The three of them had never heard of cement, but the two words were easy to understand separately, so they didn't continue to ask.

Seeing Long Xiang squatting on the ground and pondering, the corners of his mouth raised to reveal his mood, he should have thought of something happy.

It was rare to see Long Xiang so happy, so everyone squatted next to him and waited silently.

Because Tang Yu was born tall and heavy, his legs were numb after squatting for a long time.

Just when Tang Yu adjusted his squatting posture, Long Xiang sobered up from the fantasy of using cement to build infrastructure.

"Don't squat, come to me today, what's the matter?"

The three of them looked at each other left and right for a few times, and finally gave the opportunity to speak to the older Tang Yu.

"Yunqi, in the past two months, there have been a lot of new people in Hefei, and the pressure on my city defense is a bit great, after all, there are more than 300 soldiers.

The brothers have many tasks, in addition to guarding the north and south gates, guarding the granary, patrolling the city, etc., they also have to watch the newcomers not run around..."

After Tang Yu finished complaining, Feng Zhong didn't answer immediately, so Cao Xuan continued to add:

"With the last general's skills, he was originally responsible for cavalry sentry and household statistics, which can barely be competent, but with the continuous addition of newcomers, it is more difficult to count the situation of households, and I am afraid that I will not be able to do it..."

Long Xiang understood directly, and said in his heart that although the two of them spoke tactfully, the core was under great work pressure, and he looked at Feng Zhong who had not spoken.

"What is the difficulty of Uncle Zhong?"

Feng Zhong frowned and said: "Yunqi let Uncle Zhong take care of the people's livelihood, and it was not a big problem originally, but it continued to contain the homeless people, and the consumption of stored grain increased significantly.

Now the seedlings outside the city are not growing high, this year there may be natural disasters, the harvest is uncertain, I am worried that there is no control of the collection, will not be able to make ends meet. ”

"Haha, Uncle Zhong doesn't have to worry, how many people are there in the city now? Less than five thousand, right? We have enough grain to store for 3,000 people to eat for ten years, and in the same way, enough for 30,000 people to eat for a year, if the 500 hectares of fields in the south of the city are harvested, and more than 100,000 grains can be harvested, what are you afraid of? Long Xiang waved his hand unimpressedly.

Feng Zhong said earnestly: "Don't just think about the bumper harvest, if there is a big drought like last year, it may not be enough to be busy for a good season, and the worries of Old Tang and Master Cao are right, even if you don't worry about food for the time being, we will have a total of more than 300 people available, and there will always be a time when we can't be busy..."

Long Xiang has rich management experience, and after listening to everyone's complaints, he was not annoyed at all, he immediately beckoned the three of them to sit down on the stone platform in the garden, and explained with a smile:

"I know your problem, it's nothing more than the continuous influx of displaced people, afraid that our food will not be enough to eat, afraid that there will be too many people to manage things, so I will break them down one by one and say it."

"Sima, there are still limited manpower, everyone is too busy..."

Cao Xing saw that Long Xiang didn't mention this stubble, so he hurriedly spoke and added it.

"Lack of manpower is the third problem."

Long Xiang nodded slightly, then cleared his throat and began to narrate:

"First of all, the food problem, I have just calculated with you, the grain stored in the city is enough for 30,000 people to eat for a year, a total of more than 1,000 people have come in the past two months, if it increases at this rate every month, it will not exceed 10,000 people by the end of the year, so even if there is no harvest in the particles, Hefei can hold on for two to three years."

Taking advantage of Long Xiang's pause, Feng Zhong turned his head and continued to remind: "Two or three years is actually very fast, farming, building cities, and recruiting soldiers all need people, and I am not opposed to accepting homeless people, you must always do what you can, have a plan, right?" How many people do you plan to accept? ”

Long Xiang shook his head slightly: "How many people haven't thought about it, but Hefei City is big enough, and there are countless cultivable lands around, and I estimate that it will be no problem to feed fifty or sixty thousand people." ”

"How can it be so simple, you forgot Uncle Zhong's previous reminder?

It's okay for us to grow food, but the key is drought, floods, and wars.

You can't guarantee that there won't be a few years, how did the previous Hefei country not exist..."

Feng Zhong rubbed his temples, feeling a headache at the thought of these things.

Long Xiang's expression was still calm after hearing this, and he continued to explain: "Hefei is adjacent to water and guards the big rivers, will it be afraid of drought? As long as the irrigation is done well, the damage will not be too serious.

As for Uncle Zhong's concern that heavy rain will fall from the sky, Chaohu Lake and Shishui downstream will not be able to bear the precipitation, and the water will flood the fields on both sides of the river, in fact, I have already thought of a solution to this problem. ”

Feng Zhong was surprised and delighted, and said: "Floods around Chaohu Lake are frequent, once it encounters continuous heavy rains, many places will become Zeguo, if Yunqi has a way to control water, it will undoubtedly benefit all people." ”

"Yunqi, talk about it quickly." Tang Yu couldn't wait to start urging.

Long Xiang Zhengse said: "Rain is inevitable, the reason why it accumulates is that the water has nowhere to go, and it cannot go east to the sea.

The water that flows through the outside of Hefei City, originates from the watershed (now the General Ridge) fifty miles away from the northwest, the watershed flows out of the southeast of the watershed, and the southwest flows out of the water, one enters the river and one enters the Huai.

If the ditch between the two rivers is dug through, then Hefei is rainy, and the water overflows to Huai, and the spring is rainy, and the water overflows to the application, regardless of drought and flood. ”

Listening carefully, Tang Yu suddenly accosted and asked a question with no emotional intelligence.

"What if it rains on both sides?"

"If the land of Huainan is waterlogged, it is not a problem in Hefei, in order to reduce waterlogging as much as possible, we must dredge the river every year to ensure that the river has enough water capacity, otherwise it is in vain to drain more."

Tang Yu suddenly realized, "No wonder you asked me to clean up last year, but it's a pity that there were too few people at that time, and I didn't clean it up far. ”

"That's the truth, you can't do anything with less people." Long Xiang nodded solemnly.

Feng Zhong asked again: "It is indeed a good plan to run through the water and water flow, but it is not a trivial matter to dig a canal, how many people and how much time do you need to do it?" ”

Long Xiang said unhurriedly: "I went to see the terrain on the spot last month, and the terrain in the south of the watershed is flat, and the closest distance between Shishui and Shuishui is actually only about fifteen miles.

We dig from the middle to both sides, I believe it will not take much manpower and material resources, and we don't need to dig a big ditch at one time, we can dig deep and wide from the small river ditch year by year. ”

Feng Zhong couldn't help but get up and applaud, "This plan is wonderful." ”

"Making bricks and firing kilns, dredging and opening canals, pioneering and farming, the more the population, the better, Uncle Zhong is not afraid of not having enough food to eat, and don't be afraid of newcomers eating white food.

Although these people did not plant rice in the spring, they could grow wheat and millet after the summer harvest, and as long as we cultivated more varieties, we could harvest some crops even in a famine year. ”

Feng Zhong had already been persuaded by Long Xiang, so he kept nodding his head in affirmation, "If you plant two crops a year, and then add vegetables and fruits in the city, the harvest should be quite impressive, but how do you solve the war problem?" ”

Long Xiang pinched his chin, frowned and analyzed with everyone:

"We didn't provoke anyone, we really couldn't avoid it, and we couldn't beat it, so we withdrew the people to the city and used the grain stockpile.

I think as long as there is no grudge, no one should travel thousands of miles to Hefei to spend money and food. ”