"For example..." Ma Yue looked at Wang Chao, "If I put a rope around your neck and asked you to pull it, what would you do?"
"I..." Wang Chao subconsciously touched his neck.
"Is it hard to breathe?"
"Yes!" Wang Chao nodded subconsciously. Isn't this nonsense? Who can breathe after having their neck strangled?
"By the same token, how much more strength can those horses exert with collars around their necks?"
"This... seems to be the truth."
"Call the people from the manufacturing bureau of your Lingguo Island branch over here. I have instructions to rectify the situation as soon as possible."
"I'll go right away!" The Lingguo Island branch has a tool manufacturing bureau.
When a harness is put on the horse's neck to pull a plow, the force is almost all on the horse's neck. It should be roughly called a "front-neck harness" because the belt is around the horse's throat, which means that the horse will suffocate once it exerts its maximum strength.
In the past, the West used this "belly harness" to pull plows and carts for thousands of years, but tragically, no one thought about whether there was a better way... Later, the "chest harness" really appeared. That is to say, the horse's neck (throat) is no longer covered with a belt, and the weight is borne by the sternum and clavicle.
Someone once did an experiment. Two horses wearing a girth harness could only pull half a ton of weight; while a horse wearing a shoulder harness could easily pull one and a half tons of weight; and the weight that a horse wearing a breast harness could pull was only slightly lighter than the latter.
What is efficiency? Efficiency is when you find the right solution.
The new chest harness works by applying force to the sternum and clavicle, so is it that difficult to modify the harness?
In less than half a day, a set of chest harness was produced.
"Wow!" The Second Priest, White Eagle, and Wangcai looked at the horse in the chest harness, which was so fast...
"Change it! Change it immediately!" Wang Chao couldn't wait. Spring plowing had just begun, and there was still more than a month to go. "Director Wang San, gather all the people in your branch. We're short on manpower. I'll give you as many as you want."
"Leather, there are not enough leather belts." Wang San is the director of the Lingguo Island Tool Manufacturing Bureau.
"Haifan City has quite a bit of sheepskin in stock," the second priest said. "Just process the existing leather as quickly as possible. At night, when the horses are not pulling the plow and are resting, you can reprocess the leather belts. This way, you will work harder. For the spring plowing..."
"That's no problem. As long as we have leather and ropes, what's the harm in losing a few hours of sleep?" Primitive people are very practical, especially when it comes to spring plowing, which determines the annual sweet potato production.
"Alright, you guys take care of the rest. We'll go back and get you the sheepskin as soon as possible." Ma Yue had to contribute his fire-type spirit ship. The Spirit Fruit Island branch was the second-largest grain producer in the Sea Tribe and was incredibly important.
My fire-type spirit boat is very large, can hold a lot of sheepskins, and is very fast.
"Charlatan, it's a good thing that we increased the sheepskin reserves last year, otherwise, we would have missed a big opportunity." The second priest was very grateful. The increase in sheepskin reserves was originally intended to prevent the weather from getting colder.
"If chest harnesses are popularized, the farming efficiency of the Lingguo Island branch will be increased by more than three times. Second Priest, the arable land area of the Lingguo Island branch is insufficient." Ma Yue said.
"So, the navy will transport a batch of sheepskins over there. If the situation doesn't work out, we'll transport a batch of large livestock back to Haifan City. We just need to burn the wasteland here." The second priest was unable to estimate the speed of the popularization of the chest harness. The only thing he was sure of was that it would be too late to reclaim the shrubs from Lingguo Island and cultivate the land.
"Alright! Once you get to Haifan City, make the best possible estimates and take advantage of the spring plowing season to increase the efficiency of using some large livestock."
"Don't worry, Shengun. Once chest harnesses are popularized in Haifan City, I will arrange for them as soon as possible." It is not difficult to make a chest harness. Look, the two employees who made the first chest harness were brought back from the Lingguo Island branch.
The Sea Tribe had too many large livestock. Fortunately, it was not difficult to make chest harnesses, and there were many people in the Sea Tribe.
Generally speaking, the situation in Haifan City is better. After all, burning grassland can easily expand the area of arable land.
Ma Yue's fire-type spirit boat expanded so quickly that it returned to Haifan City in less than a day.
Ma Yue summoned the senior officials of the Sea Tribe and the people from the Tool Manufacturing Bureau...
Not enough manpower? No problem. Chest harnesses are low-tech products. There are plenty of laborers in the labor camps outside the city. For spring plowing, it’s not a big deal to pay a little.
How to allocate technicians and sheepskin reserves more reasonably is the responsibility of the Second Priest, the Third Priest and the General Administration of Tool Manufacturing, with the Navy as the co-organizer.
"Very good! If the grain harvest can be tripled, the Hai tribe will really solve the problem of food and clothing. Very good!" Ma Yue was very happy. If you can't fill your stomach, what else can you talk about? It's all nonsense.
Even with high-yield crops like sweet potatoes and potatoes, Ma Yue himself found it incredible that they still couldn't have enough to eat.
Only three times, is that a lot? Damn! A large animal can only plow eight or nine acres of land in spring. If the efficiency is higher, it can reach ten acres. How can it still be too little?
Well, each person has four or five mu of land (calculated based on the fact that two people are needed to cultivate one large livestock) for grain crops, which means that the per capita grain income is five to six thousand kilograms, which is very high.
Of course, this per capita figure is inaccurate. What about the children and other workers who are not involved in farming? And what about the waste caused by harvesting and storage?
No matter how you calculate it, with three times the amount of arable land, there will be no problem in having enough to eat.
Of course, the most important prerequisite is that the Hai tribe itself has enough large livestock to cultivate the land.
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