"The company said that there is no company in Echeng, and if you want to change it, you will change it for each family, and you will use your own corn. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info the corn is your own, so the farm tools you get in exchange are also your own. The tribes of Echeng have been separated, and she can swear an oath with those who exchange bronze farming tools that she will not use them to craft weapons. ”

Jian Chen probably understood Yu Qian'er's considerations, but a few people next to him were still a little puzzled, saying that if they don't use it to build weapons, they really don't want to build them? If that were the case, Matsu wouldn't have had to travel that far to find the answers he wanted.

But this reason is actually very sufficient, the city government can forcibly take back everyone's farm tools, but the payment is credit, which may lead to the dissatisfaction of the people in the city. For the towns that have been divided into families, the gap between the country and the family has emerged, and most people think about themselves first, not the whole city, and the support of the city family at this time is the source of the power of the chief.

In the previous life, even after the changes of the Western Zhou Dynasty, when the king of Zhou nationalized all the mountains, rivers and rivers, it still triggered a riot among the people and opened a republic. As long as the city is still small and everyone needs to fight, the people of the country must have great power, and the leader must also consider the ideas of the people.

Farming tools are very important for the families of farming peoples, the world has existed for so long, so many meteorites fall on the ground, but when people look at the starry sky and want to study these messengers from space, they find that it is difficult to find meteorite iron in the settlements of traditional farming peoples, most of them are made into farming tools by the blacksmiths of the village, and if you are lucky to have some natural alloys, you may also pass it on as heirlooms.

There are very few bronze farming tools in Bronze Age tombs, perhaps because slaves destroyed tools and slave owners were unwilling to improve them; But there is also another possibility, that is, most of the tombs left thousands of years later are aristocratic ones, so there are few agricultural tools, and the average family is unlikely to use bronze agricultural tools as funerary objects, but cherished them for future generations.

Chen Jian is more inclined to the latter possibility, the market for bronze farming tools should not be small, now is the time when the price of corn is relatively low, at this time the change of waves can indeed maximize the benefits, and it is convenient for planting next year.

In addition, since Chen Jian was confident that the handicraft industry in his city would develop, regardless of the situation of the war between the two cities, the more developed the planting industry in Echeng would be the more cost-effective it would be for Xia Cheng.

Farm tools can be smelted into weapons, but this weapon alone is not enough to make Echeng form an overwhelming advantage, and some small tools cannot be made by the other party, so they can only be exchanged.

For example, the artifact saw of this era, the teeth of the saw are not aligned, but the odd and even number of saws are separated to the left and right, and it will be a concave type along the saw, if it is aligned, then the saw will not be able to see wood at all, it will be caught by trees and may even break the sawtooth.

And some smelting techniques Echeng can't master, even if Chen Jian instructed Jin to have six qi, but the smelted bronze weapons are obviously wrong, and he also found out after continuous exploration that Jin has six qi is not what most people think, just the proportion of copper and tin, and the bronzes made according to that ratio are generally brittle.

Although Yu Qian'er gave an explanation that he did not conquer the clansmen, he had already conquered Chen Jian, and he would not have the right to speak without investigation, and Chen Jian did not know much about the power structure and differences between the cities, but Yu Qian'er had experienced it herself, so her words were more credible than Chen Jian's own imagination.

"In this way, let the various tribes temporarily collect the bronze farming tools that have been distributed, and they will be given new ones within a month, and they will first get a batch to transport to Echeng, and try to exchange these farming tools before Eyue returns."

"And how do you get the corn back?"

"Don't be in a hurry for the time being, wait until it snows in winter before transporting it, and store it in Echeng for the time being."

After snowfall, you can make a simple sled, and use horses and cattle to transport it, but the production cycle of the vehicle is long, and there is no suitable road, so it is not very efficient.

Now that most of the autumn wheat has been planted, there are two or three days to complete the autumn planting, the harvest of beans is by sickle, so some hoes, rakes and other tools can be sold temporarily, after the autumn harvest, you can spend some time to improve the smelting of bronze, now there is not much ore on the surface, the mine has killed a lot of slaves in the past few months, Chen Jian needs to take a special look.

Because the tribes of Xiacheng are still in the transitional stage of disintegrating into families, with the inertial thinking of the clansmen, it is still easy to centralize power, and it is easy to take back the agricultural tools of various tribes. The clansmen also believed that Chen Jian's statement would be changed in a month, and they knew that Chengyi had this ability.

Two days later, four birchbark boats transported the collected bronze farm tools down the river, in fact, the number was not very large, only more than 200 pieces, and many of them were defective products from previous experiments.

In addition to these existing farm tools, there are also two or three newly made straight ploughs, but they are very small and the mechanical structure is obviously wrong, so they cannot be deeply cultivated and are very laborious.

Compared with the straight plow, the curved plow is a huge technological progress, but in fact, a big reason is just to change the direction of the force, which is a technology left to their own tribe, of course, it will not be directly taken out to change. Moreover, this kind of straight plough will make Echeng's technical learning go in the wrong direction, even if they learn to plow with oxen for a while, they can't figure out the difference.

When Yu Qian'er received these goods, E Yue had not yet returned, but had only sent back a second wave of messengers, and while Shu Jiu was considering the arrangements for the slaves, there was news from the liquor shop that he would sell some farm tools on the land outside the city tomorrow.

The people in Echeng know that there will always be some new and good things in Xia Cheng, and the news in the wine shop spreads quickly, coupled with the rumors that Xia Cheng has a yield of more than 100 catties per mu, which makes these news even heavier.

Wealthy families thought they could buy more, so that they could reclaim more land; And those poor families sighed, knowing that this injustice would become bigger and bigger, that they would not be able to keep up with the innovation of tools, and that in the future, with the increase of the average yield per mu, they would have to pay more and more grain in the future, and they would probably become slaves because of bankruptcy.

Early the next morning, a piece of sandy loam outside the city was already crowded with people, and this area was also the place chosen by the people who came with those farm tools according to what Chen Jian said.

This kind of man-pulled straight plough can cultivate sandy loam and yellow loam, and this kind of land is only more in the riverbank valley area, and the land near the mountain forest is not very suitable.

Yu Qian'er didn't say a word during the whole process, just asked the clansmen to use various tools to show the speed of land reclamation, and didn't even say a word of publicity.

These men who came with farm tools were all experts in land reclamation selected by Chen Jian last year, in fact, even if they were given stone tools, they were faster than normal people, but in the eyes of people who were not familiar with them, they all became the bonus of bronze farm tools.

Two or three men who had reclaimed the most land last year, whose names had been hanging on the public notice board in the city for a long time, held bronze hoes and slashed the soft sandy loam soil as fast as they could.

One of them won the fastest prize in last autumn's sports meeting, and he still wears a pig's tooth pendant around his neck, which symbolizes this honor.

Yu Qian'er drew a line, pointed to a willow tree about two hundred paces away, and said: "Whoever cultivates there first and then comes back to make a ridge, there will be wine and stir-fry at noon; The last one arrived, but there was no wine. ”

She was joking with her clansmen, but the people in Echeng didn't hear the smell of jokes, and they were startled when they looked at the distance of four hundred paces, and said in their hearts that it was so far away that it was only afraid that it would be dark.

Those who stood in front of the line had participated in two tribal games and knew what fairness was, so they waited quietly for the blackened hoe in Mosuo's hand, which had been soaked in sweat.

The ploughing champion wearing a pig's tooth pendant whispered to the clansmen around him: "Brother, let's cooperate." I calculated that if the two of us were separated, we would need to plane 400 steps each. But if the two of us are together, we only need to plane three furrows, 600 steps, and each person can plane 100 steps less. ”

His brother also whispered, "Wouldn't this be fair?" ”

"Of course not, as in a war, five people working together can always beat ten people who are in chaos. The boss didn't say that this was wrong, and Ji Xia encouraged us to think more, maybe there would be a reward. Now if you want to get a woman's attention in the city, you can't just rely on your body, but you have to rely on your brain. ”

The younger brother hesitated for a moment and agreed, and the two waited for Yu Qian'er to say that it would start, and when Yu Qian'er finished shouting, the brothers did not immediately start wielding their hoes, but found two small wooden sticks and stuck them in the ground, aiming at the willow tree in the distance, the elder brother checked the straight line in the back, and the younger brother ran forward with a small wooden stick, inserting one at intervals to ensure the straightness of the ditch.

Yu Qian'er said with a smile: "My brother told a story, saying that a group of people draw snakes, whoever finishes painting first can drink a pot of wine, and some people draw the fastest, but when they are waiting for others, they add four legs." ”

The man squinted one eye and smiled, "I've heard Ji Xia's story, but even if I draw eight more legs, I'll be faster than them." ”

Everyone laughed, but their men showed no mercy, wielding their hoes with the best skill, but they kept looking up to see if they were crooked. In the past, when the tribes were hoeing, there was a rope as a reference, but now there is none.

After everyone else had dug up a dozen steps, the younger brother returned, and the brothers began to plow the ground together, the elder brother dug a ditch in front of him in the direction of the stick, while the younger brother dug close to the outer two feet of the root.

Before the rest of the people could understand what the two of them were doing, Yu Qian'er was already smiling, which was indeed a good idea.

Two hundred steps to dig over there, the two people did not have much gap with others, but they will catch up with the speed of others, although they surpass, but the advantage is not big.

But in the eyes of the people of Echeng, the speed of these people has exceeded their imagination, because they are not journeymen, so they are very slow, but they see this proficiency as the help of bronze farming tools.

When the two men arrived at the willow tree and began to return, the men finally saw that something was wrong. The two brothers did not dig one by one, but separated them according to small sticks, each responsible for a section.

Obviously one less was dug up, but the two complete ditches were already formed, and they were completely in accordance with the rules of the tribe, they were straight, and the ditches were two feet apart, and the three ridges were just enough for the wheels to get stuck in them.

"Obviously, everyone has to dig 400 steps back and forth, but these two people only dig 300 steps...... Where did the hundred steps go less? ”

People didn't react for a while, but some of the people who reacted finally understood a question that the children in the school were learning: how many empty trees are in a row with a hundred trees?

Some people looked thoughtfully at the hoe in their hands and the end point that had already failed, and suddenly realized that the tool was not only the hoe in the hand, but also the strange number and shape problems that the children learned in the school seemed to be a tool...... (To be continued.) )