The crowd looked over to a large tree that was making noise on the side of the road. Then the bushes of the big tree were removed, and the head of a child came in, a boy, about twelve or thirteen years old, with a dark, thin little face, covered with dust, and hair about an inch long, unkempt, like a magpie's nest.

The sudden appearance of the child made the guards in charge of guarding around Masato a little embarrassed, especially the guards disguised by Black Hawk, who were even more ashamed and reddened. There was an omission in the vigilance under their noses, and it was their old business to hide in the trees, and now someone seemed to be even more powerful than them, and he was a child, how could they be embarrassed?

"San Lang, hurry down and salute your lordship." The man in charge of leading the way obviously recognized the little boy in the tree, so he hurriedly said. Then he trotted directly to the front of Masahiro and Dongxiang Pingji to apologize: "Please forgive me, adult, that child is the San Lang of this village, and he is the most naughty child in the village." ”

This person who led the way is obviously also a smart person, before setting off, Machitou had told him to serve these adults in front of him carefully, just from the expression of Machitou, it can be seen that the identity of these people is not low, and then look at the more than ten people who followed him (in fact, less than half a mile away, there is also a team of hundreds of people ready to support at any time on standby), obviously these people are the guards of these adults in front of him, so he is really worried that these adults will blame the little boy in anger.

"You are not the people of that hateful lord." The little boy was like a monkey, and he fell to the ground in three or two strokes. Then he walked over after getting permission from Masayo, but the first thing he said was that the person leading the way almost fell to the ground in fright.

"Oh? How do you see that? Masato asked with interest. Obviously, since the last time, the wealthy clan who had just been ordered to confiscate the territory by Zhengliang brought people to rob the people's daughters. The village was on guard, and the little boy was in charge of the vigilance.

"You're all armed with weapons. That hateful lord can't carry weapons. The little boy said with big eyes, "Otherwise, I would have sounded the alarm." With that, he pointed to the big tree where he was hiding. I guess there's something on that big tree that sounds an alarm.

However, this little boy's words made Masaliang's eyes light up, and he couldn't help but sigh at this little boy's ability to observe. In fact, the territorial law stipulates that only certain members of the Luo family can carry weapons. Ordinary people are not allowed to carry weapons without permission. But today, Masara and the others swaggered around the town with a katana, and almost no one noticed the problem.

The only one who was alert was the man in charge of the gourmet house who had arrived at the scene to deal with the conflict in the council hall. Afterwards, he even came directly to test it. After learning Ahri's identity, he immediately arranged for Masara and the others to go to the back hall of the food house to eat. But the person in charge is himself a detective, and he can find out that the difference between Zhengliang and others is related to his profession. And now this little kid. When I first met with Masato and the others, I noticed the abnormality. This made Masahiro have to sigh.

After sighing, Zhengliang immediately said: "Then who do you think we are?" ”

"I don't know the way, but I will know the way soon." The little boy rolled his eyes, shook his head at first, and then said with great certainty.

"Hahaha...... Let's go, take me into the village for a tour, I promise you won't hurt you. Zhengliang couldn't help but say with a smile.

Afterwards, the group continued along the mountain road towards Maeda Village.

"The villain meets the adult." Not far from the entrance of the village, a group of people who had just been informed by the leader who had just run back in advance stood at the entrance of the village to greet Zhengliang. It was their village head who was at the head. The head of the village had apparently been reminded by the man who led the way. Zhilu said the dignity of the identity of Zhengliang and the others, so as soon as he saw Zhengliang and the others, he immediately came over to salute. On the contrary, the dozen or so scouts and villagers behind him didn't know what was going on. They all looked nervously at Masashi and the others.

"Let them all disperse." Zhengliang didn't come to do anything to welcome the meeting, and he didn't need any formalism, so he directly asked the village head to send those villagers away, and he didn't enter the village at all, but turned around and went to the fields.

The land of May is full of life, and even the earth under your feet is fragrant. After walking a field path, Masato simply took off the straw sandals on his feet, and then walked barefoot on the ridges covered with dirt and weeds.

Togo Heiji behind him frowned when he saw this, obviously feeling that Masayo's move was a loss of a daimyo's demeanor, but after thinking of Masayo's character, he finally had to follow Masayo slowly behind silently. A few old farmers who were forcibly pulled in the distance behind were extremely surprised, there would be an adult who made such an action? Masa-liang gave them the impression that they were suddenly approachable.

Masara carefully observed the fields. By mid-May, the paddy fields were already full of green rice, while the higher terrain was planted with dryland wheat.

At present, the Japanese basically implement the cultivation method of one crop a year, and in fact, depending on the longitude and latitude where the Japanese are located, it is completely possible to implement crop rotation or multiple cropping for farming.

Multiple cropping, or crop rotation, refers to the cultivation method of sowing and harvesting more than twice a year on the same piece of land. Multiple cropping can make full use of the land per unit area and increase the yield of farmland. For example, winter wheat is paired with some spring or summer crops, and appropriate technical measures are taken to increase the number of planting and harvesting in a year or several years.

Now the Cabinet of Internal Affairs has sent people to test this farming method in the trial manor established by Masahiro in Notaka Mountain, and once it is successful, it will be fully promoted to the territory (although this farming method of Zhengliang will definitely succeed, but after all, this is ancient times, and there are many factors that are different from later generations, once the forced promotion leads to some mistakes, it will lead to many people being starved to death.) So for the sake of insurance, Masahiro decided to find a small place to test it out and then gradually promote it).

Ditches of various sizes crisscrossed the fields, and the ditch that connected the stream in the middle of the field was dug very deep, and the ridges on both sides of the ditch were even reinforced with low-quality cement. At the end of this ditch at the confluence of the creek, Masarashi also found a waterwheel.

This is a water-turning truck made by Roche's woodworking workshop. Its structure is similar to that of a human overturning car, but the power used is different. First, dig a deep and narrow ditch on the bank of the flowing water and set up the waterwheel in it. Extend the tread axle of the overturned car to make a vertical wheel (upright runner). Next to the vertical wheel, set up a shaft in addition, and make two horizontal wheels (horizontal rotors) on the shaft. The upper horizontal wheel and the vertical wheel are the front wheels, and the two amplitudes and branches are interlocked. and rushed down the lying wheel.

The water rushes the lower horizontal wheel, the lower wheel moves, drives the upper horizontal wheel, and then drives the vertical wheel with the upper horizontal wheel width support, uses the principle of gear linkage, uses the principle of gear linkage, drives the overturned car placed in the ditch on the side, and the water is transported to the shore.

Or change the lower wheel into an independent vertical wheel at the front of the locomotive, so that its width is also interspersed with the upper horizontal wheel, and then push it by the water, the effect is also the same. The lower decker can also be converted into a pusher, which is pushed by the livestock.

The biggest benefit of water turning and overturning is labor-saving. Because it uses the power of nature, human and animal power can be used for other production activities. And this method of water irrigation can be carried out day and night, and the convenience is on the overturned car.

This kind of waterwheel is a unique irrigation tool of the Luo family, and it is not allowed to flow out of the Luo family's territory. When the Ouchi family formed an alliance with the Luo family, they once sent someone to ask for the manufacturing plan of this waterwheel, but they were directly rejected by Masaara. Even if the other party pays a big benefit, Zhengliang will not sell. This kind of tool can be said to be a tool related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and Zhengliang will not increase the strength of potential enemies because of a small benefit.

In order to keep it secret, all the waterwheels in the Luo family's territory were uniformly manufactured by the Luo family's woodworking workshop located at the foot of Notaka Mountain in Matsuura County, Hizen Province, and were uniformly distributed and installed by the Cabinet according to the local conditions. But it can't be free anyway, after all, the more free things are, the more the people don't cherish them, and the Luo family's workshop will have to recover its costs.

During the subsequent inspection, Masara saw two more ploughing oxen. These two ploughing cattle are the common property of the village, and they were bought from the Cabinet of the Interior at the joint expense of the whole village. Therefore, almost all the people of the village regard them as treasures.

Although the two ploughing oxen look a little tired now (after all, the two ploughing oxen are responsible for the spring ploughing of all the fields in the whole village, even if they take turns to plough in the fields, they are tired enough), but judging from the color of the wool and water on the ploughing ox, the treatment they usually suffer should be good. After all, it is not difficult to raise ploughing cattle, as long as you ensure that there is plenty of grass, sweet stream water, and occasionally add a little multigrain rice to them (such as rice, cereals and other grains polished chaff mixed with some things that ploughing cattle like to eat together), you can completely feed them.

At present, in the territory of the Luo family, the number of cultivated cattle has exceeded tens of thousands, among which the number and distribution of cultivated cattle in the Hizen country, the Chikugo country and the Higo country are the most reasonable, and they have basically met the needs of the people for farming. Chikuzen and Bungo are still far behind, and the Cabinet is currently trying to find a way to solve this problem. (To be continued......)