When the leaves slowly turn yellow, the animals begin to grow fat, and the fields turn into a sea of golden yellow, everyone knows that autumn is coming. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

These are the last days of late summer and early autumn, and the heavy ears of wheat have bent the wheat stalks, and when the breeze blows, the waves of wheat rise and fall, which is simply the most beautiful scenery in the world.

At least, that's what these farmers think they do.

There is a bumper harvest, there will be more harvest this year, there will be more harvest this year, the mother-in-law and children in the family will not be hungry, and the family will be able to live.

However, even so, the peasants have their own troubles in their joy.

There are so many harvests this year.

Yes, there are too many - this is not a blessing from God but a curse from the devil - there is so much harvest this year, I am afraid that the soil will be exhausted, so what will happen to the food next year?

There is also the problem of harvesting, the autumn harvest and autumn harvest are about competing with God, God is not happy, and a light rain may ruin all this year's harvest. However, this year's harvest is so much, it is almost, no, it is certainly impossible to harvest all the grain before the autumn rains come, let alone dry and husk afterwards, which takes a lot of time.

Moreover, the peasants have to give priority to harvesting the lord's grain together with the serfs, and only after the lord's grain harvest is completed can they go home to get their own grain.

Because of this worry, seeing that the wheat harvest was imminent, the peasants began to panic, and some even began to stop coming to work, and walked around their wheat fields all day with sickles, searching for where there was early-maturing wheat with their eyes wide open, and quickly harvested it first, and could have a little more.

Count Don looked at this scene, but there was no good way - originally 'doing the sacraments' was all voluntary activities, the peasants came spontaneously, and Count Don gave them bread - now it was noodles, and now the peasants were unwilling to come, Count Don couldn't force them to come, right?

But fortunately, the Qin Straight Road connecting the various towns has been almost established, and as for the villages, except for a few more important large villages, other small villages, or villages in the big ravines are still far away, but it is enough for the initial goal, after all, Rome was not built in a day!

Therefore, Count Tang didn't care much about the work of these peasants, not only did he not care, but Count Tang also had to find a way to make the farmers feel at ease.

How can we reassure farmers? At this time, it is time for the 'saint' Philip to show his skills.

First of all, it is for Priest Philip to give a sermon to the whole people, so that the peasants know that this land cannot be exhausted as long as it is nourished by the 'sacraments'. As to whether this sermon was about God's will or the temptation of the devil, Philip, who must have sold his soul to the devil, would not care.

So Philip came to preach, and I think we have already mentioned the process of Philip's preaching, and it can be summed up in three sentences: "Good people can go to heaven, bad people will go to hell, what I believe is good, and what I don't believe is bad."

There is no mention of God in any of them.

While there may be a small number of people, mostly ascetics who have traveled far and wide, there may be a little uneasiness, but for the average peasant, despite their devotion to their faith, do they really know what they believe in, what it looks like, and what their real name is other than calling the Lord?

No, none of them know.

They just pin all their hopes on a nothing, and don't care whether this thing exists or what it is like - rather they don't want to know what he is, and if they know too much about it, they will lose their piety - not to mention anything else, the one in the eternal city who is called "the Lord's walker on earth", does he really believe in the Lord in his heart?

So that's how it fooled the past, and as for what Philip believes, it's all a nihilistic belief anyway, whether it's God or the devil, it's just a change of name, if they really exist, just by changing their name they can receive tens of thousands of devout believers, and I think they're happy to change their names.

After the great prayer, it was time for the Count Don to go up and perform, and he would first weep bitterly before Priest Philip and tell him about his sins—whether he was guilty or not, for man is to suffer in the world, as the Lord said.

Then the Count of Don the Younger said that in order to atone for his sins, he was willing to spare all the peasants from all the remaining servitude of the year, and only that the merciful God would forgive his sins and forgive his soul.

Priest Philip naturally smiled and nodded in agreement.

So the peasants in the audience began to cheer, and then they knelt down to thank God for his generosity, and for the mercy of Count Don Jr.

The most important reason is that Count Tang is out of harvest this year - this is the setting in the third chapter of this book, because Count Tang is going to experiment with organic fertilizer, that is, chicken manure, but unfortunately he doesn't know that chicken manure must be fermented first, so most of the seeds in the field were burned to death.

There are a few survivors, these can be said to be strong wheat seeds, these wheat seeds produce wheat Count Tang is reluctant to eat, these are the foundation of the future cultivation of high-yield heat-resistant wheat, is the 'golden seed'.

Therefore, the wheat in Count Xiao Tang's manor is enough to let his own serfs harvest it, and it really doesn't need more farmers, so it is better to simply send it out as a favor, and it can also make these farmers remember the good of Count Xiao Tang and make them more obedient.

In addition, Count Tang Jr. also took out an artifact, that is, a water mill.

Until then, all of Desmond's wheat had been dry-milled—a stone mill pulled by a donkey or horse, and then swirled in circles until the husk was removed.

This kind of dry mill can be inherited for thousands of years, and has a wide range of applications in both the East and the West, and it does make sense: dry milling is simple and convenient, easy to operate, and cheap, only need a donkey and a big stone to use, for small-scale farmers is indeed good quality and low price.

But this is where the dry mill comes in - it can only be operated in a small-scale peasant manner, and its meagre efficiency is somewhat inadequate for large-scale, collective manor work of the thousands.

And the most important point is that in the West, including Desmond, all the mills belong to the lord, that is, the Count of Don Jr., and the peasants have to pay taxes for their use - this is one of the important incomes of the lord, and cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, so the Western aristocracy will never allow the existence of private mills.

This means that there are only a dozen or so small mills in the whole of Desmond, and with the poor efficiency of the dry mills, it is no wonder that these farmers are in a hurry to go home and harvest their grain.

The biggest feature of the water mill is that it has a large 'belly' and a lot of loads. And big is good, more is beautiful, and turret is justice! Range means truth!

With more installations, the efficiency of the water mill is almost ten times that of the dry mill!

(Dozens of areas of water milling, its benefits are ten times, and the country is convenient - agricultural books)

And the water mill uses water, which also means that as long as there is water, the water mill can't stop at all! Instead of resting late at night or when the donkey is tired, like a dry mill.

The most important thing is that the left side of the water mill shells the wheat grains, through the hollowed out wooden pole transmission, the right side can directly crush the wheat grains into powder, one thing is multi-purpose, it is really convenient, the whole process of mechanized automatic operation, no need for manpower at all - look, our ancestors, in the Han Dynasty to get automation out, no wonder Qing has always been **** Shangguo before, and some people suspect that the Chinese are the descendants of aliens!

So after Count Tang got this thing out from memory, he invited all the elders to visit - in ancient times, these elders often had the greatest say in the village, and all the villagers listened to them - if the entire Earldom of Desmond was a company, then Count Tang Xiao was the chairman, although he had the power of life and death of the company, but he couldn't see or touch it, but the elders were the director or manager, and he directly held your salary!

These elders, all of whom were in their fifties or sixties, were all human spirits, and every fool, when they saw this extremely convenient water mill, naturally a few families were happy and some were sad—the ones who were happy were that there was a river next to the village, and the sorrow was naturally that the village did not rely on water.

But no matter what, this thing must be promoted, with this water mill, the farmers can concentrate on harvesting grain during the autumn harvest, instead of having to queue up to go to the mill while grabbing grain, which is a great blessing for farmers!

So after the elders visited, all the craftsmen of the whole of Desmond gathered in the castle of the Count of Don, and every day they learned how to make this water mill - and this water mill, which was made of wood and stone, and the material was obvious at a glance, unlike in the past, when human dung had to be scattered into the fields, the peasants were resistant, and they needed religion as a disguise.

Wood and stone, which of these things is not commonplace for everyone, and who would worry about these things?

So, before the Autumn Harvest War, the 'Water Monster' (the name of the ordinary peasant, that is, the water mill) was finally extended to every village in Desmond that relied on water, and the Earl of Don Jr. was relieved of his heart - this was all he could do, to obey the destiny of God, and the rest was to depend on God's will.

Ps1: After nine chapters in a row, I've finally written about this agricultural reform...... Actually, it's still early, but unfortunately my knowledge is limited, so I won't take it out to show my ugliness.

Ps2: Congratulations to this book for getting its first recommendation! Here, I would like to thank 'ZERO1234', 'Uncle Pervert', and 'Solar Radiation 2', and many more unknown readers I don't know about for their encouragement and support, it was your help that made me this far, thank you! (Bow)

PS3: Tomorrow's three watches...... I try to ......