I heard that it was possible to dig a deep well, and Jing Sixteen's face flushed with excitement, "The salt wells of Fushun Prison are often hundreds of feet deep, otherwise they must not produce brine gas." However, if it is only a deep well, then it only needs twenty or thirty zhang. If you use the method of opening salt wells, you can see results in a month at most. ”

"How to open a salt well." Han Gang became a little interested when he heard this, and asked, "What's the difference with ordinary wells?" Didn't you use it before? ”

Jing Sixteen kowtowed: "The county respects Mingjian." The method of opening salt wells mentioned by the villain is the only one in Fushun Prison, and no one has ever seen it in other places. The villain is afraid that if he uses it casually, he will recognize his identity, so he uses the ordinary method of digging wells. ”

"It's a drill ......" As soon as Han Gang spoke, he shook his head self-deprecatingly, how can there be a drilling rig in this era.

"Drill? No! Jing Sixteen also shook his head, "It's a stone, and there is a pump......

Jing Sixteen wanted to explain to Han Gang what was unique about Fushun Prison Yanjing, but he couldn't explain it clearly after comparing for a long time, but it was confusing. The most anxious queen was covered with sweat, and kowtowed in front of Han Gang to apologize, "The villain is stupid." This work is also passed down from my ancestors, and I learned it by watching my father and ancestors do it since I was a child. Empty mouth and white teeth, I can't understand it for a while. ”

Han Gang shook his head: "Okay, when the time comes, the official will come over and take a good look." But you have to remember that in the past you cherished your broom, and that's fine. But now you want the official to recommend you as an official, and this set of drilling methods is to be dedicated to the court and spread to the world. In the future, it will not be your family's ancestral secret, you should think about this carefully. ”

"Don't think about it, don't think about it." Jing Sixteen regarded Han Gang's words as a blame for not telling the means of drilling, and he was even more anxious in his heart. The sweat on his face was collected, his face turned pale, and he turned into a kowtow worm: "The villain is willing to sacrifice the original secret method of opening a well!" ”

Han Gang bent down to help him up with his own hands, and comforted him with a smile: "Let's wait until the deep water well is drilled first." Without an example, nothing is empty talk. As for the manpower, I will arrange for someone to be assigned by you. As long as this matter is done well, you don't need to have the surname Jing in the future, and you can completely restore the old surname! ”

Jing Sixteen opened his mouth in surprise, he didn't expect that if he didn't say it, Han Gang would already know that the surname he was using now was fake.

Waving his hand to signal the still stunned Jing Shi to leave, Han Gang turned around and asked the staff behind him, "What do you think?" ”

Fang Xing shook his head and said, "I always feel unreliable......"

"Didn't he say that? The salt wells of Fushun Prison can be as deep as 100 zhang, and the deep water wells are only 20 or 30 zhang, which is not outrageous. ”

Fushun Jian should be the Zigong of later generations, although Han Gang has never been to Zigong, but the local salt well is very famous. It can be passed down to a thousand years later, and it is conceivable that the skills in it will not be too outdated.

Fang Xing frowned: "But who can guarantee that it will definitely come out of the water." Whether you can touch the water vein or not depends on luck. The wells dug in front of the sixteenth well are only higher than the others, not that they produce ten out of ten water. There seem to be several dry wells that have been dug until there is no water for the stones. ”

"At this time, you have to use any trick. Bump into one is one! Han Gang's sigh said the helplessness in his heart, "What's more, I didn't expect him in the first place." ”

Before the well was in his early sixteenth, Han Gang was preparing to build various instruments to carry water. Otherwise, what if he put up a reward and listed a series of existing equipment such as pumps and water pulleys?

For example, the pump cylinder, using its principle, can be developed in the later generations of rural common hand pressure water lifter, and then such as the water lifting pulley, can be improved into an animal-powered water wheel. What Hanoka was looking forward to from the beginning was a machine that could be used in ordinary wells, rather than a rare artesian well.

But Han Gang's view of Jing Sixteen is actually the same as Wang Anshi's previous situation of using ice breaking to transport grain, and it seems that the current drought will continue. Regardless of whether it can succeed or not, looking at these tricks that seem to come in handy, you have to give it a try before you are willing.

Wang Yan will inevitably have to run around overnight. In such an existential crisis, how can we still think about whether we can succeed?

"There is no such thing as 100% success, even if you open an ordinary well, you may not be able to see water. The drought in the autumn has dried up many wells. In a normal year, there would be ten wells before one well has water? Han Gang said: "It doesn't matter if you don't take the first sip of water. You don't have to see water, as long as you know how to dig wells, with enough manpower, you can cast a net generally, and you can still hit a few after all. When there are more displaced people, are you still afraid that there will be no manpower available? ”

An artesian well, if it was in the later years of industrial development, could be drained at once, but nowadays, it is only used for drinking water and irrigation, and the situation is much better. Deep groundwater is cleaner than the surface layer, and even if it is not artesian, it is good for daily drinking. Clean well water can greatly reduce the incidence of disease.

Plague is a broad term in which there are various diseases that cannot be grouped together at all, and the only thing in common is that they are all virulent infectious diseases. Among these diseases, dysentery, which is inextricably linked to water sources and diet, accounts for a large proportion. As for other virulent infectious diseases, the incidence can also be reduced by a clean diet and a tidy living environment.

Han Gang got up and walked among the homeless camps, inspecting the newly built shack, and Fang Xing hurriedly chased after him.

The shacks of the homeless campers arranged neatly on the roadside in the camp are all semi-underground, with a gate open to the road, and you have to go down a few steps to get in. The shack was sunk into the ground to a depth of nearly one metre, and the earth excavated from the ground was used as an exterior wall, saving a lot of building materials.

However, this was not Han Gang's own idea, but the residence of a poor family that could often be seen in the north at this time. Living in such a shack, the situation of keeping warm is better than that of the whole ground, but it cannot prevent rain, as long as the rain is larger, it can be poured into the shack. But now, if it rains, I'm afraid that many homeless people here will still be happy.

Han Gang had seen a few shacks, and even went inside to take a look, but the foul air made him a little more worried. He found that he now had to think about more than just drinking water: "Lime kilns must be built quickly, and the prevention of diseases must rely on lime, as well as indoor ventilation and sanitation, all of which must be preached to the displaced people." ”

Lime water is the easiest way to disinfect it. Any sanatorium established under the system established by Hangang was procured with lime as one of the most important medicines. Even in the sanatoriums in Qinzhou and Longxi, there are their own lime kilns. When you arrive in Baima County, there is no reason not to use it, not to mention that it can be used as simple cement, and there are many places where it can be used.

Fang Xing nodded and wrote it down. And Han Gang also took out a small notebook from his arms, and wrote a few words hastily on it with a small charcoal pen note.

Virtue, speech, and meritorious service. For Confucianism, it was a lifelong quest. Every time Han Gang does something, he will record it one by one, and then summarize it. Whether it was the system of the sanatorium or the logistics and transportation that he presided over later, Han Gang had rules and regulations that came out, and after being praised by Zhao Ji, they began to be implemented in the army.

Like the current resettlement of displaced people, Han Gang is also ready to write something out. Disaster relief is only a short period of time, and it is over that when it has passed. If it is not summarized in a timely manner, there will be no goals for emulation and improvement in the future.

"And locusts!" In Han Gang's book, it is divided into three parts, one thing for the homeless, one thing for the drought, and one thing for the locusts: "I also have to raise chickens and ducks to deal with the locusts next year." ”

When Fang Xing heard this, he hurriedly shook his head: "Chickens and ducks are not necessarily useful. ”

"How can I not know about this?" Han Gang sighed: "Raising chickens and ducks is just an auxiliary, just like the deep water artesian well in Well 16, it will not be used as the main means. When the time comes, it is still necessary to organize the people to exterminate locusts and spend money to buy locusts. A pound of locusts is given a penny, and if you don't say you don't want to, you can also let the children come out to earn some pocket money. ”

"Zhengyan is thoughtful." Fang Xing praised lightly. The most fearful thing about doing things is to ignore the road to the dark, think about all aspects in advance, and leave room for correction, this is the right way to do things.

"There was a drought. A pile of displaced people. Locusts are another matter. ”

In addition, there is also the matter of transporting grain from Suzhou, although it must be kept secret from the outside world, and there is no need to supervise it yourself, but no matter how you say it, it is related to your own invention, and you still have to worry about it. Bending his fingers one by one, Han Gang found that in addition to the work to be done in the county, he had too many responsibilities.

Fang Xing sighed when he heard this: "Locusts, droughts, and displaced people, these are all natural and man-made disasters, and the magistrates and prefectures in various places are all directly pushed to the top, and it is enough to ask for some relief." As long as they can eat the gruel that the court has given them to them, the victims will also kneel down and kowtow and thank Ende, and no one can say anything wrong with doing so. ”

Han Gang smiled: "That's what I said, the current hard work is purely self-inflicted." But after taking two steps, he said again: "It's just that Jia Yue has looked for these things, Fu Yanguo has looked for himself, and Han Zhigui has also looked for himself." There are sages to set an example, and Han Gang doesn't dare to descend! ”

Fang Xing lowered his head and arched his hand to Han Gang. Not avoiding complicated dramas and treating the people as injuries is a rare virtue among officials today, and officials who tend to avoid evil and do not take responsibility are more common, which is certainly worthy of admiration.

Han Gang's words did not hide his ambition at all. But this is a matter of course, at the age of twenty-two, he has achieved the right right, if he does not have the courage to look at the public assistant, then it is not modesty, but cowardice.

And Han Gang, whom Fang Xing is assisting now, has always been evaluated in terms of courage, and he has always only had four words: courage.