"This wheat seedling is also male and female, the male wheat seedling must pass the seed to the female wheat seedling in order to grow wheat, just like giving birth to a child is the same reason, the wheat seedling grows tidbits after relying on the wind to blow the seed, the higher the density of the wheat seedling, the easier it is to pollinate, understand!"

"Leaving a gap in the middle is good for ventilation, and when you have it, the pollen spreads more easily! Leaving these gaps is also conducive to weeding, people will not be hindered in the field to weed, a hoe can easily weed, if you spread a large area, you have to be careful to step on the wheat seedlings! Weeds grow everywhere, how do you get rid of them? It can only be pulled one by one, which is too time-consuming and labor-intensive! ”

Although the farmers listened to what Qin Feng said was quite reasonable, they didn't dare to try.

A farmer said: "It sounds very good to the nobleman, but we have always cultivated like this, and if we do what the nobleman said, if the crops do not grow or the crops are reduced, the grass farmers will be hungry in the second half of the year!" ”

"Yes, yes, we still have to be safe, our family has such a little wheat seed, if the wheat seedlings can't grow or the yield is reduced, not only will there be no food in the second half of the year, but the wheat seed will be miserable!"

These farmers are stubborn, which also makes Qin Feng very distressed, but he also knows that he can't convince these farmers with just one mouth, and if he wants to increase the grain production in his jurisdiction, he has to find a way to make all the farmers work intensively, and will use scientific planting and management methods.

Since it is impossible to convince these farmers with their mouths, then use practical actions to prove to these farmers that intensive cultivation and scientific planting and management methods are the way to increase the yield per mu.

So he said to the peasants, "Since you do not believe me, then I will cultivate a piece of wasteland near here, up to a hundred acres, and you will cultivate it according to the old way, and I will cultivate it in the new way, and see whose yield is highest." ”

None of the peasants spoke, and one of the old men agreed: "According to the words of the nobleman, if the grain yield of the nobleman is higher than that of the grass people when the millet is harvested in the second half of the year, from now on he will cultivate according to the method of the nobleman!" ”

"That's it!"

When he returned to Wancheng Taishou Mansion, Qin Feng found a brush and Caihou paper, and drew the general shape of the Quyuan plough on the paper.

The invention of the Quyuan plough was during the Tang Dynasty, and its production efficiency was greatly improved, and it also contributed to the enhancement of the national strength of the Tang Dynasty.

"I've seen the lord!" Xi Ji walked over and saluted Qin Feng.

Qin Feng beckoned to Xi Ji and handed him the painted Quyuan plow, "Mr. Xi, look at this thing!" ”

Xi Ji took the Cai Hou paper and looked at it, was stunned, looked up and asked, "Lord, is this a plow?" ”

"Yes! How is this plow? ”

Xi Ji pondered for a while, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this thing was good, and immediately said: "Lord, this plow is good, it is more labor-saving to pull up, if you use an ox to pull the plow, your subordinates think that you can plow 5 acres a day (Han acres are smaller than modern acres)"

Qin Feng instructed: "You can plough a few acres a day, just try it and you will know, you can order people to make a few plows according to this plan!" ”

"No!"

The wooden part of the main body of the Quyuan plough can be easily made by Xi Ji and other Mo family disciples, and an ordinary carpenter can build it, mainly the iron plow cost the blacksmith took a lot of work, but it also made three parts in one day.

Early the next morning, accompanied by Deng Zhi and others, Qin Feng came to the place where the farmers were cultivating yesterday, he stood in front of a wasteland and looked at it, and ordered: "Measure out a hundred acres of this land, first remove the thorns and weeds on it and pile them aside, don't burn them, it will be useful!" ”

Deng Zhi immediately commanded the servants to measure the land with tools, and at the same time asked some sergeants to take sickles and hoes and start clearing the thorns and weeds on the wasteland.

The strength of the people is great, and the measurement of the land soon ended, and a square 100 acres of land was demarcated, and the mu here is the Han mu, which is equivalent to 0.68 mu of the modern mu.

Dozens of sergeants cleaned up all the thorns and weeds on a hundred acres of wasteland in less than an hour, and piled up all these weeds next to them, Qin Feng didn't let them be idle, and let them go to the nearby to harvest weeds, thorns, and leaves.

While the soldiers were harvesting weeds, thorns, and leaves nearby, Qin Feng had the made zigyuan plough put around the neck of the oxen, and he personally drove the oxen to plough the field, while two other sergeants who could do farm work each operated a zigzag plough to plough the field with him.

Qin Feng's hometown is in the mountains, and he has done farm work since he was a child, so he is naturally not a problem, but he drove the cattle in number, and operated the handrail with his left hand to plough the field, which was very fast.

This scene stunned the accompanying officials and personal guards.

After a while, the farmers who were working in the vicinity gathered in this direction, and everyone saw how fast the new plough could be pulled by oxen.

"This ······ I'm afraid I'll have to plough a few acres on this day, right? ”

"Yes, it's so fast, the ox pulls the plow as if it didn't have any force!"

One by one, the farmers were talking.

Deng Zhi walked over and introduced to the farmers: "This is the Quyuan plough made by my lord who drew a map and ordered the craftsman to make it, you have also seen it, not only can it plough deeply, it can completely turn over the land, but also make the oxen and people who pull the plough more labor-saving, and the speed will be faster after saving labor, and I am afraid that I can only plough five acres a day!" ”

Compared with the other two sergeants who were not familiar with the use of the Quyuan plow, Qin Feng's ploughing speed was significantly faster, because because he operated it properly, the oxen pulling the plough were more labor-saving, and it was easier and faster to walk.

The farmers were amazed by this, and one farmer said, "I didn't think that a noble man could also plow the land, what a strange thing in the world!" ”

Deng Zhi said with a smile: "My lord is Nanyang Taishou, you can call my lord a lord and a general!" My father-in-law was born in a farmer's household, and he has been doing farm work since he was a child. ”

"I see, no wonder Fuzun said that farming with his method can make grain production higher, it turns out that he is also a farmer!"

Just when Qin Feng and the three of them were plowing the fields, many sergeants rushed over with a load of dung, and the sergeants came to the field to sprinkle the dung on the land that had not yet been cultivated, and when the field was plowed, the land could be turned over, and the fertility was buried in the ground.

When the farmers saw this operation, they felt that it made sense, because the root system of the wheat seedlings grows downward, and the fertility is more easily absorbed by the root system under the soil.