Volume 1: The Age of Cold Weapons Chapter 5: Waterwheels
After everyone left, Tang Feng stepped forward from the bottom of his heart this time, and said to the middle-aged man surnamed Wang, thank you, Uncle Wang, for your great kindness, I really can't repay it.
Uncle Wang didn't talk to Tang Feng with his usual cold attitude this time. He said with a hint of gentleness in his tone. You don't have to thank me, I help you as well as myself. After all, I'm going to count on you to do some farm work for me in the future.
Then Uncle Wang raised the two drawings in his hand, by the way, did you invent this thing yourself?
Tang Feng blurted out the words that had already been thought of in his mind without hesitation. Since I was a child, I like to read some miscellaneous books at home, and the things on this are all what I learned from books, so I don't know if it's good or not.
Uncle Wang glanced at Tang Feng with a meaningful look. Tang Feng was uncomfortable. But Uncle Wang just smiled and said, Oh, in this way, then you should study it well, if the research is successful, it will also be a great thing for the whole village.
Later, Uncle Wang explained to Tang Feng some precautions in the village. Then he returned the two drawings in his hand to Tang Feng, and said before leaving. Da Niu, this kid is still very good, but sometimes he is a little impatient. So you have to be a little patient with him.
In the next few days, Tang Feng and Zhao Daniu began to study the new plow. Although Tang Feng has all kinds of data about this new potential plow in his mind. But he has never made these things by himself before, coupled with the backwardness of this era, all kinds of auxiliary machine tools have nothing, and they can only rely on manual grinding and measuring size, and Tang Feng's handiwork can only be said to be average.
Because his body and brain have not yet been developed by genetic drugs. Therefore, his reflexes in all aspects are not comparable to his previous body at all. If it were his previous body, he would have been able to produce the perfect size without the help of any assistive equipment.
After thinking of this, Tang Feng smiled bitterly again, and said that he couldn't say that, his previous body, if he didn't have various auxiliary equipment, it would be difficult for him to even walk.
So after many attempts, the two of them made a barely qualified sample. After the production was completed, Zhao Daniu couldn't wait to take this sample to the ground to test it.
When the villagers knew that Zhao Daniu and the foreigner had really succeeded in making a so-called new plow. They all ran over to watch, and everyone's eyes were full of curiosity, they wanted to know this so-called. Can the new plow be used?
So when Tang Feng and Zhao Daniu were carrying the so-called new plow. By the time they had been four weeks old, the villagers were looking at the so-called new plough with a curious eye
There was a hint of doubt in their eyes, in their opinion, could this strange-looking thing really go to plow the land?
So when Tang Feng and Zhao Daniu, the two of them lifted the new plow to the ground and began to operate it on the spot.
Tang Feng was behind, Zhao Daniu was in front, the two of them slowly began to operate, when many villagers saw that strange thing, it could really plow the land, they couldn't believe their eyes.
After a while. Tang Feng and Zhao Daniu stopped. Many villagers looked up and saw that the land that had to be cultivated with hoes for about half an hour had been completed in less than a quarter of an hour.
The villagers compared that the efficiency of this strange-looking thing and weight was at least three times faster than that of a hoe.
In the end, in order to convince these villagers that this thing did not take much physical effort when cultivating, Tang Feng asked many villagers to come up and try it one by one.
After trying, many villagers found that although this thing took some physical effort, it was not unacceptable. It feels like it's about the same amount of stamina as when using a hoe.
The villagers are simple, and when Tang Feng proved that this thing can really be cultivated, many villagers apologized to Tang Feng one after another. Even those who are naturally unwilling to admit defeat, although they do not apologize, the hostility in their eyes slowly disappears.
After a while, Tang Feng and Zhao Daniu were busy again, because they had to make more of this new farming tool before the weather completely cooled down.
Because many villagers found that when they experienced this new type of ploughing tool, it was really much more efficient than their original hoe, so the villagers opened their mouths one after another, and some ordered one for two, so Zhao Daniu and Tang Feng were busy.
In the end, he couldn't be busy, and Carpenter Zhang in the village also came to help, so that Tang Feng and Zhao Daniu would be much more efficient. Originally, Tang Feng was still suspicious of the carpenter craftsmanship of the camphor carpenter, but when Zhang Carpenter did it himself, Zhang Carpenter's manual work was not a little stronger than Tang Feng, originally a wooden frame took a day or two to complete, and after Zhang Carpenter made a move, basically half a day or so to complete the production of a wooden frame.
Almost 30 of these new tools were made. With the help of these new ploughing tools. The farming efficiency of Qiuhe Village has been greatly improved. Originally, they could have rushed before winter came,
It's good to barely finish cultivating their existing land. But with the help of these new farming tools, they not only cultivated all their original land, but also reclaimed two or three hundred acres of wasteland.
After all the land was reclaimed, Tang Feng found that due to the recent scarcity of rain, the newly reclaimed land needed water for irrigation, and the villagers could only use the most traditional method to use buckets to pick up the autumn river not far from the village.
Tang Feng finally understood the reason why the land in Qiuhe Village looked so fertile, but their yield was still so low. Because these villagers can only irrigate these crops through rainwater, if the rain is scarce, they can only rely on manual fetching water to water these crops.
Tang Feng raised his eyes to see that there were no less than thousands of acres of land near Qiuhe Village, and he shook his head that so many lands rely on manual water to carry water, how long will it take? No wonder the chances of their crops surviving every year are not high, and even if they barely survive, the yield is extremely low.
Later, Tang Feng found Li Cun Town in the village, and he proposed to Li Cun Town that he wanted to lead the villagers to dig a ditch to help everyone irrigate the farmland. As soon as Li Cunzhen heard Tang Feng's suggestion, he shook his head and said. Well, Mr. Xiao Tang, your opinion is very good, but digging a ditch requires a lot of manpower and material resources. With the strength of our village alone, I am afraid that the benefits will not be caught.
Since Tang Feng invented that new farming tool, the villagers' name for Tang Feng has gradually changed from that kid to Mr. Xiao Tang.
Tang Feng said. I didn't need to dig a huge trench, I just had to dig a small trench in the ground that was a foot deep. This ditch mainly serves as a way to bring water from the Jiangqiu River into our farmland.
Li Cunzhen still shook his head and said that the water level in the Qiu River, due to the scarcity of rain in recent days, the water level is basically very low, if you want to dig a ditch to introduce the water in the Qiu River into our farmland, then this ditch must be very deep, to dig such a deep ditch, it still takes a lot of manpower and material resources, I am afraid that our village does not have time to delay for so long,
It is estimated that by the time we dig the ditch, the crops in the ground will no longer be able to germinate. What's more, even after digging the ditch, we have to use buckets to slowly pick up the water from the ditch and irrigate it to the fields, so the delay may be longer.
Mr. Xiao Tang, I know your idea is good, you are to help everyone do less work, but farming is like this, if you miss that time period, the seeds will basically not be able to germinate, because the weather is too cold at that time,
And even if the seeds germinate in the second year, you won't see a harvest.
Tang Feng shook his head and said, The ditch I need to dig only plays the role of guiding the flow of water, so it doesn't need to be deep, there is a depth of two or three feet. Can.
Li Cunzhen asked suspiciously, two or three feet deep, how to channel the water from the Qiu River into that ditch?
Please rest assured that I naturally have a way to channel the water from the Qiu River into this ditch. And it doesn't cost much manpower and material resources. It only takes twenty or thirty people to rotate with each other every day, and it takes about seven or eight people at a time to channel the water from the Autumn River into this ditch.
Then Tang Feng took out a sketch and spread it in front of Li Cunzhen.
Li Cun looked at the sketch. His eyes lit up at that time, because this sketch was much clearer than the sketch last time, not only there were drawings, but there were also some drawings drawn next to it, explaining how to use this thing, so Li Cunzhen immediately understood it when he saw it, and then he looked up at Tang Feng with an uncertain look and said.
Is this really something possible?
Tang Feng nodded affirmatively and said, Please rest assured that Li Cunzhen, if this thing can't be used, Li Cunzhen can have someone tie me up and throw me into the Autumn River to drown.
Li Cunzhen looked at the sketch, then at Tang Feng, and then pondered. Then he opened his mouth and said, this way, I will discuss with Lao Wang and them, if they all agree, I will not have any opinion.
Later, after careful study by Li Cun Town, they thought that this matter was feasible, so they asked Tang Feng to take the lead and lead the villagers to start digging ditches. And there are carpenters of Lee. Start making the tools you need.
The speed at which the ditch was excavated was fast. In about two or three days, the ditch, which was not deep, had been excavated.
Now it is only necessary for Carpenter Li to finish making the waterwheel and then it can be put into use. However, the structure of this waterwheel was much more complicated than the previous ploughing tool, and Carpenter Li alone was not able to keep busy at all, and in the end, he could not gather all the people in the village who knew a little carpentry work, and everyone worked together to barely complete the production of this huge waterwheel.
Then the huge waterwheel was transported to the other side of the Qiu River. Installed it. Then Zhao Daniu led seven or eight villagers to stand on the huge waterwheel at the same time, Zhao Daniu took the lead, reached out and grabbed a handrail made of wooden sticks in front of him, and then kicked up hard under his feet.
Many villagers stood around the waterwheel, their eyes widened, watching Zhao Daniu's movements. The movements under the feet of Zhao Daniu and others became faster and faster, and many villagers only heard a boom.