Of course, it is very simple to increase the income of farmers. Reduce the number of people farming by 70%. In this way, the income can be tripled and reach the upper-middle income level in Mayi.
Alternatively, we should increase the area of cultivated land by three times to bring the total cultivated land in Mayi to 10 million acres. In this way, the per capita yield per mu will reach 100 acres, and the income of farmers can be equivalent to the income of workers in Mayi.
But this cannot be achieved overnight, especially in Mayi, which does not have 10 million acres of land to cultivate. Unless Xu Wei expands his territory and develops other counties, and the entire Datong Basin is turned into fields, it is estimated that this goal can be met
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With this strong contrast, more than 40,000 people quit the field cooperative that month and applied to Xu Wei to become workers, and Xu Wei approved it. This is not that Xu Wei does not pay attention to agricultural development, but that Mayi's agriculture
The population has far exceeded the needs of development. Reducing farmers can actually increase farmers' income.
As for the remaining 100,000 farmers, even if they find that the income from farming in Mayi is not high, they are still reluctant to give up the land they just acquired. Moreover, for them, being able to earn thousands of dollars at a time is already very impressive. They are very
Satisfied and unwilling to change the current life.
After the summer harvest, summer planting begins. Most of the fields are planted with soybeans, and a small amount of various vegetables are planted, which are used to make various pickles.
Last year, Mayi's kimchi became famous all over the grassland. The kimchi can not only relieve greasiness, but also contains salt, and can also be obtained in a small wooden barrel. It can be said that it is a multi-purpose dish. It is very popular among herdsmen and has become an important product imported from Mayi to the grassland.
One of the commodities.
When the harvest in Mayi was completed, Liu Bei, who was not far from Mayi, was also leading people to harvest. Liu Bei and his group had fewer people and more land. They did not have the five-star divine equipment like Xu Wei's hundred-refined sickle, pedal thresher, and bellows.
, water conservancy millstones and other agricultural tools that can improve efficiency are naturally not as efficient as Xu Wei and others in harvesting.
Liu Bei could only take the lead and lead the people to harvest wheat himself.
It's just that such hard work made Zhang Fei very resentful. It didn't matter if he was asked to fight for a whole day, but bending down to harvest wheat was something Zhang Fei had never done before. He was not familiar with it!
Their family is a wealthy family in Youzhou, and they no longer need to work in the fields themselves. Not to mention that Zhang Fei's father has high hopes for him. He has been taught by famous teachers since he was a child. If he wants Zhang Fei to succeed, he will not let him do any farm work.
Already.
So he soon became impatient. He went to Liu Bei and said, "Brother, I always hold a spear and a broadsword, but I really can't handle this sickle!"
Liu Bei tied up the wheat and said with a smile: "Third brother, you are born with supernatural power. Cutting wheat is really overkill. Why don't you go pull the millstone!"
Faced with such a bumper harvest, Liu Bei was in a very good mood even though harvesting wheat was very tiring.
Zhang Fei said angrily: "That's what a cow does, and I'm not willing to do it."
Jian Yong, who was beside Liu Bei, also put down the wheat and said with a smile: "Pulling and milling is indeed overqualified. If you don't have Yide to thresh wheat, with Yide's strength, you can do this job as well as ten!"
Liu Bei didn't have Xu Wei's pedal threshing machine here. If he wanted to thresh wheat, he could only use wooden threshing tools with horizontal strips on them, and then beat the wheat down to thresh. This method was labor-intensive and very inefficient.
At that time, Guan Yu led his men to beat the wheat and thresh it.
Zhang Fei became even more reluctant when he thought of Guan Yu who was sweating.
He said: "It's useless to put in all your efforts like this. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must sharpen his tools first. Thunder God in Mayi has already started planting in the summer, but here we haven't even finished harvesting. Why don't you buy some
Thunder God’s farm tools!”
Liu Bei said helplessly: "I can't afford it. A pedal thresher costs 3,000 yuan, a bellows costs 1,000 yuan, and a water conservancy millstone costs 10,000 yuan. Who can afford such expensive farm tools? Even the cheapest sickle costs 200 yuan."
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Zhang Fei said: "Thunder Lord's is a hundred-refined sickle. It is made of better materials than our swords. This kind of sickle is worth the money. It is not like our sickle, which needs to be polished after cutting for a period of time. It is dull and soft!"
The farming in Youzhou began to harvest, and Liu Yu also helped Liu Bei get tens of thousands of kilograms of iron for Liu Bei to make into sickles, etc. Liu Bei also bought some sickles himself, and then managed to get tens of thousands of sickles. It's not like he never thought about going there.
Xu Wei bought a sickle from there, but the sickle in Youzhou only cost 30 yuan, while Xu Wei's sickle cost 200 yuan. The price difference was several times that Liu Bei had no choice but to choose local products.
Although Zhang Fei persuaded him like this, Liu Bei just said: "It's too expensive and not worth it!"
Zhang Fei said: "Brother, you are biased against Lei Gong. If you have good things, you won't use them. I will use my own monthly salary to sell them!"
After speaking, Zhang Fei asked his men to go to Mayi to buy new farm tools. The two places were not far away, and Zhang Fei's new farm tools arrived in his hands a day later!
Zhang Fei wore the new straw hat given by Mayi and said with a smile: "This Lei Gong is really a bit weird. When you buy a farm tool, you even get a straw hat as a gift. Brother, you have been knitting straw shoes for many years, but you have never thought of using straw to make a straw hat!"
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Liu Bei's eyes lit up when he saw the straw hat on Zhang Fei's head and said: "A hat made of wheat straw is really suitable for the common people."
He picked up the straw hat on Zhang Fei's head, looked at it for a while, then got some wheat straw, and quickly made a straw hat.
Then he continued to make several straw hats and sent them to Guan Yu and Jian Yong.
Zhang Fei smiled when he saw Liu Bei's skills and said, "Brother, your straw weaving skills are getting better and better."
Liu Bei saw the equipment on his body and said strangely: "Didn't you say you wanted to buy Mayi's sickle yourself? Why is this thing on your body the same as a hoe!"
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "This is a new farm tool for harvesting wheat in Mayi. It's called a plunder. It's said that this tool harvests wheat several times faster than a sickle. There aren't many in Mayi! If the horse summer harvest hadn't ended, I wouldn't be able to buy it.
!You don’t need to bend down to use this piece of equipment, so it’s just right for my little brother to use!”
This is really not Zhang Fei's pretentiousness. For a two-meter-tall strong man to bend down and cut wheat, it would really kill someone!
With the new farm tools in hand, he started to use them with great interest. He saw Zhang Fei sweeping across the wheat field with his plunder. All the wheat within the plunder was cut off, and a bunch of wheat was pushed aside by him, but there was no
How much effort does it take.
Zhang Fei immediately shouted to a field soldier: "Tie them up quickly!"
The field soldiers immediately tied up the bunch of wheat.
Along the way, Zhang Fei's sweep cleared the way, cutting off wheat within a ten-foot radius. The two or three people following him were too busy to catch up with wheat, and Liu Bei was surprised when he saw it.
Jian Yong on the side was surprised and said: "Xuande, these farm tools in Mayi are really not to be underestimated. We still have to buy some!"
Zhang Fei not only bought a shovel, but also a pedal thresher and a bellows. After Liu Bei used it, he had to admit that Mayi farm tools were expensive for a reason, and the efficiency improvement was too high, so
He spent all the money of the Tuntian Xiaowei Mansion and purchased a large number of Mayi farm tools.