Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 226 Streamline Manufacturing

Chapter 230 Streamline Manufacturing

The "Feiyun" entered the Yellow River, and in the luxurious captain's cabin of the "Feiyun", a beautiful woman was hiding at the moment.When Stripe jumped into the icy Zhangshui River, several water ghosts from the navy rushed into the water and rescued Stripe.

Although spring has come, ice practice is no longer.

But the coldness of the spring water also made the frightened and frightened stripes faint!To save stripes, Ran Ming originally planned to send people to send stripes to Tiaoyou's residence.

However, Mrs. Li stopped Ran Ming: "Husband, this sister is pitiful enough. She has already said that she will die if she cannot see you. Even if she is sent back to Tiaofu, she will also choose to commit suicide. People can see her once or twice, but they can't watch her for a lifetime. If something happens to Miss Stripe, the enmity between Husband and Tiao Sikong will be forged. Now Husband is enemies in the court, and it is difficult to move an inch. One more enemy, It's better to have one more friend!"

Ran Ming thought about it and had to give up.

Let Stripe's servant go back to report the news, and say that Ran Ming took Stripe to Jiaodong to relax, and let Tiaoyou not to worry.

"Miss Tiao, how's it going?" Ran Ming stepped forward and asked when the escort of the fleet came to Wai Cang!

"The pulse is stable and strong, the pulse is peaceful, and there is no serious problem!" The doctor said suspiciously: "I don't know why, but Miss Tiao has not woken up. It is very strange. Logically, she should be awake now!"

Ran Ming came to the inner warehouse and saw Stripes lying on the bed. After being washed by the river, the heavy makeup on Stripes' face was removed, revealing his true colors.This is a pretty face, and Ran Ming thinks that stripes look better without makeup, which is far better than her heavy makeup.

The striped eyelashes are very long, and they move with her long breath.

Ran Ming inadvertently landed on the striped chest, Xiaohe just showed her sharp corners at this moment, a 15-year-old girl, do you know what love is, do you understand what love is?

When Ran Ming was watching the stripes, he suddenly felt her breathing became more rapid.

Ran Ming smiled.Gently pushed the stripes, "Okay, don't pretend."

Stripes remained motionless.

Ran Ming said angrily: "If you don't wake up again, Gu will ask someone to send you back to Yecheng!"

Ran Ming didn't have any aversion to the stripes. According to the servants of the Tiao family, Empress Dong wanted to marry the Tiao family.

But this is just an occasional mention, and there is no final conclusion.

After thinking about it carefully, Ran Ming understood the reason.

Another deathly political marriage.

Of course, Empress Dong was out of comprehensive considerations, and Ran Ming has no connections in the court of Wei Guo.To marry the Tiao family is to find a political ally for Ran Ming.

Sikong Tiaoyou is the father of the Wei State. Regardless of the military and government, he has a wide range of talents. The prince chose to join forces with the gentry, and Empress Dong let Ran Ming get closer to the Yuanxun Group. Although he would not be able to compete with Ran Zhi, he finally had the ability to protect himself , it is not possible to appear, there is no strength of solidarity in the court.

Seeing that the stripes still did not wake up, Ran Ming wandered in the warehouse with a gloomy face.

After a while, he narrowed his eyes and said, "Come here, send Miss Tiao back to Yecheng!"

Suddenly, Stripes lying on the bed suddenly got up and said loudly: "Don't send me back to Yecheng, people will follow you!"

Ran Ming smiled, "Stop pretending?"

Stripes blushed in embarrassment.

After the episode, the fleet went down the Yellow River. Now it is the spring plowing season, and both sides of the Yellow River are busy.Now Ran Min's prestige among the people of Wei State is unmatched.According to Ran Ming's opinion, in order to increase the efficiency of cultivated land, all the government offices in Wei State have received new plows from Qingzhou Xinjin.Trade in the old for the new without adding money.

Not only that, Ran Min also rented out the cattle and horses captured on the battlefield with the Yan State to assist the people in farming.

At the same time, taxes were reduced, corvee labor was reduced...such administrations relieved the people of Wei State, and felt that life was much better than before.Not to mention being happier than in the post-Zhao period, even the people of the Eastern Jin Dynasty yearned for the life of the people of Wei.

Ran Ming stood at the bow of the boat, Wang Meng pointed at the busy crowd of spring plowing, and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness, if the weather is good this year and we have a good harvest, we can harvest at least 600 million shi of grain in our country of Wei with 300 million land, and the agricultural tax is [-] yuan." With five taxes and one tax, you can collect [-] million shi of military rations, and the military rations can be self-sufficient. For up to five years, the treasury will be abundant, and the troops will be strong and horses strong, so you can lead Matong Pass down and directly point to Guanzhong!"

Ran Ming said: "Last year, there was usually little rain. What if this year is still a year of severe drought?"

Wang Meng said: "Even so, there will be no large-scale starvation to death. Without military disasters, our country of Wei can slowly recover its strength!"

Ran Ming is helpless when he thinks about it. In this era, people rely entirely on heaven's rewards for food. People's ability to fight against natural disasters is extremely poor, and droughts and floods are all fruitless.

Ran Ming's head suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he had an idea!Although it will not prevent natural disasters, it can at least reduce disaster losses.

Ran Ming is a person who thinks about it and does it. He hurriedly asked for paper and pens.

With Ran Ming lightly sketching with a few strokes, the pattern on the paper began to show its original appearance!
Although Wang Meng is not good at mechanical manufacturing, he is still very knowledgeable. He wondered: "Could it be that the drawing of your highness is a Kongming car? But it is different."

The Kongming car that Wang Meng said was actually a water wheel.

According to legend, Hualan created a prototype during the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. After being improved and perfected by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period, it was popularized and used in the Shu Han Dynasty. It was widely used for agricultural irrigation in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It has been more than 700 years.Naturally, Ran Ming would not use the water wheel powered by people or animals invented by Kong Ming, but the chain-bucket water wheel that began in the Tang Dynasty.

As the name suggests, the chain-bucket waterwheel uses the bamboo tube installed on the chain of the large water wheel to lift water, pulled by animal power, or by human power, equipped with wheels or pedals, or with the help of wind force and the potential energy of the river.

After a long while, Ran Ming drew the blueprint in his hand, pointed to the blueprint and said, "Waterwheels cannot be built from the ground up, but should be tailored to local conditions. In some places there is no wind to borrow, and there is no wide river to set up the ox carts, so we can only use manpower Waterwheels, each human-powered waterwheel can irrigate five acres of dry land, while ox carts can each irrigate between fifteen and twenty acres. If wind-powered waterwheels are used, depending on the strength of the wind, they can irrigate twenty acres. mu, or thirty mu!"

Wang Meng was slightly stunned, with a puzzled look on his face: "Your Highness, although this method is wonderful, I am afraid that it is not easy to build such a waterwheel. From a quick look, this waterwheel is expensive. A rough estimate, each waterwheel may not cost tens of thousands of dollars." In Jiaodong alone, we have more than [-] fertile fields, and we need thousands of water trucks. For this alone, we need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, the Jiaodong Kingdom was first established, and His Highness wants to make it the capital of the country first. Besides, it is not dilapidated, it needs to be fully repaired, so that it can take advantage of the status of our Jiaodong Kingdom."

Ran Ming laughed and said, "Who wants to pay alone?"

"Could it be that Your Highness wants the people to bear this expense?" Wang Meng pointed to the ragged people on the river bank and said, "Your Highness, please see that the people are poor and can't barely maintain food and clothing. I'm afraid the people will not be able to afford such a burden! It is not appropriate to have one for each village. For the common people, there is no need to worry about inequality. How to distribute one waterwheel in a village? If there is only one waterwheel in a village, However, it can only irrigate a dozen mu of land, even if it does not rest day and night, it is only a hundred mu, and there are only a few people who can profit from it."

"Waterwheels fight droughts, but treat the symptoms rather than the root cause!" Ran Ming said: "If you want to keep your harvest from droughts and floods, you must develop water conservancy and open ditches, which can not only resist droughts, but also drain waterlogging, so that in times of famine, there will be no danger of food shortages." As for making waterwheels, although it is cumbersome, there is no difficulty at all, we can gather carpenters and young adults from all villages, towns, and counties, and teach them how to make waterwheels!"

Wang Meng said: "This method is easy and inappropriate. The inch is long and the ruler is short. The quality of the imitated waterwheel is not good enough. The original method of benefiting the people has turned into a policy of harming the people!"

Ran Ming said: "Sir, do you remember the method of the pre-Qin great craftsman?"

Wang Meng said: "The reason why the pre-Qin swept the six countries was mainly based on the complete military industry. As far as Meng knows, the Qin crossbows were divided into several components, which were built separately according to the standard system and then assembled by special personnel."

"That's right." After Ran Ming came to this world, he realized that the method of assembly line operation in the later generations was not invented by the British Josiah Wedge. After careful calculation, in fact, during the Qin Dynasty, China already had assembly line production technology. prototype of the concept.

Of course, it was lost later.This is because the Chinese are adhering to the idea that the disciples of the church will starve to death of the master.The pre-Qin memory metal and anti-oxidation treatment technology, these things have been lost now.

Sweeping across the six kingdoms, the Qin-made light crossbow pierced through three layers of armor within [-] steps. In the Battle of Hetao, Meng Tian set a record of using steps to defeat the cavalry, killing the Huns and fleeing in embarrassment. A piece of history.

The amazing inventions that created the Tang Dynasty's ten thousand li territory, the Mo Dao and Heng Dao that made the Quartet awe-inspiring, and the god-arm bow that protected the Great Song Dynasty, all disappeared in the long river of history.

Thinking of this, Ran Ming couldn't help feeling a pang of heartache, and said: "This method can not only ensure the confidentiality of the technology of the process, but also improve the production efficiency. The most basic thing of this water wheel is the two parts of getting on and off Composition. Getting on the car is the power part, which is composed of axles, wheels, brackets, sails and windmills; getting off the car is the water part, which is composed of car grooves, bucket plates and chain buckets, all of which are made of hard wood. It is not difficult to make, the shape of the car is like a dragon's spine, if it is broken down and manufactured in parts, it is not difficult, as long as the size and standard are unified, it is easy to manufacture."

Wang Meng's eyes suddenly lit up, "Your Highness, what you mean is to use this method for all the things that have appeared in our Jiaodong Kingdom?"

Ran Ming nodded.

PS: I'm sorry, I didn't update last night because I was too tired.Keep the bottom of the fifth watch today!
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