In the morning, in the wilderness, dark crowds gathered into long lines, from south to north, like long snakes.

Whistles, shouts, shouts came one after another, and people waved pickaxes, shovels, and carried a load of soil, making the outline of a ditch more obvious.

Li Li stood on the mound beside him and looked at the busy construction site in front of him, very satisfied.

He left Raozhou, went east by land and entered the Kuaiji area, inspecting the Sanwu, and came to inspect this very important water conservancy project: Zhuxi Yundu.

The southeast section of Taihu drainage project, Zhuxi Yundu, is currently progressing smoothly. The government has invested more than 100,000 soldiers. In addition to the people who regularly serve labor along the way, they have been busy for more than a year. The project is about to be completed before summer.

After completion, part of the Taihu Lake water that surged during the rainy season went through the original Sanjiang waterway and discharged into the sea eastward.

Some of them are transported south through Zhuxi and shipped into Kuaiji Bay.

In addition, the large-scale construction of dams and dams in the upper reaches of Taihu Lake has been built to store water, and the inlet and drainage have the ability to regulate water, so the water disaster in Taihu Lake is about to be well managed.

The lakeside area is just around the corner after large-scale land reclamation and farming, and it is just around the corner.

Li Li was quite happy to think of this. He looked at the "Taihu Lake District Water Conservancy Project Schematic" hanging next to him and listened to officials explaining this large-scale project that will benefit thousands of years after completion.

Taihu Lake was called Zhenze and Gudi, also known as Wuhu and Lize. Its area is a basin, with roughly high in the west and low in the east, so it forms a large lake.

The inlet water of Taihu Lake, that is, the upstream water system, is mainly distributed in the west of the lake area, that is, the west of the lake.

The outflow (drainage, sea access), that is, the downstream water system, is located on the east side of the lake area (i.e. the east of the lake), there are three rivers, Songjiang (also known as Wu Songjiang), Loujiang and Dongjiang, and are also known as the "Three Rivers".

In the pre-Qin period, there were water conservancy projects around Taihu Lake, focusing on shipping and irrigation.

After the Qin and Han Dynasties, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Taihu Lake has a Zhongjiang River waterway to the west, and to the north, Dantuyundu passes through Qu'a and enters the river from Jingkou.

There are also large-scale pond weirs to ensure irrigation of farmland around the lake area and to surround the lake to build fields.

By the time of Liu Song, the problem of flooding in Taihu Lake in the rainy season became more and more prominent. Yao Qiao, a native of Wu Xinxing, spent twenty years to propose a drainage plan through field surveys:

In the Zhuxi area of ​​Taihu Lake, a canal (Yundu) is dug to the southeast, and goes directly to Kuaiji Bay, opening a new drainage channel for Taihu Lake.

This plan, because the terrain of the entire line is generally "high in the middle and low on both sides", violates the law of "water flows to low places", the project volume is huge and cannot be implemented during the Liu Song Dynasty.

Later, during the Datong period of Liang Guozhong (more than 30 years ago), the court mobilized manpower and material resources, and according to this plan, a "low-equipped" version of the canal (Yundu) was built.

Because it is a "low-end version", although it has effect, the effect is relatively small.

Now, the New Dynasty court has mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources to upgrade this "low-equipped version" canal (Yundu) to a "high-equipped upgraded version".

That is, widen the canal, dig deep, build a dam group that adjusts the water level, and build water gates and seawalls at the estuary to prevent seawater from silting the river channel.

By the time this summer, the project is completed, ships starting from Kuaiji area can enter Taihu Lake through Yundu and then enter the Yangtze River northward.

After crossing the river, enter Yundu from Guangling on the north bank and head to the Huai River Basin.

Or, turn west at Taihu Lake, arrive at Wuhu through the Zhongjiang Waterway, and enter the Yangtze River.

If you go upstream, you can go to various places upstream, or enter Chaohu from the mouth of Chaohu on the opposite side of the river, arrive in Hefei, and then arrive in Shouyang through Feishui, and enter the Huai River system.

Therefore, when the Taihu water conservancy project is completed, the "logistics" in the Sanwu and Lianghuai areas will become more and more convenient.

Li Li's vision fell on the "Zhongjiang Waterway" at the western end of Taihu Lake on the schematic diagram.

This waterway is actually an artificial transportation channel that is expanded based on the natural river channel (the water system of the upper reaches of Taihu Lake). It is said that it was first excavated when the Wu State conquered Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was named Xuxi (Xuxidu).

The west end of Xuxi Yundu enters the river estuary. When the river water rises sharply in summer and autumn (the flood season), the river water is higher than the Yundu Riverbed, so the water volume is abundant.

However, in winter and spring (dry season), when the river water level drops, the river surface is lower than the Yundu Riverbed, so Yundu does not have the full navigation capacity at this time, and is a seasonal waterway.

Now, in order to solve this problem, several large dams must be built along Yundu to store water, and dig deep and widen Yundu to ensure Yundu's annual navigation capacity.

Another function of these dams to store water in the rainy season is to control the amount of water discharged into Taihu Lake.

Therefore, if you want to control the water disaster in Taihu Lake, you must solve the problems of water inlet and drainage (drainage). The supporting water conservancy projects are large in scale and are a large-scale project that combines several water conservancy projects.

Only when every project is completed and functioned can Taihu Lake floods be fundamentally managed.

As long as the Taihu Lake flood can be cured, large-scale military farming in the lake area can be carried out.

Whether it is the various Yundu coastal areas or the Taihu coastal areas, as long as stable irrigation can be ensured and floods can be avoided, a large amount of new farmland can be reclaimed.

Therefore, the soldiers who worked hard to build water conservancy facilities would be converted into military farming soldiers and had their own land.

As time goes by, the settlements of military farms become ordinary villages, and these military farm soldiers become ordinary people and become self-cultivated farmers in the government.

It is precisely because of its bright future, good treatment for the wing soldiers, and the temptation of "having their own land", that the wing soldiers are full of enthusiasm for their work.

More and more landless farmers joined the ranks of the wing soldiers.

This has led to a large-scale loss of labor force in large and small manors in Sanwu area. After the property inspection and land inspection, these manors must pay the rent in full according to the number of land acres.

The court then used these taxes collected to support the increasingly large-scale soldiers.

Xiangbing is a full-time "construction team" that can carry out long-term and large-scale engineering construction without affecting agricultural production (large-scale recruitment of farmers for labor will affect agricultural production).

When the project was completed and the military farms were produced, the area around Taihu Lake became a veritable land of fish and rice, and the court still benefited the most.

Because the increased population and arable land are all high-quality "tax bases" in the hands of the imperial court.

In Li Li's view, this move is equivalent to the imperial court's "prostitution" of the manor owner: I will dig your corner (people) and use your money to support the people I have dug up, but I don't have to increase too much expenses.

When these people can become independent and have financial income, they will have to pay taxes to me.

Isn’t this a waste of prostitution?

Li Li thought about it and found it a little funny. He could understand this principle, so naturally those manor owners could think of it too.

He cut off the other party's financial resources, abolished the other party's privileges, robbed the other party's labor force, and used the rent collected from the other party to feed the stolen labor force. This hatred is irreconcilable.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the owners of the large and small manors in the Sanwu area were furious about this. It is inevitable that the paper people would curse him that he would not die well.

But what's the use of you no matter how annoyed you are?

If you can't beat him, you can only hide at home and scold him. But if you scold him day and night, can you scold Li Sanlang to death?
Chapter completed!