Hou Xianglin talked eloquently, which made Zhou Ruiyue Chu sigh - under the big era, Jiang Wangzu's life has only been fifteen years in a few words......

At the other end of the pergola, six tea bowls were already placed on the long wooden table, and a black servant smiled and nodded to Hou Xianglin outside the pergola, walked in quickly, and carried a copper kettle to flush the tea bowls in turn.

At this time, Doctor Quan and Kangda had already sat down, watching the hot water enter the bowl and the tea leaves were boiling up and down, while chatting with each other, Wei Hong took a few soldiers to the sentry post in the distance to check the post.

After a while, Hou Zhouyue and the three returned to the pergola, and heard Dr. Quan listening to Kangda's introduction to the progress of the dam construction, and the latter immediately smiled at him when he saw Hou Xianglin coming:

"The fund council is very concerned about the progress of our project, and is also very surprised, saying how the earth dam was closed quickly, and asking how you did it."

Hou Xianglin said proudly after hearing this, make full use of the natural situation of mountains and rivers, and give full play to the power of nature!

It can be said that it is an engineering miracle == Kangda added a sentence on the side.

So Hou Xianglin sat down and carefully explained to Dr. Quan the process of closing the earthen dam.

It turns out that the water potential of this section of the river is relatively gentle, and there is a long river center island on the wide river surface, which just divides the 300-meter-wide river surface into two rivers, east and west.

A while ago, it was the dry season, and the wide and shallow West River channel was shallow and gentle, and only the East River was slightly deeper and narrower.

So Hou Xianglin, with more than 500 workers, first erected a wooden bridge over the East River Road - ten small boats and enough timber to make it not very difficult to build a bridge on the 50-meter-wide water, especially for Hou Xianglin, a construction professional.

After the wooden bridge was erected, the earthen dam project officially began, Hou Xianglin first used wood to ramp up 30 wooden fences in the shape of a tripod with a length of 50 meters, pulled from the wooden bridge to the west bank with ropes, and then threw them into the West River in turn.

People relied on wooden wheeled carts, flat poles and rattan baskets to load sand and gravel into front of the wooden fence, and put more than 12,000 rattan baskets full of stones before and after, and it was carried out on the east and west banks at the same time, more than 1,000 workers took turns to work, worked for two days and one night in a row, and finally forced the river into the east river channel gradually.

At this time, a miracle occurred - because the wooden fence and rattan basket blocked the river, so a gentle backwater bay was formed in front of the wooden fence dam, so the stones and sediment carried by the river in front of the river were quickly deposited in front of the backwater bay because of the weakening of the impulse, and it took less than a week for an alluvial earth dam to form in front of the wooden fence.

The increasingly turbulent water of the East River channel washes the river deeper and deeper, allowing more and more river water to flow to the East River, which in turn exacerbates the sedimentation rate of the West River.

The next project was simple, thousands of workers quickly laid wooden piles on this alluvial earth dam, laid down the wooden wall, and built a stone dam with stones behind the wooden wall, so that the project of closing the river was initially completed.

At the time, the project also attracted onlookers from the city's citizens of Dili, including, of course, Pimont and his naturalists, who marveled at the progress of the project and the ingenious construction principle, and they were once again convinced that Hou Xianglin was the greatest and wisest engineer in the world, if not in Australia.

However, Hou Xianglin only smiled in the face of everyone's admiring eyes and praise, and said, This is just the wisdom of our ancestors, and I just applied it to the right place.

So Xiao Pingguo, who was also at the scene at the time, pulled Brother Hou aside and asked quietly, Brother Hou, what do you mean by ancestral wisdom? How did we not know?

Hou Xianglin shook his head, smiled faintly and said: Have you heard of Dujiangyan?

I seem to have heard of it, but I don't know the details...... The crowd responded.

The construction and maintenance of Dujiangyan fully demonstrates the wisdom of the pre-Qin ancients in China.

Hou Xianglin responded.

Belch...... It seems to have been written in a high school history book......

Wei Hongsu Gaofei nodded and remembered something-it's just that there are no details of construction and maintenance!

Hi! Dr. Zhu is right, your history textbooks are garbage, they should be detailed, they should not be said, and they pretend to be high-minded, but in fact they are all nonsense, well, this is not my point of view, it is what Dr. Zhu said, in short, you should check other history books for yourself, I just refer to the methods of the ancients to build and maintain Dujiangyan......

After saying this, Hou Xianglin left his brothers and ran out, for he saw that Pimont and his naturalists, as well as the duchess and his wife Zezilia, had dismounted from the carriage and were approaching looking around......

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Dr. Jeon and his entourage did not stay long at the dam site before leaving, and their next stop was the eastern district of Sinanseong.

Dongcheng District covers an area of one square kilometer and is surrounded by a two-row wooden wall in the south/east direction, which extends to the east bank of the Xin'an River, where there is a doorway and a military camp nearby, where an infantry company of the garrison takes turns to be stationed there.

Wei Hong told Dr. Quan that Dongcheng is currently a green zone, because it is close to Dili City, and there is no jungle on the ground nearby, it has always been a Portuguese-controlled area, and the Duchess's manor is also outside the city - in fact, it has become the outer barrier of Dongcheng District, so this is the safest area of Xin'an City.

Dr. Jeon nodded and replied, so this will become an industrial area in Sinanseong.

Yes, it's just that now the industrial zone has only a few dirt roads and an open field fenced off by wooden fences, as well as two wooden docks along the river for transporting supplies.

Near the wharf was the new camp of the Naturalization Battalion - now called the First Naturalization Camp, where all the trade labor of the first and second naturalization battalions of the original Xicheng were concentrated, a total of 1,200 men and women - all single......

At this time, the road was already quite bumpy, and Dr. Quan suggested that he simply get out of the car and walk, anyway, it is only one square kilometer of ground, and you can still move your muscles and bones when you walk.

Everyone applauded, and it was obvious that the others were also choked by the roads in the new district.

Doctor Quan got out of the carriage, moved his waist, and began to lean on his back with his fists to do waist health care, and then looked around at the artemisia grass and a few wooden fences in the distance, turned back to Wei Hong and said:

"What did you just say? All single dogs? ”

Wei Hong replied, yes, the trade laborers in the first naturalization camp are all single men and women.

Oh, I've heard that you're being paired up in the naturalization camp.

Hearing Doctor Quan say this, Wei Hong was happy, and then said excitedly, That, Brother Xiao is very enthusiastic, and now it has become a routine.

Zhou Ruiyue and Chu brothers were a little surprised when they heard this: they didn't expect that there would be such a commotion in the naturalization camp!

Of course!

Wei Hong was also doing waist health care while learning from Dr. Quan, and at the same time introduced to the three:

The situation now is that whenever a new trade force joins, the naturalization camps hold "marriage conventions".

Normally it was Lefik's ship that arrived, and a large number of new trade laborers disembarked on board, but it was the men and women of the previous naturalization camp and all the new women who had arrived at the marriage convention, if there were any women in the trafficked labor.

As for the form of marriage, it is still the same old-fashioned, the men sit behind the fence, the women stay in the house, because of the light, the women can see the men in broad daylight, but the men can't see the women in the house, in short, it is a unilateral choice.