Chapter 117 Thinking Simple
"As for the wooden cart, the two apprentices should have learned how to make it, right?"
Zhou Xu calculated the time in his mind and realized that these two apprentices had been learning for quite a long time.
Hearing this question, Zhuang Mengdie nodded.
“Basically no problem.”
"Well, your two apprentices have completed their apprenticeship. I will assign a few more apprentices to help them. You don't have to worry about the production of the wooden cart for the time being. From today on, you will concentrate on developing this 'bamboo bow'."
After a period of time, the number of wooden carts in the tribe was temporarily sufficient. Under this premise, Zhuang Mengdie's two previous apprentices, after accepting him as an apprentice, would be responsible for the manufacture and maintenance of wooden carts, which should be more than enough to maintain daily operations.
As a four-star talent in the equipment department, Zhuang Mengdie must fully utilize 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 had a full range of tools, so he naturally had no plans to move.
Zhou Xu directly borrowed the shed of the equipment department, spread out a new animal skin map on the table, and then began to draw the blueprint.
He didn't study architecture, but he still has some basic knowledge of structures.
At the same time, the house they were going to build next was, after all, just a one-story thatched house, and it was not a complicated house structure.
Following this idea and combining it with some reasonable structural frameworks, Zhou Xu quickly drew the outline of the thatched house's frame.
This is undoubtedly the essence of the entire design. As long as this is done, everything else will be easy.
"Let's go to the Construction Engineering Department."
With the design drawings in hand, Zhou Xu was planning to go to the Construction Engineering Department to gather people to start the work.
Zhang Xiaoshan, the follower who heard this, said hurriedly...
"Chief, there's no one in the department. The people from the Construction Engineering Department are digging a canal outside the camp right now!"
Zhou Xu was stunned when he heard this. He had just returned to the camp, and his mind was full of bamboo bows and houses. All of a sudden, he actually forgot about digging the canal.
Calculating the time, this has taken quite a while.
However, at the beginning, only those two people were doing this work, and he arranged things with the mentality of getting it done in one go, and once it was done, he did not plan to make any changes to the canal in a short period of time. Naturally, the scale of this canal was not small.
The addition of more manpower later was only after the first group of people arrived at the camp in the deserted mountains. He really had no idea where they had dug now.
It’s not that he doesn’t care about the progress. Agricultural development is the top priority for their tribe in the future.
Considering the development of agriculture, the importance of canals is unquestionable. Once built, they can greatly improve the irrigation efficiency of their fields.
But the scale of their fields at this stage is not large, and the farming area is not that far from the lake, so it is convenient for the members of the farming team to fetch water every day.
This also makes the canal seem less important at this stage.
The reason why Zhou Xu asked two people to arrange this matter early was because he hoped that by the time their fields were large enough to require canals, their canals could be put into use directly.
Instead of waiting until that time to arrange people to start digging, that would be too inefficient.
You were developing very quickly there, but when you get here, you get stuck! This is a bad feeling.
To use the words in the game, it means affecting one's own development rhythm.
With two followers, Zhou Xu quickly arrived at the farming area outside the camp.
This is a plain area, and at first glance, there are no obstacles that affect his vision, which makes it easy for him to see the busy construction team.
Compared with the initial team, after the addition of the coolies transferred from the barren mountain camp, they can now really be described as a "construction team".
According to Zhou Xu's previous arrangement, of the initial fifty laborers, thirty were assigned to the Salt Lake Camp to dig coal, and twenty were assigned to the Black Moon Camp.
Among these twenty people, fifteen went to the logging team to help carry wood, and five were assigned to the construction team to help dig canals.
Digging a canal is hard work in itself, and the increase in manpower can 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 as well.
At this moment, Zhou Xu walked closer and found that the canal was almost dug.
It was only about two meters away from the 'finish line' he had drawn.
Under this premise, when the construction team saw Zhou Xu, they mistakenly thought that their leader was here to inspect the work.
All of a sudden, they were like people who had been given an injection of chicken blood. They used hoes and shovels very quickly and dug the two-meter canal in a short time. Zhou Xu was stunned.
"Chief, why are you here? We just finished the work!"
At this moment, looking at the construction team leader Wang Dashi who was sweating profusely, 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 everyone could enjoy a whole grilled fish tonight, the seven people in the construction team, including the five laborers who were assigned to work, smiled brightly.
"Thank you, Chief!"
After happily thanking Zhou Xu for the reward, Wang Dashi seemed to have remembered something and asked another question quickly.
"By the way, Chief, do we need to dig up the other end of the canal now?"
What Wang Dashi was asking about at this moment was the end connected to the lake. In order to facilitate construction, that end was not dug first, so as to prevent lake water from pouring in and inconvenience subsequent work.
As for now...
"Dig it up!"
Now that the canals have been dug, there is no reason not to use them.
As they were talking, Zhou Xu and the construction team quickly ran to the lake.
Only two or three meters of space was reserved here, so it was not difficult to dig. The moment the last layer of soil was dug away, the lake water immediately poured in along the canal.
This also announced that their construction team's first project was officially completed! The construction team members headed by Wang Dashi cheered at this moment.
However, the joy on Zhou Xu's face, who was standing aside, quickly disappeared in the next second.
During this time, Wang Dashi noticed the change in Zhou Xu's expression and felt nervous. He quickly turned around to signal the team members to stop shouting, and asked Zhou Xu cautiously...
"Chief, is there a problem?"
At that moment, Zhou Xu reacted and swept his eyes over the construction team members, who were looking nervous and anxious at the moment, and he quickly explained...
"It's okay, it's okay. It's not your fault. It's my initial idea that went wrong."
According to Zhou Xu's original idea, after digging the canal, the lake water would flow into the canal and directly reach the fields.
But the reality before him made him fully realize what it meant to say "ideals are full, but reality is skinny."
Not to mention reaching the fields, the lake water that poured in was only a shallow part, at most submerging his ankles, and it only poured in less than ten meters before the water flow stopped.
Needless to say, he thought the matter was simple.
At the same time, Zhou Xu also clearly realized that if he wanted this canal to successfully demonstrate its value, he needed one more thing.
That is the waterwheel used to guide the water flow!
(End of this chapter)
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