"Ploughing with oxen and making iron tools is a pleasure."

A few days ago, the farmer who was ploughing in front of the fifth Lun and crawling in the field like a snail with a rope was very happy today.

The strength of the ox is much greater than that of a man, and with the posture of two oxen lifting the bar, it strides forward with ease, and the big iron plough behind it has been deeply rooted in the ground. The plough wall ruthlessly turns over the dry and hardened soil, making the soil soft and suitable for the growth of wheat seeds.

It is no wonder that both the former Han Dynasty and the new dynasty have laws strictly prohibiting the slaughter of cultivated cattle, and the people also respect these people very much, so they have to worship them as sacred cows. But they can't do this kind of thing like drinking cow urine and bathing cow dung.

Because it was decided by drawing lots, the people at the back of the queue had nothing to complain about. The people were also cautious when using the oxen, and they did not dare to swing the whip heavily, for fear of injuring the oxen and losing weight.

It just so happened that the fifth tyrant was passing by, and after seeing everyone's fluttering movements, he was extremely unhappy, and stopped yelling: "Didn't eat enough? With a little effort, although my cattle are strong, they will not destroy the land! ”

The crowd let go a little, and occasionally accidentally touched the stone and broke the plough blade, so they held it anxiously to return it, although they were glared at fiercely by the fifth grid in charge of farm tools, but they did not let them compensate.

At this time, people were relieved, and they all sighed that the head of the family, who had never cared much about their life and death, had changed his sex this year, and heard that this was Xiao Langjun's idea, so they secretly gave a thumbs up to Wu Lun, who was squatting on the edge of the field to settle accounts.

What the fifth Lun is calculating is how much time can the people of Quanli save by lending oxen and plows? One person and two oxen can plough 30 acres of land in a few hours, which is several times the rate of coupling tillage plus wood and stone tools. After the autumn ploughing is over, the farmers can get seven or eight days of free time before the day comes, and when the time comes, they should not be able to resist when they are called to work.

When taking a break halfway, Wu Lun announced that he would use the agricultural slack to rebuild the Li Society, and the farmers were silent for a while, and then they were very enthusiastic: "The Autumn Society hasn't done it well for a few years, this is indeed a big deal!" Only by entertaining the gods can the coming year be smooth. ”

"After a few days of planting, we will immediately go to help!"

"I'm going to cut down trees in the mountains."

"I'm going to dig by the ditch."

"I'll go burn tiles in the kiln!"

Anyway, I'm idle, I'm idle, although I don't have a salary, but the fifth clan will take care of the food. Everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high, and now they have received a lot of benefits from the cattle, if anyone is lazy and does not go, they will be blinded by the whole body.

Even a half-grown child with dysentery shouted to help hand over the bricks, in the child's memory, the Autumn Club is the most fun time of the year, dancing to make the gods happy, and he is happy, isn't it good?

This time Wu Lun was relieved, and on the other hand, the "new thing" he asked the blacksmith Qiu Gaonu to make a few days ago had also completed the first practical cultivation in the field.

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"Grandfather, what did you call me for?"

The one who was called was the middle-aged man who fell off the pear tree that day and sent someone home by horse by the fifth lun, named the fifth Pingdan.

Fifth Lun remembered wrongly, this person's generation was not his nephew, but his grandson - no way, he had at least a dozen grandchildren in the whole family, and even great-grandchildren who were older than him.

A man in his forties, but he cares about the 17-year-old Fifth Lun and his grandfather, he was a little embarrassed at first, but he got used to it.

"Feet are good?"

Fifth Lun looked at his injured foot, and considered this person lucky, the wound on his foot was not infected, and once it resolved, the case fatality rate was very high.

"Well, thanks to the medicine sent by my grandfather, I don't know how to repay this kindness."

In order to prove it, the fifth Pingdan also stomped on the ground.

Wu Lun hurriedly stopped him: "It's better to be lighter, go back to work in the field, remember to wear shoes, don't be barefoot." ”

This made the fifth Pingdan a little embarrassed, he was only embarrassed to say it, his wife died the year before last, and there was no one at home who knitted shoes, so he could only make straw shoes. His hands were clumsy, and he was loosely braided, and they were scattered in a few days, and the only good shoes in the family had to be worn by the two sons who went out in turn.

Hearing that one of the best crops in the Fifth Pingdan was one of the best crops, the Fifth Lun made a special trip to him and asked him to try out the new plow.

When Wu Lun observed the cultivation of the Li people these days, he found that the plough they used was very different from what he had seen when he lived in the south in later generations - although the plough tip, the plow bed, the plow wheel, and the plow arrow were all ready, but the biggest difference was that the plow was long and straight, which was not very conducive to steering, and it was easy to operate with two oxen to lift the bar.

In later generations, it was a zigzag plow, and it was slightly shorter, so that an ox could pull it.

According to the memory, the fifth Lun asked the blacksmith to make a fight, and I don't know if it was out of shape, so that the fifth Pingdan manipulated it and tried it, and the feedback he got was not bad.

"Not only is it much smaller and lighter, but it's also easy to turn around and turn, which is suitable for small pieces of land."

Indeed, the bulky straight plough was more like a design for the more than fifty acres of flat land that the Fifth Family had in a row. The land of the yeoman farmers has long been less than 100 acres per household, and because of the inheritance division, it is divided into an east and a west, and the big plow is difficult to make, but the curved small plow is just right.

So Wu Lun happily took the new plough to his grandfather who was sitting on the ridge of the field and basking in the sun, hoping to make more than ten curved ploughs for the people in the spring before the spring ploughing.

The fifth tyrant has long been surprised by his grandson's endless new ideas, and he has been glancing at it when he is trying to plow in the field, but he is not too surprised, he only looks up and down and says unhurriedly: "It's a good thing, it can indeed save manpower, and it is suitable for small farmers, but ......"

He asked his grandson a question.

"Lun'er, you say, is it manpower or iron?"

"Of course...... It's iron that's expensive. ”

Fifth Lun was dumbfounded, knowing that he was in a bit of a hurry.

The two policies of the Hao clan hated the new dynasty the most, one was Wang Tian's private order, which limited their appetite for more land and slaves.

The second is the five equals and six reels, which hurt not only small homesteaders, but also landlords Haoyou. Not to mention salt and wine, iron alone monopolizes the source of production tools.

From mining to casting to selling, iron is handled by the government, and of course, the pricing is also determined by the officials, and the thieves are expensive. This is like a poor handicraft scissors, an invisible heavy tax, the new dynasty has achieved "no endowment and the country is sufficient", can support foreign wars, but Haoyou hates it.

It is no wonder that during the Han Dynasty, the world's virtuous literature repeatedly asked for the abolition of the salt and iron monopoly, which was indeed the common hope of the landlords and commoners. Although for the low-level common people, this is just the difference between the government cutting leeks or the right cutting leeks.

If it is the spirit of the Liu family and the Wang family, they can still denounce this as the greed and short-sightedness of the landlord class regardless of the interests of the country, but he is a stupid grandson of the landlord family......

Fifth Lun touched his buttocks, patted his head again, and laughed.

"That's true."

The powerful Tiangao Emperor of the Kanto region was far from being able to ignore the decree, and the Fifth Clan was in Guanzhong, but he didn't dare to disobey too much. Looking for mining and smelting by yourself? Not to mention that his small family does not have the financial resources at all, it is estimated that as soon as the iron furnace was built, it was served by the government, and the whole family became criminals and went on the road to develop the frontier together.

Nowadays, if you want to make a new plow, you can't get freshly baked iron, so you can only buy finished iron from the county iron official, and melt it and recast it yourself after returning home.

This matter can only be stopped temporarily, fortunately, the fifth tyrant is by no means stubborn and conservative, I just hope that my grandson will understand more about the difficulties of this world, and don't think about one out of one.

He agreed with the fifth Lun, first let the craftsman and the slave maid make some curved wheels out of hardwood, if the straight wheel plow at home is broken, it will not be repaired, so the iron will be melted into a plow blade wrapped on the curved wheel, and slowly renewed, let's not think about eating a fat man.

The fifth is the head of the head, but there is another layer of worry.

"Since iron is so difficult to do, what should you do if you want to make hoarding weapons in the future?"

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By the middle of August, the autumn ploughing in the fifth mile was all over, and it was time to sow seeds.

As a southerner who grew up eating rice, Wu Lun really doesn't know much about wheat, let alone dough scones or something.

In addition, the county is located in the hinterland of Guanzhong, as early as the former Han Dynasty, after the baptism of two agricultural revolutions led by Zhao Guo and Fan Shengzhi, the intensive cultivation technology has been very advanced. What is the Daida Law Zone, the field is on the battlefield, and the compost and manure are also available, and there are few places where the fifth Lun can put the beak.

He even saw the fifth tyrant wave his hand and let people carry out the "seeding machine" in the warehouse and use it on the fifty hectares of land in his house. This thing is called "three-legged cocoon cart", it is the invention of Zhao Guo, a peasant official during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, or it is necessary to rely on the ox to pull in front, and one person holds the cocoon cart in the back, and sprinkles wheat seeds into the cocoon. One hectare of land can be sown in a day, and it is spread very evenly without waste.

Wu Lun only suggested "wheat-bean intercropping", which is common sense for anyone who has studied biology in junior high school, which is one of the "open source" methods he came up with, and may be able to slightly increase the yield per mu in the coming year.

"Too slow, still too slow." Fifth Lun knew that whether it was a quyuan plough or a bean-wheat intercropping, the increase in the harvest would not be immediate, and it was better to simply and roughly increase the harvest of the three or five hundred stones.

And the crops grow regularly, and they can't be harvested until the next year, so how many years does he have to prepare for the next year?

Thinking about it like this, Wu Lun was happy, he seemed to know how to raise food and iron the fastest.

"All the ways to make a profit are written in the criminal law!"

In the previous life, of course, you had to be a good law-abiding citizen, but in the new dynasty, these damn laws and regulations forced the fifth Lun to have the urge to break the law and discipline.

It wasn't until the sowing was done that the fifth lun came into use.

The fifth mile was on the edge of the Chengguo Canal, and the ditch brought water from the gate and then divided it into the various plots, and he saw that the farmers mostly used orange and rollers to get water, and the efficiency was very slow. Even the 50 hectares of the Fifth Clan's own family used equipment similar to keel waterwheels, and they had to rely on manpower to step on it.

It's too late this year, maybe before the spring ploughing next year, you can make water conservancy equipment such as a cart, but you have to go to the county to invite a more powerful carpenter.

On this day, when Wu Lun was leading people to look for a suitable place to set up a car by the ditch, his companion Wu Fu ran over out of breath.

"Xiao Langjun, it's not good, it's not good."

"What?"

"Fight for ...... Fight for water! ”

The peasants who were drawing water were furious when they heard this, threw the wooden barrels, held the poles, and asked: "Who, who dares to compete with the fifth mile for water!" See if we don't beat him to death! ”

It's not that they boast, under the leadership of the veteran head of the Fifth Tyrant, when it comes to weapon fighting, no one in Hongo is the opponent of the Fifth Clan.

"It's not."

The Fifth Fortune hurriedly waved his hand, pointed to the west and said, "It's the Sixth Clan and the Seventh Clan fighting for water, and the fight has started!" ”

……

"Say it earlier, others compete for water, what do you care about? Benli and the two of them do not share a branch canal. ”

When the peasants in the fifth mile heard this, they put their burdens back on their shoulders and walked away with a smile.

However, the fifth Lun was thoughtful, and summoned a few disciples to follow him to the west to have a look.

When the Chengguo Canal was built in the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, if the Zhengguo Canal and the Baiqu moistened the Shiwei County east of Jingshui, then the Chengguo Canal benefited the three counties of Fuwei, Jingwei and Liewei.

The government also attaches great importance to the ditches, and has set up a special water officer to manage them, dividing the canals into sections for each county, and not allowing the upstream to build dams to store water, so that there is no water available downstream, which will kill people.

However, the smaller branch canals below the county and township levels do not have so much energy to manage the water. Other places do not know that in Linqu Township, Changping County, a small canal is opened every two miles, and then a water ratio that is satisfactory to both parties is determined according to the population and the amount of cultivated land.

However, this year's drought in the upper reaches of the canal made the water flow of the Chengguo Canal a little small, and the water resources immediately became strained.

After walking a few miles, I saw sparse wild trees in the fields, and a stream in the distance, and two miles lived next to each other. Groups of villagers poured out of their pockets, armed with dung forks, sticks, hoes, and even sickles, and rushed to the ditch in a menacing manner.

The fifth Lun asked people to ask, and the people in the sixth mile insisted: "The seventh clan has destroyed the Old Testament, and he wants to divide more water and go to his land!" It was their hand that made the first move! ”

When they got closer to the branch canal, they heard a loud commotion, and the farmers of the Sixth Clan, who had arrived in advance, were being forced to retreat by a group of men dressed in strong suits and armed with swords.

The Sixth Clan, who has been immersed in the land, is obviously not the opponent of the Seventh Clan, which is famous for its light heroes. When you meet this group of brave and ruthless evil teenagers, they are still real guys in their hands, how can they resist with just farm tools? Soon the sickle broke, the dung fork was cut off, and the chaste retreated.

Looking at this scene, Wu Lun held the ring knife on his waist and hesitated.

A few days ago, he let the pear and the school again, so that the fifth clan and the eighth clan could resolve their grievances, and he already had a reputation in the county, according to the plan, the next step should be to establish his authority.

"If the dispute between the two countries can be settled today, it will be able to establish authority."

Those who can be persuaded to fight will often be beaten, and once they are not handled properly, they will offend both families at the same time, he has to think clearly, is it worth interfering? And how to persuade.

Fifth Lun only remembered that his grandfather and the Sixth Clan were relatively harmonious, but he had a mediocre relationship with the Seventh Clan. The brothers who are in charge of the Seventh Clan have always been arrogant and domineering, and they may not necessarily buy the account of one of his children.

When he was thinking about it, there was a call behind him again, but it was the fifth blessing who came again, riding a donkey and running all the way, shouting: "Xiao Langjun, Xianyu County Zai sent someone to summon, saying that he wanted you to go to the county temple quickly, saying that there was something important." ”

The county is looking for him? How is it at this time?

Fifth Lun frowned, and looked at the two distant relatives fighting for water again, the noise was getting louder and louder, the sixth clan had already hugged their heads, and many people were bleeding, but the seventh clan had no intention of stopping. If you don't care about it, you will die, but if you get involved, you don't know when you will be dealt with. Damn, which one should I take care of?

"Lun'er, you go to the county seat first, and I'll deal with it."

Suddenly, there was a loud shout, but it was the fifth tyrant who also came after hearing the news.

The old man rode across the ditch with a sword, although he had gorgeous hair, but his heroic appearance remained the same as it was back then.

"The fifth tyrant is here, let the old man see, who dares to show his blade!"

Looking at the back of him and the old red horse, Wu Lun seemed to see the pride of his grandfather when he followed Captain Chen Tang on an expedition to the Western Regions, crisscrossing the desert and fighting the five Hu of a Han Dynasty!

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