The demand for animal-powered rice transplanters is highly related to farmers’ per capita farming area.
In later generations of China, animal-powered rice transplanters did not become mainstream. This was because farmers in later generations of China had extremely limited farming areas, with only a few acres of land per capita. Under such conditions, purchasing a rice transplanter that often cost tens of thousands of yuan seemed to be more than worth the gain.
You can obviously stick to the things you did in the past after working hard for a few days. Of course, there is no need to buy expensive machines.
However, under the management of Li Zhi, the Han people expanded rapidly in Southeast Asia in the 17th century and obtained an unprecedented vast land, which led to a rapid expansion of the per capita cultivated area.
Li Zhi has now occupied the three northeastern provinces, Taiwan, Luzon and other large granaries. Now he has also occupied the Indochina Peninsula, which has extremely excellent agricultural conditions. The first batch of immigrants to move to the plains of the Indochina Peninsula can easily be allocated dozens of acres.
paddy fields.
The per capita cultivated area of these farmers is about 40 acres.
With such a per capita land occupation, the demand for agricultural machinery has emerged. Because for an order of magnitude of forty acres of paddy fields per capita, using manual labor alone will exhaust people to death. Even if they only sleep for six hours a day, they will work hard.
Even if we work for a month, we will not be able to plant all the seedlings in the 40 acres of paddy field.
If you can plant thirty acres of rice seedlings in a month, it’s pretty good. If you do it manually, ten acres of the field will always be left uncultivated.
The price of buying a small hand-held rice transplanter is only one hundred and ten taels. A rice transplanter can plant one hundred and fifty acres of paddy fields a month, which can meet the needs of almost four farmers. The rice transplanter avoids forty
The income from the neglect of acres of paddy fields was more than 200 taels of silver.
Calculating this, there is no doubt that farmers will equip a large number of rice transplanters.
Therefore, in front of Li Laosi, immigrants from the Indochina Peninsula, where the per capita farming area is considerable, generally use agricultural machinery. This is determined by the amount of land.
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Abbas II wore a red turban with a huge ruby inlaid on it. He wore a red double-breasted robe and a sharp Persian scimitar on his waist. This whole outfit made the Shah of the Persian Empire
, or the emperor, looks noble and heroic.
He knelt down on the thick Persian carpet in the magnificent palace and looked at the Mini rifle and scope that Baldeep had given him.
These equipments were sold by the Dutch to the Mughal Emperor Humayun. Humayun used these equipments to arm the Mughal army, including Baldip in Jharkhand. However, at this time, the Mughal army had 200,000 soldiers.
After the defeat of Burma and the death of Humayun on the battlefield, the newly unified Mughal Empire once again fell into division and civil war.
Baldeep is very smart. He understands that no noble in northern India has the strength to unify the north in a short time. And Li Zhi's army is in Myanmar and may invade India at any time. So Baldeep made the same choice as Humayun.
Persia.
At this time, Persia was under the rule of the Safavid dynasty and had a strong national power. It was a Central Asian power that could compete with the Ottoman Turkish Empire for hundreds of years.
Ottoman Turkey originated in Asia Minor and had very convenient exchanges with Europe, so it had advanced weapons. In the war between Persia and Turkey, Turkey had the absolute upper hand at the beginning. The Turkish cannons and matchlocks gave the Persian legions a
Crashes one after another.
However, technology and weapons are always in a state of proliferation. Under the pressure of subjugation, it only took more than ten years for the Persians, who originally had only cold weapons, to learn to make cannons and matchlocks. In the early seventeenth century, the Safavid dynasty even
He took the initiative to attack Turkey and seized large areas of land in the Middle East.
During the reign of Abbas II, Ottoman Turkey and Persia finally achieved peace. The territory between Persia and Turkey was also confirmed in this era.
In fact, Persia at this time was so powerful that it could easily influence the situation in Central Asia. When the Mughal Emperor Humayun was in exile in Persia, Abbas II only lent Humayun an army and helped Humayun conquer
the whole of Afghanistan.
Abbas II looked at Baldeep who was kneeling humbly in front of him and asked: "Baldip of the Mughals, why did you give me these advanced weapons?"
Baldeep did not dare to raise his head, but said in Persian: "The great Persian emperor Humayun has been killed in the battle, and the Mughal Empire has been destroyed. Now there is only India in the thousands of miles between Burma and Persia.
There is war and chaos among the princes. No one can stop the people of the Ming Dynasty."
Almost all the Mughal princes were Persian Central Asians, including Baldip. So Baldip could speak fluent Persian. In fact, during this era, the culture of the Persian Empire was very prosperous and influenced the entire Central Asia.
.And Abbas II was a famous sage in the history of this powerful Persian Empire.
Therefore, the wise Baldeep was extremely humble in front of Abbas II.
Abbas II looked at the new weapons on the ground and tried his best not to look at them carefully.
As a sage with great reputation in Central Asia, Abbas II would not seize the other party's gifts before reaching an agreement.
He waved to the attendant next to him.
The attendant quickly came up holding a large map.
Abbas II looked at the direction of Myanmar on the map and remained silent.
Baldeep raised his head and said loudly: "Great Abbas II, there is no longer an emperor in the seven thousand miles of India from Burma to Persia. The iron hooves of the Ming Dynasty are about to crush India.
After the fall of India, the Ming people will undoubtedly continue to advance eastward. By then, the Persian Empire will also become the target of the Ming people."
"Great Abbas II, you are the patron of the Mughal Empire. You will never sit back and watch the Ming Dynasty swallow up the entire India!"
Abbas II sat on the carpet and said nothing.
After a long time, he asked: "Smart Baldeep, how many troops do the people of the Ming Dynasty have?"
Baldeep replied: "There are 100,000 Ming people in Burma, sometimes 150,000. They all use this new type of weapon, and their fighting power is very powerful."
Abbas II looked at the map and sighed.
There are too many external threats.
Persia finally reached peace with Turkey, but it was already facing the threat of Tsarist Russia moving south. The Central Asian princes in northern India once tried to challenge the Persian Empire. Abbas II spent more than ten years supporting Humayun and suppressing it.
He had a challenger from India, but lost Humayun in one fell swoop.
And now, people from the distant Ming Dynasty have begun to threaten this ancient empire.
In Central Asia, peace seems to have never existed.
If it is shown that the Chinese have an army of 150,000, this is a more powerful opponent than Tsarist Russia.
Baldeep looked at Abbas II with anticipation.
Abbas II was thinking about the map. After a long time, he raised his head and saw Baldeep's eyes.
