During the inspection of Zhengliang along the way, some of the leaders who were plowing in the fields saw Zhengliang and his party, and immediately thought that they had encountered a big man, and they all knelt on the ground in panic.

For the reactions of these people, Zhengliang has long been accustomed to it. After all, with hundreds of years of cultural accumulation, the fear formed by these civilians for the samurai clan cannot be changed at once, and Masato does not want them to change, but hopes that they will only use these fears and respects when facing the Luo family, as for other non-Luo clan warriors, there is no need for this.

Because these leaders were in a hurry to salute, Masato saw a lot of farming tools scattered in the fields in a panic along the way. These farming tools are clearly much improved compared to those found in other daimyo countries.

For example, the hoe used by the lords in farming. In the past, there was basically only one kind of hoe for the common people, and that was the hoe. This kind of hoe has a narrow blade and is used for deep excavation in a small area, often used in places with strong soil, and is also commonly used to dig up tuber plants buried in the soil, such as Luo's endemic crops such as gourd and yam. The widespread use of this type of hoe is very much in line with the local product environment of the Wa Kingdom (because of the lack of iron ore, the less iron used to make the hoe, the better, so the blacksmith house generally only forges less hoes). There are even places where stone hoes are still used).

Since the Luo family completely occupied Matsuura County in Hizen Province, Masarashi built an iron workshop at the foot of Notaka Mountain to coordinate all the iron raw materials in the territory. Unlike the armory workshops in the Kishidake mountain range, this workshop is also under the coordination of the Cabinet of Internal Affairs, but it only produces the iron tools necessary for the livelihood of the people. He was also responsible for managing the blacksmith workshops established by the people themselves throughout the territory (as agriculture and commerce developed in the territory). An increase in the demand for agricultural implements. In each of the towns and villages, craftsmen specializing in forging and casting have emerged. Freed from the shackles of the lords, these artisans had their own workshops and tools, or received orders from the society for processing fees, or produced goods for sale to the market. ）

In order to strengthen the management of these blacksmith houses, on the one hand, to prevent them from building weapons in violation of the territorial law, and on the other hand, they can be used as logistics branches in wartime. That's why they will be managed in a unified manner (these blacksmith houses built by the lords themselves are not subject to management, because all the iron materials in the territory are controlled by the Luo family.) Before they can build a blacksmith house, they must first register their information with the local interior cabinet, and only after they can get permission to start building a craftsman's house. The Cabinet of the Interior will distribute iron to each place one by one according to the demand for iron in each locality. After the incident, there will be detectives who will monitor these blacksmith houses from time to time to monitor the end use of the iron). When necessary, according to the needs of the territory, the workshop in Notakayama will issue the temporary iron crafting tasks issued by the Cabinet to the Domain's Folk Workshops in various parts of the territory.

After the Luo family set up this workshop, it was according to the structural diagram provided by Zhengliang (Zhengliang was also a white-collar worker from the countryside in his previous life, and he also cultivated the land in the countryside when he was a child. Naturally, we are well aware of the structure and function of these tools) to produce some new tools. And here today, Masahiro has finally seen these new farm tools. They are plate hoes, hoes, sapper shovels, and ploughs.

Plate hoe. It is about 20 cm to 30 cm wide, and the height is slightly longer than the width. It is mainly used for shallow excavation in large areas. For example, the loosening of the soil.

The blade is wide and sharp, some are slightly curved, and it is crescent-shaped. Some have no curvature and a straight edge. Its height is less than its width. Slightly lighter and thinner than the plate hoe, it has an iron handle for articulation with a long wooden handle. It is mainly used for surface excavation work. For example, we can remove weeds from the ground and collect loose grains or sand on the ground.

The above three kinds of hoes can weed, turn the soil, no matter what kind of crops you want to plant, you must first use the hoe to loosen the soil, turn the soil, in order to plant crops, so the hoe is very important to the people, no hoe can turn the soil, it is equivalent to not planting crops. The hoe can also be weeded, such as the grass will grow every season, and it must be weeded and sorted out every season, especially in spring, the grass will grow Bewang, so it is necessary to clean up more, in short, the hoe is the most important tool for the people. With these hoes with different characteristics, the efficiency of the cultivators has increased a lot.

And seeing the sapper shovel here is a bit of a surprise to Masato (of course, this sapper shovel is not a tool that cannot be sold to the people). After all, in the current Luo family's territory, only the logistics team can see a large number of sapper shovels. These sapper shovels are a useful tool for building fortifications when marching, and can even be used as weapons in battle, and are currently the most popular logistics tool within the Luo family's army.

As for the most advanced plough, it has also been improved through joint research by craftsmen and farmers. The main improvement is that the plough is changed to an iron wheel, the plow arrow is omitted, the hole groove is dug in the middle of the plough tip, the iron wheel is fixed with a wooden wedge and the depth is adjusted, the plow body structure is simplified without affecting the efficiency of cultivated land, and the plough is more durable and durable, which not only prolongs the use time, but also saves the production cost, and is also a kind of progress.

The emergence of a large number of folk blacksmith houses and carpenter houses indicates that the territory of the Luo family has developed to a relatively complete and developed level. And the large popularity of these tools also means that territorial agriculture has been greatly developed.

In addition to seeing these tools, Masara also saw a leader carrying two dung buckets and preparing to fertilize the crops in the field. Speaking of manure, we have to talk about a habit of the people in the previous territory.

In the past, there was no real "toilet" in the territory, and it was not possible to buy a commode to use it like those wealthy people. Therefore, many people will build a simple "latrine" on the bank of the creek (dig a hole in the river, then put a wooden plank or tree trunk at the hole in the ground, and surround it with thatch), and the excrement will be washed away by the river when it falls through the hole. However, these toilets are usually surrounded by thatched walls and then have an open head overhead. So on a rainy day, it's almost unusable. When Masato first came to this worldly realm. I have encountered the embarrassing situation of going to the toilet in a rainstorm.

Later, after Masato became a lord and completely controlled the territory. Only then did it gradually promote the use of manure in the territory. Now, the Luo family territory has formed a good manure application system. The people usually set up a dung cellar in their own house to store manure, and they are also very good at using manure, river sludge, leaching plant stems and leaves, plant ash, leachable garbage, village ditch sewage, and crop leaching as fertilizer.

In order to provide the people with the use of manure, the Cabinet also taught the people how to make manure, and the specific method is to cut corn, reeds and other straws into small sections, and then pile them in the form of warp and weft in the order of upper and lower levels. Pouring manure and urine water on the top, it must achieve the effect of soaking for a long time, and then let it ferment, or you can add the plant ash or charcoal rich in potassium fertilizer after burning, and it will dry into small pieces of gray-black fertilizer or gray-black fertilizer water with water quality in the spring of the next year, which is manure; Wheat straw stacks can also be used to make manure. In the process of making manure, the stems, vines, and leaves of other plants are added to the straw stacks, or the branches of dead trees picked up by cleaning the garden.

It should be mentioned here that the people have developed to the point of exhausting themselves in order to collect manure. There is a special way to do it.

The first is to pick up cow dung. At present, the number of cattle cultivated in the territory is far from one per household, so in most villages and towns, all the lords work together to purchase several cattle from the Cabinet as public property.

However, disputes over how to use the cattle were once disturbed by the Cabinet of the Interior. Under normal circumstances, it is reasonable for each household to be responsible for raising the cattle for a few days. But when it comes to the busy farming season, the problem begins to sharpen. After the most reluctant, the Cabinet of the Interior had to stipulate. In each year a period of cultivation will be announced by the Cabinet of the Interior, during which time. It is stipulated that each household should allocate cattle according to the number of cattle in their area and the area of the field. When the owner hands over the cattle, the local town head or village head must act as a notary public to check the physical condition of the cattle once, and the handover of the cattle can only be completed after the village head, the previous user of the cattle and the user who is about to accept the cattle have confirmed that there is no problem.

It was only after the publication of this regulation that new problems soon arose.

The problem arises in the timing of the handover of the ploughing cattle. Generally speaking, it is most appropriate to set the time of handover on the day after the previous lord has finished using the ploughing ox. However, the lords did not think so, and instead thought that it was most appropriate to receive the ploughing cattle on the day when the previous lord had used them up. There are two reasons for this:

First, in the process of receiving the cultivated cattle and using the cultivated cattle, the people who use the cultivated cattle are naturally strict with the cultivated cattle (after all, do you want to use it?). Of course, I hope that the ploughing ox will be in better shape), but during the time when the ploughing ox is used up and ready to hand it over to the next lord (usually that night), no one knows what the ploughing lord will do.

The so-called human heart is selfish. Anyway, from this moment on, the ploughing ox is no longer used by him, and in this case, he may not even bother to feed the ploughing ox (according to the territorial law, on the day of the ploughing ox, they must be fed some multigrain rice. The law also stipulates this to ensure the survival of the ploughing cattle. If all the people used these cattle as tireless sacred cows, and did not provide adequate nutrition in time, these cattle would soon become ill and even die. Such a result is a loss to the people, the internal cabinet, and the Luo family's territory. In order to avoid this situation, the Cabinet of Internal Affairs had to add this ordinance to the law of the Luo family on farming.)

Anyway, I'm fed tonight, and tomorrow I'm just helping others. And why waste food? Even if it is a miscellaneous grain that is specially provided for the farming cattle (mainly the multigrain rice made from the husked rice and the outer skin of the miscellaneous grains, which is generally called the rice in later generations), it can be saved for the future when the farming cattle are used again. So it was this question that made the people think that it was most reasonable to make the handover that night. In order to make the cattle have the strength to work tomorrow, the newly acquired lords will naturally treat the cattle well.

Another reason why the people asked for the cattle to be handed over that night was for the sake of cow dung. For the people, cow dung is the most fertile fertilizer. In order to collect cow dung, when they adopt these farming cattle, they will send their own children to take care of the cattle full-time (that is, pulling the ploughing cattle to eat in the tender grass and fertile areas). These cow watchers usually bring a dustpan (a shovel-like tool made of wood and bamboo, which is commonly used in rural areas to transport materials), and as soon as the ploughing cattle drain their dung, they will immediately take the dustpan to save the cow dung, and when they return home in the evening, they will put the cow dung in their own dung cellar.

Even some experienced cow watchers, when it is obvious that the ploughing cattle are about to defecate, they will immediately put the dustpan in the predetermined position and let the ploughing cattle discharge the manure into it. If the ploughing cattle had the same intelligence as humans, it is estimated that they would be flattered at this time. Nima's, this is a five-star service. Of course, there may also be Miss Niu who will scold you for being a pervert.

And the second reason why the lords now demand that the handover of the ploughing cattle be carried out that night is precisely to get more cow dung (experienced lords naturally know that the night is the time when the ploughing cattle drain the dung is the most, after all, they are full during the day). However, there are also people who are the last users of cultivated cattle and see this cheapness, so they naturally disagree. After going back and forth, this issue naturally became a big dispute, which directly affected the spring ploughing work. Later, the Cabinet of the Interior had to clearly stipulate in the Agricultural Law that the time for the exchange of cattle was set on the evening of the day when the use of cattle was completed. Anyway, the people who are users will also become the handovers, and there will always be a day when they will pick up cow dung.

Disputes like this will always arise in the territory, as the head of the village and the internal affairs cabinet officials often have to be the adjudicators, sometimes it is indeed very hard, but it is with them that the various internal affairs of the territory can be carried out smoothly. They really work hard.

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