Time flies quickly, more than a month has passed since the Spring Festival in the blink of an eye, and the entire Han has begun to get busy again, and the Ministry of Agriculture has begun to organize the work of spring ploughing.

First of all, the biggest change is that as the ice on the river surface begins to melt in winter, the Tarim River, which was originally cut off from Huo Cihai, once again ushered in the flow of water, and several rains in spring once again spread throughout Dahan, with these rains, the originally dry course of the Tarim River quickly merged into Huo Cihai, and the area of Huo Cihai was once again improved.

For the reappearance of the Tarim River, all the people in the entire Loulan City were extremely cheering, Huo Gang once again brushed a wave of prestige, and after the Tarim River and the Huo Ci River basin formed the entire water system, the Tarim River from Loulan City to the south also appeared again.

With the arrival of spring, the White Tiger Army and the Vermilion Bird Army once again began to march westward along the Tarim River Valley, but what made them a little amazed was that in a winter's time, Hu Lu's battle record was so strong, and all the Turkic tribes they encountered along the way had already hung the banner of the Han Dynasty before they arrived.

The White Tiger Army and the Vermilion Bird Army began to advance westward after the Lantern Festival, and when the spring ploughing began in March, the four regiments of the Vermilion Bird Army respectively followed the Tarim Desert, that is, the Taklamakan Desert in later generations, and along the north and south sides of the Tarim Desert have directly entered the west to the foot of the Kazakunlun Mountains, and then west is the Pamir Plateau.

Originally, there were two small countries in the Western Regions on the south side of the Tarim Desert, but these two small countries themselves had only one small city each, and they were originally dependent on the Western Turks, anyway, when the Suzaku Army came, they surrendered immediately, to be precise, they had already hung the banner of the Han before the Suzaku Army came.

In just over a month, Huo Gang was stunned to see that the territory of the Han Dynasty had rapidly expanded by three or four times, and the entire Tarim Basin had completely become the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the Suzaku Army had to leave three regiments with a total of 3,000 troops to garrison the three cities.

However, although the land area of Dahan has tripled, the population of the entire Dahan has increased by less than 100,000 people, so you can imagine how sparse the population here is. However, Huo Gang didn't care at all, because it meant that the entire Tarim River basin had completely become the coverage of spiritual spring water.

This means that according to the current state of the river, the basin area of the Tarim River may even increase, so that almost all the places around the Tarim Desert have rivers, and these rivers are part of the Tarim River basin.

This means that the plants on both sides of these rivers will become more and more lush, and the more plants, the better the surrounding ecological environment will be, so the Tarim Desert located in the center of the encirclement is estimated to be smaller and smaller, not to disappear completely, but its area will definitely not expand, and the surrounding environment will become better and better.

In addition, along with the expansion of the river, there are also large areas of farmland and forests, which will be slowly expanded.

With the entire area completely belonging to the Han Dynasty, all the main forces of the White Tiger and Suzaku armies have been concentrated on the north side of the Tarim Basin, according to the current progress, Huo Gang pondered that he could completely occupy the entire Xinjiang in the future this year, then next year he could directly enter the Pamir Plateau, begin to enter the Central Asia region of the later generations, and begin to develop southward.

In particular, the current Sansa dynasty, the future Arabian Peninsula, was to be expanded to near its periphery at least in the first five-year plan.

While letting the main forces of the Vermilion Bird Army and the White Tiger Army approach the vicinity of Gaochangguo, Huo Gang didn't care about thinking about Gaochangguo's affairs for the time being, and this year's spring plowing must be completed first.

When the Huoci River Basin began to prepare for spring ploughing, the promotion of cotton in the entire Changle Continent had also begun, first of all, the patrols located near each village began to go to the countryside to promote it to all villages.

At this moment, Wang Tian is naturally doing the same job, and the location he is promoting today happens to be Sanliu Village, and Wang Tian has told them about the advantages and disadvantages of cotton.

"Wang Xunzhuo, we have already understood this cotton, but we have never planted it, if we fail to plant it...... Ganquan asked after a moment's hesitation.

"It's okay, the leader said, you plant one acre of land, no matter whether you succeed in the end or not, you will be subsidized according to 400 catties of grain per acre." Wang Tian said with a smile.

"Then, can we discuss the arrest of the king?" Wang Tian asked.

"Of course you can, so you can discuss, I'll go to the next village first, I'll come over tomorrow to confirm with you, the leader said, don't force it, anyone can plant it or not, as long as you want to." Wang Tian said with a smile.

"Then thank you Wang for patrolling." Ganquan saluted Wang Tian seriously.

"That's it, I'll get busy first." Wang Tian said hello and hurried to the next village.

After Wang Tian left, Ganquan immediately gathered all the people in the village.

"Village Chief, what are we going to do? Is this cotton really okay? Can I really sell it for that much money? One of the villagers couldn't help but speak.

"Guys, I don't know what you think, but all of our fields are ready to be planted with cotton." Ganquan directly stretched out his hand to suppress everyone's thoughts, and said directly.

"The village chief...... Have you already decided? The other asked.

"Ladies and gentlemen, although our Sanliu Village is poor, but we are not people who do not know how to be grateful, since Changle Zhou belonged to the Han Dynasty, since last winter, how much food has the leader helped us? When will we be able to have a well-fed year? And the food is all fine grains, and every household is fine grains. Ganquan asked, looking at everyone.

"Only this year, even if it was our harvest in previous years, we were just able to eat a full meal, and now we are under the care of the chief, so far, spring ploughing is about to begin, and any of you have no grain in your house, even the worst grain is enough to eat for another month, and it is a full meal for a month."

"We can't forget our roots! A few days ago, everyone heard the policy of the leader that Wang Patrol came to read to us, and the leader said that the Han is not protecting us, but we are protecting ourselves. ”

"For such a big man, what reason do we have not to listen to the leader, I don't know about other villages, but in Sanliu Village, all our families grow cotton." Ganquan said seriously.

"The village chief is right, our family also grows cotton." Lu Wei next to him also said loudly directly, after he became an inspector, he also understood a lot of reasoning, and now of course he has to support the leader.

Ganquan's words made the people in the village silent and immediately said that they wanted to plant cotton.

Just like Ganquan said, the villagers of the entire Sanliu Village knew in their hearts, and they all knew that if there was no leader, many of them would have died last winter, let alone now.

They had just finished discussing here, and Wang Tian, who had just left not long ago, rode back again, "Village Chief Gan, it just so happens that everyone is still here, I was in too much of a hurry to leave before, and I forgot a very important matter." After Wang Tian came back, he said quickly.

"What's the matter?" Ganquan was stunned for a moment, and asked a little strangely.

"That's right, this time along with the task of planting cotton, there is also a very important task, that is, about the migration of Sanliu Village." Wang Tian said seriously.

"Migration?" Ganquan was stunned when he heard this, not only Ganquan, but all the villagers in the entire Sanliu Village were stunned.

"That's right, it's migration, migrating to the Huoci River Basin, the richest river basin in the Han Dynasty, I believe everyone should have heard about the Huoci River, and now there is more land to be cultivated in the Huoci River Basin, and the leader said that if you migrate to the Huoci River Basin, each family will divide the land according to five acres of land per person, and everyone can apply to plant double the state-owned land."

"The state collects only 20% of all the state-owned land, and the remaining 70% is taken by yourself, and the grain tax is exempted."

"And the leader sent an order, he can directly tell everyone that when he arrives in the Huoci River Basin, the guaranteed harvest per mu of land is 500 catties of grain! And each household will be allocated a new house made of new concrete. Wang Tian quickly announced the new news.

Hearing this news, the villagers of the entire Sanliu Village were already stupid, even Ganquan, Ganquan couldn't help but speak: "Wang Xunzhu, what you said is true?" ”

"Of course it's true, if you are willing to migrate, someone will come to help everyone migrate, don't worry about any danger on the road, according to our current distance, it will only take ten days to go to the Huoci River Basin, and after ten days, just in time for spring ploughing, there is no delay." Wang Tian said loudly.

"But if we migrate, who will grow this cotton?" Ganquan was a little confused.

"It doesn't matter, if there is a conflict between migration and cotton planting, priority will be given to migration, which is why I just told you that I can ensure that everyone will not lack food, because the land in the Huoci River valley is more fertile, the grain production is higher, and it will be the granary of the entire Han Dynasty."

"Take the village chief Gan and your family as an example, your family has a total of nine people, according to 45 acres of land plus another 45 acres of state-owned land, your family can plant 90 acres of land, then your annual harvest of grain will exceed 40,000 catties, so much grain, your family probably needs less than one-fifth to meet the food needs of the whole family for a year."

"And the rest of the grain can be sold, and the centralized reclamation of Dahan's grain producing areas this year is also the most important thing, because it means that after the summer harvest this year, we will not be short of grain, and at that time, it is estimated that no one will grow grain in the entire Changle Continent." Wang Tian said seriously.