It is another year of harvest season, on the land outside Bengang County, looking at it from afar, it really responds to the old saying, the wind blows the wheat waves, and the golden yellow piece is very gratifying, and has an inexplicable sense of shock.

In Bengang in late autumn and October, the ripe rice in the fields at this time has been planted in the second season and other grains, depending on the situation, this second season of rice will be a bumper harvest.

Nowadays, the professional agricultural planting talents who have been assigned to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences have a great advantage compared with the slow selection and optimization of Chinese seeds for thousands of years under the support of advanced technology such as continuous efforts to select seeds, optimize planting technology, and continue to develop manure.

In Hongmen, aside from foreign crops, rice, as the main local grain variety, has increased from an average harvest yield of less than two stones per mu to nearly three stones by the technical personnel of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the overall output has increased by more than three percent.

The yield of wheat has increased from two stones per acre to two stones and six buckets, and the increase is also more than two percent, and the results can be described as great.

Of course, to be able to have such a yield, there are various factors, such as the rotation system, the application of various manure, etc., in addition to the Hongmen system, even if these grains are planted in other lands of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that the increase in yield is still limited.

After all, the solidification of the yield of grain selection is not so simple, and there is still a long way to go for Hongmen and this era, where biological research is still in its infancy.

However, it is said that the Hongmen Academy of Agricultural Sciences has made a great breakthrough in the selection and optimization of grain varieties, and it is likely that in the future, even without technical support such as various manure applications, it can exceed the output of more than three stones.

All kinds of trails are spread among the people, and the people under the Hongmen system have long been accustomed to the various research and inventions of the Hongmen system, and they are very trusted, who doesn't want their land to grow more food!

The more the harvest season comes, the busier the people become, and there are odd jobs gathering in Bengang County early, waiting for the weather to be good, or when the time comes, someone can come and hire them to do coolies.

And the people also began to contact the people early, and compared to the size of their land, it was obviously a difficult task to harvest the grain on their own.

Moreover, many Hongmen people have children who serve in the Hongtang army, or Qixintang and other departments, which increases their labor pressure, although there are cattle, horses and livestock distributed to them, but at the time of harvesting, the role of these livestock is not as useful as when farming.

As the granary of Hongmen, the grain output of Bengang and the surrounding tribes of Bengang can be said to account for more than 40% of the overall output of Hongmen, and as Hongmen began to actively encourage the people to plant grain in the past two years, and hoard huge grain and grass for the future layout of Hongmen, grain planting has reached its peak this year.

According to the statistics of this year's Agricultural Bureau, the output of all kinds of grain in Bengang this year will almost occupy half of the entire Hongmen system, reaching about 50% of the output, this good news is a surprise news for the people outside Bengang, but for the local people in Bengang, it is a painful and happy news.

"Director, there are more than 1,000 new threshers, can they be put into sales?"

Researchers from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, while researching food products, also conducted research on agricultural tools, and in order to cope with the increasingly tight shortage of manpower, the newly invented thresher, which was handed over to the commercial subordinate workshops for production and sales.

"What can be done with this amount, there are more than 30,000 local households in Bengang alone, not to mention the needs of several surrounding villages and towns and indigenous tribes, there are no more than 5,000 households, which cannot meet the needs of the people at all."

Yao Yuntong, the director of the Bengang Agricultural Bureau, who is only thirty-two years old, frowned and said dissatisfied.

"Bring me a message to Lao Chen of the Commercial Bureau, just say what I said, ask him to send more experts out, work overtime to make this threshing machine, if this agricultural time is delayed, we will not be able to explain."

"Yes!"

The errand staff went down, leaving Yao Yuntong alone and distracted.

As a bengang located in the plain area, the fertile and vast cultivated land is certainly a good thing, but the accompanying labor shortage is a problem that has existed since the beginning of Hongmen's development of Bengang.

According to the number of people in each family, every household in Bengang now has at least more than 15 acres of land, and there were indigenous people who came to work coolies and laborers for the people, the wages were cheap and the quantity was abundant, and now it is good, people have also learned to farm, have their own land, and it is too late to plant and harvest their own land.

The agricultural cooperatives established later, although the collective labor of all people solved part of the labor problem, but it still could not make up for the huge labor gap.

The coolies who still come to Bengang to do the short-term work are either the dock laborers in Keelung Town, or the displaced refugees who have just been recruited into Hongmen for a short time.

As Hongmen stepped up efforts to urge the people to plant grain and hand it over to the Hongmen government to purchase, the increasingly concentrated grain harvest time caused the labor shortage to explode all of a sudden.

The first season of rice harvesting had already made Yao Yuntong of the Bengang Agricultural Bureau in a hurry, and for this reason, he was scolded by Li Tianyang, who got the news, and finally mobilized the Hongtang Defense Army and a part of the Shark Department to participate in the harvest, and only barely completed the rice harvest.

And if there is another mistake this time, I am afraid that Yao Yuntong, who has just sat in the position of director of the Agricultural Bureau for a short time, will be pulled down by Li Tianyang and start all over again.

Therefore, whether it is out of a sense of responsibility or out of his own interests, Yao Yuntong will not allow too big problems to occur in this harvest.

Fortunately, at this critical moment, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has developed this more worry-free and labor-saving threshing machine, which is far stronger than the current time-consuming and laborious means of collecting rice grains on rice ears, and this alone can save a lot of labor.

With this thing, coupled with the previous preparations, Yao Yuntong is confident that he will be able to complete this harvest on time and in quantity, without delaying the harvest of an acre of land.

Therefore, Yao Yuntong is particularly concerned about the threshing machine, which is an important trump card that he has high hopes for.

(End of chapter)