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Chapter 17
After Fang Jiawang came out of Chen's house, his heart was still full of enthusiasm. When he got home, he asked his eldest son to take the blueprints and go to the county town to make the farm tools on the blueprints.

The drawings were given to the village chief, and the Chen family didn't worry about how the village chief promoted the earth-turning iron fork. Chen Boyu's current thoughts were all on the new drawings signed by Chen Huiyin, which was a small wooden two-wheel pusher. There is a detailed explanation of the assembly of the small cart on the drawings. This small cart can push one or two hundred kilograms of things, and it is easy for a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy to push it.

When Chen Huiyin checked out the drawing, she thought it was a special vehicle for her, uncle and Tang Yaoling to go to the pasture to pick up sheep dung.

Chen Boyu listened to his daughter's idea, and immediately made a copy of the drawing, and then took it to the carpenter in the village to order this small cart.

The small cart was not difficult to build, but it was finished in a few days. By the time Chen Boyu got the small cart back from the carpenter, it was already March.

In mid-February, the snow on the grasslands had begun to melt slowly. About halfway through late February, the children in the village began to drive their sheep to the unowned pastures to graze.

It was March, and the sheep manure had accumulated on the pasture. They pushed a small cart, a special basket for sheep manure, a small shovel for shoveling sheep manure, and a small bamboo rake for picking sheep manure, and went to the pasture. Start their great business of picking up sheep dung.

It didn't take much time to pick up sheep dung flowers. For several days in a row, Chen Huiyin, Tang Yaoling, and Chen Boyan all passed in the middle of the afternoon and came back when the sun was setting. Almost every day they returned with a full load.

And Chen Boyu has not been idle these days, he has collected a lot of dead leaves and mud, plus the livestock dung accumulated at home, the sheep dung picked up by Chen Huiyin and the three, according to the book "Cultivation and Planting of High-yielding Grain Seeds" , the retting method is the most suitable for the present in the retting chapter.

He poured the manure, dead leaves, and mud into the manure tank in proportion, sprinkled some manure water, and then covered it with a lid to keep it warm and let it ferment.

After dinner that day, the family sat around the table in the main room to discuss land reclamation. Chen Boyu said, "According to the sheep manure you pick up every day, it is enough for us to reclaim ten acres of land. From tomorrow onwards, the matter of picking up sheep dung will be handed over to Sister Qiao and Da Lang, Kang Nu, you will follow me and your sister-in-law to open up wasteland."

However, Chen Boyan said worriedly: "Brother, can our family be busy enough to open up ten acres of land at once?"

Chen Boyu nodded: "There is a cow at home this year, and one cow is equivalent to two adult laborers. Sister Qiao and Dalang can also help with some work at home. Me, your sister-in-law, and you will be free. The work here can not only be intensively cultivated, but also the land can be more diverse. "

Speaking of this, Chen Boyu paused for a moment before continuing: "Our place is different from the Central Plains area. The Central Plains area has a good climate, and most places can harvest twice a year. One season of winter wheat is harvested. The winter wheat is harvested around the Dragon Boat Festival, and then rice is planted. Rice can be harvested in autumn. Here, spring comes late and autumn comes early, so we can only grow grain for one season a year.

Such a gap can be made up by output, or by opening up more land and growing more grains. The first option is obviously impossible. When Taizu was in power, he vigorously supported the cultivation of high-yield grains. Although the output has increased, but This increase can't make up for the difference in grain production for a whole season between the two regions, so we only have the second option. "

Zhou Jinghao nodded in agreement: "In the past few years, the grain harvested by our family has paid taxes, and the remaining grain is not enough for our family to chew for a year. It depends on your elder brother to go to the rich gentleman's house to see a doctor occasionally. The medicine money you earn, the money you earn from copying books to subsidize the family, so it is difficult for the family to save money, this is one of them.

The second is that when the weather is good, everything is easy to talk about, but when the weather is bad and the family has no food left, life will be difficult.

More land reclamation is a good way to make up for it. The first three years of reclaiming the land does not need to pay taxes, which means that the harvest of these three years is our own. Not to mention three years, just one year of harvest can also make us The family's warehouse is full, and some grain can be sold, so that the family can keep some money. "

Chen Boyan doesn't care about the money at home, naturally he doesn't know if there is any silver in the house, and his sister-in-law has been doing the kitchen work all the time. He has no idea whether there is food in the house. It's not that brother and sister-in-law mentioned the matter of storing food and money today Well, he didn't think about the situation at home at all.

He always thought that his family had no worries about food and clothing, and that his family was much richer than other families in the village. Only now did he realize that it was his elder brother and sister-in-law who were eating and clothing. Keep him distracted and worried.

Chen Huiyin also said at this time: "Don't worry, uncle, brother Yaoling and I can also help with the work in the field. For example, when planting potatoes, brother Yaoling and I can put potato sprouts; when planting corn, we can We can help put corn kernels, cover the soil, and water."

Tang Yaoling also hurriedly expressed his opinion: "Although I have never done it, I will learn from Qiaojieer."

Seeing this, Chen Boyan had nothing to worry about, so the matter of land reclamation was decided in this way.

From the next day, Chen Boyu took Zhou Jinghao and Chen Boyan to open up wasteland. Three people took turns using two iron forks for turning the soil.

It was also from this day that the work of picking up sheep manure became the work of Chen Huiyin and Tang Yaoling. Fortunately, there were children from the same village in the pasture, and Chen Boyan took them with them before. Home, Chen Boyu and Zhou Jinghao are also very relieved.

The ten mu of land was released easily within a few days. During this period, the village head, Fang Jiawang, specially organized every household in the village to come and witness the efficiency of the new farm tools. In fact, many people were moved. It is not a small expense to make new farm tools, so I stopped thinking about changing farm tools.

This afternoon, Chen Boyan, who originally planned to go to the grassland with Chen Huiyin and Tang Yaoling to pick up sheep manure, stayed at home to help because his elder brother wanted to dig a new manure pond.

Chen Huiyin and Tang Yaoling went to the pasture for the past few days, and nothing happened. Chen Boyan couldn't go together, and the two didn't feel anything. They packed up the tools they needed, put them on the small cart, and took the milk goat at home. I plan to let the dairy goats also go to the pasture to eat some fresh pasture.

As the weather gradually warmed up, the wealthy young gentleman in Huaiyuan County also began to invite two or three close friends to come to the grassland for horse racing.

On the way to the pasture, Chen Huiyin and Tang Yaoling met a group of teenagers returning to the county after running their horses. The two gave way to the side of the road early, but the leader of the teenagers on horseback reined in and stopped beside them. .

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