The Rise of the European Emperor

"Really?" Marin was a little disbelieving. If wheat samarium is so good, why didn't his family use it when they harvested wheat in the previous life? In his childhood memory, there was no such thing.

In fact, Marin didn't know that this thing is generally popular in the Central Plains north of the Huaihe River. Ma Lin's hometown in his previous life was in the Jianghuai area. In ancient times, he mainly planted rice. Naturally, this magic weapon for harvesting wheat was not popular.

But for Europe, which basically grows wheat, the significance of samarium is too great. There are no tractors these days, and the role that Mai Samarium can play is equivalent to a harvester. Moreover, Marin remembered that in the 19th century, the horse-drawn harvester invented by the American inventor McCormick was only three times more efficient than ordinary people, not as good as Sammart.

It seems that Kong Tai also guessed that Marin might not believe it. Therefore, at the end of the letter, Kong Tai mentioned that not only did he ask people to bring back samples of Mai Samarium, but also brought back a few poor farmers recruited from the Netherlands in the Central Plains , They will show Marin face-to-face how to use Mai Samarium.

Kong Tai emphasized that although Mai Samarium is efficient, ordinary people may not be able to handle it. Because it is very heavy, and the 1-meter-long samarium knife alone is very important. Therefore, in general, Mai Samarium needs a man of middle age to manipulate, and it requires a lot of skill. If you don't know how to do it, a samarium knife can cut yourself...

Hearing that someone could perform live, Marin went to the port of Emden with great interest, and called a few farmers from the Central Plains Greater Holland, and asked them to perform wheat harvesting. Because he wanted to see the effect too much, Marin even didn't hesitate to waste a few acres of rye fields that were about to mature, so that several people could perform barley harvesting.

The farmer who performed first introduced Marin. The Maichao they use, also known as Maichuzi, is composed of Maichao, Maichao and Mailong, supplemented by wooden handles, sliding frames, drawstrings and other accessories. The so-called Maisan is actually a Samarium knife, commonly known as a Samarium blade, a sharp and thin blade more than two feet long, inlaid on the Mai Chuo, and can be disassembled freely.

And Mai Chuo, also called Mai Chuozi, commonly known as chicken coop, has a round upper part, with thin bamboo strips or old vines weaving in the middle to form a net-shaped flower eye, which looks like a dustpan but is slightly larger, about three feet high, and can be used to collect wheat stalks. role. The lower part is about two feet wide, and the head is at the same level. A samarium knife is installed at the mouth of the skip with a thin wooden board. Samarium knives are a bit like the blades of later manual razors, very sharp and thin, which is good for fast harvesting. But at the same time, if you are injured by a blade, it is also very scary...

There are wooden handles at both ends of the skip mouth, and a rope at the other end. The wooden handle is about 1 meter long and the rope is a bit shorter. There is a crossbar at the end of the wooden handle, which is easy to hold. The rope has a loop at the end for easy hand pulling. The outside of the Mai Chuo should bulge inwards, so that it is convenient to gather the cut wheat in the chicken coop when cutting the wheat with a knife.

When harvesting, the farmer bows forward with his right leg, slightly bends his left leg, holds the wooden handle with his right hand, and pulls the rope with his left hand. First throw the wheat chips through the wooden handle behind a piece of wheat in front, and then drop the samarium knife to the root of the wheat clump. Then, the farmer exerted force with both hands and pulled Mai Sammarium back. The sharp samarium knife cut across the root of the clump of wheat, and the piece of wheat was cut off by the roots and fell into Mai Chuo's cage. Then, the wheat stalks in the cage are gathered together as a bundle, and the women or children following up will tie them up and prepare to transport them back for threshing...

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Because the full set of wheat samarium is relatively heavy, ordinary women cannot control it. It is difficult for a man with less strength to be promoted. Of course, those adult men who are used to doing farm work are generally fine. Only those noble children or scholars did not have enough strength to control Mai Samarium.

But even with enough strength, be careful.

Because when Mai Samarium is pulling back to harvest wheat, he is also taboo to use too much force. If the samarium knife continues to cut off the wheat root, it may cut to the leg, and it will be over.

Therefore, Sun Er, a big Dutch farmer who demonstrated to Marin, emphasized that young people who have never touched this thing have to practice for several months before they can use it. How to practice? Of course, practice after removing the sharp samarium knife. You can only get started if you have practiced without a blade. Also, be careful at first. Otherwise, if the leg is cut off, it will be disabled. If you cut the artery, you will die directly...

Looking at Sun Er's dazzling performance, Marin felt that he had a solid foundation in kung fu. Could it be that this is the so-called crop handle style?

In fact, Marin's guess was not wrong. Skilled farmers who use Mai Samarium have a stable bottom plate. And holding Mai Samarium for a long time, the hand strength is not small. Moreover, the Greater Holland area has been the hometown of Kung Fu since ancient times. Just like Sun Er, he has a few crops.

Of course, it's just a few moves, after all, it's not professional, and it can't compare with professional martial arts. Moreover, ordinary farmers do not have enough meat to supply the nutrients needed for martial arts. But when it comes to the stability of the bottom plate, the center of gravity of these farmers who are good at using Mai Samarium is very stable, and it is not easy to roll over...

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In fact, there is another usage of Mai Samarium. That is, two people manipulate Mai Sammarium, and one person pulls the other side. The person on the right pulls the wooden handle, and the person on the left pulls the rope. Of course, Mai Samarium also needs to be changed, at least, the wooden handle and rope must be changed to be longer, suitable for two people to pull with both hands. Moreover, the width can also be appropriately increased to improve harvesting efficiency.

If two people use their hands to cooperate, one person stands on one side, and it can also prevent the samarium knife from hurting themselves. After all, when the two of them cooperated, they both stood by the side of Samarium Knife.

Moreover, if two people work together, pulling with both hands is more powerful than pulling with one hand, and the influence of the total weight of wheat and samarium on people will be further reduced. After all, the two shared Mai Sammart's weight. In this way, the endurance of the two of them will be stronger when they are working. Unlike one person manipulating the machine alone, the weight of the whole machine is borne by one person, so it is inevitable to take a rest when you are tired. If there are two people, the rest interval will be much longer.

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Then, in a manor under the name of Marin outside Emden, several farmers from Greater Holland showed Marin the situations of single-person and double-use of marin. Among them, the wheat samarium used by two people is wider, and the width of harvesting is wider.

Although harvesting wheat is very boring, Marin still watched them harvest wheat with great interest. Of course, he ordered people to bring tables and stools, and sat at the head of the field to watch the use of wheat samarium. On his head, he even covered a parasol...

At the end of the day, when several big Dutch farmers were unable to work, Marin sent someone to count——ho! That's right! The single person harvested more than 6 acres in one day, more than one acre! And the one with the two people was even more powerful, and really harvested 20 acres!

"What an artifact!" Marin stood up excitedly.

If it is possible to popularize wheat samarium, then there is no need to fear that the autumn harvest will be too slow and it will rain.

What is the concept of 20 acres a day? 100 acres can be harvested in 5 days! According to the calculation that the autumn harvest lasted for more than half a month in this era, two strong men can handle the harvest of 300 mu of land! Then, on average, each household can farm up to 150 acres! With a little effort, 200 acres can also be solved!

Why did the ancient Chinese people say "a cow on thirty acres of land, and a wife and children are hot on the kang"? Is it because you are too busy? If only one or two acres can be harvested a day, the husband and wife together can harvest more than three acres a day. Then, 30 mu of land can be harvested in ten days. No matter how much it is, it will be too much.

But it’s different with Maisan. Two people, Maisan, can harvest 200 mu in ten days! Even if there is only one male in a household, that's fine. The big deal is to help each other with neighbors and cooperate in harvesting. In this way, it is not a problem for a family to harvest 100 acres!

Previously, for the autumn harvest in Beihai, Marin had to send troops to help harvest because of insufficient labor. Otherwise, it is easy to delay the autumn harvest. But now, with the magical wheat harvesting tool Mai Samarium, Marin no longer has to worry about the delay in the autumn harvest...

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How happy is Marin thinking? Prader's three-plow parallel plow cart, coupled with the fast sowing columbine cart, and the magic weapon for harvesting wheat... This is not a complete set of agricultural modernization machinery... No, but also What a thresher!

Without a thresher, people would throw the harvested wheat on stones to separate the grains, which is very laborious and inefficient.

However, the thresher seems to be very simple in principle. When Marin read novels in his previous life, he had seen many people design pedal threshers, which obviously had the lowest technical content.

Moreover, Marin does not need to design by himself, but he has a group of craftsmen under him. Those craftsmen who can make clocks should not be too easy to design a pedal thresher...

Therefore, Marin feels that the modernization of agriculture in Beihai country has arrived...