Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1877, Lin Haixueyuan

"woooo~"

Accompanied by the sound of the siren, a train was driving in a vast forest and snow field.

Both sides of the railway are boundless and boundless near the sea. The unique sea facing formed by the coniferous forest in the frigid zone is vast and boundless. Coupled with the thick snow, it forms a spectacular forest sea and snowfield.

Along with the advance of the train, the sound of sirens and the sound of rolling the rails, the trees on both sides of the road kept shaking and falling a lot of snow. The snow was so thick that people could just pass through it.

"The snow in Liaodong is really heavy!"

Sitting on the train, drinking hot tea, and leisurely looking at the scenery on both sides of the road, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help sighing.

Along the way, I have been to many places, and this is the first time I have seen such a heavy snow in Liaodong.

When it snows, heavy snow like goose feathers falls one after another, the world is vast and hazy, and the line of sight is blocked tightly, and nothing can be seen.

When you wake up the next morning, you will find that the door of your house is blocked, you can't even open the door, and there is snow as thick as a person outside.

Snow removal has also become the first thing Liaodong people do when they get up in the morning in winter.

The snow on the road at the door must be shoveled off, and the snow on the house must be removed, otherwise it will easily lead to the collapse of the house. The snow is too big and too thick.

"Your Majesty, Liaodong is one of the places with the most snowfall and the biggest snowfall among all the provinces in Ming Dynasty."

"This snow is very important to Liaodong. On the one hand, heavy snow can freeze to death insect pests and insect eggs in the soil, so that in the coming year, there will be much fewer crop diseases and insect pests."

"On the other hand, after the heavy snow melts, it can be turned into water, which can also guarantee agricultural water use in the Liaodong area. There is no need to worry about water in the Liaodong area."

Liu Jin also said with a smile when he heard Emperor Hongzhi's exclamation.

"Yes, auspicious snow heralds a good year!"

"If this kind of heavy snow falls in places like Henan, Shaanxi, and Shandong, it will be fine, and the harvest in the coming year will be guaranteed."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded and said.

"Your Majesty, it also depends on the time of day. Now that the people of Ming Dynasty have enough food and clothing, it doesn't matter if the snow is heavier. If it was before, such heavy snow would have caused a famine."

Liu Jin shook his head slightly and said, he also remembered the heavy snow when he just crossed over in his mind.

In the three provinces of Northern Zhili, Shanxi, and Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, an unknown number of people died after a heavy snowfall, and the winter wheat that had been used for the winter froze to death, which directly led to a famine in the following year, and an unknown number of people died.

A heavy snow completely tore away the fig leaf of the Hongzhi Dynasty's so-called prosperity and so-called ZTE, allowing Emperor Hongzhi to see clearly that the original face of the Ming Empire was not as prosperous and prosperous as those civil servants boasted.

"Yeah, if you eat enough and dress warmly, the snow is meaningful."

Emperor Hongzhi also nodded in deep agreement.

Just like now, in this vast forest and snowfield, everyone can sit on this train drinking tea and enjoying the forest and snow scenery leisurely. You can easily travel from Vladivostok to Liaoyang in Liaodong, and then return to Beijing and Tianjin from Liaoyang area.

"How big is this Lin Hai? It's been almost a day since I walked here. It seems that I still can't see the boundary."

Looking at the unchanging Linhai outside the window, the vast snow makes everything white, and the eyes are tired after looking at it for a long time, and there is no meaning.

"Your Majesty, the terrain of eastern Liaodong can be described as a horseshoe shape, with the Changbai Mountains to the east, the Greater Khingan Mountains to the west, the Lesser Khingan Mountains to the north, and the Changyun Mountains (later known as the Sihot Mountains) northeast of Vladivostok. To the north, there is the even larger Outer Xing'an Mountains."

"In these areas in the middle, here is the Songnen Plain, and this is the Liaodong Plain."

"The train we took went from Vladivostok to the Songnen Plain, and then to the Liaodong Plain, so it needed to pass through the huge forest area of ​​the northern section of the Changbai Mountains and the southern section of the Changyun Mountains."

"Its area is very large, with a vast forest and sea, and it is estimated that it may take us two days to reach the ice city in the Songnen Plain."

"One of the most precious things in the entire Liaodong region is the black soil of Liaodong, which is very fertile and flat and open, which is very conducive to mechanized farming."

"The other one is the forest area in Liaodong. The Daxing'anling forest area, the Changbai Mountain forest area, the Xiaoxing'anling forest area, the Outer Xing'anling forest area and the Changyun Mountain forest area. Each of the five major forest areas is at least equivalent to the area of ​​Zhejiang Province. .”

"This is a heaven-sent land, the granary and forest warehouse bestowed on us by God!"

Liu Jin took out a map, and while explaining the vastness and richness of Liaodong to Emperor Hongzhi, he sighed at the same time.

Such a good place now all belongs to Daming, and the people of Daming can develop it as they want, the fertile land in Liaodong, the dense and vast forest.

It is a pity and a pity that half of such a treasure land will be robbed by Maozi in the later generations of the endless general resources.

"The five major forest areas, each of which is equivalent to Zhejiang Province?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he widened his eyes slightly, looked at the map carefully, and then looked at the forest sea and snow field outside, and had to believe it, because the forest sea in front of him was indeed so vast that he could not see it at all. marginal.

Look at the trees in this forest, they are all very tall, and they are primitive forests.

In order to build this railway, it cost a lot of money. It took a lot of manpower and material resources just to open up such a road in the forest. That is to say, now Daming is rich and powerful, coupled with the gradual popularization of mechanization, it has increased productivity. .

Otherwise, it would be almost impossible to build such a railway.

Looking at both sides of the road, you can still see a lot of logs that have been cut down and piled up together. There are a lot of these logs, but no one wants them, so they can only be piled here, waiting for them to rot slowly.

In Liaodong, the least valuable thing is wood, because the forest here is too big and too much. I don’t know how much wood there is. The transportation inside is inconvenient, so when the railway was built, a large number of felled trees could only be abandoned here.

This has kept Liaodong's forests from being developed, because few people cut down these trees. Except for shipbuilding, other people even use briquettes for heating and lighting, because the coal and steel resources here are also very rich. , Honeycomb coal is very cheap.

It is more cost-effective to buy briquettes directly than to work hard to cut wood.

Generally speaking, Liaodong is still sparsely populated, and there are too few people.

The three northeastern provinces in later generations have a population of hundreds of millions. If you count the population of the area outside that was cut off to Maozi, the population of the entire huge area is almost 1.5 million.

But now, although the Ming Empire has always insisted on immigrating to Liaodong Province, three or four million people have immigrated to Liaodong. In addition, more than ten years have passed, and the population has multiplied. people, Japanese people immigrated to Liaodong, etc., the total population of the entire Liaodong region has not yet exceeded 1000 million.

In such a large and rich area, the population is less than 1000 million, and it is evenly distributed in the immigrant areas. As you can imagine, the population density here is very low, and the land is sparsely populated, except for areas where immigrants gather Other than that, other places are basically uninhabited no-man's land, forest seas, swamps and so on.

The advantage of the vast land and sparse population is that the pressure of survival is very small and there are many resources.

The life of Liaodong people is very high in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Every household here has huge arable land, using mechanized farming methods, and the total output is very high. The grain produced in Liaodong alone is enough for the entire Ming Dynasty to eat for two or three years.

Even if the output is large, the quality of grain in Liaodong is still very high. Whether it is wheat produced in Liaodong, corn, potatoes, or the rice that is now being tried to grow, the quality is very good. It is the most popular grain in Beijing and Tianjin. .

This also allows farmers in Liaodong to live a prosperous life just by farming.

Except for the cold winter and the heavy snow, there is nothing bad here. Eat well, dress warmly, have a lot of land, and it is very fertile. There are also a lot of other resources. It is definitely a good place. .

Farming, farming, coal, steel, forestry, etc. can also be easily developed. In addition, now that railways and roads have been built, it is close to the Beijing-Tianjin area.

It can be said that the development of Liaodong Province is considered to be the fastest among the provinces of the Ming Dynasty. It has become the big granary of the Ming Dynasty. It is also developing towards the meat warehouse, and the breeding industry has also begun to develop rapidly.

Because everyone found that although the grain output is high, it can’t be sold at a high price, and sometimes it is not easy to sell. It is also a good choice to have surplus grain for farming. In addition, the winemaking industry is gradually developing. Liaodong’s Daming Guojiao is very famous now.

"There are many forests, and the forests are beautiful."

"At least in terms of water and soil, you don't have to worry about the passage of time, at least you don't have to worry about not having enough wood to burn fire or make furniture."

Looking at the map carefully, after reading it, Emperor Hongzhi also said with a smile.

"That's right, this huge forest area is a treasure house, a treasure house bestowed by God to us Daming people."

"However, the forest sea in Liaodong is not the largest. The largest forest sea is in the vaster Siberia, where the forest sea is truly boundless."

"Siberia?"

(End of this chapter)