Hearing that Shi interrupted the previous conversation and talked about the expectations of the people in the village, Wei Wei, who had a brain fever after drinking a little wine, opened the conversation.

"Yes, the ink man brought us from Shangqiu to Peiyi, and cultivated the fields in the mulberry, which is very good. If you really say it, there is nothing dissatisfied, but I am looking forward to two things. ”

Shi picked up the wine bowl and saluted, and was also interested, and asked, "Tell me, don't you just say something?" ”

Wei shook his head and said, "Our village community is different from other village communities. We've already experienced a wheat harvest and heard too many legends about the Promised Land, so we don't necessarily think about things that other villages think. ”

Shi laughed, took a sip of wine and said, "In the end, I think the same." What two things do you want to do? ”

Wei put down the chopsticks, pointed to one of them, and said, "Iron." ”

Then he pointed to another one and said, "Although the fields are now open, there is no bamboo deed to write down the number of acres of each family's fields." It took a lot of effort for us to open up our own fields, but if there was no contract on this field, we would be uneasy after all. ”

"There are only two things that everyone in the village community is looking forward to the most."

Shi smashed his lips, licked his upper lip unconsciously with the tip of his tongue, and said, "The iron thing...... Maybe it's going to take a while. But it's also quick, after the wheat harvest and summer planting, explain the benefits to everyone, it should be possible. I thought you wanted seeds......"

Wei waved his hand in a drunken posture and said, "Those seeds of new grain, we are all engaged in farming, where can we not know?" It will take a few years to grow, so there is no hurry. ”

"It's iron, we really want to have it. How much can you open in a day? You showed us bronze tools before, and said that iron tools are better than bronze tools, cheap, and strong...... Everybody is looking forward to this thing now. ”

"If you can do it, why don't you tell it now? Where can people not go for the sake of profit? ”

"I don't know about other village communities, but if we really say that we want to get iron tools, the people in our village community will definitely bring dry food to make it ourselves."

Speaking of this, Reed thought of the plough that oxen plough and horse ploughing today.

If you want to say that it is easy to use, it is really easy to use, and it is much more convenient than the previous tools, especially the kind of plow that bends the body, which can be pulled by a cow, and it is also very convenient to control.

It was much more convenient than the one he had ever seen, which required two oxen and was pulled in the same way as a chariot on horseback.

But the ploughshare is either hardwood or stone, and when I heard that there were many iron ploughs, I couldn't help but compare them with this imaginary object.

The people in the village community are all familiar with Shixiang, they have known each other two years ago, and they have heard him the most, so they are also looking forward to those agricultural tools made of iron.

Nowadays, although the agricultural tools of mussel shells, bones, and wood have always been like this, who doesn't want to think of the tools that are made by the Suitable Ink Maker?

When he was in Shangqiu, he still used a stone hammer to shake the wheat seeds.

When I came here, the few columbus carts were first given to the village community where the reed was located, and it was indeed very fast, but the small plough horns buried in the soil underneath were made of wood and could easily break.

Fortunately at first, after being soaked in damp soil for a long time, it is far less sharp than the original, and the cattle and horses pull much slower.

Unlike other villages, other communities are satisfied with using some of the tools they have now made and starting to grow wheat.

But Wei and the others had heard more mysterious things, and this idea of wanting better based on imagination made them attach great importance to the legendary iron farming tools.

After saying something indistinctly with the strength of the wine, Shi frowned and said, "I'm also anxious about this." It's just that after this year's summer planting. How many people are there in your village? Where? It is also necessary to make this a major event in Pei County, and everyone cares about it in order to do it. ”

"What we can count on, that's you. With this bit of ink, this thing would not have been possible. Don't be in a hurry, if you really do it then, it will be soon. By the way, is the village community reclaiming and planting this year? ”

Speaking of this, Wei Wei frowned a little.

Their village community migrated here from Shangqiu and divided a wasteland in Sisang.

If corn is planted in the spring, as usual, the grass in those wastelands must be cleared, otherwise there will be no good harvest.

However, choosing to grow winter wheat makes it much easier.

In autumn, most of the grass has gone through its life, and the wheat is planted with a fire, and in the winter, when the wheat is tillered, it is the time when the weeds do not grow.

This year, the weather was fine, and when it was hot in the spring and the weeds began to turn green, the wheat had grown tall and covered the rest of the grass.

The mulberry land is all some good paste land, and there is a method of piling up fermented manure, which is used intensively, and the best piece of land in the village community is estimated to produce three stones per acre.

Mu is a small Zhou mu at this time, and the stone is also a small Zhou stone at this time, but the yield per mu has increased a lot compared with the previous planting technology.

Originally, wheat was only coarse grain, and even most of it was military food or used to feed cattle and horses.

Before the millstone, the bran of wheat made wheat far less attractive than crops such as corn, which is unimaginable for such a person who is accustomed to eating pasta, but it has never been the case for a person like a reed who has grown up in this situation since childhood.

In the past, Ji Ran set the grain price of the official market for Gou Jian, and some clues can be seen.

A cargo millet, stone seventy; B millet and stone sixty; C red beans, stone fifty; Ding goods rice millet, stone forty; Wu wheat, stone thirty; Soybeans have been stocked, stone twenty.

In Vietnam alone, the best grains are millet, yellow rice, and red beans.

The most inferior are wheat and soybeans.

At this time, there is also a saying that wheat rice and bean soup are the food of the sluts.

Only the sluts ate wheat and soybeans, and the rich and nobles used millet and rhubarb rice as the best food.

But with the promotion of mills, soybean milk, tofu, soybean oil and other foods, in places like Peixian, it was completely reversed.

Millet and yellow rice have taken the back of wheat and soybeans, rather than they are expensive and wheat beans are cheap.

Although the land that was cleared last year has not yet been harvested, the wheat is ripe and firm and has been tried to bite the grain with a clattering sound.

It can be seen that if it does not rain this year, there will be a good harvest. Even if it rains, with a scientific way to prevent rain from rain, as long as it is not rainy for a month, the harvest will not be bad.

Wei and the others had tasted the taste of wheat flour food earlier, although they were reluctant to give up the bran, but it was stronger than millet and rhubarb rice mixed in it, not to mention those strange ways to eat.

The wheat harvest is coming soon, and this year's wheat is enough to eat until next year, plus another season of soybeans can be planted, and life is much better than before.

The fly in the ointment is that the seeds of the black corn are not enough, otherwise it is best to plant the black corn after the wheat, and the autumn saves the time of mowing the grass outside to feed the cattle and horses.

Seeing that Wei's eyebrows fluttered, he asked: "What does the village community think about the matter of the ink man asking everyone to plant soybeans?" ”

Wei Tan smiled and said, "What else can you see?" The head of the pavilion and the head of the township have already said that they may not be able to catch up with the harvest, who is not afraid of planting without harvest, who still dares to plant? Besides, there is nothing wrong with planting beans, not to mention the acquisition of ink people, it is also good to keep the oil and exchange for tofu. ”

Nowadays, there is no iron in Peidi, let alone the iron pot, which is the standard of the farming people, and the way to eat soybean oil is really lackluster, but it is also delicious to pour it on all kinds of boiled and pickled vegetables after boiling.

Then Shi heard something that seemed normal to Wei, but it seemed extremely mysterious.

"The best food everybody is looking forward to today is wheat bread with solidified, salted lard and mutton fat. With that kind of rice, I can eat two liters. ”

"The next thing is to heat the soybean oil and fry the wheat flour food."

"I remember when you were in the village, you liked to go to the river to catch crabs and eat...... In fact, the most moneyless people in the family eat crabs, fish, and shellfish. There is no oil, so it doesn't taste good. ”

Shi held the wine bowl and laughed, and understood the meaning of this.

Fat is the highest calorie food, and crab is ...... There's really no grease. From the perspective of energy output ratio, it is a question whether the energy consumed by catching crabs and eating crabs can be balanced with the energy supplemented.

Nowadays, people don't eat much fat in a year, and the best food is wheat flour with salted lard and mutton fat......

Wei put down the wine bowl that he took a sip and said with a smile: "Otherwise, someone in the village community said that you are a nobleman, otherwise where would you be willing to eat those things?" You don't like to give you a jar of lard, but instead take them with six fingers to catch crabs...... Eat it with mustard. ”

Speaking of a year and a half ago, both of them laughed.

Shi Dao: "So, everyone has no grievances about planting beans? ”

Wei patted his chest and said, "Never! I originally thought that the best rice that Song Gong could eat was corn with meat and fat. Later, I learned that in fact, just tofu and soybean fried wheat cakes are enough to compare. ”

After answering his doubts, he finally couldn't help but say: "But now that the field has been opened, whose field is it?" If you ink writers are in charge of the distribution, but in case...... What if we do someone else's field closure in the future? ”

"Although everyone did not say this, I know that if the production capacity of this field is set, everyone will work harder. We don't want to do someone else's land. ”

The right mind is still sober, and the heart is about to do this, as long as the news of the Chu people going north must come down, the ink man will dare to do this, but it is inconvenient to say it now.

After thinking for a while, he asked: "If now, if the endowment of the public land is spread to each family's acres, and then the public land is divided, and the original tax remains unchanged, will everyone oppose it?" I only ask you, if you don't listen to me now, and don't consider your closeness to us, can the people in the village community oppose it? ”

Wei glanced at Shi Shi and couldn't help but smile and said, "Shi, although we don't know nine as well, but don't you always think that we are stupid?" Can we not distinguish between such interests and disadvantages? But if you don't do it, who of us will dare to do it? When the Dharma was made in the autumn of last year, everyone was not familiar with the ink master, but now it is ready to do it! No one is stupid enough to tell the difference between what's right and what's wrong, we don't know how to count nine, but we're really not stupid. ”8)