I went ashore by weaving straw shoes and became a master craftsman

Chapter 328 The First Improvement Method
On the way, there are carriages returning to the city, farmers, craftsmen, caravans, and travelers in the opposite direction.

The farmer who clears the land carries a new plow!
The poultry trucks are full of bald chickens.

It has to be said that Liu Qing was very observant, and while the horse was galloping, he could still fix his eyes on two passers-by who were behaving suspiciously.One of them carried a basket and the other was wrapped in a thick cloth. When they saw the knights from a distance, they all sluggishly walked.

After getting close to them, Liu Qing looked at the cloth bags around the two people's waists, they were so heavy that their waist ropes almost fell below their hips.

The hooves of the horse were hanging in the air and tightened. Liu Qing signaled Duan Yongfu to accompany him, and Mrs. Zou said "OK" and led the team to move on.

Wang Tian's team of special guards had obviously undergone special training, and their posture on horseback was extraordinarily ostentatious, but until they entered the city, they maintained an iron-like chilling silence, more oppressive than ordinary knights.

Arriving safely outside the county office, the poor young boy left with his companions to ride the shooting range before he had time to talk to Wang Ge.

Wang Ge was worried about Liu Qing and Duan Yongfu, and insisted on waiting by the outer wall of the east gate.Mrs. Nan was not in a hurry to change her clothes at this moment, so she told Mrs. Zou and Mrs. Zhu about the gambling in the examination room. When the latter heard the reaction of examiner Lei, she put one hand on Mrs. Zou's shoulder and the other hand covered her belly and laughed.

In the past, Wang Ge thought Zhuan and Nan Erniang had compatible personalities, and they were both extroverted and aggressive, but now it seems that they are not.The former is indeed the case, but I can’t say why, Nan Niangzi’s cheerfulness always gives Wang Ge a sense of camouflage, as if the other party is wearing a variety of emotional masks, changing the scene and changing the mask.

No longer thinking about it, Liu Qing and the two came back, carrying a basket wrapped in cloth on their backs. It turned out that the two people they met on the road were selling saltpeter privately. Liu Qing gave twenty copper coins, and the other party was overjoyed, and gave it along with their bags.

Wang Ge instructed: "Keep accounts."

The salaries of the two and Mrs. Zou were all included in this gunpowder experiment. In this era, there is no such thing as "reimbursement", but when the meritorious service is determined, it can be understood by seeing the expenditure records of copper coins, and it will definitely be compensated with rewards.

On the way back to the official residence, Liu Qing relayed that Wang Ge finally knew what happened to the soldier Cao Shi Mingtuo.

No wonder Wang Shuzuo didn't let Mrs. Zou guess randomly. It turned out to be a misunderstanding.

That day, just before Wang Tian returned to Bingcao, Ming Guanzhang received an order to go to Dongyi Mansion. Could it be that he was punished?Ming Tuo was apprehensive, sweating all the time, and drank two bowls of cold water before leaving.As a result, he didn't even walk halfway to the south gate of the county office, and his stomach hurts.I understand my own body. The latrine was probably not enough last time, so I didn't go to the Li Cao next to me, but returned to the Bing Cao.

Or maybe there is no coincidence, Wang Tian stayed at Wang Ge's all morning, and he wanted to relieve himself a long time ago, but Cao Shi, the soldier, is not in the house, so can he go to the martial arts field with gunpowder and firecrackers?Let's go to the latrine first.

So, one after the other with Ming Tuo, they met.

Just two pits.

Wang Tian hated the smell, and hurriedly demonstrated the power of gunpowder and left, but the fuse burned to the seal and there was no movement.what happened?It should be that he cried on the way, and soaked the lead wire after wiping away his tears.

"This one isn't good, I'll change it."

At that time, Wang Tian thought, it is definitely not good to keep the bamboo pipe, and it is not good to take it away to show defense against the other party.

He pretended to accidentally kick the bamboo pipe into the cesspit, and ran out saying "I'll be back soon".As soon as the front foot came out, he heard the firecrackers go off, and then he saw Mingtuo's big face, half startled and half startled, about to cry.

"He must have stretched his neck and scratched his head to look into my pit!" When Wang Tian told Liu Qing, his resentment was still as strong as when Ming Tuo kicked him.

After laughing about it, I went to the official house.

Wang Ge didn't stop, and planned to directly make models for several improvement methods for the overturned car, because how to improve it has basically been thought out.

There were some scraps of fabric left over from tailoring in the utility room. She took them out, and Mrs. Zou looked her up and down and asked, "Is the clothes scratched?"

"No. I'll sew a pinwheel."

As early as the Han Dynasty, there was not only a mechanical "fan cart" for raising rice chaff, but Ding Huan, a skilled worker, also invented the "seven-wheel fan". One person can drive the seven-wheel fan to drive away heat in summer, not to mention children's play. A small windmill made of wood and bamboo.In Kuaiji County, Wang Ge often saw peddlers selling colorful windmills, but it was rare in Xiangping, but there must have been, and the rare reason was that she didn't go out much.

Sure enough, Mrs. Zou said with a smile: "Want to play with windmills? I still remember when I was young, my father deliberately wedged the shaft tightly. I had to use a lot of force to blow the windmill. My cheek hurts." Time really hurts. Ah, the old house was refurbished a long time ago, and I didn't know where to throw the windmill. I knew it should be kept, and it didn't take up much space, so that now when I recall it, I have an extra piece of missing windmill in my heart.

Just before dark, Wang Ge sewed out the windmill. It was different from what Ms. Zou had seen. This windmill was in the shape of six vertical wooden "]" pieces, stretched together, and the vertical axis in the center was in the The bottom is extended a bit.

This is a windmill?Is the shaft fixed with the six cloth panels?How is this blowing?Mrs. Zou was puzzled.

The next day, Wang Ge got up early, and while it was getting dark, he first practiced the two-bird show for half an hour, and then went to the kitchen for breakfast with Mrs. Zou.

The food official in charge took the initiative to greet him: "Craftsman Wang is here."

While eating, another official came over with a pottery bowl: "It's rare for Master Wang to come. This is the mustard greens I mixed with a secret sauce."

Wang Ge tasted it, huh?It smells like crab roe!

The official who made the fire showed his head from the stove room and shouted: "Master Wang, we have all replaced the stove. It is great to have a bellows. If you want a big fire, make a big fire. It will be faster to cook soup and steam cakes."

After this meal, Wang Ge's mouth was sour from a smile.

Chenzheng, start working.

The extended shaft of yesterday's cloth windmill needs to be equipped with a horizontal wooden wheel.This wooden wheel is all identical in shape and size with the vertical wooden wheel at the end of the overturned horizontal axis.She drew the picture of the wheel, with twelve spokes, each protruding out of the rim (outer circumference of the wheel), which served as the "teeth" of the gear structure.

The diameter of the wheel hub (the hole through which the shaft passes through the middle of the wheel) is longer than the shaft diameter so that the windmill above can rotate freely. Therefore, a thin wooden block must be wedged at the upper and lower positions where the shaft passes through the hub as a stopper.Of course, these structures and methods are all based on mold making.

In order to ensure the stable operation of the mold, Wang Ge cut ten holes around the hub, and the spokes are all inserted into the hub by tenons.As for the rim, she didn't bother, she compared the positions from time to time, carved out four curved pieces of wood, dug three holes in each arc, and wedged them into the spokes respectively to form a complete circular rim.

After the two wooden wheels were made, it was already noon.

Wang Ge didn't care about eating, so he continued to cut the shaft of the vertical wooden wheel.Similarly, in order to allow the shaft to rotate freely in the hub without falling off, the left and right positions where the shaft passes through the hub are each wedged to block.

All right.

When Mrs. Zou thought that Wang Ge was finally willing to eat, Wang Ge began to rummage in the basket for wood again.Find a piece of the smallest stem-shaped material, cut it into a "ya"-shaped bracket, and what it supports is the horizontal axis of the vertical wheel.At the end of the bracket where the shaft comes out, a hemp rope tied with small stones is dropped to balance the weight of the vertical wheel.

Align the horizontal wheel with the vertical wheel, test that they can bite and move each other, and then stick the windmill vertically into the soil at the corresponding position.

"Sister, turn the windmill and give it a try."

　Rim (wǎng): The round frame around the wheel.

　　Wheel hub (gǔ): the hole in the middle of the wheel through which the shaft passes.

　　
　
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