As he spoke, he asked Zhao Ruxi: "Lord Zhao, when will the adults of the Ministry of Industry arrive?" ”

"It's probably going to be noon, so let's leave them alone and let's get to work." Zhao Ruxi said.

Shi Jingcheng had already followed her instructions, asked two hundred men in forced labor to assemble the whole team, lined up in two teams according to height, shortness, fat and thin, changed a few people, and roughly distributed the labor on both sides, and said: "Team A goes to the left to get tools, and Team B goes to the right to get tools." ”

Because of the iron control, iron farming tools are still relatively expensive, and some families who are particularly poor cannot afford to use them at all. In addition, it is very easy to damage agricultural tools in land reclamation, so the government will provide these people with tools for land reclamation.

Everyone didn't think much about it, and each took the tools according to Shi Jingcheng's instructions.

The team of Team A got the farm tools, and they all frowned. When I turned my head to look at Team B, I saw that the people were holding the farm tools that everyone was used to, not like the strange ones in their hands.

A bold middle-aged man shouted at his team's servants, "Poor master, why are our tools different from theirs?" Is our team doing a different job than theirs? ”

It's not easy for the officials to say that this was invented by their Lord Zhao, and they used it for them to experiment.

You must know that there is a fixed amount of time for conscription, and the amount of work is set there, and you need to do so much work in a limited time to complete the task. This is true not only of these servants, but also of the burden on their shoulders. If you don't complete the task, you will be punished.

At first, Lord Zhao and Shi Jingcheng didn't say who would use these new farm tools, and they didn't think much about it. At this time, he found that he was unlucky, and it was his turn to use new farm tools, and the four officials in charge of Team A were also unhappy.

However, all the adults were watching from the side, Lord Zhao was still a royal person, and the background was hard, even Lord Liu and Lord Cai couldn't afford to provoke it, but it was not something they could question.

Therefore, their anger was directed at the middle-aged man: "Why is there so much nonsense? Do whatever you want, less verbose! ”

The middle-aged man didn't dare to make a sound, and followed the servants to the boundary of their assignment with farm tools.

"Start digging from here, and today we will reclaim 30 acres of land." Ya Gong said.

Although the terrain here is flat, there were many miscellaneous trees and some rocks, and the ground is relatively hard. Although they had organized some people to cut down the miscellaneous trees and remove the big stones, the roots were still there, and there were many small stones, and it was still a very difficult task for a hundred people to reclaim thirty acres of land in one day.

As soon as they heard that it was a wasteland, they raised their eyes and saw that Team B in the distance was also preparing to reclaim with a hoe, and everyone looked down at the tools in their hands, and their faces were not good.

"Poor master, why don't you give us a hoe in the reclamation? Why is it that their team is full of hoes, and we have to take this thing? How do you dig the ground like this? Another man cried out.

When the middle-aged man questioned it before, everyone didn't know what to do, so they didn't care very much. But at this time, I knew that I had to reclaim thirty acres of land today, and before the tools were in hand, there were more people who echoed it.

"Yes, yes, even if there are not many hoes, the two teams should be evenly divided. How can we let them all take it, and let's just take this weird-looking thing? If we don't complete the task, don't punish us. It's not our fault. ”

They seemed to be speaking to the officials, but in fact they raised their voices high, wanting to be heard by several adults in official uniforms standing in the distance, so that they would not be punished again if they could not complete the task at night.

This is obviously unfair.

"Shut up, beep again and see how Lao Tzu cleans you up." Seeing that these people were not only talking unpleasantly, but also afraid that Zhao Ruxi would not be able to hear them, the official deliberately raised his voice, and suddenly exploded in anger, "If you talk nonsense again, it will be more than thirty acres today, shall I add another ten acres to you?" ”

The Great Jin can buy forced labor with money. In other words, if you want to disobey the conscription, then you have to pay a sum of money and hire someone to serve the conscription for your family at a high price. Therefore all the people who came to serve in the conscription were the poorest of the people.

In the eyes of these people, the officials of the yamen are all masters, and no one can provoke them.

At this time, seeing the official speaking cruelly, his face was as black as the bottom of the pot, and everyone didn't dare to speak anymore, and dug up the ground one by one with the strange things in their hands.

The middle-aged man who first began to question was named Wang Fugui, and he was given a nail hoe.

As soon as he dug into the ground, he found that it was different from his usual digging in the ground. The ground seemed to be quite hard, but as soon as he shoved it, all the nails of the hoe sank into the ground, and when he lifted it again, the earth was lifted up.

"Hey, this thing works pretty well."

He dug another hoe without believing it, and found that it was really labor-saving, and the area of digging was large.

At this time, there has been a hoe, in order to save effort, the hoe part is made into a long strip, when digging down, it is more labor-saving than the wide area of the hoe, the hoe, and also dig deep, but the soil is not much.

But now, with the same force, the soil dug up is more than twice as much as a hoe. Wang Fugui, who had been doing farm work for half his life, suddenly realized the benefits of this nail hoe.

The young man next to him who was holding the same tool also dug a hoe, and seeing that Wang Fugui was full of praise for the nail hoe in his hand, he said disapprerovitically: "Is the soil here softer than the one we dug last year?" ”

As soon as he heard this, the old man in the same village laughed: "Zhang Niu'er, you are still too young, and you have not served much in forced labor, so you haven't dug much of this kind of land, right?" The ground here is quite hard, and if you dig with a hoe, you can't dig so deep, and you won't have much soil to lift. I don't believe you'll give it a try when the time comes. ”

As soon as Zhang Niu'er heard the old words, she didn't dare to say it anymore.

These two are all veterans who have grown crops all their lives, serving in forced labor and cultivating every year, and have dug up all kinds of soil. Since everyone says that this nail hoe is easy to use, then it is specified to be easy to use. And he himself felt very comfortable. I just said that, but I just seemed to be more sober and intelligent than others.

"You guys are so good, how should I use this in my hand?" The other nail shovelers cried out with sad faces.

They had been gesturing with it for a long time, and they didn't know what to do with it.

In ancient times, there were also shovels, but at this time the shovels were used to shovel the soil instead of lifting the soil, the shovel mouth was wide and flat, and there was a shallow groove in the middle, which was very different from the one they held in their hands.

Wang Fugui was still flexible, looked at the things in their hands, and said, "You should be a shovel, you shovel the soil and take a look." ”

"Shovel? How do you shovel dirt on this? "Everybody was a little confused.