With the help of Yang Niu's third brother and third brother-in-law, the personnel quickly solved it.

In order to achieve the purpose of rapid completion, let the people of the deer park have the enthusiasm to work. Bai Gui contracted the road repair project to the third brother-in-law and others, and how many materials I will give you when you build this section of the road.

Material! It's money!

In antiquity! Especially in those days, most of the time it was bartered. Bartering is to exchange goods of equivalent value with each other, without the virtual code of money.

Modern money and banknotes are actually virtual currencies. Paper! It is not worth much in itself, and it only becomes valuable after saying that it is money. The same banknotes are divided into US dollars, pounds, and euros. If they are given different names, they have different values. In fact! It's all made of paper.

The roads that are easy to repair are all contracted to the third brother-in-law and others. For difficult roads, people are hired to do daily labor, and how much salt is given to you at the end of a day or something to give you after a few days.

On the side of building the furnace, it was all the experts and the retinue they brought to do the work themselves, and then hired some people to do the brute work. Do the delicate work yourself.

On the side of building a house, just build some thatched huts first, so that people can settle down first. Really build a house when you have time.

There were many craftsmen who built thatched houses in ancient times. Because! People who can't afford to live in high-rise buildings have almost all learned to build thatched houses.

In order to rush for time, Bai Gui transferred a team of 100 people from the castle construction site, and the housing problem was solved in just ten days.

After arranging the affairs of the smelting base camp, Bai Gui began to arrange the canal diversion project.

The canal diversion project is also a major project, and it has always been the most important thing that Bai Gui is most concerned about. If the river does not attract water, farming life will be affected. Without agriculture as a foundation, Linquan's development would have been much slower.

Only with food security, food self-sufficiency, can commercial development be guaranteed. Otherwise! If the population base cannot be reached, agriculture and industry will lag behind.

After inspecting the terrain on the spot, Bai Gui did not start construction in a big way.

First of all, make sure that there are no rocks underneath the hill you are excavating. If it's rocky, the river can't be diverted. Because! At that time, the technology was not good, and it was impossible to gnaw rocks. Without explosives, it's hard to cut through the rock that's buried in the ground.

The technique of cutting through the rock was available at the time, but! It depends on what kind of rock it is. And also! It's the kind of mining that is done on a large scale. For example! Rock mining from the cliffs is possible.

Craftsmen find cracks in the rock and cut the rock as a whole according to its structure and texture.

Craftsmen find cracks or textures in the rock and insert them with a flat drill. Insert countless chisels in a row, and then smash them hard at the same time, and you can cut the rock as a whole.

When the rock is cut in its entirety, it shatters into countless small pieces at the moment it falls to the ground. The craftsmen changed the large pieces into small pieces, and the small pieces were polished into vessels.

Why were there whole blocks of stone in ancient times? That's how it came about. The name of such a craftsman is "stonemason".

In the project of opening canals and diverting water, the role of stonemasons is very small, and it almost does not play a big role.

Ancient stonemasons worked in front of cliffs, in front of protruding stones, in front of free-standing stones. And they don't have a way to deal with the rocks that are buried in the ground.

Bai Gui's plan was to divert the river water over the hills blocking the road, and then arrange for manual mining to be carried out in full force.

Anyway! The canal diversion project is to be done no matter what. If you can't get to this place, you have to look for other places. If you change places, the amount of work will be even greater. No one knows where the artificial river will come from.

So! Only by bringing the river water over can we start in full swing.

On the day of the start of the water diversion project, Bai Gyu led a team of more than 100 people to excavate from several different places according to the advice of experienced people. Other than that! Smash it down from above with a copper drill. See if there are any rocks down there.

Of course! The main personnel still excavated from the narrowest place. Regardless of whether there are rocks underneath or not, dig up the soil here. When you really meet the rocks, you will see you again. If? What about the kind of rocks that are easy to break?

Not all rocks are granite and stubborn. If you come across fragile rocks, it's easy to do.

On the first day, everything went well. The drillers did not encounter rocks, nor did the burrowers.

The next day, the outer edge of the underground really encountered rocks. But! According to experienced estimates, the rocks are lower than the river to be diverted.

"Drill down!" Baekyu rushed over, and after looking at the scene, he asked the workers to drill along the rocks to the front.

Outcome! For the time being, I am satisfied, and the rock face is down. And! There was also oozing water. The amount of water is not large, and it does not affect the construction.

"White officials! I think it can! An experienced person in charge said to Baekyu.

Baekyu also nodded with satisfaction and agreed to the other party's plan. The work in other places was stopped, and the excavation line was fully highlighted.

Full start of construction, go hand in hand. Other than that! Dig directly on it and dig out the soil from the surface. Start with a channel a few meters wide. If all goes well, widen it again.

The personnel of the canal diversion project were all transferred from the Wei people who had migrated over, and they were given how many materials they were given to them by working for a day. As long as you have a surplus of labor in your family, you can come and work.

Regardless of men, women, young and old, as long as you can work, everyone will give you a salary, how much material you can earn a day, and you will be charged if you are willing to do it.

The first to come is almost done. In addition to cultivating their own land, they can also help newcomers to cultivate land. Since the opening of the canal diversion project, most people are willing to work on the construction site rather than work for other people's homes.

After more than ten days of excavation, a canal more than five meters wide began to take shape. Luckily it is! Didn't meet the rocks. The bottom of the channel is almost flush with the level of the channel.

Bai Gui had people test it with copper drills all the way, but basically did not encounter rocks.

At this time, even if it encounters rocks, it will not affect the water diversion project.

It was determined that the canal diversion project was successful, and Bai Gui did not let people open the gap. Opposite! The gap was also plugged to prevent the river from overflowing.

If it is determined that the canal is successfully diverted, the construction can be fully started. If the river overflows, it will be inconvenient for construction.

Determine the direction of the artificial river first, and then plan the river embankment. And then! Full start of construction.

And then! Construction of artificial embankments.

At that time, the state of technology was limited, and it was impossible to accurately measure the level, and it was not known where the river would flood after it was diverted. And! And where to divert the water from the lake to other places.

Diverting the river to the artificial lake is not the goal, but! It is necessary to water the crops and prevent drought.

Even! In low-lying areas, the cultivation of aquatic crops such as rice is also considered.

(End of chapter)