At that time, Jinghu Lake was far from developing into the land of fish and rice that would be famous in later generations.
Because the Dongting Lake, Jingjiang River, and Han River often flood during the flood season, the embankments and embankments near the water that people in various places have spontaneously organized and built are often destroyed due to lack of money, food, manpower, lack of unity, and careful planning.
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People across Jinghu suffered from floods, and the development of grain, cotton, mulberry and hemp cultivation, industry and commerce was far behind that of Jianghuai.
Relatively speaking, the four counties in Jingbei to the west of the Han River are more severely threatened by floods than the counties on the east coast, such as Hanchuan and Tianmen. In the second year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Dongjing Lake bandits gradually became a serious problem and once destroyed the Jingjiang River.
Both sides of the Taiwan Strait have caused serious population loss in the four counties in northern Jingbei.
When Xu Huai established the Nancai Recruitment Division, the combined population of Jiangling County, where Jingzhou was located, and Jianli, Shanyang, and Jingmen counties was only 230,000 to 40,000.
The four counties in northern Jingbei are suffering from floods and serious population loss, but this also means that the potential of developable farmland is huge, and there is greater potential to accommodate hungry people.
After the Dongjing Allied Forces accepted the recruitment, Xu Huai established Zhangshan and Fantai counties in addition to the four counties of Jiangling, Shanyang, Jiangling, and Jianli.
(Capital Inspection Envoy) both belong to Jingzhou, and a total of more than 600,000 hungry people were resettled here.
However, the actual resettlement of more than 600,000 famine-recruited people and their use by Beijing and Xiangzhou cannot be solved by a few simple administrative orders.
Before the formal establishment of Jingxiang, Chushan first won the victory of Panlong Village in northern Hubei, established Nancai County in Qianchapu, and started the construction of embankments and villages on a large scale; after the death of Emperor Jianji, Nancai County was established in Fantai.
Cai Zhaochao Division, before completely annihilating the Dongjing Allied Forces, Xu Huai started digging the Zhangshan-Fantai Canal in northern Jingbei and building the Jingbei Changweir on the three lakes (Wazi Lake, Bailu Lake, and Sangchi Lake).
At the same time, he secretly funded Dongzhou Village to build a large embankment in the Linjiang area south of Bailu Lake.
After the complete Jingping bandit rebellion, eleven large embankments have been built in the Linjiang Shuize area between the three lakes (Wazi Lake, Bailu Lake, and Sangchi Lake) and Jingjiang River;
Jingbei Changyan stretches for more than a hundred miles. Based on the Zhangfan River-Yangshui Canal, a new Jingxi canal system has been formed, and a total of first and second level irrigation canals have been dug for more than a thousand miles.
On this basis, and supplemented by thousands of new villages and fortresses - during the most severe period of the confrontation and war, the construction of weirs and embankments in northern Jinghai only slowed down relatively, and did not stop completely. Only then did the six
One hundred thousand recruited and hungry people have been initially resettled. Including Nancai in Qiao County, a total of more than 3.5 million acres of privately occupied and newly reclaimed cultivated land have been cleared.
So many hungry people and cultivated land were brought under the management of hundreds of township departments (inspection departments).
The production department provided money and food to the township bureaus, who organized large-scale garrison and barracks construction, road construction, construction of water conservancy projects, and reclamation of grain fields. The recruited hungry people were included in the garrison and army order for management, and they were given food rations and houses to live in.
Soldiers who have made great military achievements, such as houses, farm tools, and oxen, will allocate their fields directly to their households. Other soldiers and their dependents who work on the farm must pay corresponding rents to the township secretary in addition to the normal taxes.
For now, whether it is regular taxes or additional rent, it is retained in Jingzhou and mainly used for subsequent local construction; after all, the living environment of the hungry people is still too bad and needs to be improved step by step.
Of course, apart from recruiting young and strong soldiers who are loyal to Beijing and Xiangzhou, the production department's recruitment of 600,000 hungry people is not without other benefits.
At present, the industrial and manufacturing institutions under the jurisdiction of the prefectures in Beijing and Xiangzhou and the Manufacturing Department not only conduct independent accounting, but also implement separate accounting for taxes and profits. Therefore, Beijing and Xiangzhou not only export iron tea and porcelain to the outside world, but also generate a large amount of direct income, and sell salt internally.
Iron tea cloth porcelain will also generate direct tax and profit income.
It seems that the 600,000 hungry residents have no way to directly contribute taxes to the production department for the time being, but the annual indirect tax profits still reach a huge amount of one million yuan - merged into the entire seven counties of Jingzhou (including Nancai, Qiao County), roughly
Contributed nearly 2 million yuan in taxes.
Since the main abundant material that Jingzhou can export to the outside world is grain, Jingzhou is equivalent to responsible for the grain supply of nearly 1.5 million shi per year.
The Jingjiang embankment planned to be constructed this autumn and winter is mainly based on the large embankments that have been built in the riverside area between Sanhu and Jingjiang. It will further improve the construction of embankments, levees, diversion weirs and other water conservancy projects, forming a river along the north bank of the Jingjiang River.
Complete flood drainage, flood control, irrigation and shipping systems.
The benefit of this is not only to further strengthen the ability of the area on the north bank of the Jingjiang River to withstand the floods of the Jingjiang River during the flood season, so that the hungry people resettled here can truly live and work in peace and contentment, but it will also further develop the farming potential of the four counties in northern Jingjiang.
This is not only to further expand the scale of the farmland of four to five million acres, but more importantly, to increase the yield per mu of Jingbei's fertile soil to the level of the Yangtze River and Huaihe paddy fields, which requires continuous hard work in the construction of water conservancy facilities.
The Jingbei area has more farming potential than the Nanyang Basin. Theoretically, the grain and cotton output per acre should be more than half higher. However, Beiyun Mengze has gradually become a land over thousands of years, and the world has not developed enough of this land.
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As long as Jinghu Lake is more fully developed, the proverb "If Suhu Lake is ripe, the world is full" should be changed to "If Jinghu Lake is ripe, the world is full".
The Jingjiang levee was originally financed and constructed by the Jingzhou Military and Horse Supervisory Department together with Cao Cao. Xu Huai personally went to Jingzhou to supervise the construction, and directly established a special government office, Jingjiang Du Water Supervisor, with Jiang Xie as the promotion officer.
Do your job.
On the one hand, it made Xu Wujiang and others focus more on the training of the state army.
If something unexpected happens in the Jianghuai River this winter, the enemy forces in the west of Beijing and Heluo will never give up their entanglement on the Rucai front line. At the same time, it is very likely that their cavalry and garrison elite will take advantage of the short freezing period of the Ruying River to infiltrate southward.
, the main force of the Tianxiong Army has no way to escape.
When the time comes, those who can immediately follow Xu Huai and select the elite vanguard troops to dispatch in a short period of time are actually the Jingzhou Prefecture Army as the garrison.
On the other hand, the establishment of the Jingjiang Water Supervisory Authority actually meant taking advantage of the construction of the Jingjiang River Embankment to gather some combat supplies, including troop transport ships, to Jingzhou in advance. This process, of course, excluded Jingzhou officials appointed by the imperial court.
Xiao Yanhan originally planned to bring her son to Beijing and Xiangzhou, reunite with Xu Huai for a few days and then return to Dajianlu, but she did not expect that Jianghuai contained such a crisis.
Once changes occur in Jianghuai, Xu Huai may once again lead the elite vanguard force to charge into battle.
Xiao Yanhan changed her mind and decided to let Zhufengtang's caravan escort Xiao Bai back to Dajianlu. She stayed, thinking of fighting side by side with Xu Huai again.
The construction of Sihu City in Lizhou has been going on for one year and has been initially completed. At the same time, in addition to opening a ten-mile cantilevered plank road to the east of Sihu City to facilitate fiber drawing, the mountain road from Jiuli Town to the north over Maitreya Ridge has also been initially completed.
Once it is opened, it can be used by mules and horses to transport supplies. At this point, the Qionglai Mountain Road has been initially opened.
Nearly six thousand troops, some of whom were organized as Sihu City guards, were led by Zhao Shan as the military officer of Sihu City to control Jiuli???????????????????
It is located at the water and land junction of Dadu River and Mile Ridge Mountain Road; Su Qiucheng will also stay with Zhu Zhi and Zhu Tong brothers as an aide. In addition to directly transporting a batch of scarce supplies from Beijing and Xiangzhou, he will also purchase goods in Jiazhou and other places.
Grains and cloth will be transported to Dajian Furnace via the Qionglai Mountain Road; most of the troops will go directly westward to join the remnants of the Khitan to supplement the deficiencies of Dajian Furnace in mining, smelting, farming, construction, and infantry warfare offensive and defensive areas.
After the Khitan moved south, they rested in Qinzhou for several years. However, as they moved southward through the Tubo Highlands, they suffered extremely serious injuries. There was already a shortage of young men, and a considerable number of young women were widowed or unable to get married. This group of trains headed westward
The soldiers are mainly unmarried young people with many brothers and sisters in the family. Xu Huai's original intention is to let them join, integrate into the remnants of the Khitan, and take root in Dajianlu. Currently, the plan is being implemented.
Tubo was vast and sparsely populated, and had been divided into two hundred years before. However, it was only at this time that the Tubo tribes in the Duogansi area reached an agreement and decided to jointly send troops to expel the remaining Khitan tribes from Dajianlu.
——Chihu Hexi Military and Horse Capital General Administration sent a cavalry force of three to four thousand people into the Semogang area half a year ago. However, they also faced the problem of adapting to the cold and harsh climate of the Tubo Highlands. At this time, they were stationed at Buqu Temple.
Nearby, there have been no attacks in front of Dajian Lu for the time being.
Of course, for the remnants of the Khitan, now that the Qionglai Mountain Road has been opened and Beijing and Xiangxi are still building Sihu City in Qionglai Mountain, they have made up their mind. If things go wrong, they can retreat to Qionglai Mountain to avoid powerful enemies, and there is no need to worry about the annihilation of the tribe.
Pure wool and cashmere are still too difficult to spin, but blending wool and cashmere with long-fiber cotton and linen can not only improve the difficulty of weaving, but also make it suitable for hydraulic equipment. On the other hand, the new fabric obtained by blending it has an extremely smooth texture.
Not to mention, it has a stronger ability to keep out the cold than traditional cotton, linen and silk.
At present, Zhufengtang's caravans only release some in small batches, and they are extremely popular and the prices are comparable to the brocade.
This will also completely solve the future survival problem of the remaining Khitan troops west of Qionglai Mountain...
