The Rise of the European Emperor

When Marin returned to Aurich, Wagner's Second Army Corps and Jurgen's Cossack Cavalry Corps were already escorting the first batch of Hungarian peasant uprising prisoners of war to Goslar, the "city of silver mines". There, a huge dormitory area for the Hungarian captive miners is also under construction.

Now, two months before the autumn harvest, most of the serfs were idle, and they happened to be requisitioned to build houses for the whole family of the Hungarian peasant prisoners of war.

These European farmers are really unreliable. After they plant the wheat in the ground, they basically don't care about it. Then, wait until the autumn harvest, will go to the field to buy. In the long months from spring plowing to autumn harvest, the serfs had nothing to do. Usually at this time, the manor owners will either enlist them to do something else. Or, the monarchs took the opportunity to conscript the people to fight for territory...

At this time, Marin conscripted the serfs to work, which was not uncommon in this era. The only difference is that if you work for Marin, Marin will distribute food...

This is not included in the rations distributed in the usual manor, but additional food! The conscripted serfs were not happy at first, because doing this kind of heavy work consumes a lot of body and eats a lot. If they are recruited without compensation, the serfs will suffer a lot.

Fortunately, Marin distributed additional food, and it was enough to make them very happy. Because, if they come to the construction site to eat, then they can save their rations at home. That way, the kids can eat more.

Of course, only Marin can be so embarrassing. After all, Beihai has a lot of food!

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Just when Marin was hesitating whether to tell Caesar the truth and cancel his requirement to regularly go to the study to comprehend the 8 Chinese characters, suddenly the guard came to report that another cargo ship had returned from Panama City. It was full of goods brought back from China, and a letter from Kong Tai, Governor of Dongfan Island...

Marin took the letter, and after unpacking it, he found that it was written in Chinese characters—this was also for the sake of confidentiality.

In the letter, Kong Tai happily told Marin that he had finally sent someone to find the columbine car that Marin told him to look for in the Central Plains of Ming Dynasty!

The columbine cart is an ancient seed drill, which was invented by Zhao Guo during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. This thing is a bit like the plow cart Marin saw before, consisting of three plowshares. However, unlike the plow cart invented by Prade before, the three plowshares of the columbine cart are side by side. Moreover, the plowshare on the columbine cart is very shallow, and when it is pulled by oxen to walk in the field, it can only make a very shallow furrow, just enough for the depth of sowing.

Then, the funnels hanging behind the three plowshares will pass through the hollow tubes and sprinkle the seeds behind the plowshares. And the farmers behind can take the opportunity to kick back the dug up soil with their feet, step on it lightly, and it's over.

Because the plowshares are shallow, it is easy for livestock to pull up, so dozens of acres can be sown every day...

"Isn't it more than 600 mu per day?" Marin was a little confused.

This is also because Marin didn't know it, and was misled by the novels of later generations. In fact, the number of acres that can be sown by columbine carts per day is one hectare of land, not 667 acres.

This is a matter of common sense. The introduction of columbine vehicles on Du Niang Encyclopedia must have been written by a fool who doesn't understand agriculture at all. What is the concept of sowing 667 mu a day? Marin remembered that the seeder driven by the walking tractor in the later generations could only sow three or four acres per hour, and only a few tens of acres per day.

Ancient technology can surpass tractor efficiency,

More than 600 acres a day? It's nonsense!

The actual situation is that the number of seeds sown by columbine carts is one hectare every day. In ancient times, one hectare of land was 50 mu. In other words, the real efficiency of columbine carts is up to 50 mu per day. This is still the mu of the Han Dynasty, which is smaller than the mu of later generations. Therefore, the real efficiency of columbine carts is at most 40 to 50 mu of land per day.

Of course, this is already remarkable. Because, in the case of manual sowing, if you dig a hole manually and then bury the seeds, in this way, it is not bad to be able to sow one or two acres of land every day. And sowing...casual spreading is fast, but manual seeding is definitely uneven. Sometimes, several seeds gather together to compete for nutrients, and then everyone can't grow well...

After reading the introduction in Kong Tai's letter, Marin was relieved—that's right! To be honest, Marin was terrified when he read those novels in his previous life that the columbine planted 667 mu of seeds every day. After all, 667 mu is not a small area. He remembered that the land in his small village in his previous life was only six or seven hundred acres (not including vegetable fields). The columbine cart is so brilliant, is this the rhythm of sowing a village's farmland a day?

Moreover, the seeder driven by the walking tractor at home in Marin's previous life only sowed tens of acres of land a day. No matter how powerful a coupe is, it is also a horse-drawn horse, and it will not be stronger than a tractor. Because tractors don't need to rest, but cattle and horses do.

Therefore, the most decent data is the most decent data obtained at the moment when the columbine sows up to forty or fifty acres of land per day.

Still, that's pretty impressive. Moreover, with drill sowing, the wheat in the wheat field grows more orderly, and will not crowd together to rob nutrients, which helps to increase yield.

Of course, this only applies to the dry lands in the north. People in the south grow rice by hand transplanting and do not need seed drills. Because, when transplanting seedlings, the seedlings are manually adjusted into rows. Also, don't worry about some seeds not growing because of stunted growth. After all, when transplanting rice seedlings, you must choose good seedlings to plant in the ground. If the seedlings are not good, just throw them away...

It's just that you can't do this on dry land. Because seedlings grow in paddy fields, it is easier to pull out and insert. After all, the fields are softened by water. If it is a dry and dry land, pulling out the wheat seedlings casually may hurt the roots of the wheat seedlings.

Therefore, wheat can only be sown in drills in dry land in the north. Sometimes, wheat seeds will grow together, and several wheat plants will grow together.

But it doesn't matter. Because Chinese farmers often go to the fields to pull out weeds during the period from sowing to harvesting. If several plants of wheat grow together, you can manually adjust them. Or, simply, just pull out the worst-growing one among the several wheat plants growing together as a weed. In this way, enough space and fertilizer for the growth and development of the well-grown wheat are left...

And this point, the European farmers of this era are obviously not aware of it, and they don't understand it. As a result, European wheat production has been low. Fortunately, the northern part of Germany mainly grows rye, which is as tenacious as weeds, so don't worry about it. Otherwise, God knows how much you can gain...

As far as the current situation is concerned, wheat cultivation in Beihai mainly relies on sowing and hole sowing, which is very inefficient and unscientific. Therefore, although there are fertilizer technologies with complete three types of fertilizers in later generations, the output still cannot increase, only four to five hundred pounds. If the drill technology is adopted, it is estimated that the output can still increase. Of course, the method of pulling out weeds in the field and pulling out the weakest of the competing wheat plants still needs the guidance of Chinese farmers. On this point, even if Marin knows the principle, the specifics have to be taught by farming experts. After all, Marin is the ruler, and Bi may personally go to the fields to teach the serfs to work...

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The first two letters mainly introduced columbine carts. According to Kong Tai, because of the rice transplanting process in the south, columbine carts have never been used. Therefore, Kong Tai's people still sent people to the Central Plains area in the north of Daming to find the columbine.

However, the Ming Dynasty prohibited Fanyi from walking freely in the interior of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Kong Tai found the columbine car only after spending money to hire a native of Daming to go north.

Moreover, Kong Tai hired scholars from the Ming Dynasty. Because ordinary people have no right to walk freely in various parts of Ming Dynasty. Only scholars have the privilege of freely "studying" all over the country. Of course, the cost of hiring talents is not low. After all, they are people with status. As for juren and Jinshi, don't even think about it, he is already an official of the Ming Dynasty, and he is not short of money. Just the income from investing the land is enough for them to fly happily. Only the scholar class, who are not qualified to be officials, and many people are short of money, are willing to accept employment. I have only heard of poor scholars, but never heard of poor juren or poor Jinshi...

However, Kong Tai hired a scholar who went to the north to look for columbine carts. Not only did he find columbine carts in the Greater Holland Province of the Central Plains, but he also discovered an artifact of harvesting—Mai Samarium...

It is said that this magical harvesting tool called Mai Samarium can harvest six or seven acres of wheat every day. If two men cooperate, they can harvest up to 20 acres of wheat a day...

"Nimma, what kind of black technology is this?" Marin was taken aback. Harvesting 20 acres a day is simply too scary, okay?

You know, if you harvest wheat manually, you can harvest more than an acre in a day. More skilled masters can also harvest 2 acres of land. Therefore, every autumn harvest, in order to harvest wheat, Marin will send troops to help. Otherwise, if it is delayed for too long, the wheat will rot in the ground when it rains.

And this kind of "black technology" that is said to be able to harvest six or seven acres of wheat a day, and even two people can harvest 20 acres of land a day, simply stunned Marin...