In order to resist those forces that are malicious about themselves, Luo Yong has also seriously considered his own development in recent days.

Although there is a lot of information in his space, Luo Yong believes that in this era, agriculture is the most fundamental, and this is also the common understanding of the vast majority of people.

With extremely low productivity and underdeveloped transportation in various places, if famine occurs, the consequences will definitely be unimaginable.

Therefore, before moving to other industries, it is best to improve the current agricultural production method first. The general structure cannot be moved. It is always possible to make a few convenient and useful tools.

Then Luo Yong immediately thought of the foot-stitching threshing machine. He wanted to do this last year, but was delayed by other things. This year, he couldn't delay it anymore. This threshing machine must be made before the summer harvest.

It just so happened that Hengyu's second son Hengzhi has also been in Xipo Village recently. Hengzhi is not as good as his brother Henghuai, who is good at managing. He is a little bored and likes to study. Now Hengzhi has already been on track and has trained a group of technicians, so Hengzhi has nothing to do.

A while ago, I heard Luo Yong teaches geometry here. What a square triangle or round one, he felt it was particularly useful to him as soon as he heard it. Then he came over and lived in the yard next to Luo's family, making neighbors with Feng Pijiang and his son. Feng Pijiang and others made boots all day long. In addition to attending classes at the Xu family's guesthouse, Heng Zhi practiced arithmetic or carpentry here. After all, they are all craftsmen, so both sides can still talk a few words.

Luo Yong did not have the drawings of the foot-stitched threshing machine on his hand, so he could find relevant pictures in the space, but he could not directly show the picture to Hengzhi, so he had to take out the paper and pen and draw it.

This painting made Luo Yong draw one or two big pieces of paper, but he couldn't draw a decent threshing machine. It was still a little difficult to draw this with a brush. There was a ready-made ballpoint pen in the space, but he couldn't use it.

Speaking of this pen, it seems that brushes have always been used in ancient China. After thousands of years of use, brush calligraphy is not only a carrier, but has even been developed into an art.

The West is relatively simple, and the threshold for scholars is not that high. The total number of letters is only a few letters, which is much easier than Chinese characters. The writing tools are also relatively easy to use, from the initial reed pen to the quill pen in the middle to the fountain pen ballpoint pen behind.

There is no way to use the fountain pen ballpoint pen now. He can definitely make a quilt pen. There are ready-made goose feathers at home. During the Chinese New Year, I bought a goose to eat it. The largest feathers on the wings were left by these children at home. Now I am tired of playing, so they placed them casually on the windowsill.

Luo Yong picked up a few feathers on the left wings of the big white goose, soaked, steamed and cleaned them, and then inserted them one by one on the sand to bake them. After the baking and cooling, he could use scissors to trim the feathers.

The way this quill was trimmed was seen by children who had used fountain pens in later generations. The fountain pen originally evolved from a quill pen.

Luo Yong first cut out a slope on the head of the goose feather with scissors, and then cut it carefully in the middle with scissors. When using it, just dip ink and then write and draw the content you want to express on the paper.

In the 21st century, Luo Yong's generation was born under the Hongqi in New China. He used to using pencils, fountain pens and ballpoint pens since he was a child. At this time, he didn't have these pens, so he made a quill pen to use it himself, and he thought it was good.

Sometimes Luo Yong can't help but wonder if he has been influenced too much by the West.

However, the development of history and cultural exchanges have never influenced this kind of thing. It is like the Hu people at this time learning various agricultural and manual techniques like Han people, and Han people also buying horses, learning their horse-raising and horse-dressing techniques, and even wearing their clothes to imitate their living habits.

This is not something to be ashamed of. Learning from other people's strengths, allowing more things to enter your own life, use it for yourself, facilitate your own life, develop your own country, and enrich your own culture. This is a process of continuous development and strength.

There are several very obstructive dynasties in Chinese history, but this obstruction did not appear from the beginning.

At least at this time of the Tang Dynasty, whether in terms of national politics or social atmosphere, everyone was still full of curiosity and desire to explore the things in the foreign lands of the Gentiles. They did not regard all Gentiles as dregs just because their country was strong.

When Luo Yong made this kind of quill pen, the men living in the Xu family's guesthouse soon discovered the convenience of this kind of writing tool. Using the goose feather dipped in ink, he could easily write the font very small. The paper that could not write a few sentences could almost write a whole article with this kind of pen.

Moreover, using this kind of pen to dip in ink to do arithmetic problems on hemp paper will not make your hands full of dust like you did with gypsum blackboard before. The clean-loving men all think that quill pens are better than gypsum.

The only thing that is still a little troublesome is that if you want to dip more ink on the quill, it is best to put the ink into a small bottle first, and then soak the tip of the quill in it. This way, more ink is needed, and if the ink you ground out that day is not used up, it will easily be dried up if it is not properly preserved.

In order to solve this problem, Luo Yong first asked Cui Weng, who made the pottery workshop to make a batch of small ink bottles with spirals, but they did not make stone pottery materials, but porcelain bottles. Cui Weng and others could also make some of the porcelain bottles, but they were not exquisite, and there were not many people buying them locally.

After placing the order with Weng Cui, Luo Yong and his disciples figured out the bottle cap mold, and finally made a batch of ink bottle caps with his own Eucommia glue.

Because the production process is still very immature, many of the bottles and lids made in the end were not as good as that, so they barely collected more than 20. Luo Yong put these ink bottles in his own store for sale, and each cost 200 cents, and was divided up on the same day.

In fact, this bottle costs 200 cents, which is mainly the bottle cap. At this time, Eucommia Glue is still expensive.

I heard that His Majesty the Emperor had not been able to make up for his business recently and could not wait for the taxes at that time of summer harvest, so I made a deal with the Persians, using a batch of rubber-soled leather boots to exchange them for a lot of real money and silver. The price of the boots was so high that they could scare people.

So relatively speaking, Luo used the ink bottle that costs 200 cents apiece here to be very kind. If you use it in the future, if the bottle is dropped or you don’t want it, the bottle cap can be recycled and reused. Collect more bottle caps and melt them to make a pair of soles.

It sounds a bit funny to make the soles of the bottle cap by yourself. In this era, this is nothing. Nowadays, everyone still raises silkworms and rolls silk and weaves the linen. They have to pound them by themselves when they eat rice at home.

Now that there are ink bottles, they have to grind the ink by themselves. These rich men know how to enjoy life very well. Since they already have such a useful bottle, they are not afraid of killing them if they can't use up the ink that day. Naturally, they don't plan to grind the ink every day as before. They can find someone to help them grind it, so they can grind it a little more at once.

So the children in Xipo Village had a place to make pocket money this spring. They went to Xujiakesan to help the men grind ink and grind them a bottle of ink. They not only earn a penny, but also often get some food.

Feng Gou'er in the village has been in the Xu family's guesthouse all day recently. Not only does he grind ink for people, but he can also help the guests wash vegetables. Because he is willing to work and does not cause trouble, the Xu family never drives him away. Xu Dalang's wife even helps him take a bath a few times. But his original appearance is really not suitable to enter and exit this guesthouse. Even if the host doesn't mind, he has to consider the customer's feelings.

When Luo Yong went to give a lecture every afternoon, Feng Gou'er sat in the corner and listened. Seeing that he was listening seriously, Luo Yong gave him a small blackboard. As for plaster, the guest house was everywhere, and it was not very valuable. Some husband bought it and put it on the counter for everyone to use it casually.

Recently, many men have switched to quill pens, and the store has more plaster. There are more than half of the baskets installed on the counter, and few people will use them. However, Feng Gouer has to get one or two pieces every day.

Luo Yong thought Feng Gou'er's calculation ability was pretty good, better than his Goro.

Goro:...

To be honest, among the brothers and sisters of the Luo family, it seems that Si Niang is a little bit prominent. The girl has a strong sense of strength, and she may really succeed in the future.

Like the old lady and the second lady, they are quite satisfied with their current life, and they don’t seem to have any ambitions to fight for more. It’s not that there is anything wrong with this mentality, but most of the successes in this world are achieved by people themselves, and those who have not won will have no chance.

Goro's personality is very different from that of Si Niang. Si Niang is the type that makes people treat her as their opponents. There are probably very few people who can really talk to her and walk side by side with her.

Goro is just the opposite. This kid gives people the feeling that he is very easy to get close to. Although he doesn't think he is a capable person, he is still willing to make friends with him and is willing to help him protect him when he encounters difficulties. This is probably Goro's strengths.

Moreover, in Luo Yong's opinion, their Goro is not not strong at all. He is similar to Si Niang, and Si Niang has always been a prominent figure. Is he really willing to always play the role of a useless brother?

He should have some pressure. Maybe he hasn't noticed this yet, but he doesn't want to be an incompetent person or make himself seem too mediocre. Such a thought that is still unclear may be the driving force for his future growth.

As for the two little ones below, I still can't see what it is. Those two have never suffered much since I can remember. They have no worries about food and clothing at home. When they go out to play, they can always be treated better than other children in the village. Such an environment is actually not conducive to growth. Luo Yong just hopes that they will not grow crooked in the future.

So compared to Siniangwuro, Luo Yong would treat the two of them a little more severely and would be more restrained.

I was drawing pictures in my hand, and while I was drawing, I remembered that my brothers and sisters were coming.
Chapter completed!