Everyone shook their heads.
Apart from manpower lifting and waterwheels, they are nothing more than these two, what else can there be?
Looking at everyone's expressions, Chongzhen smiled and said: "What if I told you that someone has a way to automatically bring the water from this low place to a high place?"
He remembered that Sun Yuanhua had given him a copy of "Illustrated Notes on Newly Made Various Utensils" written by Wang Zheng some time ago, which recorded the "siphon" for drinking water from low to high and the "crane guide" for irrigating farmland.
If these two things are made, coupled with the commonly used turners, barrel trucks, etc., irrigation will not be a problem.
Thinking of this, Chongzhen frowned slightly. Sun Yuanhua wrote to Wang Zheng a few years ago, asking him to come out, but Wang Zheng declined because his father had just passed away in September and wanted Ding You.
Ding You is responsible for controlling this kind of thing. Even if he is an emperor, he cannot forcefully order others.
I had to wait until after the New Year. Since I am in Shaanxi now, I would like to stop by.
For the sake of the people of the Ming Dynasty, personally inviting this scientific and technological expert is considered a courtesy and virtuous corporal.
What's more, the "Illustrated Notes on Newly Made Various Utensils" records self-propelled grinding machines, bicycles, wheel pots, contract farming, etc. These are things that he has been thinking about for a long time.
Even if there are books and drawings about these things, it is definitely not a good phenomenon if no one is in charge of them and they know what they are but don’t know why.
"Du Aiqing, is Jing...yang County in Xi'an Prefecture?"
Du Yinxi immediately took out the map and drew on it: "Back to Your Majesty, Jingyang County is eighty or ninety miles northwest of Xi'an Prefecture. We are going from Baishui to Xi'an Prefecture and pass through Fuping County on the way.
Turn around from there, it's only about fifty or sixty miles away, and then go to Xi'an Mansion, which is closer.
It takes about 120 miles directly from Fuping to Xi'an. The two roads are almost the same. If your Majesty wants to go to Jingyang, you can take a detour in Fuping! "
"Then let's take a detour and take you to meet this capable man. By the way, we can see how the planning of Qingzhang's fields under Xi'an Mansion is going."
Chongzhen made his decision without any hesitation, then returned to the official road, got on his horse, and galloped wildly, followed by thousands of horsemen behind him.
The team slowly entered the territory of Xi'an Prefecture. Xi'an Prefecture governed six states and thirty-one counties, and was the first prefecture in the Ming Dynasty.
Along the way, everyone saw that many fields, land, etc. on both sides were divided into almost the same size, and even the width and height of the field ridges and ditches were almost the same.
And there is a small wooden sign in the middle of each piece with some handwriting written on it, such as: Two acres of land named Jiachen in Lianhu Village, Fuping County, Xi'an Prefecture;
Including the area of prefectures and counties, etc., the situation is clear.
The people who were digging the ground in Tianzhong looked at the advancing team. Although they were a little curious and panicked, they did not run away.
After all, I have seen countless teams in the past six months. Such a well-disciplined team is definitely not a bandit, so there is nothing to be afraid of.
Chongzhen looked around, walked to an old man in the distance, and said in a gentle voice: "Old man, what does this sign mean?"
"Little... General, the old man can't tell you exactly, but where is the chief? The old man called you, please ask him!"
The old man pointed to a few old men a hundred feet away who were checking the books, and then shouted in a loud voice: "Chief... Chief, this general invites you to come over!"
In fact, there was no need for him to shout, the chief had already brought people over when he saw the situation.
When he saw Chongzhen and the people behind him, his expression was startled. Although he was only a village chief, he also walked around the county on weekdays, so his knowledge was naturally wider than that of the farmers.
Although he didn’t know the situation of Chongzhen and others, he knew just by looking at the clothes that it was not simple. He immediately said: "Feng Jun of Lianhu Village, Lianhu Village, has seen several... generals!"
"Chief, we have some questions. Please clarify. What's going on with this brand?"
Feng Jun looked at the sign with a smile in his eyes: "Sir, this is the mark made by Mr. Yuan Keli and Yuan Ge after they measured the fields.
Specifically, the ancestral hall in each village is the center. If there is no ancestral hall, a monument will be erected in the village to enclose all the land in the village and be divided into eight areas according to the orientation.
For example, in our village, starting from the ancestral hall, three miles to the east, two and a half miles to the west... we have a boundary monument, and then find a center point in each area to measure the distance from the center.
According to the numbers of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, they are then registered and made into a booklet. Each village ancestral hall has a copy of this booklet, and the county government office, the Land and Resources Management Bureau and the agricultural assistant officer have a copy. "
Chongzhen listened to the old man's explanation and thought about it for a while. His eyes were filled with relief. Yuan Keli was indeed reliable in his work.
This method is quite similar to the practice of farmland accounting in later generations.
The location of farmland in later generations was determined based on aerial photography information, and then was explored through GPS positioning and manual surveying and mapping.
It includes the actual area of the plot, four boundaries and geographical location, forming the unique coordinates of each plot of land.
If the entire Xi'an Prefecture's land was numbered like this, and then it was enthroned and registered, it would be accompanied by a simple floor plan.
They even went a step further and replaced the small wooden sign with stone, then buried it in the ground. Only the farmer himself knew the location.
In the future, no matter what time, as long as you use the fish scale book to check, you will not miss any one.
But the premise is that it can be implemented thoroughly, and now it has exceeded my expectations.
After chatting with the chief and others for a while, Chongzhen led the people towards Jingyang County again.
It took only one day to reach the distance of more than a hundred miles on horseback. Without any pause, after asking about Luqiao Town where Wang Zheng was located, he went straight to Wang Zheng's home.
Not to mention Lu Qiao, there was no big shot in Jingyang, and even Wang Zheng, a celebrity in the town, was just a sixth-rank official.
Now that more than a thousand cavalrymen have arrived, all the neighbors are worried and frightened, and they are talking in low voices.
"What are these military masters doing here? They look very unusual in their clothes!"
"I don't know, but from what I heard before, it seems that I went to find Wang Zheng."
"Which Wang Zheng? It can't be the Wang Zheng who makes weird things all day long, right?"
"We only have one named Wang Zheng, and he has been an official, so he is probably the one."
"I heard that he, Ding Youqian, was just a promotion officer from the sixth grade. Why is such a big battle looking for him? They don't want to arrest him, right?"
"It's possible. I heard that he joined some kind of... foreign sect, which is incompatible with us anyway. I guess the court thought it was an alien sect and came to arrest him and put him on trial!"
"That's not right. Just arrest him alone and let the county officials come. As for using the army of more than a thousand people? Is this to arrest him or to make him look bad?"
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While the people were talking about it, Chongzhen led the team to Wang Zheng's house.
Wang Zheng, who had already received the news and arrived at the gate, looked at such a huge battle with a look of surprise and uncertainty on his face.
When he looked at the armors worn by Zhou Yuji and Cao Bianjiao and the military flags of the sergeants behind them, his expression changed drastically.
After quickly adjusting his clothes, he immediately stepped forward and knelt down in front of everyone's astonished eyes.
"Ding You's minister, Wang Zheng, came to see Your Majesty. He didn't know that Your Majesty was coming. Please forgive me for any rudeness!"
