Chapter 1350: Covering the Household

If you want to develop, you need people. What Ningxia No. 3 Road lacks the most is people.

Fortunately, this problem can be solved mechanically.

The energy supply of Ningxia's Third Road is one of the best in the Song Dynasty today.

In addition to water power and wind power, there is also endless coal and large livestock.

Before taking all of Xixia, Suyou did not forget to build a road from Weizhou to Lingzhou, and also built a large pontoon bridge over the Yellow River for this purpose.

Before the Xingqing Mansion was captured, Su You had already begun to travel through the roads south of Shanshan, organizing a large number of machinery and seeds to be transported continuously to Lingzhou.

The climate in the north is cooler than in the south, and the Jiuyuan area and Xingqing Plain area are a good time to grow wheat.

A large area of ​​land is used intensively by Sitong, which is very beneficial to the investment in large machinery.

Now looking at the entire Song Dynasty, except for a few areas in Weizhou such as Longshou Village, only Xiangzhou has so much open land where such large machinery can be used.

Columbine, big columbine.

The current columbine is in its third generation and can be pulled by four oxen or horses. The columbine is equipped with soil-pressing rollers at the front and rear. In the middle of the rollers are twelve rows of plowshares. Behind the top of the plowshares are twelve seed hoppers.

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The farming method has also been improved. The seeds in the hopper are now mixed with fine dry manure, oil meal, silkworm excrement, and soil to form a compound fertilizer. This can be used to fertilize when sowing.

This machine can dig ditches, sow seeds, fertilize, cover soil, and suppress all at once. The efficiency has increased from five hectares a day in the second generation to ten hectares a day in the northwest.

Of course, livestock had to be replaced in the middle, but this was not a problem at all in Xixia.

The wheat seed used is Laishan No. 1, which is an excellent wheat seed that can increase the yield per mu by one-third.

In addition, there is a large amount of open space for growing rapeseed.

In the Gobi and oases, Su You also arranged to plant several cash crops - tamarisk grass, alfalfa, grapes, chicken grass, and sweet elephant grass.

Fortunately, I have Shen Kuo, Shi Yong, and Li Yong in my hands.

Shen Kuo was responsible for agricultural area planning and water conservancy planning, and repairing main canals; Li Yong started his ancestors' old business-drilling wells and installing wind-driven irrigation equipment.

Shi Yong, on the other hand, was captured by Su You to build factories and bridges.

During this great cause of the Western Expedition, Su You also made some discoveries, that is, the great influence of the large water system on the political power.

Throughout history, state control of territory has been closely related to water systems and the canals that connect them.

With the canal system connecting the Yangtze River, Qiantang River, and Pearl River water systems, the Chinese people gradually spread to Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

With the rapid development of navigation technology, it now controls the South China Sea.

To the north, the Grand Canal connecting the Huaihe River, Haihe River, and Yellow River greatly strengthened the Song Dynasty's control over Hebei.

But there is a problem with this, that is, most of these canals can only be opened on impact plains, and are not applicable to the Northwest.

Above the Hetao, the Yellow River has become a natural gap dividing nomadic peoples from farming peoples.

To solve this problem, we can only take a detour, either push it northward from the Qingtang area where the Yellow River originates, or push it westward from the impact plains of the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

Su You couldn't wait any longer, so he could only break this situation through a kind of transportation facility, that is - a bridge that could cross the Yellow River.

Before Suyou was reborn, he had read a lot of history. What many authors liked to do the most was blindly develop railways.

In fact, today's water transportation can already meet the needs of allocating materials in the existing territory of the Song Dynasty. There is only one railway that Su You really needs.

That is from Hebei to Xingqingfu. Only such a railway can change the national structure of the Song Dynasty.

But this railway will inevitably cross the areas ruled by the Liao Kingdom.

As for building it in other places, just like the simple railway out of Shu, that would be the icing on the cake at most.

The bigger problem for railways is not paving roads but building bridges.

In 1886, the Kaiping Mining Bureau of the Qing government built China's first railway bridge across the Luan River in order to solve the problem of freezing rivers in winter and hindering the development of coal mine transportation. It cost 250,000 taels of silver.

The earliest bridge across the Yellow River in China was the Zhongshan Iron Bridge built in Lanzhou in 1906. It could not pass trains. It was 234 meters long, 7.5 meters wide, with six piers and five holes, and a flying frame on the bridge.

The five curved steel arch beams cost 300,000 taels of silver.

Switching to the Song Dynasty, this would be three million steel. Considering the cost difference between today's steel and steel one thousand years later, it would be at least five times more.

Therefore, even a railway bridge across the Yellow River cannot be built by the Song Dynasty today.

Even if you can get it, it's still very uneconomical.

Therefore, only floating bridges are the best choice today.

But even pontoons are divided into grades. Now we can free up our hands. In addition, Ningxia produces iron locally, and Suyou is preparing to build iron ships.

The design of the Lanzhou pontoon bridge uses an iron-hulled barge for the bridge piers. The head of the pontoon has a sharp angle and has a certain ice-breaking ability.

Anyway, now that we have cannons, it’s just a little more troublesome to break the ice and maintain them.

The bridge deck is one meter away from the water surface, which can effectively reduce the impact of water flow on the bridge deck, and debris flowing down from the river can also pass through below.

The upstream two sides will use cement and large iron parts to cast traction embankments, and use the latest South China Sea abaca and Zhengzhou steel cable mixed cables to fix the iron-hulled pontoons together with anchor ingots.

Even though it was so simple, this plan shocked both the DPRK and China. Not to mention the various engineering problems that the DPRK and China bosses did not understand, the construction cost alone was as high as 500,000 yuan.

Many people disagreed, and then Su You wrote a memorial that made the big bosses blush.

Everyone, think about it carefully, is half a million coins a lot? Isn’t it just the two-year coins given to Xia Guo before?

I didn’t feel any pain from you before, so why are you feeling so bad now?

How about you give me the 800,000 guan you originally planned to reward me with?

In the secret message to Zhao Xu, Su You analyzed the significance of the bridge in detail. Your Majesty, do you want to open up the Silk Road and bring all nations to come to Korea like in the prosperous Tang Dynasty?

The reason why I let the state provide the money is because I am afraid that the great benefits will be advantageous to the merchants. I can earn back half a million guan in a few years.

When Zhao Xu heard that it really made sense, he waved his hand and told us that Mingrun's previous scandals were over and no one was allowed to mention them again!

I have approved the construction of the bridge, but the imperial court's restructuring also has its own difficulties, so this money... will be allocated by the inner government, and I will pay for it!

Zhao Xu is now the largest landowner in the Song Dynasty. He is not a big landowner in name like "everything in the world is nothing but king's land", but a big landowner who actually controls the land.

Because many of the meritorious soldiers were from the Tibetan tribes in the Hengshan and Hehuang areas. They had ranches in their hometowns and went out to fight with the army in order to make money.

Therefore, the land rewarded to these soldiers was converted into treasure notes and cattle, horses and sheep after the land was converted according to the consistent calculation of one acre.

Their land became open space, and Wang Congzhi kept crying about poverty, Your Majesty, one warrior is one hundred acres, and those with military honors are even higher. One hundred thousand Tibetan troops, in total, should be rewarded more than one hundred thousand acres, more than one thousand acres

Wan Guan! I can’t afford this Shansansi!

In the end, Zhao Xu held his nose and bought the order. He was the only one in Song Dynasty who could buy this order.

Su You followed up with another memorial, "Your Majesty, land alone is not enough, someone has to plant it. In order to solve the problem of Xixia's vast land and sparse population, we should increase the number of immigrants from the interior."

Since the Song Dynasty inherited the Tang system, there is a decree that achieved great results during the Xuanzong period. We can use it - inspecting land and expanding households!

This is a law that has been promoted from the Eastern Wei Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It should be said that in the middle period of the dynasty, this law was not promoted effectively. It was the key to the effective continuation of the dynasty before the introduction of the system of sharing land and land in feudal dynasties.

sexual laws.

The Sui Dynasty's rent-to-corvee system and the Tang Dynasty's rent-to-corvee system both targeted people for expropriation. Therefore, the feudal state attached great importance to the control of household registration and strictly prohibited people from fleeing.

After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, household registrations were checked in Shandong. Qi Fuhui checked tens of thousands of households in Caozhou, and Linghu Xi ordered the hidden households to surrender in Cangzhou, reaching tens of thousands of households.
Chapter completed!