Chapter 127 River (Updated)

Ji Lin and Wubai naturally had important matters to deal with when they left, and this was why Wubai was waiting for him here today.

An important matter related to territory production.

water source.

Water is the source of life, and the meandering and long Blue River that runs through the floodplain is quite wide. Relying on the large amount of fresh water provided by this river, the territory can support thousands or even ten thousand acres of fertile farmland.

The construction system provided by the system can treat this dozens of meters long river as nothing and directly spread the building on the river. It only requires him to spend additional resources to supplement the missing foundation.

Just like the School of Construction Engineering.

With auxiliary construction, the difficulty of crossing the river is greatly reduced for the lords, and they no longer need to spend a lot of time building bridges.

However, the structural strength still requires caution. For ordinary lords, the system will not specially build a modern and rigorous bridge for you, but will only build a barely usable bridge for you. The load-bearing aspect changes with the width and length of the span.

For those lords who are really unlucky, the system will directly give them advanced bridge blueprint solutions as compensation to alleviate their disadvantages.

This also allowed some lords near various cliffs to expand and develop.

Ji Lin also naturally obtained a bridge to the other side of the river. The stability of the bridge relying on the water is much better than that of the suspended bridge.

With a little trickery, the system will help them generate a foundation and complete the most difficult part of the bridge building project. After laying the foundation, all the citizens need to do is build the bridge with a large amount of wood and then continuously reinforce it.

Because of the distance problem, the focus of floodplain development is on the town center side, which is convenient for transportation and scheduling.

The land on the other side of the river has not yet been cultivated on a large scale. After setting up a large piece of farmland, carrot seeds and ginger pieces that are good for growing are sown.

They can live well without much care. When the staple foods of the territory grow, the carrots and ginger that have been freed will naturally be ready for harvest.

The territory does not have much manpower to take care of these non-staple food crops, so let them grow wildly!

Only a small number of territorial residents are responsible for these carrots and gingers, watering them and weeding them regularly.

With such a production plan, the production rate of carrots and ginger will definitely drop a lot, but the demand for non-staple food in the territory itself is not high...at least not particularly high at this stage.

Water and land are used in exchange for moderately high output.

This kind of waste of land and water can only be used by people like Ji Lin who live along the river and have abundant water.

In addition to planting non-staple food crops on the other side of the river, the main task of the current territorial residents across the river is to collect and harvest some wild rice and other edible wild plants to supplement the territory's food supply.

Or collect some tougher herbs as raw materials for making straw hats.

Strolling along the river, there has been a road made of folded grass that has been trampled by feet. In March or February, this road may be officially trampled into a yellow dirt road by the local residents.

"You mean, the water level in this river is constantly dropping?"

Wu Bai nodded and stopped.

They finally arrived, and a wooden bridge across the river appeared in front of them, with a stone square base as its base. This is the base of each watchtower. After the watchtowers were built, they were dismantled and only the bases were retained to build bridges.

On one side of the bridge across the river, a long wooden pillar was erected in the river. It can be seen that this wooden pillar was originally a complete tall tree, which was cut down to make a wooden pillar.

Then insert it vertically into the river.

The recent increase in the water level is marked with conspicuous notches on the wooden pillars, and the number of the water level is simply scratched out with a knife mark next to the notch.

When I stepped on the wooden bridge, there was no creaking sound as Ji Lin imagined. It was very solid and gave me a solid sense of stability when I stepped on it.

They were also able to get a better look at the water level posts stuck on the side of the bridge.

"Although the water level has not dropped very significantly, it still has a tendency to drop, and this..."

Wu Bai took out a whittled wooden stick from his clothes and handed it to Ji Lin.

Ji Lin took the stick and put it in his palm to examine it.

There are obvious signs of cutting on the branches, and some fragmentary branches have been cut away. This is not a branch shape that can be caused by natural breaking.

"At first there were only one or two branches, and then there were more and more branches, and the water level did not drop very much. If it dropped in a small area, I also asked Dean Xu for advice. He said that it was within the natural fluctuation range, and it might be possible. It’s a natural cause.”

Wu Bai took out a nearly half-carbonized piece of wood from his pocket and handed it to Ji Lin, who took it and looked at it carefully in his hand.

Incompletely burned wood blocks also have specialized cutting marks.

The drop in water levels may be a seasonal normal, and these are signs...

These signs all point to something without a doubt that something is moving upstream of them, and there may even be some camp moving upstream of them.

The territory's water source depends entirely on this river. If another accident occurs upstream of the river, their fledgling planting industry will suffer disaster.

This is a crisis.

"Are our logging crews working nearby?"

Ji Lin's eyes fell on the branch in his hand and he asked.

Ji Lin was thinking whether to let the logging team directly open a road from the forest to the upper reaches of the river. After all, the ordinary militia reserve in the territory did not have the strong terrain adaptability of the musketeers and patrol sentinels.

With the cooperation of the hunting spiders, they could already travel through the forest at a very fast speed.

If military operations were to be carried out.

A road must be specially opened for the follow-up army to use.

"The logging team was transferred to the hilly area a long time ago. The forestry resources there are richer than here, and transportation is more convenient."

Wuba responded that even now that resources are abundant, the territory still has a small-scale logging team. Previously, it had not been expanded due to the limitations of felling tools and transportation tools. Now they have iron tools and are more powerful in logging.

Every day, they can bring back a large amount of wood to the territory.

"When Changheng comes back, we must investigate the situation upstream."

Make good countermeasures.

However, for the current territory research and development, he still needs to consult his dean. He needs to put the musketeers into mass production as soon as possible, as well as upgrade technology, military technology and application technology.

Ji Lin rubbed his brows. He could probably guess what was going on.

The creatures released by the system were not always dead and lived in the same place. Sometimes they would move and slowly form their own small camps. If not handled properly, it would cause considerable trouble to the lords.

Just like the migrating ogres that Fang Ai encountered, they occupied the lush grasslands, making it impossible for her to graze.