"Curious? Curious about what? After Chu Xinyao heard Gu Rinjun's words, she couldn't help but ask: "I also have a nose and two eyes, and I don't have one more mouth, aren't the two Shangshu adults too idle?" ”

Gu Rinjun sandwiched a piece of meat into Chu Xinyao's bowl, urging Chu Xinyao to eat quickly, and after seeing Chu Xinyao move his chopsticks, he continued: "I am curious about the rumored Second Miss Chu, but if you don't tell the truth, even if you stand in front of the two of them, they may not necessarily recognize you." ”

After hearing Gu Rinjun's words, Chu Xinyao nodded clearly, this is similar to modern public opinion and scandals, it can only be said that the people's imagination is powerful, but the people's gossip heart has not faded at all even in distant ancient times.

"Do you really have no way to irrigate the South?" At that time, Chu Xinyao was wandering around the General's Mansion with Gu Rinjun, and the reason was to consume food.

Chu Xinyao felt that there was no need at all, but he was "soft-spoken", and after several ineffective protests, he could only compromise, and finally followed Gu Rinjun to the General's Mansion.

Fortunately, the weather in May was not hot, and after Chu Xinyao's transformation in the General's Mansion, there was almost no sun everywhere, so Chu Xinyao walked very freely.

Gu Rinjun nodded honestly after hearing Chu Xinyao's inquiry, "I really can't help it, that's not my strength after all." ”

"And how much do you know about the South?"

Although Gu Rinjun didn't know why Chu Xinyao was so concerned about the affairs of the south, but since Chu Xinyao asked, he told him what he knew, "I don't know much about the south, after all, most of my garrisons are on the border, although the south is rich, there are always such and such problems every year, and it is not very rich in the end." ”

Chu Xinyao understood as soon as she heard that the so-called south of the Ruiyang Dynasty was the same as the so-called Jiangnan in Huaxia, but compared to Jiangnan, the south of the Ruiyang Dynasty was more troubled because of the rainy season that began in May.

"Actually, I think you can dig a canal so that you can divert water for irrigation."

"This method can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and the cost is too large, and the gains outweigh the losses."

"Why?"

Gu Rinjun saw Chu Xinyao breaking the casserole and asking the end, knowing that if he couldn't explain it clearly, I'm afraid Chu Xinyao would not give up, so he sighed secretly in his heart, "Follow me." ”

Then Chu Xinyao stood in the study, with a map of the Ruiyang Dynasty spread out in front of him. Standing next to him was Gu Rinjun, explaining why digging a ditch to divert water was a palliative problem.

It's just that the more Chu Xinyao listens, the more strange she feels, she originally thought that the Ruiyang Dynasty had such a thing as a waterwheel, after all, the waterwheel appeared too early in Huaxia, although this Ruiyang Dynasty has never appeared in the history of China, but in terms of some things she saw and heard, and then compared, it came to the conclusion that this Ruiyang Dynasty is simply a copy of the Tang Dynasty, and even some places are more advanced than the Tang Dynasty.

Chu Xinyao thought that similar irrigation tools such as waterwheels had long been popularized, but she never thought that she had never heard of it at all, isn't this simply unscientific?

The surprise on Chu Xinyao's face was too obvious, and Gu Rinjun had to stop, "What's wrong?" Any questions? ”

"It's a big problem!" Chu Xinyao subconsciously spoke, and then secretly rejoiced in her heart, if she handed over the waterwheel, I don't know if she could ask the emperor for some benefits. As for what the benefits were, this Chu Xinyao really couldn't think of it for a while.

Chu Xinyao said what was in his heart, hoping that his general could give some good advice, but the first thing the general cared about was the feasibility of the waterwheel.

Chu Xinyao, as a general's wife and a part-time businessman, was a little crying.

Chu Xinyao said angrily and funny, "I'm asking you to help me find a way, not to make you doubt me." ”

"If the waterwheel you said is true, what benefits do you want to exchange?"

Chu Xinyao pondered, "I don't know, after all, I don't know where the emperor's bottom limit is, so I'm not easy to handle, so I want you to help me refer to it." Maybe I accidentally touched the emperor's scales, and in the end I didn't get the benefits, and I paid myself in, which is stupid. ”

Gu Rinjun knew the emperor's bottom limit, but he needed to know the feasibility of the waterwheel so that he could judge its value, and he could better bargain with the emperor if he had the bottom in his heart.

Chu Xinyao understood what Gu Rinjun meant as soon as she heard it, and to exaggerate it, she couldn't give up the child and couldn't trap the wolf.

"I understand what you mean, in that case, I'll find someone to make a model and show it to you first, if it's feasible, you..."

"I'll ask the emperor for a reward." Gu Rinjun couldn't laugh or cry, why was his wife very obsessed with things like money and rewards.

If Chu Xinyao knew Gu Rinjun's thoughts, he would definitely give Gu Rinjun a look of contempt, you must know that money can make ghosts grind, it is no exaggeration to say that there is nothing that cannot be solved by a bunch of money, if there is, then two piles, in the twenty-first century, it is even more "wise saying".

In the study, Chu Xinyao was drawing a model of the waterwheel, not with a brush, but with a charcoal pen that she specially asked the housekeeper to prepare. Gu Rinjun stood still on the side and watched Chu Xinyao use a strange thing to start sketching the outline on the plain white paper, and from time to time he wrote symbols he didn't recognize.

At first, Gu Rinjun was a little funny, but the more Gu Rinjun looked at it later, the more serious he became, and when Chu Xinyao finally finished putting down the pen, he couldn't wait to take the paper in his hand, and the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became.

Chu Xinyao was very amused by Gu Rinjun's gaffe, although she knew that the waterwheel had a great effect on irrigation in the south, but in Chu Xinyao's opinion, it was far inferior to some irrigation tools in later generations. But limited by the existing conditions, Chu Xinyao can't do much, and the waterwheel is the best thing she can think of to solve the current problem.

When Gu Rinjun put down the drawings, Chu Xinyao couldn't wait to come up, "How is it?" Is this thing enough to negotiate terms with the emperor? ”

Gu Rinjun nodded amusedly, but he was more and more curious about Chu Xinyao in his heart, it stands to reason that Miss Chu Er, who is not out of the door, how can she know such a thing as water conservancy and irrigation. Although the process stumbled, Gu Rinjun would not think that it was because Chu Xinyao was worried about the design of the waterwheel, but was reminiscing, recalling the structure of the waterwheel, so there were stumbles.

I wanted to ask, but Gu Rinjun knew that Chu Xinyao was a person who couldn't ask anything if she didn't say it, so she simply didn't ask. I have to say that Gu Rinjun has a beastly intuition in some aspects, Chu Xinyao really won't tell Gu Rinjun the origin of the waterwheel, but Gu Rinjun is not in a hurry, he believes that one day Chu Xinyao will tell everything to him. At that time, all the questions will be answered.

Gu Rinjun is a hunter, and the biggest characteristic of a hunter is patience, not to mention that the prey has already reached his mouth, and all he has to do is wait, waiting for the prey to take the bait by itself.