On the two-meter-long street in Panzhihua Town, Uncle Gen walked with his hands on his back towards a construction site in front of him, and he had been here for more than a few months.

At that time, the big leaders of the executive committee talked to him and said that this place was very bitter, and he didn't believe that the conditions were difficult. At that time, he patted his chest and promised that he would never be afraid of hardships, and resolutely decided to go to Panzhihua to take office.

He was joined by a staff member of the Supplies Unit and a doctor. In addition, there are several Ming immigrants who were tempted by the land to move together. Let's say it's a town, Panzhihua is a 200-meter-long main road, and even this road was built after Uncle Lao Gen came.

Not to mention the houses, except for a few orderly barracks buildings not far away, there are houses built on both sides of the street.

According to Zhou Aiguo, it is very difficult for Panzhihua to develop agriculture and animal husbandry, which is located in an arid area, with hot temperature and little rain, which is not suitable for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry at all.

The most important development should be placed on local resources, such as the deep processing of minerals, although there is already a mining iron ore and smelter under construction, but it will take a while to fully put into production to form benefits, at least in a year is impossible, Panzhihua is still far from the Manchester City National Highway, even if the smelted finished products are difficult to transport.

Although Uncle Lao Gen was only born as a farmer, since he became the mayor of the town, he began to adapt to his new position, not as just a farmer, but as the food and clothing parents of more than a dozen families in this town.

For the development of Panzhihua Town, the Ministry of Immigration was not stingy at all, and successively selected more than a dozen families from the immigrants to be resettled in batches to Panzhihua.

As long as you agree to go to Panzhihua Town, you can get a subsidy of 100 yuan, and you can still get land and houses to live in when the place is located, but the place is far away and the conditions are more difficult.

There is no free lunch in the world, and such a generous condition must have its disadvantages, otherwise it would not have offered such a high condition.

Those who came here with the same idea as Uncle Lao Gen now regret their deaths, although each person's family is divided into hundreds of acres of land according to the total number of people, but there is almost nothing to grow in that land, so much land is considered a small landlord if it is placed in the Ming Dynasty, but it is worthless at all.

Of course, these people who are accustomed to suffering will not encounter such a little difficulty and immediately rush to quit, although the land is dry, but still came up with a variety of ways to solve it, farming needs water, then dig a few more wells out of irrigation, this place can have spring water means that there must be water underground.

So these farmers were not in a hurry to cultivate the land, but they built wells in their respective lands, and even helped each other, but after all, this place was located in an arid area, and it was not so easy to build a well that produced water. The townspeople dug more than 20 wells, and only one of them produced water.

Looking at those dry wells dug more than ten meters deep, Uncle Lao Gen was thoughtful, this well can't be so expensive, although it doesn't produce water, but it can still store water, although there is little rain in this place, it will still rain occasionally, if you dig more dry wells to store water, will soon solve the problem of agricultural irrigation.

Under the leadership of Uncle Gen, the townspeople of Panzhihua began to dig wells frantically in the front and back yards of the house.

At present, the villagers in the whole town basically rely on the capital Manchester City for daily necessities such as food and drink, and rice and white flour are easy to preserve, especially vegetables and fruits, because of the transportation conditions, it is basically difficult to have fresh.

The townspeople of Panzhihua Town eat most dishes such as bean sprouts and tofu, as well as dried fish and dried meat, but the lack of fresh vegetables for a long time causes people to have mouth ulcers, as can be seen from the number of people who visit the hospital these days.

According to the only doctor in the town, the main reason is that everyone eats too much, lacks fresh green food, and lacks that element in the body, and needs to supplement more green food.

More than a dozen acres of vegetable land reclaimed in the town have been sown with seeds, and with the irrigation of the spring, the growth is barely good, but it will take some time before the picking, and it is not possible to replenish the townspeople now.

Uncle Gen didn't understand what the doctor said, he only knew that he had to solve the vegetable problem of the residents of the town, according to the current population size, the dozen acres of land would definitely not be enough for everyone to eat, and some more had to be cultivated, and there must be enough water to open a new vegetable garden.

If we rely on a small spring for human and agricultural use, it is obviously not enough, we must dig more wells, and we must dig more wells, and we must dig more wells to produce water, even if it is a dry well.

"Uncle Gen, you're going to see the well again." A man with a hoe on his shoulder greeted him with a smile.

The sea, this is just coming back from the field, and those vegetables are growing well.

"Alright, alright, thanks to a rain yesterday that watered all the vegetables in the field, this time I don't have to water it for at least two days. Uncle Gen, I want to tell you, do you see if we are building a large dry well outside the town, yesterday's heavy rain filled the dry wells used to store water in the fields, and I think the water from the sewers in our town can also be collected for everyone's usual irrigation, what do you think? ”

Because it is located in the Pilba area, which is short of water and rain, the residents who have immigrated here have experienced water shortages, and they do not attach any less importance to water than the mayor of the town.

"Uh," Uncle Gen was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that what he said was reasonable, everyone only knew that they were digging dry wells in the front and back yards of their houses but did not think of collecting all the other water, it seems that they have to brainstorm after solving the water problem.

"Dahai, your proposal is good, I will report this matter to Second Lieutenant Wu later, and ask him to send some natives to build a large dry well with us to collect irrigation water."

Uncle Lao Gen suddenly smiled on his face and patted the sea on the shoulder: If this matter becomes our water problem in the future, we can fully solve it, and we don't need to transport vegetables from Manchester City all the way to eat, the sea, you have a good brain, are you interested in coming to work in the town.

"This, this," the man named Gu Dahai didn't expect that he was invited to work in the town by the mayor of the town just by making a small suggestion, although this town is not as big as the previous village, but according to the speed of this immigration, it will one day surpass the previous village.

"Yes. Gu Dahai nodded vigorously. ”

"Okay, you go back first, I'll arrange this." Uncle Gen assured him.