Chapter 519: A Wooden Plow So Simple That Primitives Can't Look Down
Han Cheng found Lai, the first carpenter of the Qingque tribe, and began to tell Lai his idea about the Quyuan plow.
Of course, the so-called curved-column plow in Han Cheng's mouth was not the kind of curved-column plow that was common in later generations.
Not to mention the rest, just the two objects made of iron, the plowshare and the plowboard, were enough to stop him.
The "quyuan plow" he mentioned was a shockingly crude object.
In short, the general structure is a Y-shaped branch that has been knocked down.
The upper branch is long and the lower branch is short. The long branch is used to hang a rope for the deer to pull. The short branch at the lower side is shaped into a sharper shape as much as possible to become a plowshare and plow wall.
of strong presence.
The handle at the back is used to hold and control the plow.
Such a plow made entirely of wood can be said to be very crude.
Lai looked at the object on the ground and couldn't help but imitate the Son of God and sniffed.
It has been a long time since Shenzi asked him to build a new object, and today he finally came. This made Ling, an increasingly mature carpenter, very excited. He had not built anything new for a long time, which made him feel a little itchy.
The products produced by the Son of God must be high-quality products. This is a truth widely circulated in the Qingque tribe and everyone strongly agrees with it.
As the most skilled carpenter of the Qingque tribe, who made a variety of time-honored tools under the guidance of Shenzi, Lai's recognition of this sentence is far deeper than the average person.
And Shenzi's introduction to this new instrument also confirmed Lame's suspicion.
Animal power can be used to plow the land, which greatly improves the efficiency of farming. While people save labor, the cultivated area can also be greatly expanded.
As soon as I heard this introduction, I knew that this precious tool was extremely precious, at least on the same level as the columbine.
Lame suddenly became energetic, rolled up his sleeves, brought his tools, and was ready to fight continuously to overcome many difficulties, and then make the plow when he was exhausted.
However, the result...
The result is so eye-popping.
From the time the Son of God found him, to explaining the structure, finding materials, and making tools...all of this added up, one day was useless.
Moreover, this magical tool that the Son of God said was completely beyond his imagination...
This...is this too crude?
Looking at the thing on the ground that was made after cutting off a tree branch and resting for a while, the sleeves had not yet been put down, I didn't know how to express my feelings for a while.
"What the hell, it's just a red light, it makes my blood boil!"
I don’t know how many years later, in a movie, the taxi driver who had watched too many police and gangster movies expressed Lame’s feelings at this time.
There's no need to go to war with something like this, right?
Complaints are complaints, but things made with tools must be experimented.
So under the leadership of the great Han Shenzi, lamely carrying a plow that was so crude that even primitive people could not stand it, they followed Shenzi to the deer pen, abducted the deer who was going to be used as a coolie, and walked towards the outside of the tribe.
On the fields around the tribe, there are many people working for the land.
Most of the slaves are responsible for the more laborious land reclamation, while most of the old hands of the Qingque tribe work on the land that has been reclaimed.
Compared with clearing wasteland, plowing land that has already been planted with food is much easier.
The Qingque tribe now has more than a thousand acres of land. Even with more manpower, it will not be easy to cultivate these lands in a short period of time.
So far, only one-eighth of the land has been plowed.
Han Cheng and Lai came to a field very close to the tribe.
Lame didn't know how to plow the fields with a plow, so the task of plowing the fields with this ridiculously simple wooden plow could only fall to Han Cheng, the well-informed son of God.
Because deer had been used to sow seeds and harrow the ground before, the Qingque tribe did not lack such things as ‘deer traps’.
Fix the deer harness made of rope and leather on the deer. The wooden hook on the back of the deer harness is hooked on the front of the wooden plow, and the rope loop is threaded through holes.
Han Cheng hunched his back slightly and held his hands firmly on the handle of the wooden plow.
"ha!"
After the order was given, Uncle Lu, who had already formed a conditioned reflex after working for a long time, stepped forward and stepped forward.
The wooden plow moved accordingly, but the effect was not ideal.
Because the wooden plow is too light and the plowshare made of pure wood is not sharp enough, the plowshare only penetrates a shallow layer of the soil.
After walking a certain distance, Han Cheng's arms had to press the plow handle hard, and finally the entire weight of his body was pressed on the plow handle.
With such added strength, the plowshare with a slanted opening below, under the guidance of Uncle Lu, finally sunk deeper into the soil, and the depth it plowed out was similar to what a person could dig out with a bone shovel.
Lame, who was following behind, looked at the dug ditch and the turned-up soil, his eyes widened. Could such a tool really be used to turn up the ground?
And it seems that the speed is indeed much faster than a person turning with a bone shovel.
Different from the lame surprise, Han Cheng, who walked forward for a while while pressing the wooden plow, gradually frowned.
It is too laborious to plow the land with such a wooden plow.
I have to press hard on the plow handle almost all the time.
Moreover, this kind of wooden plow without a curved marrow wall causes the soil turned up to go to both sides.
Unlike the plows of later generations, after plowing, all the soil turned up went to one side, and most of it was retained.
In this way, the plowed soil is not conducive to receiving sunlight.
At the same time, the turned up soil will also cover the unploughed land, which is not conducive to the operation of the next plow, and it is easy to miss the plowed land.
Using this kind of plow to plow the ground is not only tiring for the people, but also for the deer pulling the wooden plow.
Not long after plowing, the slender legs of Mr. Lu, who was pulling the plow in front, started to tremble a little.
And Uncle Deer is the strongest and most powerful of all deer.
If another deer had come over, I'm afraid the plow would have penetrated a little deeper into the soil, and it would have just walked away.
If such a wooden plow was pulled by big men like oxen, horses, or mules, it would be just fine. It would be really difficult for the deer to pull it.
After plowing like this for a while, I looked at Mr. Lu, whose legs were shaking more and more in front of him. Han Cheng, who was also very tired, finally stopped plowing.
It seems that at this time, plowing the land is still not possible.
Judging from the current conditions, if you want to use animal power to plow, there are generally only two ways out.
One is to find a metal ore, smelt a large amount of metal, and use the metal to make a plowshare and plow wall, creating a true curved shaft plow.
Or find large animals such as oxen, horses, and donkeys and use them to pull the plow.
If one of these two conditions is met, plowing can be achieved.
Of course, if both can be satisfied, that would be even better.
But for now, these two things seem far away.
It would be nice if the rhinoceros of the Soaring Snake Tribe hadn't been killed. Such a giant-like existence was more than enough to pull a wooden plow.
No matter how dull a plow is, it can be pulled into the air when paired with such a big animal.
It's a pity that guy is dead...
It seems that it is not impossible to use a deer-drawn plow to plow the land!
Han Cheng, who was sitting there feeling worried for a while, suddenly stood up...
