Outside the house, the wind and sand are howling, like a ghost crying wolf, and the house is full of spring, and the jade people spend a good night together.

Zhao Xing, who had changed from a supine position to a prone position, looked at the shy face like a pear blossom with rain under him, and said with some love: "Dead Nizi, see if you dare to provoke me like this in the future!"

Cai Yan closed his eyes tightly, endured the pain after breaking the melon, and replied without flinching: "As long as you don't marry someone else, I will still push you!"

Zhao Xing was completely knocked down by Sister Cai's bold declaration of love, and immediately surrendered his gun and dismounted.

Mrs. Zhao, who had already eaten and wiped clean, naturally did not have the courage to let the Cai family sister be a junior in the future, so she had to agree to a long marriage list listed by Sister Cai. Zhao Xing sighed in his heart, there is really no free lunch in this world, and it was cool last night, but how can I hold back dozens of different love poems for Sister Cai in the future?

Regardless of these troubles, Zhao Xing asked people to call Liu Jili, the accompanying logistics director, as well as the new Dunhuang County Tai Shouhua Weiguo, and the county magistrate of Dunhuang County to discuss the plan of rebuilding Dunhuang City.

According to the construction blueprint given by Zhao Xing, it is indeed equivalent to building a Xiongcheng city based on the original Dunhuang City, extending twenty miles to the east and west sides respectively. This city, which is still on the drawing board, will serve as a bridgehead to the Western Regions in the future, and will play a variety of functions such as logistics equipment supply, transit of merchants, and distribution and circulation of goods from east to west.

It is conceivable that with Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu's continuous expeditions to the west, the newly built Dunhuang City will usher in prosperity and development that has not been seen for thousands of years.

It is not difficult to build a big city, as long as a large number of young and strong laborers are mobilized from the eastern part of the Liang Kingdom, and the cost is nothing more than a sum of money. What really caught Zhao Xing's heart was the issue of environmental protection, which was only taken seriously by mankind more than 1,800 years later.

Zhao Xing traveled all the way west from Guzang City, paying special attention to the desertification of the land on both sides of the road. The results of the investigation made Zhao Xing faintly worried, although the two sides of the Silk Road in this time and space are not as serious as the desertification in later generations, but there are already signs of desertification, if not controlled, the final result is that many cities similar to Loulan disappear in the wind and sand and years.

Zhao Xing carefully observed the topographic map of Xiliang made by the Shadow Soldiers after several years of painstaking surveying and mapping, and he found that there were two large lakes in the territory of Juyan, the northernmost part of Liangzhou, each with an area of tens of thousands of hectares, and the name of the map was Juyanze (Note 1). The entire Juyan subject was built around the lake, and on the outskirts of the Juyan subject was a large desert.

The memories from later generations made Zhao Xing clearly remember that the Ju Yanze he saw on the map now was the Ju Yanhai who appeared in countless historical materials in later generations.

From the information reported by the Shadow Members, it can be seen that the subject country of Juyan has been a good place with blue seas and clouds and green trees since ancient times. Since the pre-Qin period, it has prospered several times, and then it has been destroyed by wars and wars, and has experienced vicissitudes. Juyanze has nurtured countless people living here with its vast waters, fertile land, rich products and important geographical location, and has also become the most important grain and horse production area in the Xiliang region.

What made Zhao Xing feel extremely sad was that this lake, which once bred countless people and horses, completely disappeared in the early sixties after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In his previous life, Zhao Xing once led a team of more than ten people to secretly go to this area to carry out important arrest tasks, when he saw the Juyan Sea covered by the white alkali desert and barren sand, he really couldn't imagine that this birthplace of flying sand and dust had lasted for thousands of years in history, and it was still the holy land where Lao Tzu was said to have ascended to heaven.

Because of the contrast spanning nearly 2,000 years, Zhao Xing is very concerned about the environmental degradation in western Liangzhou, which is also an important reason why he did not hesitate to go to Yumen Pass in person this time.

On the military map, Zhao Xing also saw that there was also a large freshwater lake fifty miles east of Dunhuang City, whose name was marked Huanze. A river called Lingshui flows down from the Tibetan Plateau and eventually flows into the Huanze. This lake is the most important source of fresh water in the whole of Wuwei County, and the Yuanquan and Shatou places near the lake are also important food production areas.

What made Zhao Xing happiest was an unknown small lake that appeared more than ten miles east of Yumen Pass. The area of this lake is only about one-tenth of Huanze, and one-thirtieth of Yanze, but because it is close to Yumen Pass and Dunhuang City, it has become the most valuable freshwater resource for the expansion of Dunhuang.

Zhao Xing pointed to the nameless lake and said to Hua Weiguo and a group of Wuwei officials: "This lake will be called Yulong Lake in the future, you must protect him like your own eyes, if anyone makes this lake disappear, come to see me or my descendants!"

Seeing that Zhao Xing was very serious, everyone suddenly felt awe-inspiring in their hearts, and secretly wrote down the important entrustment of Master Taifu.

Zhao Xing continued: "I have an order here, you need to remember. In the future, all the people who live one tree within 30 miles of Juyanze, Huanze, and Yulong Lake will be rewarded with one tael of silver for a period of up to five years; those who live with 100 trees of each type will be rewarded with a reward of two taels and recorded their meritorious deeds for a period of up to 10 years; and those who live one of 10,000 trees will receive a reward of 100 taels for each type of living 10,000 trees, and they will be naturalized in Crouching Tiger City at home for a period of up to 20 years!"

Without waiting for everyone to express their objections in surprise, Zhao Xing continued: "If there is a reward, there will be a punishment." In the future, it is strictly forbidden for the people of Xiliang to cut down trees in the perennial period within 30 miles of any area where there are lakes and rivers. Those who steal one tree will be fined one tael of silver, those who steal ten trees will be fined one tael, those who steal 100 trees will serve five years of hard labor, those who steal 1,000 trees will be punished with capital punishment, and those who steal 10,000 trees will be punished with nine tribes!"

When everyone heard that Zhao Xing's punishment for cutting down trees was so severe, not only did they gasp, but no one dared to raise their voices to object. On the other hand, Liu Jili reminded Zhao Xing: "If the people here are not allowed to cut down trees, how can we rebuild Dunhuang City? In the future, how should the people make wood for furniture, house beams, doors and windows? And where will the firewood for ordinary people make fires for heating and cooking come from?"

Zhao Xing was very satisfied with Liu Jili's question, so he patiently explained: "In the future, timber will mainly be transported here from the thinning of the Tianshan Mountains, and the people will be encouraged to use honeycomb coal for cooking." Soon, we will be able to find black oil and gas from under the ground here, which will be used for lighting and heating for people in the future. ”

After instructing and explaining these things, Zhao Xing felt that there seemed to be one more thing that he needed to do, but he couldn't remember it for a while. So he simply didn't think about it, pulled his feet and went back to his room, and comforted Cai Yan's sister who was in bed.

Note 1: Juyanhai is located in the north of the Ejina Banner of the Alxa League of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with a narrow and curved shape, like a crescent moon, and the Ejina River flows into the lake, which is the main source of water for the recharge of Juyanhai. Juyan is a Xiongnu language, translated as weak water quicksand in the "Water Jing Note", it was called Juyanze in the Han Dynasty, Xihai in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Juyanhai in the Tang Dynasty, and now called Swan Lake.

Today's Juyanhai has long lost its former charm. The original water surface of Xijuyanhai is nearly 3,000 square kilometers, and since it dried up in 1961, it has been covered by white alkali desert and barren sand, and has become one of the birthplaces of flying sand and dust. Dongju Yanhai dried up six times after liberation, and by 1992 it dried up completely. The drying up of the Juyanhai River is caused by the year-on-year decrease in the water volume of the Ejina River, which has caused the shrinkage of the Juyanhai Oasis and the rapid deterioration of the regional ecological environment.