The difficulties of developing a multi-lake area are many, but the rewards can be huge.

After lifting Hubei, Zhang De paid a visit to Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, and was informed, and after Li Daozong personally went out to greet him, no one in the Jianghan region dared to test Lao Zhang's ruthlessness.

Because even if Lao Zhang is not ruthless, Li Daozong will be ruthless.

"Observe, the water scripture of Hutouze has been consulted. I went to the field last month to inspect it, but there was not much change. If the water is less than one zhang deep, if the fish ditch from Luhu Lake to Hutouze is dredged, 300,000 acres of land can be opened in the west of the lake. However, the embankment also needs to be reinforced. ”

As an attaché staff, the water conservancy clerk often has to run outside, and most of the people used by Lao Zhang are Jiangyin people, and some of them grew up together at a young age, but it was not until Zhang De left Beijing for the second time that he was called to be appointed.

In terms of seniority, all the children of the Zhang family in the staff, regardless of the patriarch, must call Zhang De an uncle or uncle.

"Brother Qian, in Hutouze, can you estimate how many settlements there are?"

Zhang Qian pulled out a sketch with circles and dots drawn on it. The circle is the settlement, and the dot is the village.

"There are always two or three hundred, and there are more than fifty or sixty households, in Huxi, Hubei. There are two or three fewer households and single-family households, and most of them beg for a living in Yuergou. To the west is the town of Catfish, where there are people on boats, but there are also barbarians in the south of the town. ”

"...... of Catfish"

Lao Zhang pondered for a while, only to find that this Linjiang town should be the future Jiayu County. So Hutouze is the axe lake in the future, and Yuergou is the Jinshui River?

"Hundreds of miles of river embankments, how can they be so easy to repair. Let's put it first. ”

This area was sparsely populated at this time, and the sparsely populated area near the river meant that floods could be ignored.

What really needs to be protected during the flood season is still Jiangxia Hanyang.

"Jiangxia has many lakes, and it is certain to build dams and repair reservoirs. You should first go to investigate, and in the next two years, you will develop the fields of Jiangxia to the south. The king of Jiangxia wants to build roads to the south, and these lakes and swamps must always be cured. ”

"Look, when will the pontoon bridge be built?"

"Let's go to Jiang Xinzhou first."

The fourteen-year-old Jiangxinzhou of Zhenguan is not big, and Jiangxinzhou is also the later Tianxingzhou. There are many such sandbanks in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and in summer and autumn, most of them are densely planted with reeds, and from a distance, they seem to be grassland style. Only when I got closer did I know that such a place, when I stepped down, there was a muddy pond without half a person, and when the morning dawned, the leaves and poles of the reeds were crawling with dense cockroaches, large and small, like locusts.

The advantage of having a sandbar is that it can save material resources and facilitate the opening and closing of the pontoon bridge.

Again, the sandbar is washed by the river, which can be strengthened and repaired, and when it is stabilized, the sandbar can also be developed, whether it is planting beans or raising geese and ducks, the cost is very low, and there is basically no need to care.

Just like Hu Douzhou on the other side of Suzhou, it is actually a sandbar with many kinds of broad beans, and when the sediment continues to accumulate, Hu Douzhou and the inland are connected together, and it becomes Nantong City in later generations.

The land of these sandbanks is fertile, but it is not easy to cultivate and weave, and it is quite cost-effective to grow melons and beans for breeding.

Although Jingxiang has great potential, it is quite difficult to develop. However, with the use of advanced tools, Lao Zhang did not dare to say that he would turn this area into two lakes in the era of modern large industry, but there was no problem in the scale of development of agriculture, forestry and fishery products to compress the slow development of the next few hundred years into a few decades.

Under the conditions of quite extensive water conservancy facilities, it can also produce "the lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full", which shows its agricultural potential. As for the potential of industry and commerce, even in the age of great industry, it was not even generally developed. A large number of mineral resources are trapped in complex transportation conditions, and can only be hammered along the river, in the absence of a national policy background, want to rely on the local itself to develop and develop, which happens to be the same as the traditional agriculture needs hundreds of years of slow development to mature, is a nature.

Engineering dogs are not earth-shattering, and they can only be careful in everything and try slowly.

In the autumn of the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, the military operations in the Western Regions were in full swing, and the geographical survey of the Jianghan region was also in full swing.

This is one of the several titles on Lao Zhang's body, and it is also the most deterrent, and he can directly bypass the Records Department and directly contact the governor of Zhongshu Province.

However, this title is a deterrent to bureaucrats. Another title is to deter the fangren and the remnants of the caves.

In addition to the Jianghan Observation Envoy, he is also the envoy of tribute and transfer, and the local annual endowment and the Tugong of the fangren must be accepted by him. Lao Zhang said that the color of the python skin given by the village is poor, that is, it is poor; Which cave master pays tribute to the rare beast, that is rare.

In a word, Zhang De is now in the Jianghan area, and he is the overlord of the soil.

"There is a stone mountain here that can be used as a quarry. Can the Powder Bureau keep up with its production? ”

"The stock is enough, Brother Qian's personal supervision, this month is to prepare to open a ditch first, and then the water from Yinlu Lake will go in, and the wood will be transported through the ditch."

Most of the timber used for dam construction is pile heads, which is in great demand, but there is no shortage of timber in the Yunmengze area. Again, the Yamen of the Caoyun Division and the Liaodong giant timber transported from the Bohai Sanzhou timber warehouse, these are all excellent timber, and the houses built in the north are mostly used to make beams and pillars or shipbuilding.

However, because Qu Tuquan used to be an official there, there is still a relationship between this, there is no shortage of wood, and there is enough management.

"After the dam is built, it needs to be drained and desilted, which requires young and strong labor. However, I think we can follow the example of Mulan Village and let women do the same. Excavating, carrying burdens, and partitioning are extremely manpower-intensive. ”

"Observe, why don't you go and ask the fangs in the south of Ezhou first?"

"Hmmm......"

Lao Zhang thought about it carefully and nodded, "What Brother Heng said is reasonable, I am also a tribute transfer envoy, and I dare not be presumptuous at the moment." The slightest intimidation will not be tolerated. However, Enwei took the people of the Long clan and went to be lobbyists. ”

"Observe and rest assured, you will not be dishonored!"

Zhang Heng, who has been doing public security work all the year round, is Zhang Gan's cousin, his grandfather's grandson, Zhang Gan is the largest, Zhang Hengxing is the second, literate but does not read much, and like Zhang Songbai, he is better at fighting and fighting.

There are a lot of hidden households in the south, and it can even be said that most of the people who speak with a Runan accent on the ground in Ezhou are black and hidden households. And this state of affairs must have lasted for a hundred years.

There are 20,000 households in Ezhou, that is to say, there are about 100,000 households in Ezhou. But in fact, it feels like it's more than quadrupled. In addition to these northern escapees, the distribution of Fangzhai is more complex than that of Chuzhou, and the historical origin is even more strange, some are from Shanyue, some are from Wuxi Man, Wuling Man, some are directly the early Qingzhou deserters in the north, and some are the remnants of Eastern Wu......

It is precisely because these fangs have a "history" that the cohesion is quite high, and they attach more importance to "reproduction" and "branching" than the fangs in other regions.

This further increased the complex population composition of the Ezhou area, but this complexity has become a hard condition for Zhang De's large-scale construction.