Daily life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 101 Dams
"Hard, hard!"

"It's really hard."

"It's so hard, it's almost like a rock."

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South County.

By the Dragon King River.

This is a tributary of the Yangtze River. Because it bends and spreads like a swimming dragon, the local people are used to calling it "Dragon King River".

The Longwang River is neither big nor wide.But this river runs deep and deep all the way, covering almost one-third of the farmland in Nanjun.

Usually, with this Dragon King River, it is very convenient for the people of Nanjun to farm and irrigate. However, once the flood season comes, this Dragon King River is also the culprit that destroys the most farmland.

In the past, when Nanjun was still on the territory of Chu State, they had thought of countless ways to solve this problem.

Including: build ridges to cover both sides of the Longwang River.

But in the end they all failed.

the reason is simple.

During the flood season, the water potential of the Longwang River rises extremely rapidly, and the ridges built of ordinary earth and rocks almost collapse in one rush.

If the thickness continues to be widened, it is possible to prevent the flood season, but the problem is that the Longwang River does not only cause floods, it also undertakes the important task of watering nearly one-third of the farmland in the entire South County.

If the Longwang River is encircled and embanked for the sole purpose of preventing floods, then without automatic water pumps, irrigation of farmland will inevitably become a big problem.

Therefore, the hidden danger of the Longwang River in Nanjun started from the territory of Chu State, and it has dragged on for hundreds of years until now, but no Nanjun official has come up with a solution.

But today.

A gray-white embankment rose from the ground, standing on the bank of the Longwang River.

Compared with ordinary ridges, this strangely colored embankment has two differences.

One is toughness.

Most of the ordinary dikes are built with mud. However, this embankment was not only built with a lot of stones when it was first built, but when it was finally reinforced, the current county governor personally brought a kind of sand and mud. Things were poured into the embankment through the holes left in advance.

According to the magistrate, this thing is called 'cement', as long as the dam is reinforced with this thing, it only takes three to five days to make the dam as hard as a stone.

Naturally, everyone didn't believe this kind of statement at first. After all, the whole embankment can be made as hard as a stone in three to five days. How could there be such a thing in this world?

But they didn't refute at that time. After all, in their opinion, although the new county sheriff was a little 'naive', at least he had a good heart.

Because in the past, after the disaster in Nanjun, the food for disaster relief has always been water-like porridge, and no high-ranking official has ever used dry food for disaster relief.

Although these foods need to be exchanged through work, it is only natural to work and eat.What's more, working here in the past few months, many people have more food than their families. If they can continue to work like this in the future, it will be a beautiful thing!

Where can I find a good place where you can have a meal as long as you work in this day and age.

Farming at home, even when the season is good, the whole family will mobilize and work hard to plant more than ten acres of land a year.But when all kinds of food taxes and land rents are paid, the remaining food is just enough for food and clothing.

Whenever there is a small calamity, conscription and war, even food and clothing are difficult.

To be honest, it's not as stable as it is now.

However, to everyone's surprise, it was only four days ago that the thing called 'cement', which looked like water and sand, had actually hardened.

Even if you hit it with a copper hammer, it would be difficult to destroy it. The embankment that was originally piled up with sand, gravel and soil turned into a whole huge 'stone' at this time.

This scene instantly shocked everyone's eyes.

Looking at Mo Jun at this time, he was simply astonished.

"Okay, okay...okay!"

"It's really good."

"Okay! Finally someone can tame this 'Old Dragon King'!"

Among the crowd at the scene, many young people were just curious about such things as 'cement'. However, some elderly people were hunched over at this moment, touching the hardened cement on the embankment, tears filled with excitement. orbital.

No one is more aware of the harm brought by the Longwang River than these old farmers who have lived here almost all their lives.

Compared with other big rivers.

Although the flood caused by the Longwang River during the flood season is not particularly strong, the disaster it brings to the farmers in this area is not weaker than those of the so-called big rivers.

Although the destructive power of the floods brought by those big rivers is astonishing, it will take at least ten years to strike once.

However, the floods brought by the Longwangjiang River occur every three to five years, sometimes even more frequently, every year.Although the destructive power is not strong each time, it will not cause too many casualties.

But once the Dragon King River breaks out, at least hundreds of miles of farmland around here will be submerged, and tens of thousands of farmers' hard work for a year will be in vain.

Many young people in South County have not experienced much yet, but for the elderly here, the Dragon King River is much more hateful than the "large disasters" in many places.

This is also one of the reasons why the ridge and dams were first built here.

The biggest difference between the cement dam and the most common mud ridge today is that it is hard enough. Hardness means that it is not easy to be washed away by floods, which means that it can not only prevent floods, but also build 'gates'.

And this is the second difference between this embankment and ordinary ridges.

That is the middle of this embankment, and there is a special gap, which is where the gate will be installed next.

With this gate.

During the normal flood season, the Longwang River can irrigate the river water to the farmland on both sides of the gate along the gate.

Once the flood season comes, just close the gate to keep the flood out of the dam and protect the farmland on both sides of the bank from being submerged.

"Not bad!"

Today is the day to inspect the quality of cement and dams. As a county guard, Mo Jun will naturally not be absent.

I saw him holding a small hammer in his hand, followed by a group of Mo family disciples, beating with the small hammer as he walked, and finally said something in satisfaction.

Although several experiments have been done before, and even Mo Jun specially built two baths with 'cement', the embankment is different from the baths after all.

The quality of the bath is not good enough, at best it leaks and runs out.

But the dams are related to the farmland with a radius of hundreds of miles and the lives of tens of thousands of farmers, so it is natural for Mo Jun to be careless.

Walk on the embankment.

Zhanqin, Yuenv, Zhuyeqing, Jiujianchi and others behind Mo Jun looked at the dry 'cement' under their feet, and they also showed surprise and splendor.

Although Mo Jun and Jian Jiuyuan were aware of it when they fired 'cement' in the other courtyard before, they never expected that such a 'magical' thing would be produced in the end.

Four days ago, when the dam was poured with cement, they all followed Mo Jun and saw it with their own eyes. To be honest, even the disciples like them did not believe that there was anything in this world that could turn a dam into a dam within three to five days. Hard as a rock.

However, only four days later, the scene in front of them was like an invisible slap, slapping them hard on the face.

See the four-day-shaped embankment in front of you.

Some people just simply saw the magic of 'cement'.

But some people have already seen a farther future through the dam in front of them...
Since this kind of "cement" can have such a miraculous effect, a dam as firm as a boulder can be built in four days.

So what if it is used to build bridges and roads, build houses and buildings?

Even build city walls and fortifications?

Thinking of this.

Some people who think more far-reaching, look at Mo Jun's eyes suddenly become different.

Yue Nu's beautiful eyes twinkle again and again. This is the first time since she became Mo Jun's guest, Mo Jun has shown in front of her, besides cooking delicious food, brewing fine wine, and building bathing pools... Come and enjoy the outside talents.

correct.

There are also "silk velvet quilts" sewn with female red.

Just half a month ago, the moon girl saw Mo Jun, a big man, and actually personally instructed a group of female slaves to sew several beds of exquisite and soft silk goose down with female red and sun-dried goose down. quilt'.

At that time, Mo Jun showed female celebrity skills, even Yuenu was ashamed of herself.

But don't say it.

The 'silk velvet quilt' is really comfortable to sleep on. Recently, the time for Yuenu to meditate on the bed has become shorter, because every time she lies on the 'silk velvet quilt', the soft The touch made her feel drowsy... Ah bah!
Why are you thinking of these messy things again?

Yue Nu's cheeks flushed slightly, and she quickly shook her head, dispelling the weird thoughts that came to her mind.

Recently, Yuenu found that she had more and more distracting thoughts in her mind, because she saw so many novel things at Mo Jun's side during this period, and she couldn't bear it all at once.

Yuenu felt that she needed to go back to Yinyang's house to temporarily stabilize her state of mind.

However, in the recent period, whenever this idea just appeared in Yue Nu's mind, she suddenly felt a faint resistance inexplicably, and then couldn't help but hesitate.

And this hesitation, more than half a month has passed.

And then······

Yuenu found that she didn't want to leave even more.

"This guy is really a sinful man."

Looking at Mo Jun in front of her, Yue Nu couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

It's really because the man in front of him is so special. He is full of mysterious aura that is incompatible with this era.

Now Yue Nu is becoming more and more suspicious that Mo Jun is most likely to be the 'source' of the astrological changes that she is looking for.

It's just that she hasn't found enough evidence to prove it.

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(End of this chapter)