It was her first field trip in the desert, and she felt a little curious.
Several people sat on the ox cart and swayed for half an hour before finally arriving at the water source.
Ji Wan looked up and took a look—it was all sand.
“…”
"The water source has been covered by the sand blown over, Your Highness, please don't blame me," said Nahal.
Ji Wan shook her head. "It's alright. By the way, Fuyao, Yucheng, and Mr. Gao, can you three use the formation to bring the underground water up to the surface?"
Fuyao nodded, took out the shovel behind him, rolled up his sleeves and started shoveling.
She wanted to test the moisture in the sand below to see how deep the water was.
Gao Qu and Pan Gou behind him also started working together and continued digging deeper under the pit dug by the King of Yue.
Ji Wan looked at it for a long while, then slapped his head and glanced at Yang Guan: "Yang Guan, go ahead and use some spiritual power to dig a big hole!"
Several researchers: "..."
Yes, there is also spiritual power!
Yang Guan obediently came to the small pit, limited his spiritual power to the area dug by the researchers, and then suddenly swung out with a palm.
Yellow sand flew in an instant!
The pit on the ground also became much deeper.
Several researchers all frowned. "No, Mr. Yang, can you dig deeper? The sand underground is dry now."
Ji Wan went over to take a look and found that the cylindrical hole Yang Guan had dug was at least ten meters deep, and there was not even a bit of wet sand.
The surrounding dry sand is now flowing downwards.
She frowned, feeling a bad premonition. She turned to Nahar and asked, "Have you tried digging down there?"
Nahar nodded. "We've tried, but there's no water underneath during the dry season. It's been like that for many years."
Ji Wan took a deep breath.
Over there, Yang Guan had already dug down nearly a hundred meters, but still saw no trace of groundwater.
However, the sand is a little moist because it has not seen the sun for many years.
She pursed her lips and called Yang Guan: "Stop it, Yang Guan, this place is a low-lying area, and it is estimated that only in the rainy season can we get some rootless water from the sky.
The groundwater level is probably gone, and if it is, it is too low.”
"What should we do, Your Highness?" Yue Jun frowned.
"Shall we go to a lower place?" Pan Gu suggested.
Ji Wan glanced at Nahar and asked, "Are there any other water sources nearby?"
Nahar shook his head sadly: "Without Your Highness, the people of our state only have one source of water here.
Youzhou and Yanzhou have only one water source in total.”
Ji Wan sighed and said, "How about this, let's divide the work. Nahar, you take Yang Guan and a few researchers to try to find a lower place.
I and Lord Yue will go back and study other methods."
Nahar saluted and replied.
Ji Wan turned around and said decisively to Yue Jun: “Let Shuang Yi use the scouting bird to check, if there is nothing.
Let’s prepare to transport water from somewhere else!”
Yue Jun hesitated a bit: "But... transporting water from somewhere else would consume too much spiritual energy..."
Ji Wan didn't say anything and remained silent all the way.
As soon as she arrived in the city, she felt that the temperature had become as cold as that in Fanzhou.
Very pleasant.
Many people living here couldn't help but step out of their homes to experience this magical phenomenon.
There were also a few naughty children who kept shuttling back and forth in the temperature-controlled formation.
Sometimes you feel the scorching heat outside, and sometimes you feel the cool temperature inside.
Yan Peinan came over later and looked at the naughty children with loving eyes.
When Ji Wan saw Yan Peinan, his eyelids twitched and he immediately turned around.
Yan Peinan had already spotted her figure with his sharp eyes.
"Your Highness!"
Ji Wan: “…”
She kept walking.
Yan Peinan quickly took two steps forward and pulled her aside: "Your Highness, please tell me a number. How much silver is needed to build these three prefectures?"
Ji Wan smiled: "This kind of thing... Oh, how would I know... Hehe."
Yan Peinan: “…”
Yue Jun said quietly, "Your Highness wants to bring water from somewhere else for the people to use."
"What?! Your Highness, you want the children to stay here and use spiritual energy to condense water every day?
Is it like the drought a few years ago?!"
Ji Wan: “…”
She did have this idea in her mind.
"Xiao Nan, please don't hold me back. Let me think about it alone. Don't worry, I won't take any money from you."
Yan Peinan: "I don't believe it! Your Highness, the convalescent hospital is being prepared! They also need money now!
Why don't you move all the people here to the Thousand Islands?
It's obviously not impossible to postpone the rectification of the prefectures and counties here!"
Ji Wan sighed and shook his head: "To harm the superiors and benefit the inferiors is my way of being a king.
If I want to achieve great things, how can I let the people give way to my money? "
In fact, she was thinking in her heart that if she could make use of this place, the future gains would definitely be greater than the current investment!
Yan Peinan frowned and really wanted to ask, "Your Highness, why can you be so sure that the environment here will definitely get better?"
Ji Wan saw her hesitation, shook his head, and turned away.
To be honest, she wasn't sure whether she could improve the ecological environment here.
But in her memories of her previous life.
The Western Regions over there are also deserts like this, but the surface desert cannot hold water, but there is abundant groundwater.
You can grow many fruits such as walnuts, prunes, blueberries, grapes, and various Chinese medicinal herbs.
It's nowhere like this, so barren without any green plants!
It would be fine if Ji Wan didn’t know that things could be grown in the desert, but she did.
How could it be possible for her to give up such a large piece of land?
But... the most important thing now is that there is no water source in this place!
"Water source...water source..." Ji Wan muttered.
Sui Ruoxu saw Ji Wan's worry and didn't say much.
His cultivation level is now zero, and he is just an ordinary person, even worse than Liang Yan's body.
The only thing we can do is to give Her Highness some space and let her be alone for a while.
The water problem was really difficult to solve. Ji Wan thought about it for the whole night but still couldn't figure out how to solve it.
Helplessly, they could only let the children of Moxiang Academy come again to condense water for the residents of Liangzhou.
She thought, at least she should get through the dry season in Liangzhou first.
Several researchers who went to check the surrounding situation yesterday have returned, along with Yun Shuangyi who used a scouting bird to check nearby.
They drew a simple topographic map of Liangzhou, Youzhou and Yanzhou by hand.
It was discovered that the three states and counties were very large, but they were all deserts.
The neighboring states and counties to the east are also deserts.
It seems that after a sleepless night of exploration, several researchers have at least gained something.
That is, far to the east, there is a small lake that provides drinking water for the people in the desert of Donglin Kingdom.
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