August of the second year of the Apocalypse is the time when the entire Tang Empire ushers in harvest and hope, since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Moon is full, facing the Mid-Autumn Moon like a silver plate, the sensational effect brought by the voyage to Japan has given new inspiration to the merchants of the empire, and a new generation of businessmen who have been fed by Li Xuanqing's ideas on industrial and commercial development have gathered in various places to prepare to participate in this feast, and the customs department and the coast guard under the National Guard have also begun to officially take up their posts. The beginning of customs entry and exit checkpoints at the terminals of major ports shows that the decision-makers of this empire have made preparations for the development of ocean trade in advance. At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Finance issued a guiding document on the voyage trade, accompanied by a list of the Empire's overseas trade commodities, to guide foreign trade within the Empire.

At the same time, the five wealthy businessmen led by the Xu family and the Murong family, together with the rising star of the Zhang family, attended the first overseas trade symposium held by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Chang'an. Immediately after the meeting, the Xu family established the Sihai Shipping Corporation, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce issued a special permit for overseas trade. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Sihai Shipping Corporation, Murong Hanhai stressed that overseas trade is extremely risky, and only those who hold a special permit issued by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce can carry out legal foreign trade activities. The application conditions for the special pass will then be sent by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to the departments of coastal port cities, and those who need to apply can go to understand the situation and prepare materials.

A series of actions by Murong Hanhai and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce calmed down the original growing wave of overseas trade a little, and many people studied the overseas trade agreements and a series of policies promulgated by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce word by word on the bulletin board at the entrance of the government. However, the Xu family's Sihai Shipping Corporation announced immediately after the opening ceremony that it was preparing to build a second batch of ships to go to sea, and this news once again made the empire boil. It has been rumored before that the Xu family brought back dozens of boatloads of gold and silver, worth tens of millions of Tang dollars, when they went to Japan, and the rumor is true to see this anxious action. Therefore, the number of families and wealthy businessmen who applied for shipping companies was several times more for a while.

"Your Majesty, if you let Xingxia announce the second voyage with such fanfare, won't it make the merchants of the entire empire unable to sleep? In the past few days, the number of letters sent to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce from various places has increased several times, all of which are talking about the application for the shipping company. In Chang'an's Changqing Palace, Murong Hanhai looked at Li Xuanqing and Xu Xingxia with a bitter face, the two initiators were unmoved, and if he continued like this, he would not be able to withstand it. In fact, the Murong family also set up a shipping company, but they have always focused on land transportation and canal transportation, so they don't have too much energy in navigation, and the Xu family already has a shipping company, so there is no need to increase it in a short time.

"Have you done your nautical qualifications?" Li Xuanqing ignored this guy's complaints, but continued: "The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has drawn up the conditions, and if it doesn't work, let the Customs Department act as an agent." "Actually, the military should come forward for this, but the National Guard Coast Guard has just been established, and it really can't allocate more manpower, so the Ministry of Industry and Commerce can only temporarily intervene.

Murong Hanhai could only be helpless about Li Xuanqing, the shopkeeper, but he didn't say anything but nodded solemnly and took over the task. Xu Xingxia was ready to hand over the route demarcated by the Xu family to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce after the end of the second voyage, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce would come forward to all shipping companies, and required all shipping companies to hand over the route to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce when they launched new routes, so as to realize the integration of route resources within the empire. At the same time, Li Xuanqing also planned to send a naval fleet to expand new routes at an appropriate time, at least the abandoned routes in various parts of the Nanyang need to be reopened, and now the national border on the Nanzhao side has reached the Western Ocean, and the Western routes will also be opened up at the right time after the opening of the Nanyang routes.

During this time, the cabinet also deposited all the gold and silver brought back from Japan into the Tang Dynasty, except for the Xu family's exchange into Tang coins or deposited into the household, the gold and silver brought back by the naval fleet were immediately repaid after the exchange, and the special loan taken from the Qian Village by the Railway Department for the construction of the Fengzhou Railway was immediately repaid. Nowadays, the money village in the active industry and commerce driven by the financial pressure is very large, many industrial and commercial enterprises have chosen the form of loans to expand the scale of production, especially the Xu family's overseas trade income stimulus, the second fleet formation, the Xu family is a wide range of procurement of various commodities, the amount has also increased from the previous three million Tang dollars to five million, but also in one breath in Tianjin shipyard under the order of ten large ocean freighters, in order to stimulate the development of the shipbuilding industry. The Navy has eliminated all the Fuxing-class warships to the newly established Coast Guard, and the continuous upgrade of the main warships has also allowed the Navy to go further.

But at a time when the whole country was talking about overseas trade, Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi set off from Chang'an again with their guards and headed north to meet Zhang Quanfu, who was waiting in the Xiazhou area, to study his recent plan for planting trees along the railway. According to Zhang Quanfu's vision, in the future, a complete vegetation zone must be maintained along the Northwest Railway to withstand the harsh weather and climatic environment in the northwest and protect the railway from wind and sand. In order to achieve this goal, both the newly built Toyosu Railway and the Changjin Line will begin to test this theory.

The purpose of this baggage Xuanqing is to witness the ideas of the Minister of Water Resources and Environmental Protection, and in the face of many methods in the desert in later generations, Li Xuanqing has thrown all his brains to Zhang Quanfu for research regardless of whether they are useful or not, hoping that the first person in environmental protection selected by himself can learn useful experience from them. However, it seems that Zhang Quanfu has been very successful in managing the desert over the years.

"Big brother, isn't Minister Zhang's plan a reforestation movement in the future? Did you teach him that too? Qiaoxi was a little puzzled, according to people's concepts at this time, Zhang Quanfu went too far in this field, so that the rest of the cabinet did not understand it too much, but he got Li Xuanqing's full support. In this year's grass planting activities in the Guanzhong area, Li Xuanqing directly ordered all strata in Guanzhong to fully participate in the grass planting activities in the Guanzhong area, planting turf in all areas as far as the eye can see, protecting the water and soil in the Guanzhong area, and artificially creating environmental restoration in the Jingwei and Weihe River basins.

Li Xuanqing shook his head and said, "This is not what I taught him, he realized it himself." Zhang Quanfu may be very mediocre in other aspects, but he will definitely make up all his determination to achieve him. In his early years, he witnessed the vicissitudes of the grassland in the desert steppe, so he has more personal experience in environmental protection than others, and it is not surprising that he can realize the practice after a thousand years. "In fact, since the Tang Dynasty, the northwest region, including Guanzhong, has been affected by the climate of the Xiaoice River, which is why later generations of dynasties rarely choose Chang'an to build their capital. Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan lost its output and could not support the prosperity of the capital of a dynasty, so it would naturally decline. The reason why Li Xuanqing chose to build the capital here is not only because this is the heart of the Tang Dynasty and a symbol of the majesty of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but also because he, a visitor from later generations, knows how to protect and maintain the water and soil in Guanzhong, knows how to use vegetation to transform the environment, and restore the homeland of Qinchuan that has been sandy again. This is also the result of Zhang Quanfu's all-out efforts over the years. Nowadays, because the canal channel in Guanzhong has been almost perfected, and the green vegetation is increasing year by year, the sediment carried away by the Yellow River from here is also declining year by year, and many ravines are dyed green again, so that the efforts of the poor generation will inevitably gradually restore the Guanzhong Plain to the extent that the grass is green and vibrant.

After the two of them arrived in Xiazhou, they joined Zhang Quanfu to cross the Yellow River north into Fengzhou and began to check the road environment along the way.

"The smoke on both sides of the strait is green, and the spring rain and apricot blossoms are red." Li Xuanqing looked at the Hetao Plain where Fengzhou is located and sighed: "Quanfu, your windproof and sandproof forest should not be confined to one tree species, but should be adapted to local conditions, if you want to plant more economic plants in a plain area like Fengzhou, I heard that willows can also be planted in the Saishang area, is it true?" ”

Zhang Quanfu was originally pointing his deputy over there, and when he heard Li Xuanqing's question, he came over and nodded: "What the emperor said is that I have also considered this aspect, although this is a burden for the local government, but if you plant more economic plants, you can have a certain amount of income when you reach the end of the year." And I plan to plant not only trees, but also grass. In addition to the Fengzhou area, our northwest Fengzhou to Lingzhou handover of Dingyuan City that piece of quicksand is everywhere, the road construction conditions are poor, before the three seals are to take the tree to prevent the wind, grass and sand fixation, the combination of the two has made the northwest coast of Heihaizi from the original desert into a grassland, now the desert in the Sanfeng area is retreating year by year, I think it will not be many years before the Ulan Bu Desert can gradually disappear. ”

"The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, a lonely city and ten thousand mountains, why should the Qiang Di complain about the willows, the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass. In the future, this theory of yours will become a national policy, our railways will not be limited to the current ones, and will continue to go west in the future, all the way to Anxi, all the land of my Datang must have railways. Your Ministry of Water Resources and Environmental Protection has a long way to go. Li Xuanqing didn't care whether the theory he was talking about was correct, and began to pay attention to environmental protection at the end of the Tang Dynasty, when the natural environment had not yet reached the bad of later generations, and believed that after a thousand years, the land of China would be much better than that of later generations, at least that kind of haze would not become a term that everyone talked about.

"Please rest assured, Quanfu will do his best to protect every inch of my Datang's rivers and mountains, so that every piece of land will become a fairyland on earth." Zhang Quanfu didn't have too many words, just like the Ministry of Water Resources and Environmental Protection, always bowing his head silently to do things.

Li Xuanqing did not disturb their work, but took Qiaoxi from Fengzhou to the west, following the footsteps of Fengzhou from Fengzhou to Lingzhou, passing by Dingyuan City and Dengkou County, in addition to checking the railway lines explored by the Railway Division, more thinking about Zhang Quanfu's plan along the way.

"Big brother is thinking about Anzai, right?" Qiaoxi took Li Xuanqing's arm and said slowly: "Now that the main force of the Tiance Army on the side of Nanzhao has returned to the mainland one after another, the left-behind corps is gradually cleaning up the local resistance forces in Nanzhao. With the unification of the south, the economic development of the interior is also increasing year by year. This is a good time for us to pass through Anxi. Qiaoxi can naturally understand Li Xuanqing's intention of pulling himself to inspect the Fengzhou Railway, and he can't avoid dealing with the harsh climate and local natural environment after passing through Anxi. It's just that the Central Plains and Anxi have been cut off for a hundred years, and there are not many people who are familiar with the geographical environment of Anxi. Hu Xiaosi's Xuan Yingwei entered Hexi under his personal leadership some time ago, preparing to formulate a detailed Anxi reconnaissance plan in order to make intelligence preparations for the army.

"Yes, the environment in Anxi is much worse than here. The Silk Road back then, to put it bluntly, was a road paved by generations of Han people with their own blood and bones. Now that we're about to go back, I'm wondering how many problems can be solved by the science and technology and industry we brought with us? During the Han and Tang dynasties, the Han army would not exceed 100,000 soldiers and horses when it was in its heyday in the Western Regions, and the reason for this was because of logistical and environmental constraints. From the Central Plains to the Western Regions, thousands of miles away, halfway across thousands of mountains and rivers, desert grasslands, how many heroic stories are buried in those deserts that were blown by wind and sand? Li Xuanqing sighed and said: "Let's go back to Anxi this time, how many children of the Han family will be buried in the Peerless Domain, and they will not be able to enter the Jade Gate Pass." ”

"Big brother is sentimental. You mean, I hope to serve the country in this life, why should I be born in the Jade Gate? I think the wish of those ancestors is for our Han people to take root in the Western Regions, so that it will become our land and never be lost. This is the last wish of our ancestors. Qiaoxi's words were soft, but they made Li Xuanqing gradually relaxed, and said with a smile: "That's right, the heroic style of the Han and Tang Dynasties can't be lost in at least you and me." This is a symbol of the pioneering spirit and endless growth that has been passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors of China. ”

"Minister Zhang's plan will definitely be useful when the time comes, the two sides of the strait are bright and green, and it is really good, I think I will use this poem as the title of this plan. Planting trees and grass is also poetic and picturesque, and it is a cultivation of life. Big brother, why don't we plant one too? Qiaoxi took Li Xuanqing's hand and smiled.

"Okay, if Zhang Quanfu can do this well, it will definitely be a merit for a thousand years, and Ze will be eternal. Let's lay a solid foundation for him today. Li Xuanqing led everyone into Dingyuan City, found a sapling, found tools and began to measure along the planned railway line outside Dingyuan City, and began to plant trees after selecting a good place.