Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 1224 Investigating the water situation

  This restaurant is not far from the county government. The last time the daughter-in-law was "unfilial" to her mother-in-law, Liu Dadao bought two bowls of longevity noodles from his house. After leaving the restaurant, Zhu Pingan led Liu Dadao and others to investigate the drainage ditches and water accumulation in the city in the rain.

  Jingnan is an old county with a history of hundreds of years since its establishment. Although the project is not a bean curd project, the drainage ditch is also facing aging problems. The green bricks and bluestone slabs used to lay the ditch are aging and severely damaged. It is barely maintaining the drainage function.

  The current rainfall is still within the range of the drainage ditch, and there is not much water in the county, only some low-lying roads have water. If the rainfall increases, it will be difficult for the ditches to undertake the task of drainage.

   This is a hidden danger.

  Zhu Pingan remembered this in his heart, and then took Liu Mu and others to the east gate, focusing on checking the drainage outlet from the county seat.

  The terrain of Jingnan County is generally higher in the west and lower in the east, so the drainage outlets of the county are concentrated at the east gate of the county. The outfall is made of natural giant bluestone, in an inverted trapezoidal shape, and is divided into three layers. Each layer has 6 square outlet holes, each outlet hole is 50 centimeters long and 40 centimeters wide. The stagnant water in Jingnan County is collected from the west, discharged out of the city through the east gate, and poured into the Sanli River outside the city.

  The drainage outlet is also an antique, but fortunately the giant bluestone is solid, and it is still strong despite the baptism of years.

  However, out of the 18 outlets, six were blocked by silt, vegetation, and garbage, and the drainage was not smooth enough.

   "Young master, I'll come, I'll come."

Seeing that Zhu Ping'an was about to wade into the water to clear the blockage, Liu Dadao, Liu Dachui and the others quickly rolled up their trouser legs and rushed into the water first. The water depth was just up to their knees. poked out.

  After dredging, the drain outlet leaked like a note.

  After inspecting Jingnan County, Zhu Ping'an and his party walked along the drainage ditch outside the city to the Sanli River.

  Due to continuous rain, the Sanli River has more water than usual.

  Zhu Ping'an stood on the embankment, looked around for a while, and couldn't help frowning. There were a lot of problems.

  First of all, the phenomenon of river beach occupation is serious. The fields on both sides of the river bank occupy the river beach and build fields around the river. Like invaders, the fields occupy the river beach and destroy the river beach in a disgraceful way for better planting.

   Followed by hidden dangers of dams. In order to facilitate water diversion and irrigation, the embankments of the Sanli River were artificially dug in many places. Zhu Pingan roughly counted, and there were seventeen or eight openings in just one mile or so.

  The current water volume of the Sanli River is not too large, and these openings seem to have no effect, but if the water volume does not pass the river bank, these openings will become ant nests that break the dike, and the flood will drive straight in, swallowing villages and county towns.

  In addition, Zhu Ping'an also found that the dam had been dug to take soil. A good dam was dug into one hole after another. Although the dam was not completely dug, the stability and firmness of the dam were seriously damaged.

   An ant nest can break a **** for thousands of miles. How can such a **** full of holes resist the unpredictable flood?

  Because of a small loss, the big is lost, and the public is abolished because of private interests.

Ugh.

  Zhu Pingan couldn't help but sighed.

   "Let's go to Fengyong Reservoir." Zhu Ping'an led Liu Mu and others from Sanli River to Fengyong Reservoir.

  Fengyong Reservoir is the lifeline of Jingnan. It not only provides Jingnan with abundant drinking water, but also nurtures thousands of hectares of paddy fields around it, irrigated tens of thousands of acres of farmland. Jingnan's agriculture cannot do without Fengyong Reservoir.

  Fengyong Reservoir is located in the deep mountains, the road is difficult and muddy, Zhu Pingan and others had to break trees and move forward with difficulty. Halfway through the journey, there was a creek spreading, and the stone bridge was not crossed, so the road could not be seen clearly, and there were many similar scenes ahead. For the sake of safety, Zhu Pingan had to decide to retreat, turned back, and found a person in the village at the foot of the mountain. An experienced and young guide will lead you to Fengyong Reservoir.

  The guide often goes up the mountain to cut firewood, and is familiar with every plant and tree in the mountain. Although the stream spread and did not pass the stone bridge, the guide still accurately detected the location of the stone bridge, and led Zhu Ping'an and his party to wade along the stone bridge.

  A few miles forward, there was another danger, and a landslide blocked the road. Fortunately, a guide led the way and detoured through a hidden path.

   When they reached the Fengyong Reservoir, Zhu Pingan and his party seemed to be fished out of the muddy water. They were almost soaked from top to bottom, and their clothes were scratched several times by vegetation, covered with grass clippings and mud.

  After arriving at the destination, Zhu Pingan gave the pancakes and pickles to Liu Dadao and the guide. While eating pancakes with pickles, he checked Fengyong Reservoir. Fortunately, it was wrapped in oiled paper. Although the pancakes were soaked by rain and river water, the soil and other stolen goods were isolated from the oiled paper and could still be eaten.

  It has been raining for several days, and the water level of the reservoir has risen rapidly, which can be seen at a glance through the marking scale of the stone pillar. At present, the water level of the reservoir has approached the warning waterline. Of course, if the rainfall has always been like this, the reservoir will be fine in the next half month, and the rainfall will increase sharply. Now, while the rainfall is within the controllable range, we can timely open the gates to release water, lower the water level, increase the water storage potential of the reservoir, and prepare for extreme rainfall weather.

  There are also some hidden dangers in the **** protection of the reservoir embankment. There are cracks and damages in the stone retaining wall of the **** protection. Fortunately, the situation is not serious.

  Zhu Pingan was eating pancakes while looking along the reservoir dam, and a piece of pancake was eaten up soon.

   Then, I rolled another pancake and watched it while eating.

  Liu Dadao found that the guide was looking at Zhu Pingan curiously, to be precise, watching Zhu Pingan eating cakes.

   "My fellow, what's the matter?"

  Liu Dadao couldn't help asking, didn't the young master give you the cake too, why are you staring at the young master all the time?

"I'm just curious, shouldn't the county magistrate eat big fish, meat, delicacies from mountains and seas? Why don't the magistrates eat delicacies from mountains and seas, and go into the mountains to check the reservoir in the rain. What we eat is soaked pancakes and shredded pickles Ah. Isn’t our county magistrate an official for nothing?”

   The guide rubbed his hands together and asked in puzzlement. He held back these words all the way, and when he heard Liu Dadao's question, he couldn't help but say them out.

   This cake was hard for him to swallow, but the county magistrate ate it in big mouthfuls, and it was quite delicious.

  How can you not be curious? !

"Hehe, what a meal of delicacies from mountains and seas, fellow townsman, you have listened too much. Ever since the young master arrived in Jingnan, I haven't eaten a meal of delicacies from mountains and seas. It's not much better than what you eat. If you don't eat delicacies from mountains and seas, you will be an official for nothing? But get over it, fellow, what you're talking about is corrupt officials, right? Our young master is not an official for the sake of enjoying himself."

   Liu Dadao couldn't help shaking his head.

  (end of this chapter)