Bai Wulan picked up a branch and drew a simple map of the water distribution in the sand, "This is the widest river we have to dredge at the moment, and it is better to widen it at least three zhang while clearing the silt, so as to drain more floodwater." In addition, the southeast channel is the most numerous, but the waterway is too complex in length and width, and if it is not dug well, the flood water will overflow to the surrounding area if it exceeds the capacity of the dredging channel, so it will not play the role of flood discharge at all. ”

"What about the other directions?"

Luo Lingzhi found that Bai Wulan had drawn a map of the distribution of rivers on this muddy ground, but she could understand it, so she pointed to the east direction and asked, there are also several waterways here, which should be usable.

Bai Wulan pointed to several tributaries from west to east, frowning slightly, "Originally, these rivers were the least silted, but there are too many mountains in the east, and it is almost impossible to avoid them completely. ”

"That's right."

Luo Lingzhi didn't know much about this, but looking at the water distribution map on the muddy ground, she only felt that it was difficult to make Luo Shui not rush to the east at all, but she couldn't say the reason, it was just an intuition, so she pressed it for the time being, ready to let Zhao Feihu take someone to probe the situation again to see if she could avoid the mountains.

Bai Wulan didn't know that it would be more difficult to give up the river channel to the east to discharge the flood, but he didn't have a better way, "The rest of the people, I'm going to let them try to clean all the waterways in the southeast first, and not change the original river channel, only clean up the silt and gravel first. I have sent people to investigate the situation at the end of these rivers, but the map is only rough and not detailed, and we have to make arrangements in light of the field, after all, if the flood water is drained and the village is destroyed, it will not be able to kill people. ”

It's not an easy task!

Luo Lingzhi felt that his head was big when he heard this, anyway, Bai Wulan had ideas, so he didn't intervene, and said directly: "You look at the arrangement, come to me if you have a problem that can't be solved." ”

She thought about it again.

Chief Xun listened to everything, his eyes fell on the river that crisscrossed the southeast direction, frowned slightly, and said: "No need to send someone to check, this river passes through the low-lying part of the valley and leads directly to the hinterland of Sichuan City, because the terrain is flat and there is river irrigation, the surrounding area is the largest crop producing area in Sichuan City, and nearly 200,000 people live near these waterways. ”

"That seems to be a problem."

Bai Wulan's face was solemn, he looked at Chief Xun who wanted to speak and stopped, and said in a deep voice: "If Wulan is not mistaken, Chuancheng has been able to feed nearly 400,000 people and store 5,000 stone of grain in the past four years under the situation of disasters and famines everywhere, it should be artificially filled in part of the river in the southeast and planted grain on it, right?" ”

Chief Xun nodded with an ugly face, "I'm ashamed, I never imagined that Sichuan City would be threatened by floods on this day, so after the famine broke out, I immediately planted a large amount of rice in the plain area where the water flowed across the abdomen, so that I could barely maintain the food problem of the people in the city." Nowadays, millions of catties of grain are near those rivers or even on the original rivers, if it weren't for the sudden flood in Luoshui, we would be able to harvest grain in half a month at most, and it is really better to count people than heaven......"

Speaking of the back, Chief Xun's eyes were red.

Everyone was silent, unable to think of anything to do.

Bai Wulan closed his eyes, and for a long time, he still pointed to the hinterland of Sichuan City that Chief Xun had drawn next to him and said, "The river must be dredged!" It really can't be done, let all the people here move out, Luo Shui is violently irrigated, without being absolutely sure, we can't guarantee that the raging flood will not overflow the original river and flood the surrounding area, the only safe way is to move people out. ”

"What about the grain?"

Cui Taishou immediately shouted, almost crying, "That's millions of catties of food!" It is the hope of all of us in Sichuan City to survive this year, how can it be completely ruined by the flood like this! Obviously, there is still half a month to harvest, and it can be put into the warehouse......"

You must know that in this world, all his savings can't buy two million catties of food, and these are the lifeblood of the people of Sichuan!

Speaking of the back, Cui Taishou, who was over half a hundred years old, sat directly on the ground and cried like a child.

"Where to move?"

Chief Xun didn't say anything about food, after all, the lives of the people in the city were almost unsaved, and the food couldn't be managed! I can only hate this thief, how it rained one after another at this time, causing floods in Luoshui.

With a pale face, Chief Xun shook his head bitterly, "That's a population of nearly 200,000, and it's a big problem to settle it!" ”

Bai Wulan was in charge of Huainan's affairs, and naturally understood the difficulties of Chief Xun, but Luoshui had to be drained out, and dredging the river was something that had to be done at the moment.

But how should people arrange it?

Luo Lingzhi stared at the waterways in the east, and suddenly spoke, "Isn't it necessary that the east side can't be dredged?" ”

"If it can, then the southeast direction does not need to be dredged completely, and there is no need to move out all the people, just resettle the people near the dredging river. In this way, nearly half of the millions of catties of grain can be saved! ”

It's not that Bai Wulan hasn't thought about the waterway in the east, "It's just that the waterway in the east can't avoid the mountains, if you want to run through the river from west to east, you have to dig rocks from the mountains, how to move?" ”

"I'll figure it out, you follow the previous plan first. It's just that the waterway in the southeast direction is too complicated, and it is difficult to divert the flood without destroying the surrounding food, let alone hurting the people. ”

Luo Lingzhi squinted her eyes, she remembered that Zhao Feihu could make black powder.

Then as long as she prepares saltpeter, sulfur and other materials for Zhao Feihu, she should be able to bombard the mountains that hold back the water. It really doesn't work, she has another way, that is, to spend more spiritual power.

"We can only do this first, first do our best to dredge and widen the largest river, and then clean up the east and southeast waterways at the same time, and then we will see the situation."

After everyone discussed, they immediately went to work.

The tens of thousands of people brought back by Gu Huaiyi quickly joined the work of dredging the river.

After Luo Lingzhi saw it, he immediately went to the embankment to find Zhao Feihu.

"From now on, you don't need to be involved in repairing the dike, it's basically done anyway, and there are enough people left."

Luo Lingzhi called Zhao Feihu and the others and asked Bai Lingqing to choose another two hundred people, these people were busy with the matter of the embankment and were waiting to go to the river to dig up sediment, but it was a little strange that they were suddenly called over.

There are even people who are uneasy, is this because there are enough laborers in the city, and they are not needed? If you work hard, you will have food and wages, which was all rushed to do before the famine, not to mention now, they don't want to lose this job, but they don't dare to talk to Luo Lingzhi casually, so they have to watch worriedly.

Bai Chongwen followed Luo Lingzhi out of the ancestral house, compared to the awe of others, he was a little more cordial, and dared to ask directly when Luo Lingzhi didn't name him, "Luo Niangzi, but there are other arrangements for us?" ”