The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 591
In Gaoyou County, Guangling County, Xuzhou, Kan Ze, the prefect of Guangling, is busy with government affairs. It is now summer and spring plowing is over. For other counties, spring plowing and autumn harvest are the busiest seasons of the year.

But for Kan Ze, summer, which should be relatively easy, is also a busy season!

Because Lu Heng asked Kan Ze to serve as the prefect of Guangling with a very important task, which was to excavate, clean up, widen, and extend the Zhongdu River, which is also called the magazine ditch in later generations.

Therefore, for the busy spring plowing and autumn harvest, summer is the best time and the golden time to call in peasants to dig canals. Kanze will recruit peasants to clean up waterways in summer.

Fortunately, the busiest season has passed, and the Zhongdu River has been treated for more than two years. The people are very used to having such a time in summer where they can earn extra money.

Lu Heng stipulated that unless the prisoners worked without pay, all recruited civilians must be paid. The salary of ten cash a day and the package of meals at the start of work attracted an endless stream of Guangling civilians.

Although it is often hot summer to work, in fact, there is no greenhouse effect and excessive carbon emissions in this era, and the summer is not as hot as in later generations. At least in Xuzhou, it is impossible for later generations to have weather above 35°C.

In addition, cleaning up the waterways means dealing with water. Working in the water all day can relieve heat and make money. For the common people, more and more people come here spontaneously, making Kanze easy this year. Not a lot.

In addition to cleaning up the silt in the Zhongdu River and widening the waterway, Lu Heng also ordered Kanze to extend the Zhongdu River. Now this artificial canal only reaches a few dozen miles south of Ping'an County before it is cut off. It is connected to the inland artificial canal at the end of the Yangtze River. .

There is no natural river flow, and the science and technology in the Spring and Autumn Period was not well developed, and the country of Wu did not dig deep enough, so the silt slowly accumulated into what it is today. Therefore, Lu Heng asked Kanze to continue digging the Zhongdu River northward. Connecting to the Huaihe River and connecting the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River is Kanze's task.

Digging artificial canals for hundreds of miles is a huge project even in later generations. Not to mention the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the amount of work is almost as long as the current Zhongdu River.

Therefore, Kan Ze adopted the water control policy of extending and cleaning at the same time, digging artificial canals from the Huaihe River, allowing the sediment to wash away along the Huaihe River, and then connecting the current Zhongdu River.

Some people say why not dig the water from the middle to the Huaihe River, it is impossible to clean up later, and there is silt flowing in front.
So Kan Ze divided the construction team into two sides. One side started digging from the Huaihe River, and the other side Qingzhongdu Water. The heavy tasks of the excavation were composed of reservists, veterans, criminals, etc. In short, Kan Ze arranged everything in an orderly manner.

"My lord! My lord! There is something in this water, come and see it!" Just as Kan Ze was calculating how long it is expected to be constructed this year and how long it will take to complete the project, a local pavilion chief rushed to look for Kan Ze.

At first, Kan Ze didn’t care about it. The Zhongdu River has been blocked for many years. It can be said that there is everything in the Zhongdu River. Fortunately, it is not in the Huaxia of the later generations.

So Kan Ze just thought that the head of the pavilion saw something weird again. Kan Ze has also visited it in the past few years, and found that it was nothing more than some strange rocks washed by the river, or something else.

"Old man, don't worry! Don't worry, wait for Ze to go and have a look." Kan Ze smiled and was about to get up, but was grabbed by the pavilion chief and ran away. The little old man ran faster than Kan Ze.

When the little old man pulled Kan Ze to the side of the canal, the latter was already attracted by this thing, but the little old man said to himself: "My lord, it's this thing, I don't know what it is like a tripod?
But the old man has never seen such a big tripod, this thing is very heavy, and dozens of us strong men used thick hemp ropes and pulleys to pull this thing up. "

As soon as Kan Ze saw this gigantic object that was nearly five feet high and four feet wide, with a circular structure, one ear on each side, and three-legged support, he was also very surprised what it was, but the giant was covered with Things like silt and algae.

Kan Ze wiped away the silt with his hands, and asked someone to wash it with clean river water to reveal the inner bronze pattern. Although there is only a small piece, Kan Ze can see the fine carving and the grandeur of the pattern.

While Kan Ze was cleaning slowly, his actions were as cautious as the archaeological team members of later generations, because this person had a faint feeling in his heart that this thing might be something important.

When Kan Ze was still cleaning the first giant, dozens of civilians had already lifted up another giant together. It was all mud and algae and the essence could not be seen clearly, but it was the same as the first giant that had been cleaned. The two giants are about the same size, with a slight difference in general style.

"My lord! There are several more of these things below the river, do you want to keep bringing them up!" The little old man looked at these things with a puzzled expression and asked Kan Ze.

"Bring it up! Bring it up as much as you want!" Kan Ze was now attracted by this thing, and perfunctory the little old man's inquiry.

"It's an order, my lord has an order to bring up all these things, everyone work harder!" The little old man ran to order, but Kan Ze didn't care.

At this time, most of it has been cleaned. This is a huge bronze tripod with a giant unicorn pattern on it. Suddenly Kan Ze found that there seemed to be words on the tripod, and immediately became excited and stepped up his movements.

A character gradually appeared. Fortunately, Kan Ze is a great Confucian, and ordinary people really don't know this character, because this character is not the common official script or the early Xiaozhuan.

"The giant bronze cauldron with big seal and raised characters, this..." Kan Ze's eyes slowly hesitated, thinking about what this is, suddenly his pupils dilated, the hairs all over his body stood on end, and goose bumps appeared on his skin.

"This! This! This! Is it Yangzhou Ding? Jiuding?" Kan Ze looked at the four giants that had been lifted up by the man with a look of astonishment, trembling all over with excitement, and immediately ran to the little old man, "Pavilion chief! How many tripods are there in this canal?"

"My lord, there are six in total. This is really a tripod. Can such a heavy thing not accumulate silt and block the channel in this canal? Everyone, work harder, and there are two more!" The little old man didn't care. Kan Ze said excitedly.

"okay!"

'Yang', 'Xu', 'Yu', 'Qing', 'Ji', 'Yan', after a busy day, Kan Ze saw the six giants in front of him, and immediately ordered to continue searching, thoroughly searching.

"The nine tripods are here, the heavens are auspicious, and the destiny is here! My lord's destiny is here!" Kan Ze muttered to himself, and immediately ordered the soldiers to move the six tripods to the county government and guard them heavily.

At the same time, Kan Ze personally wrote a call to action to Xuzhou's principal, Kou Yan, and at the same time asked Jin Yiwei to report to Lu Heng quickly.

(End of this chapter)