Chapter 70: The Great Drought in Guanzhong

Qin Su didn't stretch out his hand to pick it up, shook his head and smiled lightly: "Since last night, Su'er has been Gongzi's person, and these seven thousand guan are said to be ransom money, but in fact, it is just a thank you gift from Su'er to Aunt Feng, thanks to her for taking care of her over the years, Su'er has been able to retain her perfect body to this day." ”

"It was yours last night?" Cheng Chumo suddenly stared at Li Hao with wide eyes, "You ...... last night"

Li Hao hurriedly shook his head: "Absolutely not!" ”

Cheng Chumo turned his head to look at Qin Su again, only to see that her cheeks were crimson and her face was full of shame, did this look like nothing had happened, Cheng Chumo felt that his IQ had been hurt by 10,000 points, and shouted at Li Hao: "You still say no!" Do you see like nothing happened to her? ”

Li Hao was so innocent, he hurriedly pulled Qin Su's sleeve and said, "Hey, don't blush, tell me quickly, nothing happened to us last night." ”

Qin Su lowered his head and said again: "Su'er is already a child's person. ”

Li Hao stretched out his hand and pressed his head, and suddenly felt that his head hurt, the kind that hurt his brain and his skull together.

Cheng Chu was stunned for a moment, and muttered aggrievedly: "My goddess...... became my brother's woman...... Li Hao, you don't pay attention to righteousness! ”

"Hey, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense." Li Hao's eyes widened and said, "I'm really nothing to do with her!" ”

"The explanation is a cover-up, Miss Qin has admitted it!" Cheng Chumo rolled his eyes at Li Hao.

Li Hao didn't bother to explain, so he simply turned on the hob meat mode: "Okay, I did it, she is my person now, how do you want to drop it, if you want to blame yourself, who made you have to shout for me yesterday, you want to pit me, and also, her deed of sale was handed to me by yourself, you also said at the time, from now on, Miss Qin is my person, did you say it." ”

"I didn't expect you to do it so quickly." Cheng Chumo suddenly grinned, leaned into Li Hao's ear and said, "Since you have already used it, borrow me for a few days." ”

Li Hao suddenly frowned when he heard this, and said coldly: "If you say it again, believe it or not, I will beat you to death!" ”

Li Hao was very angry, not that he was stingy, but he disagreed with Cheng Chumo's attitude of treating women as playthings, in fact, he couldn't blame Cheng Chumo, but in this era, concubines can be traded and given away as objects, not to mention Qin Su, who sells herself, she is still a talented woman in Qinglou, once she is ransomed, then she is a slave in slavery.

Seeing that Li Hao was suddenly angry, Cheng Chu hurriedly shrank his head, not daring to say anything more, but muttered to himself in his heart: "Miser, really a miser, not a hair." ”

At this time, the old bustard poked his head out from the second floor and shouted happily: "Susu, you really have a lot of money under the bed, okay, you can go." ”

Qin Su turned his head and asked Li Hao: "Son, where is your home?" ”

Before Li Hao could speak, Cheng Chumo preemptively expressed: "He is a man from Lantian County, and of course his home is in Lantian." ”

While speaking, the three of them had already walked out of the Spring Breeze Smug Building, only to see two servants from the Lu Guogong Mansion waiting outside the door, Li Hao turned his head and asked Cheng Chumo: "You came on foot?" ”

"How is that possible!" Cheng Chumo's eyes widened and said, "I came on horseback." ”

Li Hao rolled his eyes and asked, "Are you planning to let the two of us walk back?" ”

Cheng Chumo waved his hand and said to the two servants: "Go home and get a carriage, it's okay!" ”

"Yes!" The two servants took the order back in a hurry.

The three of them waited boredly at the door, the weather was hot, Li Hao was sweating, Qin Su was already sweating, they could only return to the spring breeze proud building, and let the old bustard send three bowls of sour plum soup to relieve the heat, at this time Li Hao missed the future world, what are you afraid of when it is hot, drill into the air-conditioned room, no matter how hot it is, you are not afraid.

The old bustard personally brought them sour plum soup, and when he saw that they were so hot that they were sweating, he couldn't help laughing and complaining: "This ghost weather, it's so hot, it hasn't rained for a long time." ”

Li Hao said: "No, there was just a rain on June 12. "It was his crown ceremony that day, and because it was raining, he tore up the yellow calendar, so he remembered it very well.

The old bustard said: "Yes, there was a drizzle on June 12, but before that, it had not rained for more than a month, and now it is July, and it is said that many places in our Guanzhong have begun to have drought, and the grain is about to dry up and die in the ground." ”

"Drought?" Li Hao was shocked when he heard this, and asked casually, "Is this year the tenth year of Zhenguan?" ”

Qin Su nodded and asked suspiciously, "Why did Childe suddenly ask this." ”

Li Hao did not answer, frowning and groaning, according to historical records, in the tenth year of Zhenguan, there was a great drought in Guanzhong, and another natural disaster came.

To tell the truth, although Li Hao can quell the plague, he really can't do anything about droughts, floods, earthquakes or something, this belongs to the forces of nature, and only high technology can solve it, such as artificial rainfall, and then for example, spending huge manpower and material resources to build water conservancy, as for earthquakes, hehe, even the future world can't deal with it, let alone now.

"Alas, the people of Guanzhong are going to suffer again." Li Hao sighed helplessly, "I hope Your Majesty can do a good job of disaster relief measures." ”

Cheng asked silently: "Is there really going to be a drought?" It's not that serious, maybe it will rain in a few days, but it's summer, and the rain is coming. ”

Li Hao waved his hand and said, "Everything must be prepared for the best and the worst." ”

Qin Su looked at Li Hao stupidly on the side, she felt that Li Hao's worried expression about the drought just now was very handsome.

Half an hour later, Cheng Chumo's servants arrived in a carriage, Li Hao took Qin Su to the car and went home, as soon as he arrived home, Li Hao shouted to the porter Wang San: "Wang San, quickly let Du Hong wait for me at the door of the backyard." ”

"Yes!" Wang San took the order and left.

Li Hao took Qin Su to the backyard in a hurry, the backyard is the residence of the female dependents, except for Li Hao, no man is allowed to enter, at this moment Turandot is practicing swords in the courtyard, when she saw Li Hao coming back, she stopped, rolled her eyes at him, and asked angrily: "What are you doing here?" ”

Li Hao didn't talk nonsense, pulled Qin Su two steps forward, and introduced: "Introduction, this is Miss Qin Su, the gentleman I invited for you." ”

"Sir?" Turandot was surprised, "How can there be a female gentleman?" ”

"What? You still want me to find a man to teach you? Li Hao asked with a smile, which really stopped her.

Qin Su saluted Turandot: "Meet Madame." ”

Li Hao corrected: "It's Mrs. Ru." ”

Qin Su hurriedly changed his words: "Meet Mrs. Ru." ”

Turandot didn't care about these at all, and returned the salute to Qin Su, saying, "Are you literate?" ”

Qin Su nodded, looking a little shy.

Turandot thought for a while, turned his head and asked Li Hao: "Hey, can you let him teach Gulina and Alina together, they told me that they also want to learn the Tang Dynasty's writing." ”

"Absolutely." Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Just let Xiaoyun study together, in this way, I don't usually use the outside of the study, you usually teach there, although I read the books inside, I don't read the books anyway, and it's moldy there." ”

Qin Su didn't expect him to be open to how to let women learn words, and he was suddenly full of curiosity about Li Hao, and always felt that he was very different from ordinary people.

At this time, Jin Qiaoyun came in, saluted when he saw Li Hao, and said, "Young master, Steward Du is outside the courtyard, let me bring you a message, he has arrived." ”

"yes, okay." Li Hao nodded and said to Turandot, "That...... I still have something to do, and you will arrange Miss Qin's food and lodging. ”

"Wrap me up." Turandot patted his chest and packed the ticket.

Li Hao turned around and left the hospital, only to see Du Hong waiting outside the hospital, and saluted when he met: "Young master, the old slave is waiting to be sent." ”

Li Hao walked up to him and asked, "Du Hong, how many people from our Shanghe Village have thrown their fields into our house?" ”

Du Hong replied: "Nine out of ten of the fields in Shanghe Village have been invested in our house. ”

"Oh." Li Hao nodded, and asked again, "How are the crops in the field growing recently?" ”

"Don't mention it." When Du Hong heard this, his face was immediately full of sorrow, "Except for the light rain that fell for two hours on the day of your crown ceremony, it has not rained for nearly three months, and the ground is dry and cracked, if it doesn't rain again, it won't be half a month later, and all the crops will be finished." ”

"So serious?" Li Hao frowned when he heard this, thought about it, and asked again: "Isn't there water in our Qingshui River, why don't we use the water in the Qingshui River to irrigate the farmland?" ”

"Young master, don't laugh." Du Hong said with a bitter face, "Not to mention that the Qingshui River is two miles away from the fields, and the water of the Qingshui River is five or six feet lower than the riverbank, how can you bring this water up?" ”

"yes." Li Hao scratched his head and thought about it, and asked, "What if you use a water wheel?" ”

"The watermill does." Du Hong nodded and said, "But to make a waterwheel, it will cost a lot of money, and you can't do it without two or three hundred yuan, and even if you have a waterwheel, it can't irrigate thousands of acres of farmland." ”

Du Hong is right, Li Hao knows that the ancient waterwheel seems to be awesome, but in fact it is very inefficient, and it has to be constantly stepped on, not stepping on it or spinning, which is embarrassing.

Li Hao thought for a long time, then suddenly touched his chin with his hand and muttered, "Maybe...... I can try a wind-powered water wheel. ”

As soon as he thought of this, he turned around and asked Du Hong: "Du Hong, you can find me some craftsmen, the more the better, I want to make a waterwheel, a very big waterwheel, so I need a lot of craftsmen." ”

"Oh, good!" Du Hong said and turned to leave.

Li Hao also went back to the study and took out a pencil and began to draw, he wanted to design a wind-powered waterwheel.

The principle of the wind-powered waterwheel is very simple, but it is more difficult to do, because it is too big, the wind-powered waterwheel designed by Li Hao is divided into two parts, namely the windmill is not angry and the waterwheel part, the diameter of the waterwheel is four meters five, much larger than the general waterwheel, the base of the windmill is five meters, and the windmill blades are four meters and five meters long, so the windmill stands up about nine meters high, in this era, it is simply a behemoth, how to build, has become the biggest problem.

Just the next day, the craftsmen invited by Du Hong came, among them there was a craftsman, surnamed Lu Mingzhi, who was the most skilled of all craftsmen, claiming to be a descendant of Lu Ban, Li Hao took his drawings to Lu Zhi, Li Hao's drawings were very clear, and Li Hao explained to him, he immediately understood.

Lu Zhi really had rich experience and proposed: "If you use a wooden bracket as the base, not only the project is huge, but also difficult to erect, the villain suggests that a tower be built with bricks and stones, and the tower should be used as the base of the windmill." ”

"That's right!" Li Hao patted the table and said excitedly, "In the end, it is a professional, in a word, just do what you say, can it be completed within ten days?" ”

"Huh?" Lu Zhi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then smiled bitterly, "You can really laugh at the owner, such a big project will take at least two months." ”

"Two months? No way! Li Hao shook his head solemnly, "It must be completed within ten days, and the crops in the field can't afford to wait." ”

Lu Zhi thought for a while and said: "If you want to complete it within ten days, it's not impossible, but the manpower and material resources consumed have increased several times." ”

Li Hao waved his hand and said: "Don't say so much, just say it, how much does it cost?" ”

Lu Zhidao: "Based on the experience of the villain, the minimum is three thousand. ”

"Hiss-" Li Hao gasped, three thousand times! Also the lowest! The price is really too high.