Infrastructure maniacs from the East

Playing the field is a more laborious task than imagined. The previous lords would let the farmers work for him on weekdays, and the farmers' harvest is not enough to reach the point where these large equipment are needed. This year's farmers eat more Well, some strength has been accumulated in the body, and the lord is not stingy with cattle, horses and livestock, and the efficiency of work is much higher than before.

The ox-horse pulls the stone rollers to draw bigger and bigger circles. The sun-exposed grain has already reached the point of cracking. It is a pity that the novice who used it for the first time and the inexperienced Lord Xu made countless mistakes in it. The biggest one was that it was not cleaned and the excrement of cattle and sheep stained part of the grain. Lord Xu, who really couldn't stand it and couldn't accept it, sold it at a low price.

"...Stone milling, stone milling, stone rollers, buckets and baskets...saddle and donkey necks, horizontal rods, funnels and shovels...Gravel sieves, looms and salt nests..."

Lord Xu was humming an ancient ballad intermittently, and the fiery red sunset actually had some artistic conception. The butler next to him looked at Xu Tian with admiration. Of course he didn't know what Lord Xu was singing about— — Just like the flower growers in the previous life all learned dumb English, but the housekeeper with the best talent here only learns dumb Chinese now.

So the housekeeper didn't know that the lord in his heart was actually singing a rural labor tool for planting flowers in the 70s and [-]s that his grandmother had hummed before. It was more like a nursery rhyme than a song.

This secret has not been revealed for a long time, because the later butler couldn't remember exactly what the lord sang at that time, so he described it in his memoirs as follows:

There was a beautiful sunset that day, the lord was wearing the clothes he had when he came (a thousand words of praise are omitted here), humming a sad song (a thousand words of flattery are omitted here), and then——the lord The appearance balabala, the lord's temperament balabala... After all the rainbow farts with no dead ends in all directions were blown, the butler finally wrote the last sentence that was shocking - what was the song singing at that time... Actually, I didn't listen clearly.

Well, after the butler died, his descendants published this memoir with the feeling that I could not be alone, and it was widely circulated out of some secret thoughts, so when many people knew about the butler, they also Harvested the rainbow fart on Xu Tianyi's forehead, and the deep resentment towards the housekeeper for digging holes, and was rated as one of the top ten unsatisfactory incidents after a long time, and what Xu Tian was singing changed It has become an eternal mystery handed down to future generations.

However, this is just a small matter that Lord Xu occasionally goes crazy (liao)~~~

Looking at the freedmen who were manually removing impurities, Lord Xu thought of the big flat bottom frame that grandma used to raise wheat in the past, but this kind of frame is not the same concept as the straw basket here, it is more difficult and can be used in a wider range. The materials usually used are fast-growing and plentiful bamboos... Well, okay, let’s make sure that Tiantian’s children are not the protagonists, otherwise how could there be no bamboos in the territory.

Frustrated, hard work is still necessary. After all, the people here have used stone rollers to carry out preliminary beating and shovel raising wheat, and then they can only separate impurities by hand. The efficiency of people is low, which seriously delays the progress of large-scale construction. Lord Xu, who is used to a high-efficiency life, can't bear it. The most important thing is that there is no guarantee that someone will not cut corners and cheat. Now Xu Tian doesn't want to test human nature at all.

It is still the routine of a brave man under a heavy reward, and Lord Xu demonstrated the function of raising wheat with a clay pot. Everyone instantly understood how useful this seemingly inconspicuous tool is, and the Lord promised A few women with the most skillful hands devoted themselves to creating an effective routine for selling at a low price, and this time it was finally Xu Tian's turn to be lucky, and within half a month he compiled a usable finished product, which was accepted on the spot. Lord Xu took it to a public place to see the effect.

And during this period of time, the free folk were not idle, and Xu Tian was not just a chicken crowing. He also harvested all his crops, although basically all of them were to be handed over to the lord. , but people couldn't help being happy when they saw the food there, and as long as it wasn't the kind of lazy family that usually worked for the lord and saved some food, as long as they dug more wild vegetables, at least they wouldn't starve to death. winter.

Taxes have always been in arrears. Landlords who grow flowers are cunning and cunning, and they don’t know how skilled they are. But the tax collectors here are smarter than the landlords in the East. A range, as long as the crops growing in this irregular pattern belong to the lord, the crops with crooked corners are the real food that farmers can eat, and their range changes every year. Where are the crops better? Whichever piece of tax is collected.

So every time it's harvest time, if farmers want to keep some grain, they have to please the tax official. As for how to please...

The great Lord Xu put forward the great proposal of raising beans to remove impurities. When the free folk found that this method was more efficient than manual removal, women who could weave a flat bottom frame like a large plate were suddenly popular, and The housekeeper with a business mind launched various styles of flat bottom frames in a timely manner, with different sizes and different prices. Although they are not divided into types, they are also very popular. Many farmers’ hard-earned beans are spent in this way. .

Lord Xu is happy to hear this. After all, there is a big gap between the concept of people in this era and the flower planting in the era of small farmers. It is really difficult for people who have wine today and are drunk today to understand what people who have worked hard all their lives think. If not Lord Xu has mandatory working days and punishments. It is estimated that many people will go home and sleep when they get the paste, and come to work with a smile on their faces when there is really no food.

Xu Tian has no opinion on different living conditions. After all, what other people do has nothing to do with him fundamentally, but the behavior of this group of people who dig a canal and go to rest halfway through building a house has seriously affected The progress of Lord Xu's territory infrastructure construction has also affected the future blueprint of future Lords!

Consumption is fine, but Xu Tian must instill in them some concept of savings, and life is their best teacher, who will let them understand that proper spending and spending all the money they have is not the same concept.

Behind the people who happily took away the flat bottom frame, there is a smiling Lord Xu with horns and tails, and most of the time, they have to wait for them to go back before they realize that their family does not have enough food to make it Use, the final result of the purchased plaque is to hang it on a rope to put wild vegetables to prevent it from being eaten by insects and ants on the ground.

Lord Xu, who was poor in knowledge, did not know that this kind of flat bottom frame had a special name: plaque.

The paste is made by the lord in his spare time. The flour is mixed with water at a ratio of [-] to [-] and the fire is continuously stirred until it becomes thick. Xu Tian, ​​who is thrifty, first used rye flour, but the strange-colored unidentified objects that came out were really challenging. The bottom line, the most important thing is that the stickiness is not good. Obviously, when grandma used to boil the paste, it could be easily bonded, but the rye paste is just as sticky as water, which is only a little bit better than the self-adhesive.

How miserable.

After lamenting as usual, Xu Tian asked people to pour these edible unknown objects into the servants' batter. Anyway, the raw materials are only flour and water, and they will never eat bad people. The servants were also very happy when they heard the news.

In the end, wheat flour was used to achieve a better effect, but unfortunately it was not enough to deal with wood, because I had eaten it before and found it tasteless, and Master Xu was not interested in these, and finally turned his mind to the new writing brush that he hadn't had time to make.

So before the sun sets, more than a dozen horse hair, wolf hair, squirrel hair... All kinds of different animal hairs have turned into cute writing brushes on the pen holder, and the paste has been poured into it as an adhesive. It can be used after air-drying. To be conservative, it should be able to use at least... a year, right? !

Xu Tian looked at these writing brushes that were uneven in length and still shedding hair, and felt that he should find someone to explore the improvement and production of writing brushes. After all, the four treasures of the study in the future will occupy a very important position for at least a hundred years. Lord Xu, who is very self-aware, does not think that he can bring everyone into the industrial age with the word steam engine. After all, he studied liberal arts at the pinnacle of his life before the college entrance examination. The miraculous existence of the full test paper, and the science student who can't understand it even after writing it are called the double ghosts of high school.

Then when he was in college, there was no division of arts and sciences...

Recalling his painful experience, Lord Xu decisively decided to use the most primitive mortise and tenon joint. It is really impossible to waste some wood to make a large set and a small one. In short, it is better than repairing this rattle that has been dropped several times. , it is more convenient to make a new one.

The fishing net was about to be groped out, and the woman who was holding her breath was secretly competing to see who could break the last layer of paper first and get a reward that was not worth mentioning to Xu Tian but extremely rich to them.

Speaking of rewards... Is winter coming? The collective dormitory with heated kang should also be built. The rent fee must be paid, but it can't be too serious or too light. After all, I just don't want the leaders to get something for nothing. Not like wanting them to die outside...

Xu Tian, ​​who felt more and more like an old lady, fell into deep thought again.

The author has something to say: Small Theater Xu Tian: Conscience of heaven and earth, I really just sang it casually! ! !

——————感谢在2020-04-0814:45:45~2020-04-1113:33:48期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: 1 King Miao Xiaomi;

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