Looking at the lush mountains not far away, the grass nearby, and the willow trees are green, Xu Ping said to Liang Qian beside him: "Although it is close to the border here, the scenery is actually not far from the two capitals. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and the place is rich, densely populated, can be described as a majestic mansion! ”

"That's right. This dynasty will feel that these places are remote, and the former dynasty established the capital of Guanzhong, which is the place of Jingfu, and is naturally prosperous and rich. The geography remains the same, but the personnel have changed, and the place here is naturally the same as before. ”

Xu Ping nodded and rode slowly with Liang Qian.

Sun Zude is a native of Weizhou, Jingdong Road, where there are relatively few people from Jinshi, and he himself is not good at sociability, and he is more practical in dealing with people, and he is not valued by scholars and celebrities. Although he once knew the Imperial Academy, and also admonished the abolition of the Empress Guo, and was degraded because of this, he was not like Fan Zhongyan, the more degraded the reputation became, the higher the official promotion, and after leaving the Imperial Academy, his career was dull. In several places, Ren Zhizhou, tired to Tianzhang Pavilion to be systematized, last year he was promoted to Longtu Pavilion straight bachelor, to Zhifeng Xiang Mansion.

Liang Qian and Xu Ping are both five-year Jinshi of Tiansheng, and they are already fifty years old this year, but they have only achieved the rank of the palace and Feng Xiang's judgment. Xu Ping was promoted to the palace not long after he arrived in Yongzhou, and Liang Qian's current official position is only equivalent to Xu Ping ten years ago.

In fact, this is the life experience of most Jinshi, young and middle-aged people can only move around in the middle and lower level officials, wandering around, and luck can only step into the middle level. I have been an official for decades in my life, until I am a Zhishi, and it is very good to be able to be a Zhizhou. Like Xu Ping, who has been promoted all the way, there are only ten or eight in a class of Jinshi, and they are basically all judges.

The two men marched along the bank of the canal that entered the Wei River from the mouth of the valley and headed south. There is the largest shipbuilding business in the north, accounting for 20% of the world's ships built every year, and ranking second among all state capitals. The Yellow River and Wei River water systems, and even a large part of the Luo River and Bianhe River water systems in Liangjing, are all transported by boats built here. Qinling Longshan produces giant trees, you can put wooden rows along the rivers and go downstream, after arriving here, make boats, and then go down along the Wei River, all the way to Liangjing. Xu Ping is a handsome guard all the way, and this kind of important place is naturally to be seen. Moreover, he has the intention to build this place into a logistics material production base on Qinfeng Road, and he also wants to investigate the natural conditions here.

Fengxiang Mansion is governed in Tianxing County, that is, Fengxiang County in Xu Ping's previous life, dozens of miles on the north bank of the Wei River. In this era when water is everything, it is obviously not suitable as an industrial and commercial center, and can only be selected in the subordinate county.

The subordinate Baoji County is in the upper reaches of the Weishui River, just the Dasanguan Chencang Road crossing, and it is the largest distribution center for materials from the four roads of the Sichuan Gorge. However, the Jialing River waterway cannot be passed in all seasons, it is busy for half a year and idle for half a year, and it is more of a storage place. The lower reaches of Yu County were important military places in ancient times, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, and many major battles took place around those two counties. Further downstream is Yixian, just the slope crossing. The Baoxian Ancient Road is land transportation, and the transportation capacity is naturally not as good as the water transportation of the Jialing River waterway, and the materials from the Sichuan Gorge are basically seven or eight percent of the Jialing River, and most of the rest are only taken by the Baoxian Road. However, the advantage of the slope is that it is passed in all seasons, and the plank road has been well maintained since the Song Dynasty, and it can be used to transport some important materials other than grain and grass.

From the time of the pacification of Houshu, the imperial court will pay attention to the traffic between the four roads of the Sichuan Gorge and the outside world, the four roads out of Sichuan in ancient times, now mainly use the Jialing River waterway and the ancient road of Baoxi, from the time of Taizong, the annual capacity will be stable at about 1.5 million stone per year. Among them, the materials are mainly transported by water on the Jialing River, which is also the most important road out of Sichuan, from the land of Sichuan and Shu to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination, such as Su Lian, Cheng Jun, etc., including Su Shi in history, are from there out of Shu. Because of the plank road, it is inconvenient for single pedestrians, and it is not their first choice to go out of Shu.

The biggest problem of the Jialing River is that the water is shallow, and the river has to go upstream, and it has to use a lot of slender men to trouble the people along the river. There are many more dangerous shoals, and if you are not careful, the ship will be destroyed and people will die.

Xu Ping asked Han Zong to renovate the road, and in Jialing River Road, he used gunpowder to blow up dangerous shoals, dig deep in shallow places, and open canals to guide water in places where the water is too fast, so as to smooth the water flow, so as to increase the transportation capacity. The Baoxian Ancient Road is to strengthen the plank road, and blow up the mountain and widen it in the narrow place of the mountain road, so that it can pass through the big car. However, compared with roads and waterways, it is still not economical to transport grain and rice from this road.

In the next step, Xu Ping plans to further renovate the Jialing River waterway, even if it is used for half a year, so that the materials transported from the Sichuan Gorge there will reach the level of nearly five million stones. With the materials of the land of Sichuan and Shu, Qinfeng Road has the capital to open up.

This canal was excavated in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the original purpose was to get on the boat when the material pedestrians got out of the mouth of the valley, and then went down the river into Chang'an after entering the Wei River. After entering the Song Dynasty, a huge pond was dug at the mouth of the valley, and the Qinlong big wood was used to build a ship for the northern Cao Yun. Over the decades, it has become one of the most important shipbuilding bases in the country.

It didn't take long for the canal to see a huge man-made lake at the end of the canal, just at the exit of the Baogu Valley. For a while, I can't count how many boats were built on the lake, and they were all tied to the boulders on the shore as anchors.

When he arrived at the lake, he took a deep breath against the wind blowing on the lake, and Xu Ping said to Liang Qian: "The entrance of Liulin wine is not as strong as white sprinkling, but because of this, I drank a little too much unconsciously. Now the lake is blowing, and the wine is gone. ”

"Yunxing has always been a bad drinker, and if you drink it once in a while, you will drink too much unconsciously. But when you come here, you naturally want to start brewing spirits, and it doesn't hurt to drink less of these water and wine in the future. ”

Xu Ping said with a smile: "Spirits are to be brewed, but food is used to make wine, so many households have moved here this year, and the people in the army eat horses and chew, and the food will inevitably be tight." Therefore, there is no rush in the matter of sake brewing. In addition, it is best to use sorghum to make spirits, which is not produced much in this area now, and can only be used until it is planted in autumn. Build the field first, and the sake brewing can be done slowly. ”

Standing by the lake and blowing the wind for a while, Liang Qian introduced the shipbuilding situation here to Xu Ping. These field affairs and the like are now all judged to be promoted by Liang Qian, because Sun Zude did not come today.

When the supervisor of the field received the report, he hurriedly ran over, saluted the two of them, and followed him to listen to the instructions.

After introducing the shipyard, Liang Qian said: "Not far from here, there is bamboo and wood, and the wood used here is taken from there." Three or four miles to the north, there is also iron smelting, which supplies iron nails and the like for the shipping here. Because this is the only major shipbuilding business in Jiangbei, the imperial court is stricter, and the supervisors are all Beijing officials, which is comparable to ordinary field affairs. ”

Xu Ping has been in the Third Division for many years, and of course he is no stranger to the setting up of these institutions, and many prison officials were originally appointed and dismissed through his hands. But it's one thing on paper, and it's still amazing to see it in person. In this extreme place, where there is a shortage of water in the northwest, there is such a large shipbuilding business, and the scene is so spectacular, it feels amazing when you think about it.

Shipbuilding is located here, mainly because of the convenience of obtaining raw materials, such as today's large timber mainly from Qinlong, the two capital palaces and wealthy houses are built with wood here. Another place just produces some iron, and iron nails and the like do not need to be transported.

Xu Ping asked Liang Qian: "Shipbuilding can't be fresh wood, how many big timbers are there in the bamboo and wood business now?" Also, the nearby iron smelting business doesn't know if there is much iron production? ”

"There is no shortage of big trees here, and there are all kinds of bamboo and wood. Although there is iron, it is not produced much, except for shipbuilding, it is enough for civil use in the vicinity. ”

Xu Ping nodded, secretly saying pity in his heart.

With the current technical conditions, it is not possible to use steel as the main raw material, and the position of wood cannot be replaced. However, only as an auxiliary material, the amount of steel used in the development of industry and commerce is also a lot, and a small iron smelting business cannot meet the demand. The iron ore resources in this area are limited, and the amount of iron produced can make some iron nails and the like, which cannot meet the future demand, so don't think of a way. Fortunately, the water system in this area is developed and the water transportation is convenient, and in such a large place as Qinfeng Road, I don't believe that there is no iron ore.

However, the wood is enough to ensure that it is good news. Especially for shipbuilding, there is a lot of large wood stored here, and when the craftsmen of Luoyang arrive, they can immediately start producing carts as the main means of transportation around the area.

Fengxiang Mansion and Qinzhou are separated by several mountains, but they are connected by Weishui, but they cannot be navigated in all seasons. But now there is gunpowder, and roads can be opened along the river valley to build roads for large vehicles.

With the rear Fengxiang Mansion as a base, and then there is a side road, Xu Ping will have the confidence to open up in Qinzhou. As long as there is money and goods, you can buy their land and let them serve the imperial court. In this place, money is better than anything else.

When Cao Wei was in Qinzhou, he once opened up outward on a large scale, and his influence reached Xihe Lanhui. In particular, in the Battle of Sandukou, the defeat of the attack of the Gang and Li Lizun completely broke up the Zongge Fan regime that had begun to take shape, and indirectly caused the fragmentation of the nascent Gang Gang regime.

It's just that after Cao Wei left, the party continued to take advantage of the weakness of Tubo to attack, directly controlled Huizhou, indirectly controlled Lanzhou and Miaochuan, and cut off the road connecting the Song court. In the past few years, Yuan Hao continued to attack the Gang Guy, wanting to completely swallow the area of Guan Hehuang, but was defeated by the Jedi counterattack.

When Xu Ping arrived in Qinzhou, he was not confronted with the swarf forces, but with the party and its affiliates, as well as more independent forces that did not belong to any party. Only when I arrived here did I understand the situation here, which I could not know in the capital before.

In fact, the current scumbags are looking forward to the Song Dynasty sending troops to force out the party forces like the stars and the moon.