What is it?

Liu Yi walked on the paved road with suspended wooden planks, walked around the Zhuangzi, and didn't notice any difference, the so-called Five Elements Qili felt like a lie.

After wandering around twice, I really didn't feel anything special, Liu Yi paced back to his courtyard with some disappointment, his courtyard was built in accordance with the style of villas in later generations combined with the architectural characteristics of this era, a small building, the first floor is the kitchen and bathroom, the second floor is where the Deng family and the maids live, the third floor is his and Lu Lingqi's bedroom and fitness room, push open the window, facing the vast Dongting Lake, fish ponds, bamboo forests and lake scenery, quite a kind of facing the sea, spring flowers.

"Wang~"

When Wangcai saw Liu Yi coming back, he screamed happily, wagged his tail and rushed to Liu Yi's side, and rubbed his head against the corners of Liu Yi's legs affectionately.

"Is the gentleman back?" Deng, who was preparing to make a fire in the kitchen to cook, greeted Liu Yi with a smile when he saw him coming back.

"Hmm." Liu Yi said with a smile: "My sister-in-law's rice was brought back, what are you eating today?" ”

"Madame wanted to eat fish, so she asked her to go to the fish pond and catch some." Deng smiled.

"Sister-in-law's fish is a must, it seems that tonight is a blessing." Liu Yi said this, handed the robe on his body to the maid who greeted him, and wanted to say something, when he suddenly heard an exclamation from behind him.

hurriedly looked back, but saw Deng staggering back a few steps, leaning against the wall, and in the furnace in front of him, the flames were running high.

"My sister-in-law is also proficient in this way, why is she so careless today?" Liu Yi was a little funny and stepped forward to help Deng Shi take out some of the carbon stones in the stove, but found that the temperature was a little scary, and he said in surprise: "How much charcoal did my sister-in-law put in it?" ”

"As usual, the concubine doesn't know why this is the case?" Deng patted his chest with palpitations and frowned.

Liu Yi frowned when he heard this, he remembered that the stove at home didn't seem to have the attribute of supporting combustion, right? Generally, the attributes that appear in this type of stove are auxiliary attributes such as heat control or high temperature resistance.

After carefully determining it, there was indeed no attribute that could increase the temperature of the fire, in fact, the furnace he built in Mocheng did not have the attribute of increasing the temperature, otherwise Liu Yi would have been able to make steel in large quantities.

"Bo Yuan!" Wei Yue hurriedly walked in and said to Liu Yi: "Somehow, when the kitchen lady in the house was cooking today, the fire was so strong that it almost burned people down, and when the water was drawn, the water coming out of the bamboo pipe was like a sharp arrow, and the newborn puppy in my family was sprayed to death." ”

"Huh?" When Liu Yi heard this, he glanced at Wei Yue in surprise, suddenly looked at his stove again, thought about it, and ran straight to the well in the yard to draw water, grabbed the pressure handle that drew water, and pressed it down.

The water dragon, which was barely able to press the water on weekdays, directly spewed out a water frying and hit the corridor pillars, splashing water splashes, but fortunately, Wei Yue and the others did not come around, otherwise they would have to be washed down.

Seeing this, Liu Yi thought about it, reduced some force, and slowly pressed down, the water flow was a little more normal, and it took half a day to fill a bucket of water on weekdays, but today it was easily filled.

"Bo Yuan, is there something wrong with this feng shui?" Wei Yue leaned over to Liu Yi and asked in a low voice.

"No, that's good!" Liu Yi was silent for a while, but he figured it out, this should be the effect of the five elements of the miracle, this effect, although there is no mythical feeling of being able to command the five elements in the legend, but this effect, Liu Yi is already very satisfied, not to mention the rest, just talking about this firepower, it is enough to make his heart move, and if there is a higher temperature, it also represents the flame.

In this era when the smelting technology is not too developed, the furnace temperature has always been an important problem for all blacksmiths, and being able to obtain a higher furnace temperature means that it can smelt better quality steel, whether it is forging weapons or making some iron products, with this invisible power, at least the smelting level of the current era can be taken one step forward.

It is impossible to enter the industrial age, but at least in terms of science and technology, it can be advanced to the level of the Tang and Song dynasties, of course, this takes time, Liu Yi is not an encyclopedia, how to progress can only be explored step by step, but at least, the help brought by the power of the five elements is much stronger than he imagined.

Perhaps, maybe he can really be famous for thousands of years, maybe thousands of years later, archaeologists will find from their tombs that have not been corrupted for thousands of years, which is harder than what is made by current scientific and technological means, and is amazed by foreigners.

Thinking about it, I feel a little excited.

"Bo Yuan?" Wei Yue stretched out his hand, shook it in front of Liu Yi, and pushed Liu Yi again.

"What?" Liu Yi reacted and looked at Wei Yue.

"How do you handle this?" Wei Yue frowned and said, "I've told you three times. ”

"Put less carbon stone when making a fire, and use less effort when drawing water, and it will be good naturally." Liu Yi said indifferently, with this thing, you can also save fuel.

"Is that simple?" Wei Yue said with some disappointment when he heard this.

"It's that simple, how complicated do you want it to be?" Liu Yi asked rhetorically.

Wei Yue responded, turned around and walked out, too, in Liu Yi's place, if anything unusual happens, there is no need to make a fuss.

According to Liu Yi, after dividing some carbon stones, the fire was controlled, Liu Yi called Lu Lingqi out, and after eating a delicious meal of fresh fish soup, Liu Yi helped Lu Lingqi back to the house to rest, and after talking to his mother-in-law for a while, he went to sleep.

Because of the success of the construction of the first farming integrated village, Liu Yi was greatly inspired, after sending people to Linxiang to buy some chickens and ducks and seeds, Liu Yi began to prepare to build a second group building, this time, he is going to build a brick kiln, specializing in firing bricks and tiles, and by the way, he is also ready to try to see if he can study the cement.

He didn't have much research on cement, but when he was decorating in his previous life, he also heard those workers tell him that the general process is to crush the limestone into powder and mix it with clay and iron powder in a certain proportion, calcine the mature material by dry and cooked methods, and then grind it into powder with gypsum.

The specific ratio is not very clear, but the raw materials are not difficult to find, limestone is generally a by-product of making ceramics, the porcelain of the Han Dynasty has been done very well, as for gypsum, it is not difficult to find, now it is to study the ratio and the temperature of calcination has requirements, but now with the help of the power of the five elements, Liu Yi feels that this problem can also be solved.

With previous experience, this time Liu Yi is going to design a fire-based building complex, which is specially used as a base for brick kilns, casting and porcelain production, so to highlight the ability of fire, this problem, naturally to find Cui Zhouping to help, water power still needs to be used, which can save a lot of labor, so it is also the five elements, but it is mainly fire, he can't figure out this thing, so he can only consult Cui Zhouping.

This time it was not too troublesome, and within a few days, Cui Zhouping sent a reply letter to Liu Yi, in addition to giving Liu Yi a detailed drawing, he also included a copy of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

Liu Yi looked at the bamboo slips with ten volumes, his face was a little dark, Cui Zhouping did this mean that he wanted to study hard?

The bamboo slips are very new, and after Liu Yi opened a volume casually, he was stunned to find that the numbers on them were all composed of Arabic numerals that Liu Yi said before, which was obviously written by Cui Zhouping himself recently.

There is some warmth in my heart, this guy actually takes care of himself.

"What are these, sir? Is it also a word? Liu Yi's new personal guard commander came to Liu Yi's side, looked at the bamboo slips in Liu Yi's hand curiously, and looked curious about those number symbols.

The commander of the guards is called Chen Ergou, who was recruited by Wei Yue when he was in Mocheng, he is very clever and has a clean foundation, he is the group of people who came all the way from Nanyang with them, although they are not descendants, but they can also be trusted.

There is no way, Liu Yi's original personal guard Liu Sandao is now a lieutenant in Lingling, and he can be regarded as a general, Liu Yi used to have Lu Lingqi by his side, plus he had a personal guard to follow, so he didn't have to worry about safety, but now that Lu Lingqi is pregnant, there are really people who want to be unfavorable to Liu Yi, and it is impossible to let Lu Lingqi go into battle, so Wei Yue personally selected Chen Ergou as Liu Yi's personal guard.

"These are the numbers." Liu Yi said with a smile.

"Numbers?" Chen Ergou looked at Liu Yi unexpectedly, a little puzzled, although he was illiterate, he had also seen the list a few times, the words "bounty thousand", "bounty hundreds", he still knew it, these things don't look like numbers, right?

"I'll teach you later!" Liu Yi shook his head, this thing will not be promoted for the time being, at least after the new city is built, it will be handed over to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang to find a way to promote.

Chen Ergou was very excited, and when he saw that Liu Yi didn't say anything, he didn't ask any more, just looked at the drawings and said, "Is this the new village that Mr. said?" ”

"Well, the place where bricks and tiles, ceramics, and weapons are cast is different, but it is mainly made of earth and stone." Liu Yi nodded and said.

After the construction of this place, the fish pond should be able to start making money, and the capital chain can start to be sent out in a cycle, and then there will be a lumber yard and a textile factory, and the capital chain will be connected after the city is built, and the time is almost winter, and then you can start building a new city.

"You go and ask General Wei to gather manpower, the materials are ready, and the construction will start tomorrow." Liu Yi closed the bamboo slip and smiled at Chen Ergou.

"Whoa!"

In the next three months, Liu Yi was almost on the move, brick kilns, workshops, textile mills, and lumber yards were built successively, Liu Yi almost all spent time in the two ends of the rush and planning, the chickens and ducks here also began to grow, were pulled away by the Mi family's merchant ships, and transported to Jiangling, public security and other places, Liu Yi's plan was improved step by step, and at the same time, the newly built villages also began to gather people in various counties, and the population on the shore of Dongting Lake gradually flourished.