Sister Han is good at farming

"By the way, Uncle Yan, I have a rice transplanter here, see if you can make it."

After discussing the production of the rice transplanter, Ruan Qingqing drew a rough model of the Hua Xia Guangxi 65-2 rice transplanter that she had in mind.

Guangxi 65-2 rice transplanter is a manual clamp type rice transplanter, mainly used for planting bare root rice seedlings. It is small and light. One machine weighs 24 kg, and its dimensions are 34 inches long, 39 inches wide and 227 inches high. One person can carry it on his back, and it is suitable for use in plains and mountains.

Two people use one machine and can transplant 4-5 mu of land in one day. The most important thing is that the rate of missing, damaged and hooked seedlings is extremely low, and the uniformity rate is high. The structure is not complicated and easy to master.

"Uncle Yan, this rice transplanter is made of iron and wood, and consists of seven major parts: the frame, the rice door plate, the rice box, the rice box moving mechanism, the rice pressing plate, and the depth adjustment plate.

The frame is an iron and wood structure, consisting of the bottom of the boat (wooden structure) and the bracket (tube-type detachable).

The bottom of the boat is the sliding surface during the working process, which has the functions of load-bearing and soil leveling. The bracket is used to assemble the components such as the seedling clamp frame, seedling door plate, and seedling box moving mechanism. It is composed of front and rear beams, left and right diagonal braces and roller frames, and is connected to the bottom of the boat by four connecting plates. The direction control lever on the front beam is used to control the forward direction of the machine.

The seedling clamp frame is composed of crankshaft rocker arm, seedling transplanting control lever, seedling clamp plate, seedling clamp, switch mechanism and other main components.

The opening and closing movement of the seedling clamps during the working process is controlled by the seedling transplanting joystick, switch mechanism, etc. The upper end of the joystick is connected to the frame with a crankshaft, and the rocker arm slides on both sides are stuck on the rocker arm rollers. When working, it swings back and forth, so that the seedling clamps move along a "7" shape trajectory, and the seedling transplanting work is carried out reciprocatingly.

The seedling gate board has 6 seedling gates, and the upper part is equipped with a seedling gate adjustment plate to adjust the size of the trumpet-shaped gap. When working, it forces the seedlings to be clearly separated to ensure the uniformity of the seedling separation.

During installation, place the connecting iron of the rice door plate on the left and right diagonal support connecting seats of the frame, put on the screws, pay attention to placing the adjusting gasket when tightening the nuts, and add two-centimeter thick washers on both sides.

The seedling box is composed of an arc-shaped bottom plate, side plates, seedling blocking poles, seedling blocking pole supports, slide plates, pads and other components.

When working, use it to load the seedlings, insert the iron pad on the back of the seedling box into the ear of the moving rod, place the slide plate on the roller frame, and drive it to move left and right by the moving mechanism to complete the horizontal seedling delivery. The seedling pressing plate, the vibration of the machine, the movement of the seedlings, etc. make the seedlings slide down along the arc-shaped bottom plate to complete the longitudinal seedling delivery, so that the seedling clamp can continuously take the seedlings.

The box moving mechanism is installed on the rear beam of the frame. When working, it relies on the impact of the seedling clamp frame inserted downward, and through the linkage of the swing rod, connecting rod, slide plate, ratchet, rack and moving rod, it drives the seedling box to move back and forth intermittently (where the reversal is achieved by the collision between the ratchet and the left and right reversing plates), so that the hot clamp can evenly take the seedlings at a fixed position. "

Yan Qufeng and Yan Zechen beside him listened to Ruan Qingqing's explanation while comparing the pictures. They both listened very carefully.

After listening to Ruan Qingqing's explanation, Yan Qufeng frowned and said, "It takes some time to make this machine. I can even make it all out of wood, but some parts that are easy to wear will break quickly. I suggest that it is better to make it out of iron. After all, this is a delicate machine. It takes a lot of time to make it. Frequent replacement of parts is not only costly, but also easy to delay things."

He pondered for a while, "How about this, I will make the big parts first, and use iron for the parts that are easy to wear. If there is really no condition to make them, I will use wood."

Ruan Qingqing nodded, "That's it for now! I'll go and sound out Master Fu to see if I can get some iron."

Because it was related to the harvest, after listening to Ruan Qingqing's request, Fu Yuanhao designated a blacksmith shop for her and allocated a batch of iron specifically for her to make farm tools.

Half a month before the wheat harvest, Shen Zhizui and Zhang Qiuming led 20,000 soldiers recruited from Qingshui County to Xiyu Pass.

Ruan Qingqing's family did not have any quota, but there were three quotas at the old house, which went to Ruan Shimeng from the first wife, Ruan Shisheng from the second wife, and Ruan Shifu from the third wife.

After the applicants left, Zaoziling fell silent for a while. Everyone hid their sorrow in their hearts and went about their business numbly.

The village didn't really come alive until the wheat harvest began.

With the help of the scythe, everyone cut the wheat much faster than before, especially those villagers who quickly mastered the skills.

Nguyen Van Kim and his son Nguyen The Cuong teamed up to harvest 20 mu of wheat in one day, which caused quite a stir at the time. Some smart people did not even cut the wheat, but directly asked Nguyen Van Kim and his son to help them harvest the wheat. They paid them a little and then freed up their hands to prepare the land and do other things.

On Ruan Qingqing's side, Liu Yi and Feng Yun also worked quickly. They harvested all the wheat on 50 acres of land in just two days.

Seeing that the speed was so fast, Ruan Qingqing no longer needed to use the ox cart to pull the harvested wheat. She simply harnessed the two horses in her family to the cart and led them to the field to pull the wheat.

After picking up two rounds of wheat ears in the empty wheat field, the plow was immediately harnessed to the oxen, and the land was turned over in preparation for planting summer corn.

The people in Zaoziling have never harvested wheat as quickly and enjoyably as they did this year.

During the break from grinding wheat in the threshing field, everyone was discussing, "If Qingqing can come up with a thresher that can thresh wheat grains directly, it will be much easier for us to work on fields like ours. When we sow, we have a tripod cart to help with making nests, throwing seeds, and covering the soil. It's all done in one go. When we harvest wheat, we have a thresher, and when we thresh, we have a thresher. We don't have to do anything, just weed and fertilize. Don't be too happy!"

Ruan Qingqing also wanted to develop a thresher, but the thresher was more complicated and required an electric motor. It was impossible to develop such a thing in this farming era.

The people of Qingshui County and even Lulin Prefecture are enjoying the convenience brought by the wheat sledgehammer. The whole process from harvesting to storing wheat takes less than ten days, which was something that no one dared to think about in the past.

As soon as the wheat was harvested, everyone was busy planting late rice. After the fields were cleaned up, Ruan Qingqing and others put the rice transplanter in the field, and everyone ran to the field to watch the fun as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

I saw two people taking turns operating the machine, and the seedlings were automatically planted in the field. Five rows could be planted at a time, and the speed was extremely fast.

The most important thing is that you don’t have to bend over.

The crowd who were watching the fun were immediately boiling with excitement.

"A divine weapon! It really is a divine weapon!"

"In this way, families with few workers only need to arrange one person to operate the machine, and the others can be responsible for pulling up the seedlings and carrying them to the paddy fields. This can greatly reduce the working time. It's really great!"

"It's a pity that there aren't many such machines made by Yan Mujiang. Otherwise, every family would have one, and I wouldn't have to do anything. I can operate the machine, and my two children can also do the work of transplanting and delivering rice seedlings."

"Yes, this machine is easy to operate and saves a lot of manpower and time."

Everyone agreed very much.

"It doesn't matter if there are few machines. We can send some people who are skilled in operating them to help everyone sow the seeds. Then we can pay those who help according to the sowing area!" Ruan Qingqing suggested.

"This is feasible! But can the reward be lower? If we calculate it based on the previous price, we haven't gained any substantial benefits!"

"Yep!"

"I think the efficiency of this machine is at least twice as high as before, and it is much easier for operators than the previous method of transplanting rice. In my opinion, just sell it at half the price! This way everyone gets a benefit." Someone suggested.

"This is a good suggestion!"