Great Power Army Reclamation

Chapter 2654 Karez

Xiao Di stretched and finally woke up. Looking at his body half in his bed and half in Ye Yuze's bed, he couldn't help but blush.

After all, there were two old people in the room staring at him.

But when she saw Gu Li in Ye Yuze's arms, she couldn't help but feel angry. Damn it, men don't have a good thing. She ate from the bowl and looked at the pot.

Just when she was about to stretch her legs and kick him, she thought about what happened yesterday and it was her initiative and she didn't need to be responsible, so she accepted it.

But seeing the two of them like this, I still felt uncomfortable. I secretly kept scolding the scumbag, but I still kept recalling yesterday's scene in my mind, which was so embarrassing.

She considers herself a good woman, and her family's education is relatively traditional. If not for this, her sister would not have been deceived by the scumbag.

Thinking about this, I started to blame my parents in my heart. If they didn't care about being so strict and my sister had more boyfriends, she would have seen through this man long ago.

My mind was racing with thoughts, but I still had to get up because the food was ready.

I am a person who wants to die, but I am brought here by this man in a daze, and I see the desert and the Goddess Lake. I am supposed to be hopeless, but why do I suddenly not want to die?

Breakfast for people here never changes, milk tea, naan, and some meat.

Of course, there is also grilled fish. Ye Yuze doesn't like to eat it, but Xiao Di does. She has liked all kinds of fish since she was a child.

After breakfast, Ye Yuze left and Gu Li looked disappointed. If Ye Yuze doesn't go to see her, he can't give this child any hope.

But this Xiaodi, how should we arrange her? Let’s talk about it later on the road.

Gu Li brought him some grilled and dried fish with red eyes. Ye Yuze was not polite and kept a few bottles of wine after accepting it.

When the car started, Xiao Di looked at Ye Yuze who didn't even look in the rearview mirror and cursed:

"You scumbag, this little girl is crying, why don't you even say hello?"

Ye Yuze retorted angrily: "Shut the hell up. Does that mean I'm no longer a scumbag if I take her away? The key point is that I don't like her, so why take her away?"

Xiao Di was naturally unconvinced: "Why don't you like her to sleep on the same bed with her? What little girl can resist such temptation?"

Ye Yuze couldn't explain the customs here to her, and she wouldn't believe the key explanation, so he had to ask:

"Then do I have to be loyal to you? Even if you die, I have to keep my integrity?"

Xiao Di wanted to say "It's necessary!" but couldn't. I really don't blame him for this.

Ye Yuze was too lazy to be pretentious with her, stepped on the accelerator and left quickly, and asked:

"Where do you want to go? I can show you."

Xiao Di thought for a while, there was no difference between dying early and dying later. Walking around before dying would be a comfort to his short life.

"I heard that your karez in northern Xinjiang is a great project. Can you take me to have a look?"

Ye Yuze was stunned for a while and suddenly slapped his head. He was really stupid. Years ago, Liu Neng asked him about diverting water from the Ili River to Junken City. Why didn't he think of the unique karez in northern Xinjiang?

But when I think about the fact that karez is also an underground passage that diverts water from the Tianshan Mountains to a lower place, and was only built because of fear of evaporation, I suddenly feel disappointed.

How deep do you have to dig to bring water to a higher place with an altitude difference of more than 2,000 meters? How many facilities should be designed along the way? Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

It is really better to divert water from the Brahmaputra River into Xinjiang. The problem solved in that way will be subversive.

With his mind racing with random thoughts, he drove the car a little distractedly and almost drove into the snow. Xiao Di's exclamation brought him back to his senses.

Ye Yuze's phone rang, and he saw that it was Yang Geyong's number. Ye Yuze was helpless. This younger brother was quite sensible and didn't tell him later. As for Yang Geyong, he had no pressure at all. If he wasn't afraid of being found, he could have taken him with him when he came out this time.

The two people can be said to be brothers in life and death. In a sense, they are closer than several of their own brothers.

After picking up, Yang Geyong only asked: "Where are you?"

Ye Yuze looked at the unmarked road outside and muttered:

"I went to Turpan to see the karez."

The call was hung up, and Ye Yuze didn't call again. He knew that Yang Geyong would rush here immediately. He was still four hundred kilometers away from Turpan, and it would probably be tomorrow before he could get there.

Because of the blood, the car couldn't drive fast. Although Ye Yuji and Ye Feng have opened a road network throughout Northern Xinjiang, the southern part of Northern Xinjiang is still relatively poor.

Especially with this snow clearing mechanism, in Junken City, the snow on the roads can always be cleared away at any time, without any inconvenience caused by the snow.

The entire Southern Corps has only two divisions, so the Corps' construction efforts here are relatively small. This is related to the geographical location.

The corps were arranged around the border, and the southern border was relatively sparse.

The 400-kilometer journey took a full eight hours. Due to Xiaodi's condition, he couldn't stay in a hotel, so the two of them chose to live in the car.

The car Ye Yuze chose this time was an SUV, with a bed in the back. Because the two of them have broken through that relationship, it doesn't matter how they sleep.

They did not go to the city, but chose to visit the karez while it was still dark.

There are more than 1,200 karez distributed in the Turpan Basin, with a total length of culverts of more than 3,400 kilometers, including nearly 190 water karez, with an annual runoff of 1.4 billion cubic meters, controlling an irrigation area of ​​nearly 100,000 acres.

So after arriving here, you can find traces of karez without searching for it deliberately.

Most of the karez are culverts. To put it bluntly, they are a tunnel opened underground. The scale is no less than that of today's subway.

Think about it, there was no mechanical equipment to rely on at that time. The people of Northern Xinjiang created such a world-famous project with their own hands and a behead man.

Not to mention Xiao Di, even Ye Yuze was shocked by the scene in front of him.

Not to mention how many kilometers is this culvert? Just for those vertical shafts, I don’t know how much manpower and material resources will be consumed.

The inside of the karez is warmer than the outside, so even though it is freezing and snowy outside, the water inside the karez does not freeze.

The clear stream is gurgling underground. I don’t know how many years it has been flowing.

Because there was no flashlight, the two of them finally sat in front of the mouth of a shaft. The afterglow of the setting sun was particularly bright at this moment, making the water in the culvert shine with golden light.

Xiao Di carefully picked up the water and took a sip, shouting in surprise:

"This water is sweet!"

Ye Yuze looked at her with contempt: "What a fuss, how can the water in Northern Xinjiang not be sweet?"

Two people were bickering, and a protective voice came from outside:

"Who are you? Come out and don't destroy the karez!"

Ye Yuze looked over and saw a Uighur Balang holding a stick and staring at them warily.

Seeing the little guy's wary eyes, Ye Yuze smiled and waved:

"We are tourists from out of town, would you like to introduce the karez to me? I'll give you the money."

As soon as the Balang heard about the money, he immediately walked down, looked at the two people carefully, and confirmed that they were not bad people, then he introduced the construction process of the karez in a long way.

According to him, qanat is not built from the source, but from where water is used.

The direction is determined by experienced elders using firelight and wooden sticks hanging from ropes.

For the sake of progress and lack of oxygen, people dug many vertical shafts, so that the culvert could be divided into many sections, which meant that many people worked together. After all, it is useless to have too many people to dig holes.

It seems that Balangzi has been listening to the stories of Qanat told by his elders since he was a child. In fact, many legends are quite fantasy.

However, the construction process of karez was extremely difficult. After careful survey and design, the craftsmen started working from the open channel and the dragon mouth at the end, and then laid out the shafts section by section and excavated the culvert upstream.

The overall slope of the culvert is controlled between 5% and 1%, and the depth and spacing of the shafts are gradually changed to adapt to different terrain and water flow conditions.

Typically, the end shaft is 3-15 meters deep, the middle section is 20-40 meters deep, and the top can be up to 100 meters deep.

The distance between the shafts gradually lengthens, ranging from about 10-30 meters downstream, 30-60 meters midstream, and 60-100 meters upstream.

The width of the culvert is about 5-8 meters and the height is about 4-7 meters.

During the excavation process, the craftsmen could only rely on oil lamps to illuminate and control the direction of the shaft to make the culvert parallel or oblique to the underground current.

In this way, rainwater, glaciers and snowmelt water that seep into the ground in spring and summer can be continuously collected through culverts, flow downstream along the slope, and finally lead to the surface.

Only then did Ye Yuze realize that the water source of the Karez did not come entirely from snow water in the Tianshan Mountains, but also from groundwater.

Moreover, karez is an underground water conservancy project created by the working people in arid lands during the long historical development.

The karez diverted groundwater and turned the desert into an oasis. It was called "well canal" in ancient times.

The main working principle of the karez is that people use the natural slope of the mountain to draw a large amount of rainwater, glaciers and snowmelt water that seeps into the ground in spring and summer to the surface for irrigation to meet the production and living water needs in desert areas.

The specific structure of karez in different regions has different regional characteristics, but generally speaking, a complete karez system includes vertical shafts, culverts (underground channels), open channels (above ground channels) and cross-sections (small reservoirs) Four main components.

The flow rate of the karez operating under this principle is stable and the well water can be guaranteed to flow for irrigation.

Although Balang mixed some mythological stories into his narration, in general he still had a very deep understanding of the karez.

At least let Ye Yuze and Xiao Di, two people who knew nothing about karez, understand its structure and principles.

But at the same time, it also made Ye Yuze understand that this principle had no inspiration for introducing the Ili River water into Junken City. The water flowed downwards.

After finishing speaking, Ye Yuze gave Balangzi a hundred yuan, and the little guy excitedly took the money and wanted to treat them to dinner.

Nowadays, the tourism industry in northern Xinjiang has become smoother with the opening of roads. It has become more and more prosperous, and even children know that many things can be exchanged for money.

For example, this Balangzi regarded himself as a tour guide and got paid.

However, he has not lost the nature of the people in Northern Xinjiang. After all, they are still hospitable. No, after getting the money, he will treat them to a meal without hesitation. He does not care whether the meal is enough for 100 yuan?

Just when Xiao Di was about to decline, Ye Yuze had already agreed. The place where they parked was a bit desolate, and eating would definitely be a problem.

This Balang is obviously a nearby resident, so it's not a big problem to go and have a meal.

Ye Yuze was born in the northern Xinjiang and naturally knew this truth, but Xiao Di certainly didn't understand it. After all, in the mainland, if you are a stranger and go to someone else's house for dinner, you'd be lucky if you don't get beaten out.

Balang is indeed from a nearby village. Along the way, Ye Yuze discovered the difference between the southern and northern parts of the northern Xinjiang.

In the north, that is, the military reclamation city, there are more nomadic people. Even if there are villages, they are all old and young, so the houses and infrastructure are worse.

The south is different. Due to geographical and climatic reasons, there is basically no nomadic lifestyle here.

Their living habits are similar to those of the people in the mainland. They grow crops and fruit trees in villages and families.

There are also cattle and sheep, but they are limited to their own consumption, so there are not many in a family.

However, milk, a necessity of life, is not available in every family. You have to go to the home of someone who has a cow to buy it. You can give money or goods. No one cares about this.

Moreover, the people here pay much attention to the hygiene and environment of the village. They like to plant some flowers and beautiful plants in front of the door. Even in winter, the snow in front of the door and on the road is cleaned up.

They also like to make some decorations on the houses and courtyard walls. Even the old houses will be painted on the exterior walls so that they will not look so old.

Baranzi's home is very close to here, so he found Ye Yuze's car and came to explore, and then earned a tour guide fee.

Baranzi's home is very big. People in northern Xinjiang don't like to change the building. There is no need to build a building in a large place.

The front yard is not big, and the wall is very low. The grapes have been buried, but the grape racks still lead directly to the house like a corridor.

There are also several pomegranate trees in the yard, which are naturally bare in this season.

The house is a different world. It is decorated very luxuriously, with completely ethnic style furniture, carpets and tapestries.

Xiao Di was shocked with her mouth open. Although she didn't know the price of these things, such complicated workmanship could not be cheap.

Only Barangzi's mother was at home. Seeing the guests coming, she quickly gave up her seat and went to make tea.

Looking at the decoration and furnishings in this house, Ye Yuze couldn't help but sigh that it was really different from the homes of the ethnic people on his side.

For example, this house has sofas and coffee tables. This is completely in line with the times.

Most of the ethnic people on their side still retain traditional lifestyles and furnishings.

Ye Yuze didn't want to comment on where it was good? Instead, he felt that people here were more capable of accepting new things.

At this time, his phone rang again, and Yang Geyong asked him where he was again? Ye Yuze didn't know the name of the village, so he directly sent a location.

Barangzi usually poured tea and brought them food, and his behavior was completely manly.

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