The Emperor is Above

Chapter 165 Brother, why are you still playing with birds?
Exotic beast heavy cavalry is Qing Yi's dream.

If you want to pacify highly intelligent beasts, you need to build an animal shed carefully.

Qing Yi was very concerned about this, so he asked Tun Shigu to specially select more than ten craftsmen, and personally led the private army and militia of the entire Guqiu to work together.

The two giant boys, Wang Mangqiji and Wang Mangqubing, took on the important task of operating the crane and cooperated with Qingyi to erect the main wooden pillars and roof beams.

Nearly two hundred people worked together at a very fast speed. The animal sheds for ordinary beasts were small and easy to build, but the animal sheds that housed blue rhinos and giant rhinos were very large and took some effort and thought.

"Hey Yo -- Hey Yo --"

Ten private soldiers at the ninth level were trying to lift a pillar that was as thick as two people could hug together, but they were unable to hold it upright because it was too thick and too long, causing others to laugh.

At this time, an arm stretched out and easily stood it up.

Under the admiring gazes of the crowd, Qing Yi casually held the pillar with both hands, and said loudly: "Brother Shi Gu, the young giant rhinos are not very big now, so we can only live in the same animal shed with these twelve green rhinos for the time being.

When they grow up, they will be 50-60 feet tall and nearly 100 feet long. We will have to build separate houses for them by then."

"That's natural. There might be dozens or hundreds of giant rhinos by then. It's a huge project."

Tu Shigu directed his craftsmen to complete the final process, and the huge animal shed seemed like a palace.

Watching the two giant boys bringing their contracted giant rhinoceros into the animal shed, Tu Shigu blinked his eyes and sighed, "My goodness, brothers, this giant rhinoceros will be amazing when it grows up. The combat power of a fifth-grade exotic beast is certainly strong, but it also eats a lot.

The ritual says: In July, the sun is shining, and in September, clothes are given. In late October, it is the season of heavy snow. Now it is almost August, you must prepare enough grass early, otherwise they will starve to death in winter because they have nowhere to find food.

Qing Yi smiled confidently and said, "Brother Shi Gu, don't worry, I have already considered this issue, there will be no problem with the food.

First of all, the thousands of acres of corn stalks on the hill can be used as fodder. In addition, there are countless bushes in the surrounding wasteland. After the autumn harvest, we can organize people to harvest and store a large amount of grass as winter food for the beasts. "

Tu Shigu reminded him seriously, "Brother, harvesting fodder consumes a lot of manpower. When the autumn harvest comes, everyone will be busy. How can they have time to harvest fodder?"

Qing Yi understood what Tun Shigu meant. Nowadays, Xing State and other vassal states used a very small bone sickle for autumn harvest, which was very inefficient in harvesting corn and cutting grass. Of course, he had thought about this problem a long time ago.

"Brother Shi Gu, when we invented the spring plowing suit, it can increase the efficiency of farming tenfold. Haven't you ever thought about how to harvest? If we still use the old way to harvest, we will be too busy."

He took out a scroll of animal skin that he had drawn long ago and said, "Come, come, Brother Shi Gu, come and see the horse-drawn harvester I designed. It can not only be used to harvest corn, but also grass."

“Horse-drawn harvester?”

Tu Shigu's eyes widened as he said in disbelief, "My goodness, brother, in the future we will have plows for spring ploughing, seed drills for sowing, weeding carts, and now we have harvesters for autumn harvest. Won't there be more food than we can eat in the future?"

"How can we not finish it?" Qing Yi couldn't help but shook his head and laughed, "When one has enough food and clothing, one knows honor and disgrace; when one has full granaries, one knows etiquette; abundant food is the foundation of everything.

Only when we have sufficient food and are well fed can our people have time to practice cultivation, become stronger physically, and our overall strength become greater.

The surplus food can be used to feed giant rhinos, blue rhinos and other exotic beasts and heavy cavalry. If there is more, it can also be used to feed low-grade exotic beasts and fierce birds. If our children in Guqiu eat golden grains and spiritual potatoes and precious fierce bird eggs from a young age, their cultivation aptitude when they grow up will definitely not be inferior to that of the children of the nobles and officials. "

"It's impossible for a rich kid to eat pure rice and eggs of fierce birds every day. Why do I feel like you are so confident, brother?"

Tu Shigu was stunned by Qing Yi's idea, his eyes full of excitement, "If we can do what you said, I'm afraid we can be compared with the ancient Shennong."

In fact, the horse-drawn harvester drawn by Qing Yi is very rough, but it cannot withstand the ingenuity of Tun Shigu, and it has a lot of existing craft and technical foundations.

With Qing Yi's ingenious ideas, Tun Shigu quickly figured out the process sequence and led several of the most skilled craftsmen to study it day and night. A few days later, the first horse-drawn harvester was born.

"Hey, brother, why are you still playing with the bird?"

Tu Shigu, with two dark circles under his eyes, ran to find Qing Yi with an excited look on his face, pulled his sleeve and walked out of the lonely hill.

"Come on, brother, stop playing with birds. Go check out the horse-drawn harvester I made and see what needs to be improved."

"Brother Shi Gu, how can I play with birds? I am training eagles!"

Qing Yi corrected Tun Shigu's words with a helpless look on his face, otherwise if someone accidentally heard it, they would think that he was secretly doing something shameful.

He had finally found some time these past two days to train his fat eagle. Perhaps because it had been fed too much exotic beast meat recently, the eagle's feathers had gradually become fuller and it was not as ugly as at the beginning, but its body was getting fatter and fatter.

In order to prevent the eaglets from becoming too fat and making it difficult for them to learn to fly, Qing Yi is systematically training the eaglets to lose weight and will start flying training after the autumn harvest.

"Okay, okay, whether it's playing with birds or training hawks, let's go and see the effect of the harvester first." Tu Shigu was not interested in hawks and other ferocious birds. His weight alone was enough to prevent a large number of low-grade ferocious birds from refusing to carry him.

When Qing Yi followed Tun Shigu to the outside of Solitary Hill, Gongsun Wu, Dongmen Hu and Dongmen Bao were also watching with their young eagles, and the surrounding area was crowded with hundreds of villagers who came to watch the fun.

There was a relatively flat grassland ahead. With the cooperation of Daniu and Chai Yong, Hei Weng drove a harvester and harvested clumps of weeds that were as tall as a person. His dark face turned red with excitement.

Seeing the harvester was so powerful, Tu Shigu clenched his fat fists excitedly and said excitedly: "Brother, just with this horse-drawn harvester, I can get a sergeant title."

The surrounding villagers were even more excited, and they were talking loudly:

"It's great. I was just happy that the planting and farming went smoothly during the spring ploughing. I didn't expect the crops to grow so well this year. I was worried about how to harvest so much corn during the autumn harvest."

"That's right. I've been thinking about this these past few days. I can only get up early and work late, suffer more, and sweat more. I didn't expect the head of the village to come up with a harvester. That's great!"

After Tu Shigu and Hei Weng went back and forth to harvest twice, they carefully checked the harvester again. Then they said to Qing Yi with satisfaction: "Brother, how is my craftsmanship? Except for the transmission that needs to be adjusted, it is basically finalized."

"Is this harvester finalized? Then give me one too!"

An old voice came from the back of the crowd. When Qing Yi heard this voice, he immediately smiled brightly and couldn't stop: "Old Man Shi, Niuniu, long time no see."

(End of this chapter)