The first wheat planted in the border town finally ushered in the harvest day.

The serfs, with a scythe in the sun, cut the straw with their sickles, and bundled them up and bound up to the other side of the river.

Roland knew that from wheat ear to wheat grain is a very cumbersome process, before the mechanical tools and combine harvesters have not been popularized, wheat grains need to be manually separated, cleaned, screened, dried.Now he has seen the process again.

After the straw was brought back to the camp, the serfs spread them flat on the ground to dry, and then used all kinds of tools - exactly what was used: wooden sticks, stones, and thugs were all in battle, repeatedly beating the straw and the ears of wheat, so that the fruit was removed from the shell, which often lasted for three or four days.In Roland's memory, the countryside is filled with cattle or donkeys, pulling the stone in the valley field pressure, not only save a lot of effort, the shelling effect is also much more uniform than the beating.

I have to say that the level of agriculture in small towns is too backward.

After the end is to turn over the field, the same is what is the use of what, without a fork to replace with a stick, or directly with both hands to grab the wheat straw to the sky to throw, like a cooker.After the early knocking, most of the shell of Yingguo has been broken, and this process is to separate the fruit from the wheat ear.

After threshing of wheat straw actually has many roles, after crushing can return to the field, you can use the writer's animal padding grass, you can also make feed and paper, but Roland at this moment did not work hard to develop the green industry, had to watch the serfs to pile these wheat straw to the river, unified fire.In the next few days, the town flew gray smoke all day long, comparable to the previous cement powder pollution.

At the same time, two spindle islands of the Redwater Bridge have been cleared and the construction of the retaining wall is under way as planned.The base pier adopts the same prefabricated method as the main bridge - first pouring concrete columns containing steel and steel bars in the open space, then "weight loss hoisting", and finally Lotus is responsible for sinking it into the soil, revealing only half of the steel plate, waiting to be connected to the bridge body.

Therefore, during this week, Roland basically swung between the Red Water Bridge and the valley, and his skin was tanned a lot.

After the straw was forked out, there was only a grain of wheat and chaff left in the valley.

The serfs swept them into pieces, piled them up into small mountain bags, then stood on the mountain packs, shovelled the mixture with a shovel, and threw them toward the open space ahead.Since the chaff is much lighter than the fruit, the distance is farther under the wind, so the wheat grains are sprinkled under the feet, and the empty shells and debris are in the distance - through this method, the grain is collected step by step.

Of course, it is impossible to completely clean the chaff, and this process will also mix the wheat grains into the mud and sand, so Roland made up his mind that by the harvest day next year, he must prepare a batch of mechanical agricultural tools in advance - the combine harvester is not expected to be made, but the dehulling machine is still very easy to achieve, but the stone is replaced by a grinder, and the sieve screen is installed below, and the blower is separated from the broken cass.

When a full grain of wheat is evenly tiled on the valley, it seems to stain the entire north bank of the red water with a layer of gold.Looking at these golden fruits, Roland was full of accomplishment.Whether the food harvested is enough to fill the stomachs of more than 10,000 people, at least for the border town, this is a memorable day.

From today, the food in his territory will gradually shift from dependence on imports to self-sufficiency.

After drying for three days, the wheat entered the bagging stage.

“Your Majesty, this is a great harvest!”In the afternoon of the same day, Barov rushed into the office, "according to the preliminary statistics of the city hall, the yield per mu of each responsibility field is at least four times that of the past, and the highest is currently six times, so that this year's harvest is enough to fill the stomach of the people."

"Yes," said Roland, unable to help laughing, "it seems that the new granary in the castle district does not have to be empty all the time."

“Do you know what that means?”The mayor's look more excited than he, "the town only needs to add two thousand more farmers to meet the food consumption of 50,000 or 60,000 people!"It is inconceivable that the town can be expanded to the largest city in the gray castle, no...” He paused, “the most magnificent city on the continent!”

In this era, the urban population could not increase, the main reason is the low food production capacity, such as the Wangdu and more than 20,000 people of the city, has already need dozens of surrounding villages to provide food.Each village has a population of about one or two thousand, and if half of it is engaged in agriculture, it is almost 20,000 people raising 20,000 people.That is to say, a farmer's food, in addition to feeding himself and his family, to provide at most one city resident.

The so-called invisible constraints of productivity are this, I am afraid Barov is difficult to imagine that when mechanized cultivation is popular, one person's output alone is enough to feed tens of thousands of people.The main credit for this large harvest is achieved by the "golden one" of the leaf transformation without promoting and developing agricultural technology.

Feeding as many people as possible with as few farmers as possible, liberating human resources from the fields and transferring them into industrial production was a strategy set by Roland from the beginning.Now that the Ministry of Agriculture has obtained the best planting process, coupled with the next year, there will be iron agricultural tools and machinery to participate in farming, and the per capita output will inevitably be higher and higher.

...

In the evening, Roland gave a bonfire speech by the river of Redwater—the time seemed to be back to the twilight of four months ago, the same blazing bonfire, the black-pressing crowd, and the last afterglow reflected in the faces of the people.The only difference is that everyone's look is more frightened and uneasy than when they first arrived, and now their faces are full of harvest joy and undisguised expectation.

Roland reached for a wave and the scene was quiet.Everyone held their breath and waited for the prince to fulfill his promise.

“I know what you want to hear,” he said bluntly, instead of putting his name and title in front of him as usual, “I can tell you without question that the rules of promotion that were announced before are still valid today and will continue to be!”

Only this sentence blew up the atmosphere of the scene, and the people shouted uncontrollably, and many people knelt down to praise the prince's mercy.“Long live the Lord!”“Long live the prince!”

“When the food is handed over, the list of promotions will be announced,” Roland continued, “and when the call is over, “the arrangements after becoming a free people will be in charge of the City Hall, and you can choose to continue farming or find another job in the town.”

"In addition, from next year, as long as the harvest meets the promotion standard, even if the output is not in the forefront, it can become a free person."In other words, if you work hard, you will be able to get rid of the status of serfs - as I said, labor creates wealth, and labor changes destiny."He paused for a moment and looked around, “I hope that one day there will be no more serfs in the border town, and all of them will be my true collarmen.”

Roland's words just fell, and people's cheers instantly sounded over the Red Water River, for a long time.(Unfinished.