After staying away from Wancheng, Qin Feng and the others rode on the road and saw some people plowing the land after harvesting.

"Check it out!" Qin Feng turned over and dismounted, handed over the horse to his own soldiers, and walked towards the field.

Seeing this, Deng Zhi and the others also dismounted and followed.

"Father, an official is here!" A teenage girl who was pulling a plow saw Qin Feng and his group coming, her face was a little frightened, and she hurriedly said to the old man who was plowing the field.

The old man turned his head and looked worried, but he still said to the girl: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, there is a father!" ”

Qin Feng walked over and looked at what seemed to be a family of three, an old man, an old woman and a teenage girl, and arched his hands and said, "Uncle, you are polite!" ”

Seeing that Qin Feng was so polite, the old man was at a loss for a while, and hurriedly said: "The official is polite, polite, the old man doesn't know how to count etiquette······"

"It's okay, it's okay!" Qin Feng said with a smile and asked, "Uncle, why do you use people to pull the plow, don't you have any livestock at home?" ”

The old man shook his head: "Those who have livestock are not ordinary people, how can ordinary people like us afford to buy livestock if they don't have the last meal?" ”

"Forehead ······" Qin Feng was quite embarrassed, and asked again: "How many acres can your family of three plough in a day?" ”

"Plough up to seven points a day, and if you plough too deeply, you won't even be able to plough five points!" The old man shook his head and sighed.

This efficiency is also too low, and three people only plough seven points of land in a day.

Qin Feng stepped forward to take a look, this plow only has a plow head and handrails, no wonder the efficiency is so low.

"What kind of plow is this?"

The old man didn't know what it was called, only that it was a plow.

But the accompanying Xi Ji stepped forward and said: "Lord, this is a straight plow, only the plough and handrails, can be pulled by people, can also be pulled by ploughing oxen, in areas where there is a lack of ploughing oxen, most of them are using the tread plow, also called the foot plow, ploughing the field with the ploughing ox for one day, can be used as a plough for five days!" ”

Qin Feng asked again: "If you use ploughing oxen, how much can you plow the field in one day?" ”

"Two to three acres!"

Qin Feng calculated, the average is 2.5 acres, with a treaded plow, that is, only about five points of land can be ploughed every day, but if three people use a treadmill, they can plough 1.5 acres in a day.

And this family of three uses this kind of straight plough to plough seven points of field a day, he said to the old man: "Uncle, your family of three is tired and tired to work for a day to plow seven points of field, if everyone uses a tread plow, one person and one tread plow, a day can plough one acre and five points, so isn't it twice as fast?" ”

The old man smiled bitterly and said, "How can the villain not know, but there is really no money left at home to buy an extra treadmill!" ”

Qin Feng pointed to the straight plow and said to Xi Ji: "Look at this straight plow, the structure is simple, too labor-intensive, if you can think of a more labor-saving and more efficient plough, I will be rewarded, not only reward money, but also give promotion!" ”

Xi Ji thought about it, I'm not interested in making these farm tools, and I haven't studied them, I'm just afraid that I won't be able to get out in a short time, so why don't I ask someone to help?

Thinking of this, he said to Qin Feng: "My lord, there are still a few brothers and sisters below, I wonder if I can invite them to come and do things together for my lord?" ”

"Yes, as long as you are talented, you can come, don't look at this plough is an ordinary object, if you can make a plough that improves efficiency by three or five times, you can plough out three or five acres of land a day during the day, how much time do you have to save? They can plough more during the cultivation period, and they can do other things to earn money in their extra time, and the more work they can do, the more money they can make, and their lives will be better! ”

Xi Ji promised: "Don't worry, the lord, the subordinates will definitely make plows with higher ploughing efficiency to facilitate the people's farming!" ”

"Good!"

Qin Feng looked at the family of three, and then at the people in the other cultivated fields nearby, all of them were dressed in tatters, but it was probably that they couldn't wear good clothes while working in the fields.

"Uncle, do you usually wear such clothes?"

The old man replied, "Yes! ”

"Did you buy the fabric and sew it yourself, or did you weave the cloth and sew it yourself?"

The old man looked at the shabby clothes on his body, "It's the fabric I bought, and the villain doesn't know how to weave!" ”

"Are there any weavers in your village?"

"Yes, but weaving cloth is also a handicraft work, not only to pluck off the hemp skin and soak it in the sun, but also to spin it into yarn, and then to weave it into cloth, and then to dye it, there are people in our village who will do this, and they rely on this to feed their family! The official also knows that this weaving cloth is also troublesome, weaving a piece of cloth, it takes a long time to dye and dry, and you can only barely make a living when you do this, unless it is silk silk, but how can ordinary people like us weave silk and satin? ”

Qin Feng nodded, raised his eyes to look at the surrounding situation, pointed to a large piece of wasteland and asked, "I see that that large area of land is all wasteland and flat, why don't you reclaim it?" Didn't the government encourage the people to reclaim wasteland? ”

The old man said: "The government has struck the gong and said it door to door, but these wastelands are all owned by owners, and they belong to those nobles and big families, how can ordinary people such as me go to open up wasteland?" If you open up the wasteland, they will ask you to go back! ”

Qin Feng said with a smile: "In a few days, the government will announce that if these lands cannot be cultivated and sown within the specified time, the government will take them back, and the common people will own whoever clears the land, and then the government will send someone to measure the number of registered acres and reissue the land deed!" ”

The old man was shocked: "Can this work?" Those nobles and big families are huge, and the government doesn't dare to offend them! ”

"Who said that? I dare to offend them, Nanyang used to be the largest county in the world, but now it is full of desolation, so much arable land is barren and uncultivated, changes must be made to make this land come to life! ”

Along the way, the more Qin Feng looked at it, the more frightened he became, it was not that he had never seen wasteland before he led his troops to fight, but his mind was not in this regard at that time, and now he is focusing on farming, and now he realizes that the people in the world are really too bitter.

The life of ordinary people is like living in hell, many people pay taxes and there is not much left, they can hardly eat a meal all year round, they are hungry every day, and many times they drink gruel from wild vegetables here.

Under the guidance of this old man, Qin Feng and the others found the only family in their village that spun and weaved cloth.

When the family saw so many officials coming, they were all uneasy.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I have no malice!"

Qin Feng comforted the family of five, an old man, the couple was in their thirties, and there were two children, the eldest was in his teens and the younger was about ten years old.

"I heard that there is a family in this village who specializes in weaving cloth for a living, so we just came to have a look, I want to ask, how long does it take for a piece of cloth to be made from the beginning of hemp and the end of the dyeing and drying of the cloth?"

The man replied, "A month!" ”

"A month? So long? I ······ Can you take a look at your spinning machines and looms? ”