Marshal's Palace, Haoqi Hall.

Liu Xing lay on his stomach in front of the table and spent a whole hour drawing a sketch of a windmill that he had pondered in his previous life and was widely used in a small country in Europe.

When Liu Xing degraded Su Quan one by one with the sketches, Yang Yizhong and Yue Fei were led into the hall by Lei Zhen one after the other.

"Marshal, I don't know what you have to do if you are in a hurry to recruit the two of us?" Walking to Liu Xing's side, Yang Yizhong asked first after standing still.

Looking at the two of them sideways, Liu Xing said lightly: "You two go to the side and sit for a while, and then talk to the two of you after I finish explaining the method of building and using this windmill to Brother Su Quan." ”

Yue Fei and Yang Yizhong just nodded when they heard this. When he turned to the side, Yang Yizhong found that Su Quan looked at him a little strangely. It seemed that he had something to say to him, but his face was clearly a depressed look.

Su Quan sat opposite Liu Xing, and saw that Yang Yizhong was a little stunned, but he didn't dare to ask him to remind him.

He could only look at him again, and then pointed to the drawings and asked Liu Xingfa: "Marshal, what are these things you are painting and what are they for?" ”

Looking at Su Quan's fingertips, Liu Xing also scratched his finger on the lines of the sketch and said: "This is the conveyor belt, and below is the wooden wheel chain, which drives the numb belt to transport the grains and other things that need to be crushed and peeled at the foot of the mountain. This conveyor belt, which is driven by animal power, can save labor and speed up the conveyor, thereby reducing the cost of milling rice. ”

Staring at the sketch, Su Quan immediately asked, "But looking at what you draw on this diagram, it should take a lot of gears to achieve the effect of teleportation." Marshal, there is not much iron left in the valley, and you won't let me build this conveyor belt again, will you? ”

Shaking his head slightly, he smiled again, and Liu Xing said: "Although the iron wheel transmission is good, it will inevitably rust after a long time in the sun and rain, resulting in a decrease in the working capacity of the conveyor belt. We don't have that much butter to use for lubrication. Therefore, this time to build this conveyor belt, your carpentry battalion is the main contribution. ”

"Wooden wheel teleportation?" Hearing this, he was slightly surprised, and Su Quan said: "Compared with the iron wheel, the wooden wheel is even less durable!" ”

Smiling slightly, Liu Xing said: "The wooden wheel made of wood is naturally not durable. However, if we use poplar wood and soak it with the medicine I have prepared, its durability, wind erosion resistance and safety will actually be far more reliable than that of iron wheels. ”

"Soak the wood with medicine?" Hearing this, Su Quanxin's question immediately blurted out: "Most of the medicine in the valley has been used up to treat the brothers' injuries." You also need to use drugs to soak the wood. Marshal, my daughter-in-law is too much to cook without rice, and I have no place to get you more medicinal herbs! ”

Hearing him say this, Liu Xing still smiled and said, "The medicine for soaking wood is not the medicine for the brothers' injuries. All you need to do is take someone to the top of the East Hill as soon as possible to build a lumber yard and dig out ten soaking ponds. I will let some brothers who can use the wind and rain technique get the water I need, and I will take and prepare all the medicines I need. It's just that you have to send me all the twenty-four glass bottles that have been seized in your storehouse. ”

The twenty-four glazed bottles are the twenty-four crystal clear bottles from the Western Regions that Liu Xing seized when he swept the northern four villages.

In the eyes of Su Quan and others, it is a treasure. In Liu Xing's eyes, he had already locked that it was a necessity for him to conduct chemical tests and prepare chemical preparations in the future.

Hearing this, Su Quan did not refute, because in his heart and that of everyone in the valley, let alone more than two dozen bottles like rare treasures, even if their heads were now Liu Xing's.

Seeing that he didn't refute, Liu Xing pointed to the sketch and said: "There are four drying fields here in the middle of the Beishan Mountain, and the millet and rice milled on the top of the East Mountain are directly sent to the Beishan halfway drying field through the conveyor belt to dry. On top of the stone field on the mountainside of Xishan, four other grain farms were built, and the newly harvested grain was first put into the grain field, and finally returned to there by conveyor belt to bag and transport down the mountain. ”

After the words stopped and thought slightly, Liu Xing continued: "I have roughly estimated that the thirty windmills on the East Mountain only need three hundred laborers to grind 30,000 catties of grain and rice a day. There are 400 people in the Beishan half-waist drying field and 400 people in the Xishan half-waist Yanggu field, so that the 30,000 catties can be processed and filled into the granary under the Xishan Mountain for storage. ”

Stopping again, Liu Xing looked back at the direction of Xishan and meditated and said, "But you have two granaries in the West and East Warehouses, I'm afraid you have to transfer people to expand." Because next, I will sweep the surrounding area, take advantage of the summer harvest, and take advantage of the summer harvest to snatch all the grain from the golden dog and give it to our army. Let those golden dogs, occupy the territory and have no food, so they can only continue to be a transshipment brigade for us. ”

The grain and grass produced in Taiyuan Mansion, Xinzhou, and Daizhou have either been looted by Wang Yu and Zhang Xiaochun and brought into Taiyuan City. Either the troops who were also beaten by the Jin soldiers first were all snatched away.

Therefore, during this time, the Red Turban Army was able to continue to intercept the soldiers, and even if they couldn't grab gold and silver, a large amount of grain and grass was still looted into the Hunter Valley to replenish.

As soon as he heard Liu Xing's words, Su Quan, who was also well aware of these situations, immediately smiled and said, "Hehe, the marshal has a good plan." After snatching up the grain from Hedong, the golden dog can only continue to transport grain from Yunzhong Mansion and even the hometown of Liao in the north to this place. As long as he is lucky, haha, we are not afraid that we will not be able to grab it. ”

also smiled heartily, Liu Xing nodded and said, "Yes, as long as he dares to be lucky, the master will inevitably be robbed." Zong Han and Yinshuke, they are the two most powerful transport envoys who are not brothers but are not brothers. ”

"But I haven't understood yet, Marshal, you need to invest manpower and material resources to build this big windmill. Not only can it not solve the gap in the public account, but more investment is needed! After Su Quan asked a new question, he blinked and stared at Liu Xing.

The smile turned cold, and Liu Xing said: "Aren't there more than 2,000 prisoners of war outside the valley who have recently been captured by their brothers?" They eat our rations for nothing? For this project, you only need to bring half of your troops, and then transfer some lightly injured brothers from the valley to take care of the captured golden dogs and Khitans to help build it. I deliberately marked the key things, so that they could not be touched. ”

Outside the Hunter Valley, next to the Broken Soul Bridge, there are now three captive camps. In the past few days, the prisoners of war who have been held there one after another and who have been identified as Jurchens, Khitans, Xi people, and other northern Hulu prisoners have actually reached nearly 3,000 people.

Originally, Su Quan was still worried about having one meal a day and feeding those prisoners of war for nothing, but as soon as Liu Xing said this, he immediately smiled again: "Haha, good, good, good, I thought that Marshal you raised those Hu dogs to make a living with Jin Dog." Unexpectedly, you want Hu Gou to be a slave to our army? ”

Hearing his words, Liu Xing's face became even more gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "Hu Gou is not a slave, because those guys are not people, just a group of dogs. The day before yesterday, I entered the middle school, and those who killed my robes and insulted my sisters were not as good as beasts. Let them do hard labor, just to give them a chance to live, I hope those dogs can cherish it! ”