After Zhuang Yong arrived in Hanchuan, he took the engineering officers and craftsmen from the construction institute to further improve the Qianchapu Enclosure Plan that Wang Xuan had previously envisioned.
To put it simply, in view of the characteristics of Qianchapu, which is low-lying and surrounded by water, and floods in the flood season are much more severe than those in the northern part of Hanchuan River, dozens or even dozens of small embankments were built in batches.
Build large embankments and enclose small embankments in sections.
Settlement was built in Xiaoyuan, and grain fields were cultivated in the beach and silt between Xiaoyuan and Dayuan.
The ultimate goal is to build levees between the north bank of Jingjiang River and the east bank of Hanshui River, as well as along the Tianmen River, Jianshui, Suolong Lake, Dongxicha Lake and other streams and lakes, as well as the intermittently built dykes in the northern part of Hanchuan River and the eastern part of Hanyang.
Connect together.
In traditional small villages, the internal land is filled as high as possible, with ditches, rivers and alleys surrounding the village. There is no need to consider the problem of drainage within the farm. However, the large farm planned to be built by Qianchapu this time will easily occupy an area of 10 square meters.
With a radius of several miles, we not only need to consider flood control, but also need to consider timely drainage of internal flooding and waterlogging.
This requires ditches and river lanes to pass through the compound, and sluices need to be built on these ditches and river lanes to isolate the inside and outside.
In order to tap the arable land potential of Tongbai Mountain, mine ores, and build a strong Huaishang defense line, the many large-scale construction projects carried out by Chushan in recent years are much more complicated than the reclamation in Qianchapu Enclosure, and there are no technical obstacles at all.
, and more work officers and craftsmen can be transferred at any time——
In order to ensure the rapid progress of the encirclement, Shi Zhen even advocated directly recruiting a group of young people from Chushan to go south, and even the first batch of immigrants from Nancai County, and directly moving a group of people from Tongbai Mountain instead of directly recruiting refugees.
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In the early stage, in addition to encircling the city and building a city, we also had to be on guard against possible attacks by Dongting Lake bandits from the Han River and Jingjiang River at any time. Simply recruiting refugees was not enough, not to mention that when recruiting refugees, we had to organize villages based on their place of origin and screen out spies who were mixed in.
, it requires a process to be resettled first.
But Xu Huai didn't want to waste even a moment.
The next most important issue is money and food.
If the imperial court could squeeze out more money and food, it would not have opened this hole and allowed Chushan to dig out a piece of land from northern Hubei to establish a Qiao County to recruit refugees. However, Chushan is already extremely stretched to maintain the current war preparations.
Squeezing out more than 100,000 to 200,000 yuan of money and food is already the limit, and next year will be even more stressful.
However, before the end of the year, Chushan planned to build the first large embankment south of Xiaoheling, build Xincai City on this basis, build government offices, barracks, ferry terminals, warehouses and other buildings, and complete 350,000 to 50,000 acres.
Large-scale grain field reclamation, no matter how careful the budget is, to squeeze out all unnecessary water, there is no hope of completing it with an investment of less than 500,000 yuan in grain.
If the silt land in Qianchapu was to be easily reclaimed, it would not be Chushan's turn to intervene.
During the Tianxuan period, the land price in Hanchuan, Hanyang and other places was only about three to five guan per mu. After the fall of Bianliang, millions of people moved south, and the land price in Hanchuan, Hanyang and other places soared to ten or two guan.
Shi Guan. Even if large-scale reclamation of shallow silt land is highly uncertain, if it is not difficult enough and if the initial investment is not huge, there will definitely be no shortage of pioneers.
During the more than 150 years since the founding of the Dai Viet Dynasty, in addition to the construction of forts to the north of Xiaohe Ling, people also continued to enter the south of Xiaohe Ling to carry out small-scale reclamation, but they were all frustrated.
It's just that no one has made such a large-scale attempt. After all, too much money and food need to be invested.
With the current high land prices in Jianghan, Chushan’s initial investment would not be able to produce a “surplus”, but Shi Zhen strongly encouraged Xu Huai to advance this matter. What was more important in the early stage was to value this “foothold” at the turn of Jianghan.
", it is too important for Chushan to expand its influence in Jinghu.
As for Xu Huai's promise that after the court could fully bear the money and food for Chushan, he could transfer Nancai County to Jinghu North Road and Ezhou Prefecture at any time, Shi Zhen just laughed and ignored it.
The troops maintained by both the enemy and us along the Qinling Mountains-Huaihe River line will only increase in size unless we win a key battle victory against the Chihu people, or the Chihu people are expelled from the Central Plains, or the Chihu people give up their ambition to cross the Huaihe River and move south.
, and rule across the Huaihe River with Dai Viet, otherwise, the war will be like a bottomless pit swallowing up the central financial resources of Dai Viet, without any relief.
The biggest problem now is how Chushan can raise the money and food to cultivate Qianchapu.
"... In the early years, people moved to Hanchuan County to cultivate and build forts. Most of them were headed by the clan leader, or a large number of clans took the lead to raise money and grain. The fields for the encirclement were also distributed based on the money and grain contributed by each family, and one after another the encirclements were built one after another.
," Shi Zhen stayed in Hanchuan for more than twenty days, weighed everything, and said, "Chushan may ask Lifengtang to come forward and set up a hall in Nancai, and use the fine iron produced by Chushan to
Bulk goods such as fried tea and the cultivated land in Nancai were used as mortgages and repayments to raise money and food from merchants in Jinghu. Didn’t the imperial court ask Jingbei Road Secretary and Ezhou Prefecture to supervise the resettlement of overseas Chinese? Chushan should not be able to
Let them supervise in vain, they should do their best..."
Although the Dai Viet Dynasty inherited the previous dynasty's policy of focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce, it completely broke the strict market system of the previous dynasty, abolished the time and space restrictions on market trade, and greatly promoted the prosperity of commerce.
However, the establishment of the Dai Viet Dynasty did not suppress mergers and arable land was concentrated in the hands of large and small landowners on a large scale. Small and medium-sized landowners controlled the vast majority of surplus agricultural products, prompting them to participate more actively in commercial activities.
The prosperity of business also promotes the development of the lending industry.
Since the founding of the Dai Viet Dynasty, in addition to the temples in various places that have opened longevity treasury and endless Tibetan temples to lend money, landlords and merchants have also opened pledge treasury and pawn shops. The government has also set up resistance houses to lend money to the people.
As the scale of commercial lending expanded, competition in the industry intensified. For example, when Emperor Jianji ascended the throne in Xiangyang, there were more than a hundred large and small warehouses in the city - the interest rates in Jinghu and other places were often "doubled" in the past.
It dropped to less than 20% of that during the Tianxuan period.
Compared with the astonishing loan sharking of private money, Dai Viet's pledge bank has been developed on a large scale in more than a hundred years. Its typical feature is that it requires pledges, such as houses, farmland, farm tools, cattle, sheep and livestock, clothing, jewelry, etc.
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To encircle and cultivate fields, Chushan can first recruit a group of young men from Rucai to go south, do the preliminary work first, and put the matter of recruiting refugees a little later. In terms of raising money and food, Shi Zhen will focus on Ezhou and other places to recruit merchants.
On the head of the quality warehouse of the office.
However, even though the government has long established a treasury to lend to the private sector, there is no precedent for the government to borrow money from private treasury in turn.
Shi Zhen then thought that Lifengtang, which had established a reputation in Jinghu in the past two years and had the support of Chushan, would come forward to raise money and food.
Lifengtang could not provide pledges at this time, so it could only use the bulk goods such as refined iron, roasted tea, tung oil, etc. that would be delivered in the future as well as the fields that Nancai would cultivate as credit mortgages; even considering that some jobs were not easy to do,
We also need the Jinghu North Road Supervision Department and the Ezhou Prefecture to come forward to help.
Lifengtang has always used Xiangyang as a transit base for Chushan bulk goods sales in Jinghu, but now that it is located in Nancai County, no matter from any angle, Lifengtang is bound to open in Nancai besides Chushan.
The largest and most central hall.
In addition to raising money for large-scale reclamation in the newly established Nancai Qiao County, it was impossible to transport all the food and other materials needed from Chushan. They had to be purchased from surrounding prefectures and counties as much as possible.
Of course, these matters are also left to Lifengtang.
In comparison, expelling the rebel army that was entrenched within Qianchaopu was not that important.
On the one hand, the bandits' attack on Hanchuan was thwarted. The Hanchuan, Huangpi and other places east of the Han River, north of the Jingjiang River, and Jiangxia, the capital city of Ezhou on the south bank of the Jingjiang River, all won extremely rare buffer opportunities and promptly mobilized rural soldiers and strongholds to strengthen their defenses.
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Although there were about 100,000 fishermen, boat households and stranded hungry people in Qianchapu who were bewitched by the Dongting Lake bandits and became restless, and looted large and small villages in Hanchuan River, Huangpi and other places, they were unable to capture a single city.
On the other hand, the soldiers and horses of Northern Jing that retreated from Huainan did not all cross the river from Songyang and other places to Jiangxia. They mainly followed the southern foot of Huaiyang Mountain, passed Songyang, Qichun, and stationed in Huanggang in the west of Huangzhou.
, Macheng, Huangpi and other places, and defeated the bandit armies roaming in these areas.
Also, Qianchapu has a very wide water area during the flood season, but after the flood season, the water mouths of the Jingjiang River through the Han River are mainly concentrated in the Suolong Lake West Branch in the south of Xiaoheling and the estuary where the Jingshui River flows into the Jingjiang River.
The navy on Jinghu North Road is not strong, and the navy that Chushan can mobilize is only five or six hundred men, which is far from enough to compete with the Dongting Lake bandits with thousands of fishing boats on the Jingjiang River.
In particular, it is said that the Donghu Ting bandits were still building large ships at their base near the mouth of the Xiajun River. However, after the flood season, with the cooperation of infantry, they blocked the mouth of Qianchapu, where the Jingjiang River and the Han River meet, but nothing happened.
questionable.
That is to say, when the Qianchapu water situation further subsides and the rebel army has not withdrawn from Qianchapu, Chushan will join forces with Jingbei soldiers and horses to block the water mouth and clear out the rebel army in Qianchapu - as for the west of the Han River, which is more powerful
It is the responsibility of Jinghu North Road and Jinghu South Road to fight against all the thief armies. Chushan has no way to bear more...
