When the carpenters heard that they would be rewarded for completing the car, they all stood up.

Even the relatively lazy ones, including Li Mengxi who could not stand still on the log, stood up.

All the carpenters looked at Li Mengxi.

Some people couldn't help but ask, "Military advisor, if we build a car, what's the reward for us?"

Others booed, "That's right? Do you want to reward us with anything?"

Li Mengxi was equally curious. He also wanted to know what the carpenters wanted most and what they wanted to reward them with. Only by addressing the carpenters' thoughts can the carpenters' enthusiasm for production be stimulated to the greatest extent.

So, Li Mengxi smiled and asked, "Then what do you want?"

"Can you enjoy some wine and meat?" the carpenter blurted out immediately with a greedy mouth.

Seeing that the other carpenters were also watching eagerly, Li Mengxi asked again, "What about you? Do you also want wine and meat?"

The carpenters all nodded.

Li Mengxi smiled, "I'm afraid that wine and meat won't work. I have to take the wine to make medicine, and I have to give the meat to the wounded soldiers first. There is no wine and meat."

The carpenters booed.

"What about other things? Besides wine and meat, what else do you want?" Li Mengxi asked again.

Some bold guy comes forward and says, "Can I have anything you want?"

"Say, but it doesn't matter." Li Mengxi smiled and nodded at the man.

"I think, I..." the man blushed, "I want a wife..."

When it comes to the back, the sound is like a mosquito.

The crowd roared with laughter.

Li Mengxi was also happy.

"If you want a wife, okay. After the yellow scarf is finished, I will talk to Mr. Xuande and find a wife for each of you."

The carpenters were excited.

However, Li Mengxi was not done yet.

Finding a wife is something that will happen in the future, but now a regular incentive system is needed to increase the enthusiasm of woodworkers for production.

"Daughter-in-law is a matter for the future. Think about it again, what do you want? I can't just make a car and give you a wife? That's fine, if I make a car of 17 or 18, I have to give you a wife."

You have seventeen or eight wives, you guys have three wives and four concubines!"

Li Mengxi laughed and scolded him, but the carpenters did not take the insult seriously and instead laughed.

In the end, the carpenters all agreed that if wine and meat were not available, then grain would be the best option.

The carpenters all want food.

"Okay! Just food!" Li Mengxi nodded solemnly, "If you make a good cart, you will be rewarded with food."

"As for the reward, just do it first, I won't lose you."

The carpenters were delighted.

"Then let's start! What are you waiting for?" Li Mengxi smiled and waved away.

The carpenters began to work energetically and enthusiastically, shouting and drinking.

Lu Li also wanted to follow, but Li Mengxi stopped him.

Pulling Lu Li aside, Li Mengxi asked Lu Li for more details.

"Lu Li, how many people need to work together to make a cart? You can't have more than fifty people working together to make a cart, right?"

"You don't need so many," Lu Li scratched his head, frowned and thought. He thought carefully, clapped his fingers, and muttered, "To make wheels, two wheels, two people on one wheel, axle, car plate, handlebar, all...

Need some people."

Li Mengxi listened to Lu Li's muttering.

"Lu Li, didn't we divide it before? The craftsmen's camp is also divided according to ten people. Look, if a team of ten people has enough people to make a car?" Li Mengxi thought about the distribution and really wanted to make the car.

After that, when calculating the rewards, in order to get a better score, we decided to divide the rewards by teams.

"Ten people are enough, that's enough!" Lu Li nodded.

Li Mengxi, who didn't understand technical details, had Lu Li as a technical consultant, so he wouldn't have to be a layman to guide an expert.

Li Mengxi ordered Lu Li to explain to the carpenters that they should make cars according to the teams divided in front.

Lu Li went there and tapped people on the shoulders one by one to explain.

Li Mengxi felt uncomfortable watching it.

This guy Lu Li is really too universal. Lu Li, who was born as a carpenter in the countryside, is honest, dull, and not good at words.

As for management and organizational skills, forget about it.

Li Mengxi could hardly help but roar and helped Lu Li call everyone together so that Lu Li could explain everything in one go.

no way.

There may be many people in the military who have management skills, but there are none who are both proficient in carpentry skills and proficient in management.

How the cart was made, Li Mengxi was extremely curious.

To be more specific, he was curious about the wheels.

You don’t need to look at Li Mengxi to know that the frame is just some wooden boards spliced ​​together with a riveted structure.

Even if you don't use wooden boards, you can just find some bamboo. If that doesn't work, you can just find some branches and tie them together to make a car board.

The body is not the core of the truck.

The core is the wheel.

That is, two wheels and one axle.

In particular, the wheel is curved. How do carpenters make the wood into a curved shape?

Carpenters use a variety of tools for their work. Among them, the adze looks like a miner's pickaxe. This tool is interesting.

An adze is like a hoe, with a flat blade. When used, the adze relies on gravity to swing back and forth, cutting the wood bit by bit.

How did a round tree stump with bark turn into a square log, planed with a plane? No.

The plane is used to finish the wood, that is, after the wood has become a square log, the plane is used to make it flatter.

The bark-bearing stumps are smoothed with an adze.

The processing process that Li Mengxi saw was like this.

A tree stump is placed on the ground. The carpenter holds an adze and stands with his feet on both sides of the wood. Then, his hands are like a pendulum, using the strength of the adze to swing it back and forth.

The adze relied on gravity to cut the bark, bit by bit, peeling off the bark and trunk layer by layer. After a while, Li Mengxi saw that the point in front of the tree stump was cut out of a flat surface.

Seeing this, Li Mengxi suddenly realized that this was it. He first cut one side of the stump flat, then turned it over, and flattened the other side as well.

Then, there are the left and right sides.

Do this four times, and a roughly square log will be formed.

This is the preliminary processed wood.

After the square wood is formed, it is processed again by sawing and planing.

I don’t know how long it takes for an adze to process a square log, but I think it won’t be too fast.

Sure enough, making a wheel is not the same difficulty as making a siege ladder.

When making siege ladders at that time, carpenters directly chopped a tree stump with an axe, sawed it with a saw, broke it with a chisel, and split the stump into four halves. There was no need to process it into square logs before making it.

Li Mengxi squatted there, watching others use the adze. After a while, Lu Li came to see him.

"Commander, are you still ready for that board?"

Lu Li asked.

What board?

Li Mengxi was at a loss.

"It's just a board to keep out the rain." Lu Li added,

Rainproof board...

"Oh!" Li Mengxi remembered. What Lu Li was talking about was that two days ago, he ordered Lu Li and the others to make boards to protect the torches from rain.

In order to prevent the refugees from escaping, Guan Yu ordered some wooden poles to be planted around the camp, and torches were tied to the wooden poles to use fire as a boundary.

At that time, Li Mengxi felt that rain protection should be considered, so he told Lu Li and the others to take time to do it.

Rainproof boards are also very important, but now, there is also an urgent shortage of scooters, and it is not good to stop any of them.

Furthermore, it takes a long time to make the truck, but the rainproof board is a small item. You can just find one or two people. It is not necessary. It is either/or. There is no need to say that you must either stop the truck or put the rainproof

Stop doing it.

After thinking about it, Li Mengxi asked Lu Li, "Lu Li, how many carpenters are there in our camp?"

"Fifty-five." Lu Li returned.

"That's good. Let's make a trolley. Ten people will form a team. The extra five will be divided into rainproof boards."
Chapter completed!