Chapter 18 No, do you in the Tang Dynasty risk your life just to harvest the crops?
Farmers in the Tang Dynasty could only harvest one or two mu of land from morning till night, not to mention transportation.
At this time, Li Shimin, wearing armor, stood on the city wall and overlooked the outside of Taiyuan City. It was the autumn harvest season, and there were large fields of golden corn and rice in all directions.
It would be a pity if it was burned like this. Li Shimin couldn't help but ask curiously:
"How fast can you harvest? The enemy scouts will find out soon. It will only take half a day at most, not to mention the manpower needed to transport it back to the city."
[Don't worry, just leave it to us! Erfeng, please send out new tasks soon. I can't wait!]
In this case, Li Shimin was about to add a new task, but at this moment, the system suddenly issued an announcement:
[Taking into account the sluggish employment situation in modern times, the Lord System has thoughtfully upgraded the NPC recruitment function!
The salaries of both parties will be exchanged at a reasonable exchange rate. Players are encouraged to actively strive for employment opportunities in the Tang Dynasty and be hired by employer NPCs!
Li Shimin was a little confused by these words and only understood half of them, but the players were much more excited.
[Ah ...?]
[No more words, Boss Erfeng, look at me, I'm a professional harvester manufacturer, a skilled worker!]
What farmer these days doesn't know how to use a harvester? I can do it, my whole family can do it! Boss Erfeng, we can harvest from 9:96 AM to 9:96 PM, no matter the hardship or fatigue!
What's 996? I can still do 007! Boss Erfeng, please hire me for free!
[What's the point of not having money? Er Feng, look at me, I'll give you money!
Of course, you might not be short of money, so how about I give myself to you? We have five strong men in our family!
[??? Is this okay? Ladies, come and line up to apply!]
Erfeng, look at us! Our Chinese sisters are powerful. Not only can we use the harvester quickly and effectively, but we can also sleep you through kidney deficiency!
Li Shimin: ...?
Although modern people are generally well-educated and cultured, they always give him a crazy and abnormal feeling?
Li Shimin declined and politely rejected everyone's offer, then touched his nose and said gently:
"I appreciate your enthusiasm. But every industry has its own rules. Since I'm hiring people, I should pay them.
If you do this all the time, won't it disrupt the balance of recruitment? Besides, I'm not a stingy person, so how could I take advantage of you? "
[Ahhh Erfeng, I love you, did you see that? Those black-hearted bosses who hire interns to do hard labor, find ways to deduct money and not pay them, and just take advantage of their workers, look at this, aren't you ashamed?!]
[Wow, this is the vision of our Erfeng. I’m so moved that I’m crying!
Well, in that case, everyone should submit their resumes according to Erfeng's instructions and then draw lots.]
After the system is upgraded, Li Shimin publishes recruitment tasks and talent requirements, and the system will automatically screen out qualified resumes.
Even so, there were still tens of thousands of resumes. Li Shimin asked the system to draw lots on his behalf and select the group with the best conditions. He selected ten people according to the maximum limit.
Having learned from the lesson of the last excavator incident, Li Shimin informed Li Guangbi and others in advance.
But even so, when Li Guangbi and others saw ten large agricultural harvesters neatly stacked in a row in front of them, they were still shocked.
Oh my god! His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan said this thing was huge and magical, but he never said it was this huge and so bizarre!
What material is this thing made of?
It looks stronger than armor. I wonder if I can let him touch and knock it?
Li Guangbi walked around several times, his hands almost turning into cat paws due to his curiosity.
At this time, Li Shimin also heard the news and rushed over.
Seeing Er Feng coming, the ten people sitting in the harvester rushed out, each trying to get closer to Li Shimin. As a result, they were squeezed like quails.
"Er Feng, can you give me an autograph? Just sign my clothes!"
This is what normal fans say.
"Er Feng, I know you can't just sleep with me, but can I touch you? Just one touch, preferably your chest muscles, hehehe..."
This is the speech of the fan.
Wang Xingguo, the leader of the harvesting team, couldn't stand it anymore, so he kicked one of the men, then bowed like an ancient etiquette and asked which fields needed to be harvested.
After thinking about it, Li Shimin said:
"The enemy has a large deployment west of Taiyuan City. You can avoid this area and reap the rewards outside the east, south, and north gates. Once the enemy realizes something's wrong, General Li and I will cover your retreat back into the city."
It's best to operate at night, so you're less likely to be spotted. But will harvesting at night affect your vision?
Hearing this, Wang Xingguo immediately patted his chest:
"Don't worry, Master Erfeng. It doesn't matter if you can't see at night. The equipment uses professional radar mapping and harvesting, so it's safe."
Li Shimin didn't quite understand what radar was, but the last time he built a tunnel was at night, so he was relieved.
But he was also very curious about how to harvest such a big guy and how much he could harvest?
Li Guangbi was also very curious. He knocked on every harvester as if he was buying watermelons in the vegetable market.
Oh, this sound is crisp and sounds better than the quality of his sword?
When it was completely dark at night, Wang Xingguo divided the ten people into groups of three or four, and set out from the three gates in the east, south and north of the city. Under the escort of three teams of cavalry including Li Shimin and Li Guangbi, they began to harvest.
Curious cat Li Shimin peeked around and finally ran to the edge of the field to watch how the harvester was operated up close.
I saw a roller several dozen meters long rolling with rice in front of me. Wherever it passed, a large area of land was flattened in an instant, and only a little bit of straw was left.
Moreover, this thing moves very fast and can harvest an acre of land in a cup of tea.
When it reaches the next acre of land, it can automatically adjust the angle and height according to the different crops, so that the harvest can be completed quickly and well.
Li Shimin stared intently, while Li Guangbi and others were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths.
"Oh my god, what kind of four-horned gold-eating beast is this!"
"No, no, no, this is the legendary Taotie, right?"
Everyone's eyes were as big as copper bells, and Li Shimin became more and more fascinated as he watched. The process of harvesting crops by the harvester should be very boring, but for some reason he couldn't take his eyes off it.
[This is my favorite for people with obsessive compulsive disorder! After the harvest, the fields are all flat and smooth. Looking at this thing is so relaxing!]
Isn't this my favorite part of playing farm games? I can't believe I stayed up all night just to see the harvester!
[It's so dark now. What kind of crops are being harvested now?]
As an emperor, Li Shimin was well aware of the seasons and regions of crops:
"In the northern part of the Tang Dynasty, the most common crops are corn, beans, and wheat, but wheat is harvested in the summer."
For your information, millet refers to millet, which was the staple food of the common people in the Tang Dynasty. Another type of millet is millet, which is yellow rice.
Soybeans, adzuki beans, mung beans, and buckwheat are all crops that need to be harvested in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty during this season.
[I have learned some useless knowledge again, thank God]
Seeing the reaction of the sky curtain, Li Shimin realized that most of these people from later generations could not tell the difference between grains and had long since left farming life.
The later generations are really strange. Such a fun harvester, don’t they like to actually operate it?
Anyway, he felt itchy just by looking at it.
"Er Feng, do you want to come up and try?"
Wang Xingguo saw that Li Shimin was curious, so he invited him to sit in the driver's seat.
Li Shimin's eyes lit up after he sat in. From this perspective, the harvest was clearer. There was also a small real-time screen on the console:
"How much food can this thing store at once?"
"The main reason is that we can't store too much harvested food. We can only store ten tons at a time."
Li Shimin didn't understand the unit "ton," and Wang Xingguo didn't understand the Tang Dynasty unit, so the two looked at each other in confusion. Fortunately, there are always experts in the barrage.
[To convert this, ten tons is equivalent to 16,750 kilograms of grain in the Tang Dynasty.]
so much!
Even though he knew that modern people had advanced technology, Li Shimin was still shocked.
Wang Xingguo explained and operated:
"That's actually quite a bit. I unload about once an hour. Look, my partner is driving the transport truck over here, and I just have to press a button and it's done."
"let me!"
After Li Shimin pressed the button, he saw the harvested rice ears sprayed from the pipes into the transport trucks. Once a truck was full, it would drive directly back to the city, and this cycle would repeat.
The whole process is as smooth as flowing water, and it looks very convenient and efficient.
Li Shimin played for a while, and although he wanted to continue, he was afraid of affecting the progress of the harvest, so he restrained himself and waved his hand regretfully:
"I also have to keep an eye on the rebels. With such a loud noise, there's no way they wouldn't notice."
Li Shimin's judgment was correct. The huge noise and movement at night alarmed the scouts on the opposite side.
It was pitch dark in the middle of the night and they could not see their hands in front of them. They could only vaguely see a few huge outlines moving and hear the roaring sounds like the roars of wild beasts.
Several scouts were terrified and immediately rode back to report:
"General, this is bad! The enemy has sent out several beasts that are even bigger than tigers!"
Shi Siming almost suspected that he had heard it wrong. After confirming it again and again, he found that the scouts in the south and north of the city all reported the same thing, and emphasized that the thing had been making huge roars without stopping.
"General, that giant beast is terrifying!
It was as big as several tigers. I watched it go by with my own eyes and devour a large rice field in one gulp!
Several scouts agreed with each other, and Shi Siming also vaguely heard the roar, so he soon came up with a reasonable idea:
"The beasts haven't eaten for a long time. They must be hungry and angry. They were released just to eat us rebels!"
How despicable! Li Shimin is such a despicable fellow. He can’t defeat him, but he actually releases wild beasts to eat people?
How vicious!
He would not fall for a trick and send his army out in the middle of the night to die.
"Have the infantry prepare for defense and don't slack off at night!"
Therefore, Shi Siming's rebels trembled in fear of the "roar" of the beast all night and dared not fall asleep.
By dawn the next day, Wang Xingguo and Li Shimin had finished harvesting nearly 400 mu of farmland south of the city. They were puzzled and confused.
"The other party is completely silent, so I'll go to the west of the city to collect millet?"
Li Shimin quickly understood that the rebels must have been frightened by the giant creature, and he felt a burst of joy in his heart.
He immediately ordered the troops on the other two sides to join together and march westward to escort Wang Xingguo and ten others to harvest rice.
When the sky brightened, Shi Siming and others who had not slept all night came out and took a look, and they all gasped!
The hundreds of acres of golden wheat fields yesterday are all gone?
Is he still dreaming?
Until the giant beast was about to reach them, it openly and arrogantly took away all the corn just a few dozen feet away from their infantry camp.
Shi Siming's eyes widened in shock before he reacted.
My goodness, what a behemoth! Pah!
It turns out that the other party was secretly harvesting corn all night?
Shi Siming was so angry that he cursed Li Shimin for being shameless, and then immediately sent cavalry to set fire to all the crops west of the city and kill those who controlled the strange beasts.
"Hurry into the city. General Li and I will cover you!"
Li Shimin, Li Guangbi and others led the heavily armored cavalry to cover Wang Xingguo and others in the front.
Wang Xingguo originally thought he was doing fine, but he was caught off guard and saw the uncensored image of the battlefield.
A head rolled all the way to the side of his machine, covered in blood. Wang Xingguo was so scared that his face turned pale. He shouted "Oh my God!" and drove the harvester at the speed of an airplane while crying all the way.
However, even so, he did not forget to work at full speed to harvest.
Don’t worry about those fallen crops, just harvest the large amount of corn that can be harvested first!
So Li Shimin and others fought in the front, while Wang Xingguo and others harvested the crops at a rapid speed in the back, and the harvesters were almost sending out sparks.
[Hahahaha, oh my god, this is the most exciting harvest scene I've ever seen! Brilliant!]
【Hurry up, there's more over here! 】
Arrows flew in front of and behind Wang Xingguo's cab, but fortunately their harvester was of good quality and the glass was not broken.
In this way, with the heart rate beating at 180, it took more than half an hour. The ten cars were almost full, and then they drove into the city and closed the city gate.
I also didn't tell him that harvesting crops in the Tang Dynasty was a life-threatening task!
It’s just very exciting and gives me a greater sense of accomplishment. I want to do it again!
The enemy outside was still cursing Tang Tong for being shameless, but Li Shimin and others just turned a deaf ear to them.
I don’t want to listen, it’s just a turtle chanting.
It was not until then that Li Shimin discovered that the entire crops that had been harvested were not only stripped to leave only the grains, but even the rice grains and husks were separated?
Modern people really save a lot of trouble!
This night also left a deeper impression on the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty about the word mechanization.
Soon, Li Shimin ordered his soldiers to notify all the people and ask them to line up and receive their corresponding share of the autumn harvest according to the amount of land they owned.
During wartime, ordinary people only wanted to survive, but they were so moved that tears came to their eyes when they heard this. They still couldn't believe it was true.
When they got the white millet and sorghum grains that had been shelled, they were so moved that their eyes filled with tears.
In addition to expressing gratitude to King Yan, many people kowtowed to Wang Xingguo and others.
Wang Xingguo was still curiously looking around, but when he saw the frail old man and woman kowtow to them, he was so frightened that his scalp went numb and he quickly hid behind Li Shimin:
"Stop kowtow, stop kowtow, won't this shorten my life?
Ahhh Erfeng, help me, help me quickly! "
Seeing this, Li Shimin laughed out loud and personally helped the elderly people up, allowing them to take the food and go home with peace of mind.
Wang Xingguo finally breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"By the way, Master Erfeng, I see there's still a lot of da/hemp outside that hasn't been harvested. You've planted a lot, doesn't it look important?"
[Da/ma? What da/ma?
No, we don’t grow this thing! 】
[You are uneducated, the hemp in the Tang Dynasty is not the hemp we have now. The modern hemp is an Indian plant that has been improved by technology, which is different from the ancient one.
Hemp was the most important cash crop in the Tang Dynasty and a major source of taxation.
Common people's clothing, cloth, and ropes all needed to be woven from hemp stalks, resulting in hemp clothing, linen cloth, and hemp ropes. Hemp seeds could be pressed to produce sesame oil.
It was good enough to harvest the corn. As for the marijuana, Li Shimin was about to say there was no need to take risks. However, Wang Xingguo clapped his hands and said:
"Luckily, I still have several harvesting robots and drones waiting for me to secretly release at night!"
Although he didn't quite understand it, Li Shimin thought it sounded very powerful?
It looks like there will be some fun tonight.
At this time, everyone had been busy all night and was sleepy, so Li Shi went back and fell asleep.
However, he didn't expect that before he had even slept for a while, he was immediately woken up by a strange, cold humanoid creature.
The thing had a cold silver luster and looked almost like a human, but was very ugly.
Suddenly, Li Shimin was so frightened that he immediately drew his sword and chopped at the thing, but the thing did not dodge or evade, and was not chopped to pieces at all. Instead, it began to speak in the voice of Wang Xingguo:
"Help! Erfeng, help!
We have all been captured by the Taiyuan governor named Wang Chengye and are about to be severely tortured! Help us, Master Erfeng!
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