There should be no point in traveling further north.
Whether it was the Song Dynasty or the Western Xia Dynasty, the cause of the damage to the soil and water of the entire northern Shaanxi Plateau can be attributed to conquests, rather than entirely to the desire of the farming people for land... After all, the ravines and ravines are not counted in the population density.
A country that is too big is not very attractive to people.
Fortunately, the present is different from the past, and it is also different from the original history. It may take a long time to recover from the damage caused by decades, but Zhao Xi is not worried.
This is no longer a battlefield, nor is it a frontier. With the promotion of charcoal, people's demand for felling trees is not strong. As long as the court provides a little guidance, I believe that the water and soil here can be improved to the greatest extent.
Zhao Xi recalled the policy of returning farmland to forest in his memory, and also recalled that when he was a boy in later generations, he would always follow his parents to plant trees during the off-season, and there would be top-down tree planting activities every year...perhaps in this way
The current financial resources of the country should also be able to use a form of subsidies to guide people to plant trees.
The entire survey team was wandering around Hedong and Linfu. The local and state governments were trembling with fear. The survey team almost traveled to the entire border between Shanxi and Shaanxi... Of course, this was Zhao Xi's understanding.
The situation is not serious. At least the soil quality is not as bad as that of later generations. The scattered elms and willows can still take shelter, which means that the soil quality has not deteriorated to the point where planting is impossible.
Zhao Xi really wanted to follow the Yellow River all the way upstream and take a look, just like Su Song and his colleagues did when they first surveyed. From the time when the Yellow River was clear to when it turned yellow, they could take a look at the entire place flowing through the Loess Plateau. Unfortunately, the information from the imperial court
The report forced him to stop this trip and return to the DPRK.
Because the fourth prince came back, and he came back in a very embarrassed state.
A thousand guns and a team of more than 3,000 people came back in despair.
The report did not go into details about the specific situation. It only said that there were disputes with different forces in Ryukyu and the disadvantage was obvious, so he had to return to the country in order to fight again...
"People are always pretentious. Unless they encounter some setbacks, they will never know how capable they are."
Although Zhao Xi is not yet clear about the specific details, it is difficult for Zhao Xi to understand that a team of three thousand warriors and a thousand guns were defeated on a small offshore island.
In later generations, for some special reasons, Zhao Xi paid attention to Ryukyu. The reason why the fourth prince was allowed to establish a foothold in Ryukyu was because Zhao Xi knew that Ryukyu at this time was still a land of no one, or in other words, there was no political power.
Ryukyu was discovered by Zhu Kuan, a Yuqi Lieutenant in the Sui Dynasty, who went to sea to search for foreign customs overseas.
It is said that when Zhu Kuan and others traveled from Amami Oshima in the north to Yonaguni Island in the south, they saw a pearl-like island floating in the sea, "like a dragon floating on the water", so they named it Ryuki. Former Dynasty
When the Sui Dynasty compiled the Book of Sui, the place was renamed Liuqiu to avoid the imperial dragon taboo because "Qiu" means little dragon. It was not until the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty that the place was renamed: Liuqiu, which means glazed jade.
and Pearl Ball. Also during the Hongwu period, Ryukyu became a vassal state.
Unexpectedly, in such a deserted land, three thousand warriors were actually beaten back.
"Except for the personnel recruited by the official family and the Fourth Prince, who are retired soldiers of the New Army from the Thousand Musketeers, the others are all idle men or good sailors, and may not be good at fighting."
"If Liuqiu has other forces, or is united by various forces, it is not difficult to understand that such a situation will occur."
The officials may not know the composition of the Fourth Prince's team, but Su Song still knows. Even members of his family have arranged for people.
Generally speaking, the accompanying team of the fourth prince is more for exploring the situation. Even the boatmen and sailors are probably not elites.
The only thing that makes sense is that the Thousand Musketeers are retired soldiers of the New Army, and this was secretly authorized by the officials. Otherwise, it is hard to say whether they can be returned.
There are some things that Su Song can say, and there are some things that he can't. When he was still in the old guard camp, Su Song could sense the official's ambition for the territory. Su Song did not dare to comment casually on the fourth prince's eastward trip to Tuohai.
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However, there was one thing. Su Song could not go against the official's intention and directly refute Dongchu Takumi's actions.
It has been two or three months since I came out, and the general problem has become clear. From the journey during this period, it can also be proved that the sand table made by Shen Kuo is correct, and corresponding countermeasures can be discussed based on the sand table.
During this trip, I also gained a full understanding of the environment and soil quality along the Yellow River.
In the past, I left, and the willows clung to me; now I come to think about it, and it is raining and snowing... Although Zhao Xi's trip is not considered an expedition, the time does correspond to the description in "Plucking Wei".
When we left Bianliang, it was late summer and early autumn. Two or three months had passed. When the team returned to the court, there were scattered light snows in the Linfu area.
It's not that I'm returning home as fast as I can, but that I no longer have any free time when I return, I just rush on my way.
The postal service was like a relay. The official's itinerary was reported to the court from time to time, and the local state government kept the official's return route very clean, making it possible to return to the court without any obstacles.
When he returned to the court, Zhao Xi didn't make any trouble and simply took the rail carriage. Before he arrived at Hezhong Mansion, the rail carriage regulated by the king was already in place.
The next trip was even faster. After two or three months of travel and less than half a month of return, I had already seen the city wall of Bianliang.
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In the Qinzheng Hall, the fourth prince knelt and did not dare to raise his head. He lost nearly five hundred people and fled back in a panic. This was an unprecedented defeat for the country since the Zhenghe Years.
Three months later, the contrast between the high spirits when heading out to Tuohai and the embarrassment now is really sharp.
In addition to the fourth prince, there is another person kneeling in the Qinzheng Hall. He is a former soldier of the old guard camp and the military commander appointed by Zhao Xi to go east to Tuohai.
The prince accompanied him, and all the cabinet ministers accompanied him.
"Wen Liangchen, tell me, what's going on? After all, you are from the old guard camp. You know some of the rules even if I don't tell you..."
Zhao Xi ignored his son and first asked this general who was from the old guard camp. He was originally appointed because he was from Fujian and had experience in going to sea.
"Wei Chen······Wei Chen·····"
Wen Liangchen didn't know what to say.
There is no tradition of blame-shifting in the Old Guard Camp, but it would be a bit unfair if he shouldered the entire responsibility.
He didn't know if there were people from the imperial court or from the Imperial City Department in this team, but he knew that the entire process of going to sea was not reported, and he was not sure whether he should tell the truth.
When it comes to responsibility, there is not much responsibility purely attributed to individuals.
"Tell the truth! Is it possible that you have forgotten the teachings of the old guard camp?"
"Reporting to the official, the reasons for this defeat at sea, I think, first, the team is uneven; second, the intelligence is not timely and blindly rush forward; third, the lack of experience in naval battles; fourth, the estimated shortcomings of firearms in naval battles
If it is not in place, the power of the firearm cannot be exerted..."