Before the Great Qin Empire took over, Fujian was divided into two dynasties. The rulers of the two dynasties did not pay much attention to water conservancy, so the rivers basically had no dams and reservoirs. For hundreds of years, the Yue people living along the river exceeded half of the central Fujian county. In particular, there are more than 300,000 people living on both sides of the main stream.

Chen Sheng, who has a sense of distress, is very worried about this. Because he knew very well that in the event of a major flood, the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people living by the river would suffer extremely badly. Of course, in previous years, typhoons were frequent, and the precipitation brought by some tropical storms was far from enough to threaten the safety of the residents along the rivers, but this year's climate is so abnormal that if there is a typhoon, it may be a hurricane of more than 12 degrees, and the destructive power of this wind and the heavy precipitation brought by it will bring disaster is difficult to estimate.

So Chen Sheng was worried. If Fujian suffers such a heavy blow, I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover its current state for three to five years, let alone development.

Hearing this, Xu Wugui was also stunned. The hurricane is the "wind platform" of the Vietnamese dialect in Fujian, and the wind platform is powerful, and he who has lived in Yunmengze for a long time is also clear, knowing that once the wind platform appears, then Fujian will inevitably be devastated.

In this regard, Xu Wugui pondered for a while and said, "In this way, we have to hurry up now to build a dam to prevent flooding, just in case." For engineering construction, Xu Wugui is far more familiar than Chen Sheng, and quickly sorted out his thoughts, he said: "Now most of the people's cultivated land is doomed to failure, no matter how much it is rescued, it is impossible to have a bumper year's output." If the government at this time levied conscription in various places, and recruited local leaders to repair rivers and canals in the locality, and paid a certain amount of wages for this, then it could completely offset the impact of the poor harvest of the land. ”

Chen Sheng frowned, thinking about Xu Wugui's suggestion. Xu Wugui's words are very reasonable. The crops have failed, and Qianshou is leisure, and at this time there must be a large amount of labor left, and it is still a more appropriate time for the government to issue a resignation at this time. However, according to the laws of Great Qin, conscription itself is a form of taxation, and there is no one who is paid for servitude. Fortunately, Minzhong County is different from other places, and Minzhong New County has been exempt from taxes and forced labor for a long time, so the government must pay remuneration for working for the government.

Chen Sheng was not thinking about how to make these conscriptions free, but thinking about how to extract such a large sum of money from somewhere else.

"Dredging the river, building a reservoir dam, how much does it cost and how long does it take? How much labor is needed? Chen Shengliang asked for a long time.

"My lord, you need to know which sections of the river to be constructed and according to what scale." As soon as Xu Wugui heard Chen Sheng's words, he knew that Chen Sheng was a layman, spread out the silk paper map in his hand, and said with a wry smile: "There are many rivers and many trunk roads in central Fujian, and if you want to do all of them like this, you will need at least eight million gold, fifty years, and three hundred thousand laborers. ”

"Uh......" Chen Sheng let out a heavy breath of turbidity, speechless. Chen Sheng is clear about the heavy water recovery in Fujian and Zhongshan, and he also knows the difficulty of building the Heba Reservoir. But the difficulties he saw were still the knowledge and vision of a non-professional. Xu Wugui has a clearer overview of the water flow in central Fujian, and the data given is still very conservative. However, just the astronomical amount of eight million gold, not to mention Chen Sheng, even if the entire Great Qin Empire was smashed and sold, it would be difficult to raise so much cash.

"We're going to address the immediate needs for now." Chen Sheng laughed and said: "Let's do a good job of wind and flood prevention in summer, building water conservancy is the cause of thousands of generations, we can only go step by step, we can't catch ducks on the shelves, and we can do it overnight." ”

Xu Wugui nodded approvingly, and reported another set of data: "Just to strengthen the river defense, 50,000 strong men are needed, for a period of one month, one gold per person, a total of about 50,000 gold." Sacks, stones, and timber are even more large expenditures, all in total, about 100,000 gold. ”

Chen Sheng nodded, a puzzled look on his face. 100,000 gold, that's not a small amount. As far as he knew, the treasury of Minzhong County has never been one and a half taels, if it weren't for Ling Suyun's support behind him, Minzhong County would have been so poor that he couldn't open the pot and couldn't do things. Now there is absolutely no such huge amount of cash as 100,000 gold in Minzhong County, and Chen Sheng doesn't know where to raise this money.

Chen Sheng fell into a deep thought. His mind was quickly calculating how much income he would be able to have in the future.

There are 23 big tea mountains in Minzhong County, and the annual tea sales are about 50,000 to 80,000 gold, but this is not the tea picking season, and this resource is not yet available. In addition to this is the salt farm, which has already dried 100,000 coarse salt. However, Chen Sheng set a very low price for sea salt, only eight and a half taels per bucket of coarse salt, which was less than double the purchase price of Shangjia. 100,000 stone of coarse salt can only be sold for less than 10,000 gold profits, and there are taxes and apportionment of profits, Chen Sheng can use less than thousands of gold. The paper mill still has to continue to invest in construction and research, and it has not been able to produce profits at all. Even if Chen Sheng embezzled the reserve funds supported by Ling Suyun, he would only be able to free up 50,000 gold, and any more would cause the financial collapse of Minzhong County. Ling Suyun had already warned him that the family could no longer spare funds to continue to supply Chen Sheng's business, and hoped that Chen Sheng would slow down some steps. People's words have come to this point, Chen Sheng, who already owes a lot of debts to others, will naturally not be so brazen as to continue to reach out to Ling Suyun for help. Even if he did this, Ling Suyun was far away in Ba County to deal with family affairs, and a month had already passed. Whether the funds are in hand or not makes little sense.

"Where did the 50,000 gold come from?" Chen Sheng frowned. There is a shortage in the treasury, and it is impossible to take money out of the pockets of the imperial court or the emperor. However, although Fujian is poor, there are many rich people. Like the two of them, Wu Zhu and Su Shao, they are definitely rich. Is it possible to consider going to them to fight the autumn breeze? Chen Sheng thought secretly. But after thinking about it, Chen Sheng still felt that it was inappropriate. The two of them are sensitive, and they came to the door rashly, in case it caused a three-year misunderstanding, it would not be good.

"Why did I forget about him?" Chen Sheng suddenly remembered someone, and a sly smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Lord Gunjo, something is wrong!" An inspector rode a panting, foaming foul horse galloping in, and tore his throat and screamed from afar.