Chapter 303

From the water monkey to becoming a god, starting from the micro-end, Chapter 303, no harvest; torrential rain washed the wooden boards, falling into the gaps between the double boards and flowing into a waterfall.

Red Mountain stepped on the wooden board, lowered its head, entered the boat, and knelt down.

Liang Qu untied the boat rope and pulled up the iron anchor: "Remember to tell Songbao to come to the River-Dredging Office to serve when I return! Let's go!"

"Understood! Water Brother, take care!"

"Have a safe journey!"

The two young men in the fishing fence retracted the long jumping board on the boat and waved at the boat sailing into the rain screen until the boat was only a blurry gray shadow.

The two hugged the jumping board, wiped the water stains on their faces, and looked around.

Waves hit the shore, and fishing boats were stacked and squeezed.

All the tea stalls around were closed.

From morning to noon, no fisherman went out or returned on the Great Marsh.

"The wind and waves on the river are so big; I don't think we'll get any fish today; let's go back, pack up our things, so as not to be flooded if the flood really comes here."

"What are you afraid of? Huazhu County is separated from us by Jiangling County; it won't spread over, and at most, it will submerge the original Chaojiang County; besides, there is a lake, so don't be afraid of flooding! With the Great Marsh, the whole Heishuihe can be poured in without a sound!"

"Makes sense, then you sit, I'll go tell Brother Songbao."

The young man carried the jumping board back to the fishing fence without saying a word, and the other followed.

"Eh, eh, let's go together! Several days of heavy rain, the fields at home are flooded, I have to go back to drain the water."

The two removed the fork poles, closed the doors and windows of the fishing fence, locked the door, put on coir raincoats, and disappeared into the end of the blue stone street in a hurry.

Shangrao Pier was completely deserted.

……

The boat left Yixing Town.

Catfish, crocodile, two finless porpoise kings, and eight finless porpoises broke through the waves and floated to the surface.

Liang Qu stepped on the edge of the boat and threw down four water saddles.

Fat catfish, Can't Move, Round Head, and Scar Head aimed at the sleeve opening, drilled into the saddle.

Fist clamped the rope buckle, helped to tighten it, then tied another rope around his own waist, and the eight-legged double-claw held the stern of the boat firmly.

The four beasts brought the water saddles, exerted force together, pulled the boat to break through the water waves, gradually accelerated, and galloped quickly on the water surface.

Raindrops hit the bow of the boat, turning into scattered water foam.

Eight adult finless porpoises were scattered on both sides of the boat like wings, undulating continuously.

Looking at the entire Pingyang River-Dredging Office, except for Xu Yuelong and Wei Lin, I'm afraid no second official has such underwater power.

Liang Qu sat in the boat and counted the items.

Weapons, compass, silver, official uniform, waist token, water bag, emergency dry food, documents and registers, not one missing.

Then he took out the register, and the task contents were listed one by one, very detailed.

Among them, there are three most critical priorities.

First is to save people and evacuate the common people.

Second is to find out the disaster range and draw a map.

Third is to figure out why the hydrology station did not give an early warning in time and find out the specific reason for this levee break.

There are many kinds of floods: rainstorm floods, snowmelt floods, ice jam floods, engineering accident floods…

The first three are natural disasters, and the latter is man-made.

If it is really found to be an engineering accident, it will undoubtedly cost many people their heads.

Such a major event naturally wouldn't be Liang Qu's one-man show, and Wei Lin's side must have sent people as well.

As a vanguard general with fast legs, Liang Qu is more responsible for collecting clues and presenting them when Xu Yuelong and others arrive.

After clarifying the task content, Liang Qu opened the other two books.

"General Examination of Levee Construction" and "General Examination of Levee Protection."

The spine is not thick, all essence.

The content includes how to build temporary levees, settle disaster victims, rush to rescue, rush to harvest grain, etc.

"Harvest…"

Liang Qu thought of the situation in Huaiyin Prefecture, calculated the time, and sighed silently.

This year is quite good for other counties, but for Huazhu County, it is truly a natural disaster year.

The Ghost Mother Sect caused trouble, died or fled, lost most of the strong labor force, and then welcomed a flood at the end of August and early September…

The planting time of rice in the whole Huaiyin Prefecture is about the same.

The only problem is that double-cropping rice is not popular in Huaiyin Prefecture!

The yield of rice is higher than wheat.

Even if the field is full of wild oats and barnyard grass, the harvest of rice is greater than that of wheat.

But it has a disadvantage: double-cropping rice consumes soil fertility very much!

The Jianghuai area is not south, not north, stuck in the middle, and the soil fertility is not as exaggerated as in the south.

After planting double-cropping rice for a few years, only weeds can grow in the field.

One full meal, every meal full; the local people are not fools, so naturally, most choose rice-wheat rotation.

In this way, in order not to let the land lie idle and waste, the planting period of rice and wheat needs to be moved back by two to three months as a whole compared to planting double-cropping rice!

It doesn't matter usually, but it is very fatal now.

Planting double-cropping rice, early rice is basically harvested in July, and late rice is harvested in October; now it is August, and planting double-cropping rice can still guarantee a round of harvest for emergency, especially after the disaster, it is the key life-saving grain!

Rice-wheat rotation requires summer planting and autumn harvest! From June to November is the growth period of rice; after rice is harvested, wheat or rapeseed is planted to overwinter, and some vegetables are planted in the spring.

Mid-to-late August is just stuck in the middle of the rice planting period.

The first round of crops cannot be harvested no matter what; the rice hasn't even flowered yet.

After the flood ends, planting wheat is not a problem, but no matter what crop, it takes time from planting to harvest!

That's not a few days or half a month; it's not something you can survive by being hungry for a few days; it's four or five months, five or six months!

This whole year, Huazhu County will have no harvest, and it will take until next year to harvest a round of wheat.

The surrounding counties have already supported once during the Ghost Mother Sect incident, and they will definitely not be happy if they come again.

"Not necessarily…"

Liang Qu changed his mind.

Mid-to-late August is the transition stage from the development stage to the booting stage of rice, and it is the period when the above-ground growth is most vigorous and the physiological water demand is greatest.

Being submerged for a short time is not a big problem; those that grow fast and enter the booting stage can last for a day, and those that grow slower and are in the development stage can last longer, for six to seven days.

The booting stage basically cannot be saved, and Liang Qu is now incarnated as Wuzhiqi; he can't even drive away the flood in time, but those that grow slower and are still in the development stage can be saved if they are lucky.

It's just… difficult.

It is difficult for the flood to recede naturally without ten days or half a month.

Liang Qu's thoughts floated, and as a small Water-Dredging Lang, he didn't know how to break the current situation.

He closed the book and communicated with the Ze Tripod.

【Tripod Master: Liang Qu】

【Refining Ze Spirit: Ze Rong】

【Ze Spirit Favor: Martial Path Divine Power Second Layer; Ying Dragon Pattern: One Layer; Tian Wu: One Layer】

【Talent Skills: Water Leap, Water Breathing, Water Prison, Riding Water and Driving Waves, Deterrence, Vortex Aperture】

【Water Ze Essence: 3,465 points】

【River Favorability: 1.0001】

Galloping Horse five-aperture strength, Ze Rong refining degree is nearly 40%, favorability is enough for one point.

The amount of water Liang Qu can control is more than 16,000 tons, which is an improvement compared to the previous 12,000 tons.

However, for the entire Heishuihe, it is still a drop in the bucket.

Liang Qu is not a saint, but seeing a county of people suffering from hunger, he wants to contribute some effort within his ability.

"Wuzhiqi, oh Wuzhiqi, how can you be troubled by a flood?"

Liang Qu closed the book, and with a thought, the remaining 3,400-plus points of Water Ze Essence were all invested in himself.