Villager of Daming

Chapter 642 The contradiction between supply and demand Louis Xun

The autumn sunshine is no longer so harsh. On the edge of the soybean field, a group of people go up to cut the bean vines.

"First cut one acre, and after the machine is built, use the machine to cut another acre and see which one doesn't produce more sprouts."

After Zhu Yuanzhang's meal, he looked at the land and saw that the tracts of soybeans had all turned yellow. The land he gave was connected to this place and could not be seen at a glance.

Nowadays, farming and management require the employment of many people, some of whom are long-term workers and some of whom are part-time workers.

Day laborers are used during farming and harvesting, and long-term laborers are used for maintenance. The long-term laborers choose young people and will slowly teach them how to read.

"As long as the difference is not too big, machinery must be used to save labor. Starting from this year, all seed bases will use machinery."

The head of the village also looked at the endless land. This area of ​​[-] acres was equivalent to an area of ​​five kilometers by six kilometers.

If you use people to harvest, 1 people will need to harvest for three days, then beat out the beans, clean the bean stalks and pods, and it can be done in ten days.

It is not easy to hire ten thousand ordinary people, not to mention that there are paddy fields and cotton fields in front of them, and there are many purple flower fields next to them.

Behind, that is, other crops, medicinal materials, fruit trees, tea trees, and greenhouses are located in the north.

Such a calculation is absolutely impossible without equipment. It is equivalent to occupying social resources and hiring a group of people to work around all day, leaving less labor in other places.

"Does Xihe Village have enough manpower?" Zhu Yuanzhang turned to look at Feng Gui, who was waiting for questioning on behalf of the other 21 villages.

Feng Gui was stunned for a moment before he realized that he was asking himself, and quickly replied: "Your Majesty, we are tired when harvesting, but relaxed at other times, especially for plowing, large animals are enough.

We should be harvesting beans over there. We will stay in Xiaqiu Village to see the situation. If there is something useful, we will use it next year.

Between the 22 villages, there is open land, woods, and bamboo forests. It is impossible for fields to be connected with fields.

If the things from Xiaqiu Village are successful, we will continue to open up wasteland, especially for harvesting. The village is really busy, and lotus and chicken head rice are still being planted. "

"What do you say to the chief?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked the chief again.

“I don’t have time to help with the harvest this year, but I can help with rice. We are making a small rice harvester that can go into the field to harvest rice first, and then harvest jute after the jute matures.

The people in the soybean villages should work hard and send machines over when plowing, so there is no need for people to help the plows. From now on, the big animals in each village will see if there are small plots of land that are not suitable for equipment, and use them or pull carts.

You can also keep it slowly and sell it to others when the quantity increases. It will be difficult to popularize the equipment for a while, mainly because there are not enough craftsmen. "

The village chief chose to lead the entire Xuancheng County villages to work together to build an agricultural mechanized county.

Plowing, leveling, ridging, planting, and harvesting all use steam engines, but transportation is not suitable. Without good wheels, the shock absorption effect is poor, so large animals are most suitable.

"Your Majesty, what Yichang said will work." Feng Gui expressed his support.

"We know it can work, but alas! In other places, people are still pulling the land in front of them, and Xuancheng County will become different from all other places in the world!"

Zhu Yuanzhang lamented that the gap was so big that some people didn't even have livestock. Xiaqiu Village didn't use livestock at first. It was troublesome. Someone had to help plow the land. The critical speed was slow and not much could be plowed in a day.

The plowing equipment in Xiaqiu Village is the same as the harvesting equipment. It works twelve hours a day and can cultivate more than 100 acres.

An ox can only plow two acres. If it is too much, it will be too tired to bear. If a horse soaks in paddy fields for a long time, it is easy to have hoof problems.

Xu Da smiled and said: "What your Majesty said is absolutely true. Just like the weapons, if we fight Bei Yuan again, I am confident that I will keep all the people and things behind.

How can a front-loading flintlock gun compare to a breech-loading rifled gun?A rifled gun has a front sight and a rear sight, allowing it to be aimed.

The range has been greatly increased. Thanks to our Ming Dynasty's weapons, if they are in the hands of the enemy, we feel that the battle will be unwinnable. "Can't fight!" "Zhu Yuanzhang echoed, he didn't think any tactics could win in the face of such a weapon.

The new guns and bullets can kill people at [-] paces, but they are not very accurate. As the distance gets closer, the accuracy increases.

Use your original firecrackers, bows and arrows to fight enemies with new guns. By the time you reach the shooting range, everyone will be dead, right?

In fact, before reaching the shooting range, all the people had already fled. What kind of army can withstand such casualties without collapse?
While several people were talking, one acre of soybeans had been harvested and they needed to be put on the flat ground and beaten with flails before being raised.

"Go back! We have to review the question book." Zhu Yuanzhang resisted the idea of ​​continuing to watch and got to work.

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Others were busy making mooncakes. Zhu Biao and others didn't get to eat mooncakes last year. Everyone was too busy moving forward in the desert.

Specially made glutinous rice mooncakes for children, that is, snowskin mooncakes, steamed and filled with various fruits and dried fruits.

Craftsmen waste no time building parts. They won’t be able to go home this year, but their income will be much higher.

Zhu Wentian cleaned the mountain temple by himself, took out the bedding he slept on to see if it was moldy, and then put it outside to dry.

He didn't plan to close the sacrificial hall tonight. He wanted to sleep in the mountain temple. He couldn't sleep. It was a weird idea.

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"The moon will be very round tonight." The village chief took Hanhan back to the sacrificial hall to drink. It was difficult for the mountain temple to keep secrets.

The two drank rice wine and ate crabs. Zhu Wentian only had a few bites of dinner, thinking about drinking alone in the mountain temple.

"Yeah! Yeah!" Zhu Wentian could only nod while chewing crab meat.

What he ate was not river crabs, but sea crabs. The crabs were big and meaty, and they were very enjoyable to eat.

The steam boat went to the beach to pick up some, and it didn't take long to get back. It left in the morning and returned in the evening.

Nowadays, there are no artificially cultivated sea crabs. They are all wild. The big crabs weigh one pound each and are more comfortable to eat than river crabs.

“Now we can see that there is a lack of time and there are few craftsmen who can build equipment.

We need a lot of steam engines and other parts that can be assembled into useful equipment.

In addition, there is a lack of maintenance personnel, and the machinery is sent elsewhere. The operation is still simple, but it is difficult to repair if it breaks down.

According to the method you mentioned, we can only replace it and then take it back, or send people to one place to repair it centrally. "

While picking at the meat, the director talked to Hanhan about the problems he was facing now and in the future.

The steam engine is easy to use, but other auxiliary equipment cannot keep up. It can only be used in a small area, and for fear of leaking the technology, we cannot just recruit people to teach it.

There is a problem between demand and supply. As the scope of application becomes wider, this contradiction will become more and more prominent.

Zhu Wentian swallowed the meat in his mouth and took a sip of wine: "Maintenance workers don't need to be very professional. They memorize formulas, what will happen when something goes wrong in any place, and then they will know how to compare it a few times, and then replace the parts. That’s all.

Like some cabinets, they don't need to take them apart to replace the contents inside. They can just replace the cabinet directly. It's the same modularity.

It's difficult for maintenance people to figure it out on their own. Once someone figures it out, they will definitely be respected and praised by many people in that place. We will check back when we get the news. "

(End of this chapter)