Bashang, Lizhen.

In Li Chao's tool room.

Li Chao looked at his drawings and had basically completed them. Now he made them. He made a one-to-one model first, and then compared them to create real parts.

I sat in the room and took a fan and shook it for a while. Several people came outside.

The old craftsman of the Li family.

Carpenter Zheng, Carpenter Ke, and Blacksmith Wu, all three are considered old craftsmen of the Li family. Now everyone brings a large group of disciples, and every month they get a lot of money. Even their disciples can still get a little, so they live a very casual life.

Make a pot of tea every day and just go around.

During festivals, disciples and grandchildren will also give gifts for holidays. No matter how many, it is a gift, and it is indispensable.

Today, when I heard that Li Chao was going to go, I came over.

"My husband summoned us, don't know what?" Mr. Ke Ba asked with a smile.

"Please help me. I have a drawing here, so you can take a look."

"It seems to be a mechanism."

"If these bearings and gears need iron?"

"That's not cheap?"

Li Chao asked, "Can things be made?"

"Of course, this thing is not difficult. It's better to build a carriage. The cost may not be cheap, and they all use iron."

"Make one set of iron first, and then one set of wooden ones. Can wooden gears be strong and durable?"

"As long as you choose wood, it will be as durable as it is. There are many kinds of wood, depending on whether you need to use different woods. As long as you choose the right one, it will be as easy to use."

"Prime Minister, what is your use for?"

"This is for threshing and threshing." Li Chao said.

"Threshing and threshing? Isn't it better to have a threshing bucket? Is it so complicated to use?"

"That's too simple and time-consuming. My threshing machine will step on it with my feet, rotate the drum, and put the rice on it. The iron on the drum will take off the rice, quickly, saving time and effort."

Li Chao felt very proud, this is a good thing.

“It’s a waste of time.”

Unexpectedly, several old craftsmen felt that Li Chao's machine was useless.

Just kidding, it's useless?

"Even if you use wood as gears, it will take several days to make a threshing machine of this big. Not to mention the wood money, the labor money alone will not be young. No iron is needed, but wood can be used, and it is not cheap. It is very expensive to make a threshing machine of this kind. It is not enough for ordinary people to use it."

"Yes, spending so much money is just to save some effort? The strength of farmers is not that valuable, and no one is too focused on it. This is how everyone comes from generation to generation. Whoever fights rice, doesn't fight that way? I have never heard of having to make a machine to fight it."

Li Chao's proud works were worthless by several old craftsmen.

In a word, it's not cost-effective.

Li Chao felt that this machine saves time and effort, but the old craftsmen felt that the farmers' strength was not worth the money, and this machine was too expensive.

This surprised Li Chao a little.

Just when Li Chao was depressed, a sneer came from the side.

This laugh is a sarcastic laugh.

Li Chao immediately looked in the sound and it was Li Chengqian.

This little bastard ran over and watched the fun.

"why are you laughing?"

Li Chengqian raised his head and his nostrils were facing the sky.

"Strange tricks!"

"What did you say, say it again?"

"I am talking about Shaobao as a prime minister, but he doesn't think about the major issues of national affairs and people's livelihood, but he hides in this small house thinking about strange and lewd skills, and even becomes a carpenter. It's ridiculous."

Taking craftsman skills as strange and lewd skills is a Confucian viewpoint.

Chengqian’s teacher is Li Gang.

The prince killer has already taught several princes. Now, in front of the prince's young master, he is also responsible for teaching Cheng Qian. He is an old man in his eighties and has a pedantic mind. Li Shimin only respects his character and usually asks Ma Zhou to help teach.

The kind of teacher will teach you the kind of apprentice.

Li Chengqian is young and has already looked down on the idea of ​​craftsmen and technology.

"Prince, your idea is unsatisfactory, it's very dangerous!"

"What is a weird and lustful technique? Do you know what productivity is?"

The prince was stopped and shook his head.

"Come here." Li Chao waved to him.

Li Chengqian stood at the door, hesitated and refused to step forward. He was worried that Li Chao would beat him.

Little bastard, science is the primary productive force, technology changes life.

He actually looked down on craftsmen and skills, and really wanted to beat him up.

Li Chao turned to the three old craftsmen and said, "Don't worry about this cost issue first, build me a set of iron wood for me first. In fact, you have too narrow vision. Even if this machine costs money, it will never be unpaid. For example, plowing oxen is expensive, but after having plowing oxen, will it be easier to plow more land?"

"Ordinary people may not be able to use a grain ripping machine, but what if I pay to build a grain ripping machine and rent it to the people when harvesting rice?"

"If you can rent this machine with only a small amount of rent, wouldn't it be great?"

Master Ke Ba was not convinced, "It would cost money if there was not much rent."

"Have you ever thought about it? You have to grab the farming time to harvest rice. If you don't harvest it quickly when the weather is good, it will be delayed. It will rain. The rice will be wet in the fields, sprout and moldy. Isn't this a loss?"

"Besides, pay some money to rent a grain maker, collect the rice early, save time, and then go to the workshop to work, don't you make another money? The money earned in the workshop must be more than the rent paid."

From Li Chao's perspective, although manpower is not valuable in this era, on the other hand, manpower is scarce. Most of the workshops are apprentices, and young girls are short of people.

Li Chao is not short of money, and the Li family asks craftsmen to build a batch of grinding machines. At least, when the Li family gets harvested, harvesting and threshing these 3,000 acres of rice this year can save a lot of time. It doesn’t need to hire a lot of short-term workers as they did last year.

It is not a matter of hiring a short-term worker. The key is that in the busy farming season, where can I hire a short-term worker?

That's not the same thing, a ripping machine can be used as several strong men.

With the Li family, the harvester can be harvested with long-term workers. There is no need to hire extra workers, nor do you have to worry about not being able to hire people during the busy farming season. Secondly, you can grab the day.

Furthermore, if you use up the wheat ripping machine, you can still rent it to the nearby people for use.

The people save some time, finish the harvest in the fields early, and can still go to the Li Family Workshop to work, and there is no need to stop production and reduce production.

Grain-piercing machines are like oxen, farm tools, and water trucks, all of which are good things.

Ordinary people may not be able to afford it, but they can rent it and can still enjoy the benefits of this kind of machine.

"Using the old method, one handful of wheat and one handful of wheat, a strong man can't beat two points of land a day, and he will be exhausted. If you use this machine, monogamous and two children will give you grain, you can only make at least two acres a day. Even if you cut and beat them, a family of four or five can harvest about one acre of land with this machine."

After hearing Li Chao's explanation, several craftsmen thought this matter made some sense.

This is somewhat similar to a water truck.

Ordinary people really can't afford to buy a big water truck, but if they just carry it on their shoulders, how much can they carry a day and how much land can they water? The most important thing is that it is that it is difficult to keep up with the water truck, which may cause the crops to die of drought. Although the water truck is costly, it is incomparable to the efficiency. Ordinary people can't afford it, so they can pay for more families, or landlords' water trucks.

The strength of farmers is not worth it, but now we can also work in workshops. There are so many workshops in Li Town, and we recruit workers all year round and long-term temporary workers at any time. It is also a lot of money to do a day of work.

"First make one set of iron wood, try it out after it is ready, and then mass production will be carried out. We will build a squashing machine workshop, which specializes in the production of this squashing machine and conducts standard parts assembly line production, so as to reduce the cost as much as possible so that more people can afford it."

Assembly lines and standard parts, these are not rare things for the three old craftsmen, and they have long been used to them.

"But even if you reduce the cost, it will still be not cheap!"

"We need to be more flexible. For example, we can get the machine mortgage, pay a part of the down payment, and then pay the remaining installments, plus a little interest. In this way, we have the machine, and the people buy the machine and each get the needs. Isn't it great? We can also rent it out and rent it on a daily basis, and even organize some free merchants to take the machine to help people make rice, and be responsible for removing the materials."

There were originally many places in Guanzhong to grow rice. Now the Li family’s rice is so good, which has led many people to start growing rice in places with conditions.

Li Chao believes that this ripping machine is still sold.

Besides, if it is used well then, and then promote it to the Jianghuai River Basin and Hetao, it will be rice cultivation areas.

The wheat ripping machine is just because the Li family has more than 3,000 acres of rice this year, which is to solve the problem of difficulty in harvesting artificial labor.

But Li Chao invented the curved plow back then, and now he invented the grinding machine, not just for his own consideration.

The Tang Dynasty lacked people.

There is a shortage of manpower everywhere.

If more machines can be invented, it will liberate more manpower and more productivity.

Especially for landlords, better production tools are definitely their most popular. It is difficult to get a lot of slaves and tenants, but as long as they have money, they can have many tools without limit.

"Prince, you have been standing here and listening for a long time. Have you understood something?"

Li Chao turned to Li Chengqian.

Technological innovation cannot be separated from support, especially financial support. In addition to financial support for innovative research, there must also be support from the upper level.

If the emperor had always regarded technology as some strange and erotic skills, who would still support technological innovation?

"This is a function of storing the wheat to save manpower." Li Chengqian said honestly.

"Well, save manpower, then what is manpower?"

Li Chengqian shook his head, not knowing.

"People are the cornerstone of the country. Only when there are people can we have taxes, military resources, and long-term stability of this country. Remember, put people first!"

There is no document saving status, I went out to do business again yesterday, but I couldn't update it, sorry! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!