The Zheng family’s timber shop is not only in Fengshan and also an old-fashioned timber shop in Fengshan. Some of the timbers bought by Zhao Jinyu were purchased from here.

Chen Daniu is a bit real. He does whatever the boss asks to do. He has worked for the Zheng family since he was a disciple and has become the only master now. He is skilled in craftsmanship and has worked diligently for decades without any major mistakes. He can also show his signature in Fengshan. Because of him being in charge of Fengshan, no one can steal the limelight from the carpenter.

He was not worried about the people outside, but he was afraid of the people from the Zheng family. It was not that the Zheng family was not good to the servants, but when he got older, he would want to change some young people to take office.

Zheng Ruoying told him what he had done. He brought all his disciples with eighteen martial arts all night, and they were all done in just one night. He didn't know that He Baozheng, a little man who collected wood chips, knew the eldest lady of the Zheng family, and now he didn't want to offend the people around the eldest lady. After making the water frame that Zheng Ruoying ordered, he asked the disciple to clean the wood chips on the ground and put them in a bag, preparing to take He Baozheng back next time.

Liang Chuan thought that these carpenters would make arrangements and make foreign workers, because in ancient times, the status of carpenters was really not low, and they were not worried about having no food. Only others were polite to them, and others generally would not be arrogant to them. The ancients were a little superstitious. Carpenters were a little bit superstitious when it came to work, and according to Feng Shui, they would affect their luck.

He still came to Fengshan with He Baozheng's ox cart. Unexpectedly, Chen Daniu had already prepared all the things he designed and required. The two of them didn't give any money, so they took a few polite words and pulled two rounds and left. Before leaving, Chen Daniu asked He Baozheng to take away a lot of wood chips.

These wood chips can make a lot of mosquito coils.

Liang Chuan bought a lot of hemp ropes along the way, and the bamboo tubes and bamboo poles on the water truck may be used.

If Zheng Ruoying knew that her wood chips were processed by herself and put them in the store to sell, she would not know what she would feel.

He Baozheng today told all the villagers to go up the mountain, and to chop bamboos and carry them to the south stream, preparing to make a water truck for Liang Chuan. They don’t understand what water trucks they make, but they all worship what Liang Chuan said. Since yesterday, Liang Chuan has been their parents for food and clothing. Yesterday, they took hundreds of cents home. There was nothing incredible about the men at home and they couldn’t stand it, otherwise they would come to learn how to make bamboo weaving.

Two women carried a bamboo, and more than thirty village girls carried a dozen of them down, neatly placing them by the river, waiting for Liang Chuan. Liang Chuan picked up a few bamboos that were relatively smooth and straight, and cut them all together. The hole that could be inserted into the shaft would not come out. Then twenty bamboo tubes were cut off, and the rest were all taken back to make bamboo weaving.

Zheng Ruoying summoned a large number of farmers to wait by the river. The muscles on these farmers were very strong, but they were not energetic. At first glance, they were the typical type of people who could not be moved and slowly moved. They were holding cushions and hoes in their hands, all of whom were raw.

Liang Chuan directed them to dig a hole in the river first and drove two wooden piles into the water. These farmers looked a little dull and were quite smart in doing things. They first dug the soil and rocks to surround the holes where they wanted to dig, scooped off the water inside, and then started digging the river pit so that the water would not go in and it would be easy to dig the holes.

Liang Chuan was also worried that it would be difficult to dig a hole in such an environment without mechanical equipment, but he did not expect that there would be such a method.

The other side of the wooden stake is on the river bank, which makes it even easier to dig. It is just that some river water will seep out slowly. They divide the work, and someone is responsible for cleaning up the accumulated water in the pit and scooping it up and pouring it out with a wooden barrel.

"Old He, please help me, let's assemble this water truck." He Bao was watching everyone work hard, and he stood aside stupidly, worried that he could not help, and it seemed a little unnecessary.

Liang Chuan asked He to hold the wheel axle and inserted the long bamboo poles one by one by one, which looked a bit like a spoke on a bicycle. The other end of these bamboo poles had to be tied to a log ring, so just insert the holes in the log wheel axle, and there was no need to use other tenons.

The two round wooden circles are arranged side by side symmetrically, like a wheel. Two people tie the bamboo pole and the wooden ring together with hemp ropes. Although the hemp rope is tied into a ball, the area under the force is also larger. Under the action of the thrust of the water flow, the water wheel rotates slowly and properly.

The bamboo tube also plays a role as an impeller. The kinetic energy of water brings enough momentum. Although the wheel of the water truck is huge and bulky, once it is started, the thrust behind it will need to withstand the mass of the entire water truck. This is like a car that costs fuel just after starting, but it will save fuel when driving.

The friction resistance of the axles of the water wheel is large because there is no iron bearing with good performance in this era, but it cannot be used either. The steel ball bearings rotate too smoothly. Just imagine that the water wheel rotates at high speed like a wheel in the river, and it will fall apart in a short time.

Several farmers were driving piles at an amazing speed. Two large holes were dug on the river beach in a short while. They inserted two hardwood stakes into the pit, stuffed a few bluestones into two wooden stakes, and the two wooden stakes stood steadily on the river bank. Then they mixed some soil and stones and poured them into the pile pit. The exposed part of the water was moved to a large amount of stones, and the hard stakes were basically ready.

After the hard pile is to clear the waterway. The water depth here is less than one foot, so let alone the water wheel, it is impossible to flood the bamboo tube. A few people dug a long crypt on the riverbed along the direction of the water wheel rotation, with a depth of more than three feet, so that the water wheel can have enough draft.

In order not to let the hard pile standing in the river collapse after being washed away by the river water for a long time, Liang Chuan wanted to make some cement and pour it out, but he was not very familiar with the cement production formula. A large amount of sand and pebbles were dug out from the riverbed, so he simply piled them on the riverbed, and then dug some stones on the land to form the shape of a water-dividing fish mouth. The river channel has the illusion that it was divided into two here. The water flow either flows downstream from the fish mouth or flows into the cryptana, which does not invade each other. It is a bit like the water-dividing principle of Dujiangyan, but this is a hard pile that protects and supports the water truck. It is probably finished if it encounters a flood.

The water wheel after hanging the bamboo tube has been basically assembled. The wood ring outside and the log wheel axle in the middle are made of spokes. From a distance, it looks like a huge wheel. The child looks like a big toy.

The same goes for farmers to dig culverts. First, block the mouth of the fish that is inlet. If there is no water, it will be easier to dig. The riverbed is soaked in river water for a long time and it will be extremely soft. You can dig a very large piece of mud after one go. This culvert doesn't have to be too wide. It's a little bit more than the width between the two rounds.

More than a dozen farmers flew up and down, and the digging of river mud was piled up on the edge of the hard piles in the river, and they no longer had to be moved to the shore, which allowed their speed and efficiency to rise sharply.

Liang Chuan asked Madan where the fish baskets were hung, but he didn't see them. Madan pointed to the location of the tree on the bank of the river last time, and there were several ropes tied to it.

"You have been busy for a day, why do you use this? Can you catch more fish?" Ma Dan asked Liang Chuan. He had never seen such things in the north.

"This is a water truck, you can't catch fish, but your father and the others don't have to run to the river to carry water in the future. The river can run to the shore by itself!" Liang Chuan said.

In the past two days, Fan Dianyuan and Lao Ma also went to the river to get water. They saw from afar that many people were busy on the shore, but they had to water the ground and had no time to come and say hello.

"Why did the river run to the shore by itself? Brother Zhang, are you going to use spells again?"

He Baozheng didn't like children to speak nonsense. He could not speak nonsense when he grew up. He glared at the child from the outside, and said a little heavier: "What magic? What are the children's random talks?"

Ma Dan didn't know anything about He Baozheng and said back: "Last time I fell into the river, I had drowned. Several other children said that I was not breathing and my face was blue. Brother Zhang worked on me for a long time and saved me again. What do you think this is not a spell?"

Ma Dan was very sensible. He Baozheng didn't seem to be telling a lie. He looked at Liang Chuan again, and Liang Chuan said helplessly: "Didn't you tell me not to tell others? Why did you mention this matter again?"

Liang Chuan's words were equivalent to admitting the fact that he could use magic. He Baozheng looked at him with a little drifting look, muttering, unable to speak clearly, "Sanlang... Is this child's words true?"

"It's not entirely true. I can't do any magic. It's just that the child choked on water, and he got the water in his stomach and came back to life..." Liang Chuan knew that it was useless to talk. How could they understand the principles of artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation?

"The people in the village said that you met the mountain god when you entered the mountain." He Baozheng was muttering.

Liang Chuan smiled bitterly and said, "He Baozheng, don't go to my house for dinner after listening to them talk. Have you seen me eat less? If I had been so hard for the mountain god to kill a tiger last time, wouldn't it be dead by myself if you pointed the tiger in your hand? You are old enough to listen to these nonsense?"

When the two of them were chatting, the farmers had already dug the culvert. Liang Chuan calculated the depth of the culvert and the draft of the water truck. The depth could meet the draft of the water truck. Dozens of people worked together and put the big guy on the pile on the riverbed.

Whether this water truck can be successful is related to the irrigation problem of hundreds of acres of land in the north bank. If it is successful, you can copy it next time and the manpower can be liberated from the river. In the future, even if the weather is hot and there will be no rain for a few years, as long as there is water in the south stream, the north bank will not have to worry about irrigation. Even the land on the north bank will be transformed into paddy fields because of the water truck! This is different. There are several acres of paddy fields at home, so who can take care of work outside? It’s enough to starve to death!

Everyone was nervously watching the waterwheel.

"Break the water open!" Liang Chuan said.

"Sanlang, do you want to wait for the eldest lady of the Zheng family?" He Baozheng asked.

"I won't wait, why are you waiting for her?" Liang Chuan's tone was very firm.

With Liang Chuan's order, the two farmers broke through the mud and stones blocking the water from the mouth of the dividing fish. The dug water flowed into the underwater channel. The water flow quickly flooded the underwater channel. The water flow into the underwater channel became narrower and the water flow became more rapid. Gradually, the water wheel that was originally motionless began to move slowly with a squeak!

"It's moving!" He Baozheng burst into an exclamation, but he didn't expect this thing to really move! The other farmers who helped the workers were also surprised to see it, they didn't understand why.

The kinetic energy obtained by the bamboo tube made the water wheel rotate slowly, the rotation speed became faster and faster, and finally became stable, turning slowly in the riverbed without any haste, making squeaking sounds from time to time.

The bamboo tube was originally soaked in water and was lifted away from the water surface because the bamboo tube had a certain inclination angle. When it was at a low point, the mouth of the bamboo tube was higher than the bottom of the tube. The bamboo tube would fill the water with water. As the water wheel rotated and turned to a high point, the position of the barrel opening would be lower than the bottom of the tube. At this time, the water in the bamboo tube would flow out along the way, and it would have a curve like pouring water.

Success!
Chapter completed!