In the back office of Bishui County, a banquet was set up in the pavilion among the flowers and trees, and several county officials were busy outside. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Dayou led Xu Ping to the pavilion, sat down and asked, "To be made, do you want to call a few singers?" However, in the county, they are all vulgar fat fans, and it is better to talk than nothing. ”

"Then forget it, it's better to have nothing, it's better for us to sit here quietly and talk about goodbye."

In this era, the singing requirements for the voice are extremely high, and the emphasis is on the words being round, the aftersound is lingering, and the singing and the music should complement each other. Xu Ping's previous life was more than singing, and he couldn't even understand the lyrics of a song, and he didn't even have the qualifications to perform on the street. Coupled with the fact that the best singers are both beautiful and pleasing to the eye, it is indeed difficult for a small county town to have this kind of talent. Just looking for a few women to gag, Xu Ping is not so idle.

Soon after sitting down, a maid next to him brought sour plum soup, and Zhang Dayou said: "When the system first comes, this soup should not be served." But you've worked hard along the way, and if you're so thirsty, take a sip to relieve the heat. ”

The tea should be sent to the guest soup, so the soup folk sometimes call it the egg soup, which means that it is time to get rid of the egg after drinking, and it is really inappropriate to come up as soon as you enter the door. However, this is about to enter the weather of June, Xu Ping walked all the way to sweat profusely, and it was right to drink sour plum soup to relieve the heat. It's just a custom, not a strict rule.

Picking up the sour plum soup, I took a bite of it, only to feel the comfortable coolness to the bottom of my heart, and almost every pore came out. Only this mouthful, I just feel that all the heat along the way has been forced out.

Putting the bowl down, Xu Ping was about to praise a few words, but suddenly felt a sharp pain in his teeth, and secretly endured it, but where could he endure it? I couldn't help but cover my cheeks with my hands and frowned.

Seeing this, Zhang Da hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with the pending system?" But what's uncomfortable? ”

Xu Ping frowned and shook his head: "It's nothing, I've recently grown a tooth, I think it's crooked, I don't dare to eat cold, sour and sweet things." I haven't had any seizures these days, and I don't take it to heart, this sour plum soup is cold and sour, but I don't want to cause a toothache again. It's okay, it'll be fine after a while. ”

Zhang Dayou's face was full of anxiety, but he didn't know what to do.

It is said that Xu Ping is not a human body who crossed into this world, there is no reason why his head and teeth still hurt, it should grow naturally. Even in Xu Ping's previous life, the sin of long wisdom teeth has not been decades for human beings, and it is the product of incomplete human evolution after the refinement of food. In this era, in the rich family, the wear and tear of the teeth is much worse than in Xu Ping's previous life, and the space in the mouth is large enough, but somehow this tooth grows in a mess.

Wang Yan sat on the side, watching Xu Ping frowning and uncomfortable, his heart was secretly refreshed, and he couldn't stop drinking the sour plum soup in small sips. When Xu Ping arrived in Bishui County, he didn't even look at himself when he, the deputy envoy of the household department, didn't even look at himself, look, this would be retribution.

After a while, the heart-wrenching feeling passed, Xu Ping put his hand down, let out a long breath, and said to Zhang Dayou: "I'm a monster, I can't eat sour, sweet, cold, hot, I'm afraid that I will forget it after a while, you command, and those dishes will not be served." It's a simple matter of eating by ourselves. ”

Zhang Da agreed, and hurriedly called a public servant to come over and order him to go down, don't serve those dishes, and add a few new vegetables that are not irritating. Here is the confluence of three rivers, add a few more river fresh dishes.

Wang Yan couldn't help but glared when he heard this, he didn't eat this or that, what else did he eat for this meal? It's better to give Xu Ping a big bowl of white rice for himself, eat it on the side, and don't delay others. But he couldn't say this, just watching Zhang Dayou hurriedly order, Wang Yan sulked on the side.

After a while, the sky was just getting dark, and the people in the yamen took the lamp in the pavilion, and lit a few moxa wool to smoke mosquitoes on the side.

A few fresh vegetables came up, and the envoy came and poured wine.

Zhang Dayou raised his glass and said, "Two deputy envoys, please have a drink." ”

Xu Ping and Wang Yan took their wine glasses and drank them, and slowly opened up the topic.

Xu Ping said to Zhang Dayou: "There is a big drought in Heyin County this year, I don't know how you are here?" ”

"Back to the system, the rain here in Bishui County this year is also on the low side, but fortunately, most of the fields are near the river, and there is not much damage. On the other hand, those places with many river flats in Heyin were more seriously affected due to the northward rolling of the river. ”

"I see." Xu Ping nodded, "I wonder if the channel of the Bishui River into the Yellow River has been affected?" ”

Zhang Dayou said: "Fortunately, this place is close to the remaining veins of Songshan Mountain, and there is water from the Bishui and Luohe rivers, and the river has not rolled north, and you can still sail." On the contrary, there is a large beach on the north shore, and many farmers cultivate yam on the beach. ”

The area around Wenxian is the place where the most yams are planted, which now belongs to Mengzhou, and later generations belong to Huaizhou, which is the origin of the famous local specialty "Huai Yam" in Xu Ping's previous life. There is a large area of the Yellow River flat, with deep and fertile sediment, which is an ideal place for growing yams. After passing through Bishui County, the Yellow River often rolls northward, where two streams flow into the river, but a large area of river beach is washed out on the north bank.

Talking about gossip, Zhang Dayou toasted again. Wang Yan saw that Xu Ping only cared about talking to Zhang Dayou, and he didn't pay attention to himself at all, so he couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, and sat alone and drank with his head sullen.

Putting down the wine glass, Xu Ping asked Zhang Dayou again: "You should know that I am here to inspect the river that leads water from the Luo River into the Bianhe River, you are the landlord here, I don't know if you can teach me?" ”

Zhang Dayou glanced at Wang Yan and saw that he lowered his head and had a calm face, so he ignored him and said to Xu Ping: "In addition to the water of the Luo River at the foot of Guangwu Mountain in Heyin County, the most difficult thing is me. Here to the Luo River across the remaining veins of Songshan, although the mountain is not high, and all are dirt mountains, but there are many dry ditches. To dig a river from here, although some of the original ditches can be used, more often than not, the ditches cut off the way to the canals. In order to divert water, it is necessary to build a weir in the ditch, but the weir stops the water coming down from the mountain during the flood season. To be systematized, the canal that is artificially opened is most afraid of the water coming from the more and less, which is the biggest difficulty. ”

Xu Ping nodded and sighed: "The loss is indeed reasonable, if it is flat, the most feared thing about the canal is the flash flood, if there is nowhere to drain the water, the canal is useless at all." ”

When Wang Yan heard this, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart. It turns out that Xu Ping still knows this truth, and he still thinks that he is a stunned young man who doesn't know the depths. The canal crosses the mountain, especially this kind of mountain with countless ditches and beams, and the water attracted by the weir will flow to other places without building a weir, and the weir will block the passage of the mountain flood and break the embankment of the canal in the rainy season.

Wang Yan said that the canal could not be repaired, and it was not a complete nonsense, but he also took a rough look at the terrain of the water diversion from Bishui County to Gong County. Just listen to the place name in this area to know how complex the terrain is, what cherry ditch, walnut ditch, Liujiagou, Lijiagou, Anle ditch, thatched ditch, come and go almost all between the ridge and the ditch.

It is more difficult to build a canal in such a place than to dig it through the middle of a rocky mountain. When we dig through a ridge, we encounter a huge ditch, and the downstream of this ditch must be blocked, otherwise the water will flow down the ditch into the Yellow River.

Plugging up the ditch and returning it is nothing more than using a little more labor, and the soil used to dig the ridge is just used to fill it. However, the upstream of the ditch cannot also be blocked, and the flash flood in the rainy season has nowhere to discharge, and the water system in the entire area will be completely chaotic, which is tantamount to a disaster for the place.

The newly dug canal had to take in the flash floods that came from the rainy season, effectively replacing the previous role of the Yellow River. The problem is that the canal is a river dug artificially, and the amount of water is limited, and the more stable the water, the better. Not to mention the flood control problems caused by this.

The canal excavated by hand is not only a problem of large amount of work, but also the mountainous terrain is easy to collect floods, which is extremely difficult to deal with, and is the most difficult to solve. A little south of the Xianghan Cao Canal for more than a thousand years, Taizong twice started, wasting huge manpower and material resources, and the final failure was not because of the huge project, it was precisely the flash flood in the rainy season, what cofferdam also collapsed.

To divert water from the Luo River, one is to avoid the place where the swamps around Yingze converge, because that is the place where the flood hands of the surrounding mountains are received. Another one to solve is the problem of passing through the remaining veins of Songshan Mountain and Guangwu Mountain here.

After another round of wine, Xu Ping said to Zhang Dayou: "What I just said is indeed the biggest problem in digging the canal now. I have already surveyed Guangwu Mountain, because of the great drought this year, the Yellow River waterway went north, forming a sandy beach at the foot of the mountain that is nearly ten miles wide, and the river can go from the beach, and the Yellow River waterway is forced away from Guangwu Mountain. Now it seems that there are not many difficulties there, and there is not much earth and rock excavated. Now there is only here to the Gongxian water intake, which is the most difficult place for this project, I don't know what can I teach me? ”

Zhang Dayou glanced at Wang Yan again, and saw that he was there with his head down, his eyes flickering, and he sighed secretly in his heart. Although before Xu Ping came, Wang Yan secretly woke up Zhang Dayou, saying that the two prime ministers in the court did not support Xu Ping Kaihe, so that he could recognize the current affairs and not help Xu Ping mislead himself. But no matter what, Xu Ping is his own year, how can he not help others in the same year? Speaking of which, officialdom is much more reliable than others by relying on the promotion of the same year.

Thinking of this, Zhang Dayou bowed his hand to Xu Ping and said: "It's too polite to be controlled, these are the things that are within the duties of the lower officials." Although the river channel from here to the Luohe River intake is difficult to repair, in any case, there are only a few miles of road, and it can be dug by hand. As for the mountain floods, it is best to raise the river weir in the ditch through which it passes, and force the flood water in the rainy season to the Bishui River, and discharge it from the Bishui River to the Yellow River. (To be continued.) )