Transformed into a tenant farmer who was deprived of his land during the Hongwu period, Li Mu originally just wanted to make a living by farming and survive until the Ming Dynasty.
But he found that the people of Ming Dynasty were really suffering. Exorbitant taxes, corrupt officials and exploiters, powerful mergers and acquisitions, even a full meal is a luxury.
Since you can't change the rules, invent new ones.
The curved shaft plow, the bobbin cart, the Zhancheng rice multiple planting technology... When Li Mu's agricultural tools and farming methods swept the world with a crushing force, Zhu Yuanzhang finally couldn't sit still.
"If this person is an official, he can be the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs; if he is a citizen, he can be the breadbasket of the world. I cannot use such a person!"
Facing Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicious imperial intentions, Li Mu smiled faintly: "Your Majesty, I only know how to farm, not to be an official."
As he continued to plant, he increased the grain output of the Ming Dynasty tenfold; as he continued to plant, the curved shaft plow he invented spread throughout the world; as he continued to plant, this farmer who just wanted to farm became a "living national treasure" that Zhu Yuanzhang had to support.
This is a story about how farming changed the destiny of a dynasty.
