Cao Thief

Chapter 259 Sky Train (Ask for a Monthly Pass!!!)
The room was a little messy.

Various bamboo slips, scrolls, and messy drawings were placed on the ground.As soon as you walk in, you can't feel that this is a girl's room.In fact, according to Huang Yueying, she had six maidservants in Jiangxia's hometown.At first, Cao Peng didn't understand, why do you need so many maidservants?But later, according to Huang Yueying's living conditions in Hailing, Cao Peng finally understood the strangeness.

Without training, six maidservants might not be enough!
Huang Yueying has a lot of roads in life. Although she is very clever, she often gets confused.Especially when she was thinking about the problem, she became even more confused.Basically wherever you go, you will be sloppy.If there is no maid to follow, it will be a problem.

Fortunately, Bu Luan and Guo Huan are both literate and quick-witted.

With these two people following her, Huang Yueying wouldn't look too sloppy.However, she tossed very hard, it took so much effort, the room was already in a mess.Huang Yueying herself didn't seem to feel anything, she danced around the messy room like dancing, and soon walked to the desk and sat down.

"Ah Fu, come here."

Cao Peng walked over and sat down opposite Huang Yueying.

On the desk, it was also spread out in a mess, with blank paper and charcoal pencils that Cao Peng made when he was in Jiyang...

"Yueying, you are..."

"Don't talk, just look at this."

She pushed a blueprint in front of Cao Peng, her face full of expectations.

Cao Peng took it over, looked carefully for a moment, raised his head and asked, "What is this?"

"Turn over!"

"Oh?"

Huang Yueying said excitedly: "Do you still remember the Bi Lan I told you about during the day?"

"Uh... that ten permanent attendant."

"Yes, that's him!" Huang Yueying said, "Actually, Bi Lan is not as bad as outsiders say. At least his mechanical skills are amazing, and even my father admires him very much. My father said, if it wasn't for With this ability, Bi Lan can't get the seat of the ten permanent servants. His whimsical ideas are comparable to Mo Di, the master of mechanism in the Warring States Period. It's just that this person's virtue is really not human."

"Wait a minute, what do you want to say?"

Seeing that Huang Yueying became more and more excited as she talked, and the topic became farther and farther away, Cao Peng quickly waved his hand to stop it.

Huang Yueying smiled awkwardly, and said softly: "In the third year of Zhongping (186 AD), in order to please the late emperor, Bi Lan designed a watering device, which is an overturned car. It is said that with this tool, water from the river can be used to sprinkle the streets. , get twice the result with half the effort.

After Father heard about it, he asked someone to inquire.

But this 'overturned car' was carefully built by Bi Lan and dedicated to the first emperor, so that in the end, my father sent someone to spend [-] yuan to get the model.

I remember very well at the time, Dad marveled at the overturned car.

He also said that Bi Lanzhi's talent is extraordinary, but it's a pity that he used it in the wrong place... Later, Dad made some small changes based on the model of the overturned car, and used it in my field at home.Water from the river can be easily drawn to irrigate the fields.

But you also know that Jiangxia does not lack water, so it is not very useful.

Later, Dad felt bored, so he destroyed the overturned car... But I still remember some of the general shape and structure. "

"Wait a minute, you said that uncle once built a waterwheel?"

"It's not a waterwheel, it's an overturned cart!"

Cao Peng picked up the drawing again and watched it carefully for a while.

Huang Yueying's painting skills are outstanding, Cao Peng thinks this waterwheel looks familiar.

Kongming car!
That's right, it is the prototype of the Kongming car.

I remember that in the previous life, Cao Peng used to play in Chengdu.He couldn't remember exactly which historic site it was, but he did see a waterwheel at that time.

According to the tour guide, this water wheel was invented and improved by Zhuge Liang, and it was promoted in Sichuan, so it is called Kongming Wheel.

Its shape is quite similar to the drawing in front of me.

Cao Peng scratched his head involuntarily and laughed dumbfoundedly.

"Yueying, do you want to make a waterwheel?"

"I've said it all, it's called a rollover... Well, but the name waterwheel is appropriate."

Huang Yueying was very excited, with a pretty face and a bright smile, "Tell me, if you can make an overturned car, can it solve the drought?"

"This one……"

Cao Peng fell into deep thought.

Since ancient times, China has been founded on agriculture, and water conservancy is the most indispensable part of agriculture, so the design of water conservancy projects emerges in endlessly.

Among them, the invention of the waterwheel is undoubtedly a great creation that embodies the wisdom of the Chinese.

According to legend, the earliest folk tool for drawing water was called Juchao.

In "Zhuangzi-Outer Chapter-Heaven and Earth Chapter", it is recorded that Zigong, a student of Confucius, traveled to the south. When he passed Hanyin on the way, he saw an old man laboriously holding an urn to draw water for irrigation.So Zigong felt pity, and designed a labor-saving appliance, which he named "槔".The way of making it is "chisel wood as a machine, the back is heavy and the front is light, and the water is like pumping, and the number is like fertile soup".That is to support a crossbar on the wooden frame, one section is hung with a wooden barrel for drawing water, and the other section is hung with a heavy object, similar to a lever, to save the power of drawing water.

This orange is the embryonic form of the waterwheel.

However, the real appearance of the waterwheel was invented by Bi Lan at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Later, it was transformed by Zhuge Liang, and it is also recorded that it was transformed by Ma Jun.But no matter who transforms it, the rollover can be regarded as an official appearance.

However, because Ma Jun's environment is different from Zhuge Liang's, there are certain differences.

For example, the Kongming car is more conducive to drawing water in the south of the Yangtze River, while the keel overturned car is suitable for drawing water in the north...

Later in the Tang and Song dynasties, drum carts appeared. With the combination of pools and connecting drums, the one with lower water delivery and higher delivery will have greater efficiency and save manpower.

In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the water wheel continued to develop, and gears and other components appeared. According to the terrain and terrain, various appliances such as water-turning carts and ox-turning carts were invented.Then, since the Qing Dynasty, the development of Chinese waterwheels has stagnated.As for the reason...

"Yueying."

"Ok?"

"Actually, I think we can do better."

Huang Yueying's eyes lit up when she heard this.

"How to do it?"

Cao Peng picked up the charcoal pencil and turned it around twice in his hand.

The charcoal pen, after Huang Yueying's improvement, extracts charcoal strips from charcoal, and then uses a hollow wooden strip with a thickness of half a centimeter to carry it.There is a stopper inside, when the charcoal pen head is used up, the charcoal stick can be pushed out of the wooden stick by the push of the stopper and continue writing.

And this design came from Huang Yueying's handwriting.

Cao Peng played with it for a while, but also had to sigh, Yueying's mind was dexterous.

He closed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and drew a picture.However, his painter is definitely not as outstanding as Huang Yueying.Fortunately, Cao Peng can explain.

In his previous life, when he first started working, Cao Peng went to Gaolan County, Lanzhou City to escort a prisoner because of a case.

After the prisoner was handed over, the local colleagues took him to visit Gaolan and appreciate the customs of Gaolan.The colleague took Cao Peng to visit a tiger cart.Tiger carts are also waterwheels, also known as Lanzhou waterwheels, skywheels and other names.At that time, the colleague introduced it proudly, saying that this crane was the earliest crane in China... and the person who invented this crane was the Gaolan people in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Duan Xu.

This continuation once won the Jinshi and the first degree, and he is erudite and talented.

After traveling to several provinces in the south, after becoming an official, he built a waterwheel in Lanzhou based on what he saw in the south, which can turn back the water of the Yellow River to irrigate the fields...

Its shape is different from the keel waterwheel in the south at that time, and its shape resembles a huge ancient wheel.

Its spoke diameter is as large as 20 meters, as small as 10 meters, and can lift water to a height of 15-18 meters.

Cao Peng could not help being curious when he heard the proud introduction of his colleagues.When he left Langao County, his local counterparts gave him a model of a Lanzhou waterwheel with a picture and text introduction.Later, that model, with the destruction of the family, was also reduced to ashes.

Cao Peng must not remember the specific data clearly.

However, Cao Peng can still recall a general outline of its outline and some simple structures...

He drew a rough outline drawing according to the shape of the Lanzhou waterwheel, and then explained it to Huang Yueying one by one.Whenever he encountered something that he couldn't remember clearly, he just swallowed it vaguely.But even so, Huang Yueying's eyes shone with excitement.

"Ah Fu, how did you come up with this idea?"

"Well... as you know, there is no water around Zhongyang Mountain. Sometimes I see people working hard to draw water, so I just think about it."

"Well, your design is better than mine."

But after Huang Yueying finished speaking, she showed distress again, "It's just that this thing is very complicated, and it won't be easy to make it in a while.

Moreover, there seems to be some, some..."

Huang Yueying couldn't tell.

The design of the Lanzhou waterwheel was designed by Duan Xu according to the characteristics of Gaolan in the Ming Dynasty.

Lanzhou at that time was not comparable to Lanzhou in the Three Kingdoms period.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lanzhou was named Jincheng County. Although it was also very desolate, it was a place where Qiang and Han mixed together because of its lush water and grass.The so-called bitter cold refers to poor living conditions.You know, although Jincheng County is Xiliang, it can be considered as part of the Guanzhong area.The so-called Qinchuan, which is eight hundred miles away, is rich and prosperous in the world.Those who win Guanzhong win the world... It was not until the end of the Tang Dynasty that Guanzhong was completely ruined, and thus entered the historical stage of the struggle between the north and the south.Before that, most of the competition in the world was a competition between east and west, and it was mostly like this from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Cao Peng thought for a while, "I'm not in a hurry to design this waterwheel.

The most urgent task is to be able to perfect this overturned car. If it does encounter a severe drought, it can be put into use immediately to alleviate the disaster...

Then, you can slowly improve. "

Huang Yueying thought for a while, then nodded vigorously.

"I'm a little too hasty!"

After she finished speaking, she picked up the drawing and looked at it again, carefully tidying it up.

Then spread the drawing of the Kongming car she just drew on the desk.

"Ah Fu, help me to see again, do you have any good ideas?"

At this time, Cao Peng was walking up with Jiu Jiner, his eyelids were clenched.

But seeing Huang Yueying's enthusiasm, he couldn't refuse too much.So he cheered up and accompanied Huang Yueying to discuss the improvement of the waterwheel.

In fact, how did Cao Peng know this?
At the beginning, Huang Yueying asked for his opinion, but later, she basically ignored Cao Peng.

Finally, Cao Peng couldn't bear the deep tiredness, and fell asleep on the desk.But when he woke up, he found that he was wearing a big robe.Huang Yueying rested her head on his lap and fell into a deep sleep.And on the drawing on the desk, there are densely packed small characters.

Days, already pale.

Seeing the tiredness on Huang Yueying's face, Cao Peng couldn't help feeling a little distressed.

He stretched out his hand and gently stroked Yueying's hair.But Yueying moved, turned over, and fell asleep on Cao Peng's lap again.

This girl probably stayed up all night!
Cao Peng took off his robe and put it on Huang Yueying.

Then he picked up the blueprints on the desk and looked at them carefully.

The door knocked lightly, and Bu Luan walked in.

Seeing the scene in front of her, she couldn't help but blush, and almost cried out.

But seeing Cao Peng put his finger to his mouth, he gave a 'shh' sound.

"Miss hasn't rested all night, let her sleep for a while."

"Ah."

Bu Luan blushed and nodded slightly.

"Pack up all these...Xiao Luan, remember to warm a bowl of porridge in the kitchen, and let the lady eat it before leaving.

Also, don't break these things, be sure to keep them well.Yueying put all her effort into it that night, so don't mess it up. "

"The maid knows."

Bu Luan lightly tidied up the blueprints and the bamboo slips and scrolls on the ground, secretly looking at Cao Peng and Huang Yueying from the corner of his eye.

I saw that Yueying's face was flushed with a sweet smile.

Cao Peng, on the other hand, carefully moved the hair on her forehead, his face was full of tenderness.

How nice it is for the son to treat Miss Yueying!
Bu Luan was in a state of confusion, and suddenly bumped into the bed next to him.

Cao Peng raised his head, gave a 'shh', and shook his head slightly towards Bu Luan.That appearance was enough to make Bu Luan's cheeks blush immediately.

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Near the hour, Cao Peng got an order, and the old lady was ready to go.

He quickly ordered the chariots and horses to prepare, then put on his armor and straddled Zhao Yebai.

Huang Yueying didn't seem to wake up, she looked a little groggy, with a dazed look on her face.After getting into the carriage, she took out the blueprints and began to think hard again.

"Ah Fu, what's wrong with Yueying?"

Cao Nan couldn't bear it and asked softly.

"She's thinking about something... Don't blame her, sister."

Cao Peng explained: "Yueying is like this. Once she starts to think about problems, she is always a little confused, as if nothing is important."

"This girl..." Cao Nan sighed and beckoned Guo Huan to come over.

"You and Xiaoluan follow Yueying, don't let her make trouble again."

In the morning, when Cao Peng went to change clothes, Huang Yueying was holding a blueprint, almost out of her mind, and almost swallowed a charcoal pencil.

Cao Peng was quite helpless about this.

They could only let Guo Huan and Bu Luan stare at Huang Yueying.

Outside Chen County, the old lady boarded the carriage with Cao Hong's respectful support.

"Ah Fu, my aunt is getting old, and I will go to Xudu all the way, so I need to trouble you to take care of her."

Cao Hong took Cao Peng's hand and said solemnly.

Seeing that no one was paying attention, he suddenly lowered his voice, "Auntie has a strong temper, and she doesn't like to be flattered. She has a good impression of you, and she praised you very much yesterday. Don't mess around, just do what you want , as long as you take good care of it, don't let her think that you did it on purpose..."

Cao Hong treated me really well!
Cao Peng put his hands together and said goodbye to Cao Hong.

He raised his hand and shouted loudly: "Give me an order, let's go!"

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