As the saying goes, there will be gains. This drought has led to the use of the water truck tool, which was not previously promoted, on a large scale in the Luo family territory.

After so many years of development, the water wheel is no longer limited to its application in farming. In fact, in some territories of Feiqian Kingdom, it has become a power tool for mills. In Luo's workshops such as cement workshops, the water wheel has also become a source of power.

However, even so, the application of water trucks has never been promoted in the Luo Family territory. In fact, due to the high purchase cost, the water truck tool was previously widely used in farming in various parts of Feiqian Country (the main reason is that when it was promoted in Feiqian Country, it was basically given to the local area for free). After seeing the great effect of Feiqian Country's application of water trucks, the local leaders of the Zhuhou Kingdom, which was adjacent to Feiqian Country, also purchased part of the Luo Family's internal affairs cabinet for trial use. However, it was not widely used in the local area. As for the Zhuhou Kingdom, Fenghou Kingdom, Fengqian Country, and Nagato Kingdom, it had to be even less popular.

Even though Luo Family uses a "loan" method, he allows local leaders to take the water truck back to the local area for installation and use, and then repay the debt one by one within several years. However, the results are still minimal.

The main reason for this is that the people in each area using water trucks are related to their respective interests distribution issues. After all, after the water truck is bought, the water supply area is naturally limited after it is put into use, which leads to the restriction of the area of ​​irrigation benefits. At this time, the closer the fields are to the water trucks, the greater the benefits.

So, this situation has caused two problems. One is where should the water truck be installed after it is bought. The local leaders naturally think that it is the most suitable to install it near their own fields. So there will inevitably be disputes. Second, when starting to raise money to buy water trucks, who should pay how much money will be a question that will cause disputes. Villages in various places are basically delayed by such problems. When encountering such a situation, unless an internal affairs expert like Zhengliang takes action personally, the average village head will be helpless.

Some people may say that since it is so troublesome, just let the people buy it independently.

It is indeed a case where the local lords pay for free to buy water trucks for local entourage residents. Especially those retainers and lords who work in the Luo family. After learning about the role of these water trucks on increasing territory income, they will pay for some. But this is just a small part of the area. Spreading these water trucks on the current territory of the Luo family is almost a drop in the bucket, and the overall role it plays is really insignificant.

As for ordinary people, most families are not enough to afford the cost of a water truck at this stage. Even if a small number of families already have the financial resources, in this era when small farmers are in charge of their ideas, they would rather use their extra money to buy more grain and store them home than buy this water truck that cannot be used as a food feed. Even if you run to him and tell him that the water truck will have a great effect on their future harvest in the fields. They will not listen to you.

Perhaps someone will say that since that's the case, it's better to provide water trucks free of charge or lower the price.

This is also undesirable, and even very dangerous. First of all, it is the issue of the financial health of the territory. If the Luo family is still a small wealthy family, in charge of a small territory, there is no problem in implementing free and price reduction strategies. This is equivalent to just implementing a pilot in a small area in a huge territory. But if this strategy is implemented in all the territory of the Luo family today, it will be completely different.

Perhaps, the cost of a small water truck is really nothing to the Luo family's huge territory income, but when the costs of millions of water trucks in all territories add up, it is definitely a huge cost to consume. This will cause the overall financial situation to be incurred, or even collapse. Imagine the situation where hundreds of millions of people in the Celestial Empire throw a coin at you at the same time, and you will understand the seriousness of the situation. Therefore, even if the consequences cannot be predicted, even Zhengliang, who has always liked to take risks, dare not implement such a strategy.

Of course, the Luo family can also gradually promote it in various regions for free, just like the policy of Feiqianguo at the time, or promote it for free through pilot methods. The answer is impossible.

Because in recent years, the Luo family spent every year on various more important things such as land reclamation, construction of marching avenues, repair of water conservancy facilities, daily organizational operations, foreign wars, etc., which almost exhausted the territory's finances. They could not afford to spend any extra money and grain for free promotion, even if they could barely squeeze out some money and grain for promotion. With this promotion speed and scope, it would take at least several years before the water truck could be widely used in the territory.

At the same time, this free promotion strategy also ignores the understanding of the local people's ideas. The general people's ideas in this period are still in the state of ignorance and selfishness (this is an indisputable fact, after all, the background of the times is like this). Typical manifestations are that they are extremely easily confused by the so-called thoughts of gods and Buddhas, and they are also extremely easy to believe in general rumors. For these people, as long as you give them enough benefits, it will become extremely easy to get along with and support you; but if they are misunderstood, then these cute people will become "troubled people" and cause trouble to you.

Under this situation, once a region receives free water truck supply, other nearby areas that do not receive water truck supply will complain. If you charge them for water trucks in the future, it will arouse their dissatisfaction. Then it will cause unstable situations in the territory. In the end, an original good incident will turn into a bad thing (this situation was encountered before when promoting it in Feiqianguo).

Overall, it is precisely because of the above reasons that the water truck cannot be widely used in the territory. However, this drought provides an opportunity for this.

Under the current natural disaster, the leaders of various places had to abandon their previous concerns. After discovering the great role played by the water trucks in dealing with the drought, they all joined forces to purchase water trucks from the Interior Government Pavilion.

The water truck, which was originally coldly treated, suddenly became the hottest farming tool in the Luo Family territory. Under a large demand, the Luo Family Woodworking Workshop located in the Nogao Mountain Gorge, Matsuura-gun, Hibiki Guo, had to use the order from the Inner Government Pavilion to gather craftsmen who registered and determined reliable woodworking workshops in the Luo Family territory to the Workshop Gorge on the Nogao Mountain, and then built water trucks day and night according to the assembly line and shifts. The water trucks were built continuously from the Nogao Mountain to the Luo Family, which gave birth to many "foot houses" specializing in transporting goods.

This accelerated the widespread use of water trucks in the Luo Family territory and thus gave birth to some commercial industries. This was the first benefit brought to the Luo Family by this drought.

The second advantage is that it accelerated the integration of the four counties in the eastern part of the Chiqian Kingdom, the five counties in the central part of the Fengqian Kingdom, and the Fengura of the Nagato Kingdom, into the Luo family's ruling system.

Why do you say so?

Since the original water conservancy facilities in these areas are not perfect, it will inevitably affect the spring plowing and autumn harvest in these areas this year. In order to help the leaders of these areas, the Luo family will inevitably carry out large-scale paid corvee service in the local area such as reclaiming fields, repairing water conservancy facilities, and building marching avenues. In addition to greatly accelerating the construction of local infrastructure, the leaders of these areas will also experience the benefits of becoming the leaders of the Luo family, thus quickly transforming into a loyal leader who completely supports the Luo family. With these foundations, the progress and depth of the rule of the Luo family over the local area will naturally be accelerated.

Finally, this severe drought also provided a rare opportunity for the Luo family to guide the areas in the southeast of Fengqian Kingdom where the Shan family was still maintained by the wealthy families such as the Shan family, and the areas in the northeast of Fengqian Kingdom where the Otomo family was controlled.
Chapter completed!