The demand for animal-powered rice transplanters is highly related to the per capita cultivated area of farmers.

In later generations of China, animal-powered rice transplanters did not become the mainstream. Because in later generations of China, the cultivated area of farmers was extremely limited, and only a few acres of land per capita. Under such conditions, the purchase of rice transplanters with tens of thousands of yuan at every turn is more than worth the loss. Obviously, you can stick to the past for a few days, but of course there is no need to buy a high-priced machine.

However, under Li Zhi's management, the Han Chinese in the 17th century expanded rapidly in Southeast Asia, gaining unprecedented land resources, which led to a rapid expansion of the per capita cultivated area.

At present, Li Zhi has occupied the three northeastern provinces, Taiwan, Luzon and other large granaries. Now it occupies the Indochina Peninsula, which has excellent agricultural conditions. The first batch of immigrants who moved to the plains of the Indochina Peninsula were easily allocated dozens of acres of paddy fields.

The per capita cultivated area of these peasants is about 40 acres.

On such a per capita land occupancy, the demand for agricultural machinery has emerged. Because for an order of magnitude of 40 acres of paddy fields per capita, the complete use of manual labor will tire people to death. Even if you only sleep six hours a day and work hard for a month, you can't plant all the seedlings in the 40 acres of paddy fields.

It is very good to be able to plant 30 acres of seedlings a month. If it is done by hand, there will always be ten acres of land that will be abandoned.

The price of buying a walk-behind small rice transplanter is only 110 taels. One rice transplanter can plant 150 acres of paddy fields a month, which can meet the needs of almost four farmers. The rice transplanter avoided the abandonment of 40 acres of paddy fields, and the income brought was more than 200 taels of silver.

In this way, there is no doubt that farmers will be equipped with a large number of rice transplanters.

Therefore, in front of Li Laosi, immigrants from the Indochina Peninsula, who have a considerable per capita cultivated area, generally use agricultural machinery. This is determined by the amount of land.

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Abbas II wore a red turban with a large ruby encrusted with it. He wears a red placket and a sharp Persian scimitar pinned to his waist. This whole set of outfits made this Shah of the Persian Empire, or emperor, look noble and heroic.

He knelt in the palatial palace, kneeling on the thick Persian carpet, looking at the Minnie rifle and scope that Bardeep had brought him.

The equipment was sold by the Dutch to the Mughal emperor Humayun. Humayun armed the Mughal armies with this equipment, including Bardip in Jharkhand. However, at this time, the 200,000-strong Mughal army was defeated in Burma, Humayun was killed in battle, and the newly unified Mughal Empire fell into division and civil war again.

Bardeep was clever enough to understand that none of the nobles of northern India had the strength to unify the north in a short period of time. And Li Zhi's army is in Burma and may invade India at any time. So Bardip, like Humayun in the past, chose Persia.

At this time, Persia was under the rule of the Safavid Empire, and the country was strong, and it was able to compete with the Ottoman Turkish Empire for hundreds of years as a Central Asian power.

Originating in Asia Minor, Ottoman Turkey had advanced weapons due to its easy communication with Europe. In the war between Persia and Turkey, Turkey had the absolute upper hand at the beginning. The artillery and arquebuses of the Turks made the Persian regiments collapse one by one.

But technology and weapons are always in a state of proliferation, and under the pressure of the dead country, it only took a dozen years for the Persians, who originally had only cold weapons, to learn to make cannons and arquebuses. In the early 17th century, the Safavid dynasty even launched an offensive against Turkey, seizing large swaths of the Middle East.

By the time of Abbas II's reign, peace had finally been made between Ottoman Turkey and Persia. The territory between Persia and Turkey was also confirmed in this era.

In fact, Persia at this time was so powerful that it could easily influence the situation in the whole of Central Asia. When the Mughal Emperor Humayun was in exile in Persia, Abbas II helped Humayun conquer all of Afghanistan by lending him a legion.

Abbas II looked at Bardeep, who was humbly prostrate in front of him, and asked, "Bardeep of the Mughals, why did you give me these advanced weapons?" ”

Bardip didn't dare to raise his head, but said in Persian: "The great Persian emperor, Humayun has died in battle, and the Mughal Empire has perished. Now there are only wars and chaos between Indian princes for thousands of miles from Burma to Persia. There is no one left to stop the Ming people. ”

The Mughal princes were almost all Persianized Central Asians, including Bardip. So Bardeep speaks fluent Persian. In fact, during this era, the culture of the Persian Empire flourished, influencing the whole of Central Asia. Abbas II was a famous shyman in the history of the mighty Persian Empire.

So the wise Bardeep was extremely humble before Abbas II.

Abbas II looked at the new weapons on the ground, trying not to scrutinize them.

As a well-known Maven in Central Asia, Abbas II would not occupy the gifts of the other side until an agreement was reached.

He waved his hand at the attendant next to him.

The squire quickly walked up with a large map.

Abbas II looked at the direction of Burma on the map and was silent.

Bardeep raised his head and said loudly: "Great Abbas II, there is no emperor left in the land of India for seven thousand miles from Burma to Persia. The iron hooves of the Ming people are about to set foot in India. And after the fall of India, there is no doubt that the Ming people will continue to advance eastward. At that time, the Persian Empire will also become the target of the Ming people. ”

"Great Abbas II, you are the patron of the Mughal Empire, and you will never sit idly by and watch the Ming people swallow up the whole of India!"

Abbas II sat on the carpet and did not speak.

After a long time, he asked, "Clever Bardip, how many troops do the Ming people have?" ”

Bardip replied: "There are 100,000 Ming people in Burma, sometimes 150,000. They all use this new weapon, and they are very strong in combat. ”

Abbas II looked at the map and sighed.

There are simply too many external threats.

Persia had managed to make peace with Turkey, but it was already threatened by Tsarist Russia's southward advance. The Central Asian princes of northern India once tried to challenge the Persian Empire, and Abbas II spent more than a decade supporting Humayun and suppressing the Indian challengers, but lost Humayun in one day.

And now, the distant Ming people have begun to threaten this ancient empire again.

In Central Asia, there seems to have never been such a thing as peace.

If it is stated that the Chinese have an army of 150,000 men, this is a more formidable opponent than Tsarist Russia.

Bardeep looked at Abbas II expectantly.

Abbas II pondered at the map. It took a long time for him to look up and see Bardeep's gaze.

"Let me think, Bardiep, let me think!"