Inadvertently, two large-scale projects were opened again, perhaps under the current situation, these projects, their volume and scale, can not be compared with the super-large canal project, but this is also a large-scale project, the investment is at least 80 million to 100 million grade, which before, that is the power of the whole country, decades may not be able to open, but now as a matching project, combined with the canal project.

Even if Han Qi had been prepared, had many assistants, and cooperated with various committees, he was still busy with his feet on the ground.

For the Northern Song Dynasty's vision of all the good, there are still three major system projects, if completed, for the blessing of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, these are the strong foundation of the Northern Song Dynasty, he didn't realize that the foundation of the Northern Song Dynasty has been slowly dissolved.

This foundation is nothing else, it is the ordinary civilians who he didn't pay attention to at all before, these ordinary civilians have created the whole of China, a brilliant civilization, but unfortunately there is not much influence in the entire policy level.

In the face of the huge amount of canals and the construction of railways and roads, the revenues of the whole government in all aspects began to increase, and they continued to increase, and some of them seemed to be thriving, but correspondingly, they ignored the loss of population.

Although the entire policy system of the Northern Song Dynasty is much better than that of the Liao State, it will not appear, Yuan Hao has already invaded the hinterland, and when the hinterland was killed, it was not discovered until half a year later, when the losses were heavy, it was not discovered, but there is still no clear understanding of the population.

How many people there are in China has always been a question that the ruling class wants to figure out, and the bottom, whether it is the landlords and aristocrats or the ordinary ordinary people, must avoid, for the simple reason that the number of these people represents taxes.

The poll tax, since the establishment of the feudal dynasty, has been extended, a person is a tax-paying individual, there is nothing wrong with this, but mixed with the power of big families, ordinary homeless, this becomes very complicated.

At any time, even in the 21st century, cultivating the land is a relatively hard work, especially in the season of cultivation and harvest, which almost tires people to death, even in the 21st century, there is a summer harvest time, go home to harvest the crops, at this point in time, many laborers have returned to their hometowns.

Big families have a lot of privileges, financial resources, influence, and connections, they are all local snakes, even if they are not too big families, but in feudal society, under the premise that government decrees do not go to the countryside, clan forces have huge influence, and the hidden population has become the norm, and the larger the family, the more hidden population.

In the same way, some people who have lost their land and do not have enough ability to survive have to become exiles, although they do not have subjective concealment, but in fact, they still conceal it, which makes the population of the dynasty less and less.

In later generations, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the reason for the population explosion, the three high-yield crops are one aspect, because only enough high-yield crops can feed more population, in order to support a huge population, but on the other hand, the feudal courts of the past dynasties have always wanted to do things, the gentry pay grain as one, spread into the mu, this policy, in the Yongzheng Dynasty was realized.

There are many changes in feudal dynasties, there are hundreds of millions of talents, why no one can succeed, is it because the vision is not enough, no, there are so many talents, but unfortunately no one implements it, the reason is that the resistance is too great.

The struggle between the feudal imperial power and the regime, the fighting method between the emperor and the ministers, that is endless, even if it is a strong entry into the Tang Dynasty and Song Zu, Qin Emperor and Han Wu, they may not be able to completely control the court, and implement this policy, that is with the landlords and magnates of the world, are standing on the opposite side, how difficult it is.

In any feudal dynasty, the emperor is the foundation, but the gentry and doctors are also the foundation, and it is difficult to say whether the emperor can still exist after this foundation is missing.

In the entire feudal dynasty, the only one who regarded the minister as a slave was the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty may also have it, but the Yuan Dynasty had a certain foundation, for example, the Hanchen still had certain rights, and the Yuan Dynasty did not have a few promising emperors.

Under the bloody butcher's knife, in the face of countless literary prisons and many killings in the early Manchu Dynasty, a Yongzheng, plus a few bold officials, really realized this, which can be said to be a pioneering feat.

Since then, the agricultural tax is not linked to the head, but to the area of cultivated land, and at the same time, the gentry pay grain in one piece, which means that there are no more peasant households attached to the previous imperial examination, there is no need to hide, then the total population has become real, which may be the fundamental reason for the population explosion in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Under the unclear situation, including the central governors, they don't know how many people there are in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and when the lost population is below a certain level, they don't find out at all.

Not to mention, because Dinghai generously gave the big killer of management fees, the income of hundreds of millions of yuan a year also made the entire Northern Song Dynasty officialdom from top to bottom, all of them are engaged in transporting the population, and they are not aware of the problem, even if the local labor force is insufficient, they also think that this is the sequelae of population transportation, not that someone is deliberately transferring the population.

Money can not solve all the problems, but can solve most of the problems, the Northern Song Dynasty taxes, can be replaced by money, in the past, local officials attached importance to the population, that is because the population is on behalf of taxes, on behalf of the amount of farming, if the tax does not come up, what to do, this affects the evaluation of officials, if the evaluation of officials is not good, they will not be promoted.

Now, as long as there are migrant workers, this income can go to the locality, even if the officials themselves can't take it, they can spend it by various means, of course, it is also a little bit to buy political achievements, even if the county's economy is a little worse, the income is a little worse, as long as this is subsidized a little, it will be excellent immediately.

For this reason, from top to bottom, coupled with the fact that the Northern Song Dynasty really needs such a sum of money, it is naturally quite easy to implement, in the 9th year of Qingli, after getting together more than 3 million laborers, in the 10th year of Qingli, it is barely enough to make up 1.2 million.

Even if it is tens of millions of people in the Northern Song Dynasty, close to 100 million, they can't withstand such a transfer, you know, the Dinghai Navy in the labor force, the requirements are very clear, as long as the prime of men, even twelve or thirteen years old, as for the oldest age, more than 50 people have also been sent over, but they really can't go, how to send them.

Even if the ratio of men to women is one to one, such a number accounts for at most 40% of the entire population, and after piecing together 3 million in the first year, 1.2 million in the second year is a bit difficult.

Unless it is the kind that has no bottom line at all, it can even send out the entire population, but most of them still have a certain foundation, and it is impossible to send them out endlessly.

According to the standard of 4 percent, based on the current population of 90 million in the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of prime-age laborers should be 36 million, and for two consecutive years, 4.2 million prime-age laborers have been lost, which is huge for the Northern Song Dynasty, which is close to a loss of 10%.

Of course, there were many hidden households in the Northern Song Dynasty, these quantities cannot be examined, even the Dinghai Navy does not know, only from the annual salt consumption, roughly calculated, there should be three or four percent, that is to say, the population of the Northern Song Dynasty should be hundreds of millions, such a loss, also more than 7%.

This is just an official number, a number recognized by the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty did not realize how many of them were in the corners they did not see.

In a Spring Festival, tens of thousands of people went home to visit relatives, and hundreds of thousands of people were taken away, which is almost ten times more, and there were also residents who originally belonged to the Dinghai Navy, and the result of their propaganda, under the gradual propaganda, the losses of the Northern Song Dynasty during the Spring Festival alone were more than millions.

When the winter of the tenth year of Qingli came, when the Spring Festival came again, the Northern Song Dynasty did not realize that a large-scale propaganda and population struggle began.

When a railway runs through the premise of Shenyang and Bianliang, anyone who wants to go to the navy is just a matter of a ticket, for this railway, the Northern Song Dynasty did not realize that this is a big problem, they considered, only the income of this railway, of course, a steam railway, his income, is much higher than that of ordinary railways, to a certain extent, 5 times there is.

In itself, it turns out that the original state of the railway, its yield is very high, which is also the fundamental reason for the continuous construction of various levels of railways in the Northern Song Dynasty over the years, the income is fundamental, there is no much higher yield than farmland, how to attract so many landlords and nobles to invest, the money of the dynasty itself can not support such a huge project.

The steam railway, not only has high efficiency, but also has good benefits, 5 times the income, and has suddenly become a star, and many nobles are ready to move, even if they want to get a steam railway at all costs, and even transform the Northern Song Dynasty.

When Han Qi's income from the factory skyrocketed, when he was thinking about what kind of project to use to spend the money, he also thought about turning the entire railway built in the Northern Song Dynasty into a steam railway.

In this way, not only can the railway exert great power, but also allow the Northern Song Dynasty to obtain huge benefits.

When he heard this request, Dingjun's first choice was to refuse directly, jokingly, the production of steam engines was difficult, and it was not until the second half of the tenth year of Qingli that it was gradually explored and accelerated, but up to now, almost half of the entire railway network of Liao was horse-drawn trains, not steam trains.

The reason is very simple, the number is insufficient, even if you don't have enough yourself, how can you support the Northern Song Dynasty, even if the Northern Song Dynasty pays a high price, it can't work.

In the same way, the steam train has high requirements for cooperation and control, and the steam train line from Bianliang to Shenyang has only some simple or procedural work, which is handed over to the personnel of the Northern Song Dynasty, and other key tasks, such as scheduling, command, entering the station, and inspection, are basically completed by the personnel of the navy.

It is easier to destroy than to build, and the horse-drawn train, although it is said that the improvement of traffic is also very high, and there is also a certain danger, but for people who often drive horse-drawn carriages, there is finally a certain foundation, even if there is an accident, it is controllable.

But the steam locomotive, that is a group of monsters, is currently the standard steam locomotive of the navy, starting with 250 horsepower, or two, that is to say, a steam locomotive, at least 500 horses pull the force, such a force causes such a high speed, but once there is a problem, this power is also very terrible.

A horse-drawn train, 3 carriages, at most can accommodate more than 300 people, and the speed is not fast, with the management level of the Northern Song Dynasty, I don't know how many car accidents have occurred, but there is no large-scale accident, a year, that is, hundreds of thousands of people died.

If this accident is converted to a steam locomotive, a train can accommodate between 2,000 and 2,500 people at most, and the density of car accidents in the Northern Song Dynasty is calculated, then the probability of a problem is much greater, and I am afraid that tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, will die in a year.

This number is absolutely unacceptable, and in the same way, the railway itself cannot withstand it, even the horse-drawn train, a serious collision, will affect the railway, not to mention the steam train, so if it goes on, the Northern Song Dynasty railway will not want it.

However, the Northern Song Dynasty asked again and again, and the bargaining chips it took out were also okay, and the railway bureau of the Navy was not ready to deal with it, but when the people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs got together, the whole situation changed.

The purpose of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is very simple, and the purpose is also for the follow-up of the huge population migration plan, a traffic artery from Bianliang to Shenyang, during the Spring Festival, showing its strength, not only completing the Spring Festival transportation of millions of people, but also obtaining millions of immigrants, which is equivalent to a big step forward for the plan of the navy.

But then, the plan of the navy is even bigger, all the preparations are placed in the Spring Festival and the first half of the eleventh year of Qingli, it is impossible for all personnel and immigrants to be concentrated on that railway line, even if there is the Yangtze River water operation as a diversion, water transportation involves too much, it is not easy for the north to go from that side, and it is necessary to open up two new passages for the north.

What new passage will be more suitable than the railway, the Northern Song Dynasty does not know how to manage, as long as it is to take the money, the rest, just send out a few more carriages, or even a few trains, for the busy railway, it is not conspicuous at all, as long as the local government in the Northern Song Dynasty is not discovered, there is no mistake, this matter will be nine out of ten.

In this way, with the intervention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, two new railways were identified, one from Zhuojun to Shandong, Anhui, and finally across the Huai River to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the other from Inner Mongolia to the south, all the way to Jingzhao, both of which were new railways, and at the same time, they also passed through a large number of densely populated areas.