To the west of the Upper Forest Garden, Pickaxe Pond.

Liu Che stayed here.

The pickaxe pond is a very old artificial reservoir, probably in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

As the name suggests, this place is close to the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Hokyo, and was excavated in the Zhou Chamber about a few hundred years ago, and was originally used as an irrigation reservoir for farms near Hokyo.

In the Qin Dynasty, the Ho Pond was incorporated into the royal garden as part of the Afang Palace.

Liu Che climbed the Guanchi Pavilion built by the pickaxe pond and looked at the entire pickaxe pond.

To be honest, the pickaxe pond is not big, and it is probably only four or five miles in circumference.

"Your Majesty, legend, there is a dragon king in the pickaxe pool, when Qin Ji, there is a messenger from the north of Huayin, when passing through this place, someone stopped the car, handed out a fast jade, leaving the words 'next year the ancestral dragon dies', sure enough, the first emperor died in the second year......" Liu Che beside Wang Dao obviously took on the responsibility of the tour guide, and introduced it with a low smile: "It is said that the jade was later confirmed to be a small jade bi that fell into the water when the first emperor was swimming in the pickaxe pool......"

Liu Che shook his head with a smile and was silent.

Liu Che has always disbelieved these things that the gods are talking about.

Even he himself is behind a lot of the things that the gods are talking about.

But the story of this pickaxe pond does have a lot of mystery.

In particular, as far as Liu Che knew, a month before this story happened, a meteorite fell from the sky and landed near Xianyang, with six big characters on the stone: 'The First Emperor died and the earth was divided'.

In addition, at that time, there were nursery rhymes among the people that said: Ah Fang, Ah Fang, the first emperor of the dead.

These things. Taken together, it laid the lead to the fall of the Qin Dynasty.

A roar from Daze Township. It's so powerful.

Liu Che has always been afraid to speculate on certain things with the greatest malice.

So, these things. In his opinion, it should probably be a trick played by some nobles of the Six Kingdoms who were dissatisfied with the rule of the Qin Dynasty.

It's just a pity for the innocent people!

Especially the people near that meteorite!

In that year, after the meteorite incident, Qin Shi Huang immediately ordered to kill people and burn stones.

All the people in a radius of 30 miles near the meteorite landing site were executed......

Like this guy who puts the lives of the people at risk for his own selfishness, Liu Che can only say. It's so good that they died!

The war at the end of the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Qin Empire, and also completely buried the entire old one-qiē political power, and the landlords were powerful.

The big names who were high in the past have now fallen to the embarrassing realm where it is difficult to even inherit their family tree.

However, Liu Che chose to hunt near the pickaxe pond this time, but he didn't just come for sightseeing and remembering the story.

Liu Che's biggest goal on this trip. It is to inspect the landform and environment of dozens of miles near the pickaxe pond and prepare for the Kunming pool, the largest water conservancy project in Guanzhong in the next three years.

Historically, in the four years of Motokaku. In order to conquer Mitsukoshi and build an invincible armada, Little Pig dug Kunming Pond in Shanglin Garden.

History of Kunming Pond. The circumference is forty miles, and the view is ringed. A large number of ships were moored, and flags obscured the sky.

The little pig chiseled the Kunming Pond. It's probably in the low-lying area south of the pickaxe pond.

On the way, Liu Che had already seen the environment of the place, and it was indeed a suitable excavation point for a large reservoir.

Historically, after the little pig dug the Kunming Pool, in addition to being used for training sailors and as a training base for the river fleet, the main role was to serve his own private enjoyment.

But in Liu Che's opinion, this is simply a waste!

Liu Che raised his eyes and looked around.

In the vicinity of the pickaxe pond, the water and the waterlogging water come from the west, and the pickaxe water and the waterlogging water meet in the south.

It must be noted here that among the eight water systems in Shanglin Garden, the Bashui River and the Chanshui River, including the source and tributaries, are all in the Shanglin Garden, while the Jing River and the Wei River flow in from outside the garden and flow out from the garden, and the remaining Fengshui, waterlogging, pickaxe water, and water, although the source is not in the garden, but after they flow into the Shanglin Garden, they never flow out, just like a group of obsessed girls, their bodies are entangled in the Shanglin Garden.

In history, Sima Xiangru once depicted the image in his immortal masterpiece "Shanglin Fu": the end of Ba Chan, in and out of Jingwei. The pickaxe is waterlogged, and the surplus is a snake, and the business is within it. Swinging across the eight rivers, diverting from each other and being different. East, west, north and south, galloping back and forth.

What's more, the eight water systems of Shanglin Yuan seem to have been discussed.

Ba Chan is in the east, Jing Wei is in the north, Feng is in the west, and the pickaxe is in the south.

And this pickaxe pond and the later Kunming pond happen to be at the intersection of the four major water systems in the southwest and two directions.

This means that as long as there is a large reservoir chiseled here, even if it is an artificial reservoir like the Kunming Pond, which is inferior in scale to the little pig.

It is possible to use the four rivers of Fengshui, waterlogging, pickaxe water, and water for human use, and only need to use this as the base point to dig a wide channel, so seven or eight counties such as Huayin, Xianyang, Xinfeng, and Huaili will benefit.

It is equivalent to saying that one Kunming pool is probably equal to the role of two dragon head canals.

With such a reservoir, Little Pig, the loser, actually used it as his own private water park and sailor training base......

And Liu Che naturally won't learn from the bad example of Little Pig.

"The scale of Kunming Pool should be even bigger!" Liu Che looked at the nearby valleys and low-lying lands, and his mind naturally began to make up.

Little Pig's original idea of digging the Kunming Pond was just to train the combat personnel of the Lou Ship Sailor Division.

The northerners are not good at boating, and they all have seasickness.

Dig a huge reservoir and use the calm water surface of the reservoir to train, sharpen, and hone in the command and operation of the fleet.

This idea is indeed genius.

But because at the beginning, Little Pig only wanted a base for training sailors and training fleets, so the scale of Kunming Pool was limited.

With a circumference of 40 miles, it seems that it is indeed the largest artificial reservoir that can be dug by humans before the Common Era.

However, after Liu Che looked at the nearby terrain, he felt that the pattern was still a little smaller!

If you don't chisel, if you want to chisel, you can simply include the pickaxe pool.

The scale of the entire reservoir was expanded to a circumference of fifty or sixty miles.

And then by the four rivers upstream. Build dams and control the amount of water.

Such. Most of the upper forest garden and the surrounding counties, the future. As long as the water continues to flow, then there is no need to be afraid of any drought and flood.

I think that at the beginning, before the establishment of the Three Gorges of the Celestial Empire, the Yangtze River had a major flood from time to time.

After the establishment of the Three Gorges, the Yangtze River was tamed.

Although, now, it is impossible and does not have the conditions for the Han dynasty to build a great project like the Three Gorges, which is a combination of human beings and science and technology.

Even the Yellow River can't help it.

But. With the help of geographical advantages and manpower, it should be no problem to change the tributaries of the Wei River such as Fengshui.

Man will conquer the sky!

From the day of its birth, human beings have been a species that has existed in order to change nature.

It's just that......

Liu Che also sighed in his heart, one Kunming pool is far from enough.

Kunming Pool can be changed, and if it is dead, it will be seven or eight counties in a radius, and half of the forest garden will be natural.

Compared to the whole world, the whole world. It is undoubtedly a drop in the ocean, an insignificant speck of dust.

However, according to Shaofu's preliminary calculations, the Kunming Pool Project will require at least 20,000 or 30,000 people. It takes three years of labor to complete, and it will cost at least tens of millions of dollars - provided that these men are free conscripts.

If you spend money to hire a worker. Adopt an operation method similar to the Longshou Canal, and the money will be spent.

Thinking about it. Liu Che couldn't help asking, "When will King Zhenfan and King Ma Han arrive?" ”

As the loyal dogleg of the Han family in the vast 'deserted' area in the northeast, Zhenban, Mahan and other small eastern countries. It is the main supplier of cheap labor in the Han family.

So far this year, the eastern tribes, including the Hao people, have provided about 3,000 slaves to the Han family as tribute.

Well, you read that right, it's a tribute, a near-free tribute.

The traditional Chinese tributary system has always been that vassal states and princes contributed local products and domestic taxes to the Son of Heaven.

The loss-making tributary system that was played with like the Song and Ming dynasties was actually a deformed product after the Tang Dynasty.

Whether it's Zhenfan, Ma Han, or Haoren, in addition to ginseng, gold, and fur, they really don't have any specialties that the Han family needs.

And recently, ginseng, mink, tiger skin, and bear skin, which are special products of the Orient, have become very popular in Guanzhong.

All countries and tribes are making a lot of money, and they are naturally reluctant to give these things to the royal family for free.

Liu Che then 'empathetic' proposed that slaves, especially female slaves, could be used as tribute, and that he also took out a piece of silk in exchange for an adult male or two boys, half a woman, and such preferential conditions.

Now, everyone is satisfied.

For small tribal countries like Mahan and Mahan.

Their main problem at present is, first, how to hug the golden thigh of their father in the Han Dynasty, so that their status in the country will be thousands of years, and their children and grandchildren will always be powerful, and second, how to make their lives as extravagant as the nobles of their father of the Han Dynasty in Chang'an City.

As for the rest, I really don't want to think too much about it.

Anyway, the slave thing, in the consciousness of the kings of these small countries, is really endless.

If it's not enough, just send someone to the east to catch it.

The Wofu people in the East and those savages who don't even have words and systems, as long as they find the right opportunity, can always catch a lot.

Moreover, now, the father of the Han Dynasty has agreed to send Wang Shi to assist the countries in exterminating those wild people hiding in the mountains and forests.

For the tribal kingdoms in the East that have long been between slavery and primitiveness, the royal teachers of the Han Dynasty are really as pure as angels!

Many nobles were keen to marry their daughters and nieces to officers and even soldiers of the Han Dynasty.

Yi Zong and Xu Han led a team to conquer Weiman Korea last time.

Liu Che, Xu Han's troops, is not very clear, but Yu Linwei, who was righteous, was 1,500 men when he set out, and when he returned, he became more than 1,400 men and twice as many concubines.

Among them, although there is no shortage of spoils that the victor will inevitably obtain, such as the daughters of the nobles of the Wei regime and the palace maids and concubines in the palace of Wang Xiancheng.

But there are also quite a few, which are some admiring girls who worship the Han army's 'mighty husband'.

After all, compared to those men in North Korea, who are generally short, rude, and do not repair their appearance.

Yulinwei's soldiers, even if they were just soldiers, were the backbone of the Han family, a good son from a landlord's family, well-educated, rich in nutrition, each of them was more than seven feet tall, with a strong physique, and with bright armor, mighty and extraordinary, and his speech, knowledge, and future were much stronger than the turtles of North Korea.

Plus the aura of the conqueror and the title of the victor.

Those little aristocratic daughters in North Korea, the wives and concubines of the head of the tribe, seeing such heroes and husbands, are naturally full of gold stars, and they can't help but fall in love.

The magic of love transcends races and borders.

Liu Che proposed the plan to introduce slaves from Zhenban and other countries, and it was also because he saw the harem of the Yulin guards.

After all, compared with tribes such as the Xiongnu in the north and the Western Regions, the Dongyi in the east is actually closer to the Chinese race in terms of race, and there is even almost no difference.

Get some Dongyi slaves to return to China, you can not only get cheap labor, but also have no future troubles.

The first batch of 3,000 slaves have now been arranged by the Shaofu in various imperial villages.

Women were assigned to those craftsmen who worked hard for the Shaofu and became wives and concubines, while men worked hard in manors and workshops to contribute to the GDP growth of the Han dynasty.

After tasting the sweetness, Liu Che naturally wanted to make this business bigger and stronger.

There are 250,000 people in Hao, there are about 200,000 in Zhenban, there are more in Mahan, about 400,000, and other small tribes and countries combined, there are probably two or three hundred thousand people, which is one million.

Liu Che felt that it should be feasible to obtain about 10,000 male and female slaves from these tribal kingdoms every year.

In addition, the upcoming Northeast Savage Encirclement and Suppression Plan can probably provide a few thousand or ten thousand prisoners of war.

These can be put into the excavation project of Kunming Pool.

The work of the Han family to recruit and transfer people was omitted, and the burden on the people was greatly reduced.

Of course, these slaves can't just die, and the relevant protection work must be strengthened.

In the future, after digging the Kunming Pond, Liu Che felt that he might as well give them freedom and let them go to the northeast to cultivate.

Isn't the so-called national integration just the woman who sleeps with him, brainwashes their children, and makes their men work hard?

"Your Majesty, a while ago, Da Honglu sent a message saying that Canghai Jun, Zhenfan, Ma Han and other lords have all set off from the Bus Bureau, and they are probably about to arrive, right?" Wang Daoyu reported: "In addition, the king of Jiangdu Wang Jia has also set off, by the way, the two sons of the Marquis of Jianling are already waiting outside the door, is Your Majesty summoned?" ”

Liu Che smiled slightly when he heard this.

Two sons?

Naturally, he understood what this meant.

But, women or something, Liu Che is not in a hurry now.

He pondered for a moment, and then ordered: "Let them go and greet Xia Ji first, and I will arrive later, by the way, if the two uncles arrive, they will also take them to Xia Ji's side......"

The people of the Shi family, Liu Che also has a great interest.

But whether this family can be used or not, Liu Che feels that he still has to meet the patriarch and members of this family before deciding. (To be continued......)