ebookland Chapter 448 Recent Situations in Persian County
Chapter 448 Recent Situations in Persian County
Persian County, Sheriff's Mansion.
Meng Ren stood on the high platform holding a cup of hot tea, watching the bustling construction scene.
Located in the middle of the desert, even in winter, there are still rare snowflakes falling, which does not delay the construction progress at all.
Especially today, it is rare to see a sunny day. Meng Ren, who is wearing a thick woolen sweater, even feels a little warm after standing for a long time.
"His Royal Highness is still right. It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. If you don't experience it yourself, how do you know that there is such a different world thousands of miles away from Xianyang City?"
Meng Ren couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Meng Ren, the eldest son of Meng Yi, the governor of Sanchuan County!
It's just that not long ago, Feng Jie was transferred back to Xianyang, and it was Meng Ren who replaced Feng Jie as Sheriff of Persian County.
When he was first transferred to Persian County, Meng Ren was full of resentment.
After all, Sanchuan County is very close to Xianyang, and its development is also very good. The county city Luoyang is the core of the entire Central Plains.
It can be said that as long as there are no accidents, Sanchuan County Sheriff will be sure to enter the court. If he does something more, he will be ranked among the three princes and nine ministers, and become a prominent existence under one person and under ten thousand people.
Although the territory of Persian County is much larger than that of Sanchuan County, it is thousands of miles west of Xianyang City. In the eyes of Meng Ren at that time, it was a completely barren land.
As the staunch supporters of His Highness the Crown Prince, Meng Ren couldn't figure out why His Highness the Crown Prince transferred himself to such a place where no shit.
But complaints are nothing but complaints, Meng Ren is still quite loyal to Da Qin, so he quickly packed his bags, and under the escort of the soldiers of the Western Regions Protectorate, he stopped the journey.
When passing through the prairie, Meng Ren's attitude changed when he saw the former Dayue clan cavalry who had become extremely obedient.
In addition to Meng Yi's care, Meng Ren's own talent is also outstanding among his peers to be able to become Sanchuan County Sheriff in his early thirties.
Moreover, the Meng family is a general, and Meng Ren not only has extraordinary accomplishments in government affairs, but also in military strategy.
Therefore, they are very aware of the importance of the prairie, which can be said to have really given wings to the Great Qin army.
For Ying Yu's ability to tame the originally rebellious Dayue people, he admired him from the bottom of his heart.
After the mentality changed, Meng Ren also began to study the areas he passed along the way.
For the first time, Meng Ren discovered that there were many oases in the desert, which were enough to support a large city.
This made Meng Ren look forward to his destination a little more.
After arriving in the Seleucid area, Meng Ren felt that his previous self was simply watching the sky from a well.
It turns out that outside of Great Qin, there is not only a huge world, but also many civilizations with their own characteristics.
Even Seleucus, which has fallen, has a territory similar to that of the Great Qin when it just unified the Central Plains, and its population is nearly tens of millions.
And Rome, which caused Seleucus to suffer a great loss and had to rely on Daqin, is a growing opponent enough to make Daqin take seriously.
Although today's Rome is still far away from Great Qin, it is in the process of rapid expansion. If Great Qin stops, Rome can take over Seleucus and other regions and continue to develop. Maybe it will be caught up in the future one day.
When there are problems within the Great Qin, the Western Regions will completely fall into the hands of Rome and become a potential threat to the Great Qin.
In the words of the soldiers of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, if such a good and large piece of land cannot be used by Daqin, it must be destroyed, otherwise it will become a trouble for Daqin sooner or later.
After arriving in Persia County, Meng Ren gradually understood the importance of Persia County.
This is not only the most prosperous area of the Persian Empire in the past, but also the entire Far West, the transportation hub of the Eurasian continent in the mouth of His Royal Highness, and the bridgehead of the Great Qin to rule the world.
If you want to win the Mediterranean, you must first firmly control Persian County.
Although after many years of war, the population of Persian County has been greatly depleted, but it also gave Meng Ren sufficient room to display.
Meng Ren, who is excellent in government affairs, took advantage of the aborigines' desire for peace in Persia County, and relied on the great reputation of the Qin army, and quickly calmed down the hearts of the people.
In addition, several caravans were recruited from the mainland of Daqin, and they used the method of work-for-relief to rebuild Persia and once again unite the hearts of the local people.
After the basic construction was gradually improved, more and more Daqin caravans came to Persia County. While increasing the income of Persia County, it also made Daqin's influence in Persia County bigger and bigger.
Especially after the establishment of free government schools and low-cost medical clinics that were synchronized with China, the aborigines in Persia recognized the rule of the Great Qin from the bottom of their hearts, and actively learned the characters and language of the Great Qin.
The only problem is that the work of immigrating from the native land is not going well.
Even though Meng Ren expended a lot of energy, the Daqin people who finally settled down in Persian County were barely more than [-], which was far from the original goal of [-].
The reason for this is that the journey is too far away.
Most of the people who can be persuaded to go to Persian County by the preferential conditions are the people in the more remote and backward areas in the inland.
And the people in these areas, going to Persia, either cross thousands of miles of grasslands and sand dunes, or first cross half of the Great Qin mainland to the seaport, and then take a rickety sea boat for a month to reach Persia.
It's so frustrating.
Although Meng Ren was impatient, he was helpless.
Because he knew very well that the population of the people of the Qin nationality was a very important link in order to completely merge Persian County into the Great Qin.
Only when the proportion of people in Daqin is large enough can the culture and customs of Daqin be promoted and take root in Persia County, and the aborigines of Persia County can truly integrate into the Daqin cultural circle and regard themselves as a part of Daqin.
But the distance of thousands of miles really made Meng Ren more than willing but not strong enough.
It wasn't until the news of the Xianyang-Persian County Railway that Meng Ren breathed a sigh of relief.
From Meng Ren's perspective, he can naturally see the importance of the railway.
Once the railway is completed, it will only take three to five days from Xianyang City to Persian County.
This speed is almost as fast as that of Feige Chuanshu.
Moreover, a train can easily carry more than a thousand passengers, or hundreds of thousands of kilograms of goods.
This makes it very convenient for Xianyang City to travel to Persian County.
It will be much easier to attract Qin people to immigrate again.
Moreover, the convenience of transportation has also strengthened Xianyang City's influence on Persia County a hundredfold, completely killing the possibility of Persia getting out of control.
Therefore, as soon as he received the news, Meng Ren called together all the noble and rich families in Persia County, raised 5000 million yuan of funds, and started the exploration work of the Persian section of the railway.
The purpose is to establish a smooth connection with Daqin mainland and Xianyang City as soon as possible.
Just when Meng Ren was full of emotions, Zhou Bo, the county lieutenant, suddenly visited.
This made Meng Ren slightly surprised.
After seeing Zhou Bo's expression, Meng Ren's expression also became serious.