Chapter 125 Horse-drawn Plough
At noon, on the edge of the Bahe River, Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Cheng Fairy and Li Chengqian, four people sat on the embankment and bragged.
However, because Qin Qiong and Wei Chi don't like to talk, of course, they also have their own identities, or they don't want to get too close to Li Chengqian, so the main characters who brag are Li Chengqian and Cheng Fairy.
One said how he tried his best to stay awake at night, and tried to think about the future development of Datang with his own ingenuity, and let the Datang flag be planted in every corner of the world after a few decades.
One said how he was proud of the crowd back then, facing Dou Jiande's million-strong army, fighting to the death and not retreating, only leading more than ten people to behead and capture the flag under the siege of millions of people.
The more the two talked, the more outrageous it became, and in the end, Qin Qiong and Old Lieutenant Chi really couldn't listen to it, so they got up one after another to find a convenient place.
"Boy, what the hell are you doing with this big pit?" Cheng Fairy pointed to the soldiers who kept aimlessly digging in the distance and said.
After the Bafu army was in place, Li Chengqian just dropped a sentence: "Dig a pit, how deep and deep, how big and how big you can dig." Then I didn't care, and Lao Cheng was confused.
"Of course, it's a reservoir, let's make a farm without a reservoir." Plucking a piece of grass from the ground and holding it in his mouth, Li Chengqian's voice was a little slurred.
"Then you don't have a score for how old you are?" Lao Cheng asked puzzled.
"This is really not, the people in the water prison are stupid, let them calculate, and the result tells me that there are five tilts of land." Li Chengqian spit out the grass stalks that had been bitten in his mouth, and said hatefully.
"Five-leaning? Didn't you tell them it was a 5,000-dump farm? Lao Cheng said with a pout.
"It's just five tilts." Li Chengqian said helplessly.
"What's going on with bamboo over there?" Lao Cheng is no longer entangled in the reservoir, but has changed a problem.
"It's a cart, it's used to carry water, and it's going to be used for irrigation in the future." Li Chengqian looked at the direction Lao Cheng pointed and replied.
"I haven't heard of it, when it's built, Lao Cheng will come and take a look." Lao Cheng looked at the craftsmen who were busy by the river from a distance with great interest.
"I'll talk about that later, how about Uncle lend me some horses?" Li Chengqian didn't care about Lao Cheng's future movements, let alone talking about the river to see the tube, even if he went to the sky to see the sun, it had nothing to do with him.
"What are you going to do?" For Li Chengqian, who has a ghostly head and toad's eyes, Lao Cheng has always been doubly careful, and he will never express his position if he does not ask him clearly.
"Uncle doesn't want to try the new plow?" Li Chengqian asked, pointing to more than a dozen carts loaded with Quyuan plows in the distance.
"Plough with a horse? You're not crazy, are you? That's always a cow's business. Lao Cheng rolled his huge eyes and said.
Although Lao Cheng was born in the aristocracy, he also knows a little about farming, and he has been working with oxen since his ancestors, and now he has to change it to a horse when he comes to Li Chengqian.
"How do you know if you don't try? This plough is very light, and a cow can pull it, so let's try it with two horses. If you can succeed, what if you can count as an uncle? "For people like Lao Cheng who are desperate when they see benefits, it is useless to move them with affection and reason, only interests can make this old man tempted.
"Are you willing?" A glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, revealing Lao Cheng's heart.
"There's nothing to be reluctant to, even if it's my credit, I'm already indestructible. So why don't you give it to your uncle, how about it be counted as an apology? "After selling Lao Cheng a few days ago, the old man turned out to be like a child, and he ignored him for three days.
"Hmph, count yourself as a kid, but don't expect the old man to forgive you, unless you take the jade pendant back." The matter of jade pendant, Lao Cheng has always been obsessed.
"Don't mention this matter again, the things sent out by the palace haven't been taken back yet." Li Chengqian is not a fool, Lao Cheng is so active in returning the jade pendant to him, there is clearly a situation in this, so in order to block Lao Cheng's mouth, he did not hesitate to show the name of 'Bengong'.
"Go lead two horses." Lao Cheng gritted his teeth for a long time, and finally gave up his plan to fight with Li Chengqian, turned his head and said to the guards behind him.
Lao Cheng and Li Chengqian didn't fight back and forth for a day and a half, so he wasn't in a hurry.
The horses were quickly brought over, the standard military horses, the oily and shiny fur that had been washed, and Li Chengqian, who looked at it, liked it abnormally, but he was not tall enough to ride it.
He found a wasteland at random, put two horses side by side, and hung up the ploughman, and everything was in order, but the helmsman was in charge.
After all the preparations were made, a group of people found that they were surrounded by some slaughterers, and none of them knew how to farm. didn't recruit it, and ran to those soldiers who were digging pits, and found a farmer in his hometown to come over, which can be regarded as a real everything.
The twenty and thirty killing billets gathered together, surrounded the two horses who were ready to start at any time, pointing and pointing, speculating whether they could pull it or not.
Even Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong were interested in the end, and you participated in the discussion with every word.
Cheng Fairy is a person who is crazy, the more people, the more crazy he becomes, he was supposed to send a knight to control the horse, and the experiment was carried out slowly, but after being slapped on the horse's ass by his big hand like a bear's paw, it completely became a tragedy.
The horses neighed, almost madly, and the two horses sprang out like arrows from the string, and the sergeant at the helm left a terrible howl in the same place, and was dragged out in the midst of the stunned eyes, leaving a deep ravine on the ground that was plowed.
"Great, great, really works. Hahaha, I'm so smart, hahaha. Looking at the long ravine on the ground, Lao Cheng looked up to the sky and smiled obliviously, as if he really came up with a way.
"It's really possible! In this way, I am afraid that this year's 5,000 tilts of land will be able to bloom. "Wei Chigong has been a blacksmith for a while, and although he doesn't know anything about farming, he still has some experience.
", we can do it this summer." After laughing wildly, Lao Cheng didn't care about the sergeant who was dragged away by the horse, and directly turned his head to the guards and said, "Go, bring a few more horses, no, bring all the horses, let's open the land today." ”
The smallest combat unit of the Tang army was Huo, with ten people, one of whom was the fire chief, and each group had 6 pack horses (see Tang Shu for details).
According to this standard, the army of the Sixteen Guards and One Mansion alone has thousands of pack horses, and Lao Cheng is very angry, and he opens his mouth to bring all the horses, so that there are thousands of horses to gather here.
"Wait." Seeing that the guards were about to run to inform the horse to be brought over, Li Chengqian glared at Lao Cheng and hurriedly stopped drinking.
If you really want this old guy to get a few thousand horses here, the farm will be completely turned into a horse farm.