At this time, Han Qi didn't realize this at all, and all his energy was restrained by the canal project.

This is an unprecedented project, perhaps the volume of a single part is far less than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal or the Great Wall, but its wide distribution and the number of rivers designed are unprecedented.

In the entire Central Plains, the tributaries of the five major rivers involve 4, the Yellow River, the Haihe River and the Huai River, the Yangtze River, of course, the Yangtze River only involves a part of the northern part, the southern tributaries are dense, easy to navigate, and there is no need for dredging.

The entire Central Plains, millions of square kilometers of land, large and small rivers involved almost a thousand, the need to excavate the site, but also more than 3,000, such a huge project, such a total amount of work, may be the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal total 10 times the total amount of terrible project, if changed in the past, any historical period proposed, there will be a huge controversy, and even in the court to cause the majority of the competition, but such a huge project, from the project to the final implementation, It's just been about half a year.

The reason is very simple, in the past, the large-scale projects of the dynasty were often requisitioned and conscripted, and countless people were gathered to work, with less capital and less investment, of course, it was impossible to cover everything, coupled with a series of problems such as efficiency, resulting in huge waste and becoming a huge drag on the people.

Whether it is the Great Wall of the Qin Dynasty or the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty, they are all great projects that can remember the history books and can judge the history of China, but in which era, it was a chaotic government and the root cause of the demise of the dynasty.

Now, under the premise that the Northern Song Dynasty has obtained sufficient funds from all aspects, such a project can be promoted by relying solely on the government of the Northern Song Dynasty, from this point of view, this is a huge progress, the government has started a huge project, and the people not only do not receive losses, but are apportioned, but because of the huge investment, and the income increases, which will also become a basis for large-scale projects in the future.

Large-scale projects damage national strength, which is recorded in countless history books, once large-scale liberalization, no matter how powerful the country is, it will not be able to support it.

But if we think about it differently, if the country is rich and strong, has a good foundation, and can come up with so much money, then large-scale projects will not be a burden, but a multiplier.

All large-scale projects, especially targeted, he has a positive significance, not to mention the Great Wall, that is in the early days of agricultural civilization, the only weapon that can resist the nomads, the main transportation routes, and the places where cavalry can be mobilized on a large scale, are blocked, even if from the mountains, a few come sporadically, it can't make too much impact, just a little skin ringworm.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, all large-scale canals in history, has the benefits of transportation and water conservancy, and any country, as long as its national strength is sufficient, will get a huge boost and obtain great benefits if it takes the balance to invest in such a large-scale project.

The excavation of the canal, which in itself is a method of operation, in the continuous investment, the city and the land will be more valuable, more output, for the total amount, is a pretty good climb, such a huge project, once completed, the final income is amazing.

Take a canal as an example, the earliest large-scale canal is the Zhengguo Canal of the Qin State during the Warring States Period, which was originally a method used by the Zongheng family to drag down the Qin State, and investing in such a project with huge national strength will inevitably drag down the strength of the Qin State and make the Qin State unable to invade on a large scale.

In fact, this purpose was achieved, when the Zhengguo Canal was built, the manpower and material resources of the Qin Dynasty were dragged down, even if the Qin State had strong strength and strength, it could only fight sporadically, only on the corners.

It's a pity that the power of large-scale projects is incomprehensible, once the construction of Zheng Guoqu is completed, it has a terrible effect, the strength of Qin is more stable, and it is only a military lead, because the emergence of Zheng Guoqu has become all-round, food population, military, these three aspects of crushing, Qin can unify the six countries, the role of Zheng Guoqu is also quite worth explaining.

Although the concept of running a city and running a country has not been summed up perfectly, it has been carried out, and the performance appraisal of officials is to evaluate all aspects, including some economic indicators.

It's a pity that divide and conquer, coupled with the poor financial situation of the center, many times, can only be repaired, except for the war on the frontier in the Northern Song Dynasty, there are no large-scale projects in the country, because of this, the finances are not good, and there is no money, and the investment is written backwards in construction.

According to the normal development trajectory in history, after Renzong tried to change the law in the fourth year of Qingli, after that, he did not promote the reform again, and even after the backbone of the reform faction, Fu Bi and Han Qi grew up, they became prime ministers, but they became conservatives, and they did not mention the change at all.

Under the constant patching and some luck, it finally lasted more than ten years, but Renzong and Yingzong died in 4 years respectively, and two emperors died in less than 4 years, whether it was ceremonies, tombs, and other expenses, they were very high, and the central financial resources of the Northern Song Dynasty finally collapsed when Shenzong arrived, which is also the fundamental reason why Shenzong chose Wang Anshi without hesitation.

Wang Anshi is a very capable person and a politician who can be remembered in the history books, but unfortunately he left too quickly.

Even ordinary people, if they go too fast, it is easy to talk nonsense, let alone a country, when a country uses radical and desperate changes, once there is a problem, it is a big problem.

The change of the Northern Song Dynasty ended in failure, and also buried the last bit of vitality of the Northern Song Dynasty, from the later period of Shenzong, until the later emperors, did not solve the financial problems, the huge problem, has been dragging down the entire Northern Song Dynasty, only a hundred years, the Renzong period, the strong army, turned into a show, tens of thousands of gold troops came to Lin'an, 800,000 forbidden troops disarmed, this is also sad.

The Northern Song Dynasty was lucky, he met Zhao Xin, such a traverser, whether it was a variety of products, magical machinery, so that the Northern Song Dynasty completed the idea of Taizu, recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun, defeated the Western Xia, and finally occupied a more dominant force in the Three Kingdoms.

However, at the same time, the Northern Song Dynasty was unfortunate that he met Zhao Xin, a traverser, when the Dinghai Navy had a population of 10 million and a huge industry, and gradually acquired a series of islands such as Ryukyu, Jeju Island, Hokkaido, etc., the rise of the Dinghai Navy was unstoppable.

After that, careful preparations, the final recovery of Liao, and the capture of the entire territory of Liao, is just a icing on the cake, even if it can't be won, it will only affect the time to unify the entire East Asia, and will not affect the rise of the Dinghai Navy.

Under the premise of Zhao Xin's chaotic entry, the financial problems of the Northern Song Dynasty were solved one by one accident, and the first accident was that in the northwest, the strengthened Northwest Forbidden Army suddenly cooperated with the Liao State, so that the battle of Liaoxia, which itself failed, was reversed.

Liao Xingzong finally took the capital of Western Xia, but Yuan Hao only fled with a small number of guards, and Western Xia was destroyed.

Without such a big enemy as the Western Xia, even if there are not too many changes, just the reduction of military spending in the northwest will make the Northern Song Dynasty breathe a sigh of relief, not to mention, and later, the materials obtained from the Western Xia, as well as the trade with the Liao State, solved the problem of the northwest in one fell swoop, and built a water conservancy hub on the Hetao Plain.

The northwest, which is isolated and has harsh natural conditions, is an important link, whether it is for the Western Xia or the Liao State, if there is not enough population and output to support it, the annual expenses on it will be huge.

Without such a water, it is very easy to reserve a part of the funds, and after that, it is even more open, taxes, factories, and migrant workers, one after another, the Northern Song Dynasty completely got rid of the financial crisis, and even because of the relationship between migrant workers, the construction of large-scale projects can be started on a large scale.

The canal project has been thoroughly rolled out, spread over dozens of provinces, distributed in hundreds of state capitals, carried out separately, some small ones, funded by the center, handed over to the lower government for implementation, some key, or large-scale projects, are directly under the jurisdiction of the center.

From the beginning of the year to the present, eight or nine months, because of the abundance of funds, whether it is last year's 3 million management fees, or this year, with the improvement of the level of the workers, the increased management fees have been shown, and the entire Northern Song Dynasty has accumulated nearly 500 million management fees, of which half belong to the center.

Coupled with the smooth commissioning of various factories, even if the earliest is only half a year, the profit of the output is very amazing.

All underwriting, and also to ensure full profits, these factories only need to organize workers to produce, and even part of the raw materials are also provided by the Dinghai Navy, which is quite simple, just organize production.

When the production is opened, a steady stream of raw materials are processed into products, regardless of the problem of sales, almost produced, that is, profits, this profit is very much, and a steady stream of production, every month, there are tens of millions of income.

In fact, the management fee is more than enough to pay for the consumption of the canal project, and even divided into three years to build the canal project, one year's management fee, it is enough, the money must not be spent, plus the income of the factory, the increase in taxes in all aspects, these are huge figures, unconsciously, in the central finance, there are already hundreds of millions of funds.

In the ordinary case, or in other words, in the case of some prime minister who has no ambition and only knows pleasure, he will spend the money on it for rewards or to improve his treatment, or simply put it in the treasury and put it for nothing.

Han Qi himself is a very capable prime minister, even if he didn't meet Zhao Xin, during his real tenure, he was also very capable and made some achievements.

Now, with the example of Dinghai, he has seen the power of many cities and industries in the end, and when the two are combined, he immediately makes adjustments.

Money can't be put in vain, money is put in vain, except for insects and rot, there is no other use, spend it, even if it is all spent, as long as it is spent on meaningful things, this is a huge benefit for the Northern Song Dynasty.

When he was in the northwest, he raised funds to build the Northwest Water Conservancy Project, so that the Hetao Plain regained the reputation of plugging the south of the Yangtze River, after taking Hebei, reasonable planning, so that the sixteen states of Youyun, while supplying the cattle of the Northern Song Dynasty, also became a granary, and under the premise of taking over as prime minister, and having enough funds, he opened a large-scale canal construction project.

Han Qi has built too much, basically including the entire Central Plains of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Yangtze River basin in the south, there is no need to build it, in this sense, even if there is more money, there is no place to build water conservancy projects.

However, in contact with the Dinghai Navy, the Northern Song Dynasty had a lot of things, and there were too many things that could be built, for example, the railway, which used to be too expensive to build, could not be built, but now, it can be built, maybe the benefits are not high, but it is finally positive, and at the same time, the dense railway network, to a certain extent, can also increase the overall efficiency.

In the past few years, the Northern Song Dynasty has started a large number of railways, to a certain extent, the railway is relatively saturated, at least, for the current traffic situation in the Northern Song Dynasty, it is so, there is no steam locomotive, there is no higher speed train, the utilization rate of the railway can not go up, the density of the entire railway, it is impossible to raise it, and it is not possible to save much time.

However, in addition to railways, there are also roads, which are more free and less difficult to build than railways, as long as there is cement.

From the beginning of the appearance of the fortress, the Ding Navy has supplied cement to the Northern Song Dynasty on a large scale, thinking that after the establishment of the Ding Navy, this strategic material will be reduced, or not, who knows, not only there are, but also more.

Cement raw materials can be seen everywhere, cement factories are also necessary in many cities, more brick and tile factories, after obtaining steam engines, as well as large boilers, making cement is a very simple thing, especially after arriving in the Northeast, there is a broader land, as well as various materials for making cement, of course, it is to increase the scale, tens of millions of tons, or even tens of millions of tons of cement production enterprises, one after another.

The construction of the Dinghai Navy needed cement, and a large amount of cement was produced, even if a part of it flowed into the Northern Song Dynasty, it was enough for the Northern Song Dynasty to build all the military facilities, and there was a surplus.

This surplus was considered before the construction of some more critical gallop roads, and now, with the money, the gallop roads in various places immediately began to open.

From the canal, to the railway, to the highway, are large-scale investment, and are related to the traffic, once these are all built, the Northern Song Dynasty between the region and the region, will be closer and closer, the original is only the railway line through, now plus water transport and highways, more perfect and three-dimensional, once completed, for the Northern Song Dynasty has begun to gradually have industry, the promotion is huge.