Chapter 1936: Scrap is also useful
The Ishikari Plain has a surface area of 4,000 square kilometers, and the water network is vertical and horizontal. It is very suitable for developing paddy fields to grow rice. In fact, "Ishikari" in Ainu language is "a meandering river". The Ishikari River, also the largest river in Hokkaido, has enough water to meet the needs of paddy field irrigation.
Although the yield per mu of rice is generally much higher than that of wheat, the labor intensity of paddy fields cannot be compared with dry fields. For example, when planting wheat, you only need to sew it with a car, and you're done. At most, let's clear the weeds later. At the same time, pull out the extra seedlings that are not growing well, leaving only the strong wheat seedlings. For these jobs, labor requirements are not very large. With tools such as Aike, Prad, and Samarium, it is possible for the family to plant hundreds of acres of land.
However, rice fields are different. If nothing else, just transplanting rice seedlings, the labor intensity is not comparable to dry land. For transplanting rice seedlings, Marin can't think of any simple machinery that can help transplant rice seedlings. Because, even if the seedling thrower of later generations, the effect is not so good. Of course, a better rice transplanter appeared later. However, Marin had not seen it. Because, the older generation of peasants in his old hometown insisted on planting their own seedlings. The main reason is that the local family only has a few acres of land, and the labor intensity is not large, and it is completed in a few days. The other is that the older generation is illiterate, and the rice transplanter can't handle it. The younger generation went to work in big cities. Therefore, only some original methods can be retained. However, when rice is harvested, harvesters are used instead. Moreover, they are all small harvesters of Japanese technology. In the early days, it was expensive Kubota and other imported harvesters, but then there were many cottage brands in China, the price was low, and then, um, needless to say ...
In addition, wheat samarium does not seem to harvest rice well. Mainly, wheat straw is not the same as rice straw. Wheat straw is relatively brittle, and there is a crisp sound of straw breaking when harvesting. Rice straw is more resilient and more difficult to harvest. The wielding samarium knife can easily cut wheat straw, but it is a bit difficult to deal with rice straw. Because straw has good toughness, straw is often used to make straw ropes in rural areas, which is very strong, and straw curtains can also be made with straw. Wheat straw is relatively brittle and has a high degree of hollowness, which is not as effective as straw.
Therefore, whether it is rice transplanting or harvesting, rice is more troublesome than wheat and requires a lot of manpower. Fortunately, whether it is ancient China or ancient Japan, there is no shortage of manpower. The reason why Japan has a population of 17 million in this era is also inseparable from the promotion and cultivation of rice.
Because of the high labor intensity, Gan Fushuizi believes that it is best for a farmer to plant 30 acres of land, and 50 acres is too much work. Moreover, there must be suitable cattle for paddy fields.
In desperation, Marin came up with the idea of using leather to make leather armor and exchanging cattle with the Japanese daimyo. But because of this, I learned that there are extremely rich deerskin resources in the Northeast, and I have gained a lot.
Moreover, when thinking about how to build a Hokkaido leather factory and use old and broken leather from the Tohoku people to process leather armor and sell it to Daimyo in Japan, Marin suddenly thought of one thing-it looks like those broken leather armor cuts Leather trim is also useful, and it is a big use ...
What purpose? Can be used as a musketeer's lining for wrapping lead bullets. Right now, when the musketeers of the North Sea State are loading lead bullets, they are mostly wrapped in grease-soaked linen cloth and pressed into the gun barrel. Or, wrap lead bullets in oil paper and press into the barrel.
However, during publicity, Marin promoted the use of deerskin and fat-soaked linen. Why? Because of the cost!
Many of the guns for Beihai's own use are wrapped in oil-paper bags packed with gunpowder and pressed into the barrel. However, this oil-paper fixing technology is a military secret of the North Sea State, and it will not be leaked casually, nor will this oil-paper package be sold outside.
In fact, the oil paper in Beihai is very cheap. Because, Marin has a large paper mill on Cape Breton Island in Canada, and it can also be soaked with whale oil to process a large amount of oil paper.
However, these things are for domestic use and will not be sold externally, so as not to enhance the strength of opponents. And opponents will not learn Beihai to use gun paper to order gunpowder and wrap lead bullets. Why? Because of the cost ...
At the moment, Europeans only understand Cai Lun Papermaking, which uses rags and fishing nets as raw materials. The cost of papermaking is very high. Originally, until the end of the 18th century, French missionary Jiang Youren sneaked into the Qianlong palace, stole Huaxia ’s papermaking technology, and introduced Huaxia ’s papermaking technology with detailed graphics and text, and sent it back to the French court, which greatly promoted the European papermaking technology. development of.
Speaking of which, the ancient French were also quite shameless. The Venetian glass mirror technique was stolen by the French. Hua Xia's papermaking and porcelain manufacturing were all stolen by French missionaries ...
That is to say, in addition to Marin's application of modern papermaking, wood is used for papermaking in Canada, other European countries can only use expensive paper made by Cailun Papermaking. In addition, because there is no cheap whale oil, they use linseed oil to soak paper into oil paper, and the cost is quite high. Therefore, the Marin army of the North Sea country used oil paper to pack gunpowder and used the technique of wrapping lead bullets, even if other countries knew it, they would not adopt it. Without him, they don't have cheap grease paper ...
The cost of using oil paper is much higher than using bite wrap to wrap lead bullets. Marin also thought of this, and decided to let Hokkaido Leather Factory ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ to pack the leftover deer skin fragments from the leather industry and pack them back. Then sell it to other countries and let their musketeers use it to wrap lead bullets ... Of course, they will also be sold to domestic hunters who try out muskets ...
For domestic hunters, it is impossible for Marin to provide them with paper bags packed with gunpowder, which is military supplies. Therefore, it is the most correct way to provide them with deer hide fragments processed by Hokkaido leather factory to wrap lead bullets.
In this way, those tanneries deer hides can be used for money, and the Beihai State does not need to provide military oil paper bags to the people. Of course, at the same time, you can also use these deerskin scraps to make a wave of foreigners' money ...
After listening to Marin's ideas, Kohler, Suha, and Glock, who was newly elected as the Governor of Hokkaido, were all shocked by Marin's genius ideas-Nima, even the leather factory scraps can be used to make money, What else can you do to make money?
The three of them lived on Marin. Naturally, it was another slap, which made Marin comfortable. He doesn't have any objection to flattery, as long as he can do a good job, what's wrong with flattering when it's okay? This is the way for others to survive. If they all look for faults like Wei Zheng and change to Marin, they will also be angry to dig Wei Zheng's grave. Nima, you do n’t want to be a boss? When you are the boss, but you are always scorned by your men, everyone will have resentment ...
