Chapter 10: Siphons
After coming to the house, fortunately no one saw it, Zhu Changyuan drove the carriage all the way around the small courtyard, came to the dry land in front, handed it over to the adults and children of the Wang family, sprinkled the fertilizer on the remaining twenty acres of land, put down the seeds, and said: "Starting tomorrow, you can plant wheat, remember to bring the seeds with me." ”
Everyone listened to the order in unison, and Zhu Changyuan said again: "Wang Hu, Wang Bao and Wang Long, the three of you pack all these used bags together and send them to my room." ”
The three children were doing light work, and in a short time they were able to pick up the bags. Although these things are not valuable, they are modern things, and their own cronies know that they have secrets, and if these things fall into the hands of those with ulterior motives, they may not cause some trouble.
Zhu Changyuan stood under a tree that had turned green, Ah Jiu moved a stool to rest his feet, and as the women and children of the Wang family were fertilizing the ground, the sound of "ding" kept ringing in his head.
"The host changes the parallel world, and the fertilizer improves the land to complete one acre, and the reward contribution value is 1,000 points. Tick tick. ”
"The host changes the parallel world, and the fertilizer improves the land to complete one acre, and the reward contribution value is 1,000 points. Tick tick. ”……
Seeing that Lao Wang led his four sons to plow the field, which had been turned over more than halfway, Zhu Changyuan suddenly hit the idea on the horses given by the system, smiled and said: "Poyu, come here, take out that set of wooden plows, and we will add another horse." ”
The fifth trotted out of the yard and put the wooden plow at the horse's feet, and said, "This plow, a horse won't move, right?" ”
Zhu Changyuan said: "Don't worry, you can pull it, and you are very obedient." He went over and patted the horse on the head, helped the breaker to put the plow on the horse, put it into the ground, and said, "Try it." ”
Sure enough, as Zhu Changyuan expected, the horse didn't seem to know that it was tired, pulling the plow all the way, flying like turning over the ground in the field, which was much faster than the ox that used the iron plow.
"Hahaha......" Zhu Changyuan laughed and said to Chang Ning beside him: "See, how is my horse's strength?" Not to mention seven days, with it, it will not take six days to plow this hundred acres of land. ”
Zhu Changning looked at the busy Wang family and Ah Jiu, and said with some embarrassment: "Sixth brother." What can I do? ”
Zhu Changyuan said: "You don't have to do anything, just watch them don't make mistakes, oh, by the way, I'll give you a book when I go back, you study it well, it may be of great use in the future." ”
Zhu Changning at least seems to be a reliable person now, he doesn't have any crooked eyes for himself, and a few secrets seem to be able to give him some, such as the basic mechanical skill book, let him eat a copy.
Even if it turns around in the future, this book will not affect anything.
Zhu Changyuan thought so, and opened the interface that only he could see, exchanged it for a basic mechanical skill book, threw it to Chang Ning and said, "Close your eyes, don't worry about anything you encounter for a while." ”
Zhu Changning closed his eyes, his head suddenly dizzy, and a large amount of modern mechanical information entered his head.
"How?" Zhu Changyuan asked, the information conveyed in this mechanical skill book is extremely simple, just simple mechanical skills, and does not contain any information about modern society, even if Zhu Changning has mastered these skills, he still knows nothing about other things.
"Uh, what is this?" Chang Ning was in a trance for a while, then looked at the things on the carriage, and called out their names inexplicably: "This is the diesel integrated generator, this is the submersible pump, this is the ......"
Even Chang Ning himself was surprised that he had learned so many things in an instant.
Zhu Changyuan didn't care about Chang Ning, and went back to the house alone to start working.
After a few more days, it was the day to borrow the cattle agreed with Majia Village, that is, seven days later, the two brothers Ma Dashan and Ma Hai came to the courtyard where Zhu Changyuan was located with a smile on their faces.
Seeing that all the wheat had been planted, Ma Hai asked in surprise: "Little prince, why is it so fast, we are still thinking about coming here to help you find wheat?" ”
Zhu Changyuan said: "I don't need your help first, I owe me a favor, take the cow away, treat it well, if you want to treat your father the same." ”
Ma Dashan smiled innocently and said, "Little prince, where do you say, I will definitely take good care of it." "Cattle and horses in troubled times are sometimes more important than human lives.
"Well, Po, you go and follow him, and by the way, help others, by the way, bring two iron plows with you." Regarding Zhu Changyuan's arrangement, Po Yu did not dare to have any opinions or dissatisfaction.
"Okay, thank you, little prince, thank you, little prince." Ma Dashan thanked him honestly, and the gratitude in his heart was overflowing, so he almost knelt down and kowtowed to Zhu Changyuan.
"Alright, you guys are busy."
Zhu Changyuan waved his hand. A crisp voice suddenly came from his mind: "The task of borrowing cattle is completed, and the host gains the favor of the villagers of Majia Village, and the contribution value increases by 5,000 points." ”
"If the task of borrowing cattle is completed, the host will receive 2,000 contribution points from the system."
To tell the truth, the current Zhu Changyuan, after experiencing the huge reward of 500,000 points after destroying the enemy's cavalry, as well as the reward of 100,000 points each for fertilizer improvement and seed improvement, is no longer eye-catching for the reward of this kind of small task.
But, how to say it, mosquito legs are also meat, no matter whether they are strong or not, whether they are pants, one day luck may come to Sanjiang, strong push, or that sentence, it is better than nothing, this is a happy thing.
In the next few days, the days were very peaceful, until the people of Majia Village returned the cattle, and Zhu Changyuan encountered another difficult thing.
It stands to reason that at this time of year, after the wheat is in the middle and high, there should be a timely spring rain, but this year, there is an inexplicable drought, and the freshly turned soil in the fields is beginning to turn white. The sun is not too scorching, but it is exceptionally bright. Even Lao Wang sighed a little.
Zhu Changyuan is too familiar with the drought at the end of the Ming Dynasty, to be honest, more than half of the reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty is because of these two words: drought.
Zhu Changyuan's 100 acres of land has no water source left or right, and the only irrigation water source is still brought down from Majia Village above. In the past, when there was a drought, I would go there to say hello and I would usually release water.
This year, however, it was different.
Because, the water source of Majia Village is a huge reservoir, the water is drawn from the stream in the distance, and the surrounding ridges of the reservoir are naturally formed rocks, which are not easy to excavate, a few years ago, the old and young of Majia Village went into battle, it took nearly a year, and it was only a small ditch about one meter deep that was dug on the rock, and there was no big problem with irrigation at ordinary times, and it could also take into account the land of Zhu Changyuan below.
This year, the weather was so dry that the water in the pond dropped by more than two meters, and it was impossible to divert water. Not to mention releasing water to Zhu Changyuan, people themselves are still in a hurry.
As for the water pump that Zhu Changyuan just brought from modern society, it is not very useful, because the pump is too small, even if it pumps water day and night with full power, it cannot irrigate the 200 mu of Majia Village and his own 100 mu of dry land at the same time.
What to do? Zhu Changyuan had no choice.
Go back to modern Dora with some pumps and generators, don't die, if the machinery is fully open, it can be heard dozens of miles away, and it is the rhythm of looking for death.
After Zhu Changyuan learned of the situation, without any way, he took Poyu to the pond above Majia Village to personally investigate.
The pond is not small, and there is a lot of water in it, at least it is enough to irrigate the 300 acres of land, but unfortunately, as the people of Majia Village said, the irrigation ditch that was dug out before has been suspended two meters above the water surface.
It is impossible for water to flow to a high place.
The outer wall of the pond is a mountain rock more than 20 meters wide, and even an excavator cannot dig a deep trench on it in a short time.
However, after Zhu Changyuan watched this pond, he smiled, yes, he had already found a way.
I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce, Zhu Changyuan, male, twenty-two years old, just graduated from university, majoring in engineering, commonly known as civil engineering, and his theoretical knowledge is quite solid.
There is a solution to this situation at hand, and that is the siphon effect.
A siphon is a device that directs water from a low place to a high place and then to a lower place.
Many people may not have seen or heard of it, but here is a simple analogy: a large vat is placed on the flat ground, and about two-thirds of the water is filled in it, how can the water be pumped out tightly with a pipe without any other machinery.
Very simple, use the siphon effect to make this pipe into a siphon, the specific method is: first fill the tube with water, and then put one end into the water, one end on the outside of the tank, there is a requirement, the nozzle outside the cylinder, to be lower than the water surface, and the vertical height of the water surface from the edge of the tank can not exceed the height of an atmospheric pressure water column, simply put, about ten meters.
I have already described the principle of siphoning in the simplest words, and if you still don't understand it, let's do the experiment yourself and see the effect. For example, the fish tank is used to release water.
Zhu Changyuan smiled, the pipe, he has it, it is at home, and it is several hundred meters long, and all of them are hard deformable pipes, which just meet the requirements of siphoning.
Looking at this group of listless villagers of Majia Village, Zhu Changyuan smiled and said: "Okay, fellow villagers, don't worry about irrigation, I have a way!" ”
"Is there a way?" Ma Dashan looked at Zhu Changyuan and asked suspiciously, but said in his heart that it was for us to dig the rock.
"Hmm!" Zhu Changyuan nodded and said, "Ten people will go with me to get things, and the rest of the people will go to the village to get a few pots, as well as scissors and kitchen knives, and it is best to have a saw." ”
What are you doing with a basin and a saw and scissors?
Everyone was puzzled, and many people thought of using a basin to fill water.
"Little prince, you won't be, let's use a basin to get water for irrigation, right?" Ma Hai asked with a bitter face, at such a deep water level, if you want to take water and then irrigate, even if the whole village is exhausted, you can't water an acre of land.
"Of course not, don't worry about it, anyway, I'll let you get the water out without much effort, ten people follow me, and the rest will go home and prepare things as I say."
After Zhu Changyuan finished speaking, he took more than ten people to his small courtyard, coiled the pipes brought from modern society into a large plate, and more than a dozen strong men were tired and panting before carrying them to the edge of the pond.
At this time, the villagers have prepared things to watch by the pond.