Chapter 165: There are many things to do during the spring plowing season

The spring plowing finally began vigorously. At this time, we can see the strength of each farmer's master. Whoever can command more livestock will definitely be extraordinary.

The Zhang and Wang family mobilized about 500 oxen to cultivate in the fields in a row. The straw that was directly pressed into the land did not need to be ploughed at all. They just needed to be ploughed with fertilizer. Some of them had to be ploughed several times.

The owner sent a sip of wine to help with the cooking at the edge of the land. Before the farmers arrived at the field, each of them took a sip of wine. The one who was about fifty degrees had only one sip and did not dare to drink too much.

The Ge family village also brought nearly thirty plowing oxen. The Ge village households will compare with the Zhang and Wang families this year. In the past, it can be said that the tools are not good, the plowing oxen is not enough, and the human body cannot be compared. There is no reason this year. Ge Yingxi gave all the ones he could.

As last year, if you lose a lot of people, you won’t have to be angry with the owner, and the merchants will be frustrated to death.

Li Xun also tried to get some livestock, but he couldn't find too many plowing oxen. The Zhang and Wang families had never stopped buying and breeding plowing oxen. The bigger calves were almost two years old and could do some work, but Li Xun had other ways, so he got a group of horses.

There are more than 300 horses, and these horses are worse for being military horses, and they are better for being used as carts. If they are used to plow the land, everyone who sees them feels distressed. The horse's speed is faster than that of oxen, and it is nothing more than that of the strength of the big and strong. It takes turns, and it is not slower than the Zhang and Wang families.

The Chen family finally accepted Li Xun's method, spending fifty cents acre of land to buy water, and later provided various silk cloths for evaluation to Li Xun and Zhangjiazhuangzi.

Butler Chen is no longer a butler. He was beaten up when he returned that day. Chen Gengxin pushed all the blame on Butler Chen. Even if it was a concubine who begged for mercy, it would be useless. This time he miscalculated and thought that the young master would not help the Zhang family with such a big fanfare.

I thought I could compete with the Zhang family by relying on the cloth shop behind me, but when things ended, I realized that the Zhang family was still the Zhang family, where no one could get a good deal, so I could only put this breath in my heart and wait for the opportunity to take revenge. Now it is no longer possible. The people in the cloth shop are also launching some people who take the imperial examination. As long as these people become officials, it will be of many benefits to the cloth shop.

I really don’t have the idleness to care about other things. If I don’t have the imperial examination, it’s no big deal to provoke a Hou. I just need to stop working in other people’s fiefdoms in the future, but now I don’t dare. Who knows what role a Hou will play in the imperial examination?

The county magistrate Cheng in the capital has been doing well these days. When spring plows, everyone uses a curved plow. Whenever this happens, they will think of the county magistrate Cheng who made the plow. It is said that the emperor mentioned a separate sentence, and other officials immediately began to curry favor with the county magistrate Cheng. The county magistrate Cheng took this opportunity to start a banquet.

Usually, the places we go to are two large markets, the east and west markets, and the places we choose are naturally the top scholar and Deyiju. Every time we take Zhang’s father to introduce to Zhang’s father those who attended the banquet.

These people have not had a high status, but they can't resist many people. Officials under the fourth rank kept coming, and even bigger officials did not move. Some of them received letters from Bi Shangshu, who had not decided whether to agree to retire, and some of them received letters from Xiao Hou.

They are all waiting there. There is still one month left for the Spring Examination. Now there is no hurry. Only after others exert their efforts can they exert their efforts according to the situation.

Li Xun found Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan again this day. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were thinking about new plows, such as shortening the shaft a little, increasing the curvature, and replacing some parts with iron, which would be slightly more convenient, flexible and durable.

The ploughs used by rich people are iron, while those who have no money can only use wood, so naturally the Zhang and Wang families use iron.

"Make some textures on the place where you hold your hands, and it will be more comfortable to hold it on, just like a bicycle handlebar." Wang Juan said as she drew on a drawing.

She and Zhang Xiaobao couldn't know what the best plow would look like in the future, and they couldn't remember it. They didn't care much about it, but they would ask the merchants who were not comfortable when they used it. The merchants told the two of them what they felt dissatisfied with.

The handrail looks simple, but the worker will inevitably have some soil on his hands. When he holds the handrail, there is some mud and sand between the handrail, which is uncomfortable to grind. If you can solve this problem, you can wear gloves, but the feel is not good, and there are not such thin gloves.

You can't put a basin of water next to you and wash it from time to time. The two of you thought about it and decided to carve the texture on the handrail. There was sand on your hands, which would fall off after a few strokes, which could increase friction.

As for the length and bending of the shaft arm, it was also changed according to the proposal of the merchants. When arable land, holding the plow with your hands is impossible to maintain a straight line distance. Once you walk ahead, you will be biased because of the different places under stress. You need to adjust it. This is also a laborious task.

During the adjustment process, press the handrail to lift the front slightly. The longer the position in front of the fulcrum, the longer the resistance arm. If the resistance arm is shortened separately, the direct force at the rear force point will be greater, and the bending can be reduced.

As for the parts in some places that are replaced with iron, it is because the plow is not always bad. It is very costly to till the ground. If you often till the parts, you have to stop and change them. If you encounter a slightly larger land that is tied with the plate, you will change more times.

Every time it changes, it will waste some time.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan don’t care about the consumption of time. They care about the speed of farming, which must be faster than the Ge family and Li family next to them. The merchants always have to be the first to be more confident.

The two were discussing while there was still time to modify, Li Xun walked in. No one stopped him from entering and leaving the two.

As soon as I came in, I saw Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan put their heads together, muttering and painting, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also heard the sound. When they turned around, they saw that it was Li Xun. Zhang Xiaobao hurriedly called out, "Why are Mr. Li having the leisure to come over?"

Li Xun did not speak directly, but walked to the front of the table a few steps, looked at the picture above, then looked at Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and said, "Okay, I'm useless to help you on weekdays. Now you have good things, and don't say you are here for me to use. Others say that the Quyuan Plough was made by Cheng Anran, so I don't believe it, sure enough."

Li Xun stopped here, as if you were sorry for me, then looked at another picture, frowned and asked, "What is this? Shoes? Can these shoes be worn?"

The other picture shows a pair of shoes, which is made of wood as the sole. This is nothing. Now most people who can't afford leather boots do this, but in front of the shoe is a whole piece of wood that can put five toes in.

Li Xun couldn't think of such shoes, so what would two people do to make them?

Zhang Xiaobao pulled the picture over and explained it to Li Xun, "There are some gravels in the fields of my family and Wang family. If you go in barefoot like others, the village house's feet will be finished. It's much better to wear these shoes. Don't worry about being scratched, because if there is wood in the front of the mud, you can stick less to the mud."

Li Xun now understood, "Yes, your villager feels sorry for the farmers and doesn't care about the wasted little wood. Then what's going on with this plow seems to be no different from what is now."

Li Xun pointed to the plow's picture and asked. The picture just changed the proportions of some places, and drew a grid on the handrail. If you don't look carefully, if you are not familiar with this aspect, you will not see any difference at all.

"This? This is just a random painting. See if it can be more useful. First make a batch of your own household use. If it is easy to use, you can tell others. Let me tell you this to Master Zhao. Sanshui County cannot have no county magistrate. Master Zhao has always been in charge of the management. Since he can manage it, why not let him be the county magistrate?"

Zhang Xiaobao also has plans for this. Although it is only improved a little bit, if it can improve 10% of the efficiency, then the entire spring plowing may be able to plow the land more. The first plowing land is to turn over the soil, and later it is to make fertilizer better blend with the soil.

Li Xun looked at the picture carefully again, but he didn't see any difference, so he became much less interested. "Oh, then you can do it first. If it is easy to use, I will change the one in my village."

After saying this, Li Xun said again: "The school has started to be built. They said I would find some more people to join. I was thinking about whom to look for."

"Is it so urgent? OK, Mr. Li, you can find someone to join, but you can't take out the money now and let them continue to invest money. Did the documents of the three workshops and the three schools be as we had agreed at the time, and it was up to us to take care of it, not them?"

Zhang Xiaobao knew through Li Xun's words that those people had no money, and the workshop had been working on some work, but they did not take out anything. The labor costs charged were not enough because the technology was not enough, and the craftsmen would have to pay for money, and they would have to pay for their money, and the apprentices they found had to pay for them.

Seeing that everyone has not much money, they can't stand many people. It's said it's 90,000 yuan, but there is no such thing as that. A few days ago, they took out another 10,000 yuan. Those people had no money on hand. If they didn't find some people to join, they would collapse. The dock had not been built yet, and they only had a field out and would drag it out at this time.

"Yes, they just signed that way. They were unwilling to sign it. Later, I used Master Hou's identity to suppress it and said that it was theirs after the dock was built. Then I signed it. Who should I find? How many do I find?"

Li Xun told the matter about the document, and seemed to think it was not good to use his identity to suppress it.

Zhang Xiaobao had already made plans in his mind and said, "You must look for someone, but you don't look for them as they said."
Chapter completed!