After being sprayed with insects, the rice regained its vitality. Seeing that the rice would be harvested in half a month, Shen Ping began to have new ideas.

She knew that there were no rice threshers at that time in the Dazhi Dynasty, and everyone threshed the rice using traditional manual methods.

That is to pick up the rice seedlings one by one and beat them in a wooden barrel. This traditional manual threshing method is slow and tiring.

In the past, this method was acceptable when the yield was 1000 to kilograms per mu, but if it is calculated based on a yield of kilograms per mu, it will not work because the speed is too slow.

Every household has at least a few acres of land, so how long would it take to thresh the rice? Shen Ping thought of the traditional rice thresher.

Although this thresher is pedaled by manpower, it is at least more time-saving and labor-saving than manual threshing. I just don't know if this rice thresher is not available in the mall.

For this purpose, Shen Ping went to the mall to search, but to her disappointment, when she entered rice thresher in the search bar, the answer she got was that there was no such product.

Shen Ping thought that it didn't matter if the thresher was not a finished product, as long as there were some accessories. In her memory, she had seen this kind of thresher before and was fortunate enough to have experienced it herself.

She also did some research and found that it did not seem to be technically difficult and that it could be made by simply buying the appropriate hardware accessories.

Shen Ping first drew a sketch of the entire rice thresher, and then disassembled each part and portion and drew each portion.

Shen Ping knew that the manufacturing principle of this rice thresher was actually very simple. The most important parts were the central main bearing and gears, with a wooden roller in the middle of the main bearing.

Hardware triangular iron bars are nailed on the wooden roller, and then the gears are turned by manual stepping, driving the wooden roller in the middle to roll.

At this time, you just need to put the rice ears on it and continue to step on it. The metal bars on the rolling cylinder will successfully thresh the rice ears and drop them into the wooden barrel below.

God helps those who work hard, and Shen Ping finally found these related accessories. The ridiculous mall not only has the main bearings, but also gears.

As for those special triangular iron bars, no finished products were found, but Shen Ping knew that Carpenter Li's eldest brother was a blacksmith, so these could be handed over to him for making.

Now that they had the hardware accessories, they also needed the related wooden boards. Shen Ping gave the drawn sketches, hardware bearings and gears to Carpenter Li, and gave him a preliminary explanation of the planned plan.

Carpenter Li looked at the design drawing. The outside was a custom-made wooden lid and barrel, and the inside was a roller driven by hardware gears. The rice ears were then threshed by manual trampling.

This bold idea surprised Carpenter Li, especially his elder brother Dezhong, whose eyes lit up when he saw the hardware bearings. Although he was a carpenter, he had never seen such a good thing.

The brothers already had a preliminary plan in their minds. He could imagine the scene and felt that this method was really feasible.

If this rice thresher can really be made, it will be more efficient than the traditional manual threshing method.

And they also know that if they can really produce this rice thresher, the market prospects will be huge.

If the high-yield rice currently planted in the mountain village can produce more than 1000 kilograms per mu, everyone will definitely cultivate it in the future, and then this kind of rice thresher will have a market.

The profit is not lower than that of furniture making. Thinking of this, the two brothers looked at each other and suddenly became excited.

"What do you think, Little Li? Can this thing be made?" Seeing that Carpenter Li didn't say anything, Shen Ping asked again.

She believed that Carpenter Li would definitely have a way, because Shen Ping saw surprise in their eyes.

"Master, what are you doing?" Seeing her husband in a daze, Xiu Gu pulled Carpenter Li's sleeve and said, "Aunt Dachun is asking you a question?"

"Oh~"

Carpenter Li came back to his senses at this time, and quickly smiled and gave a thumbs up: "Aunt Dachun, you are really amazing. How did you come up with such a good thing? Give me some time, I want to study it carefully with my brother."

"How much does it cost to make this thing?" Shen Ping asked tentatively.

Carpenter Li calculated quickly in his mind that the wooden shell was actually not difficult to make and was much simpler than furniture. It was just that the blacksmith skills needed to be done by his elder brother.

"Well, five taels of silver!" Carpenter Li quoted the price guiltily.

"Okay!" Shen Ping agreed without thinking: "Just deduct it from my commission when the time comes. You two should hurry up and study it! Time waits for no one. The rice will be harvested in a while." Shen Ping reminded.

"Ah~"

Hearing Shen Ping's happy agreement, Carpenter Li began to regret that his offer was too low. But then he thought again, he had earned a lot of money by making furniture with Dachunniang.

Although the current offer is lower, it still has a high profit.

"Aunt Dachun, don't worry!" Dezhong couldn't help but interrupt.

Shen Ping knew that Dezhong was a man of few words, which was just the expression of an expert who couldn't help but feel relieved when he found something good.

She also believed that Carpenter Li wanted to make this thing more than she did. If her guess was correct, if this thing was really made, the experiment would be successful.

Then Carpenter Li will definitely negotiate cooperation with me, but Shen Ping saw through it but didn't say it. The corners of her mouth curled up. Only when there is profit can we be more efficient.

The two brothers divided the work and cooperated with each other. The iron bar in the middle of the cylinder and the iron frame on the pedal were both made by the eldest brother Dezhong.

As for the wooden barrel, the lid and the wooden bar in the middle of the cylinder were given to Carpenter Li, who completed them in just one day. It was the iron bar that took more time to make.

Soon, the two brothers successfully made a rice thresher in less than three days. Soon, Carpenter Li came to Shen Ping and asked her to come over for inspection.

Shen Ping didn't expect them to move so quickly, which was beyond her expectation. Before going there, Shen Ping specially went to the field to pull some foxtail grass, thinking that it would be easy to do experiments when the time comes.

In addition to the dogtail grass, Shen Ping pulled out a handful of leaves, thinking of comparing the two things to see if they could both remove the leaves or fruits.

As soon as she stepped into Carpenter Li's house, Shen Ping saw the thresher placed in the yard. It looked very realistic, with a lid and a wooden barrel, similar to the ones she had seen before.

Shen Ping was extremely excited. She put her foot on the pedal and stepped lightly. The gear drove the main bearing and the middle roller began to rotate.

In order to test whether there is a threshing effect, Shen Ping first used dogtail grass to do the experiment. When she stepped on the pedal, the cylinder rotated rapidly.

If you put dogtail grass on it, the leaves and fruits will separate in an instant, and when you pick it up, there will be only an empty stem. In addition, the leaves will have the same effect.

Now, Shen Ping realized that this thresher was indeed useful, because she knew that mature rice ears could be threshed quickly by just hitting them lightly.

Not to mention the high-speed rotating cylinder, Shen Ping could imagine the effect of this thresher.

"Aunt Dachun, how is it?" Carpenter Li looked at Shen Ping expectantly.

Shen Ping nodded: "It looks like the effect is pretty good. I don't know how the rice ears will thresh, but it looks like it should be okay!"

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