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"The roasted egg tastes really good today. Dasai, you should try these three mature ones. It's really much better than the seven mature ones you eat."

After Su Dingfang finished the fourth roasted egg, he patted his stomach with satisfaction.

Li Chao just smiled and ate his Doudou noodles leisurely. Doudou noodles are like baked eggs, which is one of the characteristics of this store. Doudou noodles are actually ordinary hand-rolled long noodles, but the special thing about this noodles is the Turpan white beans in the soup.

Turpan is now the Gaochang Kingdom under the control of the Western Turks.

The white beans are a bit like lentils and a bit like soybeans. They are a specialty of Gaochang. The noodles are soft and tender as jelly. The noodles do not need to be chewed, but the white beans are chewed with flavor.

The bean dough noodles with white beans are a must-pay food for visiting this restaurant.

After eating heavy oily and meaty foods such as barbecue kebabs and grilled eggs, I ate a bowl of bean paste that is fragrant, soft and refreshing, and makes people feel salivated. It is not only refreshing, but also a healthy way to resolve greasiness.

Of course, Li Chao also likes to have a glass of wine or a cup of hot tea after eating grilled eggs or raisin pilaf, yakitori, naan meat, grilled buns, and bean noodles.

Put down the bowl and wipe your mouth dry, Li Chao also touched his stomach very satisfied. The food in this Hu people's shop is always so sincere. A bowl of bean dough is not a bowl, but a pottery basin. A bowl of noodles and soup must be two pounds. A barbecue kebab can be at least half a pound of meat.

The big pot chicken is really a chicken that costs several pounds.

A roasted bun was stuffed with half a pound of meat, and it was weighed as the Big Mac roasted bun.

The tea leaves are a bit too bad, and the wine tastes average, not as good as those produced in Lijiagou. But the ones sold are not usually expensive, much more expensive than raisin pilaf, kebabs, grilled buns, and grilled eggs.

Wine was transported from Gaochang and traveled thousands of miles apart. Tea was transported by merchants in Guanzhong, and it was considered a relatively expensive commodity anyway.

On the contrary, beef, mutton, eggs, hen noodles, etc., are not short of these in Lingzhou as an agricultural and pastoral area.

Tea leaves are sold at a price of gold in Lingzhou. It’s really a scam. Blow the foam on the tea bowl and take a sip of hot tea. Although the taste is light, it finally has the fragrance of tea.

The tea in this store is a big bowl of tea that costs a penny, but it sells more expensive than a baked bun.

"Dingfang, you really won't stay?"

"I was born to fight. I was really embarrassed by letting me stay for the Grand Marshal to manage the common affairs in this yamen. I am still willing to follow the Grand Marshal to Ningyuan. After all, I am still the Grand Marshal's military envoy. I have to lead these five thousand fangs for you."

"Dingfang, you are a good player in war, but if you want to go further, you still have to learn more about general affairs management."

"I don't want to be that civil servant, I'd better be a general." Su Dingfang was a little unaware of his ambitions.

"I just want to be a general, but I can't be the prime minister or the center." Li Chao said with a smile.

Su Dingfang picked up the big tea bowl and took a big sip, but he was not afraid of being hot.

"Being a prime minister? That's the ability you have only in teacher. It's enough for me to be a good general. The biggest dream in my life is that one day it's enough to be a governor of a town and guard a frontier for the country."

"Hey, I originally wanted you to preside over the construction of Tangqu for me. Who should I find now?"

This time when Li Chao came to Lingzhou, he brought all the military generals, and many of them were seconded by his position. For example, Su Dingfang was the governor of Taozhou. Now he came to Shuofang as the general marching manager, and he would definitely have to return to Taozhou after the war.

Guo Xiaoke was the chief of the marching officer of the Longyou Road Grand Governor's Office, Xue Wanche, and the marching officer of the Longyou Road Grand Governor's Office.

The other managers are almost the same.

Especially this time, there were few civil servants and even fewer at the level of the chief clerk. This led to the fact that after Li Chao quickly recovered Shuofang, the subsequent civil affairs of the states were insufficient and could not keep up.

Originally, Li Chao had already planned a new development plan for the Western Taurus Plain, which was to dig a new canal there on the west bank of the Yellow River.

Now the main water diversion canal of the Xitaka Plain is still on the east coast, and there is only one Han canal on the west coast. There is still a large area of ​​land to be developed there. The key is to build another main channel and then build a branch canal to develop a large area of ​​new irrigation areas.

Li Chao has already named this Xinkan Canal, called Tang Canal. The entrance of the canal is located next to Qingtong Gorge, flowing northward and ending in Dingyuan. It is planned to be 700 miles long and has more than 500 branches. After completion, it can irrigate at least one million mu of fields.

This channel was not created by Li Chao, but was built in history during the Wu Zetian period of the Tang Dynasty and was later renovated by various generations. It can be said that this is a relatively important one among the more than a dozen main canals in the history of the Xitaka Plain.

Li Chao almost took this channel in history directly.

The main channel of the West Bank, which is 700 miles long and ten feet wide, can irrigate most of the land on the West Taurus Plain, and can add another one million mu of grain fields to the West Taurus Plain and irrigate land.

Once this main channel is completed and the supporting branch channel is added, it is equivalent to turning over the cultivated land in Lingzhou directly. Once such a large project is completed, it is truly a reward for the present and future generations.

But for such a large project, there is no suitable manager now. Li Chao himself can only be a planner. He doesn’t have much time to manage specific affairs. Moreover, such a large project cannot be managed by himself, and there are too many people needed.

Even if it is a preliminary plan now, it is still very heavy to explore the route.

"Master, are you really asking about the Tangqu?" Su Dingfang asked in surprise. In his opinion, of course, the most important thing is to fight the Turks now. As for the matter of building canals and water conservancy, these should be handed over to the governor below and the county magistrate to do it.

"With this channel being built, can it increase one million mu of grain fields or irrigated land? Do you think it is unnecessary? One million mu of irrigated land, even if you produce four stones of grain a year, you can increase the output of four million stones this year. Do you know what so much grain means? It means that Shuofang Town can be fully self-sufficient in the future, and even surplus grain will be transported to Longyou and Hexi. If Chang'an needs it, you can still transport some grain to Chang'an."

"In the future, Chang'an will not only not need to transport grain to Shuofang to the border, but will also reduce the military rations transported to Longyou and Hexi, and even Chang'an will receive input from Shuofang's grain. Do you think this is not important?"

Lingzhou originally had one million acres of land, and the addition of one million acres means that Lingzhou will have two million acres of land. 20,000 hectares, which is not as large as Guanzhong's grain fields, but the population in Guanzhong is dozens of times that of Lingzhou.

Lingzhou has a large land and a small population, which also has the benefits of animal husbandry. Two million mu of grain fields are normal and in a good harvest, it can produce seven or eight million stones of grain. Lingzhou now has only about 100,000 people. Even if it doubles twice or more, it will only be 200,000 to 300,000. Even if one person is calculated based on a high standard of 18 stones, it only needs 50,000 to 600,000 stones of grain. This means that Lingzhou can become the most important granary in the entire northwest region.

For the Tang Dynasty, this was far-reaching and was more important than collecting hundreds of thousands of chunks of taxes per year. After all, grain was the cornerstone of stability. The Tang Dynasty wanted to control Shuofang, Hexi, and Longyou, to ensure the safety of the capital, to strengthen control over several places in the northwest, and even want to expand out in the future, then grain was always a bottleneck of constraints.

If the Tang Dynasty added a granary with annual output of several million stones in Lingzhou, it would be very meaningful. Lingzhou is not in the southeast. Although the grain output in the southeast is high and the quantity is large, it would be extremely difficult to transport it from the southeast to the northwest.

"But this Tang Canal has a main canal of 700 miles, or a 10-meter-wide main canal. Moreover, according to what you said, to achieve the goal of irrigating one million mu of fields, more than 500 branch canals have to be built. This is a major project."

"It's easier to dig a thousand-mile channel on the plain."

"But it's a channel that lasts thousands of miles, how much manpower, how much money and food is needed."

Li Chao doesn't think so. This project seems large, but it depends on how you manage it. For example, the project can be divided into multiple sections and adopts a segmented responsibility system.

For example, you can divide the land you can get in advance, and then if you want to divide it into the fields, you must work and work hard, or even pay a little money first. In this way, the manpower and money for the construction of the canal can be solved by a large part.

After all, after dividing the fields, it is to dig a canal for your home. When the canal is dug, the land that is divided is irrigated. If it is not dug, it is a piece of dry land. This is for your own work and you will definitely do it.

Just like the development of the West in the United States, those capitalists were asked to build railways. Wherever the railway was built, the land within the range of the road belonged to them. So the capitalists formed railway companies one after another and worked hard to build roads.

Li Chao is planning to do this now.

In history, the Han Dynasty once immigrated 700,000 to Lingzhou to develop the Xitta Plain. Now the population of Lingzhou is only about 100,000. Even if the families of 20,000 soldiers are moved, it will increase by about 100,000, which is far from the bottom line of the population here.

Even if there is another 50,000 households in Lingzhou, there will be no problem.

One million mu of irrigated land, 50,000 households, even if each household is divided into twenty acres of land, that would be good. After all, it is irrigated land. If it is divided into some dry land, grassland, etc., it is definitely much better than the current situation of many people in Guanzhong.

After all, Guanzhong has a large area of ​​narrow land, and the powerful and powerful occupy a lot of land. Many people do not have much land in Guanzhong.

For the court, it is also very beneficial to relocate 50,000 households from Guanzhong to Lingzhou. First, if 50,000 households are moved away, the original land of these people will be vacant. Even if they don’t have much land in their hands, 50,000 households, even if there are ten or twenty acres of a household, they will have to have hundreds of thousands or millions of acres. All of these lands can be used.

On the other hand, Lingzhou added one million acres of land and granted them to these immigrants. With more land, their lives will definitely improve. As for the imperial court, the population pressure in Guanzhong has been reduced a little, and at the same time, the rental income of one million acres of land has been added, which has enriched the border.

No matter how you look at it, it is beneficial but not harmful.

As for the project, it is different from the construction of the Great Wall. Building the Great Wall is considered hard labor, and for the people, it has no personal benefit. However, it is different to repair canals. Build canals in sections to build canals for their own equal fields. Once they are built, they will become water irrigated. This enthusiasm cannot be ignored, after all, it is related to their own interests.

The families of 20,000 soldiers from the government moved another 50,000 new immigrants. In addition to the original local people, Lingzhou will have 2 million mu of land, millions of mu of pasture, and a population of 10,000, or even a population of 100,000. This is not a problem.

With 100,000 households in Lingzhou, it becomes stable.

"If you really want to practice, I think there is someone who is suitable to take responsibility for you." Su Dingfang said with a smile.

"Are you talking about Chu Suiliang?" Li Chao guessed which one he wanted to say when he saw him laughing.
Chapter completed!