"This man is very dangerous." Shen Kuo came to Jiaozhi and could give Cai Que eye drops, but he couldn't bear it for a minute.

If he hadn't been tricked into Xuanzhou by Cai Que and fell under Su Mingrun's nose, would he have been caught and brought here?!

As the official became more and more distant from Zhongshu, "thousands of miles in search of a feudal lord", judging from the distance, this is not an exaggeration, but a real number.

He now became the magistrate of the southernmost prefecture and county in the Song Dynasty.

Starting from Bianjing, we go down the Bianhe River, into the canal, to Qiantang, and then go all the way by sea boat, which is just ten thousand miles away.

There is a magical inevitability in history. This vast territory was named Meizhou by Zhao Xu, which means "Mei on the water".

Su You was in a daze when he received the notice from the court. Will there be a famous official named Mekong here in the future, and then the Jiulong River will be renamed Mekong River?

Shaking his head and throwing away such nonsensical thoughts, he smiled at Shen Kuo and said: "The prefect of a large state with a radius of thousands of miles, Cunzhong, you are considered to be the best."

"Don't talk so nicely!" Shen Kuo really burst into tears when he received the appointment: "Young Master, how could you deceive me like this?"

We have already negotiated with Fan Shizhe about the new territorial boundary. The entire southern delta swamp area cut out from the original jurisdiction of Saigon to the west of the original jurisdiction of Saigon and the main stream of the Beijiang River of Jiulong River and the seashore will be under the jurisdiction of Saigon and belong to the Song Dynasty.

Chenla gave up the fight for this land and received more than 70,000 weapons in exchange, including 3,000 new swords and various weapons collected from the Cochin Army.

Jiaozhi's weapons were of the highest quality in the entire Indo-China Peninsula. Zhenla felt that the Song Dynasty was really wealthy and it was quite cost-effective for everyone to do business.

The Chenla people themselves don’t even know how big this land is, which is full of water in the rainy season and mud in the dry season, where crocodiles and pythons roam. Only the geographical survey team under Suzhou Petroleum Group knows that - a total of 40,000 square kilometers, and the area of ​​​​Haikou

, it is still moving 80 meters southeast every year.

But then again, without the intervention of flower growers, just based on the people in Indochina, a lot of this land will still be in the wilderness a thousand years later.

The outer sea of ​​this land is called the Kunlun Sea, and to the south are some islands. There are many people with dark skin and curly hair on the islands. The Kunlun slaves who have been popular among Chinese tycoons since the Tang Dynasty came from those islands.

It sounds like the territory is quite vast, but the real place where people can live now is the area around Jiading Village.

The arrival of tens of thousands of people has injected vigorous vitality into Saigon. It is really a land of plenty. The immigrants have not yet experienced the power of typhoons and scorching heat, and they all feel that they have arrived in paradise.

Militarized management is necessary, but fortunately, several of them are ministers, and with the help of Elephant, the project progresses by leaps and bounds.

There is a kind of magical rice in Chenla - floating rice.

The people of the Yuan Dynasty recorded in "Zhenla Fengtu Ji", "There is also a first-class wild field, which is not planted with permanent water. It is as high as one foot, and the rice is also as high as that. I don't think it is a different kind."

Ancient books call this kind of rice field "Luotian" and record that rice "comes up and down from the tide", which is its special growth characteristics.

Floating rice is grown in deep water conditions and uses broadcasting. When the rainy season comes, the rice fields accumulate water, the water level rises, and the rice stems gradually elongate. During the rainy season, floating rice can sometimes grow up to 30 centimeters a day.

When heavy rains, floods and rapids occur, the roots of floating rice will break away from the soil, and the upper leaves will float on the water. The whole floating rice plant will drift with the water, absorb nutrients in the water, and continue to grow. After the water recedes, the roots will penetrate again.

silt.

The entire stem can reach more than five meters in length. By January, all floods have subsided and the floating rice has matured and can be harvested.

Su You discovered this treasure when he visited Zhenla, which made him even more happy. The Zhenla people didn’t know how to play with it themselves. For flower growers, they used bamboo to weave huge bamboo baskets with buoyancy and put them in the swamp.

, and then throw this rice into a bamboo basket, you can form a patch of rice fields.

Su You knew that water spinach, which is commonly grown on Fujian Road and Guangnan East-West Road, can actually be cultivated through this planting method, which is an old trick for flower growers.

The planting period of this kind of rice is relatively long, and threshing is more troublesome than ordinary rice, but it has an advantage - the grains are large and the yield is high. One acre of water can harvest 500 kilograms!

With the help of threshing machinery, the biggest trouble of rice farmers has been solved by Suyou. Dry land and paddy fields in Saigon are still very precious, but in floodplain areas, there are too many!

Jia Gan was not idle. The first batch of polder fields had already harvested 600,000 jins of rice in three months. The soil was so fertile that he wished he could move this land to Liangzhe Road.

The area around the first polder has been planted with sugar cane and acacia saplings, as well as some coffee. The paddy fields in the lower areas have been reclaimed and are being fertilized. In the ponds in the central area, lotus roots, chicken head rice,

Lily, wild rice, and dozens of buffaloes were raised.

As soon as Shen Kuo arrived, the construction of major projects was handed over to him.

The refugees in the north were surprised by the evergreen trees here all year round and the warm and suitable winters, so they began to carry out large-scale construction under the guidance of the science and engineering team.

The rainy season will arrive in April, so the work on the polders and house building must be carried out at the same time.

Fortunately, this is a primeval rain forest, and there is an abundance of wood. Fan Shizhe was very surprised by the Song people's ability to cut down trees, because Zhenla did not have such a magical tool as a large saw.

More than 10,000 people were divided into logging teams, water conservancy teams, and infrastructure teams by Shen Kuo and Su You.

With Jiading Village as the center, the second phase of the project is like a huge semicircle, unfolding on the south bank of the Beijiang River of Jiulong River.

And similarly, there are several dots spread out on the highlands and stone fields on the Jiulong River plain.

Of course, there are a lot of troubles. Snakes, insects and beasts are still the masters of this land.

There are even two kinds of crocodiles. I wonder if you are afraid of them?

The first batch of chicks Su You brought over were almost all fed these things.

Beyond that, illness can be a challenge.

Although it is a water town, Su You and Shi Wei still enforce health regulations according to military law. Shi Wei is responsible for treating diseases, while Su You is responsible for digging wells.

The well was designed by Su You. First, a large pit was dug, then willow trees were added to surround the well, and charcoal and river sand were buried around it.

Then the same two things were buried at the bottom of the well, paved with stone slabs, and after two days of continuous scouring, a clean and hygienic well was built.

Later, manhole railings were built and pavilions were built to avoid rainwater pollution.

Although the well water filtered through charcoal and river sand is very hygienic, Su You and Shi Wei still require the immigrants to drink cold boiled water.

In order to develop the good habits of immigrants, Shi Wei simply taught the immigrants how to make herbal tea.

There are a lot of big bamboos here, and you can cut off a section of the bamboo tube to use it as a kettle, which is easy to carry when working.

There are also vines and reeds. Most of the immigrants are from Hedong. They are already experts in reed and wicker weaving, so there is no need to teach them in this area.

On the other hand, building a house is more troublesome than in Sichuan. It is necessary to build a bamboo house similar to that of the Dai people in Yunnan in later generations.

However, there are huge Yunqiu bamboos, moso bamboos, and arrowheads, as well as hydraulic carpentry workshops and wheel saws. Countless bamboos can be produced on large construction sites every day.

Bamboo materials are all standard parts, and the mortise and tenon structure can also be used, but you need to wrap hemp rope around the opening and tighten it.

In order to produce efficiently, the 10,000 people were organized according to the field regiment. Liao En and his tribesmen, who arrived early, became team leaders. They also had five people, one guard and ten people in a team. The organization was strict, and they worked collectively every day.

After work was completed, vigorous construction was carried out under the leadership of Jia Quan, Shen Kuo and Su You.

Soon, pottery workshops, salt fields, fisheries, shipyards, villages, warehouses, drying fields, government offices, quarries, lumber yards, forage yards, livestock sheds... were built one after another.

The most dangerous ones are the logging teams, who often encounter accidents and injuries. Tigers, leopards, crocodiles, pythons, and even wild elephants and bison also often injure people.

Su You transferred a team of magic gunners from Jiaozhi to protect them. After Sun Neng and Wang Shao heard about it, they took turns leading the teams to come for rotation. Hunting is now regarded as a military training project in various countries.

There were constant gunshots in the jungle, so Su You got a lot of good skins.

This place was originally blessed with a salt farm. When the salt reserves reached 30,000 kilograms, Su You organized a sea fishing.

The rich variety of fish, crustaceans and shellfish in the South China Sea is astonishing. Nowadays, the open sea is an area that the fishermen driving canoes in Champa and Chenla dare not set foot in. Su You randomly found an intersection of ocean currents and surrounded it.
Chapter completed!