Chapter 179: Carefully Prepared
For example, tending to the land at the beginning of spring is more time-consuming and laborious, one is the problem of irrigation, and the other is the problem of arable land, both of which have solutions. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Like rice planting or something, now there is no rice transplanting machine, it must only rely on manpower, and this rice planting is concentrated, and it can be done in a few days, and it does not delay too much time.
Irrigating the land is really not a problem for Shi Lei, when he first settled in the village, he built a lot of waterwheels, and then there are channels built by bamboo, whether it is to irrigate the land or to provide water for the villagers' homes.
Most of the rice paddies are not far from the river, and it doesn't take a long distance to get water.
Moreover, in the border of Yazhou, there is rain almost every day, and when necessary, you have to help drain the water, so you never have to worry about not having enough water.
As for arable land, Shi Lei's village has never had ploughing cattle, and he can only rely on manpower to complete this work, that is, to measure the strength of the villagers, otherwise it is not surprising that people are tired to death.
The farmers are a few stick guys together, simply taking the place of the ploughing ox and using manpower to pull the plow.
Fortunately, the plough in this world has also been improved, and it is not only deep to use, but also very convenient to turn to something, in short, it is very easy to use, and it is more labor-saving.
However, compared to using ploughing cattle, it must still be much less efficient.
Zhuangzi has never cultivated cattle, on the one hand, because he was too poor to afford such a luxurious thing.
On the other hand, it is also because of the paddy fields where rice is planted in this way, ordinary cattle are not good, and they have rotten hooves when they soak in water, and the buffalo is quite suitable.
However, few people sell such large animals, especially in a small place like Yazhou, it is not easy to find one or two, let alone large-scale equipment for their own farmers.
Even if Zhuangzi is now considered wealthy, there is no way to solve this problem through buying and selling.
But this is not much of a problem for Shi Lei today. Because in the woods around Zhuangzi, there are bison.
They were all later generations who lived a little further south, the kind of Asian bison. These bison are also called white-limbed bison, or simply white socks, because they are basically all black, only the lower ends of their limbs are white, as if they are wearing white socks.
Although the name sounds cute and the name itself is relatively docile, this bison is a behemoth with a height of more than 2 meters at the shoulder and can weigh two or three thousand catties, second only to elephants and rhinoceros.
At this time of the Tang Dynasty, the temperature in the whole territory was warmer than that of later generations, so things like rhinoceros and bison were distributed much more widely than in later generations, and they could basically be seen north of the Yangtze River.
And the brown bear, which is the one of the bears, is in a similar situation.
In the late Tang Dynasty, rhinos were rarely seen in the north, and those rhinoceros enshrined to the royal family could only choose the Jiangnan region when they wanted to be released.
At that time, rhinos, elephants, etc., the distribution range will also move south.
It seems that now, in the mountains and forests around Zhuangzi, you can still see the figures of these huge creatures. This also provides great convenience to Shi Lei's side.
In the past, he couldn't fight these big guys, except for hunting them, there was meat and skin to use for horns, and it was very unrealistic to want to transform them.
Because of their size, they are too large, and with the energy accumulation speed of the original system, it will not take a few years to transform any end.
But now that the system has been upgraded, this problem has been solved.
A bison is only a few cubic meters of volume, taking advantage of the busy work of the farmers, more bison out of the transformation, as a ploughing cattle to use, you can liberate a lot of labor.
As for the rhinoceros, it doesn't seem to be used for ploughing. Although he has enough strength, he has a short temper, he can't control it, and it's not easy to command.
Unlike cows, as long as you put a ring on the nose of the cow, it is not a cow temper, it definitely refers to a good helper who fights where.
Elephants are also very useful, but it is difficult to find elephants here, unlike rhinos and bison.
Well, can you actually get one or two rhinos and come back to have fun? In case you need a trailblazer or something, this tank-like guy is absolutely very useful.
Write down the problems and solutions that I think of in my notebook, which is now an important habit of Shi Lei, always recording problems and to-do lists.
Of course, there is also a small notebook, which is dedicated to recording all kinds of black materials, such as when, how to find some fault for Dumao and Xiaojin, etc., which he has never forgotten.
This question can be put aside for the time being, and when the time comes, take a trip to the forest to see if you can get one tiger back together, and you can also fulfill your wish to raise a real big cat, and you are a little excited to think about it.
Well, it's a question of how to keep warm. We all know the plateau, the weather has always been associated with what is bad, changeable, this kind of association, in short, it is really not a good place.
Of course, it is also because of this environment that many fierce and warlike warriors over there have been created, and if they don't fight, they may die, and all those who are pure will choose to go to the battlefield to earn their lives, at least the death is more valuable.
Moving forward and forgetting life and death has become a kind of imprint, and it has also become a spirit on which they live.
Therefore, Shi Lei also had the intention of recruiting some warriors of the plateau people to serve himself, so he also wrote the slave trade on his trade list.
Just think about the performance of those Gurkha mercenaries in later generations, Shi Lei is still looking forward to it.
Shi Lei's mind couldn't help but run away again, and it was easy to get back to the problem of keeping warm.
In fact, Shi Lei had already had a countermeasure to this matter, and from the beginning of his preparation to improve the situation in Zhuangzi through trade, Tubo was put into the plan by Shi Lei.
It's just that it's definitely not the first choice in the plan, the reason is that this road is too difficult, there is no family background, even if it can stick to the place, there is no transaction, except for increasing the damage, it does not have any effect.
Zhuangzi has not yet reached the point where Shi Lei is needed to deliberately reduce his staff through this means.
The key to fighting the cold is to land on the ducks and geese at home.
As long as it is from later generations, when you think of warmth, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely a down jacket, not fur.
Whether this fur thing is enlarged by the Tang Dynasty or put into future generations, it is a proper luxury. Especially those bear skins, tiger skins, these thick things. The cost of hunting is too high, and it is not realistic to want the farmers to equip them with this.
However, duck down and goose down are much easier to obtain, and there are so many in their own villages.
Although the inner layer of fluff is used, not the outer feathers, but there are not enough of them.
Especially ducks, now they are not only used for laying eggs, Shi Lei has also specially transformed a batch of meat ducks.
The purpose, of course, is for his own restaurant and restaurant, which is used to make roast duck.
This thing can exist as a new top brand, which can make the unique restaurant more unique. (To be continued.) )