Zhao Ran looked at the lot pointed out by Li Zheng and nodded: "The well drillers you invited are good at workmanship, and this place is really good." He had just opened his eyes and found that this was indeed a good place, suitable for water gushing, but the borehole had not yet been selected, and it usually took four to eight shots to produce water.

This shows that the village has invited a well drill to come over in advance, and it shows that this person is a caring person.

After asking about Li Zheng's name and surname, Zhao Ran wrote it down, and then pointed casually, and the donkey king who followed Zhao Ran raised his hooves, tentatively stumbled in place, and then began to dig the pit at a very fast speed.

The old donkey has been cultivating more and more diligently in recent years, and he saw that the soil and stones were dug out one after another, and the body of the donkey drilled into the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The old donkey "raised" his throat, climbed the pit wall and jumped up in two steps, Zhao Ran said to the inside: "Find a well driller, build the well wall, and the rest of the tail work will not take much work." ”

In fact, the significance of drilling wells in this village is not to fight drought, this village will not reduce production too much even if it is a big drought, after all, they are on the edge of the Minjiang River, unless the drought is so bad that the river water is cut off, but that is basically a level that occurs once in a century.

The significance of digging wells for them is to facilitate the people, and they don't have to go to the river for daily draft water, which is also a merit. And the key is that Zhao Ran has a little obsessive-compulsive disorder in terms of data, and for words such as "full coverage" and "100%", he subconsciously pursues it unremittingly.

At an average rate of five or six villages a day, dozens of villages in the upper reaches of the Min River were already covered by the end of March.

Soon, Zhao Ran received a notification from the monk that the artificial lake had been dug up, so he hurriedly rushed back.

After ten days of hard work, thousands of demon cultivators worked together to expand this soil depression into a large pit with a maximum depth of four zhang and a radius of 800 acres. The excavated soil was piled up around the big pit, which was raised by one zhang, and was two zhang higher than the river embankment in the distance, so as to prevent the river from backing up.

So, Zhao Ran commanded the demon beasts to start digging ditches according to the line sprinkled with white ash, and the ditches were three main ditches, three feet wide and two feet deep, and seven miles, nine miles, and twelve miles long respectively.

Two of the ditches connect the Minjiang River and the artificial lake, one is a channel for water diversion, and the other is also used as the main canal between the river and the lake. The other stretches out from the north side of the artificial lake, circles a large circle to the east, and connects back to the south of the artificial lake, serving as the main aqueduct for the eastern farmland.

Compared with the artificial lake, the earthwork of these three canals is not large, but it is much more delicate, and it is necessary to work together with the craftsmen requisitioned by the county.

In just five or six days, these craftsmen experienced emotions such as curiosity, trembling, adaptation, and vividness, which can be regarded as an adventure of life.

Five days later, the three main canals were completed.

The designed riverside breach has already set up an earth-based magic circle, and two yellow-crowned monks will work together to cast the spell. With Zhao Ran's order, a narrow opening was dug out of the river embankment, and the river water surged out from here, flowing along the two channels into a large earth pit nine miles away. There are monks here, and there is no need for a waterwheel to draw water, that thing is too slow, just fill it with water!

Along the way, monks were assigned to each section of the canal, and once they found something wrong, they immediately solved it, either reinforcing it with magic charms, filling it with soil, or bulldozing the uneven sections that were inaccurate by sight, and guiding the river smoothly into the artificial lake.

At the excavation of the river embankment, the monks are changed every other hour to firmly guard the gap and prevent the river from being washed away.

A day later, the 800-acre artificial lake took shape, and the lake was flush with the river before it stopped. At this time, the embankment at the excavation site was re-strengthened with stones, and the craftsmen were asked to install the iron gate prepared in advance, and it was completed. The iron gate can be opened and closed by manpower, and the water can be opened when needed, and closed when not needed.

The next work was to dig small canals through the farmland, through which water was drawn from the main canal to irrigate the farmland. These follow-up works will be completed by the county government and the people, and this step needs to wait for the spring ploughing to be completed.

After the completion of the "model lake" project, the three major construction teams began to go to their main battlefield, and Zhao Ran continued to drill wells while urging the "four major reserves" to proceed quickly.

At the end of March and the beginning of April, in order to cope with the spring ploughing, the entire emergency team was busy everywhere, and they seconded all six water dragon dance instruments in the Sichuan Provincial Army to store water from the river and go back and forth to water the fields.

However, after all, the Water Dance Dragon is a weapon of war, and it consumes too many spirit talismans, and after calculation, the cost and benefits are disproportionate, so it can only be used in areas where the use of efficiency and cost is appropriate, and most other areas would rather buy food and distribute it directly, which is more cost-effective than throwing it into the ground with a spirit talisman. Of course, if one day Daming suffers from a general drought and can't buy food if he wants to, the Spirit Gathering Talisman can only be thrown into the ground at any cost.

In any case, the problem of spring plowing in some areas has been solved, but despite this, there are still more places that have not had time to irrigate, and it is expected that they will be greatly affected. Although some weight was replenished, it was difficult to predict what the harvest would be due to the missed crop time.

From April to June, there was not a single rain in the entire northwestern part of Sichuan, and those who were still suspicious of Zhao Ran had begun to be completely convinced of the arrival of the drought.

"Junshan Notes" and "Bagua" are also cooperating with Zhao Ran's drought relief.

In a disaster situation, the stability of people's hearts is particularly important, and people's hearts are unstable, and it is very easy to cause chaos. Therefore, Zhao Ran also attaches great importance to these two journals and requires the two editorial departments to make key reports.

The publicity and reporting strategies of the two journals are also different.

The distribution targets of "Bagua" are mainly the jungle of the ten directions, the government, the gentry, the merchants, and the people who read books, and try to spread it to a wider range of ordinary people through the mouths of storytellers, government preachers, and scholars, to put it bluntly, for the secular society.

Because of the different tastes of the audience, it is divided into scriptures, policies, news and legends.

Therefore, when publicizing the fight against drought, the focus is divided into two parts: one part focuses on the strategies and methods of drought fighting, and introduces various precautions: the other part describes the efforts made by the Daomen, the government and all parties, creating an atmosphere of "when one side is in trouble, all sides come to help", so as to encourage the people in the drought-stricken areas and stimulate their courage and determination.

The Taoist techniques, talismans, and magic tools displayed by the monks were also rendered in large quantities, so as to deepen the trust of the people in the Taoist sect and enhance their trust. Under Bai Tengming's special explanation, Zhao Ran's deeds of spending three years of life for the people have been highlighted, and it has become a legend talked about in the market.

The audience of "Junshan Notes" is mainly monks, so the report focuses on showing the pictures of monks in Sichuan Province working together to fight drought and disaster relief. From the attention and support of the Jade Emperor Pavilion, the Zongsheng Pavilion, the Huayun Pavilion, the Kuixing Pavilion, the Qingyun Pavilion and other pavilions, to the performance of each and every monk who participated in the disaster prevention, there are articles describing it.

Today is how these monks work day and night, and tomorrow is how those monks work hard, for a while, the images of Dongfang Jing, Zhao Ran, Zhu Meng, Li Tengxin, Qu Fenghe and others stand out.

even wrote a long report "Women Pacesetters in Action", which praised the achievements of Kun Dao, including Song Yuqiao, Tsing Yi Daoren, Zheng Yutong, and Pei Zhongxi, in drought and disaster prevention, and praised them as women in the cultivation world, and they were the pacesetters in the Kun Dao, which attracted great attention from the cultivation community.

After the publication of this article, the editorial department of "Junshan Notes" received many flying talismans from young monks, asking for the contact information of several Kun Dao, and unabashedly expressed their admiration.