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Chapter 107 The invisible war

The endless paddy fields are dotted with rows of neat green seedlings. Looking up at the green, it seems like a prairie is in front of you. Yuwen Wen looked at this scene and couldn't help but recall the grassland scenery he saw when he was in charge of the army.

There are many farmers scattered in the paddy fields. Some are driving oxen to support iron plows, while others are riding "seedling horses" to plant rice seedlings in the fields.

The villages scattered in the fields are scattered with smoke rising, and the pastoral scenery is really intoxicating. However, the black smoke that sporadically rises in non-village areas looks like a fire broke out somewhere, so it is a bit unscene.

But Yuwen Wen doesn't think so. The black smoke is the smoke emitted when the steam pump is running. A pillar of black smoke means that the water conservancy facilities in this area are operating normally. As long as there are no major natural disasters and man-made disasters, there will be a good harvest this fall.

At this moment, he stood on the ridge of the field, looking at the "debris" of the ancient Yunmengze, and couldn't help but feel "changing the world".

Yunmengze, also known as Yunmengze, was a giant lake in the pre-Qin period. Due to the sedimentation of the Yangtze River and the Han River, the Han River Delta continued to stretch, and the area of ​​Yunmengze continued to shrink.

In history, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the area of ​​Yunmengze had been reduced by more than half and began to become fragmented.

By the Tang and Song dynasties, the shrinking Yunmengze was "fragmented" into small lakes scattered, and many small lakes gradually became silted. By the Ming Dynasty, Yunmengze had disappeared and became a geographical noun with a long history.

It was in the Ming Dynasty that when Huguang area matured, the saying "Huguang is mature and the world is full."

At this moment, Yuwen Wen was thinking in his heart that "Huguang is familiar, the world is full", but reality is far from reaching that point, but he was still in a very good mood when he looked at the endless farmland in front of him.

Turning his head to look at Yu Wenli standing beside him, he patted the other person on the shoulder and said with relief: "It's a good job."

The four simple words, in Yu Wenli's ears, are the best praise. Since he became the general manager of Jingnan, he has been in charge of the development of the Han Mian University of China. He has worked diligently and dared not take it lightly. Since he took office, he has been working hard for the development of the Han Mian University of China.

Although the great development had begun when he took office and the "foundation" had been laid, Yu Wenli took over the burden handed over by his predecessor and showed his talents to the government and the outside world with one political achievement.

The difficult tasks of resettlement, the construction of water conservancy, the extermination of schistosomiasis, and the reclaiming of wasteland were carried out by the young Yuwen Li with the help of many assistants. Facing the emperor (uncle) who was inspecting himself, he handed over a beautiful answer.

The content of this answer sheet is not an illusory praise, but reports, which use a large number of numbers to record the "Jiankang situation" in the Han Dynasty.

Yuwen Wen was very satisfied with his nephew's performance. Seeing that Yuwen Li looked very good, he was ashamed of being the chief manager of Jingnan.

Yu Qing planned an assassination, which was Yu Wenli's enemy who killed his father. Although this matter could not be revealed, there was always guilt in his heart, so Yu Wen Wen hoped that his nephew would live a good life and the other nephews would live a good life too.

Yu Li, as an adult royal family of the dynasty, Yu Wenli should have been appointed, and Yu Wenli performed well in the position of Jingnan General Manager, which actually had a positive effect on consolidating imperial power.

Of course, if you talk about negative effects, you can also pick out some, that is, if King Qi has a reputation that exceeds that of the crown prince, it may have an adverse impact on the inheritance of the throne.

But this is limited to "possibility". Yuwen Wen does not think that his nephew has the ability to turn the tables, and he cannot give his nephew a chance to turn the tables, and the prince Yuwen Weicheng's performance will definitely not be worse than his cousin.

Yuwen Wen has absolute confidence, so he has enough mind to accommodate his nephew and give the other party the opportunity to display his talents.

In history, in order to solve the "hidden danger" of Han Xin, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, detained Han Xin who came to meet as a prisoner in the name of traveling to Yunmengze and summoning princes.

Now Yuwen Wen is traveling to Yunmeng’s old place, but he does not intend to "treat" his nephew. The uncle and nephew stood on the ridge of the field, looking at the green and green in front of him, and were filled with emotion.

The boundless farmland in front of me was still deserted a few years ago. There were wild grasses, reeds, poisonous insects, snakes and ants everywhere. It was very difficult to open up into fertile fields.

But when someone took the lead in organizing hundreds of thousands of young and strong people to open up land, providing a large number of iron tools, farm tools, seeds and oxen, and building ditches in a planned manner, using a steam pump to pump and irrigate the water, the difficulty of opening up land was much less.

Although the Han Mian Development, which lasted for several years, was still in its first stage, it had a decent prototype. As wastelands were reclaimed into raw land, as raw land gradually became half-cooked land, the beautiful prospect of the vast sea turning into mulberry fields has gradually become reality.

A large number of people moved to the Han Mian area, and through hard work, they created a new world for themselves and their families with their hands. Countless villages emerged like mushrooms after a rain, and the number of households in various prefectures and counties increased significantly.

People who travel between the north and south of the Yangtze River through the Han River will have the honor of witnessing the endless fleets of ships on the Han River, seeing the strong embankments along the river, the steam pumps that continuously pump water on the dam, and the roads behind the dam.

In this endless farmland, the rice planted in a unified way is the "Jiaozhou rice" from Jiaozhou. Jiaozhou rice can ripen twice a year or ripen three times a year, greatly increasing the yield per mu.

The unprecedented large-scale land reclamation and large-scale promotion of Jiaozhou rice planting make everyone who has been to or passed by Han Mian know that "Han Mian is mature and the southeast is enough" is no longer a joke.

This was an invisible war. The court organized a large number of people, using iron farm tools as weapons to "start war" against the quagmire that occupied the vast area of ​​Han Mian, and the scale of the war became increasingly larger.

The results of the battle are getting more and more abundant.

Every autumn, a large amount of grain is transported to various docks along the Han River coast by people. After loading it, a part of the grain ships flow downstream into the Yangtze River, and the grain is imported into the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River (southeast region) on a large scale to feed a large number of full-time (non-agricultural) population engaged in industry and commerce.

Another part of the grain ships went upstream and entered the Jingzhou area. Through the Yewan Canal, the grain was transported to Henan area, so that the Henan people who were staple in millet and wheat could obtain sufficient rice at a low price.

The Han Mian area, which gradually became a granary, gave the court more and more confidence. Whether in Henan or Southeast, once a disaster occurs, the court can easily allocate a large amount of food to provide disaster relief.

When the court has confidence, the people have confidence. The large-scale development of the Han Mian area is just the beginning. There are many fields reclaimed, but more wastelands are not reclaimed, and a large number of new villages are waiting for the migrant population to settle down.

With the continuous publicity of the government and the public, more and more people are aware of this, so the wave of immigration under the proper guidance of the government began to appear and became increasingly violent.

Countless Henan people brought their families to Jingzhou through the Yewan Canal, and then continued to take a boat down the Han River and settled in the Han Mian area. The whole family worked together to obtain piece of land through hard work.

At this time, the accent of the Han Mian area was no longer "Chu language". Whether it was new farmers or more and more permanent merchants, the proportion of Henan accents was increasing, and different eating habits were also "crossed" in the Han Mian area.

People from unknown areas live and settle down in their new hometowns, looking at the land and the growing crops on the land, everyone is smiling and has a better vision for the future.

Yuwen Wen, who is in the Han Mian land, also has a better vision for the future.

The grain output in the Han Mian area has increased year by year at a significant rate. In addition to meeting the needs of local people and as government disaster relief grain storage, more and more surplus grain transportation has not only caused the grain prices in Jingxiang to continue to fall, but also caused the grain prices in Henan and Lianghuai areas to plummet.

Another invisible war has begun unknowingly.
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