Chapter 4 Ideals
The next day, I got up late. After getting up, I went to Mr. Yang’s house for dinner together. It turned out that Li Shanping’s three meals a day were all at the villagers’ houses. He settled the accounts for the villagers and taught his children to read a few words, but he often didn’t pay for it. The folk customs in the countryside are simple, and no one hates him. Instead, he is happy to listen to him talking about the past and the present at the dinner table.
From a distance, Old Man Yang was hunched over and pushed a wheelbarrow out. A large wooden barrel was placed on the car. Wu Anguo quickly stepped forward to help, Old Man Yang refused and asked him to go into the house to have breakfast first. The rice was hot in the pot. The two had no choice but to go into the house to eat first. When asked about the wooden barrel, Li Shanping said that he could not use Old Man Yang to push water to water the fields himself, because all the young people in the village were driven away by their elders and would probably not come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Since the water monster has been abandoned, the farmers can't stand the crops being drought anymore, so the old man wants to push water to water the fields. The harvest this year is probably over, but more harvests are some.
After dinner, Wu Anguo also came to the river to help Old Man Yang. Seeing that the river was very lively, almost every household was pushing water. Some people had already returned and saw Wu Anguo, and they all bowed one by one. Wu Anguo had to go back one by one. However, everyone refused to disperse and kept watching. It turned out that the fifth brother was quick to speak, and he had already spread the story of Xuanwu's reincarnation many times. He also added fuel to the fire when he met Wu Anguo at the well, such as seeing a person in the distance, placing lotus flowers and headful of Buddha's light. He found Old Man Yang by the river, grabbed the car and pushed the water, and then pushed it. Wu Anguo was so tired that he was sweating. The wheel made of wood in the car was very heavy. People who had never pushed it were really uncomfortable.
Seeing that the river was very fast, Wu Anguo asked Old Man Yang and others why they didn't lead a canal to irrigate. After hearing this, everyone didn't care about what Xuanwu was, and they all laughed. It turned out that the river was more than one person from the bank. After the canal was built, it was like everyone who drew water in a bucket of water. I'm afraid that it wouldn't even be able to run the canal. How could the water reach the field?
Wu Anguo smiled and said, "It's better, even though you have put the car and built the canals, I have my own way to let the river flow into the fields." After hearing this, everyone was skeptical, but they thought that since this man had subdued the mountain spirit and water monster, he might be able to make the river flow backwards. They went home to get the tools, but after a while, even those who were working in the fields rushed over."
Wu'anguo asked Brother Zhang Wu to lead everyone to build a canal that runs through the village, so that every place and canal can be connected through branches. Then, he asked Old Man Yang to choose a few carpenters with his skills and go to the machine with him. Everyone had seen his method of making crossbow machines, so he agreed and went home to search the guys and gathered at Old Man Yang's house.
Wu'anguo drew pictures of water trucks during his drawing internship. It was a private job that the teacher took, and he made a model for a scenic spot. I vaguely remember the general appearance. However, there were not so many tools in this era, so I had to make a T-rue, triangle board, compass, etc. First, even so, it made a group of carpenters stunned. Fortunately, although the water truck had more than 200 parts, many of them were repeated. Despite this, after drawing all the drawings, the lights were still very bright. The carpenters were happy to see Yi, and they didn't eat or drink for a day, but they didn't feel hungry.
At this moment, the carpenters drove the water truck overnight. Wu Anguo divided the people into groups, each group made a single type of components, and guided them by himself. The blade support and other skills were not difficult to make, but the gears for transmission were particularly difficult. Fortunately, Yang Tiezhu thought of a solution, first punched the wooden blocks into square holes, pierced them with a stick, and then cut them almost round. Then at the distance of the radius, he set up a plane and turned the wooden blocks back and forth along the edge of the plane. When the circle was completed, he first laid the outline of the teeth on the circle, and then cut it out with a carving knife. The wood that made the gears was the hardest fruit wood according to Wu Anguo's requirements. It added a bit more difficulty. The craftsmen had the style of learning skills, and everyone was very interested in these new things, and no one felt tired. However, Wu Anguo couldn't stand the sleepiness and went to bed first. The carpenters were tired and rushed to work overnight.
The soil is soft in summer, and young people are rushing back recently. They are all young men who are driven to take refuge by their parents. They have not gone far and come back quickly. The number of people building canals continues to increase. On the third day, Zhang Wu brought his three sons to hand over the order, and the canals were piled up.
The three sons were originally Li Shanping's disciples, and their names were all given by Li Shanping. They were called Zhengxin, Zhengwen, Zhengwu. After reading a few days of books, the three brothers knew the words and had a much higher knowledge than the old man. After seeing the drawing, they were very interested and wanted to learn from Wu'anguo and give the ceremony of apprenticeship. Wu'anguo dared not tolerate Zhang Wu's request, so they had to agree to teach the three of them as their uncle. First teach the three of them basic surveying and mapping techniques. As for rice, minutes, centimeters, etc., it is said that it is a common size used by Western craftsmen, so they are really too lazy to figure it out.
The saying of whether there was a standard size in the West at that time. After teaching for a while, the three of them ordered to find a way to measure whether the canal was flat so as to avoid one end high and the other end low, and the water could not flow through. The three of them took the wooden ruler and went happily. After a while, a group of young people followed Yang Hongyi, the youngest son of Old Man Yang, to become his disciples. Wu Anguo simply accepted as his nephew, and did not follow the original skills of learning carpenters or blacksmiths. He told them that after this matter was finished, they would start learning from the return counting method (Arabic numerals, which is a custom).
The water truck parts were not completed until evening. They took the parts by the river and installed them on the stone table that had been built in advance. They shook the mechanism and placed the water wheel. The leaves were watered and kept turning along the water flow. The water was lifted up to the shore and flowed into the stone platform sink, splashing with flowers and jade. Everyone was already shocked and cheered for a long time. They took a shovel and ran to their own fields to release water. In the end, Li Shanping persuaded everyone and asked Zhang Zhengxin, Zhengwen and Zhengwu to supervise them in turn. Everyone lined up as far away from the shore, and watered the fields first, and took turns to pour water on the fields.
The next day, nearly half of the fields in the village were watered. The fellow villagers surrounded Wu'anguo and thanked him. Those who had surplus food at home grounded the wheat and steamed buns to thank him. A Guandi Temple was piled into a steamed bun hall. Wu'anguo was worried when he looked at it. He didn't know how many lifetimes it would take to finish these steamed buns. He was grateful to the villagers for being kind, so he picked up a stroke and drew a water pestle and called Old Man Yang to find someone to do it. After a day, the completion was completed. He also carried An to the riverside.
The water wheel rotates, and the grinder doesn't stop rotating. The grinding rice noodles are the most physically exhausting. It's okay for families with animals to cover the eyes of the animals and grind a bag of noodles for only half a day. People with no animals rely on people to push them, so it's a lot of money. Now with the water pestle, everyone can see how much trouble they have saved, and they can't chant Buddha's name around Wu'anguo. With these two treasures this year, the craftsman camp has opened more wasteland and saved much labor.
In less than three or five days, the young people in the village rushed back from outside. Sometimes, outsiders from groups of three or three also came to watch the fun. Zhang Wu had long been the focus. Every time he introduced to people how Wu'anguo killed tigers and dragons, what tricks he used and what kind of guys were made, it was like seeing it himself. As for the fact that he was scared by Wu'anguo on the day of the meeting, he naturally used the Spring and Autumn style and ignored it.
Everyone was envious of the water wheel. Someone asked Old Man Yang to make one for their village. Although there was no intellectual property protection during the Ming Dynasty, it was a thrust into the backbone. So Old Man Yang came to Wu'anguo for advice. Seeing this, Wu'anguo simply drew a windmill and a windmill for use in the village that was not adjacent to the water. He warned Old Man Yang and the carpenters that if they were to make these things, they would receive labor services at their discretion. Everyone distributed the income according to the effort they had to do, so that they would not hurt the harmony. Everyone agreed. At that time, Li Shanping suggested that it would be better for everyone to be shareholders and jointly open a carpenter shop to specialize in these things. The villagers were the villagers.
Although he was simple, he knew that this was a huge profit, and he agreed. So Li Shanping wrote the document and established the shares and sharing method of each person, and asked Old Man Yang, Tiezhu and a group of carpenters to sign. If he couldn't write it, he drew a circle on it. Among all the shareholders, Wu Anguo accounted for the largest. It turned out that since Li Shanping saw Wu Anguo, he thought he was not a thing in the pool. In addition, he was praised as a tough guy, and his grievances in his heart were wiped out for many years. He had already made up his mind to fight for his own body and make a great achievement for this friend. He came from the accounting department and naturally knew the importance of money. Therefore, he would not let him go if he had the opportunity.
Wu Anguo refused, so he had to respond. He felt sorry for it and racked his brains to think about the possible wooden utensils made in this era. In a few days, hand-crank blowers, swivel chairs, folding tables, etc. were vividly displayed on paper. He also designed a wheelchair for Li Shanping. As a result, after the wheelchair was made, every household in the craftsmanship even sawed off the threshold to facilitate Li Shanping's entry and exit. The ancient style made Wu Anguo amazed.
Chapter completed!