The fields in Julu are full of people busy harvesting.

This is the second harvest season for Julu. Compared with the summer harvest three months ago, the most obvious change this season is that the working methods have changed.

During the previous summer harvests, many people harvested their own crops. In this round of autumn harvest, people work together in groups of about twenty people. There are people in the field who are responsible for harvesting, and there are people in the field who are responsible for holding and loading the rice seedlings.

, there are people pulling the carts, and there are people pulling the pods.

Compared with the busy working method of each individual, the unified and collaborative method is obviously more efficient, because no matter which part of the labor is involved, if one person works alone, he will have to cut for several days in a row, and his waist will be bent from fatigue.

, and multiple people collaborate to divide the work. After someone has been harvesting for two days, he can hold the seedlings, pull the cart, or peel the beans. Different working methods have different levels of fatigue, and the parts that are tired are also different.

If one person works hard, there is no rest; if many people work together, they can combine work and rest.

Also, talking about pulling a cart, there are two ways to pull a cart. One is, two people, each pulling a cart to transport bean sprouts. If one person pulls a cart, it will either be too full.

It takes a lot of effort to pull, and you walk slowly, or you fill up half full and go backwards.

And if two people pull one cart, the efficiency is much higher than two people pulling one cart each, and more efficient than two people pulling one cart alone.

Among them, there is also the issue of tool cost.

A person works alone and harvests ten acres of land by himself. To harvest these ten acres of land, sickles, hoes, forks, and carts are all indispensable. If one is missing, the efficiency will be greatly affected.

Three people harvest thirty acres of land, one is cutting in the field, the other is loading and transporting the beans, and the other is shelling the beans at home. The three people need the same tools as one person.

In modern civilization, encouraging people to take subways and buses can greatly save energy consumption.

The same is true for collective work. In a single-person working mode, everyone needs a car, but in collective work, one car for five people or even one car for ten people is completely sufficient.

This saves a huge amount of working tools.

Li Mengxi may not even realize that if he had not used collectivization methods, the number of farm tools needed everywhere would have increased several times.

Some time after the autumn harvest began, the beans in the fields were gradually harvested, and the people inevitably thought about the important matter of grain collection.

This time, the people were more cautious. They were afraid that the government would ask them to relocate again, or that the government would take away all the food. As a precaution, many people secretly hid the food in hidden places, preparing to retrieve it later.

The people made a mistake in their judgment, and the government did not plan to relocate this time.

Soon after, the grain requisition order came down. This time, the grain requisition was two bushels of beans and four liters of beans per mu of land.

This is different from what Li Mengxi stipulated. Li Mengxi stipulated forty kilograms, but the officials decided to implement it as two dou and four liters. This was due to Li Mengxi's lack of knowledge.

Grain cannot be collected by weight, because once it is harvested by weight, people will start to sprinkle water, mix ash, and sand into the grain. It is easy to mix ten kilograms of grain with half a kilogram of water.

As the saying goes, one of the three major hard-working occupations is boating, blacksmithing, grinding tofu, and grinding tofu.

In Li Mengxi's plan, after collecting half of the beans in the hands of the people through paying taxes, the next step is to use a large amount of cheap tofu to economically exchange the remaining beans in the hands of the people.

Economic means must be used to make tofu in large quantities, and preferably the cost is low enough that people find it cheaper to buy tofu than to grind it themselves. To achieve this, there must be an efficient method of making tofu.

There are two commonly used methods of making tofu among the people. One is to crush the beans with a grinder, and the other is to grind the beans with a millstone.

No matter what kind, manpower and tools are indispensable.

The manpower is okay, but the tools and grinding discs are not that many, and the number of grinding discs is far less than what is needed for mass production.

And even if we find someone to do it, there are not even stones. Even if there are enough stones and enough craftsmen, the slow to slow processing speed of stones and the production speed of stone mills cannot match the speed of accumulation of beans.

Stone mills are good processing tools, and the common people can produce them by themselves. Stone mills are sufficient, but stone mills are far from meeting the huge production needs of the Julu Army.
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