In the eighth year of the reign of King Qin, on the sixth day of Meng Xiawang, that is, on the sixth day of June, Ying Zheng and his hundred officials stood on a high slope on the east bank of Jingshui.

Because of its potential like a sharp mouth, the people of Jingyang call it "sharp mouth slope".

And this high slope is the end point of the eastern end of the Guanzhong Canal.

"Drain!"

Ying Zheng, who was standing on the high slope, shouted, and the sound was transmitted to the distance with the blessing of internal force, and the trumpets and drums on the high slope sounded in unison.

One after the other, the sound of the trumpets and drums was heard into the distance, and every few miles a group of trumpets and drums were relayed, playing the trumpets and drums to spread the sound into the distance. After a long time, the sound of the trumpets and drums of Yingzheng and the civil and military officials on the sharp mouth was no longer audible.

And the people standing on both sides of the canal, pointing at this Guanzhong canal, not with malice, but as the local people of Jingyang County, they really want to know what the role of this canal, which cost countless manpower and force of the Qin State and was built for eight years.

Far away at the mouth of the starting point of the western end of the Guanzhong Canal, with the sound of trumpets and drums that had been passed on for 300 miles, more than 20 shirtless and upper-body strong men turned the four rudder-like axles built on both sides of the canal.

There are chains and gears in the axle, and the sluice that blocks the Jingshui rushing to the southeast slowly rises under the rotation of the axle.

The abruptly released stream of water rushed out of the crack in the sluice gate and rushed over the artificially dug channel towards the east side of the canal.

Guanzhong Canal leads Jing water in the west and injects Luo water in the east, which is more than 300 miles long.

The people who watched the ceremony on both sides of the Guanzhong Canal applauded and applauded when they saw the water rushing from afar, not only for the wonderful idea of this canal, but also for the next good days.

The Jing River rushes out of the mountains in the north of Guanzhong, flows to Liquan and enters the Guanzhong Plain. The plain is hundreds of miles from east to west and dozens of miles from north to south, forming a terrain that is slightly higher in the northwest and slightly lower in the southeast.

Zheng Guo made full use of this favorable terrain, and the Guanzhong Canal started from the mouth of the gourd and stretched eastward along the northern foot of the mountain, so that the main canal was naturally distributed in the highest area of the irrigation area, which not only controlled the irrigation area to the greatest extent, but also formed a complete artesian irrigation system due to the difference in terrain.

The whole Guanzhong Canal runs very smoothly, and there is no need for maintenance, only the gourd mouth as the starting point of the west end needs to open a few more new canals.

Jingshui contains sediment, and perhaps after a few years, the sediment may accumulate in the gourd, filling the mouth of the canal, so that the water cannot enter the canal from the gourd, so it is necessary to prepare several more inlet outlets that can replace the gourd.

"Brother Han Fei, I don't want to travel for nearly eight years, you and I have the opportunity to be officials in the same dynasty again." Zheng Guo was wearing a black Qin Dynasty robe, and looked at the young man next to him wearing a distinctive purple robe with a smile, and couldn't help but make jokes.

"Creation makes people."

Han Fei shook his head and sighed lightly.

As Han Fei's best friend, Zheng Guo chose to come to South Korea, a country that could not give full play to his talents, but Han Fei had to push him to Qin Guo, and he was still a middleman.

On the grounds of repairing the Guanzhong Canal, he did the trick of exhausting Qin, but he didn't want the Qin State to survive the most difficult period, and he also hit the joint army hard, and waited until the day when the Guanzhong Canal was completed.

And he was the ninth prince of South Korea and became a hostage handed over by South Korea to Qin, and Yingzheng also planned to arrange an official position for him as a proton in the Tingwei Mansion.

Suddenly, Han Fei's expression with a wry smile froze, and he looked at Zheng Guo with a solemn expression: "Brother Zheng Guo, how effective can this Guanzhong Canal be?" ”

"I hope Brother Zheng Guo can tell the truth."

Of course, Han Fei knew that the effect of the Guanzhong Canal described by Zheng Guo in front of Zhang Kaidi back then was definitely discounted, otherwise with the arrogance of Zheng Guo, a high-ranking disciple of the public opinion, it would be impossible for him to stoop to the plan of the intermediary to enter Qin and exhaust Qin.

And these days he followed Ying Zheng to visit Jingyang County, although he did not know much about the art of water control, he could vaguely feel that the effect of this Guanzhong Canal was far more than Zheng Guo described to increase the yield per mu of 20,000 hectares of land three times.

Zheng Guo, who has been exposed to the scorching sun all year round, has long since lost the appearance of the handsome young man he used to be, and a sly smile appeared on his dark cheeks, which indirectly verified Han Fei's guess.

"Anyway, Brother Han Fei will know sooner or later, so it doesn't hurt to tell you."

"During this period of time, I surveyed with the history of Zhisu Nei, if the data we surveyed is correct, then this Guanzhong Canal will irrigate more than 40,000 hectares of land in Zelu."

"As for the yield per acre...... If there are no natural disasters, the average yield per mu can barely reach one minute. ”

Zheng Guo stroked his beard under his chin, looking like he was nothing more than that, but Han Fei couldn't calm down no matter what.

What is the concept of one minute per mu, that is, nearly six and a half stones per mu (about one hundred and seventy catties)?

In this era, the yield per mu of ordinary fields was only one and a half stones, one stone in the lower field, and two stones in the upper field, and the yield per mu was six and a half stones, which was more than three times more fertile than the upper field!

In fact, the example of a minute per mu has long existed.

When Ximen Leopard ruled Ye, he sent the people to dig 12 canals to divert river water to irrigate the people's fields, and the "12 canals of the Zhangzhang Channel" built by him could also make those lands from the lower fields to fertile land with a yield of one minute per mu, but the irrigation range was only 100,000 hectares.

When Guan Zhong ruled Qi, there were also examples of irrigating the land with river silt, so that the land yielded one minute per mu, but it was only hundreds of thousands of hectares of land.

The Guanzhong Canal built by Zheng Guo was able to turn more than 40,000 hectares of uncultivated land (saline-alkali land) into fertile soil with a yield of one minute per mu.

Thinking about it now, I'm afraid that they thought they were sorry for Zheng Guo and let him be a high-ranking disciple, but they didn't expect that people had already thought about showing their ambitions in Qin State.

Therefore, knowing that it was a tired plan, he still dared to gamble, not only did not execute Zheng Guo, who was the intermediary, but gave Zheng Guo more power to build the Guanzhong Canal, and gave the Guanzhong Canal the name "Zheng Guo Canal" after the canal was opened.

This is the courage of Yingzheng.

The courage of Ying Zheng also laid a good foundation for the Qin State to dominate the world.

With this Zhengguo Canal, unless it is a locust plague, the Qin State will never have the problem of food shortage again.

If there were another Battle of Changping, Qin would be able to mobilize a million-strong army without worrying about logistical pressures.

With a strong treasury, with the Qin people who are not afraid of death, and the assistance of a famous general, the Qin State can consume life and death, and the rest of the countries will dominate the world.

And as the news of the opening of the canal of Qin Zhengguo spread all over the world, a news from Wei also shocked the world.

In the thirty-eighth year of the reign of King Wei of Wei, the king died, and the crown prince was added to the throne of Wei.

(Sima Qian's grandfather's name was Sima Xi, so he avoided all the nicknames with "僖" in the "Historical Records" and changed them to "釐")

This King of Wei Anxi, who lived four years longer than in history, was praised by Han Fei in the book "Han Feizi" as "attacking Yan to save Zhao and taking the land east of Hedong; conquer the land of Tao and Wei; Increase troops in Qi, and privately level the capital of land; Attacking South Korea and extubating is better than Qixia; Suiyang's matter, Jing Jun is old and leaves; Cai and Zhaoling, Jing Jun broken; The soldiers are spread all over the world, and they are mighty in the country of the crown belt; King Anxu died and Wei died. The lord of Zhongxing finally fell on the road of Zhongxing Wei.

And the king of Chu, who is far away in Huainan, is about to come to an end of his life.

A conspiracy was also brewing in the palace of Chu Wangwan, Prince Han and Li Yuan, as well as Chun Shenjun.

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