Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 361

Besides, Xiahetang Village is busy in full swing, but things are not going smoothly for He Yong and Wang Hebin.

Although with the fifty bodyguards sent by Gu Qi and all the available guards in the government office, the manpower is enough, but repairing the river is not only a matter of manpower, stone materials are also the key.

He Yong sent people to search all the abandoned old stone quarries in Lushan County. It took three full days to collect a batch of stone materials to repair the two collapsed rivers next to the county town.But these stones are only enough for repairs, and it is not enough to increase the height of the entire river.

There was not enough stone, and there was really no other way, so He Yong thought that he could use crushed stones, river sand, or clods instead. These things can be found everywhere as long as he is willing to dig.

Because there were still occasional showers in the past few days, the sand and mud clods found could not be piled up and solidified, so Wang Hebin ordered people to collect discarded old grain bags on Liuhang Street, mixed these river sand-like mud clods, and poured them into the The grain bags were tied tightly with hemp rope, and layers of piles were placed on both sides of the river.

With the growing demand for sandbags, He Yong suddenly thought of the dredging method mentioned by Gu Qi earlier.

Since the required stones and mud are all dug out now, then what is digging is not digging!It would be better to carry out the dredging and filling of sandbags at the same time, simply digging and building at the same time.

The more He Yong thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible, but he suffered from the fact that he hadn't really practiced the method of opening the canal.

After thinking about it, He Yong simply left all the work in his hands to Wang Hebin, and after saying hello, he ran to Xiahetang Village to find Gu Qi.

Hearing the purpose of He Yong's visit, Gu Qi smiled: "Brother He, the excess mud dug out of the wasteland outside Xiahetang Village these days has been piled up beside the mountain stream, if you need it urgently, just ask someone to bring a sack Just pull it away, why bother to dig it yourself."

This is also a way.

However, He Yong thought for a while and shook his head and said: "It takes a lot of time to go back and forth here, it will delay things too much, if I have this time, I will ask people to dig near the river, and they can dig out a lot.

It's just that there are no other water systems that can be connected horizontally near the two rivers, so I can't figure out how to dig this canal to maximize its effect. "

"Have you brought the map?" Gu Qi asked.

"Bring it." He Yong asked the little official beside him to take a scroll: "I copied it temporarily, it's not detailed, but it's roughly the same.

The two rivers that He Yong is currently repairing are not far from the city of Lushan County. One of the rivers collapsed only ten feet away from the nearest village. Now the collapsed part has been reinforced with stones, but due to insufficient materials, Coupled with the fact that rainwater poured down from time to time, these reinforced parts were not strong. If they were to encounter floods, they would be vulnerable. This is why He Yong was anxious to find another way.

Gu Qi's eyes fell on the east and west sides of the two rivers, and found that to the west was a narrow mountain range, bordering several villages in two towns and counties.

The terrain of the village is built in order from high to low, and the lowest terrain is connected with large fields. These fields are marked on the map, and they are all owned farmland.

One of the rivers circles from the other side of the mountain range, gradually converging from the narrow and winding mountain streams to the swift and wide rivers of the city.

Judging from the terrain formed by the river and the trend of the water flow, the large towns, counties and villages in the west are not obviously at risk. What really kills are the villages on both sides of the river in the east.

Yuduo Plain, located in the southeast and northeast of the river, is a large plain. The terrain is low and flat, and it is impossible for any flood to pour out.

The most terrible thing is that these two rivers go all the way to the east, and there is no other horizontal water area that can be converged and relieved within a hundred miles. The two rivers finally merged into one after a hundred miles, until they poured into the Yujiang River three hundred miles away. .

The Yujiang River is open, but it is a full three hundred miles away from here, and it is already out of Lushan County.

He Yong wanted to build another canal to share the water level of the two rivers outside the city of Lushan County. At least the canal had to be built for three hundred miles to be useful.

Not to mention the territory of Lushan County, other counties are willing to let He Yong build this channel, and no matter how much manpower and material resources are needed to build this channel, the length of time required for the construction is not something that He Yong can afford to delay.

To put it bluntly, perhaps in another ten days and a half months, the water levels of these two rivers will not be able to hold up. At that time, no matter whether there are channels or not, no matter where they are repaired, the day lily will already be cold. up.

Seeing that Gu Qi frowned, He Yong was a little worried: "Is this difficult to handle?"

Gu Qi didn't hold back, nodded, and said honestly: "It's really difficult."

Judging from the current situation of these two river sections, raising and strengthening the embankment is indeed the most effective method of flood control.

"Is there any other way to relieve it?" He Yong asked.

Gu Qi looked at the signs of the river on the map in his hand, saw that there was no measurement of the depth of the river, so he asked, "What is the current water level of these two rivers?"

"It's reached a critical point." He Yong said.

"Can you probe the depth of the river bed?" Gu Qi asked again.

"I didn't check it carefully, about three feet or so."

Gu Qi raised his eyebrows slightly: "So shallow?"

"In fact, these two rivers are formed by the convergence of mountain streams, and they were formed less than a hundred years ago."

He Yong thought for a while and said, "Because of the terrain, some places will be deeper. The deepest place is no more than five feet, and the shallowest place is only two feet."

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that these two rivers are so shallow, they wouldn't have dried up in less than two years in the event of a severe drought. At present, there have only been a few rains, and the river banks will overflow again immediately.

Gu Qi thought for a moment and asked: "Before the river is full, has the river been cleaned in advance?"

Seeing He Yong stunned, Gu Qi reminded: "Have you cleaned up the silt and sand on the river bed?"

"No." He Yong shook his head.

Before the drought, no one would think about clearing the river mud that had already consolidated. When it started to rain in Yuzhong, everyone was silent in the joy of Yuzhou's hopeless life, so how could they think of it? Little things like clearing the river.

"I'll go with you tomorrow. Let's find out how deep the river mud is on the river bed. Let's start from the shallow part. The river mud is loose and easy to dig. If you can clean it to a sufficient depth, it's far better than you digging it up again." It's easy."

The wasteland by the river bank is often walked by people, so the soil quality is more compact than that of the other places. In addition, there are many stones and stones everywhere along the road, so it is not easy to excavate.

On the contrary, it is the silt in the river, especially those places where the water level is only two to three feet. It's much easier to do.

(End of this chapter)