The Ishikari Plain has 4,000 square kilometers, and the water network is vertical and horizontal, which is very suitable for opening up paddy fields to grow rice. In fact, "Ishikari" in Ainu language is "a winding river". The Ishikari River is also the largest river in the Hokkaido region, with sufficient water volume and can meet the needs of paddy fields irrigation.
Although the yield per mu of rice is generally much higher than that of wheat, the labor intensity of paddy fields is incomparable to dry fields. For example, if you plant wheat, just sow it with a trolley bar and you will be done. At most, you can remove the weeds later. At the same time, pull out the extra seedlings that are not growing well, leaving only the strong wheat seedlings. The labor requirements for these jobs are not very high. With tools such as trolleys, Prade plow trucks and samares, it is still possible for a family to plant hundreds of acres of land.
However, rice fields are different. Not to mention, the labor intensity of rice transplanting alone is not comparable to dry land. For rice transplanting, Malin couldn't think of any simple machinery that could help transplant rice. Because even the seedling dumpers in later generations were not so good. Of course, a better rice transplanter appeared later. However, Malin had never seen it. Because the older generation of farmers in his hometown insisted on transplanting rice by themselves in his previous life. The main reason is that the local family only has a few acres of fields and has strong labor.
It was not too late, and it was finished in a few days. In addition, the older generation was illiterate, and the rice transplanter could not handle it. The younger generation went to work in big cities. Therefore, some primitive methods could only be retained. However, when harvesting rice, they used harvesters. Moreover, they all used small harvesters with Japanese technology. In the early days, they were imported harvesters such as Kubota, but later many copycat brands appeared in China, with low prices, and then, well, no need to talk about them...
In addition, the wheat samarium seems to be ineffective in harvesting rice. The main reason is that wheat straw is not much the same as rice straw. The wheat straw is relatively crisp, and there is also a crisp sound of straw breaking during harvesting. The rice straw is more tough and harder to harvest. The waving samarium knife can easily cut wheat straw, but it is a bit difficult to deal with rice straw. Because the straw is tough, straw ropes are often used in rural areas, which are very strong and can also be weaved with very strong straw curtains. The wheat straw is relatively crisp and has a high hollowness, so it is not as effective as straw in this aspect.
Therefore, whether it is transplanting rice or harvesting rice, it is much more troublesome than wheat, and requires a lot of manpower. Fortunately, both ancient China and ancient Japan were not short of manpower. The reason why Japan had a population of 17 million in this era was inseparable from the promotion and planting of rice.
Because of the high labor intensity, Ganfu Shuizi believes that it is best for a farmer to plant 30 acres of land, and it is a bit difficult to plant 50 acres. Moreover, there must be oxen suitable for paddy fields.
In desperation, Marin came up with the idea of ​​using leather to make leather armor and exchanged oxen with Japanese Daimai. However, he accidentally learned that Northeast China had extremely rich deer skin resources and gained a lot.
Moreover, when thinking about how to build a Hokkaido leather factory and use old tattered leather people to process it into leather armor and sell it to Daming of Japan, Marin suddenly thought of something - it seems that the broken leather scraps cut from leather armor are also useful, and they are of great use...
What is the purpose? It can be used as a lining for musketeers to wrap lead bullets. At present, when loading lead bullets, the musketeers in Beihai Kingdom mostly use linen soaked in grease to wrap lead bullets into the gun chamber. Or, they use oil paper to wrap lead bullets into the gun chamber.
However, when promoting externally, Marin promotes linens soaked with deer skin and grease. Why? Because of the cost!
Many of the bullets used by Beihai Kingdom are wrapped in oil paper bags filled with fixed gunpowder and pressed into the barrel. However, this oil paper fixed-loading technology is a military secret of Beihai Kingdom. It is not leaked casually, and it will not sell such oil paper bags to the outside world.
In fact, oil paper in Beihai is very cheap. Because Marin has a large paper mill on Cape Breton Island in Canada, which can also be soaked in whale oil to produce a large amount of oil paper.
However, these things are used by Marin in China and will not be sold to the outside world, so as not to enhance the strength of the opponent. And the opponents will not learn from Beihai Kingdom to use oil paper to set up gunpowder and wrap lead bullets. Why? Because of the cost...
At present, Europeans only know how to use rags and fishing nets as raw materials. The cost of papermaking is very high. In history, it was time to wait until the end of the 18th century that French missionary Jiang Youren sneaked into the Qianlong court, stole Chinese papermaking, and introduced Chinese papermaking with detailed pictures and texts, and sent it back to the French court, which greatly promoted the development of European papermaking.
Speaking of which, the ancient French were also quite shameless. The Venetian glass mirror technology was stolen by the French. China's papermaking technology and porcelain manufacturing were all stolen by French missionaries...
In other words, in addition to Marin's modern papermaking technology and using wood to make paper in Canada, other European countries can only use expensive paper made by Cai Lun's papermaking. In addition, because there is no cheap whale oil, they soaked paper in linseed oil to make oil paper, which is also very costly. Therefore, the North Sea army of Marin's North Sea country used oil paper to wrap gunpowder and wrap lead bullets, even if other countries knew about it, they would not use it. Nothing else, they did not have cheap oil paper...
The cost of using oil paper is much higher than that of the tmus wrapping lead bullets with deer skin. What should I do? Marin thought of this and decided to let the Hokkaido leather factory pack the remaining deer skin fragments back. Then, it will be sold to other countries for their musketeers to wrap lead bullets... Of course, it will also be sold to domestic hunters who try the coercion gun...
For domestic hunters, it is impossible for Marin to provide them with oil paper bags of fixed gunpowder, which are military supplies. Therefore, it is the most correct way to provide them with the remaining deer skin fragments processed by the Hokkaido leather factory to wrap lead bullets.
In this way, those leather deer leather scraps can be exchanged for money when they have their uses. At the same time, Beihai Kingdom does not have to provide military oil paper bags to the public. Of course, they can also use these deer leather scraps to make money from foreigners...
After hearing Marin's idea, Kohler, Suha, and Glock, who was newly elected as the governor of Hokkaido, were all shocked by Marin's genius idea - Damn, even the scraps of leather factories can be used to make money, what else can you not use to make money?
Chapter completed!