Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 160 Fusu: I am not Emperor Yang!
By the Wei River, Zheng Guo, supported by two tall and powerful attendants, walked slowly towards Fusu.

The spy of South Korea, but Zheng Guo, who has established eternal achievements for the enemy, is now an old man with his chest buried in loess.

The once high-spirited and upright body has become a little stooped, the thick black and thick hair has become white and sparse, and the dry face is like wintersweet branches in nine winters, with deep and tangled wrinkles.

Fusu turned his head to look at the past, sighed in his heart, only hoped that he would find his way back, start well and end well.

Then Fusu's eyes passed through Zheng Guo, and looked at Prime Minister You and Doctor Yushi who were in the army guards, with a meaningful expression on the corner of his mouth.

No guts!I gave up Xianyang to you, and did nothing... Fusu shook his head slightly, and became more and more wary of them.

These people are waiting, waiting for him to make a mistake, and then seal his throat with a sword, never giving him a chance to fight back!
It's like a stringed crossbow, it's creepy if you don't fire it!

Fu Su retracted his gaze, stretched out his hand to stop Zheng Guo from bowing down, and said directly: "I want to build a canal along the Wei River, but I don't know what Zhisu internal history thinks?"

Zheng Guo thought for a while and asked, "I don't know how His Majesty wants to repair it?"

Fusu made two gestures on the ground with his feet, and said, "The canal is divided into two sections, one section connects Xianyang to Hangu Pass, and the other end connects Chencang to Xianyang."

The canal connected to Hangu Pass drawn by Fusu is roughly the Guangtong Canal of later generations.

The canal from Chencang to Xianyang is convenient for transporting materials from Shu County and Hanzhong to Chencang along the Baoxie Road or the old road, and then directly to Xianyang downstream.

As for why the Wei River is not directly used for shipping, it is mainly because the Wei River has a large amount of cement and sand, the hydrological conditions are complex, and the cost of building wharves is too high.

At the same time, beside the Wei River is a very flat plain with deep and fine soil, and there are rivers near Huashan and Qinling to supplement water sources. The difficulty of building canals is very low. It can be said that digging a ditch can sail a boat.

In Fusu's memory, even the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal of later generations had to use a embankment to isolate the canal after passing through a natural lake, because the environment of the natural water area is complicated, and the later maintenance costs will be high.

Zheng Guo stared at it for a long time, and asked softly: "I wonder how long Your Majesty will spend to repair these two canals?"

Fusu stretched out two fingers: "The canal from Xianyang to Hanguguan will be completed within two years, and the canal from Chencang to Xianyang will be completed within five years!"

He is not the Sui Yang Emperor of the later generations, who is crazy about the deadline.

Taking into account the productivity during this period, Fusu plans to spend seven years to complete the distance of driving back and forth in one day in later generations.

The reason why the canal from Xianyang to Hangu was built first was to prevent the situation in the world from getting out of hand, so that it would be convenient to transport food and troops from Xianyang, and fight a unified war again!

If the war had not broken out, the canal would not have been useless.

In the era when trains were not popular, even traveling upstream along the canal was cheaper than transporting materials by land.

Moreover, once the canal is connected, the dry fields along the river will instantly turn into irrigated fields, which is also a good thing for the country and the people!
This is the canal in the direction of Hangu. As for the canal in the direction of Chencang, it is used to transport materials in Bashu and Han, and it can also facilitate the development of mineral resources west of Xianyang.

As I said before, the Weishui River is no longer suitable for navigation, and the cost of land transportation is too high.

Therefore, Fusu has never asked anyone to excavate the mineral resources near Chencang.

After the canal is repaired, the lime and coal mines there can be vigorously developed.

The focus is on coal mines. Coal can not only be transported to industrial areas near Xianyang, but can also change the living habits of Qin people in Yongcheng.

The reason why the sediment content of the Wei River exploded is that since the Western Zhou Dynasty, people’s settlements and rapid development in the upper reaches of the Wei River Basin have caused the intensification of soil erosion in the Wei River Basin, especially the upper reaches, making the Wei River turbid.

The main reason for this is that the demand for fuel has led to the destruction of a large amount of vegetation.

The reason why many places in later generations have become green mountains and green waters is because of the use of energy such as electricity, natural gas or coal instead of firewood.

Fusu clearly remembered that Du Fu once wrote in a poem: What should be done when the turbid Jing is clear and the Wei is clear.

This is because a large number of people concentrated in the upper reaches of the Jing River during the Tang Dynasty, which caused the Jing River to become turbid and the Wei River to be clear.

The turbidity of the Jing and Wei rivers is not static, but changes with human activities.

Since the population in the upper reaches of the Weishui River cannot be moved away, they can only change their way of life.

The rich use large lumps of coal, and the poor buy some coal powder mixed with loess to make briquettes at home, and use the same!

Zheng Guo roughly estimated the data for building the canal, and advised him: "Have you ever thought about it, the construction of the canal will inevitably require a large number of corvees, and now spring plowing is coming, if it starts at this time..."

Fu Su shook his head with a smile, interrupted Zheng Guo's words and said, "One, it's not to conscript corvee, but to recruit workers according to the way of transforming Lanchi Palace."

"Secondly, winter wheat is mostly planted in the Guanzhong area this year, and the spring plowing is not as heavy as in previous years. The first heavy work is done by men, and the subsequent work of weeding and pest control can only be done by women and children!"

"Thirdly, I'm not in a hurry, just build a canal for ships with a cargo capacity of hundreds of stones in two years!"

Fusu remembered that when the Guangtong Canal was built during the Sui Dynasty, Yu Wenkai, a well-known engineer at the time, led the team, so it only took more than three months to complete a canal of more than 300 miles.

Of course, the later Guangtong Canal was dredged on the basis of the Cao Canal in the Han Dynasty, so Fusu extended the time to two years!
After hearing Fusu's words, Zheng Guo couldn't help but nodded and said: "Your Majesty has everything, and he has the demeanor of the previous emperor when he took the throne, but the minister is old and can't keep up with His Majesty's footsteps..."

That being the case, why don't you go to the memorial to tell the old man to return to his hometown... Fusu complained in his heart, and tried not to blurt out.

Seeing the trembling back of Zheng Guo going away, Fu Su shook his head slightly. If it weren't for his experience in building the Zheng Guo Canal, Fu Su would only issue a decision to Zhisu Nei Shifu, and let them follow the plan The construction site allocates food.

Just to build canals, we can't just rely on empiricism.

After all, in the "History of Water Conservancy in China" compiled by later generations, the most frequent words are 'impassable water' and 'impassable'...

Well, it's time to climb the technology tree... Fu Su pondered for a while, then turned to Han Rang who was standing behind him and said:
"Let them go back to Lanchi Palace first, call Yushi Zhongcheng Zhang Cang, and send them to Zhangtai Palace as the young man!"

"Also, order Taiguan Cheng Luanbu to prepare a stone of millet and send it over!"

"Also, order them to vote for recommendation!"

ps: Thanks to 'Floating Cloud', 'Knowing the King', and 'There was a commoner who ventured into the wilderness' for their rewards! (`) than heart
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