Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 68 Chapter 70: The Great Drought in Guanzhong
Qin Su didn't reach out to pick it up, but shook his head and said with a faint smile: "Since last night, Su'er has belonged to the young master. The seven thousand money is said to be a ransom, but it's actually just a gift from Su'er to Aunt Feng. Thank you very much." With care all these years, Su'er has been able to preserve her perfect body to this day."

"You belonged to me last night?" Cheng Chumo stared at Li Hao with wide eyes, "You guys last night..."

Li Hao quickly shook his head: "Absolutely not!"

Cheng Chumo turned his head to look at Qin Su again, only to see that her cheeks were flushed and her face was full of embarrassment. Does this seem like nothing happened? Cheng Chumo felt that his IQ had been hurt by [-] points, and shouted at Li Hao: "How about you?" Say no! Does she look as if nothing happened?"

Li Hao was so innocent, he hurriedly tugged on Qin Su's sleeve, and said, "Hey, don't blush, tell me, nothing happened to us last night."

Qin Su lowered his head and said again: "Su'er is already the son's man."

Li Hao stretched out his hand to press his forehead, and suddenly felt a severe headache, the kind that both the brain and the skull hurt.

Cheng Chumo was stunned for a moment, then muttered aggrievedly: "My goddess... has become my brother's woman... Li Hao, you don't show loyalty!"

"Hey, you can eat shit, but you can't talk nonsense." Li Hao said with wide eyes, "I really have nothing to do with her!"

"An explanation is a cover-up, Miss Qin admits it!" Cheng Chumo rolled his eyes at Li Hao.

Li Hao didn't bother to explain, so he simply turned on the hob meat mode: "Okay, I did it, she is mine now, what do you want to do, blame yourself, who made you insist on shouting for me yesterday Price, you want to cheat me, also, you handed her the deed of selling herself to me, you said at that time, Miss Qin is mine from now on, is that what you said. "

"I didn't expect you to do it so quickly." Cheng Chumo grinned suddenly, leaned into Li Hao's ear and said, "Since you have already used it, lend me a few days."

Li Hao frowned suddenly when he heard the words, and said coldly: "Say one more thing, believe it or not, I will beat you to death!"

Li Hao is very angry, not because he is stingy, but because he disapproves of Cheng Chumo's attitude of treating women as playthings. In fact, Cheng Chumo can't be blamed, but this is the way it is in this era, and concubines can be traded as items. Give it away, let alone a prostitute like Qin Su, she is considered a top talent in the brothel, once she is redeemed, she is a slave in slavery.

Seeing that Li Hao was suddenly angry, Cheng Chumo quickly shrank his head, not daring to say another word, but he murmured in his heart: "Stinger, it really is a miser, he doesn't pull out anything."

At this time, the old bustard poked his head out from the second floor, and shouted happily: "Susu, you really have a lot of money under the bed, all right, you can go now."

Qin Su turned her head and asked Li Hao, "My lord, where is your home?"

Before Li Hao could speak, Cheng Chumo said first: "He is a man from Lantian County, and his family is of course in Lantian."

While speaking, the three of them had already walked out of the Chunfeng Deyi Building, and saw two servants of Duke Lu's mansion waiting outside the door, Li Hao turned his head and asked Cheng Chumo: "Are you walking here?"

"How is it possible!" Cheng Chumo said with wide eyes, "I came here on horseback."

Li Hao rolled his eyes and asked, "Are you planning to let the two of us walk back?"

With a big wave of his hand, Cheng Chumo said to the two servants: "Go home and get a carriage, that would be great!"

"Yes!" The two domestic servants took orders and went back.

The three of them waited boredly at the door. The weather was so hot that Li Hao was sweating profusely, and Qin Su was already dripping with sweat. They had no choice but to return to the Chunfeng Deyi Building and ask the old bustard to bring three bowls of sour plum soup to relieve the heat. I miss the future world, what are you afraid of when the weather is hot, if you drill into the air-conditioned room, you will not be afraid of the heat.

The old bustard personally served them sour plum soup. Seeing that they were sweating profusely, she couldn't help laughing and complaining: "The weather is so damn hot, it hasn't rained for a long time."

Li Hao said: "No, it just rained on June [-]th." That day was his coronation ceremony, because of the rain, he tore up the almanac, so he remembered it very clearly.

The old bustard said: "Yes, there was a drizzle on June [-]th, but before that, it hadn't rained for more than a month, and now it's July. It is said that many places in our Guanzhong have started to suffer from drought. The food is almost dying in the ground.”

"Drought?" Li Hao was shocked when he heard the words, and asked casually, "Is this the tenth year of Zhenguan?"

Qin Su nodded, and asked suspiciously, "Young master, why do you suddenly ask this?"

Li Hao didn't answer, but frowned and meditated. According to historical records, in the tenth year of Zhenguan, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong, and another natural disaster came.

To be honest, although Li Hao can quell the plague, there is really nothing he can do about droughts, floods and earthquakes. This is a natural force, and only high-tech can solve it, such as artificial rainfall, or spending huge manpower and material resources on water conservancy projects. , As for the earthquake, hehe, even the future world can't deal with it, let alone the present.

"Oh, the people in Guanzhong are going to suffer again." Li Hao sighed helplessly, "I hope His Majesty can take good relief measures."

Cheng Chu was surprised and asked: "Is there really going to be a drought? It's not that serious. Maybe it will rain in a few days. It's summer now, and the rain will come when it comes."

Li Hao waved his hand and said, "Everything must be prepared for the best and the worst."

Qin Su stared at Li Hao obsessively from the side, and she felt that Li Hao's expression of worrying about the drought just now was very handsome.

After half an hour, Cheng Chumo's servants arrived in a carriage, and Li Hao took Qin Su into the carriage to go home. As soon as he got home, Li Hao called out to the concierge Wang San: "Wang San, let Du Hong be here quickly." Wait for me at the gate of the backyard."

"Yes!" Wang San took the order and left.

Li Hao brought Qin Su to the backyard in a hurry. The backyard is the residence of the female relatives. No man except Li Hao is allowed to enter. At the moment Turandot is practicing sword in the courtyard. When Li Hao came back, she stopped and looked at him. Rolling his eyes, he asked angrily, "What are you doing here?"

Li Hao didn't talk nonsense, pulled Qin Su two steps forward, and introduced: "Let me introduce, this is Miss Qin Su, the husband I invited for you."

"Sir?" Turandot asked in surprise, "How can there be a female gentleman?"

"What? You still want me to find a man to teach you?" Li Hao asked with a smile, which really stopped her.

Qin Su bowed to Turandot: "See you madam."

Li Hao corrected: "It's like Ma'am."

Qin Su hurriedly changed her words: "Meet Mrs. Ru."

Turandot didn't care about this at all, and returned a gift to Qin Su, saying, "Are you literate?"

Qin Su nodded, looking a little shy.

Turandot thought for a while, then turned to Li Hao and asked, "Hey, can you let him teach Gulina and Elena too, they told me that they also want to learn Tang's characters."

"Of course." Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "Let Xiaoyun study together. In this way, the outer room of my study is not usually used. You usually teach there. You can read the books in it anyway. Reading a book, put it there is moldy."

Qin Su didn't expect how open he was to letting girls learn to write, and she was suddenly full of curiosity about Li Hao, always feeling that he was very different from ordinary people.

At this moment, Jin Qiaoyun came in, saluted Li Hao, and said, "Master, Steward Du is outside the courtyard, let me bring you a message, he's here."

"Well, good." Li Hao nodded and said to Turandot, "Well... I still have something to do, and you will arrange Miss Qin's board and lodging."

"Wrap it on me." Turandot patted his chest carelessly.

Li Hao then turned around and left the hospital, only to see Du Hong waiting two zhang away outside the hospital, and greeted each other: "Master, this old slave is waiting for your order."

Li Hao walked up to him and asked, "Du Hong, how many people from our Shanghe village have invested in our house?"

Du Hong replied: "Ninety-nine out of ten of the fields in Shanghe Village have been invested in our house."

"Oh." Li Hao nodded and asked again, "How is the crop growing in the field recently?"

"Don't mention it." Hearing this, Du Hong's face was full of sorrow, "Except for the light rain that fell for two hours on the day of your coronation ceremony, it has not rained for nearly three months, and the ground is dry and cracked. If there is no more rain, In less than half a month, all the crops will be finished."

"So serious?" Li Hao frowned, thought for a while, and asked again: "Isn't there water in our Qingshui River? Why don't we use the water from the Qingshui River to irrigate the farmland?"

"Young Master, stop joking." Du Hong said with a bitter face, "Not to mention that Qingshui River is two miles away from the field, and the water of Qingshui River is five or six feet lower than the river bank, so why bring this water up? "

"That's right." Li Hao scratched his head and thought for a while, then asked, "What about the water truck?"

"Waterwheels are fine." Du Hong nodded and said, "But to build a waterwheel, it will cost a lot of money. It can't be done without two or three hundred guan, and even if there is a waterwheel, it can't irrigate thousands of people. Acres of farmland."

Du Hong was right. Li Hao knew that the ancient waterwheel looked powerful, but it was actually very inefficient, and it was embarrassing that people had to keep stepping on it.

Li Hao thought for a long time, then suddenly touched his chin and muttered to himself: "Maybe... I can try a wind-powered waterwheel."

With this in mind, he turned around and asked Du Hong: "Du Hong, find me some craftsmen, the more the better, I will make a water wheel, a very big water wheel, so I need a lot of craftsmen."

"Oh, good!" Du Hong said, turned and left.

Li Hao also went back to his study and took out his pencils to start drawing. He wanted to design a wind-powered waterwheel.

The principle of the wind-powered waterwheel is very simple, but it is more difficult to make because it is too big. The wind-powered waterwheel designed by Li Hao is divided into two parts, namely the windmill and the waterwheel. The diameter of the waterwheel is [-] meters. Ordinary waterwheels are much larger. The base of the windmill is five meters long, and the blades of the windmill are four and a half meters long, so the windmill stands about nine meters high. In this era, it is simply a giant. How to build it has become the biggest problem.

Exactly the next day, the artisans invited by Du Hong came. Among them was a craftsman whose surname was Lu and whose name was Zhi. He was the most skilled craftsman among all craftsmen. He claimed to be a descendant of Lu Ban. , Li Hao's drawing was very clear, and Li Hao explained it to him, so he understood it immediately.

As expected, Lu Zhi had rich experience, and suggested: "If a wooden support is used as the base, not only is the project huge, but it is also difficult to erect. The villain suggests that a tower be built with bricks and stones, and the tower be used as the base of the windmill."

"That's right!" Li Hao slapped the table and said excitedly, "You are a professional after all, so I will follow what you said. Can the project be completed within ten days?"

"Ah?" Lu Zhi was taken aback when he heard the words, and then smiled wryly, "Master, you can really joke, such a big project will take at least two months."

"Two months? No way!" Li Hao shook his head solemnly, "It must be completed within ten days, and the crops in the field cannot afford to wait."

Lu Zhi thought for a while, and said: "It's not impossible to finish the project within ten days, but the manpower and material resources consumed will be increased several times."

Li Hao waved his hand and said, "Don't talk so much, just tell me, how much does it cost?"

Lu Zhi said: "Based on the experience of villains, the minimum is three thousand guan."

"Hiss—" Li Hao gasped, three thousand!Also the lowest!The price is really too high.

(End of this chapter)