Time flies very fast. With the drawings His Majesty brought over, the staff of the Ministry of Industry worked very hard this time and built a waterwheel in less than 10 days.
After the waterwheel was built, it was arranged in the rivers around Chang'an City. The water drove the waterwheel and kept running there.
Until the water is pushed to the top and flows down.
The experiment was successful, and the Minister of Industry rushed to the palace without stopping and reported to His Majesty.
When Li Er heard the news, he quickly came to the river and saw the results of their development, his face burst into laughter.
Officials from the Ministry of Industry began to flatter him again.
Li Er glanced at them. If it were a small waterwheel, he had already arranged the drawings, but they still couldn't build it.
I absolutely suspected that the imperial court was raising a bunch of losers, so I simply demoted all of them.
Fortunately, this time, they did not disappoint themselves and even received praise from themselves!
Li Eryi arrived and issued the order, made a large number of rubbings of the drawings, and began to dispatch to various prefectures and counties to arrange manpower for construction.
Time flies, time flies.
With everyone's expectations, spring passed quietly.
However, during this period, the waterwheel was spread from the court and was built and installed in various prefectures and counties in Chang'an City.
Some villages have also used water tankers. The investment in water tankers made all the people shout loudly.
Thank you to the court, thank you to Your Majesty.
Some areas are relatively low-lying and can be irrigated by collecting water.
Some of the terrain was relatively high, and everyone used the wisdom of the Chinese people to go up the mountain to cut bamboo, split the bamboo into two halves, hollow out the middle, tie them together, and pick them up one by one.
Let these bamboos be connected together to form a water pipeline.
Although the amount of water coming out of one row of bamboos is a bit small, when more than 10 rows of bamboos are lined up together, the water flow is very large, enough for everyone to irrigate.
In addition to the waterwheel incident, good news came one after another from surrounding counties, and the digging of deep wells was also a great success.
But in the process of excavation, it is inevitable that there will be joys and sorrows.
In many counties, collapses occurred during the excavation process, killing many people, making many people feel a little aggrieved.
Just because of the pressure from the government, I can only bite the bullet and continue to endure.
When he found out about this, Li Er asked someone to invest money in the treasury to reward the people who were killed by giving them some money as compensation.
That's how it is as an emperor, sometimes you have to face such difficult choices.
If you do things too well and serve the people wholeheartedly, the people may still not appreciate it.
If you don't do well and become a cruel emperor without caring about the people's hearts and minds, the people will eventually explode.
But now I have to consider the overall situation. Today’s preparations are just right and there is no fault!
In addition to these, good news came one after another from the Turkic territories in the north.
Of course, along with the good news, there is also news of failure.
Because of His Majesty's clever calculations, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty can be said to be victorious in every battle.
In such a situation, there are many soldiers who were proud of their thoughts and won the battle. They did not follow the procedures given by His Majesty and rushed in rashly.
As a result, the steps of the two teams were disrupted. Fortunately, soldiers from the other team arrived quickly and eliminated the enemy in one fell swoop, thus preventing a chain reaction.
Otherwise, a chain reaction will occur, which will result in a strategy designed in advance for this battle, which will only increase a lot of unknowns.
Seeing this news, Li Er slammed the table hard and scolded.
This is really unreasonable. Although they will be outside and the emperor's orders will be ignored, they can still make corresponding strategic adjustments in response to various situations that occur ahead.
But as long as you fight this war according to the route you set at the time, you will definitely win.
If it was because of the pride of some of them that they did not proceed according to the plan and disrupted the layout of the entire battlefield, Li Er decided that no matter who it was, he would be severely punished.
Fortunately, this time he did not disrupt the layout and let him make up for his mistakes. If he does it again, he will definitely be punished by military law.
Time continues to move forward. Since the beginning of summer, the weather has become hotter and drier.
"Uncle Zhao, do you think there will really be a severe drought this year?"
Li Chengqian, who came to Zhaojiazhuang to study, could also clearly feel that this was the beginning of the summer.
There was a heavy rain just a few days ago. This heavy rain came very timely, and the people cheered happily.
But after the heavy rain, the sky cleared up and became cloudless. The sun was blazing hot, but there was no sign of rain.
"Severe drought is a historical necessity and cannot be solved by my human power.
All we can do is comply with God’s will and save ourselves in advance!”
After hearing what Zhao Mu said, Li Chengqian whispered in his mouth.
"Uncle Zhao, we
Comply with God’s will and save ourselves in advance, can’t we really go against God’s will?”
"Hahaha, good boy, you have learned more and more knowledge in my Zhuangzi, and you still know how to go against the will of heaven?"
Li Chengqian smiled slightly.
"Uncle Zhao, I was just joking.
I don’t dare to go against fate.”
As a prince and future emperor, if he goes against the will of heaven, wouldn't he be thinking of destroying the country at his own hands?
OK.
"Hahaha!"
Seeing his appearance, Zhao Mu burst out laughing.
“What does it mean to go against heaven? What does it mean to go with heaven?
Is it possible that the success is because if it doesn’t rain, my people will have to wait there stupidly and wait to die?
If this is called following nature, I would say it is foolish.
We can help ourselves. For example, if there is less water in the north, we can divert water from the south to the north.
There are many floods in the south, so we build reservoirs, strengthen dams, and dredge rivers during the dry season.
In this way, if a major disaster occurs, we can withstand it. Is it possible that the success is because the people save themselves, so this is called going against the will of heaven?"
Li Chengqian thought for a moment, seemingly understanding but not understanding. It seemed that he understood a lot, but there were also many things he didn't understand!
"You have to know that when technology develops to a certain level, we can change the world.
We can use artificial rainfall, and if hail is going to fall in the sky, we can disperse the hail in advance."
This time Li Chengqian learned to answer quickly!
"Uncle Zhao, I still know Uncle Zhao.
If there is thunder or lightning in the sky, we cannot hide under the trees.
Because if we hide under a tree, we will increase the probability of being struck by lightning.
And at that time, we can install a lightning rod.
In this way, if lightning strikes, it will directly hit the lightning rod.
Just like the pointed objects standing on the houses in Zhaojiazhuang, they are lightning rods.
The other end is connected underground, leading the thunder directly into the ground, am I right? Uncle Zhao?"
"Hahahaha, you have been studying for so long and you have already learned how to answer questions?
That's right, you have to understand that everything can be answered by science.
Even if there are some things that science cannot currently answer, it is because science has not developed to that point.
When it develops in the future, we can answer all the questions!"
"Uncle Zhao, I understand."
In fact, there is no such thing as going against nature and going with nature. What we have to do is to grasp the laws of nature and live in peace with nature.
Li Chengqian shook his head.
Uncle Zhao, I don't understand this. This chapter has been completed!