Chapter 709: Upgrading Farming Tools
Not only is it highly warm, but its original shortcomings such as easy to rot and stink, and lack of elasticity have all been eliminated one by one. Currently, the only disadvantage of leather jackets is naturally that the processing cost is too expensive, and ordinary families simply cannot afford such expenses!
After the first pieces of cotton and linen were made into clothes and it was confirmed that there was no problem wearing them, Chi You decided to send people to grow hemp and cotton on a large scale!
Finally, with the efforts of Chi You and his men, the output of cotton and linen increased significantly, and finally cotton and linen became clothing worn by civilians!
In addition, Chi You, with the help of Hou Tu Niangniang and the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, found the legendary ugly Leizu, and brought Leizu back to the Jiuli tribe!
After being inspired by Chi You, Leizu also discovered the method of raising silkworms and using the processed silk to make clothes, thus weaving the first piece of silk in the prehistoric times!
Although Leizu had improved the various steps of silkworm breeding as much as possible, she was still unable to reduce the cost of silkworm breeding. Finally, out of desperation, Chiyou chose to sell silk to those tribal leaders who were stupid and rich!
Of course, in order to increase the price of silk, Chi You also set an example by personally wearing clothes made by Leizu to create a star effect!
Secondly, as the saying goes, food is the first necessity of the people. After Shennong finished tasting hundreds of herbs, most of the edible foods in the prehistoric world had been discovered. If Chiyou wanted to further increase the yield of farming, he could only improve the farming tools as much as possible!
In order to further understand the difficulties of farming, Chi You, after forging, deliberately sealed his own cultivation and physical strength, and cultivated the fields with the body of an ordinary mortal, in order to discover the problems encountered by civilians when farming!
Of course, in order to prevent himself from not knowing enough details, Chi You also concealed his identity and asked the civilians around him about the various problems encountered in farming!
Finally, with Chi You's unremitting efforts and the blessing of his forging talent, he invented a series of tools such as hoes, plows, and water wheels.
Let's not talk about other tools for now. Just this plow alone, Chi You had it processed twice! The reason is very simple. For the Jiuli people who have the blood of the witch clan, it is no problem to turn the soil with a plow. After all, in the Jiuli tribe, even a dying old man is stronger than a young man of the pure-blooded human race!
It is precisely because of the gap between the Jiuli people and the pure-blooded humans that if the original version of the plow is not processed again, even if the soil is turned over faster than the original efficiency, the efficiency will not be improved much!
Finally, after Chi You's continuous attempts, he went through generations of replacements and finally created a relatively labor-saving curved plow!
At the same time, in order to take care of the elderly who are old and frail and whose children are no longer around for various reasons, Chi You also specially selected cattle from the various domesticated livestock to assist humans in farming!
In general, with Chi You's continuous innovation, the tools used by human beings for farming became more and more abundant, and the grain output per acre also increased to a great extent!
In addition to the continuous invention of farming tools, Chi You also constantly tried to cultivate good varieties during the farming process in order to further increase grain production!
In order to cultivate new varieties, Chi You, who had no other belief except Pangu, went to the temple built by humans for Shennong to worship, hoping that Shennong would bless his experiment to go smoothly!
Shennong was also aware of Chiyou's prayers. Although Shennong did not have a good impression of Chiyou, a half-human, half-witch, he was still a member of the human race. In addition, Chiyou's contributions to the human race in recent years were also evident. Therefore, no matter how unhappy Shennong was, if Chiyou really encountered any problems, he would help as much as possible. After all, if Chiyou could really cultivate large quantities of crops, the benefits to the human race would be self-evident!
I don’t know if Chi You didn’t find the right method. After decades of experimentation, he only increased the output slightly!
