Lu Xuan followed Liu Tan, bewildered. Seeing him go straight into the study, the corner of his mouth twitched. He followed him in while saying, "Tan, don't worry. Just take your time. There's a knack for this, too."
Liu Tan turned to look at him calmly and said, "Why do you want me to adapt to the plow?"
Lu Xuan: “Ah?”
Liu Tan raised his chin slightly: "I have to let the plow adapt to me!"
Lu Xuan: ???
Facing his doubtful face, Liu Tan said confidently: "Farm tools that are not good enough to use are not advanced enough."
Lu Xuan was silent for a while before asking, "What do you mean by useful...?"
Liu Tan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I can just get started right away."
Lu Xuan always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on what it was, so he simply kept silent and sat next to Liu Tan, reading a book while accompanying his beloved.
Liu Tan picked up the pen and wrote down three names on the paper: moldboard plow, disc plow, and reversible plow.
In fact, he knew that the easiest thing to make now should be the curved plow. After all, the curved plow was originally evolved from the straight plow. Even if he took it out, it would be easier to explain, and it can be seen that they are of the same origin.
But Liu Tan felt that since he had done it, he should do it to the extreme. Unless he could not make any of the three types of plows, he would choose the curved plow as a second best option.
The reason for choosing these three types is that in Liu Tan's impression, the light moldboard plow is used for shallow turning operations and cannot have too many weeds.
Disc plows are considered heavy-duty plows and are more useful in areas with a lot of weeds.
The last type of flip plow should actually be considered a compound plow, which is designed to facilitate turning around. When you reach the end, you can just flip the plow over and start working directly.
The last one is actually just written down casually, don’t force it, it’s not so easy to get it done in one step, so finish the first two first.
First is the moldboard plow. There are actually many types of moldboard plows, including soil-breaking type, general type and soil-turning type.
Liu Tan thought about it and felt that it was basically impossible to make so many at once, or it was impossible to finish it before spring plowing, so he could only do it one by one.
He thought for a moment, then turned to Miao Rui and said, "Send someone to the Prime Minister to get the dossier on the current land situation in the country."
Miao Rui immediately took the order and left. Lu Xuan was curious: "What do you want that for?"
Liu Tan said, "Because we need to treat the symptoms, it's useless to make a plow that's not suitable for the Northern Territory now."
He doesn't have the energy to promote it nationwide, and even promoting it in the Northern Territory might be a bit troublesome.
Liu Tan originally wanted to have someone bring the files over, but he didn't expect Huo Guang to come in person.
He came over and asked, "Why did your Highness think of this?"
Liu Tan saw him bringing Xiao Cheng over and looked at the eunuch behind them. He found that the eunuch had nothing in his hands and couldn't help but wonder: "Where's the thing?"
Huo Guang insisted, "Your Highness, please tell me what you are here for."
Liu Tan had no choice but to say, "That treadle plow is too difficult to use. I decided to modify it."
Huo Guang looked at Liu Tan in shock, and for a moment he couldn't keep up with the other person's train of thought.
Most people don’t find it easy to use, so just work hard to learn it.
Why doesn’t it work here for His Highness? I’m going to make it work better!
Huo Guang looked at him suspiciously and asked, "Your Highness, do you know how to change it?"
Liu Tan said reservedly, "It's hard to say. We have to study it first. There's nothing to lose anyway."
Okay, when Huo Guang saw his expression, he knew that this matter basically had at least a 60 to 70 percent chance of success.
But he still felt very strange. Even though Liu Tan had done a lot of things in the past, he shouldn't have been so surprised. But the problem was that what Liu Tan had done in the past was barely something he could access.
He probably doesn't even understand the process of farming. Isn't it a joke for a person like him to say that he can improve the plow?
However, because of Liu Tan's consistent good reputation, Huo Guang decided to trust him once.
He pointed directly at Xiao Cheng and said, "Your Highness can ask him anything you want to ask."
Liu Tan: "Ah? What I want is the file."
Huo Guang explained, "Those files are quite old. The latest land survey has not yet been conducted. Moreover, they are all bamboo slips. If we really send them here, I'm afraid they will take up half of Your Highness's study."
Liu Tan understood as soon as he heard the word "bamboo slips". This thing occupies a huge area, and the data summarized may not be much.
He turned to look at Xiao Cheng and asked, "Then how did he know?"
Huo Guang said, "Your Highness asked me to train them, didn't you? Xiao Cheng doesn't know much about this, so why not let him go and observe more? When he can understand it like the back of his hand, he will be qualified."
Liu Tan: ???
Although the Northern Border Kingdom is just a vassal state of the Han Dynasty, its area is not small. Even if the arable land is small, the data in this regard is very large. Is this just qualified?
Huo Guang glanced at Liu Tan and said calmly, "If Your Highness wants to know, I can also give you a general overview of all the lands of the Han Dynasty."
Liu Tan silently withdrew his gaze and looked at Xiao Cheng sympathetically. It is not easy to follow the big guys these days. If you can't keep up with the team, you will probably be beaten.
Xiao Cheng understood Liu Tan's eyes and gave a weak smile. God knows how he had been getting through these days.
Seeing him like this, Liu Tan felt even more fortunate that he was Huo Guang's superior. Otherwise, with the way he was courting death, he would probably have gone home and eaten himself alive.
Just as Liu Tan was sympathizing with Xiao Cheng, Lu Xuan calmly sat up straight, standing between him and Xiao Cheng, and said, "Ah Tan, it's getting late. Why don't you give him a desk and let him write down the general content first? Let's go have dinner."
He looked up at Huo Guang and said, "Prime Minister Huo, come along too."
Huo Guang: ...
Although he was already accustomed to Lu Xuan being inseparable from Liu Tan whenever he was in the Northern Border Kingdom, he still felt a little uncomfortable when he heard the other party speak as if he was the master of this palace.
In fact, Huo Guang was also a little puzzled. Lu Xuan had been very restrained before, and acted like a guest in front of others. Why did he suddenly change?
Of course, he didn't know that Liu Tan had directly changed Lu Xuan's psychology with just a glass house.
Before: This was A Tan’s palace.
Now: I have a palace here too.
The feeling is naturally different.
After hearing what Lu Xuan said, Liu Tan turned around and looked at him, feeling that each of these two men was more ruthless than the other.
However, he stood up and said, "You don't need to write too much. Just describe the fertility of the soil, the hardness and softness of the soil, and anything you can think of. It doesn't need to be too detailed."
After humbly sending off his successor, Xiao Cheng began his overtime career.
When Liu Tan and the others came back from their meal, this person had not finished writing yet.
Liu Tan's patience was running out. He walked over to take a look and found that Xiao Cheng had written a very detailed account. After browsing through it, he asked, "Is the current situation of arable land in the Northern Territory similar?"
Xiao Cheng was stunned for a moment and then nodded: "Yes, it's almost the same everywhere except around Wolf Mountain."
After reading it, Liu Tan found that it was useless since he didn't understand it anyway.
In the end, I had no choice but to choose a universal moldboard plow.
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