Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Watermill is Completed
With the breakthrough of Jia Cong's strength, the three-month special training of this group of recruits also ended.
Jia Cong, Zhang Dakui, Tie Zhu, and Wangcai discussed it, and divided them into two groups according to their performance on weekdays.
With a group of twenty big men and forty other people brought by Jia Cong, they are basically relatively old, temporarily as a personal guard, training according to standard soldiers, and these people are trained by Zhang Dakui.
In addition to the necessary weight-bearing running every morning, the standing posture of each morning has been reduced to half an hour, and the battle formation coordination, spear skills, equestrian skills, bow and archery skills have been added.
The remaining forty people, all under the age of fifteen, will be trained as special combat members, and when they become adults, they will all be the king of soldiers, these people are trained by Jia Cong himself, and Tie Zhu is responsible for assisting in training.
These people have more training items, in addition to running with weights every morning, they also have to stand in a military posture for half an hour, adding push-ups, pulling horizontal bars, squats, frog jumps, crawling forward and other physical training.
Swimming, climbing, crossing mud pools, climbing over obstacles, tracking, scouting, lurking, escaping, capturing prisoners, interrogating prisoners, camouflage, assassination, archery, horsemanship, and much more were added.
Jia Cong is ready to use two years to make this special combat team take shape.
For the time being, I will do all kinds of training in the mountain villa and the mountain to the west, and when I can't be satisfied, I will pull out the training.
After the two teams separated, they each began training, and Zhang Dakui was full of confidence and enthusiasm, and devoted himself to the work of training soldiers.
The special combat team on Jia Cong's side also started training, Wangcai became a housekeeper and was responsible for all the logistics work, and the logistics work of nearly 100 people was not easy, and they had to train together in their spare time.
Zhang Dakui led forty members of the personal guards, and still trained various skills in the square.
The special combat team members led by Jia Cong moved the training ground to the foot of the mountain, and even to the entire mountain, and began a new round of training in full swing.
After a month's time, the canal renovation project of 6,000 acres of fertile land has been completed, and the waterwheel has also been completed.
Jia Cong took the time to take someone to inspect it, and it basically met the design requirements.
The next step is to install the positioning water truck, and then adjust the water diversion system, and then you can test it.
Jia Cong took half a day to let Tiezhu lead the special combat team to train, and he took six craftsmen with him, and asked Zhuangtou to find a group of young men to help with it.
Four relatively thick tree trunks were cut from the mountain, and the river was driven into the bottom of the river, and four iron bars were used to connect them to each other as a fixed support for the waterwheel.
Everyone lifted the waterwheel to the bracket, adjusted the position, fixed the central axis of the waterwheel firmly, and the waterwheel was installed, and tried to rotate it, which was very smooth.
The water diversion device was also installed, connected from the water wheel to the water canal, and adjusted properly.
After checking and finding no problems, Jia Cong waved his hand, and two young men came up, stepped on the treadwheel, and the waterwheel slowly turned.
After a rotation, small buckets are used to lift the river water upwards and flow into the water diversion device, and then through the water diversion device, into the canal, and then into the farmland through the canal to irrigate the wheat seedlings in the farmland.
Looking at the river water left behind by the roar on the waterwheel, rushing and flowing in the canal, everyone showed a happy smile on their faces, and from then on, there was no shortage of water in this field.
Several craftsmen looked at the waterwheel they made with their own hands, and they also smiled, and they succeeded.
Zhuang Tou ran over and said with a courteous face: "Third Master, you are really amazing, with this waterwheel, there will be no shortage of water in the future, and our land will be the best farmland nearby." ”
Jia Cong nodded, what this guy said is not wrong at all, wait for himself to let the blacksmith beat the iron plow, turn the land deeply, buy some fertilizer and put it in the field, and then select some seeds with full grains, next year will definitely be a bumper harvest year.
"You have also seen the benefits of this waterwheel, in order to prevent anyone from destroying or stealing, fifty young men from the village were selected to form a militia escort team, and they were stationed beside the waterwheel in turn to guard."
Zhuang Tou hurriedly agreed, and then said: "Third master, I will go back and select people and form a militia, and I want to build a few houses here so that the militia can be stationed here, so that it will be safer." ”
"Your idea is good, just do it according to your idea, and besides, while you are not busy now, organize a group of young people to build a barracks at the foot of the mountain, build a row of houses, and build it according to the capacity of five hundred people."
"Third master, don't worry, I will gather people and start construction tomorrow."
Jia Cong nodded and asked Zhuang Tou to go down and make arrangements.
Then I found six more craftsmen and talked to them, using the power of the waterwheel to rotate, and carried out some operations such as forging, stamping, drilling, pulling and sawing.
After hearing this, all of them widened their eyes in disbelief, and their first reaction was how could this be?
Seeing Jia Cong's serious look, not like a joke, several people stared at the waterwheel and pondered.
After a while, several people came together and muttered, and Carpenter Wang, who had been with him for the longest time, spoke.
"Third master, we thought about it for a while, drilling can be done by using the rotation of the axis, but the operation is not very convenient, it is better to do it manually, and the others are difficult to do."
It's really hard to let them imagine it out of thin air, it's equivalent to invention, and it seems that you have to give them some hints.
"It is not possible to use the waterwheel directly, but to add some auxiliary devices, just like the water diversion device. Several other things require the use of the clutch force, which is the eccentric force.
You first make a large roulette wheel, inlay it on the central axis of the waterwheel, make a hole in the position of the wheel off the center, inlay an iron shaft, put a tie rod on the shaft, connect a slider under the lever, and then make a slide track, let the slider slide in the slide······"
As Jia Cong explained while drawing patterns on the ground, a simple press appeared in front of everyone.
The six of them suddenly opened their mouths wide, this is really possible, this master is too demonic, he can even come up with these things, he has been a craftsman for so many years, think about it is really nothing.
The six of them were completely convinced, and quickly took a pen and paper to write down the graphics on the ground, and carefully put them away, looking like they had found a treasure.
"Third master, you are really amazing, if this thing is made, it is no less than a revolution in the handicraft industry, and the most tiring tasks such as picking a sledgehammer and pulling a big saw can be easily completed."
Jia Cong smiled: "As long as you use your brains more and work hard, you can also do it, these are just ideas, and you need to experiment step by step if you want to make them." ”
Several people nodded, and said in unison: "Third Master, we want to make another waterwheel to test these things, and we ask the third master for permission." ”
With forging equipment, whether it is to build weapons or make armor, the quality of the effect will increase exponentially, which is also the purpose of telling them.
Jia Cong nodded and said, "Okay, I agree that you will make another one and conduct experiments, it is better for you to also move the workshop here, so that it is more convenient, and these things are kept secret from the outside world for the time being." ”
"Knowing the third master, we know what to do."