The Queen Mother looked at it carefully and saw that the shape resembled a wheel, with a diameter of about meters. The water flow impinged on the wheel blades, and the bucket was filled with river water. The water was lifted up to a meter high, and then poured into the canal after it reached the top of the head. There was a continuous flow to facilitate irrigation.
"How much can be irrigated in this round?" The Queen Mother looked at it, feeling hard to describe.
"One water tanker can irrigate 700 acres of farmland, day and night, so it's very cost-effective." Qianqian said with a radiant face.
China has been a country based on agriculture since ancient times. Although the imperial court was committed to building water conservancy projects, these channels have never been popularized. In the original history of the earth, although they existed during the Three Kingdoms, they were not popularized until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
In the second year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (AD 15), after Duan, a native of Duanjiatan, Lanzhou, passed the Jinshi examination, he served as a Taoist censor in Yunnan. He traveled to several provinces in the south, many of which were beneficial to the government. He referred to the wooden keel he saw in the south.
The barrel cart can draw water for irrigation, so we observed its structural principles and drew
He made a pattern and took it with him. Later, after he became an official in his hometown, he "created an ingenious idea of pouring water from the Yellow River to irrigate the fields." He successfully developed it in 1556 to irrigate his family's 600 acres of vegetable orchards. It can be seen from this that
Until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, waterwheels were not common.
Ye Qing used the power of his political power to promote waterwheels, and 0 waterwheels could irrigate nearly 10,000 acres. This was already a very huge number in the Han Dynasty, and it was still expanding rapidly.
Although the Queen Mother had some scruples, she couldn't help but smile and secretly praised in her heart: "No wonder victims from other places are coming..."
So he asked again: "Although waterwheels are good, have they ever become popular?"
"Originally, under my husband's rule, I only had Western Henan. The prefects of various counties and the prime ministers of the country are promoting it, especially now that Yuzhou has been pacified."
The Queen Mother couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you afraid that outsiders will learn from you?"
"The structure of the waterwheel is still simple. You can learn it by watching it for a while." Qianqian said with a smile: "The purpose of sending troops is to prevent someone from sabotaging it."
"However, even though we have a sample, it is not easy to make it. The key lies in two problems."
Qianqian smiled: "The first one is that this kind of waterwheel is huge and uses a lot of materials. Including the material and labor costs, the single construction costs nearly a hundred silver."
"And it has to be long-lasting. Some core components need to be made of iron and copper with precision. It is not an easy task for craftsmen to build them. If wood is used, the water extraction effect is poor and it is easy to be damaged. It needs to be repaired from time to time... Hehe, a little adds up to a lot.
, which is also a big expense.”
"From the beginning, my husband set up special officials in counties and counties, allocated manpower, and organized production. Due to large-scale production, the cost was reduced to about thirty taels per piece."
"My husband is also familiar with the iron industry. When he became the eunuch, he renovated the thirteen iron official smelting works left by Emperor Xiaowu and Emperor Guangwu. He restarted the iron industry and provided special training and piece-based rewards and punishments. Last spring, he also smelted iron furnaces.
Successfully, the iron output increased tenfold when it was put into operation, and a thousand pairs of armor were supplied every month. The iron and copper axes of these waterwheels were produced in batches, with the same low cost and high efficiency."
"If it were Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Sun Jian, they could all learn from it, but how much can the officials, systems, workshops, and the scale of the Iron and Steel Institute support?"
"If we were to completely imitate Yuzhou, it would take two or three years to take shape."
The Queen Mother made an estimate in her mind. Cao Cao occupied Yanzhou, and Sun Jian occupied Jingnan and western Yangzhou. They were both twice as strong as the western half of Henan. However, the current iron output was probably only one-tenth. A hundred pairs of armor, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Qianqian smiled again: "Eastern Henan is unstable, and many of them are not paved. It is impossible for a husband to make a wedding dress for Cao Cao. There is at least one in every town in western Henan, and there are also larger villages. They are arranged according to the water demand of the population."
Qianqian pointed her fingers and did the math for her: "Yuzhou is a large state in the Central Plains. At its peak, there were 120 registered households. It had a population of 6 million, excluding the hidden slaves. The population in the west of Henan is slightly larger than that in the east. Sixty people are under the rule.
There are 40,000 households and a population of 3.2 million. Over the years, we have experienced rogue bandits, lost a lot of money fleeing famine, and hid the population. Only 2.5 million people are registered in western Henan."
Qianqian said for a while, but in fact, only these 2.5 million actually provided the husband with luck. The hidden slaves were protected by the Wubao, and the luck of life and death belonged to the powerful master.
"There is Yingshui, but it needs to be reduced in drought areas. At present, the popularity is not large. It only supplies 500,000 people in the most water-scarce areas. Normally, one hundred households are allocated one. Based on the average household of five, that is 500
Only one person can be assigned one.”
"Even if this is the case, a thousand waterwheels are needed, but now there are only about 250. We are still short of them, let alone elsewhere."
"We may not be able to catch up in ten years."
"This time is more than enough. Besides, although there is hostility, the people are not to blame. If other areas can learn from our Yuzhou, it will be a blessing to the people - this is what my husband said."
"Really..." The Queen Mother looked a little dazed.
Qianqian smiled and said no more. Each water wheel contained a little bit of white air, which was transferred to Yuzhou's luck.
The water-fired boiler being built is even more strange. Qianqian is still surprised to this day. This is the first time she has seen the source of luck from a man-made artifact.
Once the water and fire boiler is started, a tiny bit of red energy condenses - Ye Qing himself doesn't even notice it, it's Qianqian who reminds him.
It is weak and almost transparent, but it continuously provides one or insignificant device while it is effective, and it must be coordinated with people to be effective, but this is a breakthrough that comes from nothing.
And when the number of water-fired boilers increases, how many are there?
What is even more shocking than the Red Sky Sword that transports the Dragon Qi of the Han Dynasty is that as soon as this thing is built, a black and yellow aura falls on Ye Qing, which is clearly the destiny of heaven... This may be the destiny in Ye Qing's mouth
"The heavens on earth don't want to see the people on the earth. They all gather together and make an exception to give my husband luck. Does this mean that this is a great chance?"
Qianqian was thoughtful and confused.
But at this time, Ye Qing was looking at the rolling green fields. With the promotion of water farming in Yuzhou, and little impact from the severe drought, this itself would be mythical, and combined with publicity, it would form a "mandate of destiny".
This invisible qi machine merges into one piece and turns into a torrent, running and evolving.
What was originally a so-called white rabbit smoking green smoke has gone through many victories, officially becoming a clan, owning Yuzhou, and undergoing many reforms, and now it has become inseparable.
This is the embodiment of the concept of the destiny of the human heart—rare, but it does exist.
No wonder the Queen Mother was shocked by the "water affairs and agricultural affairs" - not only the halo, but also the high-level officials in this land were very concerned about water affairs and agricultural affairs themselves.
China spans the north and the south, has good weather conditions, and does not have such unnatural engineering as the world's water system on the earth. It is inevitable that one place or another will encounter drought. This is often the case even in the world, and the top management cannot help but care about it.
In the memory of time travellers, after the camera is given to high-level officials for a show on TV, it is indispensable to turn to the drought-stricken farmland for a close-up.
The principle of water-fired boilers is extremely simple. Once it helps or even replaces human and animal power on a large scale, it will form a revolution in social production and expand the circulation basis of society.
On the ground, there is a white and red aura that is hard to see, forming a long river, and a red light flashes in it. If you follow it, you will find that it is the water and fire boiler.
Ye Qing was melancholy, stroking his knees and sighing secretly: "I finally understand destiny again."
"At the beginning of the torrent of humanity, it may turn gray. This is because people are struggling in nature."
"With the invention of the organization of language and writing, those in a superior position can naturally gather higher luck, but for a long time, the overall luck of humanity is still very low."
"The invention of tools has improved efficiency, which was not obvious before. Once this water and fire boiler is built, it can be better than the power of a hundred people, and it will produce red energy. If it is popularized, it can sublimate the entire humanity, so modern society is full of red water.
, climbing towards yellow again”
"Similarly, in modern society, machines with the power of thousands of people will produce yellow air and green air, which will increase the torrent of humanity. No wonder we have seen in previous lives that the power of humanity on the entire earth is flowing and transforming into green.
"
Thinking of this, Ye Qing let out a long sigh, stood there for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "There is no difference between technology and magic, there is no difference between individuals and humanity, all laws are so simple."
In my previous life, I didn't consider this when climbing the technology tree. Because I wanted to create weapons, because the world was different, the technology tree failed...
Or it has never been successful, because the highest level can only reach the level of juren, and it has never broken through the county level, let alone transcending the vision of the mortal world. Everything is just the wandering and nonsense of a country time traveler. How can it be done in this immortal world?
The arrival of Ye Huolei has brought great luck.
In this life, he had the opportunity to seize the Dragon Palace, become a Taoist couple with the Dragon Girl, and see the operation of the Kyushu Water Palace system. Only then did Ye Qing broaden his horizons...
Why must we be obsessed with atomic quantum?
Why must it be limited to weapons?
Why not take the technology tree path with the characteristics of immortality...or the power system promotion path?
He often tells stories to each other with the dragon girls. The reward is the story of "How the Sword Immortal Yang Guo married the dragon girl", but what he gets is that they reveal various matters in heaven. Sometimes Ye Qing feels that it is shameless for him to "take advantage", but he is extremely
I am grateful to these two dragon ladies - this is knowledge that no ordinary person will have after reading Guanwen Pavilion's collection of books, so that I, a country time traveler, can truly explore some mysteries.
"The experiment of making a water and fire boiler in the underground world was to verify a conjecture in my mind - now it has been proved that technological machinery and magical equipment, even immortal equipment, are essentially the same."
"It is a hundred times better than ordinary people, so it naturally has red. It is a thousand times better than ordinary people, so it naturally has yellow. It is ten thousand times better than ordinary people, so it naturally has green."
Stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade.
Each civilization can be promoted and has its own special circumstances... The nuclear weapons path in the previous life was improperly referenced and did not conform to the actual reality of the immortal way.
This immortal world is thousands of miles wide and has a population of billions. The Water Palace and the Fire Palace operate. The land system connects 200 states to the earth. The scale of the luck is not inferior to that of the earth, but the quality of the luck is severely polarized.
The trend is that the popularity of Taoist items is limited to the rich and powerful. The life of the scholar class and above is often comparable to that of the middle class on earth, but the life of the common people... can only be said to be due to good weather and no disaster years.
Life itself is nothing. No matter which world the life of the common people is, it will not be higher than that of the upper class. However, relying solely on the water mansion shows that the common people do not have much power, and the power provided by it is also very limited...
To be honest, the circular chain of simply supplying air to the heaven, and then allocating water to the heaven to deal with the climate is extremely simple and efficient, but it ignores the participation of the common people.
"It's just that - we immortals have the power, so we can transform nature. You, the common people, can have your own fun."
The water-fired boiler itself is not a weapon, but a social production tool. It is derived from the breakthrough of human power, animal power, and water power. It can essentially bring a quality upgrade to social luck.
This is completely different from the climate of the water palace system, but it inspires the common people to participate in the entire social scale - the immortal civilization has reached its peak in technology within the range of spiritual energy that can be absorbed, and the spiritual energy that can be absorbed is limited, so it must be limited
Cultivation.
But a large amount of unabsorbable power has actually not yet been developed. This is a completely unfamiliar and blank field.
This is the greatest basis for you to prove your status as an emperor.
But the backlash it brings is also huge, and you have to have a higher level to be able to withstand it.
"It's just that now in wartime, not only Heaven, but even Heavenly Dao will support any measures that can increase strength, even if it causes huge changes in the situation."
"Therefore, the black and yellow energy descended on me. This is a clear proof."
Qianqian's observation of the Qi Luck Spring at least gave Ye Qing some confidence. Knowing that he was not wrong this time, he decided to do some promotion in the lower earth first - this lower earth world is currently a test field specially set up by the Heavenly Court. It is justified and will be accepted by the Heavenly Court in the future.
At the same time, because it involves an overall improvement in the scale and quality of social luck, if it succeeds, it will be a hundred times more significant than Ye Huolei's.
"There is no harm in failing. At least now when the princes are competing for supremacy, the annual grain harvest does not need to be much, as long as it is 30% more than other princes... No, one more achievement is enough. No one can stop the trend... let alone water and fire.
Changes in social production caused by boilers.”
The Han people hold to the survival concept of "the unity of nature and man". No matter which class they are, they believe in the destiny of heaven and offer sacrifices to "heaven" most solemnly in order to seek protection for the destiny of the clan.
In this world where immortality is prosperous, and the Xiatu Divine State seems familiar, and the people of the tribe are facing a turning point, Ye Qing feels that he can do something.
"Unless it fundamentally destroys the foundation of the immortal world."
"But this kind of Taoist technology is completely impossible."
"In previous lives, the earth despised religion and regarded it as superstition. The fundamental reason was that it had no power to truly relate to the material world. But in the final analysis, technology is borrowed from foreign objects."
"If great power is attributed to oneself, and human intelligence expands infinitely, combined with strength, how can this be compared to the so-called battleship or mecha?"
"If the so-called Tao is the rule of the world, can anyone imagine that someone who can modify physical constants is a metaphor for mothership and mechanical energy?"
"With one thought, the entire scientific system will collapse, and billions of motherships will self-destruct."
“It is only the material world, which has never had a true God, that gives space for the concept of technological supremacy to exist.
"Therefore, in this world, no matter how it develops, it will not destroy the foundation of the immortal world."
"In this case, I will fight to the death to see if there is a place for me in this immortal world, a class that is higher than all things."