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Chapter 162 Rotary Tiller Seeder Harvester!
"My lord, where is our land?"

In Lanshan County, the first batch of more than 1000 immigrants who arrived, after simply settling in their new homes, they rushed to the officials of the Immigration Department one by one.

Nothing fancy about the new home.

The small courtyard once you enter, the east and west wing rooms plus the main house can accommodate about five or six people, which is just enough for a family.

It looks quite new, probably just refurbished.

And because it is a house in the county seat, it is much more exquisite than the farmhouses in the village, and some lucky immigrants were even assigned to small courtyards with gardens.

But these are not important in the eyes of immigrants.

Just have a place to live.

The important thing is everyone's livelihood, where is the [-] mu of land promised by the imperial court!
Zhao Liusheng dragged his wife along with other immigrants to find the officials who arranged for them to live.

He was alone, he really didn't dare to face these officials.

Even if it's a low-rank immigration official.

These small officials are all from intermediate colleges, and there are only 50 people in one government a year, and they are also famous as scholars.

To ordinary people, he is already a big shot.

The heads of hundreds of immigrant households all approached the temporary yamen of the Immigration Department in Lanshan County.

After learning about their intentions, seeing their terrified expressions, Deputy Director Cong Jiupin of the Immigration Agency specially received them.

"I originally thought that you would get used to your new home for a day or two before coming to the territory."

"After all, it's going to be deep winter, and there's not much farm work to do."

"I didn't expect you to be so eager."

The immigrants looked at each other and said with a silly smile: "If you don't see the land, you won't feel at ease. Even if you can't cultivate it now, just take a look at it. Having a land deed can make you feel at ease for the winter."

"There are still title deeds." The deputy director in his early thirties stroked his beard and shouted to his smiling opponents, "Go, bring all the prepared title deeds and send them to them."

The land for these immigrants has already been measured and planned.

There are still quite a lot of fertile land that has been cultivated here in Jinzhou.

It was cultivated as early as the Warring States Period, and it was even more extensively developed during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

It's just that in the past few hundred years, the nomads who took turns sitting in the north have been destroyed badly, causing many lands to be abandoned.

After the officials of Lanshan County took office, the first thing they did was to organize the local people to help measure the land and prepare the land for immigrants.

In more than a month, tens of thousands of mu have been measured.

Although it is all wasteland that has been abandoned for a long time, as long as it is re-managed, after planting a crop of beans in the coming year, it will be able to grow grain immediately.

A thick stack of land deeds was carried over by a small official from the Immigration Department.

"Come, come, don't worry, queue up to receive them one by one."

The deputy director picked up the pen, looked up at the immigrants at the front, and said, "Show your immigration card."

The excited immigrant flushed and immediately took out his immigration card from his chest and handed it over.

"My lord, please take a look."

The deputy director just took a look at it, then wrote down the immigrant's name on the title deed in the position of the deed owner, blew on the ink, and handed the title deed to him.

"Take it, this is the title deed of your land."

"The field is just outside the city. The specific land is clearly written on the land deed. You can ask the head of the workshop to take you to identify the land."

The immigrant took the title deed excitedly, and after thanking the deputy director mercilessly, took the title deed and trotted out to find the head of the workshop.

In order to allow the immigrants to better adapt to life in Lanshan County, the Lanshan County Government has arranged for every ten immigrant households a local head to help them get acquainted with Lanshan County.

The heads of immigrant households lined up to receive their [-]-acre land deeds from the Immigration Department. With joy and smiles on their faces, they went out of the city to find their land.

Although not available now.

But the simple people, as long as they can see that two hundred acres of land really belong to them, they will be so happy that they can't express it in words.

Zhao Liusheng also took his daughter-in-law and headed straight for his fertile land outside the city with the title deed he had just received.

How big is two hundred acres of land?
I'm afraid Zhao Liusheng himself couldn't describe it vividly before seeing it with his own eyes.

The land he was allotted was on the vast plain outside the west city of Lanshan County.

On this plain, there is a piece of land with a length of 6000 meters and a width of about 3600 meters, which belongs to him.

Just from the south of this land to the north, it is 6000 meters away, and it takes an hour to walk!
Between the east and the west, there are nearly 4000 meters away, and it takes half an hour and a quarter of an hour to walk from the easternmost to the westernmost!

In this era of purely relying on manpower to cultivate the land, it is impossible for a family of five, including men, women, old and young, to plow and take care of such a large piece of land!

After all, whether it is planting or harvesting, the window period is only a dozen days, and the planting will not survive or the grain will rot in the ground.

In the Jiangnan area, if a landlord has a hundred mu of fertile land, there are at least five or six tenant households in his family, and there may even be a dozen households.

Only with so many people can we be busy with a hundred acres of land!
But now, Zhao Liusheng is only a husband and wife, and owns two hundred acres of land, which makes him feel like he is dreaming.

When the couple looked at this endless land, their first thought was, how can they finish their work with so many lands?
"Amei, the adults from the immigration department said it before."

"The imperial court's rotary tiller can be operated by one person and can cultivate fifty acres of land in one day."

"In addition, there is a device called a seeder, which can sow seeds on plowed land. It can also sow [-] acres of land in one day!"

"Combined with a tractor harvester, more than ten acres of land can be harvested in one day."

"According to your lord, the two of us can cultivate two hundred acres of land."

"It's the time of harvest, the two of us alone can't keep busy."

"However, the adults said that when the crops are harvested, the garrisons from the county and the government will come to help us harvest the rice together."

"It's just that our rice must be sold directly to the government and not to other people except for keeping our own food."

Cultivation and sowing, as well as subsequent fertilization and watering, can all be done by machines, or pre-buried water pipes, which is not difficult.

The only thing that troubled the immigrants was the problem of harvesting the crops.

Two hundred acres of land, even if there are machines that can be easily harvested, the crops produced must always be transported out by manpower.

With the help of a transport vehicle, at least two or 30 people need to work together for more than ten days to finish the collection.

Immigrant families alone must be too busy!
Fortunately, the court has long considered this issue.

During busy seasons, local garrisons will be sent to help with summer and autumn harvests.

These grains are for the big soldiers, and the garrison is very happy to help.

In this way, it is barely possible for one family to cultivate [-] mu of land.

Looking out of focus at the wasteland in front of him, Zhao Liusheng murmured, "From the end of the ten days, I will participate in the agricultural machinery training class organized by the county."

Clenching his fists, he said firmly: "Before next year's spring plowing, I will definitely learn how to use those farming machines!"

"Next year, I will plant these [-] acres of land with wheat!"

"Hey, my Zhao family has prospered since then!"

　I caught a cold today, and continued to have a low-grade fever. I wrote a little less, and I will continue to restore Chapter [-] tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)