Chapter 177： threshing machine

With the passage of time, ten days passed without knowing it.

In the past ten days, she completely handed over the toys to Li Huaisheng, and he arranged everything, she just made the drawings.

In the past ten days, Lin Yuelan's house has been built with a frame. As long as the roof is added and corrected, the house will be built with three entrances and three discharges.

For this house, in addition to giving a design drawing, she also acted as a hand-lover and handed it all over to the craftsman Master Hu and the supervisor Guo Bing to deal with it.

Because as agreed before, all the project was contracted to Master Hu. Therefore, Master Hu also invited some capable and sincere people to work according to Lin Yuelan's suggestion.

The wages are high, and they work fast. In terms of food, Lin Yuelan has not treated them badly. There are fish and meat every day, and two honest women in the village who are good cooks are also invited to cook for them.

In this way, everyone has enough energy and enthusiasm to work, and the efficiency will definitely be high.

Jiang Zhennan looked at the large and spacious yard with three entrances and three exits rising from the ground, and was almost finished. He was really surprised by their efficiency.

Later, he learned that this is a contract system.

The so-called contract system is to give money according to the amount of work, and then hand over all the construction of the house to the craftsman, Master Hu. Whether they do it all by themselves, or invite some people to do it together, in short, it must be in the regulations. completed within the time limit, and then pay the rest.

Such an approach is really novel and efficient, which makes Jiang Zhennan very rare.

He asked, "Miss Yue'er, can this contracting system be used in the army?"

Lin Yuelan rolled her eyes and said lightly, "How do I know."

Jiang Zhennan said immediately, "Miss Yue'er, I'm serious."

Lin Yuelan also said with a serious expression, "The contract system is based on public ownership, with interest constraints as the mechanism, responsibility as the core, and a system that organically combines responsibility, power, and body. It is only applicable to commercial economic transactions. Aspects, but not suitable for strict military regulations."

Jiang Zhennan actually wanted to hear from Lin Yuelan about how the army would be managed two thousand years later.

"However, regarding military training, I can offer some suggestions and opinions," Lin Yuelan said.

As far as she knows, the current military training is to train fighting and killing, as well as some archery skills, and does not pay attention to the strengthening of physical fitness.

Jiang Zhennan's eyes lit up and immediately asked, "Please speak."

Lin Yuelan's cold voice sounded in Jiang Zhennan's ear, she said, "Let every soldier run every day when not fighting, and it must not be less than five kilometers. No matter it's windy or rainy, you must persevere. This is the first time. One; two, train formation, grappling, tactics and archery skills every day; third, insist on 400-meter obstacle, 100-meter sprint, leapfrog, push-up, single-leg stretch, and combined physical exercise every day. Do you understand?”

Jiang Zhennan's face was serious, his eyes were sharp and he stared at Lin Yuelan with doubts.

Every word she said could be understood, but when combined, he became completely incomprehensible.

For example, what is leapfrog, what is push-up and so on.

Of course, Jiang Zhennan is a curious and self-motivated good baby. Since he doesn't understand, of course he has to ask.

He shook his head, and then asked, "Are these the ones trained by the army two thousand years later?"

Lin Yuelan nodded and said, "That's right."

Jiang Zhennan immediately said eagerly, "Miss Yue'er, I don't understand what you said. After I return to the army, can I ask you to help train the soldiers below?"

He believed that the training method after two thousand years was definitely better and more advanced than they only knew how to train and fight with each other every day.

Lin Yuelan shook her head and refused, "I won't promise you to go to the army. However,"

Hearing Lin Yuelan's words, Jiang Zhennan's eyes were a little sad and disappointed, but then he was cheered up again.

Lin Yuelan said, "I am going to train a group of guards, and I will train them according to these methods. You can just watch and participate." This is to tell Jiang Zhennan that you can learn it secretly.

Jiang Zhennan was so excited that he didn't know what to say. When he was leading him to say thank you, the three of them ran over excitedly and shouted loudly, "It's done, it's done, Miss Lin, it's done!"

Jiang Zhennan's face darkened when he heard it, and he shouted sharply, "What is the fruit? It's unclear."

The third son and the others quickly added, "The rice seedlings are in the field, and the grains are knotted, and the knots are very good, but there are many. I believe it will be harvested in a short time." Big boy, it is clear at a glance when the rice is ready to be harvested.

Hearing that the rice is slowly ripening, they were really excited and happy.

You must know that these rice are carefully protected from planting, transplanting, to flowering, and then to maturity.

These rice fields are like their children. Now that this child has grown up, can they not be happy?

Hearing such news, Jiang Zhennan immediately became excited and said, "Really? Really? It only bloomed when I went to see it two days ago. How can it be so soon that it will be ready for harvesting? what?"

Xiao Liuzi nodded and explained, "Boss, this paddy ripens very quickly."

Jiang Zhennan didn't understand farming, but he also knew that what the little three sons said was correct.

He nodded and replied, "That's fine, that's fine."

Before, when he went to see it, although it was not very mature, the bunches of flowers were blooming well and well, and the rice forks were bent and bent, and it was a good harvest at first sight.

He still remembered that Lin Yuelan had said that such a per-mu yield could reach seven stones, but according to his estimation, it was definitely more than seven stones.

Lin Yuelan also went to the fields to take a look in the past two days. By the way, she poured some spiritual water. It is estimated that the harvest can be harvested in a few days.

What worries Lin Yuelan is that in modern times, all harvesting is done with mechanized harvesters, which can harvest dozens of acres of land in less than a day. However, here it is purely manpower.

First, they used that kind of curved sickle to cut the rice into piles, and then tied it back to their yard. Then, the family wrapped their hands in a cloth and beat them against the basket with force, or they smashed the grains from the baskets one by one. The stalks are rubbed down. If the conditions are better, buy a cow and drag a big stone to grind the millet down.

Both methods are labor-intensive and not at all efficient.

One acre of land may require at least five people for a day.

In this way, it will take at least ten days to cut the seedlings and thresh the five acres of land, which is too long. If there is a weather change in the middle, these millets are likely to be destroyed.

Lin Yuelan pondered, she had to solve these problems before harvesting.

She can't build a modern mechanized harvester, except that she doesn't know the manufacturing structure. The most important point is that the conditions here do not allow it.

So, in her mind, she was thinking about some rice threshing methods she had learned when she was studying ancient history.

Flail, rice basket, bucket, rice bed, stone, etc...

Lin Yuelan thought about it, among them, buckets and rice beds were the most suitable. She thought about the structure and principles that the teacher had talked about when she first learned this, but she thought that she could make it up on her own.

The bucket is relatively simple, just like the principle that these people beat into the basket now.

It's just a bucket, using a large wooden bucket, then sawing off about a quarter of the edge, and the height must be lower than the other edges, and then put a wooden board in this place to fix it, and two holes must be dug on both sides of the wooden board. The hole is for inserting a woven mat, and the woven mat is fixed on it, so as to stop those who are beating Daogu from flying around.

In general, the bucket is relatively simple, but it also limits the number of people. A bucket can only be beaten by one person, which is a huge shortcoming.

The rice bed is an updated version of the bucket, which makes up for this shortcoming. Make a very wide bed with fences around it, and then put a wooden frame and bamboo surface in the middle. The rice is patted on the bamboo surface. Threshing the rice, which can be done by multiple people at the same time.

It's just that whether it's a bucket or a rice bed, although it's easier to rub it by hand than before, it's still time-consuming and laborious, so she has to find a way to improve it.

Therefore, in the first few days, Lin Yuelan stayed out of the house, closed the door, pondered, wrote and painted in the room, it was like a sleepless night.

When it's time to eat, they just have people bring some steamed buns over, or have people bring some food from the rice bowl next door. send

In this way, it will be hard for those who are used to eating the food made by Lin Yuelan.

Once back to before liberation.

Jiang Zhennan and the other big men don't know how to cook, so they also buy food from the house next door.

Guo Bing was holding a piece of red meat while looking at the greasy person, and he had no appetite at all.

He exuded a mournful tone and said, "Boss, what is Miss Lin doing by shutting herself in the room these days?" They didn't even cook, and now they are eating pig food.

Jiang Zhennan was not as spoiled as Guo Bing, but the food at the entrance still made him frown slightly. Facing Guo Bing's question, he shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

Guo Bing glanced at Lin Yuelan's closed room, rolled his eyes, and urged Jiang Zhennan, "Boss, why don't you ask and see what she's up to?"

Jiang Zhennan took a bite of the steamed bun, and then stared at Guo Bing as if he was looking at a fool. He directly refused, "No! I'm going to you!"

They still don't understand Lin Yuelan's temperament.

When she wants to do something seriously and is disturbed by others, it will make her lose her temper.

When she loses her temper, few people can stand it. The most important punishment is not being able to eat the food she cooks for a few days. For them, it is simply a form of torture.

That's why he wouldn't let himself be, and regarded himself as a firecracker, obviously he had been fined several times for not having a good meal.

It's just that Lin Yuelan has closed the door and won't be out for a few days, which is really worrying.

Just wait another day, if it's like this tomorrow, even if he wants to risk Lin Yuelan's anger, he will knock on her door and ask.

When Jiang Zhennan fell into his thoughts, Guo Bing muttered beside him and said, "Isn't this the best relationship between you and Miss Lin?"

At the fourth o'clock, when Jiang Zhennan really planned to knock on Lin Yuelan's door, Lin Yuelan herself opened the closed door for the past three days, with a different excitement on her face.

This made them a little surprised and curious.

Because usually this Lin Yuelan's expression is either sneer or cold, or even indifferent and expressionless, and there are few other expressions.

Therefore, the excitement this time must have a different meaning.

She asked with the blueprint in her hand, "Who of you can work as a carpenter?"

Lin Yuelan suddenly asked about the carpenter's work, but Jiang Zhennan and the others looked at each other in dismay, then shook their heads at the same time.

They can march and fight, they can farm and work, but they really don't know how to work as a carpenter.

Jiang Zhennan looked at Lin Yuelan's rare expression, and after being slightly surprised, he soon noticed the blueprint in Lin Yuelan's hand.

In the past, Lin Yuelan would also have drawings in his hands, all of which were drawings for designing clothes. They were no strangers to it, but this time, he could see at a glance that the lines on the drawings were different from the previous ones. They were not clothes at all. It looks a bit like a bed.

But it is different from the bed, because one end seems to hold something.

He asked curiously, "Miss Yue'er, what are you drawing in your hand, is it a bed?"

Lin Yuelan said without concealment, "This is a threshing machine."

"The threshing machine?" Jiang Zhennan and Guo Bing looked at each other, very puzzled, because they had never heard of this thing. But listening to the name, I guessed that it may be related to "rice".

"But, Miss Lin, what is a threshing machine?" Guo Bing was really curious.

Lin Yuelan surprised them time and time again, so that she never doubted the substance of what Lin Yuelan invented.

Lin Yuelan gave the drawings to Jiang Zhennan, Jiang Zhennan took the drawings, Lin Yuelan said, "The so-called threshing machine is the rice thresher."

"What, this is a rice thresher?!" Guo Bing said in surprise, "This is like a bed, you mean a rice thresher?"

Lin Yuelan nodded, "Yes."

"But, what is this rice thresher?" Guo Bing's question suddenly caused a row of black lines to spread across Lin Yuelan's forehead.

She thought he knew about the rice thresher, but his feelings were still ignorant.

Lin Yuelan rolled her eyes at Guo Bing and said, "Think about it, how is the rice threshed now?"

"Beat it, or rub it with your hands." This didn't bother Guo Bing.

"That's right." Lin Yuelan nodded and said, "It's just that the threshing method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so I thought about using that kind of equipment that saves time and is efficient. Hey, this is what I thought about for three days and came up with it. It must be made within a few days, otherwise, after the rice is completely golden and mature, it will be too late to make it again, and then the rice will be beaten or rubbed."

Jiang Zhennan looked at the drawings, thought for a while, and said, "Miss Yue'er, how can this kind of ... threshing machine save time and effort?"

Lin Yuelan leaned over and pointed to a few nodes and said, "This threshing machine has a bucket bed in front, which holds grains, gears on both sides, and a rolling core in the middle. It's all up to them, this pedal, is stepped on by the foot. When the foot is stepped on, the gears on both sides turn, the rolling core starts to roll, and then one just needs to put rice on it and twist it. But,"

Speaking of this, Lin Yuelan paused for a while, looked at Jiang Zhennan tiredly, and continued, "If you want the gear to turn quickly, and if it is easy for people to step on the pedal, you need to use fuel or tung oil for lighting." Modern people use engine oil or tung oil. diesel.

Oil is a bit expensive, and most people are really reluctant to use it. However, for Lin Yuelan, it is not a matter of using money.

Listening to Lin Yuelan's explanation, Jiang Zhennan and Guo Bing's eyes lit up. Although they didn't quite understand the principle of these things, they knew that this was another kind of help for farmers' labor.

Jiang Zhennan suppressed his excitement and said, "Miss Yue'er, what do you want us to do?"

Lin Yuelan said, "First of all, we must go to the town to find a blacksmith, and drive out these gears and the nails of the rolling core. Note that these nails are bent, and the two ends are directly inserted into the wooden board..."

Lin Yuelan explained the matters to be paid attention to one by one, "Then, I was looking for a carpenter to knock out the bed and bucket. It's just, the carpenter..."

"Miss Lin, have you forgotten that your family is building a house now, and there are carpenters!" Guo Bing reminded.

Of course, Lin Yuelan did not forget that there was a carpenter who built a house in her backyard.

It's just that the threshing machine needs to be kept secret at present, and she is a little worried about handing it over to a carpenter.

Lin Yuelan frowned slightly, thinking with her eyes lowered.

Jiang Zhennan also thought of Lin Yuelan's concerns, and he said to Lin Yuelan very seriously, "Miss Yue'er, you can leave this carpenter's work to me."

Just before Lin Yuelan could react, Guo Bing was so shocked that his jaw was about to drop. He said suspiciously, "Boss, do you know how to work as a carpenter?"

Jiang Zhennan's sharp eyes shot at Guo Bing, and he said sharply and solemnly, "No, can't you learn?"

Guo Bing was even more surprised now, he said, "No way, boss, can you learn it in just a few days?"

Jiang Zhennan didn't pay attention to him, but assured Lin Yuelan very seriously, saying, "Don't worry, I will be able to be a carpenter very well in the past two days. You can leave this threshing machine to me."

Although Lin Yuelan had the same suspicion, under the current circumstances, she had to make such a choice.

...

after 8 days

Guo Bing and the little three sons were very surprised and excited, touching and touching the freshly baked threshing machine, exclaiming in surprise.

"Tsk tsk, boss, did you really only learn to work as a carpenter for two days?" Guo Bing said suspiciously, "I think it took me two years to learn. Look at how delicately the wood is cut, and the gaps close together. How dense, how can it be seen that it is a new work."

Lin Yuelan was also slightly surprised by Jiang Zhennan's efficient hands-on ability.

However, looking at the freshly baked threshing machine, it has been concluded that it is a successful product.

Of course, still have to try.

She scooped a wooden spoon of tung oil from the clay pot and dropped it on the gear.

Immediately, she stepped on the pedal and stepped on it...