Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1623, Is this still farming?
In Longtou Town in Hezhong, Old Man Wang and Old Man Li got together again.

The town may not be big, but it has a population of tens of thousands, but it is not small, and it is developing rapidly.

Because the sons of Old Man Wang and Old Man Li are from the same village, they are also very close to each other in Longtou Town, and they are naturally aware of each other's situation.

The two old people came to the town and had nothing to do, so they naturally wandered around Longtou Town.

"This small town is really lively. All the people live together and the planning is neat. This is actually quite good."

Old man Li wandered casually in Longtou Town.

Because Longtou Town is an immigrant town, it was planned and built by the government in a unified way. It is square and scattered, and the planning is very neat. The tens of thousands of people in the whole town live together, so it is very lively.

Compared with my hometown in Henan, except for the relatively concentrated population in the city, the population of the counties and towns below are very scattered, and it is impossible to live together.

"It's really good, and it's very lively."

Old man Wang also nodded slightly.

Think about Wangjia Village in the past, a large village with hundreds of households and thousands of people. I don’t know how lively it was, but now a large number of people in Wangjia Village have migrated out, and young and middle-aged people have gone to work in the city, leaving only the elderly and children. deserted.

"It's good to have more people, especially this kid, there are so many!"

Old man Wang sighed. Looking casually, he could see groups of children everywhere. These children were constantly playing and playing. There were a lot of them. Ten children followed.

Taking a closer look at these children, there are great differences in appearance. They are basically of mixed blood, but relatively few of them are of pure Han descent.

Women of different races can be seen everywhere on the road. These women of different races are basically concubines of local immigrants. On the one hand, they give birth to immigrants, and on the other hand, they are also important labor force.

The Hezhong area is vast and sparsely populated, with vast fertile land and grasslands. The number of immigrants is only 100 million, which can be said to be very, very small.

Large areas of land are undeveloped, and a large number of areas are vast wilderness lands.

Manpower is an important factor restricting the development here.

And these women from all over the world were basically slaves, who were bought as concubines, produced a large number of offspring, and became the most important labor force, making great contributions to the development and development of the Hezhong area.

They are the saddest generation. They grew up in their respective countries and regions, but in the end they became slaves and were trafficked here, and then became reproductive tools and labor force, often having the least status in the family.

Because here, the main wife of the Han people is the hostess of the family, and they are just servants and maidservants in the family. If they can give birth to children and half daughters, their status is even higher, otherwise they really have no status. After all A bought slave.

But the children they bore were quite different.

Even though they look slightly more like them, they are also descendants of immigrants here, and they are also citizens of Daming, and they have been Daming people since birth.

Therefore, even if he does not look like a Han Chinese, his status is still guaranteed. In addition to the richness of the Hezhong area, he has no worries about food and clothing since he was a child. He can also go to school and enjoy everything that Ming people can enjoy.

The two looked around, nodding slightly while watching.

Although there are many women of different races here, and women of different races from all over the world can be seen everywhere, but now they are all dressed in Ming Dynasty clothes, and they speak Ming dialect to each other, and they have become authentic Daming women.

As for the children here, let alone, all of them are eccentric, all of them speak Daming dialect, and they are all Daming people. Even the children are noisy with each other, and they are said not to be from Daming. In a hurry, they quarreled with each other.

For these children, even though they don't look like Ming people, they are all proud of being Ming people.

The strength of the Ming Empire has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, not to mention that they are indeed descendants of the Ming people, only of mixed blood.

The two old men walked while watching, and they came outside the city without knowing it, and came to the vast field.

The spacious concrete road is very busy with people and cars, and at the same time, steam harvesters can be seen driving towards the field.

"Are these black smokers harvesters?"

Old man Wang looked at the machines on the road that were emitting black smoke, and asked after thinking about it.

"That's right, this is a steam harvester. I saw it when I went to Kaifeng last time. This thing harvests wheat very fast."

Old man Li nodded quickly when he saw it.

"How fast?"

Old man Wang thought about it and asked.

There are not many kinds of machinery here in my hometown, and those stingy landlords and Lao Cai have not yet come out of their original survival mode.

I still like the old days of renting out the fields and then sitting around collecting the rent.

This kind of life is very simple, there is no need to do anything, just wait for the rent to be collected.

Times have changed.

A large number of people migrated out, and the number of people who cultivated the land was greatly reduced. The remaining young and strong went to the cities to work in large numbers, resulting in no one to cultivate the fields of the rich and old landlords.

However, these wealthy landlords do not want to farm by themselves, let alone buy expensive machinery for farming.

This also led to the unsatisfactory promotion of various agricultural machinery in my hometown in Henan, and few people bought and used them.

On the contrary, places such as Liaodong, Hezhong, Western Regions, Huangjinzhou, overseas vassal states, and colonies have a large demand for farming machinery because of their small population and large land, and various farming machinery are very popular.

The Hezhong area is sparsely populated, the land is vast and fertile, and the land is flat, which is very suitable for the use of agricultural machinery. The government has given a lot of support, such as interest-free loans from banks, etc., so all kinds of farming machinery are very popular. prevalent.

Machinery can be used for farming, sowing, harvesting, rice milling, milling, etc., which greatly improves production efficiency. This is also an important reason why the Hezhong area can become the granary and meat warehouse of Daming.

"You'll know just by looking at it."

Old man Li smiled and led Old Man Wang to a field. Here, he saw steam harvesters doing pre-harvest preparations for more than ten days.

Checking machinery, adding coal, preparing sacks, etc., and when the preparations are done, no time is wasted to start harvesting.

Accompanied by bursts of sirens and black smoke, more than a dozen steam engine harvesters went down to the ground together, and the harvesting machinery in front of the machines continued to rotate. Wherever they passed, the wheat was constantly involved, and the straw was also caught. The machinery is neatly arranged aside.

Accompanied by the movement of the machinery, the grains are exported here, and a steady stream of wheat is poured out of it and put into bags. It only takes a while for a bag of wheat to be filled to the brim.

The people above quickly wrapped it up, and pushed the bag into the field. Someone immediately picked up the bag and put it on the concrete road to stack it.

The speed of the steam harvester is very fast. When more than a dozen steam harvesters work together, the efficiency is even more astonishing. In just a short while, a large wheat field has been harvested clean.

"Is this still farming?"

Looking at the scene in front of him on the road, old man Wang couldn't help opening his eyes and mouth wide.

He has planted the field all his life, and he has worked hard all his life with his face facing the loess and his back facing the sky.

He knows all too well about farming.

The amount of food planted requires the amount of sweat to be shed, and one drop of sweat per grain is not excessive at all.

When harvesting, they always bend over with a sickle, and once they bend down, it takes a whole day. When they get up, they can't stand up straight, and they are half dead from exhaustion.

But look in front of you again, sitting on the machine to harvest the wheat, and driving the machine to move forward, it is so simple, even to prevent the sun from shining on people, a sunshade cover is added on it, the whole person is sweating a little You don't have to come out, you don't even have to put your feet on the ground.

And the speed of this harvest is really too fast.

If you allow yourself to harvest the large wheat field in front of you, you can slowly harvest it with a sickle, and it will take a few days to harvest it.

But these harvesters, just walk back and forth a few times, and a large wheat field is harvested.

Not only have they been harvested, but the wheat has also been threshed and put into bags, and they only need to dry it when they go back.

If it is a traditional harvesting method, the wheat and straw must be threshed. This is another extremely laborious process, and it needs to be shaken and thrown hard, so that the threshing can be done.

However, with this harvester, this step is directly omitted, and the machine has already completed this step.

This made Uncle Wang's feelings even stronger.

Farming by oneself, the wheat is difficult to harvest, and after harvesting, it has to be dried in the sun, and then threshing begins, and often the whole body will be scratched by the wheat, which is itchy and painful, extremely uncomfortable , Many children can't bear it at all, and old farmers have to bear it.

"We're really getting old."

Old man Li also sighed.

He has also been planting the land all his life, and he is too aware of the hard work of farming.

Especially when it comes to the harvest time, it is even more busy and tiring. After a year of hard work, when the wheat is harvested, nothing can be wasted. After the harvest is over, we have to pick the ears of wheat, so that no grain of grain is wasted. .

The whole family, old and young, mobilized together to collect, sun-dry, and thresh the wheat, and then sieve it with a sieve, blow it with a windmill, and finally the wheat had to be husked and ground, which was another long process. After countless hard work and sweat, it can be turned into flour, but it is often impossible to eat a few meals of white flour steamed buns.

(End of this chapter)