Until the wheat filling period, Xia Cheng did not receive much rain, and the simplest part of the entire water conservancy system was finally basically completed in April. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are still a few places with large height differences that have not been completed, and it is estimated that it will take another month or two to complete them.

Two long canals are like mother's hands caring for the wheat field, and there are several longitudinal aqueducts in the middle of the two parallel canals, which divide the whole wheat field into tic-tac-toe grids.

Where the Cao River and the diversion canal are connected, a diversion embankment is also built with earth baskets filled with stones, and the arc of the grass river turning southward allows clear upper water to flow into the diversion canal continuously.

The canal flows through a depression that has become a pond covering an area of dozens of acres, which has not yet been developed, but Chen Jian will never let that pond go to waste.

A silt pond was enclosed with mud near the shore of the pond, and a large number of lotus roots were planted and a lot of fish were stocked.

There is only a small piece of silt surrounding the field in the whole pond, which is also a model, there is no shortage of fish in Xia City, but fish feces and silt are also good fertilizers, and the clan will slowly learn in the future, these little things do not need to be enforced.

On the third day of April, the fragrance of wheat flowers permeated the land around Xiacheng, and the wheat entered the most critical filling period.

Chen Jian stopped the unfinished places, and the large-scale unpaid voluntary labor that lasted for more than 20 days finally ended.

A large amount of food was taken out of the public property, a city-wide wine was drunk, and more than 140 people who had been converted from slaves to subordinate peasants in labor were allowed to participate.

After a full meal, the aqueduct had a name, and I don't know who shouted in a half-drunk: "This aqueduct is called the summer canal." ”

No one objected, so this newborn canal had its own name, and the planned summer canal had a total of more than a dozen kilometers, but now only a fraction of it has been completed, and it is not systematic at all, only some rudiments.

The drunken people walked to the bank of the river together, and the strongest men pushed the pine buoyancy valve that had been plugged in advance together, and the raging river broke away from the course of millions of years, and for the first time flowed to the place where the people wanted them to go, according to the command of the hands of men.

The water flow of the summer canal was not turbulent, and it was very laborious to irrigate all the 20,000 acres of land, and Chen Jian, as the leader of the city, had one more right: he decided where to irrigate first, because the rest of the people could not convince everyone.

Chen Jian still used the method of drawing lots, calculated the flow of water, and could irrigate 4,000 mu of land every day, and it would take at least six or seven days to rotate in a circle.

While the people were releasing the water, the chief and the members of the council once again came to the hill overlooking the whole plain, and the people in the distance were as small as ants crawling on the vast land, and the light of the pool could be seen clearly.

As the water rose and finally reached the gap where the reservoir led to the summer canal, Chen Jian, like everyone on the top of the mountain, held his breath.

Whether the water can flow smoothly or not is the key, if it can't flow, then the work of thousands of people in the city for more than 20 days will be in vain.

Although Chen Jian used the method of horizontal measurement to ensure that the canal can flow smoothly, there will definitely be errors in the calculation, once the water flow is not smooth, it will be a huge blow to the morale of the clansmen.

The onlooker's eyes stared at the water head in the summer canal, and watched the originally uncontrollable water flow smoothly to every corner of the summer canal like a military formation.

When the water soaked a stone figure standing at the end of the summer canal, an earth-shattering cry resounded on the hillside.

"Water, it's flowing!"

"It's like someone is directing them, Ji Xia said that the terrain in that place is a bit high, and the water really didn't flow there!"

"We can really make the water flow the way we want!"

Chen Jian suppressed the excitement in his heart, put his hand into his shirt, tugged his skin to make himself feel pain, pretended to be indifferent, and chuckled: "As I said, water and drought are not affected by people. If a mountain stands in its way, it will move it; If the water does not flow, ditches are dug. There is nothing in this world that cannot be done with both hands. ”

Listening to these words, the clansmen were thoughtful, and looked at the gray water surface inexplicably, thinking that when they stood on the top of the mountain a month ago, they were still thinking, maybe the people of Xia Cheng were dreaming, let the water flow in the direction people want, this is a change of heaven and earth!

What is Heaven and Earth? In the eyes of E, and most of the people of this era, they are nothing more than impassable mountains, untouchable clouds, unstoppable water, inscrutable winds, and unchangeable seasons.

Can man overcome heaven and earth?

A year ago, she never thought about this question, because the question was like asking your father or you again, who is older? Such questions do not need to be answered.

But a year later, this question that didn't need to be answered had a different answer in Xia Cheng.

In the impassable mountains, there is an easy road from the copper mine to the Caohe wharf, and what was once barren grass is now only yellow sand and tenacious plantain.

Under the untouchable clouds, there were a few more ethereal and dancing kites, and they swayed their bodies and wagged their tails, perhaps as long as the twine was long enough, they could be higher than the clouds.

In the inscrutable wind, two windmills were babbling, and the inscrutable wind was like an ox tied to a rope, pulling the heavy stone mill just because people wanted to eat wheat flour.

Even the four seasons that cannot be changed are shattered by the two pots of gourds in the council hall, and in winter, the clan does not know why Yu Qian'er always wipes the stamens of the gourd with a ball of linen, but in the silent season of all things, a dozen small green gourds will defeat the snow-white winter, which makes people think of Xia Yan.

In the past, all this was just curiosity in E's eyes, and even some of it was just fun, but when I saw the flowing water meandering by today, and heard Jian Chen say that people can win the sky, all these things that I usually noticed but didn't care about came together at this moment.

Man can really overcome heaven and earth!

Actually, no, this is just a narrow sense of heaven and earth, and no one can beat the rules between heaven and earth in a broad sense, but Ehuang is not a philosopher, so he won't consider the difference, but he just feels something ...... for Jian Chen Fear, and more respect.

"If one day my father wants to go to war with Xia Cheng...... I'm going to have to stop it. ”

I have seen it with my own eyes, so I can feel the power contained in it. The simple summer canal shocked the three views of E, together with those kites, windmills, gourds and roads, so that this land has more traces left by people in addition to the city, so it shows the powerful power of hands and minds.

When Jian Chen opened the silk silk again, E's eyes were no longer in doubt and disbelief, and he looked at the picture silently.

There are still many ditches on the map, which are not yet visible; There is more farmland on the map, which is still barren and miserable.

But when he looked at this picture again, he believed that all this would happen eventually, and Xia Cheng would be the same as this picture.

After the silence, he said reverently and emotionally: "Ji Xia, your hand has drawn Xia Cheng. ”

"No, it's the hands of everyone in Xia Cheng who drew Xia Cheng. If one day you are elected as the leader of the clan, I hope you can remember this sentence, this is the first and most important lesson you learned in Xia City, never forget. (To be continued.) )