What?

Liu Yi walked on the road paved with wooden boards in the air and walked around the village for a while, but he didn't notice any difference. The so-called five elements of strange power felt like a deception.

After wandering around for two times, he really didn't feel anything special. Liu Yi walked back to his courtyard in disappointment. His courtyard was built according to the style of a villa in later generations and combined with the architectural characteristics of this era. A small building, the first floor is the kitchen and bathroom, the second floor is the place where Deng and his maids live, and the third floor is the bedroom and the room for fitness. When he opened the window, he faced the vast Dongting Lake, fish pond, bamboo forest and lake scenery, which felt like he was facing the sea and the flowers were blooming in spring.

"Wang~"

When Wangcai saw Liu Yi coming back, he shouted happily, shook his tail and rushed to Liu Yi's side, rubbing his head intimately against the corner of Liu Yi's legs.

"Sir, are you back?" Deng, who was preparing to make a fire in the kitchen, greeted with a smile when he saw Liu Yi coming back.

"Yeah." Liu Yi smiled and said, "My sister-in-law's food was brought back. What should I eat today?"

"Mrs. I wanted to eat fish, so I asked someone to go to the fish pond to catch some." Deng said with a smile.

"Mrs. My sister-in-law's fish is awesome. It seems that she will have a good taste tonight." Liu Yi said this and handed her robe to the maid who came up to him. He wanted to say something, but suddenly heard a scream from behind him.

He quickly looked back and saw Deng staggeringly taking a few steps back and leaning against the wall. In the stove in front of him, the flames rushed to the high place.

"My sister-in-law is also proficient in this. Why are she so careless today?" Liu Yi came forward with a little amused and was about to help Deng take out some carbon stone in the stove, but found that the temperature was so high that it was a bit scary, and said in surprise: "How much carbon has sister-in-law put in?"

"It's like usual, I don't know why this is the case?" Deng patted his chest with lingering fear and frowned.

Liu Yi frowned when he heard this. He remembered that the fire stove at home did not seem to have any attributes to help the fire? Generally, the attributes of this type of fire stove are auxiliary attributes such as heat control or high temperature resistance.

After careful determination, he did not have the attribute of increasing the fire temperature. In fact, the furnace he built in Mocheng did not have the attribute of increasing the temperature, otherwise Liu Yi would have been able to make large-scale steel.

"Boyuan!" Wei Yue hurried in and said to Liu Yi: "Somehow, when the chef in the house cooked today, the fire was too strong and almost burned the person. When he was drawing water, the water from the bamboo tube was like a sharp arrow. The newly born puppy in my family was sprayed to death."

"Ah?" Liu Yi looked at Wei Yue in surprise when he heard this, and suddenly looked at his own stove again. After thinking about it, he ran straight to the well where the water was drawn in the yard, grabbed the water-drawing handle, and pressed it down.

The water dragon that could barely press the water on weekdays directly spewed out a stream of water and fryed it on the corridor columns. The splashing water splashed. Fortunately, Wei Yue and others did not surround him, otherwise they would have to be washed away.

Seeing this, Liu Yi thought about it, reduced the force and slowly pressed it down. The water flow became more normal. It took half a day to accumulate a bucket of water, but today it was filled easily.

"Bo Yuan, is there something wrong with this Feng Shui?" Wei Yue approached Liu Yi and asked in a low voice.

"No, it's very good!" After Liu Yi was silent for a moment, he figured it out. This should be the effect of the five elements. Although this effect does not have the mythical feeling of controlling the five elements, Liu Yi was already very satisfied with this effect. Not to mention the others, just talking about this firepower is enough to make him feel moved. It can appear at a higher temperature, which means flames.

In this era when smelting technology was not too developed, furnace temperature has always been an important issue that plagued all blacksmiths. Being able to obtain a higher furnace temperature means that better steel can be smelted. Whether forging weapons or making some iron products, with this invisible power, it can at least take the smelting level of the current era one step forward.

It is impossible to enter the industrial age, but at least it can be advanced to the level of the Tang and Song dynasties in terms of technology. Of course, this takes time. Liu Yi is not an encyclopedia, so he can only explore how to make progress step by step. But at least, the help brought by the power of the five elements is much stronger than he imagined.

Perhaps, even if you really have a reputation for eternity, maybe thousands of years later, archaeologists will discover iron tools that have not been decayed for thousands of years from their tombs, which are harder than those created by current technological means, and are amazed by foreigners.

Thinking about it, I feel a little excited.

"Bo Yuan?" Wei Yue stretched out his hand, shook in front of Liu Yi, and pushed Liu Yi again.

"What's the matter?" Liu Yi reacted and looked at Wei Yue.

"How to deal with this?" Wei Yue frowned and said, "I have told you three times."

"Put less carbon stone when making fire, and use less effort when drawing water, and it will be better." Liu Yi said indifferently. With this thing, you can save fuel.

"So simple?" Wei Yue said disappointed when he heard this.

"It's that simple, how complicated do you want?" Liu Yi asked back.

Wei Yue responded and turned around and walked out. It was true that there was no need to make a fuss about anything abnormal happening to Liu Yi.

According to Liu Yi's statement, Deng's fire was indeed controlled after he divided some carbon stones. Liu Yi called out Lu Lingqi and after eating fresh fish soup, Liu Yi helped Lu Lingqi back to the house to rest, and talked with his wife for a while before he fell asleep.

Because the successful construction of the first village with integrated breeding was a great inspiration for Liu Yi. After sending people to Linxiang to buy some chickens, ducks and seeds, Liu Yi began to prepare for the construction of a second group building. This time, he was preparing to build a brick kiln, which specialized in firing bricks and tiles. By the way, he was also planning to try whether he could study cement.

He didn't study cement much, but when he was decorating in his previous life, he heard workers tell him that the rough process was to crush limestone into powder and then mix it with clay and iron powder in a certain proportion, calcined the clay material by dry and cooked methods, and then grind it into powder with gypsum.

The specific ratio is not clear, but the raw materials are not difficult to find. Limestone is generally a by-product of ceramics. The porcelain of the Han Dynasty has been very good. As for gypsum, it is not difficult to find. Now I just study the ratio and the requirements for the calcination temperature. But now with the help of the power of the five elements, Liu Yi thinks this problem can be solved.

With previous experience, Liu Yi was planning to design a fire-based building complex this time, which was specially used as a base for brick kilns, casting and making porcelain, so he had to highlight the ability of fire. Naturally, he had to ask Cui Zhouping for help. Hydraulic power was still needed, which could save a lot of labor, so it was the same five elements, but it was mainly fire. He couldn't understand this thing, so he could only ask Cui Zhouping for advice.

This time it was not too troublesome. Within a few days, Cui Zhouping sent a reply to Liu Yi. In addition to giving Liu Yi a detailed drawing, he also included a copy of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

Liu Yi looked at the bamboo slips with ten volumes, his face was a little dark. Is Cui Zhouping trying to let himself study hard?

The bamboo slips are very new. After Liu Yi opened a volume, he was shocked to find that the numbers on them were all composed of Arabic numerals that Liu Yi mentioned before. This was obviously written by Cui Zhouping himself recently.

I felt a little warm in my heart, this guy actually took good care of himself.

"Sir, what are these? Are they also words?" Liu Yi's new guard commander came to Liu Yi and looked at the bamboo slips in Liu Yi's hand curiously, looking at the numerical symbols.

The commander of the personal guards was named Chen Ergou. He was recruited by Wei Yue when he was in Mocheng. He was very clever and had a clean foundation. He was the group of people who came from Nanyang with them. Although they were not direct descendants, they could still be trusted.

There is no way. Liu Yi's original personal guard Liu Sandao is now a commander in Lingling, and he is also a general. In the past, there was Lu Lingqi around Liu Yi, and he had his personal guards followed him, so there was no need to worry about safety issues. But now Lu Lingqi is pregnant. There are really people who want to be unfavorable to Liu Yi, so it is impossible for Lu Lingqi to go into battle, so Wei Yue personally selected Chen Ergou as Liu Yi's personal bodyguard.

"These are numbers." Liu Yi smiled.

"Number?" Chen Ergou looked at Liu Yi unexpectedly, a little puzzled. Although he was illiterate, he had seen the list text several times. He still knew the words "rewarding a thousand gold or a hundred gold". These things don't look like numbers no matter how they look like?

"I will teach you in the future!" Liu Yi shook his head. This thing will not be promoted for the time being. At least it will be left to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang to find a way to promote it after the new city is built.

Chen Ergou was very excited. Seeing that Liu Yi didn't say anything, he stopped asking more questions. He just looked at the drawings and said, "Is this the new village that the teacher mentioned?"

"Well, the place that specializes in firing bricks, tiles, ceramics and weapons is different from here, but it is mainly composed of earth and stone." Liu Yi nodded and said.

After the construction of the place, the fish pond should start to make money, and the capital chain can be sent out in a circular manner. Then there are logging yards and textile factories. After the city is built, the capital chain will be connected, and it will be almost winter, and you can start building a new city.

"You go and ask General Wei to summon people. The materials have been prepared and construction will start tomorrow." Liu Yi closed the bamboo slips and smiled at Chen Ergou.

"Here!"
Chapter completed!