Getting Simulated By The Empress Is Not My Intention

  Chapter 19 Sinking Wells

   Zhang Beichen is also aware of the situation in Baiyang County. These days, he checked the information of the county, and he knew that Baiyang County was a barren land before.

  The original population is not large, relying on Longyan Spring, the people can still live. However, as the Qin State lost more and more land, and the number of refugees increased, the number of people who migrated here also increased, and the Longyan Spring was not enough for them to fetch water.

  Zhang Beichen conducted a small survey of the geographical environment here. According to previous data, Baiyang County also had an aboveground river hundreds of years ago, but it dried up later.

  But Zhang Beichen deduced from various sources that there should be enough groundwater in Baiyang County. But the geological structure here is special, the ground is mostly rocky, it is difficult to drill wells, and the depth is not enough to find groundwater.

  As a science student with some experience in simulation, Zhang Beichen already had an idea in mind.

  He said to the crowd: "Since this county is the county magistrate of Baiyang County, these problems will naturally be resolved by this county. But if you break the law, you must also deal with it according to the law."

Hearing his words, Yu Yong said: "Deal with it? Can you handle it? Mr. Zhang, if you can solve the problem of drinking water for the people in Baiyang County, let us not have to watch the sky for food and fight each other with our lives every year. I, Yu Yong, don't need to be executed. , I will do it myself and rectify myself!"

   "Yes!" The other felons also said together, "If you can let everyone use the water, what if we are punished? At least our future generations will not have to kill others for a bucket of water like us!"

   "Okay!" Zhang Beichen looked at everyone and said, "Today, the county will convince you all!"

   "Ada, bring the tools from the county government over here and dig wells for water!"

   "Yes!" Ada and others went back to the county office to move things.

  Bai Liangpu and the others were laughing secretly.

   "This kid is really an idiot." Bai Liangju laughed, "If it's so easy to dig a well in this land, will they still fight for water?"

"He has nowhere to go!" Bai Liangpu looked proud, "He neither dares to kill people to rectify the law, nor let others break the law, so he can only take a gamble. Unfortunately, even if he digs here for three days and three nights, he still can't dig out water. Come!"

   "My lord, do we really need to dig wells to get water?" Liu Wen expressed some hesitation. From his experience, such things are futile.

   "Of course!" Zhang Beichen ordered, "Master Liu, take me to find the ancient river channel in Baiyang County."

   "This... okay." Liu Wen had no choice but to lead him to lead the way.

  The prisoners and the common people all followed him to see what tricks Zhang Beichen could make.

   Not long after, Ah Da and others brought the tools.

  Bai Liangju looked over and saw the guards dragging a cart, on which there were hollow bamboo tubes of similar caliber, with iron cones, shovels and some metal parts on them.

   "I thought the county magistrate had some means to dig a well with just these things?" Bai Liangju laughed, "What is the bamboo tube used for? Is it used as firewood?"

  Everyone is also puzzled.

  Zhang Beichen is still choosing a site, and he specially invited a few old people who are good at digging wells to help them look at the site.

   A group of people came to an ancient river channel, which has been dry for more than a hundred years, and the original river channel has long been turned into a wasteland.

  An old man said: "My lord, I heard from my grandfather that there used to be a river here. The terrain here is low-lying, suitable for drilling wells."

Liu Wen quickly reminded Zhang Beichen: "My lord, the county once sent people to dig a well here. It took several months to dig a full 200 feet, but no water came out! There are too many gravels below, and the deeper you dig, the harder it is to dig. Look, there is the pit for digging a well!"

  One foot in Qin is about 23 centimeters, two hundred feet is about 46 meters!

  Zhang Beichen went over to take a look, and there was indeed a big hole. At the bottom of the pit, gravel and dirt are mixed together.

   Seeing this appearance, Ah Da and the others were also in a dilemma, and said to Zhang Beichen: "My lord, this place is not suitable for drilling wells. They have dug so deep and there is no water. It is probably a waste of time to dig again."

   "I'll go down and have a look." Zhang Beichen asked someone to let himself down with a rope. He touched the cave wall and found that the cave wall was indeed wetter than the top.

  He went up again and walked a few miles around.

  Everyone was waiting for him, Yang Shan asked impatiently: "Zhang Beichen, can you do it? If not, just let him go, don't waste everyone's time here!"

  Zhang Beichen glanced at him, but did not reply. He observed the surrounding environment, and at this moment he already knew that there was water in the ground!

  Because when he went down to the abandoned well, he noticed that the underground temperature was lower and the cave wall was wetter than the ground. The surrounding trees and vegetation are obviously denser than other places.

  Some plants have well-developed root systems, and they can absorb water at a deeper level, which means that there is water in the ground.

  As for why it was not drilled, there is only one reason, and that is that the drilling technology here is not developed enough, so the depth of the well cannot be drilled to a depth of 50 meters.

  In his previous time and space, even when drilling wells in rural areas, they often drilled two to three hundred meters deep. In this era, it is very difficult to dig hundreds of meters deep by relying on manpower!

   "Get ready to dig a well! Just continue digging along this abandoned well!" Zhang Beichen ordered.

   "Yes!" The guards were all ready, but Zhang Beichen said to Che Yang: "General, please ask your soldiers to help. They have deep cultivation and faster speed!"

   "No problem!" Che Yang asked his soldiers to help dig wells. Their strength and endurance were stronger than those of the guards.

  The soldiers took turns to fight, and soon the depth of the well was increased by tens of meters.

   An hour passed, and the people at the scene were impatient. There was still no water coming out from the bottom, and the soldiers had been consuming their spiritual power, and they couldn't take it anymore.

   "Master Zhang, according to your method, there may not be water for another month of digging. Do you want us to wait here for a month?" Bai Liangpu asked.

   "What are you in a hurry for?" Zhang Beichen took a look at the depth and found that it was almost enough, so he ordered people to put down the prepared things, and at the same time install something like a large wheel with a metal cone head tied with an iron cable.

   "What is this?" Everyone had never seen this thing before, and looked puzzled.

   "You step on this wheel and dig the ground with iron cones!" Zhang Beichen ordered.

  Everyone logically said that the iron cone hit the ground, and a hole the size of a bowl was made in the bottom of the cave, which could easily go through even rocks!

   Liu Wen was surprised: "This is much more labor-saving than manpower!"

  The hard rock was crushed lightly!

  They didn't understand that this was actually a lever linkage device in disguise. After connecting the iron cone, the soldiers pedaled to turn the wheel, driving the iron cone to form a human impact drill!

   This is not Zhang Beichen’s original creation, but a deep well digging technique created by people in his original time and space more than a thousand years later.

  Dig wells in the Seven Kingdoms are all shallow wells, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Think about it, if you have to dig 200 meters, that's about 870 feet!

  If this is dug by manpower, how long will it take? Even a martial artist with cultivation base would be exhausted to death!

  In addition, digging shallow wells requires a larger area, giving people room to stand, dig and move mud and rocks.

   While digging a deep well, it is enough to dig a hole the size of a bowl.

"My lord, are you digging a well? Just such a small hole? How deep can you dig? And how do you get out the mud and rocks inside? Even if the water is dug out, how will the water come up? Are you playing me?" Yu Yu Yong and the others couldn't understand and questioned.

   "In two hours, the water will surely come out!" Zhang Beichen said firmly.

   These problems, he naturally has a solution. After digging to a certain depth, a bamboo tube is put into the bamboo tube, and a one-way valve is placed on the bamboo tube, which can use the air pressure to pump out the mud and rocks inside, and then put the drill bit in, go in and drill, and cycle like this until the water comes out.

   This is the deep well drilling technology. In the agricultural era, this technology can dig hundreds of meters deep wells, known as the first version of oil drilling technology.

  (end of this chapter)