Chapter 14: The Well Digging Artifact

Wu Wei made a gesture for Li Bantou to approach, and asked in a low voice, "Have you seen a tall girl in a light yellow shirt here in the past few days?" Li Bantou glanced at him and said with a smile: "My lord, is the son-in-law of the county order family you are talking about?" ”

Wu Wei was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "Does the county order have a daughter?" ”

"If you go back to adulthood, the son-in-law of the county order is only seventeen years old, but she is just ......"

"Just what?"

"I heard that I have promised to marry someone, and my husband's family is Wang Tongzhi of Yan'an Mansion, and I am afraid that the marriage will be completed in the next year."

“……”

Wu Wei had mixed feelings in his heart, Nima finally saw a beautiful woman, but he already had a mother-in-law's family, and he was still a second-generation official, and his father was several levels older than himself, and the tradition of fighting his father was passed down from here.

"Wen Zhuo."

"Here, what do you command?"

"I'll go back to the city with the master."

Although he went out of the city and glanced at the beauties in a hurry, Wu Wei still saw something wrong this time. This porridge shack attracted more and more displaced people to eat, and gradually became a camp of considerable scale, most of the people lacked clothes and bedding, lived in the open air, and a few of them built their own shacks were also shabby. Open defecation, littering and poor sanitation are common in the camps. Some of the displaced people who died did not go far, but were hastily buried nearby. And so on and so forth, and the weather is hot and the density of the victims is high, and it is possible that a plague will occur over time. In addition, the camp has a large population, but there is very little available water source, fortunately there is a deep well in the camp, but the daily water output is only a few hundred buckets, barely enough to take care of the victims to maintain their lives, as for washing the clothes is absolutely impossible to talk about.

Wu Wei summed up a few suggestions for improvement, discussed them with Sun Jiaoyu, and Sun Jiaoyu transcribed them, and the two of them jointly proposed the proposal to the county order. The first is to increase the supply of water sources, the second is to organize the disaster victims to produce to help themselves, and they cannot blindly raise them in vain; the third is to recruit strong people from among the disaster victims to form local soldiers, which can not only eliminate potential unstable factors, but also strengthen the defense strength of Ansai County, after all, there are many thieves in the surrounding counties, and it is not peaceful; and fourth, health regulations should be formulated to prevent a major epidemic after the disaster.

Li Xianling agreed with this opinion very much, in fact, he also wanted to get these methods, but he couldn't implement them because of the word "money and grain". Wu Wei immediately stated that he would figure out a way to pay the expense, as long as the county order authorized him to act cheaply. Of course, Li County's order was not allowed, and he was also a little curious about how Wu Wei would solve these problems.

Wu Wei's calculation in his heart is to start thinking of a way from the modern era, and he ordered a mobile well digging machine, which has arrived, and he found a suitable opportunity to pull it over, and the problem of digging the well can be solved. Production is self-helping, drag a batch of drought-resistant and high-yield crops from modern times, such as potatoes, peanuts, corn or something. Sanitation regulations, first of all, to establish health rules, stipulating that open defecation and littering are not allowed, violators must be severely punished, and then a batch of antibiotics from modern times, in case of an epidemic, there are also ways to treat. The matter of recruiting soldiers is even simpler, now as long as there is food, there are more people to sign up!

Although the idea is good, it has to be implemented one by one, the first thing to solve is the origin of these later generations of equipment, the well digging machine is not too big, the appearance is not too amazing, just say that it is the thing of the Tessie Franc machine, as long as they are determined, they think that they are suspicious and have nowhere to verify. And the current water problem is the most important, with water, other problems can be easily solved. It happened that the digging machine arrived, and the manufacturer was very trustworthy and sent a technician over. Personally instructed Wu Wei to dig wells, although he did not dare to dig deep, afraid of digging up underground water pipes and cables, but the basic operation is not difficult to master, Wu Wei only learned for two hours to basically know, the manufacturer technician only praised him for his power. The manufacturer's service is also in place, and it also provides five small pumps and a large number of plastic hoses, so that users do not have to worry about pumping water after digging a well, and these can be supplied in large quantities for a long time.

As soon as he was ready, in the morning, Wu Wei moved the well digging machine to the side of Guangmen, and drove it all the way to the camp, and the roar of the engine shook the entire camp, and for a time surrounded Wu Wei with a sea of people. Wu Wei opened the car door and jumped out of the car, and said with a smile to Li Bantou, who ran over breathlessly: "This is the well digging machinery I purchased from the Franco people in Guangzhou, and it can be regarded as delivered today!" According to Francis, this thing can dig a well in a day! Li Bantou didn't know what was going on, but he came to check, heard Wu Wei say this, and saw such a big guy as the well digging machine, and couldn't help but be stunned. The surrounding crowd also talked about it, and no one believed what Wu Wei said.

Wu Wei said: "Why, no one believes it? Li Bantou hesitated and said: "Back to the adult's words, it's not that I don't believe what the adult said, it's actually a local well, and it can't produce water unless it's a dozen zhang, for example, it's a heavy gift to hire a master craftsman to dig a well, and several people work together to spend one or two months to complete, and it must cost two or three hundred taels of silver." If you are unlucky, you will spend a few hundred taels of silver and you will not be able to get water. Wu Wei laughed and said: "It takes several months to dig a well in an ordinary way, but this thing only takes one day, if you don't believe it, you can know it by trying." ”

Anyway, board the front carriage of the well digging machine, drive it to a low-lying place next to the camp, the manufacturer's technician has instructed Wu Wei to dig a well, near the Dafan riverbed, most of the low-lying places have groundwater. Wu Wei had observed the terrain before, and he had already selected this place, so he would drill directly here this time.

Wu Wei fixed the drilling rig according to the operation steps, started the engine, and suddenly the drilling rig roared and drilled down, and the speed was extremely fast. The onlookers watched such a scene, and they were all elated, and the people behind couldn't see it and wanted to squeeze forward, and it was chaotic for a while, Li Bantou led the officials to desperately press it, but they were staggered.

The drilling rig can not maintain high-speed operation for a long time, especially after the depth exceeds ten meters, the speed must be reduced, otherwise the drill bit is easy to twist. After changing a few drill pipes, when it was about 40 meters deep, Wu Wei suddenly felt that the drill bit was light, as if he had drilled through something soft, and he knew that he had drilled through the aquifer, so he continued to drill down a few meters. According to the operation process to pull out the drill pipe, only to see a bowl mouth on the ground of the hole, everyone saw this, are talking about it, this thing can be used to dig a well seems not to be a lie, in fact, it took less than two hours. It's just that the wellhead is so small, and how to pump water.

Just as everyone was discussing, Wu Wei lifted out a small water pump, connected the rubber pipe, threw the pipe into the wellhead at one end, inserted it straight to the end, and started the water pump, only to see a white water column spraying out of the other end of the water pipe in the rumbling sound, which was clean water!