The autumn sun is no longer so scorching, and a group of people go up to cut soybean seedlings on the edge of the soybean field.

"Cut an acre first, wait for the machine to be built, and then use the machine to cut an acre to see which one can't germinate more."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the land after dinner, and the fields of soybeans all turned yellow, and the land he gave was connected to here, and there was no edge in sight.

Nowadays, it is necessary to hire a lot of people to farm and take care of the land, some of them long-term and some of them short-term workers.

Short-term workers are used for cultivation and harvesting, and long-term workers are used for maintenance, and young people are selected for long-term workers, and they will be taught to read and write slowly.

"As long as the difference is not too big, you have to use machinery to save labor, starting from this year, the seed base will use machinery."

The chief also looked at the endless land, this piece of 50,000 acres, equivalent to five kilometers by six kilometers.

If people are used to harvest it, 10,000 people will have to harvest it for three days, and then beat out the beans, clean up the soybean seedlings and pods, and it can be done in ten days.

It is not easy to hire 10,000 ordinary people, not to mention that there are paddy fields and cotton fields in front of them, and there are many purple flowers next to them.

Later, there are other crops, medicinal herbs, fruit trees, and tea trees in the north, plus greenhouses.

In this way, it is absolutely not possible to use equipment, which is equivalent to occupying social resources, hiring a group of people to go around all day, and there is less labor in other places.

"There are enough people in Xihe Village?" Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to look at Feng Gui, who was waiting for inquiries on behalf of the other twenty-one villages.

Feng Gui was stunned for a moment before he reacted to asking himself, and hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, we are tired when we harvest, and it is easy at other times, especially ploughing, and the big livestock is enough."

We should be harvesting beans over there, let's stay in Xiaqiu Village to see the situation, if there is something useful, we will use it next year.

Between the twenty-two villages, there is vacant land, woods, and bamboo forests, and it is impossible to connect fields to fields.

If Xiaqiu Village takes out something, let's continue to open up the wasteland, especially for harvesting, the village is really busy, and there are lotus flowers and chicken head rice. ”

"What does Yichang say?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked the lieutenant again.

"I don't have time to help harvest this year, but I can help with rice, and I am making a small rice harvester, so I can go into the field to harvest rice first, and then harvest jute when it matures.

The people of the soybean villages worked hard, and when ploughing, they sent machines over, and there was no need for people to help the plows.

It can also be raised slowly, and the quantity is sold to others, and the equipment is difficult to popularize for a while, mainly because there are not enough craftsmen. ”

The mayor chose to drive the entire village of Xuancheng County to work together to build an agricultural mechanized county.

Ploughing, flattening, ridge-raising, planting, harvesting, all on the steam engine, but the transportation is not suitable, there is no good wheel, the shock absorption effect is poor, with large livestock is the most suitable.

"Your Majesty, the way you say it will work." Feng Gui expressed his support.

"We know it's okay, alas! Elsewhere, people are used to pull the cultivated land in front, and Xuancheng County has become different from all places in the world! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, the gap is too big, some people don't even have livestock, Xiaqiu Village began to use livestock, first trouble, the cultivated land has to be ploughed, the key speed is slow, and there is not much ploughing in a day.

The cultivated land equipment in Xiaqiu Village is the same as the harvesting equipment, which can work for 12 hours a day and can cultivate more than 100 acres.

A cow can only plough two acres, and if it is too tired, it will be too tired to bear it, and if the horse soaks in the paddy field for a long time, the hooves are prone to problems.

Xu Da laughed and said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, just like a weapon, if you fight Beiyuan again, the minister is confident that he will leave all the people and things behind."

How can a front-loading flintlock gun compare to a reload-loading rifled gun? The rifled gun has a crosshair and a door, which can be aimed.

The range has been increased a lot, thanks to our Ming weapon, if it is in the hands of the enemy, we feel that the battle will not be able to be fought. ”

"Can't fight!" Zhu Yuanzhang echoed, he didn't think that he could win in the face of such a weapon.

The new guns and bullets, which can kill people at 600 paces, are not very accurate, and as the distance approaches, the accuracy rises.

With the original musket and bow and arrow, you fight the enemy with the new gun, and by the time you reach the range, everyone is dead, right?

In fact, before rushing to the range, the people have already run out, what army can withstand such casualties and not collapse?

While a few people were talking, an acre of soybeans was harvested, and they needed to be put on flat ground and beaten with a flail, and then raised the field.

"Let's go back! We'll have to approve the question book. Zhu Yuanzhang resisted the idea of continuing to watch and was going to work.

……

Others were busy making moon cakes, Zhu Biao and others didn't eat moon cakes last year, everyone was too busy, and they moved forward in the desert.

Mooncakes for children to make glutinous rice, that is, snowy skin mooncakes, steamed, with all kinds of fruits and dried fruits in them.

The craftsmen hurry up to make parts, and this year they can't go home again, but the income will be much higher.

Zhu Wentian cleaned the mountain temple by himself, took out the futon he was sleeping on to see if it was moldy, and then put it outside to dry.

He didn't plan to take the hall tonight, he wanted to sleep in the mountain temple, and he didn't sleep, which was weird.

……

"The moon will be round tonight." The lieutenant took Han Han back to the ancestral hall to drink, and the mountain temple was not easy to keep secret.

The two drank rice wine and ate crabs, and Zhu Wentian only ate a few bites at dinner, thinking that he was drinking alone in the mountain temple.

"Hmmm! Well! Zhu Wentian chewed the crab meat in his mouth and could only nod.

What he eats is not river crabs, but sea crabs, which are big and meaty, and they are enjoyable to eat.

The steam-engine ship went to the beach to fetch some, and it didn't take long to come back, leaving in the morning and returning in the evening.

Now there are no artificially bred sea crabs, all of them are wild, and the big one has a catty, which is more comfortable to eat than river crabs.

"At the moment, we can see that there is a lack of time, and there are few craftsmen who can build the equipment.

We need a lot of steam engines and other parts that can be assembled and turned into useful equipment.

In addition, there is a lack of maintenance personnel, the machinery is sent to other places, the operation is still simple, but it is not easy to repair after it is broken.

According to the method you said, we can only replace it, and then get the things back, or send someone to one place to repair it centrally. ”

While picking at the meat, the chief talked to Han Han about the problems he faced now and in the future.

The steam engine is easy to use, and other auxiliaries can't keep up, so it can only be applied in a small area, and I am afraid of technology leakage, so I can't just recruit people to teach.

There is a problem between demand and supply, and this contradiction will become more and more prominent as the scope of application becomes wider.

Zhu Wentian swallowed the meat in his mouth and took a sip of wine: "Maintenance workers don't need to be professional, they recite the formula, what will happen in which place will be the reaction, and then look at it a few times, and then replace the parts."

Like some boxes, they don't need to disassemble and replace the contents inside, and directly replace the box, the same modularity.

It is difficult for the maintenance person to figure it out by himself, once who thinks about it, it will inevitably get the respect and praise of many people in that place, and we will get the news to call it back to see. ”

(End of chapter)