"Hey! Shall we sit on the ground and share the spoils? Huang Sheng couldn't help but say something after a while. Master Guo glanced at Huang Sheng, "Brother Huang, Guo doesn't agree with this, if we don't collect the loot we worked so hard to get for our own use, will we still hand it over to the imperial court?" What are the things in the court, you don't know, layer by layer, it's not cheaper than those brain-full silverfish? ”

"All provinces, now there is nothing, just thinking about sitting on the ground and sharing the spoils, the famine is still a month away, success or failure is in one move, and strive to solve the near and far worries together!" Li Xin interrupted the bickering between the two and summarized today's meeting within the trading company.

"The seized loot is divided into two parts, one is handed over to the treasury, and the other is used as the assets of the trading company, and the dividends of all parties will be distributed at the end of the year!"

Gao Shiming pouted a little dissatisfied, "Half of it is given to the silverfish, it's really cheap for those old guys!" ”

"There's no way, eating alone is going to anger the public! Only if you are good and I am good, everyone is all good! Tian Fuzhen, who has been silent, also interjected.

All parties agreed on how to deal with the strategy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and if it could really be implemented smoothly, it would even solve the problem of the possible famine, but the result would depend on whether Fan Yongdou and the Manchu Qing cooperated, and more importantly, on the implementation effect of the Three Guards on the front.

After discussing the big thing, Gao Shiming got up and flicked the pleats on his robe, and said leisurely: "Master Guo's plan is good, our family is still thinking about whether to say hello to Li Fengxiang, the military director of the Xuanfu!" ”

"Gao Gong's greeting can't be called, otherwise where will we go to share the dividends?" Huang Sheng stopped him in a matter-of-fact manner.

How do you know that Gao Shiming laughed, "Don't worry, as soon as our family greets him, he will have the mind to card the merchants, and he will have to be destroyed!" ”

Looking at Gao Shiming's face of teasing, Huang Sheng touched the back of his head and seemed to understand something. Li Xin is more familiar with the situation of the celebrant eunuch, Gao Shiming has offended too many people in the celebrant eunuch, and his popularity is not good, even if it is now involved in common interests, but if Gao Shiming specially greets him, he will not cooperate happily, which is also human nature.

"Scattered, scattered!"

After that, Gao Shiming bowed his hand to the people in the house and went out.

Early the next morning, Albert came to the Taiyuan City Barracks to ask Li Xin to inspect the firepower water lifting facilities, Li Xin was taken aback when he heard this, "How, it was repaired in just one day?" ”

Albert's face was dark, and his mouth cracked open to reveal a mouthful of white teeth.

"The boiler and cylinder are ready-made goods that are dismantled, and it will take half a day to build the furnace, with installation and commissioning, and then half a day's work is enough.

Li Xin was so happy that he didn't bother to eat breakfast, so he immediately went out of the city with Albert to Fenshui to inspect the firepower water lifting facilities, but as soon as he went out, he happened to meet Gao Shiming.

"General Li is roaring urgently, what is this going to do?"

"Let's go, go with Li Xin to see a rare thing!" Li Xin's face was mysterious, and he coaxed Gao Shiming out with a pull. Gao Shiming originally wanted to go to the Kaihua Temple in the city as soon as possible to make incense, but he really couldn't resist Li Xin, so he had to follow half-pushing.

Fenshui is only a few miles away from Taiyuan City, everyone does not sit in a sedan chair and ride a horse to arrive in an instant, only to see a hard open land by the river has built a brick wall more than two zhang high, between the two brick walls there are two dome stoves, think of the boiler is installed in it, some workers are busy sending coal and firewood to it, obviously preparing to start the fire.

Yesterday, seeing the smoke on the mine and the distance, I couldn't even see it clearly, this close contact, Li Xin couldn't help but sigh at the wisdom of the ancients, although all the mechanical parts of the workmanship are extremely rough, but the rough shape of the machine qì can bring super power beyond the reach of manpower.

From now on, the workers began to add firewood and lead coal, and if the fire was to be burned to a high temperature, it would take an hour to say the least, so Li Xin unhurriedly and carefully observed Albert's improvement of the fire water lifter. When I looked up, I saw that under the huge wooden swing arm was not an iron chain at all, but a connecting rod with a strange shape, and I couldn't tell what kind of material it was made of, and I thought that it should be strong and tough.

The height of the swing arm is really no less than the height of a small city wall, and the outside of the swing arm is connected by a connecting rod is a thick iron pipe pump body, which is directly inserted into the surface of the Fenshui River, and the top of the pump is more than two zhang high, and there is a wooden frame supporting several rows of wooden troughs to divert water to the hill more than ten steps away.

Only then did Li Xin notice that there seemed to be other facilities built on the hill, and the wooden trough went around the hill before extending to the field.

"The villain took it upon himself to build a cistern on the high ground in the distance, where the excess water pumped out could be stored." Li Xin was a little puzzled, how could he save water when he was building a reservoir on the high ground, and there were no water release materials at this time? Albert also seemed to have learned the skill of the people of the time to be very good at observing words and feelings, and before he could open his mouth, he explained: "It is easy to dig a pit, but it takes a lot of effort to make it waterproof, and it takes a few days to bite it with a wooden plank and brush it with tung oil three times, so now only the sink leads to the field!" ”

Li Xin retracted his gaze and turned to the boiler and cylinder of the fire water lifter. It turned out that the bolts that Albert said needed to be watched by the workers from time to time turned out to be some faucet-like things between the boiler and the cylinder, but they were not the pressure relief devices that Li Xin imagined. It took him a long time to figure out that this reciprocating piston cylinder combination is made up of a small water tank next to the cylinder to inject water into it to cool down and decompress, thereby driving the piston to do reciprocating motion.

After visiting the circle, Li Xin was embarrassed, he really couldn't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, the little thing he knew was not worth mentioning in front of Albert, a "mechanical expert", even if he was allowed to build it, he might not be able to build a mature and reliable power device.

As the coal in the furnace burned more and more vigorously, and the boiler's exhaust valve was already sizzling, Albert felt that the time was almost up, and motioned for the workers to fiddle with the taps between the boiler and the cylinder lines.

With the sudden sound of piercing and sharp steam roaring, the cylinder rumbled and shook, and I saw that the huge wooden swing arm began to move slowly under the impetus of the connecting rod, and it only took a moment to make two reciprocating movements up and down. The pump connected to the other end of the swing arm soon pumped up the clear water of the river, pouring from the opening at the top into the wooden trough and slowly flowing into the barren fields in the distance.

The scene suddenly burst into endless cheers, and even worse, several miners shed tears of excitement. The vast majority of the workers here were peasants, and it was clear to everyone that this meant a great drought, a bad harvest, and a famine. Although they had fled their homeland and lost their land in the plague of plague and thieves, they were still excited about the love of the land, as if the river had been brought into their fields.

In the eyes of most people, it is not water that flows slowly in the wooden trough, but expensive oil, which is the hope of the land to sprout and reap.

Gao Shiming was stunned by the sizzling behemoth in front of him, and thought it was the power of the ghosts and gods invited by Li Xin, so he was so frightened that he almost ran away, but fortunately, he still held his own identity as a prison army, and he couldn't lose face in front of these mud legs and the red-haired ghosts, so he actually held back the idea of escaping in the same place, and then pulled Li Xin and said in a low voice: "My General Li, you are not afraid of breaking Yangshou with the power of ghosts and gods?" Damned? ”

In his opinion, the red-haired ghost is the Heavenly Master Shenhan, and Li Xin's murderous body and noble status have long been different from ordinary people, and the Heavenly Master Shenhan thought that he borrowed Li Xin's noble and evil spirit to drive this steel monster to absorb water.

With Li Xin by his side, Gao Shiming felt a little safe, and the feeling of weak legs receded slightly.

"General Li, why don't we go back first? The red-haired Heavenly Master you invited was really panicked. ”

Li Xin couldn't cry or laugh, no matter how he explained, Gao Shiming stubbornly regarded Albert as a celestial master, opened his mouth and closed his mouth to the red-haired celestial master, and said that he would no longer stay on the edge of Fenshui. Li Xin had no choice but to end his trip to the Fenhe River and send him back to Taiyuan City.

As soon as he arrived at the barracks, he saw a neatly dressed servant come forward and salute, "The villain salutes the general!" At the same time, he presented a wooden box with both hands, "This is a gift from His Royal Highness the county lord to the general!" ”

Li Xin subconsciously took it, and just wanted to say something, but the servant had already saluted again and hurriedly retreated. Li Xin opened the wooden box, a burst of rich plant fragrance came to his nose, the wooden box was covered with satin, and there was a brown-yellow plant rhizome on it, looking a little like ginseng, and said in his heart, could it be that the county lord asked him to make up for his body?

At the moment of random speculation, Gao Shiming came up, and immediately smiled but did not speak. Li Xin glanced at him dissatisfied, "Send someone to participate, why are you smiling?" If you want to take it, you can make up for it! ”

Gao Shiming didn't care that Li Xin sarcastically mocked him for being timid, but pointed to the "ginseng" and said, "This is the county lord persuading you to go home!" ”

"How so?"

"Angelica, Angelica, what did the general say?"

Li Xin was stunned...... Gao Shiming said again: "Don't listen to General Li, after all, the county lord lives in your general military mansion, and he is also a child of the heavenly family, and he also needs to be faced. It's time to fix it. ”

Gao Shiming is not bad, hiding is indeed not the solution to the problem, since this is the case, it is better to take the opportunity in front of you to go back and make your words clear, so as to save yourself from delaying for a long time, hurting others and yourself!

Gao Shiming looked at Li Xin as if he had opened his mind, so he stopped talking and left. But Li Xin didn't expect that after he went back, he fell ill, with a high fever that did not go away, and he was talking nonsense...... The red-haired celestial master's evil technique of driving the steel monster to absorb water is really evil......