The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 259 Li Shimin asks for rain

In the Manna Hall, Li Shimin frowned, because just an hour later, Li Shimin received two more fights over water, with heavy casualties. These are the people who take the fields as their foundation. For the fields, they will do whatever it takes. .

"Pass the message. Fang Xuanling, the eldest grandson Wuji will see you at the Ganlu Hall!"

Huang Bao quickly bowed down to convey the order.

In less than half an hour, Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji both came. As soon as they came, they saw Li Shimin's livid face. Then they both bowed and saluted. Li Shimin waved his hands and said, "Two love Sir, no need to be polite. Just look at this."

Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji each picked up a copy of the upper form that had just been delivered.

Among them, Fang Xuanling looked at another Taiping village called Shanling Village. The two villages were preparing to fight for water. Thousands of villagers had been prepared, and "the surrounding villagers signed up to participate in the war. Fortunately, the court officials intervened." Early in the morning, he mediated between the two sides and avoided a big war.

However, what Changsun Wuji saw was a bit bloody. Tianhe Village and Yangshui Village directly prepared more than 500 people to fight, and more than 30 people were killed and injured. Not only were the fights bloody, but also the officials who went to stop the fight were beaten.

Changsun Wuji frowned slightly.

Li Shimin stood up from his chair at this time: "There are more than 30 acres of fields. This was originally a happy thing, but now you see, the water source cannot keep up. It is already mid-March. How many more acres will there be?" It's almost March, but Qin Tianjian has already said that there won't be any rain in the near future.

If it doesn't rain and there is no water, these fields will be dead after being reclaimed, which will only make the people even more chilled! "

Li Shimin's words made Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling sigh together. But because of the rain, Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling had no good solution. In the end, the two of them asked Li Shimin to issue an edict to punish themselves, and followed. Ask God for rain.

This edict of self-crime is the reflection and self-examination of the ancient emperors on disasters and mistakes. A single-minded situation.This is the behavior and function of the "Edict of Sin".

The first emperor to issue an edict to sin against oneself was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, followed by Li Shimin. In the second year of Zhenguan, drought and locusts came together. The edict said: "If the grain is abundant in the next year, the world will be in peace, and the disaster will be removed from me. It is a wish to preserve all nations, and I am willing to be generous." For the sake of the people's food, Li Shimin would rather that all disasters befall him alone.

This can be regarded as an edict to blame oneself. At that time, Li Shimin's edict to sin against oneself still won a lot of people's hearts, but it was a trick that had been used once, and Li Shimin did not want to use it a second time.

If you use it once, you can win the hearts of the people, but if you use it a second time, it won't necessarily happen. So Li Shimin just agreed to pray for rain, and he didn't go to pray for rain this time, and let the prince Li Chengqian do it. If the prince Li Chengqian couldn't pray for rain, There is still a way out. If the emperor of his own dies and cannot beg for help, then there will be no way out.

Of course, these two suggestions are only treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, so after Li Shimin issued the decree, he began to bring up the issue of water shortage in the morning court the next day, hoping that someone could solve these problems. .

Unfortunately, water shortage is a matter of God, and there is really no better way.Lijia Village. Li An walked on his land. Sweet potatoes have been planted, but there is a lack of water. Although sweet potatoes are drought-resistant crops, necessary water must be provided. But now, all the small rivers around Lijia Village have dried up. , if you want to use water, you have to fetch it from a place ten miles away.

This is twenty miles back and forth, and this field is tens of thousands of acres. How do you pick it? Not only that, the water level of the water has also dropped a lot. If you pick it, you have to go to the bottom of the water, which is really dangerous.

"Lang Jun. The surrounding villages are all the same now. Many villages have started fighting for a little bit of water." Liu Xiatian said following Li An.

Li An sighed slightly and said: "There is a shortage of water in Guanzhong, but I did not expect that there would be such a shortage of water. This time, the Quyuan plow has plowed so much more land, and more water is used. Everyone is reluctant to part with their own. There was no water available in the fields, so they began to fight desperately for that little bit of water.

Uncle Liu, tell me if I did something wrong. "

"Lang Jun, what did you do wrong? You did it for the good of our people. What you did was not wrong. The fault lies with God. He didn't want to give us people a way to survive!" Liu Xiatian quickly comforted Li An.

Li An felt a little more at ease now, but fortunately, Li An already had a countermeasure. He looked at the fields in his Lijia Village and said: "Uncle Liu, starting today, you will organize all the young people in the village. , dig me a ditch leading to the river, and I will bring water from the river."

"But Lang Jun. The water level in the water has dropped too much, and there is no way to get water!" Liu Xiatian looked at Li An and reminded.

When the water level drops, even if you dig a ditch to the water's edge, the water won't come up. If the water level doesn't drop, you can still use a tangerine to bring the water up. The tangerine was a water-fetching tool in Datang at this time.

It is a slender lever added to an upright frame, with a fulcrum in the middle, a weight hanging at the end, and a bucket hanging at the front.Once it falls together, it saves effort to collect water.When a person puts the bucket into the water and fills it with water, the water can be easily lifted to the desired location due to the gravity at the end of the lever.

The principle of this thing is very simple. When you want to draw water, the person presses the straight rod and the draw device downward hard, and at the same time.The position of the stone at the other end rises (potential energy increases).When the drain is full, let the stone at the other end drop, and the potential energy originally stored in the stone is transformed: through leverage, it is possible to lift the drain.

Like this, the main force direction of drawing water process is downward.Since the downward force can use the weight of the person, it gives people a relaxed feeling and greatly reduces the fatigue of people lifting water.

However, this water-drawing tool also has disadvantages, that is, it is time-consuming and the water source drawn at one time is too little. If the water drawn out in this way is to irrigate tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, it is not known how long it will be taken.

And now that the water level has dropped, Jujue cannot be used at all. The water level is too low, and Jujue cannot draw water at all.

However, Li An has thousands of years of knowledge reserves. Since Jumei can't do it, then he needs to find a tool that can draw water. The name of this tool is a high-rotating drum car. Li An has already obtained its design drawings. , it’s not a problem to come and get water.

(End of this chapter)