From Propulsion City To Multiverse

After the flood in the south of the Yangtze River, as expected by Song Que, in the Jianghuai area controlled by the Wagang Army, a large area of ​​farmland was wiped out, and many people's houses were submerged.

For the classical era, such a catastrophe could instantly bankrupt ordinary farmers.

On December 24th, 3rd year of the new calendar, the rain became a little lighter. On the border, a large number of refugees with their families flowed into Huainan Prefecture from the territory of the Wagang Army.

Song Que has already prepared a resettlement camp, food, briquettes for heating, and epidemic prevention and disinfection supplies.

the other side.

Li Xiuning and his party at the Liyang City Guest House also received a notification from the escort officer that they could leave for Yangzhou City.

The light rain on Tianjie is as moist as crisp, and there are many cars and horses on the bluestone road.

Out of the city, it is Xingang Avenue.

This cement road did not have any major problems during this heavy rain, and it can still pass unimpeded.

On the carriage, Li Xiuning opened the curtains and looked at the busy road. Many people did not seem to feel the impact of the flood.

Suddenly a long tweet caught her attention. At the junction of Xingang Avenue and the port, there seemed to be a large number of workers busy.

The behemoth that screamed was not the steam engine of the Human Revolutionary League, but an elephant.

The elephant was pulling a huge steel roller to compact the foundation of the road. There were eight other elephants at the scene, and except for the baby elephant grazing in the shed, the other six were busy.

Or pull the bucket truck to transport building materials and earthwork, or pull the rolling steel roller.

This is a Jiangnan elephant that still lives in the plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is also one of the native elephant species in East Asia.

The early and middle periods of the Sui and Tang Dynasties were the warm periods in the climate cycle of East Asia. This era is beautiful, because there are elephants and rhinos in the Jiangnan area, and there are East Asian crocodiles (up to six meters in size) in the Lingnan area, and the population is quite large. huge.

Compared with rhinos, which are difficult to domesticate, elephants are relatively easy to domesticate.

For example, many Baiyue tribes have the habit and technology of domesticating elephants for transporting animal power or as war elephants.

Areas controlled by the CRRU,

A large number of Baiyue small tribes are needed. After these tribes are merged into towns, people who can breed and train elephants are drawn out to form the Giant Elephant Company.

At present, the company has more than 8,000 people and 6 elephant farms.

They are Yunmengze Farm, Dongting Lake Farm, Poyang Lake Farm, Dabie Mountain Farm, Taihu Xiyuan Farm, and Yangzhou Farm.

Among them, there are 5,723 wild elephants and 1,248 domesticated elephants.

As for wild elephants in other areas, they are also expelled to nature reserves as much as possible.

The thousands of farmed elephants were not trained as war elephants, but as transport animals. In order to prevent the elephants from being injured by sudden cold snaps, the farm also prepared large cloaks woven of palm and hemp, and built There is a special warm place.

And these elephants are not free to eat and drink, they must make their own contributions to construction work and transportation work to reflect their existence value.

In the immature steam roller, and the muddy and dense rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, elephants really play a very important role.

In order to ensure that these big guys are obedient, they are also given some sugar cane, bananas and special pasture.

As for the collection of ivory, unless the elephant dies of old age or disease, it is not allowed to saw the ivory.

What's more, there is no demand for ivory in the territory of the Human Revolutionary League, and the people can't afford it. Zheng Sen and others strictly prohibit the use of ivory products.

The ecological niche of elephants in the Human Leather Federation has changed from a source of luxury goods and leather to a means of transportation and labor.

The former is killing the goose and taking the eggs, while the latter is sustainable development.

Before the lake port in Liyang was built, there were elephants working in it.

The elephant roller that Li Xiuning saw did not surprise her. After all, during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, there were also elephants in the Yellow River and the Guanzhong Plain. However, due to a sudden change in climate and the expansion of humans, the elephants had to move south to the Huaihe River Basin. And migrated to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

After the Song Dynasty, it will further migrate to the south of Lingnan and the southern part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

However, history has shifted here. Based on the development concept of the Human Revolutionary Union, these big guys may be able to live in the Yangtze River Basin for a long time.

As for the sudden change in climate, in fact, the global climate is always fluctuating. The reason why elephants have traveled all the way south is mainly because the ecological niche in the north has been occupied by humans. Even if the climate gets warmer, there is no way to return to the north. Gu Lan

Zheng Sen also saw Jiangnan elephants of this era in the Yangzhou farm, and found that they were not like modern Asian elephants, but a transitional species between modern Asian elephants and Xianbelia mammoths.

In other words, these Jiangnan elephants actually have relatively thick body hair, which is obviously a feature evolved to resist cold weather.

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Liyang Xingang.

Three more steam engines were added to the wharf, bringing significant efficiency improvements in cargo handling.

In addition to the loading and unloading area, the port also has carriage wooden tracks, storage areas, staff dormitories, and commercial streets.

Everything seemed to be in order. Compared with the old-fashioned city with a lot of sewage and stinking all the way, the policy of the Human Revolutionary Federation in this regard opened Li Xiuning's eyes.

After all, she is from aristocratic background, so naturally she doesn't like dirty and messy environment.

Li Xiuning sighed softly: Chang'an is actually not as good as the small port of Liyang City. The strength of the Human Revolutionary Alliance can be seen.

We can do the same in the future. Chai Shao comforted quickly.

But they don't know that sometimes the environmental problems of cities are not a matter of concept, but the result of insufficient productivity and uneven distribution.

For example, as powerful landlords, princes and nobles, they naturally have the material basis to keep their residences clean and tidy.

But as ordinary people, sometimes it's not that they don't want to be clean and hygienic, but that conditions don't allow it.

Ordinary people who have problems with food and clothing, how can they be expected to bathe, drink hot water, and use soap every day?

Many people can't even afford wood and charcoal. They have to get up early and late to plow the fields, and worry about food and clothing all day long. Mandatory cleanliness requires material support.

Human Revolutionary Union can do it, but it doesn't mean Li Tang can do it.

In order to achieve a clean and hygienic living environment, the Human Revolutionary Union has paid a huge price, such as a large number of management personnel, setting up water boilers, charcoal factories, briquette factories, and lime factories in various places.

There are also various new technologies, including rough drinking water inspection technology, rough drinking water filtration technology, firewood-saving stove technology, extrusion well drilling technology, and hand pump technology.

In addition, the income of farmers and workers has increased significantly, there is sufficient salt, and relatively cheap sugar, meat and eggs, soap, and other industrial products.

It is the joint effect of the system, technology, and income that enables the Revolutionary Union to complete this earth-shaking social progress.

Even if Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and others wanted to change a feudal force like Li Tang that hadn't undergone a thorough reform, they were destined to be smashed in the face of huge and stubborn vested interests.

There is no bloody revolution, it is a cancer patient after chemotherapy, who seems to be alive, but is just lingering.

The Qin and Sui dynasties are obvious examples.

The First Emperor was too merciful to give the nobles of the six countries a chance to revive. If he had made up his mind at that time and directly killed all the nobles of the six countries, the Great Qin Empire could at least last for a while.

The problem with the Sui Dynasty was that Yang Jian was not in the right position, and the Yuwen family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was still alive and kicking in the Sui Dynasty.

In fact, the Sui Dynasty cannot be regarded as a separate dynasty.

Northern Wei-Western Wei-Northern Zhou-Sui, all the way down, from 386 A.D. to 618 when the Sui Dynasty perished, lasted 232 years, and all came through division and usurpation internally.

Under such circumstances, there remained a large number of Xianbei nobles, Huhua tyrants, and the Central Plains clans who were like weeds in the Sui Dynasty.

Rather than saying that the Sui Dynasty was an independent feudal dynasty, it is better to say that the Sui Dynasty was the successor of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Northern Wei Dynasty.

After 232 years of solidification, Yang Jian laid a very good foundation for Yang Guang, but Yang Guang's eyes were superior and his abilities were inferior. In addition, he violated the interests of the aristocratic family, and finally ended up dying in the second generation.

And Li Tang, who is also in an improper position, why can he last for hundreds of years.

The reason is that at the end of the Sui Dynasty, there was a bloodletting in the interior, which reduced the number of people who shared the cake in the Central Plains by more than half, and some of the aristocratic families were also washed away.

If there was no bloodletting at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Tang would have been in power like Yang Jian, and he probably would not have escaped the death of the second generation.

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