PDLP Chapter 356 Don't Distract His Attention
Chapter 356 Don't Distract His Attention
But why did Grandfather Pei always come to take me out to practice horseback riding and archery every few days? What was going on? I didn't want to go! Xiaoyuan was even more distressed.
Hualei didn't know Xiaoyuan's distress. Now she was standing in the yard, watching Uncle Zhao making a waterwheel. During this period, Uncle Zhao prepared all kinds of necessary materials every day according to the pictures and data provided by Hualei and Rongjin.
During this period, if there was a need for iron products, Lord Pei also helped to buy them. After the preliminary drawings of the artificial waterwheel were finalized, Hua Lei and Rong Jin temporarily put aside the structural drawings of the wind-powered waterwheel and helped Uncle Zhao in the yard.
Because what we are making now is a human-powered waterwheel model about one meter high, which is much more convenient than the real thing that is more than ten meters high.
According to Hualei's drawings and descriptions, and Rong Jin's data, Uncle Zhao and his colleagues cut the trees one by one, breaking them into small wooden boards, and then used the mortise and tenon technique to rotate them right and left. The waterwheel was changing day by day. After more than half a month, the prototype of the waterwheel slowly emerged.
Now, in Uncle Zhao's hand was a waterwheel with a diameter of about one meter. It looked a bit like a car tire in his previous life, but in addition to the bearing in the center of the circle, the outer circle was filled with tilted water buckets. There were seven in total, tightly enclosing a circle.
Next to the waterwheel body is a simple backrest cushion. When the waterwheel is installed beside the pond, as long as people sit on the cushion and step on the pedal connected to the waterwheel bearing, the waterwheel body will rotate, and the underwater water bucket will be filled with water and lifted up. When it reaches the top, it will naturally tilt due to its own inclination and pour the water into the water tank next to it.
Water flows along the trough through the bamboo pipes to irrigate the crops everywhere. The whole waterwheel device is very similar to the scene of people riding unicycles in the park in the previous life.
If the waterwheel is enlarged, its width will also increase, and two people can pedal the waterwheel together without worrying about the problem of not being able to pedal.
Seeing that the waterwheel was already in working order, in order to verify the water-lifting effect of the waterwheel, Hua Lei brought a large wooden barrel, and Aunt Fu quickly helped to fill the barrel with water.
Uncle Zhao and Uncle Fu carefully put the waterwheel into the big wooden barrel, let Xiaoyuan sit on the seat, and began to step on the pedal. The waterwheel body slowly turned, and the tilted water bucket was filled with water and slowly lifted up.
When it reaches the highest point, the water in the bucket naturally pours into the trough on the side, and flows along the connected bamboo pipe into the flowers and plants nearby.
Uncle Zhao looked at it for a while, came up and slightly twisted a few parts on one side, then nodded with satisfaction. Hualei looked at the water flowing in the sink, and her heart began to fly. Xiaoyuan and Rongjin also squinted their eyes happily. The waterwheel was a success.
Although the intermediate steps were changed several times and countless wooden boards used to make the water bucket were scrapped, fortunately, after so much testing, the waterwheel was finally successful.
For this waterwheel, Hualei didn't go out much except for a trip to the Zhenbei Marquis's Mansion to pay a visit to Old Marquis Pei and Old Madam Pei. Even on the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, she stayed at home to help Uncle Zhao.
There was no rain or snow before the New Year this year, but during the New Year period, it rained and snowed continuously for more than ten days. There was even a heavy snowfall two days ago, so the land reclamation after the New Year was delayed for a few days and has not started yet.
There is nothing that can be done about this, because of the snow and the low temperature, the mountain is severely frozen and cannot be reclaimed, so Hua Lei continues to stay at home and is busy with the waterwheel.
After receiving the news, Lord Pei hurried over. When he saw the waterwheel in the yard, his eyes lit up. He went forward to test the water-lifting performance of the waterwheel himself, walked around the waterwheel a few times, patted the sturdy waterwheel, and nodded with satisfaction.
At the beginning of the year, the various departments of the court had been on duty for nearly ten days. Lord Pei did not need to go to court every day, but only once on the first day of each ten days.
In two days, when Lord Pei goes to court, he plans to bring the waterwheel in to show it to Emperor Shengwu.
Uncle Zhao immediately checked the waterwheel twice, and then polished the rough parts again, especially the places that were easily touched by hands. Uncle Zhao checked again and again carefully, for fear that his negligence would cause trouble to the flower buds.
The next day, Lord Pei rode his own carriage to Hua's house in Yongningfang, carefully moved the waterwheel, the auxiliary facilities, the water tank, and the whole set of bamboo pipes onto the carriage, and even brought the large wooden barrel that Hualei used for experiments. Hualei also sorted out a stack of materials, including the waterwheel structure and production instructions that she had prepared long ago, and handed them to Lord Pei.
Originally, Hualei thought that Rong Jin had made great efforts in making the waterwheel, and she felt embarrassed to monopolize the benefits, so she suggested adding Rong Jin's name to the signature at the end of the waterwheel production drawing. But Rong Jin refused.
He said that the waterwheel was originally Hualei's idea, and he was just helping Hualei, so there was no need to add his name to it.
Besides, it was still unknown whether this waterwheel would be favored by the emperor, so he tried not to distract his attention. His status as a third place winner was a halo for him, but if Hua Lei added his own name to it, the title of third place winner would easily overshadow Hua Lei's brilliance.
Emperor Shengwu might think that Rong Jin and the Zhenbei Marquisate had made great efforts, and this would be disadvantageous to Hua Lei. Therefore, Rong Jin not only did not sign his name, but also asked Hua Lei to stamp her official seal of the Minister of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture on it, and asked her to do this in the name of the Minister of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Then I polished Hualei's book about the waterwheel-making process and changed the reason for making the waterwheel. It was said that when Hualei was working as a farmer, he inspected corn fields in various places in June and July and saw that farmers irrigated the corn fields by carrying water on their shoulders and backs, which was very hard work.
However, although it is very hard work, the efficiency of watering is very low. Many corn fields cannot be irrigated in time, which affects the corn yield. So I have always wanted to make a convenient, labor-saving farm tool that is conducive to watering.
Therefore, in the past six months, Hualei has been thinking hard every day, reading a lot of books, and referring to the waterwheels in Jiangnan Prefecture. It was not easy to make the pattern of the waterwheel. Before the New Year, he was too busy to make it.
So I had to take advantage of the New Year's Day and experimented countless times at home without a single day's rest.