On a small hillside outside Kaifeng Mansion in Henan, Chen Zilong, the new governor of the three provinces, quietly looked into the distance with his hands behind his back, and in front of him was an endless field, or now it should be said that it was a wilderness, because now there was no green in the whole field, and the land was all dry and cracked.

Chen Zilong stood still for a long time before sighing, retracting his gaze, he understood the emperor's eagerness, the plain in front of him is almost as big as the Liaohe Plain, but, in the past ten years, this field has almost no harvest, and the Jinzhong Plain, as well as the Loess Plateau, the same, this is nearly three or four percent of the land of the Ming Dynasty, abandoned over the years, has seriously dragged down the development of the Ming Dynasty, if it continues to be abandoned, it will cause huge resistance to the rise of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor sent him to change the status quo in the northwest and sow more drought-tolerant crops in the arid areas, so that the land would no longer be deserted.

In the distance, a three-person wide canal is stepping up construction, and the recruits of the reserve corps have been fighting for nearly two months, but they have never shouted tired, nor have they ever dragged out the progress, because this land is their homeland, and the emperor of this land has been handed over to the tunwei of the three provinces to take care of, and the people who have benefited from digging the canal are all their relatives, so they have no complaints, digging desperately, digging desperately, and the canals in the three provinces have been dug almost in just two months under their unremitting efforts!

However, Chen Zilong is still waiting, as an expert in agriculture, of course, he knows that the most suitable time for sowing has passed, but sowing in arid areas cannot be measured by conventional agricultural time, and the growth of crops requires the right temperature, but more water. If the temperature is not suitable, the most is stunted, the harvest is less, and if there is no water, the crops will not be able to survive in the first place.

Digging canals can only solve the problem of irrigation during the development and maturity of crops, and any crop needs a lot of water at the seedling stage, and it is not enough to rely on this small canal, unless the canal is dug as wide as the Yellow River!

Naturally, it is impossible to dig the canal as wide as the Yellow River, in that case, it will be called a canal, not an irrigation canal, to dig all the canals in the fields of the three provinces into canals, even if everyone in the Ming Dynasty comes to dig I'm afraid it will have to dig for a few years, so he can only wait.

With his observation in the past few years, he knows that at the turn of spring and summer, there will be a relatively large precipitation in the northwest dry area, the rain will be intermittent for about half a month, after the rainfall, the river will become full, the land will also become wet, completely without irrigation can let some more drought-tolerant crops through the seedling stage, more than a month after the rainfall is the only suitable time for sowing in the whole year, because then it is the scorching summer, the water in the land will be quickly evaporated, and in autumn, the land will be dry and explode again!

Of course, he is not only waiting for the rain, but also waiting for the dragon, fortunately, the railway from the capital to Kaifeng has entered the final stage of laying, almost ten days before the whole line can be opened to traffic, then the dragon can quickly get sick through the train Kaifeng, and then slowly drive from Kaifeng to all parts of Henan. It's just that the railway from Kaifeng to Xi'an and Taiyuan has just been built, although there are nearly 300,000 people on each side who are working hard, but whether it can be completed before the end of the rain, no one can say for sure, when the time comes, it can only be repaired to where it is, at least the dragon along the line can still be guaranteed to arrive.

Chen Zilong sighed for a while and walked down the mountain, because it was almost noon, if he didn't rush to the construction site of the canal, today's lunch would not have been settled, and a team of brocade guards behind him silently spread, protecting him from the front and back to the left and right .......

At the beginning of May, the long-awaited manna finally descended on the northwest, and at this time the Beijing-Kaifeng Railway has already been opened to traffic, a car of the dragon has been transported from the capital, at this time Kaifeng outside the city has become a steel forest, these are of course not for Henan, Henan's dragon has already arrived, and now it is on the way to the prefectures, states and counties, these are all prepared for Shaanxi and Shanxi.

The construction of the railway from Kaifeng to Taiyuan is relatively smooth, and it is close to completion at this time, but the railway from Kaifeng to Xi'an has encountered trouble, because the terrain near Tongguan is too complicated, even if the Ministry of Engineering keeps building railway bridges, it cannot be crossed, because the railway is different from the highway, can not twist and turn between the mountains, nor can it rise and fall, otherwise the train will not be able to run at all.

Due to the urgency of time, it was too late to dig the tunnel, and the Ministry of Industry could only let Sun Chuanting first escort the prisoners from the official road across the mountains, and go directly to the remaining section of the railway in Xi'an.

Zhu Cijiong received the news and was in a hurry, he hurriedly ordered the Ministry of Industry to hurry up and make a large number of explosive tubes thicker than his thighs, he was going to go to the mountains and explode!

The power of the explosive tube made of black powder is not very large, even if it is as thick as a thigh, it cannot catch up with the TNT explosives of later generations, but the Ministry of Industry has invited a lot of veterans from many private quarries, and under their guidance, it really blew up enough gaps in the mountains that blocked the road, and the railway was successfully repaired to Xi'an.

After the short rainy season, the land in the arid area finally became moist, and all parts of the northwest seemed to have suddenly come to life, everywhere was the muffled roar of the dragon who turned the ground, and everywhere there were peasants ploughing, two or three million young and strong laborers, plus old women and children, a total of five or six million people, to cultivate two or three hundred million mu of land, if it was changed before, there would definitely be someone who risked being killed and ran to Zhu Cijiong and scolded: "You are a bad pen, whether you can farm the land, don't be blind if you don't know how to farm!" “

But now, it is estimated that no one will think of scolding the emperor, the dragon that turns over the ground is called a god, suddenly open the past, the ground will be turned over, and it can be turned day and night, a dragon can turn at least 100 acres of land in twelve hours!

How many floor-to-earth dragons did the Ministry of Industry make? I'm afraid Bi Maokang can't figure it out, anyway, Wang Gong's factory has stopped working, more than 10,000 people all ran to the machinery factory to help, plus more than 10,000 new recruits, a total of nearly 30,000 people, day and night, overtime to do, do it to the northwest, the Jingkai line, the Xikai line, the Kaiyuan line has not stopped, and you can see the train full of turning dragons running on the railway all day long.

After more than a month of hard work, the land in the northwest was finally sprinkled with the seeds of hope again, it was early summer, Chen Zilong came to the small hillside again, looking into the distance, the scenery in front of him was very different from two months ago, there was no trace of drying up in the field, all the land was turned fluffy, some of the seeds planted in advance have emerged thin green shoots, a gust of wind blows, there is the smell of earth, the eyes are full of light green, like early spring.