Becoming a God from a Water Monkey

Chapter 304 No harvest
Heavy rain washed over the wooden boards and fell into the gaps between the two boards, forming a waterfall.

Chishan stepped onto the wooden plank, lowered his head, entered the barge, and knelt down.

Liang Qu untied the boat rope and pulled up the anchor: "Remember to go back and tell Song Bao to come and work for the river bank when I come back! Let's go!"

"Got it! Brother Shui, please be safe!"

"Bon Voyage!"

The two young men in the fishing pier retracted the long gangplank on the barge and waved to the barge as it sailed towards the rain, until only a blurry gray shadow remained of the barge.

The two men held onto the springboard, wiped the water off their faces, and looked around.

The waves hit the shore and the fishing boats were piled up and squeezed together.

All the teahouses in the surrounding area have closed down.

From morning to noon, not a single fisherman went out or returned to the lake.

"The waves on the river are so strong, I don't think we'll get any fish today. Let's go back and pack up our things, lest the flood really hits us."

"What are you afraid of? Huazhu County is separated from us by Jiangling County. If it can't flood over, at most it will submerge the original Chaojiang County. Besides, if there is a lake, there is no need to worry about flooding! If there is a big swamp, the entire Black Water River will flood into it and there will be no sound!"

"That makes sense. Then you sit down and I'll go talk to Brother Songbao."

Without saying a word, the young man carried the springboard back to the fishing station, and the other man hurriedly followed.

"Hey, let's go together! It rained heavily for a few days and the fields at home were flooded. I have to go back to drain the water."

The two men took down their pitchforks, closed the doors and windows of the fishing pen, locked the door, put on their straw raincoats, and hurriedly disappeared at the end of the bluestone street.

Shangrao Port was completely deserted.

……

The barge left Yixing Town.

Catfish, crocodiles, two king porpoises, and eight porpoises broke through the waves and surfaced.

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

The fat catfish, unable to move, with its round head and scarred head, aimed at the mouth of the snare and got into the saddle.

He clamped the rope buckle with his fist to help tighten it, then tied another rope around his waist and held the stern tightly with his eight-legged claws.

The four beasts put on the water saddles and worked together to pull the barge to break through the waves, gradually speeding up and galloping quickly on the water.

Raindrops hit the bow of the boat and turned into water foam.

Eight adult finless porpoises were spread out on both sides of the boat like wings, rising and falling.

Looking at the entire Pingyang River Port, apart from Xu Yuelong and Wei Lin, there is probably no other official with such underwater power.

Liang Qu sat in the boat and counted the items.

Weapons, compass, silver, official uniform, waist badge, water bag, emergency dry food, and document albums were all there.

Turning over the pages again, the tasks were listed in great detail.

There are three top priorities among them.

The first is to rescue people and evacuate the civilians.

The second is to find out the scope of the disaster and draw a map.

The third is to find out why the hydrological station did not issue a timely warning and find out the specific cause of the dam breach.

There are many types of floods, including rainstorm floods, snowmelt floods, ice floods, engineering accident floods...

The first three are natural disasters, while the latter is a man-made disaster.

If it is really found out that it was an engineering failure, many people will undoubtedly lose their heads.

For such a major event, Liang Qu would naturally not have the final say alone. Wei Lin must have sent people as well.

As a fast-footed forward, Liang Qu was mainly responsible for collecting clues and waiting for Xu Yuelong and others to arrive and present them.

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

"General Strategy for Building Embankments" and "General Strategy for Protecting Embankments".

The spine of the book is not thick, it is full of essence.

The content includes how to build temporary dams, resettle disaster victims, carry out disaster relief, harvest rice, etc.

"Harvest..." Liang Qu thought about the situation in Huaiyin Prefecture, calculated the time, and sighed silently.

This year is still good for other counties, but it is truly a year of natural disasters for Huazhu County.

The Ghost Mother Cult caused trouble, and most of the strong laborers died or fled. In late August and early September, there was another flood...

The rice planting time is roughly the same throughout Huaiyin Prefecture.

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

The yield of rice is higher than that of wheat.

Even if the fields are full of wild oats and barnyard grass, the harvest from growing rice will be greater than that from growing wheat.

But it has a disadvantage, double-season rice consumes a lot of soil fertility!

The Jianghuai area is neither south nor north, but stuck in the middle. The soil fertility is not as exaggerated as that in the south.

After planting double-season rice for a few years, only weeds will grow in the fields.

As long as they have enough food to eat every day, the local people are not stupid, so naturally most of them choose to rotate rice and wheat.

As a result, in order to prevent the land from being idle and abandoned, the rice and wheat planting period will have to be moved back two to three months compared to planting double-season rice!

It doesn't matter at ordinary times, but it is very deadly nowadays.

Planting double-season rice, the early rice is basically harvested in July, and the late rice is harvested in October. Now in August, planting double-season rice can still ensure one round of harvest for emergency use, especially after disasters, it is a critical life-saving food!
Rice-wheat rotation requires summer planting and autumn harvest! June to November is the rice growing season. After the rice is harvested, wheat or rapeseed is planted to overwinter, and some vegetables are planted in the spring.

Mid-to-late August is right in the middle of the rice planting season.

The first round of crops could not be harvested at all, and the rice did not even bloom.

Once the flood is over, planting wheat will not be a problem. However, no matter what crop it is, it takes time from planting to harvesting!

It's not a matter of a few days or half a month, or a few days of starvation that can get you through it, it's going to take four to five months, or five to six months!
Huazhu County will not have any harvest this whole year and will have to wait until next year to harvest a round of wheat.

The surrounding counties had already supported the Ghost Mother Cult once before, and they would certainly not be happy if it happened again.

"maybe……"

Liang Qu changed his mind.

Mid-to-late August is the transition period from the rice development period to the heading period, which is the period when the aboveground part grows most vigorously and requires the most physiological water.

Being flooded in a short period of time is not a big problem. Those that grow fast and enter the heading stage can survive for one day, while those that grow slowly and are in the development stage can survive longer, about six to seven days.

The plants in the ear-forming stage are basically impossible to save. Liangqu has now turned into Wuzhiqi, and it is too late to drive away all the floods. However, those that are slow to grow and are still in the developmental stage may be saved if they are lucky.

It’s just…difficult.

It will be difficult for the flood to recede naturally within ten days or half a month.

Liang Qu's thoughts were in turmoil. As a small boy from Du Shui, he didn't know how to resolve the current situation.

He closed the book and communicated with Ze Ding.

[Dingzhu: Liang Qu]

[Refine Ze Ling: Ze Zhi (Green) (Fusion Degree: 38.6%)]

[Ze Ling’s favor: The second level of martial arts mastery (Chuanzhu Emperor); Yinglong pattern: one layer; Tianwu: one layer]

[Talented skills: Water Leap, Water Breathing, Water Prison, Ride the Waves, Intimidation, Vortex]

[Water Essence: 3,465 points]

[River Favor: 1.0001]

The strength of the five orifices of a galloping horse is nearly 40% of that of a marsh monkey, and the favor degree is a little more sufficient.

The amount of water that Liangqu can control is more than 16,000 tons, an increase compared to the previous 12,000 tons.

However, compared to the entire Blackwater River, it is still a drop in the bucket.

Liang Qu was not a saint, but seeing the people of the county starving, he wanted to do his best to help.

"Wuzhiqi, Wuzhiqi, how could you be troubled by the flood?"

Liang Qu closed the book, and with a thought, he put all the remaining 3,400 points of water essence into himself.

(End of this chapter)