The First National Preceptor of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 226

The adjutant reminded him, "Perhaps you could go to see Grand Tutor Xu." "Yes, why didn't he think of that?" he exclaimed, standing up and walking into Xu Tian's tent.

Xu Tian looked up at him and asked, "What brings you here?"

"It was because of this year's military rations that we encountered a heartless grain merchant! Our army currently has no reserves for the winter. If Grand Tutor Xu is willing to send a letter to the capital for help, I, on behalf of all the soldiers, will thank Grand Tutor Xu."

Xu Tian was somewhat speechless, then said, "There's a lot of grain in this farmland."

General Wang naturally knew that there was a large amount of grain.

"But now the farmers who harvest the crops are all sick. Our army is stationed at the border, with only three thousand soldiers. If we transfer more people, I'm afraid the border defense will be unstable."

Xu Tian beckoned to General Wang and said, "Come and see. I've been researching this matter for the past two days, and your arrival just happens to bring us some progress."

General Wang noticed something strange on the blueprint and asked, "What is this?"

Xu Tian enthusiastically introduced, "This is a harvester I made. With it, we can greatly save manpower and improve efficiency. It is really convenient and simple to use this harvester to harvest rice in the paddy field."

General Wang was somewhat suspicious: "But weren't all the rice in this wheat field poisoned? Why harvest such poisonous crops?"

Xu Tian shook his head: "I've already asked the army doctor. The poison on the wheat has been largely blown away by the wind in the past two days, and its toxicity has weakened. We just need to wash the poison off the wheat with clean water, and then it can be eaten normally."

After Xu Tian finished speaking, he hurriedly walked out of the military tent and went to the blacksmith shop in the city.

The blacksmith, seeing such a strange, large lump for the first time, said with great interest, "Give me only three days, and I can make all the parts on this blueprint."

The blacksmith didn't expect this man to be so persistent. He wouldn't leave his blacksmith shop and three days later, he got all the parts. Then he came to the blacksmith's backyard and set up the harvester himself.

The harvester finished quickly, and he clapped his hands and drove it into the field. At this moment, General Wang arrived in the field with more than a dozen people. Everyone was stunned when they saw the huge machine in front of them.

Xu Tian waved his hand: "What are you all standing there for? Come and help!"

The ten people immediately came over, and Xu Tian himself drove the harvester. To everyone's astonishment, the large wheat field was quickly harvested, and the wheat ears were gathered together.

These ten people had already dug a channel in the river and dug more than a dozen pools on both banks to wash the wheat.

After working for several days, the entire wheat field was finally washed and packed.

When Xu Tian was making the harvester, he also installed a hulling device inside it. As soon as the good wheat was delivered to Xu Tian, ​​the harvester automatically hulled and threshed it into clean, edible grains.

Rice merchant Mr. Huang waited, but no one from the local area came.

"What's going on? Isn't it the same every year? As long as I raise the price of grain, those generals will still end up buying grain from me."

The servant quickly replied, "Master, the person I went to inquire about the situation has returned and said that they harvested all the poisonous wheat from that field and turned it into rice that is safe to eat."

That wheat field was quite large; if it could be processed into edible rice, they naturally wouldn't need to buy expensive grain from us.

Mr. Huang looked dejected; he never expected to be caught off guard like this.

"Old Zhao, the army isn't buying grain from us, so why isn't anyone coming to the shops to buy rice either?"

"Shopkeeper, it's not that our rice is bad, it's just that people say our rice is too expensive and no one can afford it, so no one is buying from our shop."