It can also be said that Liu Yiyi stood up, glanced at Su Chen, and said to himself: "This is the animal-powered waterwheel that Liu uses for well irrigation, like a grinding plate, with people and livestock as the force, and continuously drawing water to irrigate the fields. With it, Liu's thirty or so hectares of spring millet will be worry-free. ”

Liu Yiyi can be regarded as a long breath.

From the end of the New Year to the present, it has been more than four months without a drop of rain in the sky, and now the soil in the fields has been warped with pieces of hard skin, and the millet seedlings that have grown half a foot high have also begun to droop their heads, looking like they are dying.

As Li Dechen and Lao Liu said, this year is a year of great drought. And this kind of drought weather, I am afraid that it will continue for a long time.

"Uncle Yuan," Liu Yiyi turned to Yuan Pei and said, "I'm sorry for you to send these waterwheels to the wasteland west of Gutian Village, and after you get to the ground, someone will come to pick up Uncle Yuan, well, I will be there in a while." ”

"Mr. Liu, don't worry." Yuan Pei nodded and replied: "At most, in one hour, all these waterwheels will appear in Mr. Liu's land, and I will never delay Mr. Liu's irrigation plan." ”

As a carpenter, coupled with his father's detailed explanation and teachings to him, he was able to understand the structure and function of this waterwheel.

Just like the Liu's plough that suddenly appeared some time ago, they are all tools that originate from the present, and they are higher than the current tools, often only making some small changes, but they can make earth-shaking changes to the whole tool.

It's not a miracle, but it's a coincidence. I can design such a waterwheel. Liu Yiyi is indeed worthy of Yuan Pei's admiration and admiration. It's Yuan Fang's old man, every time he mentions Liuyi. Isn't it also a burst of non-stop admiration?

"Then there is Uncle Lao Yuan, the kid is waiting for Uncle Yuan in the field, and he is leaving." Liu Yiyi arched his hand at Yuan Pei, and then got up and resigned.

Su Chen glanced at the strange waterwheel on the ground again, and then got up and followed.

Although the size of this improved waterwheel is very small, the frame is very slender. It was definitely not something that the carriage they had brought could hold, which made Su Chen have to give up the idea of transporting it back in the carriage for a trial first. had to lead Su An, followed Liu Yiyi, and walked out of the gate of Yuan's mansion.

"Mr. Liu," got into the carriage, Su Chen sat in front of him, lifted the curtain of the carriage, and asked Liu Yiyi, "That waterwheel of yours." Although it has a strange shape and seems to work well, can it really draw water from deep wells out of the surface? Those wells. But they all have a depth of five zhang, or even six zhang? ”

It's nothing more than Su Chen can't believe it. The limit of how an ordinary waterwheel can draw water up to the surface of the water is already the limit, and it is indeed hard to believe that his waterwheel can draw water out of a deep well.

Liu Yiyi waved the horsewhip, drove the carriage, turned his head back with a smile, and said to Su Chen: "Of course there is no problem, if Brother Su Chen doesn't believe it, it will be clear after the waterwheel is on the frame, let's go to the field and wait, think about the first waterwheel, and it will arrive in a moment." ”

Facts speak louder than words, and Yanagi didn't want to bother with them in this matter.

Moreover, for this kind of special water wheel for well irrigation, Liu Yiyi is full of confidence. This is a new type of wooden waterwheel specially created by Hu Laixian, a genius student of their major, according to the ancient animal power keel waterwheel, combined with modern snail pulley rotation technology, which can draw deep water to more than 25 meters and be used for well irrigation, which is very suitable.

Although this kind of waterwheel belonged to the chicken ribs in the 21st century in the era of modern tools such as cars and pumps, in the Tang Dynasty, it was a life-saving treasure.

Ever since he thought of this waterwheel, Liu Ichichi had secretly rejoiced more than once that when he was in school, he had become very interested in this extremely useless waterwheel, and had carefully written down the construction model of this waterwheel. It's just a dog of luck.

Su Chen didn't speak again, and after lowering the curtain on the car door, he moved to the opposite side of Su An, raised his eyes to look at Su An's white beard, and asked him in a low voice, "Uncle An, did you say that his waterwheel can really draw out well water?" If it really works, then after my Datang, as long as the well water does not dry up, won't there be no more droughts? ”

Since he was a child, he has followed Su Bingren around the country, inspected the customs and customs of various places, and Su Chenxi has personally experienced the drought twice.

Once in Shudi, once in central Henan, without exception, every time there is no grass, famine after famine, especially the great drought in central Henan, which lasted for two years, the crops were not harvested, there were dead bones on the road, and everywhere they passed, all of them were desolate and full of land.

Therefore, he knew better than anyone else the horrors of drought.

"Miss," looking at Su Chenxi's expression, Su An knew what their young lady was thinking at the moment, and he whispered to Su Chenxi, "Mr. Liu."

Dacai, he will not talk nonsense. Since he is willing to spend iron and dig deep wells, he has a full grasp in his heart, and the young lady does not have to worry. ”

"After trying it today, Miss Tomorrow can repair a book, hand it to Shuzhong, and inform the old lady of the matter here." Su An continued: "I think that in the future, this well, this waterwheel, and that iron will be promoted by the master to all parts of the Tang Dynasty." And this drought will no longer be a cause for concern in the future. ”

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"Hmm," Su Chen nodded heavily, and then stopped talking. Instead, through the curtain of the carriage, he gently looked at Liu Yiyi's not very wide back.

"Phew!" Liu pulled the reins one by one, and the carriage stopped.

"Okay, Brother Su Chen and Uncle Su An come down, let's get to the ground." Liu Yiyi jumped out of the carriage and said to the two people in the car.

"There's Mr. Lauliu." Su An took the lead in jumping out of the carriage, indirectly squeezed out Liu Yiyi, who wanted to come up to help, and stretched out his hand to help Su Chen down.

Seeing this, Liu Yiyi put down his half-stretched right hand, and didn't take this matter to heart, he nodded and signaled to Su Chen and Su An, and then took the lead and walked towards the nearest well.

The well is along the bluestone, about one meter high, and the wellhead is wide, with a diameter of one meter five or six, which can just jam the kind of waterwheel they saw in Yuan's house just now.

Liu Yiyi sat on the edge of the well, tilted his head and looked at the well, more than ten meters below the well, there was a circle of water shadows, reflecting a faint light.

"Boss," Li Dechen saw Liu Yiyi coming, so he walked over from a distance, and when he got closer, he bent down and saluted Liu Yiyi, and said: "According to your orders, these forty wells have all been dug up, I don't know when the waterwheel you mentioned will arrive?" Seeing that this crop was about to die, the villagers were as anxious as if they were on fire. ”

"Hehe," Liu Yiyi smiled faintly, and said to Li Dechen: "The waterwheel will arrive in a while, you go and tell the villagers, so that they don't have to worry, as soon as the waterwheel arrives, there will be no shortage of water in this field." ”

Seeing that the tenant farmers also felt so sorry for their crops, Liu Yiyi was in a good mood, if they had always had this mentality of treating the fields as their own, why worry about the crops in this field not being harvested?

"Well, and," after a pause, Liu Yiyi said to Li Dechen again: "By the way, I bother Mr. Li to go to the south again to bring all the ploughing cattle here, and then tell the three hundred tenant farmers that from today onwards, the remaining wasteland will be stopped first, and this day of great drought will be barren again." Let them also begin to dig wells in the fields that have been prought, and all the iron will be brought to them. ”

One hundred and fifty acres of land, at least one hundred and fifty deep wells must be dug to barely sufficient. It seems that in the next one to two months, these 300 people will have to dig wells in the ground.

"Yes, the owner, the little old man will go here." Li Dechen arched his hand at Liuyi, and then turned to leave.

"Mr. Liu," Su Chen also followed Liu Yiyi's example, sat down on the edge of the well with him, and asked Liu Yiyi, "If it can really be done this time, I wonder if Mr. Liu is willing to inform the court of the secret recipe for making this waterwheel, so that this waterwheel can benefit more people in the Tang Dynasty and save them from the suffering of this drought?" ”

"Hehe, this is really a little clear, Brother Su Chen really thought of it with Liu." Liu Yiyi hugged Su Chen's shoulder affectionately, and said with a smile while patting: "On the second day after the waterwheel was built, Liu Mou had already dedicated the detailed drawings of the waterwheel to Li Xiancheng in Sanyuan County with Uncle Yuan, but Li Xiancheng didn't seem to believe in this well irrigation, and he was afraid that he would get a sin if he reported it in vain, so he wanted to wait for Liu's well to be dug and see the actual effect of irrigation." ”

After what happened last time, Liu Yiyi no longer had this kind of intention to open a workshop, because he knew that a workshop like this similar to the 'Liu's Plough Workshop' could be opened, and in the end, it would inevitably get another result of being requisitioned by the court. Rather than this, he might as well make a favor in advance and give it to Li Zhide, the county leader.

"Mr. Liu is bright and clean, cares about the people, and sincerely admires him in the morning, please accept the morning bow." Su Chen blushed slightly, broke away from Liu Yiyi's arm on his shoulder, stood up, and bowed to Liu Yi seriously.

"Mr. Liu, the waterwheel has arrived!" Before Liu Yiyi could respond, Yuan Pei also drove a small donkey cart, consigned a water wheel and arrived at the ground-

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The wind is dry, the tears are remnant, I want to write about my heart, and I have a monologue oblique column. Hard, hard, hard!

People are different, today is not yesterday, and the sick soul is often like a swing.

The sound of the horn is cold, the night is dark, I am afraid of people asking questions, and I pretend to be happy with tears. Hide, hide, hide!