With Han Qi's footsteps, in just 10 days, he has walked through many construction sites, and the entire Lingzhou project has completely entered the fast lane.

Ravines and ponds, along with the gradual completion of these sieges, a more brilliant future will appear in Lingzhou.

Originally, it may not be possible for decades, or even hundreds of years, to turn Lingzhou into a plugged Jiangnan, but now with the efforts of countless workers, they have begun to change.

On the premise that the speed can be completed within 60 days, another plan is also underway.

Water conservancy is water conservancy, and water conservancy only gives farmland from dry land to irrigated land, but for specific cultivation, it is also necessary to reclaim the land.

At this moment, it is winter, most of the grass is dried up, and after collecting and turning over, it is not necessarily possible to ensure that most of the grass seeds are killed, and it will take a lot of work to maintain these lands in the next year, or even years.

This work is relatively skilled, those captives of Western Xia, simple work can be done, and grazing is even more expert, but when it comes to farming, it is not possible.

Farming is a technical job, even the farmers of the Northern Song Dynasty are also through training step by step, gradually mastering these skills, these skills, for the herdsmen of Western Xia, too profound.

Fortunately, here, because of the relationship between the large number of people and the small number of land, for the time being, we are not ready to grant land separately as in the Central Plains, and will choose a method similar to a farm, with about 200 households, for a brigade, to carry out centralized cultivation, satisfied with about 5,000 acres, for all the land of a brigade, and then arrange down one by one residential points.

This efficiency should be higher than a family, but also can be a better use of a variety of livestock, now in the northwest, there are enough cattle and sheep, but really to a family with horses or cattle, some too wasteful, but also not conducive to the development of their efficiency.

The distribution of settlements has begun, a total of 1,000 settlements, enough to accommodate 200,000 people, the distribution problem is not large, the northwest is relatively scattered, and it is easy to manage 200 households together, but it is somewhat difficult to find a sufficient number of peasants.

For this huge project, 100,000 people were mobilized, of which the common people were at most thirty or forty thousand, and the rest were all troops.

There are about 200 households, and at least about 100 skilled farmers are needed, and only the remaining Xixia people can be driven to work, so that the gap is almost seventy or eighty thousand.

Lingzhou will also recruit in the entire northwest, even in the Central Plains, and strive to find enough farmers who are willing to go to the northwest, which is destined to be a long time.

In feudal society, the effect of small families and local clans formed in the past thousand years rarely left their hometowns to go to other places unless they were forced to the Jedi.

However, that was a few months later, something that needed to be considered, really when the labor force was insufficient, a small part of the army could be mobilized, and Tuntian was also one of the ways to increase the supply of the army.

The steady development of the project satisfied Han Qi, everything he did was based on the development of the northwest itself, and even Lingzhou itself alone could support the development of the whole and was a self-sufficient economy.

As long as Lingzhou can support the output of 5 million stone grain, plus a small part of the breeding industry, it is enough to support Lingzhou's side and feed more than 200,000 troops, so that the military expenditure can be reduced to a very low level.

This influence is huge, if you say, if you have a little other help, it will be better, Han Qi doesn't know, his Lingzhou plan already has a strong fulcrum, Zhao Xin has begun to enter Beijing, his purpose is very simple, that is, to promote a railway connecting Bianliang and Lingzhou.

Although this railway, may encounter a lot of problems, but also beyond the development speed of the Dinghai Navy, the Dinghai Navy has just built a 37-kilometer railway, has not been tried in 300 miles, it flew directly to 2000 miles, the span is too large, it is very likely, it will fail.

However, Zhao Xin felt that it was better to try, but it was only seven or eight million yuan, and the navy would still be able to take this money, a passage connecting Bianliang and the northwest border, which would be of great benefit to the Northern Song Dynasty as a whole, and it would not be easy to be rejected if it was launched at this time.

Why can Hebei become an important support is not backed by the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Grand Canal provides huge support for Hebei, in the face of developed shipping, many things, from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, from Bianliang to the front line of Hebei, the cost, may only be a little freight, the most important thing is efficiency.

Although most of the ships travel every day, it is about 60-70 miles, but at a critical moment, when the military situation is urgent, you can use the fighting ships to move forward quickly, as quickly as possible, and transport supplies from the rear to the front.

The efficiency of the railway is also very high, but the speed is much faster than the ship, and the fastest fighting ship is only about 20 miles per hour, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and the relay can be achieved, but for the horse-drawn train, it can also be.

A horse can run long distances for tens or hundreds of kilometers, even if it is a cart, on the railway, there is no problem of uneven roads, small friction, high efficiency, as long as in long-distance transportation, figure out, how long to replace the horse, everything can be solved.

A Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal connects China's five major water systems, so that the entire Northern Song Dynasty, the most core, the most elite place, connected into a whole, even in the north, grain production, is decreasing now, can still support the consumption of millions of people in Bianliang, is through this waterway, the grain in the south, a steady stream of transportation to Bianliang, otherwise, it would have been finished long ago.

Compared with water transport, the railway also has the same effect, and even the railway transport volume is larger, 15 tons of a carriage, even if it can only be transported by a carriage now, but a 15-ton carriage is equivalent to 300 stones, almost three or four hundred materials of the ship, the most important thing is the speed, by changing horses, you can ensure the speed of thirty or forty kilometers, which is far more than water transport.

Zhao Xin didn't say anything about all this, of course Han Qi didn't know, he could only be based in Lingzhou, fortunately, all the plans were carried out well, and the efficiency was quite high, as long as the development continued, the overall effect of this project would be very good.

Fu Lu Shuangzhi, Han Qi didn't know that a railway was about to be established, but a few days later, he still received another good news, this result directly promoted the development of Lingzhou and marched towards another climax.

To Han Qi's delight, on the 10th day after he returned to Lingzhou, just when he had turned around the construction sites and was about to approach the parallax of other northwest regions, a message sent through the post station changed his itinerary.

According to the news transmitted by the post station, a large convoy arrived in Lingzhou, and it would take 2 days at most to arrive in Xiping Mansion.

According to the description of the post station, this convoy should have carried various materials urgently needed in Lingzhou, including a large number of tools and construction materials.

It's so fast, how long has it been, from Weizhou to Lingzhou, and now, almost half a month, according to the efficiency of the Chamber of Commerce, the fastest is in a month, but now, it has saved more than half a month.

Time equals efficiency, this is undoubtedly evident in the current large-scale water conservancy projects, this news made Han Qi change the formation, sit in Xiping Mansion and wait, and at the same time send people out to investigate the things transported by this convoy.

The project here in Lingzhou is quite fast, but it has not reached the limit, the reason is that the materials, speed up, the consumption of materials is very large, maybe, according to some speeds, at most a few days, the large-scale consumption of materials, in the end, it is impossible to continue, it is better to take it slowly.

Now, the Chamber of Commerce that came in advance may bring enough materials, and understanding the types and quantities of these materials is conducive to the arrangement of the next work.

Soon, detailed information came, this is a business group composed of 4 chambers of commerce, the scale is very large, a total of 2,000 carts of things, with the support of the newly purchased horses, it is impossible to arrive so quickly, their materials are also quite clear, are at present, Lingzhou urgently needs things.

After listening to the results of the investigation, Han Qi was happy in his heart, with such 2,000 cars, the development of Lingzhou will definitely be able to fall to his knees and enter the fast lane.

But he didn't be happy for long, Han Qi suddenly thought of a question, his brows furrowed, and after thinking about it carefully, he took out a record, which recorded all the transactions in Weizhou, including the commodity purchase contracts signed with those chambers of commerce and money houses.

On this, I successfully found the names of the four major chambers of commerce, these are the more powerful chambers of commerce in the Central Plains, but adding the number of their orders together, I suddenly found that the total number of materials is not so much, only about 200 vehicles, what happened, why the total number of all materials, increased by 10 times.

The current Lingzhou lacks all kinds of materials, it can be said that materials have become the key to restricting the development of Lingzhou, but all of a sudden there are ten times more orders, this is someone else entrusted to send them, or is there something wrong, Han Qi can't judge that he can only wait here, and when they arrive, he will see the person in charge.