From Propulsion City To Multiverse

Huanghe Prefecture, Lingwu Mansion.

Mo Xiaobei's family, who had just migrated from Guanzhong last year, thought they were being exiled to the north at first, but after coming here, they realized that Lingwu was no worse than Guanzhong Plain.

Mo Xiaobei took advantage of the winter vacation to help her parents take care of her younger siblings at home.

There are 8 people in her family, and a total of 160 mu of arable land has been allocated, but the family members who can really serve as labor force are only parents, older brothers and older sisters.

Originally, her eldest sister was already 16 years old this year. According to the age of marriage in this era, she should have talked about marriage long ago.

However, the land distribution policy of the Human Revolutionary Federation is the same for men, women and children. This means that if a daughter is married, it is equivalent to dowrying 20 acres of land. Naturally, many parents are unwilling to marry their daughters easily.

This has also gradually formed a custom, that is, marrying each other.

That is to say, both families have a boy and a girl with children who are about the same age. By marrying each other's daughters, the risk of farmland being taken back and flowing out is offset.

Farmers are very sensitive in this regard, and their small abacus is crackling.

Therefore, Mo Xiaobei's eldest brother and sister, her parents are looking for a suitable farmer to marry, if they can't find it, they will marry a few years later.

Anyway, according to the legal age of marriage stipulated by the Human Revolutionary Federation, women are only allowed to register for marriage after they are 18 years old.

If you marry early, you will be severely punished.

This is mainly to reduce the rate of dystocia. Marrying and having children at a young age has very serious consequences. The reason why the death rate of children in ancient times is so high is actually related to giving birth too early.

And the strategy of allocating land equally between men, women and children,

Also to a certain extent, increased the importance of the baby girl.

According to the household registration law and farmland law, as long as the child reaches one year old, he can apply to the local agricultural department for land transfer.

If the child dies, I'm sorry! The land is to be reclaimed.

Mo Xiaobei gently rocked the cradle, inside was her newborn younger sister, and on the ground beside her was her younger brother crawling around.

Outside the light blue glass window, there was a vast expanse of white ice and snow, but the house was warm and warm. She looked at the briquettes in the fireplace, and put another briquette in with iron clips.

This kind of fireplace is actually a variant of the wood-saving stove, and it is also specially designed for indoors. There is an air inlet at the bottom that connects to the outside. With a reasonable design, it can avoid indoor carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide poisoning.

And above the fireplace, there are several large iron pots, which are used to boil water.

In addition, there is indoor floor heating, which is actually a hot water circulation heating system with aluminum pipes. The fireplace can continuously heat the water storage pipes, and then there is a windmill on the roof, which mechanically drives the water circulation of the water pipes.

As long as the water pipes are laid underground, the heat of the fireplace can be spread throughout the house.

Like the air-conditioning system in the south, the heating system in the north is also one of the livelihood projects in various places.

To allow the population in the north to settle down for a long time, reasonable and high-quality supporting facilities are essential.

Just after Mo Xiaobei added the briquettes, the gate of the front yard opened, and she took a closer look, and it turned out that her parents and older brothers and sisters had returned.

Xiao Bei, open the door.

coming!

Mo Dahu, who came in with a big bag, patted the snowflakes on his body: Xiao Bei, where is your grandmother?

Grandmother is making pancakes in the back kitchen. Mo Xiaobei carried a big iron pot and poured hot water for his parents and eldest brothers and sisters.

The eldest brother Mo Xiaobao took off his woolen coat, and said with a sigh of relief: It's really too cold today, a bit colder than Guanzhong.

Hurry up and wash your hands, we'll have dinner later. Mother Song Xiulan hurried to the back kitchen to help.

Although the Lingwu Mansion has only been controlled by the Human Revolutionary League for two years, the changes have been earth-shaking.

The population here is not too large. The herdsmen who were annexed before, plus the population migrating to Guanzhong and North China, add up to only 120,000, of which the agricultural population is 82,000.

Although the Yinchuan Plain has a potential of 20 million mu of arable land, only 3 million mu of arable land has been developed so far, and the rest are pastures and forest farms.

Of the 3 million mu of arable land, farmers only account for about half, and the remaining 1.5 million mu is the arable land of government-run farms.

Mo Xiaobei's family is just an ordinary farmer, but they own 160 mu of arable land, which is basically unthinkable in the old days.

Don't look at the fact that men in the Sui Dynasty would grant 80 mu of land, but many farmers still couldn't eat enough to live. The problem was that officials and tyrants were doing things.

However, the Human Revolutionary League will severely crack down on Haoqiang, and anyone who tries to annex land will be targeted.

But this also creates a big problem, which is the labor problem.

Mo Xiaobei's family has only 4 young and strong laborers, and it is indeed a lot of trouble to cultivate 160 mu of farmland.

Aye! The village wants us to go to the Department of Agriculture to learn how to drive a tractor. I want to learn. Mo Xiaobao asked his father cautiously.

Mo Dahu, who was warming up, was stunned for a moment: Tractor? Is it that kind of big iron bull? Does the government still have such an arrangement?

It was said by the lecturer Chen and the people in our youth school that only young people are needed.

Mo Dahu was a little unhappy: After studying, what should I do with the fields at home?

I heard that the supply and marketing cooperative sells tractors for only 50,000 yuan.

Hearing 50,000 yuan, Mo Dahu jumped up: You prodigal son, do you know how much wheat you need to sell for 50,000 yuan? You need to sell 7,000 kilograms of wheat...

Aye! Our family harvested 20,000 kilograms last year. If we hadn't listened to Mr. Chen's advice and put in chemical fertilizers, how could the harvest be so high? Mo Xiaobao also stiffened a little.

Mo Dahu, who is conservative, doesn't think so: But the 20,000 kilograms of wheat can't all be sold. If there is a famine, what will our family eat?

You can get a loan! To buy large-scale agricultural machinery, the bank can take out a loan, and the annual interest is only 10%.

Nie Zi! You...

The old and new concepts of the father and son collided fiercely.

In fact, this is also the epitome of the current rural era.

Okay! Why are you father and son arguing? Are you still eating? The sturdy Song Xiulan walked out of the back kitchen with a large plate of pancakes.

Mo Dahu, who was a little afraid of guilt, suddenly froze.

But Mo Xiaobao, who did not give up, continued: I will use my own money to buy a tractor. At worst, I will go to work on a farm next year.

Song Xiulan patted her son's head: Okay, isn't it just a tractor? Our family can still afford it if we make do.

Hmph... Prodigal son... If you are not in charge of a family, you don't know how expensive Chai Mi is... Mo Dahu murmured on the sidelines.

But Song Xiulan didn't pay attention to him. After so many years of husband and wife, she already knew that Mo Dahu was a paper tiger: Dinner.

On the dining table is a large plate of roasted naan, three salted duck eggs, fried onions, and a large pot of milk tea.

The salted duck eggs are from Gaoyou, and the onions are grown on a local official farm in Lingwu. This is one of the crops imported from Tianzhu.

And milk tea is even simpler. Lingwu’s official ranch has a large number of goats, sheep, and cattle, which produce a large amount of fresh milk every day, even in winter.

Tea is the pillar industry in Jiangdong Prefecture, Huainan Prefecture, Poyang Prefecture, and Southeast Prefecture. The cheapest black tea is only 80 yuan per kilogram, which is most suitable for making hot milk tea.

White sugar is also a big industry in the south. At present, the sugarcane planting area in the southern states is about 15.8 million mu, with an annual output of 1.3 to 1.6 million kilograms of white sugar.

Although the per capita is only about 0.036 kilograms, the consumption of white sugar in the southern states is actually not high. The main reason is that the fruit production is too abundant, which offsets a large part of the white sugar consumption.

Therefore, the northern states have relatively sufficient white sugar.

However, white sugar is still in short supply. In order to alleviate the shortage of white sugar, Zheng Sen has increased the area of ​​sugarcane planting in the southern states. At the same time, there are various governors of Tianzhu under his control, which are also the core planting areas of sugarcane.

At the same time, the cultivation of sweet sorghum was promoted in various parts of the north.

It is estimated that by the 7th year of the new calendar, there will be a planting scale of 50 million mu of sugarcane and 20 million mu of sweet sorghum, and an annual output of 6 to 7 million kilograms of white sugar.

In addition, there is an excellent variety breeding project to breed new varieties that are more productive and adapt to the northern climate.

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Lingwu has a lower latitude than Wuyuanfu in Hetao, so spring arrives earlier, and the thaw begins at the end of February in the lunar calendar.

As the river surface thaws, in order to prevent ice floods in the Hetao Plain, a part of the river ice will be blown up in advance.

In mid-March, Lingwu Port became extremely busy.

Dozens of 300-ton cement ships, driven by steam engines, traveled downstream from Lingwu Port to Yinshan Port on the Hetao Plain.

A transport ship full of daily necessities, ignoring the river and sporadic ice floes, sailed north this time, and it was also the first time that the river transport was officially carried out since the opening of the North Channel this year.

After more than two years of continuous impact on the Beijin Canal, the current channel has expanded to 230-380 meters, and the average water depth is 3.2-8.3 meters.

Now in a part of the north-facing canal, embankments have begun to be built to curb the continued erosion of the soil on both sides of the river.

After the Yellow River advances northward, the previous middle and lower reaches will reduce the flow of 30 to 40 billion cubic meters of water every year. It seems that there is much less water.

Actually, no less.

Because in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, no one dared to divert water due to the above-ground river. Instead, the Yellow River water flowed into the Bohai Sea in vain.

After the upstream was cut off, the Shanxi-Shaanxi stepped reservoirs were also advancing downward one by one from the upstream, resulting in a decrease in sediment input year by year.

After taking the Weihe and Fenhe rivers as the upper reaches, the river water in the lower reaches of the Yellow River quickly became clear, and then the sand was flushed through beams of water, so that the height of the river continued to drop.

It is estimated that within a few years, the aboveground river situation in the lower reaches of the Yellow River will be fundamentally resolved.

The role of Beijinqu is very important.

The transport ship entered the river channel of the north entrance channel. The river water here was not too urgent, but when it approached the lowlands of the vast sea, it became a little rusher. However, due to the adjustment of the river channel, the average slope here is not high.

After leaving the Beijin Canal, you will find the Great Lake of Beisha, a man-made lake. After more than two years of river water injection, the area has expanded by 183 square kilometers at this time, with an average depth of 11.7 meters.

There are still a lot of floating ice left on the sparkling lake.

Beisha Lake has two water outlets, one is in the southwest, and there is a port near the mouth of the river, called Beisha Port; the other is in the northeast.

The transport ship berths at Beisha Port.

The captain Zhang Mingdao handed over to the port transportation company, and the laborers on the dock quickly moved a large amount of supplies.

He leaned against the railing of the ship's side, quietly looking at the endless lake, that blue was deeper than the sky.

Many waterfowls hovered in mid-air, as if they were wondering why there was a big lake here.

On the highlands on the shore of the lake, many people planted branches of red willow and Populus euphratica in the sand.

There are more than a dozen bulldozers in the distance, leveling the desert and preparing to turn the sandy land into grassland again.

Suddenly Zhang Mingdao noticed a transport ship coming in at the berth next to it, with sacks on it.

So it's Lao Hou.

The bearded captain turned his head and said with a smile, Xiao Zhang! Are you going to Hanhai too?

I made an impromptu trip. Dalong's steam engine broke down, and I was accepted as his mission. What are you transporting?

Lao Hou shook his head and said with a dry smile, A big boat of fermented fertilizer.

Fermented fertilizer... Zhang Mingdao couldn't help laughing.

Due to the desertification of the nearby sandy land for thousands of years, the humus on the surface has long been lost. Although alfalfa is resistant to barrenness and salinity, it also needs some humus.

Therefore, the government-run ranch in Beisha Port purchased a large amount of fermented cow dung and sheep dung as a humus supplement for the sandy land.

In fact, the area of ​​the Hanhai lowland is very vast, with a length of 1,400 kilometers from east to west and a width of about 40 to 120 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of ​​about 97,000 square kilometers.

And these long and narrow terrain, once the Hanhai Canal exists for a long time, it can become a large grassland.

The 97,000 square kilometers of grassland, or 145.5 million mu, is equivalent to half of the entire Hulun Buir Grassland.

As long as there is water, fertilizer and reasonable planning, the pastures in the Hanhai lowlands can raise 20 to 30 million sheep or goats.

Of course, the pastures of Human Leather Union are all fixed, and they will not adopt the traditional sheep herding mode, but adopt the method of captive breeding, greenhouse, sowing pasture, and green storage.

There is no way to quickly increase production through stocking and nomadic herding that is hard-resistant to the cold in winter. Only by adopting a more scientific method can everyone afford meat.

Two hours later.

One-third of Zhang Mingdao's cargo was unloaded, so he and three sailors sailed west and entered the Hanhai West Canal.

The total length of the Hanhai West Canal is 567 kilometers, and there are 11 towns along the way. This is also the characteristic of the distribution of cities in the Hanhai lowlands, that is, they are distributed along both sides of the canal.

However, Zhang Mingdao's boat did not stop halfway, but went directly to the final destination, the state capital of Juyan Prefecture - Juyan City.

Along the way, the river is very gentle and there are many lakes.

At the speed of a steamship, it took two days.

If it is transported by horse-drawn carriage, there are more than 100 tons of supplies on board, and there is no need to think about Juyan City within a month.

Juyan City is located next to Juyan Sea, and the port here is also very busy, because there is another canal here, which is the Ruoshui River.

Departing from Zhangye Port in the Hexi Corridor, you can go northward along Ruoshui and finally arrive at Juyan City.

If it is a weak water river before, the flow is not enough to support the canal, and there is no condition for the development of the canal.

However, with the opening of the Hexi Canal, the amount of water injected into the Hexi Corridor from the southwest will become larger and larger.

The annual runoff of the Ruoshui River was only 2 to 3 billion cubic meters before, but with the injection of the Hexi Canal, it directly broke through to the level of 5 billion cubic meters.

It not only makes the water resources on both sides of the Ruoshui River more abundant, but also allows the Ruoshui River to pass 150-ton inland river transport ships.

The Hexi Canal will continue to be upgraded in the future, and the upper limit of the river passage will be raised to 1,000 tons.

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