Meng Wentian said: "Yes." Anyway, I didn't go to research, how can there be a dam in this small village?...... , don't wait for me for lunch, I don't know when I'll be back. ”

Hua Yi asked dissatisfiedly, "What about me?"

Meng Wentian said with a smile: "When will you complete the investigation, and when will the village chief send you over." Anyway, if I come back, I will go back to the village the same way, and I will meet on the way and I won't miss it. Big deal, I'll go with you to see the dam again. ”

Thinking that Meng Wentian was indeed not interested in researching in the countryside, she did not object again.

Meng Wentian didn't even enter the village, because the three of them hadn't even entered Shang'an Dong Village, and the village chief named Xia Shu took the village cadres to wait outside the village, and after introducing each other, Meng Wentian walked towards the dam with the driver, and let Hua Yi conduct research in the village alone—in fact, it was to find out the village cadres to understand the situation in the village.

The two walked for about three miles, and Zhou Weidong, who was walking in front, pointed to the front and shouted: "Look!

Meng Wentian hurriedly walked two steps faster, raised his head and looked in the direction pointed by Zhou Weidong, only to see a majestic and magnificent dam in front of him in a faint rain and mist, which looked very shocking.

People can't help but sigh from the bottom of their hearts: Human beings are really great, and such a huge project has been built in this wild ravine!

Above the majestic dam is the boundless water, surrounded by turquoise waters and surrounded by mountains. The clear water of the reservoir meandered along the mountain slope towards the front, until the mountains disappeared in the distance.

The tall dam spewed out two high white columns of water, hitting the water below, stirring up countless waves and emitting bursts of low roars, and Meng Wentian even felt that the earth was shaking slightly.

Looking at such a majestic dam, Meng Wentian felt that he was a little worried: How could such a strong dam collapse? This is all made of cement, which is far stronger than those earthen embankments in the countryside, and the earthen embankments in the countryside rarely collapse, and such a heavy cement dam body should be even more solid.

However, thinking of the events of his previous life, Meng Wentian was still not at ease, he walked towards the dam, and asked Zhou Weidong: "Master Zhou, this dam should be made of cement and steel bars, right? Will it collapse?"

"Hahaha......" Master Zhou laughed and said, "Cadre Meng, are you joking? It's not called a steel bar, it should be called a steel column. It is much stronger than these mountains, not to mention that this little water cannot break it, even if the plane throws bombs, it will not collapse. The dam has been built for decades without any problems. ”

At this point, he pointed his hand under the dam and said, "Look at the other side of the river! There are a lot of people living there." If you don't believe in the strength of the dam, you can't live there with a few of them. If something happened to the dam, none of them would have to run, they would be swept to the bottom of the river by the flood water that poured down overhead, and no matter how good the water was, they would drown. ”

Meng Wentian saw the farmhouses scattered along the river under the embankment, and blurted out, "Are they from Changheng County or Shimu County?"

Zhou Weidong replied: "They are from Shimu County. …… Their village used to be much larger, called Xia Andong Village, which belongs to Changheng County with Shang Andong Village behind us, but one is a little upstream of the river and the other is a little downstream of the river. But after the reservoir was built, they were assigned to Shimu County because they were on the other side of the river, close to Ishimu County. Now the people of the two villages often quarrel, and from time to time they need the mediation of the higher leaders of the two counties. I used to hear that they had a good relationship, and many of them were relatives with each other. ”

Meng Wentian asked puzzledly: "The two villages are so far apart, and they are separated by a river, what contradiction can there be between them? Even if they quarrel, they have to go around the dam, no matter how loud the scolding is, the other party can't hear it." ”

Zhou Weidong said with a smile: "Fight for water." ”

Just when Meng Wentian was surprised that these people were guarding a large reservoir and fighting for water, Zhou Weidong explained: "However, they are different from others in fighting for water. Others compete for water because of lack of water, less water, they fight for water because there is more water, and they don't want too much water. As is the case now, when there is more rain, not only the reservoir will have more water, but also the water level of the upstream and downstream rivers will also be high, and the fields on both sides of the river will be flooded. Naturally, the villagers in the upper Andong village want the reservoir to discharge more water so that their fields are less flooded, while the villagers in the lower Andong village are the opposite, they want the reservoir to discharge less water and their fields to be less submerged. ”

Meng Wentian sighed, although he is not from a rural area and does not understand the knowledge of water conservancy, but this simple truth is understood: if the water level of the downstream river is high, if the reservoir accelerates the discharge of water, under the support of the high water level in the downstream, the water level of the downstream river will be higher, and the fields, houses, roads and so on on both sides of the downstream river will be flooded.

But he still asked puzzledly: "Whether the water is discharged or not, how much water is discharged, this should be the matter of the reservoir, what does it have to do with the villagers, do they have the ability to control how the reservoir is discharged?"

"If the water level in the reservoir is high or low, the villagers naturally have no right to affect the amount of water discharged from the reservoir," Zhou said. However, if the water level of the reservoir is not very high, is it dischargeable or not?...... Whoever has a better relationship with the leaders of the reservoir will be able to take care of the reservoir. As a result, on the one hand, they scolded each other's reservoir leaders, and on the other hand, they scolded each other. ”

I have to say that Zhou Weidong, the driver, is still able to talk.

Meng Wentian nodded with a smile and asked, "Master Zhou, you are familiar with the situation here, are you from this area?"

Zhou Weidong smiled embarrassedly and said, "My family is from the reservoir, and my father works in the reservoir. ”

Meng Wentian suddenly realized: "No wonder. …… , what do you reservoir people think of their quarrels?"

Zhou Weidong said: "To tell the truth, the reservoir does not like the villagers of both villages, they should all be relocated people, and they should not continue to live around the reservoir. Relatively speaking, the most disliked thing about the reservoir is the people of Shang'an Dong Village in Changheng County. Because their fields are upstream of the reservoir, not only do they have to pump water from the reservoir to irrigate their rice fields during the dry season, but they also often discharge the water from their rice fields with pesticides and fertilizers into the water of our reservoir in the process of rice planting, causing the death of some fish stocked in the reservoir every year. ”

Rice planting is very troublesome, the paddy field must be filled with water when planting, and when the seedlings are tillered, the water must be drained clean, and the fields must be dried, and the seedlings must be irrigated when they are flowering and filling. Rice fields need water, and it is nothing for farmers to pump water from the reservoir, and the reservoir can tolerate a little, after all, the reservoir has a large capacity, and the farmers do not need much water.

However, the drainage of rice fields is troublesome, and the pesticide water rushes into the reservoir, causing the reservoir a little loss. You must know that now the reservoir is generally raised with fish, and some are also engaged in cage fish farming, those small fish fry trapped in the cage can not see a little pesticide at all, and they will die when they see the medicine.

Meng Wentian said: "So, your reservoir will take care of the villagers of Andong Village a little bit a lot of times?"

Zhou Weidong nodded and said: "In the current wet season, the reservoir will indeed take care of the downstream, try to drain as little as possible, or do not take emergency drainage measures. In addition, in addition to the request of Xia Andong Village, the leaders of Shimu County will also ask the reservoir to do so, because the downstream is mainly in Shimu County, if the reservoir discharges a large amount of water in the rainy season, or takes emergency flood discharge, then the river embankment in Shimu County may collapse, and there will be flooding in Shimu County, which will cause great losses. ”

……

As they spoke, the two of them had come to the vicinity of the dam.

If you stand on the far side of the dam and look at the dam, you will only feel that it is majestic, magnificent and stable, but if you stand next to the dam and look at the different water levels on both sides of the dam, especially when you hear the huge water column and the slightly shaking ground from the rumbling water duct hole of the hydroelectric generator, you will find that you are not only shocked but also a little worried.

Meng Wentian had just suppressed the worry that "the dam might collapse", and now he involuntarily rose from the depths of his heart.

Thinking of the tragic events in his previous life, for the safety of the dam and the lives of more than 100 innocent people downstream, Meng Wentian still decided to pass on what he knew to the person in charge of the dam or reservoir through some means. He asked Zhou Weidong: "Master Zhou, your father works here, he should know the leader of the reservoir, right? Do you know the technicians with power?"

Zhou Weidong asked puzzledly, "What are you going to do?"

Meng Wentian said: "I see that the weather is so bad, it will definitely rain continuously during this time, and I am worried that something will happen to this dam." ”

"Hey-" Zhou Weidong said with a smile, "Cadre Meng, it turns out that you are still thinking about this." …… It's really strange to you, when others come to see the dam, they will say that the dam is so wide, so high, so thick, it must be stronger than a mountain, and it is impossible to collapse. You're good, when you see this dam, you're worried about it. How is that possible? It's been running safely for decades. …… , My dad is the chief engineer here, and when it comes to power, he should also be the third. Otherwise, I'll take you to see my dad, and he should be able to dispel your concerns. ”

In his opinion, Meng Wentian, an outsider, just didn't understand the dam at all, and didn't know what a hydroelectric power station was, but he saw that the water level difference between the two sides of the dam was too great, almost one in the sky and the other underground, and the difference of seventy or eighty meters frightened him, so he was so worried.

Hearing Zhou Weidong say that his father was the chief engineer of the reservoir, Meng Wentian couldn't help but feel a little weak, because he was worried that the dam would repeat the tragedy of his previous life was completely out of memory in his mind, and there was no scientific basis. Because he only relied on the fact that it had been raining all this time, he could only describe his point of view in uncertain words such as maybe, probably, probably, almost, etc.