Urban Sims

Chapter 40 The Agricultural Revolution
Rose Town.

Blacksmith Morse's home.

"Butler Ryan, can the heavy plow you designed like this really be able to plow the land?" Morse, a strong blacksmith, stared at the pattern of farm tools on the design drawing in doubt.

"You don't need to ask so many questions. You just need to change the heavy plow into this shape as required. If it's okay, I'll let someone take it to the field for a test."

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

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

Zhou Ming went to the homes of several carpenters in the town, and guided them to make the farm tools he designed.

Three days later, blacksmith Morse's new heavy plow was also finished. The biggest change of this heavy plow is that two concave and upward plow walls are added to the original conical plow share, which has 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 people to bring two strong oxen, and put the yokes on the necks of the cows. , tied the two thick hemp ropes extending from the tail of the ox yoke to the traction handle of his newly designed heavy plow head.

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

Downey, who came to watch the plowing test of the new farm tool, stood on the ground, really not believing that the new plow designed by Zhou Ming could turn this piece of farmland that had just thawed and the soil was still very viscous.

"let's start."

Zhou Ming didn't answer, and asked the farmer who controlled the new heavy plow to wave his horsewhip and drive the strong cattle to move forward.

"This... how is this possible?"

Downey's eyes suddenly widened, his face was full of shock, the heavy plow actually moved, only driven by two strong oxen, pulling the new heavy plow, plowing the soil in this farmland quickly, the two strong oxen Walking like flying, it seems very relaxed, and the soil furrow plowed under the plowshare is even deeper and better.

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

After hearing this, Downey still couldn't stop being shocked, but he heard Zhou Ming say again: "Now it's almost spring sowing, and there is no extra time to develop the light plow. If the light plow is also developed, I'm afraid it will only take A strong ox can be pulled, and there is also a horse-drawn plow, although the strength of a horse is not as strong as an ox, but a horse-drawn plow with two horses can plow twice as fast as an ox.”

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 stimuli alone were not enough. Ryan asked the farmer on the side to push a strangely shaped farm tool over and explained 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 as 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.

……

After 20 days.

Standing on the spire of the castle, looking at the scene of the farmland surrounding the castle in full swing, Downey's eyeballs almost popped out.

Crazy, just crazy!
The farmers in the fields, like crazy and possessed, worked desperately in the fields all day long.

There was no supervisor with a whip to supervise them, and no one forced 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. In the process of working, they even sang cheerful folk songs, laughing and laughing everywhere in the fields.

Zhou Ming was also very surprised. Although he predicted in his heart that the labor enthusiasm of the farmers in the territory should increase, he did not expect it to increase so much all at once, and even overturned some of his impressions of the farmers in his mind, such as indeed a little lazy, Cowardly, cheating, cheating and so on.

It was not until several years later that when he re-examined the nine articles in the "Agricultural Reform Regulations" that he promulgated, he suddenly discovered that he had seriously underestimated the great power of the last article of the regulations, "protecting private property". It can be said that If this crucial Article [-] is absent from the set of "Agricultural Reform Regulations", the farmers may not necessarily buy it no matter how well-designed the remaining eight articles are.

because.

Only when private property is guaranteed, when farmers raise chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep in the backyard, they don’t have to worry about being taken away by tax officials at any time.

And only when private property is recognized, farmers dare to take their property and openly trade, exchange and consume it in the market without worrying about being suddenly confiscated by tax officials.

Only when private property is protected can farmers dare to save their savings and pass it on to future generations without worrying about being levied huge inheritance taxes by the lord.

It was through this agricultural reform policy that the astonishing power suddenly released from the farmers quickly brought about earth-shaking changes in the small territory of Granville.

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