Female-to-male: I live on farming

Nowadays, Qin Ke is very familiar with drawing drawings. He even processed the charcoal pencil to make it more similar to modern pencils. Qin Ke is much faster in drawing drawings with charcoal pencil than with a brush.

His calligraphy is now just passable under Lu Youqing's supervision. No matter how hard he practices, it is hard for him to compare with those people who have studied hard since childhood.

After the drawings came out, he excitedly went to the Ministry of Industry, yes, the Ministry of Industry.

To some extent, this can be regarded as a department specially set up for Qin Ke after the princess arrived in Liangzhou. The harvesters and threshers he designed before were all produced in this department.

There were many faces that Qin Ke was familiar with. They were the craftsmen that Gu Lanxi had sent to Qinghe Village to cooperate with Qin Ke in making harvesters.

Since we are all acquaintances and have had experience in cooperation, it will be easier to say.

These craftsmen engaged in engineering have simple and pure inner worlds, and they pursue technical excellence and innovation without distraction.

This often means that they are full of admiration for people with abilities and capabilities. When they saw the drawings of the harvester designed by Qin Ke before, they were amazed by the exquisite design and ingenuity. They admired Qin Ke who designed the harvester and thresher successively, even though Qin Ke was the youngest among them and had the least experience.

So as soon as they got Qin Ke's drawings, they immediately put down their work and came to observe.

"It's... a plow."

"The plow wall is round," one of the gray-haired old men touched his beard. Qin Ke remembered him. He was the most experienced craftsman here. His name was Zhang Li. Zhang Da and Zhang Er were both his apprentices.

He stared at the blueprint for a while, then suddenly clapped his hands and said, "This kind of plow can push the upturned soil aside to reduce the soil clods, and it can also cut off the growth of grass roots."

He is indeed an experienced craftsman. He can see the mystery just by looking at the drawings.

Qin Ke smiled and nodded, "That's right, Craftsman Zhang really has a keen eye. I wonder how many days it will take for the Ministry of Industry to make it?"

"Two days," Zhang Li was obviously very excited. After saying that, he quickly shook his head and said, "No, no, no, one day will be enough. You can come and get it tomorrow."

Judging from his attitude, Qin Ke thought he would stay up late and work overtime to produce it. He would forget to eat and sleep when he saw something that interested him.

He was too embarrassed to just give up, so he just stayed with them. If they had any questions, they could just ask him.

When it was time for dinner, Qin Ke took Han Qi back to Qin's house and prepared some food.

"I've heard that the food in Qin Sinong's house is excellent. Now we can also enjoy a feast." Zhang Li smiled, washed his hands, and didn't bother to be polite with Qin Ke.

Although Qin Ke's family does not have those rare ingredients, they have a large number of recipes and unique cooking methods, so even some ordinary and common ingredients can become delicious and mouth-watering through clever combination and careful preparation.

Qin Ke and the entire Ministry of Works worked until late at night to complete the general structure of the curved plow. It would only take a few more hours to complete it tomorrow.

Qin Ke rode back home at dusk. The night was as dark as ink, with faint twinkling stars. The sound of horse hooves clattered in the silent streets, and his figure looked lonely and resolute in the dim moonlight.

Qin Ke felt extremely lonely when his wife was not at home. There was no one to talk to when he returned home in the evening. After a simple wash, Qin Ke hugged the pillow that Lu Youqing usually used in his arms, lowered his head and took a deep breath, as if he could still smell the fresh and elegant fragrance of Lu Youqing.

The next day, the Ministry of Works spent a whole morning to complete the production of the curved plow. All that remained was experimentation. If the experimental results were good, it could be put into mass production immediately.

If they wanted to conduct an experiment, the field where Qin Ke was plowing the soil would be the best location. A group of people went to the farm to see how effective the curved plow was.

The eldest princess also heard that Qin Ke had invented a new farm tool, so she came to watch on her phoenix carriage.

The people from the Ministry of Works were flattered to see the eldest princess coming and bowed to her.

"Please stand up. I heard that you have made new farm tools, so I wanted to join in the fun."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Li hurriedly bowed and explained, "Your Highness, this thing is called a curved plow. It was designed by Qin Sinong, and we in the Ministry of Industry are just helping to make it."

He dared not claim the credit for it.

"Without my colleagues in the Ministry of Industry, my efforts with only the blueprints will be in vain." Qin Ke said hurriedly.

"Alright, alright," Jin Yang waved his hand and said, "I know your contributions, so there's no need to be so modest and refuse. Let me see what's so wonderful about this thing first."

The princess had spoken, so Qin Ke immediately selected an old farmer from the farm. Although Qin Ke was the Minister of Agriculture, his level of proficiency was not as good as those who had been farming for their entire lives. Moreover, Qin Ke had never used that kind of long straight-beam plow before, so there was no way to make a real comparison.

The old man worked in the fields under the sun all year round, his skin was tanned, and the deep and shallow wrinkles on his face were crisscrossed like gullies in the fields. He took the whip and gently whipped the cow's buttocks. The whip drew a graceful arc in the air. The big black cow felt the slight sting, its body trembled slightly, and then slowly moved its feet.

As the plow turned, the fresh soil was turned over in uniform rows.

After the old man came back from plowing with the ox, he looked extremely excited, his face flushed, and he hurriedly trotted to the princess, knelt down and said, "Your Highness, this plow is more flexible than the previous straight-beam plow. It can be operated by one person, and the depth of the plowed land can be controlled."

"That's great." Jinyang stood with his hands behind his back, his posture straight. After hearing this, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a barely perceptible smile, and said, "In that case, the Ministry of Works will mass-produce curved plows first, and try to distribute them to various villages before the spring plowing. The government will rent them to the villagers for free."

The harvesters and threshers can wait for a while, after all, spring ploughing is approaching, and threshers will only be used after the autumn harvest.

"I will take your orders."

The princess's move undoubtedly won the hearts of the people, especially the free rental, which made the princess's reputation of loving the people like her own children spread among the people.

If her action only won the love of the people, then the decrees she issued next moved ordinary people to tears and made them grateful, while the landlords hated her with gnashing teeth.