Patrolling the censor, Tian was responsible for patrolling and surveying, and the people who surveyed were under the command of the censor. However, this time the Qin king granted a group of people a title, but it was not under the control of the censor. After the king wrote it, the edict was revealed.
"Sir, do you want to go north to protect Zheng Guo?"
Taking the king's book from Zhou Qing, Yun Shu quickly reviewed its contents. The sentences were not long, but the meaning was very clear. Among the current canal construction matters, the most important one is Zheng Guo.
If Zheng Guo dies, then in the entire Qin State, there will probably never be a water worker from the Shui family who can replace him. Moreover, this person carries the great expectations that Ying Zheng has for him.
If the canal is successfully built, the entire Guanzhong will become fertile soil. The old Qin people will no longer have to guard the saline-alkali land and Baimaotan to live a hard life. If Sanchuan County fails, the canal construction will definitely cause great intrusion.
After reading the king's book in his hand, Yun Shu's beautiful eyes flickered and looked at the young master. If the young master leaves Xuanqing Palace, then the only companions in Xianyang will be Sister Nongyu and Sister Yanlingji.
"Yes, what Zheng is doing now is no small matter. Now, the people recruited by the Qin State have exceeded 500,000. It is expected that within two years, the Jingshui River will be introduced and the canal will be connected to the Weishui River, benefiting tens of thousands of hectares of farmland and hundreds of thousands of people.
All the old Qin people benefited."
"But because of this, more than half of the inner energy of the entire Qin Kingdom is consumed on it. The countries in the Kanto region want to use small means to disrupt the canal construction. I am the protector of the country, and it is the right time."
"Furthermore, Concubine Yan, the head of the Yin-Yang family, and Mr. Gai Nie from Guigu will also go to the North. Next, I won't be in Xianyang for a long time, so you and Nongyu will have a good time practicing."
He nodded slightly. In order to build the canal, more than half of the Qin State's energy was invested in it. It was nothing to dispatch himself and others to the Jingshui area. Besides, it was just to protect the Zheng State, so it was even more relaxed and casual.
Feeling the reluctance rippling around Yun Shu's body, she gently raised one hand and placed it on her beautiful shoulders. Her skin was soft and smooth, and unconsciously, a blush appeared on her cheeks.
After changing the topic, he looked at Nongyu who was facing the window on one side. His slender hands were resting on the bed harp, and he was gently playing with it. The graceful and graceful sound of the harp was like the sound of nature.
"Young Master is going to the North with Sister Yan Lingji?"
As expected, Yun Shu soon discovered another piece of information from Zhou Qing's words. For several months, Sister Yan Lingji had been practicing in Xuanqing Palace, and her cultivation level had improved rapidly.
The young master took the other party to the Northland this time. Although he was a little dissatisfied, he also understood that Yan Lingji's cultivation at the level of god transformation could be of greater help. Compared with Yan Lingji, he and Sister Nongyu's
His cultivation level is quite different.
"Yan Lingji's fire charm has been perfected, and it will be of great use to me."
Within the Guanzhong, the Nine Waters spread, and the little people from the Guandong countries were hidden in it undetectable. For this, Yan Lingji, who possesses the magic of fire, can exert miraculous effects. Although she can also do this.
However, during the trip to Sanchuan County, his information has probably spread throughout the Kanto countries. If he comes forward, he will only alert the enemy and cause unnecessary hidden dangers. Therefore, it will be more effective to take Yan Lingji with him on this trip.
"After I go north, if you and Nong Yu have nothing to do in the palace, you can go to Xicheng District and take care of that house!"
"The follow-up to "The Tribulation of Heaven and Man" has been left here for twelve chapters. Once it comes out every month, it will be enough for a year. At this point, some Taoists outside the city will come."
Although the house that had been settled last year was already owned by me, no one had moved in. Although it was regularly cleaned by servants, it had lost some popularity.
"Master, please rest assured, Sister Nongyu and I will do a good job."
Compared with the young master's journey to the north, taking care of the house is nothing more than a small matter. As for the announcement of "The Tribulation of Heaven and Man", the young master wrote it orally and wrote it himself. He has already written the fourteenth chapter, which coincides with a series of events in Nezha at Chentangguan.
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It is really interesting, with many immortals and gods, and many treasures. What is even more attractive is that it took place in the late Shang Dynasty 800 years ago. Although it is not consistent with official history, it is still very interesting.
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The next day, Zhou Qing took Yan Lingji, Xu Shou and a group of Xianyang followers, and carried the king's letter. They said goodbye to the Yin Yang family's east lord Yan Fei, Mr. Gai Nie and others in front of the Xianyang palace gate, and passed through the northern gate.
, go to the Jingshui River Valley area where Zheng State is located.
Out of Xianyang, to the north is the vast land of Guanzhong. The Qinchuan River is a fertile land. For hundreds of years, since the old Qin people expanded from Longxi to the east, this has been the foundation place. Even the most powerful Wei State a hundred years ago has
Couldn't invade it.
What is Qinchuan?
The mountains, rivers and fertile soil of Qin are called Qinchuan!
This name came into being a hundred years ago, and it is also the name of the place in Guanzhong.
The Qinchuan River has abundant water, fertile fields for farming, and is surrounded by mountains and rivers, making it difficult to invade.
What is Yi Shui?
Available water!
For thousands of years, water system problems have been a serious problem in the Xia Dynasty. In the years of the Five Emperors three generations ago, both Emperor Shun and King Yu devoted much of their lives to controlling water and combing the rivers, so that the Xia Dynasty could be what it is today.
land.
In the past three dynasties, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period began at the same time. The winter in the summers ranged from the east of the Yan Kingdom to Liaodong, to the western border of the Qin Kingdom in the west, to the Yunmeng Daze area in the south, and to Yunzhong in the north. Even so, this summer is still hot and humid.
An area with lots of rain, crisscrossed rivers and lush forests.
Although there are many water systems, the beneficial water is not obvious. For hundreds of years, various countries have risen together. In order to enrich the country and strengthen the military, the water masters have emerged at the right time. The water masters all over the world have spent their lives trying to figure out how to eliminate floods and make them beneficial.
water.
In order to eliminate hidden dangers, we need to control water. Naturally, eliminating river flooding is the first priority, followed by irrigation and opening up shipping. Whether it is the Chu State's Han River passing through Ying, or the Wei State's diversion of Zhang into Ye
, the chasm crosses the beam, the Dujiangyan Irrigation System in the middle of Sichuan, its original purpose is to create beneficial water.
The land of Qinchuan has nine rivers and eighteen pools, eight hundred miles from east to west. It has many beneficial waters and is uniquely blessed by nature. It is precisely because of its unique nature that since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Guanzhong has been a place recognized by the world as a beautiful place. Here leisurely breeding
The Zhou people, who created a ritual civilization based on their profound farming tradition,
After King Ping moved eastward, the Qin State occupied this place and had its own foundation. Thanks to the generous blessings of heaven and earth, Qinchuan seemed to have become one of the richest places in the world.
However, now that the Qin Dynasty has ascended the throne, Qinchuan is still far from being the land of the richest man in the world. It is not as good as the coastal area of Linzi of Qi State in the east, not as good as the two sides of the Huai River of Chu State in the south, and not as good as the Daliang Plain of Wei State in the middle.
If it weren't for the Qin State's national policy of farming and war a hundred years ago, and it would win many foreign battles, and continuously seize wealth and population from the six Shandong countries, relying solely on its own output would not be enough to dominate the world.
The reason for this is the two major problems in the Qinchuan area: the Bai Mao Alkaline Beach and the proximity to flooded and dry fields.
Rivers intersect and ponds are soaked. The low-lying waterlogged areas of Qinchuan often produce patches of peculiar saline-alkali land. Waterlogging occurs all year round and becomes brine when wet for a long time. The land leaches out alkaline alkaline flowers. In summer and autumn, there is a vast ocean. In winter and spring, white dust blocks the sun.
The old Qin people called this white-haired land where no grains could grow or grow any grains "salt-alkali flats."
Although these fields have a lot of beneficial water, they are still fields of great harm. They are adjacent to fertile fields but have poor drainage. They will be swallowed up in three to five years, and in the blink of an eye, they will become barren alkali shoals that blow up with white mist when the wind blows.
Once the fertile fields turn white, even if the farmers try their best to build drainage ditches, they will never be able to change it for ten or eight years. The people of the old Qin Dynasty often have bitter voices: water, salt, flowers and alkali, there are beaches but no fields, white soil kills the grain,
Thousands of feet of smoke.
The terrain in the western part of Qinchuan is slightly higher and the drainage is convenient, so such alkali shoals rarely occur. However, as soon as the central part of Qinchuan gradually opens up, from Daxianyang to the place where Luoshui River enters the Wei River in the east, such alkaline shoals appear frequently.
, there are bald spots in the green fields, so ugly that it is disgusting, and it is so desolate that it is deplorable.
Now this scene naturally fell into Zhou Qing's eyes. He left Xianyang and went all the way north. Soon he entered the Jingshui River. He didn't take a boat, but crossed the Jingshui River and continued to go north on horseback. Wherever he looked, the salt and alkali fields
There are countless beaches.
"Uncle Master, no wonder the King of Qin worked hard to build the canal!"
"The land of Qinchuan is more than hundreds of thousands of hectares, and its foundation is no less fertile than the fertile soil in Sichuan. However, if it is all such saline-alkali land, it would be equivalent to a desert. Countless Qin people guard this land without any production. If this continues, it will inevitably
There's trouble!"
A group of more than ten people were walking in the western area of Qinchuan. The terrain gradually rose, and naturally the gaze became farther and farther. It was approaching the summer harvest, and in the extremely sparse world, the blank areas were very annoying.
Even though there are rivers and canals, under such circumstances, the people of the old Qin Dynasty did not think of using them lightly. They diverted water without draining it. After a few years, it turned into a saline-alkali land. If the canals were diverted into the water and integrated into it, the water system would be smooth and the water would be washed.
Salt-alkali, a few years later, Guanzhong became fertile soil.
This is the power of Shuijia plumbers!
"The Wei River crosses the Qin State and is divided into north and south. This situation does not exist in the south of Wei, but it is common in the north of Wei. The Jing River flows from the northwest into the Wei River, and the Jing River flows 800 miles eastward and becomes the Luoshui River."
"The land in Guanzhong is mixed between the Jingshui River and the Luoshui River. Zheng Guo's ability surveyed the terrain and connected the Jingshui River and Luoshui River, connecting the water system. When the canal was completed, there would be no white-haired alkali shoals and no dry fields near the water."
"In this way, the land in Guanzhong and the land in Shuzhong can be the two foundations of Qin!"
Zhou Qing took the lead, the sun was shining brightly in the sky, and he looked at the old Qin people busy in the fields on both sides of the road. They had a lot of fields, but they were hampered by the two major hazards of the Bai Mao Alkali Beach and the proximity to flooded and dry fields.
The harvest here is obviously much less than the land in Weinan that I visited last year. Moreover, it seems that since April and now the end of May, there has been no rain. The fields are dry and cracked, and the harvest is even worse.
As you go further north, the terrain becomes higher and higher, with criss-crossing hills, criss-crossing ravines, and rivers and ponds. The people of the old Qin Dynasty lived near the water. It seemed that they could cultivate and cultivate land, but it happened to be dry and barren near the water, making it difficult to harvest.
Hundreds of families have been enemies of Qin for a long time, and there are not many hydraulic workers in Qin. Even if it is possible to build canals, it is even more difficult on the slopes. Moreover, Qin has been engaged in many foreign wars for hundreds of years, and many able-bodied men have joined the army.
The men and women who stayed on the farm could be requisitioned as laborers at any time. County and county offices had to deal with war requisitions, so it was impossible to plan for water conservancy. Even if there was a plan, it would not be able to squeeze out a large period of time to concentrate people's efforts to build canals and divert water.
The Qin State has risen since Xiaogong and left Hangu in the east. It is really unimaginable that it can be powerful and dominate the Warring States Period under such circumstances. It is even more so for Zhou Qing. Looking at the current situation of the Qin State up close, I am filled with emotion.
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According to the history books I read from Xianyang Palace, the regulation of the water in Guanzhong started when the Shang Dynasty was the king. After that, the successive prime ministers of the Qin State tried their best to solve the two major harms in Guanzhong, but they ended up due to various unexpected events.
And it was stranded repeatedly.
The Lord of Shang was making plans, but Duke Xiao died suddenly at a young age. He himself was also killed by a car in the sudden change of the court situation, and the great water conservancy project came to nothing. The generation of King Hui and Prince Zhang repeatedly encountered the six kingdoms to curb the rise of Qin, and repeatedly joined forces to attack Qin, leading to continuous wars.
The internal and external conditions are tight, and Guanzhong Water Conservancy has no time to take care of it.
In the early and mid-term period of King Zhaoxiang, the Qin State and Shandong united to fight the life and death battle of Zhao State. Almost the whole country was involved in the war, and there was no time for others to care.
In the late period of King Zhaoxiang, Cai Ze of Ji Ran's family was the prime minister, and he made a detailed survey of the Weibei area and wrote a letter proposing countermeasures: Weibei is bordered by more than 40,000 hectares of paddy and dry fields and more than 20,000 hectares of white-haired alkaline beaches.
We should divert the Jing River out of the mountains, and go down to the south to irrigate the Guanzhong, relieve the drought, drain out the salt and alkali, and increase the fertile farmland. Then the wealth of Qinchuan will be unlimited!
Just when the Guanzhong water conservancy project planned by Cai Ze was about to be launched, the Qin State was at a low point and faced internal and external difficulties. The late King Zhaoxiang had to pursue the strategy of "defending the country and consolidating the country" and carefully handled the important matters of the crown prince, while water control had to be put on the back burner.
During the reign of King Xiaowen and King Zhuangxiang for four years, Lu Buwei took over the country and wanted to expand its economic capabilities to enrich the Qin state. However, he encountered successive handover crises. Stabilizing the government became the top priority, and he was still unable to fully solve the root causes of the economic problems in Guanzhong.
Except in recent years, as Qin's foreign wars have decreased, Lu Buwei appointed Zheng Guo to regulate the river canals, which led to the current situation. According to the character of Qin Wangzheng, it seems that diverting the river into the water is impossible.
Go all the way north and pass Jingyang. The road to the north is high. Soon you will reach the key point of the Jingdong diversion project - Hukou. Near Hukou, there are more and more farmers. In order to build the canal, Wang Shu came down.
More than 500,000 people have been recruited from various counties and counties in the Qin State.
From the mountains in the upper reaches of the Jing River in the west of Guanzhong to the mouth of the Luoshui River in the east, it stretches for nearly 800 miles from east to west. Although I don't know the conditions of the river passes, I think it is the same as the scene in front of me.
There were dark tents everywhere, oxcarts and people moving around, smoke from cooking stoves and waving flags everywhere, a battlefield of continuous military camps that had never been seen before.
Holding the king's book and being led by the Jingyang County Magistrate, they went straight to the location of the Hukou shogunate, which is now the core place of canal construction and where the entire canal construction project team gathers.
Hequ Commander Zheng Guo, Hequ Prime Minister Li Si was there, and other relevant Qin State hydraulic workers were also among them. The spiritual sense spread, covering an area of several thousand feet in radius, and densely packed people gathered together. It was really difficult to detect anyone who was strange.
easy.
"Master, the river canal ordered Zheng Guo to be within it!"
The magistrate of Jingyang County was in front, riding on his horse, and led Zhou Qing and his party into the valley. People on both sides of the valley entrance were coming and going, bullock carts were constantly running, feces and urine were rampant, and the smell was unpleasant. What's more, it seemed that there was no place to eat.
Not far away.
Even though Yan Lingji, who grew up freely in the land of Baiyue, with open folk customs and uncivilized areas, frowned, she still felt the same way with the young master by her side, otherwise, she would not be able to stay alone.
"Let's go in!"
The Jingshui shogunate is located in the Jingshui River Valley. It is evening, and the mountain valley where the shogunate is located is dark. The torches of the patrolling soldiers are dotted, reflecting the slightest light.
The loess field in front of the shogunate has been sprinkled with water, but it is still filled with dust and fog. There is a large semi-open cowhide tent in the field, surrounded by torches, and rows of workers participating in the meeting are standing in the middle in darkness.