please make me king

Chapter 1066 River Canal
There is a saying that "it's hard to sleep alone", but in fact it's hard to sleep together.

In fact, before Li Xiang's arrival, Zhang Shun's favorite woman was Hong Niangzi.

It's just that later on, Li Xiang and Liu Rushi competed for favor in one case, and Zhang Shun's women gradually became more and more.

Fortunately, now that Zhang Shun's wings are gradually growing, and Zhang Shenyan, Lu Weiqi, Song Xiance, Hong Chengchou and others share their worries, Hong Niangzi no longer needs to sit in the rear as before, and this is why this trip with Zhang Shun is possible.

The red lady's child had already been handed over to Jian'er to take care of her before she left, so she had nothing to worry about.

That night, the matchmaker relied on her "old qualifications" to squeeze out the two daughters Ma Yingniang and Wang Qiying, and finally got her wish of "single pampering in the harem".

One of them is a hero among men, and the other is a husband among women, so naturally they would not accept each other, and they fought fiercely.

When the sweat is dripping and the muscles and bones are soft, you will know that the east is white!
Zhang Shun squinted his eyes for a while, but he didn't feel sleepy, so he simply got dressed and got up to take a breath of the fresh air without pollution in this life.

Not long after, everyone got up one after another, and Zhang Jinyan, the county magistrate of Sanyuan, also rushed over.

So, Zhang Shun had a hasty breakfast and left the post station under the leadership of Zhang Jinyan.

In order to save time, Zhang Shun did not make a detour to Jingyang County this time, instead, he set off directly from Sanyuan and drove directly to Dihukou in the west of Zhongshan.

The so-called "Zhongshan Xidihukou" is the water diversion point of the original Zhengguo Canal, which is the so-called canal head.

Sanyuan is fifty miles away from Hukou, although everyone set off early, it was already noon when they arrived at the place.

"His Royal Highness Qin Wang, this is Zhongshan West Dihukou." Zhang Jinyan pointed to the front for Zhang Shun.

"This side of the Jing River is called Zhangjia Mountain, and the other side of Liquan is called Jiuyi Mountain."

"These two mountains are the remnants of the Zhongshan Mountains. They stand facing each other and form the mouth of the valley."

"Jingshui flows out of the mouth of the valley, from narrow to wide, shaped like a gourd, so it is called Hukou."

Zhang Shun looked at Zhang Jinyan's fingers and saw that the mountain was really like this, so he couldn't help but asked strangely: "What does this Zheng Guoqu have to do with this Guanghui Canal?"

"The king of Qin is sympathetic!" Zhang Jinyan cupped his hands when he heard the words, "In the past, the king of Qin opened the Zhengguo Canal, Goulianjing and Luoer Rivers, and these are the beginnings of all the canals."

"In the second year of Taishi in the Western Han Dynasty, Baigong, a senior official of Zhaozhong, built a new canal, and the water of the Yinzhengguo Canal flowed eastward, and it was poured into the Weishui River in Liyang, and it was called Baiqu."

"The two canals are called two, but they are actually one, so they are called Zheng Baiqu."

"Sometimes there is a ballad that says: Zheng Guo is in front, and the white canal is behind. The letter is the cloud, and the canal is the rain. Jingshui is a stone, its mud is several buckets, and it is irrigated with dung. I grow my millet, food and clothing, and the mouth of hundreds of millions. !"

Not to mention, this piece of Jin Yan has a good singing voice, he sang a few lines at random, and he has a lot of skills.

How did Zhang Shun know that in history, this guy was the one who always brought ten singers with him even in the Ninggu Pagoda. He has studied the songs quite a bit, and of course he can sing with a certain level.

It's a pity that the accompanying people, except Hong Niangzi who can sing a few lines of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, have no one who understands music theory.

But the red lady stayed at Jianzhong Station to rest today because of "the journey and dust, and her body was exhausted", and she never came with her.

So that Zhang Jinyan sang a few lines, and found that everyone didn't even give a sign, so he stopped in embarrassment.

"Go and have a look!" Zhang Shun, who has no aesthetic level, didn't know that he missed "Jacky Zhang in the late Ming Dynasty", so he just ordered.

Not long after, the crowd came to the bank of Jingshui, Zhang Shun took a closer look, but found that there were two canal mouths on the bank of the rolling Jingshui, both of which were more than a foot above the surface of Jingshui.

"What's going on here?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but wondered, "The mouth of the canal is so high, can it be possible to build a dam to stop the water?"

The reason why Zhang Shun came here with such confidence was because he had participated in the construction of the dam in his previous life, and he felt that it was really impossible to build a dam on the Jingshui River, and all problems would be solved.

"I don't know what the dam King Qin said is?" Zhang Jinyan shook his head when he heard the words and said, "From my point of view, the mouth of the canal here was originally lower than the river surface, but after a thousand years, the river surface sank day by day, so that the mouth of the canal was so high that it was covered with water. There is no doubt that Guanghuiqu is here today!"

Zhang Shun frowned when he heard the words. He had heard Zhang Jinyan talk about the sinking of the river several times. What's going on?

He stared at the rolling Jingshui for a long time, and suddenly realized: Could it be that the river cut down?
In fact, if Zhang Shun hadn't been engaged in construction work in his previous life and happened to be involved in the construction of a small river dam, he would never have thought of the mystery.

The fact is also the same. It is precisely because Jingshui rushes out of the valley, and the water flows faster, so it will continue to erode the riverbed, so that the river level gradually drops.

In later generations, the intake of Zhengguo Canal was five to seven meters above the surface of Jingshui River, so that some people thought that as early as the Warring States Period, China had the world's earliest river dam.

"Go, go upstream and have a look at the head of Guanghui Canal!" Zhang Shun pondered for a while, feeling that there was nothing he could do, so he couldn't help ordering.

So, everyone walked along the Jingshui River all the way to Zhangjiashan.

Not too far away, I saw the mouth of a diversion canal again, Zhang Shun couldn't help asking: "Is this the head of the Guanghui Canal?"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Jinyan shook his head and said, "This is the diversion port of Sanbai Canal in Tang Dynasty!"

So the people went back for hundreds of steps, and saw the mouth of a canal again.

Zhang Shun learned his lesson this time, and couldn't help asking: "Why is this?"

"This is the Lifeng Canal in the Song Dynasty!" Zhang Jinyan sighed, "The mouth of the Zhengbai Canal was abolished, the Sanbai Canal was re-excavated, the mouth of the Sanbai Canal was abolished, and the Lifeng Canal was re-excavated. !"

Zhang Shun couldn't help feeling sad when he heard the words. Since the millennium, Jingshui has been continuously cut down.

In order to irrigate the farmland, the people in the five provinces of Guanzhong actually dug all the way upriver along the Jing River.

This kind of spirit of man's determination to conquer nature is really touching.

After they traveled for several miles, they saw another diversion channel.

"This is the head of Guanghui Canal!" Zhang Jinyan finally confirmed Zhang Shun's guess this time.

I saw that the channel was only two meters wide and narrow, which seemed inconspicuous to Zhang Shun.

Even compared with the intake of Zhengguo Canal thousands of years ago, it is much narrower.

Zhang Shun silently took a closer look, but saw that the canal was unpretentious, but both sides of the canal were stone walls that were washed by the river and were extremely bright.

If you don't distinguish carefully, the water in this canal seems to be embedded in a rocky mountain.

"From here, there are two caves, Dalongshan and Xiaolongshan." Zhang Jinyan couldn't help explaining.

"Because the rocks in the mountains are as stubborn as iron, the work is very difficult. The folks in the five counties use charcoal moxibustion and vinegar to quench them every day. They are chiseled, so they are called Iron Cave!"

Zhang Shun reached out and touched the black and white rocks on the bank of the canal, and couldn't help frowning. No wonder this place is called "the rock is as stubborn as iron".

According to his previous work experience, this is a very hard sedimentary rock, and in his previous life he had to use explosives.

However, there is only black powder in this era, and there is no good way to use this kind of hard rock.

The method of expanding with heat and shrinking with cold, as Zhang Jinyan said, "charcoal moxibustion and vinegar quenching", is already the best way to dig.

Shaking his head, Zhang Shun walked to the bank of Jingshui again, looked at the more turbulent river and the mouth of the canal that was almost level with the river surface, and couldn't help but turned his head and asked: "Master Zhang, what do you think if the water below the mouth of this canal How about building a dam in the river, storing it as a reservoir, and opening and closing it with iron gates?"

This is the best way Zhang Shun can think of. Although there is no cement in this era, if you use stones to build a gravity dam, raise the water level, and store it as a reservoir, then Jingshui can be channeled into Guanghui Canal.

Zhang Jinyan shook his head when he heard the words, and said two words: "silt!"

Maybe Zhang Jinyan doesn't know what a "dam" is, but this does not prevent him from speculating on the result of blocking the river and storing water based on his years of experience.

Zhang Shun looked down at the muddy Jingshui, and then he reacted.

Not to mention that Jingshui flows so fast, even if the dam is built, the huge sediment content alone is enough to silt up the reservoir.

(End of this chapter)