When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

As the capital city was gradually completed, a large number of people joined in.

With more people, there are more aspects that need attention.

Urban management has never been an easy task since ancient times.

Especially the issue of plague.

If we are not careful, a large number of people will die.

Therefore, in Xinqu's planning for the Beijing city, he clearly arranged some areas downstream and downwind to isolate some people.

For example, every day, each neighborhood had to be inspected to see which family had cases of typhoid fever or other problems.

Once a virus is confirmed to be highly contagious, it will be placed on special ships and taken downstream to the quarantine area.

Usually, only some old witch doctors or doctors from new-style clinics live here, who are responsible for dealing with highly contagious diseases.

In addition, a large amount of quicklime has to be sprayed into the ditches and culverts every month for disinfection.

With the current medical technology, isolation and prevention are the fastest ways to solve the problem.

Finally, there is the issue of dry toilets.

Although the Beijing area now has a monsoon climate, rain and heat occur at the same time.

However, without the construction of a large number of reservoirs, it is almost impossible to realize flush toilets.

The only thing that can be achieved is cheap dry toilets.

Therefore, the job of night soil collector came into being.

Of course, as a country with relatively developed agriculture, the farms around Yan State would also be responsible for collecting and composting the feces.

The farm is a government property, but the compost can be sold for a good price.

Some princes who owned actual fiefdoms also keenly noticed the good business of composting.

These days, there is no shortage of wasteland, dead trees, or silt; the only thing lacking is sufficient manpower and fertile land for cultivation.

It would take at least five years to cultivate a piece of land relying solely on human labor, but with enough compost, the task can be completed in three years.

Therefore, many people inquired about Si Nong everywhere and were willing to spend money on gifts in order to get these technologies from Si Nong.

Sinong Aqi also accepted a little at the beginning. After all, the annual funding was limited, and several projects of the Sinong Mansion required a lot of money, such as the breeding of war horses.

Since the court cannot give so much money, there is nothing wrong with him just selling some of the technology to his fellow villagers. After all, the court has performance appraisals, the time is tight and the task is heavy. Is it possible to speed up the completion without spending money?

But as the technological barriers became higher and higher, even foreign envoys had to pay high prices to buy it, and he finally felt something was wrong.

Without waiting for anyone to report him, he took the opportunity of moving into the new mansion and going to the palace to express his gratitude to tell the emperor about this matter.

Xin Qu was holding a map at this time, which was marked with: Complete map of the thirteen counties and towns of Liaoxi County.

After Dai Bingjia resigned from his post as General Zhenxi and became General of the Left Guard of Youzhou and Governor of Liaoxi, the task assigned to him by Xin Qu was to complete the surveying of Liaoxi County.

The general scope of Liaoxi County includes Chaoyang City, Jinzhou City, and Fuxin City in later generations.

The county seat was generally Liucheng, which is Chaoyang City.

Therefore, the main rivers in Liaoxi County are the Big and Small Linghe Rivers.

This is the tentacles of Peking and the first line of defense. Whenever Peking wants to govern the Northeast, it has to send troops and transport food and grass from here.

Moreover, this place is part of the Yanshan Mountains. Before the Shanhaiguan line was formed, it was an absolute defensive town.

Of course, the Shanhaiguan line is now being formed at an accelerated pace because of human development, and after Xinqu looked at the city defense map, he secretly made up his mind.

The Shanhaiguan line must be reclaimed.

Because Xin Qu discovered that if Liaoxi County really put its core strength in Chaoyang, the importance of Lulong Road would soar. It should be fine, but the problem is that Lulong Road is too difficult to travel, and the transportation of food and grass consumes too much.

In this way, if Liaoxi County is developed, it will not be possible to give back to Beiping.

They could only farm in western Liaoning, then transport the grain along the Liaoze Lake into the sea and then transport it here.

In this way, if Liaodong wanted to cut off the enemy, Xinqu would have no way to stop them.

More importantly, western Liaoning still needs to face the nomadic threat from the north.

Now that they have been defeated by us, it is true that the threat has been reduced, but Aqi also said that foreign forces are learning and purchasing their production technology.

This thing is unpredictable.

Because technology must be promoted, and if the border is to be stable, it must be promoted vigorously.

In this way, the barbarians outside the border will inevitably learn it over time. It’s okay now, but what about one or two hundred years later?

As the climate gets colder, the semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral foreign peoples will inevitably become nomadic and then move south.

This is an unavoidable deadlock.

In this way, Peking became the front line.

Once Liucheng is breached, if a second route cannot be found, the Northeast will inevitably be lost.

Frowning and putting down the map, Xin Qu looked at the anxious A Qi and said, "Except for the stallion technology, other agricultural technologies can be sold. It doesn't matter."

Xin Qu's words made Ah Qi look surprised: "Why is that?"

"It's very simple. Agricultural technology needs industrial technology as support. Without steel, how can they improve efficiency? Are few people able to make compost? No, it is widely recorded in the rice-growing tribes and states in the south.

They are close to a swamp, so there is no reason why they would not know and make use of how the silt is formed.

But the silt taken up needs to be decomposed, and after decomposition it needs to be stirred into the soil.

If you use a tool like a hoe, digging the soil will be very troublesome, and how can you stir it?

It is better to burn the wasteland, plant crops for three years and then change the land, and practice rotational farming.

Therefore, it is only necessary to control the outflow of steel farm tools. Even if their output increases in the short term, it will be extremely limited.

Even a slight increase in production can allow them to continue to consume for us. The porcelain, silk, and coins piled up in the warehouse are all our weapons to harvest them.

As for war horses, they are weapons of war and cannot be exported to foreign countries, which would only increase the risk."

Xin Qu finished speaking, his expression not changing much: "So, you have to sell the others at a good price, not cheap, try to get as much as possible.

The Ministry of Agriculture has many subordinate institutions. The resources required for the breeding and animal husbandry departments alone cannot be supported by national funding alone.

The seeds purchased from outside through trade in recent years have been a huge expense.

You can then switch with them.

We can also collaborate.

Regardless of the method, greatly expanding land output is what the Agriculture Ministry needs to do. "

Aqi nodded.

"By the way, how long would it take to build a corridor 20 miles wide along the line of Yuci, Yanghe, and Guangning (Jinzhou)?"

Xin Qu spread out the map, pointed to the bottom of Liaoxi County, and then clicked his fingers.

Ah Qi looked at the map and his pupils shrank: "You don't have enough polder fields? You also want to reclaim the sea?"

"No, it just speeds up the process. Nature will fill in the gaps here." Xin Qu knocked on the Shihe River, Liugu River, Xihe River, Xiaoling River, Liaoze and other areas. "These places are piling up sand every year. Now they are just some isolated islands and deltas that are not too connected, but sooner or later they will be connected. If we push one mile every year, we should be able to create a corridor in a hundred years.

Once Liaoxi County is lost, we still have a corridor to ensure that Liaodong is not lost.

Liao is too important to Peking.

We absolutely cannot afford to lose it. Once lost, Peking will become the front line and completely become a battlefield on all sides, which will be too restrictive.

So...what do you think?"

"Well... this. I'm afraid it won't take a hundred years." Ah Qi shook his head again and again, "Liao land shouldn't be affected in the short term, right?"

"Yeah. That's right, maybe I'm thinking too early."

Xin Qu looked at the map again, and after a moment, he circled a few places in the middle and upper reaches of Shihe River, Liugu River, Xihe River, and Xiaoling River, or at the estuaries, and wrote the word "juntun" on them.

This area is planned to be a priority development area.

Since land reclamation consumes too much energy, let's speed up the process.

Let soil erosion solve this problem for him.

The development direction will be shifted to the middle and upper reaches of the rivers flowing into the sea on the Liaoxi Corridor side, and some water conservancy facilities will be built here. We can even experiment with the proposition of "restraining water and attacking sand" to accelerate the flow of water and soil from the middle and upper reaches into the sea.

If a Liaoxi Corridor can be completely constructed, then Yan State's control over Liaodong will have a double insurance.

In particular, Yan State’s military equipment is the strongest now.

Of course, we can still travel here even in the slightly cold winter, as long as the coast is frozen.

Xin Qu took the map.

Then he looked at Aqi and said, "We should also study water conservancy. Relying on the Sikong Mansion alone is not fast enough. After all, the greatest role of water conservancy is in agriculture."

"I understand." Ah Qi agreed, and after a quick calculation, he was secretly shocked.

No wonder Xin Qu allowed him to buy and sell agricultural technology, as agriculture consumed so much money and grain.

Breeding and raising are fine, but if we add the promotion and research of water conservancy facilities, as well as farming tools, and monitoring of local disasters such as droughts, locusts, and floods, these expenses will be enough to bring down the Ministry of Agriculture if there is no new wealth.

We have to find a way to catch more.

But by what means?

Selling seeds?
This is not appropriate.

"By the way, can I sell the sheep you brought back from the west?"

Before Aqi left, he thought of something and turned back to ask.

Xin Qu raised his eyebrows and said, "You know as much as I do about the difficulty of crossbreeding sheep and goats."

"So I plan to sell the ewes, and at an auction." Aqi stroked his chin and said, "Sheep wool can be sheared every year. And we have the spinning skills, which are basically available in any tribe of a certain size.

As long as we control the size of the auction, we can sell some older ewes every year.

Generally speaking, the ewes will die of old age in one or two years. In addition, we do not sell all the breeding technology, so some of them will always die during the breeding process.

In this way, the population size in the south can be controlled to a certain extent.

This thing is much easier to control than onions, grapes and the like.

After all, when it comes to farming, every family has their own secret treasures, and not everyone will buy them.

If they were really asked to change their crops, they would definitely worry about next year's harvest.

But sheep are different.

And aren’t there also hybrid mountain sheep?

By then, the rams can also be sold at a good price.”

Aqi was a little excited.

Xin Qu scratched his face. Why did he feel that this guy was becoming more and more immoral?
There are some hybrids between sheep and goats, just like mules, but it is also impossible for mountain sheep and mules to produce offspring.

The Yan State Breeding Office was aware of this.

Because they did a lot of experiments, but they just couldn't produce the third generation.

So doing this is very damaging to your reputation.

"Of course you can, but you can't do it in the name of the Ministry of Agriculture." Xin Qu did not deny this method, but warned, "The court needs to maintain its appearance. Get some gloves and don't get your face dirty."

"Okay. I know what to do. It's a good opportunity to get rid of a group of old sheep. Otherwise, we can only kill them for meat. What a pity." (End of this chapter)