Chapter 27 Contract plowing
Mi Zhu's heart skipped a beat. He now loves and fears Liu Feng at the same time. He loves the cornucopia that Liu Feng brings to his door, but he is also afraid of Liu Feng's request.
He now knows that Liu Feng's request is never easy.
Just now, Xiang Xiang emptied out his family's food reserves. This time, he didn't know what kind of food reserves he had to emptied out again.
After calming down, Mi Zhu still expressed his stance firmly: "Young master, you can speak clearly, but if you have an order, Zhu will never refuse."
Liu Feng clapped his hands and shouted outside: "Wen Gui, bring the things in."
Pan Zhang responded outside the hall, and then a man came in holding a Qu Yuanli and put the Qu Yuanli in his hand. He placed the plow in front of Mi Zhu and then left.
Mi Zhu looked curiously at the strange-shaped tool in front of her.
Although he didn't know what this thing was used for, he could still roughly tell that it was a tool.
“Don’t drive, this thing is called a curved shaft plow. I improved it from the straight shaft plow. Not only can it save more effort and have better farming results, but it is also lighter and simpler to use, which can greatly improve farming. Efficiency.”
Liu Feng's voice rang out, and he carefully introduced the benefits of Quyuanli to Mi Zhu.
Then he stood up, held a silk book, and spread it out in front of Mi Zhu.
"Don't drive, this is the manufacturing process of the curved shaft plow. I kindly ask you to make at least three hundred bent shaft plows before spring plowing."
The first wave of farming. There are 5,000 farm households, and they need at least 5,000 curved shaft plows.
But the industry in this era was extremely weak and had low productivity. Sometimes it even relied purely on manpower to build productivity.
It's the first month now, and there are only more than two months left before spring plowing in March. The Mi family can provide 300 bent-column plows, plus the output of official craftsmen under Liu Bei's control, and they can make up 500 bent-column plows. Very good.
Mi Zhu looked at it carefully and felt excited again.
Although Mi Zhu is a merchant, his family is also a big landowner in Donghai County, and he is no stranger to farm tools.
He felt that what Liu Feng said was conservative. The effect of this Quyuanli was probably ten times greater than what Liu Feng said.
When Mi Zhu heard Liu Feng say that this was his improvement, even with his power, he couldn't help but wonder if the other party had plagiarized the achievements of an old farmer or craftsman.
But when she thought of the snow salt and rock sugar that the other party had just brought out, Mi Zhu suddenly lost confidence again.
If old farmers and craftsmen could improve the straight shaft plow and invent the curved shaft plow, Mi Zhu would still believe it. But if someone said that craftsmen and old farmers could figure out how to make snow salt and rock sugar, then Mi Zhu wouldn't believe it.
After all, these people may not have seen snow salt or rock sugar in their lives.
Liu Feng was so shocked at this meeting that Mi Zhu, who was always known for his stability, was even a little flustered.
Mi Zhu forced himself to calm down and made some calculations in his mind. Then he raised his head again and gave Liu Feng a guarantee: "Don't worry, sir, our Mi family will definitely deliver three hundred songs before the end of March." Yuanli to Tancheng ”
Liu Feng thanked him sternly, and at the same time continued to book the follow-up Qu Yuanli.
Even if it is no longer needed this season, there will still be a few thousand aircraft left next season.
If we catch up with the second phase of farming, the gap in the Quyuan plow will only be bigger.
After all, good things are always in short supply.
Mi Zhu also gave an affirmative answer, sending 150 curved shaft plows to Liu Feng every month, and the monthly delivery volume doubled after half a year.
This half year is the time for the Mi family to expand its production.
The Mi family themselves need to use such good things. Their demand is even greater than that of Liu Feng, at least tens of thousands of them are needed.
This is not only the needs of the Mi family's own tenant farmers, but also the clans and free people who are dependent on the Mi family, who can also use such good things, not to mention other noble families with whom they have good relations. , powerful people and merchants. Not to mention the distance, the demand in Donghai County alone is more than 30,000. The population of Xiapi County is still higher than that in Donghai County, so the demand will only be higher.
Liu Feng actually still has a lot of things in mind, such as ideas for flow production.
But telling Mi Zhu now is too wasteful, and good things have to be given little by little. In addition, telling him now will not increase the production. After all, the production of iron is only so much.
In this case, there is no rush.
After discussing these trivial matters, Mi Zhuqiang refused to let Liu Feng leave and insisted on giving him a banquet.
Liu Feng called Pan Zhang in, and Mi Zhu called a few Qing guests, and they had a feast.
During the banquet, Mi Zhu was shocked to find that Liu Feng was not only knowledgeable, novel and generous in his views, but also had experience that ordinary people could not match.
Especially his analysis of the general trend of the world has an indescribable confidence that makes people unknowingly convinced by his powerful appeal.
This gave Mi Zhu a strong illusion. If he were blindfolded, he would never believe that the person he was talking to was just a ten-year-old child.
If someone told Mi Zhu that the other party was a noble hermit who was over sixty years old, he would probably believe it without hesitation.
The most horrifying thing in Mi Zhu's heart was that the breadth and depth of Liu Feng's knowledge was the only one he had ever seen in his life.
No matter how Mi Zhu changed the topic, Liu Feng could always keep up with him, steal the topic, and crush him in turn.
This reminded Mi Zhu of a rumor. Is there really anyone in this world who is born with knowledge?
Mi Zhu didn't believe it at first, but after seeing Liu Feng's performance, he was shaken.
Mi Zhu didn’t know that Liu Feng’s behavior this time was intentional.
He deliberately wanted to impress Mi Zhu, because in his plan, the Mi family, which had a large number of mature servants, workshops, funds and technology, was a very important part.
If Mi Zhu can be convinced and the Mi family can be successfully captured, Liu Feng's big plan will be more effective with half the effort.
Therefore, he deliberately showed his holiness in front of Mi Zhu people, and what he wanted was for Mi Zhu to fear him and then obey him.
Liu Feng will be very generous and give the Mi family an opportunity to invest in himself.
When Liu Feng was having a banquet at Mi Zhu's house, Brother Big Ear was also busy.
He also prepared a banquet and invited Chen Deng to the house.
I have to say that Chen Deng has a heroic personality, a broad-minded person, and his popularity is quite good.
Not to mention Liu Bei's deep love for him, Zhang Fei, who always respected celebrities, was very fond of Chen Deng.
After all, Zhang Fei is just a local ranger, considered a low-level powerful man with some property.
Not to mention the gentry class, even powerful families don’t think much of him.
But Chen Yuanlong, a celebrity, was able to chat and laugh with Zhang Fei without any prejudice. This alone moved Zhang Fei, who worshiped celebrities and valued justice over profit, to his core.
Even Guan Yu, who had always been unruly and conceited, treated his soldiers well and was proud of the scholar-bureaucrats, praised Chen Deng full of praise and became a good friend.
This shows how good Chen Yuanlong is at dancing.
(End of this chapter)