming. In the next 20 years, he came to Daqin and showed his talent by chance, and then he had the opportunity to serve Daqin.

After 20 years of struggle, he was appreciated by Ying Zheng, otherwise he would not have been sent by Ying Zheng to assist Zhang Shi.

After 20 years of farming and foraging, Zhou Yi deeply understood what Zhang Shi's curved shaft plow and iron farm tools meant to the people.

A bent-shaft plow and an iron farm tool are the life of a farm family. Only with more food can the family not starve to death. If people do not starve to death and have enough to eat, ordinary people feel happy. .

There is not enough food, you can’t even eat enough, you struggle every day to have enough food, and you don’t have any capital to fight against the unexpected. This is a terrible thing.

Thinking of the past, Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel grateful that although his background was not good, it was still much better than most people who didn't have enough to eat.

Even though he had to farm at that time, the family had a lot of land, a lot of brothers in the family, and he was inexplicably smart, so he could get support from his family, so he could read some books, learn some knowledge, and have the opportunity to change his destiny.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will be good for yourself, and if you are rich, you will benefit the world.

When Zhou Yi was poor, he could only take care of himself. Now that he is rich, he wants to help the world as much as he can. He doesn't ask for anything, he just wants more people like him to live a good life.

His abilities are limited, but he knows that Zhang Shi is capable, so he respects Zhang Shi very much and tries his best to assist Zhang Shi in his work.

Now it seems that Zhang Shi is indeed capable.

Zhou Yi respected Zhang Shi even more and was more willing to help Zhang Shi wholeheartedly.