Chapter 208 Agricultural Tool Diversity
When Wu and the others came back that night, they surrounded Shen Qingqian and asked her all sorts of questions. Their only theme was that they were afraid that she would suffer a loss.
Shen Qingqian briefly recounted her conversation with Liang Cheng, and then said to Shen Xiao, "Brother, it's time for our family to get our own land. I think that piece of land outside the valley is good. Go ask tomorrow if they can give us 20 acres."
"Twenty acres," Wu was surprised. "Isn't that too much?"
Shen Qingqian affirmed: "Not much. We have a large family. If we plant less, we can't feed so many people."
The Shen family has sixteen members, big and small. If they only rely on what they grow for the court, they will definitely not be able to eat enough. They need at least ten acres of land of their own.
She wanted twenty acres because she had a lot of things on hand, and she could plant more cash crops later.
"No, I mean whether we can handle it, after all..." Wu glanced at her family and didn't dare to think about the twenty acres of land.
There are only six males in their family, and two of them cannot be considered laborers. Among the four laborers, one is in the Military Equipment Bureau all year round and it is impossible for him to come back to help, so there are only three males who can work.
Including Shen Qingqian, there were only eight women in total. Women were naturally not as strong as men, and farm work required physical strength. Wu's scalp would go numb just thinking about taking care of twenty acres of land.
Shen Qingqian smiled, "Other people's homes definitely won't work, but Auntie, have you forgotten that I love to think about things the most? The previous two were just for the convenience of opening up new land. Recently, I have some new ideas. If something is made, twenty acres of land will be no problem at all."
The terrain in northern Hubei is complex, but Linshuigou is close to a plain, which is most suitable for using machinery to assist farming.
When Shen Qingqian has nothing to do these days, he will study the "Agricultural Tools Encyclopedia" in the system, and then split and combine them according to needs. He already has several prototypes of new handheld and hand-pushed agricultural tools in his mind.
When she designed the three-toothed harrow and the improved moldboard plow, she was not sure whether they could be made in this world. But now she is certain that with Old Qin around, as long as it is not too out of the ordinary, she should be able to make whatever she wants. It is just a matter of difficulty.
For example, before she even discussed crucible steelmaking with Mr. Qin about the small parts, he had already solved it by himself using the lost wax method.
If needed in the future, she would definitely contribute her knowledge generously to increase the diversity of agricultural tools in this world.
"If that's true, then I won't worry about it." Upon hearing this, Wu immediately smiled. "Since our sister Qian said so, there must be no problem."
Others also expressed that as long as Shen Qingqian thought it was okay, they would fully support it.
Chen Xiao said, "Sixth sister mentioned it to me before, but other families still want some land. I'll go ask them first. If we go together to claim the land, the chances of success will be greater."
There was a reason why he wanted to bring others along.
He had previously heard people from the opposite yard complain that the tasks assigned by the court were heavy and they had no time to work on their own land, so most people only needed three or four acres of land to grow something to increase their income, but it was impossible to have enough to eat.
Under such circumstances, it was inevitable that the Shen family's sudden request to reclaim twenty acres of land would be a bit too eye-catching.
"We also want five acres of land."
At this moment, Sheng Ze's voice suddenly came from outside the house.
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