After the dozens of people who led Qu Yuan Plough went out, they told the story, and as expected, the rest of the people were full of envy and jealousy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info was even more bold to ask why the steward chose these people and not himself. This question has been responded to by many people, and they are quite angry, why only let so many people take advantage of it, and not let them follow suit.

It is most visible that there is no shortage but unevenness, especially when there are obvious benefits. In modern times, when a car that pulls things overturns, there are a bunch of people who go up and grab it, regardless of whether it can be used or not, and there are even more people who don't grab it directly from other people. That's when everyone is not lacking.

Now is ancient times, an era when there is not enough food and clothing. Just using the plough provided by the lord to farm the land can ensure that the whole family has enough food for a year this year, which is a great good thing, but it turns out that there is no share of one's own, which is not to die in a hurry.

Why?

"Why? Just because you are a tenant of the martial family, just because this plow was made by the young master to help you reduce the burden of farming, just because the food given is from the martial family, and the martial family wants to give it to whomever it wants. A group of people who don't know what to do, the young master gave them a year's food not so that they would not have a burden, so that they could use this plow to farm the land, and at the same time, let you see clearly whether it can reduce your burden on farming. When it is time for the autumn harvest, see if the land planted with this plough is very good, whether it is not worse than the plough you use, or even better. The steward's harsh words made the dissatisfied crowd shut their mouths.

Yes, the rent reduced belongs to the samurai, and the food given is also the samurai's, and people can give it to whomever they want, and no one stipulates that it must be given to itself. It makes no sense for yourself and others to make a good fuss.

Thinking of this, they all lowered their heads in disdain.

The steward saw that the effect was good, and he was very satisfied with his words, nodded and continued: "Your feelings, the young master also understands, so the young master asked me to tell you that this year, because there are only so many plows made, and the time for spring plowing is very tight, I can only let dozens of them try to plant first." But if it works well, next year if any of you want to use this plough will give you the same guarantees, and the same conditions will be given to you. But only for next year, and there will be no such good thing in the future. Do you get it? ”

When everyone heard that they would be able to take advantage of such a bargain next year, their depressed mood was better, and they cheered: "Understood, understood."

At this moment, no matter whether he muttered in his heart that the little grandfather was a loser, his mouth was full of words that the little grandfather was really a good person.

After a while, except for the dozens of people who received the Quyuan plow, the rest of the people dispersed and rushed back to prepare for the ploughing. The remaining dozens of people, since they can be elected as representatives, are all well-known in the village, and they are also good people who farm and plant, and they are all good at farming.

Wu Yuanqing asked them to explain the usage and parts of the Quyuan plough to them a few times, and then actually operated it on a piece of land, and these people could use it, although they were not proficient, that was also the reason why they didn't get started in person. When they farm their own land, they can use it skillfully after going back and forth a few times.

Let the steward send someone to follow them back to farm, firstly, so that there is any problem so that they can be guided in time, and secondly, and most importantly, it is to supervise them, so that they do not cheat and cheat.

But this is actually Wu Yuanqing's little villain. In these years, there are a few people who dare to cheat and play tricks on the farmland, and even if there are, they are all idlers and scoundrels. But such people will not be elected as representatives.

After everything was arranged, Wu Yuanqing led his younger brother Wu Yuanshuang, accompanied by the steward, to a field not far away. The steward was strongly opposed to the little grandfather going to the land to cultivate in person. It's not good to let people know about it, and I'm afraid that people will gossip.

It's a pity that Wu Yuanqing is not a person who is afraid of what people say, he never cares what others say. He has always felt that people who change themselves because of other people's opinions are too tired to live.

There is a saying that has spread widely in later generations, go your own way and let others say it.

This sentence is Wu Yuanqing's life motto.

When he arrived in the field, Wu Yuanqing turned a blind eye to the ploughing oxen brought by the steward, but instead freed the mule from pulling the cart and put a rope attached to the curved plough on the mule. The steward was very puzzled about using mules to plow the land, and said that the family had ploughing oxen, why should they use mules, and this mule had never learned to plow the land, so don't give it to the ploughing.

Wu Yuanqing explained: "I built this zigzag plough to reduce the burden of farming. We are now farming is very hard, very tired, why, one is because the previous straight plow is not easy to use, bulky, the whole is very long, can not adjust the depth of the cultivated land, can not be flexible U-turn, etc., unlike this zigyuan plow labor-saving, lightweight, can also be intensively cultivated. The straight plough is bulky and difficult to operate, so the livestock that can be used are generally ploughing oxen, but the curved plough is a mule and a donkey, which can be pulled and moved, and even if there is no livestock at home, even if it is pulled by a person, it can also use a lot less people. ”

Wu Yuanqing groaned and continued: "So this second point is reflected in this livestock, the cattle are not easy to raise, and the feed must be fine, so the vast majority of people can't afford to raise them, and many villages only have one ploughing cow in a village, and this cow is the treasure of the village." It is precisely because of the importance of ploughing cattle that the imperial court will issue a decree strictly prohibiting the slaughter of ploughing cattle, and violators will be imprisoned, even if they die of illness and fall to death, they must report to the yamen, otherwise they will still be imprisoned. But with this curved plough, the ploughing ox will not be so important, the mule, the donkey can be pulled, the most important thing is that the mule, the donkey is much easier to feed than the ploughing ox. ”。

In later generations, Wu Yuanqing's grandfather's family raised mules. The mule basically belongs to what it eats, and it is similar to that of a dog. The leftovers of the family are poured directly into the stone trough. And then all that's left is forage. It's real forage, and it doesn't feed any beans or anything like that. Of course, this mule should not eat grass very often, and he must prepare hay. Hay is basically corn stalks, sorghum stalks, grain stalks, and then cut into sections with a guillotine.

The endurance of mules and donkeys is also very good. Mules, in particular, are also fast, much faster than ploughing oxen, and they eat less food. In comparison, they are more suitable for farming than cattle. Therefore, in later generations, it was almost rare to see people who used oxen to cultivate the land, and they all used mules or donkeys.

Until he crossed, their hometown was still farming with mules. Mechanized things, in their basic unsuitable, are all hillside land, the machine is not even more basic, even if there is a plain land, not much of a piece, and distributed to every household, that is even more small pitiful, like what HN northeast of those plains used in the cultivator, harvester, in their machine is bigger than the ground, even if the land is larger than the machine, it is limited, did not take two steps, to the ground, the key is that your machine does not even have room to turn.

Therefore, in the plains of their hometown, even if there are machines, they can only pull the plough or the cart with the head of the hand-held tractor, but in fact, they only replace the livestock with machines and speed up.