Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 715 Entering the Rapid Development Track

Li Chunfeng and the others did encounter some problems, but they were not fatal, because the direction he set with the sextant was the equatorial belt. In this area, the wind is weak and the wind direction is uncertain. It can be regarded as a relatively stable windless belt on the sea, but the updraft is strong in this area, and the annual precipitation is more than [-] millimeters.

How much is two thousand millimeters?two meters.

In other words, although the route he took was stable, it often rained, which made them suffer. In the uncertain wind direction, they were often drenched by rain, and the entire fleet could not travel fast. It took them more than four months to reach the South American continent.

When they went ashore, almost all the fishing nets were rotten, and the fuel carried in the boat was also used up. The wood of the hull was soaked in water, decayed and expanded, causing the entire hull to deform, and the cladding steel plate also appeared to fall off. The ship in the best condition dare not be used for sailing in the open sea anymore.

Fortunately, they arrived at the South American continent when they were about to collapse, and on this continent, they soon saw the stele left by Zhao Long, and the local aborigines were very afraid of them, basically Give what you want.

It's just that with the local level of craftsmanship and the ability of the technicians on board, these ships cannot be repaired at all. Therefore, Li Chunfeng and others, who have confirmed that the world is spherical, can only stay in the local area, and even some crops in Africa , planted locally.

Of course, it is still uncertain whether they can return with the ship after Zhao Long went to South America again, because South America is very big, and Zhao Long may not go to the city-state where they are, and Li Chunfeng, too. I don't know when Zhao Long will return to South America again.

Zhao Long's real supply location is actually in the more advanced Luzon Island. Their current navigation ability is not comparable to that of three years ago. After using solar energy, as long as the weather is fine, they can distill pure water, cook and other aspects of life. Very little fuel is required.

With fishing nets made of sisal hemp, they basically don’t have to worry about food at sea. They just need to bring more dried vegetables and grow faster-growing vegetables on board to improve their food. Zhao He even thought of raising some on board. High-yield chickens to improve everyone's food.

Three days later, Zhao Long set off again, and Sun Xiangfu's life has also entered a normal track. During the few months before next year's summer, he will be in Guangzhou City, teaching everyone how to plant these field crops out of season , so that the local people can eat tender corn and sweet potato crops all year round. After that, he will go north to Liaodong.

Of course, his peaceful life does not mean that the world is peaceful. In an era of low political civilization, people are often not aware of changes in the external environment and their impact on the country. The rapid development and changes of Tang Dynasty have caused a series of Western The change.

Li Shimin's order finally spread to Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and the armies immediately began to mobilize, organize the hundreds of thousands of people from various countries who had flooded into the Tang Dynasty to escape the war, and began to draw routes, dig kilns, collect gravel, and burn cement , tamped the roadbed, and built a cement road from Anxi Daduhufu to Chang'an.

Previously, when Changsun Chong was building Suiye City, the technologies for these infrastructure projects had already been introduced, and Tai’an City, which was less than three thousand miles away, had industrial capabilities comparable to Shanyang’s before, with various conveniences and conveniences. The tools used and skilled command personnel have also begun to be transported to the west, so the speed of the whole project is not slow.

When Suiye City released the news that the monthly salary is consistent with Tang money, no nationality, and unlimited recruitment, many neighboring countries in the Western Regions saw a wave of people who were more turbulent than those fleeing the war, and began to flock to Suiye City. enter.

That's the same amount of money per month, and you can buy more than three shi of grain locally. Moreover, when you are working, you will be given work clothes and two full meals. Twelve strings of money, who would not want the people of these impoverished kingdoms?
Therefore, the more than 30 Tang troops stationed in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate have become the supervisors of more than 200 million laborers, who are responsible for providing them with a certain amount of living material security. Even in the cold winter season, they are still following the plan Along the route, cave dwellings were opened up along the way. In just one month, tens of thousands of cave dwellings were built, and a large amount of cement was fired.

According to the expected plan of Duan Zhixuan, who is temporarily in charge of coordinating, after March next year, even if every 1 people can only repair one mile a day, more than 200 million people can repair more than 200 miles a day. After repairing Tai'an City, plus the surrounding Tingzhou, Xizhou, Yizhou, Shangqi, etc., the lines are divided into equal parts, and after crossing the sandbar, the lines are divided into various state roads, and then connected with the cement road in Guanzhong. It will not take more than six months to get it done, and everything can be done before the snow falls next winter.

Of course, what is mentioned here is only the land and road areas that are originally suitable for paving. Many places with rivers require Chang'an to dispatch professional engineering teams to build bridges, because there is no technology like later generations in this period that can meet mountains. The quality of the cement roads they built is not at the same level as the highways of later generations. At most, they are relatively wider rural roads. When they encounter ridges, lakes, and wider Whenever there is a river, a detour is required.

Therefore, although the straight-line distance from Suiye City to Chang'an is only about 2000 miles, the road built should be more than [-] miles, of which more than [-] miles are detours.

As for the entire construction project, the total length of roads that need to be repaired is more than [-] miles, because they also need to build the fork roads leading to the states.

With the addition of three 10,000+ troops and the manpower dispatched from Guanzhong, this super project has invested nearly 300 million people, but even for such a large project, the imperial court did it without blinking an eye, and also required a Within a year, it was basically completed.

The initial budget given by Gao Shilian, Minister of the Ministry of Finance, is 5000 million guan.

Because, just to pay more than 200 million workers in the Western Regions, nearly 4000 million guan, food and vegetables for 300 million people, and a certain amount of meat supply are added up. Even if the cost of these things in Datang is not high, it is at least more than 1000 million guan, plus the transportation loss of cattle and horse dispatching, may even reach 2000 million guan. After all, this is a site with a span of [-] miles and a radiation area of ​​[-] miles. With the output of western states and counties, it is impossible to support such a place on the spot. The cost of eating and drinking for a large group, after all, the counties in this direction have relatively small populations and low food production.

These 6000 million consuming expenses are just small heads. The big heads of real expenses are all kinds of tools required. Millions of iron pupa, various presses, stones, and wooden templates for setting roads. Some coal fuels for burning cement can be natural, but most of them need to be purchased and transported there.

This is another tens of millions of consumption.

And Datang’s technical workers in infrastructure construction don’t get the low wages of those workers in the Western Regions every month, at least several times, or even more than ten times, and the construction of bridges requires a lot of steel bars. These things are not cheap. Although detours are used as much as possible to avoid bridge repairs, hundreds of larger bridges are still needed.

The technology of building bridges in the Central Plains has a long history. The convenience bridges that can cross the Weihe River and the Bashui Bridge that can cross the Bashui River are not small, but with the cement and steel bars, the imperial court also has higher requirements for the quality of the bridges. Compared with the highway bridges of the later generations, it is not inferior to the bridges of the rural roads of the later generations. At least it must guarantee that the vehicles with a load of several thousand catties will have no pressure when walking on them.

Therefore, for this project, each engineering team that has made great progress in the engineering technology of infrastructure projects over the years needs to upgrade their own technology again. It will take at most two years to complete the entire line and change horses along the way. , Inns and other supporting facilities, all keep up, and three years later, when the next sports meeting is held, this road should be used quickly and smoothly as a whole.

Moreover, the construction plan of this road has nothing to do with Li Chengqian's annual budget of more than 5000 million yuan for the construction of Datang's internal infrastructure projects, and it must be carried out at the same time.

All of a sudden, [-] million yuan was spent on infrastructure construction, not counting, the expenditure on medical care, education, etc., in the entire history, there is no one else.

However, Datang is so daring to spend money, even if it is a loan, no one disagrees, because now everyone knows that the people will benefit from the money spent by the imperial court. It is higher, and commerce is more developed, and then, it will continue to repay the tax revenue of the imperial court. Anyway, in addition to tax revenue, the imperial court now also has various mining methods or financial means to continuously use the money that can be used at hand. If you become more, you are not afraid of not having a source of money.

As millions of laborers from the north gathered in Shannan Road, Li Shimin, his wife and Prince Li Chengqian, who celebrated the New Year in Shannan Road for the first time, saw millions of people working together to build fields.

Datang can have today's prosperity, in addition to Sun Xiangfu's vigorous promotion of productivity technology, it is also inseparable from the hardships and hard work of the people themselves. In the past, the people in the north, when winter came, would Choosing Maodong, now, they have been working in the south for a few months, which has more than doubled their productivity than before.

By next year, the entire Shannan Road will have [-] counties, and all the subordinate counties in Jingzhou, Yingzhou, and Fuzhou will have completed the embankment infrastructure project.

The high-yielding rice fields in these fifteen counties will reach 500 million mu, and the greenhouse vegetable fields will reach 300 million mu. In addition, there is a Qianjiang county that mainly breeds crayfish, and a public security county that is Mainly to grow grapes.

However, because so many fields in Yuantian County need too many people, the rice field alone requires 100 million households and a population of more than 300 million to plant, plus other planting industries, the land of the three states, There are 500 million people living here. Except for the people in most of the local states and counties of Shannan Province, they have migrated here to a certain extent. In addition to many people in the north who settled here, the more than 200 million laborers hired by Tammo Road can also be regarded as Completely stayed.

Since Shannan Road cannot concentrate the population of the whole country indefinitely and make the population of other state roads more sparse, the subsequent construction of paddocks will slow down, and the new construction of local paddocks will only be organized in a planned way according to the local population growth. However, with the land of these three states and the establishment of the core of the entire Shannan Road, it can continuously drive the economy of the surrounding states and counties, which is the same as the effect of Chang'an and Weinan New City in Guanzhong.

And with the arrival of the new year, the construction engineering team that was originally concentrated in Jiangling City gradually began to withdraw and went to Lingnan and Yunnan. Only a small number of people stayed and continued to build Jiangling Academy. The top universities in China will be completed in the second half of next year. At that time, the departments that have recruited teachers will be the first to start school. However, in the second half of next year, the pressure on Datang's talents will be much easier.

Because, in Jiuyuan County, there are at least a thousand students who have graduated from junior high school. After the reform of the imperial examination, at least thousands of people get national diplomas every year. It should be no problem to support the stall.

(End of this chapter)