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There are not enough farmers.

This is a very urgent issue at present.

There were more than 20 farmers in the Qing family, and there were more than 100 people with their families.

Seeing that the autumn harvest was approaching, these people were almost all lured away by Jisheng.

At this time, the Qing clan was enclosed, and there were only three farmers and eighteen male slaves left.

There are still ten days left, which is the best time for the autumn harvest, and the time is already very short.

Standing on the edge of the well field, the ears of grain are half drooping, extraordinarily full, half yellow and half green, and are about to be fully ripe.

Hundreds of laborers have been lost, and there is a severe shortage of manpower.

Even if all the Qing clan's people were engaged in working in the well fields, it was still difficult to complete the harvest before the autumn rains.

Ziche Yanxi led the city guards to leave, but when he saw this, he pondered for a long time, frowned, and said, "I have a suggestion!"

"Please teach the Che Jun Sima!"

Facing Qingyang's sincere eyes, Ziche pondered for a moment before slowly speaking.

Said: "I remember fifteen years ago, at the beginning of the king's accession to the throne, the war in northern Xinjiang was at the beginning of peace, the population was sparse, and many feudal lords were seriously lacking in labor, and it was difficult to complete farming.

Therefore, the king issued a decree to allow all localities to be knighted, to guard their own wild people's settlements from An, and to recruit manpower and labor, as long as they spend five years in their fiefdom and Anfen, they can become the people under the rule of Xing State!"

Zhong Bo's eyes lit up, and he said happily: "This is simple, whether it is the Ochre Department, or the Sacrificial Willow Department, or several other wild settlements, I am quite familiar with them, they are all small settlements that keep to themselves. ”

Qingyang's eyes flashed, and then he shook his head again: "I'm afraid that this matter may not be feasible! Don't forget, on the way here, we had a conflict with Su Kuo!"

When everyone around heard this, they all frowned.

Yang Hu had long regarded the Qing family as a relative of the Ye family, and he also surrounded him when he heard about it.

He nodded and said, "It's no problem to recruit familiar wild people, but this matter must be reported in the City Lord's Mansion and permission can be obtained!"

"But on our way, we offended Su Kuo, even if Dr. Cheng doesn't blame, Mrs. Cheng has always spoiled Su Kuo, but I'm afraid that with her interference, it won't be so smooth!"

It is related to the autumn harvest plan, the monarch attaches great importance to it, and Dr. Cheng may not stop it, but Mrs. Cheng has always been narrow-minded, and it is inevitable that there will be no incident.

Yang Hu thought about it, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

He also suggested: "The Qing clan can go to Huoqiu City in the south, where there are more farmers and densely populated, far better than Beilin City!"

Qingyang shook his head slightly: "Huoqiu City is eight hundred miles away, and it will take ten days to go back and forth, and we have a deep enmity with the Red Ghost Sect's blood sea, how can they sit back and watch me recruit a large number of farmers and come back safely?"

What's more, now that the autumn harvest is imminent, it is the time when farmers are the most scarce, Huoqiu City is densely populated, and the number of knights is also more, and it is more thirsty for farmers than Beilin City!"

After analyzing this, there is no good way.

Unintentionally turning his head, Qingyang saw a waterhole in the distance, three farmers, with eighteen slaves, polishing something on the stones by the stream.

"It takes a lot of time just to polish the harvested mussel knife, and if you can't complete the autumn harvest in time, I'm afraid that the autumn rain will make the corn grains not harvested!"

Ziche was resting, staring at this group of busy farmers and slaves, very worried about the Qing family's autumn harvest.

"Mussel knife?"

Qingyang was puzzled in his heart, he had never paid attention to these trivial matters before.

Walk quickly to these peasants and slaves.

I saw a pile of hundreds of mussel shells, the size of a palm, extraordinarily thick, and some of the edges had been sharpened into sharp edges, and they were actually harvested with this kind of tool.

Ziche Yanxi and the two followed, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Since ancient times, farming has been so hard, and these mussel knives have to spend time grinding again to harvest a ridge of grain!"

Yang Hu also said loudly: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and the mussel knife must be prepared in advance!"

Qingyang's eyes lit up, yes, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!

That's it!

Instead of stockpiling a large number of mussel shells and sharpening mussel knives, it is better to make sharper tools.

A large number of animal bones pulled back from the sealed soil are clearly the best materials for sharpening the sickle.

It can not only solve the problem of Qing's autumn harvest, but also produce contribution value.

What can be beneficial to the people in the world and produce contribution value as soon as possible? That is to improve productivity!

Uncle Zhong believes in Qingyang, and he obeys all orders.

Ziche Yanxi and Yanghu have long seen Qingyang's strength and resourcefulness, and they also think that he will not talk nonsense, so they decided to stay and witness the miracle.

Qiu Niang was puzzled, but seeing that Zhong Bo's expression was firm, and there were a group of private soldiers who fully supported her, she also chose to believe it.

The Qing clan sealed the soil and quickly got busy.

In Qingyang's heart, he already had a plan.

If you want to process it as soon as possible, a large number of bone sickles, you must have good processing tools, and it is absolutely not possible to polish the stone by manpower.

On the edge of Qing's enclosure, the turbulent stream was targeted by him.

Originally, there were many natural ponds, but they only needed to be artificially processed and built, and five or six dams were built as hydraulic mill erection points.

The intercepted stream water forms a number of huge ponds, and after raising the water level, it is easier to introduce Qing's well fields for irrigation, which has many benefits.

Under the command of Qingyang, the entire Qing clan sealed the soil, and a piece of chickens flew and dogs jumped.

Not only were the Qing private army and the people all mobilized, but even the Ye private army, which was originally a guest, and hundreds of city guards were also put into labor.

Even if some people complained, after learning that the head of the Qing family wanted to invent a harvesting weapon, they were willing to put into labor.

Food is too important in Xingguo.

In just two days, dams were built one after another, and huge water mills were erected.

With a hydraulic mill, the first bone sickle was quickly processed, and the bone sickle, which was no more than a foot long, was taken to the well field for harvesting, and the efficiency was more than ten times better than that of the mussel knife.

With physical proof, no one hesitated.

Everyone worked hard, taking turns to rest, and the machines ran day and night without a single stop.

In just over a day, hundreds of bone sickles are processed, and the size and material are divided into more than a dozen, and the cost of a bone sickle is the lowest and it is not easy to break, but it consumes relatively more manpower.

Qingyang prefers the kind of giant beast bone sickle that is five feet long.

Installing the ironwood handle, only one person is needed, pulling it from the root of the grain, and the sharp bone sickle is like nothing.

Large slices of grain, poured in a row, were better than the efficiency of dozens of people before.

The autumn harvest is not enough for the bone sickle, and it cannot be completely solved, and the problem of the lack of labor in the Qing clan.

Cleaning the barn, transporting the grain, and crushing the grain all require a lot of labor.

When Qingyang's gaze swept over the cattle grazing freely, they began to be unlucky.

In order to make the cow obedient, the cow nose ring is naturally indispensable, and the cow is willing to be a son of the cow.

Soon, there were a large number of sturdy cattle, led by the nose, pulling rolling boulders, crushing the threshing floor, and also adapted to pull carts, used as animal power.

This seemingly extremely simple approach made Ziche Yanxi's expression change greatly.