Chapter 162: The Temptation from the Wa Kingdom
When the flood came, Yun Chu stood on the temporary brick-made dam in his robe.
And the people of Qujiangfang, as well as the people brought by Yun Chu, are busy dredging the waterways on both sides of the dam.
Yun Chu had to admit that there was indeed a certain amount of truth in this Japanese man's method, the water that could overflow from Qujiang Pond was only two feet high, and at the beginning, because of the pressure, the water flow would be very turbulent, and the waves would be very high.
This is the most ferocious time of the flood, as long as you resist this wave of floods, wait for the Qujiang Pond to release enough pressure, then, the speed of the water will slow down, and finally the excess water of the Qujiang Pond will be spread evenly in the Qujiang River.
The Qujiang River is much larger than the Qujiang Pond, and the water is two feet deep, and if it is tiled in the Qujiang River, it is not even a foot.
What's more, the new houses in Qujiang are basically built on the original foundation of the soil mountain, which is relatively high.
Theoretically, after a dull roar, when the turbulent waves of water rushed from the Qujiang River for a moment to spread the originally uneven earth into a country, Yun Chu still felt terrified.
The seven or eight-foot-high waves carried all sorts of things, just as when a huge cavalry crashed into a dike, the highest swelling even crossed the dikes and entered the village.
It's just that because the strength is exhausted at one time, this little water also flows lower with the drain.
Wave after wave crashed against the embankment, shattering, and although the embankment under Yun Chu's feet was trembling, it finally withstood the impact until the huge wave slowly turned into a gentle current.
At this time, Yun Chu looked around, and in the misty light rain, Qujiang had become a country of Ze that could not be seen at a glance.
Only seven huge chimneys were still stubbornly smoking.
Master Wu looked at Yun Chu standing on the embankment in awe and shouted, "County Honor, Qujiangli has been saved."
Yun Chu smiled at him, then walked down the embankment and said to Zeng Erniu: "Good job, you know how to protect yourself."
Zeng Erniu pointed to the widow Abe who was silently following behind them and said, "This is a capable one, don't you need to use the county honor?"
Yun Chu said: "How do you want me to use him?"
Zeng Erniu said in a low voice: "The last time Wen Rou Langjun came over, he once told me that he wanted me to keep an eye on this widow, and if I didn't notice that he had any bad intentions, I would keep it for him."
The small one is the person of the county, if this person is useful, he will naturally be sent to the county first, and if you don't need it, it will be the turn of the gentle Langjun. ”
No matter how good the relationship between Yun Chu and Wen Wen was, listening to Zeng Erniu say this, Yun Chu still felt very comfortable in his heart.
Walking into the Qujiang River, it is still gray, and after the rainwater is blackened by soot, it flows out of the drainage channel.
Perhaps because of the fact that this place was originally the foundation of the earth mountain, even after four or five days of heavy rain, the ground here is still not waterlogged. The people of Qujiangfang gathered here, and although the men's faces were gloomy, the women and the children seemed to be very indifferent.
"Is there enough food?"
"Enough, you know, the brick kiln is full of pot-bellied men, when the summer grain came down this year, Qujiangfang hoarded three thousand loads of grain, and the autumn grain that came down before the heavy rain was also hoarded by the villain.
In addition, there is no shortage of coal here in the brick kiln, and there is no problem in providing food for these people. ”
"Do you give it for free?"
"No, the rain has been light in the past two days, and the small ones will continue to dig the mountain with these people, and pile up the excavated soil to the edge of the Qujiang River, where to form a circle of high embankments, and when the imperial court allows it, they will build a small square market on those mounds according to the fang wall of Jinchangfang, and when the time comes, we will install the gate, and we will manage it, right?"
Yun Chu looked at Zeng Erniu in surprise, he didn't expect that this was still an ambitious person, and now it seems that the guy who let this guy go to the bathhouse to be the shopkeeper really had to be trained.
Well, there are not many good people among the people who can greet Erniu personally, Li Shen is not a good person, Yun Chu is not a good person, Gentle is not, Di Renjie is not, and even Liu Renliang is not a pure good person.
"Don't even think about building a fort wall outside Chang'an City."
Erniu said with a smile: "Since it is the law of the imperial court that we can't build a fort wall, let's naturally not violate it."
However, county honor, if we don't build the wall, it's always okay to dig a pit, right?"
Yun Chu frowned and said, "What kind of digging pit?"
Erniu smiled more and more proudly, pointed to the Japanese man behind him and whispered: "Abe said that the Japanese people are not good at building walls, mainly because the boulders cannot be transported to high places, but how can the castle be defended without high walls."
Therefore, there is a clever Japanese who came up with a solution. ”
Yun Chu suddenly remembered the castle tower he had seen when he went to the Wa Kingdom, and outside the castle tower, there was no city wall, only countless cherry blossoms.
Although there were no castle walls, there were several hollow-shaped pits outside the castle tower, which were more than 15 meters deep and more than 20 meters wide.
After listening to the explanation, I realized that these deep pits are actually the walls of the castle tower.
It's just that the originally tall city wall has been turned into a deep pit in the shape of several hollows, and if the enemy wants to enter the castle tower, he must fight along the nine-curved corridor little by little.
If you accidentally fall into the pit, you will not have a chance to climb up, you will be shot into a sieve by the defenders on top of the pit, or the defenders will pour fuel into it, and the whole pit will be set on fire
Thinking of Qujiangli is a big eater of soil, with the current strong demand for bricks and tiles in Chang'an City, no matter how much soil will be eaten by these brick kilns, and finally, it will become a house in Chang'an City.
In this way, as long as the brick kiln in Qujiangfang continues to smoke, Zeng Erniu can make a tall city wall upside down outside Qujiangfang, and it won't take a few years.
The dirt mountain that originally stood here, only a few years of hard work is missing eighty percent, digging a circle of big pits around Qujiangfang, and finally becoming their unique city wall, is really not a very difficult thing. "County Zun, there are really not many things that can be used in the Tang Dynasty, even so, Abe still contributed it.
I know that the county is not interested in such skills, but this can show the county son Abe's heart.
We pray to the heavens for some food, grow some food from the land, and get some food from the sea, but even then, we will never have enough food.
The earth in our place often shakes and rolls, and people live in houses that have just been built, and the houses will collapse and bury the people alive inside.
Our mountains smoke all year round, and sometimes they spew out blazing flames that melt even the rocks.
Not to mention the dangers of the sea, the winds that can break waist-thick trees, and the waves that are higher than the mountains, which are taking the lives of the Japanese people every moment.
Many children die at birth, and many are still very young, and they die of disease, so that, in many places, once people live too long and are too old, in order to save the few grains they have, their children and grandchildren have to carry them into the mountains and let wild beasts eat them
The purpose of Abe's visit to the Tang Dynasty is to introduce the life of the Tang people into the Tang Dynasty, so that the people of the Japanese can also have abundant food and clothing like the Tang people.
Pray to the county honor, please allow us to learn, and allow us Japanese people to live this happy life of the Tang Dynasty people many years later. Please.
When Abe had finished speaking, he fell on his knees, spread his hands on the ground, and pressed his forehead against them.
Abe's Tang dialect is very good, the words are correct and round, and it has a strange rhyme, which is very deceptive.
The people present, except for Yun Chu, who were still pale, and the rest of the people all looked at Abe with pity.
Many officials belonging to Wannian County feel that his family's county is good at everything, but they are too narrow-minded.
Yun Chu suddenly smiled, looked at Abe who was bowing to the ground, and said, "Don't worry, sooner or later, one day, someone from the Tang Dynasty will personally land on your island and teach you all this with their own hands."
Abe raised his head happily and looked at Yun Chu and said, "Really, is this really the case?" Thank you so much.
I have long heard that the county is a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, if the county is able to go to the country one day, Abe is willing to accompany the county to see the smoking white-headed snow mountain, and so on every March, when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, Abe will bring wine, in the breeze to feel the cherry blossoms snowflakes falling, presumably, that kind of scenery will definitely make the county Zun poetry prosperous, to the country to leave a poem that has been handed down for thousands of years.
Abe's description reminded Yun Chu of his visit to Mt. Fuji, the scene of watching cherry blossoms in Kyoto with his colleagues, and the scene of walking in Lake Ashi.
You don't have to say that the scenery there is not beautiful, but it is really meaningful.
However, I still feel that Abe is pretending to be stupid, and what I clearly said is that in the future, there will definitely be Tang soldiers and horses to set foot on the Japanese Kingdom, and they will set foot on the Japanese Kingdom in the name of the monarchy, not as a guest and then go to the Japanese Kingdom.
Yun Chu doesn't like to go to the country as a guest, because, as a guest, he can't even enter the high-end custom house, which is very disappointing.
Seeing Abe's happy appearance, Yun Chu didn't plan to say anything, anyway, in the future, Liu Renliang would become the general of the Tang Dynasty Naval Division, and it would not be impossible to go to the Wa Kingdom at that time.
Seriously, not being able to go to Hokkaido to take a hot spring bath on a snowy day was the biggest regret left by Yunchu when he went to the Japanese country.
"Let's prepare a meal, be hearty, after all, everyone is a hero today."
Erniu bowed happily and said, "Only!"