The Emperor had put Wang Feng into a leadership position in the irrigation research and development project in hopes of giving it the best chance of success. The first reason was that he had experience researching new technologies. The second reason was that Wang Feng had been immune to political maneuvering to some degree since the last debacle. Wang Feng had the late and current emperors backing and no clan to be threatened with.
There were no plastics to make drip-type irrigation systems from. There were also no large-scale metal manufacturing and handling plants to accommodate. As always, nothing was easy on the path to survival and peace. That left solutions unique to the world of cultivation. Such solutions undoubtedly involved spiritual energy or qi. This made the costs of managing water a lot higher.
