The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 49 Is it necessary to deceive a girl to build a mill?
The arrival of Jiang Xiaohu and his second uncle made the shop a lot more popular, and it even seemed a little crowded.

If there are too many people in the shop, the business must be raised to a higher level, otherwise it will be a problem for the sixth and seventh people to eat and pay wages.

The construction of the hydraulic saw started immediately. Grandpa called over [-] laborers from the village to improve the river course. He paid [-] Wen for two meals a day. After ten days, the river course was repaired.

After the river course was improved, Song Yingkui hurriedly took Sanshu and others to install the hydraulic sawing equipment prepared in advance on the waterway, and then brought water in for debugging.

After all, it was designed out of imagination. There were many problems during debugging, and it took ten days to adjust the hydraulic saw to be generally usable.

From now on, let's adjust it while using it. Anyway, from Song Yingkui's point of view, there are still many unreasonable things and things that need to be improved. For now, it can only be used.

"Kuiwa, you are a capable person. The fifth generation has never heard of it. You can saw wood with a water wheel, and you made this thing. From now on, we will not have much work in the shop." Looking at the hydraulic saw, along the line drawn by the ink fountain, sawing the wood creakingly, the third uncle Song Xueliang tightened the gear that sent the wood, and praised his nephew unobtrusively.

"I just thought about doing it. There are still many problems with the saw. I need to slowly find a way to improve it. Besides, the physical work in our shop is not the same as sawing wood. Our future work will not be much easier." Unlike Sanshu and others who have little knowledge, Song Yingkui is not complacent because of this small technical improvement.Compared with later generations who have truly realized mechanization and automation, today's craftsmen do much more hard work, and there is still a long way to go before it is truly easy.

After the water saw started to be used, in addition to the daily workers, there were also some idle people who came to watch the fun in the shop, among them was Song Yingkui's grandfather Song Tianshun.

The old head was fascinated by the water saw, so he stopped working at home and went to the shop early in the morning to see how the water saw cut wood, and it took him a whole day.It wasn't until the shop was closed that I reluctantly walked home.

The idlers who looked at the water saw pulled the wood from the house over, told Song Yingkui about what to do, and then asked to try to change the big wood first.When they saw that their own wood was indeed converted into boards by the water saw along the line drawn by Song Yingkui, the idlers paid for the processing fee while boasting that the water saw was indeed a workable thing.

"Ying Kui, do you have any free time recently? There will be a good day to start work in ten days or so. I want to quickly change our family's mill according to your style. Do you think so?"

When the hydraulic saw started to run, Jia Xiangnan, the shopkeeper of Jia's mill, hurried over to talk about the technical renovation of his own mill.They can make unprecedented water saws, why don't you ask them to change their own mills for the better?A little later, Jia Xiangnan was afraid that Song Yingkui would be caught by his competitors, so Cao's family, who also owned a mill along the river, invited him to work first.

"Wait! By the way, Uncle Jia, is the mill you will be building based on the previous Guo family's style, or should I redesign it for you?" Guo's mill is Song Yingkui's first time making hydraulic machinery. From a technical point of view, there are not many new attempts and changes.If he is allowed to make a water mill according to his own will, it is natural to make as many improvements as possible to improve the efficiency of the water mill.For example, changing the grinding disc from horizontal to vertical, and adding a linkage device to change the work of sifting bran from manpower to hydraulic linkage.

"Ying Kui, can you still change the water mill to a better place?" Jia Xiangnan immediately became interested when he heard Song Yingkui's words.When other people say such things, he just treats them as nonsense, but Song Yingkui is different. They have made unprecedented water saws.In terms of how to use the water truck, anyone with a discerning eye can see that they are better than the old ones!

"I thought about changing the grinding disc from horizontal to vertical, and adding a sieve driven by a water wheel, so that the speed of grinding noodles should be faster than the previous method, and the sieving surface will no longer be sifted by people, which can save a man." Seeing that Jia Xiangnan was interested in his idea of ​​​​continuing to improve the water mill, Song Yingkui said the improvement direction of the water mill in his mind.Gai Shuimo and Jia Xiangnan are Party A, and it depends on his own choice.

"Can this change work? Yingkui, tell me the truth." After all, he had never seen what Song Yingkui described as the new mill, so Jia Xiangnan had no choice but to ask Song Yingkui to make a promise.

"It's definitely possible. I can't say how much the efficiency will be improved, but at least I can guarantee that it will be better than the mill made for the Guo family." Song Yingkui really can't figure out how much the efficiency can be improved, but the effect of gravity is there, and the vertical plate is more efficient than the horizontal plate.

"Ying Kui, I heard that your family is getting married to the Guo family. Can you make my mill better than the Guo family's? I don't have any daughters in my family to promise to your family. My Gui Ling has already engaged to the Han family on the street!" Song Yingkui's words made Jia Xiangnan couldn't help thinking about it. Although the two families are neighbors now, they are not related in any way.If you don't have any relatives, why do you want to give our Jia family a better mill than the Guo family?Could it be that they are trying to let our Jia family promise another daughter to your family?
I regard you as party A, what do you regard me as?Is it necessary to deceive a girl to build a mill?
Jia Xiangnan's words stunned Song Yingkui before he said, "Uncle Jia, what are you talking about? We craftsmen do our work not only to make money, but also to make real good things. When I built the mill for the Guo family, I didn't know much about how to use a waterwheel. After I made a water saw recently, my understanding deepened. Naturally, I thought that when I make a water mill for your family, I can do it better. Why did I become a picture of your daughter?" I don’t have any such thoughts.”

"Ying Kui, if you make a water mill according to your idea, will the cost be higher than what you make for the Guo family?" Seeing that Song Yingkui was talking in a hurry, Jia Xiangnan also realized that what he just said seemed a bit inappropriate, so he quickly changed the subject and brought the topic to the cost of building the mill.

"Theoretically, it must be higher! Put the millstone upright and add a sieve basket. No matter what happens, the mill will have to add another layer. In addition, the millstone needs to be wrapped in a wooden box. If you think it's hard to add grain to it, you need to add a water wheel with a device for lifting grain. However, your old mill is still there, and the foundation, mill, and mill can be rebuilt and continue to be used, so the total cost should be about the same as that for the Guo family!"

(End of this chapter)