From the fourteenth to the fifteenth year of the Shengyuan Dynasty, the chaotic situation on the grassland allowed the war-torn Han to rest comfortably.

In these two years, the Grand Canal from Youbeiping to Yecheng was fully completed, and the full navigation from Youbeiping to the north bank of the Yangtze River was realized.

This canal is based on the canal specially dug by the Wu State in the Spring and Autumn Period to defeat the Qi State, and uses the water system extending in all directions in the north of the Yangtze River to expand the canal, with a total length of about 3,100 miles. Because Jiangdong was still in the hands of Sun Ce, the canal could not reach Hangzhou for the time being, reaching the scale of the later Sui-Tang Grand Canal, which was equivalent to five-sixths of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal.

In the past, it took Emperor Yang of Sui eight years to build the canal, and Luan Yi took fifteen years. The reason why it was built slower than in history is not that the engineering efficiency of the Han Dynasty was low, on the contrary, with the emergence of production equipment such as wheelbarrows and parrot hoes, the engineering efficiency of the current Han Dynasty is not inferior to that of the Sui Dynasty in history, but also improved.

As for the root cause of the slowness, it is deliberately done by Luan Yi. He is familiar with history and knows that the reason why the Sui Dynasty fell can be traced back to the origin because Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was so happy. Among them, the rush for success and profit to gather the people to speed up the construction of the canal is an important inducement.

In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Luan Yi did not rush when building the canal, but steadily - he did not let the people serve labor as much as Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, but in the form of distributing salaries and silver, in lieu of work, that is, so that the poor people could get benefits, learn skills, and successfully realize the construction of the canal, increasing the circulation of goods.

When people have money in their pockets, their purchasing power naturally increases dramatically. The increase in purchasing power and the consequent increase in demand complemented the greatly increased circulation power after the opening of the canal, bringing greater prosperity to Dahan.

It is precisely for this reason that Luan Yi's construction of the canal not only did not attract public resentment, but was more loved by people at all levels.

In addition to facilitating logistics and population circulation, the Grand Canal also plays an important role in the military. The vertical and horizontal waterway transportation greatly reduced the difficulty of transporting military baggage, grain, grass, and soldiers and horses, and further strengthened the ability to centralize power. Or, to be more precise, it is equivalent to expanding the core area of Dahan from the Gyeonggi region to all water systems at once.

Whenever there is a change in the local strength or the enemy's ** team, the church can immediately mobilize heavy troops from all directions and go down the canal to support. (Nice marshmallows.)

The most obvious example is that Youzhou has been known as the land of bitter cold since ancient times. The Sewaihu invade almost every two or three years.

Due to the difficulty of traveling, whenever the Han army rushed to Youzhou to support with sufficient food and grass, the Hu people's light cavalry, which was extremely mobile, had already plundered and retreated to the grassland.

Every year, every year. This is how the Han has been tricked by the Hu people for hundreds of years.

Now there is a canal directly leading to Youbeiping, which can greatly alleviate the embarrassment of the past, but if the Hu people such as Xianbei and Fuyu outside the Saiwai have signs of invading the Central Plains, the Aegis Xizuo lurking outside the Saiwai will report the news to Lu Bu stationed in Youzhou as soon as possible.

While Lu Bu deployed the defensive line, he would also light a beacon fire. Luan Yi was able to mobilize nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses from the Central Army of the Holy Sect, Qi State, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Jizhou in a short period of time, and board ships from Luokou, Yutai, Xingye and other ports near the soldiers and horses to the north. At the same time, Yutai and Xingye are also important granaries while serving as river ports. Correspondingly, due to its proximity to the Luanjia factory, Luokou Port is not only an important banner of the Han Dynasty, a production place for quilts, but also a reserve place for baggage.

When the army leaves the port, it can pick up grain on the same day, and Luokou Port can continue to transport baggage.

It is the so-called soldier who is fast. Such a high level of efficiency was enough to stifle the ambitions of the Saiwaihu people in the cradle.

In addition to the Grand Canal, New Luoyang and Yangcheng in Qiang Autonomous Prefecture have been put into construction. Speaking of which, Luoyang has been groundbreaking for more than four years, and now it has a slight scale, and the general outline can be seen. Without the invasion of a third party, it will be completed in another three years.

Compared with the behemoth of Luoyang, the construction of Yangcheng has just begun. At the bidding meeting of the millennium, that is, the thirteenth year of the Shengyuan Dynasty, the 200 shops in Yangcheng were swept away by the wealthy Han merchants.

The value of the smallest shop has soared from the original 700 silver to 5,000 per shop, and even then it is still hard to find. Luan Yi made a lot of money from this.

However, although a lot of money was earned, most of it was used to pay for the military expenses spent on the western expedition to Qiangdao, as well as pensions for the families of the fallen soldiers and rewards for meritorious soldiers. The remainder will be used to make up for the fiscal shortfall of the current year and be diverted to support the reward of the current year's population incentive policy.

Thankfully, the First World War in the Northwest was not fought in vain. At the most basic, according to the pre-war agreement, Sister Qiang would pay a tribute of 10 million taels of silver to the imperial court every year for the next fifty years, plus the other eight tributes of silver, and the Han could increase a large amount of income every year.

In addition, the 700,000 slaves brought back from Qiangdao are now assigned to their respective posts to contribute to the production of the Han Dynasty, which has increased the production capacity of the Han Dynasty to a certain extent. At the same time, the Qiang Road, which was incarnated as the Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, provided a safer order for merchants to come and go, further promoted the westward circulation of Han materials, and brought back a large amount of wealth to the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, since the fourteenth year of the Shengyuan Dynasty, the finances of the Han court and the church have improved significantly, and instead of running a deficit, they have begun to have a surplus. Some data show that this trend will continue in the next few years, and it will get better and better. In another four years, when the first batch of children funded by the population incentive policy will reach about 14 years old, the proportion of the population of Dahan will change from the current situation of the elderly and children as the main body, and transform into a more superior structure with young people as the main body.

At that time, Dahan's labor force will increase exponentially and will continue to soar.

Hearing this conclusion, Luan Yi let out a sigh of relief. "It's finally coming to an end."

Recalling his previous life, as a product of family planning, Luan Yi can deeply understand the helplessness of the country in formulating such a policy. Limited resources and territory force national policymakers to address resource use in a way that controls populations.

Right now, Luan Yi is in a different situation from his previous life. The vast thirteen states of China are sparsely populated, and there are so many potential threats on all sides. Both production and conquest need people...... He's short of people. This was his original intention in formulating a policy to encourage childbirth, which was diametrically opposed to the family planning policy.

Of course, as with family planning, encouraging childbearing has serious sequelae. Both: Keeping the population in a state of high velocity for a long time in a limited territory will one day lead to overcrowding.

Thankfully, such a problem should not arise in Luan Yi's lifetime. Now unlike the fierce competition between countries in later generations, due to his appearance, the humanities, science and technology of the Han Dynasty have made a qualitative leap, and it has become an existence that completely overrides the countries. In this world of the jungle, the so-called humanitarian condemnation has not yet been born. If there is land congestion and overpopulation, it is a big deal to plunder elsewhere.

The only thing that worries Luan Yi is that a sudden increase in population will take up a lot of resources, especially the land resources that people rely on for survival. Over-cultivation of acres of land will lead to desertification.

He didn't want the Mother River to become the Yellow River anymore.

With such worries, Luan Yi arranged for special personnel to supervise the land reclamation in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, and all cultivated land along the big rivers in Xiliang and Sizhou was not allowed unless it was specially approved. In addition, Luan Yi also asked Zhao Yun and Ma Teng to organize manpower to plant trees extensively in Shicheng and Shangjun, and set up two shelterbelts to avoid soil erosion and block the wind and sand blowing from the western desert.

He was willing to arrange the deployment in place, hoping that these measures could make future generations gain something.

In addition to the above, there was also a major event in the fourteenth year of the Shengyuan Dynasty - Luan Yi moved the capital.

Due to the fact that the vast majority of future military targets were located in the west, and the economic center moved westward due to the annexation of Qiang Dao, Luan Yi decided to move the imperial court westward and tentatively set Xijing Chang'an as the capital. Three years later, Luoyang will be completed and then changed.

This time Luan Yi moved the capital, he wanted to bring all his family to Chang'an, but his parents were too old to withstand the fatigue of the long-distance journey, and their bodies could not bear the toss of water and soil. So, Luan Yi left them in Jinan and asked Wang Yue's wife, Luan Yi's personal maid Xiaocui in the past, to take care of them.

In addition, because Jinan is the headquarters of the Luanjia Chamber of Commerce, most of the Luan's industries are in Jinan, so it is necessary to leave a reliable person to preside over a certain thing in Jinan. In this regard, Zhen Mi, who has led the business operations of the Luan family for many years, bore the brunt, and Luan Yi had no choice but to let her live in Jinan temporarily, and then take Zhen Mi to Chang'an for reunion when she finds a suitable person to take over.

In the early summer of the fifteenth year of the Shengyuan Dynasty, with the proper placement of hundreds of civil and military officials, and the normal operation of the major official offices of the imperial court and the church, Luan Yi could finally breathe a sigh of relief for a while.

It was also in this year that in order to prevent the imperial court and the church from relaxing their vigilance in the relatively relaxed world situation, Luan Yi personally formulated a systematic early warning mechanism, which was yellow, orange and red.

When the intelligence system detects that an enemy country has an invasion intent, it enters a yellow alert procedure. At that time, yellow flags will be erected on the roofs of churches in the counties surrounding the border line, and three long, one short and one long will be hit as a warning. From this date, churches in the surrounding counties will cancel worship services and stop closing their Sundays. The soldiers and horses of the counties are on standby at any time, and the city enters the state of being in a state of being guarded until the alert is removed.

In the event of a small enemy invasion or a large-scale natural disaster, the church will be put on orange alert. The civil and military officials of Chang'an City canceled their holidays, and the officials did not have to attend the service, and the two major states that were invaded by the enemy recalled all the officers and non-commissioned officers on active duty on vacation, and immediately recruited the Shengtian Army to raise heavy grain and grass for the arrival of the order to carry out or rescue the disaster area at any time.

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