Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 712 Farm Machinery

Going east along the Luoshui River, wherever there is a river flowing into it, there must be more than one factory.There are vehicle yards, carpentry tool yards, food machinery yards, textile machinery yards, general tool yards, and even a specialized workshop for manufacturing various scales, such as scales, liters, and buckets.The scales made here have official certification marks and can be used as standard measuring tools in various places.

What shocked the officials was the last farm machinery field.

Different from other workshops, the agricultural machinery factory is built on the south bank of Luoshui River, at the foot of Lingshan Mountain.All the surrounding farmers were relocated, and the factories were distributed for nearly ten miles along Luoshui River.At the mountain pass, a reservoir was built, leading to many canals.

After everyone entered the factory and visited the workshop, they suddenly understood where the products from the parts factory they saw a few days ago were used.The agricultural machinery and tools here use a lot of products from the previous factory, and almost everything is used.

Getting out of the car, everyone went to the product display room.Everyone is familiar with what these things do, and they all surrounded them.

First up is the plow.In the past, officials generally believed that the plow was a kind of thing, and the plow was pulled by oxen.After coming here today, I realized that there are so many types of plows.The most important thing is that the mold walls are different.Plowing different soils requires different plowwalls.The workshops here collected all kinds of plows from the Central Plains and the South, and finally produced several models, which are suitable for paddy fields, dry land, sandy land, and even special ones for land reclamation.

In addition to the different plowwalls, there are also differences in structure.

One is a single plow, pulled by one ox or two oxen, the most common.There are also double plows, pulled by two or three oxen.

The double plow is not the addition of two single plows, but a combination.Because the front plow breaks the soil, the rear plow can borrow force, saving a lot of effort.It can even be made into a triple plow if necessary.The more plows there are, the less effort it takes to use them.

Generally speaking, there are two types of plows commonly used in later generations.One is called the Chinese type, which is the traditional Chinese plow. After plowing, the body of the plow turns away.In other words, the plowed soil falls into the plowed furrows and does not form furrows.There is also a European plow, in which the plowed soil is rolled away by the plow body.The soil is turned over to one side, forming a furrow.

If it is a single plow, a Chinese plow should be used.If it is more plow, it will be better to use European type.In later generations, tractors were mostly used to cultivate land, and multi-plows were used, most of which were European plows.In this workshop, a single plow is a Chinese plow, and a double plow is a European plow.

Everyone gathered around the plow placed outside, looking at these subtle differences, they couldn't help but be amazed.I have seen a lot of plows, but I didn't expect these differences.

On one side of the plow is the harrow.This tool is relatively simple, divided into paddy fields and dry land.However, there is one more rake than the common rake here, which is an iron rolling cage, which will roll when the cattle are pulled forward.This kind of rake is much easier to use when encountering sandy soil.

Behind the rake is the columbine cart.Unlike common columbine carts, the columbine carts here have wheels.And not only can drill, but also granular.Generally, when planting wheat, one can plow a ditch first without using a columbine cart, and then sow the wheat in the ditch, which is called drill sowing.The traditional columbine cart is designed for this kind of operation.When planting soybeans, it is necessary to sow seeds one by one, and the traditional columbine is not suitable.

Here, the front wheels of the columbine cart will turn, and a shaft in the box containing the seeds will be driven by a chain, and the seeds will be sown down through the rotation of the shaft.Because it is one grain or several grains at a time, each time it is sown at a distance, it is called grain sowing.

A few Jinshi were spinning the front wheel there, watching the face being moved by the chain, and found it very novel.This structure is the first time I have seen it.Now we know that the chain produced by the previous chain factory was originally used here.

It is a remarkable invention to install wheels on agricultural machinery and use the wheels to drive the movement of the machines behind.With this invention, the types of agricultural machinery have been enriched at once.The front wheels are called drive wheels.

Many farm tools here work only because of the drive wheels.

After planting, it is field management, and the most important thing is weeding.The tools for weeding here are somewhat similar to the agricultural tools for the previous plowing, and are many kinds of shovels.Different shovels are suitable for different planting methods, and they are pulled by cattle, which is called intertillage and weeding.

Behind it are various harvesting machines.

The first thing I saw was the horse-drawn harvester.This kind of harvester is equipped with reciprocating blades. When the horse is pulling forward, when the blade moves back and forth, the crops are cut off and piled to one side at the same time.Its power is the driving wheel.

Horse-drawn harvesters were used in developed areas before the invention of the steam engine and the internal combustion engine.The power is mature, people have invented the combine harvester, and the harvesting part is still in this form.It's just that horse-drawn harvesters are not as effective as tractor-powered ones.However, at this time, there are few people in the land. With this kind of machine, the work intensity of crop harvesting is greatly reduced.

You can see the working principle of the agricultural machinery in front.This horse-drawn harvester is different, it is too complicated, and everyone looked at it as if they saw a god.A few people surrounded it, looked left and right, and couldn't figure out how it worked.

Li Huidao: "How many acres of wheat can be harvested by this machine in a day?"

Han Yun, who was explaining, said: "Generally speaking, twenty or thirty acres of land can be harvested a day. Whether the horse is strong or not, and whether the land is good or not, it will make a difference."

"My God, twenty acres a day!" Li Hui couldn't help but exclaimed after hearing this.He turned his head and said to others: "No matter how capable a person is, he can only mow two acres of land a day. The average person can harvest one mu of wheat a day. This machine is worth more than 20 people!"

Everyone gathered around the machine, talking about it.How precious is the time to reap the wheat?If the crops are harvested quickly and the next crop is planted without delay, there will be two crops a year.

Zheng Gangzhong asked Han Yun: "This machine is so easy to use, is it selling well?"

Han Yundao: "Now it is only sold in the village of Yingtian Sixia. The sales are very good, so we have to order in advance. In other places, several families need to buy together, otherwise it would be a pity for one family to use. And the price is expensive, and ordinary farmers buy it. Sorry."

Zheng Gang said: "Expensive? How expensive?"

Han Yundao: "Now a machine costs [-] guan, which is too expensive for farmers. If a family produces [-] guan, eight households can form a community, and it's not too bad."

Zheng Gangzhong nodded.How many farmers can come up with eighty guan?But if it is ten guan, it will be much easier.

After seeing the horse-drawn harvester, and then looking at the machines behind it, everyone was a little less interested.

The following machines are used for post-harvest processing.For example, a threshing machine is driven by one person, and the other feeds and threshes.If it is rice, wheat is threshing, and rice is harvesting millet.For example, the grain lifter removes the sundries after threshing.For example, rice hullers and rice mills do not need to pound rice anymore.

In addition, there are pasture balers, etc., which are used to collect pasture.

After seeing these machines, everyone only felt that their eyes were wide open, and they realized that there is so much knowledge in farming.If these machines are widely used by the people, will one person not only plant [-] mu?What will the world be like at that time?
Zheng Gang was stunned for a while, but he didn't dare to think about it.If the things here are implemented, the whole world will be different.

(End of this chapter)