Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

"Hard, hard!"

"Really hard."

"It's so hard, almost like a rock."

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South County.

By the Dragon King River.

This is a tributary of the Yangtze River. Because of its curved and spreading shape, it looks like a swimming dragon, so the locals are accustomed to calling it the "Dragon King River".

The Longwang River is neither big nor wide. But this river cuts through it all the way, covering almost one-third of the farmland in Nan County.

Normally, this Longwang River makes it very convenient for civilians in Nanjun to farm and water their fields. However, once the flood season comes, this Longwang River is also the culprit that destroys the most farmland.

In the past, when Nanjun was still the territory of Chu State, countless ways were thought of to solve this problem.

Including: building enclosures to cover both sides of the Longwang River.

But in the end they all failed.

the reason is simple.

During the flood season in the Longwang River, the water level rises extremely rapidly, and the ordinary enclosures made of earth and rocks almost collapse immediately.

If we continue to widen the thickness, it is possible to prevent the flood season, but the problem is that the Longwang River not only causes floods, but also bears the heavy responsibility of watering nearly one-third of the farmland in Nan County.

If embankments were built around the Longwang River just to prevent floods, then in the absence of automatic water pumps, the irrigation of farmland would inevitably become a big problem.

Therefore, the hidden danger of the Longwang River in Nanjun has been delayed for hundreds of years since this place was still the territory of the Chu State. Until now, no Nanjun official has come up with a solution.

But today.

A gray-white embankment rises from the ground and stands on the bank of Longwang River.

Compared with ordinary enclosures, this strangely colored embankment has two differences.

One is hardness.

Most of the ordinary embankments are made of soil. However, this embankment was not only built with a lot of stones when it was first built. When it was finally reinforced, the current county governor personally brought a kind of sand-like and mud-like embankment. Things were poured into the interior of the dam through the holes prepared in advance.

According to the county guard, this thing is called 'cement'. As long as this thing is used to strengthen the embankment, it only takes three to five days to turn the embankment as hard as stone.

Naturally, everyone didn't believe this statement at first. After all, the entire dam can become as hard as stone in three to five days. How could such a thing exist in this world?

However, they did not refute it at the time. After all, in their opinion, although the new county magistrate was a little naive, he at least had a good heart.

Because in the past, after Nanjun was hit by a disaster, the relief food was always watery gruel, and no high-ranking official had ever used dry food to provide relief.

Although all these foods need to be exchanged for work, it is only natural to work to eat. What's more, while working here in the past few months, many people have eaten more than at home. If we can continue to work like this in the future, that will be a great thing!

Nowadays, where can I find a good place to eat where I can just work?

When farming at home, even in good years, the whole family would go out and work hard to cultivate more than ten acres of land a year. But once all kinds of grain taxes and land rents are paid, the remaining grain will be just for food and clothing.

Whenever there is a small disaster, whether it is recruiting soldiers or fighting, it is even difficult to have food and clothing.

To be honest, it's not as stable as it is now.

However, what everyone did not expect was that in just four days, the water-like and sand-like thing called 'cement' brought by the county guard had actually hardened.

Even if you hit it with a copper hammer, it will be difficult to destroy it at all. The embankment that was originally made of sand and gravel turned into a huge "stone" at this time.

This scene instantly shocked everyone's eyes.

Looking at Mr. Mo at this moment, he was simply astonished.

"Okay, okay... Okay!"

"It's really great."

"Okay! Finally someone can tame this 'Old Dragon King'!"

In the crowd at the scene, many young people were just curious about things like "cement". However, some elderly people were hunched over and touching the hardened cement on the dam, crying with excitement. orbit.

No one knows the harm caused by the Longwang River better than these old farmers who have lived here almost all their lives.

Compared with other large rivers.

Although the floods caused by the Longwang River during the flood season are not particularly severe, the disasters it brings to farmers in this area are no less severe than those of the so-called big rivers.

Although the destructive power of floods caused by large rivers is astonishing, they only occur once every ten years or so.

But the floods brought by the Longwang River occur every three to five years, sometimes even more frequently, and occur every year. Although the destructive power is not strong each time, it does not cause too many casualties.

But once the Longwang River breaks out, farmland for at least hundreds of miles around this place will be flooded, causing tens of thousands of farmers to waste a year's hard work.

Many young people in Nan County have not experienced much yet, but to the elderly here, the Longwang River is much more hateful than the 'large disasters' in many places.

This is one of the reasons why the embankment dam was built here in the first place.

The biggest difference between a cement dam and the most common earth embankment today is that it is hard enough. Hardness means that it is not easily washed away by floods. Being not easily washed away means that it can not only prevent floods, but also build 'gates'.

And this is the second difference between this dike and ordinary enclosures.

That is, there is a gap in the middle of the embankment, where the gate will be installed next.

With this gate.

During normal flood periods, the Longwang River can irrigate the farmland on both sides of the river along the sluiceway.

Once the flood season comes, simply closing the gates can keep the flood away from the dam and protect the farmland on both sides of the bank from being submerged.

"good!"

Today is the day to inspect the quality of cement and embankments. As the county governor, Mo Jun will naturally not be absent.

I saw that he was holding a small hammer in his hand, followed by a group of Mo Mansion disciples, who were beating with the small hammer as they walked, and finally said with satisfaction.

Although there have been several experiments before, and Mo Jun even built two baths specially with cement, the dams are different from the baths after all.

If the quality of the bathtub is not up to par, it will only cause water leakage and light leakage.

But the dam is related to farmland with a radius of hundreds of miles and the wealth and lives of tens of thousands of farmers. Naturally, there is no room for Mr. Mo to be careless.

Walking on the embankment.

Behind Mo Jun, Zhan Qin, Yue Nu, Zhu Ye Qing, Jiu Jian Chi and others looked at the dry 'cement' under their feet, with equally surprised expressions in their eyes.

Although they had noticed something when Mo Jun and Jian Jiuyuan were firing cement in another courtyard, they did not expect that such a 'magical' thing would be baked in the end.

When the dam was poured with cement four days ago, they all followed Mo Jun to see it with their own eyes. To be honest, even the disciples like them did not believe that there was anything in the world that could turn a dam into a dam within three to five days. As hard as stone.

However, just four days later, the scene in front of them was like an invisible slap, hitting them hard in the face.

See the dike formed in four days in front of you.

Some people simply see the magic of ‘cement’.

But some people have already seen the farther future through the dam in front of them...

Since this 'cement' can have such a miraculous effect, a dam as strong as a boulder can be built in four days.

So what if we use it to build bridges, roads, and houses?

Even building city walls, fortifications, and fortifications?

This is the thought.

Some people who thought more profoundly looked at Mr. Mo with a different look in their eyes.

Yue Nu's beautiful eyes flashed continuously. This was the first time since she became Mo Jun's guest that Mo Jun showed her that in addition to cooking delicious food, brewing fine wine, and building bathhouses... these functions Come enjoy outside talents.

correct.

There are also ‘silk goose down quilts’ sewn in female red.

Just half a month ago, Yue Nu saw with her own eyes that Mr. Mo, a big man, actually personally guided a group of female slaves to sew several beds of exquisite and soft silk goose down using female red and sun-dried and tanned goose down. quilt'.

The skills that Mo Jun displayed at that time put even the woman Yuenv to shame.

But don’t say it yet.

That 'silk goose down quilt' is so comfortable to sleep on. Recently, the time Yuennu spends meditating on the bed has become shorter, because every time she lies on the 'silk goose down quilt', the soft The touch made her feel sleepy... ah!

Why do you think of these messy things again?

Yue Nu's cheeks turned slightly red, and she quickly shook her head to dispel the strange thoughts that appeared in her mind.

Recently, Yuenv found that there were more and more distracting thoughts in her mind, because she had seen so many new things in Mo Jun's place during this period, and it was really hard to accept them all at once.

Yue Nu felt that she needed to go back to Yin Yang's house to temporarily stabilize her state of mind and cultivation.

However, during the recent period, whenever this idea first appeared in Yuenv's mind, she suddenly felt a faint resistance for no reason, and then she couldn't help but hesitate.

And this hesitation, more than half a month has passed.

And then······

Yue Nu found that she didn't want to leave even more.

"This guy is really a sinful man."

Looking at Mr. Mo in front of her, Yuenv couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

It's really because the man in front of him is so special. He is full of mysterious temperament that is incompatible with this era.

Now Yue Nu is becoming more and more suspicious that Lord Mo is most likely the 'source' that causes the changes in the stars that she is looking for.

It's just that she hasn't found enough evidence yet.

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