There was no need to stay in Wanchuan during this trip, and Zong Botai's previous proposal to move the capital made Bailiyan begin to consider the issue of industrial and economic transfer.

More than 95 percent of the industry and 60 percent of the economy of the province were concentrated, and it was a devastating blow to it during the war. The economic turmoil caused by the rebellion of the royal family can be seen, and it is obviously not suitable to put all the eggs in one basket.

In the early days, there was a shortage of talents, the basic industry was backward, and it had its inevitable advantages to concentrate resources to do a few major things.

Now, after 20 years of development, the basic industry and human resources have been greatly improved, and continuing to circle high-quality resources in a core area is not conducive to the benign development of society and economy.

The topography of Wanchuan is undoubtedly a match with that of Sichuan, and the establishment of an industrial and economic center here is not only conducive to wartime defense, but also geographically relatively isolated, conducive to the establishment of secrecy measures and personnel control.

Yongxing City is surrounded by an open plain, and the technical crowd has been limited to the city for a long time, and life is very inconvenient.

Wanchuan County has a huge space, focusing on monitoring several key positions, the flow of personnel can be appropriately liberalized, and supplemented by espionage agencies and confidentiality systems, the risk of technology leakage is much lower.

Bailiyan is considering taking three years to initially complete the infrastructure construction and investment of Wanchuan industry, and another two years to accelerate the investment in fixed assets, and at the same time, the development of private industrial capital in Ganfu, Shangguan and Wanchuan will be promoted, so as to accelerate economic operation and relieve the financial pressure caused by the investment of the imperial court.

Therefore, starting in the second half of the year, there will be expeditions stationed in Wanchuan to find factory sites, and at the end of the year at the earliest, at the latest early next year, the construction of new factories, private houses, education and other facilities will be started for the resettlement and expansion of production capacity, industrial facilities and population.

Wanchuan stayed for seven days, and the brigade continued to rush in detail, passing through Shangguan and Ganfu without making any further stops, crossing the Sishui River by boat, and landing at Dekang Jiangquan.

The envoys had already informed the Wei Guo in advance, and the Wei army gathered 5,000 light cavalry early in the morning to escort the Xian army through the Wei State to the Liang State. Nominally an escort, in fact surveillance.

Bailiyan accompanied more than 3,000 people can only go west on the road prescribed by the guards, and cannot do what they want, even if they stop for repairs, they will often attract the "goodwill" urging of the guards.

When Dekang, Mingtian, Qiujun and Mingtian were handed over to the guards, the land of the four counties was basically intact, but the infrastructure was not sound, and it was not touched in four or five years, and the road was still the road of the year, without any repair, let alone widening. The city only strengthened the walls of the border area, and the walls of the hinterland were and are still the same.

Among them, there is not only the human and economic vacuum left by the migration of Bailiyan, but also the narrow cognitive concept of Weiguo and even today's people.

It is not clear how much the displaced population had on the four counties that were transferred. During the fifteen or sixteen years under the rule of the Black Turban Army, many young and middle-aged people died, and even if the country received the population of the four counties, most of them were still old, weak, sick and disabled.

It has neither the economic power nor the effective domestic policy strategy, and the millions of old, weak, sick and disabled people will be a huge burden. This is also the key reason why Wei Guo can tolerate the relocation of the population by Bailiyan.

In the eyes of the country, foreigners are not human beings, they are inferior slaves, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are useless waste, and it is a scourge to keep them.

So Wei Guo was happy to see Baili Yan move away the population, and Wei Guo was even more willing to sell the population of Sun Guo in exchange for economic resources that could not be produced by slaves. This logic is wrong, but it is also true, the essence of a slave society is the extreme phenomenon of the dehumanization of the lower classes and the exploitation of the aristocracy.

Entering the country is already mid to late August, the reason for the slightly higher latitude, the local can only plant one season of rice and one season of wheat a year, rice is planted in late spring, and the temperature is lower than the north, so the growth ability of rice is not good, not enough for two seasons a year, and the temperature is low in winter, so the rice is harvested in autumn, and another season of winter wheat is planted in late autumn, and then harvested after the spring of the next year.

In recent years, the overall wind and rain have been smooth, and the collection of grain and grass is very considerable, but the yield per mu is still not as good as that of Xianguo. On the one hand, there is the problem of breeding and selection, and the seed yield is low, resulting in a much lower yield per mu as a whole, and secondly, the fertilizer is not enough.

In the early stage, Baili Yan used straw ash and human and animal manure to accumulate fertilizer, added a small amount of potassium nitrate in the middle to improve soil fertility, and used phosphate and volcanic mud in the later stage. Human and animal manure is mainly nitrogen and phosphorus, straw ash and potassium nitrate are mainly potassium, potassium is the calcium of plants, and nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers are the energy of plant fruit flesh.

The collection of human and animal manure in Xianguo has established a perfect institutional and urban and rural system, and the public testing and septic tanks funded by the imperial court have spread all over the country, and the human and animal manure produced by the city of Chenling every year is enough for the entire eastern county.

Although Wei Guo also imitated the early accumulation of fertilizer in the Xian Kingdom, the efficiency was much lower. First of all, the organizational management and investment in facilities required for fertilizer accumulation will be a large expenditure, and Wei Guo has not invested money or this leisure. Second, the effect of decentralizing the collection of human and animal manure is much lower than the efficiency of the concentrated use of resources.

Third, there is no organized management and control, and the potential resources cannot be effectively managed as a whole, so a large amount of human and animal manure is wasted in the wild or even dumped at will to form pollution, without real utilization. As for chemical fertilizers such as potassium nitrate, phosphate, and volcanic mud, it is an unattainable dream.

The grain varieties of Weiguo still stay in the yield of one or two stones per mu, and the yield of three stones hovers, and the accumulation of fertilizer method makes the two stone fields a little more, and the one stone field has improved, and occasionally you can see the good fields with the output of four stones, and the overall is still much inferior.

It is no wonder that the Gongliang cultivators were surprised by the yield per mu of the Xian Kingdom, compared with the current princes, the yield per mu of the Xian Kingdom has actually doubled, or even tripled.

Forty years ago, the taxes of the princes in the Taiping years were all forty percent or even slightly higher, while the Xian State now only needs to levy two or five to three percent, plus the effect of the ladder tax, the land with the highest yield per mu does not exceed fifty percent of the field tax.

On average, according to the 30 percent field endowment, the actual land endowment received by Xianguo is 6 to 70 percent more than that of 40 years ago, which does not include the output of animal husbandry and animal husbandry.

Therefore, compared with the economy of other vassal states still stuck in the traditional agriculture, and the industry and commerce were almost ignored, the output of agriculture in Xianguo alone was about the same as that of the Jin State, and its strength was not strong. Moreover, the common people were richer than the common people of the Jin Kingdom, and they had more surplus money to buy daily necessities.

The guards were very strict along the way to the west, but they did not prevent them from spying on the national conditions of the country.

In recent years, various countries have borrowed a lot of military practices from the Xian country, coupled with the export of iron and steel, bronze has been difficult to find, iron armor, chain mail is quite common, horses are used stirrups, and the construction of the army is generally moving closer to the Xian army.

It is worth mentioning that after the Xianguo horizontal sword became famous in World War I, it has successively become the standard equipment that all countries emulate.

Compared with the sword, the horizontal sword has the ability to stab the sword, which enhances the effect of slashing and armor piercing, which is conducive to skirmishing after the military formation is dispersed. The sword is mainly stabbed, and the slashing effect is not good, while the stabbing can directly damage the human body, and it is difficult to block, and a shield is needed. If you don't cut off the limbs or injure the abdomen, otherwise the scars left by the slash are not easy to kill with one hit.

However, the overall output power of the stab is not as good as that of the slash, and in the middle and late stages of the popularization of heavy armor, the piercing power of the sword is very limited, and it is a general trend to be replaced by a knife with armor-piercing power.

Of course, the European long version of the heavy sword is an exception, the long sword has a large identity, and the effect of the powerful slash is actually equivalent to the knife, plus the emergence of the European battle axe, the axe bears more of the knife's slashing and armor-piercing effect.

The main battle site between Wei Guo and Changsun this time is located in the northwest of Wei Guo, and the fronts of the northeast and northern fronts are relatively calm, mainly because the northeast line and the northern front are mainly hilly terrain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is not conducive to the large army to carry out array operations, and it is difficult to give full play to the advantages of the defense of the country.

On the contrary, the Changsun Kingdom is weak in battle, and it is not cost-effective to defend the city and drag the defense of the country, which can make the war advance more slowly, and the defense of the country has to fight for each city and place, which is not cost-effective.

The army of the Patriotic State is generally impressive, everyone is a soldier under the early feudal monarchy, and a large number of conscripted county soldiers are seen patrolling back and forth in every town, and the situation of conscripts in the concentrated training of the peasants can be seen everywhere, perhaps it is the result of the deliberate arrangement of the Patriotic State, in order to show Bailiyan the strength of the Patriotic Empire, in order to deter the Xianguo.

However, in Bai Liyan's view, the wishful thinking of defending the country may be in vain.

Times have changed, technology is developing, and science is advancing. If it was twenty years ago, in the face of the tiger and wolf of the country, Bailiyan would never dare to provoke. But now, what about millions of tigers and wolves, they are nothing more than cannon fodder.

What really worries Bailiyan is the increasingly rich material life of Xianguo, there have been some signs in recent years, the rich material life has improved the quality of life, but at the same time, it has also brought about social erosion and human degradation, how many people are willing to shed blood and sacrifice in the future, I don't know how many dynasties are ruined by the erosion and degradation of material life, which is worth vigilance.

During the period of crossing the country, there were almost no stops along the way, and it took more than a month to reach the border of Yangwei in a hurry, which was not only caused by the backwardness of the basic roads, but also due to the huge geographical area.

The Central Plains was unable to realize the centralized system and was divided into feuds, and the fundamental reason was communication and transportation. In the past two years, the results of map surveying and mapping have been fed back one after another, and it has been estimated that the east-west span of the Central Plains region is more than 26,000 miles, which is equivalent to the span from Portugal to the hinterland of Alaska in the United States through Russia, not counting the land of the three barbarian tribes in the West Sea.

At least from the Qin Dynasty to the beginning of the Han Dynasty, China's territory was only more than 3 million square kilometers, the Tang Dynasty was about 123 million square kilometers, and the Tang Dynasty had a maximum east-west span of about 5,000 kilometers.