Primitives are stunned

Chapter 726 Popularizing Electric Lights
Years later, the weather gradually warmed up.

The frozen river is gradually thawing.

The tribesmen discovered that after the big river thawed, there was a gap of more than three meters between the ice layer and the water layer.

In other words, this winter, the water level of the big river has dropped by more than three meters.

This time of year is usually rainy.

And the clansmen also picked sweet fruits in such weather, waiting for the summer flood.

After the fishing season in the summer flood season, water diversion and farming will begin.

But this year, not only has there been no rain, even the big river is about to dry up.

As for the inside of the field, it has already been cracked into pieces.

Regarding this situation, the clansmen are a little confused.

Even if such land can be cultivated, this year's harvest will at least be halved compared to previous years.

Moreover, if the drought continues into summer without rain, it is normal for crops to fail.

Facing the panicked voices of the clansmen, Wang Hao told them not to worry, that they will continue to cultivate what should be cultivated this year, and let him solve the problem of water source.

Although the water flow of the big river has been reduced by more than half, it only makes the river water lower than the canal, so that it cannot be used to irrigate the fields.

Two thousand water trucks guard almost 24 hours a day at all convenient places to get water along the big rivers in Huaxia.

The roar of the water pumps was almost incessant along the river.

The small animals who came to drink from the big river were all scared away.

Of the two thousand waterwheels, one thousand of them are used to irrigate the farmland of the clan.

Five hundred vehicles are used for construction and industrial water, and another five hundred vehicles are used by Wang Hao for emergency and watering some raw material forests.

In addition to the two thousand water trucks, Wang Hao also prepared ten well-drilling teams.

However, although the drilling machine is simple to use, if you want to drill a deep well, you need to take care of too many aspects.

Among other things, just how to prevent deep wells from collapsing requires a long period of training for the personnel of these drilling teams.

Therefore, these well-drilling teams are useless in a short period of time.

Although there is still water in the big river now, Wang Hao knows that the river will definitely stop flowing soon.

Therefore, he planned to stop the flow in the middle of the river when the flow of the big river decreased to a certain level. It made Huaxia persist for a period of time without using the reserve water.

Because the natural environment of the Great Wilderness is controlled by humans.

Therefore, for thousands of years, the Great Wilderness has always been in good weather.

Therefore, most of the plants in the wilderness do not have the habit of rooting deep into the soil.

Anyway, the surface layer of the ground has a lot of nutrients and water for them to grow, so why do they bother to root deep into the soil.

But now, when the drought comes, the plants that grow in the wild without water will be in bad luck.

In the beginning of spring, everything is supposed to grow, colorful, and when you look around, it is green.

But now, the wild grass is withered and yellow, and it is all the withered grass left over from last year.

Just occasionally, one or two weeds just popped up, and they were quickly eaten by animals like grass rabbits and deer who were crazy hungry.

One side raises one person.

On Earth, because plants grow slowly, even if there are animals in the wild, compared to the wilderness, the number of animals is pitifully scarce.

But in the wilderness, the growth speed of all plants can be represented by madness.

Therefore, it is completely possible to feed a large number of herbivores, so the number of creatures in the wilderness is so large.

But now, a severe drought has caused the growth rate of plants to be almost as slow as that on the earth.

The huge herd couldn't find enough food to eat, and each one was hungry and skinny.

Now, as long as it is a green thing, they all want to take a bite.

It stands to reason that it has only been less than a year without rain, even if plants such as weeds have been severely affected.

But the impact on big trees will always be much lower.

But in fact, the situation of the big tree is not good.

Although their roots are relatively deep, for the time being, they can still hold on.

However, there was no snow in last winter, and those insect eggs that hid in the soil for the winter survived in large numbers.

In the spring, they hatch into adults and do serious damage to trees in the wild.

A large forest like the Black Forest has enough birds and small creatures to regulate that the infestation doesn't seem too severe.

But in some small forests, more than [-]% of the leaves are often eaten overnight.

The extent of the disaster is worse than the locust plague on the earth.

Fortunately, those oak trees and diesel trees planted by Wang Hao have been prevented in advance and sprayed with chemicals.

The insects in the wilderness have basically zero resistance to artificial chemicals, so they are not affected by the disaster, but other places are already terrible.

These disasters were seen by Wang Hao, but they didn't have much impact on ordinary clansmen.

If the grass withers and the trees turn yellow, let them wither and turn yellow. For pests or something, just sprinkle some medicine on the place where you live.

As for the water source problem, the patriarch said that he would solve it, so why worry about it.

The only change for them in this severe drought is that they have changed from getting water from small rivers and streams to water carts.

Compared with the trouble of digging deep wells, it is much easier to train electricians who are only used to install wiring.

Two hundred electricians, after ten days of training, have been able to skillfully connect the wires.

These electricians connect the lines on the transformers, and then lead the lines to various populated areas.

They rely on some of the theoretical knowledge they have learned to practice, and then summarize their experiences in practice, and pass on these experiences to the apprentices who follow them.

After their apprentices have learned it, they are about to leave the teacher. At that time, these apprentices who have just graduated from the teacher, no one will take a few apprentices to carry out practical operations.

Although China now has a population of more than 40, there are only [-] electricians.

But Wang Hao believes that within a few months, this number will increase dozens of times.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning.

When several villages around Hwaseong, with the help of these electricians, installed several headlights in the villages, bringing electric light to their nights.

With Hwaseong as the center, the light quickly spread towards the surroundings.

When the weather becomes hot and China enters the midsummer season, at least half of the villages in China can have lights for lighting at night.

Although lamps are not enough to be popularized in every household now, Wang Hao believes that it will not be too far away when every Chinese tribe can use lamps normally.

(End of this chapter)