Zhang Xuan hasn't read several time travel novels. It's not that he doesn't like it, but that he really has no time. Work takes up a lot of his time and energy, which is also the reason why he tries to be a salted fish.

In those time travel novels, it is easier to build a water truck than to drink cold water. As a half-professional person, Zhang Xuan painted branches on the ground for a long time and felt very embarrassed.

The technical content of the water truck itself is not high, and the trouble comes from the transmission part. The power output by the water truck comes from the spindle, and it must be made of wood. If you want to convert the power of the wooden shaft into useful power, you must have a shaft. The shaft involves bearings, lubrication, cooling, and bearings involve metals and balls...

Oh my god, can you still have fun?

It is impossible to directly remove the bearing, ball and metal. The metal mastered by Dazhou is mainly copper, supplemented by lead, zinc and tin. The auxiliary metal is soft and brittle. Copper can be used barely, but it is too expensive and the second generation of officials cannot afford it.

Wooden shaft, this can be used, and it is not difficult to achieve. As for the effect, haha...

He can only use it with just one's own use. Zhang Xuan has no choice but to use it. No matter how useless the machinery is, it is more efficient than manual work.

The cooked wild beans came, and there was only a small bowl. The taste was as Zhang Er said, slightly bitter and not delicious. This is indeed not soybeans, but Zhang Xuan tasted a slight smell of oil in this bowl of beans, which is very good. The beans that donkeys can eat are usually undead. According to Zhang Er, people eat these beans when they are in trouble. As long as they are not eaten in large quantities, they will most likely have diarrhea. It is much better than refugees in many places who can only eat soil.

It’s really something you can eat. As long as you don’t eat too much at once, it won’t kill you.

"Zhang Er, please send more wild beans, and you will give you ten stones first." Zhang Xuan wanted to squeeze oil. Even if the oil squeezed is not eaten, it has many uses, such as lubrication of wooden shafts, saponification reactions, etc.

Zhang Xuan never thought about selling soap. In this era of unclothed clothing, only those above the gentry could afford good things. In the entire Lan County, the population of the gentry was not even fifty, and they were all acquaintances.

"This... my master..." Zhang Er didn't move this time, looking at Zhang Xuan with a embarrassed look.

"explain."

"Three people in the shattered house, three people in search of things, no one will do it." Zhang Er is just a part-time follower. Even with Zhang Xuan's name, Zhang Xuan, the manpower that can be used has long reached its limit. There are not many people in the Zhang Mansion itself, and most of them cannot be transferred by Zhang Xuan, only six people. Zhang Er also bluffed and deceived, and even got the title of his own master.

"Where are the most wild beans? Let's buy them." Zhang Xuan instantly solved the problem of insufficient manpower. Can the problem be solved with money?

"Yes." It's enough to have the words of Xiaoye. Wild beans are not valuable. As long as the Zhang family speaks, there are so many wild children who are willing to do this job, so there is no need for adults.

"Let me find a few more carpenters." Zhang Xuan said. He remembered that Lan County is full of mountains and there is no shortage of wood. First, build a water truck. Even if it cannot be used to press oil, it is good to grind rice. Zhang Xuan had enough corn to remove the shell with a stone pestle, and it was impossible to remove it clean at all, or did the chef not be able to hold it too clean?

The chef in the mansion spent almost half a day plastering rice. With a stone mill, he could free up half a day of labor and promote it to the whole county, saving more.

"My master..."

"Add money." Zhang Xuan said without hesitation. With hydraulic machinery, it is not only a matter of milling rice and oil pressing, but also related to the subsequent coin minting. This is the big head. As he lived here for a longer time, Zhang Xuan could understand the reasons for the stable value of the knife coins.

"My master, it's almost spring plowing." Zhang Er said carefully. He was anxious these days. He has arranged too many things and it seems that he doesn't have the intention to stop. In a dozen days, it's time to plow the spring plowing. At that time, everyone will make way for the spring plowing.

A spring plowing evokes Zhang Xuan’s unhappy memory. It turns out that the second generation of officials also needs to farm, and it is not a show, but really going to work in the fields. Zhang Xuan is a gentry, and his main job is to press the plow, which means there is a donkey pulling the plow in front, and Zhang Xuan is responsible for pressing the plow behind.

Do you think ploughing is an easy job?

Whether it is a wooden plow or a stone plow, you will know how pitfalls it is when you use it. To use the folk sayings in Lan County, plowing the land is the heaviest task, with the donkeys exhausted in front and the persons behind.

Not to mention how difficult it is to control the plowshare, it is easy to break, and it is better to have a mature land. If it is opened up, it will be a life-threatening. Just build the plow with a small stone. It is not an exaggeration to have the stone plow broken teeth and the wooden plow breaks the corners.

There is no iron, and Zhang Xuan would not even consider using copper plows. In this year, copper has too many uses and it is impossible to popularize tools like plows.

The farmland is tiring and harvesting is also tiring. If there are county soldiers at home, they will find ways to borrow a copper sword, even if it is just a copper spearhead. If there is no one, they can only use a stone knife, and the worst thing can only be pulled by hand. It is so sour. Even if you have never done such a job, you can still think of the pain.

Zhang Xuan has heard of the name Quyuan Plough. It is not a person from this industry. It is impossible for him to copy it. Moreover, the problem at the moment is not what kind of plow to use, but without materials and metal. No matter how good the plow is, it will be useless.

"Go, try to find two carpenters." Zhang Xuan still wanted to find someone. What he wanted to do was not completed in a short time. The water truck should be at least two meters in diameter. With the level of a carpenter in Lan County, even if it is not a mistake at all, it would be considered fast to complete it in a month.

It was not unreasonable that the pace of life in ancient times was slow. It was impossible to get faster even if you wanted to. Human power was limited and there was no need for necessary tools. Zhang Xuan could do nothing.

While Zhang Xuan was resting, the entire Luoxia Prefecture was in sensation. The Lan County Magistrate and the County Magistrate received a secret report to find the robbed Spring Tax hiding place. At the same time, they asked for help from the surrounding nine counties and the prefecture officials, and sent a large number of fast donkeys to recruit county soldiers from all villages.

When there was no war, except for a small number of county soldiers, most of the county soldiers worked at home and only put down their tools during war, put on their armor, rode on donkeys, gathered in Lanxian County, opened a rifle, took out spears, and prepared to go to the battle.

Ordinary county soldiers bring their own bamboo armor. The rich family put a few leather armor on the bamboo armor, and the vine helmet that doesn't cost money on their heads. The only valuable thing is the spear. To be precise, it is the spearhead. This thing is copper, and it is not ordinary copper. The material of the copper spear is the same as that of the copper sword, and it needs a swordsman to build it.

The spearhead is not to be brought by oneself, nor can it be taken by oneself. It is distributed by the county military garrison according to the heads of the people and is usually stored in the arsenal, for fear that the county military will take it to melt it. This is an important military weapon in the military garrison and cannot be neglected.

Just think about the process of sending troops, you will know that this action is countless times slower than the police. Even if there are really thieves, they will have run away long ago. The slutty operation of Hui County Magistrate and Zhang County Magistrate cannot be found in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The bandit gang that can rob a hundred state soldiers is naturally quite strong. How can the Qi soldiers and donkeys be able to do it? Didn’t you see them sending various documents for help? With the strength of the county soldiers, even if they are all there, there are only 750 people. Who can guarantee that they can defeat the bandits?

After everything was ready, the first batch of support from Jixian County, which was closest to, also arrived by boat. With the benefits of the Han River, the transportation industry was still quite developed in several counties relying on water.

Nearly a thousand soldiers in the county rushed to a place in the mountains, with neat marching and logistics in place. The leaders were Zhang Tao, the Lan County Soldiers and Housekeeper, and the two counties also under them were the captains of Qian San and Li Yuan...

Like Huiquan and Zhang Mo guessed, when the army arrived, the bandits would have run away long ago. The important thing is that the Spring Tax is still there and there is no loss. This is fun. No one of them can be fooled by the aristocratic people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. They will immediately understand the intentions of the two people in Lan County.

If a bandit is really a bandit, you should take away everything you can take and finally burn the food with a torch. When will the bandits pay so much attention to it?

After receiving the news from the army, Huiquan and Zhang Mo smiled bitterly, and they knew that this was a bad thing done by His Majesty the dynasty. They were also sure that not only did the spring tax in Luoxia Prefecture be robbed, but other states could not escape, and even other prefectures would encounter similar things.

"Oh, Your Majesty... is becoming more and more unscrupulous." Huiquan came from a famous family and was born with His Majesty, but the methods of this Majesty in the dynasty were too ruthless, and there were some problems with his position. The famous families in the court were still waiting and watching.

"Hehe..." Zhang Mo sneered twice. It had nothing to do with him. Zhang Mo was a poor family in his hometown. The court disputes were too far away from him and he shouldn't have endured it. But in order to regain the power of various prefectures as soon as possible, the man used frequent means and broke the bottom line many times, which made Zhang Mo very unhappy.

This method is not unusual at all. It happened last year. It was not the Izumo Mansion that suffered, but the Fuling Mansion far southeast. Fuling Mansion had been swallowed by previous generations of Zhou emperors. It was also a place of one prefecture. Izumo Mansion is a serious five prefectures, fifty counties, not to mention the rich and poor, but the number of prefectures and counties is sufficient. Fuling Mansion only has three prefectures and twenty-three counties.

Where did the remaining prefectures and counties go? The land cannot be escaped, and those prefectures and counties have long since stopped obeying the command of the Gods Mansion.

Losing taxes is a serious crime, and the court will be blamed afterwards. It would be okay if the officials of these prefectures and counties are obedient. If they have any hesitation, or if you are not worthy of the court, you will need to say the result.

The one who changes must be a satisfied official in the court. If not, find a way to change it again until you are satisfied.

"What do you think?" Huiquan asked. This matter has been over for the time being, and it will also arouse dissatisfaction and attention from someone in the court. No one knows what will happen next.
Chapter completed!