Yang Chuan told Cao Xiang that the highest state of pretending to be forced is to be invisible and invincible in the world.

Cao Xiang was puzzled by this.

Therefore, when Yang Chuan sent away all the subordinates, servants and idle people, leaving only Huo Quzhi, Li Kang and other Yulin orphans to be busy on the embankment, Cao Xiang lost his temper several times and wanted to quit.

"Yang Chuan, Yang Chuan, Ben Hou's great achievements, if no one is watching, admiring, or rewarding, what else is there to do?"

"Whoever of you likes to do it, do it, yes yes don't do it!"

“……”

Yang Chuan just smiled, rolled up his trousers and sleeves, and led everyone to personally debug the water mill, water mill, water mill and water wheel, and found that there was a problem, and immediately carried a saw, axe, chisel, etc. to repair it.

In this way, after more than an hour, everyone was tired and sweaty, and their bodies were covered with mud.

Only Cao Xiang.

Well, this product is actually a thief, he stood on an elevated shelf and kept looking, and when he saw the emperor's guard of honor starting from the Zhuangzi, he slowly got down from the shelf, drank a bowl of water, and ate two meat buns;

Then, he changed into the sheepskin horse coat and deerskin shorts worn by the servants on Yangchuan Zhuangzi, and then walked over loosely.

"Okay, okay, you go to the side and rest, and let Ben Hou do the rest of the work himself." Cao Xiang waved his hand and let everyone rest.

Huo Quzhi and others were a little uncomfortable.

"Cao Xiang, what are you doing here?" Huo Quzhi was almost tired of becoming a dog, and sat on the ground, "Why did you change into a servant's clothes?" ”

Li Dang and the other Yulin orphans were also surprised, sitting on the ground gasping for breath, while joking, always feeling that Cao Xiang had something wrong with his brain.

Only Yang Chuan saw through Cao Xiang's trick at a glance, and he also sighed with emotion in his heart: 'Look, this is the big dog of the Han Empire, the top predator, it is simply the essence of the play......

"Good job, Cao Xiang," Yang Chuan patted Cao Xiang's shoulder and chuckled in a low voice: "Honestly, when did you realize it?" ”

Cao Xiang grinned, and looked left and right a few times in a shy: "I realized it last night...... Actually, in the past few days, I have been trying to figure out a sentence, what is called invisible pretend, is the real pretend, Yang Chuan, look at how we are dressed? ”

Yang Chuan scolded with a smile: "Be too careful." ”

Cao Xiang laughed: "It's okay, it's okay, anyway, you said it, as long as Ben Hou is not embarrassed, it is others who are embarrassed ......"

……

So, a stick of incense.

Liu Che, Princess Pingyang, Gongsun Hong and other civil and military ministers came to the embankment, and they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

Saw.

Yang Chuan, Huo Quai, Li Gang and other Yulin orphans, one by one, were so tired that they staggered and sat on the embankment, looking miserable, obviously, after a 'hard fight'.

Moreover, what stunned the emperor the most was the emperor's nephew, the son of Princess Pingyang, the Marquis of Pingyang of the Han Dynasty, the largest salt seller in the Han Empire, and the former bully of Chang'an City...... Cao Xiang!

"This wedge is not good, it is not wear-resistant, and it has to be replaced with fine iron when you turn around."

"Yang Chuan, Huo Quai, Li Kang, you guys have rested for more than 20 breaths, don't you roll over, look at this connecting rod, you can't just hit wild boar fat in it, you have to find a way to get a pulley."

"Alas, it's not okay for you to be lazy like this, hurry down and work."

"What about this person, the most important quality is not the side that others can see, but when others can't see it, we are still working hard and don't ask for returns, this is the true nature of my good man."

"Others laugh at me for being too crazy, I laugh at others for not being able to see through it, people say that I Cao Xiang is a gangster in Chang'an City, not a good thing, how do they know that my Cao Xiang's favorite thing is just planting fields and raising chickens......

Since Cao Xiang's 'chosen' place was better, directly below the sluice, even if the emperor and others came, he could completely pretend not to know and say something that he was embarrassed to say face-to-face.

That's it, it's very professional.

Even Yang Chuan admired it very much, in order to pretend to be forced, Cao Xiang was really hardworking......

"Are you making all these new farm tools yourself?" Squatting above the sluice, listening to Cao Xiang's 'philosophy of life' for a long time, Liu Che couldn't help but smile and nodded, and asked casually.

Without waiting for Yang Chuan, Huo Quzhi and others to speak, Cao Xiang suddenly raised his head, his face flushed, and he said, "Uncle......"

Then, the two mud-stained hands of this goods smeared a few times on the clothes, combed the messy hair around the sideburns, and said very twistedly: "Uncle, wait a minute, Xiang'er go and change clothes!" ”

As he spoke, he climbed up the ladder.

Liu Che smiled and waved his hand: "You don't need to change it, you don't need to change it, it's very good, I don't blame you for the crime of losing your honor." ”

Cao Xiang's expression was gloomy, and he shook his head and sighed: "Uncle, Xiang'er has disgraced you." ”

Liu Che asked strangely, "Why did you still lose face to me?" Didn't you say that you designed and produced a few earth-shattering new farm tools, why are you still so lost? ”

"Uncle, you don't know."

Cao Xiang climbed up from the ladder, led Liu Che to a tall 'waterwheel', looked up for a while, shook his head and sighed: "It's still not satisfactory!" ”

At this time, there were already more than a dozen court ministers standing in front of the waterwheel pointing and pointing, talking to each other, and they really couldn't raise any interest in such an inconspicuous and immovable wooden shelf.

"Uncle, look, this is a waterwheel," Cao Xiang said a little depressed, "Originally, my nephew's idea was that there should be a lot of water in a cart a day, which is enough to irrigate seventy or eighty acres of fertile land in high places."

But uncle, after testing, I found that this thing is simply flashy, and a waterwheel can only irrigate twenty or thirty acres of fertile land in a day......"

As soon as Cao Xiang said this, there was a boo around.

Irrigating the fertile land in the high places, twenty or thirty acres?

"No, I said Pingyang Hou, you said that the waterwheel you made can drive water to a high place? Can you still irrigate twenty or thirty acres of fertile land? "Da Nong Ling Zheng was the first to disbelieve it at that time, and glanced at the 'wooden shelf' at Cao Xiang, his face was full of suspicion.

"Pingyang Hou, you are talking to Your Majesty, don't talk to him!" Prime Minister Sun Hong snorted coldly.

"Cao Xiang, in front of your uncle, don't talk nonsense!" Even Princess Pingyang was a little puzzled, turned her head to Liu Che and said: "Your Majesty, look at these children, they really don't know how thick the sky is, and I will ......punish them heavily when I turn around."

Liu Che raised his face, carefully observed the 'waterwheel' in front of him, and said with a thoughtful smile: "Xiang'er, you can try to increase the wooden bucket that scoops water, in addition, the amount of water in the car is not enough, you can find a way to expand the outer ring of the wheel." ”

Cao Xiang's eyes lit up, slapped his head violently, and laughed: "Oh, my uncle is still amazing, and I thought of the key point at once, and Xiang'er turned around and tried to improve it again."

Let's take a walk, uncle, take a look at a few other new farm tools, you can give us some tips.

Oh, this is really a village with no way out, willows and flowers, uncle, high, really high! ”

The sentence "the mountains and rivers are full of doubts, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village" blurted out, and when he arrived, he shocked some of the ministers who did not deserve to have names, and the eyes cast on Cao Xiang's big straw bag seemed to have undergone a trace of unknown changes.

Yang Chuan listened not far away, and as soon as he turned his head, he saw Cao Xiang winking at him, so he had to silently stretch out a thumbs up and give this product a handmade praise......

Liu Che nodded with a smile, waved his hand and said, "Look at the same, Xiang'er, let this waterwheel turn first, let me open my eyes." ”

Cao Xiang hesitated slightly, and said: "Uncle, this waterwheel can only irrigate twenty or thirty acres of fertile land a day, or wait for me to improve it......"

Liu Che was very displeased and reprimanded: "Look at you kid, let you open it, open it, water twenty or thirty acres of fields every day, if you work day and night, how many acres of fields can a waterwheel water in a year?" A hundred, a thousand? ”

Cao Xiang sighed at this time, reluctantly walked over, and used a big hammer to open the crossbar that fixed the wheel of the water wheel.

With the sound of rushing water, the tall wheels of the waterwheel slowly turned.

It can be seen with the naked eye, driven by the flow of water, the speed of the waterwheel gradually increases, and then, to everyone's surprise, a scene happened-

On the huge wheels of the waterwheel, there are twenty or thirty inclined 'small wooden buckets', which are pushed by the hydraulic force to scoop up the river water, and slowly rise with the 'wheels'; then, when it reaches a certain height, the water in the small wooden buckets will pour into a trough made of wood, and flow down with a bang;

The wooden trough was three or four zhang high from the ground, and it was obvious that with the continuous rotation of the waterwheel, bucket by bucket of river water was continuously carried to a place three or four zhang high......

The crowd was in an uproar.

"Water can really flow high!"

"No, this is not the power of animals, how can a mere wooden wheel carry the river water to a high place? It can't be a Taoist immortal, right? ”

"It's not a Taoist immortal method, it should use the impact of the water flow, and then push the wheels of the water wheel to turn."

"Tut-tut, Pingyang Hou is really a very intelligent person, such a whimsical idea, I don't know how to figure it out......"

Even Liu Che was shocked, although he had vaguely guessed before, but he could only raise the river three or five feet higher, which was already a great invention.

If a place three or four feet high can be irrigated on a large scale...... It's incredible!

"Xiang'er, your waterwheel is comparable to a million gold!"

Liu Che laughed, walked to the wooden trough, reached out and scooped up a handful of water, held it high, and gently swayed it against the bright sunlight at noon, and then turned into colorful small water droplets, crackling and falling to the ground.

He didn't care about drying the water stains on his hands, and looked at the ministers with great interest: "Prime Minister, Da Nong Ling, Imperial Doctor, ministers, do you think that if this waterwheel can be implemented, how much more can I increase the fertile land that can be irrigated?" ”

Prime Minister Sun Hong took a step forward, bowed down and said: "Just in Guanzhong, with the help of Weishui and Bahe, you can increase the irrigated fertile land by more than 800,000 mu. ”

Danong Ling Zheng also bowed down at that time and said: "What the prime minister said, just the fields along the banks of the river, if you can dig branch canals in the upper reaches of several rivers with abundant water, and then cooperate with the irrigation capacity of the waterwheel, the land in Guanzhong can increase the irrigation of more than 3 million mu of fertile land."

Moreover, this is still a rough estimate, the detailed number of acres of land, after Weichen returned to Chang'an, he immediately sent people to various places to investigate in detail, and after summing it up, he told His Majesty as soon as possible. ”

Liu Che nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's so good, it's bothering the prime minister and the big farmer." ”

The two men hurriedly bowed down and said, 'Obey'......

Just when the emperor and the ministers were discussing 'national affairs', Cao Xiang squatted in front of the waterwheel in a daze, although he did not sigh for a long time, but the expression on his face was obviously with a touch of worry and anxiety.

"Xiang'er, why don't you look happy," Liu Che, who was very interested, walked over, rarely hugged his nephew's shoulder, and comforted him gently: "It's okay, you have done a good job, really, uncle has to thank you stinky boys." ”

Cao Xiang sighed and said, "Uncle, Xiang'er is worried that a few new farm tools in the back have disappointed my uncle......

Up to now, the character image of Cao Xiang is quite complete, and the chef is quite satisfied. Who's next?

(End of chapter)