14 Productivity and Production Relations
The carriage was still moving forward, and the sides of the road, full of all kinds of ditches (some of which Luo Yi now knew were the work of her husband and his men), were full of pleasant greenery.
Grasses, shrubs, cluttered trees......
It grows luxuriantly on the original cultivated land.
This is all because their farmers have been cultivating the land for thousands of years, but they do not know how to fertilize it.
Luo Yi was speechless and looked at the sky.
When she thought of the good cultivated land, she always had a feeling of extreme waste. Luo Yi, like many Chinese, has a special fascination with the land from the bones, although it has not yet reached the level of growing vegetables in the community greenery, but also planted a handful of green onions and peppers in the flower pot.
Now, under my nose, the flat fields are idle.
The real wilderness, and this kind of abandoned farmland, gives people a completely different feeling.
Hey, this is the West, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and it is nothing to abandon a few pieces of land, so it is ...... Well, the natural environment is protected and the ...... is maintained Geotechnical ......
Those who praise Western agriculture say so, and Luo Yi solves it himself.
It's one thing, after fallowing, the field is full of thorns and weeds, and when you plow, won't it take a lot of effort to get old? According to the elderly in the family, in the past, the first two years of wasteland were given tax-free preferential treatment, because the landreclamation was too hard, and the first two years were not fertilized and the harvest was small.
If there is such a policy in this territory, wouldn't Luo Yi, the Baroness, want to drink the northwest wind?
Luo Yi was thinking of this, and the carriage was bumped again, pulling her mind back to reality.
Oh, she may not drink the northwest wind, aren't there still so many potholes on the road, just rely on the pit people, she probably can eat and drink without worrying......
After walking for another while, Luo Yi saw that both sides of the road had become cultivated land.
Farmers are plowing the fields.
Luo Yi remembered that her excuse for going to the countryside was to see if the serfs were lazy, so she ordered the carriage to lean to the side, and she wanted to see the farmers plowing the land.
It's a sight to behold!
Six oxen dragged a heavy plough along slowly!
Luo Yi rubbed her eyes!
Six!
It's spectacular!
Compared with the kind of farming of one person and one ox in China, the appearance of these six cows stepping forward together is like the majesty of a combine harvester!
"Cow!" Luo Yi thought to herself, this is simply mechanized agriculture in the Middle Ages! The West is advanced!
Then the plough team came to the end of the field......
Then, Luo Yi understood why the fields in the Middle Ages were all in the shape of long strips......
Let so many cows turn their heads......
It's not an easy thing to do!
People shouted and roared, everyone (cows and cows) sweated like rain, and after a long day's work, they reluctantly turned the plow and ploughed where they came and went.
If it is the kind of farming method of one person and one ox in China, even if there is only one old man, you can easily turn the plow, Luo Yi once saw on TV, some places with many mountains and little land, a field is only the size of two or three cows, and no machinery is used, and it is still the old-fashioned one-person-one-ox ploughing method.
"Why don't you put on a few cows? It's also easy to turn around. Luo Yi asked.
"I don't have a plough and I don't move, ma'am, four oxen are at least, and six are just right."
"Huh?"
"Our ground here is quite soft, and I heard that the land of the barbarians in the north is cold, and it takes eight oxen to plow the ground!"
"No, it won't!" Luo Yi was really shocked by this number: "Eight? Eight heads! Who has that many cows? Where did they get so many cattle? No, no, even if it's six-headed......"
"Madame, you have forgotten that they rented these cattle from you."
"Hehe, have there been such things, and there have been more things lately...... "I know why they have a manor system, just their plough that can be pulled by at least four oxen - not to mention that someone has to clear the bushes and trees that grow during the fallow period - this cow alone is really too much for a small homesteader to afford.