Life Hunter

I don't know how long it took, Li Qingxian's eyes darkened, and the Tiansui Academy was shattered.

Some words that seemed to be true or imaginary came to my ears.

This kid can really hold on, he's much stronger than you were back then...

It seems like you are no better than you were back then...

The sun and the moon pass.

Li Qingxian opened his eyes and slowly exhaled.

Then he hurriedly stood up and looked through the contents recorded in Tiansui Academy, quickly reading the key points to avoid forgetting them.

Take out the communication charm plate and listen to the communication from all parties.

Meng Huaichuan was dormant in Shangshan District, keeping a distance from the King of Chu, and had a slightly better relationship with the mayor.

Gai Feng talked about some recent developments.

Li Qingxian put away the messenger plate and asked people to find Han Anbo.

Not long after, Han Anbo pushed the door open and entered with a calm expression. He glanced at Li Qingxian and hesitated to speak.

What's wrong?

Han Anbo sighed and said, Let me tell you what happened these days.

The gentlemen who go up to the mountainous area find that life is difficult these days.

A large number of townsfolk died in the fog, and those who survived were in the fog and their bodies were damaged. Even if new townspeople continue to join, the situation in the town is getting increasingly worrying.

There are fewer and fewer people farming, and fewer and fewer people working. Many people can't afford medical treatment and can't afford houses. As for the number of people born, there are none at all. Except for old women in their seventh and eighth decades, there are no women with childbearing potential. In the upper mountainous area, there is no one in the lower mountainous area...

All the houses in the lower mountain area have been bought up by people from the upper mountain area. The townspeople can't afford them, so they can only rent them. Many townspeople can't afford to rent, so they simply lie on the street. Now the mayor has issued a new order, In order to maintain the environment of the town, we have to charge money even if we are lying on the street. It is an anecdote for the ages...

I learned from the town government that after discussion with the gentlemen in the upper mountain area, they unanimously concluded that the townspeople in the lower mountain area are too lazy. If everyone works as hard as before and gets less money, life in the upper mountain area will definitely be worse. good.

In short, the problem of the upper mountainous area lies with the lower mountainous area, and the problem of the lower mountainous area lies with the townspeople. As long as the townspeople buy houses, buy medicines, and buy things, the town will get better...

Li Qingxian interrupted: Wait a minute, this sounds weird. On the one hand, we don't give money to the townspeople, but on the other hand, we have to ask the townspeople who have no money to buy things in the mountainous area. It doesn't make sense.

Things in this world are never reasonable or unreasonable. Han Anbo said.

Li Qingxian frowned and said, That's not right. The people in the upper district should understand that if the people in the lower district are forced into a desperate situation and either die or rebel, it is not a good thing for the upper district.

This is what you think. In fact, the gentlemen in the upper district have never cared about the life and death of the people in the lower district. In other words, they are thinking very hard about the inheritance of their status, power and wealth, and have no time to care about the life and death of the people in the lower district. . The more chaotic Guizhen becomes, the more people in the upper mountain area have to work hard to accumulate wealth and strive to survive, instead of thinking about what will happen to the upper area if all the people in the lower area die.

Li Qingxian thought for a while and said, I think some of them will have foresight.

Han Anbo said: The dirty beggar gave an example of this. Let's take the river water in the upper mountainous area and lower mountainous area as an example. Decades ago, the builders of the town established the town, and every town builder had the skills to build the town. Strength, because they have truly experienced everything in building the town. These town builders worked together to dig deep and widen the main river channel, so that everyone from the upper mountainous area to the lower mountainous area can have water to drink.

Li Qingxian nodded.

Decades have passed, the founders of the town have died, and their descendants continue to stay in Shangshan District. The new masters have not experienced the construction of the town. The water they drank since they were young is brought to their homes from the main river, and every family has a regular basis. Tributaries, they really open their mouths when they have food and stretch out their hands when they have clothes. But this does not mean that they are all drunkards and ricebags. They have learned to dig deep into the river, learned to widen the river, learned to divert water, and learned to deal with all kinds of people. In short, they have learned a lot. In terms of ability, they have learned a lot. In terms of quality, it is far better than the gang of mud-legged people in the lower mountain area who use wooden barrels to collect water from the big reservoir. Of course, there must be some waste.

It doesn't sound good, but it's true. Li Qingxian said.

At this time, looking from the sky, there is a river in the middle of the town, running through the town from top to bottom. In the upper mountainous area, many tributaries branch out in all directions. In the lower mountainous area, it gathers into a reservoir for townspeople from all directions to draw water.

At the beginning, the new bosses all thought that they could just do the same as the town builders, digging the bottom of the river and widening the river channel. But as they dug, they discovered that something was wrong. Why? The few people who didn't dig the main road, the tributaries in their homes became more and more complicated. It’s getting wider and wider. This is wrong, because the town’s law stipulates that this is illegal, but the mayor doesn’t care, and even people who are close to the mayor have tributary rivers in their homes that are wide and deep.”

Even the deputy mayor called on some new bosses to drive away the mud-legged people and seize the public tributaries left by the founders of the town.

The impact of this incident is very huge. When those new bosses who stick to their duties see it, you not only ignore it, but also advocate it, then we are welcome! As a result, more and more bosses ignore the main river and only deepen and widen their own rivers. A tributary river in the yard.”

Digging and digging in the big yard, but the yard is not a town and the space is limited, so we can only dig deep. As we dig, we turn into digging lakes. So the people who dig rivers become people who dig lakes. The people who dig lakes Looking at the deep lake in the yard of my home, I am very proud, because their ancestors only saved a little water, but they have accumulated a lake of water. Do you think they will feel inferior to their ancestors? Not only will they feel powerful, they will even feel If you are worse than your ancestors, you and your descendants should dig lakes from generation to generation. Whoever digs rivers is a fool!

If those who dig lakes keep digging, they will only be able to dig lakes and not rivers. However, they can control other people's digging of rivers.

At this time, looking from the sky, on both sides of the main river in the upper mountainous area, there are no longer dense slender tributaries, but patches of deep lakes. There are more lakes in the upper mountainous area, and the water in the reservoirs in the lower mountainous area is just Shallow. When the water is shallow, the townspeople have to go deep into the mud and use their strength to fetch water. Because there are regulations in the town that people who dig the river cannot directly collect water, but can only collect water from the reservoir. No matter how skilled some people are in digging rivers, they can only eat reservoir water for the rest of their lives because they are stuck by lake diggers and cannot build tributaries.”

Li Qingxian looked stern and nodded lightly.

But in this world, there are always people who have not forgotten to dig rivers. They find that it is wrong, because if this continues, all the people who go up to the mountainous areas will become lake diggers. Who will dig rivers? But the people who dig lakes are all our own people, and they are all on the palms and backs of their hands. Meat, what should I do?”

So, the outstanding river diggers called on more people to dig rivers, and said to the people who were carrying barrels to collect water from the mountainous areas, as long as you are good at digging rivers, you can also dig out tributaries and bring them into your own yard.

So, people in the lower mountainous areas worked hard to dig rivers. Some people found good terrain and quickly enlarged the river channel as soon as they dug. So, according to the rules, they made a meritorious service and became big river diggers. They can go to the upper mountainous areas next to them. Build a yard at the foot of the mountain and dig tributaries to your home...

The New Great River Digger was happily digging rivers. Because of his meritorious service, he was invited by the Lake Digger in Shangshan District to go for a walk in Shangshan District. It turned out that not only rivers can be dug, but also lakes can be dug! The New Great Digger The river people have mixed feelings in their hearts. I obviously did a lot of work by digging the river, so why does the water end up in your lake? Who can't dig a lake?

The new big river diggers have begun to dig lakes at home. The new big river diggers are highly skilled and can dig both rivers and lakes. Their level of river digging and lake digging are higher than those of the lake diggers. The lakes at home are getting bigger and bigger. The deeper you go, the more water there is. These big river diggers gradually gave up digging rivers and became new lake diggers.

Looking from a high altitude at this time, the lake water in the upper mountainous area is slowly increasing, but the lake water in the foothills area is increasing rapidly. Due to the efforts of a large number of river diggers, the river channel has been widened, so the water in the reservoir in the lower mountainous area has surged, feeding more people, and everyone has changed He has made many beautiful buckets to collect water, but he is still a bucket-carrying person.”

Li Qingxian nodded.

Han Anbo continued: Everyone is digging, and the old lake diggers are not happy. They think to themselves, you new lake diggers were just mud-legged people carrying buckets by the reservoir before. It was our old lake diggers who gave you a gift. These mud-legged people have a chance, and your lake water will be given to us! So, the old lake diggers came down in droves, saying that they were qualified to close the tributary channels, and finally forced the new lake diggers to drain their own lake water.

Slowly, the new lake diggers and the new big river diggers accumulated hatred in their hearts. They no longer thought about digging the river, but began to band together and think about moving the lake water to other towns. Other towns were originally like ours. The people who dug up the lake had a grudge, so they secretly colluded.

As time has accumulated, the descendants of the old lake diggers have spread out. They are deeply cultivating the technology of lake digging, and every household is working hard to dig lakes. They feel that they are industrious, they feel that they are working hard, and they feel that they are what they are today because of their ability to dig lakes. In addition to digging lakes, Everything outside of ability is zero, and I look down on anyone who can’t dig a lake.”

The people who dug the new lake are also spreading their branches and leaves, and they are also digging a lot of lake water at the foot of the mountain.

But the people digging the lake feel that digging the lake water in this way is too slow and they are too tired. What should they do?

So, the people who dug the lake came up with a clever idea. They asked the bucket men to build a dam around the reservoir, and then opened a water outlet outside the dam, so that the water outlet could flow directly into the bucket. The townspeople did not have to travel so far, they could be very close. There are places where water is collected, but part of the water collected must be returned to the people who dug the lake.”

Now the townspeople don't have to step on the mud to lift water as before. They can directly receive water from the water outlet. They find it very convenient. Everyone in the mountainous area, at the foot of the mountain and in the lower mountainous area feels good.

At this time, there were more and more lakes in the upper mountainous area, and more and more lakes in the foothills area. However, the reservoir was blocked by a dam, and the townspeople could not see how much water was in it. They could only see the water in their own buckets. But If you look at it from a high altitude, you will find that the river is actually slowly increasing, but a large amount of water is intercepted in the upper mountainous and mountainside areas. Only less than 10% of the water flows into the reservoir and is blocked by the dam.

Because the townspeople are still working hard to dig the river, the river channel is still widening and the total water volume is still increasing, but the proportion of river water flowing into the reservoir is getting smaller and smaller.

Li Qingxian's face turned into water.

Han Anbo continued: In the early days, the townspeople only had one bucket of water every day. Now, the townspeople have twenty buckets of water every day, but the ten buckets of water have to be given to Shangshan District. Everything looks good.

As time went on, unexpected... no, natural circumstances occurred.

There are too many people digging lakes, their skills are too high, and they are too diligent in digging lakes. They are not afraid of hardship or fatigue. Too much river water is intercepted in the upper mountainous and mountainside areas, resulting in a significant reduction in water entering the reservoir.

There is less water in the reservoir, and the townspeople receive less water, but the water they can consume has increased. Naturally, they have no motivation to dig the river. Because the townspeople have become a little smarter and found that they worked so hard to dig the river, and eventually the water was gone. If it flows into other people’s lakes and there’s not much left in your own bucket, what’s the point of digging?”

The people who dug the lakes obviously already have a lot of lake water in their homes, but because there are fewer people digging the lakes, less lake water flows into their homes, and they are unhappy. Do they think they are wrong?

Li Qingxian said: Of course not. They feel that their level of digging lakes and managing river digging is getting better and better, so it must not be their own problem.

Yes, so they feel that there must be a problem with the new lake diggers at the foot of the mountain, and there must be a problem with the group of bucket men outside the reservoir. Those bucket men clearly only know how to dig rivers, not lakes, but they receive water for nothing. , shameless, cannot condone them! Only the people who dig the lake deserve to drink water! Let the people with buckets work hard to dig the river, and let them work hard to provide water. At the same time, we should publicize the hard work of the people who dig the lake. For example, three generations of a family dig the lake water, and they will be responsible for it for generations. Rich people. For example, all the people carrying buckets think that the lake diggers in the mountainside area are responsible for the lack of water, and have nothing to do with the lake diggers in the mountainous areas.

So some of the townspeople took the buckets and ran away.

Now, this is the situation in Guizhen.

How do you think it can be solved?

You said that if there is a problem in Gui Town, is it the person with the greatest benefits and the greatest power who is responsible, or the townspeople with the smallest benefits and the least power?