Chapter 11 Want to draw firewood from the bottom of the cauldron
"At the beginning, with a momentum, you can do it faster, but over time, everyone will inevitably vent their anger. At that time, they may complain... The higher they climb, the heavier they fall. Don't look at him being proud of it for a moment, which will inevitably arouse public anger."
I heard that the progress there was very fast. In just one morning, all the ditches in hundreds of acres of fields were cleared out. Ye Lian comforted Liu in this way.
Ye Lian was secretly surprised when he said this: Ye Chang actually has this ability!
Assigning personnel, organizing work, and knowing how to reward diligence and punish laziness, it seems that all this is very simple, but Ye Lian is very clear that the basis for doing all this is leadership ability. Ye Chang had no leadership ability before. To be rude, even the little girl Xianger was not too young, I was afraid that Ye Chang would not be able to control her, and maybe she might run away with someone.
As he thought, Ye Dan over there was no doubt about Ye Chang's first morning's achievements.
It took half a day for a mountain road more than two miles to be the canal on the slope. It took no more than a month to complete the other waterways. But after a month, if it didn't rain, the crops would have died of drought. Not to mention a month, in just three days, everyone's enthusiasm would be exhausted. Who else would come at that time?
By then, those who are waiting for Ye Chang will be ruined! The more these people respect him now, they will hate him as much as they do!
"I thought he would really have some skills... but that's fine." Ye Dan thought to himself.
Even so, neither Ye Dan nor Ye Lian had relaxed his observation of Ye Chang.
At noon, everyone ate some dry food, then left the slope and began to head towards the spring. But what made Ye Dan and Ye Lian very strange was that Ye Chang left a group of people at any distance. He used prepared lime to indicate the boundary. The task of this group of people was to dig a pond or ditches from the marked place. Each group had not many tasks, and on average there were three locations, which happened to be the amount of their half-day project.
The two groups of old, weak, women and children did not move until about the last two minutes before they started working. I wonder when Ye Chang ordered them, and they dragged the thick bamboos to the scene.
"Use bamboo to divert water?"
Seeing these bamboos present, everyone started to talk.
"The water flows for two miles. If you don't use bamboo to attract it, you will be sucked dry by the soil halfway." Ye Chang explained with a smile: "Besides, there are too many things to do to dig a trenches, so how can you be as simple as bamboo?"
Everyone was still skeptical, but Liu Gui, who was following Ye Chang, gritted his teeth at this time - these bamboos were still what he found out, and a Qinyang man came here to sell them. Ye Chang asked someone to open the bamboo joints in the bamboo, penetrate the small head of a bamboo into the big head of another bamboo, and then sealed the edge of the joint with a ragged cloth. In this way, one by one, he put out a "water pipe" that was dozens of meters long in a short time.
This kind of "water pipe" connects those extremely difficult areas to pass through. The rock areas that originally thought would take several days or even ten days to drill through were paved in a blink of an eye. Moreover, Ye Chang's paving frame was not just on the ground, and the bamboo pipe was laid on the bracket made of branches. The rock top passed through the air like a canal that led the water across the ridge. In a short time, water channels were built in places where it was inconvenient to dig the canal!
When I saw this scene, I was very happy. In the long run, everyone saw the hope of attracting water for the first time. Moreover, after the water was attracted, it was not only a few hundred acres on the slope. This method can be completely promoted. Using more bamboo tubes to attract more water, so that all the dry fields in Wuze are irrigated.
For a moment, there was a thunderous cheer on the mountain.
"Shiyilang, it turns out that he has received guidance from the immortal!"
"That's right, why can't we all think of it, but Shiyilang thought of it?"
"Haha, we Wu Ze finally have one person out!"
Everyone was talking about it, all of them praising Ye Chang. Although the project has only been about half completed so far, this gave everyone enough hope. As long as there is another one or two days, the water can be brought in!
While they were cheering, Ye Lian appeared at the scene with a green face.
The one who was most unwilling to succeed was Ye Lian. The three-bedroom family of Ye family has been prosperous over the years. Ye Lian has a large number of children and has scattered leaves. His single-digit number is not even under the legitimate vein of the Changfang. Seeing that the second branch, the three branches are sparsely populated, and there is even the possibility of abstinence and successor. Ye Lian also misses the three branches to combine into one.
"I think you are happy too early. Let's be happy when the water is brought into the field." When everyone was just about to praise Ye Chang, Ye Lian couldn't help but say.
"Ye Si, this is surprising. We outsiders are all happy for Shiyilang. You are his relatives and his cousin, why are you unhappy and keep pouring cold water?" These neighbors sell Ye Dan's face because Ye Dan is the head of Wu Ze's first family, and sells Ye Chang's face because Ye Chang is the "Immortal" enlightenment and can bring them water. As for Ye Lian, who cares about him, so an older and older person immediately criticizes him and said, "Can you be your uncle, who is jealous of your nephew?"
Ye Lian was furious, but he knew that he could not do anything to these people from other surnames. He could only shout: "Eleven, you don't respect me when you see me. Do you think your wings are hard, and even the elders in the family can ignore them?"
Ye Chang heard this and bowed to him with a smile: "God, forgive me for your sins. I am busy, I have never seen it. Things are important here. If it cannot be done, I will have to cut off food in the second half of the year and have no free time to greet you... Everyone, we will concentrate on our work, and we will try to bring the water away tomorrow!"
Everyone responded in a thunderous voice, and then, led by their respective leaders, continued their work, and no one paid attention to Ye Lian. Ye Lian was very angry at first, so he wanted to act like an elder to scold Ye Chang. But seeing many young men staring at him, it was obvious that if they got Ye Chang's order, they would rush to fight him, so he could only bear it for the time being.
"A small impotent will cause trouble, and a big plan will cause trouble... a small impotent will cause trouble, and a big plan will cause trouble!"
He repeatedly warned himself in his heart that Ye Lian pretended not to see the contemptuous eyes and mocking words of the crowd, and walked to the spring. He also saw it yesterday evening. At that time, the spring water was just a shallow pool, and now it has gathered into a small pool. Judging from the flow of this spring, it is more than enough to irrigate hundreds of acres of slope fields. Ye Lian was angry and wished that he could move a mountain to block the spring water. He walked down the spring water, and with the digging of water ditches and bamboo water pipes, the spring water gradually went down, getting closer and closer to the slope field, and was no longer a mile.
"Impossible, this little beast cannot bring water over. There must be some obstacles..."
The more he looked, the more frightened Ye Lian became. He murmured to himself, and he couldn't figure out how long Ye Chang had this ability. In his opinion, Ye Chang only made a breakthrough in the most difficult situation with the bamboo, and passed through some easy areas with the diversion ditch. In just one day, half of the project volume was completed!
However, he did not know that compared with ordinary people in this era, Ye Chang was definitely a master of mathematics, especially in plane geometry. Ye Chang might even be the best master of this era. Those lines that skilled craftsmen can only determine with experience and a lot of practice, Ye Chang could only use a tree branch to make a diagram on the ground and calculate it slightly. The management system with clear grouping and contracting rewards and punishments is rough, but it is a better system for these simple-minded farmers. In this way, the effect of the two is naturally outstanding.
"This kid, this kid...when did you learn this skill?"
Ye Lian became more and more shocked the more he thought about it, but when he came to the ridge, he suddenly stopped and the panic in his heart turned into ecstasy.
"Haha... that kid got it wrong. It is impossible to lead the water here. Although the waterway he presets passes from the lowest point between the two mountains, the waterway is low and the water outlet is high, and the water cannot flow to the higher place! He only takes a detour. If he detours, this piece of land is all stones. He can only use bamboo to circle it, but his current mosaic bamboo is not enough... I'll buy all the mosaic bamboos so that he doesn't have mosaic bamboos available!"
Thinking of this method of removing firewood from the cauldron, Ye Lian no longer delayed it, and speeded up and went back towards Wu Ze. Because of the trotting, he didn't pay attention to one of his feet, and fell down, almost eating a dog and gnawing mud.
When he hurried back home, Liu was in a hurry and was in a hurry. When he saw him coming back, he said, "You let that little beast succeed?"
"What nonsense?"
"I have heard that the little beast was guided by an immortal and used bamboo to draw water. The little beast had almost brought it over. The little beast did this and its reputation in the village has increased greatly. How can we harm him and let your bitch son inherit the three branches?"
"A woman, don't think about it all. Although Shiyilang is not worthy, he is the heir of the third brother after all. How can we harm him?" Ye Lian said dissatisfiedly: "It's just that he is now going astray. Although I and the third brother are not brothers, they are also the same grandfather. I can't bear to be ruined by Shiyilang...What are you doing?"
Ye Lian was just talking when he saw Liu reach out to grab a broom and asked angrily.
"As you, old guy, talk to me, I can't play with such fake heads!" Liu's broom was covered with a head: "If you weren't slutty, you had to steal food and raise a bunch of thieves and prostitutes at home, would you have to plot against the three pieces of rags? My dowry at my home is enough..."
She said as she beat Ye Lian to flee. Although Ye Lian was hypocritical in front of Ye Chang, she was indeed a little confident at home. Liu married him, and it was a bit considered a marriage. Therefore, if Liu was really angry, Ye Lian would not dare to fight head-on.
"Don't beat, don't beat, why are you angry? That little beast will definitely not be able to do anything!"
After being beaten to dodge the yard, Ye Lian was in a mess and finally found an opportunity to shout loudly.
"Hmm?" Liu was also exhausted and panting, and took the opportunity to go downhill: "How can I say this? I heard that he is half completed!"
"It's half completed, but I see there will be problems next." Ye Lian said his discovery.
Liu suddenly turned angry and happy: "Okay, okay, I deserve to let this little beast work hard for nothing."
But in a blink of an eye, Liu showed a sad look again: "Liu Gui is really stupid. The little beast asked him to find a bamboo seller. He just dealt with it, but he really found a big seller for him. If the little beast went to buy bamboo again, there were hundreds or thousands of bamboos that could always get around that mountain... Isn't it done for him?"
"What I said is, so I have a way to remove the firewood from the cauldron." Ye Lian grinned and said, "I went to see. The little beast has not prepared enough bamboos, so I must buy them. Didn't Liu Gui say that there is a Qinyang native named Qin Qinshou who is selling bamboo here. He has dragged more than 500 bamboos in total, and now he sells 120 for the little beast. If we buy the rest of him, where will the little beast buy bamboo for a while?"
This suggestion made Liu clap his legs and say: "Okay, okay, you old ghost, you are not stupid, so let's buy it!"
At this time, her hatred for Ye Chang had reached its peak and she did not consider what it would be useful to buy those bamboos. Ye Lian had thought that the Qin Qinshouyun bamboo was originally sold to those martyrs and carpenters. It is said that Cheng Zhijie, the founding general of the dynasty, had done the job of buying bamboos and selling bamboo steaks when he was young. After the matter was finished, Ye Lian would sell the bamboo to these martyrs and carpenters.
The two decided to discuss that they had a large population and their family was relatively looser than Ye Chang. However, Ye Lian was eager to mobilize not much cash, so Ye Lian had to lend some money from Liu's family. Without further ado, it would change. When Ye Lian saw that the sky was not dark, he immediately rushed to Xiuwu County.
However, even though he entered the city, it was time to close the lock. Ye Lian took a loyal servant and found a place to stay. He just waited for the next morning to open the market before meeting Qin Qinshou, a native of Qinyang.
During this night, Ye Lian had a dream, with a good dream of finally taking over all three family property, and a nightmare of his own family being destroyed. The next morning, although he woke up early, he was in a low spirit, and he was worried about the matter of bamboo in his heart, and his breakfast was not delicious. According to the rules at this time, the market was not open in the morning. Ye Lian sent his loyal servant to stare at the gate of the market, and came to notify him when the door was opened. As a result, when it was noon, he was impatient, but the market was still closed.
Someone told him that he could give Fang Zheng a little money to sneak in, but Ye Lian couldn't bear the money, so he was reluctant to do so.
He was thinking about going back to the couch and taking a nap, but the loyal servant ran over with anxiety: "Alang, Shiyilang is here, Shiyilang has also entered the city!"
Ye Lian's sleepiness disappeared immediately!
"This little beast really thought of it, right?" Ye Lian grinned and cursed: "Hmph, it's too late to come at this time, it's too late..."
Speaking of this, Ye Lian took a breath again and felt like she had a toothache.
He came last night to see Qin Qinshou, but until now, he still hasn't seen the other party. Now Ye Chang has also arrived. Thinking of this... Ye Chang had already traded with Qin Qinshou through a middle-aged man. According to the rules of the merchant at this time, regular customers must be given priority to fresh customers.
Chapter completed!