Chapter 238 Construction and Utilization of Water Conservancy

Yang Xuan rode a horse early every morning to inspect the porridge shops inside and outside the city, many people took the grain relief from the government to plough, and now there are not many homeless people on the streets. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After half a month like this, seeing that the place had settled down, Yang Xuan rushed to Dujiangyan in the north with a cavalry brigade to organize the rebuilding of the water conservancy project.

Along the way, Yang Xuan encountered three military cantonment sites, the so-called military cantonment sites, which were assigned to various regiments and camps, and then the ministry organized prisoners to carry out cantonment farming.

This time, there were more than 10,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, 50,000 Green Battalion soldiers and horses, and more than 20,000 forced laborers.

Just like the forced labor from the local area when the protagonist first crosses, most of the laborers who were forcibly captured were ordinary farmers in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and everyone had no power and no power, and those who were separated and ruined were forcibly taken to the barracks by the Tartars, one by one, they were originally from a bitter background, and of course they had empathy for these captives, and for those who were willing to go home, they were all given twenty catties of rations and two coins of silver, so that everyone could return to their hometowns in groups over the mountains and mountains, so as not to ruin their families.

Even so, because the Tartars occupy various passes, there are still more than 3,000 captured strong men who are unwilling to go back, and for these strong men who do not want to go back, the government will lend them grain and ploughing cattle for farming.

If the wind and rain are smooth, and the grain and cattle expenses owed to the government are paid off in one or two years, in a few years, life will be completely well-off.

Therefore, the enthusiasm of the people in Mintun and Guantun is quite high, and everyone is more motivated, and many people get up early and go dark in the hope of cultivating more wasteland and harvesting more.

Most of the people in the official camp are the people who were forcibly captured by the Tartars, and they were the displaced people collected by the government from all over the country, and the soldiers and horses of the captured green battalion helped the Tartars to kill ordinary people because of their help, and they were all under the supervision of the soldiers, which was the so-called military camp.

This time, a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Green Battalion were captured, of which 5,000 were selected into the army, and the rest were scattered to various parts of Sichuan for military cantonment, often about 3,500 people in a county, and everyone carried out cantonment cultivation under the supervision of the army or the county yamen barracks.

50% of the income from the military cantonment goes to the prisoners themselves, while the other half goes to the government barracks and the army, so as to subsidize military supplies and reduce the burden on the local army.

Compared with Mintun and Guantun, the exploitation of Juntun is very large, a bit like a labor camp in the past, and a bit like a landlord's manor, these Juntun prisoners are completely tenant farmers of the landlord's family, and everyone's enthusiasm for labor is not very high, and many ordinary soldiers have a lot of complaints in their hearts.

Watching the tricycles and horse-drawn carriages get off and withdraw along the way, Yang Xuan felt that when would the road be changed into a gravel road, and when would the stone ladder be paved into a broad avenue that was convenient for horse-drawn carriages and tricycles to walk?

Dujiangyan was picked up a ten-meter-long hole in the Z county section, and the river water flowed into the Chengdu Plain endlessly along the gap, causing the Chengdu Plain, a thousand miles of fertile soil, to become a thousand miles of Ze country, and making the entire Chengdu Plain return to the prehistoric state again.

Jin Tongwu and Wang Gaozheng, the generals who arrived in advance, led the officers and soldiers to surround the gap, and saw that there was a huge fortification for several miles around the gap, and nearly 10,000 people were on this fortification, many shoulders carried the soil over, and many people were forced to ram the earth.

According to the current progress, it is difficult to complete before the arrival of the flood season in May, if it cannot be completed before the flood season, then this year the Chengdu Plain will become a thousand miles of Ze country.

Hearing this, everyone rushed to be very worried, watching a person struggling to carry a load of dirt from a small mound of two hundred meters, Yang Xuan suddenly smiled and said to Jin Tongwu: "Brother Jin, crises are often turning corners, don't our battalions have hundreds of tricycles?"

Why can't you use these tricycles? We can use these tricycles to transport the soil, so that the soil can be transported quickly.

Jin Tongwu was slightly stunned, then shook his head and said, "My lord, this tricycle is used to transport the baggage in the army, and it is a baby bump in all departments, how can it be used to transport soil?" ”

Yang Xuan laughed and said, "How can't it? Who said that this tricycle can only transport military baggage, but also can transport this soil? By pooling the tricycles of the battalions to transport the earth, you can send more brothers to ram it, and you can make a lot of progress. ”

Everyone was the first to believe and be suspicious, seeing Yang Xuan personally put five loads of soil into the tricycle, watching a soldier ride a tricycle to the dam very easily, after the surrounding brothers took off the soil by dividing it by two, everyone patted their heads again and again and said that they didn't think of it?

After that, Yang Xuan carried out the division of labor, digging the earth, loading the truck, transporting the transport, getting off the car, and ramming the ramming, so that one day of work is equivalent to three days.

Seeing that the maintenance work of Dujiangyan was on the right track, Yang Xuan also took the time to take a look at the world-famous Dujiangyan.

Looking at the main project of Dujiangyan composed of fish mouth, flying sand weir and treasure bottle mouth, Yang Xuan sighed for the wisdom of the ancients.

But looking at the water of the Min River flowing into the fish mouth and flying sand weir, and looking at the river water left from the mouth of the treasure bottle to the Chengdu Plain, Yang Xuan suddenly had a strange idea, whether he could make better use of the river water flowing into the Chengdu Plain.

Just like when I was a child, I saw that the next brigade built a 5,6-meter-high dam on the river, and built a small ditch next to it, and the water rushed on the shaft to drive the bearings to rotate quickly, so as to achieve the purpose of quickly crushing rice.

Don't underestimate this kind of technology, just like when I was a child, I saw a stone mill with rice at home, and I heard my grandfather say that it takes half a day to eat a bucket of rice every time, plus a lot of rice shells are not clean, which is very tooth-consuming, so many people in their fifties have lost their teeth all over their mouths, and they can't eat this, and they can't eat that.

Yang Xuan, who knew that his specialty was limited, of course did not do the Dujiangyan project, as if he did not dare to move Dujiangyan when the development of civilization was so high in the 21st century.

Inspired by this, in order to guide irrigation, Yang Xuan just asked people to raise some cofferdams to ensure irrigation, build a few waterways in the precipitous places downstream of the water inlet, and then press the bearing, impact the bearing through the water flow, and the bearing drives a rolling bearing of rice to quickly pound rice and wheat.

Most people are ignorant, and after talking for a long time, someone finally got the hang of it, isn't this a commonly used waterwheel? In the past, it was erected, but now it is laid flat at the bottom of the water outlet, waiting to be driven to reel the rice.

After seeing that someone understood, Yang Xuan was also quite happy, everyone sat down to draw, and the craftsmen promised to cast according to the requirements, and if there were any problems that could not be solved, everyone would discuss and solve them.

Seeing that he finally had the opportunity to eat polished rice, Yang Xuan was quite happy in his heart, of course those who did not cross did not know the hardships of ancient life, and the rice square rice in the past was not clean at all.