Looking at the lush mountains not far away, the grass is green and the willow trees are green, Xu Ping said to Liang Qian beside him: "Although this place is close to the border, the scenery is actually not far from the two capitals. Moreover, the place is rich and the people are dense, so it can be called a majestic palace!"

"What I mean is that only when the dynasty established the capital Daliang, I felt that these places were remote. The previous dynasty established the capital Guanzhong, which was the place where Jingfu was naturally prosperous and prosperous. The time and geography remained unchanged, but it was just a change of personnel. The place here is naturally the same as before."

Xu Ping nodded and rode slowly with Liang Qian.

Sun Zude was from Weizhou, Jingdong Road, where there were relatively few people from Jinshi. He was not good at socializing and was more practical in dealing with people and affairs, so he was not valued by scholars and officials. Therefore, although he had been a Censorate and advised to stop the deposed queen of Guo and was demoted, he was not as demoted as Fan Zhongyan. The more he was demoted, the higher his reputation, the higher his official position was. After leaving the Censorate, his career was dull. He served as a prefect in several places, and was promoted to Tianzhang Pavilion for a long time. Last year, he was promoted to the direct scholar of Longtu Pavilion and came to Fengxiang Prefecture.

Liang Qian and Xu Ping were both Jinshi in the fifth year of Tiansheng. They are already fifty years old this year, but they have only become the Chief of Palace Affairs and Fengxiang. Xu Ping was promoted to Chief of Palace Affairs not long after he arrived in Yongzhou. Liang Qian's official position is only equivalent to that of Xu Ping ten years ago.

In fact, this is the life experience of most Jinshis. Young and middle-aged people can only travel around middle and lower-level officials and travel around. Only when luck comes can they enter the middle level. They have been an official for decades and have been resigned until they retire. It is very good to be a magistrate. Like Xu Ping, who has been promoted all the time, only ten or eight in the Jinshi class, and they are basically the masters.

The two of them walked together along the canal bank of the Wei River from the entrance of the Xigukou and headed south. There, the largest shipbuilding in the north, and the shipbuilding accounts for 20% of the world each year. It ranks second among all the shipbuilding in the prefectures. The Yellow River, the Wei River system, and even the Luo River in the two capitals, and a large part of the Bian River system are used for ships built here. The Qinling Mountains produce giant trees, which can radiate wood along the rivers, and then flow down the Wei River, and go all the way to the two capitals. Xu Ping, as the commander of the road, naturally needs to see such an important place. Moreover, he is determined to build this place into a logistics material production base for Qinfeng Road, and also to examine the natural conditions here.

Fengxiang Prefecture is in Tianxing County, which is Fengxiang County in Xuping's previous life, and is dozens of miles north of the Wei River. In this era when water is everything, it is obviously not suitable for industrial and commercial centers, and can only be selected in the subordinate counties.

The subordinate Baoji County is in the upper reaches of the Weishui River. Just as the intersection of Chencang Road in Dasanguan, it is the largest distribution center for materials from Chuanxia Road. However, the Jialing River Waterway cannot be accessed in all seasons. It is busy for half a year and half a year, and it is more of a storage place. The downstream Guo County was a military important place in ancient times. Zhuge Liang's northern expedition, many major wars occurred around the two counties. The lower reaches is Mei County, just as the intersection of Baoxie Road. The Baoxie Road is land transportation, and its transportation capacity is naturally not as good as the water transportation of the Jialing River Waterway. The materials from Chuanxia basically travel 70% to 80% of the remaining materials are only taken by Baoxie Road. However, the advantage of the Baoxie Road is that it is accessible in all seasons. The plank road has been well maintained after entering the Song Dynasty. It can be used to transport some important materials other than grain and grass.

Since the destruction of Later Shu, the court has paid attention to the transportation between the four routes of Chuanxia and the outside world. In ancient times, the four routes that left Sichuan were mainly made of Jialing River Waterway and Baoxie Ancient Road. Since the reign of Emperor Taizong, the annual capacity has been stable at about 1.5 million stones per year. Among them, the materials are mainly transported by Jialing River Waterway, which is also the most important way to leave Sichuan. Those who entered Beijing from Sichuan and Shu to participate in the imperial examinations, such as Su Huan, Cheng Jun, etc., including Su Shi in history, all came out of Shu. Because the ancient route of Baoxie had to pass the plank road, it was inconvenient for single people to leave Sichuan, and it was not their first choice for them to leave Sichuan.

The biggest problem with the Jialing River is that the water is shallow, and when you leave the river, you have to go upstream, and use a large number of boatmen to trouble the people along the coast. Another dangerous shoal is that if you are accidentally destroyed, the ship will be destroyed.

Xu Ping asked the Korean Comprehensive Road to renovate the road. In Jialing River Road, gunpowder was used to blow away dangerous shoals, dig deep in shallow water, open canals to guide water in places where the water was too fast, and smooth the water flow, thereby increasing transportation capacity. Baoxie Ancient Road was to reinforce the plank road, and explode mountains and widen the mountains in places where the mountain road was narrow, so that it could pass through large trucks. However, compared with road waterways, transporting grain and rice from this road was not economical.

In the next step, Xu Ping is preparing to further renovate the Jialing River waterway. Even if it is used for half a year, the materials transported from Sichuan Gorges will reach a level of nearly 5 million stones. With the materials from Sichuan and Sichuan, Qinfeng Road has the capital to explore.

This canal was excavated during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The original purpose was to let the pedestrians leave the ridge of the valley and board the boat. After entering the Wei River, they went downstream to Chang'an. After entering the Song Dynasty, they dug a huge pond at the ridge of the valley and used large woods in Qinlong to build ships for the northern transportation. After decades of development, this place has become one of the most important shipbuilding bases in the country.

Not long after we traveled, a huge artificial lake was seen at the end of the canal, just in front of the exit of Baogu. There were countless ships built on the lake, all of which were tied to the huge rocks on the shore and used as anchors.

When he arrived at the lake, he took a deep breath in the wind blowing from the lake. Xu Ping said to Liang Xuan: "The wine in Liulin is not as strong as the white sprinkler, but because of this, he unknowingly drank a little too much. Now when the wine blows by the lake, the wine will be gone."

"Yunxing has always been a good wine. If you drink it once a while, you will drink too much without realizing it. But when you get here, you will naturally have to start making spirits. It doesn't matter if you drink less water and wine in the future."

Xu Ping smiled and said, "Spirited wine is to be brewed, but it requires grain to be brewed. There are so many households moving in this year, and the army's people eat horses and chew the food, so the food will be tight. Therefore, there is no hurry to make wine. Furthermore, it is best to use sorghum, which is not much produced here now, and it will take advantage of it until after autumn. Build the field first, and you can take it slowly."

Standing by the lake and blowing for a while, Liang Xu introduced the situation of shipbuilding here to Xu Ping. These places, such as the magistrate Liang Xu, are now being promoted, so Sun Zude did not come today.

The field supervisor received the notice and hurriedly ran over, greeted the two of them, and followed them to wait for instructions.

After introducing the boat yard, Liang Feng said again: "Not far from here, there is bamboo and wood business. The wood used here is taken from there. About three or four miles north, there is iron smelting, which supplies iron nails and other things for the ship yard. Because this is the only major shipbuilding business in Jiangbei, the court has stricter management, and the supervisors use Beijing officials, which is very comparable to ordinary courts."

Xu Ping has been in the Third Division for many years and is certainly familiar with these organizational settings. Originally, many of the appointments and removals of officials in the supervisory office were passed by him. However, it was the same thing on paper, and I was still surprised when I saw it in person. In this extreme area, a place with water shortage in the northwest, there is such a large shipbuilding business. The scene is so spectacular, and it feels magical when I think about it.

Shipbuilding is located here, mainly to facilitate raw materials. For example, the large wood today is mainly from Qinlong, and the palaces of the two capitals and wealthy families use the wood here to build houses. Another thing happens to be produced here, and iron nails and other things do not need to be transported out.

Xu Ping asked Liang Qian: "Shipbuilding cannot be fresh wood. How much big wood is available in the bamboo and wood business now? Also, the nearby iron smelting business doesn't know that there is not much iron production?"

"There are no shortage of big trees here, and all the bamboo and wood are available. Although there is iron, it is not much produced. Apart from shipbuilding, it is enough for nearby civilians."

Xu Ping nodded and thought to himself that it was a pity.

With current technical conditions, steel cannot be used as the main raw material, and the status of wood cannot be replaced. However, as an auxiliary material, the amount of steel used by industry and commerce has been developed, and a small iron smelting business cannot meet the demand. If the iron ore resources in this area are limited, the iron production can be made into some iron nails, which cannot meet the future needs. Don’t think of a solution. Fortunately, the water system in this area is well developed and water transportation is convenient. If Qinfeng Road is so big, I don’t believe that there is no iron ore.

However, the wood is enough to guarantee it, which is good news. Especially for shipbuilding, there are a lot of large wood stored here. After the craftsmen in Luoyang arrived, they could immediately start producing large trucks as the main tool for transportation around them.

Fengxiang Prefecture and Qinzhou are separated by several mountains, but they are connected by Wei River, but they cannot be navigated all year round. However, now there is gunpowder that can open roads along the river valley and build roads that can be accessed by large vehicles.

With the Fengxiang Mansion in the rear as a base and the side-to-side road, Xu Ping had the confidence to make a breakthrough in Qinzhou. The Qiang had not yet formed the custom of settled. The expensive goods were cheap and cheap. As long as they had money and goods, they could buy their land and let them serve the court. In this place, money and goods were easier to use than anything else.

When Cao Wei was in Qinzhou, he had developed a large scale and his power went directly to the Xihe Lanhui. Especially in the Battle of Sandukou, he defeated the attacks of Ye Sila and Li Lizun, completely dismantling the newly established Zongge Fan regime, indirectly causing the split of the new Ye Sila regime.

However, after Cao Wei left, Dangxiang continued to take advantage of the weak attacks of Tubo, directly controlled Huizhou, indirectly controlled Lanzhou and Miaochuan, and cut off the connection between the sagela and the Song court. In the past few years, Yuan Hao continued to attack the sagela, hoping to completely swallow the Hehuang area, but was defeated by the sagela who fought back against the Jedi.

When Xu Ping arrived in Qinzhou, he was not facing the forces of the sage, but Dangxiang and its subordinates, and more independent forces that did not belong to either party. Only when he arrived here did he understand the situation here, which was something he had not known in the capital before.

In fact, the current sages are looking forward to the Song Dynasty sending troops to force the Dangxiang forces out like stars and moon.
Chapter completed!