Chapter 53: A Letter from the Storm

"The teacher is above, and the disciple Huang Zicheng is Wan'an."

Also under the oil lamp, Huang Zicheng was also concentrating on writing letters. The same is a letter to He Xi.

It's just that Huang Zicheng's expression is much more excited than Lian Zining.

"The disciple is exploring in Dongshengwei, the Yellow River is harmful, only profitable, and sincere. There is an old city in the former Yuan Dynasty here, although it has been deserted, but two clay pots have been dug up, which are all millet. Between walking, I saw several acres of barren land, dug more than a foot of land, and saw traces of farming. This is enough land for farming. ”

"From the Fengzhou River to the Yellow River hundreds of miles, the water and grass are abundant, the old Eilechuan also, its song clouds, Eilechuan, under the Yin Mountain. The sky is like a dome, covering the four wildernesses. The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep. ”

"After operating for a long time, it is enough to plug the south of the Yangtze River, and this land has one stone of grain, five stones of Yanyun, ten stones of the Central Plains, and twenty stones of the south of the Yangtze River."

"However, there is no city in the barren grass, the Mongolian herdsmen do not understand the matter of farming, and there is only one soldier living in Dongsheng, and there is a shortage of all things, and an iron pot is ten times the price of China, and he has different prices and cheapness, and there is no market."

"There's a long way to go. It is not possible to use it as a pawn alone. ”

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When the two of them wrote letters and came to Nanjing through thousands of mountains and rivers, the whole of Nanjing had already entered summer.

As one of the four major furnaces of the Yangtze River, in the absence of cooling conditions, He Xi does not sweat day and night, and it is difficult to survive. Without air conditioning, it's life-threatening.

Anyway, He Xi made some preparations, and there were copper pipes under the walls and floors of his bedroom, which were filled with hot water as heating in winter, and now as cooling, they were poured into cold water. But in the sun, the water in the tank is a little hot. So the cooling conditions are not very good.

But it's better than others.

He Xi simply gave the students a holiday, and they could come to the door to ask for advice on anything, and let them arrange it themselves at other times. After all, they are not elementary school students. It doesn't hurt to have more self-study time.

He Xi was sweating profusely at the moment, looking at the letter, and he didn't even dare to take it with his hands, as soon as he got the brigadier letter wet, it was all sweat.

He Xi read these two letters several times, and there was infinite emotion in his heart. I'm someone else's backstage. Although this thing in the background seems to be the standard configuration of villains. However, he thought about it for a long time. I think the analysis of the two is really good.

The Daning where Lian Zining went, that is, the Chifeng area in later generations, was also around Chengde in the Qing Dynasty. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was almost a pure pastoral area. The emperor of the Qing Dynasty also went to Chengde to hunt. If you don't listen, you're farming.

Of course, as He Xi said earlier, most of the land in Monan is grazing, and a small part can be planted. Even if it is forced, it is not impossible to grow in most places, but it will cause serious desertification of the grassland. A few years ago, the sand raided Bei-Beijing was inseparable from the large-scale reclamation of grasslands in the late Qing Dynasty.

The Dongshengwei, Fengzhoutan, and Jacket areas are different, these places are close to the Yellow River, even if the rainfall is insufficient, but if the Yellow River water can be diverted for irrigation, it can actually be used as agricultural areas.

After all, the later Mongolian Bansheng and the Naturalization City illustrate this point.

During the Qing Dynasty, this area was also the most cultivated.

He Xi thought about it, and then replied with a letter to the two disciples. expressed condolences to Lian Zining and asked him to guard against arrogance and rashness. Work with peace of mind. Once he has merit, he will definitely report it to the court and ask him not to say that he wants to die or live. Many things don't necessarily work out, just save what you're using and do it again.

The letter to Huang Zicheng was a severe reprimand.

said that when he got out of the car, he said so wildly. I don't know, as a special envoy of the imperial court, his words and deeds will affect the decision-making of the imperial court. Once the imperial court adopts his decision and invests countless resources in Dong Shengwei, if it fails, even if he is cut with a thousand knives, it will not be enough to thank the world. He was asked to investigate carefully, the local water and soil, temperature, climate, the old site of the original cultivation, and so on, and finally reclaimed a few acres of fields by himself, and he had to choose a few acres with the best conditions, a few acres with the worst conditions, a few acres with medium conditions, and all kinds of crops, wheat, millet, and soybeans.

Of course, He Xi said this to Huang Zicheng, but he still believed the content of Huang Zicheng's letter.

After doing these things, he muttered for a moment. Decided to make a trip to the palace.

Although the relationship between these two disciples hangs in the secretary's superintendent. It's not in the right hands. But as soon as He Xi came, he himself hung up in the official position of secretary and supervisor, and secondly, the reason why they were sent out was also because of He Xi.

Everybody knows that.

He Xi couldn't ignore it. Moreover, this kind of first-hand information should be better known to Zhu Yuanzhang.

When He Xi left the house, a wind suddenly blew and a cool breeze blew. He Xi felt a lot cooler. Didn't think much about it. It's just that when I came to the Qianqing Palace, the sky was already overcast.

The palace is deep, even when the sun is right. There is also some lack of light in the innermost part of the palace. Not to mention, it's already overcast at the moment. The wind was whining, too.

Xu Zheng was very knowledgeable and lit the lamp of the Qianqing Palace.

He Xi saw Zhu Yuanzhang, exchanged a few words of greeting, and handed the letter in his hand to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang retreated left and right, and after looking at the light, he groaned for a while and said, "What Huang Zicheng said is true? ”

He Xi said: "The minister thinks it's true, but the minister doesn't dare to be cautious about national affairs." It is to let him investigate well and report it again. It's just that that part of the history has always been cultivable. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "One stone here, when twenty stones in the south of the Yangtze River, Cheng Si Yan also." It costs more than 20 stone to transport grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the grassland. It's just that according to his idea, he almost has to move millions of people here. The cost of it is probably no less than a Northern Expedition. ”

He Xi pondered for a moment and felt that what Zhu Yuanzhang said was not wrong at all.

First of all, face the fact that the population of the Ming Dynasty has not yet recovered from the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. And in terms of the overall population structure, there are more in the south and less in the north, and the further north you go, the less there are. To move southerners to the north, coercion must be used. And coercive measures may not be effective.

Zhu Yuanzhang has not immigrated. From Shanxi, Shandong to Henan and Hebei, and from Jiangnan to Lianghuai, I know too well how difficult it is to migrate people. And the Hebei region of Henan has always been a traditional farming area, even if there are no people. Some water conservancy measures are still in place. It's different here at Dong Shengwei.

This is not a traditional farming area, it is on the grassland, and even the front line facing the remnants. In addition, many places are undeveloped, and the cost of farming here is several times that of Henan and Hebei.

This time, during the northern expedition to the southern part of the desert, more than a dozen cavalry troops were dispatched before and after, and it is estimated that more than one million infantry soldiers were used. And the cost of building this area is estimated not to be under this war.

Because the big war is a one-off, and the investment in tuning is long-term. After all, these places may not be self-sufficient for a long time. All need to bring supplies from the rear.

And how much time these places will have to be self-sufficient is also not a sure thing.

He Xi said: "Your Majesty, in addition to one thing that can be reclaimed, the minister feels that there is one thing that Your Majesty must consider. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What's the matter? ”

He Xi said: "From the perspective of industrial development, this place is a land of hegemony, and even can prosper a country. Failure can destroy a country. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows and said, "Why do you say this?" ”

He Xi said: "Xiyi has a country, called Germany, their strength is built on the Ruhr industrial area, why, because the Ruhr is a place, there is coal and iron, and the cost of producing steel is very low." So, Germany thrived. This is the case in the Loop. On the north bank of the Yellow River, that is, the coat, there is a city called Baotou in later generations. There are many iron mines, and in the inner sleeve of the Yellow River, there is a city called Ordos, which can be called a sea of coal. There was coal and iron, and a river running through it, and if it was obtained by outsiders, it would be enough to build countless armor. Prosperity as a nation. ”

"Although in history, there has never been a strong country based on this, but Your Majesty, the ministers came, and they also brought a lot of technology from later generations, and the diffusion of technology cannot be stopped. If Mongolia had built an industry based on this, the ministers would not know what history would have become. ”