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A few days later, when Luo Yong heard that His Majesty the Emperor was going to open a canned meat factory in Chengzhou, he naturally understood the cause and effect in his heart.

At the same time, he was also secretly rejoicing in his heart, fortunately he was able to hold back and was humble enough, otherwise wouldn't he be reduced to a laughing stock right now?

But the people in Xipo Village didn't care about this, they didn't care where the emperor wanted to build the canning factory, this road was built for Luo Sanlang in their village anyway.

These people in Xipo Village are very happy recently. Firstly, it is because of the imperial decree of the emperor, and secondly, the irrigation system they worked so hard to build has now been put into use.

After several processing and adjustments, it is now very useful. As long as it is a field in the village, no matter what kind of corners and corners it can take care of, irrigation is not a problem at all, and it is combined with fermented pig urine and homemade The soil and dung from the burning, the slopes in their village are now very good for growing crops.

A lot of people have come to their village to observe and study recently. Apart from Lishi County and the surrounding areas, there are also people from Taiyuan City or even farther away.

Even Hao Cishi, who was a little bit sluggish some time ago, has slowly become active recently, and is doing his best to promote this irrigation method in Shizhou.

The event of presenting the threshing machine last time had a great impact on Hao Jianping.

When he sent a threshing machine to the capital full of expectations, he thought in his heart that his trip was nothing but two results. One was that the imperial court attached great importance to this threshing machine, which he thought was the most valuable It may also be the best result. Another result is that the imperial court does not pay as much attention to it as he imagined. Although it is a pity, as a local official, he has no choice but to promote it in the places under his jurisdiction.

Hao Jianping originally thought that the second situation was the worst outcome, but he did not expect that he still underestimated the malice in this world after all.

In this era of no television and no Internet, the distribution of wisdom is extremely uneven. Some people have been officials for generations, so they naturally accumulated a lot of experience in the officialdom. , Teachers themselves don't know much about it, so where do they learn it from?

So in this era, many people are actually very naive, and for those who have entered the officialdom, such naivety is often very fatal.

Hao Jianping didn't suffer much, but he was hit on the head with a stick and poured cold water on his body, which made him deeply understand the cruelty of power struggle.

After returning to Lishi County, he often reflected and thought.

Recently, I heard that Xipo Village has built a remarkable irrigation system. Hao Jianping went to check it out for himself, and felt that this system is simply wonderful.

Their Shizhou area is mountainous, and the keel waterwheel that is prevalent in the Central Plains is not suitable for them.

The use environment of the keel waterwheel is preferably on a flat and vast field. If there is a water source nearby, but it is lower than this field, it will cause inconvenience to irrigation. The water wheel, the scraper on the water wheel, scrapes the water from the bottom to the field above. A water wheel can often irrigate a large area of ​​farmland, and villagers can also take turns to step on the wheel.

The disadvantages of this kind of keel waterwheel are firstly that it mainly relies on manpower to step on the car, and secondly that it uses a scraper to scrape the water, and it leaks while scraping. If the terrain is relatively flat and the drop is not too big, it is relatively easy to use. If it is changed to a mountainous area like Shizhou, it will basically not be used.

The bobbin carts made by Luo Sanlang and others are very suitable in their place. The streams in the mountainous area are turbulent, and there is enough water power to drive the bobbin carts. Although the principle of this bobbin cart is wonderful, its structure is also very simple. , It is not difficult to manufacture, and the efficiency of water collection is relatively high. Combined with the ditches repaired with soil cement, the effect is better.

Excitement was nothing but excitement, but this time Hao Jianping didn't rush to report to his superiors like before, for fear that Chang'an City wouldn't be able to find this thing.

He just handed over a document in a business-like manner, and then promoted this irrigation system in Shizhou with peace of mind. After all, Hao Jianping is the governor of Shizhou, and his words can still be counted on this three-acre land.

In order to cooperate with Governor Hao to promote this irrigation system, Luo Yong also asked his disciples who worked in the cement workshop to bring some manpower to various places in Shizhou to build earthen kilns to burn cement.

The yellow mud used to burn this soil cement can be found everywhere in Shizhou. Lime and gypsum are also found in many places. Relatively speaking, there is actually no geographical advantage in building a cement workshop in Xipo Village. Also added a lot of shipping costs.

At this time, since Hao Cishi wanted to promote this irrigation method in his village, Luo Yong simply asked his disciples to burn cement in other villages, not only for building canals, but also for some villages who wanted to build roads. You can take this opportunity to fix it together.

Luo Yong himself would sometimes drive a carriage to those villages to observe and supervise. Nowadays, there are so many people learning arithmetic from him in Xipo Village, and many of them have carriages. Luo Yong wants to borrow a carriage occasionally. That's still relatively easy.

"Sanlang, do you think our lime can be used?" On this day, Luo Yong was discussing with Hao Shi Tiancun and others in a village how to arrange the irrigation system of the village. The villagers picked up a few loads of lime and showed it to Luo Yong.

Luo used them to sell cement in these villages, and the price was five yuan a load. If the villagers could get lime, then a load of lime could be exchanged for a load of cement. If they could get gypsum, a load of gypsum could be exchanged. Two loads of cement, this way of bartering, has also lightened the burden on some villages whose economy is not so good.

"It's useful." Luo Yong looked at the few loads of lime they picked, nodded, and then took out a few bamboo sticks from his sleeve and handed them to them: "When the cement here is burned out, you can Take this bamboo stick to get it."

"Hey, it's good to use it, it's good to use it." The villagers were very happy. Their village is not as rich as Xiaohe Village in Xipo Village. Hao Shishi said that he would help them build an irrigation system, and brought a lot of money. Everyone will be very happy without the craftsmen helping to build the waterwheel.

The cost of cement needs to be paid by the villagers themselves, and the main state capitals don't have that much money to support the promotion and construction of the irrigation system in the entire Shizhou, and the bulk of the expenditure has to be borne by each village itself.

After those people received the bamboo sticks, they didn't leave immediately. Hao Cishi glanced at them and asked, "Is there anything else?"

"I don't know when the canal in our village will be excavated?" one of the villagers asked. What everyone meant was that they hoped that the canal would be built as soon as possible.

"Tomorrow, Luo Sanlang and the others will start burning cement here. You can work with him first, so that you can exchange some cement and save it for the construction of the canal at that time. As for how to repair the canal and where to dig it, I and Tamura are working together." Waiting for someone to plan carefully." Hao Shishi said to them.

According to Xipo Village’s previous experience in building water canals, it is very important to plan the route in advance, come up with a plan in advance, and then act according to the plan when the construction is in progress, instead of a group of people running around on the slope at the end of the day. , The final irrigation project may not be easy to use.

Tian Cunzheng had presided over the construction of the irrigation system in Xipo Village before, so he had some experience, so Governor Hao took him by his side these days, and often discussed with him, and the two often went to the slope together Looking at the specific terrain conditions, Luo Yong watched, as long as the governor of Shizhou did not change, the future of their Tamura Masa was relatively bright, let alone the next Li Zheng.

The villagers were also very happy to hear that they could work in Luo Sanlang's cement workshop to exchange cement. On the one hand, the construction of the canal would not be delayed, and on the other hand, labor could be used to pay for the cement. Not so much money to buy cement.

Hao Cishi and the others were still discussing about the water canal. Luo Yong just arrived today and didn't know much about the situation here. After listening for a while, he found it boring, so he found a shady place to sit down.

His disciples are also busy at this time, Luo Yong thought, the cement workshop here can be run for a while longer, this village is not too far from Lishi County, and it is convenient to sell the extra cement produced, these The villagers can work in the cement workshop to pay for the cement money, and Luo Yong doesn't have to take care of them.

Regardless of the two and a half meals a day, these people can eat it. Xipo Village can eat Luo Yong every day just for food. A cement workshop, plus threshing Machine workshop, how many people eat every day.

And the craftsmen from Chang'an City, the emperor asked them to bring fine iron, but they didn't bring food money, so Luo Yong still had to take care of them.Regardless of the fact that these people are all from the city, their appetites are no worse than those of the rough guys in their village. When they catch up with noodles with fried sauce, each of them has two stomachs in their stomachs.

"Sanlang, what do you want?" Tian Cunzheng called Luo Yong over there.

"It's nothing." Luo Yong smiled and waved at him.

"I want to go to the slope with Hao Cishi to have a look again, do you want to come together?" Tian Cunzheng asked him.

"I won't go, I'll go to the kiln for a while, you go." Luo Yong smiled brightly.The planning of the ditch has nothing to do with him, so why should he go.

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On the side of Xipo Village, Bai Yimao and the others were very happy when they heard that Luo Sanlang would not come back this afternoon.

Ever since the news that His Majesty the Emperor was going to build a canning factory in Chengzhou reached them in Xipo Village, the coffin board was obviously more "intentional" in teaching than before. It's getting harder and harder.

It was rare for him to go out today, and I heard that the place he went was still far away, and he would definitely not be able to come back in the afternoon, so Bai Yimao and the others were secretly happy.

"Hey, where are you guys going?" Just after lunch at noon that day, Bai Yimao and the others were about to leave the guesthouse.

"Let's go for a walk." A fat man turned around and said with a smile.

"Didn't Saburo say that everyone should study by themselves today." The man frowned.

"We've just had dinner. We'll come back later for self-study." When Luo Yong was in the past, he didn't start class so early.

"I'm afraid it's too late." The man said.

"Where do you start with this?" Several young people looked puzzled.

"Sanlang left us arithmetic problems. I'm afraid that if you go out to play at this time, you won't be able to finish those problems when you come back." tall blackboard.

"..." Several young people looked over together.

I saw a large sheet of white paper was pasted on the blackboard at this time, and the white paper was neatly filled with arithmetic problems. Looking at the serial numbers of the previous questions, there were no more, no less, a total of one hundred questions.