Chapter 214 (1/2)
Before Donne took over Ellington, it was a territory struggling at the bottom of the poverty line for a long time. People here had to accept the exploitation and oppression of temporary lords one after another. They didn't have enough to eat and wear, and they didn't have a few gold coins in their hands. It was a miserable life.
After Donne became the Lord, the drastic reform has injected vitality into Ellington. Now the residents of Ellington have stable jobs. Although the food reserves are still insufficient, Fiona, with the permission of Donne, appropriated funds to buy food from the nearby caspamiburg and the mountain city Beiyin, so that the residents of Ellington can eat enough.
More importantly, after eating a full meal, they have a goal and see hope.
The construction goal set by Donne for Ellington gives everyone the motivation to work hard. Everyone participates in it and contributes their own strength, hoping to make Ellington more beautiful, which makes Ellington a vibrant territory as a whole.
However, any earth person who has received compulsory education knows that the food problem is the fundamental problem of a country's survival and development.
As the saying goes, Africa's agriculture is underdeveloped. We all want jinkela... Ah bah! Food is the most important thing for the people. If agriculture is underdeveloped and agricultural products are not rich, no amount of wealth can stabilize a country.
So jinkela... Ah, bah, bah! Eating enough is the first pursuit of mankind!
Donne is well aware that countries with underdeveloped agriculture cannot become the most powerful countries in the world, and it is the same to replace the concept of state with territory.
Do not pay attention to food production and do not store food for the people. Once the war breaks out and the supply of food is blocked, Ellington will be in chaos without war. Therefore, Ellington should be strong. The food problem does not depend on external imports. Relying on imports is equivalent to handing over its right to survival to others.
Therefore, it is definitely not a long-term choice to import food from other towns and territories.
There is a huge gap between the world where the bottom people live and the world where the top-level giants live. The serious shortage of bottom productivity leads to the extreme shortage of food production and supply. Therefore, it is not only expensive but also difficult to buy food.
Therefore, agricultural reform is necessary and urgent.
Donne doesn't major in agriculture and doesn't understand biotechnology. Therefore, it's impossible to expect him to engage in too advanced technological revolution. All he can do is copy the things and concepts he knows on earth and can be used in prandal.
As long as there is no trouble and he can use it, he will be satisfied.
The first step he can think of is to get out the agricultural machinery such as cultivators and combine harvesters and realize agricultural mechanized production.
As mentioned before, Donne is not a mechanical major, but he knows the general shape and effect of these agricultural machinery, and can even guess a little bit of the principle, which is enough.
Prandar has developed the world for nearly ten thousand years. The class holds the power and restricts the self-development of the people at the bottom. However, there is no shortage of talents, but inspiration.
What Donne has to do is to be the one who breaks the imprisonment, pass the spark of thought to them, share his magic power and speed up the development of the world.
He drew the outline drawing, wrote out the functions, annotated the principles he could guess and thought of next to it, and then handed the drawing to professionals, that is, Brian and Edgar from forging, Nokia from engineering and others.
After giving it to them, there was not much that Donne could do. He could only hope that they could reverse crack these agricultural machines from the drawings and ”inspiration” they took out.
Now it seems that the result is very gratifying.
Kloto is worthy of being the most powerful craftsman in the dwarf kingdom. With his assistant group, according to the prototype drawings proposed by Don en, he really deduced the internal structure of these agricultural machinery, and even added improvements after his own understanding in many places to make these machinery more in line with the dwarf's ”Aesthetics”
HMM... actually, it's the miniaturization of the cockpit.
After giving them a reward, Donne asked Edgar and the apprentices to sign a confidentiality contract. After all, universal alloy is a very important thing. Divulging it will greatly affect the subsequent development of Ellington.
As for Brian, you can save this step.
Although this guy is a talker, the dwarf's integrity is still there. He won't reveal anything that his friend told him to keep secret.
Brian took Donne to the backyard, then pointed to a small circle of combine harvester and said, ”this is the sample we made in those days. Because it's time to harvest crops, we gave priority to conquering the combine harvester, but the power has not been determined, so we can't try.”
Donne looked up and saw that the place where the engine should be installed was now empty. It was still just an empty shell.
”I see. I can solve the power problem right away.”
”Great!”
Nokia jumped up and rushed out: ”I'll go back and inform master cloto. He said you must contact him when you solve the power problem!”
Donne was stunned.
Brian shrugged: ”understand, these dwarfs have found a bosom friend when they meet you. They like to study this kind of thing best.”
Before master croto came, Donne began to think about the engine.
As mentioned in the previous discussion with kloto, although the explosive power of the internal combustion engine is very abundant, prandal's existing processing technology can't make usable cylinders at all. Moreover, with Donne's knowledge reserve, he can't make internal combustion engines, so he can only give up.