Chapter 42: Thousand-Acre Gift
Early June.
The cold Northern Borderlands finally welcomed warmth.
Even without working, there was no need to bundle up in thick outer clothing.
Under the slaves’ backbreaking effort, the 6,600-foot-long canal was finished, and Thane began building the river bend dam.
He also built fishing pools.
What Thane wanted wasn’t just casual fishing, but winter catches that could feed them for months.
The Northern Borderlands couldn’t farm in winter, so Thane hoped for such a storehouse of fresh food reserves.
Therefore, Thane planned to expand and deepen the river bend.
Thane found a narrower river channel upstream from the bend and had slaves build a temporary diversion canal on the opposite bank.
After finishing the diversion canal, they used sandbags to build a dam, sending most water to the opposite diversion canal, cutting off the river bend.
Next was waiting for the bend water to drain completely before expansion, building it into a large reservoir capable of storing fish.