In Shaling Village, Ma Fan's family has been back for more than three days.

Including Ma Fan's family also lived here temporarily, and the most they spent in three days was to clean up the house, then go to the field to have a look, and then go to the flat land to prepare for planting.

This is the biggest difference between the north and the south, because of the multi-season planting, some fields need to be watered after harvesting, so many times the land is ploughed before spring planting.

But the north is not, the north can only grow a season of wheat and other grains, so the fields in the north are harvested in the summer, and then planted some vegetables such as cabbage that grow relatively quickly, and then wait until autumn and winter before plowing, after plowing, there are irrigation conditions will be irrigated, and the irrigation is deeper.

After a winter, after the spring thaw, the water for autumn irrigation has dried up, at this time it is only necessary to rake the ground, level the land turned over by the ploughshare, and then sow the seeds.

Of course, there are many reasons for choosing to plough the ground in autumn, for example, some grass seeds and harmful insect eggs can be turned out in the depths of the land, and after a winter, some weeds and insect eggs that are not so tenacious will be frozen to death, which can effectively reduce pests and diseases.

The second is that there is less precipitation in the winter and spring in the north, and especially in early spring, it is very dry and evaporate, if you plow the land in spring, then the land is soft and it is difficult to keep the moisture.

After ploughing in autumn, the soil is soft, and then deep irrigation can allow the land to absorb a lot of water, and when it comes to spring, it can effectively retain moisture.

If the moisture is good, the farming will grow better.

Moreover, in the spring, after the ground rake has leveled the land, the ground rake can directly rake out some grass roots in the soil, and then throw them outside, the wind and sun will be exposed, and the weeds will die.

This is the experience of the people who have farmed in this land for more than 2,000 years.

It's like it's past the best planting season, but it's still too late, but after the wheat is harvested, it may be impossible to plant cabbage or something.

To tell the truth, the people of Shaling Village are waiting a little anxiously, and the same is true of Ma Fan's family, which has passed the best sowing season now, and Datang said that it is to provide grain, and he doesn't know when it will arrive.

Many families are considering whether they have sown their own grain first.

Although it is said that the harvest in the autumn can only be rented by ordinary tenants to get grain, and the rest must be given to Datang.

But...... It's going to keep them alive. If you don't sow the seeds, the wheat seedlings will usher in the rainy season at the wrong time, or the rainy season will enter at the time of the harvest, it will be terrible! At that time, there may be no harvest!

Compared with no harvest, even if they grow their own food, they prefer to be able to let themselves live first.

This is what ordinary people think, but as long as they have the opportunity to live, they are not so bitter, and the idea of rebellion and so on will hardly appear in their minds.

"It's coming, it's coming!" On the morning of the fourth day, Ma Fan's family got up, and was just about to go to the village chief to discuss, discuss, if not, they could just sow their own grain, and this sowing could not be delayed.

But before they could get to the village chief's house, they heard a commotion at the entrance of the village.

Ma Fan and the others immediately ran to the location of the entrance of the village, and soon saw a convoy, a total of more than a dozen carriages, coming in this direction. Around the carriage was half of the Tang Dynasty soldiers and half of the Goguryeo captive soldiers.

When the convoy arrived in the village, the villagers of Shaling Village also gathered.

"Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of Datang, I will distribute grain to you according to your actual cultivation land, and you need 30 catties of wheat seeds per mu, and now every household will come and receive things according to your previous registration."

The soldiers who take the lead also don't talk nonsense and go straight to the point.

All the villagers immediately lined up, and when the wheat seeds were poured out of the bag, all the villagers couldn't help but widen their eyes.

They are all farmers, and you can see at a glance whether the seeds are good or not, these wheat seeds are full of grains, and the volume is at least one-third larger than their wheat seeds, and the color and luster are very good-looking! This is a high-quality breed!

Suddenly, all the people understood why the Tang Dynasty provided them with wheat seeds, I am afraid that they could not look down on their original seeds.

"These wheat seeds must be sown in place, in addition, in order to make your work more motivated, His Royal Highness the King of Qin announced that each household will give you two sickles and a pair of plowshares for free, and will also give your village two complete curved ploughs, and the rest are plowshares. If you want to use it in the fall, you can find someone to build it according to the other parts of the curved plow. ”

The soldier who took the lead announced something that all the villagers of Shaling Village did not expect.

When the sickle blade was taken out directly, everyone was stunned, they also had a sickle, but they had never used this sickle-faced sickle composed of pure iron.

Many people's scythes are nailed to the front of the wood with a little iron bar to be used as a blade, and the rest is supported by wood because they can't afford to buy that much iron.

Now the sickle blade given by Datang is about three fingers wide at the widest point, arc-shaped, and a place is reserved for installing a wooden knife handle.

There is no blade, they need to polish it themselves, but it doesn't matter, it's iron!

And there was a pair of plowshares, which were heavier than a sickle! This...... Of course they know how expensive iron is.

Datang gave it to them directly?

"In addition, because part of the animal power of your village has been lost, ten pack horses will be arranged for your village for the time being, which will be returned to you next year or the year after. There are a total of five mares, five stallions, you can breed by yourself, and if you give birth to a foal, His Royal Highness the King of Qin allows you to keep the foal. "This Tang soldier announced one more thing.

This time, all the villagers couldn't help it, there are now a total of 30 households in their village, and they are given 10 pack horses, isn't this 3 families able to get one?

"Of course, considering the actual number of households in your village, after the three of you families are assigned a pack horse, the land of your three families will also be settled together, which means that all of your land must be planted, and when the autumn harvest comes, if there is not enough land planted, the three families will share it equally. The allocated horses are now determined by drawing lots, which are numbered from one to ten. The soldier confessed again.

Ma Fan and the others were all happy, it just so happened that he, his parents and his brother were three households, and they could just get a horse. I just don't know if I can catch a male or a female.

Of course, the mare is better, and after the work is done, he can breed him, and maybe he will have a foal next year.

There are a total of 30 households in Shaling Village, and the east and west are divided very quickly. After dividing the things, these Tang soldiers left directly.

"Daddy...... This Datang people are very good, if only we were all Datang people in the future. On the way back, Ma Fan heard a boy of twelve or thirteen years old talking to his father in front of him.

"Shut up, don't dare to talk nonsense in the future." The boy's dad gave him a direct slap in the face.

Datang ...... It's good. Ma Fan also has such thoughts in his heart, but he is an adult, and he can only say this in his own family.