Volume 2 Planting Chapter 136 Developing New Tools/4 (Proofread)
Wang Tian came to the cultivation area with a new tool, and explained to everyone how to use it: "Just like now, aim in the direction of the need to dig, then lift one foot, step on this low beam, step the shovel into the ground, when the shovel is two-thirds of the way into the ground, and then grab the tail of the wooden handle and pry it down, so that the soil on the ground is turned over, and the purpose of loosening the soil is achieved." ”
After finishing speaking, Wang Tianzai gestured with his hand at the position of two-thirds of the bone rake, and pointed to the place where the wooden handle was connected to it, and then handed the rak to the hands of the leader and the boss, and motioned him to operate it again.
Everyone looked at this strange farm tool in the shape of a cross with two hooks on the back, and they were full of curiosity, and all of them had eager expressions on their faces.
Wang Tian was very satisfied with this, in China, when the Chinese people saw the cross, they thought of agricultural tools and the ancient hieroglyph of "Lei".
The word "Lei", in later generations, except for Cai Lun's hometown "Leiyang", this word has only one meaning, that is, the agricultural tools it refers to.
Westerners, on the other hand, think of ghosts and gods, and they will be afraid and afraid, which may be the difference between Chinese and Westerners.
The word "rake" is actually a three-toothed harrow, tied with three short beams, and the bottom beam is the position of the footrest.
The middle one, when the ground is hard, can be used with both hands and feet, and at the same time press the bone into the ground.
The top beam is to stand on the bottom beam with both feet off the ground and hold the top beam with your fingers and use your own body weight to loosen the soil.
If it still doesn't work, you can grab the top beam with both hands, jump up rhythmically with both feet, and use gravitational acceleration to achieve the purpose of shoveling soil.
This reminded Wang Tian of the manpower pile driver in the countryside: a wooden stake to enter the ground, a thick wooden board was erected on it, and a T-shaped was put together, and a person held it at one end, and then 5~6 people went up and jumped up at the same time to knock the wooden stake into the ground.
When building a bungalow in the countryside, when encountering a relatively soft foundation, this humanoid pile driver will be used to knock the carbonized wooden piles into the ground, and the construction process is more comical, but it is very useful.
Now this is a horizontal wood that saves two handrails, and if necessary, it can be added at any time, and it does not affect the use now.
According to Wang Tian's method just now, the leader stepped on the bone skull into the ground with one foot, and was about to pry it, but was stopped by Wang Tian in time.
Because Wang Tian found that the earthwork that the leader wanted to pry was too far away, even if it could be warped, it was easy to cause loosening and damage to the bones.
He asked the leader to pull the bone out again, moving it forward by 10 centimeters, and then compared the previous position with his hand to the current position, signaling that the leader could continue.
At this time, the leader boss had already understood what Wang Tian meant, and then as soon as he stepped on his feet and pried his hands, a large piece of soil was turned up.
The leader and the people in the tribe looked at the soil that was turned up, with a surprised expression on their faces, if they used the Luoyang shovel and hoe before, if they wanted to turn out such a large piece of soil, it would take at least two strokes.
And now it is just a step and a flip, and the leader can easily complete it, how can they not feel happy, digging in the soil, although it is not as dangerous as hunting, but in terms of labor intensity, it is not easier than hunting at all.
Everyone who participated in the labor understood this truth, but everyone worked very hard to make the tribe better and better.
The leader then operated several times in a row, and the more he used it, the more he felt that it was easy to use, so he stopped and gave a thumbs up to the Son of Heaven.
After trying it, the people all showed an ecstatic look on their faces, this is too easy to use, I don't know how much easier it is than using a hoe and a Luoyang shovel.
Now that the Son of Heaven has developed this more flexible and easy tool for ploughing the ground, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce their labor intensity and speed up the progress of wasteland reclamation.
Everyone in the tribe was overjoyed by this, "Son of Heaven, what is this called?" Anything else? This one is really easy to use, and with it, you will definitely be able to speed up the ploughing speed! The leader asked Wang Tian.
Wang Tian said with a smile: "Its name is 'Leiyun', it is specially used to turn the ground, this is just made by me and Dashou, and Dashou is now making the next one." ”
"I want to change the name of the plow, let's call it 'hand plow', it's a more apt name, and it's easy to pronounce." In fact, Wang Tian really disliked the name "Leiyun".
"Everyone pay attention to rest and drink water, the land is not very urgent, we still have some time after the snow melts in spring next year, and now we try to open a relatively gentle place, the slope is too large, these fertilizers will be washed away by the rain."
Wang Tian encouraged everyone more vaguely, and at the same time put forward a request for land reclamation.
In order to prevent everyone from understanding, he made an inclined gesture with his hand, and then continued to explain:
"This is the same as the same meaning as we used to dig ditches for fishing, the water will flow down in a sloped place, and if it rains heavily, the soil dug out and the fertilizer we added in will all be taken away by the rainwater, and this kind of slope must be leveled if you want to grow food."
The leader immediately understood when he heard the Son of Heaven's explanation, and then he scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and then said that he would change it.
Wang Tian also proposed a good way, that is, to pick up soil from the 600 acres of land that cannot be cultivated, cover the low-lying side, and for the place where the drop is too large, you can first build an earth wall and fill in the soil.
The best way is not to do it in places with large slopes, anyway, there are many gentle places, first easy and then difficult, and it is not okay to reclaim the easy ones first.
Everyone nodded and said to the Son of Heaven that they understood, and then Wang Tian handed over the handmade plough to them, and he himself turned to the charcoal kiln to look for Kuroko to see how the mold was made for shoemaking.
At this time, Kuroko had already finished the molds in the shape of the 8 drawings, and at this moment, they were put together with the two molds that Wang Tian had made before.
A bonfire is lit around the perimeter to bake to speed up the evaporation of water.
"Kuroko, these 10 templates will be put on for another night tonight, and they will start burning for me early tomorrow morning, and they will be burned for a day, and they will be brought back to the tribe by the end of the afternoon." After Kuroko finished speaking, he thought about it and continued:
"These are just used for scribing, and they don't need to be burned well, you can use a blower to speed up the burning for me tomorrow!"
Then he picked up a small wooden stick, wrote down the length of the shoe and the left and right positions of the shoe on eight ceramic plate molds, and then carefully scraped off the floating soil on the surface.
"Son of heaven, will you still burn the kang tomorrow?" Kuroko asked.
"Burn, why don't you burn." Wang Tian didn't react for a while, he had already forgotten about letting Heizi burn the kang tomorrow in the morning.
After he remembered it, he smiled at the sunspot and said, "You don't have to worry about burning the kang tomorrow, I'll let Huo Yi and Huo Er come." ”
After saying that, he was about to go back to the tribe, but he felt that his feet were being held by something, so he bent down and hugged the two little tiger cubs in his arms.
These two little guys now eat 6 meals a day, Wang Tian estimated the time, and it was time for them to find a nurse to eat.
Wang Tian is used to it now, they follow him, as long as he doesn't disturb himself, Wang Tian can hardly feel them around.
"Let's go, take you to find your mother, and then go to the wet nurse to eat grandma, okay!" These two little milk tigers responded a few times, which can be regarded as a response to the Son of Heaven.
The 5 Divine Dog Wonder Soldiers are obviously growing much faster than these two little tiger cubs, and they are much more active and lively, and a butterfly and a grasshopper can play crazy.
Now that Wang Tian walked out of the gate of the tribe, these 5 little cute goods didn't like to follow them very much, so that after Wang Tian picked up the two little tiger cubs again, his eyes swept around for 4 weeks.
But no trace of them was found, is it really a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised? When he was pestered by them, Wang Tian felt a little annoyed, but once the little wolf cubs ignored him, he felt a little lost in his heart......