When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 398: There are showers in summer and the polders are flooded

"Peach patter..."

Xin Qu leaned lazily on the bed. In his arms, Meng Kuan noticed Xin Qu's movements and twisted her waist to get closer. The lingering lingering look on her face still lingered: "What's wrong? You suddenly felt absent-minded."

"It's been raining on and off for a week, and suddenly this heavy rain came. It's not the right time." Although Xinqu was lazy, there was still a trace of worry in his eyes.

"What! When you're doing business, why do you care about Yu?" Meng Kuang muttered, pushing Xin Qu, scolding him a bit, and then stepped onto his waist, "Shouldn't you be more concerned about the sudden extension? A little bit. There’s no rush, I really don’t know what you’re thinking.”

"Urgent, it must be urgent."

Xin Qu comforted her and said, "But for things like childbirth, you have to do your best and obey the destiny.

However, this rain is not light, I am worried that it is restless rain. "

"How restless can you be? When it rains, you can rush to plant some crops. Aren't you asking people to make excuses and plant fruits and sow grass seeds?

It's raining now. When the sun shines in a few days, the grass will grow and the cattle and sheep will be happy. "

"Yes." Xinqu's brows relaxed slightly, and then he stretched out his hand to lift her thigh. It was so close in summer that she was sweating.

"Change seats and let's get down to business."

Xinqu took him off the bed, and soon the mood of spring was overflowing.

At the same time, there was a sentry post in the middle reaches of the Chaobai River on a rainy night.

The three people responsible for keeping watch suddenly felt as if they were getting wet, and they woke up with a startle.

He touched the wooden floor of the post, then showed a look of horror and screamed: "Water! It's coming up!"

Everyone was awakened.

The three of them hurried out and looked at the slopes near the Chaobai River. They had already become Zeguo!

"Hiss—is the downstream blocked?" A sober-minded guy asked in surprise.

"The cofferdam downstream, especially at Tongyi, cannot let water out, so it must be blocked!"

A young man from the Xin family reacted immediately: "Continue to observe, I will go to the nearby outpost to take a look."

After saying that, the boy pushed a canoe out of the post, then paddled towards the nearest Shunyi post.

Shunyi Post.

In fact, it has become an island in the water.

Sentinel Commander Ah Guang looked nervously at the one-meter-high earthen embankment beside the waterway and the submerged taro behind the earthen embankment.

Even the polder was flooded. You can imagine how big the water was this time.

"Aguang!"

"Hey!" Aguang saw the tribesmen coming with bamboo hats and raincoats, and quickly asked them to drop the simple life-saving equipment tied with wooden sections.

Of course, it is now used as a guide.

The man approached, grabbed the wooden section, and then clamped the wooden groove specially left by the canoe sideways, the size of which was fixed.

"Okay! One! Two! One!"

Aguang heard the person coming and started shouting, and he also shouted, and then he steadily pulled the canoe and the people up together.

Then, another person dropped another piece of wood. The person stuck the other side of the canoe, tightened it, tied it, and finally stepped on the plank road and said: "The water downstream cannot be drained out. The water level on my side has reached the sentry post." The floor must be at least ten steps away!”

"..."

Aguang's face was solemn: "That's a big problem. The rain won't stop for a while. If the water cannot be drained out, the entire swamp near the Chaobai River will be affected."

"Indeed... why not let Tongyi directly dig a cofferdam and release the flood first?" The man glanced at the polders near Shunyi with a pained expression on his face, "Although taro needs water to bear fruit, with such a large amount of water, If it is soaked for a long time, the roots will rot and the taro harvest in this area may fail.

There are more than 1 of us, and we have been working hard for half a year. Over 10,000 acres ([-] acres today) will be affected by the disaster. By then, the production will be severely reduced, and we will really lose money.

You know, in order to plant this batch of taro, the clan leader removed all the taro seeds he had left over the years.

If we can't get back the cost of growing taro next year, we sentries will all have to be punished. "

Xinqu planted taro in a large number of polders along the Chaobai River in places with extreme flood and drought instability, in order to save the time required for reclamation.

After all, the river channel at this time had not been comprehensively sorted out, and it was already a large swampland gifted to the Xin family for growing taro and fishing.

But at the same time, large-scale planting will also bring certain problems.

First of all, the polder competes with the land where the river releases water.

Secondly, there are many local insects and snakes, and there may also be diseases and insect pests. No one can guarantee that the final planting will be able to return the money, especially the taro seeds. Those are the dominant taro species that Xin Qu has selected for three years, and it is also for subsequent breeding. If you need it, you must not lose money.

Otherwise, what’s the point of domestication?
Therefore, the role of the sentinels is not as simple as monitoring waterways, but they also have to help keep an eye on the drainage conditions of the taro fields.If it goes wrong, it will be food for countless people. Even if Xinqu doesn't say anything to them, the tribesmen below may skin them.

After all, this year's spring drought has delayed the planting of crops such as millet and millet, and the output is expected to be low.

Therefore, we expect that taro will come out in two months' time, and the harvest between summer and autumn will be gone if we don't catch up. But don't drown a batch now, resulting in a reduction in summer harvest.

Then it affected the autumn harvest in October, forcing us to delay harvesting taro until February next year. After this, they, the sentinels, were really ruined.

The taro field must be flooded now, and the water can't flow out. Although it can last for a few days, it can't last too long, otherwise the taro will die.

A Guang looked at Tian who was already submerged.

Even if there was a culvert in the polder to release water, it is of no use now.

Because the culvert gate has long been flooded.

There is too much water.

The reason lies in the downstream Tongyi...

"Send someone to notify the clan leader, and then arrange for someone to go to Tongyi and let them think of a way to release the water first, and release a batch of them!" Aguang had no choice but to do this.

Everyone acted quickly.

But the rain was heavy, and the taro plants were growing well some time ago, and the leaves were densely packed. Now when the water rises and the boat is lifted, we don’t know where the channel is, so we can only go straight, but these leaves seriously affect the speed of the boat.

By the time we rushed back to Changping, it was the afternoon of the next day.

Xinqu stared at Yu, unable to sit still.

Because the water level of Xin Shui has risen to the level in normal years.

Before, the water level was only one-third of the original normal summer level, but now it is directly filled with two-thirds, which shows the amount of rainfall.

"Clan leader! A Guang from Shunyi Post is back! He said there is something urgent."

Qingyan opened the door, breathing heavily, looking at Xin Qu who was sitting at the table looking at him and said, "It should be the Chaobai River that flooded, our taro field..."

"I can't die." Xin Qu shook his head slightly and asked about the situation first.

Qingyan could only retreat, and then attracted A Guang.

After Xin Qu learned from A Guang that the water in the polder could not be drained out, he couldn't help but sigh: "The speed is still not fast enough! We have to seize the time to dig the water channel in Tongyi... Forget it, don't care. .

Notify Sha Zeyi to close the sluice gate connected to Xiaodianze, and then open the Dongchuan gate to let out the waters of the Beiping swamp group and allow the water from the taro fields to drain directly into Beiping from the southwest. "

"This..." Qingyan was shocked, "Clan Chief, the Dongchuan River Channel has not been put into use yet, will it happen now..."

"I can't control that much anymore. I don't know when the rain will stop. The taro fields are the most important. The cofferdam in Tongyi has just been completed and cannot be demolished. Otherwise, we will have to spend a lot of energy building a new one this winter. weir.

As for whether the Peiping side can bear it...

No matter, just let Jishi cry. "

Xin Qu waved his hand: "Go and convey the order, and then put all the military camps on Xiaodianze under martial law, and then close the sluices in the southeast and east of Xiaodianze, so that part of the Xinshui water can be released into Quluo Lake.

Get busy, we don’t want the paddy fields over there at Xiaodize!10,000+ acres of taro fields are guaranteed. I will provide as much food as Xiaodian Ze needs!go! "

"Yes!" Qingyan looked solemn. He could still clearly prioritize the 10,000+ acres of taro polders and the thousands of acres of small irrigated fields and paddy fields.

Xinqu said to Aguang again: "You also go to rest. I ordered someone to make ginger tea in the kitchen, and I went to get a bowl myself. I have traveled all the way, so don't catch the cold."

"Thank you, Patriarch." A Guang stepped back gratefully.

Xin Qu paused for a moment and was hugged behind him. He turned around and said, "Well, I had a bad premonition yesterday. There were heavy rains and 10,000+ acres of polder land. If you are not careful, something big will happen."

Meng Kuan heard the words and said: "Who told you not to adjust the layout and insist on connecting all the areas together. If you don't suffer the disaster together, it is unbearable. You, don't always bet like this."

"Isn't it because there is not enough time and manpower?" Xinqu sighed.

It's not that he bet on dogs, but that productivity is not enough. If you had machinery, not only would you have [-] acres of polder land last year, but even the rivers would have been pruned.

“But you’re right, you shouldn’t gamble.

But it’s nothing, Polder was rushed out in a hurry.

After planting a crop of taro, the depletion of land resources will be quite serious. Next year, lotus roots will be planted, and then the Dongchuan Waterway will be diverted to the north of Shunyi, specifically to divert the water from the Chaobai River. In this way, the polder fields in the north near the Dongchuan Waterway can eat three crops. Thousands of acres of flood and drought come from human land.

When the Tongyi side is opened, these lands will gradually turn into irrigated lands.

But to achieve all this, manpower is essential.

With the Rong clan, it’s decided! "

(End of this chapter)