Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 957
"Bitter, this day is really hard!"

With tired steps, Zhou Jinyi walked back to his workshop step by step—a simple house made of wooden planks.

It's hot in summer and shivering in winter.

The wooden boards of this kind of simple house are no more than one finger thick, and can be used to hold an egg in the ice and snow.

Not to mention in summer, every winter, if you don’t build a circle of adobe walls on all sides early, it’s the rhythm of freezing to death.

That is to say, on the embankment construction site, there are not many other things, but there is a lot of water and mud.

There is now a thick adobe house around the thin simple house, with canvas and straw stuffed inside to ensure the dryness of the boards.The roof is also covered with thick canvas, and thick straw mats are spread on it, which keeps people from freezing to death in the workshop on the river bank in winter.

This is the Bianhe construction site located in Chenliu, Kaifeng Prefecture, Central Plains Province.

Anyone who knows something about Tokyo City in the old Zhao and Song Dynasties will know the importance of the Bian River. Among the four canals for water transportation in Tokyo, the Bian River is the most important.The country's most affluent southeast six roads (Huainan Road, Jiangnan East and West Roads, Jingnan South and North Roads, and Liangzhe Road) are transported to the capital through this canal. Wealth, and the department stores in Shanze all entered from this road.”

After the fall of Zhao and Song Dynasty, Lu Qian never thought of setting the capital in Kaifeng. The biggest reason was not that there was no danger to defend there, but because of the transportation of food and supplies here, just as Zhao Da said to Zhao Er back then. It's the same as it was said when "Zhade is not in danger": within a hundred years, the power of the people in the world will be exhausted!
But having said that, Lu Qian would not watch the Bian River being silted up by yellow sand in vain.

Although Kaifeng is no longer the capital of the country, the Four Water Canals are still the lifeline of transportation connecting the Central Plains with all directions.In today's era, water transportation can save much time and effort than land transportation.

The Bianhe River is sourced from the Yellow River, so like the Yellow River, it has the characteristics of uneven water flow and high sediment concentration.In the past, the Zhao and Song courts invested a lot of manpower and material resources every year in order to keep the Bian River flowing.The first is Biankou, which divides the water of the Yellow River. Due to the turbidity of the water flow and the increase in sediment concentration, it is difficult to navigate without frequent dredging.During the reign of Dazhong Xiangfu, the Zhao and Song courts stipulated that it should be dredged every three to five years, but the river bed was still silted up every year.By the time of Zhenzong, it had begun to form a state of hanging rivers on the ground, and by the time of Renzong, it had been stipulated that it should be dredged every year.Biankou closes in winter and opens in spring, and the Bianhe River is open for more than [-] days every year.Even so, during the reign of Xining, in the area of ​​Yongqiu and Xiangyi to the east of Kaifeng, the bottom of the Bianhe River was more than one foot or two feet higher than the flat ground outside the embankment, and the residential houses were viewed from the embankment, as if in a deep valley.

To solve this problem, Lu Qian had no idea. It seemed that the only thing he could do was to maintain soil and water in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and prohibit indiscriminate deforestation.But these results cannot be seen in a short time.

what to do?Has the Bianhe River been abolished in vain?Lu Qian was reluctant.Therefore, manpower dredging was organized every year, and the Ministry of Industry was even asked to restore the setting of Zhao Song's shallow army there.

Was there some dredging and dredging of rivers in ancient times? It's still very common.There are many kinds of tools.

For example, several kilograms of iron are used to make a claw shape, and a rope is tied to the tail of the boat and it sinks into the water. The poles are lifted up quickly, and the boat is driven down one after another by the current. After passing through it again and again, the water is several feet deep.Or a huge tree eight feet long with teeth two feet long, arranged under the wood like a rake, pressed with stones, tied with big ropes on both sides, anchored to a big boat at both ends, eighty steps apart, each using a pulley to twist it back and forth. Draining the sand, I moved the boat to dredge...

But in Lu Qian's eyes, it's a bit of a temporary solution, not the root cause, because the silt that has been lifted up like this will eventually sink down again in a certain section of the river downstream.At that time, the Ministry of Industry received a task - to find a way to fish out the sand.

This is very different from the previous method, but it still complies with that sentence, the method is all thought up by people.

A waterwheel plus a rollover solves this problem, although the efficiency is somewhat low.

The large waterwheel is made of pig iron and hardwood, and its texture is strong.It is placed in the center of the ship, and the hull is also a hollow ship, leaving enough space to install the large water tanker.Driven by animal power, the water wheel rotates, the iron scraper at the bottom is used to scrape the sand, and the bucket is used to hold the sand.The silt and river water all went into the sedimentation tank to settle, and the silt remained, while the river water was drawn overboard by a small overturned car.

The reason why this method is not efficient is that this kind of sand dredger also needs to determine the height of the waterwheel according to the depth of the river, and this kind of sand dredger is useless for rivers that are too deep.The water wheel can't reach the bottom, so we can only use a less efficient rollover, but the depth is also limited.

This is also the limitation of the times.

The construction site where Zhou Jinyi was located was not in Biankou, but in Chenliu.

In the winter, there are no sailing boats, but the sand dredgers and supporting mud transporters are even busier.In this section of the river, four sand dredgers move back and forth on the water with a total length of five miles day and night.

It is difficult to pick up the thick ice on the water surface.

At the same time, piles of sand were also sent to the shore by dredgers, and after that, small workers like Zhou Jinyi worked hard.

The sediment in the river bottom will not be wasted in vain, it is mainly used to pave roads in the Linhe area of ​​Central Plains Province.No matter how far the distance is, it is not cost-effective to transport sand.

But these are not what Zhou Jinyi wants to consider. His only thought is to make money, and then save money.Let the total assets and savings of the family reach the standard, and the provincial ones will be recorded in the books by those incompetent guys at the Immigration Bureau.

Therefore, he dare not eat or drink.The biggest interest every day seems to be to look at the passbook.

Thinking that today is his birthday, but his home is hundreds of miles away in Hedong.That place is the place with the strictest immigration system among the dozens of provinces in the Central Plains.Ordinary ordinary people don't know the reason why the immigration bureau in their province is so hateful.However, many people in Lu Qi's officialdom knew that this matter came from the instructions of Emperor Lu.

A Hedong [Dajia Tongfu] has a population of more than 800 million, which is naturally much smaller than that of Jinxi in later generations, but in this era, the population density is not bad at all.

In this way, during the years when Lu Qi was established, more than 200 million Hedong people were successively relocated to the Hetao area, or the land of Xixia.Including the area north of the prefix "Ji" of the Yellow River, hundreds of thousands of people have also immigrated one after another.

The plan to control the number of people living in Hedong within 500 million is the same as the plan to reduce the population in Guanzhong. Although the basic starting point is to make it easier to "immigrate to the border", it cannot be denied that there is Lu Qian's subjective emotional factor in it. exist.

Only when the population decreases can the land and forests be 'restored'.Lu Qian's wish to dye the Loess Plateau green is very simple and very 'foolish'.

But the result is that many people in Hedong, like Zhou Jinyi, keep their eyes on their total assets and savings, lest they accidentally end up "on the list".

And the "poverty standard" of Hedong Province is second to none in the whole of Middle-earth, no, it is outstanding and stands out from the crowd.

Almost using administrative methods to force people from all walks of life in Hedong to rack their brains to make money.Because the "poverty line" in the east of the river can increase upwards with time.

People like Zhou Jinyi who are always hovering on the passing line can do nothing but not miss any opportunity to make money, and at the same time carry forward the old tradition of Hedong.

Even though it was his birthday, Zhou Jinyi was still reluctant to eat and drink.I went around all the canteens on the construction site, like painting cakes to satisfy my hunger, and went back to the workshop with a piece of oil cake in my hand.On the way, I kept sighing: "Bitter, bitter..."

Thinking about his family, he had a bank deposit of as much as 30 yuan, and his family was full of grain and rice. Thirty years ago, the landlords in the village were not necessarily as wealthy as his family, but how could they not even dare to "eat and drink"?

Sighing, Zhou Jinyi pushed open the door.

(End of this chapter)