Haochi is a very ancient artificial reservoir that probably existed in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
As the name suggests, this place is close to Haojing, the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was excavated in the Zhou Dynasty about a few hundred years ago and was originally used as an irrigation reservoir for farms near Haojing.
By the Qin Dynasty, Haochi was part of the Afang Palace and was included in the royal garden.
Liu Che climbed up to the Guanchi Pavilion built next to the Hao Pond and looked at the entire Hao Po Pond.
To be honest, the pickaxe pond is not big, only about four or five miles in circumference.
"Your Majesty, it is said that there is a Dragon King in the Pickaxe Pond. During the Qin Dynasty, an envoy came from the north of Huayin. When passing by this place, someone stopped the carriage and handed over a jade jade, leaving behind the words 'The ancestor dragon will die next year'. It is true."
, the First Emperor passed away in the second year..." Wang Dao, who was beside Liu Che, obviously took on the responsibility of the tour guide, and introduced with a low smile: "It is said that the piece of jade was later confirmed to be from the First Emperor when he visited the Hao Po Pond.
A small piece of jade that fell into the water..."
Liu Che smiled and shook his head, remaining silent.
Liu Che has never believed in these nonsense.
Even he himself is the mastermind behind many of the nagging things.
But the story of the pickaxe pond does have a lot of mystery.
In particular, as far as Liu Che knew, a month before this story took place, a meteorite fell from the sky and landed near Xianyang. On the stone were the six characters "The First Emperor died and the earth was divided."
In addition, there were nursery rhymes sung by the people at that time: Afang, Afang, the first emperor died.
These things, taken together, laid the foundation for the downfall of the Qin Dynasty.
Da Zexiang's roar was so powerful.
Liu Che has never been afraid to speculate on certain things with the greatest malice.
Therefore, in his opinion, these things were probably tricks played by some nobles from the six countries who were dissatisfied with the rule of the Qin Dynasty.
It’s just a pity for the innocent people!
Especially the people near that meteorite!
Back then, after the meteorite incident, Qin Shihuang immediately ordered people to kill people and burn rocks.
All the people within a thirty-mile radius of the meteorite impact point were executed...
For guys like this who put the lives of the people at risk for their own selfish interests, Liu Che can only say that they died so well!
The wars at the end of the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Qin Empire and completely buried all the old political forces and powerful landlords.
The big shots who were so high in the past have now fallen into an embarrassing state where they can't even pass on their own family trees.
However, Liu Che's choice of hunting near the Haochi Pond this time was not just for sightseeing and remembering stories.
The biggest goal of Liu Che's trip is to inspect the landforms and environment of dozens of miles around Haochi to prepare for Kunming Lake, the largest water conservancy project in Guanzhong in the next three years.
Historically, in the fourth year of Yuanshou, Xiaozhu dug Kunming Pool in Shanglin Garden in order to conquer Mitsukoshi and build an invincible fleet.
According to historical records, Kunming Pool has a circumference of forty miles and is surrounded by a large number of ships. The flags cover the sky and the sun.
The Kunming Pond dug by Xiaozhu is probably located in the low-lying land south of the Hao Po Pond.
On the way, Liu Che had already taken a rough look at the environment and found that it was indeed a suitable digging site for a large reservoir.
Historically, after Xiaozhu excavated Kunming Pool, in addition to being used to train naval forces and serve as a training base for the river fleet, its most important role was to serve his own private enjoyment.
But in Liu Che's opinion, this is simply a waste!
Liu Che raised his eyes and looked around.
Near Haochi, Fengshui and Laoshui come from the west, and Haoshui and Laoshui meet in the south.
It must be noted here that among the eight water systems in Shanglin Garden, the Bashui River and Chanshui River are within Shanglin Garden from beginning to end, including their sources and tributaries, while the Jing River and Wei River flow in from outside the garden, and
It flows out from the garden, and the remaining Feng Shui, Lao Shui, Hao Shui and Zhi Shui, although their origin is not in the garden, they flow into Shanglin Garden and never flow out again, just like a group of obsessed girls.
, wrapping his body tightly around Shanglinyuan.
Historically, Sima Xiangru once vividly described it in his immortal famous poem "Ode to Shanglin": He started out in Ba Chan and went in and out of Jingwei. The wind was flooded, and the remaining snakes were running around inside. He was wandering around eight rivers,
The branches are different and different. They flow from east to west, north and south, and rush back and forth.
More importantly, the eight water systems in Shanglinyuan seem to have been agreed upon.
Bachan is in the east, Jingwei is in the north, Fenglao is in the west, and Haochun is in the south.
This Hao Pond and the later Kunming Pond happened to be at the intersection of the four major water systems in the southwest.
This means that as long as a large reservoir is dug here, even if it is an artificial reservoir smaller than Xiaozhu's Kunming Pool.
The four rivers of Fengshui, Laoshui, Haoshui, and Shuishui can be used by human beings. We only need to use this as a basis to dig wide channels, and seven or eight nearby counties such as Huayin, Xianyang, Xinfeng, and Huaili can be used.
will benefit.
In other words, one Kunming Pond is roughly equivalent to the function of two Longshou Canals.
Such a reservoir, Xiaozhu, the prodigal son, actually used it as his own private water park and naval training base...
Naturally, Liu Che would not follow Xiaozhu's bad example.
"The scale of Kunming Pool should be even bigger!" Liu Che looked at the nearby valleys and low-lying land, and naturally began to make up his mind.
Xiaozhu's original idea of digging Kunming Pool was just to train the combat personnel of the Louchuan Navy.
Northerners are not good at boating and all suffer from severe seasickness.
Dig a huge reservoir and use the calm water surface of the reservoir to train, hone, and hone the fleet's command operations.
This idea is indeed genius.
But precisely because at the beginning, Xiaozhu only wanted a base for navy training and fleet training, so the size of Kunming Pool was limited.
With a circumference of forty miles, it seems to be the largest man-made reservoir that could be dug by humans before the Christian era.
However, after Liu Che looked at the nearby terrain, he felt that the layout was still a bit small!
Either don't dig it, or just include the pickaxe pond.
Expand the size of the entire reservoir to a circumference of fifty or sixty miles.
Then build dams on the four rivers upstream to control the water volume.
In this way, for most of Shanglinyuan and several surrounding counties, in the future, as long as the Feng, Lao, Hao, and Si rivers continue to flow, there will no longer be any need to fear droughts or floods.
I think back then, before the Chinese Empire established the Three Gorges, there would be major floods in the Yangtze River from time to time.
After the establishment of the Three Gorges, the Yangtze River was tamed.
Although, now, it is impossible and does not have the conditions for the Han Dynasty to build a great project like the Three Gorges, which is a combination of human beings and technology.
Even the Yellow River is helpless.
However, with the help of geographical advantages and manpower, it should be no problem to change the tributaries of the Wei River such as Feng Lao.
Man can conquer heaven!
From the day we were born, humans have been a species that exists to change nature.
only……
Liu Che also sighed in his heart, one Kunming Pool is far from enough.
What Kunming Pond can change is only seven or eight counties within its radius, and only half of the nature of Shanglin Garden.
Compared with the whole world, the whole world, it is undoubtedly a drop in the ocean, an insignificant dust.
However, according to the preliminary calculations of the Shaofu, the Kunming Pool project will require at least 20,000 to 30,000 civilians and three years of work to complete, and it will cost at least tens of millions of dollars. This assumes that these civilian laborers are all free laborers.
If you spend money to hire workers and adopt an operation method like Longshou Canal, the money will be wasted.
Thinking about this, Liu Che couldn't help but ask: "When will King Zhenfan and King Mahan arrive?"
As the loyal lackeys of the Han Dynasty in the vast "Huangfu" area in the northeast, small Eastern countries such as Zhenfan and Mahan are considered to be the main suppliers of cheap labor to the Han Dynasty.
So far this year, the Eastern tribes, including the Yi people, have provided about 3,000 slaves to the Han Dynasty as tribute.
Well, you read that right, it’s a tribute, almost a free tribute.
China's traditional tribute system has always been a vassal state, with princes contributing local specialties and domestic taxes to the emperor.
The money-losing tribute system like that of the Song and Ming Dynasties was actually a deformed product after the Tang Dynasty.
Whether it's Zhenfan, Mahan or Yiren, except for ginseng, gold and fur, they really don't have any special products that the Han Dynasty needs in their country.
And recently, ginseng, mink, tiger and bear skins, which are specialties from the East, are very popular in Guanzhong.
All tribes in various countries are making a lot of money, so naturally they are not willing to give these things to the royal family for free.
Liu Che then proposed in a "considerate" way that slaves, especially female slaves, could be used as tribute, and he also offered a piece of silk in exchange for an adult male or two children, half a woman, such a favorable condition.
Now, everyone is satisfied.
For small tribal countries like Zhenfan and Mahan.
Their most important problems at present are, first, how to embrace the golden thigh of their father in the Han Dynasty, so that their status in the country will last forever, and their descendants will always be domineering. Second, how to make their lives similar to those in Chang'an City.
The aristocrats of the Han Dynasty here were as extravagant.
As for the rest, I really don’t want to think too much about it.
Anyway, slaves are really endless in the consciousness of these small country kings.
If it's not enough, just send people to the east to catch them.
The Woju people in the East and those savages who don't even have writing or systems can always catch a lot of them as long as they find the right opportunity.
Moreover, now, the father of the Han Dynasty has agreed to send Wang Shi to assist various countries in wiping out the savages hiding in the mountains and forests.
For the tribal kingdoms in the East that have been between slavery and primitive system for a long time, the royal masters of the Han Dynasty were as pure as angels!
Many nobles were keen to marry their daughters or nieces to officers or even soldiers of the Han Dynasty.
Yi Zong and Xu Han led a team to conquer North Korea last time.
Liu Che didn't know much about Xu Han's army, but Yi Zong's Yulin Guards had 1,500 men when they set out. When they returned, they had more than 1,400 men and twice as many concubines.
Among them, although there is no lack of spoils that the victor will definitely get, such as the female dependents of the nobles of the Wei family regime and the maids and concubines in Wangxian City's palace, etc.
But there are also many admiring young girls who admire the "mighty men" of the Han army.
After all, compared to those in North Korea, men are generally short, rude, and have no manners.
The soldiers of the Yulin Guards, even if they are just soldiers, are the backbone of the Han Dynasty. They are good sons from landlord families. They are well educated and rich in nutrition. Each of them is more than seven feet tall, with a strong physique and distinctive armor.
, his power is extraordinary, and his conversation, knowledge, and future are all much better than those of the North Korean bumpkins.
Plus the aura of conqueror and the title of winner.
The daughters of the little nobles in Korea, the wives and concubines of the clan leaders, when they saw such a hero and a man, their eyes were filled with stars, and they couldn't help but fall in love.
The magic of love transcends race and national boundaries.
Liu Che proposed the plan to introduce slaves from Shinban and other countries because he had the idea after seeing the harem of Habayashi guardsmen.
After all, compared to tribes such as the Xiongnu and the Western Regions in the north, the Dongyi in the east are actually closer to the Chinese race in terms of race, and there is almost no difference.
Bringing some Dongyi slaves back to China will not only provide cheap labor, but also avoid serious troubles in the future.
The first batch of three thousand slaves have now been arranged by the young master in various imperial mansions.
Women were assigned to the craftsmen who worked hard for the Shaofu as wives and concubines, while men worked hard in manors and workshops, contributing to the growth of the Han Dynasty's GDP.
After tasting the sweetness, Liu Che naturally wanted to make this business bigger and stronger.
There are 250,000 people in the Hao people, probably 200,000 in the Zhenfan, and more in the Mahan, around 400,000. The other tribes and small countries combined have a population of about 200,000 to 300,000, which is one million.
Level.
Liu Che felt that it would be feasible to obtain about 10,000 male and female slaves from these tribal kingdoms every year.
In addition, the upcoming Northeast Savage Encirclement and Suppression Plan will probably be able to provide around a few thousand or ten thousand prisoners of war.
These can all be invested in the excavation project of Kunming Pool.
It saves the Han Dynasty the work of recruiting civilian husbands and greatly reduces the people's burden.
Of course, these slaves cannot die casually, and related protection work must be strengthened.
In the future, after digging the Kunming Pond, Liu Che felt that he might as well give them freedom and let them go to the Northeast to cultivate.
Does the so-called national integration mean sleeping with his women, brainwashing their children, and making their men work for their lives?
"Your Majesty, there was a message from Dahonglu that Lord Canghai, Zhenfan, Ma Han and other country leaders have all set off from the bus station. They are probably arriving soon, right?" Wang Dao reported: "In addition, King Jiangdu
Wang Jia has also set off, and by the way, the two young masters of Jianlinghou's family are already waiting outside the door, will your Majesty summon them?"
Liu Che smiled slightly when he heard this.
Two gentlemen?
He naturally understood what this meant.
But, Liu Che is not in a hurry now about women.
He thought for a moment, and then ordered: "Let them go and greet Xia Ji first. I will arrive soon. By the way, if the two uncles arrive, they will also be taken to Xia Ji's place..."
Liu Che is also very interested in people from the Shi family.
But whether this family can be used specifically, Liu Che thinks, he still has to meet the patriarch and members of the family before deciding. (To be continued...)
