A moment later.

Several people hurried over against the cold wind, led by Zhao Shuwen, followed by a few hardcover men, looking around curiously, and when they reached the door of the ancestral hall, Zhao Shuwen signaled the people behind him to stop and wait, and he stepped forward alone, knelt down with a puff, and shouted: "My lord, save Zhaojia Village!" ”

A cry for help, grief and indignation.

Qin Huaidao was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward to help: "Something happened, get up and speak." ”

The two sat down around the bonfire, and Zhao Shuwen said in a sad voice: "My lord, after the last incident, the saint remembered that I had made meritorious service for my crimes, reformed my ways, and was dismissed from my post. ”

"What, who did that?" Qin Huaidao was taken aback.

"From the murderer's corpse, there are Khitans, Turks, and Tang people, and it is suspected that it is the Taiyuan Wang clan that has destroyed the mouth, except for the Wang family, Zhaojia Village has no other enemies, they are beasts." Zhao Shuwen gritted his teeth.

Qin Huaidao suddenly thought of Wang Tongbiao, this guy is now in Khitan, there must be a force in his hands, this power is mixed with all kinds of people is not strange, with the energy of the Taiyuan Wang family, it is not difficult for Wang Tongbiao to bring hundreds of people to come in quietly.

There are nearly 1,000 households in Zhaojia Village, and there are thousands of people, Wang Tongbiao said that he would kill him, how could he let Qinjiazhuang go?

"My lord, save Zhaojia Village, let's do whatever we want, just ask for a way to live." Zhao Shuwen said that he was going to kneel down again, and the seven-foot man was forced to this part, which was really exhaustive.

"What's going on with you guys?" Qin Huaidao asked.

"Most of the house has been burned, and there is not much food, and it can last for ten days at most, my lord, save us, as long as we can live, the whole Zhaojia Village is willing to be an adult's slave, and I am willing to saddle the horse before and after, and there will be no complaints." Zhao Shuwen said solemnly, his voice was sad, painful, helpless, and endlessly confused about the future.

Qin Huaidao could see that Zhao Shuwen really had no choice, Zhaojiacun was probably worse than he said, fortunately, there was a shortage of people in Qinjiazhuang, and there was no problem with taking them in, but the place where he lived was not easy to solve, and asked: "Tell me, how many people are there?" Be honest. ”

Zhao Shuwen was a little embarrassed, most of the people in the village were women, children and the elderly, they were all a drag and a burden, to be honest, what if they refused to accept it? But I couldn't hide it, so I had to bite the bullet and say: "My lord, there are less than fifty young people, and the rest are old people, women and children, about 1,000." ”

"There are less than fifty young and strong, and all of them are killed in battle?" Qin Huaidao was taken aback, remembering that the last time he went over, he saw nearly a thousand young and strong people, and they were all killed in battle, and asked, "Tell me, what happened to the murderer at that time?" ”

"At least three hundred archers, first burn the house with rockets, because it is night, many people are burned alive, and after that, two hundred knife men rush up and kill, they can't stop it at all, if they don't fill in with their lives, everyone can't escape, those beasts are simply not human ......" Zhao Shuwen choked up when he said this, tears raining down.

Qin Huaidao patted the other party's shoulder sympathetically, and sighed, the archers attacked at night, and they still attacked with fire, two hundred people took advantage of the chaos to rush up to mend the knife, a group of people only, it is a miracle that they can survive about a thousand, if such a sneak attack happens in Qinjiazhuang, how much can Qinjiazhuang survive?

After pondering for a moment, Qin Huaidao said, "What did the county government say? ”

"The county government has no choice but to report to the imperial court, and when the imperial court sends troops, the county government can't get much surplus food relief, and I don't want to trouble the adults in the next place, it's really ...... I'm really worried that the murderer will come back. ”

Qin Huaidao suddenly, who is willing to leave the homeland, the house is burned and there is still a piece of land, which can be rebuilt, and there are paddy fields, you can see hope after a while, change places, there is nothing, how to live? But the murderer came again, and everyone still died.

If it was really the Wang family who took revenge, they would definitely take action.

"Bring all your people, the question is that the county government will let them go?" Qin Huaidao asked.

"According to the regulations, it is not allowed, but the county government has no spare strength to help, if the adults are willing to accept it, Jingzhao Mansion will follow, and the county government will not want to throw us out as a burden." Zhao Shuwen said.

"You go to Fang Xianggong, and say that I agree, the procedure that should be taken must not be less, so as not to give birth to right and wrong, however, there is no shortage of food in Qinjiazhuang, but there is no place to live, it is too late to build a house, dig some caves first to make a living, do you think it's okay?"

"More of the grace of the adults." Zhao Shuwen was overjoyed and knelt down with a pop.

Several middle-aged men guarding the door also knelt down with a puff and shouted loudly, "Thank you for your life." ”

"Go, do you have any silver?" Qin Huaidao asked with concern.

"It's enough to entangle, Lord Xie cares." Zhao Shuwen said gratefully, wiped away his tears, and hurried away with people, the high-spirited county order back then, but now his back is rickety, and there are more vicissitudes and helplessness.

Qin Huaidao watched Zhao Shuwen leave, his mood was a little complicated, the original opponent, but now he was going to come together, the world is impermanent, seeing Xue Rengui coming over, he gestured to sit down and said: "Zhaojiacun has been attacked, the murderer is suspected to be Wang Tongbiao, I suspect that this guy has infiltrated with people and may attack Qinjiazhuang at any time." ”

"Zhaojia Village?" Xue Rengui's face changed.

"How's the team recruiting?"

Xue Rengui hurriedly said: "It's not easy to recruit, unless you relax your age." ”

"Beware of these days, prepare more traps, prepare some weapons, prepare for battle, wait for the people of Zhaojia Village to come, choose some of them, and make up enough for a hundred, Zhaojia Village was slaughtered by Wang Tongbiao, there is hatred in my heart, I can use it."

"Understood, I'll prepare here." Xue Rengui agreed and hurried away.

Qin Huaidao followed him out, found Jia Youcai, who was busy, and advised: "Uncle Jia, find some people from Waizhuang to dig holes on the slopes of the Chaowei River, dig ten, each can accommodate a hundred people, and put some straw in it after digging, let people live, and nearly a thousand people will move over in a few days." ”

"So much, can you feed?" Jia Youcai reminded.

"There are 1,200 acres of paddy fields over there that are my people, and someone will have to plant them in the future, so do it, rush to work overnight, dig it out as soon as possible, find more people, and pay the wages according to 30 yuan a day. Qin Huaidao admonished.

"Understood, let's arrange it here."

"Remember to dig a little higher, be sure to use wooden stakes to reinforce, to prevent collapse, safety can not be careless, in the future will not be inhabited can also be used as a warehouse." Qin Huaidao reminded.

Jia Youcai nodded and hurriedly arranged to go.

Qin Huaidao returned to the ancestral hall, looked at the bonfire and pondered, shouldn't Wang Tongbiao wait for the news of the transfer of military rations in the Khitan and lead the troops to knock at any time? Could it be someone from another faction of the Taiyuan Wang family? Are you not afraid of being uprooted by Li Er?

Or is the Taiyuan Wang family ready to make a desperate bet and turn the sky upside down?

There doesn't seem to be this place in history, is it possible that his arrival has affected the trend of history, then his prophetic advantage is gone, once the trend changes, history is unrecognizable, where should he go?

Thinking about it, what is love, just live your own life, whoever dares to reach out will chop whom!

Thoughts come to mind instantly.

There was a sound of shouting and greeting outside, accompanied by the sound of mules, it was the convoy of coal transporting back, Qin Huaidao observed at the door, more than 2,000 cars lined up in a long line, and they were moving forward slowly, and the one in front unloaded the coal and walked to the side for zero wages.

It was Jia Youcai who sent the money, and two guards assisted, He'er recorded on the side, the coachman received the salary, and after thanking him, he pulled the carriage and left, without affecting the people behind, the scene was orderly and fast.

Luo Zhang hurriedly came over, turned over and dismounted to say hello: "Uncle! ”

"But it's going well?" Qin Huaidao asked.

"Everything is going well, by the way, I drove away the carriage sent by the imperial court early in the morning, you are not there, there is no time to say hello, today there are people to join the transport team, the total number of vehicles is about 2,500, this team is not small, it is estimated that there will be people to join, will there be problems?" Luo Zhang reminded.

"Didn't anyone ask to quit on such a cold day?" Qin Huaidao was a little curious.

"Exit? How can it be. Luo Zhang said: "Those who joined today regretted dying, saying that they should have joined early in the morning, but a few days late lost a lot of income, and said that there would be neighbors and relatives to join, worried that we wouldn't want to." ”

"The more the merrier, the sooner the coal is all over the place." Qin Huaidao said a word, looked around, lowered his voice and admonished: "Do you remember Zhaojia Village in Weinan County?" Attacked, with heavy casualties, I suspect it is Wang Tongbiao, this guy may be able to attack the coal convoy. ”

"Wang Tongbiao?" Luo Zhang's face changed slightly.

Qin Huaidao advised: "It's just suspicious, not sure, but you have to guard against it, you go to the Supervision Mansion, let Cheng Chumo accompany you, transfer the first guard and the third guard, leave the second guard and Wei Chi Baolin to stay, and the three hundred more escorts are much safer." ”

"No problem, it's just that the government guards escort it is not in accordance with the rules." Luo Zhang reminded.

"It's okay, let's do it, I'll explain to the saint, coal is related to the stability of grain prices, and the supply cannot be cut off.

"It makes sense, protecting coal is protecting the price of grain." Luo Zhang is thorough at one point.

There are more than three hundred guards to escort, as well as the three masters of Cheng Chumo, Luo Zhang and Luo Ying, it shouldn't be a big problem, Qin Huaidao reminded: "It's not necessarily Wang Tongbiao who leads the team, but this group of people should be related to the Taiyuan Wang family, so they have to guard against it, they have three hundred archers, two hundred swordsmen, or even more, be careful." ”

"Archers? It has to be a shield. Luo Zhang agreed.

After chatting a few words, Luo Zhang hurriedly went, Qin Huaidao walked around, the stones were being transported by hand, and the honeycomb coal was still rushing to finish the remaining little slime, and dozens of kilns not far away were billowed with black smoke, and there were people cleaning up weeds, building roads, and preparing to dig holes on the slopes of the back mountain towards the Wei River.

Everything is going on in a tense and orderly manner.

Unconsciously, night fell, Qin Huaidao returned to the ancestral hall, and brought Jia Youcai, Huang Lao, Mingyue, He'er and others, everyone chatted about the affairs of Qinjiazhuang, and if there were any problems, they made decisions on the spot, and then dispersed.

Early the next morning.

Qin Huaidao woke up, didn't care about eating, came to the platform built with cement yesterday, kicked it, it was very stable, I couldn't help but increase some strength and tried again, it was very stable, I tried to knock on a brick, and found that it was not easy, the strength of cement was not as high as in memory, but it was not bad.

Xue Rengui came over, kicked it curiously, but didn't move at all, and suddenly saw that Hunting was happy, and struggled to kick it over, but still didn't fall, and was taken aback, and said: "Young master, it is actually explained like this, other blue brick walls can not withstand Xue's full strength, unless the wall is made of high-grade glutinous rice mortar, this can catch up with glutinous rice mortar." ”

"Are you sure?" Qin Huaidao asked.

"I'm very sure, Xue used to help and saw the strength of glutinous rice mortar, and I really want to compare it, I don't feel as strong as this." Xue Rengui said seriously.

"That's good." Qin Huaidao smiled with satisfaction.

After breakfast, Qin Huaidao found someone to grind gypsum and cement clinker, and then dispatched a few kiln guards who were not busy to come over and dig the river bank with tools, introduce the river water into the pond, let the water be diverted, and dig a hole downstream to let the pond water flow into the river.

Under the guidance of Qin Huaidao, everyone digs through to form a deep ditch, and then fills the big stones, mixes the ground cement clinker, gypsum and lime according to the proportion of yesterday, pours into the sand and small stones and stirs, and makes concrete.

Not long after, a concrete and stone dam was built, about one meter thick, about three meters apart, two feet wide sink in the middle, with a bluestone slab to make a baffle, blocking the mouth of the sink, and when the water is full, the bluestone slab is opened, and the water will be washed out of the sink concentrated, forming a strong momentum.

After that, Qin Huaidao enlisted the help of a carpenter and devoted himself to the production of the waterwheel, while having people build a mill with bricks next to the dam, and the mill dug a ditch one meter five wide and two feet deep.

Four days later, a huge waterwheel stood in the river, in the middle of the waterwheel is a square iron rod, poured, quenched into steel, to make the transmission shaft is much better than wood, the big iron rod is connected to the center of the waterwheel square card slot, the size is just right, one end extends down the ditch to the mill, and the gear is poured.

Although the precision of the iron pouring gear is not enough, but hard enough, will not collapse, the stone mill is also equipped with gears, up and down communication, as long as the waterwheel turns, the stone mill follows the rotation, when not in use, break the transmission gear connecting the stone mill, simple, easy to use, easy to operate.

This kind of semi-mechanized device has never been seen before, have onlookers, three or four days, the dam cement has already been dry, an order, everyone will be blocked by the diversion port, began to store water, and so on after the water is full, Qin Huaidao gave an order, the bluestone slab was lifted open, the water tilted down the sink, and hit the water tank of the water wheel.

The waterwheel rattles, pick up.

"It's moving, it's moving!"

Many people shouted in surprise and ran to the mill one after another, looking at the stone mill selection, one by one they were extremely surprised.

With the stone mill, grinding wheat was much easier in the future.

Qin Huaidao asked people to pour some smashed small stones into it, and the stone mill rotated, grinding the small stones into powder and coming out, and there was no stuck, beating or other abnormalities, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief - it was finally successful!

"Ah, you can still grind stones?" Someone exclaimed.

"Nonsense, is the young master doing simple grinding wheat?" Jia Youcai said proudly.

"Young Master, these stone mills can be replaced, right?" He'er also asked happily, seeing Qin Huaidao nodding with a smile, he couldn't help but shout in surprise: "Then no one will need to push it in the future, such a big stone mill, grinding must be very fast, can this rotation speed be fast?" Now this one looks a little slow. ”

"Of course you can, just change the gears, grind the stone slowly, grind the wheat needs to change to other stone grinders, change the gears can be faster, it's very simple, go back and teach everyone to use it." Qin Huaidao said with a smile.

When Jia Youcai heard this, he hurriedly said: "Young master, you can't do it, just one or two people from the church are in charge." ”

"It's okay, you go and arrange people, be careful and patient, two men and two women." Qin Huaidao smiled indifferently.

Everyone watched the excitement for a while and dispersed, after all, the work can earn silver, and the silver is more fragrant.

Jia Youcai arranged for four people to come over, Qin Huaidao left after teaching everyone, and found the guard in charge of burning cement and said: "You can burn the second kiln, don't make a big move in the ratio first, adjust it slightly, make a record, and look back to see that kind of is more appropriate, in addition, when the gypsum is mixed at the end, I feel a little less, and I have time to try a few more proportions, and find the strongest one, if this thing is done, the young master will reward you with a personal hundred taels of silver." ”

"Thank you, young master!" The other party said gratefully.

"No thanks, you are an old man in the house, your father can trust you, leave you in the house, I naturally trust you, but if you have merit, you should be rewarded, you deserve it, when the house is built, marry a daughter-in-law, and turn back to the young master to be your witness." Qin Huaidao said with a smile.

"Really? Thank you, young master! The other party was excited, what an honor it is to have the young master as a witness.

"Do it well, everything will be there, remember, the recipe must be kept secret, only for you and me." Qin Huaidao solemnly admonished, chatted a few words and left.

Not long after, Qin Huaidao came to the back mountain, after four days of digging, the cave has been dug, barely living in the problem is not big, Qin Huaidao asked everyone to burn the fire in it, dry the moisture, a team of guards hurriedly came over: "Young master, people from Zhaojia Village are here." ”

"It's coming quickly, bring it here." Qin Huai replied.

After waiting for a while, I saw a team coming slowly, carrying a package, all shivering from the cold, and the children had a long clear nose, many people supported each other, and walked very hard, Zhao Shuwen rushed up and said: "Lord Qin, the grace of life is unforgettable." ”

"Thank you for your life." The people of Zhaojia Village knelt down one after another, and their voices were sad.

No one wants to live under the fence, but in order to live, one by one, like dead grass in the wilderness, desperately living in the cold, wind, frost and snow, just to be able to sprout new sprouts in the coming year.

"Get up, Lord Ben doesn't like to be kneeled." Qin Huaidao shouted, pulled Zhao Shuwen forward for a distance, pointed to the cave below and said: "The hole has been dug and is being dried by fire, everyone has come all the way, they are not lightly frozen, just go down to bake the fire, a total of ten caves, you assign how to live, take a breath, and carry the straw on the ground later, so as not to sleep and get damp, and the food will be sent by someone and cook it yourself." ”

"Lord Xie, this kindness is engraved in the hearts of the Zhaojia Village, if there is anything we can do, you can do it, even if you ask, there is no other word." Zhao Shuwen said gratefully.

"Select some middle-aged men, between sixteen and twenty, to join the team to protect the safety of this place, there are currently thirty or forty people, ready to gather enough for a hundred people, the principle of voluntariness, do not force, one tael of silver per month, including food and shelter, if you die in battle, two hundred taels of bereavement, and one hundred taels for minor injuries."

"You don't need money, there is also a village protection team in Zhaojia Village, and no one asks for money." Zhao Shuwen hurriedly said.

Qin Huaidao interrupted: "Since you are here, follow the rules here." ”

"Master Xie." Zhao Shuwen was a little moved, one or two pieces of silver is a lot, and there is a huge amount of pension, no one is unwilling to join in this kind of treatment, not to mention protecting the safety of the village, that is, protecting the safety of the clansmen.

"Take the people into the cave to roast the fire, settle down first, and then come to the ancestral hall to find me, and meet the place a few days ago." Qin Huaidao admonished.

Zhao Shuwen agreed, ran to settle the clansmen, and led them into the cave.

The fire in the cave has been burned, warm as spring, everyone suddenly felt a lot better, looking at the empty cave a little worried, although I already knew to live in the cave before I came, but there was nothing, how to sleep?

Zhao Shuwen saw everyone's worries, and told Qin Huaidao's arrangements again, and everyone's worried hearts were put down.

Qin Huaidao saw that there was no big problem and left on his own.

When he returned to the ancestral hall, he found Yu Chi Baoqi coming, he sighed in his heart, and quickly stepped forward and asked, "Why are you here, is something wrong?" ”

"The Holy Lord sent someone to the Supervision Mansion to look for you, and if there is an urgent matter, summon you, so that you can enter the palace."

"Didn't say anything?" Qin Huaidao asked, seeing that Wei Chi Baolin shook his head, he quickly changed into his official uniform, explained a few words to Jia Youcai and Xue Rengui about settling in Zhaojia Village, and hurriedly got on the horse and left.