Time flew by, and before anyone knew it, golden autumn had arrived. Two Rivers County had entered its annual harvest season, but unlike previous years, it had not mobilized the masses on a large scale for the busy farm work.
Chug, chug, chug... A deafening roar shattered the tranquility of the autumn morning.
A massive machine belching thick black smoke was slowly moving through an endless wheat field.
Wherever it passed, the stalks that had once stood tall fell one after another, as if an invisible giant hand had neatly sliced them down.
The fallen stalks lay in remarkably orderly rows, leaving onlookers amazed.
This miraculous machine immediately became the center of attention, drawing many nearby farmers to stop and watch. They stared at it curiously, letting out startled cries from time to time.
After all, such an efficient and speedy harvesting method was far faster than traditional manual labor!
In the past, harvesting a wheat field of more than ten mu like this would take an entire day even if ten experienced farmhands worked at full force—from dawn until nightfall.
Now, however, a single machine and two people to operate it could finish the harvest in just over an hour!
Even the most ignorant serfs understood that the astonishing efficiency of this machine was dozens of times greater than human labor!
And that was not all. Once the wheat stalks had been bundled, the threshing process underwent a complete transformation as well.
The old method of using antiquated threshing machines and consuming enormous amounts of manpower and resources had now been replaced by another new machine that also belched black smoke.
People only needed to toss the bundled wheat into the machine. After waiting a moment, the grains would automatically fall into sacks, while the remaining straw would be