Destiny Only Han

Chapter 449 Outside the number!

In Guanzhong, south of Yunyang County, the terrain is gradually flattened, where the torrenting Jingshui breaks out of the mountains and flows mightily towards the Weishui.

On the left side of Jingshui, there is a wall built, and the place where soldiers patrol continuously is the mouth of Hukou, which is the water diversion point of Zhengguo Canal.

Liu Ying originally wanted to rebuild a water diversion point north of here. After all, there was too much silt in the Jingshui, which accumulated over the years and raised the Hukou water intake point, which affected the amount of water diversion.

However, Xiao He summoned the Dushui Chang and Dushui Supervisor who are in charge of the world's water conservancy affairs, as well as a large number of old water workers to form an expert group, and went to Hukou for in-depth investigation.

The final conclusion is that this water intake can be used stably for at least another 20 years...

Therefore, in line with the principle that each generation has its own mission, Liu Ying's thick dozens of pages of plan including argumentation, design, construction and relocation were directly thrown away by Xiao He as trash...

Of course, the main reason for this is that most of the content of the plan is how to pay for the project, such as installment loans, or using mines and other useless land to pay off debts...

Well, before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came up with the franchise of salt and iron, the interests of the mountains, rivers and swamps of the Han Dynasty were owned by the emperor in name, but they were just "profits". Miscellaneous taxes belonged to the emperor, not the land.

Strictly speaking, the land belonged to the state, the right to sell the land was owned by the government represented by the prime minister, and the land tax revenue directly belonged to the treasury.

Of course, the actual situation may be very complicated. The specific result depends on the game between imperial power and prime minister power.

And when the mine was in the hands of Liu Ying, he stripped off the procedures of mining, smelting and selling, and only had to dump two miscellaneous taxes collected from selling ore to Liu Bang every year. Other than that, it belongs to Liu Ying personally...

The country is full, the workers are full, and Liu Ying is full, but someone is crying...

On the west bank of the Jingshui, Liu Ying stood on a horse, looked at the mouth of the gourd in the distance, and when she looked at the mountains in the distance again, a somewhat struggling expression appeared on her face.

There is a stone in Jingshui, and there are buckets of mud in it.

The cause of this phenomenon is that the forests in the Jingshui River Basin were destroyed due to human activities, and the original fertile fields were washed and cut into fragments by the rain, with thousands of ravines.

Then, water and soil erosion gradually intensified, coupled with the sudden drop in temperature during the interglacial period, and the lack of rain, the lush and lush land where Zhou people made their fortunes finally became the appearance of the Loess Plateau in later generations.

Liu Ying's struggle is that if left unattended, the soil on the Loess Plateau will follow the river all the way to the east and eventually settle at the mouth of the Yellow River, increasing the area of ​​the Shandong Peninsula and increasing the country's land area. .

Well, in fact, the entire North China Plain is formed by the accumulation of sediment carried by the Yellow River. The only factor that checks and balances the mother river's increase in China's land area is actually the natural subsidence of the Bohai Bay...

Without the intervention of the latter, the Liaodong Peninsula might have been connected to the Shandong Peninsula long ago.

Of course, the loss of the Inland Sea will cause China to lose Rome's strong claim, but this is not important...

But as Hou Dad famously said, what is the price?

The price is naturally that the middle section of the Yellow River hangs above the ground, and there is a risk of rushing out of the embankment at any time and flooding the sky.

After thinking about it, Liu Ying decided to give up such an idea with both advantages and disadvantages, and start the comprehensive management of water and soil conservation in advance.

For example, when he was building new towns and residential buildings in Chang'an City, he chose to use brick-concrete structures instead of the original wooden structures.

When those wealthy people have to accept that they are going to live in the house they have been using as a tomb because of sunk costs, the mentality will change instantly.

Only country bumpkins live in log cabins, and brick-and-concrete houses are YYDS...

Under such public opinion, Liu Ying opened several cement workshops one after another, and the orders for production had already piled up into a hill...

In this way, many towering trees can be saved from being cut down to build houses.

Well, in fact, farmers are not stupid, and they don't cut down trees easily.

After all, a big tree keeps growing, and you can pick up a lot of dead branches and leaves as fuel every year, and the longer the tree grows, the more valuable it will be!

The second point of comprehensive management is to promote honeycomb coal.

In fact, the ancients have known coal as a combustible mineral for a long time, but the reason why it has not been used on a large scale is that large pieces of coal need to be ignited for a long time, while small pieces of coal such as bituminous coal will burn. Choking smell.

So coal has become something that the poor can't afford and the rich don't want to use.

For ordinary farmers, the daily use of straw and firewood as fuel is basically free. The former is a by-product of agricultural production, while the latter is picked from the ground.

Therefore, the largest firewood consumption is actually the urban people such as handicraftsmen or small traders in the city.

Well, the rich consume a lot individually, but the overall amount is small, and the consumption of basic resources is completely inferior to that of the urban middle class with a larger number.

Take a chestnut.

Guangzhou, where commerce and trade have been extremely developed since the Song Dynasty, according to records, people there use about 45 dans of firewood a year, weighing about two tons, and the price of firewood is about one-tenth of the price of rice.

As for the source, it is mainly the four rural areas around the city, namely Panyu, Huadu, Zengcheng, and Conghua.

According to the records of the people of the Ming Dynasty, for example, the "Xiangshan County Chronicles" written in the Jiajing period: from the east of Huashukeng to the south of Nantai, there are many deep mountains and forests, or travel on poor days, empty green and beautiful, and no one.In Jiajing, the tyrants from different counties entangled with the local gangsters, and they went everywhere. They used the lumber as wood, and all the miscellaneous wood as charcoal, and made a lot of profits. Those who took advantage of it benefited the crowd.In the south of Nantai, the mountains are gradually turning green, and the atmosphere of burning charcoal is competing with the sun.

To put it simply, the big trees around the city have almost been cut down, and the air pollution caused by burning charcoal is also very serious.

During the Qing Dynasty, the "Panyu County Chronicles" even showed the description of "Yushan used to be full of pines and cypresses, but there are no existing ones today", which means that there are no trees on the mountain.

And this is the southern region with abundant rainfall. At the same time, the rainfall is scarce and the vegetation grows slowly in the northern Central Plains.

Therefore, in order to preserve the vegetation on the Loess Plateau, briquettes are particularly important.

Coal is more resistant to burning than firewood, so even though the price of coal is more expensive than firewood, it is still more cost-effective to burn coal.

When briquettes are vigorously promoted, not only can the consumption of firewood be reduced, but also waste can be utilized.

For example, glass workshops, coal and iron trading companies and other industrial workshops that need to burn coal to provide heat sources will leave a lot of fine coal powder mixed with soil every day.

If these coal powders are sieved or washed out of the soil and reused, the increased cost is more expensive than the new ones, so it is a good material for making briquettes.

Anyway, the raw material for making briquettes is also coal powder, which is equivalent to smashing large pieces of coal in advance...

Liu Ying's idea is to provide two ways of selling.

One is to buy ready-made briquettes directly from his briquette workshop, and deliver them to your home with free shipping, leaving the mess to the workers instead of the customers.

Of course, the wool comes from the sheep, and labor costs are essential.

As for the second type, the buyer pulls a cart to buy pulverized coal, and then digs some materials such as yellow mud and mixes them in, adds water and mixes them evenly, and presses them into briquettes with special tools.

Although it is a bit tiring and dirty, it saves money.

Anyway, the labor of the poor is actually not as valuable as imagined.

Therefore, there are two methods, the abundance and frugality are up to the person, and you can choose.

It can not only preserve the green mountains and green waters, but also provide jobs and benefit the people.

Want, want, want, it is true that the first emperor touched the switch, and he was numb to win...

Of course, after realizing waste utilization and selling briquette stoves, briquette machines and other products after creating demand, Liu Ying's small profit is relatively not that important.

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Qi State, Yeyi Port.

On the vast and boundless sea, a loud and clear horn sounded.

At the intersection of the sky and the sea, a large ship with black sails sailed through the wind and waves.

This ship is the Friendship number assigned to the Governor's Mansion of Whale Island.

Now the ship is loaded with a lot of ore collected from Whale Island, as well as some virgins who are willing to return to the Central Plains.

Well, the reason why some virgins are unwilling to come back is that their family members are all dead and scattered. Whether they stay on the island or return to the Central Plains, they are all alone.

Then, it would be better to stay on this island where they have lived for many years.

And what made them no longer worry about suffering the same bad luck before was the head of the Japanese people hanging on the tree branch, and two other "Weiyuan class" ships that set off from the Shandong Peninsula, loaded with tools and food.

In this way, there are three seagoing ships with a full load displacement of about [-] tons, plus a triangle sail that can sail against the wind, between Whale Island and the Central Plains. Unless there is a particularly large typhoon, the strait will be closed. It is the former natural moat.

After the Friendship ship was moored at the pier, a captain wearing a bean got off the ship, and walked out of the harbor with loose legs amidst the giggles of the dock workers who rushed forward to load and unload the cargo.

Behind him, there was a team of crew carrying large boxes, walking like half of him staggering.

On the south side of Yeyi Harbor, where a big "Yi" flag was hung, a mail truck pulled by three horses drove out quickly, and drove straight to Chang'an City along the wide and straight road.

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Chang'an City.

It was high in the sun, and on the bustling street, a group of children with satchels sprang out, waving thin booklets in their hands:

"Extra, extra!"

"The imperial fleet conquered overseas fairy mountains and found countless gold and silver..."

(End of this chapter)