Chapter 277: It's Called Cement
"Let the people's fields grow more crops, let the merchants make money, and let the industry flourish, which is also your responsibility in the future."
"Got it?"
"I'm afraid the emperor will interfere with the lives of the people, right?"
"We will not interfere, we must correctly guide the people to farm, the business rules of the merchants."
"Agriculture is the pillar of our country, and the potatoes and rice that I cultivated in the southern capital in the past should also be vigorously promoted in the north."
Qin Xuan knew that in ancient times, as long as everyone had food to eat, no one would rebel.
If you still have a little money to spare, it means that the economy is very prosperous.
A country's territory and territory are important, but what supports them is money, and without money, it is absolutely impossible to fight.
If you have money and enough troops, no one will dare to bully you.
Therefore, only when the people have money can the country have taxes, and only with taxes can the strength of the army be better utilized.
"Your Majesty, potatoes are easy to say, but rice, as you can see, is relatively arid in the north, and only around a big river in the south can rice be grown."
"No matter how far away you are, you can only grow wheat."
Qin Xuan thought about it, isn't the river being built now, so that the river can be repaired and the farmland irrigation will be linked.
In this way, agriculture can get enough water and let the river be managed.
Especially during the flood season.
If the river is not repaired well, the crops planted by the people along the river for a year will be lost, and countless deaths and injuries will be lost.
"Okay, I know what to do."
"At this time, Qin Xuan has been talking to the ministers in the Tianhe Hall for more than an hour."
"If there is something to do, it will be played early, and there will be nothing to retreat."
Everyone was not reporting, and Qin Xuan announced his retirement from the dynasty.
After retiring from the dynasty, Qin Xuan called Wang Guan and Shangguan Zhu to come to his Heart Pavilion.
"Crown, go get some sand, stones, and some lime."
"What's the use of the emperor looking for these things?"
"Of course it works, we let you find it, you send someone to find it quickly."
"It's the emperor."
At this time, the crown went down and hurriedly sent someone to find it, and the sand was easy to find, because there was the largest river in Beifang to the north of Luoyang.
This river will flood as soon as it reaches the flood season, so it is also the main river channel built by Qin Xuan.
This river is the Yellow River.
The flooding of the Yellow River has been a problem from ancient times to the present, so Qin Xuan planned to use cement to build both sides of the river, and then use the water of the Yellow River to irrigate the farmland in the Yellow River basin.
Qin Xuan knew that the Yellow River had water from thousands of years ago to the 21st century, so there was no shortage of water resources, but when the Yellow River flooded, people and livestock were farmland, and commerce would suffer.
As long as the Yellow River and the Yangtze River do not overflow, there will be no harm to agriculture, except for drought.
There is no way to do the drought, if there is no rain for a few months, there will be no artificial rain in this year.
So irrigation can only be done by rivers.
Therefore, this is a project to benefit the people, and the people have land to plant, and they can grow very good crops, so that the state will have taxes and grain.
in order to fight in the east and west.
For the crusade against the Great Zhou Kingdom, tens of millions of taels of silver have been spent, so this period must be rested and recuperate, and the spring is the season for farmland irrigation and the recovery of all things.
So we need to build dams, rivers, and irrigation waterways as soon as possible.
In this way, it is possible to prevent disasters and also to farm. Kill more than one stone.
Qin Xuan was thinking in the Heart Cultivation Pavilion, after lunch, Wang Guan's subordinates found sand, lime and stones.
"Your Majesty has found these things, outside."
"Okay, let me go out."
A few people followed Qin Xuan outside, and then saw that his subordinates had already found a cart of sand, and then lime and some gravel.
These gravel can be found everywhere, usually when the mountain is opened
Yes, there are a lot of stones in the river.
Lime needs to be opened to obtain.
Then there is the sand, so don't worry, after all, there is such a big river, there is no shortage of sand.
"Your Majesty, what are you going to do?"
"You'll find out later."
Qin Xuan came back just now, took off his dragon robe and changed into civilian clothes, and then picked up the hoe of farming.
Seeing that Qin Xuan was going to do it himself, Xiao Dezi on the side hurriedly came up.
"Your Majesty, if I don't do it, you can do it."
"No, you don't know how."
Qin Xuan asked his subordinates to pour the sand on the ground, and then poured the lime on the sand.
"Go and bring some buckets of water."
The eunuchs hurried to fetch a few buckets of water.
Everyone didn't know what he was going to do, but Qin Xuan could always surprise them.
A group of people surrounded Qin Xuan, who stirred the sand and lime evenly, and then dug it into a crater.
"You pour this bucket of water into it."
The little eunuch on the side hurriedly did as Qin Xuan instructed and put the bucket of water inside.
After waiting for a few minutes, Qin Xuan began to stir the sand and lime from the outside into the inside, and then kept stirring.
"The emperor asked me to do it, just stir it, right?"
"yes, we can't stop, now pour this rubble into it."
A group of little eunuchs hurriedly poured some gravel into it.
Then start stirring.
After mixing, it becomes cement.
Shangguan Zhu on the side asked.
"Your Majesty, what are you doing here?"
"Wait until you'll know."
Qin Xuan looked around and looked at the buildings next to him, although these palaces were newly built, the buildings in ancient times were generally made of wood.
Made with cement, that's sure they don't know.
At this time, Qin Xuan looked around outside the Tianhe Hall and found that a dragon head made of stones that discharged water was broken.
Found this dragon head made of stone, Qin Xuan picked it up and looked at it, and the fracture was quite neat.
"Your Majesty, the Chu family's project is not very good."
Shangguan Zhu said.
"It's not someone else's engineering department, but the palace has also experienced war, and some damage is normal, why did I let Wei Wei enter the city and immediately control the palace, just to ask such a palace not to be destroyed."
"Got it?"
"Understood, Your Majesty, do you want to fix it?"
"Of course, you ask them to push the cement cart that just came alive."
"Cement? What is cement?"
"It's the stuff I stirred up just now."
"Oh, is this your name, Your Majesty?"
"Of course, hurry up or it will freeze in a while."
Shangguan Zhu hurriedly ran over and asked the little eunuchs to load the cement, and then pushed it over.
"Your Majesty, the cement you wanted."
"Hmm."
Qin Xuan directly wiped the cement on the broken faucet, and then wiped a little on the other side.
Then slowly glued the faucet back again.
Qin Xuan dragged the dragon head with both hands, and Xiao Dezi next to him hurriedly stepped forward.
"Is Your Majesty just dragging it on?"
"Well, keep dragging it out."
"Then I'll do it."
Xiao Dezi has been in the palace for more than ten years, and things will come.