Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1804, Daming’s Spring Plowing 1
Time flies, a few months passed in a blink of an eye, the earth returned to spring, and spring plowing in various places in Ming Dynasty also began.

Here in Shangyun Town, Black Earth Province.

Li Da clumsily drove the cultivator on the wide plain, and as the cultivator moved forward, it left behind thick black fertile soil.

The land here is not only fertile, it is the best black land, and the land here is also very fertile, nearly one meter thick fertile soil, the land is flat and open, with abundant rain, it is the most ideal agricultural production area, very suitable for mechanization farming.

The thick soil was dug out, revealing a lot of worms and eggs, which attracted a large number of hungry birds to follow behind the cultivator, and as the cultivator moved forward, these birds flocked to it, Eat up the worms and worm eggs dug out of the soil.

"This machine works really well."

Li Da said joyfully while operating the plowing machine.

Looking behind him, it took only a while for a large piece of land to be reclaimed. If we use hoes or oxen and horses to reclaim it, I don't know how long it will take.

And there is definitely no way to dig out the thick soil like the machine here, and dig out the eggs, bugs and the like hidden in it.

Even if these eggs and bugs are not eaten by birds, they will all be frozen to death in the cold spring. This is the benefit of deep plowing.

In addition, the weeds on the surface can be turned into the ground to suffocate and rot, and become the natural nutrients of the crops. It can also loosen the soil so that the soil will not harden, which is conducive to the growth and germination of the roots of the crops.

"This piece of land is used to grow corn. You don't need much. A 100-mu area is enough."

"The land next to it is used to grow wheat. It needs to be more diverse. It is almost enough to plant 500 mu."

"I still need to get a piece of land to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, and it's about 200 mu."

"Plow another 1000 mu of land to plant pastures, then raise more cattle, sheep, horses, and pigs, and just do more literature with Wang Kai."

"Well, if you raise more, the food may not be enough, and you have to plow thousands of acres of land to grow food."

While plowing the land, Li Da is also planning this year's plan. The so-called plan for a year lies in spring, and the plan for a day lies in morning. Farmers' plans for the New Year are very important.

Li Da’s plan was naturally based on the neighbor’s Wang Kaiwen. Wang Kaiwen divided his land into pieces, and each piece of land was planted with different crops. The food was used to eat and feed livestock. Corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes were also used. They are all used as fodder for livestock, and all kinds of pastures are specially planted.

If it weren't for Wang Kaiwen, Li Dake didn't have such a detailed and meticulous plan, and he wouldn't know these things. He might just grow food in a foolish way, and he didn't even buy a tiller.

Just like Tian Sanwa who immigrated together, because there are no neighbors like Wang Kaiwen, even though the officials of the immigration agency have repeatedly promoted the benefits of cultivating machines, saying that the imperial court now has subsidies, and the purchase of cultivating machines can subsidize 40 %, there are also preferential conditions for interest-free loans.

However, there are not many immigrants who actually buy cultivating machines. Most of the immigrants are short-sighted, timid and afraid of trouble and things.

People who come from small places have never seen the world, and they don’t know the power and efficiency of tillage machines. They also think that buying this machine will not only cost money in their hands, but also owe a bank loan.

Debts have been the most feared thing for the common people since ancient times. Usury and other things are things that make people talk about it. Now you tell me what kind of machine you want to buy, what kind of loan you want, isn’t it a scam?

Therefore, there are very few people who buy cultivators. Only a small number of people know the function and efficiency of cultivators, and they also know that they should try their best to buy them when there are subsidies.

Now it's time for spring plowing, and the gap is immediately apparent.

Those who have land cultivators are happily reclaiming the land, plowing hundreds of acres of land a day, and only a few days to plow thousands of acres of land. A large piece of land belongs to you.

And without buying a cultivator, you can only plow the land with horses or cattle using traditional plows. Not to mention people are so tired that they don't even work with cattle and horses.

It is simply impossible to compare with machines based on this, even if you are exhausted, it is far from comparable, so everyone's eyes are red, and their intestines are green with regret.

Others have a few thousand acres of land, but for myself, the hundreds of acres of land allocated to me by the government can't be reclaimed much, the key is that the reclaimed land is not as good as the land cultivator.

In autumn, others can harvest a warehouse or a warehouse of grain at once, but you, with just a little field, how much grain can you harvest?

Tian Sanwa regrets it very much now!

While holding the plow and whipping the horse to reclaim the land, he was angry in his heart, his eyes were red, and he looked back at the little land behind him from time to time, and then at the rumbling tiller in the distance. At the same time, in the whole morning, he only turned over a small piece of land, and the other party had already turned hundreds of acres of land and came out.

"Sanba, we can't do this. Why don't we go to Li Da and borrow his tiller for a few days, or we will be far behind them when the time comes."

Tian Sanwa's daughter-in-law was not calm anymore, she thought about it and said to Tian Sanwa.

"How can others be so good that they will lend you a few days?"

"Now everyone is desperately plowing the land, just waiting for the seeds to be planted. If it takes you a few days, he will save thousands of acres of land. You think it's beautiful."

Tian Sanwa put down the things in his hands, and let the horse go to rest and eat grass, thinking that he shouldn't vent his anger on the horse. This farmer has a cow, and horses are very bad. Easy, in the past, I cherished it very much, and I had to brush and bathe the horses regularly.

"What should I do?"

"Just relying on what we have, let alone thousands of acres of land, even the hundreds of acres of land allocated to our family, we can't reclaim it."

His daughter-in-law was immediately upset. People always like to compare. Others plowed thousands of acres of land, and I might be able to plant hundreds of acres of land. The gap is too big, which is naturally Very unhappy and unhappy.

"It's not because of you. When Li Da persuaded me to buy a cultivator together, it was because you were afraid of debts and the money in your hand would be used up and useless."

"Now that you know you're jealous, what's the use?"

Tian Sanwa looked at her daughter-in-law, and also roared, a fire was burning in her heart.

Especially seeing the large tracts of land plowed by everyone in Li, I was even more angry.

"How do I know how this machine works."

"Besides, were you also afraid of debts at that time?"

"Just talk about me, if you have the ability, go and get a cultivator now."

His daughter-in-law naturally said again and again, women, it's always like this.

"I'll go and see where Da Li is."

Tian Sanwa angrily put down the work at hand, rode on the horse and headed towards Master Li's field.

Anyway, this method can't plow much land, so it's better to go to Master Li to have a look.

Riding a horse, he soon came to Mr. Li's field, and saw that a large piece of land had been plowed, and the plowing was very thick, and the fertile humus could be seen. The black soil looked very good .

The whole piece of land, through the plowing of machines, is neat and square.

Li Da's daughter-in-law and her children are leisurely grazing a dozen sheep and two horses in the house, very relaxed and comfortable, unlike her own daughter-in-law, who has to plow the fields like herself, not to mention tired, This efficiency is too slow.

"Brother Li~"

Tian Sanwa came to Li Da's cultivator and shouted.

"Sanba, why do you come here when you have time, come up quickly."

Li Da stopped his cultivator, and then used Tian Sanwa to get inside the cultivator.

When Tian Sanwa heard this, she immediately became happier. She quickly sat on it, and then looked at the cultivator in front of her curiously.

"I'll teach you how to use this cultivator. It's actually very simple."

"This is started. After starting, step on the accelerator slowly to move forward. You only need to control the direction. Keep walking back and forth, and the land will be plowed out."

While Li Da was driving the cultivator, he also explained Hetian Sanwa in detail. In fact, Li Da learned to drive the cultivator from Wang Kai.

This thing looks very complicated, but it is very convenient and fast to use after you are familiar with it.

Tian Sanwa watched and listened, sitting on the cultivator and feeling the vibration of the machine, and then looked behind her, the machine just walked once, and a large piece of land was plowed out.

You can see a large number of birds following and pecking at the worms and eggs that were plowed out in the ground. The dense weeds were all turned into the ground. It only takes time to settle, and most of these weeds All will rot and become nutrients for crops.

"This machine really works!"

Tian Sanwa couldn't help admiring. With such a machine, plowing the land is easy and efficient. There is no need to face the loess and back to the sky.

"Haha, it works. When I asked you to buy one, you just didn't listen."

"When I'm free, you can drive the machine over there and try."

When Li Da heard this, he couldn't help laughing happily. To be honest, if it weren't for Wang Kaiwen, he would have made up his mind not to buy this expensive machine. It would cost nearly 200 taels of silver, which is too expensive.

"Really?"

When Tian Sanwa heard this, she was immediately overwhelmed with excitement. If she used this machine for herself, she could also reclaim a lot of land.

"We are all fellow villagers, and we should help each other. It's not a big deal, but you have to add fuel yourself, and I won't cheer for you."

"Of course, of course~"

"Thank you Brother Li, thank you Brother Li~"

(End of this chapter)