Zhao Ran looked at the area pointed out by Li Zheng and nodded: "The well digger you hired is very skilled. This place is really good." He had just opened his eyes and found that this place was indeed a good place, suitable for water to flow, but the details
The wellbore has not been selected yet, and it usually takes four to eight drills to produce water.
This shows that the village has already invited a well digger to come and take a look in advance, and it also shows that this well digger is a caring person.
After asking Li Zheng's name, Zhao Ran memorized it silently, then pointed with his hand, and the breeding donkey behind Zhao Ran raised his hooves, kicked his feet tentatively on the spot, and then began to dig at an extremely fast speed.
pit.
The old donkey has become more and more sophisticated in the past few years. The mud and stones were dug out one after another. The donkey's body drilled into the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye. In less than half an hour, when the mud pit reached three feet deep, the bottom was
Out of the water.
The old donkey let out a loud voice and climbed up the pit wall in two steps. Zhao Ran said to the inside: "Get the well digger to build the well wall. The rest of the work won't take much time."
In fact, the significance of digging wells in this village is not to fight drought. Even if there is a severe drought, the village's production will not be reduced too much. After all, they are on the edge of the Minjiang River. Unless the drought causes the river to stop flowing, but that is basically a once-in-a-century level.
The significance of digging wells for them is to provide convenience to the people. They don’t have to go to the river for daily water supply, which is also considered a merit. And the key is that Zhao Ran has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder in terms of data. For "full coverage", "100%"
Such words are inexplicably and subconsciously pursued relentlessly.
I visited five or six villages a day on average to dig water wells. By late March, I had visited dozens of villages in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River.
Soon, Zhao Ran received a report from the flying talisman that contacted the monks, telling him that the artificial lake had been dug, so he hurried back.
In ten days, thousands of demon cultivators worked together to expand this earth depression into a large pit with a maximum depth of four feet and a radius of 800 acres. The excavated soil was piled around the pit, making it one meter taller.
It is two feet higher than the river embankment in the distance to prevent the river water from flowing back.
So, Zhao Ran commanded the monsters to start digging ditches according to the lines sprinkled with white ash. The ditches were three main ditches, three feet wide and two feet deep, seven miles, nine miles, and twelve miles long respectively.
Two of the ditches connect the Minjiang River and the artificial lake. One is a channel for water diversion, and the other is also used as the main water channel between the river and the lake. The other stretches out from the north of the artificial lake, makes a large circle to the east, and connects back to
The south side of the artificial lake serves as the main water channel for the eastern farmland.
Compared with the artificial lake, the amount of earthwork for these three water channels is not large, but it is much more detailed. At this time, it must be done in cooperation with the craftsmen recruited from the county.
In just five or six days, these craftsmen experienced emotions such as curiosity, trepidation, adaptation, and exuberance. It can be regarded as an adventure in life.
Five days later, the three main canals were completed.
An earth magic circle has been set up at the designed breach on the riverside, and two Huangguan monks worked together to cast the spell. Following Zhao Ran's order, a narrow opening was dug in the river embankment, and the river surged out from here.
Along the two channels, they converge into a large pit nine miles away. With the monks here, there is no need for a water truck to divert water. That thing is too slow, so just fill it with water!
Along the way, monks were arranged to guard every section of the canal. Once any problems were discovered, they would be solved immediately, either by strengthening them with magic symbols and then filling them with soil, or by leveling the uneven sections due to inaccurate visual inspection.
, guiding the river water smoothly into the artificial lake.
At the excavation of the river embankment, monks were replaced every hour to guard the gap and prevent it from being washed away by the river water.
One day later, the 800-acre artificial lake was formed, and it stopped after the water was level with the river. At this time, the embankment at the excavation was re-reinforced with stones, and the craftsmen installed the iron gates prepared in advance.
You're done. The iron gate can be opened and closed manually. The water can be opened when needed and closed when not needed.
The next project is to dig small canals across the farmland. Through these small canals, water is diverted from the main canal to irrigate the farmland. These follow-up projects will be completed by the county government recruiting people. This step needs to wait until the spring plowing is completed.
After the completion of the "model lake" project, the three major construction teams began to rush to their main battlefields. Zhao Ran urged the "four major reserves" to proceed quickly while continuing the great cause of drilling wells.
At the end of March and the beginning of April, in order to prepare for the spring plowing, the entire emergency team was busy everywhere. They borrowed six water dancing dragon instruments owned by the Sichuan Provincial Army, stored water from the river, and rushed back and forth to water the fields.
However, after all, the Water Dance Dragon is a war weapon. It consumes too much Spirit Gathering Talisman. After calculation, the cost and benefit are not proportional. Therefore, it can only be used in areas with a suitable cost-effectiveness ratio. Most other areas would rather buy food and distribute it directly.
It is cost-effective to throw the Soul-Gathering Talisman into the ground. Of course, if one day the Ming Dynasty suffers from widespread drought and cannot buy food, the Soul-Gathering Talisman will have no choice but to throw it into the ground at any cost.
In any case, the spring plowing problem in some areas has been solved, but despite this, there are still more places that have not had time to irrigate, and it is expected to be greatly affected. Although a certain degree of replenishment has been carried out, the farming season has been missed.
The harvest is really unpredictable.
From April to June, there was not a single rain in northwest Sichuan. People who had doubts about Zhao Ran were now completely convinced that the drought was coming.
"Junshan Notes" and "Bagua" are also cooperating with Zhao Ran's drought relief work.
In a disaster, the stability of people's hearts is particularly important. If people's hearts are unstable, it is easy to cause big troubles. Therefore, Zhao Ran also attaches great importance to these two journals and requires the two editorial departments to carry out key reports.
The publicity and reporting strategies of these two journals are also quite different.
"Bagua" is mainly distributed to the Shifang Jungle, the government, wealthy gentry families, merchants, and scholars among the common people, and it tries to spread it to a wider range of common people through the mouths of storytellers, government preachers, and scholars. To put it bluntly,
It is oriented towards secular society.
Because of the different tastes of the audience, it is divided into classics and meanings, governance and policy, news and legends.
Therefore, when promoting drought resistance, the focus is divided into two parts. One part focuses on the strategies and methods of drought resistance, and introduces various precautions; the other part describes the various efforts made by the Taoist community, the government and all parties to create a "one side"
The atmosphere of "Whenever there is a problem, help from all directions" has inspired the people in drought-stricken areas and inspired their courage and determination.
The Taoist skills, magic talismans, and magical tools displayed by the monks were also greatly exaggerated, thereby deepening the people's trust in the Taoist sect and enhancing their credibility. Under Bai Tengming's special instructions, Zhao Ran spent three years for the people.
Nian Shouyuan's deeds were highlighted and became a legend talked about in the market.
The readers of "Junshan Notes" are mainly monks, so the report focuses on showing the scenes of monks in Sichuan Province working together to fight drought and provide disaster relief. From the Yuhuang Pavilion, Zongsheng Pavilion, Huayun Pavilion, Kuixing Pavilion, Qingyun Pavilion and other pavilions
The government's attention and support, down to the performance of every monk who participated in disaster prevention, are described in the article.
Today is how these monks work day and night, and tomorrow is how those monks work hard. For a time, the images of Dongfang Jing, Zhao Ran, Zhu Meng, Li Tengxin, Qu Fenghe and others stood out.
He even wrote a long report "Women Models in Action", praising the achievements of Kun Dao including Song Yuqiao, Qingyi Taoist, Zheng Yutong and Pei Zhongning in fighting drought and disaster, praising them as the heroine Kun Dao in the spiritual world.
, is a pacesetter in Kun Dao, which has attracted great attention in the spiritual world.
After this article was published, the editorial department of "Junshan Notes" received many flying talismans from young monks, asked for the contact information of several Kun Daoists, and expressed their love without concealment.