Villager of Daming

Chapter 887 Waterway turning point and heavy dredging

The team traveled at a normal speed. The next stop was Mengcheng, which took two days and more than 140 miles to travel. However, since they reached the river, the boats were able to help with part of the baggage transportation task.

People can take more horses, carts, or even boats, and the journey will be less tiring. Walking 140 miles in two days is easier than walking 80 miles in one day.

Zhu Fan was the only one who was anxious. He wished his team could all have wings and fly to Taiyuan Mansion.

"There shouldn't be any need to stay in Mengcheng any longer, right?" Zhu Fan means don't stay for just two days, we won't be tired.

Zhu Wentian smiled naively: "No, stay, go, eh! Hehehehehe!"

Zhu Fan: "..."

"His Royal Highness Prince Jin, what Hanhan means is..." The chief asked to translate.

"I know, we know, don't stay, let's go." Zhu Fan said he understood.

"Actually, the development of Mengcheng is similar to that of Huaiyuan. Now Huaiyuan will be better than Mengcheng because of the coal mines in the south.

What will happen in the end depends on what the officials of the two counties do, and they will play a decisive role.

Of course, with people from our army coming to help, as long as the officials are obedient and don't cause trouble, there will be no problem in terms of economic convenience. "

The head of the village talked about the situation in Mengcheng and Huaiyuan. If the prince hadn't come here before, they would still be poor!

The biggest problem is that of officials. People can only listen to officials because there are road restrictions, so they just farm.

There is no secondary or tertiary industry. The primary industry, livestock and poultry breeding, is a small-scale peasant economy. You can sell what you raise if you can, but you can eat what you can't sell.

No one is raising fish, but there are fish in the river. Wouldn’t it be better to go fishing? Who do you raise and sell the fish to? Everyone has no money.

"Take your time! As long as we collect more food now and the people are safe, things will be easier in the future."

Zhu Xi was full of confidence in this place, because his fiefdom had specially opened roads, railways and land routes from Lantian County to this place.

Either we have to go over mountains and ridges, which we can blast directly to avoid going around far. We only need to get up from his place and transport it through the Yellow River, and at the same time transport it into the Huaihe River through the Luoshui River here.

Look at Shijiu Lake, how poor is it? Everyone ran away, and there was always water. I finally managed to plant some land, but it was wiped out by a flood.

When the Rouge River is opened, the water flows along the Rouge River into the Qinhuai River. It is not afraid of heavy rains. The Huaihe River is under pressure, and efforts are made to build embankments and berms there.

Shijiu Lake turned out to be a good place, with large areas of fertile farmland, aquatic products in the lake, and a passing economy.

Many black households all ran to settle down, and as soon as they settled down, they were registered in Ningyuan County, Yingtian Prefecture.

Everyone was silent for a moment, looking at the road and river outside. Most roads were built along the river, and the same was true here.

Zhu Wentian took out a handful of hazelnuts, cracked them there, and looked into the distance.

He most agrees with the words of the li chief that the health of local people depends on the officials. The incompetence of one general will lead to the exhaustion of the three armies.

The geographical location of Huaiyuan is better than that of Mengcheng. Huainan is just upstream of it, and Mengcheng is also upstream of it. At the same time, it is a thousand-year-old ancient place with a cultural atmosphere.

The primary industry in Mengcheng is about the same as it, the secondary industry is a bit higher than it, let alone the tertiary industry. What does it do?

Agriculture has no new ideas, industry has no positioning, and tourism is in a mess.

It doesn’t mean that just changing the leader will be enough, there are others! Various interest relationships have been formed over the years. How capable does the new leader have to be to clean up the whole place?

Why would someone with that ability come to be an official in a place like this? To challenge the difficulty? Some officials really want to change, but they are hindered by other colleagues and their superiors do not support them. They feel discouraged and can do whatever they want! We also mess around and make money.

The replacement is not just for one, but for a batch of them, and they are all sorted out.

Today's Ming Dynasty is to train military personnel to be familiar with local conditions. If local officials do not cooperate, a new batch will be replaced. If the government officials do not cooperate and cause trouble, the government officials' families will be exiled. How can one family cry together?

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In the evening of the second day after leaving Huaiyuan, the team arrived in Mengcheng. Those who left first had already purchased things, and the team set up camp outside the city.

He didn't summon local officials or find people to eat. He rested overnight and set off again the next day. This time it was Bozhou. The journey was expected to take three days, with some stops along the way.

This parking location is the future Guoyang. Guoyang has people but no county-level administrative units. It was merged into Bozhou, but Bozhou became a county.

Now the local area is poor and there is no nearby county government office. Each village can only struggle on its own because it is too far from the county seat.

However, when the sergeant went to the village, there was no county seat that he was not afraid of. There used to be places where administrative units existed, and people still lived here, such as gathering here for gatherings.

At present, the natural resources here are rich, and the native plants are still there. There has been no indiscriminate logging or illegal logging, and there has been no deforestation or mountain destruction in order to accelerate industrialization.

After resting here in the evening, sergeants from nearby villages came over, asked about the situation, and started making soy products. The next morning, all the soy products were ready, and the team left. The sergeants went back to the village to find someone to move them, leaving food for the villagers.

On the 20th day of the third lunar month, everyone rushed to Bozhou, but they didn’t stay much longer. They only stayed for one night, and the next stop was Zhongmou.

Bozhou is theoretically in Anhui Province, and Zhongmu is in Henan Province, so why not go to Shangqiu, which is closer?

The river in Shangqiu is not directly connected to Kaifeng. The river was dug manually. There used to be the Bian Canal, but now it is blocked.

Because the Grand Canal was well-repaired during the Yuan Dynasty, no one took care of the Bian Canal, which connects the Yellow River to the Huaihe River.

If the land team can pass by, the water team will be gone. Therefore, we should go to places with waterways. To go to Zhongmou, we should first take the Wishui River and then the Shahe River.

Arrive at Zhongmou, pass by Zhengzhou, and then go to Luoyang. According to the last route, Luoshui arrives at Luonan. The external road of Lantian County has been completed, and the railway will be slowly erected.

According to the inscription given to the court there, as soon as the road to Tongluonan in Lantian County was built, people went back and forth like crazy, and there was no need to take a long and long way to pass the pass to enter Xi'an.

From here to Luonan County, there is still 1,500 miles. It is not a straight-line distance. The straight-line distance is short, less than 1,100 miles.

"Li Chang, that canal needs to be rebuilt to connect to the main stream of the Yellow River. Follow the Suishui River to Kaifeng. Bianliang, Tokyo, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Bian Canal must be built. People knew how to build it in the Tang Dynasty!"

At this time, Zhu Fan, the third child, was more anxious than anyone else. His Taiyuan was counting on transportation from the Yellow River! The more fork in the road there is, the more source of income, whether it is sales or purchases.

The second brother's place has man-made roads from Lantian County to Luonan. The fourth brother's place in Peiping has no shortage of canals, and there is also the sea next to it!

If this canal can be dredged again, goods can be transported directly to Fengyang.

Taking advantage of the fact that there is still a little water flowing in the river when it rains, everything can be done in time. If there is a shortage of manpower, there will be a lot of people there! It wouldn't be a problem to bring in a group of people to help.

"It really should be dredged." Brother Zhu Fang also thinks it would be better to have another waterway.

"Then send a telegram back and ask Your Majesty to make arrangements?" The chief was not thinking about the two people's problems, but the situation in Shangqiu.

　Today is gone, we are celebrating here, celebrating the festival, starting from noon, until now, my head is buzzing, writing two chapters for six and a half hours...

　　

　

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