"Dig, dig this place out! Then..."
"Put your soil in here...use your strength to compact it!"
Compared with others who piled up earth and rocks at once, Chonghua used a different method here. He first dug about three fists deep, and then dumped the earth, sand and gravel. Chonghua took the stone hammer and hammered it hard. Hit those rocks.
Chonghua asked everyone to move, excavate to a depth of three fists, and then ram the earth and rocks into it. Chonghua even added huge logs to cross or overlap in an attempt to increase the solidity of these earthen walls. .
"I heard that in the big cities in Yue Di, this kind of wood will be added as the foundation of the city. It is called Zhenmu."
So, after several days of work, a small piece of earth foundation was built.
However, after the initial wind and rain stopped for three days, after ten days passed, the heaven and earth were covered again.
The patter of rain fell on the land of Shangqiu again.
As for Chonghua's earthen wall, it wasn't even built high. After more than ten days of tenacious construction, it was just a waist-high, short and thick wall. Other administrators built the wall. The barriers are high, and a large amount of soil is used to make walls. In huge molds, grass roots and sand are mixed together, shaped into fixed blocks, and then built with mud, water or lime. This is a raw earth building and an adobe wall. .
There were other administrators around who saw this scene and were confused. Some even shouted directly: "Yao! You have spent so many people, but you are fighting against a small earth wall!"
The people under Chonghua's rule were also a little confused, but Chonghua said firmly: "The rammed walls built using this method are much stronger than their piles of earth and rocks. The earth is the root of the water-proof wall. Just like a big tree! If the roots are not strong, then what use are these walls!"
"Believe me, although the message from the Kongsang clan is urgent, the water in the river has not yet surged. If we build these barriers and hammer them down, they can save our lives in the end!"
Chonghua tried his best to persuade everyone, but other administrators did not agree with this method. Some of them even laughed at the fact that with this hard work, more water-proof walls and embankments could have been built.
But Chonghua insisted on doing this. This was a method mentioned by the old man from the south who once gave him the design of the plow in a chat about the Shouqiu business.
But Chonghua doesn't know about this rammed earth. Apart from ramming and wood and bone wall reinforcements, he also doesn't know what specific materials are needed to make strong rammed earth, and how to deal with these materials...
The old man only said that there seemed to be shell ash, but there was no place to look for these materials now.
Therefore, Chonghua could only operate according to his existing conditions. Everything depended on groping. He kept groping according to the general outline mentioned by the old man. When someone really didn't understand and asked him, Chonghua also Just give a firm reply.
"I believe this is useful. This has been confirmed by a person in the South..."
"This must be his method too..."
The person who asked the question did not hear the next sentence of Chonghua, but the previous sentence did not give everyone enough confidence, so Chonghua said:
"How can a person stand firm without his feet?"
This sentence really enlightened everyone. Among the areas that many governors were responsible for, the area in Chonghua was the slowest in progress, but the governor who asked people from Chonghua in the beginning was the fastest.
The carts made a sound on the land of Shangqiu. People were coming and going, and it was busy. The rain made the roads become muddy. The more it rained, the more gloomy people felt.
"Zong Yue, will this child's method work?"
Zhaoming is also very worried. He is very optimistic about this child, but if there are any big problems due to too many ideas on the issue of flood control, then no matter how good Chonghua is, he will no longer be elected as a manager.
"It'll be useful."
Fang Qi believed more firmly than Qi Chonghua that this was useful, because Uncle Xi would not lie to him.
Moreover, in the south last year, a lot of news brought back by Yan Long and others have already shown this. There is a tribe in the south that is good at controlling floods. This rammed earth method is one of their techniques.
"But it shouldn't be rammed like this. But now, we don't know what materials are needed for the real rammed earth method, but it must not be as simple as soil and sand..."
Fang Qi regretted it now. When Uncle Xi bragged to him, he didn't listen carefully and didn't take it seriously. It wasn't until Yan Long and the others came back that Fang Qi realized that maybe he had thought wrong sometimes.
The rain started to get heavier.
"Dahe, give me some more time!"
Fang Qi stood in the crowd, the sky and the earth were vast, the haze of the flood once again enveloped the Central Plains, where will the Huanglong's anger tear it apart this time?
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In the upper reaches of the river, turbulent water poured down from the bend. The sound was as shocking as an earthquake. The rain became heavier and heavier. It was obviously winter but the climate seemed warm, as if we were back in the mid-autumn season. The rain became denser and heavier. Among the migrating tribe, the young children raised their heads and stared at the dim sky.
Gun had sent people with Chong clan to where they should go and waited in those Rencheng cities. Once a gap in the dike was breached, he would immediately go to block it with Xi soil and ask for it from Di Hong clan. Gun found Xirang using clues from the legends of ancient heavenly emperors.
This is the five-color soil passed down from the emperor's time, symbolizing the five directions of mountains and seas. This soil can merge with any earth and stone in the mountains and seas, and then it will grow spontaneously like grains.
"The sky is close to the earth."
Wen Ming looked at the dull sky. The mountains were hidden behind the water waves, and the clouds began to shake. This situation was a sign that the power of the water was increasing, and it was about to become deified and turn into "obscene".
This itself is a disaster belonging to heaven and earth. Just like during an earthquake, the dust on the earth will rush to surge, the mountains will wail and cry, and the rivers will slow down. When a volcano erupts, the air of heaven and earth will be disturbed. As for typhoons The tide of the sea... the Houtian clan swept across the entire Southern Wilderness, and at least tens of thousands of people died in the river and sea. This is enough to show the terrifying nature of these ancient "gods"!
Hundreds of rivers shook the mountains and valleys.
Alas, the four mountains are full of water and floods, and the mountains and mausoleums are vast. The people are worried. Is there anyone who can rule them?
All the ministers said Gun Ke!
Wen Ming remembered what his father often said in a low voice. When Emperor Fangxun asked who could control the flood, all the ministers recommended Gun. Only Gonggong expressed opposition. In the end, Gun When I came back from the south, Wen Ming was still very young at that time.
Yes, what my father said, the years he spent looking at the river were much longer than the river!
"Perhaps Brother Zai's method is not needed. My father has also seen the anger of the river, and has also seen the hydrology and wind and rain in the south. The river and the river are different..."
Wen Ming looked at the raging and arrogant water. The overwhelming smell of water vapor and dust could almost be tasted on his tongue. It was the bitterness of the beings who lived in this mountain and sea a long time ago!
But these arrogant currents are still flowing smoothly towards the East China Sea along the dam created by Gun!
"It can work!"
People with the Chong clan thought it was okay. People with the Xuan clan, people with the Fang Hu clan, and the flood control tribes looked at the river excitedly and excitedly. The angry river could not break through the defense lines on both sides. It could only dump its energy into the East China Sea. The anger!
So, go and pour it out, there is boundless ocean that you can stir up as much as you want!
However, at this time, there was a huge tremor in the upper reaches of the river. A handsome young man appeared in the middle of the water. He came on the turbid waves, escorted by two white dragons, and then arrived in the middle of the river.
"There is the Chong family! The river has collapsed and cannot be stopped! The water has passed under the Yangyang Mountain and emerged from the cliff in the abyss of Congji in the west sky. If you are not leaving now, what are you doing!"
The young man appeared and shouted loudly. Chong Bogun was shocked when he saw it!
The young man calls him Bing Yi!
But just when he was about to respond, someone suddenly came to report in a hurry, but his voice was trembling!
"Uncle Chong! The embankment, the embankment collapsed!"
After Chong Bogun was stunned for a moment, he shouted angrily: "This is impossible!"
"The construction of the levee took a full nine years! In the past nine years, it has been unfavorable to divert the water flow!"
Chongbo was about to rush there, but the young man was standing on the water. The white dragon was flying in the air and rolled up in the wind and rain. The young man held the dragon's head with one hand, leaned over and said:
"You will realize later that nine years of floods have not damaged the embankment at all, but this time, it is the wrath of the Western Heaven, and it is the roar of the heaven and the earth!"
"The heavy snow on the high mountains melted into rivers, so the "Quanhou" could not stop it and came to me for help. I entered the Congji Abyss and saw that the water in the abyss had swollen. It was three hundred feet deep and had reached four hundred. The flat land Rivers rise, and mountains hang into isolated islands..."
"The Western Tianshan Mountains were shaken, and thousands of rivers were rising. The floods were about to melt. Although the embankments are strong, how can they be compared with the 'prostitution' that holds the energy of heaven and earth!"
"This is the 'power' of heaven and earth!"
About ten miles away from the upstream of Chongbo Gun, the water of the river collapsed the bottom of the embankment. The water suddenly increased in speed, and the instantly raised water flow was like a passing dragon's claw. The powerful potential energy suddenly dug up the foundation of the river embankment. A large piece fell off, and a huge gap was opened. The strong pressure completely shook the gap into yellow dust!
Countless carts carried earth and rocks and gathered them at the gap, but the speed of the water erosion was much higher than the strength of human feet!
At that moment, the ground shook, and the gap above completely collapsed!
The water burst open the dike and poured unstoppably into the south bank of the river!
