Chapter 1,358 Suzhou

Su You used his free time in the past few days to let Guodong and the hunters from the tribe take him to play around. In fact, he was inspecting sand-fixing plants.

As a result, we really discovered a lot.

The most powerful one is the rhizome. This thing grows almost in the desert. Its root system is shallow and long, and can be as long as twenty or thirty meters. This is basically the only remaining plant in the deepest part of the desert. Except for camels, cattle and horses are not willing to chew it.

Food.

Slightly away from the central area of ​​the desert, there are Haloxylon ammodendron, Salix salix, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Seabuckthorn, Licorice, and Ephedra.

Haloxylon ammodendron is a very good carbon material. "There is a log called Susuo at the end of Yema River. When burned, the fire will last for many years and it will not turn into ashes."

"Charcoal is called susuo. When the fire burns, it emits a fragrance, which is definitely not comparable to that of charcoal."

There is another good thing that must rely on the parasitism of Haloxylon ammodendron - Cistanche deserticola.

It was recorded in "Supplementary Materials of Materia Medica" of the Tang Dynasty: "Take three coins of Cistanche deserticola, three decoctions and one preparation, take it with hot drinks, and the penis will last forever."

Salix is ​​also called basket willow. Local people use the branches of this willow tree to make baskets.

The remaining items are all important, especially the last two, which are magic medicines used by traditional Chinese medicine to deal with warming and dispersing cold evil.

Treats exogenous wind and cold, headache, fever, inflammation, allergies... Anyway, Su oil is often seen in Weier's medical prescriptions.

When Su You was collecting these plants, an incredible thought came to his mind - Could it be that I managed the Yellow River and made a fortune?

The purpose of collecting sand-fixing plants is of course to control the Yellow River.

The problem of the Yellow River is mainly that it flows through the Loess Plateau. Although there is still a part of the Loess Plateau in the Liao Kingdom, it is already a marginal area and there is no loss of sediment.

The part of the Yellow River that made it unruly has now been taken over by the Song Dynasty.

Regarding the Yellow River, the Song Dynasty River Canal Bureau and Zhou Case have quite detailed measurement data. The most sediment comes from the banks of Xingluo-Longmen-Tongguan, and more than half of the sediment in the Yellow River comes from this area.

In other words, this is the over-exploitation of the Chinese nation, and the blame should be shouldered on itself.

The rest of the sediment mainly comes from tributaries of the Yellow River system. Severe areas include Wuding River, Qingjian River, Yanshui, Beiluo River, and Malian River, a tributary of Jinghe River.

And the upper reaches of Weihe River and Fenhe River.

Nowadays, the Jinghe River and Beiluohe River have achieved fruitful results in desertification control. The people along the Jinghe River are grateful to Suyou and have integrated the activities of planting willows by the river and worshiping Jinghe Longshi Shaobao, which has become a local tradition.

Folklore.

It has been twenty years now. Forests have grown on both sides of the Jing River and the Jing Canal. The amount of quicksand in the Jing River is less than that in the Wei River, and the distinct scene of Jing and Wei no longer exists.

The succeeding Weizhou city guard reported the Jinghe River Chongqing as an auspicious sign. This activity has now gradually become popular in the Malian River, a tributary of the river.

This shows that sand fixation through plants is feasible. Shaanxi has now recovered. The population of the Fourth Road has increased from 700,000 households and 3 million people from Suyou when it first arrived in Weizhou to 1.1 million households and 5 million people.

This is a full million more than the more than one million households and more than four million people in Shaanxi at the peak of the Song Dynasty. It is equivalent to half of Sichuan Gorge Fourth Road. Su You told Zhao Xu that it would grow by 10% in ten years.

The vision of millions of people has been completely realized.

Of course, Su You didn't dare to be brave enough to directly write to Zhao Xu to promote afforestation, but he secretly asked Zhang Hengqu to add a clause in the "Township Covenant": "Plant more vegetation a hundred steps along the river; conserve water and soil, and prohibit logging.

Forbid grazing; protect your descendants and provide them with adequate food and clothing."

Therefore, the Chinese people are so lovely. With the promotion of the "Country Covenant", this article has also been promoted. The common people may not know the reason for doing this, but it does not prevent them from implementing it honestly.

Effective guidance from superiors is never wrong, but the direction of guidance must always be strictly controlled.

After a few days of hunting with Chao Guodong, Su You also collected sand-fixing plants before returning to Juyan City.

When leaving, Su You also taught the local residents a method of catching fish.

The fish density in Juyan Sea is extremely high, but the tribes living around it are not good at catching fish.

Su You taught them to insert wicker baskets along the bank to form a wicker array and open the mouth against the current. When the fish swam back in the lake, they would get into the mouth of the big bag, then swim smaller and smaller, and finally enter the fish gathering area.

If the fish wants to escape and turns back, it will be misled by the arc-shaped basket wicker array on both sides and cannot find the real exit.

The old shepherds in Tugan's cadre still had an impression of shamans. When they saw the fish automatically gathering into the wicker formation, they all knelt down and shouted witchcraft to Su You.

In fact, this was a method Su You learned at the seaside, and it was effective in Juyanhai, and he was very happy.

In addition to sand-fixing plants, Su You also brought one thing with him from Juyanhai. There is a small waterfowl called oil gourd, and its oil has always been the best for maintaining swords.

Weier will definitely like it.

When the pastoral area was demarcated and the Song army guarding the area arrived, Su You left 300 new troops to guard Yancheng, and returned to Ganzhou with Mrs. Chao and Guodong Guoliang.

In addition to the troops from the Sitong Exploration Department and the Construction Department who arrived here, there is also Yao Lin's Tiger Wing Army.

Coordination between the old and new armies is also a subject. Zhonge discovered some patterns during the Pingxia War. Now Su You's march is to solidify these patterns into rules.

The old army serves as the vanguard and scouts of the new army, as well as the package security force at night and the post-war battlefield cleaning force. In the current situation where the new army is insufficient, it is still very useful.

Moreover, Su You did not dare to go too far in the expansion of the new army. After all, there was also a Liao Kingdom that was not weak in technological strength, and the problems of technological leakage and dissemination had to be guarded against.

After marching and inspecting and summarizing all the way, the team soon arrived in Suzhou.

Along the way, various Buddhist caves began to appear on the side of the Qilian Mountains.

Many Buddhist caves have very exquisite statues and murals. There are also pavilions built outside the caves to protect the caves. Because many of them are new caves, they are actually somewhat different from the Dunhuang Grottoes that Su You saw in later generations.

You can imagine how prosperous the Silk Road was at that time, and how wealthy the worshipers who built the caves were.

In the process of cutting down the buildings, ceremonial guards, and mausoleums that Li Shi had violated in Xixia, there was one exception: the temples, caves, and Buddha statues built by Li Shi for Buddhism were not included.

Such differentiated treatment also takes into account the religious background of the people of Ningxia and has received the greatest degree of praise and support.

Seeing the statues all over the mountains and valleys, Su You couldn't help but sigh to Li Shuanshuo beside him: "They are all made by the people, but they are indeed magnificent and exquisite. If the two princes-in-law come here, I am afraid they will never leave, and their painting skills will be improved."

Yuanfeng was restructured, and Li Shuanzhu was now the minister of the Ministry of Industry.

But he, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was somewhat incompatible with a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry who were Jinshi. His son happened to be in the northwest, so he simply wrote to Su You, Master, if you want to engage in construction, don't forget about me.

Su You was right. Suzhou was the Jiuquan of the Han Dynasty. There were not only Buddhist caves there, but also the Yumen Oilfield!

The name Yumen is actually not accurate, at least not now. The Jiuquan in the Tang Dynasty had a pass, but it was very small.

It was the place where the Xixia people forged Qingfeng Steel for the first time, and it was called Jingtie Mountain. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that this place became a major pass, the Jiayuguan Pass at the westernmost end of the Ming Great Wall.

The Yumen Pass in the Tang Dynasty was still in Shazhou, hundreds of miles northwest of Yangguan, which was the end of Su You's trip and the western end of the original Xia Kingdom territory.

So the oil field under our feet now should be called Suzhou Oil Field.

Su You didn't know where exactly it was. This required the finishing touch of Li Qingli, the minister of the imperial court's Ministry of Industry.

The life of an official wife in Bianjing City was very troublesome for Juaner. When she heard that the young master had summoned her, the couple fled the capital with the prospecting team of the Sitong Surveying Department.

Jiuquan is actually a good place. When many people in later generations mention Jiuquan, they think of the sky full of yellow sand and the vast Gobi Desert. In fact, Jiuquan is located at the foothills of the Qilian Mountains and has abundant melt water from the snowy mountains. This area is close to the Qilian Mountains and has always been a place with abundant water and grass.

And most importantly, there are unique conditions here. The many ditches and gorges at the foot of the Qilian Mountains are the best locations for construction of water conservancy projects.

And now that there are cement pipelines, even the Gobi can be renovated. Whether to invest or not is not a technical issue, but a matter of input-output ratio.

Suzhou Oil believes that this is not necessary unless the oil fields are drilled out and the surrounding areas need to be cultivated to meet the living needs of the personnel stationed there.

The oases in Suzhou and the entire Hexi Corridor are all waiting to be developed. What is lacking now is people.

Suzhou now has two to three thousand households and more than 10,000 people. It cannot be regarded as a county town in central Sichuan.

The city guard was trembling when he saw Su Youzhan.

The Song Dynasty was gentle. After the army of the Xiping Military Division was completely wiped out at the foot of Rouge Mountain, he had already handed over the surrender order, which was faster than Bingchang's imperial edict.
Chapter completed!