Urban Sims

Rose Town.

Blacksmith Morse's home.

"Butler Lane, can the heavy plow you designed like this really be able to plow the land?" Morse, a strong blacksmith, stared at the farm tool pattern on the design drawing and asked doubtfully.

"You don't need to ask so much. You just need to change the heavy plow to look like this as required. If it works, I will have someone take it to the field to try it."

"...Okay, I will make one for you in three days."

Morse nodded, took out an iron ingot, and banged it on the hot blacksmith's furnace.

Zhou Ming went to the homes of several carpenters in the town and guided them step by step in making several farm tools he designed.

Three days later, blacksmith Morse's new heavy plow was ready. The biggest change of this heavy plow was the addition of two concave upward plow walls on the original tapered plowshare, which had a very strange shape.

In addition, Zhou Ming also moved the two hard birch ox yokes that the carpenters had made in the past few days to a farmland, and asked two strong cows to be brought in, and the yoke was placed on the cow's neck. , and tied the two thick hemp ropes extending from the end of the ox yoke to the traction handle of the head of his newly designed heavy plow.

"Ryan, this heavy plow requires at least four strong oxen to pull it. How can two oxen pull it?"

Downey, who came to watch the plowing test of new farm tools, stood at the edge of the field and really couldn't believe that the new plow designed by Zhou Ming could plow this farmland, which had just recently thawed and the soil was still very sticky.

"let's start."

Zhou Ming did not answer, but asked the farmer who was controlling the new heavy plow to wave his whip and drive the strong oxen forward.

"This...how is this possible?"

Downey's eyes suddenly widened, and his face was filled with shock. The heavy plow actually moved. Driven by only two strong oxen, it pulled the new heavy plow and quickly plowed the soil in the farmland. The two strong oxen He walked as fast as he could, as if he was very relaxed, and the furrows dug under the plow were even deeper and better.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Ming on the side nodded and said: "It's about what I expected. After adding a plow wall to the heavy plow, at least 50% of the pulling force is saved on the cattle, and it is easier to exert force on the neck of the cattle. After adding the ox yoke, it saves 30%-40% of the physical strength of the cattle. Together, the two improvements mean that the heavy plow that originally required six oxen now only needs two oxen..."

After hearing this, Downey was still shocked when he heard Zhou Ming say: "It's almost spring sowing now, and there is no extra time to develop a light plow. If a light plow is also developed, I'm afraid we only need a light plow." A strong ox can pull it, and there is also a horse-drawn plow. Although horses are not as strong as oxen, a horse-drawn plow pulled by two horses can plow twice as fast as an oxen."

Downey hurriedly interrupted him and said, "Ryan, have you ever thought about these terrible things you invented, even if all the land in Glenland is reclaimed, there is not enough for these cattle to plow, what kind of horses do you have to come up with?" Pulling the plow? I don't think it will be needed."

Donnie felt that his heart couldn't take it anymore. Ryan only made improvements and inventions on the heavy plow and yoke, which tripled the efficiency of the use of Glandling cattle, but he said that there are even greater room for improvement?

However, these stimulations alone were not enough. Ryan asked the farmer on the side to push a strange farm tool over and explain to him:

"Improvement in the efficiency of land plowing is not enough. Donnie, look at this thing. This is the columbine cart I invented. It can replace the manual seeding method that farmers use when planting. Just adjust it At the seed outlet below, pushing this columbine cart can automatically complete the sowing work. Not only that, there are two movable wood chips on both sides of the columbine cart, which can complete the soil covering work after sowing... relying on this A columbine planter, a farmer can sow a hundred mu of land in one day.”

"This this……"

Looking at the couch in front of him, Downey's body trembled. He pointed at Zhou Ming and said, "Ryan, you want to make all the farmers in Grandland lazy, you..."

He didn't know what to say anymore.

However, Zhou Ming shook his head dissatisfied and said: "Only these are not enough. When the autumn harvest comes, I have to invent a horse-drawn harvester as soon as possible. There are still a lot of horses in Granling, probably as long as ten harvesters are prepared, all the wheat fields in Granling basically don’t need manpower to harvest.”

There are also threshing machines that replace human labor, and windmills driven by wind... Zhou Ming plans to take a one-stop road of agricultural mechanization in which animal power and wind power completely replace human labor from sowing to harvesting.

Coupled with the "strongest manure" he has formulated and improved over ten years, and a "pesticide" formulated from a kind of pyrethrin contained in chrysanthemums-an unprecedented agricultural revolution will take place in this small area. on the territory.

The current Zhou Ming just wants to do a good job on the small stage of Granling!

"You, you, it's no wonder you were so confident before. You have already prepared for the agricultural reform you want to implement. Now, the farmers in Granville can lie at home and wait for the land after a few days of farm work. The big harvest here, the farmers in the future, it is estimated that it will be easier than me, the lord."

Downey complained that it was shameful that Ryan was really good to the farmers in the territory.

Zhou Ming smiled and said nothing, and didn't explain anything. Anyway, the season of spring sowing is coming soon, and we can see how the farmers will behave right away.

…

Twenty days later.

Standing on the spire of the castle, looking at the heated scene in the farmland around the castle, Donnie's eyes almost bulged out.

Crazy, just crazy!

The farmers in the fields were like crazy and possessed, working desperately in the fields all day long.

There was no supervisor with a whip to supervise, and no one to force them. These farmers all came to their rented fields voluntarily and worked from dawn to dusk.

These farmers didn't seem to feel tired at all. They even sang cheerful folk songs while working, and there was laughter and laughter everywhere in the fields.

Zhou Ming was also very surprised. Although he expected that the labor enthusiasm of the farmers in the territory would increase, he did not expect that it would increase so much all of a sudden, and even subvert some of his impressions of farmers. For example, they were indeed a bit lazy, Cowardly, cheating, cheating and so on.

It was not until a few years later, when he re-examined the nine items in the "Agricultural Reform Ordinance" that he promulgated, that he suddenly discovered that he had seriously underestimated the huge power of the last article in the order, "protection of private property." It can be said that, If this set of "Agricultural Reform Ordinances" does not include this crucial ninth article, and the remaining eight articles are no matter how well designed, farmers may not necessarily buy it.

because.

Only when private property is protected, farmers can raise chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep in their backyards without having to worry about having one or two taken away by the taxman at any time.

Only when private property is recognized can farmers dare to take their property and openly trade, exchange and consume it in the market without fear of being suddenly confiscated by tax officials.

Only when private property is protected can farmers dare to save their savings and pass them on to future generations without worrying about being levied a huge inheritance tax by their lords.

It was through this agricultural reform decree that the farmers suddenly unleashed an astonishing power that soon brought about earth-shaking changes in the small territory of Glenland.

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