Chapter 43 Buy land, buy land, continue to buy land
He Yan asked Deng's mother to weave cloth, and it was indeed a serious kind.
It was because Deng Ai inspired him, especially the point that "the direction of force can be changed".
Don't underestimate this principle that everyone knows, it is one of the cornerstones of all human machinery.
As for machinery, there are basically only two types at present -
Life and War.
As for life, it is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Among these four points, food and clothing are the most important.
Clothes are woven from linen, wool, and silk, and the weaving machine is a spinning wheel.
Today's spinning wheels are only hand-operated spinning wheels, and there is no pedal spinning wheel that became popular in later generations.
Compared with the hand-operated spinning wheel, the most significant point of the pedal-operated spinning wheel is that it can use machinery to transmit the force of the foot to the top, thereby saving upper body strength.
It is just a simple machine, but it can greatly improve productivity and create more wealth. This is true wisdom!
Compared with improving technology, increasing labor intensity and extending working hours...all are evil ways!
He Yan brought a hand-operated spinning wheel and asked Deng's mother to operate it, while he lay under the spinning wheel to observe the working principle of the spinning wheel.
Compared with people today, He Yan not only "knew what happened", but also "knew why it happened" and quickly deconstructed all the mechanical principles of the spinning wheel.
However, in the process of deconstruction, He Yan also marveled at the wisdom of the ancients.
"Compared with later generations, the biggest difference is actually the change in power. The mechanical principles have not undergone fundamental changes. In fact, the mechanical principles in ancient times were even more complicated than those in later generations!"
This is the so-called "black technology" in ancient times.
Because of the lack of power, they can only find ways to use more complex mechanical principles to amplify and change these forces.
Smart is smart, but it is not necessarily advanced.
For example, no matter how exquisitely designed a crossbow is, the driving force for firing is still human power, and the distance it shoots will never be farther than weapons powered by gunpowder or even chemical fuels.
"So... the final path of science is muscle flow?"
No matter how sophisticated your machine is, I can easily kill you with one energy cannon...
Shaking his head to get rid of the distracting thoughts in his mind, He Yan began to renovate the spinning wheel in front of him with peace of mind.
In fact, if He Yan wanted to, he could always make the most famous "Jenny spinning machine" in later generations. As long as the "spring" that drives the shuttle can be solved, the technical content of that thing is actually lower than that of a pedal spinning wheel.
But, but!
That thing is used to weave cotton yarn!
Cotton has not yet been popularized in China, so it will be of no use at all!
Nowadays, the biggest demand for clothing and textiles in China is cloth, and pedal looms are the most suitable!
Science is science and technology is technology.
Technology must take root and sprout in its suitable soil, otherwise it will most likely result in dystocia and premature death...
After the renovation of the pedal loom was completed, He Yan immediately invited Mother Deng to come and experience it.
When Mother Deng put her feet on the pedal, the fresh feeling made her eyes widen: "Okay, it feels so comfortable!"
For a woman who often weaves, Mother Deng understands better than He Yan, the inventor, the emancipation of the foot-operated loom for women. She couldn't help but open her plump red lips and show an expression of wonder.
"That's not all!"
He Yan leaned close to Mother Deng's ear and rubbed it: "Didn't you mention the knowledge of "weaving" last time? I've really figured it out in the past two days. Do you want to try it?"
"Not serious!"
“It’s like a pedal loom, only you use your feet to move it!”
Mother Deng was obviously moved, but also seemed a little embarrassed: "Ai is still here."
“Easy to handle!”
He Yan dragged Deng Ai out of the room and gave him several five-baht coins: "Go out to play for a while, it's best not to come back!"
Deng Ai:???
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The pedal loom was moved outside the city by He Yan, and Mother Deng taught the women how to use it.
With this popularization, the output of cloth has indeed made considerable progress.
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, cloth, like grain, could be used as currency!
In other words, they are not weaving cloth, but printing money!
He Yan collected a large amount of cloth and paid the women accordingly, and then asked Bian Bing to sell the cloth.
If you sell it, what you receive is definitely not five baht.
With the continued collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the future, the credibility of the five-baht coin will definitely become lower and lower, and its purchasing power will gradually decline. At this time, collecting five-baht coins is basically something that only the brain will do.
So He Yan didn't want to do anything else but simply buy land.
And this time He Yan's eyes are not just on Yingchuan County, but on the entire Yuzhou!
The wars in Yuzhou in recent years have left a large number of fields deserted, which is the basis for Cao Cao's "field farming system" to be implemented.
What's more, He Yan had to exchange hard currency such as cloth for land, so the business went very smoothly.
In addition, before He Yan bought the land, he wrote a letter to Man Chong in Runan, asking him to help identify some land. Man Chong naturally agreed to this small favor.
Man Chong, the prefect of Runan, did not do very well. He killed the aristocratic families in Runan too hard before, leaving too much land barren. Even Ren Jun, a little expert in farming, could not fully cultivate the fields in Yuzhou.
On the eve of the Battle of Chibi, Yuzhou was still moving people to farm. Historically, Deng Ai was also brought to Yuzhou.) Now seeing He Yan coming to his door, he was naturally so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.
After all, these fields are in the hands of the government, which has to find people to farm them. It takes time and effort to work on these fields. A bumper harvest counts as a political achievement, but once the output decreases, it will be a hot potato.
But as long as it is sold to He Yan, the government can arbitrarily dump the blame.
They don't care whether He Yan cultivates or not, anyway, not a single grain of grain will be left to the government! Even if He Yan is Cao Cao's adopted son, this is no exception!
Man Chong is not worried that He Yan will learn from those aristocratic families to avoid taxes, because the aristocratic family's tax avoidance is to conceal their land and population, and adopt a high-level approach, which is a trick that ordinary people have no chance to come into contact with. But every transaction of He Yan goes through the government
It is not that easy to avoid taxes if it is recorded in the formal channels.
Man Chong was even kind enough to write a reply to He Yan, asking him to buy less fields, otherwise it would be a serious crime to pay less grain when the time comes! These purchased fields may be confiscated by the government!
In response to this, He Yan was unusually calm, and his response was only one word——
"Buy! Buy with confidence! Buy boldly!"
After the Battle of Guandu ended and Yuan Shao died of illness, and the situation in the north stabilized, there would be no such good opportunity to buy land.