Chapter 1087 A bumper harvest farm.
Everyone rode to the farm. She Xin had been waiting here for a long time. He knew that Luo Chong would definitely come back.
"Chief, the five grain harvesters are ready and are being warmed up now." She Xin took the initiative to come over and hold Luo Chong's reins.
"Yes." Luo Chong responded and got off the horse.
Now the Han tribe has all kinds of vehicles that use steam engines as power. Everything is good, but they start too slowly. The steam engine cannot start without burning the boiler for an hour.
Luo Chong handed the horse to the guards behind him. He followed She Xin to several harvesters that were being warmed up. The harvesters were the last batch of agricultural machinery to be finalized. Because they did not catch up with the harvest season before, they could not be tested. Therefore, it has been delayed until now. The Han tribe has only produced five grain harvesters in total.
Luo Chong went forward to take a look. The drivers of each harvester were familiar faces. They were the dozens of tractor drivers trained before. Now they were driving harvesters again. But this was also normal. The series of engineering machinery of the Han tribe were all developed on the basis of tractors. The power systems and operating devices used on them were also the same. They were all driven by hydraulic pumps and operated by levers.
"It looks good. Is the grain drying field ready? And the warehouse. Our grain harvester of this model has the function of direct threshing. At that time, the grain and straw will be discharged separately. Don't just think about preparing the grain warehouse. The straw must also be dried and stored. These barley straws are the best livestock feed." Luo Chong asked She Xin about the situation while walking.
"Don't worry, leader. When the rain just stopped, everyone started to prepare separately. I also transferred a lot of people from the county to help. It was ready a long time ago. There are also fire prevention preparations. I also asked people to prepare a lot of water and sand, as well as high-pressure water pumps. The most feared thing about these straws is fire." She Xin immediately reported the situation.
"Well, not only in the warehouse, but also in the farm fields, especially when mechanical operations are being carried out. Our harvesters are powered by steam engines. If a spark pops out of the boiler, it may ignite the entire wheat field, causing irreparable losses. Therefore, we must be careful and careful, and summarize a set of rules and regulations for the operation, such as ensuring that the vehicle is always available, cleaning the coal slag, adding water and coal, etc." Luo Chong reminded them again.
"Yes, I will arrange for them to go." She Xin nodded seriously. He only thought of the moisture and fire prevention in the warehouse, but forgot that the wheat fields that have not been harvested are also likely to catch fire, and the hidden dangers are very large.
After all, each harvester is a mobile fire source. Luo Chong's worry is not unreasonable.
She Xin urgently contacted the person in charge of the farm and asked them to mobilize more tractors to serve as support vehicles. Some of them laid a thick layer of wet sand in the bucket to load the coal slag discharged by the harvester; others pulled a car of water to add water to the harvester at any time, and were responsible for extinguishing the fire before the fire started.
Fortunately, it had just rained, and the ground was still relatively moist, which controlled the possibility of fire to a very low level.
After some arrangements, the five harvesters were quickly prepared and all started to operate. The drivers of several vehicles also started the harvesters and began to go to their respective operating areas.
The harvesting of grains was still carried out in the same way as before, circling around the operating area, gradually shrinking from the outside. This was because large agricultural machinery was huge and difficult to turn around, so such a setting was made.
Luo Chong and his team got on their horses again and followed the harvester. There were guards beside them taking photos or making records with the latest off-axis cameras. The person in charge of Sinong Temple on the farm also started timing, preparing to measure the fastest efficiency of the grain harvester in the field.
Woo-woo-woo--
the driver blew the whistle and pushed the joystick. The huge steel cage in front quickly rotated under the drive of the hydraulic plunger pump. When the speed of the steel cage reached a certain level, he pushed the power joystick again, and the harvester began to move forward slowly. Then he pulled the joystick to control the left and right steering to control the harvester's forward route.
Skilled driving skills quickly controlled this behemoth to roll over the wheat field.
In front of the grain harvester is a steel cage similar to a roller, with long iron bars on it, which kept rotating forward. In this way, when the harvester moves forward, the iron bars on the steel cage can press the wheat toward the direction of the vehicle, and each time it can crush a row.
Then it is caught by the support plate under the steel cage, and the rotary knife below cuts the straw at the root close to the ground. Only then will the steel roller on the head of the harvester swallow the whole wheat plant.
After rolling and threshing, the blower performs gravity screening, and finally the harvested wheat grains will be discharged from the discharge port on the side of the harvester and directly discharged into the grain bucket car mounted on the side. After the cut straw accumulates to a certain size of wheat bundles in the harvester, it will be discharged from the rear of the harvester and fall directly on the wheat field, waiting to be loaded by the tractor later.
The
chimney of the harvester spews gray smoke, constantly gnawing at the golden wheat field in front. On the cart hanging on the side, a stream of wheat grains flows into it continuously, filling the grain bucket of the cart more and more. Looking at the harvested grains, people feel quite happy.
Behind the harvester, there was a bare field with only seven or eight centimeters of straw roots left, and there were traces of wheel tracks and horse hoof prints on it.
She Xin, who was watching from the side, said with emotion.
"Chief, when we first joined the Han tribe, we harvested grain with bare chests, wearing bamboo hats and holding sickles. We grabbed a handful with our left hand and cut a crop with our right hand. We couldn't harvest much grain in a day.
" "And that's not all. The harvested grain had to be dried and then taken to the threshing ground for threshing. Stone mills, bamboo rakes, donkeys, wheelbarrows, and all kinds of tools were used. It took a whole day to thresh the grain, and sometimes it was not threshed cleanly. We were afraid that we didn't get all the grain, and it would be painful to waste it.
"But now, to be honest, I never thought that farming would become so easy one day. Using this harvester to harvest wheat, one row can harvest wheat eight meters wide, and it can harvest continuously. Not only that, it can also thresh the wheat automatically after harvesting. This harvester is really amazing! How much manpower does a harvester take on?!"
She Xin sighed, and everyone around him nodded unconsciously. That's right, most of them have tried farming and know how hard it is. If it weren't for these steel beasts, there would never be the scene before their eyes.
Luo Chong didn't have much emotion about this. He had never farmed himself, but he had seen many things in his previous life. He was very calm about what he had developed. It can be said that he had imagined this scene countless times in his mind. This was what he wanted and the result he wanted.
Luo Chong continued, "Knowing how powerful machinery is, you should make greater investments in this area. This investment does not mean that you should spend fiscal revenue to buy more machinery, but that you should increase investment in basic education.
"You should also know that the reason why our Han tribe can build these powerful machines is because of the countless talents in the research institute, and most of these talents are trained by schools.
"As long as you do a good job in basic education, there will be more and more talents in our tribe. With more talents, we can develop better and more advanced things to benefit the entire tribe.
"It will be autumn in less than two months after the wheat is harvested. I must pay attention to the enrollment of young children in autumn every year. I must do this job well, check carefully according to the household registration, and send all the children of school age to school.
"If the school is not big enough, then expand it and use the fiscal revenue to build schools for the people. This is worthy of the taxes we collect from the people. Only by running schools can the children of the people benefit.
"In addition, if there are children of school age who cannot go to school, we must let the clerks visit their homes and investigate the reasons. If the people have difficulties, we must find ways to help them solve the difficulties and strive to prevent any children of school age from missing the opportunity to go to school due to family reasons."
Luo Chong summarized the reasons why the Han tribe was so strong from a high vantage point, and then urged She Xin to do a good job in basic education. A group of officials from Liuyang County who followed him were also taking notes one after another. Even Luo Chong's own guards were taking notes frantically with small notebooks and pencils.
After they finished taking notes, Luo Chong turned to the stenographer and said, "Come back and sort out the school affairs, draft a decree for me, and I will issue it to various counties in the Han tribe after my approval."
"Yes! "The guard immediately bowed and agreed.
She Xin also nodded in agreement. He couldn't help thinking that the leader had a better overall view. He only saw the power of the harvester, but didn't see that the Han tribe as a whole was getting stronger. He didn't realize that the reason why the Han tribe was so powerful now was because of school!
But think about it, the Han tribe graduates so many students every year, and most of the elites are now being used. Some of those who are good at laws and regulations have been indoctrinated as minor officials, and then quickly grow in their work. Some of those who are good at math have all entered two research institutes. The ones who are not so good have entered factories as technical workers. There is no problem with people either.
Even those students who were eliminated and went back home to farm have become easier to manage. For example, during militia training, those who have been to school are more disciplined and can recognize some words. Whenever the government office has a decree to publicize, these people are the ones who can understand the meaning of it the most. Sometimes they will help persuade the elderly to obey the arrangements of the decree.
As more literate students enter society, even the daily management of their offices has become simpler.
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The steam engine is still spewing smoke, but Luo Chong doesn't care at all. As for the steam engines in the Han tribe, even if they smoke all year round, they can still do a good job. It will be absorbed by the huge number of forests in this era. Pollution and the like, anyway, don’t have to be considered in the short term of a few hundred years.
The harvester was still working with high efficiency. Luo Chong and his companions watched for half an hour. Because they had made full preparations in advance, the harvester’s stoker was very careful every time he added coal and poured coal slag, so the wheat field fire that Luo Chong was worried about did not occur. This was a good thing.
The officials of the Sinong Temple of the farm quietly kept this in mind and secretly decided to carry forward this practice in the future, and truly achieve what the leader said about taking precautions before it happens.
Seeing carts of barley and straw being transported away by tractors, Luo Chong and his companions did not follow. After staying, they went to the threshing ground under the leadership of She Xin. The scene there was even more spectacular.
The wheat that had been transported here had been spread out on the cement floor to dry. The golden layer looked as beautiful as a carpet. This was a scene that those who had almost starved to death could not even dream of.
Today, the Han tribe can afford to use these precious grains to produce beer. Even without the current agricultural machinery, the Han tribe would have long escaped the influence of hunger by relying solely on human and animal power.
A staff member of Sinong Temple saw Luo Chong and his group coming and immediately stepped forward to greet them.
"Chief, according to the yield we calculated this time, the per-acre yield of mechanical planting is significantly lower than 15% of that of manual planting, and it also causes great damage to the soil fertility. Do we still need to plant the third crop on that land this year? "
Luo Chong had expected this, so he didn't seem surprised or angry. He just listened to him speaking slowly.
"Of course, mechanical farming can't compare to intensive farming by manpower. Let's not talk about other problems. You can't solve the problem of fertilization. Our machines are heavier and more efficient, but without sufficient fertilizer, it's normal for the yield to be lower.
"But you shouldn't just compare the per-acre yield of mechanized fields and manual fields. You should think that there aren't that many people to cultivate new fields anyway. So now no matter how much grain we grow with machinery, it's extra money. Since it's extra money, why don't we plant it?
"Hasn't the land been planted with a round of corn and a round of barley this year? Since you said that the fertility has decreased, then make up for it. Let it fallow for half a month, then fertilize it as a whole, and then while the weather is warm, plant another round of soybeans this year to fix the fertilizer in the land, so that we can continue to farm next year. "
Luo Chong's words were immediately recognized by everyone. Yes, don't just see that the yield per mu of machine-farmed fields is smaller than that of artificial fields. That's because of the lack of fertilizer. What if there is enough fertilizer? The yield may be higher than that of artificial fields.
In addition, the leader said that it was originally a wasteland, and the tribe didn't have so many people who could farm it, so all the food grown by machinery would be more profitable. The leader was right.
And the last idea of planting soybeans to fertilize the fields is also good. Now after several years of continuous farming, the people have summed up this experience. The land where soybeans are planted usually grows very well when other things are planted. They don't know the reason, but as long as they know that soybeans can fertilize the fields, it's good enough.
(End of this chapter)
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