Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

Chapter 730: Various Water Pumping Machines, Preferential Policies For Population Migration [Please

After talking about the solution to the "frozen soil" problem, Yan Changqing went on to talk about the solution to the "swamp" problem:

"Although the water pumping problem in Liaodong swamps is troublesome, it is not impossible to solve."

"For example, you can use the siphon principle, spiral motion principle, air pressure effect, etc. to make various water pumping machines."

"The so-called siphon principle is the principle of using pressure difference.

"If the height of the liquid in a closed container is the same, the pressure will be the same -."

"The siphon is filled with water and has no air. The water level at the inlet end is high, and the water outlet is blocked with the palm of your hand or other objects. At this time, the pressure inside the tube is equal everywhere."

"After everything is set up, open the water outlet. Although the atmospheric pressure on both sides is equal, the water level at the inlet end is high and the pressure is strong, pushing the incoming water to continuously flow out of the outlet.

"For example, you can open up the inside of a bamboo, put the bamboo tube into a pool that needs to be pumped, and fill the inside of the bamboo tube with water."

"Then press it with your hands, or block the openings at both ends of the bamboo tube with something like a wet cloth, and then leave one end of the bamboo tube in the pool. At this time, you cannot let go of your hands or the wet cloth."

"Then place the other end in a lower place outside, and finally release the openings at both ends of the hose at the same time, so that the water can be pumped out using the siphon principle."

"Perhaps the amount of water that can be pumped out by a bamboo tube is relatively small, but such a bamboo tube for pumping water is simple to make and easy to use."

"Hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of bamboo tubes can be made at the same time and placed in the swamp to pump and drain water at the same time."

“In this way, the amount of suction and drainage in the swamp will naturally increase, and the speed of suction and drainage will naturally be greatly accelerated by hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of times.

"For another example, a dragon tail water wheel can be made using the principle of spiral motion."

“The so-called dragon-tail water wheel uses the principle of screw conveying, and uses the rotation of the internal shaft to drive the spiral blades to run in the opposite direction, so that the water can be moved upward to achieve the purpose of raising water.

"When in use, one end is placed in the water and the other end is placed on the shore. It is driven by gears. When lifting water, the rotation direction of the shaft is opposite to the upward direction of the spiral.

"Any short section of the spiral plane can be regarded as an inclined plane. Water flows downward along the inclined plane, but rises with the spiral, which is equivalent to the inclined plane dragging the water upward.'

"When this is applied in practice, one end of the dragon tail water cart is placed in the swamp and the other end is placed on the shore, and then the water in the swamp is spirally conveyed and discharged to the other side of the shore."

"Another example is a pump made using the principle of air pressure, or a water absorber!"

"Zeng Gongliang of the Northern Song Dynasty once recorded it in the "General Essentials of Martial Arts" compiled by him: the pump is made of long bamboo, and the bottom is opened, and the water rod is wrapped with cotton wool to pump water from the orifice.

"It means: put the end of the bamboo tube into the water, and pull up the water rod (i.e. the pull rod) wrapped with cotton wool (i.e. the piston), and the water will enter the water tube through the (valve).

"Referring to the pump, we can make a large water suction device, that is, a pump that can be enlarged dozens or hundreds of times, and then pump out the water in the swamp."

"However, if such a large water suction device is pulled by human or animal power, it will still be troublesome. Water power can be used to further reduce the consumption of human and animal power.

"For example, there are swamps in Liaodong, which means abundant water resources, dense water networks, many rivers, groundwater, etc."

"You can place a waterwheel on one side of the river, let the river water drive the waterwheel, and then bind it with gears or ropes between the waterwheel and the water pole of the large water suction device."

“Finally, the river water drives the waterwheel, and the waterwheel drives the gears or ropes, which in turn drive the water poles, and the water poles are lifted upwards to suck out the water in the swamp.

"The cycle continues day and night, which can greatly speed up the efficiency of swamp pumping and drainage."

Again, he couldn't use his hands to produce the large-scale agricultural water-pumping machinery in his previous life.

However, he can still make use of various physical principles, phenomena, and functions to create some water pumping machinery.

Even considering the rich water resources and dense rivers in the Northeast, he was able to adapt to local conditions and further create a water pumping machine that does not require human or animal power and uses river water as the driving force.

It may not be as efficient as the large-scale agricultural pumping machinery of the previous life, but it doesn't matter. If the efficiency is not enough, just make up for it in quantity!!!

What he might have been able to do with one large agricultural water pumping machine in his previous life, he could do it with ten, a hundred, or even hundreds or thousands of fake agricultural water pumping machines.

In short, there is a saying, if you encounter difficulties, then find a way to solve them.

In this way, even in the current era, even at this point in time, if done properly, it is still possible to develop the black soil of the Liaodong Plain!!!

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"Very good!!"

“Very good!!!”

As soon as Yan Changqing finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but praise loudly.

As the emperor, what he likes most is people like Yan Changqing who can see problems, point them out, and finally solve them.

The other civil and military officials were also full of joy. The three problems of "frozen soil", "climate" and "swamp" raised by Ke Sheng Ban Heng before were now solved by Ke Sheng Ban Heng.

What remains is the problem of how to move people to the Liaodong Plain to develop the black soil of Liaodong.

They are familiar with this. In November of the ninth year of Hongwu (1376), they moved the landless people of Zhending, Shanxi, to Fengyang to farm.

In May of the 13th year of Hongwu (1380), they once again allowed more than 24,000 households in Shanxi to serve as soldiers, and all of them were returned to the people.

As the saying goes, once born, twice familiar, this will be the third time. Just draw up a charter based on the experience of the first two times, and then implement it directly.

Seeing that all the civil and military officials seemed confident about what was going to happen next, Yan Changqing couldn't help but remind him again:

"This time the relocation of ordinary people to the Liaodong Plain should be gentler."

"It is said that the agricultural saint Shennong discovered the black land that can produce ten shi per mu even for growing ordinary grains. People who are willing to move to the Liaodong Plain to cultivate the black soil will also have priority in receiving corns with a yield of more than eight shi per mu from the imperial court. seed."

"Taking the land seeds distributed this year as an example, ordinary people should no longer doubt the words of Shennong, the agricultural saint."

"By then, the black soil will produce more than ten shi per mu, and the high-yielding corn grain seeds will produce more than eight shi per mu."

“Coupled with the preferential treatment such as complete exemption of land tax for the first five years of development, it should be able to attract many people to move to the Liaodong Plain.

"There is no need to use deception or forced recruitment anymore."

"Also, when relocating people, you can relocate entire households or even entire villages."

"This can also prevent people from being separated from their close relatives, or reduce the unfamiliarity and fear of migrating people towards the new environment.'

Due to the wars at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains region was "deserted for a long time due to lack of manpower", "mounds of debris with few residents", "mostly uninhabited land", and "inaccessible to taxes for many years".

The Ming Dynasty had a serious shortage of labor force, large areas of land were deserted, and fiscal revenue dropped sharply, which directly threatened the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in order to solve this situation, Zhu Yuanzhang previously adopted the recommendations of Su Qi of Taozhou, Liu Jiugao, the doctor of the Ministry of household affairs, and Song Na, the imperial eunuch.

In order to restore production and protect the Ming Dynasty, we formulated measures to revitalize agriculture centered on immigration and land reclamation. We determined to move farmers from narrow countryside to wide countryside, and from places with many people and few fields to places with wide land and sparsely populated areas.

The methods and steps of large-scale immigration generally include repatriation, military settlement, commercial settlement, and civilian settlement.

For example, "The Central Plains is a good place, but we won't be able to pay for it for a few years." However, although the slogan was shouted, no one was willing to move there.

So we had to formulate civil regulations and relocate according to the ratio of "one person for a family of four, two for a family of six, and three for a family of eight."

It also stipulates that all immigrants must go to Guangji Temple in Hongdong County to go through the migration procedures and receive a "certificate of Sichuan accent"

Then starting from here, they moved to various parts of the Central Plains according to the officially designated direction and under the supervision of officers and soldiers.

There are even deceptions, such as the government posting notices in advance:

Except for the people under the big locust tree in Guangji Temple who will not move, people in all other places will move.

Or it may be possible to set a certain day for all those who are willing to move to report under the big locust tree, and those who are unwilling to move must also go there to complain to the government.

As a result, when tens of thousands of people gathered under the big locust tree, the government took it by surprise, mobilized a large number of officers and soldiers, and surrounded the people under the big locust tree in one fell swoop. Everyone who came, regardless of age or sex, was moved away without leaving any trace.

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Anyone who refused to obey was tied up with ropes and connected one string at a time, and had to obey under the command of the officers and soldiers.

The old, weak, sick and disabled who originally stayed at home came after hearing the news. Naturally, it was a scene of "grandparents, mothers and wives rushing to see each other off, holding clothes and stepping on their feet, blocking the road and crying".

Although this move is indeed for the good of Ming Dynasty, this method is too crude and can easily cause public resentment.

This is why Yan Changqing couldn't help but remind him this time.

Hearing Saint Banheng's words, all the civil and military officials looked thoughtful.

Indeed, there was not much difference in the acres of land across the Central Plains before, and the preferential policies provided by the imperial court were only:

They will be given cotton-padded clothes, Sichuan money (relocation expenses), and money to settle down and buy farm tools. Once there, Houtu land can be "homesteaded and cultivated" and exempted from taxes for three years.

This is indeed not very attractive to ordinary people who have a hometown complex and cannot leave their hometown.

This is why they had to use deception and forced recruitment to forcibly relocate people to sparsely populated areas.

And now, if the reputation of the Nongsheng Shennong is used as a guarantee, it is said that the Nongsheng Shennong has discovered black soil that can produce ten shi per mu even if ordinary grains are grown.

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It should be enough to impress many people who have no land or a small amount of land.

After all, in other parts of the Central Plains, except for the fine paddy fields, most of the other ordinary land yields about two or three shi per mu.

However, the black soil of the Liaodong Plain can produce more than ten shi per mu, which is undoubtedly fatal to the appeal of the common people.

Not to mention that ordinary people who are willing to move to the Liaodong Plain can also have priority in obtaining another high-yield grain corn cultivated by the agricultural saint Shennong that can produce more than eight stones per mu.

This is undoubtedly another fatal attraction for the common people who depend on food and almost never have enough to eat throughout their lives.

In the end, the court also allowed them to move as a family, instead of moving according to the ratio of "one for a family of four, two for a family of six, and three for a family of eight", which would avoid the separation of their close relatives.

For their whole family, just by changing their lives in a different place, they can obtain black land with a yield of more than ten stones per mu, and eight stones per mu.

High-yielding grain corn seeds of more than 1 stone.

The vast majority of the people should agree to this "deal", and there is no need for the court to "buy and sell by force" and forcibly relocate the people.

"In addition, there is no need to rush this matter. Your Majesty and all civil and military officials can discuss and discuss it more."

"After all, we will continue to organize people to build concrete roads this year. There should be no spare craftsmen who can be used to mass-produce water pumps in the Liaodong Plain.

Machinery. "

"Your Majesty and all civil and military officials can first discuss a rough plan and then arrange it into the Ming Dynasty's "Second Five-Year Medium and Long-term Plan."

"At that time, it will take a year to produce and prepare various cold-proof and cold-proof clothing and other materials, as well as a large number of gunpowder and explosive packs used to blast open the permafrost layer, as well as various water suction machines.

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"Then it will take another year to relocate, and finally three years to reclaim and develop."

"By the time the Ming Dynasty's "Second Five-Year Medium and Long-term Plan" begins, concrete roads throughout all provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties across the country should be almost completed.'

"By then, people from all over the country will be able to migrate and they will be able to lessen the pain of traveling and traveling."

"If everything goes well and the Ming Dynasty's "Second Five-Year Medium and Long-term Plan" comes to an end, the first phase of reclamation and development of the black soil in the Liaodong Plain should be completed."

Yan Changqing added again.

After listening to what Yan Changqing said, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with a very serious face and said:

"Okay, let's discuss it carefully with the civil and military officials later!"

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