When Wu and the others came back that night, they all gathered around Shen Qingqian and asked questions. The topic was just one, they were afraid that she would suffer a loss.
Shen Qingqian ended the conversation with Liang Cheng in a few words, and then said to Shen Xiao: "Brother, it's time for our family to prepare their own land. I think the land outside the valley is good. You can do it tomorrow." Go and ask if you can get twenty acres of land for our family."
"Twenty acres?" Wu was surprised, "Is it too much?"
Shen Qingqian affirmed: "Not much, we have a large family, and we can't feed so many people even if we don't grow enough."
The Shen family's sixteen members, big and small, would definitely not be able to have enough to eat if they only relied on what they planted for the imperial court. No matter how much their own land was, they would only have about ten acres.
She wants twenty acres because she has a lot of things in hand, and she can grow some cash crops by then.
"No, what I mean is whether we can be busy, after all..." Mrs. Wu glanced at her family, and she didn't dare to think about twenty acres of land. Chinese website
There are a total of six men in their family, and two of them are not considered laborers. One of the four laborers is in the weapons inspection all year round and cannot come back to help halfway, so there are only three men who can work. .
Counting Shen Qingqian, there were only eight women among the others. Women were naturally not as strong as men, and farm work required physical strength. Wu's scalp would go numb just thinking about twenty acres of land to take care of.
Shen Qing smiled lightly, "Other people are definitely not good at it, but have you forgotten, auntie, that I like to think about things the most. The previous two are just for the convenience of land reclamation. Recently, I have some new ideas. If the things are made, twenty acres The ground is absolutely fine.”
The terrain in northern Hubei is complex, but Linshuigou is a plain-like landform, which is most suitable for using equipment to assist farming.
When Shen Qingqian has nothing to do these days, he will study the "Encyclopedia of Farm Tools" in the system, and then split and combine them as needed. He already has several prototypes of new hand-held and push-type farm tools in his mind.
When she designed the three-tooth harrow and the improved split plow, she wasn't sure whether it could be made in this world, but now she is sure that with Mr. Qin here, as long as it doesn't go too far, she should be able to make whatever she wants, but It's just a matter of difficulty.
For example, for the previous small parts, before she even "discussed" crucible steelmaking with Mr. Qin, they solved it by themselves using the lost wax method.
If needed in the future, she will definitely contribute her knowledge without hesitation to increase the diversity of agricultural tools in the world.
"Really? Then I won't worry anymore." When Wu heard this, she immediately smiled, "Our sister Qian has said so, so there must be no problem."
Others also expressed that as long as Shen Qingqian thinks it is possible, they will fully support it.
Shen Xiao said: "Sixth sister mentioned it to me before, but I saw no action from other families, so I haven't asked them yet. I will go and ask other families later, and we might as well go together."
There's a reason why he wants to bring others along.
He had heard complaints from people in the opposite courtyard before, saying that the tasks given by the court were heavy and they didn't have time to work on their own land, so most people only had three or two acres of land and could grow whatever they wanted to make more money for the family. It was impossible to eat enough.
Under such circumstances, the Shen family suddenly asked for twenty acres of land to open up wasteland, which was inevitably a bit too ambitious.
"We also want five acres of land."
At this time, Shengze's voice suddenly came from outside the house.
