"My dear friends, do you have any countermeasures for this severe drought in Guanzhong?"
Above the court, Li Shimin asked the courtiers. Looking at the ministers below, they were like quails, and Li Shimin felt angry.
The civil and military officials he raised throughout the dynasty were not as capable as his nephew.
"Your Majesty, please pray for rain as soon as possible!"
A foreign minister from the Ministry of Revenue stood up and started playing.
The Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of the country's territory, fields, household registration, taxes, salaries and wages, and all financial matters.
During the severe drought in Guanzhong, they were so worried that their hair fell out, but the only way was to find a monk to offer sacrifices to the sky to pray for rain, so as to calm the people's hearts.
The most important thing is that His Majesty must also come forward in order to appear sincere.
Li Shimin nodded: "Okay, you will bring the animals for sacrifice to heaven later, and I will help you pray for rain!"
"Your Majesty!" Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was anxious. During the spring plowing season, the seeds have been sown. If the irrigation cannot keep up, the yield of the crops will inevitably be affected.
"Hmph! There is a shortage of water in the fields. Isn't the best way to think about how to get water for irrigation? If praying to ghosts and gods is useful, then why not everyone go home to rest and enshrine a row of shrines in the court."
These words were a bit harsh, and the courtiers all bowed their heads, wondering why the emperor was so angry today.
"King Qin!"
"I'm here!" Li Jiancheng stood up from the first row.
"Open their eyes!"
"yes!"
Then a guard came in carrying some things.
"What is this?"
"I don't know! But judging from what the emperor said, it should be something that can pump water!"
"Then where do you think this thing came from, Your Majesty?"
"Who knows? Ask if you have the skills? The new plow last time was later named Tang Li. The Minister of the Ministry of Industry went to ask who made it, but he came back with a disgraced face."
In fact, these ministers going to court are no different from everyone else at work. They have to talk about gossip. At most, they just need to keep their voices down and not irritate the emperor.
Soon, a group of guards built a water tank in the main hall, and then took out Tang Ping's waterwheel model and set it up next to it.
The water tank is slightly sloping and is intended to imitate a river.
"start!"
Following Li Jiancheng's order, the guard at one end began to pour water, and then the water flowed to the position of the water wheel in the sink. The water wheel began to spin, and then the water was brought up.
Then the guards demonstrated how to use the waterwheel's wind power, human power, and animal power.
"This thing is awesome!"
"Yes, you can use water power where the water is fast, wind power where there is strong wind, and oxen where there is no wind. If there are no oxen, you can use people to step on it."
A group of courtiers began to whisper among themselves again.
Dai Zhou, the Minister of Household Affairs, was even more excited. He went out and shouted: "Your Majesty, please promote this product nationwide!"
After all, that's what it's about. Compared with the waterwheels commonly used today, it's clear which one is better and worse.
Although Datang does not have KPIs, if grain production increases, the Ministry of Revenue will eventually have more confidence.
"There is no problem with promotion. The six animals used to worship heaven as mentioned just now are indispensable!" Li Shimin said with a smile: "This can be regarded as something I saved from those monks, right?"
Dai Zhou did not expect that the emperor would be so serious about this matter, but he would be willing to exchange the waterwheel for not only six but sixty animals!
"promise!"
After retiring from the imperial court, Li Shimin was all smiles. This matter that the civil and military officials of the imperial court could not help, his nephew took action. No, he didn't take action. He just settled it in Shanghe Village.
Li Jiancheng also looked proud when he was next to him.
"Brother Emperor, please send the six animals sent by the Ministry of Household Affairs to Shanghe Village!"
"No problem!" Li Jiancheng nodded in agreement.
This year there is a new type of Tang plow and a waterwheel like this. I think the people will be able to harvest more food.
If there were more potatoes with a yield of more than 1,000 kilograms per acre as Tang Ping said, then the entire Tang Dynasty would no longer suffer from famine.
On the other side, Dai Zhou walked beside Duan Lun: "Duan Shangshu, how long will it take for this keel waterwheel to be sent out to spread the craftsmen across the country?"
Originally, the word dragon cannot be used casually, not to mention it is still called dragon bone.
But the emperor didn't mind. If he was called like this, of course they would follow suit.
Duan Lun is the Minister of the Ministry of Industry. This keel waterwheel is still a model. To promote it, we have to wait for the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to learn it thoroughly before sending it out.
But the problem is that the Ministry of Industry is short of people now!
Duan Lun said with a bitter look on his face: "Brother Dai, it's not like you don't know that this Tang Li has only been out for a few days? Now the craftsmen in the entire Ministry of Industry are busy making Tang Li. The emperor took out another dragon bone water car……"
I used to be worried when I didn't have these things, but now I have too many good things and I am worried.
Moreover, the plow is okay, the structure is simple, and the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry worked overtime to make it.
This waterwheel is different. It has a complicated structure. How could it be promoted overnight?
"Then you have to get it for me too!" Dai Zhou started to act rogue. This thing has come out. If it is not extended to the whole country and delays the spring plowing, who is it?
"But I really have no one!" Duan Lun is a good old man, and he has some characteristics of this later generation of technical nerds. When various departments ask him to make things, he has never refused as long as they need to be done.
However, this time it was originally required to make more than 500 Tang plows as soon as possible, send them to county offices across the country in batches, and then let local craftsmen copy them.
The work is not over yet, there is another keel waterwheel.
"Look for someone if there is no one!" Dai Zhou patted Duan Lun on the shoulder: "I will pay for it from the Ministry of Revenue. You can make a list and find more people to work."
The Hu Bu is in charge of money and food in the world, and the richest people are their Hu Bu.
"Okay, I'll try my best!" Duan Lun sighed. Dai Zhou didn't understand, but he knew that the waterwheel was complicated.
The old craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry are okay, but if you want to find helpers from outside, how can you possibly do it?
But he also knew that with the coming of spring plowing and severe drought in Guanzhong, the water tanker was also imminent.
"Hey, I just don't know who made this thing!" Duan Lun held the box in his hand: "You can actually make something so ingenious. I really want to ask for advice in person."
Others only think that this waterwheel is exquisite, but Duan Lun has been around craftsmen every day, so he knows how advanced and exquisite the craftsmanship of this waterwheel is.
For this model alone, what their engineering department could do to make it so exquisite was no more than a single skill.
On the other side, Li Jiancheng's people collected the livestock sent by the Ministry of Revenue and hurried directly to Shanghe Village.
"I have met Young Master Tang. This is what my General Li sent to Young Master. Please accept it!"
Li Jiancheng's men handed the six animals to Tang Ping and left immediately.
Tang Ping was stunned as he looked at the cows, sheep, pigs, horses, dogs and a chicken.
