The county government of Baima County suddenly became busy this day. It is not the county hall and the second hall outside the second gate, but the inner courtyard behind the second gate.

The maid who had just been hired for a short time, holding a rag bucket and carefully cleaning every corner. And it is also sorting out the large debris. For example, today is dry, and the rain and snow in the past few months have not added up to the bottom of the barrel, and the air is foggy and full of dust. Mo said that all the flowers and trees in the garden have turned gray and yellow, which is the indoor furnishings, and it only takes half a day to fall a layer of ash.

Although Han Gang is so clean, he also asks his subordinates to clean the room every day. But the definition of cleanliness in the eyes of men is completely different from that of women. In the past, we could fool the places that had passed, but from today onwards, we can no longer turn a blind eye and pass by at will.

——Yesterday evening, news came that the county honor's wife was going to arrive in Baima County today. Wang Xianggong's daughter, in addition to a few concubines, as well as a pair of children from Han Gang. The family in Zhixian County has finally arrived, of course, they have to clean up well.

Although Han Gang just asked people to clean the courtyard where he lived and place some necessary things, who would let go of such a good opportunity if they had the heart to behave in front of Han Gang? Of course, he was in a hurry to do the best he could in what Han Gang had ordered. If it weren't for Han Gang's own personality, which had already been seen by everyone during this time, and he bought expensive furnishings out of his own pocket to sell Han Gang, the number of people would never be small.

Today, Han Gang himself did not go to the countryside to inspect the drought situation as usual. Instead, he went to the camp camp not far from the city.

The camp, which was designed to accommodate tens of thousands of people, is now only in its infancy. There are only about 200 homeless people who have entered it. However, Han Gang will not miss any of the preparations that should be made. From food to drinking water, from living to moving, Han Gang took all matters of eating and drinking Lazar to heart, and if a little problem reached his ears, he dealt with it in time.

These days, the most important thing in the homeless camp is to dig wells.

Where there are many people, there will naturally be more diseases. Once the homeless camp gathers tens of thousands of people, it will be a great plague if you are not careful, especially after spring, and it is not impossible to die half of them.

This health situation is the top priority, and Han Gang has relied on the medical system to get ahead, so of course it is impossible not to take it to heart. Among them, clean water is the key to ensuring that the epidemic does not break out - in this era, the cleanest water source will only be well water!

This autumn and winter, there was a major drought. In October, because the seedling emergence rate in the fields was less than 60%, before Hangang had completely taken over the affairs of the county, the people of Baima County had already spontaneously started to frantically dig wells everywhere, and wanted to use groundwater to irrigate the land - not much, as long as the seedlings could emerge.

From October to November, in just one month, as many as 200 new wells were opened in Hakuba County. Only one-tenth of the water comes out of the water. Relying on these more than 20 wells, plus some of the original ones, some of them were indeed poured out. It's just a drop in the bucket for the overall seedling situation in the county.

Now the manpower to dig wells on the side of the homeless people, Han Gang naturally uses the homeless people, and takes out money and grain from the official treasury to hire them to dig wells. The sturdy men went down to dig mud in the wells, while the women, children and old people were the ones who fought the mud. The person who was responsible for finding the water veins near the camp and determining the location of the well was to hire a well master who produced the most water when the people in the front county were digging wells everywhere.

Although it is freezing now, only three feet on the ground are frozen hard. When you go down with a pickaxe, it's just a small pit, and when you reach the depths, you don't see it. It is much easier to go down after the frozen soil, and as you dig deeper and deeper, the ground gradually moistens and softens, and more and more water seeps out of the mud.

The sturdy of the homeless people all took off their calf nose pants and went down to dig into the well, digging up buckets of soil mixed with groundwater through reels. There were more than 200 available laborers, and the progress of opening the wells was faster than normal, but in six or seven days, eight of the 20 wells opened at the same time came out of water.

Just yesterday, before Han Gang received the news that his wife and concubine children were about to arrive in Baima County, the news of the water coming out of the well of the homeless camp was also sent to Han Gang.

After handling business this morning, Han Gang took people to the camp of the homeless people.

The one designated as Baozheng in the first district of the homeless camp is an old man who went south with a family of more than 30 people, together with a village who fled together, with a large population and great power. In addition, all the people in this area are villagers, and most of them can climb to each other. This old man surnamed Zhang is the oldest, and he can also suppress his juniors.

Seeing Han Gang and his entourage arrive at the gate of the camp, Zhang Baozheng led someone to greet him, followed by the well master who had ordered the location of the well and made great contributions.

In front of Han Gang, Zhang Laohan asked the kid below to hold a few porcelain bowls. Han Gang looked at the slightly turbid well water in the bowl and nodded, at least it could be used.

"But it's better to still have alum!" He sighed under his breath.

Fan Lou, the first of the 72 main stores in Beijing, was actually called Alum Tower at the earliest. Just like the Mahang Building, which is also home to 72 main stores, it was originally a guild's clubhouse, but it was later changed to open to the public.

The reason why the alum building became Fan Lou was because the imperial court attributed the alum industry to the official monopoly, and the alum industry guild was finally dissolved.

Just like table salt, the use of alum in people's daily life at this time was a common situation. The world's big families will use alum to clarify their daily water, whether it is well water or river water. And ordinary poor vegetarian households, if they have the conditions, will also buy some alum to use.

In the eyes of people at this time, alum is the best thing to purify water, and it is also the purification that Han Gang can think of right now. Even if the muddy water is boiled, no one wants to drink it, if you can add a little alum.

But that's a bit too extravagant. Poor people don't use alum to purify water, so how can there be any reason to take alum out of the official treasury and give it to the homeless? If Han Gang did this, it would inevitably cause some discussion, but if it was used in a nursing home, there would be no problem.

I have visited the wells that come out of the water, and the water is abundant. There are a few abandoned wells, in fact, they can seep out a little water, but the amount of water is not much.

Han Gang is very satisfied with the work of these displaced people. Judging from this speed, dozens of working wells can be opened within two months. However, it is not enough to provide enough water for 10,000 displaced households. More precisely, taking water from buckets is too low for the wells to be used to supply more users.

It would be better to build an apparatus that would carry water from a well, similar to a waterwheel, and drag it with animal or human power. Not only is it too inefficient for people to drink, but it is also too wasteful to irrigate the fields and bring up buckets of well water.

Han Gang had already seen the drawbacks, and a few days ago he gave a reward of fifty times. We are looking for equipment that can raise well water in large quantities.

You must know that there is no shortage of talents among the homeless. Droughts and floods will not be spared because of human talent. It doesn't matter if you are talented or not, whether you are rich or poor, all of them will suffer. It's still Lao Tzu's indiscriminate words, 'Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs.'" Heaven and earth have no selfishness, and treat all things equally.

Under the persecution of a difficult life, people are often able to burst out with talents that they cannot see in their daily lives. The crystallization created by the explosive power at such a critical juncture is exactly what Han Gang is looking forward to seeing. Not to mention the high-priced reward, there are also people in Baima County who are tempted by this.

In today's era, there are pumps used to set fires and put out fires - just look at whether water or oil is pumped, there are also waterwheels that use animal power and manpower, and there are cow-drawn wells that use buckets to lift water from wells through pulleys.

But to Han Gang's surprise, the original bounty did make people flock to it, and several of them were indeed quite feasible, but what made Han Gang's heart flutter was not those instruments that had not yet been made, but the well master who had a long talent in finding water veins.

This well master took the well as his surname, ranked sixteenth, and took his predecessor as his name. Listening to the accent, it is a Shu person. In front of Han Gang, Jing Sixteen said, "...... There is no need for human or animal power to carry water, and the well can gush out on its own as long as it is deep enough to penetrate the stone layer. ”

"Is this really possible?" Han Gang had questions. Of course, a deep artesian well up to a few hundred meters deep is good, and he has not seen it, but the technical requirements of this era can be done if you want to drill a deep well?

The black and thin well master nodded and replied: "If you go back to the county respect, the villain has fought in the past!" ”

"Hit?" Han Gang immediately asked, "I don't know where that well is?" ”

Jing Sixteen knelt down, "Please also ask the county to forgive the villain's sins, and the villain dares to speak." ”

Han Gang didn't like this kind of coercion, but the current situation made him not mind pardoning a talent, let alone asking, "But murder and robbery?" ”

"It's not." Jing Sixteen hurriedly said: "If you do such an evil thing, how dare the villain say it?" ”

"Then it's okay." Han Gang said with a smile: "As long as it's not a serious crime of death, the other faults will be taken care of by the official." If you can really dig a deep artesian well and save the people of this county, this official can even ask the saint to make you an official. ”

Well XVI. Overjoyed, he kowtowed a few times, raised his head and said, "Yu County, the villain is a Shu person." ”

Han Gang nodded: "I can hear it." ”

"The villain was born in Fushun Prison."

Han Gang's expression changed: "Yanjing?!" ”

Jing Sixteen bowed his head and said: "The county respects the Mingcha, the villain was originally a salt household, and the ancestral art of pointing the well was later framed and escaped. ”

"It turned out to be a family history." Han Gang now has some confidence in this black and thin Sichuan man, "No matter what grievances you have suffered, as long as you can make meritorious contributions, this official guarantees that you can return to your hometown one day!" ”