Chapter 2 Plugging Gangnam

Zhu Jianjun and the people of the headquarters also called it a day.

When I returned to the camp, I saw a large construction site on one side. Zhu Jianjun knew that this was the new site of Lanzhou Wei. This Lanzhou Wei is more than thirty miles northeast of Lanzhou City.

The channels he dug can be regarded as supporting projects of the Lanzhou Acropolis, and these newly reclaimed fertile fields along the channels must belong to Lanzhou Wei.

After all, Lanzhou has moved north, and the original land cannot be retained.

Zhu Jianjun returned to the camp to rest for the night, and on the second day, he had to return to Lanzhou to resume his life.

Although the whole northwest deliberately concealed Zhu Jianjun's identity, there were some things that could not be concealed, and everyone in the army knew that this Qianhu was the heir of a great nobleman in Beijing.

I don't even know which princess's concubine.

In short, there is a background at the top. Even Lord Yu looked at him differently.

Therefore, Lanzhou Wei never dared to offend this young master. At this moment, he finally completed the project and wanted to return to Lanzhou, naturally no one dared to say a "no." ”

So, Zhu Jianjun took more than 100 guards, from the Lanzhou Acropolis that had not yet been built, all the way south, along the winding mountain road. After half a day's march, they came to the edge of the Yellow River.

Seeing the Yellow River, Zhu Jianjun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, feeling that he had seen a crowd.

The Yellow River is harmful downstream, but it is still a very important production resource upstream.

All of Yu Qian's water conservancy projects in Lanzhou revolve around the Yellow River and its tributaries, which is also a matter of no choice.

Therefore, except for the narrow impact plains on both sides of the Yellow River, which are relatively densely populated, the rest of the place is almost barren and uninhabited.

After seeing the Yellow River.

Zhu Jianjun traveled west along the Yellow River, and was able to reach Lanzhou City when it was dark.

At this moment, Lan County has become Lanzhou.

And the Zhizhou of Lanzhou is Qiu Jun.

Yu Qian is a trilateral governor, and even if he is on top of water conservancy, it is impossible for him to focus on the local water conservancy construction in Lanzhou. Yu Qian's tenure in the northwest is the first of the water conservancy construction in the entire northwest.

Yu Qian even asked the emperor to withhold Shaanxi's taxes and keep the ministry in the local water conservancy.

In terms of personnel allocation, the Shaanxi Metropolitan Water Division has truly become a yamen alongside Shaanxi's political envoys, inspection envoys, and command divisions, and almost every prefecture has added a Tongzhi, and there is also one more county in the county, which is specially in charge of water conservancy projects and repairs and maintains water conservancy projects.

Yu Qian also asked the imperial court to donate grain and give crowns and belts according to the previous method, where there are gentry who are willing to build water conservancy, the imperial court is willing to reward crowns and belts.

But the channels they built had to pass the government's scrutiny.

This is to prevent a fight over water.

All of this was tailor-made by Yu Qian for the special environment in the northwest. After all, the northwest is mountainous and arid, and there are no river basin management projects like Hebei water conservancy, but more irrigation projects and rivers for three miles and five miles. It can irrigate tens of thousands of acres of water conservancy projects.

The government cannot command them one by one, but can only find ways to increase the enthusiasm of the people in building water conservancy.

Although the northwest is dilapidated. It's not as rich as the Central Plains, but on the whole, there are still some rich people.

As Yu Qian's station, Lanzhou is particularly hard at building water conservancy. 、

Qiu Jun last year, that is, the twenty-third year of orthodoxy, built five canals, irrigated nearly 100,000 acres of land, not to mention many small projects, the most conspicuous symbol of Lanzhou is that Zhu Jianjun saw a big waterwheel at this moment.

This waterwheel must not be said to be small.

This waterwheel is wheel-shaped, with a maximum diameter of ten zhang, which can lift the water in the Yellow River to the riverbank.

The water of the river is lower than that of the two banks.

The two sides of the strait are rare fertile fields in Lanzhou, so they naturally find ways to irrigate them.

But this is one or two zhang low, high is a few zhang of the drop, how to lift the water up, is also a difficult problem, although there are skilled craftsmen in the northwest, but this problem, is not too easy to solve.

It was Zhu Jianjun who came forward and mentioned this matter to Zhu Qizhen, and Zhu Qizhen asked Zhao Kuaixiang, who was responsible for building the grassland galloping road, to come to the northwest.

The old man, worthy of being a contemporary Luban, is known as a miracle, but after a month or two, there is a solution, and there is such a big waterwheel.

This waterwheel on the bank of the Yellow River is simply a magnificent and magnificent spectacle. It is a man-made wonder of this era.

Zhu Jianjun also knows that most of these large and small waterwheels can irrigate thousands of acres of fertile land, and small ones can irrigate dozens of acres, but at most between 300 and 500 acres.

Qiu Jun plans to build 200 waterwheels along the north and south banks of the Yellow River, so that Lanzhou will have more than 100,000 mu of watered fields, and even if the northwest fields are thin, they can harvest 120,000 stone of grain a year.

This is nothing in the South.

But in the Northwest it is very different.

You must know that there is so much grain in Lanzhou, which is worth millions of stone of grain east of Tongguan.

Transporting grain from the interior to the northwest is often not a five-to-one ratio. In extreme times, it is not impossible to get out of ten stones and one stone.

That's why Zhu Qizhen let Yu Qian run the northwest with blood.

Zhu Jianjun also has some understanding of this, but he may not have such a deep feeling. He just felt that he had invited Kuaixiang to wait for the edict and solved a big problem for the people of Lanzhou.

The heart is naturally very joyful.

It's just that there are more than 200 waterwheels in the plan, and it is not easy to complete the construction.

Today, there are only a dozen on both sides of the Yellow River.

Zhu Jianjun's estimate was good, and when it was dark, he came to Lanzhou City and was almost locked outside.

After all, the northwest is the northwest, and many rules are still much stricter than those in the mainland.

Zhu Jianjun rested for a day, and then went to see Yu Qian.

Even if Zhu Jianjun didn't build the project, he would come to see Yu Qian at least once a month, because Yu Qian wanted to teach him a lesson, not for anything else, but to explain the situation in the DPRK and China.

This is also what Zhu Qizhen requested.

The prince is the prince after all, although he doesn't have to play now, but what happened. But he couldn't be unaware.

When Zhu Jianjun arrived in Lanzhou, Yu Qian got the news, so when Zhu Jianjun came to the door, Yu Qian had already made time, and the two saluted each other.

Yu Qian gave Zhu Jianjun the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, and the prince gave Yu Qian the courtesy of the teacher and the student.

Yu Qian didn't say anything else, but first said a piece of news about Jinyiwei, Yu Qian said: "The news that Jinyiwei got from the northwest is about to move, and it seems to be bad for Daming?" ”

Zhu Jianjun was slightly surprised and said, "Mr. thinks it's true or false?" ”

Although Jin Yiwei is well-informed, there are many true and false things in the external news, not that Jin Yiwei is derelict in his duties, but that there are some things that are uncertain in themselves.

Yu Qian said: "The old minister thinks that this is estimated to be true, Your Majesty is too anxious, and he forced Aci Timur too tightly. ”

Zhu Jianjun knew what Yu Qian was talking about, that is, the negotiations between the tile spur and the Ming Dynasty in Beijing were almost protracted and lasted for a year.

Vashorn is willing to go to the Khan and crown His Majesty as the Son of Heaven, and he does not need to give the title of king, or even the title of a consolation department.

But Zhu Qizhen's mind has never changed, unless the Ross family comes to Beijing and the tile spur is attached, there is nothing to talk about between the two.

In this way, the tile spur is already desperate for the Ming to keep the peace.

If it's just despair, the Watts don't have to worry so much.

It's just that Attimur faced a serious financial crisis in the northwest.

After the defeat of Yanran, after a year of internal and external integration, Azi Timur finally secured the position of the Great Khan of Waspur. But a large part of the Tile Thorn's finances came from commerce, not just the tributary trade between the Tile Thorn and the Ming itself.

It also comes from the Silk Road.

With the loss of the Mobei grassland, it was originally a little difficult to feed the Tile Spur army in the northwest alone, and the Jiayuguan Trade Road had not been opened, and the financial predicament of the Tile Spur had not been alleviated.

In this way, it is inevitable that the tile spur is about to move.

Without him, the nomads are different from the Ming Dynasty, and their first thought in the face of the financial crisis is to rob.

It's just that the only thing that is uncertain is whether the tile spur is going east and fighting with the Ming Dynasty again? The battle of Yanran was defeated so badly, I don't know if Azi Timur still has the courage to go east.