Not only is the agriculture of the Hexi Corridor supported by the alpine snow water of the Qilian Mountains, but the agriculture of the Western Regions is also supported by the snow and water of the Tianshan Mountains.

These alpine snow waters will not be so affected by the Xiaoice River, and the Ming Dynasty will develop the Western Regions, and the agricultural disaster here will not be so serious.

The focus is still on the question of how to divert snow water, in fact, there are already relevant water conservancy projects in the Western Regions, these water conservancy projects are the technology left by the Han people when they were engaged in agriculture in the Western Regions, and after some development, they have become relatively mature.

The water conservancy facilities in the Western Regions are mainly karez wells, which were developed by the Han people in the Western Han Dynasty to develop the northwest region.

One of the main achievements of the Han Dynasty, especially Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was the development of the vast northwest region. At that time, the resettlement of Shibian and the construction of canals and tuntian were regarded as part of the fight against the invasion of the Xiongnu, and at this time, the northwest region became the key water conservancy area second only to Guanzhong, and the water conservancy engineering technology was also greatly improved.

Nowadays in the Turpan Basin, there are still many qanats. The reason why the Yarkand Khanate had agriculture and handicrafts was first of all because of the irrigation facilities left behind by the Han Chinese. With the support of agriculture, handicrafts naturally emerged.

Karez is a very old horizontal water collection structure for the development and utilization of groundwater, which is suitable for the foothills and alluvial fan margins, and is mainly used to intercept underground diving for farmland irrigation and residential water.

The structure of the qanats is generally composed of four parts: shafts, underground channels, surface channels and "waterlogged dams" (small reservoirs), and the Bogda Mountains in the north of the Turpan Basin and the Karawucheng Mountains in the west have a large amount of snow and rain flowing down the valley in spring and summer. Dive under the Gobi Desert. People take advantage of the slope of the mountain. The qanats were cleverly created. Diversion of underground undercurrents to irrigate farmland. The qanats do not evaporate a lot of water due to heat and strong winds, so the flow is stable, ensuring self-flowing irrigation.

In later generations, there were more than 1,100 karez wells in Turpan, with a total length of about 5,000 kilometers. In the Ming Dynasty, there were not so many karez in the Turpan area, and there were large tracts of land that had not been developed. Therefore, the next agricultural development in the Turpan Basin is to build a large number of qanats, introduce alpine snow water into the ground, and then transport it to various agricultural areas for irrigation. Thus opening up large areas of cotton fields.

The cotton yield in the Western Regions is the highest in the country, and the climate here is very suitable for cotton growth, as long as irrigation and management are guaranteed, it is completely easy for the lint yield to exceed 100 kilograms. The yield of cotton per mu in the provinces of Guannai is generally around 100, mainly depending on the irrigation conditions and management. The Western Regions has unique advantages in natural climate. Under the same level of management and irrigation conditions, the cotton yield in the Western Regions is higher, and the cotton quality is also the best.

It is not a problem at all to open up more than 25 million mu of cotton fields in the entire Western Regions, and it takes 500,000 cotton farmers to calculate that a cotton farmer operates 50 mu of cotton fields.

Zhu Youxiao crackled in the Forbidden City. After counting 500,000 cotton farmers, the Dzungar Department now accounts for a quota of 50,000 households. There are also 450,000 households.

As for these lands, they are just used to house the border troops who have been dismantled, and now there are still three towns where the border troops have not been dismantled, so it is just right to arrange these border troops to the Western Regions.

"After statistics of military households in the three towns of Ningxia, Guyuan and Gansu, there are actually 230,000 military households, and all of these border troops have immigrated to the Western Regions, and each household is allocated 50 mu of cultivated land, and 11.5 million mu of land needs to be allocated. There is still a gap of 11 million mu in cotton planting. Zhu Youxiao calculated and found that the development of the Western Regions still requires a large number of immigrants.

After all, there is not only cotton planting in the Western Regions, but also in such a large place, if the water conservancy facilities are repaired, at least more than 50 million mu of cultivated land can be developed.

In addition, the cotton planting industry needs workers, a cotton farmer operates 50 acres of cotton fields a year, and when it comes to picking cotton in the autumn, a family must be too busy, after all, there is no machine picking in this year.

Not only peasants, but also workers are needed.

Immigration is definitely needed, but where can agricultural workers with lower wages come from? Zhu Youxiao soon set his sights on the alien races of the Yarkand Khanate.

Simply engage in a land enclosure campaign to deprive those aliens who believe in extremist religions of their land.

The land was distributed to the officers and soldiers who had established military merits, and it did not matter whether they emigrated or not, but they could set up an agricultural company to carry out production, and turn those aliens into agricultural workers to manage.

If the production corps is used to reclaim some cultivated land, the agricultural resources of the entire Western Regions can be developed.

The workers needed to open mines and build roads were recruited from the Kannai, and these ordinary Han people had no military merits or anything, and the Western Regions was not an overseas region without a foundation, so they were not given land.

Workers can get rich if they can, and if they can't get rich, the state guarantees that they can earn the income they need for basic survival through their work. Everything is in the rotation of yin and yang, and in the past 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, it is actually not a bad thing for workers to suffer a little, as long as the state guarantees their right to subsistence and does not let their basic rights and interests be violated, there will naturally be rewards.

It is completely impossible to make every Hermes-Epis-epithes-Epistein prosperous, that is idealism. Everyone's blessings are earned by themselves. Poor people must have something to hate, and there is no poverty without a cause.

Zhu Youxiao's thinking today is relatively pragmatic and will not follow the crooked path of idealism, because capitalism and socialism in later generations are actually idealistic. The idealization of capitalism lies in fair competition, but everyone has inferior roots, so how can it be possible to compete freely? Will a rich man's son compete fairly with a poor man's son? Therefore, the capitalist countries led by the United States in later generations do feel very beautiful after packaging, but in fact, their market has a high degree of monopoly, and a real capitalist country does not have a monopoly.

Socialism is likewise idealistic, advocating equitable distribution. However, the inferior roots of human nature make it impossible to be fair in the distribution link, and it is impossible to be fair in the production process. The reason why the Datong society in ancient China was able to maintain for a long time was mainly because the Chinese tribe was a spiritual civilization at that time, and the monarch was not only in charge of the people. He is also the boss of the cultivation world. The people of the entire tribe are simple and natural. There is no selfishness.

After that, some people in the Huaxia tribe were unwilling to practice, and they became selfish, and began to think about how to enjoy themselves and be lazy, and the bad roots of human nature gradually appeared, and finally the Datong society could only collapse, and the Taoist cultivation world and the secular world were separated. After the elite of the cultivation world left, there was a lot of waste in the secular world because of the lack of productivity. Rapid degeneration into a slave society.

Although the big brother of the Soviet Union in later generations was relatively bad, it taught China a vivid lesson at a critical moment, and it disintegrated while playing, and died a miserable death, from a country that originally had one-half of the output value of the United States to the output value of a third-rate country. Only then did the Chinese leaders realize that idealized socialism could not go on, and that playing idealized capitalism would lead to an even worse death, so they embarked on a more pragmatic new socialist road and began to face reality squarely and respect reality. After that, it only took 30 years to catch up with Europe and the United States. Prove that this path is not wrong. Of course, rapid development has indeed led to a lot of problems. However, on the historical issue of the rise and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, later generations of China have done it.

As a traverser, Zhu Youxiao has too many things to learn from, and he will not go to idealized capitalism and socialism. Instead, it greatly borrowed the model of later generations of China to develop the Ming Dynasty, and it was still the same concept - facing reality squarely and respecting reality.

What Zhu Youxiao can guarantee is that the people at the bottom can work more stably, and they have a smooth upward space after they have accumulated enough good fortune. As for the people at the bottom who don't know how to work hard and pay, then they can only be guaranteed to not starve to death.

There is a saying that if you don't want to help the poor, you can invite him to eat if you don't have anything to eat, but if it's to buy something, then the money can't be borrowed.

The same is true for managing a country, which is not to help the poor. The people were so poor that they had nothing to eat, and the court could give them relief. And to provide the people with the conditions for hard work and prosperity, if the people live in the area of environmental problems cause poverty, you can immigrate, for example, the people on the Loess Plateau, because the resources are too poor, resulting in widespread poverty, this is not hard work can be changed, then they need to be immigrated to the place where the resources are relatively rich, and do a good job of resettlement.

At the same time, what the imperial court has to do is to protect the rights and interests of those hard-working and wealthy people, to prevent them from being oppressed and blackmailed by the powerful, and to prevent them from being stolen by profiteers through manipulation of finance and markets.

Generally speaking, it is to build a relatively stable environment through the means of state intervention. Let hundreds of millions of people in the world compete for the upper reaches of the world, and with the intervention of the state, a certain degree of fair distribution and a certain degree of fair competition in the market will be realized.

This is the pragmatic national policy of semi-capitalization and semi-socialism.

The small-scale peasant economic system established by Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty actually carried a lot of idealized private goods, which was originally very good and considered for the people at the bottom, but idealization itself was the biggest problem. This led to the rise of capitalists in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, which had a huge impact on the country, and the imperial court was naturally confused and didn't know what to do all of a sudden. It was precisely because Zhang Juzheng saw these problems that he proposed reform. As a result, as soon as Zhang Juzheng died, he immediately died.

Next, once the Ming Dynasty enters the era of the industrial revolution, the gap between the rich and the poor will further widen. When people move the living tree and die, a good way out for the poor is to emigrate overseas.

As long as people work hard and are not crushed by the state apparatus and heaven and earth, there will always be a reward. Therefore, in a stable environment, it is to ensure that the fate of the individual is not crushed as much as possible.

The purpose of the industrial revolution is to develop productive forces, so as to better resist natural and man-made disasters from nature and build a more stable environment. Natural disasters are droughts, floods, earthquakes, etc., and man-made disasters are external wars, internal oppression, and so on.

Famine can be avoided with the development of productive forces. The country's overall strength has improved, and it can also resist external invasion. In addition to these, there must be more equitable means of wealth distribution and protection of the rights and interests of ordinary people. None of this is something that can be achieved in an idealized society, because there are not only good people in this world, but also bad people.

In every country, there are bad people, and these bad people are-stirring sticks. Internal systems and laws must be able to sanction these bad actors in order to avoid internal man-made disasters.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao immigrated, it was not necessary to allocate how much land to ordinary immigrants and how much money to give them directly, but to let them have an opportunity to work hard. If you don't even have the opportunity to work hard and pay, you will naturally be poor for a lifetime.

The biggest advantage of immigration is that it gives those poor people a small world to struggle.

As for the distribution of land to the border army, it was naturally needed. After all, the military household is also a state establishment, and now that the imperial court wants to get rid of this establishment, it will naturally give some compensation.

Compensating these military households is not directly how much money to pay, but so that they can directly get a platform to struggle, as for whether they can gain a firm foothold on this platform, the court just does everything that needs to be done, and in case of natural disasters, it will give relief, and if there is no money to buy planting, farming cattle or something, the court will also give them loans. But they can't stand firm under such support, that's their own problem, and the last guarantee given to them by the imperial court is that they won't starve to death.

After Zhu Youxiao made a plan in the Forbidden City, he took out the agricultural resource allocation plan for the Western Regions.

The policy of immigration to the Western Regions was also immediately introduced, and the people in all provinces who had a very difficult life could immigrate to the Western Regions, and the imperial court provided all the travel expenses. When you arrive, there will be a lot of jobs as the development progresses, and you don't have to worry about losing your job in the past, as long as you are willing to work hard, your standard of living will improve immediately.

Under Zhu Youxiao's instructions, the Supreme Command, the Military Department, and the Household Department quickly came up with a plan for the reduction of the border troops in Ningxia, Gansu, and Guyuan.

Finally, the border army of the three towns has also entered the stage of reduction, and the resettlement is expected to be completed within two years. In two years, the Nine Border Military Town will officially become history.

The health centers in the northern provinces have also entered the final stage of dismantling, and the abolition will be completed within this year. The provincial garrison brigades have also been formed, and some provinces have arranged two garrison brigades, ready to suppress the rebellion and suppress the thieves at any time in order to maintain local stability.

In the Western Regions, after pacifying the Dzungaria, Lu Xiangsheng let the whole army repair for half a month, during which he would guard against the border defense of the Bukhara Khanate and roughly deal with the placement of the Dzungar department, and then immediately transferred his troops and launched another attack on the Yarkand Khanate. (To be continued.) )

PS: 4,000 words chapter!