As soon as the wind dawned the next day, a few people took two soldiers and carried the rice transplanter out of the city gate in a horse-drawn cart, so as not to be seen and discussed by others. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ge Liang sent it to the ground and said to Huang Yue: "You guys are busy first, I'll go to work at Liu Bei's place." If there's nothing going on, I'll take two days off and we'll do it together. ”

Huang Yue and Zhuge both loaded the rice transplanter, asked two soldiers to push the rice transplanter down the paddy field, and then went to the seedling field with Jingjing, pulled out the seedlings and divided the plants, placed them on the rice transplanter, and then dragged the machine to start the trial planting.

Sure enough, this matter is much more complicated than imagined, first of all, this is in the mud of the paddy field, although Huang Yue widened the wheels a lot, and nailed a lot of bumps like tractor tires, but it was still too laborious to drag.

I tried to insert a few rows with all my might, and found that the insertion was of different shades, and it was often stuck, the plant spacing was large and small, it looked messy, and there were no guards who threw the seedlings neatly yesterday.

"Why don't you borrow a cow?" Zhuge was so tired that he was sweating profusely.

Huang Yue was a little discouraged: "Third brother, if you don't have to intervene in these fields, it will make you tired." ”

Zhuge Jun was full of interest in the rice transplanter, and said to Huang Yue: "Sister-in-law, as long as you use oxen to pull it, this machine can be used." If you insert it by hand, you can only insert one plant at a time, but this machine can insert five plants at a time. ”

Since he has expressed his support, Huang Yue's heart has settled down a lot, but he is worried: "However, this is deep and shallow, and it will not grow in the future, right?" ”

"It's okay, sister-in-law, didn't you say it was just a try? Let's figure out how to adjust it a little more. Zhuge Jun comforted in turn.

Huang Yue was surprised: "Third brother, then why do you seem to have a lot of opinions about throwing seedlings and farming?" ”

"No, no." Zhuge Jun hurriedly argued, in fact, he thought that he was too lazy and whimsical to expect to grow crops when he threw it away, but the rice transplanter was different, this was to see the seedlings planted in the field with his own eyes, and the effect of the original hand insertion was almost the same, and there was no need to bend over all day, people were still much easier, and the speed was faster.

"Well, now where to borrow a cow?" Huang Yue also wanted to continue the experiment.

Zhuge Jun washed his feet and went ashore to borrow cattle, and he went to rent the ox to plough the field a few days ago.

In the afternoon, Ge Liang asked Liu Bei for leave and rushed to the field, and saw that less than one acre of land had been planted for most of the day, and Huang Yue and Zhuge were still beating around the rice transplanter.

"There are too many problems." Huang Yue shook his head and sighed.

"It's good to repair, brother, sister-in-law, you see, dig this hole bigger so that it won't get stuck when you move." Zhuge Jun squatted there to study, and he was reluctant to stand up.

Ge Liang squatted down and took a look, feeling that what Zhuge Jun said was very reasonable, and said to Huang Yue: "Don't worry, anyway, it's just a test now, if it succeeds, it will still be ironed in the future." ”

Huang Yue looked at the five acres of land that had been planted yesterday: "Actually, I really hope that the seedling throwing can be successful, in that case, where can I use any rice transplanter." ”

Several people tinkered for two days, and barely planted the seedlings of three acres of land, in order to prevent the grains from being harvested, on the last day, the remaining two acres of land were planted by everyone's hands.

Finally planted the two acres of land, Ge Liang and Huang Yue's waists were tired, and they lay on the ground for a long time and didn't want to get up.

Zhuge Jun was like no one else, and looked at Ge Liang very strangely, and asked with concern: "Brother, have you been too tired this year, you haven't been tired like this when you farmed before?" ”

Ge Liang hurriedly struggled to get up: "It's okay, it's okay, this year, it's been a long time since I've planted seedlings, and I'm rusty." ”

Huang Yue felt that what he said was wrong, Zhuge Jun didn't farm last year.

Jingjing has been rubbing her waist, she has never been on the ground before, I thought that now Mr. and Mrs. are much better than before, and no longer ask themselves to talk about any rules, but they didn't expect to regress, and even asked her to go to the field to farm, so wronged.

Xiaobao didn't know that he was tired at all, he just followed the adults to insert the field, and now he was fine, he was digging mud on the ridge, rubbing it into a bowl, and then slapped it on the ground, and the sound of "bang" was a mud cannon.

Huang Yue also got up and walked to the mu of land that had been planted before to inspect, and was pleasantly surprised to find that many of those seedlings had grown new leaves.

"Come and see, come and see!" Huang Yue greeted happily and loudly.

Everyone hurried around, and immediately everyone cheered.

Huang Yue asked Zhuge Jun: "This time they should all be alive, right?" ”

Zhuge Jun nodded again and again: "It's all alive, it's all alive." This surprised him so much, he thought that if he was so lazy, most of the seedlings would die.

Huang Yue rejoiced: "It's okay now, there is no need to fix any rice transplanters." ”

Knowing that the success of this technology would be a big deal in an agrarian society, Ge Liang said happily: "This is a big victory, and it should be celebrated with fireworks and a salute." ”

As soon as Xiaobao heard that he was going to set off a cannon, he immediately slapped the mud in his hand to the ground again, and it was a cannon with a "bang".

"Xiaobao, how can you play alone, hurry up and make one for Mr. too." Ge Liang was happy, and he was about to start playing again.

Xiaobao hurriedly handed over the mud cannon in his hand.

Ge Liang shook his head again and again: "Mr. doesn't want you to do this, but wants you to do it again." We celebrated together. ”

As soon as everyone was happy, they all got up to play, anyway, there are no outsiders now, Zhuge Jun and Jingjing also bent down to dig out the mud, who didn't play with mud guns when they were children.

Ge Liang and Huang Yue haven't played before, and they are still asking Xiaobao for advice.

The two pro-soldiers who followed also wanted to play, and said to Huang Yue while digging out the mud: "Madam, teach us this method next time." We went out on an errand, and our family had less labor, so we couldn't keep busy. ”

Ge Liang said: "Don't worry, of course, this is just so that everyone can have the strength to plant more fields." ”

Huang Yue said: "Well, I don't know what the effect will be yet, if the final harvest is not worse than planting rice by hand, we will find a way to let everyone farm like this next year." ”

"Stand still!" Ge Liang saw that everyone had a clay cannon in their hands, and ordered everyone to stand in a circle, "I'll count one, two, three, and everyone will smash it down together to see who smashes it the loudest!" ”

With Ge Liang's order, the "bang bang bang" mud cannon rang out.

"No, no, it's not neat at all, it seems that we have to strengthen your military training, come back again." Ge Liang didn't find it enjoyable.

Ge Liang and Huang Yue played freshly, and the others naturally didn't say no because their brother and sister-in-law and master were relaxed and happy.

"Wow, you took my land just to play in the mud here!" The voices of outsiders suddenly sounded outside the circle, startling everyone.

Ge Liang turned around, only to see Pang Tong standing behind him, staring at him with his eyes and an indignant look.

"It's you." Ge Liang touched his chest and let out a sigh: "Don't be so scary next time, okay?" I thought the lord was coming. ”

"Still touching your clothes with your dirty hands, the lord is coming soon, how rude will you be to see him like this?" Pang Tong didn't look like he was joking.

Ge Liang hurriedly looked at the end of the road, and saw from a distance that a few horsemen were coming slowly, but it was Liu Bei who brought Chen to them.

"You, how did you bring the lord here?" Ge Liang was a little flustered.

"I'm afraid of being embarrassed, aren't you? Don't go and wash your hands yet. Pang Tong reminded, "You take three days off, and the lord cares about you and says he doesn't know what's going on at home." So I told him you to farm here. The lord can't understand why you are farming, and I'm afraid that the money you have given you is not enough to feed your family, so you have to come and see for yourself. Thank you, Lord Ron. ”

Everyone hurried to the pond to wash their hands. Ge Liang took Huang Yue's handkerchief and wiped his hands, while asking everyone to line up and go to greet Liu Bei together, but he couldn't help but complain to Pang Tong: "You can't bring the lord here, look at all of us covered in muddy water." ”

"If you say it again, I will ask you to give me the money for these ten acres of land." Pang Tong was a little gloating, "What's the big deal, aren't you just farming in Longzhong, and the lord hasn't gone to see you three times?" ”

"But, now there is not even a thatched hut here, how do you tell us to receive the lord?" Ge Liang still has to blame Pang Tong.

"What do you mean that there are no thatched huts, haven't you cleaned the two houses at the foot of the mountain?" Pang Tong was surprised.

"What am I going to do cleaning someone else's house?" Ge Liang had already seen the two rooms at the foot of the mountain, the doors were locked, as if no one usually lived in them, and they should be a place for the farmers to rest.

"Someone else's house?" Pang Tong asked Huang Yue, "When I handed over the field to you, didn't I give you the keys to those two rooms?" ”

"No, no, really, I didn't even know those two rooms were ours." Huang Yue raised his hand to swear.

Pang Tong scratched the back of his head: "Okay, I forgot." "I'm embarrassed to say anything at the moment.

Liu Bei waited for everyone to see the ceremony, and asked Ge Liang: "Military advisor, why do you miss the life in Longzhong again, isn't it that Liu Bei neglected the military advisor?" ”

"How dare you." Now that Liu Bei has come, it seems that he has eyebrows for throwing seedlings, so Ge Liang simply spread out and said, "It's my wife who thinks that the farmers are working too hard to farm, and is trying to see if we can find a way to save more effort, so that everyone can save time and collect more food." ”

Madame again? Liu Bei remembered that Mrs. Zhuge had made a lot of things out, such as what kind of handwriting board, what Morse code, what kind of inverted door panel on the city wall, etc., and suddenly felt that she was too snub about this woman.

"I wonder what good ideas Madame has come up with again?" Liu Bei asked Huang Yue with concern.

Huang Yue roughly talked about throwing seedlings, the most important thing is that this method saves a lot of labor, and the speed of transplanting seedlings can be increased several times faster than that of hand planting.

Ge Liang added: "Many places in the four counties of Jiangnan are still wasteland, but the population is too small to develop, if we can improve efficiency, we can make full use of the wasteland and collect more food to supply the army." ”

Liu Bei was thinking about expanding the army, but he was afraid that there would not be enough food to eat, so he was excited when he heard this: "Strategist, madam, why didn't you tell everyone about this good method earlier?" ”

Huang Yue hurriedly explained: "It's just a preliminary idea, no, I just found out that the seedlings thrown a few days earlier have grown new leaves, as for whether they can grow well in the future, and how much grain harvest can be, I don't know yet." ”

Liu Bei hurriedly said: "Please ask Madame to take Liu Bei to have a look." ”

When he saw the seedlings with new leaves growing in the field, Liu Bei also felt that it could be successful, and said to Pang Tong and Ge Liang: "I'm okay and I'll come over every few days to take a look, and if the final harvest is good, I will send someone to Jiangnan to be responsible for the development of wasteland." ”

"Lord, this is all done by Zhuge Junshi and his family, it is better to send his third brother to take charge." Pang Tong really helped people to the end, gave the land for nothing, and recommended Zhuge Jun to be an official, Ge Liang couldn't say this.

Liu Bei was more concerned about Huang Yue: "I don't know what the world will think if I arrange an official position for my wife?" ”