Chapter Eighty-Six: The Current Situation of the Sand River

didn't have time to feel the hard-won maternal love at home, so Wen Chou and Yan Liang embarked on the journey again.

This day has arrived in late August, and in a few days, it will be September, and the people of Qianshou in Shahe Township have begun to prepare for corn harvesting and wheat sowing. Because during this period, there have been no natural disasters or any **, but in recent years, there has been a rare harvest season. Whether it is the original villagers of Shahe, or the people of Qianshou in Xin'an, or the two or three thousand captives, they all showed excited expressions and smiled with joy.

The villagers are also working harder and harder about the tasks in their hands! It took three or four months to build the ditch in Shahe Township, which took more than 10,000 people to build, and it is also in the final stage, and it is about to be completed! I believe that in the near winter wheat season, it will come in handy, so that the villagers of Shahe have another strong guarantee!

Recently, the food has become a little more abundant, and the food of these displaced people has also increased from one gruel to two gruel, although they are not yet full, but everything is developing in a good way, which is beyond doubt. The homeless people are glad that they chose Shahe Township and Wenchou, otherwise, they may have died in that wilderness! And Wen Chou's series of actions also made them believe that they would live better in the future! At present, Shahe Township has long been devoid of the depression of twilight, replaced by vigor and hope.

But the current Shahe Township is not perfect and invulnerable, on the contrary, it has problems and loopholes of one kind or another.

First of all, the economic foundation of the villagers in Shahe is extremely low. The aborigines are better, not to mention that each family can come up with more than 10,000 yuan, but more than 1,000 yuan is more than enough. But not for the outcasts, whose money was either stolen by the thieves or lost and consumed on the way to the wanderings! When you come to Shahe Township, you are often alone, and you may be able to count the tattered clothes that record the hardships all the way.

And this part of the people is precisely the vast majority of the Qianshou of Shahe Township! This suddenly revealed a lot of problems! As a result, many ideas cannot be realized, and some good policies cannot be implemented smoothly. For example, when it comes to children's schooling, most people don't have the extra money to send their children to school! Food and clothing have not yet been solved, what future are you considering?!

Then there is the problem of the accommodation of the villagers, originally these homeless people only lived in a thatched hut, some built into thatched huts, but it was only slightly better than sleeping in the wilderness, and now, August is over, September is coming, the weather is really cooler, and they can no longer only live in thatched houses. The construction of housing needs to be put on the agenda.

There is also the issue of the integration of the villagers, although the indigenous villagers are also willing to help these displaced people and make them settle here, but after all, they are not a group, and there is an obvious estrangement. If we don't remove this barrier as soon as possible, sooner or later there will be chaos!

Then there is the problem of the scholars in the township, although there are not many scholars, but they are often hindered by face, identity, or other reasons, and they are always lukewarm to Wen Chou. makes Wen Chou not without a headache! It is said that his current reputation is enough for these poor scholars who are confined to a township, but the reality is not the case, and I don't know what went wrong. On the contrary, they often fight for their interests in order to curry favor with them.

And so on and so forth.

At that moment, Wen Chou hurried to the official temple to deal with a matter that he thought was more important--- the problem of farm tools. At present, the villagers are about to harvest grain, and they can't drag the villagers back on farm tools. That is, the sins of heaven are forgivable, and the sins of man cannot live! The three bows and nine bows are about to be completed, and there is only one last tremor left, and if you don't tremble, isn't that self-inflicted? Now, the harvest is imminent, the farm tools are withdrawn, and the harvest cannot be harvested, so isn't the previous work done in vain? Therefore, Wen Chou believes that this is the top priority at present.

Of course, because in the previous season, the farm tools had already been stored in the warehouse of the official temple, Wen Chou only needed to count the number, and then take out the damaged farm tools to repair them, and then ask the village blacksmiths and carpenters to create another batch, so that the farm tools are fully enough, and the harvest of the villagers will not be delayed.

Of course, if there are any farm tools, they can also be modified within the scope of the current technology, making them more practical and increasing the labor efficiency of the villagers! Wen Chou will not be stingy, this is his advantage as a traverser! Besides, he is a college student from the countryside, too high-end can't, but ordinary farm tools, but from childhood to adulthood! Familiar beyond beyond.

For example, the long straight plough is improved to a more advanced curved plow, and when the long straight plough is cultivated, the turning back is not flexible enough, and the soil is laborious, and the efficiency is not high. The curved plough is different, and compared with the long value plow, there are several major modifications.

First of all, the straight wheel, the long wheel is changed to the curved wheel, the short wheel, and the plow disc that can rotate freely is secretly installed in the wheel, so that not only makes the plow frame smaller and lighter, but also convenient to turn around and turn, the operation is flexible, and the manpower and livestock are saved.

The second is to increase the plough evaluation and plough construction, such as the promotion of the plough evaluation, can make the plough arrow downward, the ploughshare into the soil is deep. If the plough is raised, the plough arrow is upward, and the ploughshare is shallow when it enters the soil. The organic combination of plough evaluation, plough arrow and plough construction can adapt to the different requirements of deep ploughing or shallow tillage, and can standardize the adjustment of cultivated land depth, which is convenient for intensive cultivation. The plough wall not only breaks the soil, but also pushes the ploughed soil to one side, reducing the resistance of the plough forward.

Quyuan plough first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, but its structure is complete, light and labor-saving, after the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties, the structure of the plough has not changed much.

In addition, the harvesting utensils including the pinch knife for harvesting ears, the sickle for harvesting stems, and the short hammer have been slightly changed, although it is not large, but it also makes it more ergonomic, more convenient and comfortable to use.

In addition, according to the experience of later generations, some simple and practical agricultural tools, which do not appear at the moment, are made together with design drawings and ideas, and handed over to craftsmen to create. Such as a rake, which is used to level the land.

After all, the real use effect is still unknown, because Wen Chou can not move the farm tools of later generations one by one, let these craftsmen do it, but with his own impression, roughly describe the structure and function of farm tools one by one, and then combine the current farm tools and the craftsmen's own experience to transform one or two. If the effect is ideal, then large-scale manufacturing, if it is not ideal, and then improve, this is a long-term process of experimentation.

Of course, these are all things that Wen Chou took a lot of effort to make these craftsmen willing to try. But at present, these transformed agricultural tools can not play a big role, but only the effect of auxiliary experiments. What really came in handy were the thousands of farm tools stored in the official temple, as well as more than 1,000 other farm tools ordered by Wen Chou. There are as many as four or five thousand bodies, which is enough to use.

By the time Wen Chou and these craftsmen had completely determined the plan for the new farm tools and the specific number of old farm tools that should be built, it had already been four or five days, and it was one step closer to the busy farming.

And when Wen Chou brought out those compositional ideas and strange ideas about the transformation of farm tools, it really amazed the eyes of many people, and Xiangzuo Wang Chong was one of them. He never thought that his top boss was still an agricultural wizard, and he had never heard of the Wen family's great achievements in agricultural tools before! If you want to talk about martial arts and weapons, you can still talk about the past, but this farm tool can also be used, Wang Chong can only be depressed.

During this period, Wen Chou also went to Taolinsai to comfort and comfort many trained soldiers.

The soldiers who have gone through a real war have trained more diligently and seriously than before. This is closely related to your own life! Under the care and leadership of Jun Sima Jiang Xuan, Shuzuo Chen Ning and the commander of Yiying Qutun, the entire Taolin Fortress operated normally.

Now there are only 700 soldiers left, and there are 300 cavalry! They also benefited from their previous encounter with Chuliju, which made them eat meat every day and became stronger. And this meat-eating life will continue into the next year, including the new recruits who will be recruited, and the same treatment will be given.

Compared with those scholars who hold their own identities and don't give them a chance to be ugly, these literate gentlemen who give the sergeants literacy in the barracks are much better. They were very satisfied with the monthly salaries paid on time, the three full meals like the soldiers, and sometimes the doubts from the scholar Chen Ning, or the borrowing of some books and bamboo slips from Sima Jiangxuan.

And this is undoubtedly a good start for Wen Chou. In Wen Chou's conception, these three or five scholars are his trick bricks to open up other scholars in the township. As long as they are given enough benefits and temptations, they can't help but follow Wen Chou's idea to benefit the villagers.

And through recent observations, Wen Chou also has some eyebrows, for these scholars, they can't only be measured by money, but also have spiritual food. For example, every time that scholar borrowed a roll of bamboo slips from Jiang Xuan, he would be excited for several days, even happier than when he got the monthly stipend! In front of several other scholars, he was even more boastful and quite happy. This is the current situation of the stratum scholars, and books are what they crave! But in this Eastern Han Dynasty, when yellow paper was still precious to the upper class, printing was impossible to talk about! Books are often the most cherished item of the famous family!