Chapter 174: The Road Leads to the World (4) (Page 1/1)

After Zuo Guangdou came to the Liaohe Mugu Hewei, he was warmly received by Lin Bulu, the commander of the Mugu Hewei. Yes, the current Mugu Hewei are all Yehe people, and Lin Bulu was named a major general because he was the first to raise the righteous flag in the battle against the Jianzhou Jurchens, and was responsible for guarding the Mugu Hewei.

At noon the next day, after Zuo Guangdou finally got up, he didn't dare to accept Lin Bulu's suggestion to continue drinking no matter what. After eating a little, the survey team walked along the route connecting the two rivers that Xu Hongzu and their original survey. The route is dotted with a large number of low hills, from the Dongliao River to the Yitong River, a tributary of the Tongtong River, about a hundred miles. Lin Bulu had no choice but to transfer more than 200 soldiers and personally lead and escort Zuo Guangdou and them to investigate.

Xu Hongzu led the way, and it took a total of three days to complete the entire route. These hills are not high, and there are swamps between the hills, Zuo Guangdou asked the accompanying students to dig them, Lin Bulu said: "How can the scholar do such a thing, leave the matter of contributing to our Yehe people, and ensure that the squire is satisfied." ”

Lin Bulu asked the soldiers to start digging, and found that after digging down a kilometer, it was still soil instead of rock. Zuo Guangdou was overjoyed, and said: "Major General Lin Bulu, can you borrow more Yehe brothers from Mugu Hewei to dig on our route and take a look at the soil quality." ”

Lin Bulu said: "Lord Shilang is too polite, you send someone to follow my guards to mark down all places on the road, the soldiers I bring now start digging from this side, and the guards will let the soldiers in the guard dig from that side, so that we can quickly understand the soil situation, and we will have time to drink." ”

Zuo Guangdou said with palpitations: "Ye He's wine is indeed a rare delicacy, but the old man is old and frail, so after returning to the city, let Hongzu and them accompany the young man to get drunk and rest." ”

Lin Bulu said happily: "Many people in our tribe say that our Yehe's wine is not as good as the wine sold by the cooperative, but the squire has a good eye, and he can know at once that our Yehe's wine is delicious. My lord, I know that it should be all dirt and not stones, because I heard the old man say that this place used to be the old course of the Yitong River, but then it slowly disappeared. ”

Zuo Guangdou's eyes lit up: "Major General, this turned out to be a river?" This news is so important. I don't know if we can find an old man who knows the original river, and we want to ask for some things. ”

Lin Bulu's face was gloomy and said, "I heard from the old man Abuji, he was already killed by Jiannu when Jianzhou attacked Yehe. ”

Zuo Guangdou said: "Jianzhou has been destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and the revenge of the old man Abuji has been avenged." The soil and water conditions of the old river are different from those elsewhere, and we can know as soon as we dig them up. ”

According to Lin Bulu's method, Zuo Guangdou selected a total of 58 places to excavate, and found that only five of them were rocks, and the others were all black soil.

With a big set of confidence, he reported the good news that the canal could be excavated to the capital, and began to design the route of the canal with the students. The route they envisioned was to extend the Yitong River to the southwest, excavate as much as possible along the old channel, and finally connect with the Dongliao River, which was the most labor-saving and time-saving route.

The imperial decree soon came, the emperor appointed Zuo Guangdou as the transfer envoy of the Liaochao Canal, specifically responsible for digging the canal, Lin Bulu as the director of the Liaochao Canal Security Bureau, responsible for the defense of the Liaochao Canal and the deployment of manpower, and a large number of coins and grain came with the holy decree.

This appointment was expected for Zuo Guangdou, and it was a surprise for Lin Bulu. After the Jianzhou Jurchens were destroyed, a large number of Yehe people who were annexed by the Jianzhou Jurchens returned to the tribe, and there was no way to meet the food needs of the Yehe people just by hunting and fishing.

Now it is necessary to dig the Liaochao Canal, and he is responsible for the deployment of manpower, which just solves the problem that Lin Bulu is most worried about, a large number of Yehe people can help dig the canal, not only can get a large amount of grain and coins, but also after the canal is dug, Yehe's prey and ginseng and other things can be easily transported to the interior, so that the living conditions of the Yehe people have been greatly improved.

Zuo Guangdou divided his labor into two parts, the Jurchens from the Huifa Hada and other tribes recruited by Yehe and Lin Bulu were responsible for digging the Yitong River according to its original course, while the Han people gathered from the villages and farms around the Liao River were responsible for dredging and widening the Eastern Liao River. In addition to the East Liao River, in other areas of the Liao River, the Ministry of Agriculture has convened people to dredge and repair the Liao River because of climate reasons, it is easy to cause flood disasters, Zuo Guangdou wants to take this opportunity to strengthen the embankment, dredge the river, and reduce the occurrence of flood disasters.

Soon after, the Jianzhou Jurchens, who were leveling the land in the interior, finally completed the task, and more than 20,000 people were concentrated in Balipu and began to build the mountain and wood line.

The roadbed of the Shanmu Line is in the West Liaoning Corridor and is associated with G2, and the bidding for the Shanmu Line was not carried out at the same time when G2 was tendered, which was to prepare to hand over this glorious task to the Jianzhou Jurchen. Yes, Sun Chuanting clearly told Yue Tuo that after the road infrastructure of the Shanmu Line was built, the crimes of the ordinary Jianzhou Jurchens could almost be regarded as redeemed, and the imperial court would assign new territories to the Jianzhou Jurchens, as long as the Jianzhou Jurchens no longer rebelled, the Ming Dynasty could still regard the Jianzhou Jurchens as a part of the Ming Dynasty and let them live freely in the allocated territory.

With the desire for freedom, the people of Jianzhou, under the personal leadership of Yue Tuo, threw themselves into the construction of the mountain and wood line base. The construction of the roadbed will be slightly more complicated than the leveling of the land, but the Ministry of Railways has special officials to guide them, and the officials put forward the requirements for construction, Yue Tuo attaches great importance to this matter, and absolutely does not allow any mistakes and omissions, giving the Ming an excuse. He personally supervised and even raised the bar a little to perfection.

Since the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the entire Ming Dynasty has slowed down its external expansion and begun to connect all parts of the Ming Dynasty in the road construction boom. According to Zhu Youxiao's plan, within ten years, the main areas of Daming will be connected by railway or high-grade highways. For the northern border with the Mongols, it was necessary to ensure that within three days, the guards of the capital could reach any area where war might occur by rail, and that the rivers of the whole country should be able to bear half or more of the domestic transportation.

According to his assumption, ordinary people in the capital can eat lychees, pineapples and mangoes in the south, apples and watermelons in Ganzhou in the west, and salmon in the east, which means that the Ming Dynasty has initially completed the goal of leading the world.

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