My brother is wicked in the five elements

Chapter 135 Potato Siphon
After learning the truth of the matter, the eldest princess was so angry that she took the case and directly led troops into the governor's mansion, tied up Wang Bingzhong and his cronies, put them in prison, and asked to be executed at a certain date.

After the blood shadow formation was broken, countless victims returned to Youzhou City and began looting food.

The city has become a mess.

There was no way, the eldest princess ordered to open a warehouse to release food immediately, set up a shed to give out porridge, and relieve the victims.

But the storage in Youzhou City is not rich, and it is expected to bottom out in half a month.
"My lord Xu, I sent a request letter to Chang'an a few days ago, asking my father to distribute the relief funds." In the main hall, Li Shishi was sitting upright, and said to Xu Tianming with a sad face, "But the money in my hand now , only 3 taels."

3 taels were exchanged for food, which was not enough for these victims to eat for a day.

Xu Tianming nodded slightly, but did not speak.

He knew that there must be officials embezzling disaster relief funds.

Otherwise, with the handwriting of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, it would certainly not be possible to just distribute 3 taels of disaster relief funds.

This amount may have originally been 300 million taels, or 3000 million taels.But starting from Chang'an, the officials began to withhold the disaster relief funds layer by layer, exploiting them all the way down, and when it was in the hands of the eldest princess, there was only so much left.
If the prestige of the original eldest princess is used, these people must not be so courageous, but the current eldest princess has lost the trust of Tang Guangzong, and was exiled to the fief of Youzhou, and lost the rule of fighting for the throne. Become more unscrupulous.

Xu Tianming didn't care about and didn't want to get involved in the corruption of the Tang Dynasty. He just wanted to solve the disaster in Youzhou.

After pondering for a while, Xu Tianming spoke to Li Shishi.

"Your Highness, I have a way to solve the problem of food shortage."

Li Shishi was stunned for a moment, but then he asked with a look of joy behind him.

"Master Xu really has a solution!?"

As soon as Li Shishi took office, he encountered such a difficult problem as famine.In the past few days, she didn't think about eating and drinking, and her face was sad. In order to solve this problem, she called a meeting of talented subordinates to discuss it, but in the end she still couldn't do anything.
There is no way. Food shortage is the most difficult problem to solve. If this is not solved, the mouths of the victims will be like a bottomless pit that cannot be filled.

Li Shishi thought of the scene of floating corpses and complaints in Youzhou City not long after, so he couldn't help but feel sad. He hid in the quilt at night and cried, hating his own incompetence
Li Shishi was overjoyed when he heard that Xu Tianming had a solution to the food problem.

Based on what she knew about Xu Tianming, Xu Tianming didn't like to talk big.

"Of course there is a way." Seeing the excited princess, Xu Tianming nodded, and then said, "The famine in our Youzhou City is due to the drought and lack of rain. There is no harvest, and people are starving. To solve this problem, the best way is to improve the water conservancy projects in the grain fields."

"Water conservancy project?" Li Shishi was stunned for a moment, then he understood.

What Xu Tianming meant was to divert the living water from other places to the grain fields.

In fact, Datang has had the habit of building water conservancy since ancient times, digging the Grand Canal and building reservoirs.

It's just that Youzhou City is really remote, so you can't enjoy these benefits, because the Grand Canal has completely dried up long before it flows through Youzhou, and the riverbed has bottomed out.

"But, Mr. Xu, is it too late to bring water from the south now?" Li Shishi asked worriedly.

"Why import from the south?" Xu Tianming scratched his head and asked with a confused expression, "Isn't there a ready-made one here?"

"Master Xu means Yangxin Lake?" Li Shishi suddenly realized, but after thinking for a while, he thought of another question, "However, although the water level of Yangxin Lake is deep enough to withstand drought, the grain fields in Youzhou are all in the city. On the Outer West Mountain, the difference in height alone is hundreds of meters, how can the water from this lake be drawn up?"

Master Li is right.

The land in Youzhou is barren, and it is difficult for crops to survive. Only the reclaimed soil on the West Mountain is considered fertile, so everyone grows grain on the West Mountain.

It's not that the common people have tried Xu Tianming's idea of ​​diverting the water from the Yangxin Lake to the West Mountain for irrigation, but they all ended in failure.

After all, how can water flow from a low place to a high place?

"Your Highness, don't worry, I have already thought of a solution to this problem." Xu Tianming said calmly, "Just wait for my good news."

Although Li Shishi still had doubts in his heart, he still chose to trust Xu Tianming.

Because Xu Tianming is a magical man, he always has a way to solve those seemingly impossible crises.

"Then, I will just wait for the good news."

Time is tight.

Xu Tianming hurriedly brought Mu Jianyin and two junior sisters to Xishan to start planting.

Xishan is not a mountain, but a small mountain range.

It can be seen that there are tens of thousands of acres of farmland here, but all of them have been abandoned due to drought.

"Hey, senior brother, what are you holding in your hand?" Yang Liuhua suddenly noticed that Xu Tianming had pulled out a yellow pimple the size of a palm.

Hearing what Yang Liuhua said, Li Yan and Mu Jianyin also came up to have a look, but they couldn't see what it was.

Xu Tianming played with the yellow bump for a while, then said with a smile.

"Oh, this thing, Liuhua, haven't you eaten it before?"

"Ah, have I eaten it?" Yang Liuhua scratched her head and recalled it carefully, but she still couldn't remember when she had eaten such an ugly food.

"I can't remember~" Yang Liuhua spread his hands helplessly.

'As for your memory, if you can remember it, there will be ghosts. '

Xu Tianming complained in his heart, and then explained to everyone.

"This is a kind of crop. Its scientific name is potato, or potato. When I was at Benmo Peak, I made French fries, mashed potatoes, hot and sour potato shreds, and golden beef brisket for my younger sisters. This did."

Hearing what Xu Tianming said, Yang Liuhua looked at the yellow pimple, sparkling stars appeared in his big bright eyes, almost drooling.

"Oh - I remembered, this thing is delicious!"

Yang Liuhua can clearly recall French fries, which are fragrant and crispy, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside; mashed potatoes are sweet and silky, delicate and soft; An extremely refreshing meal.
Unexpectedly, these delicious delicacies are actually made of such a rhubarb lump.

'It's really unbelievable! 'Yang Liuhua was taught a lesson.

"Fellow Daoist Xu, you want to plant all the farmland here with something called potatoes, right?" Mu Jianyin could almost guess what Xu Tianming was thinking.

"That's right. I've improved this kind of potato. In addition to better taste, the ripening period is shorter and the yield per mu is quite good." Xu Tianming nodded and said.

When he was a chef in Qingyue Peak, Xu Tianming also had a certain amount of research on food.

With his current high-quality potato variety, it will mature in about half a month, and the yield per mu is estimated to be around three to four thousand catties.

Afterwards, Xu Tianming went to the farmland to demonstrate the operation of growing potatoes.

In fact, it is very simple. It is nothing more than digging a hole, burying some soil, and counting one, two, three, four, five.
"I will leave the matter of these potatoes to you. Be careful not to plant them too deep, too shallow, or too dense, otherwise the harvest will be affected."

As Xu Tianming said, he took out countless potatoes from the Qiankun ring, piled up as high as a small hill.

In order to allow the victims to eat food as soon as possible, Mu Jianyin and the two junior sisters promised Xu Tianming to complete the task within one day.

Then, they began to work hard to sow seeds.

Xu Tianming had to find a way to divert the lake water to the farmland.

Otherwise, no matter how drought-resistant potatoes are, they will not be able to withstand such a water-scarce environment.
So he came to a bamboo forest, cut down all the bamboos here, and then used his thoughts to cut these bamboos into the shape he wanted, and spliced ​​them tightly together.In this way, a water channel with a diameter of two meters and a width is ready.

Of course, it is impossible to transport water from a low place to a high place by pipes alone.

Still have to rely on formation.

Xu Tianming set up a siphon formation inside the pipe.

The so-called siphon array method actually uses the principle of siphon to reduce the internal pressure of the pipeline, and uses the difference between the internal pressure of the pipeline and the atmospheric pressure to "send" the lake water to Xishan.

The phenomenon of siphon is very common in daily life. For example, when Xu Tianming drank drinks with a straw, he actually used the principle of siphon.

Afterwards, Xu Tianming inserted the tens of thousands of meters long pipeline into Yangxin Lake at one end, and lifted the other end up to the West Mountain.

In this way, a simple water pump is ready.

Xu Tianming activated the formation, and in less than ten breaths, he heard the sound of water flowing in the pipe, and then clear water sprayed out from the pipe, and sprayed towards the high sky of the Western Mountain, forming a swaying rain and fog .

After the dry and cracked fields were moistened by the lake water, the cracks began to close gradually
"Wow, senior brother, what kind of magic is this?" Yang Liuhua, with her trouser legs rolled up and her legs muddy, ran over and looked at the pipe that was constantly flowing out of water, and exclaimed, "How did you transport the water to the mountain? ?”

Li Yan and Mu Jianyin also came over and expressed their curiosity about this novel object.

Xu Tianming gave them a brief introduction to the working principle of the water pump.

"Oh my god, senior brother, you are really knowledgeable and smart!" Li Yan was completely impressed by Xu Tianming's amazing talent and knowledge, and she couldn't help but praise Xu Tianming loudly.

"Yes, yes, senior brother, you are amazing!" Yang Liuhua also shouted loudly.

Although Yang Liuhua didn't understand what a siphon was, she knew that at this time, she just had to call her brother awesome.

"Oh, Fellow Daoist Xu is so handsome when he is serious, I like it so much" Mu Jianyin was also pretended by Xu Tianming, she looked at Xu Tianming with a hint of fascination, her pretty face was slightly flushed.

Xu Tianming looked at the three excited women expressionlessly.

'It's just a little physics knowledge, why are you so excited? '

After that, Xu Tianming ordered them to continue planting potatoes, and went to do some regional water-saving irrigation by himself.
Three days later.

The eldest princess came to Xishan for inspection.

After Li Shishi learned that Xu Tianming built a water pump to draw the lake water to the west mountain, his admiration for Xu Tianming has reached an incomparable level.

Looking at the emerald green seedlings growing in the world, Li Shishi seemed to see the hope of eliminating the disaster.

Xu Tianming said that he has done everything he can.

Next, all that's left is to wait.

soon.

Half a month has passed.

The granary in Youzhou has completely bottomed out.

The victims had nothing to eat and began to cry for their father and mother again.

"I'm so hungry, I don't want to die yet!"

"The Bodhisattva is manifesting, the Bodhisattva is manifesting, I beg the Bodhisattva to reward us with some food, please take pity on my good girl." An old father hugged his scrawny, dying daughter, and kowtowed to God non-stop.

"It's over, it's over, there's nothing to eat, we're dead." Some pessimists have already prepared ropes, and simply want to hang them on the trees to finish it off.

At this moment, the victims suddenly heard a clear voice from the sky.

"Come with me, I'll take you to eat."

They looked up and saw a young man, floating in mid-air, talking to them.

Upon hearing that there was food available, all the victims stared blankly.

But there were still vigilant people who shouted to everyone: "He is a practitioner, he must be trying to harm us!"

After being reminded like this, everyone remembered what happened when they were trapped in the formation and couldn't get out.

Immediately, they looked at Xu Tianming with distrust.

Xu Tianming glanced across the group of emaciated and emaciated victims, and gave a wry smile helplessly.

"Then you choose, either follow me, or starve to death here."

After all, Xu Tianming flew out of the city without looking back.

The victims looked at each other in blank dismay, hesitating whether to follow.

Finally, a bold person stood up first.

"His grandma's is dead anyway, why don't you go and have a look!"

After saying this, the man followed Xu Tianming and walked out of the city.

Others thought about it, and it seemed to be the same.

Anyway, I'm almost starving to death, so I don't care what to do so much, let's go and have a look, what if there is really something to eat?
Then, all the victims followed behind Xu Tianming in unison.

They left the city in a mighty way and headed towards the west mountain.

But when they got to the place, the victims all showed disappointment.

Because at a glance, those grain fields were all planted with delicate vegetable seedlings.

"It's not enough to eat at all."

"Yeah, these vegetable seedlings are not enough to fit between the teeth."

"Hey, something is better than nothing."

Although these vegetable seedlings looked very delicate, the victims were already so hungry that they rushed into the farmland and began to pull the vegetable seedlings to eat.

When the vegetable seedling was uprooted by it, the victims were surprised to find that there were about a dozen fist-sized rhubarb bumps on the root of the vegetable seedling.

"What is this?" Someone asked in confusion.

It is understandable that the people of the Tang Dynasty did not know potatoes, because this thing is actually a crop that grows in Jie Yuan, where there is more sandy soil, the growth of this thing is better.However, the people of the Devil's Cult don't like potatoes very much, they prefer the seasoning used to make beef offal.

The rhubarb pimple was bitten down, and the eyes of the victims were golden.

"Eat!"

(End of this chapter)