The officials worked the paper one by one to record some of the key decrees and measures that Zhao Ziliang said, which is a habit that the officials of the Beiting Court have developed for a long time, although the Jiedu Embassy will also send relevant official documents to the various yamen later, but at this time, they can think and discuss these decrees and measures by making a good record, if Zhao Ziliang asks in the process of speaking, he will be reprimanded if he can't answer. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhao Ziliang stopped to take a sip of water and continued: "One last thing, there are deserts in many places in our Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and the erosion of the desert on grasslands, oases and mountain forests is getting bigger and bigger, in view of this situation, we must find a way to deal with it, after the discussion between Ben Shuai and several officials and staff members of the Metropolitan Protectorate and the Jiedu Embassy, it was decided to plant trees and vegetation on the edge of some deserts to prevent the desert from continuing to expand and damage our fertile fields, pastures, oases and mountain forests!" ”

An official stood up and said: "Jieshuai, it is very difficult to plant trees on the edge of the desert, ordinary trees and vegetation cannot survive if they are planted, and it is necessary to plant trees and vegetation that can survive in the desert, which will cost a lot of manpower and material resources."

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Don't be afraid of big costs, we can take it step by step, plant trees around the desert one by one, don't care about the length of time, if it doesn't work in two years, it will be ten years, if it doesn't work in ten years, it will take twenty or thirty years, and one day we can use the forest to enclose the desert in it!" ”

At this time, Cen Shen walked in with a middle-aged man of the same age as him, and reported: "Qiqi Jieshuai, this is Hong Lin, Xiaguan's former classmate!" ”

Hong Lin, who was introduced, bowed to Zhao Ziliang and said, "Student Zhuozhou Honglin is the festival commander!" ”

Although this Hong Lin was wearing a scribe's uniform, his face was full of wind and sleep, and he was tall and thin, Zhao Ziliang looked at him for a while and asked, "I heard Lord Cen say that Mr. is returning from Furat this time?" I don't know how to build roads? ”

Hong Lin asked: "Dare to ask the marshal, can the materials used in the road construction be cement ash and sand?"

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

Hong Lin said: "These days students just arrived here to see a craftsman with cement ash this strong adhesive to build a house, feel very novel, it turns out that I Datang actually has this kind of artifact, students have seen with their own eyes how craftsmen mix cement ash and sand with water, if these materials are used to build the road, then the repair of the truth must be very smooth, the road will not be full of mud on rainy days, as long as the snowflakes are shoveled off on a snowy day, it can still pass, and the travel delay for business travelers, pedestrians, messengers and armies will not be too large, It's just that the horse's paw will wear out badly, and if you build such a road, you can't use less manpower! ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "Since everything has the phenomenon of shrinking in cold weather and expanding in hot weather, the road built with cement ash may crack, I wonder if Mr. has a way to solve it?" ”

Hong Lin thought for a while and said, "You can leave a gap every two or three zhang."

Zhao Ziliang was satisfied, and then asked: "There are dozens of zhang in the width of this Henglus River, if you want to build a bridge on this wide river, I don't know if Mr. has a way?" ”

"If it was in the past, there may not be a way, because the river is too wide, the bridge can not withstand the pressure, but now the north courtyard has cement ash this coagulation binder, we can use wooden planks in the middle of the river in the dry season to enclose a closed fence, drain the river water inside, and then pour cement gray concrete into it to form the main load-bearing pier after laying the foundation at the bottom of the river, if the river is too wide, you can make a few load-bearing piers in the river, and after the cement gray concrete poured into it is solidified and dry, you can remove the wooden fence!"

Zhao Ziliang suggested: "Ben Shuai believes that in order to strengthen the strength of the pier, you can also use iron bars to make a pier skeleton before pouring cement gray concrete, and after the cement gray concrete is poured into it, the iron bar skeleton will be solidified inside the bridge pier, which will increase the bearing weight and strength of the pier!" ”

Hong Lin's eyes lit up when he heard this suggestion, and he arched his hand and said: "This method is very good, and the festival marshal also understands the method of construction?" ”

"Ben Shuai doesn't understand, it's just a suggestion!" Zhao Ziliang shook his head, walked to the side of the map and pointed to the three red lines on it and asked: "This is the three roads that our Beiting is going to build, the first is from Tingzhou to Henglus City, the second is from Henglus City to the north shore of the Caspian Sea, and the third is from Henglus City to Samat to build the city, if you give Mr. enough tools, materials and 20,000 prisoners, cement ash can be fired in a kiln on the spot, and sand and gravel can be used on the spot, these three roads need to be repaired three zhang wide, I don't know how long it will take Mr. to complete these three roads?" ”

Hong Lin looked at the three red lines on the map, and replied after a while: "Qiyu Festival Shuai, it will take three years as soon as possible, and it can be completed in five years slowly!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked again: "Does Mr. dare to make a military order?" ”

Hong Lin didn't think so much for a while, and blurted out: "Why don't you dare?" ”

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "Now Ben Shuai will appoint you as the chief supervisor of the road repair project, and you will be fully responsible for presiding over the construction of these three roads, and Ben Shuai does not want you to complete them all in three years, as long as you complete them all within five years, you will be qualified!" Come on, take pen, ink, paper, and inkstone and let Mr. Hong make a military order! ”

"No!" A scribe next to him agreed, picked up a set of four treasures of the study on the table, and walked to Hong Lin.

Hong Lin was stunned and said, "Uh, wait, wait!" Shuai, the student hasn't agreed yet! ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled: "You have already agreed just now, don't you believe you ask these adults here?" ”

The officials felt funny and echoed one after another, and someone said loudly: "Yes, yes, Mr. Hong has obviously agreed just now, don't you want to regret it?" This is not a gentleman's doing! ”

Hong Lin just stayed here for a few days to catch up with Cen Shen, an old friend of the same classmate, and was ready to return to the Central Plains, but he didn't expect that now that such things were on the table, he couldn't leave if he wanted to, so he could only sigh that he was unlucky, and pointed at Cen Shen with a look of wanting to cry without tears: "Brother Cen, you have made me miserable!" ”

Cen Shen shook his head and said, "Brother Hong, this is bad! You are not only proficient in the art of building my Tang Dynasty, but also went to the West to study in the country of Fula, it can be said that you have learned everything, since you have the talent to learn, you should use it, you may not be able to use it when you return to the Central Plains, you see our North Garden, now it is to build roads, and we will build a big house in the future, you have more places to use, I think you still stay with peace of mind! ”

"Hey!" Hong Lin slapped his thigh with a depressed face, which made Zhao Ziliang and the officials laugh.

After the end of the Beiting military and political conference, Beiting began to produce large-scale construction, with the continuous migration of displaced people from the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River, many wastelands in Beiting have been reclaimed, the people of this era do not spare any effort to work, as long as there are tools and food, they can work from morning to night, and they don't even take a breath, and their labor ability is much stronger than that of later generations.

In the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth years of Tianbao, a total of 1.2 million displaced people migrated from the Central Plains and Jiangnan to Beiting, on the one hand, it was seriously related to the land annexation of various parts of the Central Plains, on the other hand, it was also the joint efforts of the imperial court and Beiting, and the imperial court also felt a lot of pressure on more and more displaced people, so it also specially sent officials to organize the displaced people to move to Beiting, and many businessmen said that the land in Beiting was mostly wasteland, and no one cultivated it at all. They also send farm tools and seeds, and do not collect taxes for three years, where can they find such good things? Those people who were in the hinterland of the Central Plains and the area south of the Yangtze River were about to survive, and when they heard the local government and businessmen say this, they immediately packed their bags and rushed to Beiting, and more and more Han people moved westward, and people with luggage and baggage could be seen everywhere on the way to Anxi, and many people brought their families with them.

Most of the 1.2 million Han Chinese who migrated over the past three years moved to the jurisdiction of the Taixi Protectorate, and a small number were placed around the city of Henglus.

Soon, officials came to organize these newly relocated Han people to build houses, plough and sow seeds and fertilizer, teach them how to cultivate intensively, and distribute a few cattle, sheep and horses to each family and divide the pastures, all of which are free of charge, but after two years, the calves under the cattle, sheep and horses will be returned to the government according to the original distribution.

Hong Lin presided over the road construction very fast, to the February of the 14th year of Tianbao, he spent two years to complete the construction of the road from Tingzhou to Henglus City, with these two years of experience in road construction, the progress of the road construction project was significantly accelerated, it only took half a year, he completed half of the road construction from Heng Lus City to Samad City.

Due to the vigorous encouragement of industry and commerce, the commerce in Beiting became extremely prosperous, from the city of Samad to the city of Hengrus, from the city of Henglus to the city of Tingzhou, you can see groups of merchants and travelers everywhere, horse-drawn carriages, camel caravans, along the way the post station and the town's carriage and horse shops, inns, inns and taverns and restaurants business is very good.

In addition to Tingzhou, all kinds of factories in Henglus City have sprung up, originally many people just opened some small workshops, all the small workshops are not a few people to work, but many businessmen have found the benefits of large-scale production, the more they invest, the more they earn, those businessmen with strong financial resources have also begun to learn to build large-scale factories, recruiting a large number of people to concentrate on production, this Beiting has nothing else, that is, there are many cattle and sheep. Merchants have not learned wool weaving techniques for the time being, but many merchants are proficient in leather tanning and processing technology, so more than half of the factories around Henglus City are leather processing factories.

The cement ash firing technology is too important, this is a technology that can be directly used in military facilities, so this technology has not been spread for the time being, and it has been controlled by the Beiting side, and outsiders have no way of knowing.

In the second half of the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755 AD), after three to four years of vigorous development, great changes have taken place in various parts of Beiting, the cattle, sheep and horses raised by the barbarians have found a market, and the wool that was useless in the past can now be sold at a good price, and the barbarian herdsmen use the money from selling cattle, sheep and horses, wool and fur to buy grain and other living materials, and the living standard has improved by more than one grade compared with before. The Han people lived a half-farming and half-pastoral life, not only with food, but also meat and dairy products to eat to improve their lives. (To be continued.) )