Chapter 33: Autumn
Unconsciously, Yang Heng has been in this world for nearly a year, and now that autumn has arrived, the rice planted by Yang Heng's family, as well as millet and so on, have begun to mature one after another.
But just when Yang Heng's family was preparing for the autumn harvest, the new Juntian order of the imperial court came down, and it was said that this Juntian order was ordered by the imperial court in April, but the officials below dragged it again, and it was naturally autumn, at this time, whether it was Yang Heng's family or the four uncles' families, more than half of the wasteland reclaimed by the family was cultivated, and even now it was cultivated, waiting to plant winter wheat, so the officials who came down to grant the field couldn't find anything wrong with this, and the idea that the uncle was counting on his father or uncles to be punished could not be realized. Even now he is still regretting it, this is all good land, how can he not know the Tao for a long time, looking at the crops in the fields of the Yang family, it is obviously more than the income of the good fields outside.
According to the Juntian Order, the people grant land, and the Ding man of each family, and the middle-aged man over 18 years old must be divided into 80 acres of land, 20 acres of Yongye field, Yongye field can be passed on to children and grandchildren, and the land of the mouth is returned to the country after the death of the old man or the person, but the uncles' fields are not up to 100 acres, and there is no extra land to give to the uncles, even the people in the village have not been allocated more fields, this is mainly because this place is remote, the fields are scarce, just want them to go out, at this time some fields are some big households, Even some officials have occupied, how much land is given to them, and the uncles at this time handed over the fields in the village to the old people at home, or brothers, at this time they are waiting for the return of labor to start building houses, this era Ding men each have to serve twenty days of labor every year, if there is no labor errand, you can use some property instead, but the uncles are looking forward to having labor service, at this time they have no extra property to top the labor, but at the beginning of the construction of a new court, How could there be no labor to do, so with the departure of the officials who gave the land, the four uncles also went to labor.
This is the most idle time, if it is earlier, maybe people are still working in the fields, if it is later, it will be harvested in autumn, that is, at this time, or at the beginning of winter is the time for labor, and Yang Heng's family is different, their fields are planted slightly earlier because of the charcoal, and the growth cycle is a little earlier, so it is ripe at this time, but Yang Heng is not in a hurry, at this time the father is still going to the county to train, Therefore, Dad can harvest the grain at home, and the planting of winter wheat, Dad will not have time at home, but Yang Heng has already asked Dad to lay some parts, just wait for Uncle to come back, so as to make a cocoon, this cocoon itself is very efficient, but after adding the iron parts designed by Yang Heng, the speed will be faster, and the planting of winter wheat will not be very troublesome.
With the harvesting of rice, Yang Heng found another problem, that is, the rice harvest is fast, but it is troublesome to thresh, this era of rice threshing, but there are no automatic machines in later generations, the front harvest is completed, and the rice in the back is out of the machine.
Hey, there is, suddenly, Yang Heng remembered that he had seen a semi-automatic thresher of wheat in later generations, which was a long mace-like thing, driven by a diesel engine or an electric motor, and people were holding a handful of wheat on it to take off the wheat grains, but this kind of machine was rarely seen later, because later there was a more convenient machine, and people only needed to stuff a handful of wheat directly into the thresher, and it was easy to take out very clean wheat grains, and, Yang Heng once remembered seeing from afar the machines used by farmers in some mountainous areas to remove rice, that is, a wooden box with some machinery, and then pedaling on the machine to turn up, and putting bundles of rice in it to take off the rice grains, this, Yang Heng estimated that it should be the same as the wheat thresher mentioned above, but the engine was changed to manpower, and then reduced, a machine can be used by one person, yes, just make this kind of thing.
Just do it, planks, wooden strips, this uncle has made a lot in his spare time, Yang Heng just chooses the right materials, and then cuts, opens the mortise and tenon, and then assembles it, a brand new threshing machine is made, Yang Heng can use the foot to step on the rotation system Yang Heng couldn't think of it for a while, that's good to say, temporarily make it hand-cranked, and when threshing, one person cranks the threshing machine by hand, and one person takes the rice threshing, although it is a little troublesome, but it is much faster than beating with a wooden stick, Yang Heng just didn't know if there was a threshing machine in this world, because there was no rice planted nearby, but he found that whether it was barley or wheat planted here, it was directly threshed with stone mills in the field, that is to say, there was no threshing machine for wheat temporarily, maybe such a threshing machine is an epoch-making reform, but these are not very important to Yang Heng, he feels that some popular equipment is still good for direct popularization, and what Daddy's future needs is military exploits. And not with these things.
"Grandpa, seeing that our income this year is good, and we don't have to pay taxes, shouldn't we add a few people to our family, we can't work so hard all the time, right?" As a traverser, Yang Heng is very uncomfortable now, he has been traversing for so long, and he still has to work so hard, he doesn't even have a commanding person, but fortunately, fortunately, his father still has a few good brothers to help, but slowly the uncles also have family businesses, and even they need to add some subordinates.
"Stinky boy, this business has just picked up, you just want to enjoy it, let's wait a few more years." Daddy directly vetoed Yang Heng's idea.
"Grandpa, why don't we buy a few cows first." Yang Heng then made another proposal. "Buy cows, do you think cows can do it faster than you?" "That's really not possible, but we can't always pull the plough ourselves, we have other things to do." "What else do you have to do with your child, now pull the plow for a few years, and then marry you a daughter-in-law, you can live alone, you can buy whatever you want." This old man, really, I really can't say it, I want to separate Yang Heng from Lu so early, does he really want to have another child, but it's not impossible, this crossing thing is there, and the old lady's single thing should also be broken.