Chapter 55: Beginning of Ploughing
"Ah...... This...... This...... All right. ”
Xiao Hongmian snorted twice, and the originally red pretty face quickly turned white, and it became more delicate.
It's a pity that Zhu Gaoxuan was closing his eyes and recuperating and didn't see it.
He didn't know that the introverted Xiao Hongmian was rarely ready to take the initiative once, but he was ignored by his kindness.
Under Xiaolan's massage, Zhu Gaoxuan actually fell asleep on the chair.
There was no dream all night, and it wasn't until Zhu Anlan came to him to ask for work that Xiaomei pulled him up from his huge rosewood bed.
Outside the county office, Zheng Shaoyun knelt with a group of people again.
This time, they were no longer mourning, but jubilant, just because they had thirteen large rakes behind them, which Zhu Gaoxuan had asked to make.
"Meet His Royal Highness King Liang."
Seeing Zhu Gaoxuan coming, although they all had dark circles under their eyes and looked haggard, their spirits were excited, and the voices of worshippers were a little louder.
"Hmm...... Get up.
Don't talk nonsense, just pull it out and show it on the plain outside, as long as you meet the basic requirements of this king, this king will not hesitate to reward. ”
"Yes......"
The craftsmen answered with a loud voice, and then got up, and took the great ploughs and rakes and put them on the wagons, and hurried to the plains outside the city.
They are all eager to prove themselves, even if they can't get a reward, they have to let King Liang accept the murderous heart first!
The huge machinery, which was two feet long and three feet high, attracted the curiosity and attention of all the people, and some people who did not have planting tasks even followed the convoy to the outside of the city.
And behind the convoy, there were also officials driving forty ploughing oxen.
These cattle were gathered by Zhu Anlan early this morning, otherwise the county government alone would not have enough to gather so many forty ploughing cattle.
Early in the morning, seeing these big guys brought by Zheng Shaoyun, Zhu Anlan was excited, he was a scholar, and he had seen records in the history books that said: There are tools in the Han Dynasty, and he cultivates 100 acres of land every day.
It's a pity that such farm tools have not been handed down.
When he saw Zhu Gaoxuan's drawings of the big plough rake, he subconsciously thought that Zhu Gaoxuan was familiar with the royal books and found the kind of farm tools in the Han Dynasty.
If a large plough can really plough 100 acres a day, then it is entirely possible that the Lantian Plain will be fully planted with grain.
As long as there are more than 90,000 of them, they can grow food that only a million people can grow!
This will be a brilliant stroke on his official resume, and even a stroke that can go down in history!
On the plain, there are officials and old farmers who have been waiting for a long time, and other craftsmen have also come here to wait.
Seeing that the thirteen wagons had come to a stop, the craftsmen immediately went up to unload the big rake.
The length of each rake is about two feet, and the difference is only one foot; The height is relatively uniform all three feet, but the spiral blades are of different thicknesses.
The weight of each large plow rake is about 100 catties, and it needs two people to support it to lift.
The craftsmen, who had begun to measure the land early in the morning and had made a circle around the vicinity, had no one else to order them to separate the large plows at intervals of two feet and three feet.
Under the guidance of craftsmen, the old peasants drove ropes to the ploughing oxen and connected them to the large plough rakes.
"Evil, His Royal Highness King Liang will not farm, this is the torture tool found there to torture the good ploughing cattle."
"Alas...... Isn't it? His Royal Highness King Liang's medical skills are already very powerful, so we don't need to ask His Highness to know everything. Yes. ”
"Who says it's not, Your Highness is the son of His Majesty, who has been clothed and fed since he was a child, how can he know about mud legs?"
"It's a pity that these ploughing cattle are over, if they are pressed by these iron lumps in the back, will they be directly sliced into slices of beef strips?"
"It's possible, did you say that His Royal Highness King Liang is going to eat beef, and he came up with a new trick?"
"Hmm...... It's possible. ”
"It turns out that Your Highness is gluttonous?"
A group of old farmers got together and soon made up for Zhu Gaoxuan's daily diet.
One cow a day, ten dishes per meal, and the dishes and chopsticks are golden......
The craftsmen wanted to explain, but they all shut up, they actually wanted to see Zhu Gaoxuan ugly.
The thirteen large plough rakes were quickly placed in a row, and the ploughing cattle were also connected, Zheng Shaoyun trotted to Zhu Gaoxuan's horse and asked for instructions:
"Your Highness is ready, why don't you order it to begin?"
"The craftsman is behind the big plow, and the old farmer pulls the oxen to plough the land, and tries to pull the straight line so as not to bump into each other, and we follow behind."
"Yes, the criminal minister will arrange it now, Your Highness, will you give the order?"
Zheng Shaoyun once again invited Zhu Gaoxuan to order the start of ploughing, in his opinion, this is a very significant event, and it should be Zhu Gaoxuan, the king of Liang, to give the order to start, and there will be a model in the history books in the future.
But Zhu Gaoxuan didn't care about this false name, but turned his head to look at the other side and said, "Zhu Anlan, you go." ”
"Your Highness, me?"
"It's you, hurry up."
"Hey...... Be! ”
Zhu Anlan jumped off the horse, trotted to the old farmer who was taking the cow, and said the precautions just now explained by Zhu Gaoxuan, before raising his hand and shouting:
"Let's go!"
Forty old peasants pulled forty oxen and began to walk forward slowly, and the ropes on the ploughing oxen tightened with a "snap ......".
Click......
Puff puff...... Sneer......
First there was the crunch of steel crashing into the dirt, then the sound of the dirt being turned up.
"It's so deep!"
"It's so deep!"
"It's powerful!"
The big plough was pulled by three or four oxen and moved, eating the soil deeper than the ordinary curved plow, which made all the people nearby exclaim.
Zheng Shaoyun and the other craftsmen also rushed forward regardless of King Liang's side, and everyone threw themselves on the ground, looking at the foot-deep eating soil in horror.
At first, they expected the excavation to be only seven or eight inches, and at first they complained that the three-foot-tall spiral blades were too high, but now it seems that three-foot is reasonable.
"Look, the big guy is running away."
"Shhh...... It's fast, it's fast! ”
"It's a cup of tea, and it's two hundred steps away, right?"
"You see, the ground is turned over, but it has been kept at more than one foot, and it is really deep."
"Stones, you see those stones have been turned up, so convenient."
Listening to the exclamations of the people one after another, Zhu Gaoxuan also breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
Seeing the thirteen big plowshares moving forward steadily, Zhu Gaoxuan was really relieved.
The drawings he drew were just the real things he saw in the book, and then he modified and drew them according to his own ideas.
Although it was modified according to the knowledge in the book, he really didn't have confidence in realizing it.
It's just that in front of his subordinates, he maintains a calm and confident expression.
Now he is really calm and confident.
"Zheng Shaoyun, go and remind the craftsmen and old farmers that it's crooked."
"Hey......"
Zheng Shaoyun, who was excited, responded, and ran quickly in the middle of the thirteen groups of big rakes to command and adjust.
Zhu Gaoxuan, who was willing to experiment, did not let the big plow stop and kept moving forward.