His explanation stunned Carpenter Wang and a group of others, and it took a long time for Chen Jinwang to look at Gu Bei with an excited face: "Boss, this, this is an amazing thing!" You don't need manpower to get an endless stream of water, it's really a divine thing!"

Carpenter Wang was even more excited, and grabbed the drawing: "Uncle, I can build the waterwheel you want." ”

"Naturally, then please ask Carpenter Wang."

As long as the waterwheel is created, a discerning person will know what is going on at a glance, and there is no value in keeping it secret.

"By the way, Carpenter Wang, the bearings of this waterwheel are best made of steel, I don't know if you have a way?"

"Yes, yes! I'm going to the blacksmith shop in the city today to build according to the drawings, I don't know how many waterwheels my uncle needs to build? ”

"Let's build five first! I wonder how many days the king carpenter can be built? ”

"Ten days! Xiao Lao'er is enough to build these five waterwheels, but this installation requires a lot of manpower, and the materials have to be transported over. Carpenter Wang estimated the weight of the waterwheel, which was not something his old arms and legs could carry.

Gu Bei smiled: "Tomorrow, I will let Li Laosan build the house here, and transport the materials by the way, and if you need anything at that time, you can directly find Lao Chen, Carpenter Wang just needs to build a waterwheel, and there is no need to worry about anything else." ”

"Then that's fine."

In the carriage, Gu Bei explained some details of building the waterwheel to Carpenter Wang, and after confirming that Carpenter Wang understood everything, he let him get off at the place he requested.

The matter of the waterwheel was solved, and Gu Bei, who was in a good mood, sat on a rocking chair in the courtyard to enjoy the coolness, and by the way, he made a follow-up plan.

"Uncle, the weather is hot, and Miss is afraid that you will be hit, so let me send a bowl of ice cream to quench your thirst."

Qing'er smiled and walked into the courtyard lightly with the jade bowl in her bare hands.

When Gu Bei heard this, his eyes lit up: "Ice cream? Xiaoqing'er will do it too? ”

"Uncle, you look down on people." Qing'er's beautiful eyes rolled and spat him.

"Hey~"

Gu Bei took the jade bowl, looked down, and exclaimed, "Hey, isn't this a smoothie?" ”

"What smoothie? Qing'er just didn't think it was ...... It's inconvenient for my uncle to eat, so I use a planer to shave the ice cubes into a smoothie, and there are a lot of things that should be put in it, so ...... uncle tastes it" Qing'er said, the scene of the last time her uncle suddenly broke into the room popped up in her mind, and Yu blushed and quickly changed her words.

Is there one?

Ice cream isn't all licked and eaten! Only licking is enough!

Gu Bei looked at it suspiciously, and saw that the little girl's face was red, and her dark eyes dodged left and right, as if she was playing hide and seek, and she didn't dare to look at him.

This girl is thinking of ......

'In the room, two beautiful women, one big and one small, swallowed ice cream, sucked it in, spit it out......

This scene drilled into his mind, Gu Bei felt an evil fire stringing upwards, and hurriedly picked up the delicious and tempting smoothie and drank it all.

"Happy~"

A bowl of smoothie went down, and no fire was extinguished, Gu Bei let out a sigh of satisfaction.

In ancient times when there were no fans, no air conditioners, and no air-conditioners, drinking a glass of ice water in summer could make people feel refreshed for a long time, not to mention a smoothie made with a variety of ingredients.

Ice cubes are a luxury for ordinary people, and they can't think about it. What's more, in the case of ice shortage this year, the average rich family can't afford it, and only some powerful families can use it!

If it weren't for Gu Bei's ability to make ice from saltpeter, it is estimated that the Bai family would not dare to use ice to make ice cream and smoothies so extravagantly.

After her uncle finished eating, the little girl Qing'er suddenly felt satisfied, and her eyes narrowed into a crescent moon.

In this way, ten days passed quickly, and Chen Jinwang hired hundreds of strong men to completely turn over the saline-alkali land on the side of Luobei Port, just waiting for the water to rinse and soak in the sky.

Carpenter Wang did not break his promise, and all five waterwheels were built, and he is ready to start installing them on the river bank today.

When Chen Jinwang hired manpower, the news of "Aunt Bai's clever plan to improve the sky" and "the big wheel that can lift water without manpower" was already known to the whole city under the promotion of well-intentioned people.

Some people scoffed at this, thinking that Gu Bei was whimsical, some people were skeptical, and some Gu Bei's brain-dead fans believed it unreservedly, thinking that since Aunt Bai said that he would definitely do it.

In the past ten days, Gu Bei has once again become the protagonist of the topic, the major restaurants in the city are not lively, and at the same time, they are also noisy, some people are happy and some are worried. I am happy that the shopkeeper of the restaurant is happy, and I can't wait for a few more exciting news. I am worried about which catches quickly, so I work overtime to patrol day and night to prevent chaos.

Knowing that Gu Bei was going to install the big wheel that automatically lifted water by the Qinhuai River today, many people, rich sons, and children of families in the city went to watch the excitement.

Among them, there are some hawkers who smell business opportunities, and the shouting is constantly ringing.

"Melon seeds, peanuts, candied fruit...... Guest officer a little? ”

"Delicious and thirst-quenching iced bean paste, not sweet, not icy, no money......"

"Selling Ice Water Le ~ Iced and Delicious Ice Water ......"

What's more, a strong man with a swarthy body is carrying a stool and shouting.

"Sold stools...... One or two silver, don't want money if you're uncomfortable~"

"It's so expensive, why don't you grab it!"

"Poor, don't buy it if you don't have money, get out of the way, boss, have a ......"

"Boss, give me ...... Don't squeeze, give me an old one. ”

“......”

At this time, on the riverside, Carpenter Wang had already led the man to build a wooden base every 100 meters in the water.

The base of the bowl-thick log was firmly driven into the river beach and fixed, and now it was waiting for the five large wheels of the waterwheel to be installed in place.

A group of forty people walked slowly with a heavy waterwheel wheel, and the lively crowd cheered and talked about it.

Each of these waterwheel wheels weighs nearly two tons.

A few days ago, when Gu Bei went to see the progress of the waterwheel, Carpenter Wang remembered an important question.

So how do you install the heavy waterwheel runner on the wooden frame base in the river?

Also, this is not a modern crane without a crane, and it seems unrealistic to rely on manpower, so there is no place for people to stand in the Qinhuai River.

It's funny if the waterwheel is built but can't be installed.

Carpenter Wang threw this question directly to Gu Bei, and Gu Bei racked his brains to think of it.

Boom.

It is a tool specially used for lifting heavy objects made by using the principle of lever.

A thick, long log with a base that acts as a fulcrum and a weight overhangs at the end.

Tie the heavy object to be lifted to the front end of the boom, and then lift the thing through the action of manpower and the end weight.

Don't look at the simple principle of the boom, there is no problem at all in lifting an object weighing forty or fifty stones.

The five waterwheel runners were all carried to the river embankment, the boom was ready to be completed, and hundreds of men shouted slogans, and under the command of Carpenter Wang, the runners with a diameter of six meters were hoisted up little by little, and slowly moved to the base of the waterwheel.

Hundreds of men lifted the two-ton waterwheel runner through the boom without any pressure at all, and soon the runner of the first waterwheel was installed in place.

Carpenter Wang took his son to climb onto the waterwheel with his hands and feet to start the final installation and commissioning.

When Carpenter Wang drove the last fixed wooden wedge into the reservoir, the first waterwheel was finally installed.

"Uncle, the waterwheel has been installed, can you start it now?" Carpenter Wang shouted as he stood on the base of the waterwheel.

Gu Bei led Qing'er, Xiao Ran and Chen Jinwang, as well as several family generals, to stand on the river embankment with a smile on their faces to watch the installation of the waterwheel. Hearing Carpenter Wang's shout, Gu Bei gestured at him.

"Let's get started!"

Carpenter Wang didn't understand what the gesture meant, but when he heard this, he and his son removed the blocking plate of the runner on the waterwheel.

But the little girl Qing'er asked curiously: "Uncle, what does that gesture mean!" ”

"Well, that's okay...... Look, the waterwheel is spinning!" Gu Bei looked at the waterwheel that slowly started and skillfully diverted the little girl's attention.

The Qinhuai River is gentle, but the water flow is not too slow.

Driven by the current, the waterwheel made a soft creaking sound, and then the baffle on the waterwheel guided the wheel to slowly start spinning under the impetus of the current.

When a bamboo tube filled with water slowly turns to a high place, tilting, the water in the bamboo tube flows out of the trend, flows into the bucket below and goes all the way down the bucket......

In the eyes of everyone, the river flowed all the way...... The waterwheel kept turning, lifting the water of the river and pouring it into the ground.

The crowd of onlookers was crazy, some cheered and shouted, and some watched all this in a daze

"What a miracle!"

Some of the old men in the field were so excited that their beards trembled, and they could carry river water to water the heavens and the earth without human and animal power.

"A miracle, a miracle! This thing is ingenious, Aunt Bai, you are doing the work of ten thousand Buddhas, the great duke! ”

As he spoke, the old man knelt down and kowtowed, and the old man and strong man of countless crops around him also knelt down.

"Aunt Bai, it's really Wenqu Xing!"

The kneeling of the onlookers made Gu Bei a little inexplicable and at a loss.

"Everyone, please get up, what are you doing?" Gu Bei didn't expect that he was just building a waterwheel, which not only attracted onlookers, but also made them kneel down and kowtow?

He didn't expect that being able to have a steady stream of water to irrigate the farmland would be so important to these old farmers in the Great Xia Kingdom who made a living from farming.

In the past, I didn't know how much time it would take to get water for water, and the lack of cattle meant that the work in the field was already very hard, and the work of fetching water was even more difficult.

Now Aunt Bai has actually built this magical waterwheel, which can automatically carry water for irrigation without manpower, how can it not make these old farmers grateful.

Carpenter Wang's family was even more excited, and their waists were straight, for fear that others would not know that these waterwheels were built by their family.

It was easy to persuade the villagers, the sweat on Gu Bei's body never stopped, even his clothes were soaked with sweat, and Qing'er didn't forget to come forward to wipe him.

"Carpenter Wang, let's hurry up and install a few other waterwheels." Gu Bei hurriedly beckoned Carpenter Wang to continue working.

"Okay, uncle, look good, the remaining waterwheels are guaranteed to be installed today."

At the beckoning of Carpenter Wang, hundreds of men lifted the wheel of the waterwheel again and began the installation of the next waterwheel.

In one day, five waterwheels were erected on the bank of the Qinhuai River.

The water of the Qinhuai River drove the waterwheel to rotate continuously, and the river water made a rattling sound and was lifted and fell down by the bamboo tube and poured into the saline-alkali land.

"Owner, how long does it take to soak this land?" Chen Jinwang beside Gu Bei asked, and held a pen and paper to write it down.

Anyone's success is not accidental, but Chen Jinwang's learning attitude can't succeed or not. Even if Gu Bei didn't appear, would there be nobles such as He Bei, Sun Bei, etc......

"Soak it for two days, then drain the water and refill it again, so that three times you can move on to the next step." Seeing that Lao Chen was so studious, Gu Bei said very carefully: "Remember, the drainage and inlet water should be separated, and the discharged water should be kept away from the incoming water source. ”

Chen Jinwang wrote down what the owner said word for word.

With the erection of five waterwheels, the crowd of onlookers on the riverside seemed to be tired of watching the rotation of the waterwheels.

Thousands of people watched the turning waterwheel as if they were watching an open-air movie in later generations, and refused to leave for a long time.

It wasn't until the sun set that the group returned to the city, and there was a lot of talk along the way.

Early the next morning, as soon as Gu Bei got up, he heard a familiar voice from the yard: "Gu Bei, you bastard boy, hurry up and come out for me!"

As soon as Gu Bei heard this voice, he knew that it was his grandfather, he couldn't figure it out early in the morning, his old man wanted to see him and let his subordinates come to pass the word, why did he come here on purpose, making him so embarrassed.

The old man came to the door, Gu Bei cleaned up briefly, opened the door, and just saw Bai Luoshi who was about to knock on the door.

'What have you done?' Let grandpa find the hospital. Bai Luoshi gave a glance over.

Gu Bei shook his head, thinking that he didn't seem to have done anything recently, could it be that he was in a hurry to improve the saline-alkali land?

Gu Bei came to the courtyard, and before he could salute and say hello, he was dragged out by the old man by his sleeve.

"Grandpa, what are you doing here?" Gu Bei was so frightened by the appearance of his old man that his face turned white, thinking that he was going to be beaten by the board, and kept asking the lady for help.

Bai Luoshi glanced at her grandfather, evoking a beautiful and moving smile that seemed to Gu Bei to be very murderous.

"You bastard, why didn't you say there was a watermill earlier? Quickly show me how amazing the waterwheel is. The old man said a lesson while pulling him away.

Gu Bei was a little confused, what do you mean?

Ran to the yard early in the morning to pull him to see the waterwheel?

When I came to the front hall, I saw oh no, the bigwigs of the mansion and the bigwigs of the county government all appeared in the mansion.

Although Gu Bei is the aunt of the Guogong Mansion, he does not have an official status, and when he was just about to meet the ceremony, the old man directly pulled him out.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go see the waterwheel!"

In desperation, Gu Bei could only follow the old man's carriage, other officials rode horses, and a group of people in the carriage rushed to Luobei Port, and the sharp-eyed Gu Bei even saw a big mountain, which was familiar and mighty.

What Gu Bei didn't expect was that the riverside, which was usually uncrowded, was actually very lively today. Villagers from several nearby villages also rushed over after hearing about the "miracles".

There was another scene from yesterday on the bank of the Qinhuai River, crowded with people, and it was very lively.

What made Gu Bei even more speechless was that he actually saw many people lighting incense and candles and bowing to the five waterwheels.

After a night of watermill watering, most of the saline land along the river beach has been soaked in water, and it looks like a huge lake.

Five waterwheels poured river water into the ground day and night, and this scene was extremely magical in the eyes of the people of Great Xia.

After hearing these "miracles" yesterday, the bigwigs of the prefecture and county government were shocked, and after repeated questioning, they confirmed that Gu Bei had really created a tool that could automatically lift water without manpower.

This waterwheel seemed to Gu Bei to be commonplace, but it made these bigwigs not sleep well all night, and they rushed to Baifu to meet the old man as soon as it was dawn, ready to call Gu Bei to witness it together.

The old man and the bigwigs of the prefecture and county arrived, and the people who watched the excitement consciously got out of the way. No, next to the old man's car, a group of soldiers wearing black armor and straddled blades at their waists were followed, each exuding a murderous aura, looking mighty.

After getting out of the car, the bigwigs didn't care about any official etiquette, and trotted all the way to the waterwheel with their robes.

"Hiss~ Sure enough, there is no need for manpower to charge, and the automatic rotation does not stop." The prefect Wu De couldn't help but gasp after seeing the operation of the waterwheel clearly.

The old man and others were also excited to see the structure of the waterwheel and how it operated to lift water.

"Gu boy, since you have such creative ability, why didn't you take it out earlier? Do you know how many problems can be solved with this waterwheel that can benefit all people, and how many people will no longer go hungry? The old man turned his head and taught Gu Beilai a lesson.

Hearing the words of the old man, Gu Bei rubbed his nose, didn't your old man say that I was a loser?

Of course, Gu Bei only dared to say this in his heart.

"Gu Gongzi, do you know how much physical strength this waterwheel can save in the prefecture? How much food can be increased?

If it is extended to the entire Great Xia, what kind of grand occasion will it be? At that time, everyone will think of Gu Gongzi, your goodness.

At present, it is too late for spring ploughing, but fortunately, before autumn ploughing, it is still too late to promote waterwheels.

Gu Gongzi, where are the drawings of this waterwheel? Hurry up and hand it over to this government, and this government will definitely play the court to ask for credit for you!"

Gu Bei nodded again and again when he heard this, the promotion of the waterwheel will indeed bring about an increase in grain production.

The reason is very simple, the primitive agriculture of Great Xia mainly relies on manpower.

If you can save more manpower, you can get more food, Gu Bei naturally understands this truth.

Anyway, he didn't invent the waterwheel to make a profit, but just needed it to build it, and for him, it doesn't matter if he doesn't ask for credit.

That's right, he's so selfless.

Ahem, of course...... In the end, it depends on what the old man means.

Gu Bei looked at the old man, and after seeing him nodding, he asked Xiao Ran to hand over the drawings to Governor Wu.

Wu De took the drawings and left with a group of bigwigs satisfied, coming and going in a hurry. As he left, he also took the carpenter's son with him.

To build a waterwheel, drawings are not enough, the Wang family father and son have built five waterwheels, which naturally belong to the most professional production talents now.