When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 382 Inspection of Changping ([-])

With the army, we moved to the east slope of Xishan Mountain.When he arrived here, Xin Qu ignored the wind and snow and jumped down immediately.

"Clan leader, why is this water so thin?"

Qingyan was also shocked. There was only a thin layer of ice left in the river valley. When he stepped on it, it broke into pieces. When he stepped on the rocks, he could still feel a soft feeling under his feet.

It is basically certain that this waterway is abandoned.

Xinqu stretched out his hand to wipe the mud under the rocks, picked up a branch not far away, and poked it down: "It seems that the landslide was caused by the sudden increase in Quluo Lake last year. The river bed was raised for more than a kilometer. The water in Wuding River cannot pass through."

"Then... what should we do?" Qingyan and the people around him walked around and found that there were not only a lot of rocks, but also many fallen trees.

The entire river bed has been raised. If the North Wuding River cannot be flushed back in the future, this waterway will be gone in a few years.

From now on, the Wuding River can only rush southward, or hope that a flood will come and change itself.

"No way, we can't afford the cost of reopening the river."

Xinqu sighed. Reopening the North Wuding River would require a lot of manpower. Where would he find labor?

We can only let nature guide us.

"Is this river very important?" Qingyan saw Xinqu giving up so naturally, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

"It depends on the military or the economy. If the North Wuding River cannot come through, our flood discharge pressure in the Xiaodianze area will be reduced a lot, and all the land there will be converted into paddy fields in less than three to five years.

We can grow rice and taro for about three to five years, then sort out rivers and canals, and then work hard to turn them into irrigated land.

In terms of efficiency, it is definitely better than rushing directly from the Beiwuding River. "

Xinqu stood up. In the ravine to the west, there were large areas of water erosion. It was foreseeable that after the spring, the ice and snow would melt, and the flood water would flow in during the summer, and people would be able to live nearby.

By blocking this place, the cost can be much lower.

"But why didn't anyone notice it before?" Qiu, the pedestrian who followed, came back. After listening to Xin Qu's words, he expressed his doubts and pointed to the water channel on the ground, "It shouldn't be! Such a large area of ​​siltation, How could no one tell me?"

Xinqu paused and quickly asked people to move forward.

As a result, we arrived two kilometers away, and the scene in front of us shocked everyone.

"This……"

Under a melting mountain, the water gurgled, brushing out the ditch and completely covering the river channel.

Compared with the one kilometer siltation I saw just now, this is the scariest thing in front of me.

"Shocked into plains!"

"Isn't this right! How could it melt so fast at this time?"

The wizard brought by Xingren Qiu ran to the river beach in shock. The large tracts of trees and soil that were leaking revealed what happened here.

The premature melting of ice and snow caused the permafrost to begin to collapse, and then became heavier and heavier until it was forced back down the mountain.

Completely cover the river channel.

"There will be a spring drought this year." Xin Qu murmured, standing in the car, when he suddenly heard the rumbling sound again.

Debris also rolled down, filling the narrow and deep river channel.

The gully disappeared and the water dispersed towards the wings.

Therefore, the water he saw in that position was actually the melted snow water in the area in front of him.

The Wuding River cannot go north.

……

In the afternoon, Xinqu took a pen and a wooden tablet to write and draw. After more than half an hour, he said: "Give up diverting the Wuding River to the north. I will mobilize 600 people as soon as possible to draw on the waterway north of the Wuding River. The river bed is too high, and then the water formed in the area in front of us is diverted to the direction of Wuding River, and the Wuding River flows southeast along the southern mountain pass."

"As for the water gap in Quluo Lake, after water storage is increased in the upper reaches of Baihu Valley in the coming year, there will basically be no subsequent problems."

"Clan leader, if we want to repair the old...how many people are needed for this?"

"1 people, three years." Xinqu replied calmly.

Xingrenqiu and the others stopped talking.

It took 1 people and three years to clear it. This is too... terrible!

Not as good as the 600-person plan.

The 600-person plan actually just adds a cofferdam to raise the water level of the passing water to prevent excessive runoff from expanding eastward.

Prevent large amounts of water from the Wuding River from flowing into the North Wuding River channel.

In this way, within a few years, relying on the natural runoff of the plain washed out by the debris flow in front of us, the water will flow southwest, gradually silting up the old channel of the North Wuding River, and then changing the old channel of the North Wuding River from north to south.

Artificial transformation only accelerates this process, and ultimately relies on natural forces.But the cost is really low.

600 people only need to work until around the beginning of spring, and things will be done.

He can still afford two months of food.

"Well..." Xinqu was still writing when suddenly the charcoal pen in his hand broke.

"Charcoal pencil." Xinqu turned his head and asked the people below him for it.

The result was: "Clan leader, everything... has been used up."

"Used it?"

"Make it."

"Hey, clan leader, I found a piece of black charcoal here that can be used."

In the corner, a guard touched his pocket and took out black charcoal.

Xin Qu nodded, Qing Yan took out the knife and started cutting it into strips.

Then he heard a clicking sound, and Qingyan was stunned: "This is not charcoal, this is stone?"

Xinqu Xunsheng looked stunned.

He immediately took it over and looked at it again and again. Xinqu looked at the map again, suddenly stood up, and looked at the mountain pass excitedly: "Damn, I almost forgot, the coal in Xishan! This is the coal area in Xishan!"

"what?"

"Come here! Go to the place where you picked up this thing." Xinqu pulled the boy over and asked him to lead the way.

"oh oh……"

Before the boy realized the problem, he took Xinqu one kilometer south.

Then Xin Qu looked at the dark exposed coal mine, took a deep breath, and then jumped up excitedly: "It's so big!!! It's actually shallow!"

Then everyone saw Xin Qu using a shovel to dig up the soil.

"What are you doing standing there? Copy the guy and dig up the soil. When it gets dark, change positions. Quick!"

Xin Qu greeted everyone and was busy for three hours.

A three-kilometer-long underground coal belt made Xinqu's mouth water!

There is coal!The iron is there!
Next, coking!Steelmaking!
Thanks to the era before large-scale development!

If only it had been 2000 years later, I would have had to use thousands of people to dig coal in the mountains!

Wherever the shovel goes down, the coal seam will be exposed.

Regardless of the reserves of this thing in front of him, at least Xinqu knew that he had the capital to make a fortune!

Smelting pig iron, directly into steel armor, helmet and steel sword, it is just around the corner to conquer the world!
Oh ho ho!
"This trip! It's worth it! It's worth it!"

Xin Qu was extremely excited.

It took him three years of work before he remembered that Shannan's resources were actually richer than he imagined.

In particular, in an era that has not been developed on a large scale, there are treasures everywhere.

However, transportation restrictions and productivity restrictions have left more tribes with no communication channels and no way to integrate resource use.

But things are different now!He can integrate a large number of resources for his own use!
The only gap is manpower!
【There is a shortage of people!So short of people! 】

Xinqu felt like his brain was screaming.

There are obviously necessary conditions to improve productivity everywhere, but he doesn't have enough manpower to run them!
The Xin family's current manpower is basically operating at its limit, and it can't be squeezed out even if it wants to.

Now, on average, every adult with a Xin family has about fifteen acres of cultivated land, about five acres of melon and fruit fields, ten acres of mulberry and hemp fields, and about fifty acres of livestock fields.

The burden is almost to the limit.

This year is a year of explosive production. Xinqu must bite the bullet and stop a large number of projects that are temporarily ineffective, such as the coal mine in front of him.

If he wants more people this year, he has to go to the west, and he needs food for the westward expedition.

Therefore, manpower cannot be used and they must be allowed to produce food.

As for whether the coal mine is producing or not, he still has charcoal to make do with.

He restrained his excitement and stopped his idea of ​​making great progress.

calm!restraint!
Xishan is at your feet, you won’t run away!

(End of this chapter)