Chapter 919: The Canal
Champa rice was successfully planted in Lingnan and Jiaozhi, and began to spread to Chengdu, Jiangdong and Huainan.
Even in the north of the Yangtze River, it also has an advantage over traditional rice varieties, with large yields, short growth cycles, and the key is not to pick a place, and the vitality is tenacious, which is very suitable for Huainan and Huaibei.
These two regions also became the granaries of Daqin.
The decades of confrontation between Wei and Wu led to Jianghuai becoming a no-man's land.
No man's land has the advantage of no man's land, a blank piece of paper, whatever you want, there is no resistance in the place.
The construction of sea ships is not a matter of one or two days.
But the rice from Jianghuai and Jingxiang was soon imported into Guanzhong.
Yang Zheng can also eat a bowl of fragrant rice, paired with dried sea fish from Jiaozhou, which has a unique flavor.
Dried fish is a major specialty of Jiaoguang.
Inexhaustible, the sea of this era is simply flooded with all kinds of fish.
Northerners ride horses, southerners ride boats.
The meat in the north is mainly mutton, and the people of this era are very repulsive to pork, dislike pigs, and it is something that only the inferior people eat.
Yang Zheng has also seen the people's pigsty, to be honest, he was also disgusted, and it is not the same thing as the pigsty of later generations.
After the dried sea fish enters Guanzhong, it immediately becomes a delicacy.
It can be boiled, steamed, and crushed......
On a whim, Yang Zheng crushed the rice to make rice noodles, boiled them with minced meat and dried fish, sprinkled with garlic after scooping them up, poured a spoonful of hot mutton fat and butter, and a bowl of rice noodles was baked.
Whatever the emperor liked, it would immediately cause a wave in Daxing.
This way of eating was quickly learned by the people, adding a delicacy to Daxing City.
It's a pity that there are no chili peppers in this era, so you can only use dried shrimp and dried fish to improve freshness.
The creativity of the people is always endless, the rice noodles came out, the wheat noodles also came out, and the traditional food oil noodles in Guanzhong came into being without accident, and became the national and national cuisine of Daqin.
It is loved by people who come and go from the south to the north.
Hu Shang, Mobei people, and plateau people are full of praise for all those who have eaten.
At first, it was very expensive, and the rice noodles were sold for 100 yuan under the banner of palace secrets.
With such a profit, people who do business flock to it, and the price gradually drops, fifty dollars, forty dollars, twenty dollars......
As soon as the oily noodles came out, the rice noodle business was directly broken and turned into three dollars a bowl.
The two foods quickly spread across the country, and the recipe quickly acquired local characteristics.
Daxing City has gradually become like a melting pot, where various styles of things from the south, east and west merge.
In the past few years, there has been no war in Daqin, and the whole country has been single-mindedly farming and grazing, and the problem of hunger has finally been alleviated to a certain extent.
The people were finally able to eat a bite to eat.
Yang Zheng is particularly concerned about local natural and man-made disasters, but whenever there is a phenomenon of starvation to death, it will have a great negative impact on the performance of local officials.
On the contrary, if the local population increases, it is used as the criterion for the first promotion of the magistrate.
The population does not lie.
The figures from each county newspaper are calculated again by the Writer's House of Literature based on the taxes paid and Junda.
Once the data does not match, the Zhenfu Division, the Xuanyi Division, and the Yushitai will work together to check the local area from head to toe.
The population of the whole country is growing, which shows that the general environment of Daqin is still okay.
Food reserves are related to the fate of the country in future generations.
Yang Zheng ordered the construction of four granaries in various places.
Huayin built a Guangtong warehouse to store the grain imported from the eastern part of the country, and this warehouse is also the largest, which can store up to 10 million stone of grain.
Yanmen County built a Yin Mountain Warehouse to operate Monan and support Mobei at any time.
Dunhuang built a jade gate warehouse to radiate the Western Regions.
Bohai County built Haidong Cang.
The four granaries are not under the jurisdiction of the local government, but are directly under the jurisdiction of the storage department, and their main function is to transport grain from the south to the north.
Each granary was built behind the Xiongguan or in the middle of a fortified city.
In the event of a famine, you can directly open a warehouse and release grain.
In the event of a local rebellion, or an invasion by a foreign enemy, the Chinese army in Daxing can respond quickly, and there is no need for "the three armies have not moved, and the grain and grass will go first." ”
Along with the granary, the local transportation industry has risen rapidly.
It is undoubtedly a huge and long-term project for grain from Jiangnan and Shuzhong to be sent to the north, and it will take half a year to go back and forth.
Yang Zheng simply let go and allowed the private sector to undertake Cao Yun affairs.
Logistics has been an employment industry since ancient times, and a transportation line is an ecological chain, which can create hundreds of thousands of jobs and feed hundreds of thousands of families.
The imperial court gets strategic reserves, and the people get stable jobs, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.
wages, directly to hard currency grain.
Yang Zheng does not seek to fill the four major granaries in a short period of time, mainly to form a virtuous circle, strengthen the connection between the north and the south, and revitalize the economy.
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Now Jianghuai, Jingxiang, Lingnan, and Jiaozhi are sparsely populated, and they can't consume so much food.
In the future, the north, which has a large population, will naturally flow into the south with a small population along the Cao transportation line.
By the way, the development of shipbuilding will kill multiple birds with one stone.
The Caoyun line is also the best way to enter the army, from north to south, from west to east, basically down the river.
The Qin, Han and Wei dynasties had already built a complete canal system, and the Great Qin could use it.
The Qin Dynasty had water conservancy systems such as Zhengguo Canal and Dujiangyan, and the Han Dynasty built many canals on this basis.
In order to unify Hebei, Cao Cao built a large number of canals to transport grain and grass.
In order to suppress the attack of Eastern Wu to the Huai River, Sima Yi adopted Deng Ai's strategy, Xingpi repaired the canal, led the Huang Jihuai, crossed the canal for 300 miles, and the field was 20,000 hectares.
Deng Ai's strategy of repairing canals in Huainan and Huaibei laid a solid foundation for the rise of Jianghuai.
At the time of that year, now all income is in the Tuntian Division.
After rewarding the Wu army, the Tuntian Division still had more than 15,000 high-grade Pitian in his hands.
After planting Champa rice, the grain simply spurted out.
Therefore, Yang Zheng of the Jianghuai canal does not need to think much about it at all, and the local government can levy and issue conscription every winter to dredge and widen it.
The canal was actually the blood vessels of ancient dynasties.
"It's a pity for Deng Ai." Looking at the sand table in the Huainan area, Yang Zheng couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Although it was your mortal enemy back then, there was nothing you could do about it.
Deng Ai does not defect to Sima Yi, a farmer, it is difficult to have a bright future.
"Deng Ai's grandson, Deng Lang, was sent to the Western Regions as a slave back then, and he is still in the world." Wei Qian reminded.
"Then pardon him, give him three million dollars, and let him return to his hometown, and give him a hundred acres of land." Yang Zheng has always been disgusted with the joint sitting of the clan, Deng Ai has made meritorious contributions to China, so many years have passed, and the grudges of the year have long been over.
Even if Deng Ai has a grudge against Daqin, he has already reached the third generation, so there is no need to hold on to it.
Besides, he died on the battlefield with dignity back then, and there was no such thing as a great hatred and deep suffering.
Keeping a line of incense for Deng Ai can also be regarded as accumulating some yin virtue for the old Yang family.