Time flies, and a few months pass in the blink of an eye. Spring returns to the earth, and spring plowing has begun in various parts of the Ming Dynasty.
Here in Shangyun Town, Black Earth Province.
Li Da drove the cultivator somewhat clumsily on the wide plain. As the cultivator moved forward, he left behind thick black fertile soil.
The land here is not only fertile, it is good black soil, but the land here is also very fertile, with nearly one meter of fertile soil. The land is flat and open, with abundant rainfall. It is the most ideal agricultural production area and is very suitable for mechanization.
of farming.
The thick soil was turned out, revealing a lot of bugs and insect eggs, which attracted a large number of hungry birds to follow behind the cultivator. As the cultivator moved forward, these birds swarmed in.
Eat all the insects and eggs found in the soil.
"This machine is really easy to use."
Li Da said happily while turning on the cultivator.
Look behind you. In just a short time, a large area of land has been cultivated. If you use hoes or cattle and horses to cultivate it, you don't know how long it will take.
And there is definitely no way to dig out the thick soil like the machine does, and dig out the eggs, bugs and the like hidden in it.
Even if these eggs and bugs are not eaten by birds, they will all be frozen to death in a late spring cold. This is the benefit of deep plowing.
In addition, the weeds on the surface can be turned into the ground to suffocate and rot, becoming natural nutrients for crops. It can also loosen the soil and prevent it from hardening, which is conducive to the growth and germination of crop roots.
"This land is used to grow corn. You don't need much. One hundred acres is enough."
"The land next to us is used to grow wheat. We need to plant more varieties. It's enough to plant 500 acres."
"We also need to find a piece of land to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes. 200 acres is enough."
"Plow out another 1,000 acres of land to grow pasture. Then we can raise more cattle, sheep, horses and pigs, and we can open up more literature with Wang."
"Well, if you raise more, the food may not be enough, and you will have to plow thousands more acres of land to grow food."
While Li Da was plowing the fields, he was also planning this year's plan. It is said that a year's plan begins in spring and a day's plan begins in the morning. Farmers' plans for the New Year are very important.
Li Da's plan was naturally based on his neighbor Wang Kaiwen's plan. Wang Kaiwen divided his land into pieces, and planted different crops in each piece of land. The grains were used for his own consumption and for feeding livestock, such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes.
They are all used as feed for livestock, and various grasses are specially grown.
If it weren't for Wang Kaiwen, Li Dake would not have such a detailed and meticulous plan, nor would he know these things. He might just grow food foolishly, and not even buy a cultivator.
Just like Tian Sanwa who immigrated together, because there are no neighbors like Wang Kaiwen around, even though the officials from the Immigration Department have repeatedly promoted the benefits of cultivators, saying that the court now provides subsidies, and buying cultivators can provide a subsidy of 40
%, and you can also get interest-free loans and other preferential conditions.
Then there are not many immigrants who actually want to buy cultivators. Most immigrants are short-sighted and timid and afraid of trouble and trouble.
People who come from small places have not seen the world and do not know how powerful and efficient a cultivator is. They also think that buying this machine will not only cost the money in hand, but also owe a bank loan.
Indebtedness has been something that people have been most afraid of since ancient times. Usury and other things are something that people talk about with disdain. If you tell me now, what kind of machine you want to buy, or what kind of loan you need, isn't this a scam?
Therefore, there are very few people who buy cultivators. Only a small number of people know the functions and efficiency of cultivators, and they also know that they should try to buy them when there are subsidies now.
Now when spring plowing comes, the gap is immediately apparent.
Those who have cultivators are happily cultivating the land. They plow hundreds of acres of land a day. In just a few days, they plow thousands of acres of land. A large piece of land belongs to you.
Without purchasing a cultivator, we could only use horses or oxen to plow the land with traditional plows. People were so tired that even the oxen and horses stopped working.
It is simply impossible to compare with the machine based on this. Even if you are exhausted, you will still be far behind, so everyone's eyes are red and their intestines are blue with regret.
Others only have thousands of acres of land, but as for me, the hundreds of acres of land allocated to me by the government cannot be cultivated even if I work hard. The key is that the land cultivated is not as good as a cultivator.
When autumn comes, others can harvest a warehouse of grain at once, but you, with just a few fields, how much grain can you harvest?
Tian Sanwa regrets it very much now!
While holding the plow and whipping the horse to cultivate the land, I felt angry and my eyes were red. From time to time, I looked back at the bit of land behind me and then at the rumbling cultivator in the distance.
At the same time, it took a whole morning to plow a small piece of land, while the other party had already plowed hundreds of acres of land.
"Sanwa, we can't do this. How about we go to Li Da and borrow his cultivator for a few days? Otherwise, the gap between us and them will be too big."
Tian Sanwa's daughter-in-law was not calm anymore, and after thinking about it, she said to Tian Sanwa.
"How can anyone be so kind as to lend you a loan for a few days?"
"Everyone is plowing the land desperately now, just waiting to plant seeds. If you use it for a few days, he will have to cultivate thousands of acres less land. You think so."
Tian Sanwa put down what she was doing and let the horse rest and eat grass. Thinking about it, she shouldn't vent her anger on the horse. This farmer has a cow, and horses are very bad.
It's easy. In the past, I took great care of my horse and brushed and bathed it regularly.
"What should we do?"
"With what we have on hand, let alone thousands of acres of land, we can't cultivate even the hundreds of acres of land allocated to our family."
His wife immediately became unhappy. People always like to compare. Others have cultivated thousands of acres of land, but she may have only cultivated a hundred acres of land. The difference is too big. This is natural.
Very unhappy and unhappy.
"It's not because of you. When Li Da persuaded me to buy a cultivator together, it was because you were afraid of debt and that the money in your hand would be used up and become useless."
"Now that I know I'm jealous, what's the use?"
Tian Sanwa looked at her daughter-in-law and yelled, with a fire burning in her heart.
Especially when I saw the large area of land cultivated by the Li family, I was even more angry.
"How do I know how this machine works?"
"Besides, were you also afraid of debt at that time?"
"Just tell me that if I have this ability, go and get a cultivator now."
Naturally, his wife kept saying, Women are always like this.
"I'll go see Li Da."
Tian Sanwa angrily dropped what she was doing, got on her horse and headed towards the Li family's field.
Anyway, we can't cultivate much land by this method, so we might as well go to Li's place and have a look.
Riding a horse, we soon arrived at the Li family's field. We saw that a large area of land had been plowed, and it was very thick. You could see the fertile humus. The black soil looked very good.
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The entire land, plowed by machines, was neat and square.
Li Da's wife and her children were leisurely grazing the more than a dozen sheep and two horses at home. It was very relaxing and comfortable. Unlike his wife, who had to plow the fields like himself, not to mention how tired she was.
This efficiency is also too slow.
"Brother Li~"
Tian Sanwa came to Li Da's cultivator and shouted.
"Sanwa, why do you have time to come here? Come up quickly."
Li Da stopped his cultivator and then used Tian Sanwa to get inside the cultivator.
When Tian Sanwa heard this, she became even happier. She quickly sat on it, and then looked at the cultivator in front of her curiously.
"I'll teach you how to use this cultivator. It's actually very simple."
"This is started. After starting, you can slowly step on the accelerator and move forward. You only need to control the direction. Keep walking back and forth, back and forth, and the land will be plowed."
While driving the cultivator, Li Da explained it to Tian Sanwa in detail. In fact, Li Da learned to drive the cultivator from Wang Kaiwen.
This thing looks very complicated, but once you get familiar with it, it is very convenient and fast to use.
Tian Sanwa watched and listened. She sat on the cultivator and felt the vibrations of the machine. Looking behind her, she saw that the machine plowed a large area of land just once.
You can see a large number of birds following them, pecking at the insects and insect eggs that were dug up in the ground. All the originally dense weeds were turned into the ground. It only takes time for most of these weeds to settle.
All will rot and become nutrients for crops.
"This machine works really well!"
Tian Sanwa couldn't help but admired that such a machine could plow the land easily and efficiently, and there was no need to work hard with one's face facing the loess and one's back turned to the sky.
"Haha, that's good. I told you to buy one, but you just didn't listen."
"When I'm free, you can drive the machine over and try it."
When Li Day heard this, he couldn't help laughing happily. To be honest, if it weren't for Wang Kaiwen, he would never have bought this expensive machine. It cost nearly 200 taels of silver. This thing was very expensive.
"real?"
When Tian Sanwa heard this, she was immediately excited. If she could use this machine, she could cultivate a lot of land.
"We are all fellow villagers, so we should help each other. It's not a big deal. But you have to add fuel yourself, and I won't give you fuel."