When he came to Zhangye, Ganzhou, Yang Ji was deeply moved. Yang Jian had long appointed him as the governor of Liangzhou. At the beginning, he thought Liangzhou was poor and backward and refused to come. Yang Jian was so angry that he asked him to leave Liangzhou.

, Youzhou and Jiaozhou. After comparing them one by one, Yang Ji found that Youzhou was too cold and Jiaozhou was too hot, and both were far away from the prosperous Guanzhong. So he was extremely reluctant and came to Liangzhou to take up the post in dejection.

But when he came to Ganzhou from Daxing again, his mood was completely different. Although Daxing was prosperous, what happened in just a few days made him feel cold all over.

Although wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes, there are fights, there are intrigues, there are battles of wits and courage, but the people in Daxing City are not only a group of high IQs, but also have behemoths standing behind them; if it weren't for Yang Jian and Yang Guangjin

They all favored themselves and settled He Ruobi's case hastily, otherwise they might not be able to escape unscathed.

However, despite this, the three Guanlong sects lost several big shots, dozens of followers, and several big shots were deposed as civilians in this case. Although this consequence will not make the deep-rooted and flourishing Guanlong nobles

It's a big injury, but it's also a big damage. They will never put this debt on the dead He Ruobi, let alone reflect on it and wake up, they will only blame themselves for the crime.

In addition, in the Furong Garden, I had a fight with the descendants of the Fanyang Lu family, the Qinghe Cui family, the Xingyang Zheng family, and the Taiyuan Wang family. It was quite satisfying to ban those dozen people, but the cost was to fight with the four major

The noble clans are at odds with each other.

In just a few days, he was hated and hostile by so many powerful forces, which made him subconsciously unwilling to live in the same city with those people, so he fled to Ganzhou like a lost dog.

After arriving here, and with my wife and mother by my side, my anxious mind suddenly calmed down!

After a good sleep in the new home full of original fragrance, I got up early the next day, practiced martial arts, riding and shooting, had breakfast, and then came to the official office of the Governor's Mansion.

The official offices of the General Administration are a group of huge buildings that correspond to the official system of the imperial court. In addition to the six departments of officials, people, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and labor, there are also the six departments of Sinong, Dianmu, and Chongwen of the Eleven Temples.

, Du Shui, Si Tian, ​​Weapons, General, Shaofu (coin making), prison and other departments, in addition to the supervision and internal affairs offices.

These institutions have formed a complete administrative supervision system, with more than 200 officials at all levels. The highest military and political officer is of course the Liangzhou governor, the general manager Yang Ji, followed by the general manager Shi Gaojun, Sima Yinshishi, and then

He is the chief officer of the Sixth Cao, the chief officer of the Eleventh Department...

The Qinzheng Hall where Yang Ji worked was a huge courtyard facing north and south; there were two courtyards directly south of it, the Liucao Office on the left, the Eleventh Office and the Supervisory Office, and the Internal Affairs Office on the right. The two courtyards plus the middle one

The avenue is exactly as wide as the Qinzheng Hall. This is also the pattern commonly used in state administration, except that the scale of state administration is far smaller than that of the general government, while Shangzhou is larger than Zhongzhou, and Zhongzhou is larger than Xiazhou.

The news of Yang Ji's return had already spread. Early in the morning, Qinzhengtang officials and soldiers were cleaning the room.

Qinzhengtang officials are different from Liucao and Eleventh Department officials. The former are private staff, and Yang Ji pays his salary out of his own pocket. Most of these staff are responsible for organizing documents and writing various orders of Yang Ji. They are somewhat similar to later generations of secretaries and royal palace officials.

The chief secretary is the chief secretary-general; the military side is headed by Prince Sima Li Dabian, followed by Xue Ju, Hao Yuan, Li Daliang, Dugu Pingyun and others.

The latter are officials appointed by the imperial court.

When Yang Ji entered the Qinzheng Hall, the civil and military staff had already begun their busy day at their posts, and the senior officials of the General Manager's Office had been waiting in the main hall for a long time. However, some were still on the way, and some had been beaten by Yang Ji early.

He was sent to work, so in the main hall there were only officials Cao Yu Shinan, punishment Cao Xiao Yu, Chongwen Liu Xuan, Ganzhou deputy general manager Zhang Dinghe, Li Jing who was recommended as the governor and general manager of Tingzhou, and Yao who was the governor of Tingzhou and Sima.

Junsu.

As for Gao Jiong's position as governor of Liang, it was just a position arranged by Yang Jian to deceive Tuyuhun and facilitate Gao Jiong's actions. His actual job was actually to communicate with the Qibi Ministry and the Western Regions as an envoy to the Western Regions. The old man was very energetic.

After returning from a tour in the Western Regions, they left their daughter Gao Ling in Zhangye and returned to Daxing to resume their lives. "See the chief steward!" When the six of them saw Yang Ji coming in, they all called her by his official official name.

"Long time no see, everyone, please take a seat." Yang Ji glanced at everyone, but found that Xiao Yu had a dark face, which made him look very different. After thinking about it for a while, he understood why Xiao Yu had a dark face.

Last night Xiao Yu asked his wife to take Xiao Ying back to the "Xiao family", but Xiao Ying disliked Xiao Yu's pedantry and old-fashioned and refused to leave. And Mrs. Xiao happened to be Dugu Luo's daughter and Dugu Min's niece, so I yelled

, Mrs. Xiao has to leave.

Xiao Yu is stubborn and is probably sulking about his sister now.

Although he understood, Yang Ji didn't bother to criticize him at all. Xiao Yu was demoted several times by Yang Guang in history, but because Yang Guang's reputation was so bad, Xiao Yu gained a reputation for being upright, but later,

Idiot fans praised Li Shimin as the only one in the world and the only emperor in the world, but he was demoted six times.

Since the "most foolish emperor" in history doesn't like him, and the "smartest emperor" doesn't like him either, it can be seen that the problem lies with Xiao Yu and has no direct relationship with whether the emperor is foolish or not.

With such a person, and his sister no longer able to escape, what else could Yang Ji have to fawn over?

"General Manager, who is this...?" Zhang Dinghe couldn't help being stunned when he saw Liu Zhuo behind Yang Ji.

"Let me introduce it to you!" Yang Ji quickly introduced: "Mr. Liu Shiyuan, Liu Zhuo of Xindu, is a great scholar of the time. Together with Mr. Liu Xuan, he is called the 'Er Liu'. He was originally the Secretary of Taishi, and now he is Liang Liang.

Liangzhou Si Tianling is responsible for Liangzhou's academic affairs and predicts celestial phenomena."

"The last general has met Mr. Liu." Zhang Dinghe didn't know who Liu Zhuo was, but the "great scholar" was of great value in this era, so Zhang Dinghe bowed solemnly.

"General, there is no need to be polite." Liu Zhuo returned the salute and said with a smile: "From now on, we are all colleagues. General, please take good care of me."

"I don't dare to take it, I don't dare to take it." Zhang Dinghe said hurriedly.

"I've met Mr. Liu!" Except for Liu Xuan, who had been his friend for decades and his eyes were red with excitement, everyone else respectfully bowed to Liu Zhuo.

Liu Zhuo returned the courtesy one by one.

Yang Ji saw that everyone was familiar with him and saw the influence of a great scholar in this era. He was very happy. If no one uses it one day, he can completely use the "Er Liu" sign. By then, the talent will not be available.

Come rolling?

He said to Liu Xuan: "Mr. Guangbo, first take Mr. Shiyuan to get familiar with Liangzhou."

"Here!" Liu Xuan knew that Yang Ji was giving them a chance to reminisce about the past, so he bowed gratefully and invited his old friend to the official room.

At this time, the official Cao Yu Shinan raised his hands and said: "General manager, before the formal meeting, I have an idea to talk about."

Yang Ji smiled and said, "You tell me!"

Yu Shinan cupped his hands and said: "Build the road!"

"Let's talk about it in detail, what kind of road to build? From where to where?" Yang Ji suddenly became interested. Before setting off, he had already sent a horse to deliver the court's decisions in advance. The two most important ones were the immigration of 50 people.

Wanhu, the straight road from Guanzhong to Tingzhou was built. Yu Shinan, who was acting governor, obviously got some new ideas from it.

"On the whole, it is the straight road that the court refers to. The court's request is from Guanzhong to Tingzhou, but when I solicited opinions extensively, many businessmen said it was not reasonable, and the concubine even proposed a plan to build two lines.

I wholeheartedly agree with it.”

"Which two?" Yang Ji didn't expect that my mother was also involved, and felt a little dumbfounded.

"The first one is the main road mentioned by the court. We can build it directly from Liangzhou to the junction of Guazhou and Shanshan. If we capture Shanshan one day, we can continue to extend westward. After arriving at Puchang Sea, we can follow Beihe (

Tarim River) continues westward until reaching the Yanqi Kingdom. Such a straight road is very convenient for transporting troops and trade. If

If you turn northwest from Guazhou, you will lose more than you gain, and it does not meet the strategic requirements of the Sui Dynasty. As for the other line, it is a branch line on the straight road, from Guazhou through Xingxing Gorge, into Yizhou and Tingzhou. In this way

It can not only shorten the time from Guanzhong to the Western Regions, but also closely connect Guazhou, Yizhou and Tingzhou."

Speaking of this, Yu Shinan emphasized: "Actually, these two roads are also the trade routes that Hu merchants have been taking since the opening of the Silk Road. Although some people have wanted to find a more convenient way, it has never been more reasonable and more convenient.

A convenient road. If we build it in this way, it will not only meet the needs of war preparations in the western Sui Dynasty, but also meet the actual requirements."

"What you mean coincides with mine." Yang Ji said with a smile: "Actually, when I proposed 'Build roads first if you want to get rich', I had the idea of ​​'Build the main trunk line directly and build more branch lines'. If a

Once completed, the road extending in all directions will be like a multi-legged centipede lying on the earth, playing a role in connecting east, west, north and south."

"What the General Manager said is absolutely true." Yu Shinan was convinced.

"I'm just talking about it, but how to repair it specifically requires everyone to work together." Yang Ji said this and asked: "Is there any construction plan?"

"Yes!" Yu Shinan cupped his hands and said, "This road will not be built overnight. We will start with the simplest Hexi Corridor to accumulate experience in road construction."

"The Hexi Corridor still needs to be built?" Yang Ji was stunned when he heard it. The Hexi Corridor starts from Wushaoling in the east, reaches Yumenguan in the west, borders Qilian Mountain in the south, Longshou Mountain-Heli Mountain-Mazong Mountain in the north, and east to west.

It is about two thousand miles long, with a width ranging from a few kilometers to more than 400 miles from north to south. The internal terrain of the corridor is undulating and tends to be gentle. It can be regarded as a quasi-plain. How can it be repaired?

"The General Manager doesn't know something." Yu Shinan said with a cup of his hands: "Although the Hexi Corridor has the characteristics of flat terrain, fertile soil, good water diversion and irrigation conditions, and easy development and utilization, its disadvantage is that the width from north to south is too small; and for thousands of years, the traffic between them has been

The army and merchants can ride their horses at will, such as

This large-scale trampling of roads has resulted in many usable good floors being used to form roads; if things go on like this, the usable space for corridors will disappear sooner or later. Therefore, I think it is necessary to build a clear road to restrict the movement of troops and business travelers, so as to avoid grazing land.

, all the fertile fields have been trampled into roads.”

Yang Ji nodded: "So should this road be built to the north or to the south?"

"Rely on the Qilian Mountains in the south!" Yu Shinan explained: "On the one hand, we need to consider the flatness and straightness of the entire straight road; on the other hand, we need to solve the problem of water supply for pedestrians, because the rivers in the corridor all come from the south.

To the north, there are many rivers that seep into the ground when they reach the middle of the corridor, and cannot reach the Longshou Mountain-Heli Mountain-Mazong Mountain area in the north. If the straight road is built to the north, pedestrians will still wander around without access to water sources."

"In addition, in order to restrain pedestrians to the road, poplar euphratica can be planted on both sides of the road. This kind of tree is easy to survive and has strong sprouting ability. As long as it survives, many saplings will grow from the roots, and some root tillers will

It grows for many years and can grow into a luxuriant tree.

Dense forests. In this way, the shading woods on both sides of the straight road not only shield pedestrians from the sun in hot summer, but also strengthen the roadbed. Of course, poplar trees can also be planted on straight roads in other places, or even simply

If you sow the seeds, they will survive."

Yang Ji nodded and said: "It makes sense, it makes sense, just do what you say."

Building a straight road to connect the Western Regions, Liangzhou, and Guanzhong was not only Yang Ji's wish, but also an indispensable infrastructure for Yang Jian and Yang Guang's western strategy. As the territory of the Sui Dynasty increased, roads were built to strengthen regional boundaries.

The contact was an urgent matter. Yu Shinan's consideration was very thorough, so Yang Ji fully agreed with his road construction project.

Yang Ji thought for a while and then said: "I originally planned to send the prisoners to Tingzhou to build a city, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that it was not suitable. First of all, there were too many prisoners. If I sent them to Tingzhou where the terrain is flat,

We must have more than 40,000 military supervision, but this will increase the pressure on food supply. If there are not so many military supervision

Governor, they will definitely use the iron weapons in their hands to kill our Sui soldiers and civilians; secondly, the terrain of Tingzhou is flat, even if they do not kill the soldiers and civilians, they can still escape to the Western Turks overnight, and our soldiers will have no way to arrest them, and it will increase the strength of the Western Turks.

For now, let them build roads within the corridor, and first temper their wildness and will to resist with heavy work."

He said to Li Jing, who was already the governor of Tingzhou: "As for the five cities and farmland in Tingzhou, they should be left to the people who are coming to repair and cultivate. These people are my subjects of the Sui Dynasty. They will neither escape nor escape.

They won't cause trouble and are easier for you to manage than prisoners. As long as you act according to the rules and strictly guard against corruption, the people will not
To be continued...