After leaving the west gate of Shaonan City, it takes only 10 miles to reach Xiaoxizhuang. Cheng Jinzhou’s equestrian skills were not good enough, and he couldn’t get rid of Meng Da Meng Er while riding "Zhu Feng". Even Shi Yan Shi Mo and the manager who followed him could barely follow behind.

Zhu Feng was angrily breathing. As an Asian East Horse, he was not used to driving with the inferior horses.

Cheng Jinzhou did not spend much time in Xiaoxizhuang.

He was even more interested in operating the industry, and even disdained to have a name in the rice mill. He just called a few carpenters to change the structure of the rice mill according to his own requirements - a normal rice mill was like shrinking a water truck and stuffing it underwater. Relying on the power of the water flow, he turned the connected mill tray to remove the rice from shelling.

It can be imagined that even if you replace it with a propeller-type base, the efficiency of this milling plate will be greatly improved. According to the rugged patterns copied by Cheng Jinzhou, water conservancy milling plates obviously have more considerations.

Cheng Jinzhou was too lazy to copy, but he just urged the craftsmen to say casually to the manager: "This is my new research, and it is one of the achievements of astrology. Let's try these days."

"Yes." The manager was confused.

"You go to apply for a few thousand stones of grain, of course I will pay. Here I will try the effect of grinding rice and see what else needs to be improved." Cheng Jinzhou showed his tail.

The manager woke up from confusion and wanted to object. He looked down and saw Cheng Jinzhou's wide eyes, and swallowed the words in one go.

Thousands of stones of grain are a big trouble, but he can understand that the reason why he was ordered was to take the blame. Otherwise, the cunning and tricky people would have long seen a fishy mouse and rushed up, so how could it be his turn?

He nodded inadvertently.

Cheng Jinzhou nodded with satisfaction and said with great momentum: "What's the name?"

"Chen Jie." This surname means that he is further away from the Cheng family, and he is a concubine's son for several generations.

Cheng Jinzhou raised his chin and told him that he had no experience before traveling through time, but had watched many movies and TV series, these nobles were better than anyone else's style. The nobles of this era did not have many opportunities to communicate with each other's playboy style.

The carpenters pounded and slammed. Cheng Jinzhou felt bored after reading it for a while, so he simply took out the two books stored on the ring and read them. To the eyes of others, it was like a daze.

The craftsmen of the Cheng family are naturally good. After changing the underwater turntable into a semi-bending structure, they began to call the strong man to hang the millstone onto a temporary wooden pulley set. This primitive crane will make people shine at the beginning. After looking at it for a while, you will understand that this is the case. The wisdom of the working people is also accumulated. You can create something useful with a slap in your forehead. That is a scientist who has been photographing the foreheads of several generations, taught by word of mouth, is a craftsman.

The village chief of Xiaoxizhuang became uneasy. This is a typical southern country village. The village was built with water. The waterways connected to the main buildings in the village. There are paddy fields outside the village. The water flow after the dam is gentle to water the nearby small plains. Unlike those manors that add fun to the nobles, this place is mainly produced. If the only rice mill within a radius of more than ten miles is damaged, the autumn harvest will be in big trouble.

The millstone was successfully placed into the center of the stone ring, and the splashes on the base were also heavily pressed under the bamboo sheets.

The craftsman standing at the door pulled up the wedges vigorously.

The millstone slowly, slowly, finally turned.

The village chief immediately became happy and quickly called someone to throw a bag of old grain in. When the white sperm of rice flowed out, his previous worries disappeared without a trace, and he kept smiling at Cheng Jinzhou: "San brother, good methods, good methods, much faster, much faster."

"Is that so much faster?"

"Two or three percent, two or three percent." The old village chief trembled.

The people below said 20% or 30%, which is at most 20%. Cheng Jinzhou shrugged his shoulders without any worries, stretched his waist and said, "Even if there is a steam engine, the speed can be two or three times faster. The water speed here is too slow, that's it."

Building dams and raising water levels is a long construction period and large investment, and it is not a good choice if the traffic conditions have not improved significantly.

Even if Cheng Jinzhou has money, he will not invest in such a bottomless pit.

Of course, his purpose is to find an excuse for buying rice and practice the knowledge obtained from the Star Realm Library. Whether the reward can be rewarded is a secondary matter.

Chen Jie was listening to Cheng Jinzhou's words, and his heart moved. Seeing that the master was about to get on the horse and leave, he suddenly made up his mind and said, "San Ge'er, I know where there is a steam engine?"

"Oh? Have you heard of this thing?"

Chen Jie swallowed and knelt directly on the ground and said, "Please tell me alone."

Cheng Jinzhou nodded slightly, holding a little curiosity about the so-called steam engine, but was not surprised at all.

Perhaps because of the powerful power of the astrology warlock, the current Daxia Dynasty is more open in science than any dynasty in Chinese history. In addition, its territory is not as huge as the divided kingdoms in ancient China, but instead actively interacts with other countries. In this case, since they have the level of mathematics in the 17th century, there is nothing special about having the 17th century mechanics.

The craftsmen quickly retreated, but Meng Da stayed still and stared at Chen Jie with half-squinted eyes.

The latter did not bother and kowtowed, "The villain saw it in the holy temple. The villain was obsessed with it. Please help the third brother."

Cheng Jinzhou hadn't reacted yet, until he confirmed Chen Jie's solemn expression, he understood, "You have joined the temple and failed to pass the clan?"

"Yes." Chen Jie's voice was false.

The Daxia Dynasty always had a certain degree of caution towards the sacred temple, so although it agreed to the people join, it had various restrictions.

However, because of the restrictions, the competition after entering the temple is smaller and the benefits are gained. All the nobles and below all wanted to get in. If the heads are too round, they had to join secretly. This is also a matter of the people not being promoted to the officials.

Chen Jie is the one who has been elected at this moment. Facing the Cheng family's legitimate grandson may be his last chance.

Cheng Jinzhou didn't care about the Holy Etiquette and said lightly: "Tell me, what is that steam engine like."

"I have only seen it a few times. It was in their inner hall, full of steel, a little bigger than this rice mill..."

"Do you know how it works?" The huge size of the early steam engine was inevitable. Cheng Jinzhou had no research on appearance, and it was useless to listen to it. However, through the working principle, they could directly judge their development level, which was considered a compulsory course in theoretical physics.

Chen Jie thought desperately and hesitated: "They burn the steam first, wait until the steam is full, turn off the intake valve, then drain cold water outside the container, then open the intake valve, and pump the water from the underground..."

After listening to Cheng Jinzhou already understood, he smiled and said, "Do they pump water from the well?"

"Yes, it's all about pumping wells during the demonstration." Chen Jie didn't understand.

In the early days, steam engines were used to pump water accumulation in coal mines. When they were first made, no one knew that this was a revolution. At that time, coal mine owners who were willing to spend money had their request to use the excavated coal directly: "to lift water with firepower", and what Chen Jie described was basically the most primitive steam engine, because it did not have an independent water lifting pump, but it was also practical equipment.

"When did they build this steam engine?" Cheng Jinzhou said, touching his chin.

"It's been 10 years."

"What about the people who built the steam engine? They came from the West? How long have they been?"

Chen Jie felt sweat all over his back, so he stopped slightly and said, "I don't know which priest I am, but I should be from the West."

Cheng Jinzhou pinched his fingers and counted the time. The steam engine that the Chinese are familiar with Watt invented is actually Watt's improved steam engine. Not counting the prototype since the 1st century AD, but just a steam engine that can be used for production. By Watt, it was already the third generation - Safli could only draw 6 meters of water, and Torkomen's inefficiency. Watt's value lies in the fact that the steam engine he improved is truly applicable to all walks of life, rather than just boiling water in coal mines and absorbing water with cheap coal.

The steam engine that Chen Jie mentioned is basically at the Savley level. It takes 66 years to go from his "Miner Friends" to the Watt steam engine, but only 7 years to Torquemen.

In this way, even if the priest stood at the forefront of Jixi Technology, he took two years to arrive in Daxia and then immediately made a steam engine. In the Jixi countries, there should be a Torque Gate-type steam engine.

"Time..." Cheng Jinzhou sighed secretly and said to himself: "I'm just a playboy."

Chen Jie immediately lowered his head and pretended not to hear it.

Cheng Jinzhou smiled and said, "One day I'll arrange for me to meet that priest."

Cheng Jinzhou didn't mention a single word about the legal issues that Chen Jie was concerned about. If he was just an ordinary manager who did something wrong, there was no need to say anything to him.

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