Datang romantic little landlord

The base made of logs thick and thin at the mouth of the bowl was firmly driven into the river beach and fixed. Now it is waiting for the big runners of the five waterwheels to be installed in place.

A group of 30 people walked slowly from the village carrying the heavy water wheel, surrounded by cheering children and running back and forth with the adults.

Each of these waterwheel runners weighs close to two tons.

A few days ago, when Li Wangyou went to Liu Carpenter's house to see the progress of the waterwheel, he thought of an important question.

How to install the heavy waterwheel runner on the wooden frame base in the river?

What's more, Datang doesn't have a crane, so it seems unrealistic to rely on manpower, and there is no place in the Ganhe River for people to stand on it.

Wouldn't it be funny if the waterwheel couldn't be installed after it was built?

Li Wangyou threw this question to Carpenter Liu with a face full of pain, but unexpectedly, Carpenter Liu burst into laughter: "Xiao Lang, there is finally something you don't understand!"

079 Water Wheel Turning

Li Wangyou's face was thick enough that he didn't care about Liu Carpenter's teasing.

After some explanations, Li Wangyou finally figured out that the ancients also had cranes, but it was just manpower.

Juji, also known as suspenders.

In fact, it is very simple to put it bluntly. It is a tool specially made for lifting heavy objects by using the principle of leverage.

A thick long log with a base that acts as a fulcrum in the center and a weight hanging from the end.

When hoisting, tie the heavy objects that need to be transported to the front of the orange, and then lift the things through the action of manpower and the heavy objects at the end.

Although the principle of the boom is simple, as far as Carpenter Liu said, it is no problem to lift an object weighing forty or fifty stones.

The runners of the five waterwheels were all transported to the river embankment, and the booms were ready. Hundreds of men chanted slogans, and under the command of Carpenter Liu, they hoisted up the runners with a diameter of six meters and slowly moved to Waterwheel base.

After many twists and turns, the runner of the first waterwheel was finally installed in place.

Carpenter Liu and his three sons quickly climbed onto the waterwheel and started the final installation and commissioning.

When Carpenter Liu drove the last wooden wedge into the waterwheel, the first waterwheel of Datang was finally installed.

"Xiaolang Li, the waterwheel is installed, do you want to start it now?" Carpenter Liu shouted at Li Wangyou standing on the waterwheel base.

Li Wangyou led Su Changqing, Pei Lan and Li Heng to stand on the embankment with smiles on their faces to watch the installation of the waterwheel.Hearing Carpenter Liu's shout, Li Wangyou gave him an OK sign.

"Carpenter Liu, let's start the test drive."

Carpenter Liu didn't understand what Li Wangyou's gesture meant, but after hearing this, he and his son removed the blocking baffle of the runner on the waterwheel.

On the contrary, Su Changqing angrily poked Li Wangyou with his elbow: "Are you stupid? Make an OK gesture at Datang?"

"Sau Rui, Sao Rui, I forgot, haha. These details are not important. Look, the waterwheel is turning! Turn!" Li Wangyou shouted excitedly, pointing at the slowly starting waterwheel.

The Ganhe River is gentle, but the water flow rate is not too slow.

Under the impetus of the water flow, the waterwheel squeaked softly, and then the baffle on the waterwheel was driven by the waterflow to guide the waterwheel runner to slowly start to rotate.

When a bamboo tube filled with water is slowly turned to a high place and tilted, the water in the bamboo tube will flow out of the bamboo tube, flow into the water bucket below and then go all the way down the water bucket...

In the eyes of everyone, the river flowed all the way... The water wheel kept turning, lifting up the river water in an endless stream, and pouring it into the ground.

The villagers of Dingzhou Village went crazy and started cheering.

The old villager was so excited that his beard was trembling. As Li Jiaxiaolang said, the river water can irrigate the fields without human or animal power.

"Miracle, this is a miracle! This thing is so ingenious, Mr. Li's young master, you are doing the work of thousands of families to give birth to Buddha, great merit, great merit!"

Lao Cunzheng was about to kneel down and kowtow to Li Wangyou just as he was talking, which really frightened Li Wangyou, and he quickly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to support Lao Cunzheng.

"Old villager, if you can't do it, don't let it hurt you. This is what it should be. Besides, am I not the first beneficiary? Without this water, there is no way to manage the [-] acres of saline-alkali land in my house, haha .”

It doesn't matter if the old village is kneeling, countless villagers around also kneel down.

"Young Lord of the Li family, you are merciful and merciful, and the ten thousand families have Buddhas!"

"Thank you, Mr. Li Family."

"Xiao Langjun, it really is the Wenqu star who descended to the world to save all living beings!"

Many mothers-in-law and aunts pressed their children's heads and asked them to kneel down and salute Li Wangyou.

The kneeling of the villagers in Dingzhou Village made Li Wangyou and Su Changqing even more at a loss.

"Everyone please hurry up, this can't be done, can't be done!" Li Wangyou didn't think that he just built a waterwheel, how could such a thing happen.

He didn't expect how important it is for these villagers to have a steady stream of water to irrigate the farmland.

Although there is no shortage of water in Dingzhou Village, if you want to irrigate and soak all the [-] mu of land in the village, you don't know how much manpower is needed to step on and overturn the carts to fetch water.Originally, due to the lack of cattle, the work in the field was already very hard, and the work of fetching water was even more difficult.

Now that the young man of the Li family actually built this miraculous waterwheel, which can automatically lift water and irrigate without manpower, how could the villagers not be grateful.

Carpenter Liu's family was so excited that they straightened their backs, for fear that others would not know that the five waterwheels were built by their family.

After finally persuading the villagers, Li Wangyou was already sweating.

"Carpenter Liu, let's hurry up and install the other waterwheels." Li Wangyou didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly called Carpenter Liu to continue working.

"Okay, Xiao Lang, look at it, these waterwheels are guaranteed to be installed today."

Under the call of Lao Cunzheng and Carpenter Liu, the excited men of Baishi lifted up the runner of the waterwheel again and started the installation of the next waterwheel.

In one day, five waterwheels were erected on the banks of the Gan River.

The water of the Ganhe River is constantly flowing, driving the waterwheel to rotate continuously, and the river water makes a rattling sound when it is picked up by the bamboo tube and falls down, pouring it into the fields.

Li Wangyou's [-] mu of saline-alkali land has been divided into five parts, all surrounded by high piles of soil, and drainage ditches have been dug around the field.

Each waterwheel corresponds to a field, and the river water is introduced into the field to soak the land.

"Xiao Lang, how long does it take to soak this land?" Next to Li Wangyou, there was a subordinate in Tsing Yi who was seriously writing something with a pen and paper in his hand.

This is Yang Zuan's arrangement to come to Dingzhou Village to record how Li Wangyou managed the saline-alkali land.

But even though the subordinate official was writing in his hand, his eyes unconsciously looked at the water wheel that kept turning aside.

"It's enough to soak for two days, then drain the water in the field, drain the water and store the water again, and then proceed to the next step after doing this three times." Li Wangyou said carefully: "Oh, by the way, you remember Down, the drainage and the incoming water should be separated, and the discharged water should be far away from the incoming water source."

After the subordinate staff wrote down Li Wangyou's words verbatim, he left immediately.

With the erection of five waterwheels, all the villagers of Dingzhou Village were watching beside the Gan River.No matter if it is an old man, a farmer, a mother-in-law, or those children, it seems that they can't get tired of watching the waterwheel turn.