Chapter 310: Real Farming

Chapter 310 True Farming

In addition to calling on his vassals to take the lead in adopting new agricultural tools and new farming methods.

Ilia also contacted dozens of blacksmith shops in Tiejiao City through the Golden Fleece Chamber of Commerce and ordered a large number of plowshares and soil-dividing pieces. Later, he summoned all the carpenters in the territory to start making plow frames.

In this way, when the plowshares and soil-dividing pieces are encountered in the green field, they can be assembled with the wooden plowboard to form a plow-type plow. Later, wheels can be added to adjust the plowing depth.

After repeated considerations, Li Yu, the seed driller, chose the plow cart.

The earliest origin of the plow cart can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. It can not only dig furrows for sowing, but also cover the soil and suppress it. It has multiple functions and greatly improves the sowing efficiency. The most important thing is that after more than two thousand years, it has not been completely eliminated. There are still some rural areas in remote areas using it.

Of course, it can't be compared with modern seed drill equipment, but it has the advantage of not burning diesel or gasoline. For Li Yu, who can only bring diesel or gasoline from another universe, the plow cart can be said to be the best choice.

Moreover, the manufacturing difficulty is not great. The main part is a wooden structure, and only the legs need plow blades, which are made by the blacksmiths of Green Field.

In addition, the long-handled sickle is not so urgent because it is only used during harvesting, and it can be made slowly later.

In short, Li Yu and Ilia tried to make each craftsman responsible for the production of only one part through internal division of labor and parts procurement, which greatly improved the manufacturing efficiency of new agricultural tools.

In this way, a sufficient number of new agricultural tools can be made before the arrival of spring plowing.

At the same time, the female lord also issued several decrees in succession, encouraging everyone to reclaim wasteland by reducing rent and deducting taxes.

According to Li Yu's preliminary estimate, the new agricultural tools can increase the efficiency of farming by two to three times, and considering the change from two-field system to four-field rotation, the workload has also doubled, that is to say, each farmer can actually expand the cultivated area by at least half.

The nobles in the Western Territory lack everything, but not land.

The Arias family is no exception, so Miss Rabbit is also very concerned about this matter. Even if the rent is reduced, as long as the number of farmlands is increasing, her total income will also increase.

However, with the popularization of new agricultural tools and the increase in cultivated areas, the previous strip-field land layout has obviously become inappropriate.

The shape of traditional farmland on the Bratis continent is similar to that of medieval Europe, which are long strips, and a family often owns several strips of land scattered throughout the village.

In the eyes of the descendants of the Chinese, the distribution and shape of this kind of field are undoubtedly very strange, but behind this is actually the gap in production tools.

The heavy plows used in the Bratis continent and medieval Europe require 4 to 8 oxen to pull, and it is very difficult to turn. Farmers can only let the oxen keep moving forward until they can't move anymore, and then change places to continue plowing.

However, now that a light plow is used, one or two oxen can pull it, and turning is not so difficult. In addition, with the increase in cultivated area, there is no need to use scattered strips to cultivate land and make people run around.

So Ilia had to ask her administrative officials to redistribute land in the villages.

After a month of tossing, the grassroots officials were exhausted. In addition, various conflicts were inevitable in the redistribution of land. Some people felt that the new land they got was not as fertile as before, and some people felt that it was farther away from where they lived...

Of course, the most important thing was that after the shape of the cultivated land changed, many people didn't know how to cultivate.

Fortunately, the rest of the Shuangxiu Church appeared in time, and even Li Yu himself came out in person to demonstrate the use of various new agricultural tools.

For this reason, he specially went to the rural areas in the suburbs on Saturday to ask local farmers, especially the elderly, for some farming tips.

And his efforts were not in vain.

Seeing the prophet roll up his trousers and work hard in the mud, the dissatisfaction of the believers disappeared a lot and they began to study seriously.

After the demonstration, Li Yu asked the farmers below to come up and try it one by one, and he corrected them on the side. He was busy until the sun set. Li Yu went back to Teacup Castle to eat something and chat with Ilia about government affairs.

The main thing was to ask Ilia to borrow a few officials who knew the law to popularize the law in the territory of Shuangxiu Church.

Li Yu did not intend to let Shuangxiu Church establish its own laws. Although this was quite tempting, it was contrary to his original intention of letting the secular world belong to the secular world and the church belong to the church.

He established the court not to deal with ordinary crimes, but as a self-examination agency within the church, responsible for supervising members of other organizations.

Although it was confirmed that the previous incident of the two Xiushi violating and murdering the farm girl was a frame-up by the Silver Moon Church, Li Yu was still vigilant against such incidents.

Especially with the continuous development and expansion of Shuangxiu Church, the power in the hands of some people will inevitably expand. Li Yu needs a department to supervise and restrain those people in time.

As for daily public security management, it is still implemented according to the laws of Bratis Continent. No matter whether it is Xiushi or believers, they will be punished normally for any crime, and no one will be treated specially.

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This is probably the busiest period for Li Yu after he came to Green Field. He was not so tired before slaying dragons and dealing with the Silver Moon Church. He had blisters on his hands and feet, and sweat stains on his shirt when he got off work.

But he still went to the industrial park to take another look. Zhang Yanlin sent him the design and renderings four days ago.

Li Yu looked at it and found no problem, so Zhang Yanlin contacted the construction team to start work.

Since it was already time to get off work, Li Yu did not contact her and just went there directly.

Unexpectedly, after entering, he found that the construction was still going on inside, and Zhang Yanlin did not leave, supervising the workers to work.

After seeing Li Yu, Zhang Yanlin was also stunned, "You have become darker. I haven't seen you these days. Did you go to the beach?"

"No, I was sunbathing while farming." Li Yu took off his [game sunglasses].

As soon as this ghost thing saw Zhang Yanlin, it flashed blindly, and there was a passionate pop-up window there, saying that it had met a target for strategy.

"…………"

"Boss, you can also farm, don't joke, aren't you like me, also grew up in the city?" Zhang Yanlin opened his eyes wide.

"No way, I can only learn it now."

"As expected of my boss, the jokes he tells are not ordinary cold." Zhang Yanlin said with a smile.

"I'm not joking." Li Yu said, "Besides, why haven't you left yet? We always leave on time."

"Well, I just wanted to show my ability since I just got here." Zhang Yanlin said, "You don't have to take care of me. It will put pressure on me."