Chapter 64: The Water Rises
Wang Lanling returned to the house with a small wooden stick, and after entering the shop, he handed the wine bottle and funnel to the maid.
"Put it in the house."
Two blonde maids, one with a wine bottle and one with a funnel, went to the backyard.
Wang Lanling looked at his little wooden stick and felt that he liked it very much, and waved it from side to side, and the wind was whistling, so he liked it even more.
The happiness of men, women will not understand.
After thinking about it and thinking about it carefully, Wang Lanling couldn't think of what this thing could be used for.
This is a problem......
Forget it, the happiness is over.
Wang Lanling walked into the courtyard, and when he went to the kitchen to wash his hands, he put the wooden stick by the door.
In the room there was a blonde woman who was making a pot, and her body was fatter and stronger.
In addition to the two beautiful young blonde girls, the Oriental Lady sent three more slaves.
Two men and one woman, two golden men without two plus one, and one golden woman and strong woman.
Except for the emperor's family, even princes and nobles could not use eunuchs, but the Jin eunuchs were not within the scope of this protection.
When Emperor Yanwu was fighting in all directions, he especially liked to castrate men of different races, so it was an old tradition.
By the way, the Empire's castration technique is very powerful not only on people, but also on animals, and ordinary piglets are castrated.
With more hands-on experience, the accuracy of the profession will increase, and after more experience, the incurable diseases and accidents can also be well controlled.
Two golden men, one is a horse breeder and the other is a flour grinder.
The female is able to make yogurt and milk wine.
The Jin people also farmed, and almost all the alien races could farm, and the people who did not farm could not grow at all.
Nomads don't eat meat every day, they are mainly dairy products, supplemented by grain, as long as the fields are burned by others, it is basically a fish dead and the net is broken.
Nomads without fields are lost dogs, and there is nothing to worry about.
Ordinary nomads eat wild grasses, wild vegetables and dairy products, and cattle and sheep are generally reluctant to kill, just like farmers will not sell their land easily.
Grinding noodles requires props, and raising horses is not a day or two to see the effect, so in comparison, the lady in the kitchen who can cook grassland rice is more powerful.
Wang Lanling saw the cook cooking, so he asked, "What did you eat today?" ”
The cook said, "Stir-fried vegetables, boiled cabbage dumplings and tofu, black fish soup, rice, and flatbreads. ”
Wang Lanling felt that it was okay, so he said, "What about the lady and the little lady?" ”
The cook explained: "It's busy in the backyard, the little lady said she wants to build a water wheel." ”
When Wang Lanling heard this, he went to the backyard.
The cooks continued to cook over the fire, and they preferred to eat bread that was easy to eat and easy to store, rather than rice.
It's just that Wang Lanling is the master, plus Zhao Wenrou and Lei A are both daughters of rich and noble families, and they are used to eating rice, so they don't make flatbread steamed buns, and even the noodles they like to eat are less.
The food culture of Muzhou and Shanzhou is similar, Yunshui County and even Yunzhou are different, whether it is food culture or customs and language, it is closer to Shanzhou.
In the backyard, Lei Ah and Zhao Wenrou were sitting under the shed, measuring the length of a few pieces of wood with a ruler line.
A few meters away, some planks were piled up, and two eunuchs were digging tunnels.
Seeing Wang Lanling coming, Zhao Wenrou looked at this side and said, "Husband." ”
Wang Lanling walked over and squatted on the ground to take a look, and Lei A had already drawn a design for a waterwheel.
The pencil windmill is still pretty good.
For this kind of thing that he can't do, Wang Lanling basically won't express his opinion.
"It's hard work, when will this be done?"
When he came over for the first time, Lei A said that he wanted to build a waterwheel to provide power, and now he started doing this after the family was stable, and he also got the support of Wang Lanling and Zhao Wenrou.
Rea said: "It should be done in a month, our side is more than a meter higher than the river, and it is too complicated to do it." ”
If the house by the river is kept at the same height as the river, it will basically be flooded.
Hearing this, Wang Lanling said strangely: "There has been no rain this year, has the river risen again?" I remember when I first came, it was more than a meter. ”
Wang Lanling didn't care about the waterwheel, even if it failed, it was nothing, but it was dangerous if the river rose.
When Rhea heard this, he also stood up and said, "I didn't pay attention to this. ”
Wang Lanling said: "You are not a local, you don't know about this, the Heishui River comes from Yunshui County, but it is also a three-way river, and the confluence of the Yunshui River and the Yanmen River only comes to this side." ”
After a pause, Wang Lanling continued: "In the past, the water on the mountain flooded the fields on the side of Yunshui County, but in recent years, Yunshui County has diverted the Yanmen River to our side, and it will allocate a little money to us to treat the flood all year round, and the taxes will be reduced or reduced in the disaster year. ”
This is when I was chatting with someone from the water department, I listened to the person over there.
When everyone drinks wine and eats tea, it is inevitable that they will curse.
Generally speaking, it is an old tradition to scold the leader and the son of a policy formulated by the imperial court.
Whenever this time, Wang Lanling always smiled and drank and ate, trying not to speak.
He didn't want to go in for this.
If you go in because of this, it will be difficult for your family to apply for a prison visit.
Although he did not participate, Wang Lanling also learned some policy matters because of these people's drinking and eating.
After stepping into officialdom, there are some things that you must know, even if you don't want to know.
Yunshui County issued a conscription order, and the annual flow of water was vented downstream.
Heishui County couldn't resist either, and the officials crushed people to death.
Rea only understood the flood as a concept, not realizing that the flood would be so close.
At this time, he was at a loss and said, "Husband, what should we do now?" This house is right next to the water, will there be something? ”
Science, which did not tell her how to withstand flooding.
Wang Lanling walked to the water's edge, and he felt that there were few houses by the river, which was not unreasonable.
The waterscape mansion is indeed not suitable for this era.
"Tie a few knots with a rope, measure the depth of the water surface by the river, and I'll go to the water department."
Wang Lanling turned around, looked at Zhao Wenrou and Lei A, who were a little worried, and comforted: "It's not a big deal, it's broken here, we live elsewhere." ”
"It's the end of February, and even if the snow on the mountain is melting, there won't be much left for us, and there will be no tributaries along the way, and it will be okay to divide them out, but in June it will enter the flood season, and that is the big deal at that time."
A month or two before the flood season, it is time for the local conscription order to begin.