The next morning!

Liu Ponu directly found someone to start making hot air balloons, and Liu Ponu didn't know how big it was, so he could only experiment little by little, but fortunately he had time.

On the other hand, new requirements have been put forward for the vehicle, and although the overall technology has not improved much, it can be started from other places.

Liu Ponu's requirements are integrated, closed, faster and lighter.

In addition, Liu Ponu also began to focus on the Western Expedition.

The bad old man asked him to be in charge, it must not be as simple as pretending to be forced.

It doesn't seem to be necessary for him to take credit or anything, the entire new army was set up by him, and the equipment was also designed and manufactured by him, as long as the new army can achieve combat merits, it will be the credit of Liu Ponu.

Winning people's hearts is one of them, but Liu Ponu doesn't think that he is buying people's hearts this time.

"Go back and prepare, you will take someone with me to the Western Regions at the beginning of April!" Liu Ponu directly called the little mule.

"To the Western Regions? Isn't there a candidate in the Western Regions? The little mule was stunned, and subconsciously thought that Liu Ponu was planning to let himself go to the Western Regions to develop.

Frankly speaking, if Liu Ponu made an arrangement, the little mule would definitely carry it out.

But he really doesn't want to go, Dahan is doing a good job here, and he is confident that he will go to the next level every year.

It's time to harvest here, let yourself go to the place where birds don't in the Western Regions?

"Let you go just to choose a few suitable places in the Western Regions to open branches, and then the Western Regions will become a whole with the Han Dynasty, if the Han wants to go to the next level, you can't treat the Western Regions differently, you must treat it as a local!" Liu Ponu shook his head slowly.

"Oh, that's fine, I'll go get ready!" Hearing that he was not stationed in the Western Regions, the little mule suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the little mule's reaction, Liu Ponu could only smile helplessly.

Although Zhang Qian had been to the Western Regions, he also brought back some of the situation in the Western Regions, and many people later visited the Western Regions.

But in the minds of the Han people, the Western Regions is still a distant and wild land.

Savage is really barbaric, such a large area, the total population is only a million, and it is normal for a large area of barren land to appear.

At the beginning, Liu Ponu's impression of the Western Regions was almost the impression of later generations, with the Gobi Desert everywhere and the wind and sand all over the sky.

However, after understanding, he realized that he was wrong, and it was very wrong.

For example, Lop Nur is not a desert that he is familiar with, he is really a big lake.

Although the Tarim Basin is still a desert, it is not as big as I remember, although it is not far from the desert except for the Yumen Pass, but after going around, there is a large area of oasis behind it.

The climate in the southern part of the Western Regions is not as dry as expected, rivers are almost everywhere, and they are all snow and glacier water flowing down from the mountains.

However, due to the deep inland, the climate there is indeed drier than that of the interior of Dahan, but on the whole there is no shortage of water.

"The Western Regions is a good place, if it is well developed, the Han can be invincible at any time!" Liu Ponu couldn't help but sigh, and his other purpose was to tell the little mule how much he attached importance to this matter.

"Brother Nu, I heard that the Western Regions are sparsely populated, and there are places where birds don't, and Li Guangli was able to starve more than 20,000 people there before, so what kind of good place can it be?" The little mule pursed his lips and said with doubts on his face.

Facts have proved that Liu Ponu's reminder is still useful, and Liu Ponu's words will not be ignored by the little mule, but listening to it and paying attention to it are completely different things.

Attitude, on the other hand, has a direct impact on the final outcome.

"Birds don't poop because they are sparsely populated, they don't think they come to that many places, and I've heard that they often just set fire to an area and then scatter the seeds on it, without any management process in between, and they don't go to the ground again until the harvest is over."

"In addition, there are not a few crops destroyed by livestock and beasts on the way, but even so, it is still enough for them to barely feed their family, what do you mean by that?" Liu Ponu said directly.

"What? The land in the Western Regions is so fat? The little mule was astonished, this is nothing short of a tyrannical thing.

Set fire to one less piece of land, sow the seeds and don't care, and the harvest can still feed the family?

If this kind of fertile land dares to be placed in the Han Dynasty, won't those people still offer them as ancestors?

"What do you think? They do this year after year, but only a small part of the land that can be cultivated every year, if you don't consider the problem of distance and proximity, you can cultivate it according to their way, and you may not be able to plant the same land for ten years! Liu Ponu smiled.

This is not his nonsense, this is indeed the current situation in the southern part of the Western Regions.

There are a large number of forces gathered in the southern part of the Western Regions, and you can even imagine what it would be like if there were only a few thousand people in an area as large as a city in the future, and at most more than ten thousand?

Backwardness is not unreasonable, and the first great development of the Western Regions in the real sense was after the Han Dynasty ruled the Western Regions.

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At that time, the advanced farming technology of the Han Dynasty was spread to the Western Regions, which gradually began to have enough food.

But what happened in history is impossible to happen now, although Liu Ponu will also bring advanced technology over, but he is not unreservedly teaching it to the people of the Western Regions.

"If the land in the southern part of the Western Regions can be effectively developed, do you know how much grain the imperial court will get because of this?"

The little mule shook his head in confusion, he had never been to the Western Regions, how could he know this?

"A few years ago, the drought of that scale in Kanto was expanding tenfold, and the imperial court had enough surplus food to deal with it, even if it lasted longer, the imperial court was not afraid!"

"As long as the Western Regions can be fully developed, it means that the Han has found a granary for himself, and at that time, the people of the Han Dynasty will have to rush to eat every meal, otherwise there will be so much food that it may be spoiled......" Liu Ponu said with a smile.

The Western Regions did not rank high in grain production in later generations, but the current environment is completely different from the environment of later generations, and more importantly, the entire Han Dynasty now has a population of only more than 30 million, which is not as large as the population of the last few provinces in the later generations, so if the Western Regions can be fully developed, the grain produced will not fully meet the needs of the Han Dynasty, but it will not be much worse.

Most importantly, it is a sparsely populated area, so it is more suitable for mechanized farming.

Although it is still too early to talk about this, it is also more convenient to use here than in the Central Plains.

Of course, there are also some careful thoughts of Liu Ponu in this.

Even when mechanization is advanced to a certain extent, the existing output of cultivated land in Dahan can make Dahan have endless food, but Liu Ponu still decided to take precautions and release the living space inside Dahan in advance.

Well, some people won't understand these advanced questions, after all, they belong to economics and macroeconomics.

Moreover, the current Western Regions really has the potential to become the granary of the Han Dynasty, even if there will be some consumption on the way to transportation, but on the whole, it is much more cost-effective than farming in the interior.

Time-consuming and laborious tossing?

If you don't toss, how can you drive some industries?

How can you fulfill your ideals?