Chapter 14: Helpless
Since he had the idea of building a water windmill in advance, Xiao Mo of course prepared the drawings. 【&n】
Looking at the eager eyes of the people around him, Xiao Mo unfolded the drawings of the prepared water windmill in front of everyone.
In the middle of a river, a huge round windmill towered above the water, and the high point of the round windmill stretched out from the embankment by the river, and then a plank-like thing extended from the embankment to the windmill.
After looking at it for a long time, Li Ji and the others couldn't see what Xiao Mo meant on this drawing.
In desperation, Xiao Mo had no choice but to explain to everyone: "First of all, we have to find a place where the water flow is relatively high and the height of the shore is low, and then build this water windmill...... I think it's good here! After the place is chosen, when the water windmill is built, the bottom of the windmill is soaked in the book, and then the momentum of the water can be followed to make the windmill turn, and at that time, the bucket warehouse installed on the water windmill can carry the river water from the river to the air, and then fall here, that is, on the canal that extends from the bank, and so on......"
Xiao Mo's words are not very difficult to understand, and after combining the drawings, it is not difficult to understand, saying this, Li Ji's eyes lit up, and then Xiao Mo's words said: "This official understands, Ziheng is saying that according to the method of irrigating farmland in Shu during the Three Kingdoms, build a large windmill?" ”
"Not bad!" Xiao Mo nodded, but immediately, a difficult color appeared on his face.
I only thought of building a windmill, but Xiao Mo forgot that this is ancient times, and if you want to build a windmill twenty or thirty meters high, and ensure that it can last for a long time, this material is a problem!
What Xiao Mo thought of, Li Ji also thought of, so Li Ji asked, "Ziheng, I don't know the materials for building this windmill, do you also have a plan?" ”
Xiao Mo shook his head, but he was thinking in his heart, this windmill must be built, but now it seems that the project is too difficult, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and if she wants to build a water windmill on a large scale, except for steel, Xiao Mo can't think of any other alternative materials.
However, this is an ancient time, although steel has appeared, but it is some small materials, used to make steel knives and other weapons, in this era there is no way to weld steel, and it is useless to buy it.
Thinking of this, Xiao Mo's face became more and more ugly, his eyes stared at the river of the river, and he was silent.
Seeing that Xiao Mo didn't speak, just stared at the river and was distracted, Li Ji and Lin Chong glanced at each other, and finally had a glimmer of hope, but now it seemed that they had entered a dead end again, and they couldn't help but sigh.
"There must be a way to ......"
Xiao Mo suddenly muttered to himself, after thinking for a long time, his mind was confused, and when he heard Xiao Mo's words, everyone's eyes couldn't help but shine, thinking that Xiao Mo had thought of a solution.
The most excited was of course Li Ji, and when he was about to ask Xiao Mo if he had thought of a way, he saw that Xiao Mo was still just staring at the river and talking to himself, as if he was stunned.
Li Jinai is a person in the officialdom, and it is his forcible observation of words and expressions, seeing Xiao Mo's performance, how can he not know that Xiao Mo has not thought of a way at all?
can come up with a water windmill, Xiao Mo is indeed a lot stronger than ordinary people, Li Ji is of course in favor of Xiao Mo's idea, but he suffers from the lack of materials to build a windmill, so this idea is actually just talk on paper.
Disappointed, Li Ji had no choice but to say: "That's it, Ziheng can think of this step, it's already rare, it's man-made, it seems that this drainage matter still needs to be considered in the long run!" ”
After finishing speaking, Li Ji shouted to everyone: "Everyone disperse!" ”
After watching everyone leave slowly, Li Jicai said to Lin Chong: "Shankun, it seems that this matter of drainage, I am afraid that it is a little difficult, but ......"
Speaking of this, Li Ji glanced left and right, and felt a little inconvenient, so he stopped the topic, Lin Chong knew that Li Ji was talking about borrowing grain, Shen County had been dry for three years, although it was supported by the water and many tributaries, but it also emptied all the grain stocks in the county, and the big households in the county refused to take out the grain stocks, so Li Ji had no way to give food to Changle Town.
Without food, this year?
Thinking of this, Lin Chong's face was extremely bitter, and he said to Li Ji: "My lord, please be considerate......
"Shankun!" Li Ji suddenly interrupted Lin Chong's words, his face was a little ugly, Lin Chong reacted at this time, and now there are some villagers on the edge of the river, who said about the food shortage at this time, and after being known by the villagers, they will spread it again, I am afraid that it will cause panic!
So Lin Chong also quickly shut his mouth, but he was unwilling in his heart, so he had to say: "My lord, please move to the cold house and discuss it again!" ”
Li Ji nodded and said, "Okay, I'll ask someone to go to the county and invite Du Shaofu to come and see if there is a way!" ”
After that, Li Ji glanced at one of the attendants beside him and said, "Go and invite Du Shaofu to come to the main mansion in the forest, and say that the official has something to do with him!" ”
The attendant took the order, and then Li Ji and Lin Chong also planned to leave, but when Zhou Kui went to push Xiao Mo, Xiao Mo said: "Brother Zhou, I want to stay for a while!" ”
Zhou Kui looked at Li Ji when he heard this, he couldn't solve the drought, and Li Ji's mood was not so good, so he waved his hand and went straight away, without any instructions, and this time Zhou Kui made a difficulty.
Fortunately, Hu Yunxue said: "Brother Zhou, let him think about it here, it's just troublesome Brother Zhou." ”
In this way, Zhou Kui had no choice but to stay.
After Li Ji and the others left, Lin Yiye also came over and said to Xiao Mo: "Ziheng, the matter is man-made, don't force it, you have to entertain the county order at home, and the foolish brother won't accompany you!" ”
Xiao Mo nodded at Lin Yiye, and then watched him leave.
In this way, only Hu Yunxue, Xiao Mo and Zhou Kui were left by the river, and before Xiao Mo and Hu Yunxue stayed, Zhou Kui felt a little uncomfortable, so he said: "In this case, the Sprinkle family will walk around the river, if Erlang is tired, come and call me again!" ”
After Zhou Kui left, Hu Yunxue came to Xiao Mo's side and said, "If you can't think of it, don't force it." ”
Yun Xue's tone was also a little disappointed, she also listened to the conversation between Lin Chong and Li Ji just now, and it must be because of the food matter that the head of a county and the head of a town can be so divided, looking at Lin Chong's expression just now, I am afraid that this time Changle Town is really at the point of exhaustion.
However, there is no way for the people of the entire Shen County, can they expect Xiao Mo to be a person who has been sick for three years?