The Grain Drying Area, garage, rest area, repair workshop, warehouse—these were all indispensable facilities. Once Luo Chong finished giving his instructions, She Xin immediately agreed and prepared to start handling the arrangements as soon as he returned.
As for the management rights of this unit, Luo Chong decided to place it under the Ministry of Agriculture, making it a central department directly under the government. For now, it only needed to answer to Luo Chong and would be dedicated to mechanized crop experiments in the short term.
The Ministry of Agriculture had wielded great power throughout history. During the Han Dynasty, there was no concept of the Nine Courts, but there had been a Grand Minister of Agriculture. Its predecessor was called the Grain Administration Interior Secretary, and it managed the nation's granaries, material supplies, price regulation, treasury disbursements, and the cultivation of imperial estates. The state monopoly on salt and iron also fell under the Grand Minister of Agriculture's authority. He was, in every sense, the foremost official in charge of finance—even the Minister of Revenue in later generations, who was specifically responsible for money and grain, had less authority than the Grand Minister of Agriculture.
However, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Han Tribe was different. It was more like a Ministry of Agriculture in the modern sense, and its scope of authority had yet to be clearly defined. After all, the nation had not even been founded. The current Ministry of Agriculture was more like a research institution. It was responsible not only for breeding better crops, but also for the crossbreeding and selective breeding of livestock.
In summary, its duties were to research higher-yield crops, research better farming methods, selectively breed more valuable livestock, and research better husbandry techniques.
The Han Tribe's Ministry of Agriculture already