Because of this issue, some officials in the DPRK have complained quite a bit.

The young courtiers headed by Zhao Kun also shouldered a lot of pressure invisibly.

Previously, some people also proposed the idea of ​​purchasing food from abroad.

After all, the two Marquis and Lu went to sea, proving that there are many countries in this world.

But the losses in transporting food are too high.

How many good days has Great Qin had?

There was no need to waste money on such a place, so his proposal was not passed.

But everyone knows that it is urgent to solve the food problem.

Zhao Kun was thinking about more than just this issue.

South Vietnam is located in the lower part of Da Qin's territory and will be the place where Da Qin's overseas trade will expand in the future.

Moreover, it can also play an important role in connecting the north and opening up the south.

Developing this place can directly revitalize the entire Great Qin.

In Zhao Kun's mind, Guanzhong and even the entire north are not a good production area.

Due to climate reasons, grain production in the north is not high.

The only advantage is nothing more than a population resource.

But this thing can be controlled manually.

In Zhao Kun's plan, Guanzhong can be built into the political center of Qin.

South Vietnam, which is to be developed now, will appear in front of the world as the economic center of Great Qin.

Zhao Kun knew that the economic development of later generations would also be developed in South Vietnam, so the development of South Vietnam was imperative.

When Zhang Liang came to see Zhao Kun, Zhao Kun told him his thoughts by the way.

After hearing this, Zhang Liang shook his head and sighed: "Large-scale development requires a lot of manpower and financial resources. This kind of proposal will have a very significant impact on the country, and it may not be easily supported."

Regardless of the implementation of the previous five-year plan, it seems that there was no resistance.

That's because the five-year plan does not really touch the interests of all parties, but opens up a new development point outside of Daqin's inherent interest system.

However, this is not the case with the development of South Vietnam.

Just transforming mountains and forests and building cities is not an easy task.

When this plan was proposed, the first thing it touched was the interests of ordinary people.

At that time, they will definitely think of the past when hundreds of thousands of people worked to build the Great Wall.

For the common people, it is definitely a past event that they cannot bear to look back on.

Now that the people of the Qin Dynasty are getting richer, it is not that simple to force them to do labor.

"I made a rough calculation and found that building a new city from scratch will cost so much money that even the National Bank cannot sustain it for a long time!" Zhang Liang said with a solemn expression.

Zhao Kun shook his head and said with a smile: "The problems you mentioned are actually not problems at all as long as they are handled properly."

With that said, he walked straight to the bookcase and pointed to the map above: "The military factory is already studying land transportation. I call it a train. After the train is available, I will build a train from South Vietnam to Xianyang.

How about connecting the track from Luoyi to Yunmeng?"

Luoyi, later known as Luoyang, was less than 800 miles away from Xianyang. The road between the two places was flat and the geology was stable.

The distance from Luoyi to Yunmeng is more than a thousand miles.

But there are no mountains or rivers between the two places.

In later generations, Yunmeng was located in Hubei, with Jiangnan to the east, and could form a vertical and horizontal transportation network.

With the current capabilities of Da Qin, it is completely possible to build a railway connecting several places.

Laying train tracks is actually no more difficult than building roads.

In fact, the material consumption of building tracks is much less than that of roads.

Even the National Bank can afford it.

These two roads are being built at the same time. With Da Qin's current infrastructure capabilities, they can be completed within two years at most.

Upon hearing Zhao Kun's proposal, Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment.

He didn't understand for a moment why they suddenly started talking about road construction when they were obviously talking about the development of South Vietnam.

Moreover, what is the so-called train?

Just when Zhang Liang was puzzled, Zhao Kun said to Zhang Liang again: "This time I come to you. In addition to the South Vietnam port affairs, there are also railway matters. You are responsible for everything. If you have any problems, just tell them!

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"Your Highness, there are people from the Academy of Sciences at the Nanyue Port to help. It's not a problem. It's just that the railway matter needs to be discussed in the long term?" Zhang Liang said thoughtfully.

It's not that he doesn't believe in Zhao Kun's plan, it's just that he feels that such a big deal requires some careful consideration.

But Zhao Kun smiled and waved his hand and said: "Zifang, I know your concerns, but I have confidence in this matter, so feel free to do it!"

As he said that, he turned to look at the old farmer: "Mr. Chen, I will ask someone to help you with the hybrid rice matter. Just go ahead and do it. Call all your farmers' researchers to South Vietnam!"

"As for the manpower issue, I will ask Wang Li to take the fleet to the Kushan Kingdom in the southwest. There are high-yield grains there. Then I will bring some people back for your use!"

"Since the prince has made arrangements, I can rest assured!" The old farmer smiled and stroked his beard.

...........

The next day, in a town in South Vietnam.

Half a year ago, Cao Shen was promoted by Xiao He because of his merits in catching thieves, and was finally hired by Fusu. Now he works beside Xiao He.

Zhou Bo, Fan Hui and others who survived were not so lucky.

In the end they had to go their separate ways.

Because Fan Hui was born in Peixian County and was familiar with the Kuaiji area, coupled with the development of South Vietnam, he came to South Vietnam.

During the time he came to South Vietnam, he did not just wait to die, but started working as a butcher.

Later, I met the young widow next door whom I had admired for a long time, and settled in South Vietnam.

But as time goes by, you will realize that this is not how people live at all!

Especially after the little widow gave birth to a son for him, Fan Hui would hear the child's crying every day when he opened his eyes, and he couldn't stay at home.

However, although he had been with Liu Bang for a while and had served as a general, he could not read a word, so it was impossible for him to do anything else.

Life has been a bit tight recently, and Fan Hui is planning to do some business.

When he rebelled with Liu Bang, he also saved some money, but when Zhao Kun destroyed the city, all that money was detained in the city and confiscated from the national treasury.

Therefore, he often looks around the city recently, hoping to find some new work.

After all, it’s really boring to always kill pigs and sheep.

After breakfast, Fan Hui wandered to the county town again.

Today, in Nanyue County, there are no more scenes of barbarians running rampant, and there is harmony everywhere.

Because Zhang Han's troops were stationed outside the county, the Nanyue county was relatively stable.

When Fan Hui entered the city, he saw a group of familiar business owners from a distance, surrounding the door of the Market Supervision Bureau, not knowing what they were doing.

As Fan Hui got closer, he heard Zhang Liang's words coming from inside.

"The construction of the railway is a huge project. The prince is considerate of the people and does not want to increase the number of corvees. As soon as possible, he will leave it to the construction company to take care of it. If you are interested, you may wish to come in and discuss it in detail!"

Fan Hui immediately became energetic.

Construction business?

This was a business he had never heard of.

Others, like Fan Hui, also have such questions.

After Zhang Liang's answer, Fan Hui understood.

The so-called train is a kind of car newly developed by the Academy of Sciences. It can travel thousands of miles a day by placing it on the rails.

As for the construction company, to put it bluntly, it is nothing new. It is the construction team of the company.

Daqin has a construction group, and basically everyone in Qin knows about it. As the first project of Daqin Construction Group, Pinyang City is naturally talked about.

Nowadays, there are many engineering teams in Guanzhong, but basically they are not large in scale.

Most of them are a few villagers who spontaneously organize people to take over some work of building houses and roads, which is not a good situation.

Moreover, things like building bridges and roads, aside from the dangers, are actually just hard-earned money.

For the major business houses present, it was not attractive at all.

But Fan will be different.

As Zhao Kun's former enemy, Fan Hui knew very well what kind of person the prince was.
To be continued...