The three of them had never heard of cement, but the two words were easy to understand separately, so they didn't continue to ask.

Seeing Longxiong squatting on the ground and pondering, the corner of his mouth raised revealed his mood. He must have thought of something happy.

It was rare to see Long Xiang so happy that everyone squatted beside him and waited silently.

Tang Feng was born tall and heavy, and his legs became numb after squatting for a long time.

Just as Tang Xu adjusted his squat posture, Long Xiang woke up from his fantasy of using cement infrastructure.

"Don't squat down. Come and find me together today. Is there anything wrong?"

The three of them looked at each other a few times, and finally gave the opportunity to the older Tang Dynasty.

"Yunqi, in the past two months, there have been many new people coming to Hefei. My city defense is under a lot of pressure, after all, there are only more than 300 soldiers.

The brothers have many tasks. In addition to guarding the two gates of the north and south, guarding the granary, patrolling the city, etc., they also have to watch the new people not run around..."

After Tang Xu finished complaining, Feng Zhong did not respond immediately, so Cao Xing continued to add:

"With the last, I was very capable, and was originally responsible for cavalry sentry detection and household statistics. I was barely competent, but with the continuous joining of newcomers, it became more difficult to count the household statistics, and I may not be able to do it..."

Long Xiang understood in a moment, thinking that although the two of them spoke tactfully, their core was under great pressure from work, and he looked at Feng Zhong who had not spoken.

"What are the difficulties of Uncle Zhong?"

Feng Zhong frowned and said, "Yunqi asked Uncle Zhong to manage people's livelihood, but it was not a big problem, but it continued to contain refugees, and the consumption of food stored increased significantly.

The seedlings outside the city are still not growing taller now, so there are still natural disasters this year. I am not sure how much harvest is. I am worried that if I take in without restraint, I will not be able to make ends meet."

"Haha, Uncle Zhong, don't worry, how many people are in the city now? It's less than 5,000, right? We can save enough food to eat 3,000 people for ten years, and the same is enough to eat 30,000 people for a year. If the 500 hectares of fields in the south of the city is a bumper harvest, then If you can harvest more than 100,000 hu of grain, what are you afraid of?" Long Xiang waved his hand and didn't care.

Feng Zhong said earnestly: "Don't just think about a bumper harvest. If the drought is as severe as last year, the busy season may not be enough for a bumper year. Lao Tang and Cao Zhuan were also worried. Even if we don't worry about food for the time being, let's join forces. There are only more than 300 people available, and there are always times when you can't get busy..."

Longxiang has rich management experience and is not annoyed after hearing everyone's complaints. He immediately called the three of them to sit down on the stone platform in the garden, and smiled and explained:

"I know your problem. It's nothing more than the continuous influx of refugees. I'm afraid that we have enough food to eat, and that there are too many people to cause trouble to manage, so I broke it apart one by one."

"Sima, there are limited staff, and everyone is almost overwhelmed..."

Seeing that Long Xiang didn't mention this, Cao Xing hurriedly spoke and added.

"There is not enough staff, even the third problem."

Long Xiang nodded slightly, then cleared his throat and began to narrate:

"First of all, it's the problem of food. I've just calculated the accounts with you. The city has enough food reserves in the city to eat for a year. There have been more than a thousand people in the past two months. If the increase is at this rate every month, it will not exceed ten thousand people by the end of the year. , so even if the particles are not harvested, Hefei can last for two to three years."

While Long Xiang was pausing, Feng Zhong turned his head and continued to remind: "Two or three years are actually very fast. Farming, building cities, and recruiting soldiers are needed. I don't object to the storage of refugees. You must do what you can and have a plan, right? How many people are you planning to accept?"

Long Xiang shook his head gently: "I haven't thought about how many people have thought about it, but Hefei City is already big enough, and there are countless arable land around it. I estimate that it's okay to support 50,000 or 60,000 people."

"How can you be that simple? Have you forgotten Uncle Zhong's previous reminder?

It is okay for us to plant food, the key is drought, flood, and war.

You can't guarantee that it won't last for several years. How did Hefei in the past disappear?..."

Feng Zhong rubbed his temples and felt a headache when he thought of these things.

After hearing this, Long Xiang still had a calm expression. He continued to explain: "Hefei is adjacent to water application and guarding the big rivers. Will you be afraid of drought? As long as you do a good job of water diversion and irrigation, the damage will not be too serious.

As for Uncle Zhong’s concern that heavy rain will come from the sky, the downstream Chaohu Lake and Shishui will not be able to bear precipitation, and the flood will flood the fields on both sides of the strait. In fact, I have already thought of a solution to this problem."

Feng Zhong was surprised and happy and said, "Floods occur frequently around Chaohu Lake. Once there is continuous heavy rain, many places will become water countries. If there is a method to control water, it will undoubtedly benefit all people."

"Clouds rise, talk quickly." Tang Xu couldn't wait to start urging.

Long Xiang said seriously: "Rain is inevitable. The reason why it accumulates and causes trouble is mainly because the water has no place to go and cannot run eastward. Since ancient times, it is better to drain water than to control blockage.

The water flowing outside Hefei City originates from the watershed 50 miles northwest (now the Jiangjunling). The watershed comes out of the watershed in the southeast, and the watershed comes out of the watershed in the southwest, one into the river and the other into the Huai River.

If the two rivers are dug and connected, Hefei will be rainy, and the water will overflow to Huai, Shouchun will be rainy, and the water will overflow to Huai, and the water will overflow to Huai, and there will be no worries in both drought and flood."

Tang Xu suddenly spoke and asked a question without emotional intelligence.

"What if it rains heavily on both sides?"

"If the land of Huainan is flooded, it will not be a problem for Hefei. If you want to minimize waterlogging, you must dredge the river every year to ensure that the river has sufficient water capacity, otherwise it will be in vain no matter how much drainage is."

Tang Xu suddenly realized, "No wonder you asked me to clean the dredging last year. It's a pity that there were too few people at that time and they didn't clean up much. This winter, there is no need to reclaim the land, and then organize the people to clean up together."

"That's the reason. There are few people and nothing to do." Long Xiang nodded solemnly.

Feng Zhong asked again: "When water is connected and clean water is really good, just digging river canals is not a trivial matter. How many people and how much time is needed to do it?"

Longxiong said calmly: "I went to see the terrain last month. The terrain in the southern part of the Dividing Mountains is flat, and the closest distance between the water supply and the purifying water is actually only about fifteen miles.

We dig from the middle to both sides, and I believe that we can’t spend much manpower and material resources, and we don’t need to dig into large canals at once. We can dig deeper and wider from small rivers year by year.”

Feng Zhong couldn't help but get up and cheer, "This plan is a great idea."

"Make bricks and burn kilns, clear silts, and open land and farm. The more people the better. Uncle Zhong, don't be afraid of not having enough food, and don't be afraid of newcomers eating for nothing.

Although these people didn’t catch up with the spring plowing rice, they could plant wheat and millet after harvesting in the summer. As long as we ploughed more, we could still have some harvests even in the deserted years.”

Feng Zhong had been persuaded by Long Xiang, so he kept nodding, "If you plant two seasons a year and have vegetables, fruits and melons in the city, the harvest should be quite considerable, but how do you solve the problem of war?"

Long Xiang pinched his chin and frowned and analyzed to everyone:

"We don't provoke anyone. If we really can't avoid it, we can't beat it, so we evacuate the people to the city to use the food stored.
Chapter completed!