Wear to the Ming Dynasty to farm

On the second day, Qian Dayong and Qiao Jiwei went to the wheat field to cut the remaining wheat seedlings back home.

After the barley is harvested, the ears of the wheat should be rubbed so that the grains can be sorted out.Qian Dayong's family of three rubbed together in the courtyard.The ears of wheat are pointed, and the husk is a bit hard. It hurts when rubbing the wheat. After a day, the hands of rubbing the wheat are red and red, and not many grains have been rubbed.

On the second day, Qiao Jiwei thought of a way - to build a wheat rubbing machine.He used the physics knowledge he learned in modern times to process the locust wood and use it as the casing of the machine.Metals were used for central components. At that time, gold, silver and copper were very expensive and only available to rich families, but iron was easy to obtain. The technology for smelting iron was quite mature in modern times.Qiao Jiwei got a new piece of iron without much effort.

Throughout the day, Qiao Jiwei has been tinkering with wood and iron in the main room, accompanied by the sound of sawing and grinding iron.

Qian's mother complained about this: "I don't rub the wheat well after a day, and I play with these useless things all day long!"

Then Qiao Jiwei was taught to do business, but Qiao Jiwei turned a deaf ear in the room and pretended not to hear.

Qian Dayong didn't think so. He felt a bit stupid, but he still supported what Qiao Jiwei was doing.

In the afternoon, Qiao Jiwei produced the wheat rubbing machine. The shell and feeding port of this equipment are made of wood.A thin iron plate is laid obliquely under the discharge channel so that the wheat grains can fall smoothly.The mouth on the lower right is a passage for useless barley and ears of wheat.A small wheel and a wooden handle are installed outside, so that it can be cranked by hand to make the machine turn.The entire machine is waist-high, and is supported by three long wooden bars below.

Qian Dayong lowered his head to look at this strange-looking machine, "What are you doing for nothing?"

Qiao Jiwei's eyes were bright, and he smiled: "It's for rubbing wheat."

This machine was really efficient. Qian Dayong shook the machine with a wooden handle, and Qiao Jiwei pushed a small bundle of wheat stalks into it at a time, and the wheat was all rubbed out in less than half a day.

The next day, the story of Qiao Jiwei building a machine to rub wheat was spread all over the village. Chang Gui rushed to Qian Dayong's house early after eating, and wanted to borrow the machine for a day.His family is considered to be the richest in the village and has a lot of land. This year, he harvested a total of six mu of wheat.It is a blessing that there is a lot of harvest, but these days I am busy rubbing wheat, but there are not enough people.There are at least eight stones in these six acres of wheat, and the wheat stalks are piled up like hills.

When Changgui entered the door, Qian Dayong was drying wheat in the courtyard, bending over to sweep the piles of tender wheat back and forth, and when he saw Changgui coming, he stopped what he was doing, and his face was full of joy, "Brother Changgui is here, Sit in the room."

Chang Gui waved his hand and looked back and forth in the courtyard, but he couldn't find the wheat rubbing machine, "No, we two will have a drink some other day. I'm here today for something, can you take your wheat rubbing machine back and forth?" Lend me your utensils?"

"Hey! What a coincidence, that machine was just carried away by Wang Wu. Why don't you come back tomorrow?"

After listening to the conversation between the two, Qiao Jiwei walked out of the room lightly, "Brother Changgui, let me make you another one today."

A smile floated on the corner of Chang Gui's mouth, "That's a good thing."

Qiao Jiwei stood still for a long time, and Chang Gui couldn't help being a little puzzled, "But what else is there to worry about?"

Qiao Jiwei was thoughtful, "Brother Changgui, it's easy to build a machine for you, but it really takes a lot of work and materials to make this machine, can you spend a little or two?"

Before Changgui could respond, Qian Dayong became anxious. In his eyes, neighbors help each other is the duty of human beings. How could anyone help the neighbors and ask for money from the neighbors? He was so angry that he yelled at Ye Shaoshu, spitting at the stars Hengfei: "You said you, Brother Changgui, if you want one of that thing, wouldn't you just build one? Why are you still thinking about asking for money, and money is in the eye? How come I don't notice you like this in normal times?"

Qiao Jiwei gave Qian Dayong a hard look, and forced Qian Dayong's remaining words to be blocked in his throat.

Chang Gui was teased by the two as if watching a farce, and couldn't help laughing: "That's easy to say."

Qiao Jiwei smiled at Changgui: "Five liters of wheat is exchanged for a machine, Brother Changgui, do you think it's okay?"

To be honest, exchanging five liters of wheat for a machine is really not an exorbitant price. Qiao Jiwei prepared the wood and ironware himself, and with the assembly of components, the cost alone was more than two liters of wheat.

Chang Gui's tone was firm, "OK!"

After one morning, Qiao Jiwei built the wheat rubbing device. Qian Dayong watched it and roughly learned the process of assembling the device.But due to the embarrassment just now, Qiao Jiwei didn't pay much attention to him, and Chang Gui happily carried the wheat rubbing machine home, which was still a bit heavy.

Not long after Changgui left, several other families came to Qian Dayong's house to make wheat rubbing utensils.Qiao Jiwei never refused to come, and made a wheat rubbing machine in front of them.Qian Dayong also roughly mastered the steps of making the wheat rubbing device, and "doing his own thing" with Qiao Jiwei, prepared wood and ironware, and built the wheat rubbing device.

Qiao Jiwei made it faster, and when he arrived at the chieftain, a wheat rubbing machine had already been built, and Qian Dayong's wheat rubbing machine was also presented before everyone's eyes.

Some people with average family backgrounds have little money, and wheat is regarded as property. They don't even think about rubbing wheat with a wheat rubbing machine, and they still rub wheat purely by hand.Besides, the Qian family can make at most four wheat rubbing machines in a day.Even if it is exchanged for food, it may not be ranked.

Some people wanted to learn, and Qiao Jiwei did not hide the technology. After all, the efficiency of making this machine between him and Qian Dayong was too low, but he set a condition: to help their family with housework.In the past few days, Qian's mother ordered Qiao Jiwei to work less frequently, but there were still some.Letting these people help with the housework saves him the burden.

These people agreed.After all, you have to show something to take someone else's job.

Since then, the efficiency of making machines has improved a lot. One group prepares wood, another group prepares ironware, and another group installs parts.Very busy.

Many people from neighboring villages heard about this, and heard that the machine was only five liters of rice, and the price was reasonable, so they rushed to Qian Dayong's house to buy a wheat rubbing machine.But there are also some that need to be bought with money. At this time, a liter of wheat sells for five cents, and Qiao Jiwei has the final say and charges them 25 cents.

Over the past few days, the Qian family sold dozens of wheat rubbing machines. Although they didn't make much money, Qiao Jiwei at least earned some cash and wheat by virtue of his skills.

Neighbor Wang Wu learned the technique and wanted to go to the neighboring village to sell wheat rubbing equipment, but when he got there, there was no one rubbing wheat! The wheat had already been rubbed out.But there are also some people from better families who bought the wheat rubbing machine and plan to use it in the coming year.

From cutting wheat, rubbing wheat, to drying wheat, the villagers have been busy until late May.Fortunately, the weather is beautiful, there is not a drop of rain falling from the sky these days, the wheat is also drying smoothly, and there is no unexpected situation.

This is the season for planting soybeans and millet again. The weather is dry and the ground is getting drier. The wheat that was drying at home was forgotten.

Qiao Jiwei and Qian Dayong are busy making wheat rubbing machines these days, and have no free time to go to the field.But they don't need to worry about the work in the field. Without Qiao Jiwei's order, the apprentice helped the Qian family to scatter bean seeds and millet seeds in Qian Dayong's field.

The wheat has just been harvested recently, and it is time to pay the summer tax again.People in the Ming Dynasty had light tax burdens, and Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the previous generation, implemented the "one whip" system.The so-called one whip, that is, the land tax, food tax, and population tax are combined into one, so that the people will convert food and silk into silver taels to pay taxes.Zhang Juzheng's home was ransacked later, but the system survived.In addition, Emperor Wanli did not go to court for 48 years. He only knew how to collect money and enjoy sex. When the disaster happened, the finances of the court were empty.The ministers then came up with a way to hide wealth from the people. The simple explanation was to collect less taxes, so that the emperor had nowhere to collect money.This seems to have lightened the burden on the people invisibly.

Before paying the summer tax, a landowner came to the village to harvest wheat. The landowner was surnamed Zhao and lived in the county.In this place, the landlord and the tenant farmers agreed to split the wheat fifty-fifty, and pay the summer tax immediately after the wheat was distributed, so that it was easy to settle accounts.

The person who came to Qian Dayong's house to harvest wheat was the son of the landlord, whose name was Zhao Ji.This kid is not good at studying the Four Books and Five Classics, and he spends his days hanging out with a group of young people who are his age in the county town, doing nothing but fooling around.All day long, his father was very distressed by not doing business, so he sent him to the village to harvest wheat, so that he could be trained.

When he walked in and saw Qiao Jiwei, his eyes lit up. He didn't expect such a handsome young man to exist in Xiaoyeshan Village, so he couldn't help staring.Although he is very feminine, everyone is happy to see beautiful men and women.Of course he couldn't be exempt.

Qiao Jiwei felt his scalp tingling from seeing him, so he didn't care.He had already divided the wheat earned by the wheat rubbing machine and the wheat in his own field beforehand.Explaining the reason to him, the corners of the eyes were slightly raised when talking, very lively and cute.Qian Dayong stood dumbfounded in the yard, unable to say anything.Zhao Ji didn't know the cause and effect of the incident, and only regarded the two as brothers.

Zhao Ji didn't work in the industry, and couldn't bear to listen to Qiao Jiwei's explanation. He just wanted to finish harvesting the wheat early and go back to wander around the county.So he didn't argue with Qiao Jiwei, he cared about the weight of the two servings of wheat, and only took the wheat they grew at home.Then he went to another farm to collect wheat.

As the day of paying the summer tax approached, some merchants came to the village with silver taels, saying that they wanted to exchange the money for wheat.At this time, farmers have more wheat and less money, and the summer tax is silver taels, and some people are worrying.

After hearing the hawker's yelling, the village women carried wheat to the peddler to exchange money. The peddler gave the farmers three Wen for a liter of wheat, which was more than half of the market price.

Mother Qian also wanted to exchange wheat for money, but was stopped by Qiao Jiwei.Qiao Jiwei felt that there was something wrong with receiving three pennies for a liter of wheat. Qian's mother scolded him a few words for this, saying that he didn't want the money he got for nothing. Qian Dayong stood by Qiao Jiwei's side, and Qian's mother had no choice but to obey.

Soon the tax collector came to the village.In this place, one mu of wheat land is combined with one bucket of wheat. According to the market price, the Qian family has to pay fifty cash for wheat tax, plus personal tax and land tax, a total of eighty cash.Since Qiao Jiwei also made some money selling wheat rubbing machines a few days ago, eighty Wen was worth three wheat rubbing machines, and the Qian family could still pay them.

Qiao Jiwei did not expect that the taxes in the Ming Dynasty were so low. This seemed to be compassionate to the people, but if the taxes were low, the national treasury would be empty, so he couldn't help feeling a little worried.