When Marin returned to Orich, Wagner's Second Corps and Jurgen's Cossack Cavalry Corps were already escorting the first batch of Hungarian peasant uprising prisoners to Goslar, the "city of silver mines". There, the huge dormitory area prepared for the Hungarian prisoners of miners was also in full swing.
Now, there are still two months before the autumn harvest, and most of the serfs are very idle, and they just happened to be recruited to build a house for the family of Hungarian peasant prisoners of war.
These European farmers are really unreliable. After planting the wheat into the ground, they usually don’t care. Then, they will go to the ground to harvest until the autumn harvest. For a long few months from spring plowing to autumn harvest, the serfs have nothing to do. Usually, at this time, the owners of the manor either recruit them to do something else. Or the monarchs take the opportunity to recruit the people to fight for territory...
At this time, Marin summoned the serfs to work, which was quite common in this era. The only difference is that when Marin worked, Marin would distribute food...
This is not counted as the rations distributed in the manor, but the additional food! The serfs who were recruited were not happy at first because they consumed a lot of body and ate more when they did this heavy work. If they were recruited for free, the serfs would suffer a lot.
Fortunately, Marin sent extra food and managed enough to make them very happy. Because if they came to the construction site for dinner, they could save the food they had at home. In this way, the children could eat more.
Of course, only Marin can be so rich. After all, Beihai Country has a lot of food!
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Just as Marin was hesitating whether to tell Caesar the truth and canceled his request to go to the study to comprehend the eight Chinese characters regularly, the guard suddenly reported that another cargo ship in Panama City was back. It was filled with cargo ships transported from China and a letter from Kong Tai, the governor of Dongfan Island...
Marin took the letter and opened it and found that it was written in Chinese characters - this is also for the purpose of keeping it confidential.
In the letter, Kong Tai happily told Marin that the carriage that Marin had asked him to look for before, he finally sent someone to find it in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty!
The trolley is an ancient seedling machine, which was invented by Zhao Guo during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. This thing is a bit like the plow cart seen by Marin before, consisting of three plow carts. But unlike the plow cart invented by Prade before, the three plow carts are parallel. Moreover, the plow carts on the trolley are very shallow. When walking in the field with a cow, they can only create very shallow ditches, just enough to be sown.
Then, the funnel hanging behind the three plowshares will sow seeds behind the plowshare through the hollow tube. The farmer behind can take the opportunity to kick back the soil with his feet and step on it gently, and it will be done.
Because the plowshares are shallow and the animals are easy to pull, dozens of acres can be sown every day...
"Isn't it more than 600 acres per day?" Marin was a little confused.
This is also because Marin was unaware of it and was misled by later novels. In fact, the number of acres of land that can be sown by the cart every day is one hectares of land, not 667 acres.
This is a common sense issue. The introduction of the car on the Duniang Encyclopedia must have been written by a fool who didn’t understand agriculture at all. What is the concept of sowing 667 acres a day? Marin remembers that the seeder powered by a hand-held tractor in later generations could only sow three or four acres per hour, and only dozens of acres a day.
Ancient technology can exceed the efficiency of tractors, more than 600 acres a day? It’s nonsense!
The actual situation is that the number of seeds sowing a hectare per day is one hectare. In ancient times, one hectare was 50 acres. In other words, the real efficiency of the car was at most 50 acres per day. This was still the acres of the Han Dynasty, which was smaller than the acres in later generations. Therefore, the real efficiency of the car was at most forty or fifty acres per day.
Of course, this is already amazing. Because, if you sow manually, if you dig a hole and then bury the seeds, it would be good to sow one or two acres of land every day. And sowing... it is easy to sow casually, but manually sowing seeds is definitely uneven. Sometimes, a few seeds come together to compete for nutrition, and then everyone cannot grow well...
After reading Kong Tai's introduction in his letter, Ma Lin felt relieved - that's right! To be honest, I read those novels in my previous life that I said that 667 acres of wormwood sowed 667 acres every day, and Ma Lin was scared. After all, 667 acres is not a small area. He remembered that in his previous life, the land in his small village was only six or seven hundred acres (excluding vegetable fields). wormwood was so powerful, was it the rhythm of sowing the farmland of a village every day?
Moreover, the seeder driven by a hand-held tractor at Malin's previous life sow dozens of acres of land a day. No matter how much a cart is, it is still driven by a cattle and horse, and it will not be better than a tractor. Because the tractor does not need to rest, but the cattle and horse needs it.
Therefore, the most decent data is obtained at this time for up to 40 or 50 acres of land sown every day.
However, this is already amazing. Moreover, with the sowing, the wheat in the wheat fields grows more orderly and will not crowd together to grab nutrients, which will help increase yield.
Of course, this only applies to dry land in the north. People in the south plant rice, which is artificially planted and does not require a seedling. Because when transplanting rice, they manually adjust the seedlings into rows. Moreover, there is no need to worry that some seeds do not grow due to poor development. After all, when transplanting rice, they must choose to plant seedlings in the field. If they don’t have good seedlings, they will throw them away...
However, dry land cannot be done like this. Because seedlings grow in paddy fields, it is easier to pull out and insert them. After all, the fields are soaked in water. If it is dry and hard dry land, the wheat seedlings will probably hurt the roots of the wheat seedlings.
Therefore, wheat can only be sown in dry land in the north. Sometimes, wheat seeds will grow together, and several wheat plants will grow together.
However, this doesn't matter. Because Chinese farmers often go to the fields to remove weeds during the period when they sow and harvest. If they encounter several wheats growing together, they can also adjust them manually. Or, simply point them and pull out the one or two worst-growing plants among the few wheats that grow together as weeds. In this way, there will be enough room for growth and development for the good-growing wheat...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! And European farmers of this era obviously did not realize it or understand it. Therefore, European wheat yields have always been very low. Fortunately, the northern German region mainly planted rye with tenacious life like wild grass, so don't worry about these. Otherwise, God knows how much it can be harvested...
As of now, the cultivation of wheat in Beihai is mainly based on spreading and hole sowing, which is very inefficient and unscientific. Therefore, although there are fertilizer technology with complete fertilizers in later generations, the yield is still not up, only four or five hundred pounds. If the leaf sowing technology is used, the output is estimated to increase. Of course, the practice of removing weeds in the fields and pulling out the weakest wheat plants in the fields requires guidance from Chinese farmers. Even if Marin knows the principle of this, it is still necessary to rely on farming experts to teach this. After all, Marin is a ruler and cannot go to the fields to teach serfs step by step...
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The first two letter papers mainly introduce the cart. According to Kong Tai, the south has no use of carts because of the rice planting process. Therefore, Kong Tai's people sent people to the Central Plains region in the north of the Ming Dynasty to find the carts.
However, the Ming Dynasty prohibited the French from walking freely in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Kong Tai spent money to hire locals from the Ming Dynasty to go north and found the car.
Moreover, Kong Tai hired scholars from the Ming Dynasty. Because ordinary people had no right to walk freely in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. Only scholars had the privilege of "studying" around the country. Of course, the price of hiring scholars was not low. After all, they were people with status. As for Juren and Jinshi, don't think about it. They were already officials of the Ming Dynasty and were not short of money. The income from donating land was enough to make them happy. How could they have to work hard for some money? Only scholars are not qualified to be officials, and many people are willing to accept employment. I have never heard of poor scholars, but I have never heard of poor scholars or poor Jinshi...
However, Kong Tai hired scholars who went to the north to look for carts. He not only found carts in the Central Plains, Holland Province, but also discovered a magical artifact for harvesting wheat - Mai Sa...
It is said that this harvesting artifact called Mai Saur can harvest six or seven acres of wheat every day. If two men cooperate, they can harvest up to 20 acres of wheat a day...
"Damn, what kind of black technology is this?" Marin was shocked. It's so scary to harvest 20 acres a day, okay?
You should know that if you harvest wheat manually, you can harvest more than one acre in a day. A more skilled expert can harvest 2 acres of land. Therefore, every autumn harvest, Marin will send troops to help in order to harvest wheat. Otherwise, if it is dragged too long, the wheat will rot in the field when it rains.
Chapter completed!