After Yu Laohan translated this sentence to the villagers, Xing Shuang didn't wait for the villagers to get excited, and said the third point.

"Thirdly, although I will provide you with a good place to live, but this natural disaster is unavoidable, I hope you have a new residence and cherish it, if there is a big flood, you must repay it like the Lord's house. If there is a flooded house, it must be repaired in time, and it should not be left alone. ”

When these words came out, many people hesitated. Yu Laohan hurriedly explained to Xing Shuang: "It's not that we don't want to repair, it's just that this repair house needs a lot of wood every time. And this piece of forest can't be cut down, if it is cut down, the flooding of Xin'an County will be even more serious. ”

When Xing Shuang heard this, her good impression of the villagers in this village instantly increased a lot.

It turns out that it is not that they are lazy, but that they suffer from poverty and respect for the natural environment.

"You don't have to worry about this, since I built this new house for you, I will also come to restore it. Rest assured, this flooding problem will be slowly resolved in the future. ”

Yu Laohan and the villagers didn't know the origin of this noble lady, they only knew that a rich lady had bought their land. When they heard that the lady had to improve the flooding problem, everyone was stunned, and looked at the lady as if she were looking at some kind of monster.

This one...... Boasting about this kind of Haikou, if you are not a fool? Sure enough, it's someone from the inland, who doesn't know how powerful the sea is.

It's just that everyone can't say it clearly, so they just bow their heads in embarrassment.

Xing Shuang knew what he said, and these people wouldn't believe it. She didn't bother to explain.

First, she did not want to reveal her identity as the Governor's wife, and secondly, if the flooding improved in the future, they would be more convinced of her.

So when he went back that night, when Jia Liang got off work, Xing Shuang told him about the flooding.

Jia Liang patiently listened to his wife's feedback, leaned back on the bed, and said slowly: "This is also a problem that I have to solve when I first take office." At first, I thought that the governor of Liangguang was just a military attaché. As a result, I realized that it was both civil and military.

"I came in May, but as soon as we entered June, it rained a lot. The requests for funds from all counties are being reported, and I also have a headache here.

"I've heard that there have been typhoons since this month, and this has been the case in previous years. I have only taken office this year, and if there are more deaths in the counties than in previous years, I will not be able to explain to Your Majesty. ”

Xing Shuang was also worried when she heard this, and hurriedly asked her husband: "Then do you have a countermeasure?" ”

Jia Liang sighed: "The only way to strengthen the protection of counties is to dredge as much as possible." The difficulty is that there are few seaside embankments, and the dams here are not of good quality and the materials are poor.

"I wanted to get some cement back, but it was too late for people to transport it at this time, and the cement was heavy and difficult to ship, so as long as it was wet, it would be all wasted. If I pay a lot of money for people to buy this thing, I will be wasting the treasury if I am not careful. ”

Xing Shuang said unexpectedly: "Could it be that the cement has already appeared at this time?" ”

Jia Liang laughed: "It's a shame that you are still a chick born in England, and you don't even know this?" The Romans have always built their houses out of something similar to cement. Later, a technician in England accidentally obtained a seemingly inferior limestone in order to restore the lighthouse in Plymouth Harbour, and found that the adhesive was stronger than before, and it was found that this limestone contained clay, and cement was truly invented. ”

Xing Shuang snorted and said angrily: "How can such a trivial matter be taught in history, I am not an encyclopedia, can you know all the things in China for five thousand years?" If you hadn't gone to England as an envoy, I'm afraid even you wouldn't know about this kind of thing. ”

Jia Liang laughed and hurriedly comforted his wife: "Yes, yes, it's me talking nonsense." I also saw the cement over there with my own eyes, so I knew that there was such a thing. ”

Xing Shuang said again: "Since they can study it, it makes no sense that we can't." Lian'er is strong in this aspect, wouldn't it be good to leave it to him? Even if the current conditions are not perfect, if we can make a good adhesive, we can make the dam, right? ”

Jia Liang sighed: "It's not simple, this manpower and material resources are all problems." Guangzhou is prosperous, but the surrounding counties are not impressive. It is no wonder that it is called a remote place in the north, because the development here is too uneven.

"In addition, the population here is sparse, and because of poverty, most people can't last long. However, if you do not find people from the local area, it will take at least three months to prepare for recruiting outsiders. ”

Xing Shuang blinked his eyes and said, "Over there, if there is a flood or a disaster, it will not be the soldiers who rush to the front." This protects the family and the country, in addition to serving the country, but also protecting the family, right? At this time, you have so many soldiers for nothing, and you don't have much war, why can't you borrow them? ”

Jia Liang was woken up by Xing Shuang, and after thinking about it carefully, those soldiers are also idle every day, except for the soldiers who patrol every day, those who are not on duty are indeed just practicing every day and going around.

It's rare for his wife to mention this, but it makes him suddenly, as the governor, can't he still transfer these soldiers?

So a few days later, an urgent express was sent to the capital. Without waiting for the receipt from Beijing, Jia Liang asked Jia Lian to start studying this adhesive, and ordered all counties to hurry up the production of stone bricks for the purpose of building embankments.

It's just that if you want to build an embankment, you have to experiment with the strength of "cement" first, Xing Shuang generously gave her husband her own land boundary to do experiments, and sent people to step up the construction of houses, and moved out the group of tenants by the sea.

Within five days, Jia Lian experimented with several feasible schemes according to the materials dictated by his father, and made several kinds of "cement", and finally the "cement" with the best adhesion and the strongest was smuggled to the beach as experimental materials.

The paper-burning stone bricks in Xin'an County have also been transported to the location and are waiting for the start of construction.

Jia Liang gave an order, regardless of the complaints in the army, and sent a team of thirty people to the seaside of Xin'an County to start the embankment experiment.

Soon, the first embankment was built, just waiting for the rainy season to come.

Xing Shuang saw that her husband was frowning day by day these days, and couldn't help but persuade: "Although I don't know what the intensity is, it's better than the stone and wood built out, it's better to let the counties build it first, it's better than doing nothing." ”

Jia Liang sighed: "This is not good, although we are confident, but others do not know." It's just that I deliberately engaged in public construction for the sake of greedy ink, and this was transmitted back to the capital, even if Your Majesty didn't believe it, he would send someone to investigate. If it's someone you know, it's just that, if it's someone who deliberately wants to rectify us, it's a good thing that can also be mixed up with him and a bad thing.

"I'm not afraid of Your Majesty's rebuke, but I'm afraid that the people in this city will have no protection in vain because of these battles, and they will still be terrified every year. Therefore, I can only take one place to do the experiment first, and the rest of the counties will wait, and I will only order people to evacuate in time. ”