The Jiukui tribe is one of the largest tribes in Shanyue in the southwest of Wu Kingdom.

The inheritance of its tribal leaders is hereditary, rather than the ancient Zen system.

This is due to the power of the previous leader of the Jiukui tribe.

Uniting a group of Shanyue tribes to crusade against the Fuchasuo tribe was initiated by Bo Ji, the leader of the Jiukui tribe.

Therefore, Qingji wants to win over the Jiukui tribe, use this as a breakthrough, suppress and use it, and quickly subdue the barbarian tribes in the southwest for his own use!

Under Qingji's repeated requests, Yu Yi finally agreed to act as a lobbyist to help Wu lobby the leader Bo Qi.

After the poultry left the city, Qingji freshened up again, changed into a robe, and inspected the situation of the Tuntian reclamation again.

Accompanied by a group of ministers, Qingji came to a relatively deserted field.

At this time, the people who were cultivating the fields were all shirtless and panting soldiers.

They wielded hoes and plows in their hands, and vigorously dug the soil into the ground to make it soft and easier to cultivate.

But the work was evidently extremely tiring, and in a short time they were already sweating profusely and panting like oxen, as if their bodies had been hollowed out.

In addition to using simple agricultural tools to plough the soil by hand, there are also those who use oxen to plough the land.

It's just that the plough is relatively backward, and there is really no need for the ploughing ox to plough the land, so one person can only pull the rope in front of him, drag the tillage tool forward, and start to loosen the soil......

Seeing this scene, Qingji secretly shook his head.

It is no wonder that it took a year for an army of more than 20,000 people to develop these acres of land, which is not enough to maintain the rations needed for life.

It turns out that the farming tools are too backward, time-consuming and laborious, not to mention, and it may exhaust people to death!

How can a man be used as a ploughing ox?

Moreover, the process of loosening the soil is so slow, Qingji really has to worry that in his lifetime, he may not see the food produced by the reclamation army, and he can have a day of true self-sufficiency.

"Come, bring it to the widow."

Qingji commanded, and even though some guards hurried to the field to fetch the rake.

It is a kind of ploughing agricultural tool, shaped like a wooden fork, with a crank on it and a plow below it, which is used to loosen the soil, which can be regarded as the predecessor of the plow.

You know, at this time, the real plough has not yet appeared.

In this era, farming methods characterized by the collaboration of two people were common, and because of the relatively backward tools and techniques, many production activities could not be carried out by one person alone.

This is called "coupling farming", that is, two people ploughing together.

The plough is the plowshare, and the original puller pulls it. Two people work at the same time, one person in the back to support the plow, one in the front to pull the plow, so that the two are coupled, it is called coupling.

It is a wooden double-tooth digging tool, which originated very early.

It is an agricultural tool that lifts the soil from the crank, that is, a hand plow.

Qingji squatted down, and in the puzzled eyes of the ministers, he picked up the old man and looked at it, and looked at it carefully.

At this time, it was no longer the early pure wood or bone, and after the appearance of iron, the wood and wood also began to put on the iron edge.

For example, the plow in Qingji's hand is made of wood from the handle to the teeth, the handle is slightly bent back, the double teeth are slightly bent forward, and the end of the tooth is covered with an iron edge.

"Zhuqing, do you know the origin of this old man?"

Qingji looked around, looked at the minister beside him and asked with a smile.

Hearing this, Sun Wu, Fan Li and others couldn't help but look at each other.

This ordinary farmer may be illiterate and don't know the origin of the plow, but they are all well-read, how can they not understand the origin of the plow?

"King, this is said to be made by Emperor Yan, in the past, Emperor Yan cut wood for the plow, kneaded the wood for the plow, and the benefits of the plow to teach the world."

Fan Li replied: "If there is no plow, there may not be the prosperity of my China today." ”

"Good."

Qingji just smiled slightly.

Whether it was invented by Emperor Yan or not, Qing Ji is unknown.

It's just that in ancient times, primitive slash-and-burn cultivation could only be widely planted and harvested, and the land that had been planted many times became increasingly barren, and the harvest became less and less.

At that time, the tribe had to move in whole or in part, to new places, to cut through thorns, burn wasteland, and sow seeds in thorn holes to obtain more grain.

Frequent migrations, heavy labor, the ancestors are exhausted!

In order for the tribe to recuperate and live in peace and contentment, Emperor Yan was determined to improve the methods of plowing and planting.

As a result, such agricultural tools came into being.

But this is just a legend, in fact, the invention and improvement of production tools and the domestication of wild animals and plants are gradually realized by human beings in long-term production practice!

"Who else can use the plow for farming?"

"This ......"

Sun Wu, Fan Li, Wu Zixu and others all looked like they wanted to speak and stopped.

They are all from aristocratic backgrounds, and they live a life of fine clothes and food on weekdays, so why do they need to work?

Even a broken household like Fan Li has not yet been reduced to the point of being forced to make a living and working in the field!

Qingji saw that no one answered him, so he said to himself: "Using this kind of loose soil, if it is an ordinary cooked land, it is fine, however, this is a barren land, which is inevitably time-consuming and laborious. ”

"The widow knows that there is a light ploughing tool that can be used instead of a plough to loosen the soil."

"Someone, get a pen and paper."

After that, Qingji ordered the guards to fetch paper and pens.

After a careful recollection, Qingji started to write and drew a drawing of the curved plough on paper.

Qingji is not from a farmer's background, but has he never eaten pork and never seen a pig run?

In a few moments, a complete drawing appeared on paper.

The curved plough is composed of eleven parts, namely the ploughshare, the plough wall, the plough bottom, the pressure plate, the forehead, the plough arrow, the plough wheel, the plough tip, the plough evaluation, the plough building and the plough plate.

Qingji sketched out the structure of the Quyuan plough one by one.

Later, he ordered the drawings to be handed over to the craftsmen to make them in a hurry!

The importance of productivity is self-evident.

The means of production are an important factor in productivity, and a certain type of means of production marks a certain level of productivity.

Therefore, Qingji believes that it is very necessary for him to move out the more advanced production tools such as the Quyuan plow.

After inspecting the reclamation situation, Qingji, accompanied by a group of ministers, visited the soldiers in charge of the reclamation of Tuntian.

These soldiers were all original prisoners of war of the Chu army, and many of them were not accustomed to the harsh natural environment of the local area, so some of them were infected with epidemics, and some of them could not bear this crime, and then fled.

However, in the midst of such poor mountains and bad waters, the chances of surviving by reporting to the group for heating are greater, and if you escape, you will almost die.

Therefore, Wu did not need too many soldiers to guard them, and only needed some military officials to supervise them.

It's just that such a boring life will obviously suffocate a person.

Qingji already regarded these soldiers as his own people, and coupled with the needs of the population, a plan that was not very mature had been formed in his mind.

It is to let them completely take root in the country of Wu!

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