I want to do research even if I have no money

At this moment, the magistrate of Ningshan County placed another big order for him, and Situ Meng was almost desperate.

"You can't let people outside learn it secretly. What about the people in the manor? Are there any trustworthy children? You let them be apprentices and teach them to be locust killers. Each person is only responsible for a part of it, and they can't know each other. How to do it, and then pay them wages, so that the problem of manpower is solved, and there is no need to worry about them crossing the river and tearing down the bridge after they learn it." Jing Shen said.

Situ Meng listened to his words, thought about it, and thought that this method was indeed feasible.

The next day, he had someone post a notice on the bulletin board of the manor that he was recruiting apprentices from the fire mechanism. Not long after it was posted, many young people came to apply for the job.

Situ Meng picked out a few dexterous and obedient ones, and let them each be responsible for a part to form an assembly line, and some key positions in the middle were completed by himself and the black girl.

In the first two days, the apprentices hadn't gotten started yet, and they were working very slowly, but from the third day onwards, their speed increased. The order that would have taken a long time to complete was quickly completed with the participation of the apprentices. up.

Situ Meng was careful when selecting candidates. He only looked for children from tenant families who had signed a lease contract with the villa for at least 20 years. They grew up in the villa and would dedicate it to the manor for a long time in the future. Therefore, their chances of betraying the manor will be much lower than others.

Now that he has become his apprentice, it is impossible for Situ Meng to let them finish the locust killer and leave them alone. He will use his spare time to teach them fire mechanism skills, starting from the most basic.

These apprentices did not live up to his teachings. They all studied very seriously. They are all farmers in their families for several generations. If there is no accident, they will inherit the career of their parents when they grow up and become another generation of farmers; Or work as a small worker for a shop in Yangzhou Prefecture or Ningshan County.

Their lives are so ordinary, just like all the common people at the bottom of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

However, the young master gave them a chance, and they will have different choices in the future.Although Da Zhou is not as respectful of the fire mechanism technique as before, it is better to have one more choice than no choice.

Each of them studied hard, for fear that they would miss a word or an action.Situ Meng was very satisfied with these apprentices, so he taught them more things.

Jing Shen is also listening, but he is really not interested in the fire mechanism, and he can't understand Situ Meng's pleasure in tinkering with these material parts. Therefore, even though he learns faster than anyone else, he is lazier than anyone else.

With these apprentices, Situ Meng's usual life is more enriched, but he still does not ignore Xiaoshen, and spends time every day playing with Hei Niuer.

One afternoon, Situ Meng pulled the depth of field to a reef, which happened to be an entrance to the underground base.The two held hands, Situ Meng led the way with a light-off flashlight in the other hand, and Hei Niu followed boredly behind.

"Look! This is the cellar and the ice cellar!" Situ Meng pointed to the two large square rooms in front and said, one of which had piled up a lot of crops, and the other had a few ice bricks standing alone.

"These ice cubes were formed naturally in the ice cellar, and I had someone chisel them out." He introduced the origin of several ice bricks to the black girl.

The black girl walked around the cellar and the ice cellar, and said, "This base is so big, you only use this little space, and the other vacancies are left unoccupied?"

"That's not true," Situ Meng said, "but I haven't thought of what to do for the time being, so I'll leave it blank for now."

Little friend Xiaoshen nodded, thinking that Situ Meng is so enthusiastic about fire mechanisms, maybe this base will become his fire mechanism workshop in the future?It's possible!

Situ Meng was very satisfied with repairing the cellar and ice cellar, but when he saw the content of the next task, he was dumbfounded.

For this task, the system asked him to create a semi-automatic irrigation system for the manor. This semi-automatic irrigation system included many facilities, the diversion channel was part of it, and the most important part was the waterwheel.

Situ Meng never dreamed that the system mission would set up a pit in this place, and he used all the money rewarded by the mission to transform the underground base, and the rest was not enough—not to mention that the reward funds given to him by the system were not enough from the beginning In order to make enough waterwheels - this is what he inquired from the two masters who made the aqueduct. In view of the fact that Chengning Villa covers a large area, and there are several places where the height difference is too large, waterwheels must be used just work.And these large waterwheels need to be tailor-made, and there are no suitable spare parts outside.

Knowing this earlier, I directly chose to reward the waterwheel.Situ Meng thought in front of the mirror paralyzed.

The geographical trend of Chengning Villa is more special than that of many villas in Yangzhou Prefecture: its overall terrain is higher than the river beside it, so it is difficult to lead the river up without a waterwheel. A slope was dug at the junction of the river to slow down the water potential, and then several branched canals were dug downward to lead the river water to the fields of the manor in this way.

But if you want to build a complete irrigation system, these few main aqueducts are not enough, and it is the best choice to divert the river into the manor with a water truck.

Another important issue is that part of the manor is surrounded by mountains, and there is a river between the manor and the mountains.A funnel-shaped geographical environment is naturally formed among the three, and most of the land of the manor is located at the narrowest point of the "funnel".If the aqueduct doesn't drain enough, or drains too slowly, half the estate will be submerged when the river rises—

These are the original words from an old tenant farmer in the manor. Because the old tenant farmer can't speak official language, he spoke the dialect of Ningshan County to Situ Meng and the others, and Jing Shen helped translate it.

This problem was solved by increasing the number of canals when repairing the diversion canals, but this can only be temporarily alleviated. If the Ru River floods in the future, the canals will flood the fields after overflowing—although this possibility is very small, the Ru River There has been no flood for hundreds of years, and there are floods, but they are not too serious. The current circulation system of the manor's aqueduct can completely solve it.

The funding problem of the irrigation system was finally solved by Jingshen. Jingshen didn’t disclose a cent and a half to Situ Meng beforehand. He just paid for it himself and hired someone to come over and start the work. When Situ Meng knew, those masters had already put the large water truck The sample of spare parts was printed, and it was too late for Situ Meng to stop it.

Situ Meng: "How do you know I'm going to do this?"

"What Luo Wu said," Xiaoshen said innocently, "He said that you want to make an irrigation system, but you have built a cellar and ice cellar before, and the manor has no money."

"So you hired a master yourself?"

"Otherwise, if I tell you that I will help you, you definitely don't want to...don't worry too much about it. Now that I have paid the money and their samples are ready, even if you want to refund them, it is impossible for them to refund you. "

Situ Meng held his forehead with one hand, "You... really... How about it, I'll write you an IOU, and when the villa has money, I'll return the money to you."

"Whatever you want." Depth of Field was a little unhappy, but in the end he didn't stop Situ Meng.

He looked at the contents of the IOU, and Situ Meng even calculated the interest for him. He raised his eyebrows and put the IOU in his wallet.

Returning to Baihe Temple at night, Jing Chun came to Jingshen's room to discuss with him about the secret letter he had received earlier. After sitting down, he found that there was a money bag on his desk, the mouth of the money bag was open, and a note was spread out. Open, a small half is in the purse, but most of it is exposed outside.

"What is this?" Jing Chun looked at Jing Shen, and seeing that he didn't refuse, he pulled out the note. When he saw the content inside, he raised his eyebrows exactly like Jing Shen, "Your friend is interesting!"

Depth of Field: "Of course! Don't even look at who chose it?!"

Jing Chun shook his head with a smile, and said to Jing Shen: "The place where Ji Lao lives has been found."

"I know." Jing Shen said.

"Now we're going to the next step..."

"I told you, he won't agree to you. You will only annoy him more."

Jing Chun sighed, "I understand, but so what? The purpose of our coming here is to win him over. Do you really think you are here to visit the mountains and rivers?"

"That's why I don't let them tell you! If you know where he is, you must go to him, but he will definitely not agree to your request."

"You have to try to know," Jing Chun said, "It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I haven't tried it myself, so I can't give up lightly."

"Pedantic!" Jing Shen dropped this sentence, turned around and went back to the inner room, and went straight to bed.

Jing Chun put away Situ Meng's IOU, and extinguished the lights in Jingshen's room, leaving only a dimly lit switch-off light outside.

When he came to the inner room, he saw that Jing Shen was pretending to be asleep without poking him, so he just took off his shoes and socks, and tucked him in the quilt again, "Go to sleep."

Hearing his brother's voice gradually moving away, Jing Shen angrily kicked off the quilt, lying on his back in large characters, recalling the previous conversations he had with Ji Lao.

Ji Lao, that is, the old man Ji in Situ Meng's mouth, is the prime minister of the two dynasties who has retired and returned to his hometown. His ability is beyond doubt. There are many people, but their connections are all over the world.

His Majesty did not establish a crown prince, but his children gradually grew up, and there were more and more supporters behind him. The neutral people were forced to stand in line by the situation.

I don't know who said that whoever wins Ji Wanjun wins the world, and then all the princes who want to compete for the throne want to find Ji Lao and ask for his support.

Depth of Field's brother Jing Chun is no exception.

Jing Shen, who often played with Situ Meng, found Elder Ji much earlier than his brother. He had talked with Elder Ji several times in detail, and it could be seen that Elder Ji wanted to leave the court and spend the rest of his life in the mountains and fields. His determination is very strong, not to mention Jing Shen and the others, even if the Holy Majesty came here in person, he might not be able to invite him.

The last conversation about the government and the public, although Ji Lao has been away from the court for many years, he can see more clearly than those trapped in the deep palace like Jing Shen.

"Your Majesty's mind is clearly biased." Maybe because the depth of field is too annoying, in order to stop the depth of field, Ji Lao had no choice but to speak clearly, "Whether it is the degree of favor of Concubine Jian, the ability of the Second Highness, and Your Majesty's determination to revive the army, the position of the crown prince has already been decided, but you are too close to see clearly."

They are too close to the center of power, so close that they already hold the supreme power in their hands, but they cannot see it because the light of power is too bright.

Before leaving, Ji Lao asked Jing Shen: "Have you ever thought about becoming an emperor yourself?"