Great Power Reclamation

Chapter 2654 Karez

Xiao Di stretched and finally woke up. Looking at his body which was half in his own quilt and half in Ye Yuze's quilt, he couldn't help but blush.

After all, there are two old people in the room watching.

But when she saw Guli in Ye Yuze's arms, she couldn't help but get angry. Damn, all men are bad. They only eat what's in the bowl and always look at what's in the pot.

She was about to kick him, but then she remembered that she was the one who took the initiative yesterday and she didn't need to be responsible, so she just accepted it.

But seeing the two of them like this, I still felt uncomfortable. I secretly kept cursing the scumbag, but my mind kept recalling yesterday's scene. It was so embarrassing.

She considers herself a good woman and her family's education is relatively traditional. If not for this, her sister would not have been deceived by the scumbag.

Thinking about this, I felt a little resentful towards my parents. If they had been so strict, my sister would have had several boyfriends and would have seen through this man long ago.

My mind was full of chaos, but I still had to get up because the meal was already ready.

I am a person who wants to die, but was brought here by this man in a daze. I saw the desert and the Goddess Lake. I should have lost all desire to live. But why do I suddenly not want to die anymore?

The breakfast of people here never changes, milk tea, naan, and some meat.

Of course there is also grilled fish. Ye Yuze doesn’t like it, but Xiao Di does. She has liked all kinds of fish since she was a child.

After breakfast, Ye Yuze said goodbye, and Guli looked disappointed. Ye Yuze didn't go to see her, and couldn't give the child any hope.

As for Xiao Di, how should we arrange her? We'll talk about it on the way.

Guli brought him some very dry roasted fish with red eyes. Ye Yuze was not polite and took them and left a few bottles of wine.

When the car started, Xiao Di looked at Ye Yuze who didn't even look at the rearview mirror and cursed:
"You scumbag, the little girl was crying, why didn't you even say hello?"

Ye Yuze cursed back angrily: "Shut the fuck up, if I take her away, will she be fine? The point is that I don't like her, why would I take her away?"

Xiao Di was naturally unconvinced: "Why don't you like her and sleep in the same bed with her? Which little girl can resist such temptation?"

Ye Yuze couldn't explain the local customs to her, and she wouldn't believe him, so he could only ask:

"Does that mean I have to be faithful to you? Even if you die, I have to remain faithful to you?"

Xiao Di wanted to say "Of course!" but he couldn't say it. It was really not anyone else's fault.

Ye Yuze was too lazy to argue with her, so he stepped on the accelerator and left quickly, asking:
"Where do you want to go? I can show you."

Xiao Di thought about it and felt that it didn’t make any difference whether he died early or late. Walking around before dying could be a comfort to himself in his short life.

"I heard that the karez in your northern Xinjiang is a great project. Can you take me to have a look?"

Ye Yuze was stunned for a while and suddenly slapped his head. He was really stupid. Liu Neng asked him about the issue of diverting water from the Ili River to the military reclamation city years ago. Why didn't he think of the unique karez in northern Xinjiang?

But when I thought about the fact that the karez was also used to divert water from the Tianshan Mountains to lower places, and that it was only an underground passage built to prevent evaporation, I became disappointed in an instant.

How deep do we have to dig to bring water from an altitude of more than 2,000 meters to a higher place? How many facilities do we have to design along the way? It gives me a headache just thinking about it.

It would be better to divert water from the Yarlung Zangbo River into Xinjiang. The problem solved in that way would be subversive.

His mind was full of random thoughts and he was distracted while driving. He almost drove into the snow. It was only when Xiao Di screamed that he came back to his senses.

Ye Yuze's phone rang, and it was Yang Geyong's number. Ye Yuze was helpless, thinking that his younger brother was sensible enough and did not tell the future. As for Yang Geyong, he had no pressure at all. If he was not afraid of being found, he would have brought him with him this time.

The two men can be said to be brothers in life and death. In a sense, they are closer than his own brothers.

When he picked up the phone, Yang Geyong only asked: "Where are you?"

Ye Yuze looked at the unmarked road outside and muttered:
"I went to Turpan to see the Karez."

The call was hung up and Ye Yuze did not call again. He knew that Yang Geyong would definitely rush here immediately. He was still 400 kilometers away from Turpan and it would probably take him until tomorrow to get here.

Because of the blood, the car could not drive fast. Although Ye Yuji and Ye Feng had opened a road network throughout the entire northern Xinjiang, the southern part of the northern Xinjiang was still relatively poor.

Especially the snow-clearing mechanism. In Junken City, the snow on the roads can always be cleared at any time, and there will never be any inconvenience caused by the snow.

There are only two divisions in the entire Southern Corps, so the Corps’ construction efforts here are relatively smaller, which is related to the geographical location.

The corps is deployed around the border line, and the border line in the south is relatively small.

It took a full eight hours to drive the 400 kilometers. Because of Xiao Di's condition, he couldn't stay in a hotel, so the two chose to live in the car.

The car Ye Yuze chose this time was an SUV, and the back could be folded flat to form a bed. Because the two of them had already broken through that kind of relationship, it didn't matter how they slept.

Instead of going to the city, they chose to visit the karez before it got dark.

There are more than 1200 karez distributed in the Turpan Basin, with a total length of underground canals exceeding 3400 kilometers. Among them, there are nearly 190 water karez with an annual runoff of 1.14 million cubic meters, controlling an irrigation area of ​​nearly 10 mu.

So after arriving here, you can find traces of the karez without having to look for it deliberately.

Most of the karez are underground canals, which means they are tunnels dug underground. Their scale is no less than that of today's subways.

Think about it, there was no mechanical equipment to rely on at that time, but the people of northern Xinjiang created such a world-famous project with their own hands and a beheading knife.

Not to mention Xiao Di, even Ye Yuze was shocked by the scene before him.

Not to mention how many kilometers this underground canal is, just the vertical shafts alone would cost a lot of manpower and resources.

It is warmer inside the karez than outside, so even though it is freezing and snowy outside, the water inside the karez does not freeze.

The clear stream gurgles underground, and I don’t know how many years it has been flowing.

Because there was no flashlight, the two people finally sat in front of a vertical shaft. The afterglow of the setting sun was particularly bright at this moment, making the water in the culvert shine with golden light.

Xiao Di carefully picked up the water and took a sip, then shouted in surprise:
“This water is sweet!”

Ye Yuze looked at her with contempt: "What a fuss! How can the water in Northern Xinjiang not be sweet?"

Two people were bickering, and a voice was outside:

"Who are you? Come out! Don't destroy the karez!"

Ye Yuze looked over and saw a Uyghur balang holding a stick, staring at them warily. Seeing the little guy's wary eyes, Ye Yuze smiled and waved:

"We are tourists from other places. Can you introduce the karez to me? I'll give you money."

When the Balang heard that he had to pay money, he immediately came down, looked at the two men carefully, confirmed that they were not bad people, and then he introduced the construction process of the karez in a torrent of words.

According to him, the karez was not built from the source, but was dug from where the water was used.

Experienced elders determine the direction by firelight and a wooden stick hung by a rope.

In order to speed up the process and avoid lack of oxygen, people dug many vertical shafts, so that the culvert could be divided into many sections, which meant that many people had to work together. After all, when it comes to digging a hole, having too many people is useless.

Balanzi seemed to have heard stories about the Karez from his elders since he was a child. In fact, many of the legends were rather fantastic.

However, the construction process of the karez was extremely difficult. After careful investigation and design, the craftsmen started from the open channel and the dragon mouth at the end, and then arranged the vertical shafts and dug the underground channels upstream.

The overall slope of the culvert is controlled between 0.5% and 1%, and the depth and spacing of the shafts also gradually change to adapt to different terrain and water flow conditions.

Typically, the shaft is 3-15 meters deep at the end, 20-40 meters deep in the middle, and up to 100 meters deep at the top.

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竖井的间距渐次拉长，下游约10-30米，中游为30-60米，上游60-100米。

The width of the culvert is about 0.5-0.8 meters and the height is about 1.4-1.7 meters.

During the excavation process, the craftsmen could only rely on oil lamps for lighting and controlling the direction of the well, so that the culvert would be parallel or oblique to the underground flow.

In this way, rainwater, glaciers and melted snow that seep into the ground in spring and summer can be continuously gathered through underground channels, flow downstream along the slope, and eventually be led to the surface.

Only then did Ye Yuze realize that the water source of the Karez was not entirely from the snow water of the Tianshan Mountains, but also from groundwater.

Moreover, the karez is an underground water conservancy project created during the long historical development of the working people in arid areas.

The karez brought out groundwater, turning the desert into an oasis, and was called a "well channel" in ancient times.

The main working principle of the karez is that people use the natural slope of the mountain to bring the large amount of rainwater, glacier and snowmelt that seeps into the ground in spring and summer to the surface for irrigation, so as to meet the production and living water needs in the desert area.

The specific structures of karez in different regions have different regional characteristics, but generally speaking, a complete karez system includes four main components: vertical wells, culverts (underground channels), open channels (ground channels) and cuoxians (small reservoirs).

The karez operating under this principle has a stable flow rate and can ensure gravity-flow irrigation of the well water.

Although Balang mixed some mythological stories into the story, overall he had a deep understanding of the karez.

At the very least, Ye Yuze and Xiao Di, two people who knew nothing about karez, understood its structure and principles.

But at the same time, Ye Yuze also understood that this principle was of no use in bringing water from the Ili River into the military reclamation city, because water tends to flow to lower places.

After finishing his speech, Ye Yuze gave Balanzi a hundred yuan, and the little guy excitedly took the money and wanted to treat them to a meal.

Nowadays, the tourism industry in northern Xinjiang has become more and more prosperous as the roads are opened up. Even children know that many things can be exchanged for money.

For example, this guy regarded himself as a tour guide and got paid.

However, he has not lost the nature of the people of Northern Xinjiang. After all, he is still hospitable. After getting the money, he treated them to a meal without hesitation, and did not care at all whether one hundred yuan was enough for the meal.

Xiao Di was about to decline, but Ye Yuze had already agreed. The place where they parked was a bit desolate, so eating would definitely be a problem.

This guy was obviously a resident nearby, so it wouldn't be a problem for him to get a free meal.

Ye Yuze was born in northern Xinjiang, so he naturally knew this truth. Xiao Di certainly didn't understand it. After all, in the mainland, if you are a stranger and go to someone else's house for dinner, you'd be lucky if you don't get beaten out.

Balang was indeed from a nearby village. Along the way, Ye Yuze discovered the difference between the southern and northern parts of Northern Xinjiang.

In the north, which is the military reclamation city, there are more nomadic people. Even if there are villages, they are all old and young, so the houses and infrastructure are worse.

It is different in the south. Due to geographical and climatic reasons, there is basically no nomadic lifestyle here.

Their living habits are similar to those of people in the mainland. They farm and grow fruit trees based on villages and families.

There are also cattle and sheep, but they are only for their own consumption, so there are only a few in a family.

However, milk, a necessity of life, is not available in every household. You have to go to the home of someone who has dairy cows to buy it. You can pay money or give things in kind, and no one cares.

Moreover, people here pay great attention to the hygiene and environment of the village. They like to plant some flowers and beautiful plants in front of their doors. Even in winter, the snow in front of the doors and on the roads is cleaned very cleanly.

They also like to make some decorations on houses and courtyard walls. Even old houses will have their exteriors painted so that they don’t look so old.

Balanzi's home is very close to here, so he found Ye Yuze's car, came over to investigate, and then earned a tour guide fee.

Balanzi's house is very big. People in northern Xinjiang don't like to renovate their buildings, so there is no need to build a new building if the place is so large.

The front yard is not big and the wall is very low. The grapes have been buried, but the grape trellis still leads directly to the house like a corridor.

There are also several pomegranate trees in the yard, which are naturally bare in this season.

The house is a different world, decorated very luxuriously with furniture, carpets and tapestries in completely ethnic style.

Xiao Di was shocked with her mouth open. Although she didn't know the price of these things, the complicated workmanship couldn't be cheap.

There was only Balanzi's mother at home. When she saw the guest coming, she quickly offered him a seat and went to make tea.

Looking at the decoration and furnishings in this house, Ye Yuze couldn't help but sigh that it was really different from the homes of the ethnic people over there.

For example, this home has a sofa and a coffee table, which is completely in line with the times.

Most of the ethnic people there still retain their traditional lifestyle and furnishings.

Ye Yuze didn't want to comment on where it was good, but felt that the people here were more capable of accepting new things.

At this time, his phone rang again, and Yang Geyong asked him where he was. Ye Yuze didn't know the name of the village, so he just sent the location.

The little adult, Barangzi, usually poured them tea and brought them food, behaving like a real man.

I want a ticket