In February, the Grass River melts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The boats began to pass through, and every day a large number of people took the boats to the distant Yucheng, both the people of Xiacheng and the rest of the city, and every day there was an endless stream, and the whole grass river seemed to come to life.

By the time the grass river melts, the willow branches near Yucheng have bloomed, and the bees have begun collecting pollen to feed the larvae throughout the summer.

If the bees were still like this, people would naturally have to be busy, and there would be a month to plough in the spring, and the cattle from the rest of the cities, the horses from the summer city, the wooden ploughs from the carpentry division, and the ploughshares and hoes from the smelting division began to be transported to the farms in a steady stream.

The people of Xiacheng, who had dug a winter canal, could no longer bear it, especially after Manyuan publicly admitted his mistake in Yucheng, the offensive and defensive alliance collapsed, and everyone prepared their own farm construction plans and sent them to Chen Jian.

The Division of Planning and Statistics has also set a quota output for this year's farms as a reward and punishment standard for the autumn.

Soon there were people from the farms who suggested that everyone should cultivate a piece of land, and that the rest should be their own except for the fixed amount to be paid, so as to promote the enthusiasm of those farmmen.

In view of the shortage of cattle and horses, you can learn the method of Xia Cheng, and cultivate together in groups of seven or eight people, instead of going to work collectively in the same way as the Yucheng workshop.

For this proposal, Chen Jian put it on hold for the time being. It's not that this proposal is bad, but this proposal is not the right time now.

Legally, the land belongs to the Xiacheng Communists, and the people who work in the farms are not Xiacheng people, and they have not won the identity of Xiacheng people for the time being.

Nowadays, private ownership of land has not yet been taken for granted in people's minds, and the workshops that appeared ahead of their time have linked previously unrelated issues.

If the output of the land can be owned by private individuals, why can't the output of the workshop be owned by everyone who toils? Land is a means of production, so isn't the workshop?

Before the private ownership of land was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, when there were not so many natural meanings, the people of the workshop group would definitely think about the problems in it, and now is not the time.

Xia Cheng can do that, because Chen Jian implemented private ownership of land in order to break the clan before, and the land in Xia Cheng is of course owned by the people of Xia Cheng, which also makes sense. But there is no way to implement it here for the time being, otherwise he will not be able to understand the reason for many things after that, and his name will not be right.

If the people of those farms have already won the status of Xiacheng nationals, this system is very good to implement, and the Department of Planning and Statistics has issued tasks to contract tasks in small groups of more than a dozen people, and at the same time maintain the collective nature of the farms, so as to facilitate the construction of water conservancy, and a single family cannot cope with floods and droughts, which also means that it is impossible for farmers to concentrate their limited capital in their hands to do great things, and they are doomed to poverty for a lifetime -- even the simplest winemaking workshop, it is difficult for a farmer to run, But once in the future the farms are converted into the public property of the towns and towns and become collectively owned, it will be easy to prepare sufficient capital under the power of the collective.

Moreover, his real purpose is a group of people who are not tied to the clan but are closely connected, working together and disciplined like a workshop worker, not just for the output.

In addition to being self-sufficient, the market in Yucheng was not enough to accommodate so many workshop workers, so they had to be thrown into the farm to wait for the market to open up and transfer them directly to the workshop.

After thinking about it for two days, he decided that this method would not be implemented until the joint efforts of the workshop workers and the farms finally rebelled to obtain the status of a countryman, and he also needed these people to help him put pressure on those with vested interests, and now he could only first bitter and then sweet.

In mid-February, the first batch of feudal landlords and Lisi and others from Xiacheng came to Yucheng, and Chen Jian accompanied them for two days, and then transported a batch of new farm tools to Manyuan's farm.

In addition to the ploughshare and hoe that the Chinese people have seen, there is also a tool they have not seen, which Chen Jian calls the cocoon car, that is, the primitive seeding machine.

It is not very difficult to make this thing, it can even be said that it is not difficult at all, there is no mechanical transmission at all, it all depends on gravity and inertia.

The seeds are packed in a wooden bucket, and the back of the wooden bucket is a small bucket, and the lower part of the small bucket is three lower seed mouths.

In front of the lower seed mouth are three small ploughshares, which are used to break the top of the ridge, and the seeds fall from the lower seed opening, which not only ensures a straight line, but also ensures the depth of the seeds, so as not to affect germination too dry.

The key to the whole tool is how to control the number of seeds falling from the seed tube, so you can't dig three holes directly under the bucket, then you will plant more than you harvest. This requires a small bucket and a seed pipe at the back, pull the big bucket through a rope, there is a small hole on the back of the big bucket, the big bucket shakes slightly, and the seeds will come out of the small hole and enter the small bucket, and then fall into the land from the seed pipe.

As long as one masters the rhythm of the swing, perfect farming can be guaranteed. In the previous life, before the popularization of mechanical seed drills, most of the Central Plains land still used the tool of the cocoon car without a piece of iron, and a short-term worker with a high level of technology could use the operation of his hand to make the amount of seeds in an acre of land range from ten catties to forty catties, which depends on the attitude of the landlord towards short-term workers, and it is just a matter of shaking hands for hired workers.

So there is a custom of hired laborers who eat meat and white flour during the farming season - not out of kindness, but a win-win wisdom, and on the contrary, they hurt each other.

Of course, no matter how bad the technology is, Chen Jian estimates that it is better than sowing seeds by hand, and it will save a lot of seeds.

To sow seeds by hand, one person needs to dig a pit with a hoe in front, and a person in the back bends down with a bag on his back to sow the seeds, and by the way, buries the seeds with his feet. Counting the work that a cow can do in a day pulling a cart, it takes two people to be busy for about ten days.

Chen Jian's idea is to spread it in one farm first, and then after a year, the people who have learned to use the tool will be scattered and scattered to the rest of the farms to learn from each other, which is the fastest way to spread.

As for the Chinese people in Xia City, it is natural for them to learn to return to Xia City to spread, and the spread of technology is delayed, and these people Chen Jian is ready to stay here until autumn.

When they learned how to use the new agricultural implements, they could turn the semi-slave system of fiefdom into a system of land rent, and as monetization progressed, these rents could be pooled to build new workshops, and the new tools could free up people to participate in things outside the land.

At present, the carpentry division of the Yucheng workshop can only make a columbladder for a maximum of two farms this year, and Chen Jian intends to share this matter in the form of public property and technology, and the old Chinese people in the form of private property and slave participation, so that they will not focus on the land and slaves.

The public workshop group in Xiacheng is mainly responsible for the production of upstream and high-end products, and the cocoon must be used with the ploughshare, which is worthless on uncultivated land, and the imitation of the cocoon can be profitable temporarily, and the profit after a year is no longer enough to make Chen Jian spend so much thought.

These old countrymen in Xia City didn't know Chen Jian's plan, but they were no strangers to the land. The land has melted, Chen Jian is not needed for the operation of the ploughshare, the wooden plough and the iron plough are in the same line, and the clansmen have already stood up and taken the initiative to take the plough and start the first reclamation in early spring along the straight line that has already been drawn.

The iron ploughshare broke through the ground like cutting tofu, which was naturally much stronger than the wooden plough, and now the plough ox had an extra wrought iron ring on its nose, even if it was stubborn, the rope pulled the nose ring and suffered pain, so I had to put away my temper and move forward.

You can't wear a nose ring on the horse's nose, but chewing the head has the same effect, and the horse's tongue will be strangled if you pull it hard, and you will stand up obediently if you think it is strong.

A group of onlookers sniffed the smell of earth in the air and praised: "This is faster than a wooden plow, as long as I see it on flat ground." ”

Chen Jian set up the car in the back and said with a smile: "More than that, you look at this." ”

Although he knew the principle, he didn't have the right thing in his hands, and at the beginning it was either slow or fast, and the seeds were uneven.

After trying two or three acres of land, I gradually found the feeling, and with a slight shake of my right hand, the seeds rolled from the small hole to the small bucket, and then slid from the seed tube to the small ditch out of the small ploughshare in front.

Because three rows of ploughshares can be sown at a time, and the ploughshare can only be raised one at a time, even if Chen Jian is not skilled, the speed is faster than the speed of two ploughshares of one ox and one horse, and he quickly followed.

The people behind widened their eyes and said in their ears: "Good girl, if you go on like this, you have to plant 100 acres of land with one person, one cow and one cart a day?" ”

"Yes, and it's faster than scattering seeds all over the sky, the most important thing is that there is no way to weed the seeds scattered all over the sky, but this thing is in rows of ridges."

"Hey, there are more than 600 people in my fiefdom now, if I have this thing, ha...... In a few years, don't I want to have more than 100,000 acres of land? When Ji Xia said that we should use the fief to replace the public land in Xia City as a reward, there were still people who were unwilling, but now it seems that Ji Xia has already thought of this method. ”

The amount of more than 100,000 acres of land is staggering, when it was originally digging a pit with wood and stones, all the laborers and slaves in Xia City were poured into it, and it took two years to reclaim that little land, but now only a few hundred people are needed.

While talking and laughing, Jian Chen turned back again, wiped his sweat and said, "Who is going to try?" ”

Many people were eager to try, and everyone took out the lottery method a long time ago, thinking of the scene of working together back then, and couldn't help but laugh again.

When the two of them tried in front, Jian Chen and everyone sat on the ground and drank some water together, and said casually: "I have a good job here, but there is a shortage of manpower." A few of you take the lead, scrape together some money, gather some people, and make a fortune. Public output technology, out of a few skilled workers, you out of people, out of money. Five-fifty points, your five cents and one out of ten taxes. ”

"The reason why public property is not done is not to say that it is not profitable, but that public property does not look at this profit, and the limited people and financial resources need to be used more profitable. However, no matter how much you don't make money, it's better than farming. One person can't take so much, and the other is this kind of good thing, of course, everyone has to earn it together. (To be continued.) )