The similarity between the two is that they both have the same structure, that is, they are composed of two main bodies: a shovel handle and a shovel surface.
The difference is that the shovel surface on Earth is flat or curved, while the shovel surface in the drawing given by Yang Cheng is sunken in the middle and convex on both sides.
It is very similar to the main farming tool in the pre-Qin period on earth - grass.
The reason why Yang Cheng did not directly draw the shovels of later generations on earth is because he encountered the same problem as in the pre-Qin period, where there was no copper and iron ore.
If there are no hard minerals to make the shovel surface, and the shovel is made according to the comprehensive shovel surface, it will easily collapse when encountering hard soil.
On the contrary, it is much lighter and simpler to dig the soil with grass like two tusks of a wild boar.
Yang Cheng and Mai explained the specific method of Lei Chu, and then asked him to make one first and take a look.
Mai nodded in agreement, took the animal skin and went to do it.
The Totem Warrior moved very quickly, and the materials were not difficult to find, so Mai quickly made one.
After Yang Cheng took it, he weighed it and shook his head.
"Witch, is something wrong?" Mai asked upon seeing this.
"The connection between the shovel surface and the shovel handle is too loose, so the shovel surface will become crooked after just a few shovels."
Yang Cheng pointed to the joint between the shovel handle and the shovel surface.
The joint between the rugged surface and the handle of this shovel made by Mai was only crudely tied together with a rope. Now it dances and looks very tight.
However, if the number and frequency of use increases, it will definitely become loose, and eventually the shovel surface will still be twisted and cannot fully bear the force.
Mai frowned and asked, "Wu, what should we do?"
"Let me think."
Yang Cheng rubbed his chin and started thinking.
If you want to make the connection between the shovel surface and the shovel handle the most stable, the best way is to make a sleeve for the joint part of the shovel surface like a shovel on Earth.
Let the shovel handle fit into this sleeve, so that no matter how you use it, the shovel surface and handle will not fall off or move.
However, with the current technology of the Qingque Tribe, it is impossible to transform wood into a sleeve that can be inserted into the wooden handle.
But besides that, there is another way.
Just use nails to nail the shovel surface and shovel together.
This goes back to the previous problem. Without copper ore, nails made of wood would not be able to secure the shovel surface and handle at all.
So what to do?
After much thought, Yang Cheng finally thought of a way.
Or use the method of tying a rope.
But this time, Yang Cheng didn't directly tie the shovel surface and shovel handle together with a rope.
Instead, let Mai first flatten and widen the end of the shovel handle that is to be connected to the shovel surface.
Then punch three or four holes vertically in the wood used to make the shovel surface, and tie a rope through the holes to the shovel handle.
Considering that the straw rope would be worn out, Yang Cheng did not let Mai continue to be tied with straw rope this time, but changed it to hard animal skin.
After hunting so many ferocious beasts, many of them had hides that were hard, easy to stretch, and endless.
Yang Cheng used a bone knife to make animal skin ropes into strips, passed them through the holes and tied them to the shovel handle.
In order to prevent the animal skin rope from easily falling off the shovel handle, Yang Cheng specially cut several grooves at the connection of the shovel handle.
In this way, the animal skin rope can be tied to these grooves and will not fall off due to increased frequency of use.
After doing this, Yang Cheng felt that there was nothing that needed improvement, so he asked Mai to try shoveling a few times on the ground.
Mai first inserted the pointed wooden stick on the shovel surface into the ground, and then stepped on the crossbar on the shovel surface to apply force, so that the wooden tip penetrated into the soil.
He didn't dare to use too much force when doing these movements, for fear of breaking the new tool made by Yang Cheng.
After all, he is a totem warrior and is relatively strong.
Yang Cheng also had such worries at first, but after seeing that the made Lei Chi was still stable under Mai's force, he felt relieved and signaled Mai to continue to use force.
Mai nodded and pulled the wooden handle that had been inserted into the rough soil to his side. The sharp wood then pried up the soil, and a piece of ground was loosened.
"Continue." Yang Cheng said.
Loosening the soil once will not reveal much. You have to take action several times before taking a look at the condition of the grass.
"good."
Mai responded, continuing the same continuous operation as before, and soon plowed out a piece of loose land.
After he stopped moving, Yang Cheng took Lei Cui and looked at it carefully. Except for the two "fang corners" at the tip of the shovel surface, which became a little rough, the others were very solid.
"That's it."
Yang Cheng nodded with satisfaction and said: "Just do it this way. Take some people with you in the next few days and make more, at least more than a hundred, which should exceed the number of people in our tribe."
"Yes, Wu." Mai had no objection.
Reeding is a combination of a wooden handle and a shovel surface. In addition to finding suitable materials and drilling holes on the shovel surface, tying ropes does not take much time at all, so it is not difficult to make a Reeding with more than 100 handles.
In addition to having a production target, Yang Cheng did not let Mai stay here anymore, and waved his hand to let him take the people to do the farming.
Yang Cheng asked the witches to take out all the stored millet.
I found a clean open space with a piece of stone paved on it.
The stone floor was made from leftover stones from the construction of the house.
Yang Cheng took out all the millet from the animal skin bag and poured it on the stone surface. The millet seeds need to be processed before sowing. They need to be dried in the sun for 1 to 2 days, but not exposed to the sun.
Moreover, after pouring out all the millet, Yang Cheng did not let the beast-ear girls rest. He asked Yan Lin and the others to keep the millet that was full, large, disease-free, and mold-free, and the rest. Pick it out.
This step is also for seed selection.
In order for the Qingque Tribe to succeed in planting millet for the first time, this step was necessary. Good seeds had to be given priority and good treatment. Yang Cheng did not throw away the seeds that were selected to be of inferior quality and also had to be sown.
After all, the Qingque Tribe only has a few bags of seeds, so we can’t stop planting them just because the seeds are not good.
Yang Cheng gave a little demonstration on what was a good seed and what was a bad seed, and then let the beast-eared girls choose by themselves.
Then Yang Cheng called Hongya and several totem warriors to the other side of the Qingque Tribe. This is the place where Yang Cheng plans to use for farming. However, this is not outside the Qingque Tribe and is still part of the wall. within.
Because when Yang Cheng was planning the fence, he planned the cultivated land in advance.
The wall of more than one thousand meters is a big project, and the enclosed area is very large. Speaking of the area where the Qingque tribe is currently active, it is actually a very small place.
