"Hard, hard!"

"It's really hard."

"It's so hard, it's like a stone."

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South County.

On the banks of the Longwang River.

This is a tributary of the Yangtze River, because of its curved and spreading, like a swimming dragon, so the locals are accustomed to call it "Longwang River".

The Longwang River is not big, nor is it wide. However, the river is interspersed all the way deep, covering almost one-third of the farmland in Nan County.

In normal times, with this Longwang River, it is extremely convenient for the common people of Nanjun to farm and irrigate, but once the flood season comes, this Longwang River is also the culprit who destroys the largest amount of farmland.

In the past, when Nanjun was still the territory of the Chu State, he had thought of countless ways to solve this problem.

Including: the construction of a fence to cover both sides of the Longwang River.

But in the end, they all failed.

The reason is simple.

In the flood season of the Longwang River, the water potential rises extremely rapidly, and the enclosure built of ordinary earth and stone almost collapses as soon as it is washed.

If the thickness is further widened, it may be possible to prevent the flood season, but the problem is that the Yongwang River does not only cause flooding, it also takes on the responsibility of watering nearly one-third of the farmland in the entire southern county.

If the embankment of the Longwang River is built simply to prevent flooding, then the irrigation of farmland will inevitably become a big problem in the absence of automatic pumping machines.

Therefore, the hidden danger of the Longwang River in Nanjun has been the territory of Chu since this place, and until now, it has been dragged on for hundreds of years, but no Nanjun official has ever come up with a solution.

And yet today.

A gray-white embankment rises from the ground and stands on the bank of the Longwang River.

Compared with the ordinary ridge, this strangely colored embankment is different in two places.

One is hardness.

Most of the mounds are made of earth, but not only were many stones added to the embankment when it was first built, but when it was finally reinforced, the current county keeper personally brought something like sand and mud, and poured it into the inside of the embankment through the holes that had been left in advance.

According to the warden, this thing is called 'cement', and if you use it to strengthen the embankment, it will only take three to five days to turn the embankment into a stone-hard one.

For this statement, everyone naturally did not believe it at first, after all, it can make the entire embankment as hard as stone in three or five days, how can there be such a thing in this world?

However, they didn't refute it at the time, after all, in their opinion, although the new county keeper was a little 'naïve', at least he was not bad-hearted.

Because in the past, after the disaster in Nanjun, the food for disaster relief has always been gruel like water, and no official has ever used dry food for disaster relief.

Although these foods need to be exchanged for work, it is a matter of course to work and eat. What's more, working here in the past few months, many people have eaten more than their families, and if they can really continue to work like this in the future, it will be a really beautiful thing!

Now, where to find a good place to eat as long as you work?

Farming at home, even if it is a good year, the whole family goes out and plants more than a dozen acres of land in a year. But when the various grain taxes and land rents are paid, the remaining grain is just for food and clothing.

Whenever there is a little disaster or difficulty, it is even more difficult to have food and clothing for conscription and war.

If you really want to talk about it, it's better to be stable now.

However, to everyone's surprise, it had only been four days, and the thing called 'cement', which was like water and sand, brought by the county keeper before, had actually hardened.

Even if you hit it with a copper hammer, it is difficult to destroy the dam, and the embankment, which was originally piled up with sand, gravel and earth, has actually turned into a huge 'stone'.

This scene instantly shocked everyone's eyes.

Looking at Mo Jun at this time, it was simply shocking.

"Good, good······ All right! ”

"It's just wonderful."

"Good! Someone can finally tame this 'old dragon king'! ”

In the crowd, many young people were just curious about things like 'cement', but some of the older people were leaning over at the moment, touching the hardened cement on the embankment, and tears of excitement filled their eyes.

No one knows better than these old peasants who have lived here for almost their entire lives, and they know the harm brought by the Longwang River.

Compared to the rest of the big rivers.

Although the flooding caused by the Longwang River during the flood season is not particularly strong, the disaster it brings to the farmers in this area is not weaker than that of the so-called big rivers.

Although the floods brought by those great rivers are amazingly destructive, they will only occur once in at least a dozen years.

However, the floods brought by the Longwang River occur once every three or five years, and sometimes even more frequently, every year. Although the destructive power is not strong each time, it does not bring too many casualties.

But once the Longwang River is in trouble, at least hundreds of miles of farmland near this place will be submerged, and tens of thousands of farmers' hard work will be wasted for a year.

Many young people in Nanjun haven't experienced much now, but for the old people here, the Longwang River is much more hateful than the 'big disasters' in many places.

This is one of the reasons why the embankment was built here in the first place.

The biggest difference between the concrete embankment and the most common mud fence today is that it is hard enough, which means that it is not easy to be washed away by floods, which means that it can not only prevent floods, but also build 'gates'.

And this is the second difference between this embankment and the ordinary ridge.

That's in the middle of this embankment, and there's a gap left where the gate will be installed.

With this gate.

During the normal water supply period, the Longwang River can be watered along the sluice to the farmland on both sides of the river.

Once the flood season comes, simply close the floodgates to keep the flood water out of the embankment and protect the farmland on both sides of the bank from being flooded.

"Not bad!"

Today is the day to test the quality of cement and embankments, and Mo Jun, as a county guard, will naturally not be absent.

I saw that he was holding a small hammer in his hand, followed by a group of Mofu doormen, beating with a small hammer as he walked, and finally said with satisfaction.

Although there have been several experiments before, and even Mo Jun has built two baths with 'cement', the embankment is different from the bath after all.

The quality of the bath is not up to par, at most it is leaking and running out.

But what the embankment is about the farmland within a radius of 100 miles and the lives of tens of thousands of farmers, so naturally Mo Jun cannot be careless.

Walk on the embankment.

Zhanqin, Yuenu, Zhu Yeqing, Jiujian Idiot and others behind Mo Jun looked at the dry 'cement' under their feet, and their eyes were also full of surprise.

Although they were aware of it when Mo Jun and Jian Jiuyuan were burning 'cement' in the other courtyard before, they didn't expect that such a 'magical' thing would be fired in the end.

When they poured cement on the embankment four days ago, they all followed Mo Jun and saw it with their own eyes, to be honest, even they didn't believe that there was anything in this world that could make a dam as hard as stone in three or five days.

However, only four days later, the sight in front of them was like an invisible slap in the face.

I saw the embankment that had taken shape in four days in front of me.

Some people simply see the magic of 'cement'.

But some people have already seen through the embankment in front of them and see further into the future······

Since this 'cement' can have such a miraculous effect, it can build a dam as solid as a boulder in four days.

So what if you use it to build bridges, roads, houses, and buildings?

And even the construction of walls, ramparts, fortifications?

That's it.

Some people who thought more far-reaching, and when they looked at Mo Jun's eyes again, they suddenly became different.

Yuenu's beautiful eyes flashed again and again, this was the first time since she became Mo Jun's doorman, Mo Jun showed it in front of her, in addition to cooking food, brewing fine wine, and building baths······ These are used to enjoy talents other than that.

That's right.

There is also a 'silk goose down quilt' sewn in female red.

Just half a month ago, Yuenu saw Mo Jun, a big man, personally instructing a group of female slaves to sew a few beds of exquisite and soft 'silk goose down quilts' with female red and sun-dried tanned goose down.

At that time, Mo Jun showed the female red skills, even the woman Yuenu was ashamed of herself.

But don't say it yet.

The bed 'silk goose down quilt' is really comfortable to sleep on, and recently, the moon girl has shortened the time of meditation and practice on the bed, because as long as she lies on the 'silk goose down quilt' every time, the soft touch makes her feel sleepy······ Ahh

Why do you think about all this mess again?

The moon girl's cheeks flushed slightly, and she quickly shook her head, dispelling the strange thoughts that came to her mind.

Recently, Yuenu has found that she has more and more distracting thoughts in her mind, because there are too many novelties she has seen on Mo Jun's side during this time, and she really can't accept it all of a sudden.

The Moon Girl felt that she needed to go back to the Yin and Yang House to temporarily stabilize her state of mind and cultivate.

However, recently, whenever this thought just appeared in the heart of the moon girl, she suddenly felt a faint resistance inexplicably, and then couldn't help but hesitate.

And this hesitation is more than half a month has passed.

And then ······

The moon girl found that she didn't want to go even more.

"This guy is such a sinful man."

Looking at Mo Jun in front of her, the moon girl couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

It's really because the man in front of him is too special, and his body is full of a mysterious temperament that is incompatible with this era.

Now the Moon Girl is becoming more and more suspicious, and Mo Jun is most likely the 'source' that she is looking for that causes the changes in the stars.

It's just that she hasn't found enough evidence to prove it.

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(End of chapter)