Now Lu Zicai is organizing the reclamation of this no-man's land that has been barren for too long.

Huainan's reclamation system was also agreed by Li Xinchen, and unlike any other place, because Huainan was close to the front line, war could break out at any time, so the reclamation here was actually in accordance with the management of the army, that is, the so-called military tun.

From the period of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms to the present, the military cantonment is not a new thing, the imperial court will generally set up military cantonment in relatively remote places, generally reclaimed by disabled veterans and prisoners of war, first, to make proper use of those wastelands that no one goes to because of remoteness, and secondly, to provide food for the troops stationed nearby, which greatly reduces the loss in the transportation of military food.

When Wu Mingche was in Huainan before, in fact, part of the grain was also produced through the military cantonment, otherwise it would not be so easy to support a large army in Huainan with the state of Jiangnan at that time.

Compared with the private ownership of land and the land deed system, the management method of the military tun is more crude and direct, the cultivators in the military tun belong to the imperial court and do not belong to any landlord or large household, they obey the jurisdiction and dispatch of the imperial court, and in addition to the reward for outstanding work, their daily work income and their daily consumption of food and drink are actually not directly related, all the grain will be handed over to the imperial court, and all the grain will be allocated by the imperial court.

This is also why Ding Zhuang can be sent out to work at the wharf, because they do not serve any landlord or big household, but directly obey the orders of the imperial court.

In other words, this is the collective farm system and land centralization of later generations.

For Huainan to be able to appear such a production system, in fact, Li Xinchen was also very shocked at the beginning, although he stimulated the germination of capitalism, but this symbolizes the emergence of the socialist production system at this time, is it a bit rushed?

However, on second thought, there is actually a certain difference from the land centralization system of later generations. Although it is no longer the landlords and big families who manage these people, but the imperial court, from a more macro point of view, the imperial court is not also a larger landlord, but these lands are directly owned by His Majesty the Emperor.

He has become the largest landlord in China, and Li Xinchen is also a little helpless. However, in the specific case of Huainan, it is not unusual for such a system to appear.

The imperial court was not at ease with the barren land of Huainan and the front line of the war, and the people and businessmen were naturally not at ease about making a living here alone, and the imperial court came forward to organize farming, commerce, etc., and the people obeyed the orders of the imperial court and directly contributed to the imperial court, so they could naturally be protected by the imperial court and have a greater sense of security.

It is normal for such a special situation to occur in a specific area and in a specific situation. Li Xinchen has not yet fantasized about implementing such a system throughout the country, not to mention that although this system has greatly strengthened the control of the imperial court over the locality, it is difficult to say whether it is really applicable to this era, after all, from the current point of view, the family and the landlord class represented by the family are still the main part of the imperial court, and they will not agree to do this kind of self-destruction of the Great Wall.

"How many households are there in Huainan now?" Li Xinchen looked at the map and said.

"Originally, there were 20,000 households, but this year about 100,000 households have been moved in, and another 100,000 households are planned to be moved in after the summer harvest." Lu Zicai hurriedly said that he was naturally clear about this most concerned data.

And Li Xinchen said in a deep voice: "What you, the governor, have to do is not to consider how many people can be moved in, but how many more people can be conjured out of these 100,000 households." ”

The total population of the Han Dynasty is so large, no matter where it migrates from, there is a big gap between it and the north, so how to encourage childbirth is what these magistrates need to pay the most attention to. Now Dahan has enough wasteland and can also ensure the stability of internal policies, so as long as it can motivate the people to work hard and open up, then nothing is impossible.

Li Xinchen never doubted the diligence of the Chinese nation.

"This time, the people who moved to Huainan are mainly young and middle-aged men and women, so the minister has confidence in this." Lu Zicai hurriedly said, although their Lu family has been from the dragon for a long time, but there is no additional credit except for guarding Huainan, Li Xinchen is now directly handing over the civil affairs of Huainan to the Lu family, which is definitely a trust in the Lu family, and Lu Zicai must not live up to Li Xinchen.

"Has the waterway from the river to the Huaishui been dredged now?" Li Xinchen's attention immediately shifted to another marked route on the map, which was the waterway from Guazhou to Huaishui, connecting the two major water systems.

This waterway is actually the canal dug by Wu Wangfu when he sent the Northern Expedition - Hangou, and later Liu Yu went north to Shandong to mainly be a water master, and once borrowed the road from here to the north to hit the Yellow River. It's just that later, the Southern Korean front was completely contracted, and this canal connecting the Great River and Huaishui was completely abandoned.

Historically, this waterway was used again or until Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Hangou as the most important part of the south side of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal appeared in front of the world again, and it was in this ditch, in this Yangzhou city, the Sui Dynasty ushered in the end, replaced by the troubled times and the prosperity of China after the troubled times.

Now, as an important support project for the reclamation of Huainan, the ditch has been dredging, and the purpose of dredging the ditch is actually not only to facilitate the transportation of goods, but also to be able to go north through the ditch to Huaishui, otherwise with the siltation of the ditch before, the new five-tooth ship of the sailor division has no way to pass.

At the same time, the problems of low freeboard and other problems of the Wuya ship make it difficult for it to enter the Huaishui by sea, so the ditch is the best choice.

"After the spring ploughing, it is the dredging of the ditch," Lu Zicai stretched out his hand and nodded on the map, "Now we are dredging from the north side and the south side at the same time, the south side has just begun, and the north side has been dredged with the army as the backbone, and the waterway from Huaishui to Liangjun has been dredged, and it is expected that the dredging of the entire ditch will be completed within five months." ”

Li Xinchen bowed slightly, with the current national strength of the Han Dynasty, he naturally did not allow the re-excavation of a canal, and he was already very satisfied with the existing waterway of Hangou. In fact, correspondingly, the canals on the south side of the Yangtze River have also begun to be dredged, mainly with the help of existing waterways, and what the imperial court needs to do is actually connect several major rivers.

The collapse of the Sui Dynasty in history has a lot to do with the labor and loss of money during the construction of the Grand Canal in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the most difficult part of the entire construction process is actually the Central Plains.

After the Huaishui, there are many rivers that can be used, and the craftsmen in the south of the Yangtze River are obviously more experienced in this area, so the difficulties faced and the investment required are not large.

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