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Chapter 70: The Great Drought in Guanzhong

Qin Su did not reach out to pick her up, shook her head and smiled, "Su'er has been the young master since last night. These seven thousand guans are said to be redeemed gold, but in fact it is just a thank-you gift from Su'er to Aunt Feng. Thank you for taking care of her over the years, so Su'er can retain her perfect body to this day."

"Is it yours last night?" Cheng Chumo suddenly stared at Li Hao with wide eyes, "You guys last night..."

Li Hao shook his head quickly: "Absolutely not!"

Cheng Chumo turned his head to look at Qin Su again, and saw that her cheeks were flushed and her face was shy. Does it seem like nothing happened? Cheng Chumo felt that his IQ was hurt by 10,000 points and shouted to Li Hao: "I still say no! Do you think she seems nothing happened?"

Li Hao was so innocent. He quickly pulled Qin Su's sleeve and said, "Hey, don't blush, talk about it quickly, nothing happened to us last night."

Qin Su lowered his head and said again: "Su'er is already a young master."

Li Hao reached out and pressed his forehead, and suddenly felt that his head hurt so much, the brain and the skull were hurting together.

Cheng Chumo was stunned for a moment and muttered in frustration: "My goddess... has become my brother's woman... Li Hao, you are not loyal!"

"Hey, you can eat shit, you can't talk nonsense." Li Hao widened his eyes and said, "I'm really nothing to do with her!"

"The explanation is to cover up, Miss Qin admits it!" Cheng Chumo rolled his eyes at Li Hao.

Li Hao was too lazy to explain, so he turned on the hob meat mode: "Okay, I did it. She is my person now. What do you want to do? If you want to blame me, blame yourself. Who told you to ask for a price for me yesterday and wanted to cheat me. Also, you handed her contract to me with your own hands. You said at the time that Miss Qin will be my person from now on, and did you say that from now on, did you say that from now on, Miss Qin will be my person?

"I didn't expect you to start so quickly." Cheng Chumo suddenly grinned and leaned into Li Hao's ear and said, "Since you have used it, please lend me a few days."

Li Hao suddenly frowned when he heard this and said coldly: "Say another word, believe it or not, I will kill you!"

Li Hao was very angry. It was not that he was stingy, but that he disagreed with Cheng Chumo's attitude of treating women as playthings. In fact, Cheng Chumo cannot be blamed. It is because this era is like this, and concubines can be traded and given away to others. What's more, Qin Su, who sells her body, is a top talent in brothels. Once she is redeemed, she will be a slave in a slave.

Seeing Li Hao suddenly getting angry, Cheng Chumo quickly shrank his head and did not dare to say anything more, but muttered to himself: "The stingy guy is indeed a stingy guy, and he will never lose his hair."

At this time, the madam poked her head out of the second floor and shouted happily: "Su Su, you really have a lot of money under the bed. OK, you can leave."

Qin Su turned around and asked Li Hao: "Young Master, where is your home?"

Before Li Hao could speak, Cheng Chumo said first: "He is a man in Lantian County, and his family is of course in Lantian."

While talking, the three of them had already walked out of the Chunfeng Deyi Building. Two servants from Duke Lu's mansion were waiting outside the door. Li Hao turned around and asked Cheng Chuan and said, "Did you walk?"

"How is that possible!" Cheng Chumo said with wide eyes, "I came on horseback."

Li Hao rolled his eyes and asked, "Are you planning to let us walk back?"

Cheng Chumo waved his hand and said to the two servants: "Go home and get a carriage, it's good!"

"Yes!" The two servants took the order back happily.

The three of them were waiting bored at the door. The weather was hot, and Li Hao was sweating all over his head. Qin Su was already sweating profusely. They could only return to Chunfeng Deyi Building and asked the madam to send three bowls of sour plum soup to relieve the heat. At this time, Li Hao missed the future world so much. What are you afraid of when the weather is hot? I slept into the air-conditioned room and was not afraid of no matter how hot it was.

The madam personally brought them sour plum soup. Seeing that they were sweating from the heat, she couldn't help but smile and complain: "This ghost weather is so hot that it hasn't rained for a long time."

Li Hao said: "No, it just rained on June 12th." It was his ceremony that day. Because it was raining, he tore the almanac, so he remembered it very clearly.

The madam said, "Yes, it rained lightly on June 12th, but before that, it had not rained for more than a month, and now it is July. It is said that many places in Guanzhong have started drought, and the food is almost dead in the ground."

"Drought?" Li Hao was shocked when he heard this and asked casually, "Is this year the tenth year of Zhenguan?"

Qin Su nodded and asked in confusion: "Why did the young master suddenly ask this?"

Li Hao did not answer and frowned and pondered. According to historical records, in the tenth year of Zhenguan, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong and another natural disaster came.

To be honest, although Li Hao can calm the plague, he really has no choice but to do drought, floods, earthquakes, etc. This is natural force and can only be solved by high technology, such as artificial rainfall, and for example, spending huge manpower and material resources to build water conservancy. As for earthquakes, haha, even the future world cannot be dealt with, let alone now.

"Oh, the people of Guanzhong are going to suffer again." Li Hao sighed helplessly, "I hope Your Majesty can take disaster relief measures."

Cheng Chumo asked in surprise: "Is there really going to be a drought? It's not that serious. Maybe it will rain in a few days. Now it's summer, and the rain comes at will."

Li Hao waved his hand and said, "Everything must be prepared and the worst plan."

Qin Su looked at Li Hao in a daze, and she felt that Li Hao's expression of worrying about the drought just now was very handsome.

After half an hour, Cheng Chumo's servants drove the carriage and Li Hao took Qin Su into the carriage home. As soon as he got home, Li Hao shouted to the doorman Wang San: "Wang San, let Du Hong wait for me at the door of the backyard."

"Yes!" Wang San took the order and left.

Li Hao brought Qin Suhuo to the backyard in a hurry. The backyard was the residence of the female family. No man was allowed to enter except Li Hao. At this moment, Tulando was practicing sword in the yard. When she saw Li Hao coming back, she stopped, rolled her eyes at him, and asked angrily: "What are you doing?"

Li Hao didn't say nonsense, pulled Qin Su forward two steps and introduced: "I'll introduce it. This is Miss Qin Su, the gentleman I invited for you."

"Sir?" Turando said in surprise, "Where is a female gentleman?"

"What? Do you want me to find a man to teach you?" Li Hao asked back with a smile, which really stopped her.

Qin Su saluted to Tolando: "Greetings to Madam."

Li Hao corrected: "It's like a wife."

Qin Su hurriedly changed his words: "Greetings to Mrs. Ru."

Tolando didn't care about these things at all, so he bowed to Qin Su and said, "Are you literate?"

Qin Su nodded, looking a little shy.

Turando thought for a while and turned to ask Li Hao: "Hey, can he let him teach Gulina and Alina together. They told me that they also want to learn the words of the Tang Dynasty."

"Of course," Li Hao raised his eyebrows, "Just let Xiaoyun learn together, so that I don't use it outside my study. You usually teach there. Even if you read the books inside, I don't read anyway, and it's moldy if I put them there."

Qin Su didn't expect that he would open up how to let women learn calligraphy. He was immediately curious about Li Hao, and always felt that he was very different from ordinary people.

At this time, Jin Qiaoyun came in and saluted when she saw Li Hao, saying, "Young Master, Butler Du is outside the yard. Please let me bring you a message. He has arrived."

"Yeah, okay." Li Hao nodded and said to Tolando, "That... I have something to do, and you will arrange the food and accommodation of Miss Qin."

"Pack to me." Turando slapped his chest carelessly to make a note.

Li Hao turned around and was discharged from the hospital. Du Hong was waiting two feet outside the hospital, and he saluted as soon as he met: "Young master, the old slave is waiting for the dispatch."

Li Hao walked up to him and asked, "Du Hong, how many people in Shanghe Village have joined our land in our mansion?"

Du Hong replied: "Eight out of ten of the fields in Shanghe Village have been invested in our mansion."

"Oh." Li Hao nodded and asked again, "How is the crops growing in the fields recently?"

"Don't mention it." Du Hong was filled with sorrow when he heard this, "Except for the light rain that had been two hours on the day when you were crowned, it has not rained for nearly three months, and the ground has dried up. If it does not rain again, the crops will be finished in less than half a month."

"So serious?" Li Hao frowned when he heard this, thought for a while, and asked again: "Isn't there water in our Qingshui River? Why don't we draw the water from the Qingshui River to irrigate the farmland?"

"Young Master, stop joking." Du Hong said with a bitter face, "Not to mention that Qingshui River is two miles away from the fields, the water of Qingshui River is five or six feet lower than the river bank. How can you bring this water up?"

"Yes." Li Hao scratched his head and thought for a while, and asked, "What if he used a water truck?"

"The water truck is OK," Du Hong nodded, "But if you want to make a water truck, it will cost a lot of money. It can't be done without two or three hundred guan. And even if you have a water truck, you can't irrigate thousands of acres of farmland."

Du Hong is right. Li Hao knew that waterwheels in ancient times seemed awesome, but in fact they were very inefficient. And people had to keep stepping on them, and they would not turn around. This was embarrassing.

Li Hao thought for a long time, then suddenly touched his chin and murmured to himself: "Maybe... I can try the wind turbine."

As soon as he thought of this, he turned around and asked Du Hong: "Du Hong, please find me some craftsmen, the more the better. I want to make a water truck, a very large water truck, so I need a lot of craftsmen."

"Oh, OK!" Du Hong said and turned around and left.

Li Hao also went back to the study and took out his pencil to start drawing. He wanted to design a wind turbine.

The principle of a wind turbine is very simple, but it is difficult to make. Because it is too big, the wind turbine designed by Li Hao is divided into two parts, namely the windmill resentment and the waterwheel part. The diameter of the waterwheel is 4.5 meters, which is much larger than the average waterwheel. The base of the windmill is five meters and the leaves of the windmill are four.5 meters long, so the windmill is about nine meters high when standing. In this era, it is simply a giant, and how to build it has become the biggest problem.

Just the next day, the craftsmen Du Hong invited came. One of them was named Lu Zhi. He was the most skilled among all the craftsmen. He claimed to be a descendant of Lu Ban. Li Hao showed his drawings to Lu Zhi. Li Hao drew very clearly, and after Li Hao explained it to him, he immediately understood.

Lu Zhi was indeed experienced and suggested: "If a wooden bracket is used as the base, it will not only be a huge project, but also difficult to erect. The villain suggested building a tower with bricks and stones, and using the tower as the base of the windmill."

"Yes!" Li Hao slapped the table and said excitedly, "After all, I'm a professional, I hit the nail on the head, just do what you said, can I finish the work within ten days?"

"Ah?" Lu Zhi was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled bitterly, "You can really joke, such a big project will take at least two months."

"Two months? No!" Li Hao shook his head solemnly, "It must be completed within ten days, and the crops in the fields cannot be waited."

Lu Zhi thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible to complete the construction within ten days, but the manpower and material resources consumed have been increased several times."

Li Hao waved his hand and said, "Don't say so much, just say it, how much does it cost?"

Lu Zhi said: "Based on the experience of villains, the minimum is 3,000 guan."
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