With the arrival of summer harvest, all parts of the country began to get busy again. ●⌒Small,...o In the wheat field of an imperial village outside the capital, there was a large group of people.&1t;/p>

One group is the Jinyiwei, one group is the farmers in the imperial village, another group is the emperor and officials, as well as students from the Royal Academy of Sciences and reporters from the Daming Daily.&1t;/p>

Everyone's eyes are focused on a brand new harvester.&1t;/p>

This harvester is driven by two horses, with three workers sitting on it, and two large harvesting devices on both sides, which is completely in principle different from the rolling rolling drums of later combined harvesters.&1t;/p>

On the other side of the harvester were thirty young and strong men holding sickles and eager to try.&1t;/p>

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"Your Majesty, both sides are ready." Xu Guangqi said excitedly to Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao looked at the big guy in front of him, and his expression showed great expectations, and waved: "Let's start!"&1t;/p>

"Preparation...start!" Xu Guangqi ran between the two teams, waved the flag in his hand hard, and officially announced the start of the game.&1t;/p>

Yes, this is a game.&1t;/p>

A efficiency competition between traditional manual harvesting and the latest developed harvester, everyone stared at the two teams in front of them.&1t;/p>

As soon as Xu Guangqi finished speaking, both sides began to harvest as quickly as possible.&1t;/p>

The traditional labor team responded faster and beat him up. Thirty workers rushed forward with sickles in their hands, bent down and buried their heads to harvest wheat.&1t;/p>

Each of them is full of energy, and everyone is trying their best to harvest wheat with a sickle as fast as possible. Handfuls of straw are cut off, and then piled neatly on the ground.&1t;/p>

The three workers on the harvester were a beat slower.&1t;/p>

"Driving!" The reins in the groom's hand on the harvester were raised and pressed down. The two horses slowly moved forward, driving the harvester.&1t;/p>

The other two workers began to grab the rocker and shake it hard. The drum in front of them used to harvest wheat suddenly rolled.&1t;/p>

The running steel drum pressed all the wheat along the way into it, cut off the straw during the rolling, and the wheat ears and straw were rolled into the machine.&1t;/p>

As the two workers kept turning the rocker, the wheat that was wrapped in the machine successfully separated from the ears of wheat, and then rustled and separated into a container.&1t;/p>

The two horses used to move forward slowly in a balanced manner. A large piece of wheat was harvested soon.&1t;/p>

The people present looked at the harvester still moving forward in surprise. Such fast and efficient efficiency is really surprising. The thirty young and strong laborers over there seem to have only collected wheat from these places!&1t;/p>

This hand-crank animal harvester actually has no essential difference from later generations. It is nothing more than using animal power to replace internal combustion engines to obtain the power to drive the harvester to move. Human hand-crank provides power for the harvester. Under the hand-crank of workers, the harvester is constantly running. Such a harvester is harvested completely in the wheat field four meters wide wherever it passes.&1t;/p>

But the harvester soon stopped because the wheat bucket in the car was full. The workers in the car took out the sack, one put the bag under the wheat bucket, and the other opened the wheat bucket. The wheat in the wheat bucket poured into the sack.&1t;/p>

When the worker was full, the worker cut the wheat dou, and then the two tied the holes of the sack together. Then they threw the sack to the side. Then they activated the horse again, and the harvester started running again.&1t;/p>

The harvest continues. The horse-driven workers constantly rotate the workers on the car so that one of the workers can get a rest time.&1t;/p>

With the close cooperation of three workers, ten acres of wheat were harvested in less than two hours. On the other hand, ten acres of wheat were only harvested more than half.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao immediately applauded and shouted excitedly: "Beautiful job."&1t;/p>

Everyone present also applauded warmly, cheering for the success of the harvester.&1t;/p>

“Fast, it’s too fast.”&1t;/p>

"The Royal Academy of Sciences is really amazing."&1t;/p>

"From the wheat harvested by both sides, one person on the harvester can be used as twenty people."&1t;/p>

"It's not all! The wheat from the artificial team has not yet peeled off yet! The harvester has already peeled off and put it in bags. Just transport it away directly."&1t;/p>

Everyone started to talk in amazement. The artificial team and the harvesting team were just a simple game, which easily reflected the efficiency of the harvester.&1t;/p>

The efficiency has been greatly improved. The emergence of this kind of machine will greatly reduce the investment in labor in agriculture, thereby producing more efficiently more commercial grains and liberating the population from the land.&1t;/p>

There is obviously a huge market for such machines. First, Liaodong agriculture will adopt a commercial planting model. Second, many landlords in Beizhili have joined forces to establish agricultural companies, and these agricultural companies will have great interest in reducing employment.&1t;/p>

Agricultural companies like Beizhili Agricultural Company, which have a large number of tenant farmers, also have demand for harvesters. With these harvesters, farmers do not have to hurry to harvest when the summer comes. You should know that acre of wheat has to be busy for a whole day to finish harvesting, and every summer harvest, they have to find helpers to get it.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly asked Xu Guangqi about the cost issue. Xu Guangqi replied: "The cost of a harvester is not very high, and it doesn't cost much money on materials. The main reason is that it costs a little more than a certain amount of mechanical processing, but the cost of a harvester is only about eight yuan."&1t;/p>

The harvester is nothing more than wood and steel. Because this hand-crank harvester has a simple structure, the spike device may cause some failures, but it is easier to repair. After all, the most prone thing for a machine to have problems is basically the power device.&1t;/p>

The power of the hand-crank animal power harvester is a model that combines animal power and human power.&1t;/p>

Of course, the cost of harvesters will also increase with the increase in labor costs, but the increase in labor costs means that the benefits of the harvesters being put into use will also increase.&1t;/p>

The harvester is cheap, and the most expensive one is the two horses. However, horses can be used all year round, so horses are not very expensive. Now Mongolia and Tibet are doing horse business with the Ming Dynasty, especially the horse trade volume between Mongolia and Ming Dynasty is very large, and there is no shortage of horses in Northern Zhili.&1t;/p>

This means that the profit of the harvester will be high enough, and the price of a harvester can be fully raised to 50 or 60 yuan.&1t;/p>

"The harvester will be put into production soon. If there are no design defects, next summer harvest will be fully popularized in Beizhili, and try to popularize it in various wheat production areas of other provinces." Zhu Youchao ordered the left and right.&1t;/p>

"It's Your Majesty."&1t;/p>

The next day, the Daming Daily conducted an in-depth report on the hand-crank animal harvester, which immediately caused a warm response.&1t;/p>

Agricultural companies in Beizhili went to the Royal Machinery Manufacturing Factory to inspect harvesters. After a reform of the land management model in Beizhili, there was obviously a strong demand for harvesters.&1t;/p>

Those agricultural companies are not short of money, they just want to reduce their employment.&1t;/p>

The current minimum wage in Beizhili is 2 yuan per month. However, agricultural companies need to find someone to harvest wheat, and the daily wage will never be less than 40 yuan. The average harvest of 10 acres of wheat requires 40 yuan.&1t;/p>

After some calculations, the Royal Machinery Manufacturing Factory offered a price of 50 yuan per unit. After a large amount of data comparison, the efficiency of the harvester is actually about 1:3o, that is, one worker can reach the level of manual harvesting of 30 workers. If a harvester is bought, three workers can ding the workload of 90 workers.&1t;/p>

90 workers can earn 72 yuan in about ten days of summer harvest. If they buy a harvester and put it into use, they can recover their costs in one year. The harvester is the net asset. It is also durable, so it will be fine to use it for 10 or 20 years.&1t;/p>

The price of 50 yuan is relatively affordable and can be afforded by agricultural companies. After this price is set, the order will float like snowflakes. In addition to agricultural companies willing to buy, some workers are also willing to buy in joint ventures, intending to make a profit in the summer harvest next year.&1t;/p>

A large number of harvesters appear in the market, and the reward for rushing to be collected in summer will naturally decrease. However, the price of 50 yuan is still very cost-effective. If you take out a month every year, you can earn wages that you can only earn in a few months.&1t;/p>

Royal Agriculture Company naturally has a large number of orders.&1t;/p>

So much so that the order rose to more than 60,000 a few months after the summer harvest. At the same time, the harvester was welcomed by many landlords in other northern provinces. Not all landlords rented the land to tenant farmers, and some landlords hired long-term workers to operate it themselves. They were also very interested in this kind of harvester.&1t;/p>

Product sales personnel of Royal Machinery Manufacturing Factory began to sell everywhere in northern provinces, and orders continued to rise.&1t;/p>

The manufacturing of agricultural machinery obviously gave Royal Machinery Manufacturing a huge sweetness. It began to invest funds and dispatched machinery manufacturing workers and the Royal Academy of Sciences to establish various agricultural machinery research projects.&1t;/p>

This year, summer harvests in northern provinces are in full swing, and the collection of agricultural taxes in various places is not much different from those in previous years. However, this year, the imperial court exempted agricultural taxes from many regions, which greatly reduced the tax. However, the agricultural taxes levied in northern Zhili increased sharply.&1t;/p>

Just one Northern Zhili, the amount of agricultural tax collected in summer this year reached 80,000 yuan in one fell swoop. It was almost more than the agricultural tax in the entire north in the past, and the imperial court received ready-made silver, rather than the conversion of 60,000 stones of grain.&1t;/p>

These agricultural taxes are collected from agricultural companies, which is the biggest benefit of the agricultural management method of Beizhili becoming mainly based on agricultural companies.&1t;/p>

Those scholars who have fame and fortune no longer enjoy the tax exemption policy as before in Northern Zhili.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the Beizhili Agricultural Company has generated a lot of profits from tenancy and rent, and they are distributed to shareholders according to the shares, among which Royal Bank of China received the most dividends. After all, among the Beizhili Agricultural Company, more than 30 million mu of land originally belonged to Royal Agricultural Company.&1t;/p>

Just these 30 million mu of land were levied 150,000 shi of wheat.&1t;/p>

The summer grain in Northern Zhili had a bumper harvest just like last year, mainly because of the large improvement of water conservancy facilities, which ensured the full growth of wheat.&1t;/p>

Among them, the drought and flood-saving project has been completed. 90% of the land under the entire Beizhili Agricultural Company has been built into drought and flood-saving land, and the remaining 10% will be left for next year. Some arable land is not within the construction scope because the cost of drought and flood-saving projects is too high.&1t;/p>

What remains is the arable land of other agricultural companies. Many agricultural companies do not have the idea of ​​building this project. After all, it requires agricultural companies to pay for it themselves. However, these agricultural companies need to operate them after all, and they still need to ensure basic water conservancy facilities. Therefore, they do not have any disasters, and they will not have much impact on them.&1t;/p>

The overall improvement of water conservancy facilities, most of the wheat fields in Northern Zhili have been turned into irrigated land. With the guidance of agricultural companies in wheat management technology, the yield has been greatly increased. So much so that when the summer harvest in the third year of Tianqi, the wheat yield in many lands exceeded 3 stones, but most of them remained at a level of about 2 stones.&1t;/p>

There are fewer and fewer arable land with a yield of only 1 shi per mu. After all, after becoming irrigated land, ordinary land will not produce such low yields. Only those arable land with relatively poor land. These arable lands are no longer planted with wheat, but are planted with crops such as sweet potatoes and corn.&1t;/p>

This year, the grain output of Beizhili was very gratifying. In terms of commercial grain, Beizhili successfully achieved self-sufficiency. The only problem is that the cotton output is insufficient, and most of it must be imported from other provinces.&1t;/p>

This problem is that the place that has been plaguing Zhu Youxiao in the past two years. In addition to eating, people also need to wear warm clothes. The supply of cotton, a raw material, is still stable. This cotton producing area in Henan, Shandong and northern Jiangsu can produce a lot of cotton every year, but this commercial cotton production area was mainly sold to Songjiang in the past.&1t;/p>

With the development of textile industry in Beizhili, the battle between merchants in Beizhili and Songjiang for cotton has increased the price of cotton by nearly 30%.&1t;/p>

The price has increased, making the cotton planting area in Henan, Shandong and northern Jiangsu this year even larger. It is not like there is a shortage of cotton, but the supply of cotton is indeed a bit out of touch.&1t;/p>

If the vast land in Liaodong can be opened up and become a new commercial grain production area, it will be easy to increase the cotton planting area in the pass.&1t;/p>

During the summer harvest period, a group of Jiannu prisoners were escorted to the capital and held an unprecedented ceremony for offering the enemy. Among them was Du Du, the owner of the Inlaid White Banner. It was this guy who had a high level, so Zhu Youxiao agreed to the event.&1t;/p>

A group of Jianshu was imprisoned in a prison car and entered through the city gate. On both sides of the road were people who came to join in the fun after hearing the news. When they saw the convoy, the crowd suddenly burst into cheers.&1t;/p>

An exciting victory is indeed very necessary for the Ming Dynasty at this time.&1t;/p>

Liaodong has suffered repeated defeats, which has made ambitious people everywhere ready to move. The southwestern chieftains have frequently rebelled, and Shandong has also caused trouble like the Winter Sorcery.&1t;/p>

The Ming army's summer offensive won a great victory not only boosted the morale of the military and civilians, but also had a very good deterrent effect on the ambitions in various places.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao personally participated in the ceremony of offering the enemy. After the ceremony of offering the enemy, thousands of Jiannu were taken to the suburbs to be executed by gunfire.&1t;/p>

Only more than 30 senior Jiannu generals including Du Du were taken to Caishikou for questioning.&1t;/p>

For Du Du and others, this is simply the end of the world. Several senior Jiannu generals were scared to urinate and defecate before being executed, which was very embarrassing. However, other senior Jiannu generals had barbaric habits and were still struggling when they were asked to kill.&1t;/p>

But in the end, my head was cut off with one knife.&1t;/p>

However, after the head was cut off, many Liao people present stepped forward and bought the human flesh of these senior Jiannu generals from the executioner. These Liao people who were wandering in foreign lands hated Jiannu to the core.&1t;/p>

At the same time, many people use steamed buns to dip their head blood, which seems to cure some diseases.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao was not at the execution site, but he heard the description of the scene by the Inspector. He only felt that he was covered in fur. These days, he was actually...&1t;/p>

He couldn't help but think too much, but at this time Yang Guang ran in and shouted happily to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, I'm so happy!"&1t;/p>

"What's the matter?" Zhu Youxiao asked calmly.&1t;/p>

"General Qin once again reported victory in Guizhou. In the past two months, he captured nearly 50,000 chieftain soldiers and horses. The chieftain rebellion has basically been put down." Yang Guang presented the memorial to Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>

"So smooth?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned and quickly opened the memorial and started reading. He was ready to make long-term combat, and the two southern infantry divisions had not yet been formed! (To be continued...)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!