Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Sun Yan walked back and forth, and several men jumped into the field and tied up the wheat on the ground.Soon, all the wheat in the field was tied up, and only one person was left behind Sun Yan, with a very relaxed expression.

Wang Guan said: "Following the job of tying wheat, a child of six or seven years old is enough."

Wang Xiaolie and Pan Zhenlin looked at each other, smiled and shook their heads.

In this era, there is no idea that children must go to school, especially the middle and lower classes.What is the use of children knowing a few words?You can still take the Jinshi exam.

Apart from the convenience of transportation, the most important function of bundling wheat is the convenience of threshing.Moreover, the ears of wheat after threshing can be used as feed for cattle and sheep.Since it is used as feed, it doesn't matter if the grains on the ears are not clean.

Threshed ears of wheat and millet stalks are high-quality feed, which can be used by farmers to raise horses, and of course cattle and sheep.For Zhongyuan, these high-quality feeds are good pastures for raising livestock, which can make up for the lack of pastures.

We didn't have lunch at noon, so everyone was on the ground, watching the harvesters come and go.

By the afternoon, nearly ten acres of land had been harvested.Wang Xiaolie ordered people to pull the harvested wheat into the yard.

Looking at the harvester that was still busy in the field, Wang Guan shook his head and sighed: "This machine is really powerful, one can handle ten people. When I have money, I will definitely buy one. With such a machine, it is also You can grow dozens of acres of wheat."

The yard is near Wang Guan's house, and it has been leveled long ago.The surrounding trees have been cut down, making it look particularly empty.

There had long been threshers and hoisting machines pulled by the Agriculture and Forestry Institute, and a few donkeys were tethered beside them.The donkey is the power of the machine.There are no engines in this era, and these donkeys and cows are the best agricultural machinery power.

When they arrived at the wheat field, a few soldiers pulled a guillotine over and chopped off the ears of wheat from the sheaves.A few more people stepped forward, picked apart the ears of wheat, and exposed them to the sun.Due to the thinner spread, the ears of wheat will be extremely dry in a short time.

Wang Xiaolie stepped forward to look at it, and said to Pan Zhenlin who was beside him, "It's a really sunny day, and it will be completely dry in a short while."

Pan Zhenlin nodded: "The summer sun is extremely hot and unbearable. It will be fine to dry the wheat for a while. If it is a farmer's house, the wheat will be dried for one day, and the grains will be threshed at noon the next day. We are too short on time, so we waited for the next day. God."

After speaking, he commanded his subordinates to harness the donkey and prepare to start threshing.

Compared with later generations, this thresher is very simple.The first stage is to use the form of kneading to remove the wheat grains.There is a sieve below, and after the chaff is sifted out, the grains of wheat are collected.If the chaff that is not clean is taken off, it will go to the next one.The structures of the machines are all similar, and the last one is just a recovery.

Pan Zhenlin directed a few people to use a wooden fork to put the dried wheat ears into the feeding port and into the machine.The donkey pulls the drum to knead the grains.At the same time, the sieve is driven to separate the bran and grain.The grains of wheat fall below and are collected.The chaff goes all the way backwards into the next machine.

This sieve looks simple, but it is actually extremely troublesome.Wang Xiaolie has an impression of how the sieve of the threshing machine works, but he doesn't know the specific structure.In order to be able to create such a moving sieve, everyone has spent countless efforts.

Wang Xiaolie stepped forward to look at the threshed wheat.Seeing that the inside was still dirty, he couldn't help but shook his head.

Pan Zhenlin commanded to stop the machine and adjust the gap between the rollers.The conductor adjusted it for a while before the wheat grains were considered clean.But in this way, the ears of wheat should not be fed too much each time, otherwise the donkey will not be able to pull it.

Wang Xiaolie said: "This speed is a bit slow. It takes more than half an hour to thresh an acre of wheat."

Pan Zhenlin said: "Xuanfu, this speed is enough. Twenty or thirty acres of wheat can be stripped in two or three days. How dare you think about it before? Besides, the ears of wheat must be dried even more when farmers thresh. , and it’s easy to get out of work.”

Wang Xiaolie nodded: "Perhaps. One donkey is still weak. Think of a way on the machine, you can use two donkeys."

Pan Zhenlin said: "That's okay. The current machines are not that bad."

After the wheat is shed, it is transported to the side of the field machine next to it.

Wheat is relatively clean after threshing, and it doesn’t take much speed for the lifting machine to clean it.A donkey drives the machine, and after being accelerated by the gears, the blades rotate rapidly.The strong wind blows out the broken ears of wheat and other sundries.

Watching the clean wheat being collected, Wang Xiaolie said to Pan Zhenlin: "With these machines, farmers can save a lot of effort in planting wheat. The energy saved in planting wheat can be used for other things. In time, we will be able to grow wheat." Let farmers get rich from this.”

Pan Zhenlin said: "If you want to get rich, you have to do other things. Otherwise, the energy saved on wheat is useless."

Wang Xiaohun nodded.

Yes, farmers must have other things to do before they can really get rich.Otherwise, what's the use of planting wheat and saving energy, but having nothing else to do but sitting on the ground and chatting all over the world?It just sold agricultural machinery, and it didn't have much effect.

In this kind of thing, one link is linked to another, and the lack of any link is not good for social production.To use a large number of agricultural machinery in rural areas, farmers must be able to use the time saved to work and earn money.If the rural labor force is surplus, it is not good for the sales of agricultural machinery, and it is also not good for the development of the society.

Looking at the endless wheat fields around him, Wang Xiao said: "I hope that in this country, every family has such a machine, so that farming can use the least effort. The master's time is saved, there are enough jobs, and enough money can be earned." Cash. When they return home, they can have half a catty of meat for every meal, enough food, and they will never go hungry again.”

Gao Ying and Pan Zhenlin behind nodded.

This ideal may sound unattainable, but it is actually not that difficult.Even if it can't be true for everyone, it's okay for most people.

Back at the Yamen of Henan Mansion, Wang Xiaolie said a few words and returned to the official hall.

Today's sun is really too hot, even though Wang Xiaolie didn't do much work, it was extremely hot.Lean back on the chair, close your eyes and rest.

In Taoyuan Xianxiang, Wang Guan looked at the neatly packed sacks in the yard, and was speechless for a long time.In one day, his own more than 20 acres of wheat were received in the yard.Although there are many people who use it today, if you calculate carefully, if you are working with your own family, two days will be enough.

Seeing his wife and children tidying up the chaff, Wang Guan shouted: "Don't dry it, find straw mats to cover the wheat, and spread it out to dry tomorrow. You go back and slaughter a chicken, and I'll go catch a fish in the river tonight. I drink and play and have a peaceful day!"

Hearing this, the wife straightened up, looked at the red-faced crown, smiled and shook her head.He took the child and went to one side of the chicken coop to catch the chickens.

Wang Guan grabbed the fishing rod and swayed to the edge of the pond.The fish here are very stupid. When the fishing rod was thrown into the water, a big carp weighing five or six catties was caught in a short time.

In the evening, the wife set up a table in the yard and brought the meal.Wang Guan poured a bowl of wine, infinitely satisfied.

After three bowls of wine, Wang Guan said: "I never thought that the machines of the Agriculture and Forestry Institute are so powerful! More than 20 mu of wheat can be taken back to the house in one day. If we also have such a few machines and can harvest more than 20 mu a day, that would be great." !"

The wife said: "Mai busy, Mai busy, this season, what can you do if you don't collect wheat?"

Wang Guan lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "It seems that there is nothing to do. ——No, there is nothing to do, you can find something to do!"

Hunjia said: "What can we do? We are farmers, not idlers in the city, not odd jobs, so naturally we should farm."

Wang Guan shook his head: "Humans are born in heaven, so they can do anything, and they are not born to farm. I have a craft of willow weaving and straw weaving. I will look around tomorrow to see if there are any willow branches that can be used to weave utensils." Sell."

After hearing this, the wife nodded and said: "If so, it's feasible. After weaving the utensils, at least I can exchange some money in my hand. The nearby Taoyuan Fairy Township Fair is very lively, and there are all kinds of utensils for sale."

Wang Guan said: "Look, how can the hands in this life be idle? Moreover, harvesting wheat by machine is not only fast, but also saves effort."

Hunjia said: "Yeah, using a machine saves a lot of effort. People just need to follow along. Unlike before, they almost lost half their lives in the field."

Crown nodded again and again.After a while, he said: "These machines are not very expensive. I asked today, and the wheat harvesting machine is only sixty rounds. The other ones are even cheaper. It doesn't add up to four full slams."

Hunjia nodded: "One hundred feet is indeed not expensive."

Wang Guan said: "And this machine does not need to be bought by a family. You can form a cooperative, and two or three companies can buy it together without delaying the farming time. Even if two companies buy it together, it is not expensive."

The wife nodded: "It's not expensive. The two families buy it together, and it won't delay the farming time."

The whole set of machines costs one hundred guan, so of course it’s not expensive.But this is the ex-factory price. After deducting various costs, the agricultural machinery factory has [-]% profit.It costs about one hundred and ten strings to buy at the agricultural machinery market.As for buying elsewhere, the price is hard to say.

The price of the machine is low, the main reason is to promote it quickly.

The customers of agricultural machinery are farmers, and the price cannot be set too high.Roughly speaking, the selling price of such large-scale equipment as the means of production is best not to exceed the farmers' savings for three years.If it exceeds three years, there are too many variables, and farmers may not buy it.

Wang Guan was in Taoyuan Fairy Township, so there were few corvees, so the income was naturally high.For them, a normal household has an annual income of sixty or seventy guan, and fifty guan is really not expensive.You can buy it by yourself in two years, and it will be easy for two partners to partner in one year.

In a place like Luoyang, farmers will not be too poor if the productive forces of the countryside are brought into play.Backed by a big city, the land is fertile, and there is no secondary exploitation by the local tyrants and landlords in the countryside. Most of the farmers should be well-to-do.

That's how normal society is.Born in a good place, naturally have a good life.Born in poor mountains and bad waters, life is more difficult.If it is not good to live in a good place, but to live in a poor place with poor mountains and rivers, there must be something wrong with society.

In Taoyuan Xianxiang, a well-off life should be lived.If it is difficult to live here, either a major change has occurred, or it is lazy and stupid.Wang Xiaolie has already removed all the exploitation, even the food tax is relatively low, so why is there any reason to live in poverty?