Transmigrated into a corrupt female county magistrate, defied fate and changed her life in a deserte

"Then I'll do as you say, sir. However, this project is huge, so we need to plan a route. If we encounter mountains, villages, or owned land, we'll need to take a detour..."

...I have previously researched that, by removing these obstacles, the distance from Jingyang County to Wenquan Town could be shortened by half."

Lu Ruoyu told him all the information he knew about the road conditions, which showed that he had studied it in depth.

"Don't bother, I have everything ready." Song Jinshu took out a folded piece of thin paper from his collar.

When Lu Ruoyu took it back, he could still vaguely feel the body temperature on the paper. His ears felt hot and he deliberately avoided Song Jinshu's gaze.

"Ahem..." He unfolded the folded paper, his face startled. "This... Sir, are you planning to open a cave?"

He could no longer see the information below, only this bold idea.

It would take several years to artificially reclaim a cave.

Moreover, digging caves also faces the risk of collapse, which is a very dangerous thing for ordinary people.

"No, we need to be cautious about this matter. If you don't want to take a detour, we can discuss it with those people. However, we should not touch the cave matter if we can."

Song Jinshu was puzzled: "I calculated wrongly. We don't take the official road to Wenquan Town. We have to climb four mountains alone. I have carefully inspected these mountains and they are all small hills...

If we go through the mountains, we can reach the hot spring town in just over half an hour."

Converted into hours, it only takes a little over an hour, which is just the distance from one district to another in a big city.

Lu Ruoyu sighed, thinking that she didn't understand the key point.

"Okay, if you can figure out the way through the cave..."

"It's a tunnel!"

"Okay, if we want to dig a tunnel through just one hill, it will take a year and a half to dig it manually. It will probably take five or six years to dig through all four hills.

It will also require a huge amount of manpower and material resources. People's lives are already difficult, and this will be a waste of money and effort!"

Seeing that Lu Ruoyu's face became uglier as she spoke, Song Jinshu's heart skipped a beat. It seemed that she had thought the matter was too simple.

But she still had some hope: "Maybe we can use explosives to blow it up, and then have someone widen it."

She had carefully explored the hilltop and found that the underground rock layer was hard and had good bearing capacity. The anticline rock layer was arched upward, which provided support and was not easy to seep water.

These all perfectly meet the conditions for tunnel construction.

"What is explosives?" Lu Ruoyu was confused. He had never heard of it.

But it sounds like it's extremely violent, so it should be a good thing.

"Don't you know? Uh... it's gunpowder!"

Lu Ruoyu still shook his head. Song Jinshu was confused. Could it be that gunpowder has not been produced here yet?

Thinking of this, Song Jinshu's eyes lit up like Daoguang's. If not, could she report this to the court?

But... the next moment Song Jinshu felt a little embarrassed.

No matter how simple-minded she was, she knew how lethal this thing was.

It’s better to let people know that it was her who did it, and she will definitely be targeted by all forces.

After thinking about it, Song Jinshu shook her head. She just wanted to live a quiet pastoral life and didn't want to be involved in those struggles.

"Forget it! If this doesn't work, we can just think of something else."

Song Jinshu waved his hand and did not explain the gunpowder matter to Lu Ruoyu.

Feeling the other party's inquiring gaze, she quickly changed the subject: "Let's continue talking about this route. I think this part can be changed..."

The two spent most of the afternoon discussing the route for a long time and finally figured it out.

And agreed to walk along the route together tomorrow.

We can’t just talk about it on paper…

The next morning.

Song Jinshu washed off the sweat on her body. Ever since she fell ill with a high fever, she was afraid of dying young, so she learned a few moves from Shen Fenghua.

But Shen Fenghua's moves were sharp and powerful, while hers were soft.

However, Song Jinshu didn't care. She just wanted to keep fit. Being a peerless master was too far away from her.

Besides, she knew very well that she was not cut out for it.

After cleaning himself, Song Jinshu changed into a set of neat clothes and moved much more briskly.

As soon as I arrived at the front hall, Lu Ruoyu came over.

"I bought it on the way here. Eat it while it's hot. I'll go get the carriage first."

I saw Lu Ruoyu handed her the bag in her hand, which was still hot.

Inside was her favorite West Street pancake, but she clearly remembered that Lu Ruoyu's home was in the south of the city, so how could it be so convenient?

The rich aroma went straight to the top of Song Jinshu's head. He didn't bother to think too much and just picked it up and ate it.

Still as delicious as always!

She had been back for a long time and got up late every day, so she hadn't had time to buy one to try.

I didn't expect to eat it today.

Lu Ruoyu turned around and left, secretly breathing a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she saw that eating easily makes people forget things, and she didn't expect so many twists and turns.

Otherwise, he would have to make up another reason to send the things away.

After a while, a carriage set out from the county government office.

The two of them walked and stopped along the way, drawing on the blueprints and adding many details to the original route map.

Around the hour of Si, the sun rises high in the sky and the wind blowing in it is scorching hot.

The two found a shady place to sit down and rest and drink water.

"This summer is more intense than in previous years, and I'm afraid the fields will run out of water during the hottest part of the day."

Lu Ruoyu looked at the sun high in the sky, her eyes full of worry.

"Gu Gu Gu Gu..."

Song Jinshu drank a big gulp of cold water and felt alive again. He listened to Lu Ruoyu's words without getting anxious.

"You might have forgotten that the canals we dug earlier are not just for show. No matter how hot this summer gets or how low the water level drops, we won't have to worry about running out of water for our fields."

Lu Ruoyu smiled: "That's true."

Mentioning this reminded Lu Ruoyu of something.

"Before, in addition to digging the canal, Master also asked the Ma family to build a waterwheel. A lot of things have happened recently, and I almost forgot about it.

Calculating the time, the waterwheel can be built in a few days."

He had a strong curiosity about the waterwheel, having heard Song Jinshu talk about its function before.

But what you hear is false, and what you see is true.

The time for experimentation will be soon. If it can really benefit the people, Song Jinshu will have made another great contribution.

I think once the waterwheel appears, coupled with his contribution to controlling the plague, Song Jinshu's official position will definitely be promoted.

"Yes! It's almost done. Once the waterwheel is built, you tell me and we'll go to Guantian to test it out. If there are no problems, we'll manufacture it on a large scale and have one in every village!"

Hearing that the waterwheel was about to be completed, Song Jinshu felt much better.

On the other hand, Song Jinshu and Lu Ruoyu were not the only ones who were worried about the irrigation of the fields.

In every village, big or small, you can hear the villagers talking.

"Alas! It's so hot this year. I'm afraid the fields will run out of water again. I don't know how much grain we'll yield by the time the autumn harvest comes."

The person beside him chuckled when he heard this: "You're just worrying about nothing. We have Master Song here, what are you afraid of?"