Time turned to the first month of the 23rd year of the new Qin, and Liu Meng, the fourth son of the emperor, was named the king of Liang, and he was in the Kuman region of the country. To compensate for Liu Meng, Turkmenistan is too arid, it is the center of the entire Eurasian continent, with a typical temperate continental climate, and it is one of the driest regions in the world. Although the mineral resources are abundant, they have not yet been developed. Now the only specialty that can be sold in that place is the sweat and blood horse, and Liu Xian has assigned most of the remaining land in the Caspian Sea region to the Liang State, making the land junction between the Liang State and the Yan State less than a hundred miles away.

On the eve of Liu Meng's inauguration, Liu Xian handed him a water conservancy project map, which was the greatest success after China occupied the territory of Cumenistan -- a grand canal that stretched for two or three thousand miles.

Karakum, which means 'black desert' in Turkic language, is called the black desert because the rocks of this desert are brownish-black, and the rocks are also black-brown after sandification. It is the seventh largest desert in the world, between the Caspian Sea and the Amu Darya River, with an area of about 350,000 square kilometers. ‘

Karakum is one of the harshest areas in Turkmenistan, with widespread cracked soil and salt marshes, the temperature difference between day and night can rise from minus 20 degrees Celsius to minus 36 degrees Celsius, and the annual rainfall is less than 150 mm.

However, this large desert is the main body of the Turkmen region, and the entire Liang country is only a little more than 500,000 square kilometers, and the Karakum Desert alone accounts for 70%. He is a place that Liu Meng must conquer, otherwise he, the king of Liang, will completely drink the cool breeze and eat sand.

'Karakum is a great desert, but the oases above it have been a paradise for the Turkmen for thousands of years, and there are large steppe pastures in the foothills of the southern Persian border, where hundreds of thousands of people live. The sandy terrain here is quite fertile, and there is probably oil and gas underground. What we need to do is to bring enough water to the land and turn the sandy plains into fertile fields and pastures. ‘

The second lunar month. King Liang appeared in Ashgabat. The first thing he did was to summon the elders, chiefs and imams of the Green Cult from all over Turkmenistan to meet him in Ashgabat. The first National Convention was held!

At the congress held on the first day of the third lunar month, Liu Meng first announced his rule, marking the end of the years of military rule in Turkmenistan, and a large number of government officials would arrive in Turkmenistan in the following month. Liu Meng hopes that many of the indigenous representatives attending the conference will be as active as the immigrants in facing the new government and participating in the establishment of government institutions. A considerable number of middle and low-level positions. The Liang government will recruit from the general public. As long as you pass the administrative exam, you will be able to become a middle-level official and civil servant in the Liang government.

This caused an uproar throughout the venue, and the representatives of the indigenous elite who attended the meeting did not expect such a good thing to fall on their heads. But wave after wave, Liu Meng did not wait for the natives to digest the last news, and announced the first national project after the establishment of the Liang State - Karakum Canal!

'Karakum is not without water. A 2,500-kilometre-long Amu Darya River originates in the Afghan plateau, flows through the northern end of the Karakum Desert, turns into the Uzbek region to our east, and empties into the Aral Sea. The average second flow of the river is 1520 cubic meters. Slightly less than the Yellow River in Chinese mainland and more than the Huai River, it is enough to irrigate the Karakum Desert. ‘

The atmosphere in the venue was constantly heating up with Liu Meng's voice, and the heads of the indigenous representatives seemed to be steaming, and they couldn't help themselves with excitement.

Liu Meng's calm voice continued: "After years of surveying and designing, many experts from China's water conservancy department have officially proposed a blueprint for the Karakum Desert irrigation system. To the south, from the town of Bosaga, on the left bank of the upper reaches of the Amu Darya River, westward through the Murghab and Tejan oases, and along the plain of the northern foothills of the Kopet Mountains via Geoktepek to Kazanjik. Finally injected into the Caspian Sea. Its total length is 1400 km. In short, the canal runs east in the mountains near the border with Afghanistan. Bringing water from the upper reaches of the Amu Darya River to the west through the southern part of the Karakum Desert; The last section runs along the northern slopes of the Kopet Mountains near Persia - where Ashgabat flows into the Caspian Sea through the arid agricultural regions of Turkmenistan.

"We can't do everything in just a few years. It's a long process. In addition to dredging the water flow, we also need to build a series of 'reservoirs' along the route, as well as some large reservoirs with huge capacity. The entire project will take 20 or 30 years to complete. But this is good for our whole country. It is a great project that will be a great project for future generations, and an immortal achievement that can make our name forever engraved on this land! ‘

Liu Meng's remarks not only made the blood boil the blood of the indigenous representatives and a few immigrant representatives in the entire venue, but even he himself couldn't control his passionate emotions in the end.

If this regular canal is really opened, the entire Liang country will undergo earth-shaking changes. China will bear a considerable part of the construction fund, skilled workers, and expert teams. Liu Meng knew that this was his father's compensation and support for him. That's really enough!

With this canal, the question of faith may still be difficult, but the hearts and minds of the whole country will be firmly grasped in their own hands. Even if in the years to come, he completely delegates power to political affairs, the cabinet, and even the army, Liu Meng's throne and rights will still be solid and unbreakable!

As for the flow of the Amu Darya River, the canal will greatly reduce the amount of water coming from the Aral Sea, and the water level will drop significantly, which will have a great adverse impact on the local and surrounding ecological environment. Whether it is Liu Meng, Liu Xian, or even many water conservancy experts, they don't care at all. The end of the 19th century is not the 21st century when the environment is in mind!

This National Convention was victorious and significant. Liu Meng, the king of Liang who had just moved into Turkmenistan, won the support of the entire Turkmen people in one fell swoop. When a large number of construction machinery was still being transported from China to Turkmenistan, dozens of labor teams in Turkmenistan had begun to recruit people. As of the official start of the canal project in May, more than 40,000 Turkmen young people walked to the front of the construction site. This is a completely uncharted number for Turkmen, who have a total of only five or six hundred thousand Turkmen!

China's Ministry of Finance allocated 1 billion Chinese yuan for the Karakum Canal project, and then 2 billion Chinese yuan for Liang, plus Liang's own funds in the next few years, will be able to complete the first phase of the canal. No matter how good the situation is, even if the stock can be sold, the second phase of the project can be built. And then for the first ten years it was pretty much the same. If Liang Guo wants to thoroughly complete the Karakum Canal Project -- the third phase of the canal project and the fourth phase of the water conservancy facilities along the canal -- it will depend on Liang Guo's operation in the next 10 or 20 years.

People always have to rely on their own people.

Although Liang was a vassal state of China, it was an independent state in its own right, and apart from diplomatic power and temporary field armies, Liang and Yan Zhao were no different from Korea, the Nguyen dynasty, and southwest Japan.

No matter how much China helps and supports Liang, it first needs Liang to be able to stand up on its own.

In the previous life, the Karakum Canal was abolished, and Liu Xian didn't know, he just saw the name of the Karakum Canal when he was looking at the best of the world - the longest canal in ancient times was in China, and the longest canal in modern times was in Turkmenistan [Su, Lian].

That's when I got a little impression of it. Otherwise, Liu Xian's brain would be in the water, and he would find such a big thing for his son to do for no reason.

When the Karakum Canal started construction as scheduled, the Turkmen seemed to accept the new name of Liang King and 'Liang' unconditionally. Even Mandarin education, which has been slow to be implemented locally, has become faster.

What is said in the media has captured the hearts of the Turkmen people, and the great festival of the dynasty dedicated to the welfare of the people has been recognized by the local natives, so this is the case. Liu Meng seems to be actually farting!

The speed of Putonghua has suddenly become faster, and it is purely a bridge of power and economy through Putonghua - government workers must be able to speak Putonghua, and there is a one-year reprieve period for indigenous officials and civil servants, but in the final analysis, they still have to be able to speak Putonghua, and if they go further, they must be able to write Chinese characters; And the concretization of money and profit is related to the beginning of the Karakum Canal project. The start of the project greatly promoted the trade and market in the Liang country, because of this canal, a large amount of money was gathered, and these interests are inseparable from the canal project, and the people in charge of these interests are mostly Chinese, even if there is a group of Central Asian natives, all of them can speak Chinese, not all of them speak Turkmen. If Turkmen businessmen want to do business and make money as soon as possible, being able to speak Chinese is also a very necessary 'skill'!

The joint promotion of the two aspects, Liang Guo's Mandarin promotion will not be fast.

That's where 'interests' come in. Just as some Turkmen horse merchants before them became the first Turkmen to try to learn Mandarin Chinese, it was all about financial gain. Desire and hope drive the Turkmen people to work hard, and desire and hope are the best teachers of people!

The start of the Karakum Canal project has also attracted the attention of many foreigners. Journalists from all over the world came one after another, and this is no longer Yan Zhao, who only has the eyes of Westerners, but also the eyes of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Persia who are also looking at Central Asia attentively.

During the previous trips of the two countries' missions, they felt different feelings from both land and sea aspects. This 'one-sided' feeling did not deceive them for long, and the two countries' missions had their own contacts in Beijing, and soon learned what each other's journeys were. This makes them very incomprehensible, why the same green cultists, but the Chinese should be treated separately? Could it be that the Green Cultists in the South Seas are more 'harmful' to China than in Central Asia?

This kind of confusion and incomprehension has not even dispelled the good news that the Middle East has repeatedly been found to be self-injecting wells.

The Celestial World is too weak, so weak that they must be wary of any one who enters! (To be continued......)