Gongs and drums are noisy, and colorful flags are displayed.

At the inauguration ceremony of Shuiyantou Reservoir, Li Congyi, the assassin of Xuanzhou, Xu Jianzhang, Du Zhengchu, Hou Hongye, Xuancheng Zhixian, Wu Wenyan, Ningguo Zhixian, Zhou Yuanji, and other important officials, all attended the ceremony, and the gentlemen and villagers of dozens of surrounding villages, as well as the heads and faces, all came to watch the ceremony.

In Li Congyi's view, this reservoir is inconspicuous. Roughly, the dam is no more than 5 meters high; In terms of the height of the sinkway, the maximum depth of the daily water storage is only 4 meters. But for the contemporaries, it's quite shocking.

In order to facilitate the standardization of dam construction, Li Congyi called for a large number of green bricks to be used instead of boulders. According to Li Congyi's explanation, this kind of gravity dam relies on the gravity of the dam itself to block water, and the core is to prevent leakage, and the boulder has nothing to do with the safety of the dam. However, Shen Deshui argued that it was not easy to mine and transport boulders, but in this agricultural leisure time, there were people who could be hired, and because Xuanzhou Construction provided three meals, the daily wage was 100 yuan, and the strong laborers from all over the country came to find work to grab a handful. After Shen Deshui listed the cost comparison between boulders and lime of green bricks, Li Congyi also had to say that everything was according to expert opinions.

Now after seeing the dam body, Li Congyi also realized that the boulder has more visual effects. The boulders with rough surfaces and different shapes are embedded in the dam body, giving people a strong sense of security.

Shen Deshui led the way and briefed the officials on the situation of the reservoir.

"There are a total of 6 water holes here, and when water is used in the dry season, people can open the water holes one by one according to the drop of the water level. The water hole is made of stone chiseled holes, and the water flows in the stone hole, and the dam body is never harmed. The water hole is plugged with wood, and it is automatically compacted by water pressure. ”

"The main canal is about eight miles long, with a total of five movable sluices, connecting more than ten main branch canals. It is estimated that more than 30 acres of paddy fields will be added this year alone, and the long-term estimate is that about 100 acres of paddy fields can be added. ”

"On the right side of the dam is a water hole, from which excess water is discharged during the flood season. Outside the water hole, there is a waterwheel, the water rushes out from a high place, and the blades are excited to rotate as the driving force to lick the rice. ”

"Excluding the main canals and branch canals, only in this reservoir theory, it consumes about more than 10,000 labor (days), plus other material expenses, the cost is about 3,000 taels."

No matter what they thought, after listening to Shen Deshui's introduction, everyone was speechless, and they were crazy about Jiang Guogong.

Seeing that the auspicious time had arrived, the ceremony began. Zhou Yuanji, a doctor of literature in Xuanzhou Prefecture, is a native of Menkeng, and he is a local, and he was also scheduled to give a speech at the ceremony. Dr. Zhou's essay was applauded again and again. Then Xu Shiming delivered a speech on behalf of Xuanzhou Construction, Hou Hongye delivered a speech on behalf of Xuancheng County, and finally the officials cut the ribbon.

After cutting the ribbon, in the sound of firecrackers, I heard the onlookers cheer. It turned out that Shen Deshui had already calculated the time, and he was destined to dig up the stream blocked before the dam was built in time, and at this time, the white stream flowed down and merged into the reservoir.

After finishing the meal at noon, Wu Wenyan of Ningguo Zhixian couldn't wait to report to Li Congyi alone.

To be honest, when Wu Wenyan of Ningguo Zhixian County asked for instructions to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Shuiyantou Reservoir, Li Congyi was quite surprised. The lag of information in this era is outrageous. Although Kengkou Village is in the southwest of Xuancheng and closer to Ningguo County, under the current situation of inconvenient information, Ningguo Zhixian can only know such information as the inauguration ceremony of the reservoir by taking the initiative to pay attention to it and send people to inquire. And those who can pay attention to things in other counties and put their energy into it, Li Congyi feels that this level should not be bad.

Ning Guozhi County is willing to take the initiative to post it, and of course Li Congyi will not turn it away. However, Li Congyi didn't know that if it weren't for the kiln incident, Li Congyi cleaned up Aunt Zhang's watch, Wu Wenyan would not be so eager.

Wu Wenyan asked Xuanzhou Construction to apply the reservoir construction and operation model to Ningguo, and Ningguo County fully cooperated, and Li Congyi was not allowed to do so. But after Wu Wenyan told the real intention, Li Congyi also felt a headache.

"The subordinates listen to the kiln master, there are ministers in the DPRK and the central government said that Ningguo County is on the lime ground, etc., the crown covers the whole country, especially for building a wall through bricks, this year to repair the Jinling city wall, and want to make Ningguo County pay tribute to 10,000 quintals of fine lime."

Li Congyi frowned, and understood that this was some people's revenge. A load of lime is only 300 wen, and 10,000 taels is less than 3,000 taels. However, if Jinling wants to use lime, the most economical thing is to buy it from quarrying (Ma'anshan), and then go straight to Jinling from the Yangtze River. To transport lime from Ningguo County to Jinling, you need to go down the Shuiyang River, pass through Xuancheng and quarry, and then take the Yangtze River waterway to Jinling. The county seat of Ningguo is in the upper reaches of the Shuiyang River, and it can only make small boats, which are only 500 tons at this time, but with those small boats with a carrying capacity of two or three tons, I am afraid that they will not need two or three hundred boats.

And this rumor is full of uncertainty. If the rumors are true, and Ningguo County is not prepared, it may miss the deadline for tribute and be held accountable; But if Ningguo County had prepared in advance, this rumor might have been a rumor, and Ningguo County would have been passive.

"What happened to the kiln that caused the kiln incident a while ago?"

"That kiln master went to Jinling a while ago, and he hasn't started work since he came back."

It seems that this rumor came from this guy. Li Congyi thought about it for a while, had a plan in his heart, and immediately discussed it with Wu Wenyan.

Wu Wenyan got the plan, so he hurried away.

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The county officials also returned to the city in the afternoon, and only Zhou Yuanji went back to his hometown by the way, so he was not in a hurry to leave.

Li Congyi originally took this opportunity to take Xu Meilan to revisit her hometown, which could be regarded as helping her relieve her mood, but Xu Le'an also followed.

But the problem is that everyone doesn't plan to give Li Congyi time and space to pick up girls. In the afternoon, Li Congyi originally planned to go out for a walk with Xu Meilan, but everyone followed like a smelling shark.

Li Congyi led a group of people up the hill to see the construction scene of the Menkeng Reservoir. Looking at the past, it is obvious that several groups of people are working together and making rapid progress. One group of people built the outer wall of the dam with huge stones, another group built the inner wall of the dam with small stones, and one group in the middle filled it with stones and soil, and tamped it with wooden piles in groups of two. Of course, in addition to the personnel who directly built the dam, there were also handymen who were handling lime and mud, as well as the largest number of quarrying and stone transporting teams, and even a group of people digging in the reservoir - there was originally a paddy field, facing the fate of being submerged by the reservoir, and the farmers were reluctant to take away the black soil.

The whole construction site is in full swing and orderly.

"Building a reservoir is so beneficial, but not so expensive, why hasn't anyone done it before?" Xu Meilan suddenly asked.

Zhou Yuanji, a doctor of literature, said bluntly: "Although the construction of the reservoir is beneficial to the present and the future, it is the key to the problem of who is credited and who is benefited." If Hou Zhi County comes to do it, it will be like the people of this county, but this benefit is given to the people of Shuiyan or Menkeng, then for this county, it is difficult to say whether this Hou Zhi County has merit or not. If Zhou Zhihui is replaced, Zhou Zhihui must first buy all the surrounding dry land that can be converted into paddy fields - otherwise his family's fields are all good paddy fields, but there is no need for this reservoir. ”

For goodwill, Zhou Yuanji didn't talk to the two of Xu's Lizheng, but he also made Xu Heguang, who came over with a shy face, a little embarrassed.

Zhou Yuanji continued, "I also plant willows above the waterlines on both sides of the water line in my Guanshui Eye Reservoir, which is also a matter of long-term eyes. I also thought of one thing. The ancients, ten trees, a hundred years of people; I heard that the Guogong people also set up the Guogongfu Primary School in the Guogong Mansion, and now the Xu and Zhou clans, why not take advantage of the big pattern, big mind, and big vision of the Guogong people, and set up a primary school in Kengkou? ”

It turned out that the old gentleman was pondering this. Li Congyi doesn't plan to pay any more money for this, but it's okay to make it hot. "What Mr. Zhou said is indeed a good word."

Xu Heguang and the others couldn't, so they had to talk. But Zhou Yuanji already had a plan, and immediately settled on the primary school building, but he wanted to renovate the Xu ancestral hall slightly, and then occupy a side courtyard and two houses in Xu Heguang, so that the amount of change was not large, and it could be used as a school place. Next is the Discussion Field. The so-called school field usually refers to the righteous field produced by the field, and its output is dedicated to encouraging the education expenses of the children of the clan.

This contradiction is relatively big, one is how much the scale of the school field is needed, the second is that children from other villages are allowed to come to school, and the third is how to divide the school field. There is a great deal of disagreement on the first issue, and there is no vacillation on the second issue, and there is no way to talk about the third issue.

Li Congyi saw that this was not working, so he had to provide a third way: "It is better to set up a special treasury, regardless of cash, land, real estate, company shares and other arbitrary assets, and use them exclusively for the school, which is called the school fund." The fund is managed by a special person and the income and expenditure are publicized on a quarterly basis. In this way, if the fund is not sufficient, it will be widely fundraised; If it is sufficient or even surplus every year, it can be considered to increase the use of public welfare. ”

As soon as everyone's minds were opened, they agreed to set up a school fund on the spot, and asked Zhou Yuanji to be the first chairman of the fund. Zhou Yuanji immediately returned to Hang Hau Village, and wanted to implement the school fund and the construction of the school as soon as possible.

As soon as Zhou Yuanji left, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, after all, Jiang Guogong didn't have any shelves, the key was to always think about helping everyone make money, and he was much more amiable (making money) than Old Master Zhou.

Next, Xu Heguang mentioned the restructuring of Xu's shops, saying that it will be changed to Xu's Commerce, which will shift from the original department store retail to the bulk wholesale of tea, providing first-class and super-grade tea for Xuanzhou Commerce, and other ordinary teas will be built by Xu's Commerce and Trade Wholesale channels. Li Congyi is too lazy to take care of these things now, but the management is like this, others take the initiative to report, you don't listen, others think you don't pay attention to it, and you won't talk about it next time. I can only listen patiently and point out from time to time. Sure enough, Xu Heguang's idea was to select some local small tea merchants in Shezhou and Xinzhou, Jiangxi Province, and let them take a stake in Xu's trading subsidiaries in the local area, so as to form exclusive competition. Regarding Xu Heguang's idea of drawing inferences, Li Congyi was also amazed.

Later, Xu Heguang even said that he was old and it was difficult for him to leave his hometown, but the younger son should spread his branches and leaves, and planned to order the younger son to move his family to Xuancheng County to maintain close ties with Xuanzhou's commerce and trade, and at the same time more conveniently ask the Guogong Lord for instructions and report Yunyun.