Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1687: Mountain Dragon

"The last time we saw an argali, it was level one. I don't know if the muntjac we saw last night was a black muntjac, but if it was, it was also level one. It is higher than the red panda." Zhou Zhi said.

"Isn't it said that there will be no wild animals after the forest vegetation is destroyed? We can still see so many here, especially pheasants. I can name several species."

"Have you ever thought that this is a worrying thing?" Zhou Zhi turned on the headlights again and changed gears. "We may be on a 'beast path' here, which is a natural path for wild animals to migrate. Now that the forest on this road is gone, the animals can only risk passing through here, so the possibility of being exposed to our field of vision has greatly increased. Otherwise, why can we see so many protected animals here?"

"There's nothing we can do. We should just take care of more people now." Wu Renzhong shrugged and said, "The chicken farm and the pomegranate garden are two big jobs."

"I now deeply understand the difficulties my elders had to go through. They wanted to provide chickens and ducks for the villagers in one year, and pigs for two years..." Zhou Zhi thought of his uncle's great achievements in the past, and couldn't help but sigh: "From a foundation where people could not even get enough to eat, they turned things around and made every family profitable in two years. How the hell did they do that?"

"That's the arrogance of you, a land of plenty." Wu Renzhong rolled his eyes. "Any place can produce 1,000 kilograms per mu. One year of development is equivalent to two years for us."

"So your elders led the villagers to turn things around in two years, so we should try to maintain our goal of achieving our goal in the next five years, or even more conservatively, a five-year plan, and that's about it."

“Hahahaha…” After Wu Renzhong said that, Zhou Zhi seemed to have come to his senses. However, he did not remind Wu Renzhong that it was unlikely that both of them would still be here in five years: “Okay, let’s also come up with a five-year plan!”

While waiting for the bus to arrive at Lianhe Township, Zhou Zhi and Wu Renzhong woke up from a nap, and the brothers' truck from the state commodity market also arrived.

This time, more equipment and materials were delivered, as well as cement approved by Li Yutang, so the chicken farm could be started on the planned site.

Because the ground was originally quite flat, the workload was not large. We used lime to demarcate the scope, dug foundation holes, poured concrete pillars, leveled the ground, and erected steel column components on each pillar. All that was left was to use fasteners to fix the wire mesh to the hollow steel columns, and the chicken farm was then fenced.

While these works were being carried out, the construction of nests on the mud wall was also carried out simultaneously.

Zhou Zhi commissioned Gillette Abi to hire several fellow villagers to do this, all of whom are experts in this field. Zhou Zhi also got to officially witness the Yi people's "makeshift" chicken-raising method.

The holes on the wall are like small caves. The entrance to the cave is a flat wooden board, which is placed on wooden nails nailed to the mud wall, which is equivalent to setting up a "balcony" outside the cave.

There is a wooden frame in front of the "balcony". The rock eagle chickens have a certain flying ability. They can climb up the wooden frame, then fly to the balcony from the wooden frame and lay eggs in the "cave".

They are no longer needed for hatching. Zhouzhi purchased an electric temperature incubator. In the future, most of the chicks will be hatched in incubators, which will have a higher output rate and greater guarantees.

In a corner against the earth wall there is a half-hole, half-house type house, which is the warehouse and caretaker's dormitory of the chicken farm, and is also a place to store feed and various tools.

In addition, a large shed with iron tiles was built so that breeding would not be affected during the rainy season.

The climate in Liangshan Prefecture is very suitable. It is not cold in winter and not hot in summer. There is plenty of sunshine and a dry climate. In addition, the cave dwellings leaning against the mountain wall have their own temperature-regulating function. Although the chicken farm seems to be extremely simple, the chickens living here are actually much more comfortable than those in the professional breeding farms with ventilation equipment like Jiachuan.

While Gillie Abi led the villagers to dig cave dwellings in the chicken farm and supervised the progress of the project, Lao Chiri and Tu Liangzhi led another group of villagers to start the large project of laying the mountain dragon.

The length of this "mountain dragon" is about 1.5 kilometers. It has to climb over a mound formed by a landslide and "suck" the water from the stream on the other side of the mound to this side of the mound. It is very simple to say, it is the "siphon phenomenon" in physics. As long as the siphon is filled with water and the water level of the water inlet is higher than the water level of the water outlet, theoretically water can be sucked continuously from a distance.

But it is easier said than done.

The first thing is to ensure that the water pipe as a whole is leak-proof, so that there will be no air pressure in the pipe. Only in this way can a pressure difference be formed at the two pipe openings.

The second thing is how to "start" the siphon, that is, to change the tube from being filled with gas to being filled with liquid. Small equipment is simple, but for this big one with a diameter of 50 centimeters and a span of 1.5 kilometers, it is not so easy.

Fortunately, no difficulties can defeat the heroic and wise Chinese people.

Old Chi Ri has enough experience in building such things.

First, we need to build a reservoir at the stream to ensure that the water storage capacity of the reservoir is sufficient to provide a stable supply of water for the mountain dragon.

Then the pipeline will start from the reservoir, go over the hillside and finally go down to the abandoned ditch at the other end of the hillside.

Next, a "vertical shaft" was designed at the best point of the dragon, with a closed switch.

After the system is built, the valves at the entrance and exit of the dragon can be closed, and the water in the stream can be pumped to the top of the dragon using the pump purchased by Zhou Zhi, and then poured into the vertical shaft.

When the entire siphon is filled with stream water, remove the pump, close the shaft valve, and open the valves at both ends of the siphon. A perfect siphon is born. Water is continuously drawn from the reservoir into the siphon, then over the hillside, into the long-abandoned ditch, and flows to the chicken farm.

After that, the device no longer needs any external force and can realize the "automatic climbing of the mountain" of the stream.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey--" Wu Renzhong was extremely excited when he saw the clear stream water flowing out from the exit of the mountain dragon, following the ditch through the pine forest, all the way to the chicken farm.

This was the first significant major project he had undertaken since he came to Lianhe Township. He was so excited that he jumped and danced like a child. Wearing a white vest and waving his shirt, he ran down the mountain along with the current.

  Although Tu Liangzhi was better than Wu Renzhong, he was not much better. The main reason was that he did not really believe that this thing could succeed at the beginning. What kind of "mountain dragon" could make water automatically flow over the mountain? Isn't this really a witchcraft of the Bimo?

When Tu Liangzhi saw Elbow bringing in the water pump, he was still thinking, right, Elbow was just trying to please his father from the beginning, and the main thing was to lead people to lay the pipes first, and then use scientific methods.

But after Zhou Zhi and his father tinkered with the pump for a while and then removed it, Tu Liangzhi was a little confused.

When the top valve was closed and the valves at both ends were opened, and water began to flow out from the water outlet continuously, Tu Liangzhi was really dumbfounded.

After waiting for a while, and seeing that the water had already flowed out of the amount of water that a pipe could store, and the water was still flowing, Tu Liangzhi was really convinced.

  This mountain dragon can really absorb water!

(End of this chapter)