Chapter 492 The Industrial Revolution Started From Agriculture

Nowadays, the Jinshi Department is held every three years, and only two or three hundred people are admitted each time. Those who can go to high school are the elites who have been slaughtered from all the scholars in the world. Seeing his article is not a compliment, but when it comes to Shen Long, it is belittled and not worth mentioning.

Wang Yu was still a little bit unconvinced. He felt that his essays had outstanding literary talent and elegant diction. No matter who he showed to everyone, he would not make such an evaluation. "I also ask the Taoist priest to advise me."

"Let me ask you, what did I ask you to write this thing for?" Shen Long asked back, Wang Yu's article only discusses calligraphy and calligraphy, which is indeed good, but unfortunately it is not the result he wanted.

"It must be to record the know-how of farming, so that it can be used to tell others how to grow corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, right?" Wang Yu is extremely smart and has thought of this a long time ago.

"Yes, that's it." Shen Long nodded, then pointed to the article and asked, "Since this is the case, can you see if what you wrote can meet this demand? What year, month and day was yesterday, and whether the weather was cloudy or not?" Sunny? Is the land you are hoeing dry land or paddy field? How deep does it take to hoe the land? You didn’t write clearly about these things, did you?”

"And these things are not for the scholars in the court, but for teaching the farmers how to farm. The words should be as colloquial as possible, and avoid vague and incomprehensible terms. I'm afraid you used so many allusions. Is it not easy for ordinary Jinshi to understand, let alone these illiterate old peasants?" The old peasants are illiterate, but they can arrange for scholars who know a few words to teach them. strenuous.

"Here, here I have an experiment diary written by elementary school students of later generations, you can take it and read it, and write it like this tonight." Shen Long took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve and handed it to Wang Yu.

Wang Yu took it over and took a look. At the top, the weather was clear on a certain day, month, and year, and there were some things that I couldn't understand, such as temperature and humidity. The bottom was written with the length and growth of the crop seedlings planted today. Wait, the words are simple, and people can understand it at a glance.

What's the taste of such an article? I'm afraid that young children who have just studied in private schools for a few years are more literary than this, but after careful consideration, Wang Yu found that this article is not simple. He only needs to read it to know how to write it. There is no ambiguity in the article about how the man planted peanuts. If you read it, I am afraid that ordinary old farmers will know how to do it.

"If the soil is too deep, the seeds will be too hard to germinate; if the soil is too thin, the seeds may be exposed and cannot germinate. The weather is too cold for a few days before planting, and too hot for a few days after planting... So You must be precise in writing articles, and you must not be sloppy, and a slight omission may lead to failure." Shen Long reminded that writing an experiment log is very different from writing ordinary articles.

"Thank you, Taoist priest, for your guidance. I understand." Wang Yu thanked Shen Long, and while continuing to study the article, he recalled the process of hoeing yesterday, and began to think about how to revise yesterday's diary.

"By the way, Taoist priest, what is this temperature and humidity? How are these numbers measured?" Wang Yu asked. He could vaguely understand these words based on their literal meaning, but after all, he didn't have an accurate concept.

"Temperature is the degree of coldness and heat. The degree of coldness and heat of a mixture of ice and water is zero degrees, and the degree of heat and coldness of boiling water is one hundred degrees..." Shen Long took out a thermometer and a hygrometer to demonstrate to Wang Yu, "Temperature Humidity and humidity are crucial to food cultivation, you can also record these data in the future!"

Wang Yu took over and studied it, and also measured his own physical problems according to Shen Long's instructions. He only felt that these equipments were ingenious and wonderful, "It is said that the most important thing in making steel and iron is the heat. Can a thermometer measure the heat to make better steel?"

"Well, you can think of these enough to prove your cleverness, but the thermometer you are holding can't measure the temperature inside the furnace, and it might burn if you put it in." Shen Long praised.

When they arrived in the village, Wang Yu and Wu Xiaoyi continued to dig the ground, while Shen Long sat beside him to rest. Wang Yu discovered today that the two acres of land that Shen Long hoed yesterday were of different depths, and it seemed that they were planning to grow different grains. , and the depth of these grains must be different, so he quickly wrote them down.

Shen Long looked at Wang Yu's serious look and nodded slightly. It seems that this liberal arts student still has hope to transform into a science student. If he can really grow these grains successfully, it will be of great benefit.

If you want to save the Song Dynasty, you can't just kill Khitan, Dangxiang, Jurchen, and Mongols. Even if you can solve Yelu Hongji and Wanyan Agu, there will be other alien races, so you must come up with a longer-term solution. There is no way.

Throughout the history books, it was not until the age of firearms that civilized countries completely got rid of the threat of barbarians, because the production capacity of barbarians was far from comparable to that of civilized countries.

The large-scale equipment of firearms requires an entire industrial system, which cannot be done by manual workshops alone. Therefore, Shen Long had to cultivate the germs of the industrial revolution and capitalism in the Song Dynasty, and care for them to thrive until the emerging Power has the capital to fight against feudal landlords.

When many people mention the industrial revolution, they think of epoch-making machinery such as Watt's improved steam engine and the spinning jenny. But in fact, the industrial revolution began with agriculture.

Due to the promotion of the crop rotation system, the advancement of production tools, the cultivation of new crops, and the use of fertilizers, etc., the food production in the UK has continued to increase, and the production efficiency has also continued to increase. A large piece of land can be planted with only a few people. Due to the impact of the land movement, a large number of farmers had to leave the land and enter the city, providing sufficient sources of workers for the factories.

These people changed from farmers to workers, and the low price of food allowed the British to obtain enough food with less money, and the remaining money could be used for consumption, which also led to an increase in the demand for industrial products.

If you want to reproduce this scene in Song Dynasty, you must first solve the food problem, so Shen Long took out so many high-yielding seeds, and Wang Yu is using these more advanced agricultural tools.

Now Wang Xi only thinks about the high yield of these grains, but he doesn't realize that these grains will also strip more people from the land.

At that time, these landless peasants can have two choices, either to colonize the outside world, or to enter the factory and become a worker. No matter which choice is made, Shen Long hopes to see it.

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