"Sell newspapers and sell newspapers, Liangzhou, Ganzhou, and Suzhou recruit workers, the salary is 20 wen a day, and the registration location is in the newspaper!"

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers......"

On the rammed earth street, a young man kept shouting, and there were already people squatting around him.

As the young people shouted, those who were squatting down immediately pooled their money and went to buy a newspaper, and then went to the place where the workers were recruited according to the instructions of the young people.

They were illiterate, they bought newspapers just to get information, and now that the information has arrived, they naturally have to hurry.

They walked through the dusty alleys, where the roads were all local, and the occasional bell tower and drum tower could be seen, and the people on the streets were dressed as Han Chinese, but their deep-eyed and high-nosed appearance was still very distinguishable from the Han Chinese.

This is Wuwei County, the capital of Liangzhou under the rule of Gansu, which used to be a thousand households, but now it has become a well-developed county.

Seeing that he was persistent, the officials of the Ministry of Industry could only plan the Longchuan Railway according to his wishes.

Taking a deep breath, Huang Fu pushed his reading glasses: "No matter what, you have to try to know." ”

Thinking of this, the workers buried their heads in their work again, and an official standing on the official road couldn't help but nod his head when he saw the situation.

From a few thousand at the beginning, to tens of thousands later, the progress of the project became faster and faster for a while.

He did not return to the Wenhua Palace, because now his ministry was the busiest of the six yamen.

"In this way, the imperial court can go to Gansu by the Hetao, and the only change is that the population is insufficient, and it is more difficult to build roads."

Once the news spreads, there will definitely be migrants fleeing north, so it is necessary to settle all this before the matter ferments.

If a Jianghuai can be cultivated, then even if the Wang family is incompetent in the future, Jianghuai will be able to shelter the Wang family for decades.

He hadn't gone out for a while, so when he saw Jiang Huai coming, a smile appeared on his face and said, "How? ”

Zhu Gaoxu only felt that Huang Fu was limited by his former thinking, who said that people would not be able to win the sky?

With the addition of a water pump and a grass grid, Zhu Gaoxu did not believe that a shelterbelt could not grow in a place that was an oasis hundreds of years ago.

"Wen Qing, Senior Brother advises you, after these three years, it's better to change places as soon as possible, stay here as your Tanhua, and you will be buried for at least ten years."

Obviously, the news of the attack on the two villages has spread, and if Lu Yu can't think of a way to calm people's hearts, then he is likely to face the result of the people fleeing north.

"It's just a pity that it's too difficult." The official shook his head, and after a while, he shook the reins of his horse and left the construction site.

"Besides, the land of Gansu is barren, and it is also a matter of benefiting the people to be able to find a job for half a month before winter."

Wang Xuan looked at Jiang Huai, and couldn't help but like him a little more: "I intend to marry my niece to you, what do you think?" ”

"What did Commander Liu say?"

The official said this, and an official next to him sighed: "If you can pass through the customs by railway, then you can really have no worries about food and clothing." ”

Even though the accommodation was only a tent, and the meal was ordinary rice with some stir-fried vegetables, it was better than what they usually fed.

Walking into the barracks, Jiang Huai also took the document book and found Wang Xuan, who was sitting in the tent to rest.

"The question now is whether we can plant trees because the groundwater is not abundant."

"Okay, you can go back and think about what I said, my niece is eight years younger than you, and now she is only fourteen, and there is time to wait for you."

"If you can't take a hundred steps, you can take 200 steps, 500 steps, 1,000 steps!" Zhu Gaoxu frowned:

"Seventeen dead and fifty-six wounded." Fu Cheng clenched his fists, and when Lu Yu heard this, he only felt that there was anger in his chest as if he was about to burst out.

He thought of the little lady of the Qi family, but he also thought of Wang Xuan's words to him.

"Minister...... The minister did his best. ”

"Of course, the four counties of Longchuan Prefecture are in the river valley, and it is not difficult to build them, but with the local iron production and population, this railway will not be able to be repaired in ten years."

"It's just that for this matter, you listen to my advice, it is not a good thing for a person like you to marry a woman with children, not to mention that the little lady and his husband have not yet reconciled."

"Student retirement......" was approved, Jiang Huai got up and withdrew from the big tent, and walked out of the barracks with a frown.

When the news came back to Beijing, it was already the fifth day of the winter month of the second year of Hongxi.

"This groundwater is mainly fed by desert rivers and has a small contribution from rainwater, but the difficulty is that the water level is usually very deep."

"If it hadn't been for that, I would have cleaned them up a long time ago." Zhu Gaoxu interrupted and said at the same time:

"The road from Longshan to Wuwei can't be repaired, so it seems that we have to find another way, otherwise the imperial court and Gansu will still not be able to connect."

"Not necessarily, as far as our experience in Hetao and Hami is concerned, there is indeed groundwater under the desert Gobi."

He had only been in office for more than a year, and now he had just stabilized the immigrants in Longchuan when he was attacked by Tusi.

When I came to work on the construction site of the government camp, I could get 20 wages every day by digging roads, sifting stones, pulling cement in horse-drawn carts, and pulling railroad tracks with the army, which can be said to be much easier than Lifu.

In the distance, Jinghong County, which used to be only a wooden village, has been operated out of a concrete city wall with stones, and the road from the military camp to the city wall is lined with paddy fields planted with rice, but now the people standing in the field are looking at Lu Yu in a hurry, and at the same time looking at the military camp in fear.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu explained to him: "The Yellow River flooded in the land of Hetao, and the land of Wuyuan was flooded by the Yellow River all year round, and there were often floods in the Tang and Song dynasties. ”

"This New Deal faction seems to be monolithic, but in fact, it's just because the group of people in Jiangnan is still there."

"With your cleverness, you shouldn't even be unable to understand this, you just didn't put your mind to it."

Looking at his appearance, Wang Xuan chuckled and said, "I know about you and the little lady of the Qi family." ”

"You say!" Wang Xuan smiled and took a sip of the teacup, and Jiang Huai waited for him to finish drinking before he spoke:

Gradually, the materials began to be unable to keep up with the speed of manual construction, and the cold winter was approaching, so I could only take a few days off.

"For example, there are some Gobi deserts in Dingxiang in Hetao, but their groundwater levels are less than three zhang, while the Gobi desert in Hami has the deepest groundwater level, about 10 zhang."

In addition, the common people were required to wear pigskin boots and were not allowed to ride, and if they were violated, the civilians would not be guilty of beating them to death.

Wang Xuan shook his head and replied, and Jiang Huai also bowed his head and said: "I think so too, so I am ready to slow down the change of rice to mulberry in the county, leaving enough arable land to ensure the rations of the people and the army." ”

With Zhu Gaoxu's promise, he has some confidence and is ready to send someone to try.

Huang Fu couldn't eat accurately, so he could only bite the bullet and come down.

"You mean, scramble for resources?" Jiang Huai frowned, Wang Xuan nodded and said:

"You can understand it at a point, you don't need me to explain too much, and it saves a lot of trouble."

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that women with color eyes must marry Han men, and are not allowed to marry with their own clan.

There are many doctors and nurses in white cloth who come and go, most of them stained with blood.

Faced with him, a civilian official, the soldiers on duty were allowed to leave after a brief inspection.

"......" Wang Xuan paused, the smile on his face slowly retracted, and then said:

"The Bohai faction is the Bohai faction, the New Deal faction is the New Politics faction, the Bohai Sea is outside the Guan, the Bohai Sea is the north in the imperial examination, and we are here in the southwest ......"

In addition, it is strictly forbidden for people to wear the traditional clothing of their own people, including wearing jewelry, and they must wear Hanfu, otherwise they will be killed.

Under the command of the officials, they soon began to work on the Gobi Desert, not far from the official road.

The soldiers and horses guarding the city glanced at them and simply let them go.

Returning to the palace, Lu Yu quickly wrote a note and sent it to the capital in an expedited manner for 800 miles.

"I ......" Jiang Huai wanted to say something, but Wang Xuan shook his head and said:

On the official road of Longchuan Mansion, as an official of the Ministry of Industry on horseback shook his head and said this, Jiang Huai, who was riding a horse and followed him, also showed worry: "Is the cost relatively high?" ”

At this point, Wang Xuan, as a rising star, is out of reach, so he needs to support students.

The place where the screams were made was in a barracks surrounded by concrete walls.

"You sit down first, I mean that the railway from Zhangjiakou to Fengxiang via Taiyuan is still being built, but on the basis of the original, the railway in Hetao will be extended, and after it reaches Wuyuan County, it will go south to Ningxia Prefecture, and then make a detour to Wuwei."

After returning to the Ministry of Industry after leaving Xihuamen, he immediately gathered everyone and began to study the feasibility of this method.

Although he has Zhu Gaoxu's trust, if Zhu Gaochu dies one day, or he leaves one step ahead of schedule, who else in the temple can protect the Wang family?

Although Wang Xuan seems to be honest, his mind is very meticulous, and he knows very well that he can have great prestige in western Yunnan not because of his repeated military exploits in western Yunnan, but because he has won Zhu Gaoxu's trust.

In the cold winter, there has been snow in the north, but there is a terrible scream in Cheli in the south.

Zhu Gaoxu patted his head and told Yishiha what he had thought of these days, but in the end, he still felt that it was better to tell Huang Fu in person, so he passed him on.

"Before the Ministry of Industry builds the railway in Wuyuan, it should think carefully about how to govern this place and domesticate the local land into arable land."

"If the grass grid is not good, then use the pump to plant trees, I don't believe that there will be no water in these hundreds of miles of places leaning on the mountains!"

The official of the Ministry of Industry advised Jiang Huai, but Jiang Huai smiled when he heard this: "As long as the railway in Longchuan Prefecture can be built, then I have the confidence to develop my hometown." ”

Compared with Lu Yu, who was anxious because of the war, Jianghuai in Longchuan Mansion was impressive.

"This Wuwei is the starting point of the Gansu Railway, if the railway here is repaired, then with the pumping machine that the imperial court will transport in the future, then the people of Gansu will not have to worry about not being able to afford to eat."

"One northeast, one southwest, do you think we are really a faction?"

Under the 51-year reign of the Hongwu, Yongle, and Hongxi dynasties, in fact, most of the Semu people no longer spoke their own language, and they were no different from the Han except for their appearance.

"I'll go back to the court now!" Lu Yu left a word, and then hurriedly walked out of the barracks.

"This is the rubbing, although the Longchuan railway can be built, but Yunnan is complex, and it is difficult to connect Kunming."

For Lu Yu, the people of Cheli Province still trust him, after all, he often treks through mountains and rivers to every village to put forward his opinions and listen to the voices of the people.

At the same time, the sweeping work of Yunnan to change the land and return to the stream was also completed, so far the Ming Dynasty Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou and other places were wiped out, and only three Xuan and ten comforts still have the toast.

After the railway was planned and the cost was formulated, Jianghuai printed a copy for the first time, and after bidding farewell to the senior brother of the Ministry of Engineering of Jiangning Middle School, he took the book and went to Nandian County.

The wage of 20 wen is considered an ordinary wage in Jiangnan, but it is sky-high in places like Gansu.

As the head town of Yunnan for nearly 30 years, the Mu family actually has many protégés, and when the Qianguo Mansion encounters something, they can also help talk in the temple.

"It hurts me!"

Everyone spoke Chinese, and seeing that they were all clear, the officials soon divided them into thirty teams, each with ten people receiving their own tasks.

After Jiang Huai handed out the booklet, he sat directly on the side, Wang Xuan's eyes were disappointed when he heard this, but he still opened the rubbing.

Zhu Gaoxu said this, and Huang Fu slowed down when he heard this, and then said:

"This plan, the minister has also thought about it with the people below, but the problem is that the four hundred miles of the railway pass through the Gobi Desert, and when the wind and sand blow, the grass grid of hundreds of steps cannot be stopped at all."

In addition to the recognition, Wang Xuan continued: "The Northeast and the Southwest are far from each other, and many things will inevitably fall into disputes once they involve resource investment. ”

"However, if we start building in a densely populated area and lure people to go out to build a railway at a high price, then we think we can solve this problem."

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu had no other instructions, Huang Fu withdrew from the Wuying Palace.

Seeing them come out, many people got up and approached, and one of the officials also walked out and said loudly:

"The wage is twenty wen, for food and lodging, and if there are those who are willing to follow the team to other prefectures and counties to repair roads, after walking out of Wuwei County, the wage is thirty wen per day, is it clear that there is?!"

"It was the Lao Military and Civilian Propaganda Department who suddenly attacked two villages with people, but fortunately released wolf smoke to scare them away."

"Good!" Wang Xuan had a smile on his face: "It's great that you can think like this." ”

"Yes, if you do this, the livelihood of the people of Longchuan Mansion can be regarded as solved by you, but the railway can't connect Kunming, so I'm afraid the Southwest Railway can't be implemented."

After making the decision, they began to continue to pay attention to the railway and the river projects in various places.

"If nothing else, you should understand the railroad alone."

Wang Xuan said his thoughts, Jiang Huai felt a sigh in his heart when he heard this, and he couldn't help but think of the delicate girl in the past.

Not long after, Lu Yue, who was wearing the regular clothes of officials, hurried over, listening to the wailing in the barracks, his face turned pale.

Zhu Gaoxu threw the song Shu on the table, and Yishaha beside him bowed down when he heard this: "Your Majesty, don't be angry, it's just that the people below are in a hurry for quick success." ”

Behind them, there were more than a dozen sergeants in charge of the escort.

When the "prefect" guard saw him walk out, he hurriedly led the horse and handed him the reins.

The two villages that were attacked were only more than 20 miles away from the county seat, and God knows whether it was the village or the county seat that will be attacked next time.

"No......" The Ministry of Industry official shook his head, and finally sighed and said:

"I won't hide it from you, with the current technology of the imperial court, except for the central Yunnan region, which can build a short-distance railway, other places are not suitable for building railways."

Dozens of people in their forties and fifties gathered, dressed in simple coarse linen clothes, and walked out of the city.

"Both the DPRK and China regard the New Deal faction as the Bohai faction, so why don't you let me associate with the New Politician faction?"

"Forget it, let's call him here!"

Sitting next to the post station of the official road, on both sides of the official road is an endless Gobi, bare, shining, occasionally see a plant, standing strong among the large and small pebbles, in the strong light did not bow its head.

Wang Xuan's words made Jiang Huai's heart sink, he didn't want to see that day, but he knew very well that day would come, even if it was not the New Deal faction and the Jiangnan Conservative faction, it would be other factions.

"These examples show that the groundwater resources in the desert Gobi Desert are very rich and the reserves are amazing, and it just depends on whether we have the ability to obtain them."

Relying on the Qilian Mountain, there is not much land that can be cultivated, and nearly two million people in Gansu have divided it, and each person is only two or three acres, and the yield per mu is only nine buckets, which is already extremely high, and the normal one is only seven or eight buckets.

It seems that because there are a lot of people coming, there are also a few officials in the post station.

It is precisely because the Ming army was too rapid in changing the land in the southwest and returning to the stream, which caused the Tusi in Laos and other places to be vigilant, and there was often friction with the people of Cheli Province.

"Uhh

"In addition, how many pumping machines do you need for a four-hundred-mile road?"

After they left, more and more workers began to come to the area to participate in the construction of the railway in the next few days.

Not long after, Huang Fu came in a hurry, and Zhu Gaoxu also got up and asked people to pull out the map of the northwest of the Ming Dynasty and said to Huang Fu:

"This situation is still good, you can build a railway to Manmo, but the terrain here is too complicated, and it is not so easy to build a railway from Longchuan to Kunming."

"Besides, it's only been ten years, I'm only in my early twenties now, and I've only been established for ten years, I have received my brother's wishes, but I don't worry about the development of Longchuan Mansion to others, and I have to come by myself."

Although they are all ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, due to the different wages, the wages of railway workers are also different.

Two young officials dispatched by Taixue were discussing the theoretical knowledge of the groundwater in the desert Gobi, and in the face of the words of the two of them, many officials of the Ministry of Industry seemed to listen to the book of heaven, and even Huang Fu had the idea that he was eliminated by the times.

"Actually, it's not impossible, after all, the prisoners in the Zhangjiakou area also planted trees on the Gobi, and the place on the map relied on Shoulu Mountain and Qilian Mountain, which was once an ancient road on the Silk Road, so it is impossible not to plant trees."

In this Gansu land, the price is expensive, a stone of rice costs more than 500 yuan, even if the new policy has been implemented for many years, it is extremely difficult for the people here to get some meat.

Hearing this, the others could only discuss sending several officials who surveyed the hydrology and railways to the ancient road to investigate.

"What's going on?"

One of the young officials touched his chin and began to convince everyone, and the other nodded when he heard this:

Lu Yu asked the Fu Cheng on the side with a nervous expression, he didn't expect that he would just go out, and a war broke out in Cheli Mansion, and many people were cut and sent to the barracks.

"By the way, uncle......" Jiang Huai suddenly put away his smile and couldn't help asking:

"Actually, the student has always been puzzled by one thing, and I want to ask my uncle......

Thinking of this, Wang Xuan said:

If you dare to disobey, the light one will be beaten into slavery, and the heavy one will click directly, this is the so-called restoration of the Tang and Song Dynasty clothes, and it is forbidden to wear Hu and language.

"It's not obvious now, but when conflict breaks out in the future, I don't want me to have no one to talk to in the temple."

When he got the song, Zhu Gaoxu didn't look very happy, but frowned and said: "I told Huang Fu earlier that the construction period will be carried out in the first month of next year, but they have already started work now, tell me, what do they want to do?" ”

Fu Cheng's face was ugly, and Lu Yu's face was even more ugly: "How many people were killed or injured?" ”

"Senior brother, you don't need to persuade me, I believe that where there is a will, there is a way."

Wang Xuan meant self-preservation, and Jiang Huai said when he heard this: "It's a pity that we can't join forces with the Duke of Qianguo, otherwise we can have a place in the temple." ”

Jiang Huai was polite, and the smile on his face made the people he talked to like a spring breeze.

You must know that even if they are husbands, the daily wage is only ten cents.

In other words, without Zhu Gaoxu, his Wang family is duckweed without roots, and the ending is difficult to say.

Lu Yu asked Fu Cheng with red eyes, and Fu Cheng shook his head: "Commander Liu said that they must have a military order from the Governor's Mansion before they can send troops to conscript. ”

In the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty was too powerful, and the overly powerful dynasty often perished internally.

If this matter is not resolved, then even at the risk of being exiled again, these convicted and displaced people will have to flee north for their lives.

"Mother!"

Jiang Huai took the reins of the horse and looked at the county seat of Nandian in the distance, but he didn't know what he thought in his heart.

Due to Zhu Yuanzhang's policy, although the Semu people in the Ming Dynasty were exempt from being slaughtered, they had to use Chinese characters, learn Chinese and speak Chinese, and at the same time, the surnames of the former Semu people should also be simplified to Han surnames.

"One day, if the group of people in Jiangnan are integrated into the new policy, or they will be destroyed by His Majesty, then the temple will be out of balance, and the party struggle may come."

In contrast, government-run factories often provide food, shelter, and wages.

He rode back to Nandian with several escorts and rushed directly to Nandian's military camp.

Therefore, after reading his article, many people gradually put away their thoughts of fleeing north, but this is provided that Lu Yue can solve all this.

After a short time, they walked out of the city gate and followed the directions in the newspaper to a certain official road post a few miles away.

"Although the imperial court has built many canals in Wuyuan County, in the face of the Yellow River, these canals are not enough."

"Clear!"

"You forcibly got involved with her, but in the end it hurt her......"

At the same time, he also wrote the list by himself, and asked the newly established "Cheli Daily" to expedite the publication of the first newspaper, and wrote an article on it himself to appease the people.

I heard that the imperial court had a machine that could pump water, and if it was their turn to use this machine, it would be much better.

"Let Huang Fu use the method of grass grid to see if he can build a railway to Ningxia relying on the desert and the edge of the Qilian Mountains, and then find a way to connect Ningxia with Wuyuan County."

Zhu Gaoxu's expression was a little elusive, and it didn't take long for him to speak:

Of course, the development referred to here is good, but compared with the past, if it is compared to the east of Longshan, it is still not comparable.

"As long as there is groundwater, it is easy to say, but this place is the Gobi Desert, and if there is really groundwater, it will not be without grass."

"The minister commands." Huang Fu no longer has any opinions of his own, and he also knows what the connection between the Gansu Railway and the Central Plains Railway represents, so he has to try it even if it is difficult.

A Lifu has to carry thousands of catties of goods every day, and sometimes when he encounters black-hearted businessmen, it is possible to carry 10,000 catties a day.

He just wants to go home for the imperial examination and make his hometown better and better, but why does such a simple thing need to be complicated by this world.

"For the official...... Do you have to form a gang to stay in officialdom......

(End of chapter)