Tang Dynasty good husband

Chapter 105 Master, I want to dig a well
Qin Chao felt that he had found a way to lead the villagers to make a fortune, and there seemed to be no more reliable way to lead the villagers to complete the tasks given by Gou Ri's system.

It is an unreasonable fact for the Qin Dynasty that the ancients needed hundreds of people to dig a well.

However, the facts tell Qin Chao that it really takes hundreds of people to drill a well, and it may not be possible to drill a well at one time.

While drilling wells, there are often some abandoned wells without water, which means that the previous efforts on this well have all been wasted.

So a professional well-drilling team was very popular in ancient times, but not everyone can do this job. First of all, you will judge where there is water and where there is no water.

Whether the selected well location is correct or not often determines the success rate of well drilling.

This is a relatively professional position, and in the great environment of ancient times, this kind of technology is all family-inherited stunts, passed on from male to female, and not every child has the opportunity to get the true inheritance, and the inheritance is so strict that it is almost harsh. .

It is precisely because of these various reasons that the current situation is caused. Although the villagers know how to dig a well, they don't know where to choose, and they don't have time to go to the field to work around. A group of people After working for a month or so, I finally dug an abandoned well intelligently, and it was easy to cause accidents, so over time, no one mentioned the matter of well drilling.

Under normal circumstances, there is only one well in each village. If there is a drought year, even people's drinking water will be a problem, let alone watering.

Qin Chao came to the Tang Dynasty not long ago, but he has seen dozens of wells, and these wells are almost all shallow wells of about three meters. When the year is good, the water in the wells will not be cut off. In drought years, some will be cut off, others will be reduced, but when the weather changes, the wells will return to normal.

In the Tang Dynasty, wells with a depth of more than five meters rarely appeared, and wells with a depth of five meters would generally not have any problems unless there was a severe drought for several years.

"Uncle Liu, if I have a way to drill a well within seven days with only a few dozen people, will there be people competing to dig the well?" Qin Chao asked with a serious face.

Uncle Liu shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be too much. It's not manpower or time that consumes the most in drilling wells. They are all peasants. They can always spare some time even if they are busy throughout the year. But drilling wells is by no means easy. There is no master." According to our guidance, either the water cannot be tapped, or accidents are easy to do, and it takes at least ten strokes to drill a well, so who has the spare money to dig a well?"

"Eh..." Qin Chao broke down in tears instantly, and Uncle Liu literally burst into tears.

Thousands of calculations, but he has no money in the hands of ordinary people,
but……

No matter how poor the people in a village are, they can't afford to pay for a well, right?
But then again, most of the land is in the hands of the landlords. The landlords never care about your weather, the harvest, and the rent that should be collected. If the land comes to offset, you will either sell yourself as a slave, or disqualify you from farming, but before that, the landlord will often search your home.

Well, in fact, the landlords in the Tang Dynasty were not so bad at all. When encountering a disaster year, they would also find ways to increase the land in their hands, but basically it would not happen regardless of whether the people lived or died.

This would only happen if even the landlord's household had little surplus food.

"What if a well only charges five guans?" Qin Chao still refused to give up.

"For five guan, you can drill a well if you squeeze it, but it's only three guan for a well, and the well digger can't make much money." Liu Bo said.

"It's done, let's do it like this." Qin Chao clapped his hands fiercely and decided.

Although Qin Chao cared about whether he could make money from drilling wells, he didn't particularly care. The main purpose of drilling wells was for the sake of his village's harvest. If he could make money, that would be great.

Of course, Qin Chao has already identified a few big customers for drilling wells. If these can become his customers, then there is no problem in making money in a short period of time.

"Uncle Liu, pick twenty strong men from the village and ask them to hurry up and do the work in the field. In a few days, we will try to dig a well. If it can be done, we will dig a few more. No matter what, At least it can guarantee that the watering of our Xiba Village in the coming year will be all right." Before leaving, Qin Chao gave Liu Bo instructions, and ran away regardless of Liu Bo's reaction.

After returning home, Qin Chao immediately found paper and pens. These were precious items, and Qin Chao's living standard could never afford them. These papers and pens also benefited from the benefits of Qin Chao, the young minister of Sinong Temple. , The imperial court gave him some paper, ink, brush and inkstone to record the timing of potato cultivation, the growth characteristics of different periods, the problems encountered, the solutions, the time and characteristics of harvest, the method of harvest, the method of breeding, storage, etc. Wait for a series.

To put it bluntly, it is just to ask Qin Chao to write a guidance note on potatoes.

However, Qin Chao's heart was obviously not on potatoes, so he took out a pen and paper, and Qin Chao used that magical drawing technique to draw out the required equipment one by one. At the end of the drawing, even Qin Chao himself did not recognize it. Out of what is drawn.

Originally, Qin Chao wanted to build a set of irrigation equipment, but after practice, he found that the truth seemed not as simple as he thought, and unless the shallow well was lucky enough to be able to directly penetrate into the underground water cave, ordinary wells would not be able to use it. Really can't keep up with irrigation needs.

One reason is that Qin Chao feels that he is not a scientist. Well, Qin Chao justly assigned the task of researching this work to the scientists.

Qin Chao felt that it was not easy to work out such a complex set of equipment, and the effect may not be as good as imagined. More importantly, he had no money to make.

Therefore, Qin Chao only felt that he had dug the well to ensure that there was water in the well during the dry year, and let other people worry about other things.

The ancients spent time, effort and money to dig wells, but this was actually due to low productivity. Regarding digging wells, they only thought of using people to dig them, but how could people dig them as fast as wells?
In later generations, water wells can be drilled at home, and water can be drilled in three hours. Qin Chao does not have the technology and strength, so he can only use the old-fashioned percussion drilling method.

After writing and drawing for a long time, Qin Chao finally tore up the drawn drawings. The impact drilling method has been determined, but Qin Chao’s drawings required a drill with a diameter of nearly one meter, which was terrible in ancient times. Yes, and the cost is so high that it doesn't make much money at all.

Well, the cost and profit must be taken into account when drilling a well. You can't just do whichever is better. The difficulty is simply...

(End of this chapter)