Chapter 117 I think it’s easy
“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 the two apprentices had already learned it. It's been 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 have to worry about the production of wooden carts for the time being. From today on, you can concentrate on the development of this 'bamboo bow' "
After a while, the number of wooden carts in this tribe is temporarily sufficient. Under this premise, Zhuang Mengdie's two former apprentices will be responsible for the wooden carts in the future. It is more than enough to manufacture and repair cars and maintain daily operations.
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 will start preparing the house design drawings.
The equipment department has all kinds of tools, so naturally he has 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 does not 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 idea 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 to talk about.
"Let's go to the Construction Engineering Department."
Taking the design drawings, Zhou Xuzheng was planning to go to the Construction Engineering Department to gather manpower for work.
After hearing this, the follower Zhang Xiaoshan hurriedly said...
"Chief, there is no one in the department. At the moment, people from the construction and engineering department are digging ditches outside the camp. !”
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. .
Calculating the time, this has taken a lot of time.
However, only the two people were doing the work at 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 , naturally it’s not too small.
The additional manpower will be added later after the first group of people from the barren mountain camp arrive. Now he really doesn’t know where they are digging.
It’s not that he doesn’t care about the progress, farming development is the next top priority for their tribe.
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 large, and the farming area is not that far from the lake. It is also more convenient for members of the farming team to fetch water every day.
This also makes water channels less important at this stage.
The reason why Zhou Xu asked the two people to arrange this matter early was because he hoped that when their fields were large enough to require water canals, their water canals would be put into use directly.
Rather than wait until then to arrange for people to start digging. In that case, it would be too inefficient.
Originally, you were developing rapidly there, but when you got here, something clicked and you were 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 is a plain area. At a glance, there are no obstacles affecting his field of vision. This makes it easy for him to see the busy construction team.
Compared with the initial group, 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, thirty of the original fifty coolies 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 move wood, and five were assigned to the construction team to help dig ditches. 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 moment, Zhou Xu took a closer look and found that the ditch was almost finished.
Visually, it was only two meters away from the ‘finish line’ he had originally drawn.
Under this premise, seeing Zhou Xu, everyone in the construction team mistakenly thought that their leader was here to inspect the work.
In 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, showing Zhou Xu. Stunned.
"Chief, why are you here? We have just completed the work!"
At this moment, looking at Wang Dashi, the sweaty construction team leader, Zhou Xu smiled.
“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, quickly asked again.
“By the way, Chief, do we need to dig out the other end of the canal now?”
Wang Dashi asked now about the end connected to the lake. Previously, for the convenience of construction, that end was The reason is not to dig first, so as not to let the lake water flow in and make subsequent work inconvenient.
As for now...
"Dig!"
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 was dug out, the lake water suddenly poured in along the channel.
This also announced that the first project of their construction team was officially completed!
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, who reacted, swept his eyes 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, but the reality is skinny. '
Not to mention going 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 less than ten meters. 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 is the water wheel used to guide the water flow!
(End of this chapter)