What happened today made Qin Mu deeply realized

The gap between officials and businessmen in ancient society.

Empress Wu must have known what Xue Huaiyi had done, but she still acquiesced in his behavior, which shows that Xue Huaiyi's sacrifice at the festival was also a means to vent the anger of the people.

Even if something happens, it is Xue Huaiyi who will take the blame, and she herself will be able to leave an image of a master with clear rewards and punishments.

Originally, he thought that Xue Huaiyi was just a courtier who relied on betraying his hue, but he didn't expect to be ruthless and unscrupulous, which was somewhat similar to him.

Inside the Lichun Palace.

Xue Huaiyi stood quietly in front of Empress Wu.

Empress Wu took a sip of tea and looked at him, "Huaiyi, you have gone too far in today's matter. ”

"Huaiyi confesses, I just want to use this festival to beat Qin Mu, he teased me again and again, even if you don't look at the face of the Buddha, you have to look at your face as the queen of heaven."

Xue Huaiyi said under the banner of suppression.

Empress Wu naturally knew in her heart that Qin Mu was also an outsider after all, even if he had great ability, it was an uncontrollable factor, and it was also an unstable factor.

Qin Mu's eyeliner and helpers all have Qin Mu's eyeliner in the six parts, which makes her have to guard against it.

"From today on, you go back to the White Horse Temple, think about it on the wall, copy the scriptures, and lift the ban in half a month."

Xue Huaiyi was unwilling, but if the matter reached this point, if there was no punishment, it would inevitably cause public outrage.

"Huaiyi obeys."

Xue Huaiyi admitted his mistake on the surface, but he had no remorse in his heart, what he regretted was that he was too confident, thinking that Qin Mu was dead, but he didn't expect this Qin Mu to come to a big dance to break the deadlock.

At the same time, he also knew that he did not have a good reputation among believers.

After returning to the temple, Xue Huaiyi explained some things to several other people.

"You go to Wanmin Rice Shop to purchase 3,000 taels of noodles, isn't he Qin Mu going to be a great good man to dig wells and lead rivers for irrigation? Let's send rice and noodles door to door, and if he digs a well, we will send it to a household, and I want to see how many wells he can drill! ”

Xiao Shami was suddenly surprised in his heart, how could Xue Huaiyi, the iron rooster, suddenly remember to do good deeds.

"Why are you stunned, do you know what to do?"

"Uh... Wherever he drills a well, we will send it..."

"And whatever!"

Xiao Shami thought frantically, and seeing that the slap was about to fall on his face, he hurriedly said, "You must say your name as the temple supervisor!" ”

Xue Huaiyi slapped him, "In addition to me, there is also the queen of heaven." ”

"Got it," said the little novice, covering his face.

Three days later, the sound of tapping steel came from a steel mill on the outskirts of Luoyang City.

Qin Mu took Wu Zhengji to the factory.

The lesson from the last time made Qin Mu realize that he had to bring bodyguards with him.

The reason why Wu Zhengji left the festival last time was because he wanted to go to Changshou County to pick up the group of women and question Xue Huaiyi on the spot, who would have thought that before he came back, Qin Mu had already solved the problem.

Qin Mu walked into the factory and saw drilling rigs several feet high in the yard.

The rig is black and is all made of steel, with gears on it and sliders with rails on both sides, which can be adjusted up and down.

The drill bits below are half a meter wide, twenty centimeters wide, and the smallest ten centimeters wide.

Uncle Zhang walked up to Qin Mu at this time and proudly explained: "The drill bit on the design drawings is too small, and it can only make a fist-sized hole, and there is no way to use it for irrigation without a pipe to divert water."

I made a special improvement, first breaking the ground with the smallest, then digging down with the medium to loosen the soil again, then digging a well with the largest to put a barrel, and finally using the smallest drill bit to drill the borehole. ”

Qin Mu was overjoyed, "Uncle Zhang, you are really a genius!" I think this structure is a bit like a Luoyang shovel. ”

"Luoyang shovel? What is it? ”

"Haha, it's to drill the ground and bring the soil out, which can save a lot of effort."

"Oh, hahahaha, then it's better to call it Luoyang drill."

"Everything." Qin Mu looked at the drilling rigs one after another, and made another difficulty in his heart.

There was only one steam engine, and the rest required manpower to turn it, so the local farmers had to help.

"Have you checked it all?"

"Checked."

"Good! Let's go! Qin Mu shouted.

The people in the factory began to pack the rig in its entirety on a donkey cart.

Qin Mu found Uncle Zhang and said, "It's been hard lately, you have to stay up late and work overtime at your age." ”

"What's the hard work, the chairman, you treat us well, our big guys are very motivated to do things, we are tired these days, but we are staying up for time, which is far from working overtime to forge weapons during the war."

When the country station, private blacksmiths are often requisitioned for processing, and those who are willing can be exempted from military service, and Uncle Zhang's son is the kind that is exempted from military service.

"Since Uncle Zhang, you have experience in forging weapons, then take a look at this."

Qin Mu handed him a drawing.

Uncle Zhang put it far away, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, "What kind of weapon is this?" Sticks? What about the blade? ”

"This is called a flintlock pistol, it is a hot weapon, put gunpowder in the tube, pull the plate machine, and hit the flint inside to ignite the gunpowder inside, and the iron ball in the barrel can be shot out." Qin Mu pointed to the paper and introduced step by step.

"Oh, this is a secret weapon! How powerful? ”

"Within five meters, hit the enemy and directly break the bones."

Uncle Zhang blinked frantically, he knew in his heart that Qin Mu would never joke with him, "This thing is a good thing!" ”

"This is still a short barrel, which is easy to carry, and in the future, a barrel more than one meter long will be produced, and both the range and power will be one step closer." Seeing Uncle Zhang's excited appearance, Qin Mu continued, "You try to make it first, this is a secret, don't tell others how to make it, you father and son do it slowly, I'll go first." ”

Uncle Zhang looked at the drawings in his hand and carefully put them in his arms, "Chairman, go slowly!" ”

Although it was still too early to make a flintlock pistol, the things he encountered during this time had to make him use it for self-defense first.

There is always a bad day for the electric baton, and he has passed the age of practicing martial arts, and Wu Zhengji can't be his 24-hour bodyguard, so he still has to increase his firepower.

Although it is inconvenient to reload ammunition, flintlock pistols are powerful and have enough deterrent power.

Today's manufacturing processes and steel are not strong enough to make a turntable and magazine-type musket, let alone a bullet with gunpowder.

The flintlock pistol was already a crushing weapon in the era of cold weapons, and it was slowly improved in the future, and these things were left to their think tank to solve, after all, he himself had never touched a firearm, and only roughly understood the structure and principle.

Qin Mu followed the carriage to the nearest Tianshan Village and rounded up with Feiran.

At the head of Tianshan Village, Xue Huaiyi's father, Tianshan Village, was introducing the current situation in front of Feiran.

"Lord Fei, our village has only watered more than a dozen acres of land, and Naluoshui won't let us go to fetch water, I don't know if the imperial court has any disaster relief funds?"

Fei Ran sneered, "Muramasa, I came today to dig a well for your village, which is also the meaning of the Queen of Heaven, and besides, it's not time for disaster relief yet." ”

"Digging a well?" Muramasa looked at the two people in the deep household, "That's it, what kind of well is being dug for this little person!" ”

Fei Ran pointed to the donkey convoy not far away, "Isn't the drilling team coming?" ”

Muramasa looked at the man with the donkey cart at his head and took a few steps back in fear.

Fei Ran smiled knowingly and said, "That's Qin Mu, this time you're here to help me dig a well." ”

Qin Mu jumped out of the car and saluted, "Lord Fei." ”

Then he looked at Muramasa and put down his hand, "Who is this?" Oh, Xue Huaiyi's father! I've heard that your son has been punished and confined to his feet, and I'm currently thinking about it in the temple. ”

"Ahh

"Faced with the wall? Hahaha, Qin Mu, my son almost killed you is just a small punishment, don't let my son grab the handle, when the time comes, you will die without a place to bury! ”

"Oh, I'm so scared."

Qin Mu didn't bother to pay attention to him, he actually realized that the Empress Wu would not give Xue Huaiyi any big punishment, after all, the most powerful wind in this world was the pillow wind.

Fei Ran came to the back of the donkey cart and looked at the behemoth on the frame.

"Oh, what is this?"

Looking at the smoking machine behind him, "What is this?" ”

"Master Fei, I won't explain too much to you here, can we just look at the results?"

Fila nodded, "Well, professional people do professional things. He pointed to the two men he had brought with him, "You go and explain the location of the well." ”

"No."

"That village boss, call all the men in the village out and let them help!"

Muramasa had no choice but to turn around and go to the village to call someone.

No matter how much you say it, Fei Ran is also an official, and his village is the lowest level of officials, and he can't say anything if he is disobedient.

Several craftsmen installed the steam engine and the drilling rig, and at the same time found several large stones to press on the base of the drilling rig to fix the position and prevent the huge torque from collapsing.

"Good! Fire! ”

The steam engine emitted puffs of black smoke, the water vapor turned into heat waves under the sun, the linkage rod was connected to the gears, and the drill bit began to rotate clockwise.

The two of them slowly pushed the drill bit down, one left and one right, and made several control positions on the side pillars on both sides to limit the depth of the drill bit.

The drill bit slowly drilled into the ground, and after a few minutes the whole drill pipe was only a little exposed.

Fei Ran quietly watched everything, and said with a shocked face, "This is too convenient!" Originally, we dug the well purely by manpower, but it was such a small hole, how to draw water. ”

Qin Mu instructed: "Start the rod and change the drill bit!" ”

The two of them held the handle, lifted the pole one by one, and replaced it with a second drill bit.

"Wonderful, it turns out that the first one was used to break ground!"

"This second drill bit can carry soil, the step is to drill a node, and then lift it up to clear the soil from the drill bit and then drill it."

Fei Ran stared at the drill bit with joy in his eyes, at this rate, this cold relief should be completed.