The route from Zhao Liang to Hexi did not go to Baoji, but followed the Jing River from Binzhou to Jingzhou, then entered Pingliang Prefecture, first bypassing the entire Liupan Mountain, and then came to the salt tea hall. The roughly located is the Haiyuan of later generations, and then followed Quwu Mountain to the south and came to Jingning Prefecture.

The northwest of this place is the Jingyuan where Zhao Hui is going, and the southeast of this place is the Fuqiang where Chen Tong settles.

The starting point of these two places is very clear and clear. Anyone can go anywhere, and there is nothing better or worse.

Zhao Liang hesitated a little and decided to go to Fuqiang.

When you go here, you will first learn about the local situation. Then Zhao Hui and Chen Tong should arrive, so he will go to Jingyuan again.

"I'm old, I'm really old..."

Jiang Xizong patted his weak legs. If Zhao Liang hadn't supported him, he would have definitely not have reached the top of the mountain.

Datiaoliang in Gupo Town is said to be the highest place in Fuqiang. When you climb here and look around, you can see the large areas of high and low mountains and hills.

"Mr. Jiang thought how to improve the livelihood of the people here?"

From entering Fuqiang County to coming to Datiaoliang, Zhao Liang and the others walked for seven days and looked at most of Fuqiang County just by looking at it.

I have already gained a understanding of the basic situation here.

There is indeed no shortage of water, but the most important thing about this place is that they cannot store water.

In a typical Loess Plateau terrain, the only flat acres are cut into pieces by gullies.

Almost no water conservancy projects can be seen.

Fortunately, the population here is small, and I don’t know if there is more than one-third of Huaining County, so the people can still live.

In addition, there are loess and barren mountains everywhere, and the people have the ability to open land and terraces. Even if they only plant some drought-tolerant plants such as sorghum will have a considerable gain for them.

There is no industry and commerce in the county. The one who impressed Zhao Liang the most along the way was the ridge beast. The ridge beast was the small beast standing on the eaves of the houses of wealthy families. The few smoked places he saw here were burning this thing.

Then after inquiring, I found out that the ridge beasts in Fuqiang County were local fist products. They relied on the Wei River and entered Qinzhou (Tianshui) and went west to Gongchang, occupying the market upstream of the nearby Wei River. They are the first-class specialty of Fuqiang.

"I saw Guangming and smiled, but I thought I was confident, so why should I say more?"

Jiang Xizong waved his hand.

"I didn't expect that the corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes that have been popular in the Central Plains are still unknown here."

This was really beyond his expectations.

You should know that later generations gave the Kangxi and Qianlong prosperous era an alias for the "Sweet Potato prosperous era".

Sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn are already quite common in the Central Plains.

These crops are extremely drought-tolerant, which has finally made a large number of hilly and dry lands that are difficult to irrigate in various places. They have been regarded as arable land for the first time in thousands of years and have been developed and utilized.

Almost all farmers also know that land with corn in rotation and replanting can generally increase production by one-fifth to one-quarter than land without corn rotation.

The sweet potato is even easier even in this backward era when the yield per mu is one or two thousand kilograms.

However, the low-yield drought-tolerant crops such as sorghum and Migu are still grown in Fuqiang County.

"This is the inaction of local officials."

Jiang Xizong slapped the stone under his butt hard.

Sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn are so important to people's livelihood. As an old bureaucrat who has been in the government for more than 20 years, he knows it better.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just take Guide Mansion as an example.

There is the plain in eastern Henan, with fertile land and no shortage of water sources. The natural conditions are not as good as the fish and rice towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and are far better than those in Hexi?

Just a few of his previous prefects were also vigorously promoting the cultivation of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, just because the population was too swelling.

In the sixth year of Qianlong (China's first census), the number of people in Guide Mansion had just exceeded one.2 million. But by the time Jiang Xizong took office, the population of Guide Mansion had exceeded two million.

How can several prefectures make it difficult to promote the cultivation of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn? How can Guide Mansion be safe?

According to him, this situation is not only Guide, but also his hometown Suzhou. The population has also expanded significantly in the past thirty or forty years. That is because there are more corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other coarse grains on the market.

"It's true that you have to go and take a look at it yourself."

Zhao Liang looked around.

Before coming to Fuqiang, he learned from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Personnel that the people of Fuqiang are poor and barren, and the people have opened terraces to make up for their own use. At that time, he thought it was good to open terraces. As long as there were these natural conditions and if someone was willing to spend money, wouldn’t it be easy to open terraces?

He can even build a water storage pool on the top of the mountain, collect rainwater, and irrigate terraces, which is much better than the original local terraces.

But who would have thought that after a walk here, I suddenly realized that there were no corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes in such a poor place?

Isn’t this worthy of being poor?

Many people in the Central Plains eat and drink a bowl of good noodles and mix them with two bowls of mixed noodles. In Hexi, they are still living by the mug valley and sorghum. They are not poor and they are unreasonable.

"The matter is simple now. You just need to call Zhao Hui and Chen Tong to take a look at the local area. After doing a good job, you will start a joint memorial and submit it to the provincial department. Next, you can wait for the favor."

The highest commander in Hexi is Li Shiyao. This man has a grudge against Heshen, so he will definitely not look down on Zhao Hui and Chen Tong, two people who come to become officials through Heshen's ways. But he is even more a politically wise man. After receiving the memorial, he will be considered to know that things will not be stopped.

Otherwise, how could Heshen in the capital sit still?

Maybe he was charged with accusing of deposing the public for personal gain.

Therefore, Li Shiyao will definitely make things as beautiful as he wants to make a contribution in it.

And Zhao Hui and Chen Tong were so happy.

After making the achievements of building strategies, they also found a few elderly peasants from the Central Plains to Fu Qiang and Jingyuan to promote them without adding icing on the cake for believers in the Tianfang. In three years, they will also receive praise from the people in the country, which is absolutely outstanding.

So when Zhao Hui and Chen Tong arrived at Fuqiang a few days later, they were all extremely happy when they heard what Zhao Liang said.

Originally, their way to make political achievements was to rely on the Zhao family to vigorously export resources.

The Zhao family borrowed silver from Fuqiang County, and then Fuqiang used newly built terraced fields as the material. After the terraced fields were repaired, the rules were sold to local gentry and people, and the money they earned was returned to the Zhao family or directly exchanged to the Zhao family. That was a good way.

Then Jingyuan is mining here.

The Zhao family has some staff in this area in Ruzhou. As long as they find a few mines in Jingyuan, invest a lot of money and recruit local people to work, wouldn’t their political achievements be won?

But now it seems that the two of them don’t need to think about the previous plan at all.

Is it not much better to be able to achieve political achievements based on my "real skills" than to make political achievements with that money?
Chapter completed!