Xu Yuan did not disclose what the new weapon is, he only said it would be known after a while.

Only after all the seamless steel pipes, processing machine tools, potassium nitrate, sugar and other equipment and raw materials he purchased from modern society arrived, could he gather a group of craftsmen to carry out the next step of work.

Before this.

The recruitment of the village guard team members can be carried out. The recruitment quota of 1,000 people is selected within the 11 manors. Good families are preferred, honest and honest people are preferred, and families are preferred. The village guard team is treated at least 10 silver dollars a month. It is a daily meal of big fish and meat. Even if the training is harder, you are not afraid of not being able to recruit people.

"It's the owner of the house. I will recruit all the people first and conduct three months of basic training. When the new weapons are in place, the combat power will be formed soon."

Zhao Yang nodded and saluted.

...

The inspection of the Police Force ended.

Arrange the recruitment work of a thousand new village guards.

After processing these transactions.

The next period of time.

Xu Yuan's work focus is on the spring plowing work of various manors, and he personally participates in the deployment. He should invest all resources before May to strive to complete the spring sowing of all land.

Because food is the most important thing for people, food security is above all issues.

As long as you have enough food, you can feed enough people.

There are surplus grains to raise a large number of poultry and livestock, thereby obtaining enough meat, eggs and milk.

It can also feed a large number of workers, full-time military and managers, thereby improving overall production efficiency, having higher combat effectiveness, and better organizational and mobilizing capabilities.

On April 20, the spring sowing in Xujiazhuang was the first to be completed.

In order to support the spring plowing work of other manors, 30 tillage seeds in Xujiazhuang were divided into three teams and went to support the new manors No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 nearest to Xujiazhuang, to speed up the spring plowing progress of these manors.

In the rumbling noise.

The tillator was spitting out black exhaust gas.

With the horrified eyes of countless farmers, their work began in the flat fields.

Manor No. 3.

Zhang Gufeng, an ordinary farmer, is 38 years old this year. Not only has he become a grandfather, but he has also planted land for most of his life. He is an old farmer. The land with few people in the village can grow better than him.

Take rice as an example. If a mu of land in another family can make up at most 300 kilograms of millet, and his family can make up at least 350 kilograms of millet.

The same low-level thin land can become a medium-level good land after his care, and the poor farming level can also be tossed into a low-level thin land.

Farming is really a technical job, not a simple job.

To plant a good piece of land, it requires careful cultivation, it takes effort to work hard, and it also requires a lot of experience and most importantly, hard work.

That's right, hardworking!

Zhang Gufeng is a very hardworking farmer.

During the growth of rice, others only pull weeds three times, but they will pull them five times, or even seven times, two or three times more than others.

During rice jointing, when encountering drought and lack of water, others only carry water during the day and rest at night, but they will be busy until the third update in the middle of the night.

During the rice grouting period, others would apply 100 kilograms of manure to the field, and they would apply about 200 kilograms, and would collect human and animal manure everywhere for this.

In addition, his family also raises more than fifty chickens and ducks. He often drives them away to eat pests in the fields to reduce the damage to crops by pests. This is his smart mind and is a very effective trick to increase yield.

But even if he is an outstanding representative of the farmer in China, even if his family has twelve and a half acres of high-quality fertile fields, and can make more than 40 stones of millet every year, it is enough to support a family of ten, but in the past few years, his family's life has become more and more difficult. The rice jars at home have never been full, and they have only become empty.

There are fewer and fewer days of eating, and more and more days of half-hungry.

Why did it become like this?

He is obviously very hardworking, but at the age of 38, he is already exhausted from half of his hair.

There are three main reasons.

One, the climate has been abnormal and often drought in recent years, and the yield of fields has indeed been affected.

Secondly, the imperial court has more and more additional quotas. In the past, the summer tax for one acre of high-quality fat land was said to be only one-thirty, and it was enough to pay a tax of one dou and two liters, but in fact, at least two dou and five liters, as well as unspoken rules such as the slapped tip kicking. The actual burden is about one-tenth of the harvest, which does not include the tax on the tax (i.e. the cap tax) and the corvee showdown by the government, which is already very heavy.

What about now?

Liao Xiang added one cent two cents of silver per mu, which seemed not much, but during the autumn harvest season, the money paid by the profiteer could buy two douches of grain.

In addition to various miscellaneous taxes, levies, and messy taxes, one-third of the total harvest of farmers does not belong to them.

Third, since Zhang Juzheng implemented the "One Whip Law" during the Wanli period, the land has been changed from levying grain to levying silver. The government no longer directly collected grain taxes, but only collected silver to deduct taxes. This gave the unscrupulous merchants the opportunity to take advantage of loopholes. Once the grain matures, the price will be greatly reduced. When the food is short, the price will be increased by ten or a hundred times.

In addition, due to the Chongzhen period, the inflow of silver overseas decreased significantly in the Ming Dynasty, resulting in the scarcity of silver circulation in the market and deflation, and the cost of farmers obtaining silver was higher.

Under the combination of various factors.

For farmers like Zhang Gufeng who had lived a good life, the burden increased from one third of the original one to more than half.

In addition, the family has a large population, and the years have been getting harder and harder.

Although since the establishment of Xujiazhuang, he also found a way to buy a high-quality rice seed called "Lazy Rice 80" last year and scattered the seeds directly in the fields. Out of caution, he only planted one acre of lazy rice, and harvested 540 kilograms of rice that year, setting his personal record of yield per mu.

However, the increase in income of more than 100 kilograms of rice not only did he not let him eat two more days of full meals, because last year several villagers in the village hid the fields under Zhang Juren's name. In order to complete the collection task, the government increased the levy for his family. However, he, a farmer, had no capital to fight with the Juren, and the family was cut off from food last October.

I sold all the more than fifty chickens and ducks, exchanged them for food, and served with wild vegetables, and barely supported until December.

I had to run to Xujiazhuang to borrow a few dou of rice and barely survived.

Xujiazhuang has expanded this year. Zhang Gufeng joined Xujiazhuang without much consideration or hesitation. The reason is very simple. He is so diligent and still faces a death from starvation. What else can he do if he doesn't join the collective manor? At least it is possible to starve to death here with drought and flood.

But after joining the collective estate.

Zhang Gufeng can see the good aspects of the manor's business model and thinks it is very advanced.

For example, the effective arable land area has been increased by at least 25% by comprehensively leveling the land, removing ridges from the field, demolishing some villages and combining villages.

But he really couldn't understand that one-third of the precious land was used as pasture fields for animal husbandry. Nowadays, there is not enough food for people to eat, so where can there be land to grow feed for livestock to eat? Isn't this waste of the land?

What is the work point system? Every morning from 8:00 to 5:00 pm, I only work for nine hours a day. As long as I complete the workload, I can get 10 work points equivalent to one silver. This is simply a good house, and I can only do such a little work. How can I be worth a silver? I have to work at least 14 hours a day, otherwise if I continue like this, the manor will collapse sooner or later, because the owner will not settle the score at all.

Thinking of this, Zhang Gufeng was worried. He thought that Xujiazhuang was really good. The owner of Xu Zhuang was even more a good person like a Bodhisattva. But if he continued to be like this, he probably wouldn't last long, and he didn't know what to do then.

Buzz buzz ~

A rumbling sound came into his ears.

Then, in the weed-filled paddy field not far away, he saw huge steel monsters spraying with black smoke, leaning against several huge wheels. The metal spin cutting device behind him was also rotating rapidly, cutting the weeds on the surface of the paddy field, turning a foot of soil to the surface, making it into yellow mud, and completing the plowing.

Then sow the lazy rice seeds evenly.

Walk all the way.

Plow all the way.

Complete the seeds along the way.

At a speed equivalent to a human jogging, it took less than a short while to complete the ploughing and sowing work of most of the acres.

Roughly estimated, the working efficiency of this kind of steel monster is at least equivalent to 300 farm workers!

"this……"

"What a terrible farming monster?"

Zhang Gufeng was stunned, his legs trembled, and almost knelt down for these tillers. Some craftsmen with narrow knowledge and had never seen such agricultural machinery had already knelt on the ground, or kept kowtowing and bowing, as if they had seen a magical object.
Chapter completed!