The night of Bianliang is getting deeper and deeper, and in the distance, it seems that the rare light is reflected in it, and the whole world is plunged into darkness at the moment, the night of Bianliang is already very bright, but compared with the Dinghai Navy, it is still much darker.

Bianliang is more indoors, with the appearance of candles, the indoor problem has been solved, but the candle is a thing, there is almost no way to block it, and the appearance of the lantern, the transparency is not high.

The appearance of glass, the bright light of the night is very helpful, anything, a problem of light transmission, can not be solved, only transparent glass, can be like this.

A large number of gas lamps, unique design, not affected by the wind, are enough to make the field light up, not to mention, the subsequent gas lamps, his design is more precise, and the brightness is also quite high.

Bianliang can be said to be a more suitable city, in the development of nearly a hundred years, has all the signs of a big city, as long as the relative place, transformation, can make Bianliang a new, modern city.

But this is not something that Zhao Xin can manage now, he has changed enough to the Northern Song Dynasty, and now, he can only focus on the Dinghai Navy.

Through the post road and water transportation, some of Zhao Xin's orders were quickly sent to the construction team.

The construction team has been prepared for a long time, and the construction has begun in the cold winter.

The construction team from Dinghai is basically a technical person, a real laborer, or hires the surrounding villagers.

The Northern Song Dynasty was regarded as the entire feudal dynasty, and the people's living standards were relatively high, but it was in some big cities, such as Bianliang and Yingtianfu.

A special aspect of feudal society is that the difference between the city and the countryside is huge, even if it is only about 100 miles from Bianliang, it is not much different from other rural areas of the Northern Song Dynasty.

A railway should complement the waterway, and even in many cases, it does not coincide.

The rivers are based on this topography, and they are not the shortest distance between the two, nor are they in a straight line.

The railway is as straight as possible, and among the two points, the distance of the straight line is the shortest, and both the input and the efficiency are relatively high.

In this era, some mountains and rivers must be bypassed under the premise that the current technical level of the Navy and the Northern Song Dynasty cannot be crossed, so it is even more impossible to be on a par with the waterway.

In these places, there are very few good villages, and in winter, it is definitely a time for farming, and during this time, some people spend a relatively high price, for example, the price of 80 to 100 wen a day, and they work not far away, and many people are willing to come.

This is the first railway, which is almost related to the railway layout of the entire Northern Song Dynasty in the future, even if it cannot occupy a stake in the middle, even if it is invested in these, it will be of great benefit to the Dinghai Navy.

The generation of commerce is through the circulation of transportation, and with the gradual improvement of means of transportation, commerce is becoming more and more prosperous.

The Northern Song Dynasty was still a feudal society, but the entire Dinghai Navy has become a modern industrial city.

In an ordinary city, the consumption of materials is only food and some necessities of life, but in an industrialized society, his greater demand is all kinds of raw materials.

After industrialization, the production efficiency was tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times that of manual work, and this situation had already appeared in the time of the Daimyo's mansion.

The Daimyo's Mansion itself is a more suitable place, and in later generations, there are also large steel mills nearby, and there are coal mines and iron mines nearby, and the farthest is only a hundred miles, as long as the official road is repaired, plus the improved carriage, it can be basically satisfied.

A Daimyo's Mansion is only a semi-manual workshop at best, but when it comes to Dinghai, it is a huge steel mill with an annual output of millions of tons, almost dozens of times that of Daimyo's Mansion, which is only one of the industries of Dinghui, cement, glass, handicrafts, and a large number of industries in Zhao Xin's plan in the future.

They needed to import huge quantities of raw materials, and then through industrial production, they turned these into products and shipped them to various parts of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the entire feudal society, I am afraid that only the Northern Song Dynasty is the most suitable for the emergence of the navy, the Northern Song Dynasty is relatively enlightened in commerce, but only one of the aspects, there is no Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal connection, all over the Northern Song Dynasty waterways, even if he can produce so many products, I am afraid that the profits will be greatly reduced.

In later generations, the cost of commercial circulation, to a large extent, is the cost of transportation, in the 21st century, before the emergence of Taobao, traditional commerce has become dominant, even if there is the existence of express delivery and ordinary telephone shopping, their cost is also quite high, to transport a package, just freight, as high as dozens of dollars, this cost, not the average person can bear, especially some small products.

Merchants purchase goods in large quantities, and then through layers of wholesale and retail methods, it has become the mainstream of sales.

However, the emergence of Taobao combined the Internet with traditional commerce, and then vigorously developed the logistics and express delivery industry, turning parts into a whole, creating a new industry, and reducing the cost of express delivery to a minimum.

This is the cost of transportation and the cost of sales, if it is replaced by inconvenient transportation, there is no convenient water transportation, and more than half of the cost of the navy is on the freight, then he will definitely not have such a huge sales.

Even in feudal society, any sales will not be unlimited, he will have a limited quantity, through various methods, let the people through labor, and then expand the market, that takes time, even a commodity, when his price is expensive to a certain extent, although the profit is very high, but the total sales generated will be reduced.

For no other reason, some people with low incomes, or at a certain level, are unable to consume.

These are the general laws summed up by later generations, if it is said that the profit is placed here in the Dinghai, it is acceptable, but the profit is placed on the transportation, then it is unacceptable.

Dinghai is close to the sea, and is also conducting research on ships, and it is unceremonious to say that in the future, when large-capacity ships walk in the waters of the Northern Song Dynasty, sea transportation will become the cheapest mode of transportation.

Safety, the reduction of transportation costs, even the most common means of production, such as grain, can be sold for profit, not to mention other raw materials.

However, the seaside has never been a resource-rich place, and the places with real resources are almost all in the mountains, and I am afraid that the closest to the seaside is more than 100 kilometers, and a complete railway network will run through the north and south, further reducing the cost of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Spring Festival meeting, this Bianliang-sized official, all the high-level people who have reported on their work, will participate in the conference, and Zhao Xin, without exception, also participated.

This is also the first time that Zhao Xin appeared in the public eye in the name of Dinghaihou after returning to Bianliang.

As a festival envoy, this is a super-grade official, and in the conference, he is at the forefront, second only to the officials of the East and West Governments and the Three Divisions, and even stands in front of the personnel of the six ministries.

As a scholar who studies the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Xin certainly knows the status of the Jiedu envoys, and he carefully stands behind all the Jiedu envoys, almost never communicating with others.

But inevitably, his first appearance still attracted the attention of many well-intentioned people.

Even if Zhao Xin looked at his nose and his nose, his nose looked at his heart, and he didn't look anywhere, but with his keen intuition, he still felt countless gazes sweeping around his body.

A court meeting follows a fixed process, after the sacrifice to the sky, and then there is a festival of rewards.

Obviously, the funds provided by Zhao Xin before played a very important role in this year's festival, and Renzong's hands were much more generous than in previous years, and almost every court official's reward was a grade higher than before.

Listening to the list of rewards in order, this is a fixed, according to the order of rank, of course, the first is not the head of the government like Zhang Dexiang and Jia Chaochang, above this court, there are some older qualifications, although the rank is not high, but the position is quite high, and there are some members of the clan.

Basically, after forty or fifty people, it was their turn to go to them, the East and West Mansions, the three envoys, and some more senior governors, and a familiar name appeared, Han Qi.

Zhao Xin was slightly taken aback, he hadn't heard of Han Qi coming back, but he didn't expect him to come back.

Han Qi did come back, in the northwest for more than a year, he has made terrible contributions, whether it is the establishment of the Lingzhou War, the Xingqing Mansion War, and then later, to discuss the Lingzhou peace conference, any of these three are enough for him to have the credit of becoming a privy envoy, not to mention, later, through adjustment, using part of the Lingzhou agreement, a large-scale northwest water conservancy system was established.

This is only the first year, and the entire northwest water conservancy system has not yet been completed, but the water conservancy project near Xiping Province has already shown its power.

In May and June, when the last batch of grain was planted, part of the water conservancy system was completed before, so that Xiping Province suddenly added 5 million mu of irrigated land and 3 million mu of dry land.

Through various methods, attracting enough people, coupled with excellent agricultural tools and the help of livestock, these lands were planted, even if it was only one season, the harvest of about 3 stone of irrigated land, and the harvest of 1.5 stone of dry land also allowed Lingzhou to harvest 16.5 million stone of grain.

Water conservancy projects, including land, belong to Lingzhou, so they will collect about half of the income, and the rest will be returned to the land, under the vast land and sparsely populated, the entire northwest has only poured in 600,000 people, and the remaining half of the grain is enough to feed them, and Lingzhou has obtained about 8 million stones.

8 million stone of grain, this is a terrible harvest that the northwest will never think of, even according to the price of sorghum, this income is as high as 5.6 million yuan, not to mention, in the northwest, the grain is much higher than sorghum.

It was such a huge amount of grain that made Han Qi finally called back, and he didn't let Han Qi come back before, because the water conservancy in the entire northwest, including the military in the northwest, was inseparable from Han Qi.

But now, everything is stable, although the water conservancy project has not yet been finally completed, but the main body is almost there, and the rest is the problem of minor issues, immigration and construction, which have also passed the initial critical period, to put it bluntly, as long as it is about the same official, Lingzhou can continue.

Relatively speaking, Han Qi's own prestige has reached its peak in the northwest, he has the ability to command troops, he has the huge wealth of the Lingzhou Peace Conference, and now, he has grain and grass, even if it is for defense, he must transfer Han Qi back.

Han Qi received his fate when he was approaching the end of the year, and he asked him not to be in such a hurry, but after all the foundation was laid, Han Qi, who was like an arrow, actually returned directly on horseback with a light car.

He has commanded the army before, riding horses is no stranger, from Lingzhou's Bianliang, but about 2000 miles, he took a total of 10 days to walk, when he arrived in Bianliang, it was already after the 20th of the lunar month, because he was quite low-key, he didn't even return to the Privy Council, but just went to Renzong to report it, so few people knew that he was back.

Hearing the name Han Qi, many people paid attention to it throughout the conference.

Han Qi came back very quickly, and he was relatively secretive, and the few people who knew that he was back were the few people at the top, and the rest didn't know.

But in the past year and a half, Han Qi's reputation in the entire Bianliang is not ordinary, a simple battle in the northwest, just a famous general, the next Lingzhou peace conference, and the Northwest Water Conservancy Project, that is magical.

Make the impossible possible, such a talent who will enter the phase, even if it is the Northern Song Dynasty with shining stars, it is rare, and the most important thing is that Han Qi is still young.

Standing at thirty, forty is not confused, Han Qi is already close to forty, but in the entire political arena of the Northern Song Dynasty, he is really young, once in his thirties, he achieved the position of privy deputy envoy, which came out with the new law, and it was not stable.

But now, when the northwest has a series of credits, the previous level, no matter how a little empty, has become real, and he comes back so quietly, what awaits him.

Some are anxious to hug their thighs and begin to think of new ideas in their minds, while some have direct conflicts of interest and have other ideas.

For example, Jia Chaochang, he himself was preparing to enter the army next year, and at that time, it was estimated that although Han Qi had made great contributions, he was born in the law change, and it was almost impossible for him to come back in a short time when Fan Zhongyan was hit.

But he came back, at this time, what position will he hold, his own privy deputy envoy, and he has made great contributions in the northwest, and it is inevitable to go further, so what is his identity, the third envoy, the privy envoy, or the prime minister.

Because he can't be sure, Jia Chaochang's face is very ugly, and he is ready to do it until the spring flowers bloom, but it is obvious that there is not so much time, and he must wait until the New Year has passed.

There are not many people with similar ideas, but there are many people who hug their thighs, and smart people are everywhere, in short, Han Qi suddenly became the focus of the entire court, and the eyes of countless people were cast on him.