Chapter 65: The Waterwheel

Waterwheel: Can increase food production, and requires 10 units of wood and a senior carpenter to manufacture. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

A look at the attributes of Zhang Fan to know what to use, the waterwheel is a very important field watering tool, the small waterwheel can also irrigate one or two hundred acres of farmland, and the large one can water more.

The territory has already obtained the blueprints of the canal, and if it is used with the canal, the effect will be even better, and when the time comes, as long as you dig more ponds, wells, and small rivers around the territory, then you can basically resist drought.

Zhang Fan asked Yue Yun and Lin Dayou and Wang Dayou, two newly transferred generals, to lead a team to brush the cottage, and he went to the carpenter's house with the drawings.

There are dozens of craftsmen in the carpenter's workshop, of which there are two senior carpenters, seven intermediate, and the others are beginners and apprentices, and there will be so few because the carpenter's room has always been to make some furniture and the like, and the big job is to make the curved plow, but the curved plow is not difficult at all in terms of technology, and it is very easy to make.

In this way, the carpenters have less work, so there is less experience, and the speed of cultivating talents is slow, unlike the blacksmith workshop, which keeps building all day long, and the things created are becoming more and more advanced, the experience growth is naturally fast, and there are more talents cultivated, and now there are more than 300 people in the blacksmith workshop, which is still the result of sending a group to the other two affiliated villages.

Zhang Fan showed them the drawings of the waterwheel, and several craftsmen studied it for a while and said to Zhang Fan: "Village elder, there is no technical difficulty in this after having the drawings, and it can be made in half a day." ā€

"Okay, let's make it now."

Zhang Fan is so anxious because he sees the food crisis, although there is still a lot of food in the village now, but the development of Wanghai Village is too fast, before the upgrade, there are more than 500 displaced people every day, and now that it has been promoted to a fifth-level village, I am afraid that there will be more.

In addition, the actual population of Wanghai Village is only about 20%, and the rest are engaged in other industries, so the proportion of agriculture is very small.

With such a small population engaged in agriculture, the reason why there is still a lot of surplus food today, in addition to the seizure of the cottage every day, there is also the grain of fishing and animal husbandry, and now the hunters have a very small hunting role, because the places around the village are gradually being expanded by the village construction, and they have to go to a far place to hunt, the distance is far away, and they can't bring a lot of prey at one time, so there is a lot less.

Zhang Fan knows very well that the village is upgrading and developing, and the population will increase more and more in the future, and the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture will not be too much, which requires increasing the output technically.

The waterwheel is huge, with a diameter of more than 20 meters, but it is also very fast under the manufacture of dozens of craftsmen.

After the waterwheel was manufactured, Zhang Fan immediately sent people to the field for experiments, and the farmland here has built water canals, which are very convenient for water use.

Let people dig a large pond first, bring the water from the canal, and soon, the pond is full, and then put up a waterwheel, and the waterwheel starts to operate, and the waterwheel keeps sending the water from the pond up, and then it flows into other canals, and then flows into the farmland.

One of the main functions of the canal is to be able to carry low water high, so that some farmland with higher ground and no rivers can be irrigated, and once the drought comes, some places have no water, then water can be sent from a relatively distant place.

"Haha, it works well, it's good." Zhang Fan is very happy, and the increased production of farmland means that more people can be fed, and he can use more manpower elsewhere.

Nowadays, many places need people, and this can liberate many people, and other undertakings, especially the entire maritime industry, can be developed.

The nautical industry includes a lot, dock staff, shipyard personnel, crews, and fishermen, fishermen can train more sailors, so fishing is also one of the key industries for Zhang Fan.

After returning from the farmland, Zhang Fan immediately sent someone to make a bigger workshop for the carpenter's workshop, and at the same time asked Yu Qian to arrange for more highly qualified people to come in in the future and make more waterwheels out as soon as possible.

At the same time, it also asked people to dig more ponds and some artificial lakes, which are all measures to ensure food, which shows how much Zhang Fan attaches importance to food.

Nowadays, you can brush 60,000 to 80,000 units of grain every day, but now there are more than 50,000 people in the territory, and it is about to exceed 60,000 people.

It's not just Zhang Fan's side, other villages have also discovered this problem, so the price of food can start to rise, and now it is already a unit of seven copper coins, and now there are many adventurous players who practice all day long and brush the cottage, so much food will be generated, and lord-type players basically have very little food left.

Zhang Fan arranged these and returned to the administrative center, and it happened that Yu Qian was also working there, so he asked him to understand the situation.

"Lord, after the upgrade, today has refreshed eight hundred and fifty-three homeless, and the number of homeless people has increased a lot all of a sudden, you see, where is the focus of our next development? Where do you need to place people? ā€

"More than eight hundred?" Zhang Fan nodded and thought for a while and said: "The two affiliated villages are already level three, let them develop on their own, and then make every effort to develop Wanghai Village, focusing on the development of weapons and equipment manufacturing, medicine production and navigation industry." ā€

"Okay, my lord, I will tilt these industries in terms of personnel arrangements."

"By the way, how many 'ordinary' level weapons do we have in our village now, you must know that when I take over a mission, I will hand over a thousand weapons in a month." Zhang Fan said.

"Brush the cottage, there can be more than a dozen per day, and only high-level blacksmiths can make 'ordinary' level weapons in the workshop, and they must use the ore that the lord brought back before, so that the workshop can be built with all its might, and it will be in time." Yu Qian calculated and said.

It's good to be able to complete the task in time, Zhang Fan still attaches great importance to this task, not only because of the reward, but also because he can have more relationship with the little eye county order, you must know that the NPC in this game is very intelligent, has a sense of autonomy, and is good at doing things.

After understanding this, Zhang Fan couldn't stay any longer, he was going to find Liu Rusi, feeling that he hadn't seen her for a day, and his heart was empty.

When he went, Zhang Fan also brought a lot of gifts, and the beautiful name was because Liu Ru was only one person here, and he needed to take care of him more, and Yu Qian, Yue Yun and others were also lonely, so they had never seen Zhang Fan enthusiastic about them.

Seeing Liu Rus, Zhang Fan didn't mention how excited he was, and he couldn't wait to stay by someone's side all the time.