Jiang Nongqin looked at Shangguan Wan's serious side profile and sighed secretly.
If a woman's growth had to be built on injuries, it would be too cruel.
After a short rest, everyone in the troop set off again.
After the fifth day of the New Year, Xiangyang District recovered from the joy of the new year. Restaurants, teahouses, and other shops opened one by one.
The people in the district headquarters also began to actively prepare for the battle after the spring ploughing. The training of the new recruits became stricter and stricter. At the same time, they had to recruit soldiers and horses everywhere.
In other words, the subordinates were still working overtime. As the lord, Jiang Pengji was still slacking off.
However, there was one more person slacking off with her. It was Zhang Ping from the Mohist family.
As the saying goes, a pillow comes after a nap. Jiang Pengji was still complaining that the scholars from the Mohist family were all dead. There was not even a shadow of them. Then, Zhang Ping came to her on his own initiative. After careful observation, she found that Zhang Ping was very intelligent and was a promising talent.
Therefore, she brought Zhang Ping with her all day long and taught him about the woodworking workshop.
"My lord's wonderful ideas are really admirable …"
For an otaku who was addicted to mechanisms, what could be more attractive than a variety of model figurines?
Jiang Pengji took him to see the models of various siege weapons. After her selection and training, the craftsmen in the woodworking workshop could already make some simple models of the weapons according to the blueprints. These models were not just for show.
If they were enlarged according to the scale, they would be real siege weapons.
Zhang Ping did not know that attacking and defending a city could be played in this way. It was very interesting.
Zhang Ping, who was originally indifferent to this matter, was now also interested.
How to make the defending party pay the least price to defend the city?
How to make the attacking party pay the least price to take down the city?
His mind was full of these thoughts. He even threw aside the waterwheel that he had been studying previously.
If Jiang Pengji had not accidentally seen his things, he did not know when the waterwheel would see the light of day again.
"What is this?" Jiang Pengji poked the waterwheel model. "Did you make it?"
Zhang Ping was startled for a moment. He smiled and said, "Yes. I saw that the farmers had a hard time irrigating, so I thought about how to save manpower and make irrigation more convenient. However, I tried several times, but I always failed. You see, it's not smooth, but I don't know what the reason is. "
Zhang Ping's ambition was to be a hermit, with a beautiful wife and a crane, living a carefree life.
The direction of his research was also biased towards the livelihood of the people, unlike Jiang Pengji. Apart from improving farming tools in the beginning, the rest of her research was applied to war.
Jiang Pengji said, "Let me take a look."
The waterwheel was indeed a very bold design. To the viewers in the live broadcast room, it was very normal. However, in today's world, it was truly shocking. If Zhang Ping's research was successful and it was put into practice, who knew how many people would benefit.
Jiang Pengji was very concerned about the people's livelihood. Naturally, she hoped that the waterwheel would succeed.
In addition to the water wheel, Zhang Ping also had a pulley for fetching water.
This thing had been around for a long time, but it was not widely used. Zhang Ping planned to use it to fetch water.
His explanation was also very simple. Some people lived high up in the mountains, but the rivers were at the foot of the mountains. If they wanted to drink water, they had to go down the mountain to fetch water, which was time-consuming and laborious. However, if they installed this pulley and tied a hemp rope to a wooden bucket, they could directly throw it down the mountain, which was convenient and laborious.
It could also be installed on the wells, making it easier for the commoners to fetch water.
"It's a good idea …" Jiang Pengji nodded in agreement.
She did not care how it was to be installed on the mountain, but the wells could be installed.
Previously, when she looked at the files of the district headquarters, several cases of well drowning were written on it. When the victim was fetching water, the bucket was too heavy, which caused his center of gravity to shift forward. He accidentally fell into the mouth of the well and lost his life.
If it was installed on the mouth of the well, the commoners only had to squat by the well to fetch water safely. The safety factor would increase significantly.
In the dead of winter, Feng Jin and the rest looked coldly at Zhang Ping as he busied himself. He led the craftsmen of the woodworking workshop to install the pulley for the wells in Xiangyang district and taught the commoners seriously how to use it …
It was still in the dead of winter. What kind of temptation could make a hermit who was detached from worldly affairs willingly do such hard labor?
"Why are you all looking at me like that?"
Jiang Pengji comfortably drank hot tea to warm herself. She planned to dry some dried fruits next year so that she could make tea in winter. When she raised her head, a few of her subordinates looked at her strangely. Jiang Pengji felt a little creeped out. "Have the improved seeds for spring plowing been distributed? Have the farming tools been arranged? Have the cattle been allocated? Have the fields of each household been counted? If not, why are you looking at me? Get to work! "
Everyone sneered in their hearts. Then, they buried their heads in work.
They had never seen such a shameless person!
This person was actually their lord!
The only one who did not find it strange was probably Wei Ci.
Ever since he decided to push Zhang Ping into the fire pit, he knew that such a day would come.
As a friend, he did not wish for Zhang Ping's talents to be buried in the wilderness. In today's world, one could not live in peace by hiding.
With such thoughts in mind, Wei Ci filtered suitable candidates with a clear conscience.
He planned to conquer Fengyi county after the spring plowing and send letters to his companions one by one.
As an injured person who was still recuperating, he could not work for too long. He could not bear to see a group of colleagues working day and night. The only way was to find someone to share the work.
There was a shortage of talents. If it was not for Zhang Ping's incompetence in government affairs, he would have pulled him over to work like a slave.
The work in the government office was quite heavy. The only praiseworthy thing was the food in the small kitchen.
"I like this braised pork with vinegar sauce the most. It's sweet and sour. I really don't know where my lord found such a good chef. Compared to the food I've eaten before, it's like chaff." There were 10 small plates on the table in front of Xu Ke, enough to fill up four to five mouthfuls of food.
Although they were all meat dishes, there were two bowls of vegetable soup that tasted great.
Feng Jin silently agreed with this. Hiding behind his sleeves, he secretly touched his somewhat bloated belly.
It was so delicious that they wished they could freeload three meals a day at the district headquarters.
Only delicious food could eliminate their resentment of working overtime.
Jiang Pengji's food was no different from that of her subordinates, but she had a large appetite. The amount of each meal was three to four times that of others.
"I suddenly thought of something," Jiang Pengji said. "Why don't we secretly open a restaurant?"
Everyone was drinking tea to aid digestion after eating. When they heard that Jiang Pengji wanted to stir up trouble again, their nerves tensed up.
However, Wei Ci gently answered, "Why did my lord have such an idea?"
Those in power should not compete with the people for benefits. Otherwise, if the government and the business combined, how could the people's businesses survive?
If his lord took the lead in doing so, it would be difficult to suppress the trend in the future.
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