Chapter Fifty-Seven: Three Thousand Years of Liaoze

And that's how it is now.

The Liaohe Plain in his impression does not exist at all.

The basis for everything does not exist.

However, He Xi washed his face with the cold water of the Liao River, began to think again, and asked Yao Guangxiao to come over and ask Liao Ze about his questions.

Yao Guangxiao said: "Since ancient times, the lower reaches of the Liao River have been like this, speaking of which, since the Tang and Song dynasties, Liaoze has actually shrunk a lot, and the West Liao River has dried up a lot. Therefore, the area around the West Liao River has gradually become a grassland, and even has a tendency to become a desert. The lower reaches of the Liao River, especially the West Liaoning Corridor. Tang Taizong ordered the lord of the generation to attack Liaodong, not because Goguryeo was strong, but because it was difficult to cross hundreds of miles of Liaoze, which can be called a natural danger. ”

"And the Liaoning West Corridor can drive horses, in fact, it is also a matter of several hundred years."

He Xi was silent for a while and said, "If, I say if." How about planting rice in Liaoze? ”

Yao Guangxiao was stunned for a moment. His rare expression was out of control. After a while, he said, "Maybe." ”

If ordinary people listen to what He Xi said, it is estimated that He Xi is a madman. But Yao Guangxiao is not an ordinary person. Yao Guangxiao is proficient in hundreds of schools, and even understands the number of yin and yang techniques. I dare not say that I am proficient in water conservancy, but I am by no means a stranger to it. It is precisely because he is no stranger to him that he feels that He Xi's plan is feasible from the perspective of water conservancy.

He also followed He Xi to explore a lot of swamps, and he also had a large bag on him.

He found that in most places in Liaoze, the water was not too deep. There is no place where there can be a swamp several meters deep. The centaur fell into a place where not even a shadow could be seen. Yes, of course. But on the whole, this is not the case.

Most of the swamps are relatively shallow, and it is not difficult for the people of Jiangnan to convert such wetlands into paddy fields.

After all, for hundreds of years, the situation in Jiangnan is not much better than here. In terms of the difficulty of governance, the swamp near the mouth of the Xinjing River in Taiwan is governed in the same way as Liaoze. It's just that the amount of work has been magnified more than 1,000 times, or even more.

This is also what surprised Yao Guangxiao.

He didn't know how He Xi's brain grew at all. It's as if everybody has seen such a large swamp wetland now. There are all kinds of ideas, since ancient times, I have written poems about Liaoze, some lamenting the difficulty of traveling, and some lamenting the vastness of Liaoze. Only no one said how about Liaoze being changed to paddy fields?

This courage alone is not an ordinary person.

It's just that Yao Guangxiao didn't know, in fact, it was He Xi who fell for the cause, he knew that the Liaodong Plain later became an important grain producing area. He couldn't guess for a moment when it became like this. He estimated that there were three factors, the first of which was natural evolution. Time is the greatest force. Second, it is the opening of the border at the end of the Qing Dynasty. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, tens of millions of people migrated in order to develop the northeast. It is the famous Kanto. The third is to develop the Great Northern Wilderness. After all, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the scale of this move has also been quite large.

He misses the Internet a little. This is something that would have been known by a search on the Internet.

However, although he didn't know how to engulf Liaoze. But he knew one thing, and that was that he could do it. This is especially important. Wisdom is like Yao Guangxiao, he didn't think about this thing at all.

He Xi asked, "What should Mr. Yao do?" ”

Yao Guangxiao said: "There is nothing wrong with the technology. It is impossible to open a ravine, and drain stagnant water. The low one is a pond, and the high one is a field. It's just that this requires too much manpower and material resources. In my opinion, the national strength of the imperial court for 30 years may not be able to accomplish this. Mobilize millions of people and experience more than ten years of spring and autumn. Fang is expected to succeed, which is what I just estimated. It's hard to say how much manpower and material resources are needed to have this project. And exhausted the manpower and material resources of the imperial court for thirty years. It's impossible. My lord, don't you remember the previous dynasty Yin Jian? ”

Yin Jian? What Yin Jian?

Naturally, it was Mo Daoshiren's one eye, which provoked the Yellow River to turn the world against it.

The project to repair the Yellow River is huge, right? But this Liaoze project is even more vast. I don't know how many times larger than the project of Jialuxiu Yellow River. This kind of project really has to be completed. It is also very possible to rebel again by means of the use of people's power by the feudal dynasty.

Reigning emperor. As long as it's not the brain kicked by a donkey. None of them would do anything like that.

He Xi actually understood that he just wanted Yao Guangxiao to hear a different strategy here, and when he heard Yao Guangxiao say this, he said with some disappointment: "Is there really no way?" ”

Yao Guangxiao said: "If this project is extended for decades, it will be completed in a hundred years. Let the people do it on their behalf, or perhaps. But" Yao Guangxiao said with a wry smile: "Between the world, where is there a hundred years and a thousand years of politics?" ”

In fact, although Liaoze has gradually become smaller because of the natural environment, what really makes Liaoze history is to break through the Kanto. Hundreds of people asked for fields in the swamps, and the swamps were finally filled in by and wide. In fact, these wetlands are not completely gone. They have become protected areas, or wetland parks.

He Xi secretly said in his heart: "Things have come around again." In the end, it's a lack of productivity. It looks like I'm going to set up another task again. ”

He Xi still believes in Yao Guangxiao's judgment. However, he also knew that Yao Guangxiao's judgment was based on the construction machinery of this era. What kind of construction machinery, ordinary farm tools, plus animal-powered carriages and so on.

To complete such a big project. It will take decades or even longer.

But He Xi wants to get the construction machinery of later generations, which is two hundred miles wide and one thousand miles long, which looks like a lot. However, a large number of construction machinery may also need to be busy for a few years. But only for a few years. After all, the requirements are not high. The level of productivity varies so much.

It is absolutely not possible to use manpower completely, and it is necessary to improve the level of production tools.

He Xi even found a problem, that is, manpower is also a problem.

After all, this is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, not the late Ming Dynasty. It's not the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

Now the north has long been shattered. Thousands of miles uninhabited. It needs to be filled by people who have migrated to other places, although the Ming Dynasty has a population of more than 60 million, there may be many omissions, but even if it is relatively accurate. But 60 million people, corresponding to a land as large as the Ming Dynasty, is generally short of people.

It is unlikely that a large number of people will be relocated to work.

Even if the population shortage is a factor, it is difficult to say whether it is good or bad for He Xi.

The population shortage has caused many policies to hit a bottleneck. For example, overseas kings. Why is there only tens of thousands of people in Xinjingjiang? It's because the local government doesn't release people at all. Unless ordered by the imperial court to migrate. Therefore, the three guards of King Jingjiang can only be completed. Connecting families and migrating together.

After all, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was still very common for the entire guard to migrate, after all, these cities on the grassland. Many of them did not build a new dormitory temporarily, but instead relocated the old dormitory under a different name.

Not to mention, the capital was moved to Beijing, and many health centers were moved together.

Moreover, the only time that Zhu Yuanzhang can do is to complete the three guards of King Jingjiang.

In many cases, the three guards of the feudal king were not compiled. It's not that the vassal king has three guards, but these three guards are like a full guard with 5,600 people. Instead, it varies from person to person, and the three guards of many vassal kings add up, which is less than a full number of guards.

But in addition, the situation is not without its benefits.

From a historical point of view, population growth has been an explosion. Now there are 60 million people. Six hundred years later, there will be 1.4 billion people. But from a practical point of view, it is actually very difficult for people to grow up, and it will take at least ten years to become a child.

This is half a lifetime of a person.

Nowadays, if you want to do a lot of things, you need a lot of labor and productivity. And the population is growing slowly. Labor costs will rise slowly. Then there will be a market for some machinery that saves manpower. There is space.

This was the beginning of the industrial revolution in the West.

One thing, there are pros and cons. It depends on how you look at it.

It's just that He Xi looked at the vast Liaoze, and couldn't think for a while of what kind of construction machinery, excavators, trucks, etc. he needed, these things were things he didn't even think about now.

"Maybe it's a steam pump?" He Xi's face was full of sadness, and he said secretly in his heart. What kind of machinery is the direction of the topic here?