Chapter 519: A wooden plow so crude that even primitive people couldn’t bear to look at it



Han Cheng found Bo, the first carpenter of the Qingque tribe, and began to tell him about his idea of ​​the curved plow.

Of course, the curved plow mentioned by Han Cheng is not the curved plow commonly seen in later generations.

Not to mention anything else, just the two objects made of iron, the plowshare and the plowshare, were enough to stop him in his tracks.

The "curved plow" he was talking about was an object of shocking crudeness.

In short, the general structure is a Y-shaped branch that has been laid down.

The upper branch is long, and the lower branch is short. The long branch is used to hang the rope for the deer to pull, and the short branch below is trimmed into a sharper shape as much as possible, making it a powerful existence that combines the plowshare and the plow wall in one.

The handle at the back is used to hold and control the plow.

Such a plow made entirely of wood can be said to be very simple.

Lame looked at the object on the ground and couldn't help but sniff, imitating the Son of God.

The Son of God hasn't asked him to make new things for a long time, and today he finally came. This made Bo, an increasingly mature carpenter, very excited. He felt a little itchy after not making new things for a long time.

Anything produced by the Son of God must be of high quality. This is a truth that is widely circulated in the Qingque tribe and is highly agreed upon by everyone.

As the most skilled carpenter in the Qingque tribe, and a person who has made many epoch-making tools under the guidance of the Son of God, Bo agrees with this sentence much more deeply than most people.

The Son of God's introduction to this new instrument also confirmed Lame's guess.

Animal power can be used to turn the soil and plow the fields, which greatly improves the efficiency of plowing. While people save effort, the cultivated area can also be greatly expanded.

As soon as you hear this introduction, you will know that this precious tool is extremely valuable, at least on the same level as a plow.

Lame immediately became energized, rolled up his sleeves, took his tools, and prepared to work continuously to overcome many difficulties and then make the plow when he was exhausted.

However, the result...

The result is so shocking.

From the time the Son of God found him, to explaining the structure, finding materials, making tools... all of this added up, it took more than a day.

Moreover, this miraculous tool that the Son of God said was completely beyond his imagination...

This... isn't this too simple?

Looking at the thing on the ground which was made by chopping off a branch and taking a rest, Lame, who hadn't even rolled up his sleeves yet, didn't know how to express his feelings for a moment.

"What the hell? It's just a red light, but it makes my blood boil!"

In a movie many years later, the taxi driver who had watched too many police and gangster movies expressed what Lame was feeling at that moment.

There's no need to make such a fuss about something like this, right?

Complaints may be made, but tools made with them must be tested.

So under the leadership of the great Han Shenzi, Lame carried a plow that was so crude that even the primitive people couldn't bear to look at it, followed the Shenzi to the deer pen, kidnapped the lead deer that was to be used as a coolie, and walked out of the tribe.

In the fields around the tribe, there are many people working busy for the land.

Most of the slaves were responsible for the more laborious work of reclaiming wasteland, while most of the older men of the Green Bird tribe worked on the already reclaimed land.

Compared with reclaiming wasteland, plowing land that has already been planted with crops is much easier.

The Qingque tribe now has more than a thousand acres of land. Even if the number of people has increased, it is not easy to reclaim all these lands in a short period of time.

Up to now, only about one-eighth of the land has been plowed.

Han Cheng and Bo came to a field very close to the tribe.

Bo didn't know how to use a plow to plow the fields, so the task of plowing the fields with this ridiculously simple wooden plow had to fall on Han Cheng, the knowledgeable Son of God.

Because they had used deer to sow and harrow the land before, the Qingque tribe had no shortage of "deer traps".

Fix the deer harness made of rope and leather on the deer. Hook the wooden hook on the back of the deer harness on the rope ring that has been drilled and threaded through the hole in front of the wooden plow.

Han Cheng slightly hunched his back, his hands firmly gripping the handle of the wooden plow.

"ha!"

After the order was given, Uncle Deer, who had formed a conditioned reflex after long-term labor, started to move forward.

The wooden plow followed suit, but the effect was not ideal.

Because the wooden plow was too light and the plowshare made of pure wood was not sharp enough, the plowshare only penetrated a shallow layer of the soil.

After walking for a distance, Han Cheng had to use both arms to press the plow handle hard, and finally put the entire weight of his body on the plow handle.

With such force added, the slanted plowshare below, pulled by Uncle Deer, finally sank deeper into the ground. The depth of the plow was almost the same as that dug out by a person using a bone shovel.

Lame, who was following behind, looked at the dug ditch and the turned soil with his eyes widened. Could such a tool really be used to turn the soil?

And it seems that the speed is indeed much faster than that of a person using a bone shovel.

Unlike Bo's surprise, Han Cheng, who had been pushing the wooden plow forward for a while, gradually frowned.

It is really too much effort to plow the land with such a wooden plow.

You have to press the plow handle hard almost all the time.

Moreover, this kind of wooden plow without a curved plow wall will cause the soil to flow to both sides.

Unlike the plows of later generations, after plowing, the turned-up soil all ran to one side, and most of it turned over.

In this way, the turned soil is not conducive to receiving the sun's baking.

At the same time, the turned-up soil will cover the unplowed land, which is not conducive to the operation of the next plow and it is easy to miss the plowed land.

Using this kind of plow to plow the soil is not only tiring for the people, but also for the deer pulling the wooden plow.

They had only been plowing for a short while when the long legs of Mr. Deer, who was pulling the plow in front, began to tremble.

And Uncle Deer is the strongest and most powerful of all deer.

If another deer came over, I'm afraid that if the plow went a little deeper into the soil, it would stop moving in place.

This kind of wooden plow would be fine if it were pulled by big animals like cows, horses, or mules, but it would be really difficult for deer to pull it.

After plowing for a while, Han Cheng, who was also very tired, finally stopped plowing when he saw the four legs of the old deer in front of him trembling more and more violently.

It seems that at this time, it is still not possible to use a plow to plow the land.

Given the current conditions, there are basically only two ways to use animal power for plowing.

One is to find metal mines, smelt a large amount of metal, and then use the metal to make plowshares and plowshares to create a true curved plow.

Or find large animals such as cows, horses, or donkeys and use them to pull the plow.

If one of these two conditions is met, plowing can be achieved.

Of course, it would be great if both could be satisfied.

But for now, these two things seem far away.

It would have been great if the rhinoceros from the Tengshe tribe had not been killed. Such a giant creature would have been more than enough to pull a wooden plow.

No matter how dull the plow is, it can be pulled high by such a large animal.

It's a pity that guy is already dead...

It seems that it is not impossible to use deer to pull wooden plows to plow the land!

Han Cheng, who had been sitting there worried for a while, suddenly stood up...


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