Chapter 34: The Aqueduct
The huge and cumbersome work made Liu Feng suffer a little, and there was no scribe in his hand who could deal with things for him, which really made him a little at a loss, until Pan Qingyun took over these things, Liu Feng freed up his hands to continue other things.
Liu Feng, who was naked, wielded a waist knife, practicing with Zha Xiong on the snow, two figures flashed in the knife light, extremely dangerous, Zha Xiong's strong muscles showed his strong strength, and Liu Feng, who was slightly thin, repeatedly forced the strong Zha Xiong to retreat.
Liu Feng knew that the force of this era was the greatest dominance, and Liu Zhiyuan, the founding emperor of the Later Han Dynasty, and Guo Wei of the current Hedong Army, etc., all had the courage of ten thousand people, so they broke into a prestigious reputation in this troubled era, and Liu Feng wanted to make his own force a deterrent existence.
Ulan, who was standing on the side with a sweat towel, was a little worried about Liu Feng and Zaxiong who were competing. Zha Xiong, who was crazy about fighting Liu Feng, did not show any mercy, although Liu Feng's skills were stronger than Zha Xiong, but after all, the sword had no eyes.
Qingyun and Liu Yandong and others walked in, Liu Feng finally stopped with Zha Xiong, Wulan stepped forward and handed them sweat towels, and by the way, he glared at Zha Xiong fiercely, complaining that Zha Xiong did not know how to do it, which made Liu Feng a little embarrassed.
In the conference hall, Pan Qingyun and Liu Yandong, both with unkempt beards on their faces and bloodshot eyes, were reporting to Liu Feng on their work for a few days, "Commander, the land has been allocated, and the construction of tools has been arranged, but everyone is questioning whether to dig ditches and build canals, after all, we don't have a big river here to divert water!" ”
Liu Feng smiled and nodded: "In the past few days, I have been going to the land everywhere, and there is a serious shortage of water everywhere, if there is no water, these fields should not want to have a good harvest." Most of our efforts will be in vain! ”
Pan Qingyun said helplessly: "Our Liujiabao is close to the mountain, far away from the river, and there is only a lake in the south of Huangsha Town in Cizhou!" ”
Liu Yandong continued: "It's just that the terrain is low, and if you use a ditch to divert water, the project will be too big!" ”
"Two uncles, I have long thought that now the craftsman camp is making waterwheels, maybe where can the water be drawn!" Liu Feng said with a somewhat unfathomable smile.
Pan Qingyun and Liu Yandong saw that Liu Feng was confident, and said with some complaints: "You have a way, you should have said it to us a long time ago, why bother us for a few days!" ”
Liu Feng hurriedly waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "I also just figured out the solution!" Now water diversion and irrigation are nothing more than two methods, diverting water from the lake in Huangshan Town and opening a well to divert water! And to draw water out of the lake, is to build a waterwheel by the lake, which is also discussed by me and my third grandfather Liu Yunfu in the past few days, they are building a waterwheel, maybe in a few days you can try it. ”
Qingyun and Liu Yandong were a little pleased, and Liu Feng continued: "It's just that in this case, we have to change the establishment of the farm a little, the fields around Huangsha Town Lake will be fertile land, we must control the concentration here, and the villagers who are assigned to the fields here must participate in the excavation of our canal!" ”
The two said: "These things are okay, they have land to plant, they are satisfied, not to mention that there is such good land for them to plant, and these tasks are left to us to arrange." ”
The more they talked, the more excited the two of them had to let Liu Feng take them to the waterwheel that the craftsman camp was making, and Liu Feng was also about to go to the production progress of the car, so he took Wulan to the craftsman camp with them.
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At this time, the craftsman camp was full of people, Liu Feng concentrated all the craftsmen in Liujiabao here, there were about 200 people in the workshop, plus some craftsmen in the homeless people and craftsmen from all over the place, the craftsman camp at this time was about 400 people.
When Liu Feng and the others walked into the craftsman camp, they were a little shocked, and in the open space outside, the waterwheel with a height of more than five zhang gradually took shape under the formation of craftsmen.
Seeing Liu Feng and the others coming, Liu Yunfu greeted him and said with a smile: "It's almost formed, I'm assembling it and trying it!" He couldn't help but be uneasy, although this kind of waterwheel, there are documents recorded how to make it, but there is no such waterwheel on the land of the north, until Liu Yunfu has seen such a waterwheel in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and when Liu Feng proposed to him, he thought of the construction of this waterwheel.
Liu Yunfu proudly introduced to everyone that he led a group of craftsmen to build a waterwheel, "This is a long trough made of wooden boards, and dozens of wiper boards commensurate with the width of the wooden trough are placed in the trough. There is a toothed wooden shaft at the upper and lower ends of the trough. Rotating the upper shaft will drive the wiper to circulate and run, and at the same time bring out the water body between the boards from bottom to top, and the overturning car can use manpower and animal power to hydraulic. ”
A series of professional words came out, Liu Feng and Pan Qingyun just listened carefully to Liu Yunfu's explanation on the side, and Liu Yandong carefully inquired about the use of various parts of the waterwheel in various parts of the waterwheel.
"Uncle Liu is talented! It has benefited the people of our Liujiabao side! After listening to Liu Yunfu's introduction, Pan Qingyun said to Liu Yunfu with emotion,
Liu Yunfu said with a smile: "It's also Ah Feng who has such courage and dares to make such a big waterwheel, how can ordinary people have such money to do this!" ”
Liu Feng also smiled happily and said, "Don't brag about it!" Only when the villagers are well, can we live a better life? ”
Pan Qingyun said: "There is such a waterwheel, and if I think the villagers will believe in our Liujiabao, I will start to arrange for the villagers to dig ditches!" ”
Liu Feng continued: "There is a lot of snow this year, the snow on Xianghe Mountain has not yet melted, and the water flow of the mountain stream should also be taken into account, ask more old farmers for their opinions, why it is appropriate to dig ditches, and try to ensure that the area around Huangsha Town and Lake can be irrigated, so that our grain will have a certain guarantee!" ”
Pan Qingyun nodded and said, "It should be so, I will arrange it properly!" ”
Liu Feng said: "If you are looking for people who are good at digging deep wells in Cizhou, the cultivated fields far away from the Huangsha Town Lake will rely on these well water for irrigation!" ”
Liu Yunfu said: "The waterwheel is under construction, and the water source is there!" ”
Yunfu and Liu Feng had already made the waterwheel to divert water, and Pan Qingyun and Liu Yandong's fatigue for a few days had disappeared, and they said happily: "The excavation of the canal and the digging of the well will be handed over to our farming camp, and they will be arranged before spring ploughing!" ”
Liu Feng arched his hand and said, "Then please ask the two uncles to bother more!" ”
After hesitating for a moment, Liu Feng asked Pan Qingyun again: "Uncle Pan Shi, maybe invite some scholars to come to Liujiabao?" ”