Chapter 42 New Jingjiang
Perhaps in the future, overseas vassals will have to choose places with strong roots. A place where at least there are people living together. No matter who.
These days, talent is the most precious resource.
Starting from scratch is too difficult.
However, that's it. Although He Xi secretly felt that she had made some miscalculations. However, you can be angry but not vented, and you can't admit your mistakes either. If he admits he was wrong. Now it is difficult to move forward with this matter.
And He Xi herself didn't feel that she had done anything wrong. Just a little mistake.
This kind of mistake is still within the controllable range.
He Xi's mind was racing, and she said to King Jingjiang with a confident tone: "Your Highness, although it is a bit more difficult here, the most expensive expenses are the responsibility of the imperial court. The money spent is the imperial court's money, so why should you worry. And once It’s easier to draw on a blank piece of paper.”
King Jingjiang always felt that there was something in He Xi's words.
Indeed, a blank piece of paper is the best way to talk.
In this kind of poverty-stricken, almost barbaric land, he established his own foundation. These people must be their die-hard loyalists and will not be influenced by the one in the court. This is my trustworthy team.
For King Jingjiang, the most despairing thing in recent years was nothing else. It's that person's shadow.
Almost everywhere.
King Jingjiang tried every means. It is also difficult to recruit a group of own people. Not even my father's old team. Perhaps only in this isolated island can we cultivate our own manpower.
Seeing King Jingjiang like this, He Xi breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, he felt more and more that it was best to fiddle with someone's desires.
However, he temporarily appeased King Jingjiang. But things that should be faced still have to be faced.
After He Xi arrived on the island, he spent several days getting the place almost ready.
This bay is also known as Taiwan. It's a good port. Surrounded by sandbanks, it blocks out many strong winds and waves. It is also because it is surrounded by sandbanks and there are only a few waterways between the entrance and exit, making it easy to defend.
This may be the reason why it was chosen by many people later.
Easy to defend but difficult to attack. as a maritime base. It's very good.
Another reason is that the land here is flat and wide. There are probably plains for dozens of miles around.
Of course, the plains that people see now are all processed bit by bit by countless generations of ancestors. The original plains were not like this.
On land, there is a river that flows into the bay. This river is the main source of sand in the bay. Of course, there are many rivers on the west coast of Taiwan. He Xi did not dare to conclude that all the sand was produced by the river.
The river takes up at least a good portion of it.
He Xi doesn't know what the name of this river will be in later generations. But now it has a new name, and it is called Xinjingjiang.
In fact, many times, the ancient names are as boring as the modern ones. Just like Dongguan, it was originally the name of a place in the north, but it was later moved to the south and it was still called this name. Since King Jingjiang has this name, the place name Tainan may disappear forever from now on.
Only Jingjiang is left.
Where there are rivers, there are large swamps and wetlands dominated by rivers. It is also a gathering place for many mosquitoes. That's what King Jingjiang saw. Mosquitoes gather together and fly high like fog. Crocodiles and other ferocious beasts appear in the swamps.
Choose people to eat.
This primitive landscape is already very uncomfortable. But it's not so easy elsewhere.
Because in fact, the place is filled with woods. An endless forest of trees. The leaves even cover the sky and the sun, and Taiwan seems to be entering the rainy season now, with non-stop rain. He Xi couldn't help but think of a term, that is, tropical rainforest.
He Xi doesn't know whether the forests here in Taiwan are really tropical rainforests. But a big tree with tangled roots. The vines have entangled the big tree into a whole. In short, I want to turn these woods into farmland. You must have the spirit of Foolish Old Man to move mountains.
The woods covering dozens of miles are integrated with the trees on the mountain. No easier to deal with than a mountain.
Fortunately, as mentioned earlier, Taiwan was inhabited during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in the fifth year of Hongwu, Tang He sent people to inspect the sea. Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to move all the people here. It was only ten years ago.
Therefore, the traces left by these people are still there, although ten years have allowed the greenery to grow freely, covering up all the traces of their lives. Many trees have even occupied the original cultivated land.
But no matter what, we have to deal with the tropical rainforest that is unknown how old it is, and the old village that has been abandoned for ten years. It goes without saying which one is easier to deal with.
The current camp is in this old village.
Here is a large area of several thousand square meters of ashes.
Without him, facing this kind of situation, the best thing to use is to use fire. Fire after fire burned down the old house that had been left behind, and at the same time, it also burned out a clearing on the ground. Of course, fire can't deal with everything. For example, the woods here are very humid. It's not that fires can't happen. But many fires don’t burn for long before they go out on their own.
And the fire cannot burn underground. Underground tree roots or something. It also needs to be removed manually bit by bit.
In short, there are so many things here, and even a place to live has not been implemented.
Although there are a few houses, they have all been newly built. In Zhan Ding's words, it is best to go back to live on the boat. Although living on the boat has various problems, it is relatively humid. But living in this kind of newly built house will also face the same problem.
By the way, Zhan Ding is responsible for managing this outpost camp.
Without him, with King Jingjiang’s virtue and such a remote place, no one would be willing to use it for King Jingjiang. King Jingjiang had no manpower available. Although Zhan Ding was disabled now, he had served as chief envoy of a province and Fang Guozhen's chief adviser, responsible for a mere few thousand camps. Simply overkill.
Take good care of this place.
Zhan Ding summarized this place and said: "There is no problem in building a small city of 30,000 people here. The original village probably had thousands of acres of land. But near the Xinjing River, there are a lot of swamps and wetlands. I After seeing it, just building a dike of a few thousand steps can turn a large swamp into fertile farmland. Not to mention tens of thousands of people. A few more people can be fed. However, although this thing is simple, it still has its consequences It’s a hidden danger. After all, it’s encroaching on natural waterways. I asked some local indigenous people and they said that in summer and autumn, flash floods are still very fierce. So you have to pay special attention. However, if you reclaim land in other places, it will be a hard work because of the entanglement of big trees. "
The place with the best water conservancy in the world is the Jiangnan area.
After dozens of generations of repairs by ancestors, the chaotic water system in the south of the Yangtze River was organized into order. In fact, it doesn’t need to go too far. During the Three Kingdoms period, the water conservancy in some places in the south of the Yangtze River was similar to here.
It is through the governance of generations that we have the reputation of heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below.
Because of this, it is easy for Jiangnan to produce famous water conservancy experts.
So, this kind of dam building. Then, we will cooperate with the canals to carry out drainage operations, and the swamp wetlands adjacent to the lake and river will be constructed. Converted to farmland. paddy field. It’s almost basic operation. It's not worth the fuss at all.
Of course, Zhan Ding's worries are not unreasonable.
He must not know enough about the hydrology here. I just know that flash floods are very powerful, but what is so powerful about them. Or how awesome it is. He also had no way of judging. But the most important thing now is to guard Jingjiang King San, more than 15,000 people, plus his family members. Probably tens of thousands of people were resettled.
It requires enough arable land.
As for land reclamation in other places, it is simply not possible. At least it's too late.
He Xi asked: "According to your plan, when will this land be reclaimed?"
"Well." Zhan Ding said: "At least one year. This is still a low estimate. After all, this is nothing else. If you want to be self-sufficient, it will probably take a few more years."
He Xi thought to himself: "It seems that it is not much different from my estimate. There must be other industry support here, or foreign wealth." When she thought of foreign wealth. He Xi seemed to have caught a detail that Zhan Ding had said.
