After Fan Jia left, Jiang Hexing sent a letter to Ma Yuan, asking him to send more people to find gold, silver and copper mines in the places under his jurisdiction. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Jiang Hexing found Zhang Kai again to discuss the matter of minting money, Jiang Hexing said that the five baht money was abolished, so it is better to take this opportunity to also mint Pingzhou's special money. Jianghexing gave a plan to make the copper coins bigger and heavier, one tael for every 10 copper coins, just one penny for each, and each copper coin was called a penny. Then make the same weight of silver and money, of course, much smaller, after all, silver is heavier than copper, and gold is much larger. Jianghexing requires that the three coins should be of equal weight, and the size does not have to be the same, and later people will get used to it, and they will know that maybe the smaller the more valuable. Jiang Hexing arranged for some craftsmen to explain in detail, and then asked Zhang Kai to secretly mint new money.

Spring is coming, and the land is full of green. Wang Ke and others came to the news on Phoenix Island that the horse-drawn seeder and harvester were successful. Jianghexing let them vigorously produce as soon as possible, in the summer capital, in Pingzhou Mansion, and in the vicinity of Xianwu City to be widely promoted, although it is still far from the autumn harvest, but also to tell the people who farm the land, you can try to make your own land more diverse, not afraid of not being able to harvest.

In Pengjia Village, Peng Daniu was standing in the yard, watching the snow in the yard melt a lot. In the shadows, there are patches of black snow and dirt. The warm sun shone on the earth, the snow melted into stagnant water, the water gathered into streams, and the courtyards and roads were muddy.

Peng Daniu frowned, took a shovel from under the eaves, and was about to clean up the courtyard. At this time, the main road to the east was noisy and shouting, and the voices of people were boiling. Peng Daniu didn't know what was going on, so he carried a shovel and walked to the gate of the courtyard and looked east. On the main road to the east, there was a horse-drawn carriage, which seemed to be stuck in the mud. A group of people in the carriage were about to jump under the carriage, seeing the puddles and mud below, and it seemed that they had not found a place to stay, standing on the carriage and constantly looking down, looking for a dry place. A group of children around them, as if they were very happy to see others unlucky, stood far away on the dry road, around the carriage, pointing, singing and dancing.

Peng Daniu was angry in his heart, this group of bear children seemed to be the happiest at this time, and the adults in the family didn't care. He was about to go over, and when he saw Peng Bohai also in the car, he jumped down directly, just stepping on both feet into the mud. There were also a lot of mud spots on his body. Peng Bohai didn't seem to care about this, and came to Peng Daniu's house with a deep foot and a shallow foot.

Peng Da Niu looked at his cousin in front of him, and with a clean sheepskin coat, splashed with black spots, fortunately he was wearing deerskin boots, otherwise his feet would have frozen. Peng Daniu looked at his cousin, who was bent over and panting, and said, "Bohai, what's the matter?" Look at your panic, look at your new clothes, I'm afraid it's just put on, you see how dirty it looks. ”

After Peng Bohai gasped, he stood up and said, "Big brother, I'm coming back from New White Horse County. It just so happened that the county sent you something, let me send it back, you look at this road, the car can't pass. Hurry up and call a few more people, and we'll carry the car out together." ”

Peng Daniu felt strange in his heart and asked, "Why did you send me something?" ”

Peng Bohai said impatiently: "Big brother, you go and call someone first, call out a few more laborers of our Peng family, why do you send it to you, let's talk about it later." ”

Peng Daniu saw that his cousin was a little angry, and he also felt that it was not the right time for him to ask, so he hurriedly stuck the shovel on the ground, and went to various houses to call people by himself.

After a while, Peng Daniu took the Peng family to the carriage, unloaded the horses, and the people jumped off the carriage one by one. Together, they lifted the carriage out.

At this time, although there are many puddles on the road, it is still muddy, but there are no deep pits, the steep slope, put the horse on again, everyone together, drive the horse, push the cart, and send it to the gate of Peng Daniu's fence yard.

At this time, Peng Daniu knew that it was last year's righteous act, and this year he continued to give rewards, two horse-drawn seeders, although Peng Daniu felt strange, why did he still have a reward after so long, but he still happily accepted it. Peng Bohai tried his best to keep these people, to thank these officials, he had to express it, who knew that these people also said with a bitter face: "Shangfeng order, these days must send the seeder as soon as possible, if anyone delays, the blame will not escape." Therefore, it is necessary to rush back later, and let the farmers know how to use the seeder before the start of farming. ”

Peng Bohai saw that what these people said was true, and it seemed that he couldn't keep it, except for a technician Xiao Liu, the rest of the personnel went back. The Peng family escorted them to the cement road outside the village, and then said goodbye.

The Peng family gathered around Peng Daniu's house to see the new seeder. Xiao Liu stood next to the seeder, explaining to everyone one by one, everyone was ignorant, Xiao Liu turned around and asked Peng Daniu: "Brother Peng, do you have a field with relatively high terrain now, no water in it, no mud?" ”

Peng Da Niu thought for a while and said: "It just happens that the easternmost piece of the West Land, not very far from the village, there is a high hill land, and now there is no water and no mud. ”

Xiao Liu nodded and said, "That's it, Brother Peng, you prepare first, tomorrow afternoon, let's go to that high hill land together to show you how to use this seeder." ”

The next afternoon, the sun was still shining, and in the high place of Peng Daniu's house, the men, women and children of Pengjia Village came to see the excitement. After all, it's not yet spring plowing season, and the weather is still chilly. But Peng Da Niu didn't listen to Xiao Liu's dissuasion, and insisted on bringing a bag of real millet seeds and spring wheat seeds, and there was no shortage at home.

Peng Daniu stood in front of the seeder and looked at the seeder carefully. This seeder is a bit like the cocoon he saw in Dongshire, and it is also used here, except that there are two iron wheels underneath it. The cocoon has three legs, and this planter actually has six legs. It seems that all six legs can be planted. There was a wooden stick in front of the planter, not two wheel-like sticks. The sticks were tied with ropes, just in time for the horses in front of them to pull. The box is also different from the wooden cocoon, it is made of iron, and the iron box looks like it can hold at least dozens of catties of seeds.

Xiao Liu squeezed past the crowd that gathered around, walked to the front of the seeder and said, "Everyone can see it clearly." ”

Everyone nodded to see clearly.

Xiao Liu continued: "This is based on cocoon, everyone has used cocoon, I won't talk about it much, you are more expert than me." ”

Everyone looked at Xiao Liu with a smile and listened to him continue to speak: "A little different is that this Sheng has a lot of seeds and can run fast, he uses a wheel to pull it, and when the horse stops, there will not be too much grain leaking down, because what, because the wheel does not turn." ”

Xiao Liu said, while pointing to the two iron wheels with his hand for everyone to see, everyone looked, Xiao Liu continued: "The number of plants under this control is different from the cocoon, the cocoon is in the box, and I am also in the box, but the control switch is outside the box." ”

Xiao Liu said as he wrung a thick iron sheet that resembled ears on the outside of the tin box with his hand, and only listened to a snap, and the heads surrounding the box saw the tin sheet under the box move, revealing six holes and leading to the six legs below. He twisted it again, and the hole grew even bigger.

Everyone understands that it is nothing more than a switch to control the number of seeds.

Xiao Liu saw that everyone understood, and he was happy, so he said to Peng Daniu: "Brother Peng, do you understand?" ”

Peng Daniu said: "Hey, this is about the same as my family's cocoon, but it's a little bigger." Let's try it first. ”

Xiao Liu nodded, and as he spoke, he put the wheat in the box of the seeder, and poured about 40 catties at once. Peng Da Niu also put on the horse in front and was led by him, and Xiao Liu in the back supported a railing behind the seeder.

Xiao Liu shouted behind him, Peng Daniu led the horse and walked up, and the onlookers watched the seeder go forward, rustling, knowing that the seeds had been sprinkled into the field. Everyone looked at the six obvious bright soil marks on the ground, but there were no obvious soil ditches, and everyone looked at the six legs of the planter with some weeds and cloth strips tied behind them, covering the soil ditch that had just been opened, and only a few seeds were spilled out.

In the admiration of everyone, they found that it was not only the six-legged seeder that was much faster, but that the seeder was like running, and it was effortless at all. Some children followed closely in the midst of joy, while adults stood on the ground and kept talking, admiring. This sowing is much faster than before, unlike the old crop to control, how can he see the planter operation is much simpler.

Everyone was talking about whether they wanted to buy one or not. In the midst of everyone's discussion, Peng Daniu followed the horse and turned his head and ran towards the ground.

After a while, Lao Peng ran to the field with his horse, and everyone looked at the field, which was already more than the amount sown in a day.

Everyone surrounded Lao Peng, some asked Lao Peng how he felt, some asked Xiao Liu how he felt, and some asked Xiao Liu about the price of the seeder.

Xiao Liu summoned two people who were interested in this and explained it to them, and after a while, one led the horse, the other held the seeder, and flew forward.

At this time, Peng Bohai asked: "Xiao Liu, how much is this seeder?" ”

Xiao Liu raised his hand, gestured two fingers and said, "2,000 money apiece." ”

Peng Bohai said: "I want to order 5." ”

Xiao Liu was overjoyed and said busily: "Buy all this year at half price, 1,000 yuan each, and the rest will be subsidized by Pingzhou Government." ”

When the people heard this, they gathered around and booked one after another.

Peng Daniu looked at the noisy crowd, his heart was very open, although he lost a little wheat and rice seeds, but it was cost-effective to get two seeders for nothing, and he would not be too tired to grow hundreds of acres this year. Yesterday, Xiao Liu said that soon the harvester can also be customized, it seems that there can be a big harvest this year, and he is no longer afraid of planting and harvesting.

A few days later, send Xiao Liu away, it is not yet the spring ploughing season, but the wasteland is already possible, after the people of Pengjia Village finished repairing the road, all the people were busy with the new year's wasteland work.