PS: The second update is here!

Groundwater is a resource that is truly endless!

Among the disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the most feared in the north were drought and locust plagues, and floods were also in the north, but the destructive power of floods was obviously not as good as drought.

The problem of drought has been basically solved in the North China Plain with drilling technology.

Soon after, the Royal Drilling Team was established under the personal supervision of Zhu Youxiao, and the Royal Drilling Team took more than a dozen masters as the backbone and transferred a group of students from the Royal Academy of Science and Technology to study and research.

Song Zhenping was one of them, he was very interested in drilling, and soon became the trainee captain of the Royal Drilling Team, temporarily without salary.

As soon as he came up, he became a captain, but there was really a lack of senior talents. Those drilling masters are basically illiterate and have no theoretical knowledge at all.

Song Zhenping's knowledge of physics has improved rapidly, and he has also participated in the research of drilling topics inspired by Xu Guang before, and has certain experience.

Song Zhenping, who had a certain amount of experience, immediately led the drilling team and began to dig wells in various Huangzhuang. The construction project of this Zhuo Tube Well was directly funded by the internal fund.

This construction project is also in the "drought and flood protection project" launched this time, and the drought and flood protection project is divided into three parts, one part is the construction of river embankments and river dams to ensure flood prevention and drought prevention. The intake and discharge of water from reservoirs such as dams and reservoirs will also be regulated according to the 'weather forecast'.

In ancient times, weather forecasting was done by manpower, and there were people who specialized in related work, and they judged the weather conditions through clouds, winds, and solar terms. It doesn't sound reliable, but it's actually experienced, and it's also extremely accurate. Just look at the shape of the clouds to know if there is rain.

Part 2. It is to build enough canals and water wheels for irrigation.

The third part. It is to drill the tube well for drought prevention.

In the next few years, there will be no snow in the winter in Beizhili, and drought will obviously be more common. Although Zhu Youxiao didn't know very well, he did make a mistake and arranged it in advance.

Some of the peasant households resettled in the second phase of the Royal Agricultural Company's reclamation project have started the drought and flood protection project, and Zhuo Tube Well has given them free of charge.

However, this drought and flood harvest protection project also has a price. Farmers had to serve as conscripts during the slack period. Participated in the construction of the river embankment.

The organization of Huangzhuang is relatively tight, and Zhu Youxiao adopts precise management of Huangzhuang. No matter how the house is repaired, it will be managed, so the farmer's leisure time will also be fully utilized, and all of it will be free labor.

As long as there is a spare time, they will be organized to serve as a conscription, and go to build various projects, including facilities that can be used by farmers in Benhuangzhuang, and there are also water conservancy facilities that can be built in distant places.

This kind of conscription is mandatory, and there is no pay. But room and board are included. Compared with the previous conscription, there are some changes. And the peasants outside the Huangzhuang. It is carried out in accordance with the "Conscription Reform Act" and shall not exceed 20 days per year, and the scope of conscription shall be submitted to the Cabinet if the scope of conscription exceeds the regulations.

Huangzhuang's protection is very good, whether it is a disaster, an injury or a disease, or relief. At the same time, they were also given 30 acres of land, and they could also enjoy interest-free agricultural loans, the purchase price of grain was also guaranteed, and the water conservancy facilities were well equipped for them. Anyway, if you enter the Huangzhuang, you can't starve to death.

But at the cost of being fully squeezed out of the value of labor.

Because of the relatively tight organization, the peasants know when they have free time. As soon as the personal production tasks during the busy agricultural period were completed, they were immediately withdrawn from forced labor. This kind of conscription is to do things for free, and only to give rations. Farmers can afford it and can't starve to death. There are indeed supervisors on the construction site, but instead of using violent means to supervise them, they will educate the farmers and call on them to build a better future.

This call has a certain meaning, but it is relatively empty, but it is a multi-pronged approach. First of all, it talks about the connection between the interests of the country and the small family, then talks about karma, and finally draws a big pie for the farmers.

As long as Daming survives this hurdle and becomes rich, these flatbreads can be realized.

The actual thing is to calculate the amount of work, take the 'contract method', a young and strong labor force in Huangzhuang is responsible for a certain amount of construction, go home early after finishing early, and you can rest for one more day after finishing one day early. If you can't finish it on time, you can also go home, after all, you can't delay the farming time, and sometimes you can't do anything if you encounter a bad climate.

Although there is no punishment for grinding foreign workers, under the propaganda of the propaganda team, there are still not many foreign workers who grind foreign workers after all. The national interest, karma, and welfare promises have all been made, and normal people will always believe in one, right?

The propaganda team under the Ministry of Politics and Education of the Han Emperor Party will not all talk about these things, but will also tell a lot of stories full of allegories, punishing evil and promoting good, full of positive energy, in order to carry out certain propaganda and education for the farmers in Huangzhuang.

Obviously, this kind of policy is very good, because the construction projects of the conscription are basically water conservancy projects that are closely related to the interests of farmers, as well as the construction of public facilities within the Huangzhuang, and so on. Under the propaganda of propaganda and the protection of real interests, the farmers have worked hard.

After spring sowing, the farmers will have time. Again organized by the management of the Royal Agricultural Company at all levels, the construction of various projects began.

The farmers resettled in the second phase of the reclamation project have settled down, and this year is the first year of production. Therefore, the construction project is mainly the public facilities in Huangzhuang, such as repairing toilets, bathhouses, biogas digesters, roads, and pig farms. In the evening, agricultural technicians and propagandists also went to Huangzhuang to give lectures and propaganda to them.

In each imperial village, in accordance with Zhu Youxiao's order, a lot of slogans were painted. Recently, a new slogan has been brushed - have fewer children, more trees, work hard and get rich!

Compared to the farmers who had already settled down in the first phase of the Huangzhuang project in the second year, this year they had to go to the river to strengthen the embankment.

On the construction site, an overseer took the text sent from above, stood on a high place during the lunch meal, and said in a loud voice: "Brothers, here are two new policies that the emperor has just formulated to announce. ”

Young and strong laborers all came around, and although the supervisors supervised the construction activities on the construction site, the names were all prescribed and more cordial. Overseers should not be rough on the construction site, and they are required to work hard to get along with the people and develop friendship. The role of the supervisor is mainly to prevent slacking, supervise the construction quality, and guide the construction method.

"There's a new policy again!"

"I don't know what the policy is this time."

There was a lot of discussion below, and their expressions were full of anticipation. The emperor's new policy, that must be a good policy! Despite the continuous propaganda and the real protection of interests, the peasants in Huangzhuang have reached an almost blind stage of supporting Zhu Youxiao.

"The first new policy is that the emperor allocates funds from the internal treasury to start the construction project of 'drought and flood protection'. Dig a deep well for every family's land for free, without everyone paying a penny of silver, and without everyone having to work, and plan to complete it within a year. After the overseer read it, the simple and honest peasants cheered on the spot, shouting 'Long live'.

"The second policy is that during each period of conscription, each Huangzhuang will select 20 'model workers' and receive various prizes, and the prize for this model worker is two feet (one foot 33 centimeters) of cotton cloth per person." (To be continued......)