It turns out that there is a main river called Henghe, and there are many smaller tributaries.
Because some farmland needs to be irrigated, nearby villagers often dig trenches to divert water, so it doesn’t require much digging.
For example, there is a Gu River flowing in front of Xutang Town.
The river is not wide and does not need water.
It didn't take long before it reached the Henghe River, but it was a small river that people in Xutang Town relied on for survival.
This time to repair the dam, several small bridges also need to be built, so the project is considered huge.
Therefore, for those rivers near Qiantang Town, the people who have been recruited and the river workers who know how to dig canals and build rivers have begun to dig out the silt of the rivers and dredge the rivers.
The Gu River is just a small river, so the project is convenient.
But behind the Gu River, there is a river called Minhe River, but its terrain is higher than other rivers.
Therefore, after a month or two without rain, the river will dry up and expose the river bed.
In addition, the long The river bed has become dry and cracked due to the sunshine of time, and it is still possible to dig there.
So this is the problem.
When the river flows across the river into the river, it must pass through here.
There is no big water on weekdays, so it is harmless.
But when it comes to the high tide period in Qiantang, the rivers in other places are all unobstructed and lead the tide out.
But here, because the rivers can't flow out, isn't it still a waste of effort?
But this place was originally connected to the existing river channel, but because the river shelf is higher, generally speaking, it is faster to dig than other places.
There is no need for river workers and farmers to tie hemp ropes.
If you go down into a deep river, you only need to widen and dig deeper, and it will be much more convenient when transporting soil.
This was originally a perfect situation, but something went wrong because of the Minhe River.
In fact, there has always been water in the Minhe River, but there are no big springs here and the river shelf is high, so the river bed now looks dry and cracked.
If this were the case both inside and out, the villagers and the river workers cooperated and smashed the dry mud inside into a large number of mud lumps with a sledgehammer, and good luck came out.
However, the cracked and dried up layer is only the surface layer.
The inside of the river is still silt.
The iron bar got stuck and couldn't be pulled out for a long time.
In this way, it is not as easy to dig as the thin mud in ordinary rivers, so after spending several days, it is only a few miles away.
Seeing that just by wasting time here, he could dig another river channel, the horseman in charge, who had just been appointed as a barely official official, was naturally very anxious when he saw this situation, so he came here in person all day long.
Supervisor.
As a result, as soon as I arrived here, I listened to the river workers complaining all day, saying that work was not done by humans.
The river workers are working hard to dig through the river and remove the silt from the river bottom to make the river smooth.
This is also the work they used to do.
It's just that they have never encountered anything like this.
The mud in the river is as difficult as sticky glue.
It was not easy for them to work in the river with both water and mud.
Now they encountered it again.
This kind of thing is naturally a source of bitterness.
This is true for the river workers who often work in the river, not to mention the ordinary people who don't know how to dig out the river.
Moreover, in this environment, they used ordinary tight iron grips, so the progress was naturally extremely slow and the efficiency was extremely poor.
For this reason, Ma Yuanwai's job as a steward is extremely difficult.
He must not only supervise the progress to avoid delaying the subsequent work, but also listen to the complaints of the river worker leader who represents the river workers.
It's really a bit overwhelming.
The complaint of the leader of the river workers was: "Mr.
Ma, you know that we are always diligent in our work, our craftsmanship is excellent, and we have ways to avoid detours, but we have never encountered such a problem.
The river workers have never encountered such a problem."
We have already tried our best.
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Unless more manpower is added, you keep saying that we should speed up, but there is really nothing we can do unless we send more manpower."
"Where are the extra manpower?
They have other rivers to deal with.
Anyway, you speed up," Ma Yuanwai said helplessly.
"Except for the horsemen, we are all used to farm work.
We can't even dig rivers."
Xu Baozheng also came to join in the fun.
"Don't talk too much nonsense, so that they won't learn to do it properly."
Ma Yuanwai said angrily.
Fortunately, less than two days had passed since this matter had been weighing on Ma Yuanwai, the steward, when Guo Lin, the imperial envoy, came over in advance.
So after Ma Yuanwai finished complaining to Guo Lin and saw that the imperial envoy didn't blame him, he felt a little relieved.
And in his heart, he also respected and trusted Guo Lin, the imperial envoy who came here to supervise the embankment construction matters, so he told Guo Lin in detail here, and he already wanted to hear it over there.
How should Guo Lin's arrangements be made?
After all, he believed in his heart that since this imperial envoy was specially sent by the Holy Spirit, he must be very knowledgeable about the management and construction of rivers.
Therefore, what is a very complicated matter and a difficult problem to solve for them must be completely simple for the imperial envoy.
However, he was somewhat correct.
After listening to his detailed explanation, Guo Lin had a general summary of the matter, so he also had corresponding solutions.
However, he still filtered it out in his heart, and then said calmly: "Since you didn't think it was easy to dig at the beginning, why didn't you make preparations at the beginning and remove the water in this river in advance?
The source is disconnected first, and the water in the river is completely gone.
Naturally, it is almost dry.
Then it is easier to dig out the silt.
Since you didn't make any plans early, and the river has just been disconnected, the outside is cracked but the inside is soft and sparse, making it difficult to dig.
So why not skip this section of the river first and continue digging forward for the time being?
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Then we have to wait until the soil here is almost dry in a few days, and then you can go back and clean up this section of the river."
After Guo Lin said something, the eyes of the horseman, the river worker leader and Xu Baozheng all brightened up, and they hurriedly turned around and bowed their heads in agreement with Guo Lin's words.
After Guo Lin casually explained that he would formally come to supervise the survey tomorrow, he and Chun Yu went to the Huafang that Ma Yuanwai had mentioned.
To be continued.
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