Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 2 Grain Farmers Digging Wells and Deserted Meadows
Sun Xin quickly asked the two who came up with the idea, and soon came to a conclusion that made him laugh and cry. He vaguely remembered that Sun Xin had proposed this plan.

It turned out that what Sun Xin thought before was to burn more wasteland in the Shilipai area first, open up as much land as possible, and then sprinkle some seeds casually. As long as the food is planted, he can apply for these lands under his name through Sun Li's relationship. Then the three of them slowly tended these fields, slowly turning these wastelands into mature fields.

But now when Sun Xin thought about it, he completely denied the feasibility of this plan in his heart.

After reclaiming such wasteland, it is basically impossible to survive the first year of sowing seeds, and the water and fertilizer conditions are not suitable. Even if they manage to get the title deeds of these fields into their own hands, what is the use?How could tenants leave so much wasteland outside Dengzhou City to plant their land?

Although I came to the world of Water Margin for some reason, I have already become Xiao Yuchi and Sun Xin. Since I have such conditions, I might as well start farming, no matter what era I am in, food and money are always good!Now the first step is to plant the land in a down-to-earth manner!
With a big wave of his hand, Sun Xin directly told Xie Zhen and Xie Bao not to continue picking up waste. He turned his head to look at the surrounding environment, and then found a place that looked like a barren meadow before.

In the previous life, Sun Xin had a deep memory. During the farmland transformation movement in the 60s, one of the most important farmland transformation tasks of the production team was to transform thatched hillocks into paddy fields.

Wanting to use groundwater irrigation on this great plain, Sun Xin took a fancy to this meadow at a glance. Before that, the vast thatch could grow here, which shows that the groundwater level here is high enough.

Sun Xin asked Xie Zhen and Jie Bao to help, dig out the stones in the basket and set up a simple charcoal stove, and then asked Xie Zhen to find a shovel that they had worn out before.

In order to be able to open up wasteland in Shilipai, the three of them have built a simple small shack in the center of their wasteland for the past few months, where they eat and live on weekdays. Sun Xin wedged a wooden stick on the shovel as a handle, and then held the shovel directly on the fire to heat it.

After burning the shovel red with charcoal fire, Sun Xin swung the sledgehammer a few times and nestled the shovel into the shape of a cylinder.

Xie Zhen and Xie Bao watched Sun Xin put the strangely shaped shovel in the water to quench it, but they were confused. Xie Zhen asked: "This shovel can't shovel soil, and its head is so small. What is it for?"

With a smile on Sun Xin's mouth, he picked up the shovel in his hand and inspected it carefully. He lamented in his heart that the quality of wrought iron used to make shovels in this era was better than that of the small iron ore used by the small iron ore used by the township blacksmith shop in the 60s he remembered. It's bad, but fortunately, the shape of the typed thing is exactly the same as he remembers, so it should be barely usable.

Later generations, Sun Xin’s cooperative has long had a dedicated well drilling team, and there is no need for such earthy gadgets at all. Fortunately, Sun Xin is old enough to have seen the full set of operations in the manual drilling era before, and he is very familiar with this thing. familiar.

The thing in his hand is the Luoyang shovel that is often seen in the novels of tomb robbers in later generations, but in Sun Xin's memory, this thing is mainly used for exploring wells.He asked Xie Zhen and Xie Bao to find some long sticks. After hearing Sun Xin's words, the two quickly brought back a bundle of big long branches. Sun Xin saw that each bundle of branches weighed at least 50 catties. Nodding secretly in his heart, he really deserves to be a Liangshan hero. Although the two are only thirteen or fourteen years old, their height has already reached 1.6 meters. They look like calves, and they will definitely be good at doing crop work in the future.

Sun Xin explored the location nearby, and soon found that there was a place nearby where the soil quality was closer to sandy soil. Knowing that this kind of soil quality is usually an area with active groundwater, he walked around there twice and found a piece of sand. A place where the surface is almost turned up with sandy soil.

Sun Xin spat on his hands, rubbed his palms to increase the friction, and then took the Luoyang shovel and hit the ground with a "hehehehe".

Sun Xin continued to fight like this for more than half an hour before finally shoveling Luoyang to a position more than five meters underground, and the soil pulled up changed from sand to loess.

Sun Xin once organized people to drill dozens of wells. Sun Xin knew that the soil quality ranged from soft to hard when drilling wells. After seeing the loess, Sun Xin knew that he was getting closer to the groundwater layer.

Seeing that he has been playing for so long, Xie Zhen and Xie Bao probably understood what Sun Xin was doing, so they both proposed to change shifts with Sun Xin.

After instructing the two on how to operate the Luoyang shovel, Sun Xin, who played the Luoyang shovel for half an hour, handed the shovel to Xiezhen.

After Xie Zhen continued to drill for half an hour, the Luoyang shovel had penetrated more than eight meters into the ground, and they would not have such a long log any more. So Sun Xin set up a triangular support frame on the wellhead, and then used wood Made a chain link mechanism.

Sun Xin hung one end of the Luoyang shovel with a rope, and the other end of the rope was connected to a wheel outside the entrance of the cave.

Sun Xin, Xie Zhen and Jie Bao worked in a division of labor. One person pulled the wheel to control the tightness of the rope, while the other two held the rope at the mouth of the well. The two of them worked together with the person who pulled the wheel, and soon began to rhythmically Continue to drill Luoyang shovel into the ground one by one.

Every few times, when the soil in the Luoyang shovel was full, they had to pull the long rope out of the wellhead to knock off the soil on the Luoyang shovel before continuing to work.

While beating Sun Xin, they were worried. The mouth of the Luoyang shovel is so big. If they accidentally bumped into a big rock during the process, their work would be wasted.

Fortunately, we kept going down. Although Luoyang shovel encountered several obstacles in the process of going down, they were quickly resolved. There were also two stones, but those who pulled up were stronger than Luoyang shovel. Although the speed of Luoyang shoveling small stones with smaller openings is slow, they are always moving forward.

When the Luoyang shovel was beaten to a depth of 13 meters, Sun Xin and Xie Zhen felt that the soil was extra heavy this time when they pulled the rope. Pull up the Luoyang shovel and see that the shovel head of the Luoyang shovel is full of sandy soil that has absorbed water.

Continuing their efforts, Sun Xin and Xie Zhen hurriedly lowered the Luoyang shovel and beat down another meter. They finally felt that the head of the Luoyang shovel had fallen to a buoyant place.

Hearing the sound of groundwater filling the cave instantly, Xie Bao said in disbelief, "Did a well like this?"

We must know that in these years, a well-drilling team of several people used baskets and shovels to dig a deep well for three to four months, but now Sun Xin actually only took one day to dig a well in this field.

Although the mouth of this well is only the size of a teacup, such work efficiency is unprecedented in this era.

After Sun Xin dug the well, he ordered Xie Zhen to put a spliced ​​piece of wood more than ten meters long into the well, so that even if the well collapsed, he could quickly restore the wellhead, and then he called Shang Jiebao to Dengzhou. city.

There were no livestock in the Shilipai camp, so they had to walk to Dengzhou City.

The two started their journey at noon, and it was already evening when they arrived in Dengzhou City. Sun Xin didn't dare to delay, so he quickly took Jie Bao to the blacksmith's shop in the city.

In the blacksmith's shop, he told the blacksmith the structure of the various iron parts used in the pressure well according to his own memory. Fearing that the other party would not understand, he took charcoal and told the blacksmith in detail on the wall. The structural drawings of the iron pieces are drawn.

The bearded blacksmith Mosuo looked at the drawing Sun Xin had drawn and understood what Sun Xin wanted.

"Since you marked the size on this picture, I will definitely not make it worse for you. If you need it urgently, I can make it for you in two days, but it requires more money."

After a bit of bargaining, Sun Xin spent a tael of silver on all kinds of ironware needed for this pressure well. In addition, there are cast iron water pipes more than ten meters long. The blacksmith said that he can also help to order them. After paying the price of one tael, the blacksmith promised Sun Xin that he would pick it up within five days.

(End of this chapter)