The carpenter closed his mouth first, swallowed back the boastful words for the third time, and only then did he dare to take the wooden board handed by Lu Jingzhi and carefully read the instructions on the clamp and axle on the screen. After seeing it, he replied: "Adult, the small one understands, this method is not difficult, the main thing is to stabilize the fixture, I can add two wooden braces, and it can be given to death." This wheel axle is not difficult to do, the outer shaft is made of two halves of wood, and the inner shaft is used neatly, polished and smooth, as long as there is no gravel and sand inside, it is not afraid of wear. ”

Lu Jingzhi nodded and said, "It's better to add some oil." ”

The carpenter grinned and said, "Your Excellency, you have a good method, but you can't use ordinary oil to smooth this wood, so I brought a pot of oil from the village for wood." After the oil is used, the surface of the wood can be changed, the original convex place can be pressed back, the original concave place can be bulged out, and the astringent wooden wheel can be wiped on it can be smoothed a lot faster. Look at ......" as he spoke, he relaxed, his waist straightened, his head raised, his eyes rounded, and his breath was full. As soon as he turned his head to see Silly Da with an angry face, the ghost pawn standing behind him looked at him with a cold face, and his heart was agitated again, and he hurriedly stopped his mouth.

Lu Jingzhi didn't blame him, but he didn't let him continue, let him go and make the clamp for the wooden plank first, and then instructed the women and children who stayed in the village to get some ropes, soak them in oil and set them aside.

The fixtures are made quickly, the wood is ready-made, the drawings are also drawn, and the carpenter only needs to see and plane, and then file the small places. Looking back at the planks and timber that had been boiling in the stone trough, it had been almost an hour, and it had almost softened. Lu Jingzhi asked people to empty the water in the stone trough, take out the wood and clamp it on the clamp, forming arcs, all of which are fixed in width and narrowness. When the wood is cold and dry, it can be used as a wheel. At that time, a dozen small holes were opened in the wheel, and a few wooden sticks were erected with the axle to support it, and the hub was made. The wheels made in this way are not easy to deform, and they are lightweight, although they are not as hard as the wheels of ice fruit wood, and it is not a big problem to deal with ordinary loads.

Just thinking about the ice fruit wood, I saw the charcoal craftsman take the wheel that has done the surface carbonization treatment, although the ice fruit wood is hard enough, but it is also extremely heavy, and when put into the water, it will sink to the bottom like a stone, unlike ordinary wood floating on the water. The charcoal craftsman's family began to tinker with the charcoal blowtorch in the morning, and it was not until noon that they were set up, and they burned and roasted it for an afternoon before the wheels of the two ice fruit trees were carbonized.

"My lord, can you look at it baked like this?" The charcoal craftsman was afraid that what he had made would not be in line with the tax collector's wishes, and his heart trembled a little.

Lu Jingzhi is quite satisfied with the craftsmanship of the charcoal craftsman, and the surface carbonization process needs to be fast and accurate. If it is burned thick, it will inevitably damage the supporting capacity, and if it is burned thin, if there are gaps, acid gas will continue to corrode the wheels of the ice fruit wood. It is very rare to burn a thin layer in this way, with a uniform thickness and no gaps. Moreover, the charcoal craftsman also coated a layer of ceramic powder cement on the part of the wheel that landed on the ground according to Lu Jingzhi, so that he was not afraid of the carbonization layer being worn out by contact with the ground.

"Well done, stupid, reward. Lu Jingzhi took out a young master to send, and anyone who saw it would think that he was a natural gentleman. There are all kinds of rewards that have been prepared by Silly Da for a long time, and they are all "filial piety" received when they come from the villages to inspect. Although the tax is exempted, the filial piety of the tax official cannot be avoided, and it is also the "heart" of a village.

At this time, the fool heard the master's reward, so he took out a small package from his bosom, which contained some preserved meat, dried fruits, etc., and a small package of sulfur powder, which was put separately, so as not to skewer the taste.

The charcoal craftsman happily took it, his family's usual life was completely dependent on the village, and it was rare to get meat and fruits, and it would be good to be able to make ends meet for three meals a day. Today is just a busy day, and I have got so many things, and I am very grateful to this young tax collector.

Lu Jingzhi called two or three half-year-old children and asked them to bring the unboiled loose wood, and put them together into a few flat zigzags. Then he used a few pieces of wood that were too short to use to make two tripods, stuck on both sides of an ice fruit wood wheel, and tied a zigzag wooden frame on the outside of the tripod. The prototype of a unicycle came out. He was reluctant to use these good woods, so he asked the children to find two long and two short hard firewood, put them on them, and let the carpenter nail them with wooden wedges, and then glue them tightly, and the wheelbarrow was made. Since the wheels are made of ice fruit wood, the cost of this car is still quite high. But the immediate concern is to bring back the sulphur mined from the mine before the tax collection team "over there" arrives, so we can't worry too much about the cost. And although this wheel is valuable, it will not break for several years after the surface carbonization treatment. After the carpenter's side has set the shape of the curved wood clamped with a jig, and then spliced into a circle, you can make light and cheap wheels, and if you make a wheelbarrow, a boy in his teens can push it around.

Seeing that this scrapped cart was easily converted into two light wheelbarrows, and that it would not break down after a few years of use, the young village chief was a little stupid. Although this tax collector is young, he has many methods, and in the past two days, he has only talked about painting, and he has brought such a big change to his village. However, the young village chief did not appear to be much happier, but looked worried.

The carpenter with a smile from ear to ear and the charcoal maker with a happy face matched with the young village chief with a sad face were really a bit funny, Lu Jingzhi walked over and patted the young village chief on the shoulder and asked, "Brother village chief, don't you think this wheelbarrow is too small? Don't look at it as small, it can contain a lot of things." As long as the front and rear counterweights are balanced, you can't be afraid to stack up high - as long as you don't block the person with the cart from looking at the road. ”

When the young village chief saw the tax collector coming to make fun of himself, he cheered up his spirits, pretended to be smiling, and said, "My lord, you are really knowledgeable, and if you give us guidance for a few days, it is enough to cover our usual work for half a month." The kindness of adults will benefit the whole village. ”

Lu Jingzhi said: "Then why did you see the village chief's eldest brother looking sad just now?"

The young village chief hurriedly said: "The villain doesn't dare, the villain doesn't dare." ”

"What does the village chief's eldest brother mean when he doesn't dare?" Lu Jingzhi squinted at the stupid two and a few undead when he heard this, and pulled the young village chief to walk a few steps away. If the village chief had covered it up just now and said no, or no, Lu Jingzhi would not have asked any more. But he just said that the villain didn't dare. What does it mean to dare not dare? That is to say, it is clear that there is a worry, but they dare not say it. This hooked Lu Jingzhi's curiosity, and he had to ask the bottom.

"The little ones don't dare to say. The young village chief said humbly, "My lord, you are a learned person, and you should know our predicament quite well. ”

Lu Jingzhi couldn't let him say a word, but he didn't rush to ask at this time, just asked the young village chief to continue to mobilize manpower and continue to piece together another wheelbarrow according to his own appearance. The carpenter and the other timber on the clamp were shaped, and began to nail the wheel, but the nail wheel could not be nailed with iron nails, but with bamboo shoots and wooden wedges. Because the metal is easily etched by acid, it will not be long before it can no longer be used. I think I can make at least three more wheelbarrows tonight.

What is the reason why the young village chief is so sullen? Lu Jingzhi watched coldly from the sidelines, and he really didn't think about things that he couldn't think through, and maybe there would be an answer.

Now I have to think about how to pull the sulfur from the mine and the village to a safe place. If it is transported from the mine to the village, four wheelbarrows only need to run twice, and half a day is definitely enough. But from here to the neighboring village, you have to walk for half a day each way, and you have to run for one day in a row, which may only be enough to transport half of it. If the people from the neighboring villages and the timber were also requisitioned, and together they could make a car or a dozen or twenty frames, there would be no problem. But if you don't have time to come up, it's hard to say.

Just as he was thinking, the man on the mine came back. The young village chief told them to go and rest first, and that there would be no more mining tomorrow, and that only some women and children would be sent to bring back the existing sulphur overnight. No matter how much is mined now, it is always for the tax collector to move away, and only when he is satisfied, and when he leaves, can he mine again to deal with the tax collection team "over there".

Fortunately, there is a tacit understanding on both sides, and if one side comes later than the other, it will not destroy the village in anger, and at most only catch one or two people to go back to pay taxes.

"If we could keep two more baskets of sulphur, maybe we wouldn't have to lose more manpower this year. The young village chief thought abruptly. But this year is already much better than last year. Last year, I barely paid the tax on one side, and when the other side came to collect nothing, I took away more than half of the rations, plus two young adults. The parents of the child in front of him, who was running around the village with a wheelbarrow, were arrested last year.

Looking at the several new wheelbarrows piled up in his yard and the baskets of sulfur on the edge of the fence, the young village chief stomped his feet and made up his mind to go to the tax collector to ask for a favor to see if he could leave two baskets of sulfur for himself and get through this year's difficulties. But before he got up and walked two steps, he remembered the tall figure of Silly Dasha Er, as well as the cold face of the ghost pawn, and he turned around and came back again.

Tossing and turning like this, until midnight, the young village chief didn't dare to go to Lu Jingzhi to say anything, just hid aside and sighed. Although the young village chief didn't dare to let Lu Jingzhi see it, he didn't avoid the charcoal craftsman's family, and the wife of the village didn't dare to ask the village chief, but she found the village chief and said. Hanzi didn't believe it, so he followed his wife to the side to take a look, and sure enough, the village chief sighed there, and hurriedly went over to ask what was going on.

The young village chief didn't hide it from his own people, and told Hanzi what he thought, and finally spread his hands and said, "What do you say this can do?"

At the beginning, I heard the village chief say that the tax collection team on the other side of the lake was coming in the next few days, and I was also worried, but I heard the village chief say that he didn't dare to go to the tax collector to ask for favors, so he patted his chest and said: "Village chief, this is nothing, if you don't want to go, then let me go." When I learned how to burn charcoal from adults, I thought that adults were very good, and they could have me in their eyes, and maybe I could still say something. ”

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.