In the Weiyang Palace, Liu Che put down the report in his hand. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The corner of his mouth smiled slightly, and said, "There should be no war in the past two years......

The army of the Northern Xiongnu had already begun to prepare for the westward expedition.

It would take them about three months to gather troops, prepare supplies, and clear the roads.

Then, with Dawan as a base, he crossed the Green Mountains and marched to Central Asia.

This time, the Huns seem to be planning to grab it from the west, and the Great Xia and Yueshi people are afraid that they will suffer.

And, judging from the information currently available, the Huns were probably preparing to establish a colony on the west side of the Green Ridge.

This is in the mouth of the Northern Xiongnu nobles, known as the back road.

Once in the future, if you can't beat it, then run away.

It will definitely not fight the invincible Han army in East Asia.

This is normal and in line with the nomadic mentality.

In the history books, the Yueshi, Xiongnu, Wusun, Turks, etc., were all driven to the West in East Asia, the world's most competitive battlefield.

For Liu Che, although he did not want the Huns to benefit too much from the westward expedition.

But he can't control the Huns now.

After all, separated by a Hexi corridor and the Great Gobi, it was impossible for the Han army to fly over and attract the Huns back.

Moreover, China has no obligation to help the Yueshi and Daxia people block guns.

Today's Han family is no longer afraid of any reinforcement of the Huns.

Even if 10,000 steps back, the Huns conquered India, so what?

It's just a precursor to the king.

This is based on the current situation of the increasing national strength of the Han dynasty.

Before the Western Era, population was national strength, and a large number of people was strength.

Today, the population of the Han dynasty is increasing rapidly at an average rate of more than 8 percent per year, and the area of cultivated land is also increasing at a rate of 10 percent per year.

In Andong alone, in the past four years, nearly 8 million mu of land has been newly cultivated, with an annual grain output of nearly 20 million stones, enough to feed 6 million people.

Therefore, today, Anton is changing from a food-importing area to a food-exporting area.

It began to feed back into the interior.

Anton's big merchants and aristocrats were desperate to attract all kinds of immigrants from the interior and landless people to open up the wasteland.

At this point, Anton's large-scale development can be said to have been successful.

As for the Han family, because of the success of Anton's large-scale development, just the various reclamation regiments can save millions of stone of grain every year.

Fortunately, the surplus grain was transported by sea to the Qilu and Yanji regions to make up for the shortfall caused by last year's war and at the same time to help the refugees.

But in the future, the local food surplus is bound to increase at an increasing rate.

These grains have become the biggest trump card in Liu Che's hands!

With them, the stability of the Han regime was almost unshakable.

Today, the only question is, how to use them?

"Anton's grain surplus next year may reach eight million stones!" Liu Che looked at Bo Shi's report on the desk, and thought about it with his cheeks.

The main reason for such a large amount of grain surplus and stocks is because of the cantonment regiment.

In the past four years, dozens of reclamation regiments, large and small, have opened up more than 4 million acres of land throughout Andong.

Moreover, due to the use of collective farming and management models.

Therefore, what water conservancy, irrigation, and technology that ordinary villages need to worry about are not a matter in front of the reclamation group.

The collective strength has made the area under the jurisdiction of the Reclamation Regiment have a variety of water conservancy facilities and various channels.

Even the place where the grain is dried and all kinds of equipment for threshing and hulling are also available.

In terms of technology, it can also get direct assistance from the small government and big farmers.

There is no need to worry about bureaucratic issues.

What is that bureaucracy for the army? Is it tasty?

In particular, today's warriors have a high status, noble status, and great influence.

That bureaucrat dares to fool and delay their affairs at will?

Aren't you afraid of being hung up by the generals and marquis, stripped naked, and hung on the market in Chang'an to blow the wind?

When it comes to violence, ten bureaucrats are no match for a military general!

In the past, civil officials and doctors could also use their IQ to crush and play word games and program games with martial artists.

But now, Takefu already understands the knowledge.

The existence of Wuyuan has made it so that in the past few years, most of the officers above the rank of captain and more than half of the lieutenants of the Han army have received strict long-term or short-term training.

The warriors themselves also had power and money in their hands, and privately hired scholars and literati to teach them and interpret documents.

So now, it's okay if the civil officials and doctors don't jump, if they dare to jump, the generals will dare to draw.

And, definitely pumping!

In addition, the fertile black soil of the Andong region is also an important reason.

Therefore, the yield per mu of the reclamation regiment is hitting a new high every year.

In the last year, the average yield per mu of land in all the reclamation regiments exceeded four stones.

This year, it may even reach half past four.

Basically, one-third of the grain produced is for self-use, and the rest is handed over to the national treasury.

It is equivalent to saying that the Han family has now become the largest landlord in the world.

Holding this massive amount of grain is equivalent to holding a trump card.

In the battle of Yanji last year, the Andong and Qilu regions urgently transferred more than 2 million stone of grain to supply military supplies.

Since the recovery after the war, Anton has successively transferred 3 million stone of grain to help refugees and fill the vacancy of Yanzhao's granary.

But the cost is also huge.

Although, by sea, sea freight is cheap.

However, when grain arrives at the port, it still has to rely on manpower and animal power to transport it to hundreds or even thousands of miles inland.

During the war, it is good to say that in order to win the war, the country can do whatever it takes.

But in peacetime, it can't be that way for long.

Moreover, Liu Che even, in the future, the granary of the Han family will definitely change from the north to the south and Anton.

Wu Chu is familiar, and the world is full.

Anton gets, there is no shortage of food.

But the problem is that the grain produced has to be transported to the places where it is needed and sold, so that the people and peasants can make a profit.

Fortunately, Anton is basically a reclamation group model, and the food grown by the common people is enough to eat.

But in the future, as soon as the reclamation regiment is disbanded, a large number of immigrants will not be able to sell the grain in their hands.

In the inland areas, due to various reasons such as floods, droughts, and locust plagues, famine occurred.

The price of grain is hundreds of dollars a stone, and the people are easy to eat.

This is no joke.

It is a fact, and it happened in the Han Dynasty, during the reign of Wenjing.

In the history books and archives of Shiqu Pavilion, there are records of more than a dozen famines, and there are seven or eight times when Yizi eats.

So......

Liu Che plans to engage in infrastructure construction, especially the construction of inland canals and rail transit.

Engaging in infrastructure construction has always been a matter of local merit and benefit.

Why was Midi so strong in later generations?

Because during the Roosevelt period, highways were built throughout the country, various large water conservancy facilities, a huge railway system, and airfields.

From the forties to the sixties, Midi built almost all the transportation, water and public facilities that it later had.

So much so, in the new century, Midi still benefited immensely.

And China's rise is also related to strong infrastructure.

Highways, railways, high-speed railways, airports, ports, reservoirs, dams......

All of this has become the driving force of China's economy.

However, in carrying out infrastructure construction before the Western Era, we must be cautious and cautious.

Especially before Qin Shi Huang, and then Sui Yang Emperor.

Therefore, Liu Che has never dared to play too big.

However, after years of dormancy and development, especially through the large-scale construction of infrastructure in Guanzhong, a mature contracting system has been tempered, and through war, a large-scale tunnel battalion unit has been established.

Today's Liu Che and the Han family have a certain amount of confidence to challenge this difficulty.

Of course, there is also a need for how to challenge.

Like Yang Guang, if you want to eat a fat man in one bite, you will either die or be beaten to death.

Therefore, Liu Che decided to try his hand first.

He picked up a pen and wrote down two place names on paper: Wei River and Divide.

After thinking about it, he nodded.

The water transportation project with the Wei River as the main body and connecting the big river (Yellow River) was dug by Emperor Wu in history.

It took about four years, 50,000 workers and a budget of about 30 million yuan, and after completion, the canal could transport millions of stones of grain to Chang'an in a year.

The chasm was built by King Wei Hui during the Warring States Period, connecting Song, Zheng, Wei, Chen, and Cai.

And it is most famous because of the war between the Chu and Han armies during the period of the Chu and Han hegemony, and the two armies of Chu and Han confronted each other with the chasm as the boundary.

Since then, the chasm has become a literary vocabulary, a historical vocabulary.

However, its role is unquestionable.

For hundreds of years, the chasm has connected the Huaisi region and played an important role in waterway transportation and water conservancy.

And Liu Che now intends to connect the gap with Guanzhong.

The specific plan is this, start from both sides.

First of all, in Guanzhong, a canal parallel to the Wei River was dug along the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains until it was connected to the big river outside Tongguan, and then it was dug from Xingyang to the north to connect the chasm directly to Luoyang.

In this way, the water traffic between Tongguan River and Guanzhong and Luoyang, Xingyang and Huaisi areas has been completed.

The straights were widened and several rail networks were built.

From Guanzhong, all the way to Huaisi traffic will become convenient.

The state's ability to control and control is also stronger.

The most important thing is that the cost of this project is not large, and Liu Che feels that it will take about five years and spend about 100,000 yuan to build the city.

Maybe it doesn't even cost too much money - if you can get the Northern Xiongnu to send two or three hundred thousand cheap Daxia, body poison, and Kangju slave labor, it is estimated that it will be the expenditure of some grain and iron tools.

As for what you want to say, will these poor body poison, Great Xia, and Kangju people be very wronged?

Aren't Chinese workers also wronged?

The Indians are even more aggrieved, and who have the African people offended?

Push forward another 10,000 years, and when our Homo sapiens ancestors began to conquer the earth, the extinction of Neanderthals and all other genera would be even more unjust.

History has proven that humans are indeed the strongest creatures on earth.

Because humans will not only exterminate other species, but also carry out systematic extermination of their own kind!

Anyway, Liu Che thought about the bones of those Chinese workers under the rails of the American Railway, and let go of the last trace of pity in his heart.

"Anyway, they are destined to be extinct...... Liu Che muttered.

All the nations and ethnic groups living in Central Asia today have not left a single mark in later generations.

Except for those excavated, there is no one who can prove their existence.

It is clear that they were exterminated in the long course of history.

And it's cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, leaving no one!

Besides, even if they want to hate, they should hate the Huns!

So, Liu Che immediately convened the relevant officials of the Great Farmers and Shaofu to discuss the matter.

When everyone heard what Liu Che meant, they were all excited.

Over the years, the Kunming Pond, Longshou Canal and Baochuan Road Project in Guanzhong have fattened up I don't know how many people.

Not to mention, the three aunts and four aunts contracted the project, casually falsely reporting a little price, it is enough for them to eat with a mouthful of oil.

Besides, this matter is indeed beneficial to the country and the people.

Since the first year of Yuande, the logistics in Guanzhong have been very tight.

Although there is a rail carriage to relieve the pressure, the problem is that the track is dead to death.

Ordinary people want to get naked or greedy, and they don't even know how to put their mouths!

Today, a canal from Chang'an to Taolinsai (Tongguan) has been dug to connect the Wei River with the Great River.

Then, everyone can also reap political achievements and benefits from it in the future, and maybe they can still get their hands on it.

It's much stronger than what benefits are now taken up by merchants and teachers!

As for the canal along the road, water conservancy can be adjusted, farmland can be irrigated, and so on, that's just a passing thing.

And once the canal from Xingyang to Luoyang is built, it will be a bug.

As soon as the gap between Luoyang and Xingyang is connected, then the entire Sanhe area will directly have convenient water transportation with the Huaisi area.

However, such a big project, everyone felt very daunted.

It's mainly a matter of money.

In the past, the construction of such water conservancy facilities and projects was a feast for bureaucrats.

They can exploit it, squeeze it, and even arbitrarily annex land cheaply.

You don't sell land?

Okay, you go and repair the channel this year, it's you next year, and the year after next it's you.

However, when the son came to power today, he gradually abolished the forced labor, especially those heavy ones.

Changed to collect money directly, there is no money, in kind (grain, cloth, silk cocoons, and stalks are all allowed to be deducted), and this policy has also been beaten by people and informed the people of the world.

At least in Guanzhong and the north, for the time being, very few people dare to make trouble in the matter of conscription.

The primary goal of the grassroots organizations of the embroidered clothes and guards is to detect the people's sufferings and discussions, especially the discussions on forced labor and taxation.

Whoever wants to live impatiently can challenge the eyes and ears of the embroidered guards to see if they are blind and deaf.

And until now, all those who have done so have been eating state food in the Tingwei prison......

So much so that there was once a complaint that 'officials are boring, and they can't mix ......'.

But the bureaucracy has nothing to do.

A large number of examiners are waiting for the people in front of them to make mistakes, and then they will be on top.

Besides, now in the north and Guanzhong, there is no longer room for exploitation as in the past.

Tenant farmers and yeoman farmers, that's all treasures.

The landlords were reluctant to beat and scold.

The bureaucracy has evolved new forms of exploitation in response to the changes of the times.

How much money is the mud leg? What's there to take advantage of?

Forcing a thousand mud legs to death is only a few thousand acres of land and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Now, if you kill a businessman who has committed illegal tax evasion and tax evasion, you can get all your money back.

And, peeling mud legs, too powdery, easy to be pointed at, and it is possible to get a ten-year tour gift package from Tingwei Prison, if you meet Tingwei, the prime minister, the son of heaven, engage in activities, decide to buy one get one free, and then send free shipping service.

Then the whole family could be trapped.

In comparison, Shangjia is much more fun.

If they are exploited, no one will criticize them, whether it is the public opinion circles or the people, they will only applaud and say, 'Be honest and honest, make decisions for the people, and eliminate this great evil'.

Perhaps, if you are lucky, you can still be valued by the above, and you feel that you have the ability, a position, and a principle, and you can completely cultivate and cultivate, then you will be developed.

At present, this change is quietly changing the bureaucratic system of the Han family.

There are quite a few interesting phenomena.

Among them, the most representative thing is that there was once a repeated ban, and the more rampant miscellaneous taxes have a tendency to decrease.

After all, officials are not stupid.

When there is a better object of exploitation, and it is known that if the exploitation is severe, the people will flee to Anton.

And the people fleeing, it will lead to the reduction of the hukou, and the hukou will be reduced, and the political achievements will be lost, and if the political achievements are not, they will lose the black yarn hat.

This really made Liu Che a little crying and laughing.

But he knows that this is a fact and an inevitability of historical development.

Similar situations have been played out in countless countries in later generations.

In order to judge whether a country is advanced or not, in addition to its science and technology, infrastructure, and education level, the most important and intuitive criterion for judging is to see what groups the country's bureaucrats exploit and make a fortune on.

Feeding on the peasants and the people at the bottom, that's the country of Luthor and Dicks.

Those who feed on capital are basically advanced developed countries!

Judging from this standard, the current Han family is indeed on the right path.