Chapter 41 Phosphorus fertilizer triggers the abolition of death penalty bill

Whether it is manufacturing chemical fertilizers or phosphorus fertilizers, it is actually a chore. For example, Chen Ying originally paid thirty cents a day, but when faced with such a harsh working environment, especially this sour smell, it is different from the ordinary feces smell. Not only does it suffer from the nose, but it is also eye-catching. Although the nitric acid used is not as violent as concentrated sulfuric acid, once it is touched, it will burn the skin.

Thirty cents a day's wages are already considered high in this era. Of course, Chen Ying is not short of money, so he had to raise the workers' wages until he increased by 100 cents a day, so he was willing to do this bad work. However, in this way, the cost of the corresponding phosphorus fertilizer has increased a lot.

Chen Ying roughly estimated that he applied 50 kilograms of phosphate fertilizer per mu, and the increase in yield was about three stones. According to the current grain price in Chang'an, an additional 150 cents per mu of land can be charged, but the investment cost is 100 cents, which is not a seed and is not cost-effective.

Of course, because Chang'an does not have abundant phosphate ores, the ore needs to be transported from other places, processed and labor costs, and there is no way to reduce the price of phosphate fertilizer. If the Tang Dynasty's usual money is equivalent to 4,258 yuan in later generations, a 100-pound phosphate fertilizer weighing as high as 425 yuan, which is really ridiculously high.

Due to price reasons, there is no way to promote it on a large scale.

Li Yuan patiently watched Chen Ying's phosphorus fertilizer workshop and learned in detail about the price of this phosphorus fertilizer. Under this circumstance, everyone was silent.

After all, the price of phosphate fertilizers of one hundred people a generation was too high for the people of the Tang Dynasty. What's more, Chen Ying made phosphate fertilizers on the spot and used by himself, and there was no distributor or transportation cost in the middle. If such phosphate fertilizers were sold to the people, he would probably not be able to fight for 150 people.

Then the question is.

Due to cost reasons, I am afraid that people will not be able to use this thing. Even if increasing grain yields are of great help, if a bag can be reduced to ten cents or less, it will no longer be difficult to promote.

Li Yuan sighed and said, "Phythmic fertilizer is a good thing, but unfortunately it is too expensive, and the income and investment are not very cost-effective."

Li Yuan said this more euphemistically. In fact, it is not just not cost-effective. There is no room for operation, because if farmers want to get a bumper harvest, they must irrigate, weed, insect removal, loosen soil, and fertilize. The only link of fertilizers offsets the economic benefits of increasing production and income. So who is willing to use this phosphate fertilizer in time and effort?

Although Xiao Yu was the seventh son of Emperor Ming of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, Xiao Yu was not rich in his youth after the fallen royal family. Although he did not starve to death at home, he also knew the sufferings of the people. He knew that he was not the source of emperors, and he did not seek fame and could make the people eat a bowl of full food. He was satisfied if he was scolded for a few less "dog officials". His idol was Li Bing, who was a great water conservancy in the Warring States Period. He was digging a dangerous beach in Yibin and Leshan.

, cleared the waterway, and built irrigation and shipping projects such as Wenjing River (now the Xihe River in Chongqing County), Baimu River (now the Nanhe River in Qionglai), Luoshui (now the Shiting River), Mianshui (now the Mianyuan River), as well as the construction of cable bridges and the opening of salt wells. He also built a five-foot road connecting the Central Plains, Mingshan District Police Station in Ya'an City, Sichuan, and Yunnan. The people missed his achievements and built temples to commemorate them. Many water management experiences are still used hundreds of years later, benefiting generations.

Even though the people have long forgotten who was called alone and widowed, they still remember that Li Bing was a great official.

As an official, there is no regret to be able to reach Li Bing's level. He asked himself that he was not as powerful as Li Bing's water control technology, so he had to work hard in developing farming. It is also an amazing achievement to make the people fill their grain and eat meat!

However, the ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny. When he put the ideal into practice, he realized how great the resistance was. His government orders were impossible to implement, and even Hechi City could not be released. There were always so many people who stubbornly disobeyed him, intentionally or unintentionally dragging him down! What's even more deadly is that he finally organized the people to reclaim some wasteland. Not long after, the gentry took the land deeds to the yamen and made a fuss. The people fought against the gentry, and the winner was always the gentry. They always had so many strong evidence and witnesses to prove that the reclaimed land belonged to them! After being hit hard again and again,

Xiao Yu was a little depressed. Now his official position has become the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Zuo Min and the Secretariat were the Secretariat. Seeing that Chen Ying was doing such a good farming, his originally dead heart had come alive.

A glimmer flashed in Xiao Yu's eyes and looked at Chen Ying and said, "Mr. Chen, can this phosphorus fertilizer reduce costs and promote the world?"

"It's hard... it's very difficult!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "You have also seen that I made it myself and used it myself, and the cost is 100 yuan per bag. If it is promoted as a commodity, it will have transportation losses. In this way, the price of phosphorus fertilizer will be higher... But..."

Li Yuan was disappointed for a while, but Chen Ying invented a way to increase grain production but could not be used. This was like a useless rib, and it was a pity to eat it without taste, and it was a pity to throw it away.

But when Li Yuan heard Chen Ying say this, he was excited and said, "But what?"

Chen Ying said: "In fact, it is not difficult to make this phosphorus fertilizer. The most difficult thing is that the labor cost is too high. You have also seen that when manufacturing this phosphorus fertilizer, it was too smelly. No one in the people was willing to do this job. For this reason, I had to increase my salary to 100 cents a day!"

"What a hundred people a day?"

Everyone was in an uproar. The price of Kaiyuan Tongbao in the Tang Dynasty was too high. As high as a ninth-rank official, the salary of a year was only a little more than 32 jin. In other words, the average one was only 100 jin a day. Nowadays, a stock-level cadre in the business is almost the ninth-rank official of the Tang Dynasty. So the question is, how much money can a stock-level cadre earn in a day now? Does the migrant workers who move bricks earn more than the stock-level cadre? The answer is yes.

The Tang Dynasty not only had ninth-rank officials, but also many minor officials who were not in the rank of the class, such as the three ranks and six ranks. They were all without grades, but they had real power and were quite good at it. However, they were far from receiving the ninth-rank treatment of 100 ceremonies a day.

When Xiao Yu heard this, he realized it. He tried to ask: "If there was no one hundred cigarette expense per day, could the phosphorus fertilizer be reduced?"

"It is definitely possible to reduce it!" Chen Ying said: "There were originally 160 craftsmen here, and they took 2,880 stakes of wages. If they did not count their wages, the price of phosphate fertilizer could be reduced to twenty or thirty per bag!"

Xiao Yu silently calculated the calculation in his mind. If the investment of one acre is twenty or thirty cents, the additional output will be increased by 150 cents. In this way, a farmer can increase his income by at least six trump cards a year. It is estimated that the farmers will go crazy about it.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yu asked again: "Master Chen, is it difficult to make this phosphorus fertilizer? Can anyone do it?"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "This is definitely not difficult. It's just pour nitric acid into the water tank, then pour phosphate ore powder into nitric acid, then stir and dry it."

Xiao Yu nodded and murmured: "One hundred and sixty people can increase the yield of 3,000 mu of land in half a year. If it is one year, it will definitely produce enough phosphorus fertilizer for 6,000 mu of fertile land. One thousand six hundred people can increase the yield of 6,000 mu of fertile land and 180,000 stones. If it is ten, sixteen thousand people, it can increase the yield of 1,800,000 stones. Chen Fengma, are the old minister correct? "

Chen Ying curled his lips. Such arithmetic is only at the level of elementary school students in later generations, and it is not difficult at all. However, considering that the popularity of arithmetic in this era is too low, it is already very rare for Xiao Yu to be able to achieve this mentally. Chen Ying exclaimed: "Xiao Xiangguo's calculations are correct, but there are still some deviations in it, which are roughly the same."

Xiao Yu turned to Li Yuan and bowed to Li Yuan, "Your Majesty, the old minister asks for the livelihood of the people of the world. Please give your majesty the imperial edict. In all counties, except for the ten evil crimes that are unforgivable, the other death row prisoners will be exempted from death sentences and will be punished for labor service to make phosphorus fertilizer for the people of the world."

The use of death row prisoners to avoid death and punish them for labor. This is the method that Xiao Shiwen thought of in a very short time.

Li Jiancheng thought for a while and said, "Father, my son and I will discuss it!"

Pei Ji looked at Li Yuan, and saw that there was a glimmer of light between Li Yuan's eyebrows and eyes, and he was obviously moved. He bowed and said, "Old minister advised him."

"I'm going to discuss it!"

"Section"

...There were a series of comments from the ministers present.

Chen Ying was stunned. He really didn't expect that the Tang Dynasty would actually propose a bill to abolish the death penalty at this time. However, Chen Ying was in favor of this. In history, due to the rebellion between Dou Jiande and Liu Heita, tens of thousands of young and strong people died in Hebei alone. Some of these tens of thousands died on the battlefield, some were slaughtered by rioters, and some were beheaded after settlement of the accounts after the autumn.
Chapter completed!