Qiao Yi

"Well, yes." Qiao Yi briefly told Hu Xiang about the situation there.

This time Hu Tingyun understood. His face was pensive, and he was obviously thinking about how to draw the water out. "So, it's a little difficult. How did you find that dark river?"

"I saw that the vegetation over there was more lush than other places, so I thought there might be a source of water there. I took people down to have a look, and found that there was really an underground river." Of course, Qiao Yi would not say that she had a special abnormality on her body. If possible, Xie Yin's people are all around him, even if those people find out his difference, no one will tell it.

But he was right in saying that, the vegetation would grow better in places with water sources than in other places.

"Master Xiang, I have an idea here, how do we bring the water up for use outside. Why don't you listen to me?" Seeing that Hu Xiang had no better way for a while, Qiao Yi said.

"Oh, you said."

Hu Tingyun put his eyes on the young man, and for the first time looked at the young man in front of him, waiting for him to continue talking.

In this era of backward technology, it is indeed difficult to divert the water from the deep mountains to the outside.But being able to find a water source at this time is simply a life-saving thing. No matter how difficult it is, they have to solve this problem.

What Qiao Yi thought was to use water trucks to pump up the water from below, and then lay pipes to bring the water to the outside. He took out the blueprints he had prepared in advance and handed them to Hu Xiang, "I don't know if Hu Xiang knows the workers. My lords in the Ministry, let's discuss together to see if we can get this thing out."

The technology of this era is backward, and all they can use is natural kinetic energy, and windmills are a very good choice

Hu Tingyun took the drawing and looked at it carefully. Even though he is not very good at these things, he can still see the exquisiteness of this waterwheel. He nodded and said, "I will discuss it with the Minister of Industry tomorrow."

It can be heard that he has a close relationship with Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

"I have another suggestion here, that is, we can find a suitable place at the foot of the mountain over there, build a reservoir for water storage, and then transport the water source to nearby villages and towns through the laid pipeline , and here in the capital." Qiao Yi mentioned the issue of building a reservoir and an irrigation system for farmland by the way.

"If we can establish such an irrigation system, we can use these canals to drain and irrigate the farmland in the surrounding villages every time we encounter drought and no rain." Therefore, it is very necessary to establish this farmland irrigation system.

The reason why farmers in this era are powerless to resist natural disasters is that there is no mature agricultural irrigation system and backward planting technology.If these two problems can be solved, the output can be greatly increased and the food problem of the common people can be solved.

However, human beings have been working hard for thousands of years to solve this problem, so this task has a long way to go.

What they urgently need to solve at present is the problem they are facing now.

"The autumn harvest will be coming soon. After the autumn harvest, these nearby villages must have a large number of people, and they will definitely be able to recruit people to do the work." Qiao Yi said.

Laying pipelines and setting up an irrigation system must be a very huge project, which involves manpower and material resources, as well as the question of whether the court can spend so much money.But if this pipeline is laid, at least in the next hundred years, they can guarantee the water supply of their entire capital and nearby villages.

At this time, there are floods in the south and drought in the north. At that time, there will definitely be many refugees flocking to the capital. The imperial court cannot let these refugees go. The best way is to use these people.

Qiao Yi mentioned the method of "relief with work", "At that time, we can use these people. The imperial court only needs to give them some food and a small wage, and recruit these people to work."

This is killing two birds with one stone. It not only allows the refugees to eat and not starve to death, but it does not give them things for nothing and let them exchange for labor.

Qiao Yi explained to Hu Xiang what labor-relief is. In the last days, many bases implement work-relief. A small amount of food can be exchanged for a large amount of labor. Alternative relief is a very good way to solve the surplus labor force and ease the crisis.

"Relief with work? Well, this method is good, this is good." As the prime minister of the dynasty, Hu Tingyun naturally knew the situation of the household department, and the household department could not give out so much money, so no matter how much they said, it would be empty talk.However, if a method such as work-for-relief can be used, firstly, refugees can be resettled, and secondly, pipelines can be laid and irrigation canals can be dug.

"Okay, I will write a booklet about what you mentioned, and explain it to the emperor in detail."

After hearing what the young man said, Hu Tingyun had to look at the young man in front of him with admiration.

If Hu Tingyun's impression of the young man before was that he was a male concubine who was with King Ming, then he learned that the young man also knew the art of medicine and saved the lives of two children from aristocratic families while hunting in Nanshan.

But even so, Hu's impression of Qiao Yi was actually not very good. The biggest reason was that he thought that the young man was not good enough for King Ming. King Ming was born successively, and the eldest son and legitimate son should be the candidates for the crown prince.With King Ming's status, the wife he should marry should be a dignified and beautiful woman from a famous family in the capital, not a bastard from a small official family.

Until the last time King Ming brought the young man to meet him in private and told him in this way that King Ming affirmed the young man.It is because of this that Hu Tingyun is even more difficult to accept. Even if King Ming married an ordinary woman, he still thinks it is better than marrying a man.

But Hu Tingyun himself knew that this marriage was bestowed by the emperor in the first place, and Concubine Xiao Gui was indispensable behind it, and the young man was innocently implicated in it.It's only his fault that he didn't learn about Concubine Xiao's tricks as soon as possible. By the time he found out, the emperor's imperial decree to bestow marriage had already come down.

Until this time the young man was able to personally lead people into the mountains to find water. Although he didn't ask how the young man found the water source, Hu Tingyun also knew that the process would not be easy.The young man has this heart of worrying about the country and the people, and if he can really do something for the common people, he has to re-examine the young man in front of him in his heart.

On this day, Qiao Yi sat with Hu Xiang for a while, then bid farewell to Hu Xiang, and took the people away.

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Half a month later——

"stop!,,

The team escorting the disaster relief money and food arrived three miles outside Quling City. King Ming, who was riding on horseback, raised his hand, and the team behind stopped.

Along the way, they saw countless fleeing people. Quling was the worst-hit place, and many nearby villages and fertile fields were submerged.The flood subsided, leaving only devastation, collapsed houses, dead livestock, and rotting and unattended corpses on the roadside.

Only when he saw the scene in front of him did Xie Yin feel the weight of his mission.These corpses lying on the side of the road are all Dayan's people, and now these people are dead, some alive are homeless, and they are fleeing with their families.

Passing through some towns along the way, Xie Yin would have people take his tokens and hand orders to ask the local magistrate or county magistrate to open a warehouse for disaster relief and take in these fleeing refugees.

And their goal this time is Quling City, the most severely affected place.

A serious plague broke out in Quling City. Shen Guangliang, the prefect of Quling, did not escape with his family, but had people close the city gates, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. The people of the city live together, and when they die, they die with the people of the whole city.

The gates of the city were closed, and no one came out, and no one entered. No one knew whether the people in the whole city were dead or alive.

"Go and send a letter to the prefect Shen to ask someone to open the city gate."

"say,,

疋.

Xie Yin waved his hand, and someone from below went to Quling City to deliver the letter.

The generals defending the city learned that the relief team sent by the imperial court had arrived, and the capital did not give up on them!The general immediately burst into tears, and shouted: "Quickly, go and send a letter to the prefect, saying that someone from the capital is here."

"Yes." The soldier who received the order ran to the place where the magistrate lived to deliver the news.

"Finally someone from Beijing has come, old man... Finally, someone from the capital has come."

At this time, Magistrate Shen was already lying on the hospital bed, knowing that there was someone from Beijing, he struggled to get out of bed.Next to him was Shen Tinghong, the son of the prefect of Shen. Shen Tinghong knew his father's temper, and when he saw that he wanted to get up, he wanted to get up, so he went up to help his father get up, and helped him go outside.

"Open the door."

"pull--"

boom --

The gate of the city opened, and with the support of his son, Zhifu Shen went out of the city to meet the coming King Ming, and saluted, "I have seen His Highness King Ming."

"Master Shen is flat."

Xie Yin still has some impressions of this prefect Shen. He remembered the problem in Quling City in his last life. Prefect Shen had people close the gate of the city, and died inside together with the people in the city.When the city gate was opened, only a few people were still alive in the city, and only a few people were still alive in Nuoda's Shen residence.

But later, the prefect Shen was impeached by some officials in Beijing. The reason was that the prefect Shen had people close the city gates. Some people thought that this was the reason why so many people died.Therefore, after the death of the prefect Shen, his remaining sons and family members were exiled thousands of miles away, and all of them died on the way. It is not known whether anyone survived.

I just don't know if the prefect Shen will be able to die in peace when he learns what will happen to the Shen family after his death.I'm afraid that if the prefect Shen knows, he will get up from the ground and seek the lives of those who killed his descendants of the Shen family.

"Prefect Shen has worked hard, I wonder how Quling City is doing now?" Xie Yin still admired and respected Prefect Shen who was able to advance and retreat with the people of the whole city regardless of his own life.

"Yes, Your Highness..." Shen Zhifu didn't know whether to invite this Highness to the city, and he hesitated in his heart.

"Master Shen, why don't you take me into the city and explain it to me in detail."

"Yes, please, Your Highness."

But without waiting for him to hesitate, King Ming made a decision to enter the city and go to Shen's residence with Shen Zhifu.

The imperial physicians and doctors who came with them didn't even have time to sit down and take a breath, so they went to understand and discuss with the original doctors in the city how to control the plague in the city.

When the people in the city saw the imperial physicians and doctors sent by the capital, they knew that the imperial court had not given up on them. They all aroused the desire to live and cooperated with the imperial physicians' rectification and treatment very much.

This time they brought a lot of herbal medicines, which were exactly what they needed now. Among them were a batch of pills for treating dysentery, and the effect of these pills was very remarkable.

Mr. Feng took out a few prescriptions, which were sent to him by Dr. Qiao before they set off.Feng Ge took out these prescriptions, and after discussing with the imperial physicians, he determined the prescription for the medicine.

The government came forward to build a shed, and distributed food and medicine to the people every day.

The people in the city followed the officers and soldiers to tidy up and clean the streets spontaneously. Thanks to everyone's efforts, the streets in the city gradually became clean, and this dead city was regaining its vigor and vitality...