Chapter 20 Projects and Reserves
Songfan is the source of three rivers, the Min River and Heishui in the central and southern parts of the country flow into the capital of Maozhou to form the Wenshui, and the northern Fushui runs through Xiaohe County and the whole of Longan Province, passing through An County and Mianzhou in the north of the capital.
There are many rivers, all of which flow in vain in the mountains, and if it does not rain, these rivers are difficult to use, and they are too far away from the agricultural and pastoral areas.
Therefore, the first of the three major projects is water storage. If you want to survive the drought, this is the best way to mitigate it.
It is of course the best way to cut off these rivers and block the dam, but the project is too big and the technical requirements are high, so it is not something that can be played in a short period of time. In addition, future maintenance and repair is also a big problem, and if you don't get it right, a good thing will become a bad thing.
Zhao Ran's plan is to dig a series of artificial lakes along the three rivers in suitable places, and divert the water to store while the three rivers are not yet dry.
For this reason, everyone discussed and chose more than ten points, all of which are potholes and lowlands, including the Heikouzi swamp where Yuyang lives, of course, not to flood Yuyang's cave, but to continue to dig a depression next to the Heikouzi swamp, so that its water storage function will be increased by more than ten times. With these more than a dozen artificial lakes, water can continue to supply water to farmland during this year's dry season. This is also the most important and critical project.
The second project is the excavation of ditches, starting from these more than 10 artificial lakes, with a total length of more than 300 miles. These ditches will cover all the farmland that has not yet been drained in the three provinces, mainly in Yongzhen, Xiaohe, Baoxian and Anxian counties.
The ditch system in the four counties of Long'an Mansion is very perfect, which is the credit of Zhao Ran and his successor Kong Xianzun back then, the current Kong Governor's Mansion, and more affected Taoist priests and officials of Long'an Mansion who have worked hard for ten years.
The Maozhou canal in the capital is also well built, and it is close to the northern part of the Tianfu Plain, which has hardly experienced drought, so what needs to be done is to dredge the ditch again.
If not, the amount of work to dig the ditch will more than double.
The third project is to drill wells. Basically, in all prefectures of Tofu and Yongan, every village has a well, but only the county of the Song Domain, because the villages are almost all next to rivers and streams, so they are not very keen on drilling wells, and this is an area that needs to be strengthened.
Drilling wells is a technical job, and without the guidance of professionals, it is not so easy to drill wells. One of the key points is to look for the eye position. I can't hit the right place, I don't know how long it will take to dig to get out of the water, or I can't get out of the water at all.
Zhao Ran is not a professional, but he has a more professional vision than a professional, as soon as the eyes of the sky are opened, look at the flow of heaven and earth qi, and know where to start.
Although these three major projects are started in response to the upcoming drought this year, they can bring long-term returns to the people after completion, and there is no need to be afraid of drought in the future.
In addition to the three major projects, it is also necessary to do a good job in the four major reserves, and reserve a large amount of grain, medicinal materials, pastures, and seeds. It is expected that after the grain output is reduced in the autumn, the headquarters will quickly distribute relief grain and seeds for the winter, so as to smoothly transition to next year's spring ploughing. The medicinal materials are to prevent accidental epidemics, and Zhao Ran definitely does not want any epidemics to occur, but who can say for sure in the face of natural disasters? His rescue team is set up for this. As for pasture, it is forage prepared for cattle, sheep and livestock, and since it is difficult for a hundred trees to grow, it must include pasture in the disaster area, so it is necessary to make a large amount of reserves in Hongyuan and support the pastoral areas of Yongzhen, Xiaohe, and Songfan counties to prevent the phenomenon of large-scale starvation of livestock.
After the heated discussion in the dark, each family also shared 100,000 taels of silver for emergency disaster relief, and the drought-fighting headquarters will use this money to purchase grain from Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangdong, and other places, and a large amount of medicinal materials from Lizhou, which will be stored in the standing positions of each county, and allocated and operated according to the orders of the headquarters.
In addition, each family also had an important task, which was to carry out conscription. This matter is very tricky, not that it can't be recruited, but that the time is not right. It is already early March, and spring ploughing is about to begin, and if there are no special circumstances during spring ploughing, it is basically not going to choose such a time to levy, but if it is levied again in May, it will delay the construction period and have no time to deal with the drought.
Zhao Ran is not worried, he has a professional team in hand, all the work in the early stage can be completed, and after the spring ploughing is completed, it will be handed over to the labor levied by the counties to take over, which can almost ensure that it will be completed before July, and the water will be renewed in time when the crops need the draft most. The only problem is how to supply water during the spring ploughing, and Zhao Ran plans to hand over this matter to the emergency team.
It's just that in this way, it's impossible to avoid "shocking the world", so I greeted in advance in this meeting, and asked all prefectures to inform the lowest villages, if you see groups of demon cultivators traveling on a large scale, don't panic, because these demons are all good demons!
At the end of the discussion, the counties were asked to immediately begin to survey and determine the specific location of the digging lake, mark it, circle the area with lime, and draw the route of the ditch to prepare for the arrival of the demon cultivators.
Zhao Ran didn't have time to summarize whether this was a successful conference and a united conference, and he didn't have time to make any important speeches, so he decisively left Qingcheng Mountain and flew straight to Daqingshan on the back of a goose.
Qingjun waved the club, and hit the ball with a dashing twist, and the cultivation ball flew high and fell towards the hole in the distance. Seeing that the wooden ball was about to enter the hole, a white light suddenly jumped out, came to the hole at a jaw-dropping speed, jumped up in the air, opened his mouth and held the wooden ball in his mouth, and then returned to Qingjun's side at an incredible speed.
This is a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, not tall, only as far as Qingjun's chest, two arms on Qingjun's waist, open his mouth, send the wooden ball out of his tongue like a show-off, and his buttocks are dangling.
Qingjun hooked his little finger, and the wooden ball was suspended in the air again, and then it was a twisting waist to hit the ball, which made Zhao Ran's heart skip a beat.
The boy turned into white light and rushed out again, unbelievably fast. Zhao Ran had already watched him run back and forth five or six times, but until now he didn't understand whether this young man ran over on two legs or jumped over on all fours.
Qingjun smiled and played for a while, and beckoned Zhao Ran to participate too: "Zhao Xiaodao, let's play together!"
Zhao Ran's scalp jumped, and he hurriedly waved his hand to excuse himself: "I don't have his ability, I can't run as fast as him." ”
Qingjun was stunned, suddenly bent down and laughed, laughed for a while, and then said: "Zhao Xiaodao, I asked you to hit the ball together, but I didn't let you pick up the ball." ”
Zhao Ran wiped his cold sweat and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was ...... Hmmm......"
"Howling Lang-kun. Qingjun smiled and groaned.
"Suppressed by this Howling Langjun, this name ......"
"I got it!"
"Okay......"
So Zhao Ran began to swing, Xiaodi Langjun rushed out to catch the ball, took the ball back, and rushed out to catch the ball......
Xiaodi Langjun is from southern Sichuan, is a spirit dog that has just been successfully transformed at the end of last year, is in the initial stage of the first transformation, and his mind has not fully recovered, according to Qingjun, it will take about three to ten years to recover his previous mind, specifically three or ten years, or even more years, it depends on his own creation.