After that, Li Qing relied on the map projection to give a detailed introduction to the water conservancy construction in the three places, including the grassland capital.

According to the Shang Dynasty's plan, the Grassland Protectorate would not carry out large-scale agricultural expansion due to natural conditions, and it would continue to focus on animal husbandry, providing a large amount of fur, meat and war horses for the Shang army.

However, it is important to understand that livestock also needs pasture, and pasture also needs water!

Although the need for water in pastoral areas is not as acute as in agricultural areas, it is still essential, and the Grassland Protectorate is included in the water conservancy plan.

It's just that compared with the dense water conservancy ditches in Pingzhou and Chenzhou, there are only a few grassland protectorates, which are not a level at all.

Shang Ji didn't think Li Qing's return was boring, and listened to the report for nearly an hour with relish, and after listening, he also had a general understanding of the water conservancy of the three places.

The more he understood, the more Shang Ji felt that it was the right choice to support Li Miao's water conservancy in the first place, and the more he felt how stupid it was for Gongsun Chan to send Li Mi to his doorstep.

He is the same god-level production personnel as Liu's, Hephaestus, Nonghe, and Gongchuan Ban, but Li Luo can't provide short-term benefits, on the contrary, he needs to invest a large amount of resources first, which seems to be the least valuable.

The Liu family was alone, picking some herbs casually, and then opening the furnace to refine a few flavors of pills, which could easily be exchanged for tens of thousands of gold in earnings, which was simply a walking money printing machine.

Compared with the Liu family, Li Meng just dragged carts of gold coins into the sea, and did not scatter enough materials and money, it was absolutely impossible to see the benefits.

However, once you invest enough, the benefits of the two are not at the same level at all.

Even if the Liu family did his best to refine the pill every day, while not considering the market capacity, the value that the Liu family could make in a year would only be tens of millions of gold.

Unlike Li Ming, after the water conservancy construction system matures, the role it plays is strategic, and it cannot be simply described as money.

Don't think that water conservancy construction is simply throwing money, before the business was also a lot of money and there was no place to burn, why didn't you think of throwing money on water conservancy? Without him, you can't do it!

The connection of various waters, the excavation and dredging of the river, the exploration of the water veins, the design of the canal, etc., are all highly professional problems, there is no relevant aspect of the grandmaster-level figures, just start work casually, waste money and materials or trivial things, serious and even may dig digging to dig out a flood fire drought in Pingzhou!

Although Li Qing's report took a long time, the effect was surprisingly good, and it gave everyone a dose of strengthening, and even the military generals who had not made a big move for a long time had a feeling of eagerness to try.

After Li Qing's report, Deng Yan smiled and continued: "Next, I will introduce to you the achievements made in government affairs in the past three years. ”

In fact, water conservancy construction also belongs to the civil affairs aspect, but the achievements in water conservancy are too great, and the Li father and son have made outstanding contributions, so Li Qing was specially arranged to make a separate report.

"The first point is the population. Three years ago, the total population of the three places was 1.263 billion, and now the total population of the three places is 1.489 billion, with an increase of 200 million people, of which mainly from the mainland, and a small number of local newborns and the hidden population of Yuanchenzhou.

In terms of a single population, the total population under the rule of our army is second only to Yuan Shu (occupying the whole of Runan, most of Yingchuan and Nanyang, although the place is not large, but the population density is extremely high) and Han Fu (occupying Jizhou), slightly more than Tao Qian (Xuzhou) and Kong Rong (Qingzhou).

However, in terms of population density, we are still in the most backward position, and with the existing area under the control of our army, even 5 billion or even 10 billion people can carry it. ”

When it comes to population density, Deng Yan feels a little heartbroken.

According to the available statistics, the arable area under the rule of Shang Ji is about 70 billion mu, plus the water conservancy facilities that can now be called plug-in and the high-yield seeds produced by the farmers, if the most basic starvation is not death as the standard, the entire Huaxia District can be migrated to the whole area!

However, a very embarrassing reality is that in terms of the population under the rule of Shangji, many places can be watered with good water if they are slightly reclaimed, but because of the lack of sufficient population, the fields are not cultivated, which means that the construction of water conservancy facilities in Pingzhou is somewhat overused and runs ahead of the demand.

As an official in charge of administration, Deng Yan was anxious in his eyes and heart, and he couldn't wait to go to the mainland to immigrate in person.

"In terms of cultivated land, at present, within the three regions, 26 billion yuan of cooked land has been reclaimed, all of which is irrigated with high-quality water. It is estimated that this year's panorama can produce more than 60 billion stone of grain. Within three years, the total grain output under the rule of our army has increased fivefold, and the construction of water conservancy facilities has made great contributions! ”

"At present, the consumption of rations in the whole territory of our army is about 19 billion stones, and the demand for rations is less than one-third of the total grain production. Some of the surplus grain was purchased by the general's government, and some of it was made into military grain as a strategic reserve, the other part was directly traded with the princes in the interior, and the largest part was used as fodder for feeding cattle and sheep in large quantities.

Since three years ago, our army began to establish a system of artificial breeding of fierce beasts, and so far, it has successfully domesticated and bred six kinds of fierce beasts suitable for artificial breeding, and 19 large-scale fierce beast breeding farms have been established throughout the territory.

Up to now, it has successfully provided a total of 1 million stone of high-grade edible meat (beast meat), and it is expected that the annual output will exceed 5 million stone next year. ”

The artificial breeding of fierce beasts, which was launched at the same time as the three-year construction plan, during which Pingzhou recruited senior animal trainers throughout China, especially in the Nanban region, Liu Yi personally went out to recruit senior animal trainers in the Nanban region.

Then they were responsible for domesticating and reproducing, and then removing the ferocity while retaining their flesh as fierce beasts, and in the past three years, they have also been fruitful, domesticating six varieties and establishing 19 specialized ferocious animal farms, large and small.

Because it was mainly in the experimental period before, the cumulative output of more than one million stone finished high-grade meat in three years has entered the formal breeding period this year, and the scale has doubled, five million but it is only a conservative estimate, if the situation goes well, the final takeover will definitely be more optimistic.