Hu Wei, who had not spoken beside him, smiled and said, "Then send me......

Wang He shook his head when he heard this and said, "Lao Hu, the immigration work you are responsible for is very important, and Liaodong is still inseparable from you." ”

Hu Wei waved his hand and said with a smile: "The immigration working group I led has trained a large number of migrant employees with rich work experience in the past two years, and many of them can take charge on their own. At present, a perfect and systematic system has been formed for the immigration work in Liaodong, and several of my deputies are fully competent for my work. The immigration work in Liaodong is no longer challenging for me. That's why I want to go to the Hetao base area and preside over the civil affairs there. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard Hu Wei's words. For workaholics, the more difficult the place, the more it can stimulate his enthusiasm for work, work is his greatest joy, no matter how difficult the task, Hu Wei may face it with the mentality of clearing the customs and fighting monsters.

Li Ming also smiled and said, "Lao Hu, I'll also go to Hetao to set up a team with you." ”

Hu Wei nodded coolly, and then said, "Okay, you preside over the overall work of the base area, and I will try my best to assist you." ”

Gao Jianguo was amused by the two, he waved his hand and said, "You two will make yourself an official now, isn't it a little early." This is just a preliminary idea, and I don't know if this plan is operable, so you two should calm down first. ”

Li Ming and Hu Wei glanced at each other, and then stopped talking. Everyone laughed and began to study the feasibility of this plan to establish a base in the Hetao area, and although the idea was good, there was still a lot of work to be done to implement it.

Qiao Haipeng frowned and said: "By the way, I don't know about the situation of water transportation in the Yellow River, but I heard about the water transportation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in ancient times. In Hukou Waterfall, ordinary boats can't pass, and in ancient times, it seemed that there was still a need for "dry land boats", so we asked an employee of the company who knew the situation there. ”

When everyone listened to his words, their hearts couldn't help but sink. Several members of the Standing Committee present here are not from the northwest, and they do not know much about the situation of shipping on the Yellow River. So there is no way for anyone to have an opinion.

Seeing everyone's expressions, Wang He thought for a while and said, "Director of the Port Authority Chen Hong, he happens to be in Shenyang these days, let's find him and ask for his opinion." ”

After a while, Chen Hong came to the conference room. When he heard everyone's thoughts, he immediately smiled bitterly: "You mean to let the company's fleet enter the Yellow River through the ladder, and then send the supplies along the Yellow River waterway to the Hetao base area?" ”

Everyone nodded in unison, and Wang He said with a smile: "We have a good understanding of the situation in the Yellow River waterway. I don't know, don't ......"

Chen Hong came to the front of the map, pointed to the middle reaches of the Yellow River on the map, and said: "Although I didn't know much about the inland shipping of the Yellow River before, before I came to this era, I also did special research, and I know a little about it, so I'm afraid everyone will be disappointed." The northern main stream of the Yellow River is the boundary river between Shanxi Province and Inner Mongolia, and between Shanxi Province and Shaanxi Province. Its immediate hinterland includes Yulin, Yan'an, and Weinan in Shaanxi Province.

Due to the complex terrain of this section, it is very difficult to build roads along the river. As a result, north-south traffic has become a "dead end" zone. And the Yellow River happens to cross in such a special location, using the water transportation route opened up by the Yellow River. It can not only avoid opening mountains and building bridges over thousands of ravines, but also do not need to occupy cultivated land and relocate population, which can be regarded as a better way to develop transportation with less money and quick results.

The history of shipping on the Yellow River can be traced back to the pre-Qin era. The river, Weihe and chasm water systems are the main systems, forming a water transportation network centered on Chang'an and Luoyang. In the Sui and Tang dynasties and the two Song dynasties, the water transportation of the Yellow River and the Jinshan Gorge was very developed. The Yellow River trough transportation has entered its heyday and has played a positive role in the economic development of Inner Mongolia and the Central Plains, Shaanxi and Shanxi.

The biggest obstacle to water transportation in the Jinshan Gorge of the Yellow River is Hukou Waterfall, Hukou this place, due to the high wind and waves, the waterfall drop is huge. Passing boats simply cannot pass, and under the current conditions, the only way to pass through Hukou Waterfall is to use the method of "dry land boating".

The so-called "dry land boat" means that the boatmen moor the boat in advance at a place where the water flow is slower three or four hundred meters north of Hukou Waterfall, and then unload the goods, hire donkeys to carry the goods to the "Tekou" where the water flow is gentle downstream of Hukou Waterfall, and then hire nearby villagers to pull the boat from the stone shore to the "Tekou", and then push the boat into the water to load the goods and continue to travel south.

In addition to Hukou Waterfall, there is also the Sanmenxia section is not so easy to pass, due to the rapid increase in the sediment content of the Yellow River, a large amount of sediment is deposited on the riverbed, making the Sanmenxia area, which was already difficult to pass after the Sui and Tang dynasties, is now even more difficult to pass. Therefore, the idea of transporting supplies to the loop on a large scale through the Yellow River waterway is simply not possible. ”

After listening to Chen Hong's words, everyone's faces became ugly. Without the support of water transportation, it would have been very difficult to transport supplies to the Hetao base area. The establishment of the Hetao base area requires a large amount of material support, and the collection of displaced people also requires a large amount of food. Without the support of water transportation along the Yellow River waterway, land transportation alone would not have been able to meet the initial material needs of the base areas.

Li Ming sighed in his heart, and then said, "It seems that the feasibility of the Hetao base area is still to be discussed." ”

Gao Jianguo shook his head and said, "Even if the Yellow River waterway cannot deliver materials to the Hetao, we must develop the Hetao base area." Next year, the company plans to go north to plan the second phase of the campaign, which will sweep the entire southern Mongolia, in the face of such a large area, the company must also establish several garrison areas in the northern grassland, and Guihua City is a place we selected before.

However, the Hetao area is obviously much more advantageous than Guihua City, not only the geographical location is very important, but also the water and grass are abundant, which is very suitable for Tuntian. At this time, there is a great drought in Chongzhen, and a large number of people in the northern provinces will be affected in the next few years. If we establish a base in the Hetao, we can organize displaced people to settle their fields there, so that more displaced people can be saved.

And, most importantly, the Far East could establish a base in the Loop. As long as it controls this place that has been fought for since ancient times, it is equivalent to the Far Eastern Company smashing a sharp nail in the north of the Ming Dynasty and laying a solid foundation for the future entry into the Central Plains. In the future, the company will enter Xinjiang along the Hexi Corridor, and the Hetao can also be used as our forward base. ”

Wang He also said with a smile: "The Hetao Plain has fertile soil and a well-developed irrigation system. If we can succeed in Tuntian in the Hetao area, then the cost of our migration in Shanxi will be greatly reduced. Within a few years, we will strive to build this Hetao region, which is called "the south of the Yangtze River," into another granary of our Far East. (To be continued......)

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