Chapter 300 Military Order
"Of course I can." Xiao Jiuyue said affirmatively: "Nothing is difficult in this world if you set your mind to it."
Xiao Jiuyue looked up at the big water windmill. If it was successful, there would be no problem in enlarging the size and making an even bigger water windmill.
"Miss Xiao, what you say is really nice!" Shi Lizheng gave Xiao Jiuyue a thumbs up.
"How does this windmill pump water?"
"Can these buckets of water reach this high?"
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The villagers asked their doubts one by one, but Xiao Jiuyue did not answer. Instead, he waited for Ai Qiushi to successfully assemble the water windmill and then make it turn. The villagers' doubts were naturally resolved.
The sun slowly set and the sky gradually darkened. After the water windmill was debugged, when water was poured from the low-lying areas to the high fields, the villagers' eyes widened as they looked around the water windmill curiously!
"Miss, this is amazing! You can get water this way?" Luo Kui stood by, stunned. "From now on, everyone won't have to go through the trouble of carrying water."
"Yes, it's amazing." Xiao Jiuyue turned around and looked at Luo Kui standing there. "Mr. Jiang is here."
"Ah." Luo Kui immediately hid beside Xiao Jiuyue when she heard the name Mr. Jiang, looking around with a guilty look. This action made Xiao Jiuyue laugh: "Luo Kui, are you interested in Mr. Jiang?"
"Miss." Luo Kui was so shocked that her mouth could swallow an egg. Her eyes seemed to say: Miss, are you crazy?
"I only have respect for Mr. Jiang. I don't have any other thoughts, not even a little bit." She swallowed and said, "Even if I want to find a husband in the future, it will never be someone like Mr. Jiang."
"All I have to do every day is read books, and I can eat anything. How can there be any happiness in such a life?" Luo Kui pays great attention to three meals a day.
Xiao Jiuyue raised an eyebrow. As she listened to Luo Kui detailing the delicacies, she realized that her idea was rather unrealistic. She said, "Let's go home and see how we can improve the windmill tomorrow. We'll try to make a bigger one soon."
Xiao Jiuyue went home and looked at the design drawings of the water windmill. The next day, he asked Ai Qiushi to improve the water windmill and sent it to the Lancang County Government.
Qiu Dong looked at the water windmill blueprint. When he heard that Fu'an Village had already used a water windmill, he immediately rushed to Fu'an Village. Looking at the tall water windmill, Qiu Dong praised Ai Qiushi and said, "Ai Qiushi, you are really born to be a craftsman!"
"This water windmill is well made." Qiu Dong praised Ai Qiushi again and again.
Ai Qiushi said embarrassedly: "This is all the eldest lady's idea."
"Miss Xiao, you are truly the smartest girl I have ever met." Qiu Dong finished speaking and added, "You are also the most beautiful woman I have ever seen."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiu Dong asked in a low voice: "Ai Qiushi, what do you think of my master?"
"Very good." Ai Qiushi said, and added: "Lord Rong is the least like a county magistrate I have ever seen. He is not like the previous magistrates who were high and mighty."
"Ai Qiushi, that's not what I'm asking." Qiu Dong waved his hand. Ai Qiushi looked at him with a simple face: "Aren't you asking about how Lord Rong is doing?"
Qiu Dong looked at his honest face and stopped talking the instant he was about to speak. He said, "This water windmill is great. I have to talk to the adults and see if we can build a few more. This year, the adults have signed military orders with the landlords to increase grain production!"
"Military order?" Ai Qiushi usually does carpentry work and only comes out to install water windmills. He usually stays at home, so he doesn't understand these things.
"Yes, let the landowners grow crops on their land like Miss Xiao did. If the yield per mu is less than 600 kilograms, I'm afraid even if you lose everything you own, it won't be enough." Qiu Dong clasped his hands together and prayed to the heavens, "Oh, God, please bring good weather and good harvests."
Military order!
When Xiao Jiuyue heard what Ai Qiushi said, she was really surprised. She had heard before that it would be difficult to get the landlords to farm according to her method.
The previous Xu Yuanwai was able to do so smoothly because he had the upper hand and the weakness. As for the entire Lancang County, they wanted those who owned a lot of land to listen to the words of Rong Xun, who had just taken office...
"He didn't say a word." Xiao Jiuyue thought about Rong Xun's response when she asked him about this before: "They would definitely be very willing to do something as good as increasing grain production."
Xiao Jiuyue hadn't thought much about it before, but now that she thought about it carefully, it was true. She said, "Ai Qiushi, work with Qiu Dong to improve your windmill. Build a few more large windmills. This will irrigate the farmland and make it more convenient for the people."
"Okay, Miss." Ai Qiushi went back excitedly to build a big water windmill. The water windmill installed in Fu'an Village before was praised by everyone every time they saw it!
Ai Qiushi likes this because it makes him feel that he is a useful person.
The busy spring sowing season has passed, and the hot summer is slowly approaching. Xiao Jiuyue is very excited and looking forward to it as she looks at the increasingly strong rice growing in the fields.
"Miss, look, the ears of corn are beginning to emerge."
Lian Xin looked at the rice in the paddy field, which had grown to half a person's height, and said, "This year will definitely be another bumper harvest!"
"Yeah." Xiao Jiuyue looked at the rice ears in the field, and her nervous heart finally slowly relaxed. Now she just had to wait for the autumn harvest.
"Miss, my brother is here." Aunt Lan walked quickly to Xiao Jiuyue. When she was collecting the cloth, she saw her brother Shang Ting. Shang Ting was different from the Shang Ting who first came to Hongdu. The current Shang Ting was full of energy and spirit. It was said that Shang Ting's cloth had completely broken free from the suppression of those cloth merchants in Yizhou and had made his own way.
"Oh?" Xiao Jiuyue raised an eyebrow and asked, "Your brother came in person?"
"Yes." Aunt Lan nodded and said, "Brother said he has something important to report."
Important matter?
Xiao Jiuyue suddenly stood up and walked towards the front yard at a rapid pace. Lianxin almost couldn't keep up.
Arriving at the front yard, Xiao Jiuyue took a deep breath, wiped the sweat off her face with a handkerchief, and then walked gracefully into the front yard. In the front yard's guest living room, Shang Ting was walking back and forth in the room. When he saw Xiao Jiuyue, Shang Ting excitedly stepped forward and said, "Miss, there's news."
"Lianxin." Xiao Jiuyue winked at Lianxin, and Lianxin immediately understood. She called away all the maids working nearby, and she guarded the door herself.
"Miss, I have news about Hou Jian." Shang Ting said straight to the point, "He is currently hiding in a bandit camp in Xiangcheng."
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