At the end of July, the wheat in Lanling County was ripe.

Wang Lanling and many people in the county stood on the field road, and Rengui and Boyan also stood from a distance with their friends and watched this side.

In the wheat field ahead, a large harvester is moving forward unhurriedly, rolling all the wheat stalks that block the road in front of it into its mouth and eating it.

This harvester was made by Wang Lanling with people, they first made a small model, according to some opinions put forward by Wang Lanling, and then gradually made this two meters and a half tall, with more than 100 chains on his body.

This thing is still very dangerous in general because it is steam-driven.

In fact, the harvester came out before the invention of the internal combustion engine, and it is not the oil used.

Wang Lanling directly crossed the human and animal harvester, applied steam technology to agricultural tools, and proposed a driving harvester with the concept of a car.

At this time, in the wheat field next to this wheat field, several strong men of Nongsang Division were quickly harvesting the wheat in the field.

This is a battle between machinery and manpower, which seems unfair to Wang Lanling, but there are many people in the nearby fields cheering for the people of Nongsangsi.

As the roar of the mechanical gears began to change, the harvester, which had already harvested half an acre of wheat, stopped at the head of the field.

Soon four women pulling the cart with the square fence pulled it over.

A worker wearing a hard hat walked over and opened the lid on the side of the harvester, while the farmer was still harvesting the wheat at a rapid pace, and soon exceeded the speed at which the harvester had already been completed.

Under the watchful eyes of the onlookers, a lot of wheat came down from the mouth of the harvester, and these wheat were mixed with some broken straw, most of the wheat was intact, and the husks were not broken.

A steady stream of wheat flowed from the harvester to the cart, and after loading more than 300 catties of wheat, there was not much in it.

The women quickly pushed the cart out while the harvester began to continue harvesting the wheat in the field.

Gong Yueman looked at the harvester that continued to work, and said: "This car is not comparable to five laborers, plus the drivers who need it, the oil transporters, and the wheat harvesters, it is really not beautiful." ”

In Gong Yueman's view, the harvester developed by Wang Lanling has no use.

If it is simply to harvest wheat, the manpower in the county is sufficient.

Now more and more people are running to Shanhai County, coupled with the expansion of Wang Lanling's fiefdom, the new Lanling County has swallowed up the three nearby county seats.

The newcomers all had to farm for a living, and although they usually did odd jobs, the concept of land as a fundamental concept was still rooted in the minds of many people, and it was impossible to change it on a large scale for a while.

Therefore, there is no shortage of people who farm here, and Wang Lanling's machine is not only efficient and sorry for the labor of maintaining and operating the machine, but also a large amount of money.

Wang Lanling said: "I naturally understand this, and I also know that the people of Nongsang Division will work faster than this machine." ”

"But people get tired, machines don't." Wang Lanling added: "At most, there is a mechanical failure, oil maintenance and the like." ”

Gong Yueman was silent, what Wang Lanling said was precisely the biggest problem!

If there is a failure, it will be repaired, and the delay time will definitely not be too short!

There is also refueling and the like, is the money burned worthy of the wheat of this acre of land?

I'm sorry!

At present, the price of oil is very expensive, and ordinary people use oil lamps, so they use oil-burning machines to harvest wheat, which is to burn money!

Seeing that Gong Yueman was silent and didn't speak, Wang Lanling smiled and persuaded: "Everything is getting better and better, but now it's unstable, and it's getting more and more stable and faster when you take your time, and when the train just came out, you can't outrun the horse, and now you can't catch up with the horse." ”

"Not to mention anything else, you see that the technology of this harvester, whether it is used in agriculture or military, is a sharp weapon!"

"There are always a number of people in our county, and there will be more and more cultivated land in the county, more and more, and in the future, a person will no longer be one or two acres of land, but dozens of acres, hundreds of acres of land!"

"I now have 10,000 acres of fertile land, but in fact I only have 300,000 acres of land."

"Look at the ripe crops, as vast as the ocean, these are my land, such a large territory cannot be harvested in time, and it is impossible to harvest in time!"

"You see, hand tools alone can't keep up with the huge yields of fertile farmland."

In the past, Shanhai County was 13,000 square kilometers with an area of 9.75 million mu of cultivated land, of which only more than 80,000 mu of cultivated land was actually used, and the rest was not planted.

The main thing is security, if you go too far, you will be attacked by horse bandits, the harvest is difficult, and then there is a shortage of labor in the county, and most of the women and children who stay are old, young, women and children.

Before Wang Lanling arrived, this was a small place where even more than a hundred horse bandits had to be sent away on their knees.

The empire was not short of food, nor was it short of arable land.

There is no shortage of arable land in Muzhou, but there is a lack of some good places like Longzhou where the land is fertile and the wind and rain are smooth.

Wang Lanling's current title is Marquis of Lanling, and he is also the person with the most land in Lanling County.

Ten thousand hectares of fertile land, that is, one million acres.

If it weren't for the lack of enough labor, Wang Lanling would dare to include more than 10 million mu of land in the county under his name.

Gong Yueman is also clear about the current arable area in Shanhai County, as well as the actual cultivated area.

At present, the actual cultivated area of the entire Lanling County is only 500,000 mu, and Wang Lanling alone accounts for 300,000 mu!

If all this land is really planted with food, then, as Wang Lanling said, it may really need machines.

The people of Nongsang Division have already harvested one acre of land, and it is not surprising that the physical fitness of people in this world is relatively high, and they are better than machines.

If it were the Sword Master and they were harvesting wheat, they would definitely be able to beat the harvester.

But Wang Lanling doesn't just have one acre of land, he has hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions of acres of land to harvest and cultivate, how can he do it without machines?

The crowd of onlookers cheered for the men of Nongsang and celebrated the victory of the men over the machine.

However machines can be upgraded, but those people cannot.

Just as Wang Lanling was looking over there, Bo Yan ran over from the crowd.

Wang Lanling's guards all knew who this was, so naturally they didn't stop this little guy.

Bo Yan hugged Wang Lanling's legs, tilted his head and shouted, "Daddy! Daddy! Why wasn't the wheat eaten? None of the wheat that was spit out was bitten. ”

Wang Lanling looked at Ah Luo and Ji Ya, who ran over together, and explained with a smile: "Because the teeth of the harvester are too wide, there is a gap in the middle, just like your teeth, and they will be missed when eating. ”

Wang Lanling's eldest son has already begun to change his teeth, and when he laughs, he can see a smirk with two missing teeth.

In addition to the steam harvester, Wang Lanling also made some farming tools that were convenient for harvesting, as well as machines for peeling wheat.

Faster and more efficient harvesting and planting is a boost for Lanling County.

Even if other places know about Wang Lanling's affairs here, they won't follow up, because some of them are people!

Don't use so many mud legs that don't need money below, but use money-burning machines to collect grain, this kind of thing is completely something that only a loser does!

The empire does not make money from farming, everyone farms for their own use, and only a very small number of people really sell it, and only ordinary businessmen on the street are supplied.

The big families all have their own fields, and there are many of them, so it is impossible for them to go out to buy grain every day, so they all build granaries at home to store grain.

The grain reserves in the granaries of various states start from a few million tons, and the grain reserves in Tongzhou directly exceed 100 million tons.

Therefore, it is not worth the expensive machine to harvest the worthless grain, ordinary labor will do.

Now the most profitable thing is to do business, such as lending, such as being a middleman.

Put a little money, make a lot of money.

Plant a grain of millet in spring and grow into 10,000 seeds in autumn.

There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death.