Chapter 196: Great Iron and Steel (8)

Huang Xiao slapped his thigh heavily: "But, but not long after, the steward of the palace said that with this drip irrigation method, there is no need to raise many of us to eat rice, so he drove us away and let us find our own way out." However, the vast majority of the fields in the world belong to the immortal family, and the farmers who grow kudzu grass in other places have also been driven away by the stewards, so where can we still find people to take us in? Not to mention, even those farmers who are lucky enough to stay will have to cultivate more fields -- because after using drip irrigation, some fields that are not close to the water source can also be diverted to grow kudzu. On the contrary, the villagers are more tired and bitter than before. ”

Guo Dalu was stunned, the last time he was in the palace of Tianyi Pavilion, he heard the palace master Yu Dazhong say that after the drip irrigation method, he would collect more rent from the farmers and prevent them from taking advantage of the immortals. But I never expected that the immortal family of the Great Li Dynasty would be so greedy, and he would just turn a good law of good governance with a crooked mouth, and read it as a law that harms the people, hurts the people, and even cripples the people!

But I don't know how many peasants were forcibly driven from their homes and wandered around in the Great Li Dynasty.

Guo Dalu was so angry that his hands trembled a little: "Bastards! a group of bastard bastards! What immortals do they cultivate! What gods do they become!"

Huang Xiao was startled when he heard Guo Dalu scolding the cultivators, and hurriedly said: "I can't blame the fairy grandfathers for this, they don't care about the mundane things, they are the palace masters and stewards who leave the palace are too greedy and foolish behind their backs. ”

Guo Dalu shook his head and sighed, Huang Xiao is really confused, he is a typical anti-corrupt official, not anti-emperor, he only thinks that the emperor is good, and the bad is the people below, but he doesn't know that the ruling structure of the Great Li Dynasty, the cultivators entrenched at the top are the root of all evil!

It's just that these words don't make sense at all with Huang Xiao, who has never studied political ideology and doesn't understand class theory, and it is also plain to say that the power of cultivators is too strong, even if there are Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in this world, they will be killed by cultivators with various spells every second.

Guo Dalu sighed and cheered up: "Uncle Huang, you can settle down in Houlong Village, it just so happens that I am burning red bricks and cement, and I am going to change all the old houses in Houlong Village into model houses in the new countryside, and when the time comes, I will help you build a row of new houses." ”

Huang Xiao only thought he was dreaming, and a moment ago he was wandering around with the villagers, suffering from white eyes, sleeping in the open air, eating and sleeping in the open, and not knowing the next meal after eating, but now, not only can he find a stable errand, but he can also live in a new house? !

He knelt down with a grunt: "Brother Guo--no, Mr. Houlong! You are the living immortal, the living immortal who saves the suffering for us!"

Guo Dalu grabbed Huang Xiao and didn't let him kneel, and said: "Uncle Huang, liberation -- to save ourselves has never relied on any immortals, but on our labor, don't worry, follow me, you will definitely be able to live a good life - I will let more poor people in the world live a good life!"

The addition of Huang Xiao and others has slightly alleviated the dilemma of the lack of labor in Houlong Village, they have all been soldiers, and the order is prohibited, although some technical work can not be started immediately, but doing some heavy and clumsy work is not tight.

Guo Dalu privately pulled the old village chief Zhu and asked him to inquire in Yinxian County, if there are any farmers like Huang Xiao's village who have lost their land due to the drip irrigation method, if there is, they will be invited to work in Houlong Village.

After arriving in Yinxian County, he discussed with the new Huang County Master in the secret room for a while, selected some craftsmen from the landless peasants who wandered to Yinxian County, and asked them to sign a deed of sale, and then brought them back to the village and placed them in various workshops - in this way, these peasants became slaves in Houlong Village, and they were not allowed to be free for life or even future generations.

But the old village chief Zhu took this move for granted, Guo Ge'er is kind-hearted, but it is impossible for Houlong Village to feed people in vain, and if outsiders are allowed to enter and exit at will, how can the secrets in the workshops be kept? These landless peasants can be slaves in Houlong Village, which is also their blessing, whose slaves can eat three meals a day? We Houlong Village people are also born poor, and we will not deliberately belittle them, but this deed of sale must be signed, and this is the reason for traveling all over the world.

Old Village Chief Zhu is called a typical ass to decide the head, and now Houlong Village is also faintly a sect of cultivators, although it has just been established, and the method of cultivation is still pondering by Guo Dalu, but Old Village Chief Zhu has consciously regarded himself as a member of the ruling class, if Guo Dalu knows about this, he really doesn't know what to do except smile bitterly, because, there are only people who betray the class, there are no people who betray the interests of the class, and the old village chief Zhu in order to protect the interests of himself and Houlong Village, this move is understandable.

It's the big girl, chatting with Huang Xiao and others in private, after learning about the misery of the landless peasants, she found Li Bo, so that she could say that she got a sum of money from him, opened a porridge shed outside Yinxian County, and helped the wandering farmers, which is also because of her special identity - now who in Houlong Village doesn't know that Guo Jin likes the big girl very much, and treats her as a daughter-in-law, in Li Bo's eyes, the big girl is already half a housewife, and it is really nothing to embezzle a few small money earned by snow sugar.

The progress of the construction sites everywhere is quite smooth, but after Guo Dalu heard about the landless peasants at Huang Xiao, he suddenly took off the robe and sleeves sent by Huang Xueheng, and asked the big girl and Guo Lanying to sew a set of modern jackets and trousers from linen for him, named overalls, and wore them on his body, ran around, and worked by himself. His strength is different from ordinary people, he does the work at the top of three or four, and he is familiar with the joints of various techniques, and he personally participates in the field, and the progress of the project has been accelerated a lot.

Soon, easy-to-wear overalls became popular in Houlong Village, because these clothes were much more convenient than short coats or something, the girl and Guo Lanying took the women in the village to make a batch, so that everyone wore overalls, for a while, the overalls became the unique clothing of the people of Houlong Village, and unconsciously, even some coolies in Yinxian County also wore these "strange clothes".

It's just that, unlike the underwear and sanitary pants that Guo Dalu "invented" before, workwear is only popular among the lower-class working people, and those big men are not eye-catching, and they even call this workwear "coolie suit".

On this day, Guo Dalu, who was dressed in tooling, was beating a stainless steel furnace plate by the stove, because the blast furnace was assembled by a piece of curved plates, and the appearance of each crude steel plate was different, and the curved surface was not the same.

The processing of complex curved surfaces is still a problem until the 21st century, and it is difficult to accurately process five-axis automatic machine tools, let alone the full manual work of the blacksmith shop in Houlong Village, so the progress is extremely slow.

Li Dayan raised a small hammer, banged, knocked on a point of the stainless steel workpiece, next to Guo Dalu picked up the sledgehammer, hey, slammed on the point indicated by the small hammer, the bell sounded, and the steel parts were slightly deformed under Guo Dalu's heavy blow. Li Dayan continued to use a small hammer to indicate the direction, Guo Dalu continued to pick up the sledgehammer and hit it hard, clanging bells, and in the dense hammering sound like raindrops, the steel parts gradually took shape.

In the workshop, there are several furnaces that are processing similar workpieces, but only Chen Qingdai can compete with Guo Dalu, this strange woman with a sledgehammer is not like a girl at all, stupid big and other children have long admired Chen Qingdai to the ground, surrounded her with a bite of Sister Chen, and asked her how to refine this body of strength when she looked delicate and weak.

The small hammer in Li Dayan's hand finally stopped, he picked up the steel parts with a long-handled tongs, aimed at it with one eye, and nodded for a while: "Brother Guo is becoming more and more skilled now, this batch of workpieces is completed, and the furnace body is officially completed." ”

Guo Dalu wiped his sweat and was about to say a few words of modesty, when he suddenly heard a loud commotion outside: "Oh no, the furnace body has fallen off!"

Guo Dalu threw down the sledgehammer in his hand, and rushed out of the shop with an arrow step, followed by Chen Qingdai, Guo Dalu saw at a glance that on the towering scaffolding, a steel plate was making a piercing creak, falling off from the furnace body, and the people on both sides were holding their heads and scurrying, for fear that this one-ton steel piece would fall on him.

Guo Dalu lifted his breath, people were like meteors, he had rushed to the scaffolding, grabbed the workers who were still climbing on the scaffold and couldn't climb down and threw them far away, he exerted his force very ingeniously, although he threw people far away, but when he landed, he rolled down, except for the ashes, but he was unharmed.

However, it was too late, the steel fell off from the furnace body, and smashed on the scaffolding with a bang, Huang Xiao was drilling in the scaffolding construction, too late to drill out, watching the steel smash the bamboo scaffolding on the upper floor, pressing down on his head, he was so frightened that he closed his eyes, and screamed - suddenly, a black shadow flashed in front of Huang Xiao's eyes, hugged his waist, and pulled him out from under the steel plate pressed by the volley, boom, the steel plate smashed half of the scaffolding, and smashed it heavily on the bluestone slab ground, sparks splashed everywhere.

Huang Xiao stood a meter away from the steel plate, his legs trembling, he didn't even notice that it was a hairy tail that was wrapped around his waist and rescued him in a desperate moment.

This tail was naturally conjured by Guo Dalu with a nondescript seventy-two transformation, he shook his body and put the tail away, fortunately, the scene was chaotic, except for Chen Qingdai, who was following closely, no one noticed the hole in the pants behind his buttocks.

Hao Ge'er and others rushed forward, helped Huang Xiao and the others down, drank sugar water to suppress the shock, Guo Dalu and Li Dayan climbed onto the collapsed scaffolding, and checked the falling steel parts. (To be continued.) )