The natural advantages of Lingzhou, coupled with Han Qi's ambitions, eventually gave birth to the largest project in northwest China, this project born by chance, 300 years later, compared with Dujiangyan thousands of years ago, Dujiangyan created the wealth of Sichuan, and this project, which was finally called the Lingzhou system, created the miracle of the Hetao.

Han Qi had been preparing for a big project before, but now, the arrival of Niu Ma has given them tremendous strength, coupled with the success of the Weizhou Conference, which can provide them with quite enough funds, and with these funds, they can make this project in the northwest even better.

Han Qi's plan for Lingzhou is two roads, one is animal husbandry, the other is arable land, the former, because of the inevitable choice after the Lingzhou Peace Conference, the Northern Song Dynasty could not digest more than 20 million livestock in a short period of time, especially from Hebei, Liao's livestock, then Lingzhou is an inevitable choice.

Cultivated land is a long-lasting role, although eating meat is a luxury for many people, some people at the bottom of the population, eating meat, just like the New Year, but meat to be used in other places, then support the entire northwest life, that is, grain.

Thinking of the northwest, many people naturally think that there is no reason for people to go out of Yangguan in the west, the wind and snow outside Yanmen Pass, similar poems and words, in the eyes of the vast majority of people, to the northwest, that is, the sky is full of snow and yellow sand.

Yes, this is the case in the northwest, but in the northwest where the yellow sand is everywhere, there is an exception, which is the Hetao Plain.

The Northern Song Dynasty only got Lingzhou, not all of the Hetao Plain, but it has already obtained the essence of the Hetao.

In agricultural civilization, land is the most basic material, and China, and even most civilizations, have escaped from primitive civilization and have fixed land, forming the foundation of a stable country, which is actually on crops. It is even unceremonious to say that how much food is produced on the land directly determines how many people can be raised in this place.

The barrenness of the northwest costs a huge amount, that is, the northwest simply cannot supply its own population consumption, and if you add hundreds of thousands of garrisons, it is even more so.

The cost of pure military affairs, that is, the construction of the city is slightly higher, the backward transportation, the consumption of transportation, can even reach 5 times, or even 10 times the amount of transport, grain from 700 Wen Yi Shi in Bianliang, to nearly 5 Guan Yi Shi in the northwest, most of which is freight.

The army always consumes a huge amount, ordinary civilians, can eat two meals a day, hungry and full, at some critical moments, maybe half a liter of coarse grain a day, can keep a person alive, but how can the army, if you don't feed the army, when the war comes, it will give you a chain.

The Hetao Plain is full of various water sources. The zigzag of the Yellow River is formed according to the topography, and in the interior of this zigzag, there are several tributaries, especially near the edge of this zigzag in the east, and the Hetao Plain is also known as Fangcao Beautiful, plugging the south of the Yangtze River.

Aquatic grass and aquatic grass, there is water to have grass, only where there is water, grass can grow vigorously, without water, even if there is grass, it does not grow well, grass is still so, let alone food.

The water consumed by grain is much higher than that of aquatic grasses, which is the fundamental reason why the harvest of ordinary dry fields is far inferior to that of paddy fields, unless it is a crop like sweet potatoes and corn that can naturally resist drought.

Natural, close to the land in the tributaries, that is not a lot, Ye Qingchen started the northern farmland water conservancy construction, its construction scope, Han Qi also knew, he didn't think much about it at the time, but now when developing Lingzhou, it is easy to think of it.

Han Qi is using the huge funds in Lingzhou, in Lingzhou, the process of replicating this, and even in a sense, Han Qi can do better in Lingzhou, because there are few constraints, and he can do everything he wants to do in a big way.

At present, in the north of the Northern Song Dynasty, Hebei West Road and East Road, and even Shaanxi Province, an unprecedented project has been underway.

A large-scale farmland water conservancy construction throughout northern China, from the Haihe River Basin to the Yellow River Basin, and even the Huai River, with a cumulative investment of more than 10 million guan and millions of laborers, once completed, the flood and drought disasters in the north will be reduced, so it can benefit 50 million acres of land.

This is a great thing, but it has not been embraced by the local authorities. The north has always been a place where the clan power and the local power are relatively abundant, and the rigid clans make it impossible for the government decree to reach the village, let alone the household, and the one in charge of hundreds of millions of people is based on the village and the village, and the village elders and the village chief.

Even if it is a third envoy like Ye Qingchen, an important minister in the court, if you want to start a project, you must bow to them, Ye Qingchen's northern farmland and water conservancy construction, although it has played a huge effect, but this effect is based on a huge compromise.

In order to take care of some large landlords and villagers, the farmland and water conservancy construction in the north has taken a detour of more than ten miles, or even hundreds of miles, just to consume the above improvements, so that at least three or four percent of it is spent in empty places, and the effect is limited, and sometimes, there is even a huge waste.

As a third envoy, the reason why he even served as a third envoy is because he was able to reduce expenditures for the Northern Song Dynasty, and once reduced millions of expenditures on major projects.

But in the face of the complicated clan, he had no choice, Ye Qingchen didn't know that there would be such a result, for the sake of the affairs of the Li people, he also needed to take care of the interests of these big landlords, the elders and the elders, and even damaged the government funds for this.

These people, even if they were not rich before, after becoming a village elder, they will gradually become rich, this is the representative of the landlord class, even if it is a hardliner like Ye Qingchen, it is impossible to completely confront these people, not to mention, the other party is not corrupt, at the cost of public opinion, suppress you, this is the most uncomfortable for Qing officials.

Corrupt officials can ignore those, careless of people's lives, even if they are these local snakes, they will not confront them head-on, but the clean officials cannot, in the face of slippery snakes, he can only compromise.

This is also the reason why Ye Qingchen, a visionary envoy, fell into a predicament after opening the water conservancy construction in the north, his purpose is to solve the problems at the level of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, use more output, increase fiscal revenue, and make the entire Northern Song Dynasty more stable.

These are the same as these villagers, what these people see is their own interests, and even rely on their identities to deceive and conceal them, affecting a large number of people, and these people constitute the entire population of the north.

In the face of these forces, even Ye Qingchen, who was full of wisdom, was helpless, and could only retreat step by step, so he also suffered huge losses.

In the original plan, the maximum amount of investment has suddenly tripled, and in this case, for a project of millions, or even tens of millions, how can there be no problems.

Han Qi is much more courageous than Ye Qingchen, if Ye Qingchen's pace will be a little slower, if Han Qi leads this farmland water conservancy project, of course, it will exceed the budget, but he will not give up so many benefits, and even many of the ravines can not be built at all, as for those ground snakes, it is really Han Qi's knife is an ornament.

A military general of three or four grades, if he says he will kill him, a few troublemakers really want to implement it, and if he doesn't kill a river of blood, is it still called General Han.

Of course, it is impossible for Han Qi to kill them all, he will kill some people who are not long-sighted, grasp the big and let go of the small, this point, Ye Qingchen lacks local governance experience and lack of first-in-command experience, which is very important, which is also the fundamental reason why he can only do the position of the third envoy.

Differentiation and disintegration, one pull and one dozen, at the critical moment, still dare to use the knife, really for the sake of interests, regardless of the knife, there are still a few.

The biggest difference between Han Qi and Ye Qingchen is actually that Ye Qingchen is a man with integrity, while Han Qi is a very purposeful person who will do whatever it takes to achieve the goal.

Ye Qingchen is in the front, Han Qi is in the back, and even Ye Qingchen's approach has a lot of influence on Han Qi, and even some of the layout and design methods adopted by Han Qi are no different from Ye Qingchen's methods.

However, from the opening to the construction, and even the final completion, Han Qi is much faster than Ye Qingchen, being in the northwest, there are few constraints, it is a borderless land, and you can choose the most suitable place, which is a key.

Farmland water conservancy construction also needs to be measured, not a one-shot brain, you have to draw a line, such a line is easy, but in order to achieve such a line, it has to pay thousands of times.

Rivers and lakes have a variety of terrains, and the most economical and efficient way is really the most economical and efficient way, if we compromise with those township elders and retired officials, as Ye Qingchen did, and even make a detour of dozens or hundreds of miles for some interests, it will not only be a huge waste, but also produce an incalculable effect.

The best land in itself, the landlord does not agree to what to do, can only take a detour, choose something else, do not agree with anything else, compromise and modification, has become the basis of the northern farmland water conservancy, but all this, on the side of Lingzhou, does not exist at all, not to mention Lingzhou, the land that is completely ownerless, just say the Northwest Fourth Road, which is a vast and sparsely populated place, Han Qi's decree down, basically, it is solved.

The two cadres, after mastering the autonomy, started the water conservancy project, this is not a coincidence but an inevitability, why should Han Qi follow, Fan Zhongyan, is it because of the situation in the Northern Song Dynasty, it has reached the level of inevitability, Ye Qingchen has been in the Third Division for a long time, and he is more clear about the financial situation of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Farmland and water conservancy construction is the most intuitive, from the most fundamental solution to the problem of the Northern Song Dynasty, except for the investment is larger, there will be no other problems, once established, it will immediately solve the problem, a little increase in the grain output of the entire north, will inevitably improve the stability of the whole, for the entire Northern Song Dynasty, is a great thing.