If only from the point of view of recognition, then Liang Lotian and Mi Shuo, the two traversers, are probably the most familiar people to immigrants.

Because most of the people from the Ming Kingdom were illiterate + peasants, these people were often kicked to work in agriculture or infrastructure at the beginning, so they could often see the two in the fields.

So when the electric tricycle came from a distance, the news suddenly spread on the busy construction site: "The blue-headed mule is here!" ”

Soon, the foreman who got the news ran out of the improvised shed.

The foreman's surname is Zhang, he is in his forties, and he is a rare Ming craftsman who understands mathematics, so he quickly became a foreman after coming to the big office...... Usually by the way, I tutor junior high school geometry.

This position is already a middle-level cadre of the construction company, so he must know Liang Letian and Mi Shuo. Seeing the two bosses coming down from the blue-headed iron mule, Foreman Zhang hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Lord Liang, Master Mi, you two are here!" Inside, please. ”

After Liang Letian snorted, he looked ahead and asked, "Is the boss here?" ”

At the bottom of the verdant hills, several mirror-sized lakes dot the sky and the sky. A large number of construction workers are busy in the depressions between the lakes, and the sudden sound of gas forklifts is the main force in transforming nature, and with each shovel a rickshaw is filled with earth.

Looking at the busy scene presented in front of him, Liang Lotian couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The reservoir is really troublesome!" ”

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The Tainan Plain is rich in water, and there are many permanent and seasonal puddles and lakes, especially in hilly areas close to mountain ranges, where wetlands, swamps, and lakes are everywhere.

This highlights the importance of water conservancy: if you want to turn the plain into a granary, you must do a good job of water conservancy projects.

In the Chiayi area of later generations, there were more than 7 large and small reservoirs. The most important of these is the series of projects designed and built by Japanese engineer Yoichi Hatta in 1920.

Located in the Chiayi region north of Dayuan, in the remnants of the Central Mountains, the Wutou Mountain Reservoir was the largest irrigation project in Asia at that time, and it took seven years to complete it.

The centerpiece of this project is the "Chiayi Dam". After completion, the entire embankment is 1,273 meters long and 56 meters high, and the water storage capacity reaches 150 million tons.

During the construction, Hatta Yoichi not only mobilized a large number of workers, but also used a series of advanced construction machinery at the time, such as steam shovels, pressure water jets, and sand and gravel trucks.

After the completion of the reservoir, 150,000 hectares (2.2 million mu) of farmland downstream were immediately turned into drought and flood protection ...... And this reservoir is also the ultimate project to pass through Tainan, which everyone will never forget.

In fact, from the moment the big office was established, the people in power who knew that the people lived on food took a copy of Google Maps in Tainan and threw it to the construction department: "Go and explore the situation of these reservoirs." ”

The results were quickly fed back: except for a few small reservoirs, other large projects like the Wutoushan Reservoir could not have been built without five years of industrial development.

This conclusion is scientific: medium and large reservoirs need to excavate a huge amount of earth and rock, and also need a huge amount of concrete, steel bar, construction machinery, and construction workers. With the pitiful production capacity of the kiln area industrial park at that time, it could not meet the requirements at all.

So this matter was put on hold for the time being, after all, everyone had only come here for a short time, and the kiln area had not even built a cement kiln, not to mention the large reservoir, the small reservoir was not enough.

However, more than a year later, when the time came to July 1628, the violent flash flood and heavy rain suddenly gave people in the 21st century a taste of the wildness of the 17th century.

Then it was a painful experience, and the big office, after the rainy season, quickly, immediately, a little nervously ordered the construction company to start building the reservoir.

Again, the reservoir is not so easy to repair.

After evaluating the existing engineering and technical capabilities with a sad face, the construction company, which had accidentally taken over a big job, could only tell the bigwigs on the stage tremblingly: At present, we can only widen the channels and rivers in various places, and then choose the opportunity to repair one or two small reservoirs to practice.

So the "1628 Tainan Comprehensive Water Conservancy Project" was launched in such a hurry.

Liang Letian and the others ran dozens of kilometers today to inspect the core project of this water conservancy project: the mirror reservoir.

The Mirror Reservoir was a small reservoir in later generations, and its water source mainly came from Zengwen Creek and Cailiao Creek. Of the 7 reservoirs, Mirror is the smallest.

The original site of the 17th-century Mirrored Reservoir is a series of wetlands, woods, and lakes in a hilly area. After exploring, the construction company found that the construction conditions were barely up to the mark, so it was decided to dig the lakes deeper, connect them together, and finally build a dam to complete the work.

What Liang Letian sees now is a construction team that is digging deep in the middle of several small lakes.

A large force of nearly 2,000 people formed more than a dozen teams, each of which worked around a construction machine.

Some of these teams cut down the trees behind the logging machines, some followed the excavators to empty the lake to build temporary dikes, and most of them pushed carts around the forklifts and waited to remove the earth.

A large number of people and machinery were scattered among the mountains and rivers, like swarms of black ants—gas trucks using fresh wood cut down on the spot as raw materials, emitting thick black smoke.

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After standing on the embankment and looking at the construction site for a while, Liang Lotian and Mi Shuo turned around and walked towards the headquarters.

The headquarters is a few wooden houses built of logs, and at the door hangs a white stubble, fragrant camphor wood sign, on which the words "Mirror Reservoir Project Headquarters" are written in crooked ink.

Glancing at the casserole with pieces of meat rolling on a small clay stove at the door, Liang Letian and Mi Shuo glanced at each other, laughed out loud, and broke into the headquarters.

The conditions in the house were rudimentary: there was no electricity in this ghost place, and there was no diesel generator that would be necessary for later construction sites. The tables, chairs and benches are all freshly made of local camphor wood, the craftsmanship is rough, constantly exudes the smell of camphor material, and it is covered with bark.

This kind of disposable furniture is popular on construction sites: wood that has not been dried will lose its shape over time. However, when the project was completed, they were thrown into the gas stove as fuel, along with the headquarters.

After entering the door, Liang Lotian saw the person lying on the chair in a daze for the first time, so he shouted: "Bah! I dare to eat casserole stew, the safety supervision bureau is here! ”

The fear ingrained in his bones made the man in the chair quickly roll over and sit up.

Ma Ming, former contractor, is currently the deputy general manager of the construction corporation and the person in charge of the mirror reservoir project.

When Ma Ming, who had a stubble on his beard, woke up, he immediately scolded Liang Letian, who was laughing: "It turned out to be you kid!" ”。

"It's me, Captain Ma." After Liang Letian made a joke, he sat down and asked directly: "How is the progress of the project?" ”

"Cut, it's early, didn't you see it when you came, the pit hasn't been dug yet." After Ma Ming finished speaking, he stretched his waist and half-lay on the chair again: "I said Master Jifu, if you want to turn around, you can go around, I have to sleep again, there were two fools chasing the deer into the wetland last night, tossing me for half the night." ”

"Don't, let's talk again, won't the meat in the casserole belong to me and Mishuo when you sleep?" Liang Letian threatened, and at the same time took out Da Chongjiu and handed it over.

"Well, I knew you didn't come well!" Ma Ming didn't sleep after lighting a cigarette.

"Since the pit is still being dug, when will the dam be closed?" Mishuo, who was sitting on the side, asked the question he was most concerned about.

"Anyway, it will take half a year." Ma Ming took a puff of cigarette and hid his face, looking very mysterious: "We are half-manual and half-mechanical, and the efficiency is as slow as death." ”

"In that case, what about the rainy season next year?" Mi Shuo was a little worried when he heard this.

"The rainy season is fine, it's December, and it will definitely be completed by July next year."

"But ......," Ma Ming said in a lengthened voice, "I advise you not to put your hopes here. ”

"The size of this reservoir is not large, and it does not play much role in flood control, at best, it is just to release water in advance and then intercept a few flood peaks."

Ma Ming straightened up when he said this, stretched out his arm and drew a big circle to the north: "When we came, there were 7 large and small reservoirs near Chiayi alone, not counting the vicinity of Kaohsiung. ”

"We are mentally prepared for this." Liang Letian nodded with an unkind face: "It seems that the irrigation system still needs to be vigorously strengthened." ”

"Yes, it's better to rely on no one than on yourself." Ma Ming smiled and lay back in his chair.

"And what about the big reservoir? When will the construction start? Mi Shuo didn't give up and asked again.

"I don't know." Ma Ming shook his head like a rattle: "Our technical conditions are actually the same as those of the Japanese back then, and there is not much difference between a steam excavator and a gas excavator." ”

"But the Japanese are much better at mobilizing resources than we are now, and our current foundation is too thin." When Ma Ming said this, he snapped his fingers: "A huge amount of concrete, steel bars, boulders, equipment...... The kilometer-long dam was nothing in later generations, but now it is a great leap forward. If you do the math yourself, you will know that there is no way to provide the raw materials. ”

"Then we can only build these small reservoirs?"

"Yes!" Ma Ming did not hesitate: "Build a series of small reservoirs within three years, and wait for the construction team to train out, and then look at the supply of machinery and raw materials. ”

"Well, that's all there is to it." After Liang Lotian and Mi Shuo glanced at each other, they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

"In that case, then there will be nothing to do today, let's leave after eating." Liang Lotian saw that it was just noon, so he instructed the contractor who was smiling on the side to come in with the casserole outside the door, and get some beer by the way.

"When it's over, I don't feel like it's a good day." Ma Ming will be full of grief and indignation: "Serow meat, I've stewed it all morning!" ”