The water conservancy project in Qinchuan has only begun, and just after inspecting several mountains and valleys and determining the location of three reservoirs, Zhang Kewang and a few other people called.

After breaking those few people, no fool should dare to come to Mengjiazhuang in a short period of time, and the water conservancy project can finally start.

On the second day of Mengjiazhuang's funeral, the water conservancy army drove oxen, horse, wagons, chickens, and buses, carrying bamboo baskets and baskets to the first project address: Xitougou at the west end of Loufan Town.

This ravine is formed by the convergence of two ravines split down on the ridge of Montenegro, the snow melts in spring every year, after the snow melts on Zhouhong Mountain in the west, it forms two small streams with the snowmelt of Montenegro and flows down, converges in Xitougou, flows into Xiaojian River, and finally joins Fen River.

There is a large area of gentle wasteland under the ravine, and then there is a barren field on the edge of the Xiaojian River, these fields have been cultivated by people during the years when the rain is sufficient, but now there is a great drought year after year, the Xiaojian River is in a dry state for three seasons a year, the fields have lost the source of irrigation water, and they really can't grow food.

The problem is that the cost of repairing water conservancy is huge, there is too much labor, and there is no government and large household organization, so it cannot be repaired at all, and the poor peasants cannot eat enough, and they have no strength or enough manpower to repair water conservancy.

There are people and grain in Qinchuan, and it is not difficult to build a few reservoirs and reservoirs, as long as the villagers and villagers are fed.

In his blueprint, Xitougou is to be built into a reservoir.

Zhouhong Mountain should be 17,800 meters above sea level, and as long as there is a heavy snow or heavy rain a year, the reservoir can be filled, which can meet the water needs of hundreds of acres of fields in one season, and if you grow drought-resistant grains such as millet, you can also irrigate more fields.

The 1,200 households of Mengjiazhuang and the 1,300 villagers of Loufan Town, regardless of men, women, old and children, all went into battle, the young and strong resisted hoes and shovels to dig in the middle of the valley, and the old and weak drove their cattle or pushed chickens and carts to pull the soil to the dam at the mouth of the valley, and pulled the cattle to step on it.

Nowadays, Mengjiazhuang is not short of tools, before Bashan Tiger captured thousands of pieces from Lou Fu and Linxian, all piled up in Huangcong Mountain, it is estimated that they want to smelt them and use them to forge weapons, and now they are all used by Qin Chuan to repair water conservancy.

The two blacksmiths, lured by Qin Chuan's heavy profits, accepted dozens of apprentices and were teaching those people to make farm tools day and night.

When the water conservancy army is in full swing, Lao Huang will climb to the mountain beam next to him, tear his throat and sing a few unique mountain songs in the Luliang Mountains.

The villagers of Lou Fu Town are no longer so afraid of the gang of Jiuji Mountain bandits, although some of them are very fierce, but the Qin Steward is very talkative, and he never bullies the villagers, which is much better than Master Meng.

Some old people recognized it, and the little old man who sang the mountain song was also annoying, as if he was a native of Dongyao Village on the other side of the Fen River, and he also worked long hours in Mengjiazhuang in his later life, because the two front teeth were particularly eye-catching, and he looked silly and silly, so people called him the yellow front teeth.

Now, the yellow front teeth have come out and become a celebrity around the Qin Grand Steward, managing the eating, drinking and Lazar of thousands of villagers, but he is still as stupid as before, grinning with big yellow teeth and smirking all day long, and he is still as good as before, smiling at everyone, but he is angry.

There are yellow front teeth, and this group of people seems to be much kinder.

Before a mountain song was sung, there was a sudden tremor under his feet, like an earth dragon turning over, and like a rogue coming.

Some villagers threw down their farming tools in a panic and fled in all directions, and the yellow front teeth tore open their throats and shouted loudly to no avail.

Soon, a cavalry appeared, rolled up billowing smoke, and climbed the mountain beam like thunder.

With the neighing of horses, the cavalry stopped on the ridge of the hill and lined up, looking at the headless villagers in the valley.

"Give Lao Tzu a good job, whoever fucking runs around again, Lao Tzu chops him with a knife!"

On the mountain beam, the big man who led the way with a hideous scar on his face scolded viciously.

As soon as they saw that person, the villagers in the valley realized that it was a false alarm, and this group of cavalry was the Guan Emperor army of Mengjiazhuang, who was training nearby to protect them by the way.

The villagers went back to work, but some of the children began to cry, frightened by the man on the ridge.

That person's name is Liu Youzhu, and he is one of the several generals under the Qin Administrator, and he looks ...... Many people have never seen such a fierce person in their lives, with a long scar on their face, like a centipede, from the right eye to the left corner of the mouth, hideous and terrifying, children can be scared to cry when they see it.

And as soon as this guy opened his mouth, he scolded his mother, and he flashed his knife to cut people at every turn, not to mention the villagers in the town, that is, the Guan Emperor Army under his command was not a battalion soldier, and he was afraid of him to death, and he never dared to slack off in the slightest during training, for fear of being chopped by him with a knife.

Even the arrogant Miss Meng was treated obediently by Liu Youzhu, helping Liu Youzhu with laundry and cooking every day, and getting rid of a gentle and considerate little daughter-in-law.

Now, as soon as this fierce god appeared, neither the villagers nor the villagers dared to come out, but fortunately, Lao Huang drove the other party away in time, otherwise the children who were crying would have been covered alive by the adults.

In the past few days, Emperor Guan's army was familiar with the terrain around Lou Fu and practiced mountain killing, and not long after Liu Youzhu left, Li Dingliang came with the trap camp again.

Among the more than 30 old bandits in Jiujishan, Li Dingliang is the most discerning one, because he is very tall, with a height of 1.9 meters, and in the era of widespread malnutrition, he simply stands out from the crowd.

Dingliang is not his real name, but because he has a very iron relationship with Liu Youzhu, one is tall and thin and can almost pick up the sky, and the other is as strong and powerful as an ox, and he has two pillars, one tall and one short, others simply call him Li Dingliang, and Liu Youzhu are called the pillars of the top beam of Jiuji Mountain, and sometimes called the fat dragon and thin tiger.

Among the three battalion officers of Emperor Guan's army, Luo Daniu likes to slap people's heads at every turn, Liu Youzhu is a fierce god, and Li Dingliang is the opposite, neither scolding his mother nor beating people, he speaks slowly and leisurely, and he seems to have a good temper.

At the beginning, Guan Dijun and Zhuang Min liked him a lot, and felt that he was a kind person, unlike others who scolded his mother at every turn.

It wasn't until I saw him kill people that I realized that this tall man was not at all kind.

But overall, much better than the other two.

In the face of this, the villagers were much bolder, and they tilted their heads one by one to look at the most unusual general under the command of the Qin Grand Steward.

It's so rare for someone to grow so tall.

Li Dingliang was not very comfortable, and only stayed for a short time before leaving.

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Qin Chuan did not dig the soil, but with Luo Daniu and Shanqi'er and others, he took two hundred to the camp first and surveyed the terrain in the area of Guandi Mountain.

There are two famous mountains in Guandi Mountain, one is the North Wudang Mountain, also known as the Zhenwu Mountain, there is a magnificent Zhenwu Temple built on the mountain, it is one of the Taoist holy places in the north.

The other is Xiaowen Mountain, formerly known as Guanhua Mountain, which is the highest peak of the entire Luliang Mountain Range and the second highest mountain in Shanxi after Wutai Mountain, with an altitude of more than 2,800 meters.

It is rumored that after the death of Empress Dowager Feng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen went to this mountain to mourn for three days, and the grain of rice did not enter, so it was named Xiaowen Mountain.

Guo Yan's big village, just on the Shentai peak halfway up the Xiaowen Mountain, built by the mountain, only one small road uphill, extremely steep.

On that day, Guo Yan had more than 1,000 people and only six or seven hundred horses left, most of whom had fled, and they had taken refuge with Wang Gang, Bao Wu, Ba Shanhu and others, but many of them still fled back.

Today, there are about three or four hundred people on Shentai Peak Dazhai.

Qin Chuan was not interested in these people, but he was very interested in the grain, horses, and armor in the village, and he was also very interested in this cottage.

This Dazhai is less than forty miles away from Fangshan Fort in the west, and Fangshan Fort is the western gateway of Lou Fu, Jingle and Lan County, and the importance of its strategic position is self-evident.

Shentai Peak Dazhai is a must.

But he can't attack hard, his 800 Guan Emperor army is piled up, I'm afraid that people can smash him with a round of stones

This big village can only be outwitted.

Because the terrain was not surveyed clearly, and he didn't think of any good way for the time being, Qin Chuan simply asked Luo Daniu to seal the mountain first, blocking the two important entrances and exits of Xiaowen Mountain, and only allowed to go out, not to enter.

At the same time, he sent people to Shentai Peak every day to shout and persuade the people in the cottage to surrender.

Qin Chuan planned to transfer Li Dingliang's trap camp to Huangcong Mountain to garrison, because Huangcong Mountain was very close to Shentai Peak, only a dozen miles away, and it would take half an hour to ride a horse.

Take Huangcong Mountain as a bridgehead and slowly attack Shentai Peak.