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Chapter 33 Autumn

Before we knew it, it has been nearly a year since Yang Heng came to this world. Now autumn has come, and the rice, millet, etc. planted by Yang Heng’s family have also begun to mature one after another.

But just as Yang Heng's family was preparing for the autumn harvest, the new imperial court's order came down. It was said that the imperial court ordered the imperial court in April, but the officials below delayed it, and it was naturally autumn. At this time, both the Yang Heng's family and the four uncles' families had reclaimed more than half of the desert fields, and they were even ready to cultivate winter wheat. Therefore, the officials who came down to teach the fields could not find any fault with this. The uncle's idea of ​​the father or uncle who was expected to be punished could not be realized. He even regretted it now. These are all good fields, so why didn't he know that they had long since. Looking at Yang's crops in the fields, the income from the good fields outside was obviously greater than that of the good fields outside.

According to the Juntian Order, the people gave land to each family, and the middle-aged man over the age of 18, would have to be divided into 80 mu of land and 20 mu of Yongye land. Yongye land can be passed on to the descendants. The land can be returned to the country after the people are old or dead. However, the uncles' land is less than 100 mu, and there is no extra land to the uncles. Even the people in the village have not received more land. This is mainly because this place is remote and has few fields, so I want them to go out. At this time, some fields have been occupied by some large households and even some officials. How much land is still given to them?

At this time, the uncles handed over the fields in the village to the elderly or brothers in the family. At this time, they just waited to return to work hard and started building houses. In this era, each man of Ding served twenty days a year. If there was no labor chore, some property could be replaced. But the uncles were hoping to serve the labor. At this time, they had no extra property to take over the labor. However, at the beginning of the new construction of a court, how could there be no labor chore? Therefore, with the departure of the officials who gave the land, the four uncles also went to work hard.

This is the most idle time. If it was earlier, people might still be farming in the fields. If it was later, the autumn harvest would be needed. That is, at this time, or at the beginning of winter, it would be the time to serve labor. The Yang Heng family is different. Their fields were planted a little earlier and the growth cycle was earlier, so it matured just at this time. However, Yang Heng was not in a hurry. At this time, my father still had to go to the county to train, so my father could harvest the grain throughout the whole process. When winter wheat was planted, my father had no time to be at home. However, Yang Heng had already asked his father to make some parts and wait for his uncle to come back to make the worm. This worm itself was very efficient, but if the iron parts designed by Yang Heng, the speed would be faster. By then, the planting of winter wheat would not be very troublesome.

With the harvest of rice, Yang Heng discovered another problem, that is, the rice harvest is fast, but it is troublesome to thresh. In this era, the rice threshing is not as good as those automatic machines in later generations. After the harvest is completed, the rice behind will be grafted out of the machine.

Alas, there was, suddenly, Yang Heng remembered a semi-automatic threshing machine for wheat that he had seen later. It was a long mace-like thing that was driven by diesel engines or electric motors. People took handfuls of wheat and put them on it to remove the wheat grains. However, this kind of machine was rarely seen later because later, with more convenient machines, people just stuffed handfuls of wheat into the threshing machine and easily took out very clean wheat grains. Also, Yang Heng once remembered seeing some mountain farmers from a distance using machines to remove rice. It was a wooden box with some machinery, and then stepped on the machine to make the machine turn up. He put bunches of rice in it and took off the rice grains. This, Yang Heng probably should be the same as the wheat threshing machine mentioned earlier, but changed the engine to manpower and then reduced it, and one machine can be used by one person. Yes, this kind of thing is made.

It's done as soon as you say it, wooden boards and wooden strips. This uncle made a lot of things in his spare time. Yang Heng just chose the right materials, then cut them, and then made a mortise and tenon, and then assembled them. A brand new threshing machine was made. Yang Heng couldn't think of the rotation system that can be used for footsteps. It's easy to say, it's better to make it a hand-cranked one. When threshing, one person uses hand to thresh the threshing machine and one person takes the rice to thresh. Although it's a bit troublesome, it's much faster than using a wooden stick. Yang Heng just doesn't know this

There is a saying that there are threshers in the world, because there are no rice planting nearby, but he found that whether the wheat is planted here, barley or wheat, they are directly threshed with stone mills on the ground. In other words, no threshers were found temporarily. Perhaps such a thresher is an epoch-making reform, but these are not very important to Yang Heng. He felt that some popular equipment should be directly popularized, and what my father's future requires is military achievements, not using these things.

"Grandma, we have a good income this year and we don't have to pay taxes. Should we add a few servants in our family? We can't always work so hard, right?" As a time traveler, Yang Heng felt very uncomfortable now. After traveling for so long, he still had to work so hard, and there was not even a commander. Fortunately, my father and a few good brothers were helping, but gradually, the uncles also had a family business, and they even needed to add some servants.

"Boy, this business has just improved a little, you just want to enjoy it. You might as well wait a few more years before talking about it." The father directly rejected Yang Heng's idea.
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