Chapter 143: Vitality
Lin Bei actually didn't have much research on many antiquities, but he knew about this waterwheel, because the waterwheel had a very popular name: "Kong Ming car." ”
Kong Ming should know who it is, Zhuge Liang, so Lin Bei has always thought that the waterwheel was developed by Zhuge Liang, but now, Brother Kong Ming should not be big, and it is impossible to come to South Vietnam, so Lin Bei is very surprised, who would it be if it wasn't Kong Ming?
"Your Excellency is asking about this rollover?" Bian Ji pointed to the waterwheel and asked, and he called the waterwheel overturned.
"You call it a rollover?"
"Yes, it's a dump cart, and it's used to draw water from the canal." Bian Ji affirmed that the people around him are also taken for granted, obviously this is not a rare thing at all.
"I can see what this thing does, and I'm asking who made it."
"Oh." Bian Ji sighed, his face showed admiration: "My lord, the name of the person who invented the overturned car is Ma Chang, the adult may not have heard of this name, but their ancestor must know that the ancestor of the Ma family is called the public loss class, and the descendants of Ma Chang are now in Qingzhou, and everyone knows its prestige in the study of the institution. ”
Lose class? Lin Bei suddenly, this fame is too big, the public loss class may not know much, but when it comes to Lu Ban, everyone must know it, the public loss class is Lu Ban, because he is a native of Lu country, so later generations are generally called Lu Ban, this is a carpenter master, invented many things, saws, rulers, ink fountains, etc. were all invented by this carpenter master, and even the umbrellas used by people daily were also made by him.
Xu Shu also said on the side: "My lord, the Ma family's organ of the study is indeed no one can be outstanding, it is rumored that even the Ma family's three-year-old child also has a deep attainment in the study of the organ, when today's son has recruited the Ma family into the palace, to demonstrate the study of its organs, they cut wood for birds, flew in the sky for three days and three nights did not fall, wonderful, the Son of Heaven praised the Ma family as the world's first organ everyone. ”
The last time Lin Bei heard the craftsmen talk about the Ma family, he didn't feel anything at the time, but now listening to what Xu Shu and Bian Ji said, Lin Bei was really shocked in his heart, no wonder the craftsmen admired the Ma family tightly, it turned out that there was this reason, even Feng Niangzi only knew that they didn't dare to despise it, it was really because the Ma family was too famous.
"And when was this rollover made?"
"Horses are often from the former Han Dynasty, and now the overturned car has been known to the common people, and some craftsmen can also make it, but these two overturned cars are made by craftsmen in my Xishan Township."
It turns out that this overturned car was in the Western Han Dynasty? So why is it called a Kong Ming car? Is it because Brother Kong Ming has improved it, and because Kong Ming has a very high prestige in the land of Shu Han, so people call it Kong Ming Che, Lin Bei said that he was a little confused.
Walking into the overturn, Lin Bei took a few looks, only to find that this overturned car is very rough, this overturned car is the same as the waterwheel of later generations, there is also a runner, which is inlaid with wood leaves, which can rotate with it, but the axis is a three-zhang long giant tree, the farmers step on the giant wood on this side, and there is a big bucket hanging on the other side, the big bucket sinks in the water, the farmers can step on the big bucket as soon as they step on it, and the water in the big bucket flows backwards, and then the water flowing into the sink is driven by the leaves of the wood to the outward.
"How much water can this kind of rollover draw every day?" Lin Bei asked.
"About fifty squares." The Han Dynasty already had a unit for calculating the amount of water, and it was also a party, and one side was almost a ton.
Lin Bei calculated, fifty tons is really not much, and it takes a lot of strength to watch the farmer step on it, so it must be rotated, so that he can only draw fifty tons of water a day, and the efficiency is really low.
However, although Lin Bei felt that it was not good, he had nothing to do, don't look at the technical level of the overturned car was very low, Lin Bei was also a little confused, he knew that the wind power was used to drive the water wheel or electricity to drive, but there was no wind and no electricity here, so it was completely in vain.
So Lin Bei left in a huff, thinking that if he had the opportunity, he would bring Brother Kong Ming to South Vietnam, don't be the prime minister of Shu, carpenter is actually a very promising profession
Lin Bei boarded the dam, looked out, the outside is the ditch, first a main ditch, then divided into several small ditches, surrounded by irrigated farmland, there are fields and land, in which the field has become green, planted is rice, at this time it is only nearly April, so the rice is not high, but vigorous, the farmland can see some farmers working in the field, and the ground is planted with green barley, the planting time of wheat seedlings is earlier than rice, it is almost a foot high, the breeze blows, the wheat waves lie down, extremely intoxicating.
"A lot of farmland has been cultivated." Lin Bei Road, outside Fushan is the plain, Lin Bei at a glance, the green can hardly see the edge, I am afraid that it is not less than dozens of miles.
"Thanks to my lordship." Bian Ji said with a smile.
"Oh? What does this have to do with me? Lin Bei was puzzled.
"My lord, these fields are ploughed out of the proboscis beast."
"Really?"
"Of course, students don't dare to deceive adults, the proboscis beast is extremely powerful, and it is much easier to use than a domestic cow."
It turns out that because it has not rained for a long time, the ground seems very dry, and the plough used in ancient times is not the modern one-horned plow, but the shape of the nail rake, this kind of plough requires livestock to use great strength, but than strength, how can the ox be compared to the elephant, a cow will be exhausted when pulling hundreds of zhang, while the elephant can pull up dozens of miles, in terms of efficiency alone, the plow pulled by the elephant is improved dozens of times better than the plow pulled by the ox, the reason why there are countless farmlands that Lin Bei sees now, is really a loss to the eleven elephants in Xishan Township, So Bian Jicai said that it was Lin Bei's credit.
"The proboscis is tamed? By the way, what about that Ali, where is he now, has he left? ”
"My lord, Ah Li has not left, he is now the proboscis of our Xishan Township, managing the eleven proboscis beasts, Ah Li has said several times that he wants to thank the adult, saying that if he is not an adult, he will not be an official" Cui Lan couldn't help but laugh.
"Proboscis? Is it also an official? ”
"There are also more than a dozen people under him, who are dedicated to taking care of those proboscis beasts, and they are all under the jurisdiction of Ah Li, so it can also be said that he is a small official" Bian Ji also smiled: "My lord, Ah Li can already speak some Chinese at this time, and the word adult is particularly proficient." ”
Lin Bei smiled dumbly: "It seems that Ah Li is living quite well here, very good." ”
Lin Bei and his party bypassed the dam and walked towards the farmland outside, but before they reached the farmland, there was a large vegetable field on the side, planted with vegetables such as cucumbers, leeks and green onions, which were no different from later generations.
Lin Bei picks the farmland where there is no farmer to work on, and there are field stalks in the field, but the field stalks are too small, and Lin Bei's body size is very large, so he must be careful, so as not to fall into the field and kill the rice, and climb very hard, but Lin Bei is very happy, because this is the nature that Lin Bei yearns for.
Because of the vast land and sparsely populated people in South Vietnam, there is rarely such a large-scale farming situation, but now it has to be used to feed more than 10,000 people in the Xishan township, so the cultivation area is amazingly large.
A few early frogs were frightened by the sound, and they jumped into the field, and Lin Bei suddenly stopped: "There are no fish in this field?" ”
Lin Beixin said that why did he feel very awkward, it turned out that there was no noise of fish swimming, and there was no fish in modern paddy fields, which obviously did not have this concept in ancient times.
Fish farming, you have to raise fish.