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Chapter 178 Making Water Wheels

People are either as tough as peppers, as layered as cabbage, or as thoughtful as lotus roots, but most people are straightforward like sugarcane and will never beat around the bush. One is relieved of one's worries and lovesickness, one is Buddha and one is worshipped on the mist and rain tower.

Sun Houpu left in disappointment, and Zheng Ruoying let go a lot, entangled Liang Chuan and kept talking.

"A few days ago, someone in the village killed a tiger. Do you know this?"

"I don't know?" Liang Chuan frowned and pretended.

"Ah, I have never seen a tiger. Is it big?"

Liang Chuan opened his hands and gestured, "Well, it's probably that big."

Zheng Ruoying gave him a blank look and said angrily: "You are talking about kittens."

"Well.."

"Okay, what are you busy with recently? See you stay at home and play with mud every day, and when will that water truck help build one!"

Liang Chuan yelled: "Miss, how come you are different in front of others? When Mr. Sun was there, he was a lady from a wealthy family, and he was well-educated. When Mr. Sun left, the nature of this rude lady was exposed." Liang Chuan also deliberately shouted out of the yard with a fake voice: "Oh, Mr. Sun, come and see, Miss Zheng is wild, come and see!"

The laughter of a group of old village girls outside the yard immediately came in, and someone shouted, "Don't be like a bitch in spring, that young man is leaving!" Zheng Ruoying's face turned red at that time, and he clenched his pink fists and stamped his feet.

"Liang Chuan, you're too much!"

"Okay, okay, Miss, I've been very busy these days, okay? Now let's make this water truck. But you can pay for this material. I haven't earned a penny recently. The family of eight is waiting for me to take the blame, but I don't have the money to buy the materials for you." Liang Chuan said miserably, and he almost took it seriously if he didn't know.

"A family of eight? I'll calculate that your family is only seven people at most. Where can I get eight?" Zheng Ruoying pounced on her fingers and counted. No matter how many times she counted, she felt that she should count one less person.

"Hei Nose is also a part of our family, okay?" Hei Nose called out very consciously, and Yi Niang Li Erhua and the others laughed.

"Your family even has become a dog!" He really stayed in school for three days, and even a dog could recite poems.

Liang Chuan wanted to trouble Zhao Jinyu to take care of the water truck, but after getting on the Liang, the joinery at home had to be completed with the progress of mud and water work, so he had to start working. The doors, window lattices, beam brackets, and furniture at home all needed to be managed by them, such a group of carpenters. Liang Chuan went there several times, and Zhao Jinyu was so busy that he had no time to receive Liang Chuan, and it was even more impossible for him to help Liang Chuan build the water truck.

Unfortunately, Liang Chuan could only push this matter back indefinitely. But Liang Chuan could not wait, Zheng Ruoying couldn't wait, and the tenant farmers in the family asked her to complain again and again. They also wanted to work hard for the Zheng family, but after all, they were not enough manpower and could not be busy with more than 100 acres of land.

The cows are not exhausted, but the people are exhausted first. The Zheng family has cherished the people's strength since they became a family. The talents in Fengshan are willing to work hard for their family and help your family create wealth.

Liang Chuan called He Baozheng, "Old He, which store did you buy wood chips that day? Today, you want to buy some wood. You are also yelling that the Hehe in the ground is about to die of drought. Let's put the mosquito coils on the first place and make a water truck. In the future, you don't have to go to Nanxi to pick it up every day."

He Baozheng's old face was blooming happily, and the crops in the fields were almost in his heart. He sighed every day when he walked over, but he had no choice. He was still eagerly looking forward to God's food to eat.

This year, God doesn’t know what to do. After spring for so long, it’s getting hotter and hotter every day, but I haven’t seen a drop of water fall from the sky. In previous years, nothing was planted in the fields. It rained every day, and no other farm work could be done. This year, everyone is in high spirits. The result is the sun every day.

Waterwheels are an extremely important tool for agricultural production in my country's agricultural history. In an era of high dependence on manpower, a waterwheel can liberate countless manpower and devote themselves to other agricultural production activities, thereby creating more production value.

The high school textbook will introduce the development process of agricultural tools. The Han Dynasty had a turnover, which was the prototype of Chinese water trucks. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the application of wheel axles made great progress. The working people realized the convenience of hydraulic power and made a barrel truck. By the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, wheel axles were even more advanced, which was also the credit of iron smelting. Gear sets appeared, and various diversified water trucks were launched one after another, relying on wind, water and animal power.

The high-rotor truck that Liang Chuan wanted to manufacture is recorded in Wang Zhen's agricultural book. This book is a mountain that cannot be bypassed by studying agricultural history. It is a book with a very historical status in both understanding and contemporary China's ancient agriculture.

Liang Chuan will be very knowledgeable about other agricultural knowledge, but when he sees this kind of gadget, he will be on a whim. He also bought some wood chips and bearings online to make small water trucks. The proportion has been reduced, but the function is exactly the same. After doing it once, he will be easy to make it. Nothing else has changed, but the volume of the materials has increased.

Liang Chuan was riding He Baozheng's ox cart, and Zheng Ruoying's carriage followed Liang Chuan. The two cars rushed to Fengshan. Liang Chuan did not go directly to the timber store, but went to Wanda store first. Now Sun Houpu may be buying bamboo baskets in the store, and Ye Xiaochai had to explain it, but it was about the same. The price he told Ye Xiaochai was 150 cents per person, and the price was added by Sun Houpu himself, which would only be high or low.

The Sun family's convoy was indeed not covered, it was all flat mule carts, waiting in line at the door of Wanda store, carrying bamboo baskets to the car. When Liang Chuan arrived in Fengshan, Ye Xiaochai was directing the Sun family's servants to carry it. She was holding a pen and an account book in her hand, and was keeping accounts.

Liang Chuan did not see Sun Houpu at this time. Logically speaking, such a small matter is not something that the eldest young master personally took action. It was a price reduction, and it could be done just by placing it to the servants.

Ye Xiaochai sold all the hundreds of bamboo baskets in the store today. She thought that after making such a great contribution, she could show off her boss when she went back, but she didn't expect that the boss would come to supervise the venue in person. She asked about the store how many bamboo baskets there were, first recorded them in the account, and then ran to Liangchuan happily and said excitedly: "Boss boss, I'll tell you good news!"

Liang Chuan couldn't bear to ruin the girl's good mood and said, "What good news, let me tell you slowly!"

"Today, a young man came to the store and bought all the bamboo weavings in the store. That would be much more heroic than you!"

Liang Chuan pretended to be surprised and said, "Did this family buy it?"

Ye Xiaochai nodded and continued, "Yes, it's them. Their boss has gone back. I asked him to ask you what the price is. I thought it would be a little lower. Unexpectedly, after a trip to He Lu, I didn't know what evil he was. At first glance, he was just a material that could not do business. I didn't bargain. He himself added thirty cents to the price I mentioned. Are you a fool?"

Liang Chuan snorted, looked around and made a move to silence, "Xiaochai is still here, so you can't talk nonsense. When you enter our store, you will always be our distinguished guests. You can't offend them."

"Yes, I won't know next time." Ye Xiaochai stuck out her tongue and made a face, but still couldn't hide her excitement. She wanted to show herself too much. The job she was looking at the store was too easy. If she couldn't achieve some results, it would be hard to explain to Yi Niang when she went back, and her sisters would have lost their faces.

The servants of Sun's family moved out of the back room one after another. He Baozheng drove ox carts and drove from He Lu. He was also happy to see the business in the store. The old ladies in the village will be able to share the money soon, and they will be more motivated to work if they get the money. They are piece-based, so the more they do, the more they earn.

Liang Chuan has already figured out how to design this water truck. At that time, find a shallow beside the Nanxi River, lay two hard piles, and then make a large wheel of the water truck, which is placed on the pile fork. The upper half of the water truck is higher than the embankment, and the lower half is immersed in water and relies on the driving force of the flowing water to drive the water truck to rotate.

What is more complicated now is the two circles of wooden boards on the outermost part of the water wheel. These two circles are the large frame of the water wheel. There are bamboo tubes for water collection and wooden boards driven by water flow hanging outside, so the carpenters in the wood shop must be more reliable.

The rotating shaft of the water wheel is just fine with a solid log. The surrounding brackets can be made of bamboo from the mountain. The bamboo is tough and light in texture, and will not increase the burden on the water wheel. It can also make the water wheel more durable and is the most ideal material.

He Bao was leading a group of people to the timber shop, and Cai Gang drove the carriage and followed behind. Liang Chuan thought that the girl was not tired today, so she followed her all the way.

As soon as He Baozheng entered the store, the two apprentices in the wood store seemed to have seen a savior. They kindly held He Baozheng's hand and smiled flatteringly: "Brother, I've been waiting for you. How much wood chips do you want to collect today? Have you brought the bag? Should you take them all home?"

The two apprentices were so enthusiastic that He Baozheng was a little embarrassed. He touched his head and didn't know how to reject them. He was really not here to collect wood chips today.

Zheng Ruoying came in with He Baozheng on his back. The two apprentices looked up and thought about what day they were so lively today. There was a girl like a fairy coming to the shop. After closer inspection, it turned out to be her boss’s eldest daughter!

"Hello Miss!" The two apprentices hurriedly greeted each other, and immediately alarmed the carpenter master. He was busy with carpentry work, put down the ink dou and came over to say hello.
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