Daqin Engineers

Waiting left and right could not wait for the promise, but when everyone was puzzled, they saw a cavalry flying horse report:

"General, the history of the millet has come."

"However, Neishi insisted on going outside the city to inspect the farmland first, and asked me to come and inform the general."

Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe looked at each other. The secret path was still promised, knowing that the time was tight and the agricultural period was waiting for no one.

Wang and Yang were right. Xu Ying's trip could be said to have not been delayed for a quarter of an hour.

Xu Ying was in Pingyang (now Linfen, Shanxi) when he received Yingzheng's order.

Without saying a word, he took a few disciples to fetch some food and then drove to Handan in a carriage.

The style of farmers is minimalist. They usually demand themselves as ordinary farmers, so they don't have much luggage.

Pingyang is eight hundred miles away from Handan, and their party finally arrived at their destination on the third day.

The soldiers Wang Jian came to greet were already ten miles away. It stands to reason that Xu Yingying would return to the city for a visit before having a meal to catch the dust.

But Xu Ying said to the soldier:

"Be sure to tell the general."

"The farming period is approaching, and the people are eagerly waiting, Xu Ying dare not delay it."

"I won't enter the city on this trip and go straight to cultivate the land."

"I will make amends to the general later."

So he went straight to the cultivated land without even entering the city gate.

When Wang Jian and his entourage followed him up, Xu Ying was standing by the farmland frowning and inspecting the drought.

Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe stepped out of the carriage and led everyone to salute them respectfully:

"I've seen Neishi, I'm waiting for a miss, please forgive me for Neishi."

Xu Ying hurriedly returned the gift and replied:

"It's because of the lack of courtesy of the subordinates, please do not have general knowledge of the generals and generals."

Wang Jian was polite again, and asked with some worry:

"As you can see from internal history, the drought in the three counties is so severe that they cannot irrigate the farmland."

"Is there a way to divert water in internal history?"

Xu Ying didn't speak, and walked to the riverside and looked at it for a while before shook his head and replied:

"If there is time to block the river and build a dam, the water level can rise to irrigate the farmland."

"But at this time it is only one month away from the agricultural period, and it is too late to build the dam."

"Moreover, if it takes one or two years to build the dam, it is unknown how many people will starve to death."

"No, no..."

Wang Jian quickly answered:

"Internal History says so."

"Building a dam can't quench the near thirst."

Xu Ying walked forward along the river bank, and everyone followed all the way.

The two masters were holding the bamboo slips in one hand while holding the bamboo slips in the other. There were several servants beside them.

It's no wonder they behaved like this, even the general Wang Jian had to be careful.

Agriculture may not have a high status in modern times, but it was everything in ancient times.

Whether a country is strong or not depends on agriculture, and whether it can conquer or not depends on agriculture.

Therefore, farmers like Xu Ying are almost a kind of faith in this era.

For example, if Xu Ying can solve the irrigation problem... then I don't know how many lives have been saved.

Xu Ying seemed to have gotten used to all of this, and he continued to walk ahead and said:

"For today's plan, there are only two ways or feasible."

"First, we can connect the ditches along the high level of the water source to the low level."

Everyone could not help but "Oh".

This is really a good way.

As the so-called "water flows to a lower place", the flow of water here means that the upstream is higher.

So as long as you search upstream, you will always find a higher water source than the cultivated land downstream, and then lead it down.

But Xu Ying immediately shook his head again.

"However, this method is also time-consuming and labor-intensive."

"If you open the canal to divert water, I'm afraid you won't be able to farm land."

"If you want to open the ditch..."

Wang Jian nodded in agreement.

This is what he wants to say, if you have time, it would be fine.

If one month doesn’t work, then two months, if two months don’t work, four months...

But now it's forced to open the canals and farms at the same time within a month, how can there be so many people?

So Wang Jian asked:

"So what about another method?"

Xu Ying replied:

"The other way is to divert water with jiégāo."

Wang Jianqi said:

"This orange...what is it?"

Xu Ying replied:

"That was something I accidentally discovered when I was waiting for the farm to collect water."

"This material can fetch water from low water levels to Gaotian, and it is faster and less labor-saving."

Wang Jian is overjoyed:

"There are such things?"

"Will internal history make me wait an eye-opener?"

Everyone also commented.

Xu Ying nodded and said:

"As it should be."

"The general can order someone to fetch a few logs. I will wait until the upper reaches to make some oranges."

"You can also let the craftsman make it with me, and you can save the effort of teaching."

Speaking of craftsman Wang Jian, he immediately thought of Shen Bing.

So Wang Jian turned around and ordered:

"Shen Bing, where is Shen Bing?"

"Hurry up and call the artillery engineer!"

The subordinates got on the horse and went to look for them, but came back before they took a few steps:

"General, Shen Bing is in the river."

When he said that, he pointed towards the front.

Wang Jian looked in the direction instructed by his subordinates, and he saw that Shen Bing and his artillery were taking off only their pants (little nose), and some were even naked.

The group of people beating in the river do not know what they are busy with.

Cang expressed doubts about what he was doing:

"Brother, can this thing work?"

"It can really scoop water from low to high by itself?"

"You don't want me to wait for fun..."

Fatty Tun interrupted Cang's words:

"Gongcheng, when did the master fool us?"

"Every time I waited and didn't believe it, I finally had to believe it."

"How can there be an exception this time?"

Cang scratched his head and replied:

"I also understood."

"It's just that it's unbelievable to let the water flow to a high place by itself..."

As he swung an axe and punched a wooden wedge in, he cursed:

"Which so much nonsense?"

"Do you know if you try it out?"

Just as Shen Bing was about to explain, he heard someone on the shore shout:

"Engineer Shen Bing, the general has please."

Shen Bing looked up and saw that he was very obedient. I don't know when a lot of officials were standing on the shore.

So he hurriedly dropped his hatchet and stepped on the bank of the river.

Hui also saw the group of people, and then said in surprise:

"The head...could it be promised?"

Everyone couldn't help but got up and looked ashore.

After a while, Cang nodded and said:

"It's indeed promised, I'm afraid it was invited here to treat drought."

No wonder they have such a performance.

Among the hundreds of families in the pre-Qin Dynasty, if the Mohist was regarded as the representative of the handicraftsmen and the Yangzhu School as the spokesperson of the small land private owners, then the peasants would stand at the bottom and speak for ordinary people, especially farmers.

Therefore, the peasant family has a great influence among the people, and even Confucian disciples have turned to the peasant family.