Jiang Xingchen stared at the letter in his hand with both eyes, did not move for a long time, and a look of hesitation flashed on his face from time to time. The emperor was a little wavering about whether to agree to his request or not.

The conditions given by the emperor are quite good, and there are only a handful of first-class marquis in the country, not to mention their status. The developed land is even more important to him, and a large area is required for future urban construction, planting and animal husbandry on the periphery, and the construction of various facilities. Now the lands that go directly to the east of the three territories, although he is allowed to develop, are actually still empire, and he does not have any right to build cities.

Now that the Emperor wants to give him all of this, he really wants to agree right away.

However, when he thought of the vast territory of the empire, he forcibly held back, how many wells had to be drilled. The emperor's conditions are good, but he has to pay more, and it is estimated that he will have to spend another 500 million yuan just to develop the formation.

Of course, even if the Emperor didn't mention the conditions, he would have to spend this money, after all, he would have to solve the drought in the Star Realm...... But then there are a series of expenses, such as the huge number of blacksmiths, the countless manpower and material resources required to dig wells, and the construction of irrigation canals...... What made him hesitate the most was that even if the Material Detection Array was activated, he would be able to locate a hundred wells a day, and he would not be able to take care of the whole country.

The end of August is the time for the grain harvest, and it is now the middle of June, and it is more than a month to dig wells...... Estimating the time, the old man and the others rushed to Liusap Tree Island, and it would take at least ten days to come back after collecting the rubber. Then the black wave will deliver the yuan stone, and then send it to the star collar, no matter how fast it is, it will take ten days. In this way, there will be 20 days to solve the drought problem in the whole country. I'm afraid that neither territory can be solved.

"Brother, who is this letter? You've been watching it for a long time!" Mei'er quietly walked behind Jiang Xingchen, her delicate hands gently kneading his shoulders.

Jiang Xingchen exhaled. Raised his hand and patted Mei'er's little hand, and handed over the letter: "Take a look!"

"Oh!" Mei'er stopped, took the letter and looked at it twice, then smiled: "The emperor wants to give us such a big place, and my brother will be promoted to a first-class marquis......"

But halfway through the conversation, Mei'er's surprise was gone, isn't it a joke to solve the drought problem in the whole country, the drought problem in our own territory has not been solved.

"Hey~" Mei'er sighed regretfully and put the letter down. He said softly: "Brother, don't think about it, there will be a chance to ask for those lands in the future!"

Pulling Mei'er in front of him and holding her in his arms, Jiang Xingchen put his chin on her shoulder and said, "Yes, even if I try my best, I can't solve such a large-scale drought in the country!"

In the scorching summer, Mei'er was hugged by Jiang Xingchen, not only did she not have a trace of heat. On the contrary, I feel a little cool, and my spirit is also clear. The reaction to Jiang Xingchen's words was quite quick.

"Wait, brother, what are you talking about, you can't solve the problems of the whole country?" Mei'er made a mistake backwards. looked at Jiang Xingchen and asked.

"Yes!" Jiang Xingchen nodded and said, "You need to dig a lot of wells, and you need to make a pumping tool, plus a drainage canal or something......

"Wait a minute......" The little girl hurriedly stopped Jiang Xingchen. He asked, "Brother, you said that digging a well can be solved so easily?"

"How can it be that simple!" Jiang Xingchen hesitated. "This is a new method of positioning, and it takes a lot of yuan stones to find the right shallow water!"

"Then why didn't my brother agree to the Emperor's request?" Mei'er asked quickly. As for what the new positioning method was and why she needed a large number of Yuan Stones, she didn't care at all. Over the years, she has become accustomed to her brother's endless novelty tricks, and since her brother said that she can position, she must be able to position.

Jiang Xingchen shook his head and said, "The Yuan Stone will not be delivered until twenty days at the earliest, and it will be the beginning of July at that time." Locating the shallow waters, digging wells, making tools, digging ditches, all of which had to be done in 20 days, did not necessarily guarantee a grain harvest by the end of August......"

"Why wait for twenty days, brother, how many yuan stones do you need?" Before Jiang Xingchen's words fell, the little girl asked.

"Estimated...... 500,000!"

"Five Hundred Thousand...... 500 million citrine coins, God, so much!" Mei'er's small mouth suddenly grew bigger, she was really stunned, she didn't expect to ask for so many yuan stones.

After a while, the little girl came back to her senses and said, "Brother, why don't you ask the emperor for it!

"Find the Emperor to ask for it!" Jiang Xingchen smiled helplessly, not to mention whether the treasury could allocate so much money. Even if he could, he wouldn't ask for it. If people ask about the positioning method, they will give you land, give you a knighthood, and finally spend hundreds of millions, it is normal to ask about the positioning method...... But this involves the formation, how could Jiang Xingchen sue sù.

Of course, he has a solution to the drought, and the Emperor will definitely compromise in the end, but this will definitely make the relationship between the two sides worsen again. In the future, more and more resources will be needed for construction, and support from all sides will also be needed...... Therefore, he would rather spend these hundreds of millions himself, and he is blackmailed anyway. Besides, I still have demon beast meat in my hands, so I don't have to worry about running out of yuanshi!

Seeing Jiang Xingchen's expression, Mei'er knew that her brother didn't want to ask the emperor for Yuanshi, so she immediately changed the topic: "Brother, you don't have to wait! When Yuanshi arrives, let's just locate the shallow water layer...... Besides, there is no need for my brother to promise the emperor to solve the problems of the whole country, as long as the problems of several major grain-producing areas are solved......"

As Mei'er was talking, her subordinates outside the door announced: "Sir, Qi Yue has an urgent letter!"

The little girl hurriedly got up from Jiang Xingchen's arms and hid in the back room......

Jiang Xingchen asked his subordinates to enter the house and took the letter to watch. Wang Shuangyang, the Grand Duke of Qi Yue, who was far away in Qi Yueling, was so anxious that his hair turned white.

Qi Yueling is a watery area, with lakes and rivers all over the territory, and even if it rains less, there will be no shortage of water.

But this year is different, not a single drop of rain has fallen for several months in a row, and the temperature is ridiculously high, the water evaporates so quickly that many small rivers have stopped flowing, and the water levels of large rivers are also declining.

Now is the time when the grain grows the most water, and in such weather, he can only order to mobilize everyone, regardless of shoulder to shoulder, to ensure irrigation. It can be said that now the entire Qi Yue Leader has moved, men, women, and children have gone into battle together, carrying water to water the fields under the scorching sun.

But this is still far from meeting the demand for food and water, and Qi Yueling's planting area is too large. The breakage of a small river affects hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land.

These days, there are collective fights in some small territories, just to grab water. The villages upstream cut off the river for irrigation, and the villages downstream became anxious, and hundreds of people were killed and injured in several armed battles.

Wang Shuangyang also thought about digging a well, but after a few attempts he gave up, digging down more than ten meters without seeing wet soil, so what else to dig, this method is not feasible at all.

In the end, he really had no choice, so he wrote a letter to Jiang Xingchen. In fact, he also went to the doctor because of his illness, and Xingchen Ling is also in drought now, he knows this! But thinking of Jiang Xingchen's magic, his heart is full of expectations.

He was not the only one who wrote to Jiang Xingchen for help, Wu Tianfeng and Wei Ning's two families, and the two old guys who were older than Old Man Tang also paid attention to Jiang Xingchen.

The city lord of Hongyuan City, the lord of Qingshan Ridge and the three lords in the east, and even Tang Chuxue wrote a letter to Jiang Xingchen, asking for help in solving the drought problem in the family's territory.

This year's drought is larger than last year's flood, not that it affects the entire empire, but it affects Great Qin and Moon Shadow. Even half of these two kingdoms were drought.

Therefore, Qin Manwu and the Moon Shadow Emperor were added to the ranks of those who wrote to Jiang Xingchen for help......

Jiang Xingchen looked at the pile of letters in his hand and smiled bitterly, in less than two days, these people wrote to themselves as if they had discussed it, knowing that they could solve it.

The Emperor, Wang Shuangyang, the Wu family, the Wei family, the Tang family...... Who is this, Qi Yue Lingtian Hongmin, how can this girl write from you...... Immediately, Jiang Xingchen remembered that it seemed that her father was in the grain business. Last year's flood and this year's drought should be very sad......

After thinking about it that day, he finally did not block the attraction of the emperor's conditions, and decided to agree. Mei'er's analysis is reasonable, and it does not necessarily have to solve the national problem, as long as the drought situation in the main grain-producing areas is solved.

It's just that he hasn't given the emperor an answer yet, so he wrote a letter to the old man, urging the old man to speed up. He had to budget his time to get a rough estimate of how many problems he could solve, and give the emperor a letter to him.

In order to speed up, the letter was sent by Pink personally, for which Jiang Xingchen paid the price of five reunions to gather vitality.

And in the two days of waiting for the old man's reply, he has already begun to design tools.

The thing that Jiang Xingchen was going to design this time was very common in the countryside in the previous life, that is, pressurized water wells. The working principle is simple, one piston and two one-way valves. It's definitely much more convenient to use this stuff than to draw water from an open well.

The principle is simple, but the design is not easy, although Jiang Xingchen has used it in his previous life and has seen the external shape, but the internal structure needs to be explored.

In addition, the sealing aspect is also a problem, there is no rubber ring leather pad and the like, you can only use animal skins to deal with, whether it works depends on the result.

Fortunately, Jiang Xingchen at this time is different from before, to paraphrase a sentence in football, he is not alone.

Xian Ning, the staff of the design institute, as well as the blacksmith, the old man who dug the well, a large group of people followed the design of this novelty, coupled with Jiang Xingchen's theoretical guidance, the progress of the design was very fast!

On the third day, when the pressurized water well design took another step forward, Pink returned, along with the old man's letter.

Jiang Xingchen took the letter and opened it, and his eyes widened all of a sudden! (To be continued......)