? The wind and sand outside the house are howling, like ghosts crying and wolf howling; the room is full of spring, and the jade man spends a good night together.

Zhao Xing, who had gone from a supine position to a prone position, looked at his shy face like a rainy pear blossom under him and said with some love: "Damn my dear girl, you will dare to provoke me like this in the future!"

Cai Yan closed her eyes tightly, endured the pain after breaking the melon, and replied without retreating: "As long as you don't marry someone, I will come and push you!"

Zhao Xing was completely knocked down by Sister Cai’s bold declaration of love and immediately took off his gun.

The Taifu Zhao, who had eaten it all, naturally had no courage to let the Cai girl be a mistress in the future, so she had to bite the bullet and agree to a long list of marriages listed by Sister Cai. Zhao Xing sighed in his heart that there is indeed no free lunch in this world. It was so good that I felt good last night, but how could I put in dozens of different love poems for Sister Cai in the future?

Putting aside these troublesome things, Zhao Xing called out early the next morning to the accompanying logistics chief Liu Jili, the new Dunhuang County prefect Hua Weiguo, and the county magistrate of Dunhuang County, to discuss the plan to rebuild the Dunhuang City.

According to the construction blueprint given by Zhao Xing, it is indeed equivalent to rebuilding a heroic city based on the original Dunhuang City for twenty miles to each side. This city, which is still on the drawings, will serve as a bridgehead for the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions in the future, and will play a variety of functions such as logistics equipment supply, transit of merchants, and distribution and circulation of east-west goods.

It can be imagined that as Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu continue to conquer the westward battle, the newly built Dunhuang City will surely usher in prosperity and development that has not been seen in a thousand years.

It is not difficult to build a big city. As long as you mobilize a large number of young and strong laborers from the eastern part of Liang Kingdom, it costs nothing more than a sum of money. What really made Zhao Xing worry about was the environmental protection issue that was valued by mankind more than 1,800 years later.

Zhao Xing walked west from Guzang City and paid special attention to the desertification of land on both sides of the road. The results of the investigation made Zhao Xing feel a little worried. Although the Silk Road in this time and space are not as severe as those in later generations, there are already signs of desertification. If the governance is not carried out, the final result will be that many cities like Loulan disappear in the wind, sand and years.

Zhao Xing carefully observed the topographic map of Xiliang made by the Shadow Team members after years of hard surveying and mapping. He found that there were two large lakes in the northernmost Juyan vassal state of Liangzhou, each with an area of ​​tens of thousands of hectares. The name marked on the map was Juyanze (Note 1). The entire Juyan vassal state was built around the lake, and the outer edge of Juyan vassal state was a large desert.

The memories from later generations made Zhao Xing clearly remember that the Juyanze he saw on the map now is the Juyanhai that appeared in countless historical materials in later generations.

From the information reflected by the Shadow Team members, it can be seen that the Juyan vassal country has been a good place with blue seas and clouds and trees since ancient times. Since the pre-Qin period, it has flourished several times, and has been destroyed several times and experienced vicissitudes. Juyanze has raised countless people living here with its vast waters, fertile land, rich resources and important geographical location. It has also become the most important place for food and horse production in the Xiliang region.

What made Zhao Xing feel extremely sad was that this lake that had once reproduced and multiplied and disappeared completely in the early 1960s after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In his previous life, Zhao Xing once led a team of more than ten people to secretly go to this area to carry out important arrest missions. When he saw the Juyan Sea covered by white alkali desert and desert sand, he could not imagine that the birthplace of this flying sand and dust had lasted for thousands of years in history, and it was also the legendary holy place where Lao Tzu ascended to heaven.

It is precisely because of the comparison that spans nearly two thousand years that Zhao Xing pays great attention to the environmental deterioration in western Liangzhou, which is also an important reason why he did not hesitate to go to Yumen Pass in person this time.

On the military map, Zhao Xing also saw a large area of ​​freshwater lake fifty miles east of Dunhuang City, with its name marked Huanze. A river called Lingshui flowed down from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and finally poured into Huanze. This lake is the most important freshwater source in the entire Wuwei County, and the Yuanquan and Shatou near the lake are also important grain production areas.

What made Zhao Xing most happy was that he appeared in an unknown small lake about ten miles east of Yumen Pass. The area of ​​this lake is only about one-tenth of Huanze and one-thirty of Juyanze. However, because it is close to Yumen Pass and Dunhuang City, it has become the most precious tamsui resource for the expansion of Dunhuang.

Zhao Xing pointed to the nameless lake and said to Hua Weiguo and a group of Wuwei officials: "This lake will be called Yulong Lake in the future. You must protect it as if you care about your own eyes. If anyone makes this lake disappear, he will come to see me or my descendants!"

When everyone saw that Zhao Xing was very serious, they felt amazement in their hearts and secretly wrote down the important instructions of the Taifu.

Zhao Xing continued: "I have an order here, everyone needs to remember. In the future, all people living in Juyanze, Huanze and Yulong Lake will be rewarded with one tael of silver, and the time will be limited to five years; the people living in each hundred trees will be rewarded with two taels, and the time will be recorded, and the time will be limited to ten years; the people living in a ten thousand forest will be rewarded with a hundred taels, and will be naturalized at home and fallen into the Huhu City, and the time will be limited to twenty years!"

Without waiting for everyone to express their objections in surprise, Zhao Xing continued: "There are rewards and punishments. In the future, the people of Xiliang are strictly prohibited from cutting down trees for perennial periods within 30 miles of any area with lakes and rivers. Those who steal one tree are fined one tael of silver, those who steal ten trees are fined one tael of dust, those who steal hundreds of trees have been sentenced to five years of hard work, those who steal thousands of trees are sentenced to death, and those who steal ten trees are implicated in nine tribes!"

When everyone heard that Zhao Xing's punishment for cutting down trees was so severe, he not only took a breath, but no one dared to express his objection. However, Liu Jili, who was standing aside, reminded Zhao Xing: "If the people here are not allowed to cut down trees, how can they rebuild Dunhuang City? How should people make wood for furniture, beams, doors and windows in the future? And where does the firewood for cooking come from when ordinary people make firewood? "

Zhao Xing was very satisfied with Liu Jili's question, so he patiently explained: "In the future, the wood will be mainly transported here from the Tianshan Mountains to encourage the people to use honeycomb coal to cook. It won't take long to find black oil and gas from the underground here, which can be used as lighting for the people and making fires for heating in the future."

After giving instructions and explaining these things, Zhao Xing felt that there seemed to be something he had to do, but he couldn't remember it for a while. So he simply refused to think about it, pulled his feet back to his room, and comforted the girl Cai Yan who was broken on the bed.

Note 1: Juyanhai is located in the north of Ejina Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is narrow and curved in shape, like a crescent moon. The Ejina River flows into the lake and is the main source of water supply for Juyanhai. Juyan is a Xiongnu word. It is translated as weak water and quicksand in "Shui Jing Zhu". It was called Juyanze in the Han Dynasty, and it was called Xihai in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It was called Juyanhai in the Tang Dynasty, and it is now called Swan Lake.

Today, the Juyan Sea has long lost its charm and charm as before. The original water surface of the West Juyan Sea is nearly 3,000 square kilometers. Since it dried up in 1961, it has been covered by white alkali deserts and desert sand, and has become one of the birthplaces of flying sandstorms. The East Juyan Sea dried up six times after the liberation, and by 1992, it completely dried up. The Juyan Sea was caused by the decrease in the water volume of the Ejina River year by year, which caused the shrinkage of the Juyan Sea oasis and the sharp deterioration of the regional ecological environment.
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