The speed of the convoy was faster this time, but the road was not bumpy.
Li Xiang opened the window and looked outside.
Green pine trees are planted three feet apart on both sides. The road is extremely wide, about fifty steps wide. The road surface is firmly tamped with iron vertebrae and is raised above the ground in a turtle-back shape, which is conducive to drainage. It stretches at intervals, which is spectacular and beautiful.
The driveway was extremely flat, with deep ruts just like railroad tracks. The two wheels of the carriage just happened to get stuck in the ruts, and it just ran forward along the ruts.
This is the big project that Li Xiang wants to work on now, Chidao!
They are now driving in the middle, which is the lane reserved for officials and troops. There are bypass lanes on the left and right, which can be used by ordinary people.
If you want to get rich, you must first build the road. It will not be easy for future generations.
Now, with the influx of large amounts of gold and silver from Japan, Li Xiang said that he finally has the confidence to do some big projects!
While Bai Qi and the others were continuously attacking the Japanese country, they had been working overtime to mine the occupied gold and silver mines day and night. To this day, several batches have been shipped continuously.
On the other hand, the people who were transported were mainly Japanese women, and there were not many male laborers. After all, various places in the Japanese country also needed labor.
For example, take those gold and silver mines. Without a large amount of labor input, how could Baiqi maintain such an efficient mining progress and ship back batches every once in a while!
However, fortunately, the group of people snatched from Yuzhou happened to be used in this place. Those people were originally planned to use them to develop Liangzhou and Xizhou to be established, but since the construction of Chidao requires a lot of
With a large labor force, Liangzhou and Xizhou can only temporarily fall behind.
Although these people were forcibly relocated by Li Xiang, they can also be regarded as a different kind of refugees who lost their land and houses. However, the arrangement of allocating land to them originally and allowing them to build the Northwest is now
But it turned into a work-for-relief scheme and gave them a job building a highway.
For the ancients, it was good to be able to take care of food. What's more, Li Xiang not only ensured that they had enough to eat, but also paid them a certain amount of wages. Not to mention this population, even the labor force under Li Xiang's original rule
Many people also signed up to participate.
"Chi Dao still needs to be repaired, and it has just begun."
Li Xiang stroked his beard proudly. This is a big project, and he is confident that it will be completed in his lifetime. By then, the complete Chidao can save a lot of time.
Time flies by like a flash, and it is so precious. He can never see enough of this magnificent mountain and river. Of course, there is something more important. In this way, he can better control the counties and counties below.
Moreover, even if it cannot be completed in his lifetime, so what? If his generation cannot complete it, there will be another generation. Li Xiang will not force it, and use one generation to complete what two or three generations have done. History has countless experiences.
I have told him that if he pursues progress blindly and takes too big a step, he will be in trouble!
Some measures will be beneficial to the future, but they will harm the present! The Qin Emperor Ying Zheng, Yang Emperor Yang Guang built the Chidao, and the Grand Canal were all measures that benefited subsequent generations, but for this reason, the Qin and Sui dynasties lasted for hundreds of years.
The national destiny was exhausted. Even the powerful Qin Dynasty and Sui Dynasty could not help but consume so much, not to mention that Li Xiang's men had not even unified the Han Dynasty yet.
Thanks to the Japanese state, it was possible for him to complete this big project!
This is just the past few years. After Li Xiang agrees with the Han Dynasty, he can conquer the Southern Barbarians, grasslands, Western Regions, Li Tang and other places, use their population, use their labor force, plus the gold and silver of the Japanese country, to
Replace the country's labor force to complete this major project!
However, this is destined to be a big project that may take decades. At this stage, Li Xiang is not greedy for progress, nor does he think about reaching the sky in one step. Just build a rough prototype first, and move the more important locations
As for the remaining counties and counties, there will be plenty of time to slowly connect them after he unifies the world.
At present, he only needs to connect several major locations with roads so that his troops can reach the designated locations as quickly as possible.
Li Xiang's territory is now quite large. In addition, there are enemies everywhere, and each state needs to deploy troops for defense. Therefore, the forces between states can maintain strong mobility and can arrive in the fastest time.
The place you want to go is already a very important thing.
After all, with roads, business travel will develop, exchanges with various places will become more frequent, and during wartime, troops from all over the place will be able to gather more quickly.
"Yi Wu! Pass the order and order the local governments to build a post station every fifty miles, and at the same time send soldiers to patrol and eliminate land bandits along the way!" Li Xiang said to Guan Zhong in the carriage.
Today's world is a troubled time no matter how you say it. Thieves are inevitable everywhere in the world, no matter which prince's subordinate is the same! Not to mention it is a troubled time, even if it is a prosperous age, can we do it without bandits and robbers?
Therefore, during the process of inspecting the construction of the channel near Luoyang, Li Xiang added such an order after realizing this problem.
"Don't worry, my lord!" Guan Zhong promised with a wry smile.
Build a post station every fifty miles, and send soldiers to patrol at the same time. After the Chidao is fully built, this will really be a huge investment!
However, although it is a huge investment, the benefits are considerable after all!
Originally, regarding the large-scale construction of Chidao, ministers such as Guan Zhong, Wang Meng, Di Renjie, Fang Xuanling, etc. basically all sided with Li Xiang's objections.
It's not that they can't see the benefits of building Chidao. Moreover, it's not enough for such a huge project to have benefits. They can also see the hidden dangers behind it!
The Qin Emperor swept through the six kingdoms, unified the written language of weights and measures, and built the Great Wall of Chidao. Aren't these actions a political move that would benefit future generations for hundreds of years? But in the end they all ended in death and the country's demise. Of course, Hu Hai was a trap, could it be?
Is the death of Qin II really just a problem for Hu Hai?
Today's Jin army has not unified the entire Han Dynasty! Besides, don't others know that they don't know how much military expenditure they have to pay every year?
Guan Zhong and the others were almost frightened out of their wits when carrying out such a big project at this time? It is precisely because these people have high political attributes that they can see the effects in all aspects!
Fortunately, Li Xiang was not as anxious to complete it as Guan Zhong and others imagined, but was prepared to spend decades, or even more than one generation, completing this project.
Coupled with the Japanese gold and silver, the work-for-relief method, and the idea of plundering the foreign labor force in the future, Guan Zhong and the others began to relent!
However, if there is really a problem with this project during its operation, I am afraid that Guan Zhong and others will report it to a halt as soon as possible!