landbeastnovel Chapter 303 Use of Reservoirs, Control of Locust Plague???
Chapter 303 Use of Reservoirs, Control of Locust Plague???
Time flies, and night falls.
The tantalizing aroma of barbecue wafts from the courtyard.
A burst of laughter and laughter sounded from the banquet.
Lao Zhao is really happy today.
Although it is said that in the battle of Lingnan, nearly 200,000 of the 380,000 troops that were completely destroyed were former Qin troops.
This is equivalent to a reduction of 200,000 troops in the Qin army.
However, these Qin army losses did not have much impact on Da Qin.
In the original Lao Zhao's order, the Lingnan Army's 300,000 troops were to be divided into 200,000.
For example, some prisoners, or prisoners of war from the Six Nations, and the former troops of the former Chu army were all prepared to split up on the spot and let them settle down in the Lingnan area.
But now these people have already died in the battle of "687", and the DPRK and China do not need to pay pensions or pay any price.
It's a rebel after all.
It would be nice not to have trouble finding the families of these soldiers.
The savings of 200,000 troops for the division and placement of troops is also a considerable amount of expense.
However, before Lao Zhao was happy for a while, Su Yu started to find work for him again.
"Old Zhao, I have to give you some advice on the planting of new crops next year." Su Yu said while stroking the skewers.
Hearing the word "tax", Lao Zhao's eyes lit up.
"What advice, come and listen! 99
"Build a reservoir!
reservoir?
Everyone in the room, the chatter gradually became smaller, all looked at Su Yu.
What is this reservoir?
Without waiting for everyone to ask questions, Su Yu explained: "The Shaopi in the present Chu area is a kind of reservoir."35
Shaopi is a water conservancy project built by Sun Shuao, the Prime Minister of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period.
After remediation in later generations, the water storage can reach more than 70 million cubic meters, and the irrigation area can reach tens of thousands of hectares of farmland.
It can be said to be an out-and-out large reservoir.
Even in modern times, more than two thousand years later, it is still in use.
"Oh~"
Li Si's face suddenly brightened.
Obviously he knew something about Shaopi.
Seeing that everyone was busy, he explained instead of Su Yu: "This peony is like a large pond, which can store water in rainy seasons and use it to irrigate crops in droughts.99
"It's also because of this peony relationship that the people around me have a good harvest every year.
Li Si explained it very thoroughly.
"Old Li, since you already knew about this, why didn't you propose it earlier?" Lao Zhao looked at Li Si with a subtle look in his eyes.
Apparently, he meant to blame Li Si.
After all, in Daqin now, there are so many counties that suffer from drought every year.
Wouldn't the life of the common people be much better if the reservoir had been built earlier?
Li Si was dumbfounded.
Why is he so rude
Isn't this set on fire?
Su Yu laughed dumbly, and hurriedly made a round: "I said Lao Zhao, even if you knew about this reservoir, Daqin didn't have the time to build it."5
The construction of a reservoir is not a big deal.
But it's not too small.
Especially a large reservoir, although not much financial resources are required.
But it is a very labor-intensive project.
This is obviously too much for Da Qin, who has a large number of projects.
Lao Zhao nodded thoughtfully.
"That's true.
Immediately, he looked up at Su Yu: "But then again, Daqin doesn't have the spare energy to build this reservoir now."
The crowd joined in.
Although the national treasury is full, there is a surplus of money.
But today's corvés are either paving roads or building the Great Wall.
The imperial mausoleum has been suspended for almost half a year.
Afang has also just resumed work in recent days.
There is no spare manpower at all to build water conservancy within the entire Daqin area.
Su Yu said indifferently: "It's not going to use the hard work that is currently busy....
"It is now after the busy farming season and before winter.
"The people during this period have been free, as long as we pay for them."
Lao Zhao wiped his face.
good guy.
Listening to Su Yu's words, it seems that the money from the national treasury will be spent again before it is warmed up.
Su Yu continued: "I just made a rough calculation that if each reservoir employs thousands of people to excavate, it will be completed in about two months.
"In the whole of Daqin, if five or six reservoirs are built, it will almost be able to alleviate the arid areas.
"Each hired worker costs three dollars a day, and only needs less than five million dollars."
"The construction of today's reservoirs doesn't need to be too elaborate, as long as it can play the most basic role, it can't be improved in the later stage."
Lao Zhao chewed the mutton in his mouth and murmured, "Five million is not a big expense. 99
You must know that the bullets in the pistol clips around the waist are worth more than three million dollars.
"Trust me, you'll never regret spending the five million dollars." Su Yu said leisurely.
Lao Zhao nodded, believing that he had made a plan in his heart.
Immediately, he looked at Su Yu and asked, "If this 5.0 reservoir is only for water storage, I'm afraid you wouldn't pay so much attention to it, Su Yu?"5
"That's natural." Su Yu took a sip of wine and then said, "The benefits of this reservoir are more than that.
"tell me the story.
"After the reservoir is built, it can prevent and manage locust plagues." Su Yu smiled mysteriously.
Manage locust plagues?
Everyone looked at each other.
This reservoir has nothing to do with the plague of locusts and locusts.
How to govern?
Looking at the dazed crowd, Su Yu couldn't help but sigh.
In today's Daqin, people can say that apart from farming and fighting, they don't know anything else.
You really have a long way to go.