In the seventh year of Chongzhen, in late June.

The area north of the Yangtze River should have entered the rainy season a long time ago, and there have been many heavy rains that have moistened the crops in the fields.

But not this year.

Drought broke out in all five provinces: Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Shandong.

Especially in Henan, the land is cracked, the rivers are dry, the grass and trees are scorched, and people even see the blood-red sun, which causes countless horrors.

A reporter from Xujiazhuang's "Oriental Times" went to Henan to take pictures of the drought and present it in the form of high-definition pictures to countless readers, so that they all witnessed the seriousness of the problem.

Daming fell into a panic in many places, and then there was a frenzy of rushing to buy and hoard food.

Such as grain, oil, rice and flour.

Such as dried vermicelli noodles.

All kinds of coarse grains such as beans, sorghum, corn, etc.

Even the more expensive canned meat and canned sea fish produced by Xujiazhuang have been snapped up.

Not only triggered a tide of food hoarding, but also triggered a tide of food prices, generally rose three times, five times or even ten times, although the "Oriental Times" called not panic hoarding, this year's Ming grain production will be reduced, but it does not mean that there will be a substantial reduction in production, in the efforts of Xujiazhuang, Nanzhili can ensure a bumper harvest, because the drought in the south of the Yangtze River is relatively light, plus fertilizers, pesticides, pumps and other sharp weapons, more than half of the Ming grain output can be guaranteed.

The total grain output in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, even if the output is reduced by half, the actual output is reduced by 25%, and Xujiazhuang will cooperate with the Zheng family in Fujian to try to buy grain from Vietnam, Siam, Luzon and other overseas countries, which will definitely make up for the food gap and ensure that no one will starve to death.

But it didn't work.

Prices of all types of food are still rising.

The grain in Xujiazhuang is cheap and the wholesale price is even lower, which has led to many profiteers pouring into Xujiazhuang Harbor City, frantically buying grain, wanting to hoard Juqi and make a fortune, but fortunately, their purpose did not succeed, Xujiazhuang immediately banned the export of grain, and only the poor people who are really short of grain can enjoy the quota of up to five catties of grain per person per day, but the price has also risen a little, and it will not be too cheap.

It is foreseeable that this wave of rising grain prices will not be significantly improved before the arrival of the grain harvest season in July and August, and for those families who are short of grain and money, they will have to live a rather difficult time.

……

Yangzhou Mansion, Haimen County, 101 collective estate.

Recently, Yuan Ying has been busy every day, and she is so busy that she has little time to accompany her newlywed wife Xiang Si'er.

I couldn't even go home at night, I had to spend the night outside, and I finally went home once, but I fell asleep upside down, snoring like thunder, which made Xiang Si'er feel distressed.

And this situation has been going on for more than two months.

In recent days, there has been a trend of even busier, because the crops in the fields have grown to the critical jointing stage and grain filling stage, but the drought has worsened, and it is necessary to fight drought and protect moisture! Win this battle to defend the grain harvest.

As a matter of fact.

The Jiangnan region is humid and rainy, there are many rivers and lakes distributed, even if the rain is less this year, but as long as the irrigation measures can keep up, it is difficult to achieve a bumper harvest, and the most feared is flooding.

The reason why Yuan Ying has been so busy recently is not because he is busy with the affairs of his own manor (the irrigation facilities of the 101 collective manor have long been built and improved), but because he followed a large number of capable staff of Xujiazhuang to build an irrigation network covering almost the entire Nanzhili and complete this extremely huge project.

The goal is to send abundant water resources to the fields of a large number of farmers who have cooperative relations with Xujiazhuang, solve the problem of irrigation, and increase production and income.

Therefore, Xujiazhuang first planned a three-vertical and eight-horizontal main water transmission network, with an average width of 15 meters, an average water depth of 5 meters, and a total length of 5,870 kilometers, which can not only be used for drought resistance, but also for inland waterway shipping, killing two birds with one stone.

Then it is to mobilize those farmers who have the need to fight drought, and build countless aqueducts, which are about one meter wide and half a meter deep, as long as they can bring water into the farmland, and most of these canals are already there, and the farmers can repair them, and the workload is not large.

In order to build a set of three vertical and eight horizontal, at most 1.5 million hectares (1 hectare = 100 acres) of irrigation area of the backbone water transmission network, Xujiazhuang dispatched more than 1,500 excavators, more than 500 bulldozers, more than 2,000 tractors, a total of more than 1 million young and strong laborers, consumed countless materials, and from March to June, it took more than three months. It was a miracle that more than 350 million cubic meters of earth were transferred before the main project was finally completed.

You must know that Emperor Yang of Sui ordered to dig the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to the dead country, and the amount of earthwork transferred did not exceed 100 million cubic meters, and the main water conveyance project in Xujiazhuang not only had several times the workload, but also took only three months to complete.

It's terrifying.

Xujiazhuang's strength is simply terrifying.

Now that the main water transmission network has finally been repaired, the next most important step is to inject water into the irrigation network.

So where do you have to pump a lot of water and replenish it into this irrigation network?

A place with a lot of natural water.

Haimen County is not only close to the sea, but also next to the Yangtze River, just in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, this year's rainfall is very abundant, resulting in a sharp rise in the water level in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, water resources can only be described as too much to be used.

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June 27, morning.

101 collective manor, southwest direction, not far from the Yangtze River, an empty perennial windy shore area, stands a full 20 sets of 50KW wind turbines, so that 101 and the 102 collective manor next to it have become one of the few manors with abundant power supply among the many manors in Xujiazhuang.

But today's focus is not on these wind turbines.

Instead, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the young men dug a row of door-shaped water pumps, and then put a hose the thickness of an adult's thigh into the water pipe, and then poured buckets of water into the nozzle above the diesel pump connected to the end of the hose at a faster speed.

Wait until the water is full.

Someone took the crank handle and accelerated the shaking of the diesel pumper, and in the loud bang, the red-shelled pump spewed out a puff of black smoke, and then entered the normal working state.

A stout column of water with white flowers erupted.

But it was immediately connected to a 100-meter-long water pipe, through which a large amount of Yangtze River water was injected into the main water transmission network.

"Dadada~"

More than one pumping machine was activated.

In this area alone, there are as many as 100 units.

If you go further upstream of the Yangtze River, you will see that there are nine pumping points, almost all of which are starting the pumping machines at the same time, humming to pump water.

That is, there are a total of hundreds of pumping machines in work, forming a spectacle of "thousands of dragons spitting water".

Naturally, on today's official pumping day, there are crowds of people around every pumping point, and countless people come to watch.

Yuan Ying also had a rare day of rest and relaxation today, and took his wife Xiang Si'er, as well as many friends and colleagues, to watch together, or in other words, in the 101 collective manor today, most of the men, women and children put down what they were doing and came to join in the fun.

And couldn't help but sigh.

"There is too much water in this big river, even if tens of thousands of dragon kings pump at the same time, it is impossible to pump it all."

"A dragon king works day and night, pumping out water, at least enough for thousands of acres of water to water the land, these thousands of dragon kings at the same time, one day can water millions of acres of fields, plus the water from elsewhere, this Ming north is dry, and do not want to drought to the south of the Yangtze River."

"It's stable, this year's grain is stable, and a bumper harvest is a sure thing."

"I can't take care of other places, but in our land south of the Yangtze River, no one will starve to death!"

"Hey, Xujiazhuang is too strong and powerful, I don't know when to expand the village again? I've wanted to join the Xu family manor for a long time, but there has been no movement in the past two years, and I don't know if there will be a big move next year. ”

"Yes, now many people are begging to join Xujiazhuang and don't accept people, only recruit workers and craftsmen who work in the factory, but even the factory is not easy to enter, the competition is too fierce, and now many people understand that Xujiazhuang is the most comfortable and prosperous place in Daming, and no other place can compare."

"It would be good if Xujiazhuang sat on this Ming Dynasty, those officials and gentry were too bad, Confucianism was too bad, even the emperor didn't care much about the life and death of our small people, only Xujiazhuang took our small people as the foundation, and treated us as the water that carried the boat, and would invest so much manpower and material resources to help us pump water and fight drought. But Xu Jiazhuang was too hesitant and too benevolent, so he couldn't do the crime of hanging the people and changing the world. The old man was disappointed.

"Forget it, let's be content, we are people from Jiangnan, and we have received a lot of favors from Xujiazhuang, if it is the people of Henan, I am afraid that they will already be hungry and start eating people."

"That's it, I'm already lucky."

……

Hear all these buzz around you.

"Husband, are the many benefits of joining Xujiazhuang only a few of us can get? The owner of the village is so benevolent, why not let more people join Xujiazhuang, or simply change the dynasty? Xiang Si'er was very puzzled and raised her doubts.

"Uh~"

Yuan Ying thought for a while and said: "There are more than 200 million people in the Ming Dynasty, and the owner of the village is an immortal and a god, and he can't help so many people, so he can only make a small area better, lead a few people out of the sea of suffering, and live a happy life, and when we live a good life, we have the extra ability to help the people around us. When we become richer and stronger, maybe we can help the entire Ming Dynasty, but it takes a process. ”

"The owner of the village said personally, within ten years to change Jiangnan, twenty years to change the Ming Dynasty, thirty years, we will have the whole world, we are all so young now, we must see these goals achieved, and even personally participate in it, contribute our strength."

"Hmm~"

Xiang Si'er nodded, also feeling quite expectant.

At this time, there were several lucky boats on the other side of the river, which did not take a fixed course, and drove over like a rampage, and after docking, a group of people dressed in strange costumes and like foreign missions walked down.

But they see huge wind turbines.

I also witnessed the scene of 100 pumping machines pumping water at the same time.

They were originally arrogant and unruly, but they were stunned one by one, and then they had to kneel and worship, waw and ghost, as if they had seen a god.

These people were all tributary envoys from the Taungoo Dynasty in Burma, and the purpose of their visit to the Ming Dynasty this time was, firstly, to establish equal diplomatic relations and not want to be a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and secondly, to demand that part of the land in Yunnan be ceded to Burma, and if they did not agree, they would go to war.

Because the Taungoo Dynasty in Myanmar is now in the strongest period of national strength, with more than 300,000 soldiers in the country, and the Ming Dynasty is extremely weak, if you don't agree to their request, hehe.

It's just that I haven't arrived in the capital yet, and just after crossing the Yangtze River, I saw the scene of the gods, where can I dare to have the slightest arrogance.

The original plan was changed on the spot, and I didn't dare to think about it any more.

And the episode of this scene made Yuan Ying's friends laugh one after another:

"These foreign barbarians have never seen anything in the world." Luan Xiang Dongdao.

"In fact, it has nothing to do with the world, it's just that many people in the Ming Dynasty, the first time they see this, their performance is not much better." Xu He said.

"This is the power of civilization, there is no need for war, as long as they see something they can't imagine, they are already on their knees." Xu Bao said.

"Even so, our fists must not be soft, otherwise they will just be fat, and they will be fat sheep in the eyes of these barbarians, and they will immediately pounce greedily." A colleague said.

"That's right, no matter how glorious a civilization is, it must have strong enough muscles." Yuan Ying nodded approvingly.

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