Chapter 1350 Brackets

If you want to develop, you have to have people, and what Ningxia Sanlu lacks most is people.

Fortunately, this problem can be compensated for by machinery.

The energy of Ningxia Sanlu can be called a unique in the Song Dynasty today.

In addition to water power, wind power, and endless coal, and inexhaustible large livestock.

Before the whole of Western Xia was taken away, Su You did not forget to build the road from Weizhou to Lingzhou, and also erected a large pontoon bridge over the Yellow River for this purpose.

Before Xingqing Mansion was taken, Su You had already begun to travel to the south of Wenshan Zhulu, organizing a large number of machinery and seeds to be transported to Lingzhou in a steady stream.

The climate in the north is cooler than in the south, and the Jiuyuan area and the Xingqing Plain area are good seasons for wheat planting.

A large area of land is used in a centralized manner, which is very beneficial to the investment of large machinery.

Nowadays, looking at the entire Great Song Dynasty, except for a few areas in Weizhou such as Longshou Village, only Xiangzhou has so much open land that can use such a large machine.

Columbia, big cocoon.

Now the cocoon car is the third generation, can be pulled by four oxen or horses, the front and rear of the cocoon car is equipped with compacted rollers, the middle of the roller is twelve rows of plowshares, the upper part of the plow head is behind, is twelve seed hoppers.

The cultivation method has also been improved, and the seeds in the hopper are now mixed with a compound fertilizer mixed with fine dry manure, oil meal, silkworm sand, and soil, and the purpose of fertilization is achieved by the way when sowing.

This machine can complete ditching, sowing, fertilizing, soil covering, and suppression at one time, and the effect has been improved from five hectares a day in the second generation to ten hectares a day in the northwest land.

Of course, you have to change livestock in the middle, but this is not a problem at all in Western Xia.

Laishan No. 1, which is used for wheat seeds, is an excellent wheat seed that can increase the yield per mu by one-third.

In addition to this, there is a large amount of vacant land for growing oilseed rape.

In the Gobi and Oases, Suyou also arranged to grow several cash crops - diding gum grass, alfalfa, grapes, chicken polyps and sweet elephant grass.

Fortunately, I have Shen Kuo, Shi Yong, and Li Yong in my hands.

Shen Kuo is responsible for agricultural area planning and water conservancy planning, and repairing trunk canals; Li Yong started his ancestors' old business - digging wells and installing wind-powered irrigation equipment.

And Shi Yong was caught by Su You to build factories and bridges.

In this great expedition to the west, Su You also made some discoveries, that is, the great influence of the great water system on the rule of the regime.

Throughout history, state control of territory has been closely linked to water systems and the canals that connect them.

With the canal system connecting the Yangtze River, Qiantang River, and Pearl River water systems, the Chinese people gradually multiplied to Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

With the rapid development of navigation, it now controls the South China Sea.

To the north, there was a grand canal connecting the Huai River, the Hai River, and the Yellow River, which greatly strengthened the control of Hebei by the Great Song Dynasty.

But there is a problem with this, that is, most of these canals can only be opened on the impact plain, and are not suitable for the great northwest.

Above the Hetao, the Yellow River has become a natural divide between nomads and farmers.

To solve this problem, the only way to solve this problem is to take a detour, either from the Qingtang area, the birthplace of the Yellow River, to the north, or from the lower reaches of the Yellow River to the impact plain to the west.

Su You can't wait, so there is only one transportation facility to break the situation, and that is a bridge that can cross the Yellow River.

Su You read a lot of history before being reborn, and what many authors like to do the most is to blindly develop railways.

In fact, today's water transportation can already meet the needs of the existing territory of the Great Song Dynasty to allocate materials, and there is only one railway in Su You's mind.

That is, from Hebei to Xingqingfu, such a railway can change the national pattern of the Great Song Dynasty.

But this railway will inevitably cross the area ruled by the Liao State.

As for building it elsewhere, it is like the simple railway from Shu, which is at most the icing on the cake.

The bigger problem of the railway is not to pave the road, but to build the bridge.

In 1886, in order to solve the problem of the impact of river freezing in winter and hindering the development of coal mine transportation, the Kaiping Mining Bureau of the Qing government built China's first railway bridge to cross the Luan River, spending 250,000 taels of silver.

The earliest bridge across the Yellow River in China is the Zhongshan Iron Bridge built in Lanzhou in 1906, which cannot be connected to trains, with a length of 234 meters, a width of 7.5 meters, six piers and five holes, and five arc-shaped steel arch beams on the bridge, which costs 300,000 taels of silver.

In the Great Song Dynasty, this is three million guan, and considering the difference in the cost of steel today and steel a thousand years later, it is at least five times more.

Therefore, just a railway bridge across the Yellow River is not something that today's Great Song Dynasty can take.

Even if you can take it, it's very uneconomical.

Therefore, only the pontoon bridge is the best choice today.

But even the pontoon bridge is also divided into grades, and now it can free up its hands, plus Ningxia produces iron locally, and Su You is ready to get the iron ship out.

The design scheme of Lanzhou pontoon bridge, the pier is made of iron-hulled barge, and the head of the pontoon boat is sharp and acute, which has a certain ice-breaking ability.

Anyway, there are cannons now, that is, icebreaking, maintenance and other troubles.

The bridge deck is one meter above the water surface, which can effectively reduce the impact of the water flow on the bridge deck, and the debris flowing down through the river surface can also be used below.

On both sides of the river, the towing embankment will be cast with cement and large iron parts, and the iron-hulled barge will be fixed with the latest mixed cables of South China Sea ababa and Zhengzhou steel cables, together with anchor ingots.

Even if it was so simple, this plan shocked the DPRK and China, not to mention all kinds of engineering problems that the DPRK and China bigwigs did not understand, and the cost alone was as high as 500,000 yuan.

Many people disagreed, and then Su You's face turned red.

Guys, think about it, is 500,000 a lot? Isn't it just the two-year-old coin that was given to Xia Guo before?

You didn't feel distressed when you gave it before, why are you starting to feel distressed now?

Or will you give me the 800,000 that you were supposed to give me?

And in the secret fold to Zhao Ji, Su You analyzed the meaning of the bridge in detail, Your Majesty, do you want to be like the Tang Dynasty, open up the Silk Road, and all countries will come to court?

The reason why I let the state pay is because I am afraid that the big benefits will cheapen the merchants. 500,000 yuan, I will earn it back in a few years.

As soon as Zhao Ji heard that it really made sense, he waved his hand, and we will turn the page on the ugly things in Mingrun's past, and no one is allowed to mention it in the future!

The matter of building the bridge is accurate, but the reform of the imperial court also has their difficulties, so this money is ...... The inner government allocates it, and I will come out!

Zhao Ji is now the largest big landlord in the Great Song Dynasty, not a nominal big landlord who "is not the king's land under the whole world", but a big landlord who actually controls the land.

Because among the meritorious soldiers, many of them are from the Tibetan region in the Hengshan River and Huang area, and they have pastures in their hometowns, and they follow the army out to fight, the purpose is to make money.

Therefore, this part of the soldiers' rewards, after the land was converted according to one acre, was exchanged for treasure money and cattle, horses and sheep.

Their land became vacant land, and the king cried out vigorously, Your Majesty, a soldier is a hundred acres, and those with war medals are even higher, and 100,000 Tibetan troops should be rewarded with more than 100,000 hectares and more than 10 million yuan! This single three divisions can't afford it!

In the end, Zhao Ji pinched his nose and bought this order, and only he could buy this order.

And Su You followed up with another sparse play, Your Majesty, it is not enough to have land, someone has to plant it, in order to solve the problem of sparse population in the Western Xia land, it is necessary to enrich the immigrants from the mainland.

Since the Song Dynasty and Tang Dynasty system, there is a decree that has achieved great results during the Xuanzong period, and we can use it - inspect the fields and expand the households!

This is from the Eastern Wei Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, has been promoting a decree, it should be said that in the middle of the dynasty, this decree was not effectively promoted, is the feudal dynasty before the introduction of the system of apportionment into the mu, whether the dynasty can be effectively continued the key decree.

The Sui Dynasty's rent and conscription system and the Tang Dynasty's rent adjustment system both used people as the object of levy, so the feudal state attached great importance to the control of household registration and strictly forbade the people to flee.

After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the household registration was checked in Shandong, and the beggar Fuhui was included in Caozhou to collect tens of thousands of households, and Huxi ordered the hidden households to return to their heads in Cangzhou, and the number of households reached 10,000.

In fact, this decree was intended to turn the peasants who had fled into households that could be controlled by the state.