Zhao Qi was wearing a straw hat and stood under a peach tree beside the rice field, watching two hired helpers harvesting rice in the rice field.

Lai Fu was climbing on the tree to pick peaches. Peaches kept falling down as they were shaking. The three children from the employer were constantly picking up on the grass. The three children were only six years old and three years old. They were dirty all over. They didn't wash the peaches and they stuffed them into their mouths to chew them. Zhao Qi also held a few washed peaches in his hand, eating them all.

This rice field belongs to A'an's family.

Since A'an hired someone to kidnap Zhao Qi and A Lian last time, he has been locked up in the police station in the harbor. Later, Zhao Qi has not cared much. Some time ago, he heard from Ermao that A'an was sentenced to severe punishment and sent to Guangxi.

Zhao Qi was very moved after hearing this. After he said that A Lian, A Lian stayed for a long time, and then served him gently over and over at night, as if he wanted to vent all the sorrows accumulated over the years, making Zhao Qi feel his legs and feet weak whenever he thinks of the romantic and joyful night these days.

Kidnapping has been a serious crime since ancient times, and dissatisfaction is also a very distinctive punishment for the criminal law of the Song Dynasty.

Throughout Chinese history, only the people of the Song Dynasty like to exile prisoners the most. As long as they involve murder and other criminal cases, they will be sentenced to severely, regardless of whether they succeed or not. They will be tattooed on their faces and then sent to serve as soldiers for thousands of miles. This is common in Water Margin.

Although A'an didn't want to hurt him, he just wanted to sell his wife and starve him for three days.

But now that he ended up like this, Zhao Qi could only say that he deserved it.

Of course, the second young master of the Lu family, who instructed A'an to work, was obviously much better luck. He was neither the mastermind nor the family status was comparable. I heard that A'an was released soon after he was exiled. As for how much money he spent to open up the joints, Zhao Qi was not sure, but he must have lost a lot of money.

The people of A'an are gone, but more than ten acres of rice are still there, and A Lian is taking care of him on weekdays. Therefore, Zhao Qi is not only a gentle woman but also a dozen acres of land. Zhao Qi even occasionally regrets it. My mother knew that A'an would kidnap him, so she shouldn't have spent fifty knots to sell his broken house at the beginning, because even if she didn't spend money, she is still the one who has it now.

What a shameless and pleasant thing to sleep with someone else's wife, live in someone else's house, and occupy other people's grain fields.

"Bang~bang~bang~bang~bang~bang~"

In the rice fields, two foreign couples were pounding the rice in a wooden square warehouse.

This way of harvesting is no different from hundreds of years later.

Zhao Qi remembers that when he was a child, he harvested rice at home, but when he grew up, he changed to a threshing machine, which was much faster than this.

Zhao Qi pinched his chin and thought for a while, looked up and saw that it was still early, and turned around and left. Lai Fu quickly slipped down from the tree.

"Young Master, where are we going?" Lai Fu and Facai both had bulging peaches in their purses.

"Go to the carriage factory, Laifu, go back and get a pot of light salt water to bring it over. It's not okay to drink water on such a hot day!"

"Yes, young master!" Lai Fu spread his short legs and disappeared into the tree-lined path in the blink of an eye.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang ~"

In a spacious yard near Yanggong Town, there is a pile of various woods. There is a pergola on the side of the yard, and a group of carpenters are busy chopping knives and axes inside.

There is a wooden sign hanging at the door of the simple yard with the words "Xiaolongwan Carriage Factory".

This is the first formal factory that Xiaoqi has planned after traveling through time.

It is also a joint-stock company. Zhao Qi invested 1,000 guan of money and 40% of the other craftsmen in partnership. In addition to craftsmen, there are more than ten helpers. Some used to be woodworking apprentices, and some were recruited recently.

Although the carriage factory has just started, it has received nearly 100 orders, but none of them have successfully made five. The main reason is that there is not enough manpower and they all use the original technology and methods, relying entirely on simple tools such as hand saws and axes. Whether it is cutting or mortise and tenon structure, it is very slow to make. In order to speed up, Zhao Qi spent a lot of money to rebuild new knives, axes, adzes, hacksaws and unified rulers. In addition to speeding up, he also divided the craftsmen and helpers into several groups, using assembly lines for the cutting operation. Each group is only responsible for completing the same parts. After a batch of parts is completed, the energy source will be continuously assembled. As for the internal and external decoration and details, someone can be arranged to be responsible, because in addition to this, the carriage factory has another decoration workshop and a paint workshop, which are all placed in the homes of several other carpenters.

At present, there are too many things and people are not enough, and Zhao Qi is unable to take care of it. After the rice harvest is completed and his house is repaired, he plans to buy a piece of wasteland near Yanggong Town to make the carriage factory more regular and open it into a large carriage manufacturing and repair factory, and then monopolize the entire four-wheeled carriage industry in Yanggong Town.

If the steam engine can be fired in the future, the carriage factory can be upgraded to a car factory.

"Dalang is here!"

"The shopkeeper is here!"

Seeing Zhao Qi coming in with a handsome little boy, the busy carpenters and helpers in the yard stopped to greet him with warm smiles.

"You are busy, don't worry about me!" Zhao Qi smiled and nodded all the way into the awning. There were already many made parts piled up on the ground. After looking around, he walked to the old man with satisfaction.

"What's the matter with such a hot brother Tianqi? It's not quiet here!" The old man was drilling holes with a chisel, and his movements were skillful and wood chips flew around.

"Master Ba, I came up with an idea for a harvester. Do you see if you can do it?" Zhao Qi said with a smile.

"Harvester, what's the thing?" Old Man Ban Lazi stopped in surprise.

"It's just used to harvest rice threshing!"

"Don't threshing be used for plate warehouses?" the old man asked in confusion.

"The board warehouse looks a bit time-consuming and laborious. If I can make this idea, it should be much more convenient than the board warehouse and the speed is also faster. That's it. I will simply draw it and take a look..."

Zhao Qi asked a helper to get a wooden ruler and charcoal strips, put a flat plank on the carpentry table, and quickly drew a simple style of a foot-pedal thresher.

"Your Majesty, you see, this is actually adding a drum that can be rotated by stepping on the plate bin. Install some iron nails on the drum. When it is rotated, put the cut rice in and you can crimp the rice... The drum is very simple. Just make a cylinder with a wooden board, and it doesn't need to be made too fine. You just need to install these iron nails densely. If you don't use iron nails, you can use bamboo nails instead..."

"Hey, Brother Qi, your idea may be really good!"

As Zhao Qi told the story, the old man's eyes became brighter and brighter, and his wrinkled face showed a look of surprise and nodded constantly.

"I also think it should work. What's more troublesome now is the structure of using feet..." Zhao Qi pointed to the ambiguous transmission structure he drew and said with some uncertainty.

"What's the trouble? It's no different from a spinning wheel. Tan Laosan came over to see the threshing machine painted by Brother Qi..." He waved to call a carpenter in his forties.

"Shizi threshing machine?" A carpenter next to him was sawing wood and threw down the saw. Then, he heard the old carpenter and Zhao Qi briefly talk about the structure of the threshing machine and nodded repeatedly, "Hey, this thing may be really useful!"

"What are you looking at? What can you use?" A somewhat lame carpenter also curiously threw down his axe. The old man and Tan Laosan introduced him again.

"It's not bad, this thing is definitely useful. In fact, it's similar to combing our hair. As long as we spin fast enough, we can definitely squeeze the rice!" The cripple became interested when they heard it, so the three carpenters gathered in front of the picture drawn by Zhao Qi to discuss and study it.

The three carpenters who were in charge of the business gathered together to discuss it in a hot mood, and sometimes they would argue a few times. At this moment, the carpenters and helpers in the whole yard couldn't help but throw their work down and ran over to watch. After talking all the words, they quickly squeezed Zhao Qi out of it.

Zhao Qi stood outside a group of people and was amused and laughed, but after a noisy, a group of carpenters soon had results. Except for thinking that the threshing machine designed by Zhao Qi should be useful, it is not difficult from design to manufacturing. There are plenty of materials at present, so one can be made to see the effect.

"Tan Laosan, you used to specialize in spinning wheels. You are responsible for the parts you step on. You are responsible for the lame. You are responsible for making the roller in the middle. I made the wooden bucket outside. Awen went to find two pairs of three-inch rings with hole diameter. He went to cut an old bamboo and cut the bamboo nails... Whatever the others should do, don't join in the fun here..."

The old carpenter gave the order, and the group of people scattered and became busy again in an instant.

This is the benefit of professionals!

Zhao Qi was deeply moved. These were professional carpenters, and all kinds of wooden work could be said to be terrible. Even though Zhao Qi's drawings were a mess, they almost had a lifelong deal with wood and simple woodworking machinery. Just listening to Zhao Qi's brief introduction, you can almost understand the structure and function in it instantly.

"Master Eighth Master, how long will it take to make it?" Zhao Qi asked after the busy old man's butt.

"The structure is very simple. So many people do it together. Just one hour. You go home and rest first. I will let you tell you if you have done it!" The old man gestured on the wooden board with a ruler.
Chapter completed!