Afterwards, Li Mengxi asked the craftsmen to take their own things out of the city to test them.

Outside the south gate, Li Mengxi saw that large areas of land that were flat yesterday had been plowed into empty soil.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but look at Guan Yu, and he said to himself, "The soil is frozen and hard. Is it easy to plow? There are so many plows."

When it came time to test, it was mainly people from the carpenter camp who were testing. The carpenters all made new plows, while the blacksmiths only forged a small number of plow heads and had nothing to use.

Most of the curved shaft plows made by carpenters are similar. After all, the curved shaft plow has a simple structure and is not easy to make major improvements, but there are few people who are ingenious.

A carpenter combined the wheel and the plow. Needless to say, time was short and the wheel could not have been made temporarily. It must have been removed from the car.

This plow with wheels on the back was pulled by the oxen, just like an ordinary plow, and moved forward steadily without any problems.

But what Li Mengxi couldn't understand was that although there were no problems, there were no advantages.

What's the purpose of adding a wheel behind the plow? Is it to reduce the friction between the plow bed and the soil? But that's not right. Look at this plow, it's just an ordinary curved shaft plow, and then a wheel is added to the back.

Speaking of friction, with the friction of an additional wheel, the friction will be even greater.

Li Mengxi looked at it blankly. After a while, he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a kind of plow modified from bicycle wheels. The plow was very small and had a red plastic bucket on it. The plastic bucket was connected to an iron pipe.

, the iron pipe carries a small triangular plow head, but the plow with wheels is not for plowing, but for sowing seeds.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Thinking of this, Li Mengxi remembered that the history textbook recorded that the Han Dynasty invented the three-column columbine for sowing, which was the earliest three-row columbine.

planter.

This carpenter must have known about the sowing columbine, and then he cleverly combined the columbine with the curved shaft plow.

Li Mengxi asked the craftsman to carry the plow over, and he commented on the shortcomings. Li Mengxi looked up at the craftsman and asked helplessly, "What do you want to make by adding a wheel to this plow? You say you want to make a columbine, but this

That’s not right, there are only wheels, and where is the bucket for planting wheat seeds?”

Faced with Li Mengxi's questioning, the carpenter smiled and scratched his head and said with embarrassment, "The columbine is difficult to make, so I thought I could just add some wheels..."

Well, I thought your military advisor didn't know how to pull a truck or a lake.

There is no doubt that the plow with wheels made by this carpenter is not practical.

But it inspired Li Mengxi. As we all know, all plows in the Han Dynasty were straight-bar plows, so the columbians used for sowing in the Han Dynasty must also be straight-bar columbians.

A straight-bar plow is very laborious to cultivate the land, and similarly, a straight-bar sowing columbine is also laborious.

Since the curved shaft plow can be used on a plow, it can also be used on a columbine.

Li Mengxi did not expect that the technology of the curved shaft plow could be improved on all agricultural tools with a plow arm structure.

You can make a curved columbine cart.

This was an important harvest, and Li Mengxi immediately wrote a hundred thousand dollars in military notes to reward the carpenter.

The carpenter took the military ticket and was very happy.

Next, many plows were tested one by one.

Soon, I saw another strange thing.

A carpenter made the plow table very huge, as big as the door panel, and even installed the door panel on it. Li Mengxi originally wondered why the plow was so improved. Later, he saw the carpenter pushing the stone with a cart, and then put it on the plow.

Several stones were tied to the plow bed.

Li Mengxi understood clearly that the plow platform was so huge that it was originally used to hold heavy objects.

Afterwards, when he harnessed the oxen and started plowing, he once again exceeded Li Mengxi's knowledge.

I saw the oxen dragging the plow forward, and the heavy stones pressed down, and the plow head was automatically pressed into the soil. And because the plow bed was flat and wide, it was like a door panel. When the plow was placed on the ground, it would not work at all.

It doesn't tilt, it's pulled by oxen, and it can be plowed without caring about the ground.

Is this...a plow that plows automatically?

But when Li Mengxi saw that the plow was so heavy and pressed so many stones, the weather was cold and the soil was too hard, and it seemed that the old ox could no longer pull it, Li Mengxi burst out laughing in surprise.

This plow is very interesting and very fun. This plow does not tilt and does not require human support. It can plow the ground automatically when pulled by oxen. It can be called a semi-automatic plow.

However, such an easy-to-use creation would be particularly useful if used on a powerful tractor. However, when used on an ox, the strength of the ox cannot drag a plow that is too heavy and has too many stones piled on it.

Already.

In short, this is an ingenious creation, suitable for those with strong power. As long as the power is enough, it can plow several wide fields with ten plowshares in one trip.

But when it comes to common single-oxen farming, the oxen can’t pull it...

After much deliberation, the applicable scenario of this method is that when time is tight but there are many cattle, two or even more cattle can be used to pull an overly heavy plow, and the abundant animal power can be exchanged for farming efficiency several times higher than that of ordinary plows.

Rich people can use this method. A plow with multiple rows of blades cannot be lifted or supported by people. They can only press the plow directly into the soil with heavy objects, eliminating the need for people to support it.

Another unexpected creation, Li Mengxi rewarded him with a military ticket worth one hundred dollars.

Seeing that two people in a row had won the prize, the craftsmen were very excited.

Li Mengxi was very surprised. He didn't expect that the curved shaft plow could be used on a columbine. He also didn't expect that in addition to single-edged plows, multi-head plows like the row plows of later generations could also be used in ancient times. The traction force was not enough and they were multi-purpose.

Just two oxen, a large iron plow driven by a tractor can be driven by enough oxen.

It is not practical at all, but it will be very practical in certain scenarios. For example, in places where the soil is too hard, such as mineral deposits, etc., ordinary plows cannot plow in, so a super giant plow must be used. But if a giant plow is used,
Chapter completed!