Chapter 117 Thinking Simple

Author: flying de lazy cat

Chapter 117 Thinking Simple

"As for the wooden cart, the two apprentices should have learned how to do it, right?"

Zhou Xu calculated the time in his mind and found that the two apprentices had been studying for a long time.

Hearing this question, Zhuang Mengdie nodded.

“Basically no problem.”

"Well, your two apprentices are considered apprentices. I will arrange a few more apprentices for them to start. You don't need to worry about the production of wooden carts for the time being. From today on, you will concentrate on the development of this 'bamboo bow'

.”

After a period of time, the number of wooden carts in this tribe was temporarily sufficient. Under this premise, Zhuang Mengdie's two former apprentices, after accepting apprentices, became responsible for the manufacture and maintenance of wooden carts to maintain daily operations.

Operation, I think it is more than enough.

As for Zhuang Mengdie, as a four-star talent in the equipment department, she must give full play to her abilities and value in the research and development of various new projects.

After arranging things here, he was about to start preparing the house design drawings.

The equipment department had all kinds of tools, so he naturally had no intention of moving.

Zhou Xu directly borrowed the shed of the equipment department, spread out a new animal skin diagram on the table, and then started drawing.

He doesn't study architecture, but he still has some basic structural knowledge.

At the same time, the house they are going to build next is, after all, just a one-story thatched house, not a complex house structure.

Following the train of thought and combining it with some reasonable structural frames, the prototype of the thatched house frame was quickly drawn by Zhou Xu.

This is undoubtedly the essence of the entire design. As long as this is done, everything else will be easy.

"Let's go to the Construction Engineering Department."

Taking the design drawings, Zhou Xuzheng planned to go to the construction engineering department to gather manpower for work.

After hearing this, the follower Zhang Xiaoshan hurriedly expressed...

"Chief, there is no one in the department. People from the Construction Engineering Department are digging ditches outside the camp right now!"

Zhou Xu was stunned when he heard this. He had just returned to the camp and his mind was filled with things about bamboo bows and houses. At this moment, he really forgot about digging ditches.

Counting the time, it took a lot of digging.

However, those two people were doing the work from the beginning, and he arranged things with the mentality of getting it right in one step, and once it was completed, he would not make any changes to the canal in a short period of time. The scale of the canal was naturally not small.

The additional manpower later was only after the first group of people from the barren mountain camp arrived. Now he really didn't know where they were digging.

It's not that he doesn't care about the progress, farming development is their tribe's top priority next.

Considering the development of farming, there is no doubt the importance of water canals. Once built, they can greatly improve the irrigation efficiency of their fields.

However, the size of their current fields is not very large, and the farming area is not that far from the lake. It is relatively convenient for members of the farming team to fetch water every day.

This also makes water channels seem less important at this stage.

The reason why Zhou Xu asked two people to arrange this matter early was because he hoped that by the time their fields were large enough to require water canals, their water canals would be put into use directly.

Instead of waiting until then to arrange for people to start digging, that would be too inefficient.

Originally, you were developing at a high speed there, but as soon as you got here, you clicked and got stuck! This feeling is very bad.

In game terms, it affects your own development rhythm.

With two followers, Zhou Xu quickly arrived near the farming area outside the camp.

This area is a plain area, and at a glance, there are no obstacles affecting his field of vision. This makes it easy for him to see the construction team that is busy.

Compared with the group at the beginning, after joining the coolies dispatched from the barren mountain camp, now we can really use the word "construction team" to describe them.

According to Zhou Xu's previous arrangement, of the initial fifty coolies, thirty were assigned to the miners in the Salt Lake Camp to dig coal, and twenty were assigned to the Black Moon Camp.

Among the twenty people, fifteen went to the logging team to help carry wood, and five were assigned to the construction team to help dig canals.

Digging ditches is a hard job in itself, and the increase in manpower will significantly improve construction efficiency.

From two people at the beginning to seven people now, the labor force has doubled, and the efficiency has naturally doubled.

At this time, Zhou Xu took a closer look and found that the ditch was almost finished.

By visual inspection, he was only two meters away from the 'finish line' he had originally drawn.

Under this premise, when they saw Zhou Xu, everyone in the construction team mistakenly thought that their leader was here to inspect the work.

For a moment, each one was like a chicken blood. The hoe and shovel moved very fast. In a short time, they dug the two meters of ditch, which even Zhou Xu was stunned to see.

"Chief, why are you here? We have just finished work!"

At this moment, Zhou Xu smiled as he looked at Wang Dashi, the captain of the construction team who was sweating profusely.

"Thank you for your hard work. Tonight, everyone in your construction team will be rewarded with a whole grilled fish!"

When they heard that tonight, everyone could enjoy a whole grilled fish to themselves, including the five coolies who had been arranged, the seven people in the construction team smiled brightly.

"Thank you, chief!"

After happily thanking Zhou Xu for the reward, Wang Dashi, who seemed to have remembered something again, hurriedly asked again.

"By the way, chief, do you want to dig out the other end of the canal now?"

What Wang Dashi is asking now is the end connected to the lake. Previously, for the convenience of construction, that end was not dug first to prevent the lake water from flooding in and making subsequent work inconvenient.

As for now...

"Dig it up!"

Since the ditches have been dug, there is no reason not to use them.

While talking, Zhou Xu and the construction team hurried to the lake.

There is only a distance of two or three meters reserved here, and it is not difficult to dig. The moment the last layer of soil is dug out, the lake water suddenly pours in along the channel.

This also announced the official completion of their construction team’s first project!

The members of the construction team headed by Wang Dashi cheered heartily at this moment.

However, the joy on Zhou Xu's face, who was standing aside, quickly dissipated in the next second.

During this period, Wang Dashi, who noticed the change in Zhou Xu's expression, felt nervous. While quickly turning his head to signal the team members to stop shouting, he cautiously asked Zhou Xu...

"Chief, is there any problem?"

At that moment, Zhou Xu reacted, his eyes swept across the construction team members, looking at the construction team members who were full of nervousness and apprehension, Zhou Xu quickly explained...

"It's okay, it's okay, it's not your problem, it's my original idea that went wrong."

According to Zhou Xu's original idea, after the ditch was dug, the lake water poured into the ditch and went all the way to the fields.

But the reality in front of him made him fully feel what is meant by "the ideal is full, the reality is very skinny."

Not to mention that it went all the way to the fields, the lake water that came in was only a shallow part, submerged up to his ankles at most, and it only poured in for less than ten meters, and then the water flow stopped.

Needless to say, he made this matter simple.

At the same time, Zhou Xu also clearly realized that if he wanted this water channel to successfully demonstrate its value, he needed one more thing.

That’s the waterwheel used to guide water flow!
Chapter completed!