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"Then do you think it will work after throwing yourself on the island?"

Feng Ang was taken aback.

After thinking for a while, he shook his head and said, "This old man just wants to be clean. However, since this old man isn't here, it's not fair for them to snatch it. At least there won't be any more disputes."

Liu Bai nodded approvingly.

Feng An is a big fat man with a nice smell, so his sons are naturally vampires.

Since you can't pull out the vampire's fangs, why don't you just take that unlucky fat man away?

Makes sense!

A wonderful idea appeared in Liu Bai's mind.

He suddenly discovered that after he came to Jiangnan, the problems he ignored were far more than the cowardice of the common people.

From a certain point of view, this kind of cowardice may not be able to become a kind of anger.

And this kind of angry fire may be enough to burn the Jiangnan Chinese!

After figuring out the key point, Liu Bai ignored Feng An, got up quickly, and shouted to the back: "Go back to the island immediately!"

Holding the food and wine, Liu Wan'er, who had just come out of the cabin, saw Liu Bai's appearance, and a smile appeared on her face.

"It seems that the husband's heart knot has been opened, let's enjoy the wine and food, sisters."

Chapter 1457 He, who pursues empiricism, feels that his outlook on life... collapses

After returning to Dongzhou Island, Liu Bai plunged into his tent.

He dragged the messy things on the table to the ground with one arm, found a large sheet of paper, spread it on the table, compared it with the planning map of Dongzhou Island that he had drawn, and traced it bit by bit.

Chai Lingwu and the others were still in Suzhou City, helping Li Tai prepare for the Buddhist and Taoist double meeting, but no one could come to help.

In two hours, Liu Bai improved the plan to a certain extent according to the original appearance.

There is no need for him to think about the specific details.

Kneading the original plan into a ball, Liu Bai sat down, looked at the new plan, and fell into deep thought.

He made improvements in some key places.

"Call Lao Meng over!"

Not long after, Lao Meng opened the curtain of the tent and walked in, cupping his hands with a smile.

"Hello, Master!"

As the chief captain of the Liu family's engineering team, Rang can be said to be the busiest among the shopkeepers.

More than ten days ago, after finishing the finishing work on Li Er's Daming Palace, he rushed to Jiangnan with his subordinates without stopping.

After landing on the island, I didn't even have time to drink my saliva, so I immediately started the renovation plan of Dongzhou Island.

In Liu Bai's original idea, he planned to move all the villagers of Liujiazhuangzi to Dongzhou Island to live.

In Chang'an City, it is cold in winter and warm in summer, so there is really nothing to recommend.

Especially in winter, every household either burns coal or burns charcoal, making the air a mess.

Going out early in the morning, the sky is gray when I look up.

Sitting in the carriage, after going out for a stroll and coming back, a layer of black coal dust can fall on the roof.

The ones with lower terrain were even worse, and those who suffered the most were the inner city of Chang'an City and the area around Longshouyuan.

In winter, standing in the distance and looking at it, it is completely shrouded in a cloud of gray mist, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a place where monsters live

Coming to the island, the climate is pleasant, the products are abundant, and a lot of labor is required.

It's good, if you don't support your own family first, you will be stabbed in the back later.

Since we want to bring folks here, the infrastructure must be good.

Lao Meng slept for two and a half hours at most every day, and was so busy all day that his feet never touched the ground.

Not only did Liu Bai not want local craftsmen in Suzhou to do this kind of thing, even Chen Bianji didn't trust him very much.

Lao Meng is still the most reliable.

In just a few days, the initial results have been achieved.

"Come on, look at this picture, let your people evaluate the specific operability space!"

Lao Meng took Liu Bai's picture and looked at it horizontally and vertically, but he didn't understand it.

"Master, is this Dongzhou Island?"

He pressed his palm on the map, gestured left and right for a long time, and said: "No, the land on the map is much larger than Dongzhou Island."

Liu Bai nodded and said, "That's the truth!"

Lao Meng was taken aback.

Continue to look down at the picture.

The mark on it is not much different from the copied plan in his hand.

Only in sporadic places, some changes have been made.

The biggest difference is that Dongzhou Island in this picture is almost twice as big as it actually is!

The next moment, Lao Meng's eyes widened suddenly!

"Master, you don't intend to fill the sea, do you?!"

Land reclamation is not a rare thing in later generations.

Even in the Song Dynasty, it was not considered new.

Historically, the earliest land reclamation for Dongzhou Island occurred during the reign of Song Shenzong.

But, it didn't work.

It's not because the technical means are not good enough.

In fact, small-scale land reclamation does not require much advanced technology.

There are only two methods in total.

One is to directly fill the sea with soil and gravel.

The second, and the most commonly used one, is to first build a dike to enclose the sea, and then slowly fill it in.

The cost of the latter is slightly higher, but the safety and reliability are not comparable to the former.

The failure of land reclamation in the Song Dynasty was mainly due to people's ideological problems.

After all, thousands of years ago, there was a legend that throwing a stone into the sea would turn you into a bird

They believe that it is an out-and-out sin to tamper with what God has bestowed on the world without authorization.

But on the other hand, it is very feasible to reclaim Dongzhou Island.

Dongzhou Island is originally an alluvial island, and its area is expanding every day, and the growth rate is constantly increasing.

In other words, the land has long been hidden under the water.

On this basis, the amount of engineering has been reduced sharply, and the risk is also much smaller.

Someone in later generations has done a calculation, and the annual growth area of ​​Dongzhou Island is about [-] mu.

In conversion, it is about [-] mu per day.

Even if the speed of the Tang Dynasty cannot catch up with the later generations, it will definitely not be too far behind!

Liu Bai has been on the island for a month, and the naked eye can see that the area of ​​the island has increased a lot!

Otherwise, how did Dongzhou Island take 300 years to transform from a big fart to a behemoth with a length of more than 150 miles and a width of [-] miles?

Of course, for Lao Meng, land reclamation is completely nonsense.

Never before!

"This this"

He stammered for a long time, and said with a bitter face: "Master, can I ask why? The current size of Dongzhou Island is enough for the folks in our village to toss about."

Liu Bai waved his hand and said, "You still don't understand what I said, but I just want to do it anyway!"

Lao Meng looked at the drawings in pain.

He who pursues empiricism feels that his outlook on life has collapsed.

I am just a mortal, where did the gods come from?

The young master will always give people problems

resignedly.

What to do is still to be done.

We earn this hard money.

Seeing Lao Meng holding the blueprints and walking out listlessly, Liu Bai was in a good mood.

He believed that the master architects under Lao Meng would give him a satisfactory answer.

After taking a sip of water, Liu Bai found out a piece of paper again.

Begins a row-by-row column calculation.

He no longer thought about letting the people of Liujiazhuangzi monopolize Dongzhou Island.

In fact, he also felt a little awkward at first.

No matter how large the population of Liu Family Zhuangzi is, it is still just a Zhuangzi after all.

Originally, every household was mostly related to each other.

If they live on a closed island, will they all become fools after a few generations of reproduction?

Besides, according to the growth rate of Dongzhou Island, in ten or twenty years, the area will catch up with the current Chang'an City.

In 20 years, how many more children can the villagers of Liujiazhuangzi have?

The population has doubled, even if the folks are in good health.

What's more, in the current Zhuangzi, most of them are old men and old ladies.

They are old, why bother them?

It would be better to migrate a group of local people from Jiangnan.

Liu Bai intends to make a careful selection, especially those who will be the 'parents' of the Chinese people in the south of the Yangtze River.

'Father and mother' are gone, whose blood will the Jiangnan Chinese suck?

Liu Bai listed the calculation formula on half a sheet of paper, and finally got a final number.

He frowned and looked at it for a long time, then murmured, "Isn't 5 people a bit too much?"

Chapter 1458 If there are difficulties, you must go up, if there are no difficulties, you must go up if you create difficulties

Liu Bai checked it several times, and it seemed that he did not miscalculate.

5 million people

If they all migrated to Dongzhou Island now, they might not even be able to stand down.

Even if the land reclamation plan can be successful, he is not very sure.

How many people are there in the entire city of Suzhou?

He vaguely remembered that according to the academy's statistics, excluding the surrounding villages, Suzhou had a total population of just over 1 households.

In conversion, forty to fifty thousand is quite remarkable.

Move the entire Suzhou city in?

The price is a bit too high

But having said that, the growth rate of Suzhou City's population is still very objective.