During Zhengliang's inspection along the way, some leaders who were farming in the fields saw Zhengliang and his group and immediately thought they had met a big shot, and they all knelt on the ground in panic.

Masayoshi had long been accustomed to the reactions of these people. After hundreds of years of cultural accumulation, the fear these civilians formed by the warriors and wealthy families cannot be changed at once. Moreover, Masayoshi did not want them to change, but he hoped that they would only use these fears and respects to face the Luo family. As for other wealthy warriors who were not Luo family, there was no need for this.

Because these leaders were all politely saluted, Zhengliang saw many farming tools scattered in the fields along the way. Compared with the tools in other famous countries, these farming tools have been significantly improved.

For example, the hoe commonly used by the people in farming. In the past, there was basically only one hoe used by the people, which was a hoe. This hoe was narrow in body and used for deep digging on a small area. It was often used in places with strong soil. It was also often used to dig tuber plants buried in the soil, such as the unique crop melons of the Luo family, yam, etc. This hoe was widely used, which was very consistent with the local product environment of Japan (because there was a lack of iron ore, the less iron material used to make hoes, the better, which led to the fact that blacksmiths' houses generally only forged hoes with less material. In some places, stone hoes were even used).

Since the Luo family completely occupied Matsuura County, Masarara built an iron tool workshop at the foot of the Noitaka Mountains that coordinated all iron materials in the territory. This workshop is different from the weapons workshop in the Anyue Mountain Mountains. Although this workshop is also coordinated by the Inner Government Pavilion, it only produces iron tools needed for the life of the people, and is also responsible for managing the blacksmith workshops distributed throughout the territory and established by the people themselves (with the development of the territory's agriculture and commerce, the demand for agricultural tools increased. In towns and villages in various places, craftsmen who worked forging and casting were produced. These craftsmen broke free from the lord's constraints, owned their own workshops and tools, or accepted social orders and charged processing fees, or produced goods sold to the market.)

At this time, blacksmith houses independently distributed in the territory had appeared in the Luo family's territory, responsible for building agricultural tools for the people. In order to strengthen the management of these blacksmith houses, on the one hand, they were prevented from illegal territorial laws and regulations to build weapons, and on the other hand, they could be used as logistics branches in wartime, so they were managed uniformly (those blacksmith houses built by the people themselves were not managed, because all the iron materials in the territory were controlled by the Luo family. They were establishing them.

Before the blacksmith house, you must first go to the local Interior Cabinet to register information. Only after they are allowed can they start building the craftsman house. The Interior Cabinet will distribute the iron materials to various places one by one according to the needs of local iron materials. Afterwards, the detectives will monitor these blacksmith houses from time to time to monitor the final use of the iron materials). When necessary, the sect workshop in Yetaka Mountain will issue the iron tools construction tasks temporarily issued by the Interior Cabinet to the migrant workers in various places according to the needs of the territory.

After the Luo family set up this workshop, they produced some new agricultural tools according to the structural diagram provided by Zhengliang (Zhengliang was also a white-collar worker from the countryside in his previous life. When he was a child, he also ploughed fields and planted land in the countryside, so he naturally knew the structure and function of these agricultural tools). Today, Zhengliang finally saw these new agricultural tools. They were plate hoes, hoes, engineer shovels and plows.

The plate hoe is about 20 cm to 30 cm wide, and is slightly longer than the width. It is mainly used for large-area shallow excavation, such as loosening and refining of soil on the land.

The hoe is wide and sharp, and some are slightly curved. Some are crescent-shaped. Some have no curves and straight edges. The height is smaller than the width. It is slightly lighter and slightly thinner than the hoe, and has an iron handle, which is used to connect with long wooden handles. It is mainly used for excavation work on the surface. For example, removing weeds on the ground, collecting scattered grains or sand on the ground, etc.

The above three types of hoes can weed and turn over the soil. No matter which crop you want to plant, you must first use a hoe to loosen the soil and turn over the soil before you can plant crops. Therefore, hoes are very important to the people who lead the people. Without a hoe, you can turn over the soil. It means that you cannot plant crops. Hoes can also weed. For example, grass grows in every season, and weeds and sorts them out every season, especially in spring, when the grass grows strongly. Therefore, it is necessary to clean up more. In short, hoes are the most important tool for leading the people. With these hoes with different characteristics, the efficiency of leading the people's farming has been greatly improved.

Seeing the engineer shovel here made Zhengliang a little surprised (of course, this engineer shovel is not a tool that cannot be sold to the people). After all, only the logistics brigade can see a large number of engineer shovels in the current Luo Family territory. These engineer shovels are a favorable tool for building fortifications during marching, and can even be used as weapons during combat. They are the most popular logistics tools within the Luo Family Army at present.

As for the final plow, it was also improved by joint research by craftsmen and farmers. The main improvement was that the plow was replaced with iron shafts, which eliminated plow arrows, dug holes in the middle of the plow tip, and used wooden wedges to fix the iron shafts and adjust the depth and shallow, so that the plow body structure is simplified without affecting the effectiveness of the plow land, and also makes the plow more solid and durable, which not only extends the use time, saves production costs, and is also an improvement.

The emergence of a large number of folk blacksmith houses and carpenter houses indicates that the Luo family's territory has developed to a relatively complete and developed level. The widespread popularity of these tools also indicates that the territory's agriculture has been greatly developed.

In addition to seeing these tools, Zhengliang also saw a leader carrying two manure buckets and preparing to fertilize the crops in the fields. Speaking of manure, we have to talk about a habit of tying people in the territory in the past.

In the past, there was no real "toilet" in the territories, and it was not possible to buy a toilet like those rich people. Therefore, many people would build a simple "toilet" on the bank of the stream (digging a hole by the river, then building wooden boards or tree trunks at the entrance of the ground, and surrounding thatched grass). The excrement fell from the hole and was washed away by the river. However, these toilets were usually four thatched walls, and then the top of their heads were open. So when it rained, it was almost impossible to use. When Zhengliang first came to this world, he encountered the embarrassing situation of going to the toilet during heavy rain.

Later, after Zhengliang became the lord to take control of the territory, he began to gradually promote the use of manure in the territory. Now, the Luo family territory has formed a good manure application system. The leaders usually set up a manure cellar at their own home to store manure, and are also good at using manure, river and pond silt, decomposition plant stems and leaves, plant ash, decomposition garbage, village ditches sewage, and crop decomposition as fertilizer.

In order to provide the use of manure by the leaders, the Inner Government also specially taught the people the method of making manure and fertilizer. The specific method is to cut corn, reeds and other straw into small pieces, then pile them into a pile in a weft-shaped pile in order of up and down, pour manure and urine on it, and then ferment it. It is necessary to add wood ash or charcoal rich in potassium fertilizer after burning, which will be fermented into small pieces of gray-black fertilizer or gray-black fertilizer with water quality in the spring of the following year, which is manure; wheat hay stacks can also be used to make manure. During the manure production process, the stems, vines, leaves, or clean the dead branches of other plants in the straw stacks.

What we need to mention here is that in order to collect manure, the leaders have developed to the point where they can do everything they can. There is mainly a relatively special way.

The first is to pick up cow dung. At present, the oxen plowing in the territory is far from the level of one head per household, so most villages or towns are all leaders who jointly purchase several oxen from the Interior Cabinet as public property for use.

However, the disputes arising from how to use oxen once disturbed the Interior Government Pavilion. Under normal circumstances, it is reasonable for each household to take charge of adopting oxen for a few days. But when the farming and farming period is busy, this problem begins to become sharp. Finally, the Interior Government Pavilion has to stipulate that the Interior Government Pavilion will announce a period of ploughing every year. During this period, it is stipulated that each household must allocate oxen on time according to the number of oxen and the area of ​​fields in their area. When the people hand over the oxen, the local head or village head must serve as a notary to check the physical condition of the oxen. At the head of the village, the previous user of the oxen and the user who is about to accept oxen have confirmed that there is no problem. The handover of the oxen can be completed.

However, after this regulation was released, new problems soon emerged.

The problem arises in the handover time of the oxen. Generally speaking, the handover time is set as the second day after the previous umbrella has used the umbrella. However, the umbrella does not think so. Instead, they think it is most appropriate to receive the umbrella on the day when the previous umbrella has used it. There are two reasons:

First, when collecting oxen to using oxen, the oxen leader who uses oxen naturally protects the oxen in every way (after all, do you have to use it? Of course, I hope that the oxen will be in better condition), but during the period when the oxen is used and the oxen is ready to hand over the oxen to the next oxen leader (usually that night), no one knows what the oxen will do.

The so-called human hearts are selfish. Anyway, from this moment on, the plowing ox was no longer used by him. In this case, they were too lazy to even feed the plowing ox (according to the territorial laws, on the day of plowing ox, they must be fed some miscellaneous grains and rice. Such regulations are also to ensure the survival of the plowing ox. If all the oxen use these oxen as tireless oxen, and do not provide sufficient nutrition in time, these oxen will soon be unable to support and become sick or even die. As a result, both for the oxen, the inner court and the Luo family territory will be a loss. In order to avoid this situation, the oxen has to add these orders to the Luo family's laws on farming).

Anyway, if you are fed tonight, you will only work for others tomorrow. Why waste food? Even if you specialize in the miscellaneous grains for oxen (mainly rice that is unshelled and mixed grains made of crusts, these things are generally called bran in later generations), they can be left to be used when using oxen in the future. So it is this problem that makes the leaders think that it is most reasonable to hand over that night. In this way, in order to make the oxen use have the strength to work tomorrow, the leaders will naturally treat those oxen well.

Another reason why the leader asked the ox to hand over the plowing ox that night was cow dung. For the leader, cow dung is the most fertile fertilizer. In order to collect cow dung, when they usually adopt these plowing ox, they will send their children to watch the cows (that is, to pull the ox to eat in a place with fertile grass). These cow watch kids usually bring a dustpan (a shovel-shaped tray tool made of wood and bamboo, which is often used in rural areas to transport supplies). As soon as the ox excretes manure, they will immediately take the dustpan to store the cow dung, and put the cow dung in their own moth cellar when they go home at night.

Some people who have experience even look at cows. When it is obvious that the ox is about to discharge manure, they will immediately put the dustpan in the predicted position and let the ox drain the manure into it. If the ox has the same intelligence as humans, they will probably be flattered at this time. Damn, this is simply a five-star service. Of course, there may also be Ms. Niu who will scold you for being perverted.

Now the second reason why the ox handover was required to be handed over that night was to get more cow dung (experienced ox naturally knew that the night was the time when the ox was the most ox handover, after all, I was full during the day). But some ox handovers, as the previous user of the ox, saw the cheapness, and naturally disagreed. After a few rounds, this issue naturally became a big dispute, which directly affected the spring plowing work. Finally, the internal affairs cabinet had to clearly stipulate in the agricultural laws that the time for exchange of ox handover was set on the night of the use. Anyway, the ox handover will also become the handover, and there will always be more cow dung picking.

There are always endless disputes in the territory. As the officials of the village head and the internal affairs cabinet, it is sometimes very hard to be judged, but it is because of them that all the internal affairs work in the territory can continue to progress smoothly. They are really hardworking and making great contributions.
Chapter completed!