Chapter 238: Professional Repair of River Embankments
I saw that the experts first instructed the people to dig a deep ditch five or six meters away from the river, and then used huge stones and a whole log more than ten meters long to lay the foundation, and then watered and strengthened with glutinous rice juice to form the foundation of the river embankment, and then covered the loess layer by layer to pour glutinous rice juice, until it was at least ten meters above the water surface. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After the repair, a row of willow trees had to be planted on top of the embankment, and then a wide and sturdy post road was built to complete the final completion, so that the embankment was the highest level at that time, and even a flood that was rare in a century could not be washed away.
Of course, such a river embankment is also very troublesome to repair, and Lei Yun even set up the two teleportation points of the Teleportation Eye here and the official willow planting base of the Tang Empire in order to plant willow trees, which are specifically responsible for transporting willow trees.
The progress of such a law revision project must have been very slow, but because Lei Yun was willing to spend money, the nearby victims came to apply for the recruitment of people, so the number of people increased greatly every day, and the number of people exceeded 100,000 in just ten days.
Even with such a huge project as repairing the river embankment, there was still an overcrowding situation, so that later these people had to arrange for these people to build a brick factory nearby, burn square bricks, and build the post road directly into a square brick road, but so many people came to apply, which also indirectly shows how bad the disaster relief work of Qingzhou Mansion is.
As the number of people grew, thunderclouds began to start construction work on the opposite bank, and the banks went hand in hand, and the neat and sturdy embankment increased along the river bank at a speed of more than 100 meters every day.
After two months of busyness, the money and grain of the imperial court finally arrived, and at this time, the embankment repair project on the Leiyun side has become very huge, and more than ten large-scale material processing points such as logging yards, brick kilns, and quarries have been built one after another, and the hoarded raw materials for repairing the embankment are also piled up.
As soon as the supplies from the imperial court arrived, Lei Yun immediately appointed Li Quanzhong as the commander-in-chief of the embankment repair in this place, and he was fully responsible for the embankment repair work, while he himself continued to the next embankment with everyone and several other experts.
With the first experience, the construction of the next embankment is much easier, and because Li Quanzhong's work is already on the right track, he also sent a lot of skilled workers to Lei Yun's side to assist in the embankment repair project on Lei Yun's side, and because of the support of the imperial court's infinite food, Lei Yun directly recruited his giants over, and then this opportunity to maximize the food reserves of the giant clan.
In order to avoid giving people a handle, the food given by Thundercloud is calculated according to the head, so the giants also poured out, even women and children went into battle together, although not as helpful as men, but with the support of their huge height and infinite brute strength, many tasks that humans could not complete were also solved, and the progress of repairing the embankment was improved a lot.
In this way, after more than four months of arduous efforts, all five embankment repair projects in Qingzhou were launched, and a total of more than 500,000 people were requisitioned and distributed, and almost all the victims in Qingzhou were turned into an army of embankment repair projects.
These water conservancy experts are not only good at building water conservancy facilities, but also experts in agriculture, so while arranging for these victims to repair the embankment, they have not forgotten to reclaim the nearby wasteland into farmland, so that the victims can plant crops on the spot and prepare for a new life in the future.
At the same time, because of the high wages set by the thundercloud, all the victims, including children, have received dozens of taels of silver "wages", which is as much as 100 taels per family, which has also laid a solid foundation for the future life stability of the victims, so that these victims can quickly make up for the property losses caused by the flood.
Although it has exceeded the interval between Lei Yun and several people entering the mission world at this time, it is very strange that Lei Yun and they have not been able to receive the task prompt for a long time, so they simply put the task on hold for the time being, and make every effort to arrange the repair of the embankment here.
This delay lasted a whole year, and by the time the wheat in the fields was ripe the following year, only some finishing touches were left in Qingzhou's embankment repair project, and completion was just around the corner.
Because several experts from the Department of Agriculture are presiding over the work here, so at this time, along the way of the embankment, countless fertile fields have already been reclaimed, and as far as the eye can see, the green wheat seedlings are as boundless as the ocean, and the new village built by using the materials of the embankment is spacious, the houses are beautiful, and there is a prosperous atmosphere of abundant food and clothing.
In order to ensure the normal life of the people, Lei Yun also asked the imperial court to distribute these newly cultivated fertile fields to the victims who participated in the construction of the embankment free of charge.
Of course, the most dazzling achievement is the river embankment itself, Lei Yun and their construction of the river embankment this time completely solved the flood problem in Qingzhou Prefecture, so that the Qingzhou section of the Yellow River basin in the next 300 years, there has never been a flood problem.
Such an achievement made several experts of the Department of Agriculture feel extremely proud, and the knowledge of these guys has been almost perfectly brought into play in the work of repairing the embankment and disaster relief, so that they often recall this glorious life experience in the rest of their lives.
However, this project also has shortcomings, that is, the manpower and material resources consumed are too huge, even with the wealth of the Tang Empire, it is impossible to carry out such a project again in the short term.
However, Lei Yun's approach this time also set a classic precedent for disaster relief and river embankment repairs at the same time, so that Datang will almost always arrange large-scale agricultural engineering construction at the same time in the future disaster relief work, which can not only provide disaster relief but also build water conservancy and reclaim farmland, and can also increase the income of the victims and help them rebuild their homes, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.
In fact, when the river embankment is repaired to this time, the role of thunderclouds is no longer large, and these experts are presiding over the overall work in various places, they have been officials for many years, not only have rich professional knowledge, but also are good at managing affairs, so all affairs are arranged in an orderly manner.
However, Lei Yun couldn't just run away, after all, he was the Qincha, so he simply took Wu Tianji and them to travel around the Qingzhou Mansion, taste various local delicacies, and enjoy this rare holiday.
Wu Tianji and Chu Lianyi followed Lei Yun out this time, and they participated in disaster relief and repaired the river embankment, and they did not delay the tour of the mountains and rivers, and followed Lei Yun everywhere to "shop and eat", they all felt that their lives were very fulfilling, and they were in a good mood.
After a few days in Qingzhou Mansion, Lei Yun and his people found that except for several prefectures and counties along the river that were seriously affected, the livelihood of the people in other places was not greatly affected, especially after Lei Yun properly resettled almost all the victims, and there was no sign of disaster.
Because the Qingzhou area is located in the Yellow River Basin, water transportation is originally very developed, so the people of Leiyun rented a four-story luxury boat without much effort, and then used Meng Yuan's skills in manipulating the weather to artificially create a strong wind, and went up the river to explore the source of the flood while visiting the scenery.
On this day, after the boat arrived at a natural reservoir surrounded by mountains, it suddenly smelled an extremely tempting aroma of barbecue wafting from the shore, which attracted everyone to go up to the bow of the boat to look at the shore, only to find that there was a restaurant built next to the water on the bank of the river, and bursts of barbecue smoke drifted around with a rich aroma.
After stopping the boat and landing in the restaurant, a few people found that the business of this restaurant was extremely prosperous, although there was still a period of time before the noon meal, but the lobby was already full of people, and the diners were like clouds.
After walking inside, I saw a room full of people holding bowls, Xili snoring and drinking porridge, and a rich fragrance filled the entire lobby.
After finding a large table by the window and sitting down, before a few people could speak, an aunt with quick hands and feet came over with a large bucket and directly brought a large bowl of steaming white porridge to everyone.
Immediately afterwards, without waiting for Lei Yun and a few people to order, he hurried away, and when Lei Yun was surprised, he suddenly saw that several other people had already picked up the spoon, and drank the bowl of white porridge with a snorting voice, nodding while drinking, and his expression was very intoxicated.
Seeing this, Lei Yun also quickly picked up the bowl and took a big sip, and immediately felt that the white porridge was thick with a little elastic small particles, and when he bit it gently, it was full of fresh and fragrant, but it turned out to be fried crispy fish roe mixed in the white porridge, pick up the spoon and stir it gently, and you can also see the tender green onion and thinly cut fish fillets hidden in the white porridge, which is very material.
At this time, a fat strong man came to the table of several people with an extremely greasy apron, and asked:
"A few pounds of meat and a few pounds of wine?"
After speaking, he glanced at Xuanchen who was dressed as a monk with the corner of his eye, although he didn't say anything, but his eyes were full of disdain, Mei Yan on the side immediately raised her eyebrows when she saw this, and directly took out a large ingot of silver and smashed it on the strong man's face, saying:
"Look at what, good wine and good food come up quickly."
The strong man only felt that the golden light flashed in front of him, although his face was hot and painful, but the face of the silver could not be left ungiven, so he immediately ran down to arrange, and after a short time, he brought a small pot of charcoal fire and a large plate of grilled meat skewers.
The skewers were piled on an iron plate like a hill, sprinkled with chili powder and cumin powder and some unknown spices, and they were very colorful against the background of the fat, and they looked very good.