On a small hill outside Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province, Chen Zilong, the new governor of the three provinces, looked quietly in the distance with his hands behind his back. In front of him was an endless field, or now it should be said to be a wilderness, because there is no green on the entire field now, and the land is all dry and cracked.

Chen Zilong stood for a long time before sighing and retracting his gaze. He understood the emperor's eagerness. The plain in front of him was almost the same as the Liaohe Plain. However, in the past ten years, this field had almost no grains, as well as the Jinzhong Plain and the Loess Plateau. In the same way, this is nearly 30 to 40% of the land of the Ming Dynasty. Waste in recent years has seriously dragged down the development of the Ming Dynasty. If it continues to be abandoned, it will cause huge resistance to the rise of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor sent him here to change the status quo in the northwest and sow more drought-tolerant crops in arid areas so that the land will no longer be abandoned.

A three-person wide river canal is being built in the distance. The recruits of the Preparatory Corps have been fighting for nearly two months. However, they have never complained that they are tired and have never delayed progress, because this land is their homeland, and the emperor has given all this land to the Tunwei of the three provinces to be managed. The benefit of digging the river canals is their relatives, so they have no complaints, digging hard and digging hard. With their unremitting efforts, the river canals in the three provinces have been almost dug in just two months!

However, Chen Zilong is still waiting. As an expert in agriculture, he certainly knows that the time for the most suitable sowing has passed. However, sowing in arid areas cannot be measured by conventional farming times. The growth of crops requires appropriate temperature, but water is more needed. If the temperature is not suitable, it will be maldevelopment at most, and the harvest is less. If there is no water, the crops will not be able to survive. What else can we talk about harvest?

Digging river canals can only solve the irrigation problems during the development and maturity of crops. Any crop needs a lot of water during the seedling stage. This small river canal is not enough, unless the canal is dug as wide as the Yellow River!

Naturally, it is impossible to dig a canal as wide as the Yellow River. In that case, it would be called a canal, rather than an irrigation canal. To dig all the canals in the fields in the three provinces into canals, even if everyone from the Ming Dynasty and the whole country came to dig, it would probably take several years, so he could only wait.

Based on his observations over the past few years, he knew that at the turn of spring and summer, there will be a relatively large precipitation in the northwest arid areas. The rain will be intermittent for about half a month. After the rain, the river water will become full and the land will become wet. It is possible to allow some drought-tolerant crops to pass through the seedling stage without irrigation. The more than a month after the rain is the only suitable time for sowing throughout the year, because in the future, the hot summer will be hot, and the water in the land will soon evaporate. In autumn, the land will explode again!

Of course, he was not only waiting for the rain, but also waiting for the turnaround dragon. Fortunately, the railway from Beijing to Kaifeng has entered the final laying stage, and it will be fully opened in about ten days. At that time, the turnaround dragon can be quickly transported to Kaifeng by train, and then slowly drive from Kaifeng to all parts of Henan. However, the railway from Kaifeng to Xi'an and Taiyuan has just started construction. Although nearly 300,000 people are working hard on each side, no one can tell whether it can be completed before the rain is over. At that time, it can only be done wherever it is built. At least the turnaround dragon along the line can be guaranteed to be transported.

Chen Zilong sighed for a while and walked down the mountain, because it was almost noon. If he didn't rush to the construction site where the canal was dug, the lunch would not be settled today. A team of Jinyiwei masters behind him spread silently, protecting him from front, back, left and right...

In early May, the long-awaited nectar finally came to the northwest. At this time, the Beijing-Kai Railway had already been opened to traffic, and trucks of overturned dragons were constantly transported from the capital. At this time, outside Kaifeng City had turned into a steel forest. Of course, these were not for Henan. Henan's overturned dragons had been transported long ago and are now on the way to various prefectures, prefectures and counties. All of these were prepared for Shaanxi and Shanxi.

The railway from Kaifeng to Taiyuan was constructed smoothly and was almost completed at this time, but the railway from Kaifeng to Xi'an encountered trouble because the terrain near Tongguan was too complicated. Even if the Ministry of Works kept building railway bridges, it would not be able to cross it. Because the railway was different from a highway, it could not twist and twist among the mountains, nor could it rise and fall, otherwise the train would not be able to pass through at all.

Due to the tight time, it was too late to dig a tunnel. The Ministry of Works could only ask Sun Chuanting to take the prisoners away from the official road and cross the mountains and directly build the remaining railway in Xi'an. As for what to do about this mountain, it could only pass the news back to the capital to see if there was any solution in the capital.

Zhu Cijing received the news and was so anxious that he quickly ordered the Ministry of Works to rush to create a large number of explosive tubes thicker than his thighs. He was preparing to go to the mountain and explode!

The explosive tube made by black gunpowder is not very powerful. Even if it is so thick, it cannot keep up with the TNT explosives of later generations. However, the Ministry of Works invited many mountain bombers from many folk quarries. Under their guidance, they actually exploded enough gaps in the mountains blocking the road, and the railway was successfully built to Xi'an.

After the short rainy season, the land in the arid areas finally became wet, and the northwest seemed to have suddenly come alive. There were roars of the roars of the land-turning dragons everywhere, and there were farming figures of farmers everywhere, including two to three million young and strong laborers, plus the old and young, only five to six million people, and they went to cultivate 200 million mu of land. If it were changed before, someone would definitely run to Zhu Cijing at the risk of being beheaded and scolded: "You are a traitor, can you farm, and don't command it if you can't farm!"

But now, no one would think of scolding the emperor. The turning dragon turned the ground and it was so amazing. It was so clear that the ground was turned over and it was turned over day and night. A turning dragon could turn over at least 100 acres of land in twelve hours!

How many earth-turning dragons did the Ministry of Works make? I'm afraid Bi Maokang can't figure it out. Anyway, Wang Gong's factory has been shut down, and more than 10,000 people have gone to the machinery factory to help. In addition, more than 10,000 people have been recruited, a total of nearly 30,000 people, working overtime day and night, and then we go northwest to open the line, opening the line in Beijing, opening the line in the west, and opening the original line has never stopped. You can see trains full of earth-turning dragons running on the railway all day long.

After more than a month of hard work, the land in the northwest was finally filled with seeds of hope. It was early summer. Chen Zilong came to the small hillside and looked into the distance. The scenery in front of him was very different from two months ago. There were no traces of dryness and cracks in the fields. All the land was overturned and fluffy. Some seeds planted in advance had already produced fine green buds. A breeze blew by, and the breath of soil came from the faint greenness, just like early spring.
Chapter completed!