Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 314 Wheat Harvest Season
The boat sent by the Miaowan Camp is a medium-sized boat with a length of 25 meters and a width of 6.3 meters. It is equipped with two Fran cannons at the bow and one at the stern. The rated number is [-] sailors and [-] soldiers.The fastest speed of this kind of boat is no more than seven knots, and the average speed is generally five knots.

"Captain, their ship is coming. What should we do?" In the captain's room of Beihai No. [-], Guo Po, the second officer, came in and asked the captain quickly.

Guo Podai is just 19 years old this year and is still a student of the sailing school.Among the Danjia fishermen who went north, he was the hardest-studied one. He had studied a lot before coming to Beihai Town, so he was promoted the fastest; in just over a year, he has already reached the position of second officer.For example, Zheng Yi and Zheng Qi are still third officers, and Shrimp Ball Boy went to a technical school.

The captain of Beihai No. [-] used to be the boatswain on the Thunder God. He was one of those old people who had been to Bear Island. He was honest and responsible, not to mention his loyalty to Zhao Xin.He was sent to the ship from the beginning of the renovation of Beihai No. [-], and he learned how to steer a sailing ship with a group of Australian and Portuguese craftsmen for nearly a year.

At the mobilization meeting before the departure of the fleet, coping plans were made for various emergencies.After listening to the report brought by Guo Po, the captain of Beihai No. [-] picked up the binoculars on the table, walked quickly onto the deck, observed for a while, and then ordered: "Accord with No. [-] plan."

Plan No. [-]?Guo Potao thought about it, and immediately began to order the sailors on the ship to prepare guys, so seven or eight sailors quickly equipped with pepper water and stun guns.
When the chasing boat of the Qing army slowly approached Beihai No. [-], the sailors on the ship first threw hooks to the side of Beihai No. [-] ship. The subordinates shouted.

"Where did you come from? Why are you parked in my Daqing waters?!"

After a while, the Qing soldiers on the boat saw a black-haired, blue-eyed, big-nosed ghost appearing from the side of the boat, speaking in a poorly spoken Mandarin, "Women is from Europa, and he wants to marry the turtle." The pot is a doctor."

"Damn it, what the ghost official said is really good!" Mr. Qian cursed with a smile, which caused the Qing soldiers on the boat to burst into laughter.

After Mr. Qian finished laughing, he said to the Qing soldier who called out: "Tell him, if you want to go to Guangzhou for business, you are not allowed to stay here! Besides, we have to board the ship for inspection."

After the Qing army finished yelling, the big-nosed Yang Yi showed a troubled look and said, "There are female ninjas on Womendi, it's inconvenient!"

What?woman?The Qing soldiers who were driving the boat were all excited at once, they have never seen what the Fan ghost woman looks like when she grows so big!
Boss Qian came out of the cabin and said in a loud voice: "Quickly put down the rope ladder, I'm going to board the boat for inspection!"

On Beihai No. [-], all the crew members with oriental faces hid in the cabin and laughed, while a few Australian and Portuguese craftsmen pretending to be sailors stood on the deck and shouted in panic, one guy even squeezed his throat The woman screamed twice.

In order to prevent the Qing army from running away, several Australian and Portuguese craftsmen first threw a few hook ropes down to let the sailors on the driving boat fasten them, and then slowly lowered the rope ladder.Mr. Qian, who was on the boat, gave an order, and several impatient subordinates began to climb up.

As soon as several Qing soldiers boarded the ship, they drew their knives with domineering expressions and surrounded an open space on the deck to make room for Mr. Qian.Then he said to a few terrified Australian sailors: "Where is the bow of your ship? Tell him to come out, everyone on deck!"

"Captain Womendi fought with the princes in the captain's poem, and he followed Wolai lightly." The same black-haired and blue-eyed sailor who negotiated with the Qing army before, bowed respectfully to several Qing soldiers, and then waved his hand, ready to lead the way.

"Jia Er, you and Chen Qi are guarding outside, let's go in and take a look." Seeing that the other party was very polite, the leader of a Qing army did not suspect fraud, leaving two people waiting outside, and the other two Then he followed the sailor into the captain's cabin.

After a while, the two guards outside heard their own people shouting at the door: "Jia Er, Chen Qi, you two come here."

As soon as the two Qing soldiers entered the room, they saw that the two who had entered before were being held around their necks with knives and could not move.The two were shocked, and just about to scream subconsciously, they suddenly felt a pain from their backs, which instantly swept through their bodies; the pain was so painful that they couldn't even speak, and fell to the ground with a thud, curled up and started to twitch, and fell into a In a coma.At this time, a few sailors who were hiding behind the door came out, tied up the two men, and wrapped their mouths with tape twice.

The two Qing soldiers who were restrained with knives were sweating profusely, staring at the short black sticks around the waists of the two sailors, terrified.At this time, Guo Podai said to one of the Qing soldiers: "Go out now and call all your people up. If you dare to shout, I will cut you alive and feed the fish!"

The Qing soldier's face was pale, he knew that he had been tricked by others.It's just that I don't know where these people are pirates, they are so vicious.He hurriedly said: "Don't worry, sir, you can do whatever you tell me to do, and I will definitely not shout."

Guo Po said: "After a while, tell the people on your ship that there are many women in the cabin of this ship, and there are also many ghosts. Remember?!"

"Remember! Remember!"

Mr. Qian, who was driving the boat, was excited when he heard that there were many ghosts, and climbed up to Beihai No. [-] with a few of his men.So in the captain's room, dozens of Qing soldiers fell into the trap one after another.In the end, the captain's room was full of tied up Qing army prisoners, who were either convulsed and stunned by the electric baton, foaming at the mouth;

When there were only twenty sailors and ten Qing soldiers left on the boat, the rest of them also noticed that something was wrong. Why did Mr. Qian stay silent after getting on board?Before they untied the cable, a row of black muzzles emerged from the side of Beihai No. [-], and everyone raised their hands in surrender.

The guerrilla from the Miaowan camp waited for two days, but he didn't see any reports from his subordinates. He was worried that the boat would encounter storms, so he sent another boat to search for it. Unexpectedly, after a few days, the second boat also went away. no return.At this time, no one in Miaowan Camp dared to go to sea anymore, and everyone knew that something serious must have happened in Wutiaosha.

In mid-July, the four boats returned to Beihai Town with [-] men, women and children from Guide and Bozhou.After staying for a few days and replenishing supplies, I turned around and headed south again.At this time, there were two more red and black driving boats on the pier of Beihai Town.

At the same time, the spring wheat harvest of 1787 came as scheduled.

The autumn harvest this time is different from previous years. The number of drivers of the agricultural unit has expanded to more than 500, which means that at least [-] large harvesters can work at the same time.

Zhao Xin ordered ten sets of "Klaas 770TT" combine harvesters and twenty sets of 8800 combine harvesters last year, and they were dispatched to Beihai Town and Fuldan City in May this year.After two months of trial operation, the agricultural unit selected [-] skilled and experienced guys from [-] drivers to operate these devices.

These things are expensive as hell, and each one is comparable to the price of a supercar. The price of the 770 model is as high as 300 million, and the 8800 model is also 200 million.

To say it is expensive is a bit expensive, but the work efficiency is extremely high. The 770TT header has a width of more than 12 meters and can harvest 8800 acres per hour; the 14 header has a width of 120 meters and can harvest [-] acres per hour.Based on the standard of harvesting [-] acres per hour, these [-] sets of combine harvesters can harvest [-] acres of wheat in one hour, which is [-] acres in twelve hours a day.However, Beihai Town and Beihai Town now only have a total of [-] mu of cultivated land, which can be harvested in about three days.

This is accompanied by hundreds of newly arrived tractors.Each tractor is equipped with a three-ton tractor bucket to transport the threshed wheat.

In addition, the civil administration also organized wood factories to build hundreds of horse-drawn harvesters for harvesting scattered plots.It looked like a low, weird windmill with four broad harvesting blades pulled by two horses.During the operation, one person is responsible for driving the horse forward. When the harvesting tray on the left side of the harvester is full of wheat, the farmers following will immediately transport the wheat away for threshing.

For those residents who were allotted [-] mu of remote land, even if the whole family went to battle, they would not be able to harvest [-] mu of wheat within seven days.The appearance of the horse-drawn harvester surprised them to find that even if they planted a hundred acres, they could harvest within a few days.

For most farmers, the mechanized large combine harvester is a fetish and cannot be understood at all; but many people understand the horse-drawn harvester. With this thing, it is no problem to harvest even a hundred acres of wheat .

The appearance of combine harvesters and horse-drawn harvesters caused a huge commotion in Beihai Town.Tens of thousands of people ran to the field to watch the fetish. When they saw that the 14-meter-long cutting platform passed by, there was only a short layer of straw left in the field, and there was a burst of exclamation.

Amidst the smoke and dust, the huge half-track harvester moved forward, and the grain outlet behind the driver's seat began to spray threshed wheat into the hanging bucket of the tractor beside it.At the same time, a large amount of straw is shredded by the stalk shredder and sprayed from the underside of the vehicle by the powerful stalk spreader.Those who don't know look from afar and think that the white and green fetish is galloping behind it.

When everyone came back to their senses, they were surprised to find that dozens of acres of land had been harvested in the blink of an eye.

A new refugee exclaimed: "My dear! This must be something that can only be used by gods!"

A man in his thirties next to him smiled and said, "What a god, I heard from the teacher at the school that this is a machine, and it's all made by man!"

Another person next to him said in surprise: "The school still teaches this?"

"Of course. My second primary school will graduate next year. I plan to let him go to a technical school to learn this, yes, tractors!"

An old man with the appearance of a scholar stroked his beard, tugged at the text, and said, "This thing drives forward and backward, why isn't it called a driving tractor?"

Everyone said that Li Xiucai was right!When I was in a daze, only one person laughed and said: "Li Xiucai, this thing was originally used to drag a plow to plow the land, so it is called a tractor."

"Look, look! The bucket at the back is full!" Everyone hurriedly looked up, only to see that the tractor with the traction bucket that had been following the harvester began to speed up and drove towards the east.Immediately afterwards, another tractor with a trailer quickly followed, and the wheat continued to fall into the empty trailer like a waterfall.

"I'm a bitch!"

"It's really our luck to have such a fetish!"

At this time, everyone only heard a man muttering: "I am exhausted at home, and I can cut more than an acre of land every year when I harvest wheat. Well, from now on, machines will be used. What do we need people to do?"

You must know that in ancient times when there were no harvesters, farmers harvested wheat with sickles, and those with good physical strength could only harvest two acres at most from morning to night, and they had to stop cooking the next day.On the other side of Daiqing, even the mikes sought by the landlords can only cut one acre per day.

These farmers from the Central Plains looked at the large harvesters criss-crossing the fields, and suddenly didn't know what to do next.

"What are you doing? Why can't you do it?" The man in his thirties who spoke at the beginning turned his head and said to the dazed man: "Raise livestock and poultry, grow vegetables, serve as a soldier, enter a workshop, build ships, go to the construction team, and go to the construction team at home. Women can also go to the workshop to earn money. Brother, Beihai Town is not the imperial court in the south, as long as you do things down-to-earth, the days will be wider and wider!"

A few days later, many farmers were surprised to find that it only took a week to harvest all the endless tens of thousands of acres of wheat!Bags of grain filled the huge warehouses to the brim.

Looking at the endless stubble field under the blue sky and white clouds, Zhu Dagui, who was cleaning up the straw in his field, couldn't help but sigh sincerely, Lord Zhao is really a god sent by God.Last year, the whole family had to go to battle, but this year, they just waited in the field, and within a meal, the [-] mu of wheat in their family was harvested.

At this time, he saw a new refugee holding a torch and was about to walk into the stubble field. He thought it was going to be bad, so he rushed up and shouted: "Stop! What are you doing?!"

Holding a torch, the refugee said in a daze, "burning straw, isn't this what we used to do in our hometown?" He is a newcomer, squatting on the ground and watching for a long time, and he also wants to help.

"Oh~~ Don't move, wait a minute." Zhu Dagui approached the refugee calmly, and suddenly snatched the torch away.

"Hey, what is this man doing?" The refugee chased Zhu Dagui and shouted.As soon as he yelled, several other refugees who were transporting straw also ran over.

Zhu Dagui walked quickly to the field, poured it out with the water in the bucket, let out a long breath, and then turned around and taught: "You Xin, come here? We don't like burning straw here! They have to be transported to the field to be fertilized Use it, or send it to livestock farms and horse farms for the animals to eat!"

"Ah! What's the point?" The vagrant scratched his bald head and said, "I don't think it's a big deal if it's burned. Plant ash is precious."

"Yeah, his brother, with so much straw, I think it's okay to burn some wood."

Zhu Dagui pointed to the dense bushes and woods not far away, and cursed: "Do you fucking know? When the fire starts, the whole forest will be captured! Don't you guys read the notice issued by the town? What does the leader of your residents group eat? The civil affairs department has sent people down to say that if this land burns, the land will not be strong enough next year!"

The refugee saw that Zhu Dagui was also bald and dressed in rags, so he argued to himself, "I burn people's houses, so what's your business?"

"Fart your mother! This is my land!" Zhu Dagui became angry immediately, he was out to do farm work today, so who can show him how nice he is, so he found an old clothes and trousers to wear.

At this time, a civil affairs clerk who heard the movement ran over, and after asking about the situation, he was also very angry.Fortunately, Zhu Dagui stopped him. If it becomes a fire, the harvesters in the distance will have to finish playing together!
The clerk immediately sent someone to call the head of the resident group where the new refugees were, and when he arrived, he gave him a severe lesson.

This is not the only place that set fire to the wasteland.

That afternoon, in Beihai Town, a few refugees who arrived in the first half of the year also wanted to burn the grass and ash to fertilize the fields, so they lit the fire, and the sky was filled with black smoke. The fire that ignited quickly almost spread to the school.Finally, the training headquarters dispatched urgently and mobilized two regiments to fight hard for two days and one night before putting out the fire.

Early the next morning, the civil affairs department issued an urgent notice that setting fire to waste and burning straw was strictly prohibited. Violators would be sent to the police station for ten days, and the whole family would be sent to hard labor for one year. At the same time, the land could not be allocated for two years.

At the end of July, the Civil Affairs Department issued another notice, recruiting households to settle in the Yezo land. As long as the family is willing to go to the Yezo land, each household will be allocated [-] acres of land, two horses, horse-drawn soil preparation machines, harvesters and other tools. free.

As soon as the news came out, the refugees who had seen the power of the horse-drawn harvester suddenly became eager, and the registration team outside the town hall lined up for more than a mile.

(End of this chapter)