In the autumn of the sixteenth year of Qiansheng, Donghu County, Nanhu Prefecture, which is located in the northwest of the empire, has always been not too famous in the history of the Daheng Empire.

Even in the unification war more than ten years ago, this Donghu County was not famous, and no large-scale wars broke out here.

Even after the unification of the Great Heng Empire, the empire's army entered the place for the first time, and at that time, the empire had even taken the northwest state.

In the long history of the Empire, it was a place that was once visited.

It's not that the geographical environment here is not good, in fact, there are also flat plains, a large amount of cultivated land suitable for development, although the weather is a little colder, but it is definitely not as cold as Ningwu Prefecture.

However, the population of this place has always been small, with a population of just over 200,000 in a huge county, and a permanent population of just over 20,000 in the county.

Even if the cities in the Great Heng Empire are known for having few people, such a number of people can be regarded as small, and the counties, towns, and urban areas in some developed and wealthy areas are more than this number.

For example, in Nanhai Prefecture, each county has a population of more than 100,000 people.

Because the population of the counties in Nanhai Prefecture is generally relatively large, such as Luo'an County, where Lin Ziran started, the population reached more than 3.4 million after the reunification.

And in the south, Luohai County had more people, and at that time, Luohai County had a population of more than 5 million, and one of them, Luohai City, had a population of more than 800,000.

Today's Luohai County has a population of more than 6 million, and its increase in population is mainly due to the new population in Luohai City.

Today, there are more than 1.5 million citizens in the Luohai City area, which has nearly doubled the population in the past ten years.

It is also the most populous city in the Daheng Empire, more than the million people of Jingzhou.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Luohai County is the most important city in the southern region of the Daheng Empire, and the economic leader is related, and Luohai County has a pleasant climate, flat and fertile land, and there are many rivers running through the entire Luohai County.

Luohai City, which occupies the best time and place, has naturally become one of the most important cities in the Great Heng Empire, not that it is like this now, but it has been like this for hundreds of years.

However, a densely populated place like Luohai County is actually rare in the Daheng Empire, in fact, in Dahengli, although the area of many counties is quite large, the population is generally not large.

Of course? It's rarely the same as Donghu County? There are only 20,000 people in the county.

No way, Donghu County is located in the north? Cold? Although there are large plains suitable for development and farming, but they are not accessible? It is difficult to transport the grain harvested at a low price.

And Daheng farmers, few of them grow grain and eat it themselves? This is hundreds of acres of land at every turn? Eat all the grain you harvest, isn't that nonsense!

Most of this kind of grain will be sold, and the money obtained after selling it will be used to sustain life, and it also needs to be used to purchase grain seeds? Ploughing horses and various production tools for farming.

If the transportation is inconvenient and there is no way to transport grain cheaply? So if you farm in this kind of place, then you will lose as much as you sow.

In this case, this place is like many other places that are inaccessible, although it is also the territory of the Empire, and there are many people living on it? However, it is difficult to develop large-scale agriculture in the same way as other places with convenient transportation.

Even if after the reunification of the empire, support the restoration of people's livelihood on a national scale? This Donghu County still hasn't gotten much development.

The reason is very simple, the grain cannot be shipped when it is grown!

Although after the unification of the empire, a national railway network project was launched? However, even so, the Empire's rail network plan prioritizes the construction of trunk railways and important branch railways.

The two most important railways for Nanhu Prefecture at that time? Are the Haihu Lake North and South Trunk Railway and the Xining Trunk Railway? But although these two railways form a cross network within Nanhu Prefecture? But unfortunately, Donghuzhou is located in the northwest of Nanhu Prefecture, and there is still no railway.

Although the local county yamen called for the construction of a railway several times, the people of the Imperial Railway Corporation felt that there were only 100,000 or 200,000 people in this place, and there was nothing to ask for, and it was not a strategic route, so it had no military value.

The railroad company is very tight and limited in funds, and needs to prioritize the construction of other key railways, especially those trunk railways and important feeder railways, as for the railroad in Donghu County, it is definitely going to be built, but not now.

The people of Donghu County waited and waited, and when there was no trace of the railway in the tenth year of Qiansheng, the local officials and local people also gritted their teeth, and for the sake of the future, they simply raised funds to build the railway.

Of course, according to the principle of unified construction and unified management and operation of the railway, the railway still belongs to the railway company, and these funds are loans to the railway company, which are specially used to repair the railway in Donghu County, and will be repaid in the future, and there will be interest.

This is rich and easy to do, and soon the construction of the railway started, and then three years later, in the thirteenth year of Qiansheng, the branch railway connecting the east and west trunk lines in Donghuzhou was successfully opened to traffic.

After the opening of the railway, the rest of the matter was much easier, and the locals began to expand the cultivation area on a large scale.

The planting area of each household has rapidly increased from hundreds of mu to more than several thousand mu, and some powerful peasant households have even cleared tens of thousands of mu of land.

And how to grow so much land? Relying on a horse?

Just kidding, how many people can be used to pull horses, and Donghuzhou has a total of such a small population, how can there be so many people to control the horses and plow the land!

They use all kinds of machinery and equipment represented by tractors, so that they can cultivate more land with the least amount of manpower!

They directly used bank loans to buy agricultural machinery, and then expanded the area of cultivated land several times or even dozens of times, and their agricultural output value skyrocketed in just a few years.

The income of the local people has also risen sharply, and it has even become one of the fastest-growing counties in the Daheng Empire in recent years.

Even, this is not only the place with the fastest growth rate in the Daheng Empire, but also the place with the highest per capita income in the Daheng Empire, and the per capita income directly beats the so-called big cities such as Jingzhou and Luohaicheng, and there is even a gap of several times.

The economic take-off of Donghu County in recent years has been called the miracle of East Lake by the media.

However, there are many places suitable for cultivation in the Daheng Empire, there are many places with railways, and there are countless grain producing areas, but there are few places like Donghu County, which can take off quickly after the railway, why is this so?

Because they decisively, even radically, chose full-scale mechanized farming.

Otherwise, how could more than 200,000 people in Donghu County cultivate such a huge amount of land and create such a huge agricultural output value!

And this is also the reason why Lin Ziran chose to come here to take a look when he inspected in the autumn and winter of this year, he wants to make this place a model and tell people, don't hold on to horse farming, machine farming is the future!