Guilin.

The edict of the imperial court soon came, and with it a large number of materials and craftsmen and other skilled workers. The Daqian Dynasty had rich experience in building water conservancy projects, from the Yong'an Canal to Dujiangyan, and these difficult water conservancy projects made the Daqian Dynasty profitable.

The construction of the canal is not simple, Wang Cheng sent people to survey a large number of terrain, and finally found the closest place between the Li River and Xiangshui, and prepared to build a canal here, what is happy is that the distance between the Li River and Xiangshui is just without hills and mountains, which is very suitable for digging the canal.

Wang Cheng took advantage of the survey of the mountains and rivers to defeat the surrounding Shanyue barbarians and capture a large number of prisoners, who were left behind to build the canal.

With these grains and craftsmen, Wang Cheng began to lead these people to dig canals to connect Xiangshui and the Li River. Connecting the Xiangshui River to the Li River is not a simple matter of digging a ditch and the water can flow through on its own.

It is necessary to know that the water flows to a low place, and the water level of the Li River is higher than that of the Hunan River.

Fortunately, decades ago, when Li Bing built Dujiangyan, he used diversion technology to raise the water level. Wang Cheng studied when he was in the school palace, and later went to Dujiangyan to observe.

After inspecting the Xiangshui River, Wang Cheng and several masters discussed a structure for the diversion of weir dams. By cutting off the waterway of the Xiangjiang River and building dams, the water level of the Xiangjiang River was raised. The dam then diverts 30 percent of the water into the excavated canal and ditch, and the remaining 70 percent is diverted into the Hunan waterway through another ditch.

In this way, two canals were excavated, the south canal was connected to the Li River, the north canal was connected to Xiangshui, and the water source of the north canal could also be used for irrigation through the ditch.

In this way, the canal can not only be used to transport supplies, but also to irrigate farmland, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Under the leadership of Wang Cheng, tens of thousands of people began to dig a canal between the Li River and the Xiangshui River. At the same time, all the data and environmental conditions of this canal will be recorded, and finally sent back to the Jinling Daqian School Palace as a data preservation.

As the canal was built, Wang Cheng also began to reclaim land in Guilin to grow grain. The Central Plains is too far away from Lingnan, and at the same time, the roads are dangerous and the climate is hot, so it is impossible to rely on Daqian to transport grain all the time.

Wang Cheng planned to emigrate to Guilin in large numbers, migrating at least 200,000 people from the Central Plains to make Guilin a base for the Central Plains to control Lingnan.

This is a long-term project, and 200,000 people Wang Cheng plans to migrate in five to ten years. After there were 200,000 cadres in Guilin County, the land of Lingnan was basically stable.

Next, you only need to implement the path of kinghood, and this place will become the land of all summers.

Daqian, Jinling, Changyang Palace.

Wang Luo was listening to Shang Shuling's report.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has once again ordered that the construction progress of Luoyang, the capital of the requisition and distribution of labor, will be faster than expected, and it is expected that the construction will be completed next year."

"Chidao has been built for 560 miles this year, and Handan, Daliang, and Xianyang have all been connected, and Linzi is being connected."

"Thank you for your hard work."

"Your Majesty, the northern border pass has reported that there are Hu people invading Jiuyuan, Beidi, Yanmen and other counties."

Wang Luo immediately sat up and said in a deep voice: "Xu Qing, the Hu people are now invading the north?" ”

"Your Majesty, the news has just arrived today, and the Hu people have gone south to plunder, with more than 200,000 people, which should not be underestimated."

"During the period of the Zhuxia Kingdoms, Yan, Zhao and Qin all went north to attack the Xiongnu, but I didn't expect that now these Hu people dare to go south to plunder!" Wang Luo said angrily.

The Hu people in the north have always been the enemies of Zhuxia, but because the Central Plains developed faster, there were more people and more advanced weapons. The Hu people in the north have never been the opponents of Zhuxia. Just rely on war horses to come and go like the wind and plunder.

And it's mostly scattered, and the strength is not too strong. Wang Luo didn't pay much attention to it after he unified Zhuxia, but he didn't expect that the Xiongnu would already be able to gather 200,000 troops.

In fact, just when Daqian dominated the world, many nobles of the six countries who had been defeated and nobles who were unwilling to accept the rule of Daqian fled to the Xiongnu in the north.

The strength of the Xiongnu has also grown rapidly, and now they dare to go south. Moreover, in the news transmitted back by the border army, the weapons used by the Huns were also better than before, and there were even a lot of iron weapons.

This has to make Wang Luo pay attention, since the unification, Wang Luo has been busy with the implementation of the same text, the same sound, the same track, the same degree, the cultivation of Luoyang, the gallop road, and the hundred Yue. It can be said that the whole country is developing rapidly.

Wang Luo is eager to realize all his ideals and ambitions. He wants to become the real Emperor of the Five Emperors and the Three Emperors of Derby.

He knew very well that he used the Mandate of Heaven artifact back then, which reduced his lifespan, so he always had a sense of urgency, worried that he didn't have enough time, so the taxes and labor levied on the country have increased a lot over the years.

Now these Huns have come to make trouble, disrupting the development of Daqian, and affecting Wang Luo's plan, which naturally makes Wang Luo very angry.

According to normal history, the rise of the Xiongnu was during the Qin and Han dynasties, when the huge Xiongnu Empire once suppressed the nascent Han Empire, and even forced the Han Dynasty to make peace with the Xiongnu and send money.

Relying on sending women and relatives to gain nearly a hundred years of development time for the Han Empire, it finally rose in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, fought with the Xiongnu, and finally spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources, which defeated the Xiongnu Empire and completely played a strong Han Hehe's reputation.

Now that Zijue is here, do you still want to send money to the Huns and relatives?

Then my dignified King Wen, isn't Zijue, the Emperor of the Great Qiantai Ancestor God, here for nothing?

The unification of the world by the Great Cadres promoted the development of history, and various technologies made progress, which also affected the Xiongnu. The rise of this steppe empire, which is also on the rise, will inevitably clash with the Great Qian.

This world is too small to accommodate two powerful countries, and the Xiongnu and Daqian are destined to fight. If the Xiongnu cannot be defeated, what qualifications do the great cadres have to unify the world, and how can they win the hearts of the people.

Wang Luo immediately decreed: "Xu Qing, ring the Jingyang bell, let all the princes of Jinling come to Changyang Palace to discuss, and prepare for battle!" ”

The melodious bell rang, and a group of scattered horsemen quickly rushed to all parts of Daqian, and the nobles in Jinling City also rushed to the palace.

In the third century AD, the descendants of Yin Shang established the Huai State to unify Zhuxia, ending more than 500 years of strife and establishing the most powerful country in the world at that time, Daqian, and also one of the most powerful agricultural civilizations in the world.

And in the north of the Zhuxia civilization, since the domestication of horses, there has always been a nomadic people. Also because of the advancement of technology, nomads are also rising rapidly. The nascent Qian's empire finally ushered in his destined rival, the Xiongnu Empire, a nomadic tribal state founded by steppe nomads.

It is impossible for two powerful empires to coexist next to each other, and after discovering the threat of the other, war is doomed to be inevitable. ——The Cambridge History of China: Farming and Nomadism

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