bayedsolid Chapter 427 Desert Greening
Chapter 427 Desert Greening
Chapter 427 Desert Greening
These highly skilled and loyal people were trained to become secret agents of the Yuanchu Kingdom, and a special department was set up directly under the emperor - Tianyan.
They are responsible for secretly monitoring all officials. They have no spiritual roots, but they are taught advanced martial arts. After Qiuqiu leaves here, they will be left to their successors as one of the emperor's trump cards.
There was a problem during the construction of the road. There was no problem with the planning and implementation, except for the soil erosion, which was too serious in some areas.
It rains a lot in the south. In just one rainy season, the repaired roads are washed away by the rain. The places on both sides of the road that are not often walked on begin to be covered with moss in just three to five days, becoming too slippery to walk on.
The person in charge, based on the laying of the Blue Star Railway tracks, had similar ideas to the current road planning. There was gravel underneath the tracks, and there were no electric gravel crushers. To facilitate drainage, Qiuqiu finally decided to use desert sand to pave the dirt to prevent road collapse.
Hundreds of storage rings were filled with sand. Under the desert was either stone or soil. Desertification was expanding, so Qiuqiu began to transplant some desert plants.
Plants such as Cistanche deserticola, Rhinoceros horn, Aloe, Tianlun Pillar, Ammopiptanthus mongolicus, Cistanche tubulosa, Green Bell, Golden Bark, Calligonum red-skinned Sand Date, Lithops, Desert Red Date, and Cacti are quickly grown with wood spiritual energy, and after a few drops of spiritual liquid are dripped on them, the idle laboring criminals are thrown here to plant plants and build an oasis.
The desert is vast, and Qiuqiu had to go back and forth three times before he covered the repaired road section with more than 30 centimeters of yellow sand.
Not only can it keep the road dry and prevent moss from spreading, but it can also provide a slight cushioning effect when the ground bears heavy objects.
The slopes on both sides stimulate spiritual power, causing grass and trees to grow wildly, which can reduce soil erosion.
After completing the collection task, the wood-attributed monks were seconded by Qiuqiu to the desert to lead the sinners to create an oasis.
Xu Ye couldn't sit still, so he went to the desert area to take command in person. Later, several experts in this field came to improve Qiuqiu's sand control plan and better implement the great project of turning the desert into an oasis.
After two years, the first national census of the Yuan Dynasty was completed. The national population was only 80 million, and the permanent army was only 800,000, which was not as large as the army of a powerful country.
The army is distributed in the ten major cities. Each major city has 50,000 permanent troops, the imperial city has 100,000, the secondary capital has 100,000, and there are 100,000 emergency action troops. They are the most powerful army except for the imperial city guards.
Active-duty military personnel, regardless of gender, must retire between the ages of fifteen and fifty, with retirement age extended to fifty-five during special periods.
Civil servants must retire between the ages of fifteen and fifty-five, and this age can be extended to sixty during special periods.
Whether civil officials or military generals, they all changed their posts and defenses every three years.
As for some areas, where soldiers and civilians are rotated every three years, they will be reassessed to determine the number of local soldiers. If they lose the qualifications to form a militia, there will be no patrol and guard missions in this area, and the land taxes will also change accordingly.
With the help of the monks, the road construction was accelerated and was almost completed in just half a year.
In the later period, 100,000 laborers with immortal affinity were added. After learning the corresponding military training and cultural knowledge, they returned to their local villages as locals to assist in grassroots management. After three months of internship, they were dispatched to road construction.
After completing the construction of the main road on land, the road from the main city to the new factory was expanded, and the construction of the waterway was also nearing completion.
Qiuqiu led a group of central and local officials on a flying boat and inspected the work results from the air with the explanation of Li Junfeng's team.
Not to mention how excited the mortals flying in the sky and kneeling respectfully were, Qiuqiu majestically used his spiritual power to support his people, and his prestige increased invisibly.
Roads are well-organized, rivers flow unimpeded, and a white and green ribbon connects the ten royal cities. Hanging above them are neatly arranged fields and spacious, inviting squares, creating a magnificent landscape unfolding before our eyes.
The water and land routes are running smoothly. It only takes five days to travel from the northernmost Yan State, now renamed Yicheng, to the southernmost Qicheng by galloping.
Although shipping is not well developed now, with Qiuqiu, a flying boat that can go up and down the water at will, I believe that in the near future, water transportation and even sea transportation will not be difficult.
Criminals sentenced to exile were basically doing hard labor, and in just two years, the planned construction project was successfully completed.
The most heinous criminals are now planting oases in the desert, and the people of the early Yuan Dynasty are full of vitality and prosperity.
Li Junfeng was also not idle. As soon as the factory road construction was planned, he began to plan the roads from counties to major cities. He was an active and proactive tool man.
With ten thousand monks, one hundred thousand future monks as reserve, and fifty thousand laborers, the road was built quickly and well.
The roads in the newly built city were used more frequently by pedestrians and carriages than the official roads, so they were all paved with stone slabs or baked mud bricks.
The key is to see if the excavated soil on both sides is suitable for burning into bricks. If not, stone slabs can only be laid. Anyway, with the help of fire monks, burning bricks is a matter of minutes.
At the end of the year, he was rewarded and commended, and his ten children were appointed as lords of the royal city.
Bai Yi is King Yi and serves as the lord of Yi City. Bai Er is King Er and serves as the lord of Er City, and so on.
Their current deputies are equipped with three to five deputy city lords.
Based on personal contributions and work performance in the past two years, he was awarded the title of Marquis and Earl.
In the imperial capital, the kings who were gathered together and had outstanding work abilities were enfeoffed as four dukes, twelve marquises, and twenty earls, of whom thirty percent were women.
In two years, the promotion of learning the common language and Chinese characters began to show results, and the implementation of official gazetteers had begun.
Living conditions have improved, and there have been significant improvements in food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Ordinary people had extra money, and the opening of town schools, county schools, and prefectural schools was put on track, and compiling unified textbooks became the top priority.
Confucians, Legalists, Mohists, medical experts, diplomats, novelists, etc. all rushed to join.
The rapid development of the school promoted the promotion and improvement of papermaking and printing techniques.
Roads were clear, with a post station every 100 miles along official roads, and at least one post office in every town, large or small. Disabled soldiers would be employed in these stations, serving for no more than five years before being rotated out like regular soldiers. Communications monopolies were eliminated.
In county towns and above, post stations and post offices were managed by personnel dispatched by local officials to ensure cooperation between the central and local governments.
The infrastructure work was still in progress, and Zhuge Yi and Zhang Qiaozhi had no time to rest. They began to plan the urban construction of the thirteen main cities and started real estate.