In Longtou Town in the middle of the river, Old Man Wang and Old Man Li got together again.
The town may not be considered big, but it only has a population of tens of thousands, but it is not considered small at all, and it is developing rapidly.
Because the sons of Old Man Wang and Old Man Li are from the same village, they are very close to each other in Longtou Town, and they naturally know each other's situation.
The two old men came to the town and had nothing to do, so naturally they wandered around Longtou Town.
"This town is really lively. Everyone lives together and the planning is neat. This is actually quite good."
Old Man Li was wandering around Longtou Town casually.
Because Longtou Town is an immigrant town, it was planned and constructed uniformly by the government. It is square and dotted, and the planning is very neat. The tens of thousands of people in the entire town all live together, so it is very lively.
Compared with my hometown in Henan, in addition to the relatively concentrated population in the city, the population in the counties, towns and so on below are very scattered, and it is impossible to live together.
“It’s really good and lively.”
Old Man Wang also nodded slightly.
Think about Wangjia Village in the past, a large village with hundreds of households and thousands of people. I don’t know how lively it was. But now a large number of people in Wangjia Village have migrated out, and young adults have gone to work in the city. Only the elderly and children are left.
The desertedness.
"It's good to have more people, especially this kid, there are so many!"
Old Man Wang sighed. Looking around, he could see groups of children everywhere. These children were playing and playing incessantly. There were so many of them. Sometimes when a group of children ran past, several children would be heard.
Ten children followed.
If you take a closer look at these children, you will see that they have very different looks. Basically, they all have mixed-race faces, but there are relatively few of them with pure Han ancestry.
Foreign women can be seen everywhere on the roads. These foreign women are basically concubines of local immigrants. On the one hand, they give birth to children for immigrants, and on the other hand, they are also an important labor force.
The Hezhong area is vast and sparsely populated, with vast fertile land and grasslands. The number of immigrants who immigrated is only 1 million, which can be said to be very, very few.
Large areas of land remain undeveloped, and large areas are vast wilderness areas.
Manpower is an important factor restricting development here.
These women from all over the world were basically slaves. They were bought as concubines, produced a large number of offspring, and became the most important labor force, making great contributions to the development of the Hezhong area.
They are considered the saddest generation. They grew up in their respective countries and regions, but in the end they became slaves and were sold here. Then they became reproductive tools and labor force. They often have the least status in the family.
Because here, the Han wife is the hostess of the family, and they are just servants in the family. They are almost the same as maids. If they can give birth to a son and a half, their status will be higher, otherwise they really have no status. After all,
They are purchased slaves.
But the children they gave birth to were completely different.
Even though they look more like them, they are also descendants of immigrants here and citizens of the Ming Dynasty. They have been Ming people from the moment they were born.
Therefore, even if they don't look like Han people, their status is still guaranteed. Coupled with the wealth of the Hezhong area, they have had no worries about food and clothing since they were young. They can also go to school and enjoy everything that people in the Ming Dynasty can enjoy.
The two of them looked everywhere, nodding slightly as they looked.
Although there are many foreign women here, and foreign women from all over the world can be seen everywhere, they are all wearing the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, and they speak the Ming dialect to each other, and they have become out-and-out women of the Ming Dynasty.
Not to mention the children here, all of them are weird and quirky. They all speak Ming dialect and are authentic Ming people. Even the children are noisy with each other and are said to be not Ming people.
They were anxious and quarreled with each other.
For these children, even though they don't look like Ming people, they are all proud of being Ming people.
The power of the Ming Empire has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, not to mention that they are indeed the descendants of the Ming people, they are just mixed.
The two old men watched and walked, and before they knew it, they came to the outside of the city and to the vast fields.
The spacious cement road was very busy with people and cars coming and going, and at the same time, steam harvesters could be seen driving towards the fields.
“Are these black smoke-emitting harvesters?”
Old Man Wang looked at the machines walking on the road emitting black smoke, thought for a while and asked.
"Yes, this is a steam harvester. I saw it last time when I went to Kaifeng. This thing harvests wheat very fast."
When Old Man Li saw it, he nodded quickly.
"How fast?"
Old Man Wang thought for a while and asked.
There are not many machines in use here in my hometown, and those stingy landlords and wealthy people have not yet come out of their original survival mode.
I still like the old days of renting out the land and then sitting back and collecting the rent.
This kind of life is very simple, you don't have to do anything, just wait to collect the rent.
However, times have changed now.
A large number of people migrated out, and the number of people cultivating the land was greatly reduced. A large number of the remaining young people moved to the cities to work, leaving no one to cultivate the fields owned by the wealthy landlords.
However, these wealthy landowners do not want to farm by themselves, let alone buy expensive machinery for farming.
This has also led to the failure to promote various agricultural machinery in my hometown in Henan, with very few people buying and using it.
On the contrary, in places such as Liaodong, Hezhong, the Western Regions, Golden Continent, overseas vassals and colonies, because there are fewer people and more land, the demand for farming machinery is very large, and various farming machinery are very popular.
The Hezhong area is vast and sparsely populated. The land is vast, fertile, and flat, which is very suitable for the use of agricultural machinery. The government has given a lot of support, including interest-free loans from banks, etc., so all kinds of farming machinery are very popular.
prevail.
Machinery can be used for plowing, sowing, harvesting, rice milling, flour milling, etc., which greatly improves production efficiency. This is also an important reason why the Hezhong area can become the granary and meat warehouse of the Ming Dynasty.
"You'll know just by looking at it."
Old Man Li smiled and took Old Man Wang to the edge of a field. Here, he saw a steam harvester doing preparatory work for harvesting for more than ten days.
Check the machinery, add coal, prepare bags, etc. When the preparations are completed, no time is wasted before going to the fields to harvest.
Accompanied by bursts of whistles and black smoke, more than a dozen steam engine harvesters went down to the ground together. The harvesting machinery in front of the machines continued to rotate. Wherever they passed, wheat was constantly being involved, and the wheat straw was also being swept.
The machinery was neatly arranged aside.
With the movement of the machinery, the grain is exported here, and a steady stream of wheat pours out and is put into the bag. In just a moment, the bag is full of wheat.
The people above quickly bandaged it, pushed the bag and dropped it into the field. Someone immediately picked up the bag and stacked it on the cement road.
The speed of steam harvesters is very fast. When more than a dozen steam harvesters work together, the efficiency is even more amazing. In just a short time, a large wheat field has been harvested cleanly.
“Is this still farming?”
Old Man Wang looked at the scene in front of him on the road and couldn't help but open his eyes and mouth.
He has been cultivating fields all his life, and he has worked hard all his life with his face facing the loess and his back facing the sky.
He knows very well about farming.
No matter how much grain is grown, how much sweat is shed. Every grain of grain is worth a drop of sweat. This is not excessive at all.
When harvesting, you would bend over with a sickle in hand. It would take a whole day to bend down. Often when you got up, you couldn't stand straight and you were almost dead from exhaustion.
But look at it again. Just sit on the machine to harvest wheat and just drive the machine forward. It's so simple. In order to prevent the sun from shining on you, a sunshade cover is added on top. The whole person is sweating a little.
There is no need to step out, and you don’t even need to put your feet on the ground.
And the harvesting speed is really too fast.
If you let yourself harvest the large wheat field in front of you and use a sickle to harvest it slowly, it will probably take several days to finish harvesting.
But these harvesters only need to go back and forth a few times to harvest a large wheat field.
Not only has it been harvested, but the wheat has also been threshed and put into bags. All it takes is to dry it in the sun.
If it is a traditional harvesting method, the wheat and wheat straw must be threshed. This is an extremely laborious process. It requires hard shaking and smashing before the wheat can be threshed.
However, with this harvester, this step is omitted, and the machine has already completed this step.
This made Uncle Wang feel even more powerful.
It is difficult to harvest wheat when you grow your own land. After harvesting, you have to dry it in the sun. After drying, you will start to thresh the grains. Often there will be stripes of wheat all over your body. It will feel itchy and painful, and it will be extremely uncomfortable.
, many children simply can’t stand it, so the old farmers have to endure it.
"We are really old."
Old Man Li also sighed.
He has also been farming all his life and knows all too well the hard work of farming.
Especially when it comes to harvest time, it is even more busy and tiring. After a year of hard work, when harvesting wheat, nothing can be wasted. After harvesting, we have to pick up wheat ears and not waste a grain of grain.
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The whole family, old and young, went out together to harvest wheat, dry it, thresh it, and then use a sieve to sift it clean, and use a windmill to blow it clean. Finally, the wheat had to be shelled and ground. This was another long process.
After experiencing countless hard work and sweat, it can be turned into flour, but often it is impossible to eat a few meals of white flour steamed buns. We provide you with the fastest update of Ming Zhenhai King, Chapter 1624, is this still farming? Free reading.
