In fact, Jin Feng also thought a lot about farming.
Nowadays, the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce can use soap and black knives to continuously transport large amounts of money.
This amount of money is more than enough to feed a few thousand people in Xihewan.
Moreover, the textile factory with the largest number of workers in Xihewan has become not only self-sufficient but also has a surplus with the putting into use of new looms.
Nowadays, the iron smelting workshop has completely formed an assembly line operation, with a warehouse full of trained female disciples, each of whom is responsible for manufacturing one or two parts of the loom.
Then it was sent to the assembly room next door, and a loom was quickly assembled.
Not only can it prevent leaks, but it also greatly improves production efficiency.
Traditional carpenters in Dakang can build a loom in a month, which is considered very fast.
As for the iron smelting workshop, if Tang Dongdong needs it, Mancang and a group of female disciples can build more than a dozen machines in a day.
In addition to assembly line operations, the most important point is the use of machine tools.
The iron smelting workshop already has more than a dozen simple machine tools. Although they are still very primitive, they are more than enough to make the looms designed by Jin Feng.
The carpenter needs to carve the parts carefully for several days, and he can finish them with a few brushes using a machine tool.
This is the power of industry.
The new loom manufactured by Jinfeng is driven by windmills and animals when there is no wind. The weaving speed is completely unmatched by Dakang's traditional looms.
This determines that the labor costs of Xihewan Textile Factory are greatly reduced.
The textile factory also turned a profit.
In addition to textile factories, there are also salt factories.
When the coordination between the Ninth Princess and the Ninth Princess is completed, many salt-making factories will inevitably be opened near Shuanghump, and by then the employment problem of a large number of people will be solved.
Therefore, Jin Feng can feed the entire Xihewan without worrying about not having enough to eat. If he is given a year or two, Jin Feng can even transform the entire Jinchuan County into an industrial development model to solve the people's food and drink problems.
But God didn't give him this time.
This autumn rain lasts too long, and at least half of the fields in Jinchuan County will fail to harvest next year.
The imperial court has imposed additional taxes at this juncture. How can the people survive?
Moreover, the total amount of food in the world is fixed, and most of it is concentrated in the hands of landlords and gentry. Jinfeng can develop industry, sell soap, salt, cloth and other things, and make money to buy food to feed the people of Jinchuan, but what about the people in other places?
The most fundamental solution is to crack down on the landlords and gentry while vigorously developing agriculture.
Jin Feng didn't have to think about attacking the landlords and gentry.
Let alone a mere Baron Qingshui, even the current emperor Chen Ji would find it extremely difficult to achieve this.
So there is only one way left to develop agriculture.
When developing agriculture, the first thing Jin Feng thought of was hybrid rice technology.
In previous lives, it was this technology that solved the problem of feeding more than a billion people.
But then he gave up again.
In the previous life, Grandpa Yuan led his team to work hard in the fields for decades to solve the problem. Jin Feng, a mechanical student, only roughly knew its principles, but Jin Feng did not fully understand how to operate it.
However, Jin Feng also came from a farm family in his previous life. When he was a child, he often helped his family work in the fields, so he was no stranger to farming.
Although it cannot be compared with those who major in agriculture, for today's Dakang, it is also a technology that is ahead of its time.
Because Dakang’s current farming methods are as backward as smelting.
The original slash-and-burn farming method is still used in many places.
The so-called slash-and-burn farming is to burn grass and trees in the field, and then use the grass ash as fertilizer to sow seeds.
When sowing seeds, the ground is not plowed. Instead, a wooden stick is used to poke a hole in the ground, then the seeds are thrown into the hole, and then the hole is stepped on, and the cultivation is completed.
How can crops grown like this have high yields?
The average yield of wheat in Dakang is only more than 100 kilograms per mu. Two hundred kilograms is already high-yielding fertile land, and it also needs good weather and good weather.
It's not that the people don't know that plowing the land is beneficial to the growth of crops, but that the people don't have cattle for farming.
In addition to the high price of farm cattle, there are many places where raising cattle also requires paying taxes.
Not only Dakang, but also in the history of Jin Feng's previous life, the feudal dynasty also issued such ridiculous exorbitant taxes.
There are no cattle, few men, and the farm tools are backward. If a group of old and weak women and children are expected to plow the land, they may not be able to plow a few pieces after the farming season has passed, so they can only use this crude farming method.
Jin Feng had previously thought about passing on his planting experience to farmers.
However, Jinchuan County is mainly mountainous, and most of the people make a living by planting mulberry and hemp. There are relatively few people planting rice and wheat. Jin Feng later became busy, so the matter was delayed.
Now that the Ninth Princess asked about it, Jin Feng was ready to have a good chat with her.
"Food is the first priority for the people, and farming is the foundation of a country, as the old gentleman naturally said." Jin Feng replied.
"What did the old gentleman say?" Ninth Princess asked.
"This..." Jin Feng hesitated for a moment and asked: "The old gentleman's words are quite radical. I don't know whether to take it seriously..."
The Ninth Princess is definitely worthy of the title of Lan Xinhui. Listening to Jin Feng's words, you know that he will definitely criticize the imperial court next.
But agriculture is too important to the country. The Ninth Princess thought for a moment and drove Qin Ming and other guards out of the medical room, including Qin'er.
Only four people, Jin Feng, Ninth Princess, Qing Mulan and Wei Wuya, were left in the room.
"Sir, there are no outsiders here now. Just say whatever you want, sir. Even if you call your father a fool, I will never hold you accountable!"
After the Ninth Princess finished speaking, she bowed to Jin Feng solemnly: "I hope you, sir, will consider the people of the world and tell the truth."
"Sir, just say what you want. Wuyang is different from those bastards who are fighting for power. She really wants to do things for Da Kang."
Qing Mulan encouraged: "Moreover, in the hundreds of years since the founding of Dakang, there has been no precedent of anyone being punished for speaking out."
After saying that, he was afraid that Jin Feng would be worried, so he said something first: "Wuyang, you said that His Majesty is a foolish king. It is not false at all. Brother Qinghuai and his husband obviously won the battle, but the annual tribute to the party increased. Such an action
, what is it if it’s not a faint king?”
"well!……"
The Ninth Princess sighed and shook her head without any excuse.
There is no excuse.
Because of this incident, the Ninth Princess was also very dissatisfied with Chen Ji.
In fact, speaking of it, Chen Ji's decision was a bit inexplicable.
A few days before the incident, Chen Ji, under the persuasion of the main war faction, preferred to completely break with the party members, stop paying tribute, and use the money and food saved to train troops to defend against the enemy.
However, the Zhuhe faction got a pair of authentic calligraphy works by famous calligraphers and calligraphers from the previous dynasty and sent it to Chen Ji.
It sounds dreamy, but reality is such nonsense.
This was also the biggest drawback of the imperial era.
The emperor has too much power, and many of the orders that affect the whole world are the result of the emperor slapping his head.
Maybe it only took a day or two for the emperor to regret it, but the decree had already been issued, and it was useless for the emperor to regret it. He could only hold his nose and continue to implement it.
This kind of thing was often seen when Jin Feng was studying history in his previous life.
A country that was originally good may quickly decline because of the appearance of a foolish king.