Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 813 City Construction
After the first ten days of June, the weather got better and farmers began to harvest corn and wheat.

They don't have much time, because at the end of June, a new round of rains will come, and it will be very inconvenient for harvesting, drying or transportation.

Shao Shude was about to set off for Luoyang, Erlang, Sanlang, and Shiro accompanied him.

Zhuge personally helped Shao Shude put on the robe.

After having a baby and getting older, she is no longer the insecure little girl she used to be.Think about it, his father is Zhuge Shuang's adoptive son and governor of Tongzhou, the Jiedu envoy of Shannan Xidao, and his second uncle is the empress of Jieduliu. With such a family background, it can be said that he is a good match for the son of Zhang Xia, the governor of Bizhou, as his wife.

But as the saying goes, things are unpredictable, no matter how strong the family background is, it will collapse one day.Zhuge Zhongbao was defeated and captured. On the eve of his marriage, the Zhuge family suddenly became a family member of a criminal general, and was taken back to the mansion by Shao Shude, an envoy of the Dingnan Army who once called his father brothers and brothers.

At that time, she was just a frightened deer.Much better now, last night was a doe.

"My concubine sends the king off respectfully." Zhuge said with a salute.

"Start again." Shao Shude pinched her face.

Zhuge bit his lips lightly, gave Shao Shude a white look, and said in a gnat-like voice: "The concubine is paying respects to my uncle."

Shao Shude laughed heartily, and left contentedly.

Linru was actually not far from Luoyang, and Shao Shude didn't bring the main force, only the guards who had just recovered to [-] cavalry, and arrived in Luoyang the next morning.

Except for a few buildings, Luoyang as a whole is still in ruins, but a lot has been cleaned up.

The lack of manpower greatly restricted the reconstruction of the city, no matter in the era of Zhang Quanyi, Hu Zhen or Gao Renhou.

In addition, Shao Shude has his own ideas about the reconstruction of the city, and he has not let go of it for a long time. This may also be an important reason for the stagnation of reconstruction.

The city of Luoyang in the Sui and Tang Dynasties was traversed by Luoshui, which was somewhat similar to Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty.

Of course, there is more than one Luoshui in Luoyang.

Strictly speaking, the Luoshui River is the main water system in the city of Luoyang, and there are also rivers such as Gu, Yi, Jian, and Chán. Many water diversion channels have also been dug, forming a large-scale and well-ordered urban water system—— There is a developed shipping system in Luoyang City, which was positioned as the center of the Grand Canal during the Yang Guang period.

"I heard that when the country was in its prime, there were many canals in Luoyang City. The Tongji Canal connected to the West City, the Cao Canal to the North City, and the Yun Canal to the South City. All the canals converged with the Luoshui, Gushui, Yishui, and Dingshui, and were connected to each other. Going to Luokou is very convenient for business and travel." Shao Shude looked at the city full of weeds and trees and ruined walls, and said: "Now we can first use these three canals to transport out broken tiles and rocks, and transport in bricks. Stone and wood."

"Since Your Majesty said so, we can first restore the Cao Canal." Feng Wei, the deputy envoy of Jiru Jiedu in the Eastern Capital followed behind, and said after hearing the words: "Restore the imperial city first."

On the other side of the imperial city, there are already buildings.A Buddhist monk named Mani, with a group of students, went to Henan Mansion every day to ask for people and things, just to build some Buddhist-style palaces.Feng Wei couldn't understand it, and prevaricated on the grounds that the frontline war was urgent and the manpower and supplies were insufficient, which made the progress very slow.

"Caoqu?" Shao Shude asked, he really didn't understand.

Feng Wei immediately explained carefully.

As an important tributary of Luoshui, Gushui flows into Luoyang from the northwest, and then divides into two branch canals at the northwest corner, one enters the palace city to supply water for the palace, and the other flows into Luoshui through Shangyang Palace.The mainstream of Gushui continues to flow southward and flows into Luoshui.

Luoshui enters the city from the south of Shangyang Palace in the west of the city, flows east to west from the south of the imperial city, and traverses the whole city. The river is about 130 steps wide.

Luoshui is divided into three streams in the south of the right gate of the imperial city and the north of Jishanfang. From north to south, they are Huangdaoqu, the main stream of Luoshui, and Huangjin canal. The three streams converge again at the south of Zuoyemen and flow northeast to Huixun The Caoqu canal is divided near the square.

Caoqu is a man-made dam water diversion project, and there is a gate at the mouth of the canal, which can be closed.Caoqu flows northeast to the southwest of Lidefang to form a lake named Xintan.Then continue to the east, go out of the city through Guiyi, Jingxing, Shiyong, Yucai, and Jide Fang, and flow to Yanshi County, and then flow into Luoshui.

Cao Canal has another tributary, Xiecheng Canal.The canal flows out of Hanjiacang City, passes through Xuanrenmen and Lidefang in the east of the city, and merges into Caoqu.

"A very complicated water system." Shao Shude praised: "There are so many twists and turns in the water system of the palace city and the imperial city. Luoyang's water system is rich, and Chang'an can't match it."

"Then start from the restoration of the palace city and the imperial city? Chang'an has a map of Luoyang, the capital of the gods. After taking it, we can clean it up and rebuild it according to the map." Feng Wei said.

"You can do these things as you see fit, don't rush, take your time, right now we still have to give priority to the war." Shao Shude said: "But there is one-"

"Your Majesty, please speak."

"I've been to the ruins of Miyagi. There is a Jiuqu Pond, which draws water from the valley into the pool. Is it the source of Miyagi's water?" Shao Shude asked.

"Exactly."

"It's not running water, it's not good." Shao Shude said: "We can open a canal to let it flow into the Xiecheng Canal. In addition, some underground rivers are needed in the palace city."

"Dark River?" Feng Wei was a little puzzled.

"It's actually a channel, covered with stone slabs, and sewage flowing down." Shao Shude said: "The advantage of an underground river is that it can avoid diseases."

This is the upper and lower water facilities.

Shao Shude even wanted to deeply renovate the pool that supplies Miyagi.According to his idea, there must be a special agency to record the rainfall, evaporation, absorption loss and river flow in dry climates of this water supply reservoir and the upstream water source (grain water).

These nouns sound lofty, but they can actually be done in this era.Of course, he needs a large number of mathematical talents, and illiterates cannot complete these tasks.

Over the years, Shao Shude has continuously elevated the status of mathematics, and the state and county levels have established mathematics schools, and even doubled the number of admissions directly. Chang'an has also continued to use his personal will to force the number of admissions for the mathematics department. Finally, the popularity of this subject has been brought up. a little.

But he doesn't know how many people are needed to measure these things. Let's see when the time comes, these tasks must be completed.

"The old name of Jiuqu Pool is Jiuzhou Pool. Find me some calculation students. If you can't find it for a while, go to Master Mani. Ask him to calculate the Jiuzhou Pool—" Shao Shude didn't know what to do. To explain the word "reservoir capacity", we can only put it another way: "Calculate how much water there is in Jiuzhou Pond. Well, maybe we need to build a special government office, get people from the doctor of the Chang'an Water Department, and assign some calculation students. Let me walk all the way from Jiuzhou Pool along the Gushui to find out the bottom line. From now on, how much rain will fall every year, how much water will be lost under the scorching sun, the depth of Gushui in all seasons, etc., and record it at any time and organize it into a book. "

Shao Shude didn't know if his request had given birth to Datang's first professional meteorological and hydrological institution.Anyway, he needs these professionals now and is willing to support them.

Feng Wei opened his mouth wide when he heard this, he was dumbfounded.

Such a yamen is too absurd, right?I have nothing to do all day, and I just go to the mountains to play in the water, just to record how much rain, how much water is in the river, and whether there is enough water in the pool?

But he didn't dare to refuse. Martial arts have privileges, and the founding emperor and immediate emperor also have the right to be willful.Even more absurd things were done, such as cutting people's flesh one by one for fun. In comparison, King Xia's request was easy to accept, but he couldn't understand it.

Seeing Feng Wei's appearance, Shao Shude smiled secretly.

To build a new Luoyang City, how many disciplines should I promote?This is just a record of the Gushui River Basin, and it will be extended to Luoshui, Yishui and other rivers in the future. Are you even more surprised?
"We also need to prepare some water trucks. In the year of severe drought, the river is not abundant, so we need animal power to lift the water. It would be better if you can get someone to get a wind-powered water truck." Shao Shude added.

Before the industrial revolution in the United Provinces, there were industrial windmills in later generations, which used wind as energy to drive machines to process grains, metals, and various other things. Of course, it was also possible to lift water, although it was very unstable.

"When there are more people in Luoyang, how do the people use water?" Shao Shude asked another question.

The water used in Chang'an is difficult to describe in words.The most serious problem is serious pollution, mainly because human and animal excrement pollutes the underground water source, making the water quality from the wells very poor.

Many people are aware of this problem but are powerless to solve it.Rich people began to drink clean spring water outside the city, which gave birth to the profession of water bearer.

There must be such problems in Luoyang, more or less.

"Maybe we can dig a well?" Feng Wei asked.

"Not enough." Shao Shude said: "It's not like you don't know what the water in the Chang'an well is like. Dig a few more ponds outside the city, dig it upstream, collect more water, and then transport it to the various workshops through channels. When Li Renmei built the capital city in Ganzhou, he knew that channels were built in the city walls and transported to various places by water trucks. The running water is cleaner and stronger than the water in wells. In drought years, there are ponds to adjust, and some water can also fall Drink. Choose a good place and don’t mess around.”

Building reservoirs to supply water to cities is a basic operation in later generations.There are also signs of this at this time, such as the Jiuzhou Pond that supplies water to Miyagi, but it is really not popular and there is no such awareness.

Feng Wei nodded when he heard Yan Nuo Nuo.

King Xia's requirements are still very high, and he is really kind to the people.Put in more effort now, and the people of Luoyang will be grateful to him in a few decades.

"Sewage from each square should not be discharged randomly. It can be transported out of the city through underground canals and underground rivers." Shao Shude said again: "Troughs are built on both sides of the street to collect rainwater and discharge it into the underground river. The sewage is also discharged into the underground river. It is for people to drink The open river is the open river, which is farther away from the dark river. After the dark river is silted up, people are regularly sent to drill in to clear the silt, so the entrance must be reserved.”

"The water from the dark river can't be directly discharged into Luoshui." After thinking for a while, Shao Shude said, "Find a wasteland outside the city and dig a big pond, so that the water from the dark river can flow into the pond. You can prepare more ponds and install gates at the entrances." After a pool is full, close the gate, let it stand for a while, and then discharge the water through the exit gate and flow into Luoshui."

This request was also thought of by Shao Shude on the spur of the moment. In fact, it was the practice of the British Industrial Revolution.

There are too many human excrement in the urban sewage, which is directly discharged into the river, polluting the water source, and the British people are full of complaints.Later, someone thought of a way to discharge the sewage into a reservoir specially for sewage treatment, let it fully settle before flowing out.The things deposited in the sewage reservoir can also be used. They regularly send people down to the bottom of the reservoir to dig out the "sludge" of suspicious composition and sell it to farmers to fertilize their fields. It kills two birds with one stone.

Shao Shude's request from the left to the right really made Feng Wei a little confused.

But he is not stupid, and he can vaguely understand the true meaning of it.All he wondered was whether it was necessary to do so.But still the same sentence, Wu Fu's knife is too fast, he can do whatever he says, just do it.

(End of this chapter)