Chapter 49 Evolution! Ping An Town is getting stronger
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With his life at stake, Wang Shouzhe's mind was spinning rapidly.
He looked at Liu Ruolan with a doting and deep expression: "My husband really likes my wife's craftsmanship. If you do it for me every day, how can I control it? Wouldn't you let me overeat?"
Over time, it will naturally be harmful to the body, isn't it like trying to kill your own husband?"
"From this, the wife can cook occasionally, and it can also give her husband something to think about, right?"
The cold look on Liu Ruolan's face gradually dissipated, and she glanced at Wang Shouzhe happily with her pretty eyes: "My husband is indeed very talented. He even praises others in such a thrilling and original way."
In order to divert Liu Ruolan's attention, Wang Shouzhe put his arms around her waist and whispered: "I have been away from home these days, and everything is very inconvenient. It has been a long time since I learned your lady's accomplishments in the 'Xuanshui True Secret'
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Liu Ruolan's pretty face blushed slightly, and she whispered: "Perhaps I haven't checked the progress of my husband's 'Eternal Spring Secret' cultivation for a long time, but the two children are still studying in the study next door..."
The couple had been on a business trip for too long, and their homework had not been done for a long time. As a result, the two little guys had let themselves go, and now they were making up for their progress.
The naughty kid is really troublesome.
Wang Shouzhe shook his head regretfully and was about to focus on the sand table.
However, Liu Ruolan blushed and bit her lips and said, "That's all. Anyway, they didn't delay their homework for more than a day or two. I asked Qiao'er to take care of the children, and let's go to Shuiyue Tiange to practice~"
"okay."
After Wang Shouzhe thought about it for a while, he felt that he still couldn't defeat Liu Ruolan, so he acted as he said.
Half an hour later.
In the study room.
Siblings Wang Liyao and Wang Zongan were working hard on their homework with serious faces.
My mother said she would come to check her homework in a while.
At a young age, they already know how to watch their actions and know that at home they would rather offend their father a hundred times than make their mother angry even once.
Therefore, they wrote very hard and wrote very hard.
However, after waiting for a long time, my mother did not come to check my homework.
"Aunt Qiao'er." Wang Liyao blinked her beautiful eyes and said with suspicion on her face, "Isn't my mother going to practice with her father again?"
"This..." Qiao'er broke into a cold sweat and explained with a dry smile, "My young lady and my uncle are both talented people, so they should work hard to practice."
The two siblings looked at each other.
Come on, today's homework was in vain again.
My father and mother will not be able to come back for two or three days from practicing this practice.
"An'an, let's go, sister will take you out to play." Wang Liyao suddenly became energetic.
"Well, sister, it's not okay." Wang Zongan felt a little guilty.
He is not as bold as his sister.
"What are you afraid of? It's not like you don't understand your parents, they just think we are an eyesore, so they went to find a place to hide and be quiet."
Wang Liyao grabbed Wang Zongan and walked out in a swaggering manner. She also said, "Aunt Qiao'er, you have to provide some cover for us."
Qiao'er was speechless and felt sad in her heart.
Miss, uncle, how many years have you been using that excuse? Even the young lady can’t hide it, can you introduce something new?
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In the following days, the weather continued to rain heavily.
The water level in Anjiang keeps rising.
Wang Shouzhe received information that many low-lying areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Anjiang River have experienced floods, causing waterlogging.
Because Changningwei is located to the north of Anjiang, the terrain along the coast is steep and the inland terrain is also high. As long as the drainage is proper, it will not be flooded for a while.
The terrain of Pingan Town is actually mostly hilly, with many low-lying areas. The overall terrain is much lower than that of the north of Anjiang.
This is why no one has come to open up wasteland in this area of Ping'an Town. If this is a good piece of land, where will it be the turn of Patriarch Zhou Xuan?
But for the Wang family, Ping'an Town is their foundation, and they have no choice but to manage it carefully.
Water conservancy projects have never been something that happened overnight. Until now, Wang Shouzhe has never relaxed about it.
The dredging and filling of Zhuwei Lake is just the beginning.
Over the years, he has been continuously dredging rivers, opening up waterways, strengthening embankments, building drainage gates, etc. This heavy rain is also the time to test his hard work over the past eight or nine years.
The entire Wang family, and even many descendants of the Wang family, participated in this flood control work.
The first one to bear the brunt was An Giang embankment.
Starting from ancestor Zhou Xuan, embankments have been continuously built and strengthened. Every year, part of the manpower and material resources are used to invest in it.
When Wang Shouzhe arrived, he paid more attention to the embankment construction and consolidation of the Ping'an section of Anjiang.
Today's Ping An Wang family not only has money, but also holds a big weapon in his hand, which is the legendary cement.
After mixing simple stones, gravel and cement with water according to the proportion, it becomes the famous concrete.
However, the time left for Wang Shouzhe is too short. Currently, he has only built stone slopes and concrete embankments in some of the most dangerous sections, accounting for only about one-third of the 140 to 50 miles.
But even so, compared with the original river embankment, the flood resistance capacity is no longer the same.
Wang Shouzhe braved the rain and inspected the river embankment all the way.
As the water level rose, some of the river embankments that were previously relatively safe were in danger. He immediately dispatched tribesmen and organized tenant farmers and civilians to temporarily reinforce those river embankments.
At the same time, he also inspected the drainage gate.
On Earth, some drainage gates use high-power water pumps to pump water. It is not difficult to make a simple water pump. The difficulty is that there is no electricity in this world.
However, human wisdom is infinite.
In this world, there are naturally some waterwheels for irrigation.
Wang Shouzhe has done a lot of work over the years, which naturally includes studying waterwheel improvement plans with professionals.
Among the three major drainage gates, the Fenggu Gate located at Fenggu Farm was built by the ancestor Zhou Xuan.
In the past eight years, Wang Shouzhe has repaired and renovated the gate many times, making it a major drainage gate.
Today, there is a "water dragon array" on the left and right of the tall gate.
"Water Dragon Formation" sounds very nice, but it is actually a large water wheel with a relatively simple structure.
When the river water flows, it will push the small Ferris wheel-like water wheel to rotate. The rotation of the water wheel will work on a reciprocating pump with a simple structure through relatively precise and durable bearings and gears made by the craftsman.
This reciprocating pump will pump the water from the gate into the Anjiang River.
The waterways within the gate extend in all directions, connecting all waterways and lakes in Pingan Town.
Wang Shouzhe possesses a lot of earth knowledge. Although these are not within the scope of his proficiency, he knows the general direction, and there is no shortage of smart craftsmen and weapon refiners in the world.
Thanks to the cooperation between the two parties, today's "Water Dragon Formation" was created.
Of course, this large waterwheel is not just exposed and placed directly in the river.
Wang Shouzhe drove piles on the edge of the river and built a large foundation with concrete, forming a figure-eight-shaped water channel with a wide front and narrow back along the bank of the gate.
In this way, more water can come in through the bell mouth. As the channel at the rear narrows, the water flow speed will be faster and more power will be generated for the water wheel.
At the entrance of the corridor in front of the waterwheel, there is a two-foot-wide winch lift gate. When the waterwheel is not needed, just lower the gate to cut off the water flow.
In addition, there is an iron grid at the mouth of the bell to intercept various larger garbage or ferocious aquatic beasts washed down by the water flow to prevent damage to the water wheel.
The two water dragon formation projects at Fenggu Gate are very simple in principle and structure, but it took Wang Shouzhe five years to communicate with craftsmen and weapon refiners, constantly trying and improving with small structures, and then they were officially put into construction after they were perfected, which cost a lot of money.
Tens of thousands of dry gold.
Of course, the effect is also very obvious.
The person in charge of managing this gate is a capable descendant of the Wang family. As soon as he saw Wang Shouzhe, he came up to him and said excitedly: "For the record, the master of the family, the two water dragon formations are operating very smoothly."
The huge waterwheel rotates steadily in the turbulent water channel. It seems to be slow, but in fact its speed is not slow. It is just because the outer circumference of the waterwheel is relatively large that it looks slow.
Driven by the water wheel, water continuously spurted out from the mouth of the pipe aimed at the Anjiang River, like two large white water dragons.
Such a scene is the origin of the name of Water Dragon Formation!
"Twelve-hour watch. Once the water dragon formation malfunctions, repair it at all costs."
Wang Shouzhe felt quite proud when he saw that the Water Dragon Formation, which he had worked hard for many years and invested heavily in, was playing an active role.
He regards Ping'an Town as his territory and his home, so he will naturally try every means to make it as strong as an iron barrel, hoping that it can withstand various natural disasters.
It has been previously calculated that when a large water dragon array is operating at full speed, it can drain approximately 200,000 cubic meters a day.
There are a total of six such water dragon arrays at the three drainage gates. Operating at full speed, they can drain approximately 1.2 million cubic meters a day.
Sounds like a big number.
But in fact, take Zhuwei Lake as an example. Zhuwei Lake has a water area of about 10,000 acres. When full, it contains about 28 million cubic meters of water.
These six large water dragon arrays are operating at full speed, and it will take more than twenty days to drain Zhuwei Lake!
Not to mention the water content of the large and small rivers and channels in Ping'an Town, as well as the numerous small lakes dotted around it.
For this reason, before the rainy season comes every year, these six water dragon arrays must start to operate in advance to lower the water levels of the rivers and lakes within Ping'an Town to prevent the embarrassing situation of being unable to drain water when the flood season comes.
Moreover, it is still raining continuously. Even if most of the rainwater is absorbed by the land or enters channels such as groundwater, the remaining small amount of water discharged into the river is not a small amount.
It is also because of this that even when these six large water dragon arrays are operating at full capacity, the water in the river is still rising little by little.
Although it is slow, it is still rising.
Fortunately, early drainage began before the rainy season, keeping the water level in Ping'an Town at a low level. Otherwise, many wheat fields might have been flooded with river water.
Wang Shouzhe's expression was a little solemn.
Six water dragon formations are still too few after all.
Even if this year's flood season is far worse than the two floods in history, it has almost reached the limit of the water dragon.
After eight years, the water conservancy project that was gradually built was still just a prototype. Wang Shouzhe secretly thought that once this flood season is over, investment in water conservancy construction must be increased again.
Anyway, the entire Ping'an Town now belongs to the Wang family. No matter how much you invest, it is only a long-term investment. One less flood will pay off.
Next on June 7th, the entire Wang family led 40,000 people in Ping'an Town and devoted themselves to intense flood fighting.
At this time, no outsider can help Wang.
After all, the flood season is fierce, and everywhere is threatened by floods.
During this period, gaps appeared in three river embankments, and the situation almost got out of control. Wang Shouzhe and his wife were personally on the front line and devoted themselves to fighting the flood.
In the face of the mighty power of nature, the role they can play in the Lingtai realm is quite limited, but with them in charge, everyone has a backbone. With the concerted efforts of the Wang family and all the townspeople, they have succeeded time and time again
The gap was blocked and floods were prevented.
finally.
After the weather cleared for two consecutive days, the rapid water flow of Anjiang finally slowed down a little, and the total water level began to slowly decrease, dropping by more than half a meter in two days.
This also indicates that the flood season has finally passed.
This also means that Ping An Town has successfully overcome the disaster this time and withstood the flood season, which is most prone to floods.
However, everyone in Pingan Town still did not relax their vigilance, and still worked together to strengthen the weak points of the embankment and prepare for recurrence of the flood season.
In this way, several days passed again.
The water level of Anjiang River continues to drop and the water potential gradually calms down.
The flood season has finally passed, and Ping'an Town was immediately thrown into cheers and celebrations.
This flood season is fierce. A dozen or twenty years ago, floods would have been almost unavoidable and would have caused greater damage.
But this time, except for a certain reduction in production after flooding in some areas, the overall grain output has remained at a relatively high level.
The most important thing is that only a few people died during this flood season.
This is a great victory!
Although the Wang family's reputation in Ping'an Town has already exploded, after this time, the public's support has once again risen to a higher level.
There were celebrations everywhere in Pingan Town, but Wang Shouzhe and his wife were paralyzed in their house and did not go out for two full days.
They are all exhausted.
It was not until two days later that Wang Shouzhe's "favorite general" Wang Mei came secretly to report on his work that Wang Shouzhe managed to cheer up a little.
Wang Shouzhe secretly met Wang Mei in the study.
He flipped through the various information compiled by Wang Mei, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Haha~ After so many years, he has put down so many baits, and the man behind the scenes sixty years ago finally couldn't hold back anymore and exposed his flaws!
Next, I'm afraid the storm will start again.
The entire Changning Guard may be about to undergo a sudden change.
"Wang Mei, thank you for your hard work." Wang Shouzhe glanced at Wang Mei with a slightly complicated expression.
The reason why she has a complicated expression is because of how she is dressed today.
Her dress is obviously similar to the elegant uniform style of the female disciples of Zifu Academy. She has a heroic appearance, yet still has a feminine look.
The most important thing is.
Her magic makeup skills have reached the stage of innovation.
She has a ponytail, slightly raised eyebrows, a frosty face, and a sassy appearance, as if she has the goddess-like temperament of a certain senior.
Throwing her to the academy will definitely lead to another very popular goddess senior sister.