Huang Laifu entered Liu Zongqi's house, and the word "poor" was full of words.

There were a few rotten tables and chairs in the house, and a few broken quilts on the kang. The family of four was a woman and two children. They were all dressed in rags and had a vegetable look. When Huang Laifu and others came in, they were all shabby and dared not speak. When Huang Laifu passed the broken rice cabinet, he looked at it and it was empty, not even a mouse.

Mr. Liu respectfully invited Huang Laifu and Gu Yunniang to sit down, and said with some shame: "Young Master, please sit down, the room is simple, so you are laughing at it." He also called his own woman Qian to pour tea for Huang Laifu. The woman came over with a wince.

Huang Laifu turned around and said to Yang Xiaolu: "Little Dog, come back to Qianhu's house to get some wine and meat. I want to talk to Mr. Liu." He pondered: "Come here with two more stones of rice, go and go quickly."

Yang Xiaolu responded loudly and rode her horse out of the house.

Mr. Liu was stunned for a moment, stood up, and said tremblingly: "This, this... the eldest young man is kind, the young man is small, the young man really doesn't know..."

Huang Laifu waved his hand: "The small matter is not worth mentioning." He took out the drawings of the big water truck and the well water truck from his arms and said: "Master Liu Qi, look at these water truck drawings, can you make them according to the same situation?"

Mr. Liu respectfully took the drawing, glanced at it, and whispered: "Good thing." He looked at it for a while, with a focused expression and murmured: "This should be the water truck used by the river... It is not manpower or animal power. Is it impulsive to use water? And this one, was it used in a well?"

Huang Laifu looked at his focused expression and thought that he was worthy of being a professional. He could tell at a glance what kind of thing he used. Although he was a military craftsman, it seemed that there was no problem for him to create other things.

After a while, Liu Zongqi said: "Young Master, there is no problem in manufacturing these water trucks. I wonder how long it will take for you to do this?"

Huang Laifu said: "There is no hurry. Just prepare it before spring plowing. First, make two water trucks for riverside and well irrigation to see how the effect is."

Mr. Liu nodded, and for a while, he hesitated and said, "There is a saying that young people dare not ask?"

Huang Laifu said, "Tell me."

Mr. Liu said: "Looking at the ingenious structure of these water trucks, Wuzhai Fort has never been seen. I wonder where the eldest young master got the drawings of this water truck?"

Huang Laifu said lightly: "You don't need to ask where you get it."

Mr. Liu hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, so little, he's too much."

He smiled and said, "This water truck is such a good thing. With this water truck, the water from the well in the river will be brought up. With spring next year, the scene of this field will be very different."

The two of them talked for a while, and then Yang Xiaolu came back, carrying some wine and meat in her hand, and said to Huang Laifu: "Master, the wine and meat are brought in, and there are still two stones of rice. I'm just outside the house. Do you want to carry it in?"

Huang Laifu said, "Let it be outside first." He said to General Liu, "General Liu, I see that your family has almost been completely covered with rice and grain. You are like this. Isn't the military craftsmen's home unable to get rid of the blame?"

Mr. Liu sighed: "If you say goodbye to the eldest son, our military craftsman's monthly grain is already meager, and..." He looked at Huang Laifu, but he did not dare to say what the officers of the Wuzhai Fort deducted, "... In addition, there is nowhere to make a living, so everyone has been out of food for a long time. A few days ago, each household could drink some porridge, but now they can't even drink porridge."

Speaking of this, he just sighed repeatedly.

Huang Laifu nodded and said to him: "These days, I will hire you to make this water truck, five dou of rice a month, and you still care about your daily food. These two stones of rice are the rice and grain that is prepaid for you. Then you can distribute it to the military craftsmen."

Mr. Liu was surprised and stood up. In the past, the officers of Wuzhai Fort used to serve them at any time. Who had given them money and food? Even more at the slightest food outage, Huang Laifu's move was a timely help. He was still a little confused. He knew about Huang Laifu. He had been extremely cruel in Wuzhai Fort before. Could it be that he had changed his nature as everyone said?

He repeatedly said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you." His woman, Qian, was able to understand, and was surprised and came over to salute and thank you.

Then Liu Zhengqi looked at Huang Laifu with a little hesitant expression. Huang Laifu understood what he meant and nodded. Liu Zhengqi was busy offending him and went out to see the decimeter.

Soon, Huang Laifu heard cheers outside the door and a lot of thanks. Gu Yunniang, Jiang Dazhong and others ran out to see. After a while, Butler Yang came in and said to Huang Laifu: "Young Master, the military craftsmen are all around, and they always want to thank you."

When Huang Laifu left the house, he saw a group of people in front of the house, including men and women, old and young, all of whom were ragged. It was the military craftsmen and their families here. When Huang Laifu came out, everyone knelt down, and a few of them cried out loudly: "Thank you, Young Master, Young Master is such a good person."

"The eldest young master is waiting for the future, God will definitely bless the kind-hearted people..."

Huang Laifu looked at the pair of grateful eyes below, and felt emotion in his heart. He sang: "As long as everyone does things for me, I, Huang Laifu, will never treat him badly. There are still many places I will hire you in the future. I promise that with me, Huang Laifu, I will definitely let you eat and wear warmth."

There was another thank-you voice below, and Gu Yunniang beside Huang Laifu also looked at him with a strange look.

When Huang Laifu saw that Yumei and Erniu were also kneeling down, his face full of gratitude. Erniu was ignorant and looked at Huang Laifu timidly with a pair of black eyes. Only Yumei, when she came into contact with Huang Laifu's gaze, she was a little uneasy and shy, and lowered her head deeply.

After dividing the rice, each of these craftsmen received some. Soon, smoke from the chimneys came out from all over the chimneys, and laughter was everywhere, adding some vitality to this originally dead place.

Inside Liu Zongqi's house, Mrs. Qian, the woman of Liu Zongqi, had already prepared the wine and food. The fragrance of the wine and food made her family salivate. Even Liu Zongqi was no exception. She kept swallowing the Adam's apple, especially the two children, who were even around the side, looking impatient.

Mr. Liu asked Yang and his two children to take a plate of meat and some rice to eat in the kitchen. The two children cheered and went around their mother.

Jiang Dazhong, Yang Xiaolu and Butler Yang went outside the house, but Gu Yunniang didn't know where to go. Huang Laifu and Liu Zongqi were chatting about the wine. After Liu Zongqi took a sip of the wine, his eyes were a little red.

Seeing Huang Laifu looking at him, he said embarrassedly: "The little one loses his composure, which makes the young man laugh. I am not afraid of the young man laughing. I have not eaten wine and meat for many years, so I can't help but feel a little emotional at this time."

Huang Laifu smiled and said, "I understand that the Wuzhai Fort has not been good every year. If it does not change, I am afraid that the situation will worsen, so I made this water truck and other items. Don't worry, I will hire you a lot in the future. You will definitely have no problem with eating enough in the future."

In Huang Laifu's plan, these craftsmen have a great role. After Wuzhaibao agriculture started, industry and commerce would also be carried out at the same time, and more craftsmen would be needed.

However, Huang Laifu currently does not intend to make any deep changes to the military craftsmen of Wuzhai Fort. He has not replaced his post yet, so he is rashly unable to do anything. For more changes, let’s talk about them after he replaces his post. At that time, his farm should have results.

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After the negotiations with President Liu, Huang Laifu was busy with the water truck for some days. The water truck was to make a large water truck by the river, the second was to make a small water truck for well irrigation, and the hand press for machine wells.

He divided Zhuang Ding and the military craftsmen into two ways. The military craftsmen made water trucks and other objects, while the Zhuang Dings dug wells.

Huang Laifu really fulfilled his promise. He only let go of rice and flour for the military craftsmen and patriarchs every day, so that they could eat them all, and also gave them meat once every three days. When they ate the greasy fat meat, many people shed tears. Everyone was grateful to Huang Laifu for his kindness and worked hard.

The other military households in the fort looked at it and found a reason to find out if there was still a need for manual labor. Unfortunately, Huang Laifu doesn't need anyone for the time being. However, there are still many people coming to watch every day.

Everyone was very curious about Huang Laifu's series of actions. They didn't know what Huang Laifu was going to do. Every day, everyone in the castle was talking about Huang Laifu's affairs these days. Huang Laifu naturally didn't want to pay attention to what everyone said. He was busy every day, and Gu Yunniang followed him every day. The Huang Sihao and his wife and Gu Qianhu at Qianhu House smiled and were very happy to see the two so close.

Compared with the water truck, the excavation of the irrigation well was effective earlier. For the more than 1,000 acres of land in Huangjiatianzhuang, at least dozens of wells were needed. However, Huang Laifu still asked the villagers to dig deeper down some of the dry wells.

The patriarchs didn't understand why the well water had dried up, so why did they still need to dig down? Could it be that they could dig down and then water could be released?

However, this was Huang Laifu's meaning, so they had to continue working. Sure enough, when these wells were dug to a depth of more than ten meters, some wells were leaking out again. Even some wells that seemed hopeless were dug to a depth of more than 20 meters, and they also leaked out one after another. These servants all admired Huang Laifu.

When the news spread, the whole fort was in an uproar. Many Wuzhai Fortress soldiers rushed to watch. Everyone knew that the well could be dug like this. Everyone was moved, especially the officers who were not close to the river and had been irrigated by the fields without water. They planned to return to their fields and asked people to dig wells so that they could irrigate the fields in spring.

But everyone thought of another question: How to divert water from such a deep well? Will it be like a bucket by bucket? When will this be mentioned? However, looking at Huang Laifu's appearance, he had a deep meaning in digging these wells, so he temporarily waited for the change. (To be continued)
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