Chapter 459: Han Tang
"Everyone has been coming to our farm for a while, and I gathered everyone together today, mainly to listen to everyone's feelings during this time, if you have any opinions and suggestions, you can put them forward, and if we have them, we will change them, and if we don't, we will be encouraged!"
This is the first time that Lin Quan has gathered the people from the farm. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The area of his land is relatively large, with a full 22,000 mu, such a large area, he will definitely not be able to take care of it alone!
Therefore, he invited a lot of workers, there are more sand people in the vicinity, many of them have worked in Elion company, have experience, and are locals, they have more feelings about sand control and sand prevention, so the attitude and starting point of work are much better than those of workers in other places.
The farm currently has a total of 59 employees, which is of course not enough, like the farm in Niger, 6,700 acres of land, with a total of more than 390 people, according to that standard, this farm needs at least 1,000 people!
However, there are not so many things to do in a short period of time, and he can't recruit so many workers, so the short-term goal, Lin Quan set himself 300 workers!
And the nearly sixty workers in front of him are his most valuable treasure at present.
"Boss, what are we going to do now?"
The workers are a little confused, according to their experience, shouldn't the first step be to plant grid sand fixing grass on the desert?
This restricts the movement of quicksand and protects the location where they intend to develop.
Desert management has never been done in a one-step manner, firstly, there are not so many manpower and material resources, and secondly, the actual situation does not allow for this.
If you do this, not only will the cost rise dramatically, but you will also not succeed.
Even a large group company with relatively strong financial resources like Elion Group does not dare to do this in Kubuqi.
Kubuqi Desert is a desert on the south bank of the Yellow River, because of the Yellow River, so it is separated from the desert in the north, in this way, the difficulty of Kubuqi governance is simpler and easier, there are many places in the southwest of Inner Mongolia are deserts, these places are originally pastures and grasslands, and they are also very fat, but because of excessive grazing, the grassland is gradually destroyed, so from the beginning of the Wuhu Rebellion, the desertification here is getting faster and faster.
During the Tang Dynasty, the powerful Tang Dynasty established the most powerful cavalry in Chinese history, most of which were armored cavalry, which had high requirements for war horses, and often only a qualified war horse could be selected among three or four war horses.
The number of war horses in the Tang Dynasty is the highest in all dynasties, which is why the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty hangs the world, and the grassland nomads who are regarded as a great danger in the past dynasties are as completely vulnerable as paper paste in front of the iron cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.
During the Han Dynasty, Gaozu had the siege of Baideng, Emperor Wen and Ganquan Palace was burned to the humiliation, but the Han Dynasty had no way to immediately take revenge on the Huns, after the rule of Wenjing, to the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it took more than 50 years to have the strength to start a small-scale war with the Huns, and finally Emperor Wu was about to destroy the country, the Huns could still jump very happily, the war between the Han and the Huns lasted for a very long time, and the Huns also became the most tenacious nomads on the grassland.
Knowing that Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty had succeeded to the throne, the Han Dynasty completely defeated the Xiongnu, and how long did it take?
It's been almost a hundred years!
When the Tang Dynasty was established, the Turkic Jili Khan and the Turki Khan led the army to detain the pass, and hit Weishui, with hundreds of thousands of troops whining, and also released words to break through Chang'an!
Li Er thought that he could not defeat the Turks, and then reached an armistice agreement with them at the bridge in Weishui.
This incident was regarded as a great shame by Li Er, and he vowed to seek revenge on the Turks!
As a result, the army of the Tang Dynasty only took four years to beat the Turks into crying fathers and mothers, and completely split into the Eastern Turks and the Western Turks, and no longer had the ability to launch an attack on the Tang Dynasty.
Why was the Tang army so capable of fighting? Was the strength of the Tang Dynasty stronger than that of the Han Dynasty?
The Han Dynasty implemented the Qin system, and there was a certain Qin Dynasty farming and warfare system, which was a war machine, the size and combat effectiveness of the Han Dynasty's army was the most powerful in all dynasties, and there was no one, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty formed a large number of forbidden troops, but the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army was ...... That's a joke.
The army of the Tang Dynasty must have been able to beat the army of the Han Dynasty, because the two sides were separated by hundreds of years, the development of science and technology and social progress, and even the war changed its appearance, so the Tang army could defeat the Han army, but why could the Tang army defeat the nomads in the north so quickly?
The main factor is that the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was strong, and the number of war horses in the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan period is not very clear, but at the end of the Zhenguan period to the Linde period, the number of war horses in the Tang Dynasty reached 760,000, and at the end of the Han Dynasty Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty only had 200,000 horses, which is not a war horse, this is just a horse!
At the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there were only 400,000 horses!
That is, after continuously sending troops to the Xiongnu, defeating the Xiongnu, plundering a lot of war horses and then snatching back the Hetao area, the number of horses in the Han Dynasty increased rapidly.
And the Tang Dynasty alone reached 760,000 war horses, so you can imagine how powerful cavalry they can build!
This is also the reason why the Tang Dynasty beat the world in the early stage, except for a slight setback in Goguryeo, it can't be the south or the north, the Tang army is invincible.
But the fact that there are too many animals such as horses, cattle and sheep is also a problem, and that is that their demand for forage has increased dramatically.
During the Tang Dynasty, the area south of Yinshan was not as barren as it was in the Han Dynasty, there were many people who settled here, and the burden of land rose sharply, and then the direct impact was the rapid desertification of the land, in fact, since the establishment of the Northern Wei Dynasty, this situation has appeared, after the nomads settled down, the population rose rapidly, and then brought a lot of destruction near the grassland.
It was at this time that the water of the Yellow River began to gradually turn yellow, and the Yellow River began to become full of sediment, and then it was constantly diverted, flooded, and gradually became a major problem for all dynasties.
And now, what Lin Quan and they have to do is to reverse history and restore these destroyed grasslands, not to say that they should completely turn them into grasslands, which is not like that, but at least to eliminate the desert, because the desert has posed a great threat to the lives of the residents here.
And desertification prevention and control is the meaning of their lives!