Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 22
After talking about the big water truck for a while, everyone at the table was very happy, Huang Sihao said: "That's good, with this water truck, the water diversion is successful, and the fields along the river in the castle will be worry-free."

Most of the fields owned by Huang's family in Wuzhaibao are by the Qinglian River. After the waterwheel is successfully built, water will be diverted to the shore for irrigation. The harvest in the fields next year will of course be very different.

Gu Qianhu also said: "Nephew, after the waterwheel is successfully made, don't forget your Uncle Gu." Gu Qianhu also has a lot of land in Zhenxiwei, and faces the same problem as the Huang family due to lack of water. Now that he has Huang Laifu's big waterwheel weapon, he will naturally not let it go.

Huang Laifu said: "Of course, how could my nephew forget Gu Shibo?"

Everyone laughed, even Gu Yunniang laughed, looking at Huang Laifu with a different look.

Yang said: "Fu'er, you can use large water trucks by the river, but there are still many fields in our fort that are not close to the river, and most of these fields have no water for irrigation. You just said that you use groundwater, how do you use it? Is it digging a well? As far as my mother knows, there are some wells beside those fields, but most of them are dry, where are you going to get water?"

Huang Laifu said: "Yes, mother, it is to dig a well to divert water, but my well is no better than the previous ones. My well can be five or six feet deep, or even six or seven feet deep. A well this deep can guarantee The well will never run dry, and the boy has a way of drawing it out."

Drilling wells to irrigate fields was relatively common in northern China during the Qin and Han Dynasties.Waterwheels have been used to extract well water since the Tang Dynasty.However, most of them are traditional "轳拳" wells.The water is lifted up by manually turning the wheel.The depth is generally only a few meters, which belongs to the shallow water well.It takes time and effort to draw water from such wells, the water quality is easily polluted, and the water quality is relatively bitter. The most important thing is that the well water is easy to dry up.

Naturally, there are wells like this everywhere in Wuzhai Fort.

However, some deep-water wells in later generations are as deep as ten meters, and tens of meters are very common, especially those machine-driven wells, which are often as deep as [-] meters.It is the hand press well of later generations, commonly known as foreign well, with a water depth of at least ten meters.

Huang Laifu, a hand press machine, is still fresh in his memory. He used it frequently in his hometown in the countryside when he was a child. Press and hold the iron handle, press and press, and the water will come out continuously.

This kind of hand press well has many advantages, and because it draws water from deep, the water quality is good, and the water tastes clear and sweet, which is much better than the water from those shallow wells. It was very popular at that time, and this kind of hand press well is still used in some remote areas or some rural areas of our country.

Regardless of the taste of the water, the important thing is that this kind of hand press well can draw water from deeper underground, and it is convenient to fetch water, which can meet the needs of dry fields.

Presumably in Wuzhaibao, this kind of hand press well with a depth of more than ten meters can already meet the water needs of many fields, vegetable gardens or people.For some places where the groundwater is relatively deep, even hand press wells with a depth of more than ten meters cannot draw water from the ground, Huang Laifu plans to dig deep water wells with a depth of 30 to [-] meters.The improved keel waterwheel is used to bring up the deep water by using animal power.

At this time, if the keel waterwheel of the Ming Dynasty had good overall stability, it could raise the river water to a height of 3-5 meters.In Huang Laifu's computer data, there is an improved keel waterwheel drawing and production method, which Huang Laifu saw on a later technology website at that time. The author is a folk scientist in Fujian. He successfully produced it by combining ancient and modern technologies. At that time, Huang Laifu was very interested in seeing the relevant pictures on the Internet, so he downloaded them to his computer.It just so happened that when Huang Laifu checked his computer yesterday, he found such a water wheel, and it happened to be used at this time.

This improved keel waterwheel can draw up water from wells as deep as two to 30 meters if animal power is used.Sufficient for all dry fields.Of course, there is no need to think about that kind of machine well with a depth of [-] meters in the Ming Dynasty. Even in later generations, that kind of machine well was pumped up with high-power water pumps.

However, the two deep-water wells mentioned above are enough to meet the needs. As long as the groundwater is continuous, water can be continuously drawn for use to meet the needs of the military households in Wuzhaibao.

As for the groundwater in Wuzhai Fort, Huang Laifu recalled the information on his computer about the later Wuzhai County. According to the information in his computer, the groundwater resources in Wuzhai Fort are very rich, with a groundwater reserve of more than 7000 million tons, which is allowed to be exploited annually. The volume is 3478.8 million tons, and the groundwater quality is mostly heavy carbon calcium magnesium water, which is suitable for drinking and irrigation.

With so much water, even if there are tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the whole castle, it is enough to meet the needs of hundreds of years.Although the Ming Dynasty is currently in the Little Ice Age, the surface is short of water, and there are thousands of miles of red land everywhere.However, the groundwater was still very rich at this time. Without large-scale industrial water use in later generations, this groundwater resource could not be purer.

Not to mention in Wuzhai Fort, it is the same in other places in Ming Dynasty.Relying on groundwater alone, the entire north can tide over the difficulties. After the Little Ice Age in a few decades, the weather will return to normal, and the groundwater will naturally be replenished quickly and abundantly.In fact, agricultural irrigation and domestic water alone are not as scary and in great demand as urbanization and industrial water in later generations.

Hearing what Huang Laifu said, Yang smiled and said: "This is good, this is good, it seems that this family will take care of the baby in the future."

She said happily: "My child has gone out for a trip, and his skills have improved."

Huang Laifu said with a smile: "My mother is too proud." He was also very happy to be affirmed by his mother and family.Gu Yunniang on the opposite side gave him a blank look.

The elder sister curled her lips and said, "Mother, you are not afraid to praise your younger brother. You have praised him many times in the past two days."

Yang smiled and said: "Okay, okay, I know you are also very good, but you are such an old man, and you are still arguing with your brother." He tapped her lightly on the head.

The eldest sister yelled: "Mother, you hit me again in front of so many people."

Everyone laughed.

Everyone enjoyed the meal. After the meal, Huang Sihao summoned Steward Yang and said, "Uncle Yang, what does Fu'er need to make the waterwheel and other things, and the craftsman's money and food, you should cooperate with him as much as possible."

He thought for a while, and said: "How about this, you go to the accounting room and pay 200 taels of silver, thinking that Fu'er will use it for a dry meal."

Steward Yang gave Huang Laifu a strange look, then turned his head and said respectfully to Huang Sihao: "Yes, master."

When the people around heard that Huang Sihao ordered Steward Yang to take 200 taels of silver and use it with Huang Laifu, they also had strange expressions.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, silver was widely used, but compared to the later Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, at the beginning of Wanli at this time, a large amount of silver had not flowed into the Ming Dynasty, and silver was still a precious thing.The purchasing power of one tael of silver at this time is about as much as RMB 45 in later generations.At this time, a county magistrate's annual salary was only 8 taels of silver, and he bought 1 catties of high-quality mutton for only [-] cent and [-] cents of silver.

During the Chongzhen Dynasty, after a large inflow of silver, it depreciated by about 2000 yuan.In fact, the purchasing power of silver was higher in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The purchasing power of one tael of silver in the Tang Dynasty was about 1000 yuan, and it was more than [-] in the Song Dynasty.

In Wuzhaibao, a poor place, although Huang's family is a hereditary family with thousands of households and has accumulated for hundreds of years, at this time the family only has 800 taels of silver. At this time, giving 200 taels of silver to Huang Laifu at once is equivalent to giving money to future generations. RMB 12 was given to Huang Laifu, accounting for a quarter of the Huang family's usable wealth, which shows Huang Sihao's love for Huang Laifu.

Huang Laifu naturally understood this, and he said gratefully: "Thank you dad, the child will definitely do well."

He is full of confidence in himself and believes that he will make a career out of it.

In fact, Huang Laifu's water trucks and farms are currently all for the sake of the rich castle, and then to strengthen the army.Coming from later generations, he certainly understands the importance of the army. Only with a strong army can he achieve success in the three major Wanli expeditions in the future, have greater influence, and be able to change anything.

Of course he wanted to start military training, but firstly, he didn't start to replace him.The second important thing is that I have no money or food in my hands.

Talking about military training when there is no money or food is just fantasy, even if Huang Laifu has full plans, he can only hold back.At this time, the military households, such as the military household banner soldiers in Wuzhaibao, were generally weak in health. Because it was difficult to eat enough at ordinary times, they were seriously lacking in physical fitness. Talk to the air.

The strong army in Huang Laifu's mind is based on rigorous training, which requires very sufficient nutrition.How does nutrition come from?It is money and food piled up.

It is very difficult to raise soldiers, and the money and food that need to be spent are very huge.Take the 60 family members of the Huang family as an example. Compared with ordinary military households in Wuzhaibao, each of these family members needs to pay two shi for food per month, eight qian for silver per month, and eight qian for silver for rewards every year. points, and each person will give back a horse.The annual grain requirement alone is at least 18 catties.Not counting money, horse feed, extra rewards, pensions and other expenses.

The money and food needs of these people have already made Huang Sihao do his best, and Huang Laifu will not be able to rely on these 60 servants to conquer the world in the future. In his preliminary plan, he will organize the 1120 banner troops of Wuzhaibao into the future. A strong army.In terms of household standards, how much food and money do these 1000 people need in a year?If there are 5000 or 1 people in the future, how much food will be needed for a year?
If you want to do big things, you can't avoid money and food, and if you can't support the soldiers and civilians in Wuzhaibao, you can't talk about changing Wuzhaibao, and then change the world.It's like how to sweep the world if you don't sweep a house.

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