Xianyu Infrastructure, I have a lot of troops in my hands

The newly improved drum carts are all the results of Taohuazhuang's research. The previous straight-beam plow pulled by two oxen has been improved to a curved-beam one, and the shape of the plowshare has also changed from a moldboard plow to a reversible plow.

It has further evolved into a double-headed plow, a multi-headed reversible plow, a six-headed plow that can be pulled by only three oxen, and so on.

The multi-head flip plow uses the power of several oxen together. When the plow tip is pushed forward, friction between the plow tip and the soil occurs, causing the plow tip to gradually flip completely upward and flip the upper layer of soil to the bottom, forming plowing.

When the plow tip is turned over, furrows can be formed on one or both sides of the plow body, moving the soil to one side to form a furrowing effect.

Although it requires more animal power, the reversible plow is effective, turning the soil deep and quickly. A person stands behind the plow with a harrow and can directly rake the turned soil flat using its weight.

With such a powerful tool, turning the soil, the most labor-intensive task, has now become much easier.

When the Xie family's large fields were first reclaimed, there were 500 people, but later on, less than 100 people were left to take care of the fields.

If we use the old way, each person can only take care of thirty to fifty acres at most. Now with the successful development of agricultural machinery, one hundred people can easily take care of one thousand five hundred acres of land.

What's more, after the fields have been plowed, these multi-headed plows are not left idle.

Ze Yue arranged for people to bring oxen and plows to sweep through village after village. In the villages near Heishiwei, since most of the people were women and children in the garrison, they took care of them nearby.

Ordinary people were charged 15 wen per mu, while those who were members of the Weizhong army were charged 10 wen per mu. They were allowed to buy on credit or pay back with corn at the end of the year.

An average family of three has only five to ten acres of land.

If one person and one ox were to plow the soil as they did in the past, it would take at least three to five days. And because the wooden plow was too shallow, some hard soil had to be plowed twice.

But if a farm machinery team comes, a six-headed iron plow is lowered, and three oxen work at the same time, five acres of land can be plowed five times in less than half an hour, and the furrows are straight, and the turned soil is deep and even.

If one had a cow at home, one could save two cents. When the villagers who raised cows in the village saw that this was possible, they immediately became interested. Several families pooled their money, bought or rented several plows, and took a few cows with them, and went to other villages to make money.

The grocery stores in the city gradually became bustling. People found that every time new agricultural machinery and equipment came out in the fields outside the city, the grocery stores would have new products in a few days.

Some people also bought plows, disassembled them privately to study them, and tried to make their own imitations. The products they made were exactly the same, but the material difference was too great. When they were put to work in the fields, the plow heads broke or deformed after only a few acres of land had been plowed. They were far less sturdy and durable than those produced by Xie.

After several attempts, they finally realized that the iron of the plowshare was very special and could not be made of any ordinary ironware. Thinking of this, they remembered the Xie family iron coin and had to give up. Forget it, Xie family ironware could not compare.

The farm tools produced by the Xie family have a one-year warranty and can be exchanged for new ones with coupons. So even if the same plows appear on the market, people are still willing to go to the more expensive Xie’s grocery store.

If you still have some money short of hand, you can buy on credit at Xie's grocery store. You need a village elder to act as a guarantor, and the person must have a good record of being a good person. After the harvest, you can pay off the debt with corn.

The Xie family's multi-head plow spread at an incredible speed.

Of course, these benefits are first enjoyed by the Xie family and the villages near Black Stone Guard, which makes people from all over the country jealous.

These village elders now stand up straighter than usual when they go out. They know that this is the benefit promised by the queen, but they dare not act recklessly by relying on the power in their hands.

The great purge before Xie Xian's departure made the usually domineering village heads and clan elders behave themselves, and the existence of the Xie family's Discipline Hall made those with ulterior motives think twice.

However, the villages near Black Stone Guard have completely changed. People from all over the place are trying every means to marry their daughters to the villages. It is really because the benefits that Xie has provided to Black Stone Guard have made people jealous.

In the county government office, County Magistrate Bai sat at the top, with Chief Constable Zhao Zheng on his left and County Magistrate Xie Ze on his right.

Sitting in the hall were the headmen and elders of the villages in Que County. Looking closely, this group of people was vaguely divided into two factions. The faction on the left was standing more scattered, while the faction on the right was led by several elders of the Xie family near Heishiwei.

A few days ago, County Magistrate Bai was angry for several days because of the news from the provincial capital, but it was not a solution to keep wasting time like this. Now the spring ploughing has started for more than half a month, and as the county magistrate, he was supposed to inquire about the progress of the spring ploughing in mid-April, so what happened today happened.

He straightened his robe and sat down slowly, then said slowly, "It has been half a month since the spring ploughing started. I wonder how the whole village is going now?"

As he spoke, his eyes looked to the right. After hearing the news from Captain Zhao yesterday, he suddenly felt that he was an incompetent county magistrate. He didn't even know that such a powerful farming tool had appeared in the county.

No matter what he thought in his heart, his face remained calm.

Xie Ze, who was sitting below him, was calm and composed. As Xie Xian's uncle, he was respected in the county government as the Xie family was on the rise. He was gradually becoming the number one person under the county magistrate.

However, since it was related to the Xie family's major plans, he didn't dare to speak up.

Captain Zhao looked around and began to count ants, just to show off.

The several village heads standing on the left looked at their colleagues opposite them, a group of people who were obviously from the military, with expressions of flattery and fear on their faces.

"Your Excellency, we have completed the cultivation of the twenty-four villages near the Black Stone Guard's base." The speaker was the village elder of the Xie family clan on the right.

As he finished speaking, a group of village heads behind him straightened their chests. This was all thanks to the Xie family, so they had to show off.

"Ahem! Very good!" Bai Jingting pretended to take a sip of tea, then looked to the left.

Suddenly, an old man with a dark complexion came forward and cried, "Your Excellency, we have done our best. The ground has just thawed and more than half of the land in the village has been plowed."

In previous years, their village was considered fast, but this year, several villages under the Xie family had the help of Xie’s new agricultural machinery team, so didn’t they seem much slower?

"Yes, Chief Wang is right. We urged the villagers to till the land after the Spring Equinox, but last year was a bad year. The villagers didn't have enough food to eat, so how could they have the energy to till the land? Some families couldn't even afford a plow, let alone other things."

"County magistrate, can you let us buy some good seeds on credit this year?" Several skinny and pale village elders begged.

Bai Jingting saw that there was a group of people on the left, all of whom had their own reasons. Not only were the tasks not completed, but they also had many demands, such as food, money, and even oxen.