When a passerby becomes a princess

"Aqueduct?"

Zhang De'er and the two stewards were stunned. These two farms are nearly 30 meters higher than the nearest water source. What kind of canal can allow water to climb up the mountain?It looked like the little princess had been pampered and raised in the deep courtyard since she was a child, and it would be terrible to come here to command chaos.Originally relying on the farmers in the farm to carry water with water trucks, there might be some crops left, but now...

Although he didn't say anything in his mouth, his eyes couldn't lie. In addition to worry, there was also anger in the eyes of the two stewards.They manage these two farms all the year round, how can they have no feelings, and there is not enough rain, they can still work hard, but if someone messes up the command, I am afraid that they will really lose everything.

It's just that this farm belongs to the royal family, and the princess is from the royal family, so how much he wants to do is really beyond the control of the two little stewards.This kind of thing is like having a prodigal son in the next door. At most, you can slander him a few times. Can you still beat him up like his parents?It's just that now that the prodigal son has lost something related to himself, he is naturally very upset.

Lin Qiu couldn't hear their slander, and couldn't understand the dissatisfaction in their eyes. Behind him, Nanny Liu understood, but she just squinted her eyes. Everything about my little son is good, even if he is a prodigal, he must There is also a reason, these two blind people, don't care about them now, if you dare to make any mistakes while doing business, you will be courting death!When the few of them were struggling to survive at the border, who didn't have a few lives on their hands?Although it was Beard who killed at that time, if you really want to kill a few people who don't have long eyes, your hands will definitely not be soft.

"Liu Nanny, take out the map and paper." Lin Qiu interrupted Liu Nanny's killing intent.

"Yes." Nanny Liu responded and took out a map and pen and ink, and moved a low table.

On the way to the farm, Lin Qiu ordered the team to wander around the Qingshui River for a long time, carefully observed the water flow and the soil and rock structure of the river bank, compared the map and the terrain observed along the way, and carefully calculated the area that needed to be irrigated. Lin Qiu basically It has already been determined what direction the canal should go.

I picked up the pen and dipped it in the sharpened ink, drew a crooked line on the map, branched out a few more on the thin line, and then drew a small square on each branch, and then put it down with satisfaction. He said, "Allocate half of the villagers to repair the canals, and then find a few bamboo craftsmen and carpenters."

The two stewards looked at the thin lines and squares on the map and wanted to cry. If they really dug a canal for irrigation, the line is correct, which means that the location of the water storage tank is also correct. The problem lies in the starting point of the canal. There is a big slope from the river, which is still upward. When the canal is built, are they going to go down the mountain every day to carry water and pour it into the canal?

"I don't know what the Crown Princess wants carpenters and bamboo craftsmen for?" Zhang De'er stared at the map for a while, intending to ask the matter clearly before deciding what to do. The Queen sent him to assist the Crown Princess, not to control the elbow.As a eunuch, to survive in a place like the imperial palace, and become the queen's confidant, this insight is definitely worth it.

"Make a waterwheel." Lin Qiu said.

It's over, it turned out that they were not asked to carry water and pour it into the canal, but to transport it by water truck.The faces of the two stewards suddenly turned ashen.

The water wheel in Daliang State is the kind of thing that is placed on a horse-drawn cart, like a big bucket. People drive the horse-drawn cart to the river to fill it with water, and then transport it to the fields for irrigation.

And the waterwheel that Lin Qiu wants to build should be called a high-drum cart.That is to set up a wheel on the top of the mountain and a wheel at the bottom of the mountain, and connect the middle with a cable chain. The water pump is installed on the cable chain, and the water is used as the power to transport the water from the low place to the high place.

Zhang De'er couldn't hold it anymore. People who have never seen a high-drum cart can't imagine how to rely on hydraulic power to transport water from a low place to a high place. Besides, Lin Qiu didn't explain to him what a high-drum cart looks like at all. of.It wasn't that Lin Qiu wanted to keep it a secret, but that Zhang De'er was not a craftsman. From Lin Qiu's point of view, there was really no need to explain it to him.

That night, Lin Qiu lived in the farm and began to draw the blueprint of the high-drum cart.

Liang Xi stood by and watched for a long time, but he didn't understand what the weird parts on the blueprint were for, but he felt guilty and dared not speak out.

Throughout the whole day, Lin Qiu was busy inspecting the farm, while Liang Xi was busy hunting around. If the guards weren't watching closely, he would have thought of trying punting in the Qingshui River.

After all, Liang Xi was just a big boy, before he went to the border, he lived in the palace, only accompanied by eunuchs and palace maids every day, and he didn't even have anyone to talk to.After finally getting to the border, Lin Bai and Lin Yue drilled him to death.When he returned to the palace again, he actually became the prince, but he married a concubine who didn't like to talk, and he was accompanied by a few old mothers who disliked him, and there was also a prince who scolded him all the time... he His Royal Highness has worked really hard.

When I came out this time, I finally had a sense of freedom as high as the sky, but this freedom was cheated.

"Uh... what are you drawing?" Liang Xi opened his mouth several times before he could speak.

"Waterwheel." Lin Qiu stopped the pen in his hand and said seriously.

"Is this a waterwheel?" Liang Xi tilted his head and looked at the blueprint. He had seen a waterwheel on the road today. It was a round bucket, but it was different from this one.

"Well, it's also called a high-drum car." Lin Qiu said again.

"What is it for?" Liang Xi flipped through the sheets of paper that had been drawn on the table, and found a drawing of a wheel.

"You can use a bucket to transport water from a low place to a high place." Lin Qiu thought for a while, and then said: "It is water power transmission, and it directly enters the canal at the high place."

"Oh." Liang Xi had no interest in things like crops and canals, and he became bored after watching them for a while. He walked up and down the room, wanting to go out and find something interesting to do, but it was already dark Now, even if you go out, there is nothing to play.

Lin Qiu stared at him for a while, then stood up suddenly, walked to the place where Liang Xi put his bow and arrow, took out a few arrows from his quiver, and took a vase with flowers from the case, and placed it on the ground in the middle of the room.

Liang Xi looked at him puzzled, and just about to ask, he saw Lin Qiu walking in front of him with some arrows, and said to him, "Stand here, throw the arrows out, and see how many of them can be inserted into the bottle. inside."

Liang Xi took the arrow in doubt, held it in his hand and thought for a while, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said, "What kind of game is this?"

"Throw the pot." Lin Qiu looked at Liang Xi, the corner of his mouth seemed to bend, but Liang Xi was throwing the first arrow at the vase, so he didn't see it.