Chapter 437 The talent of the son... the best of all living beings!
After finishing dinner, Li Sheng thought about it and realized that it was still early.
Seeing Danqing, Mian'er went to clean up the tableware. Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "Old Wei has nothing to do now, how about... let's go around Lingzhou City?"
Wei Zheng was stunned.
But after a moment, he still shook his head and sighed softly.
"The talent of the young master... is unparalleled among all living beings and is truly unprecedented."
"I have to go back to Chang'an tomorrow... to do business and run the family business. Now that I'm old, I won't run around tonight."
"Well……"
Li Sheng nodded sadly.
Now this reset version of Lingzhou finally has the flavor of the towns and counties he remembered from his previous life.
Compared with Chang'an, which looks prosperous but is actually backward, this is what really suits him.
After all, they are all cement buildings. If nothing else, they have an internal smell.
Of course, currently, in order to facilitate the settlement of various business travelers and to arrange for the early start of the industrial zone, all the cement in Li Sheng's hands is basically used to build residential apartments and various hotels and shops.
As for the roads, construction has not started yet.
Of course, Li Sheng did not ignore traffic and road issues.
In fact, the world that Li Sheng came from has fully demonstrated how much road transportation has improved the economy. There is no need for any serious argument. The entire world is a mountain of ironclad evidence.
But now, the situation is really different.
Although Lingzhou is currently building a commercial city,...
First of all, in this era, the main means of transportation are still cattle, horses, donkeys, camels, etc.
These animals are similar to cars. Indeed, the better the road, the faster they run and the stronger their load capacity.
However, the improvement of the transportation of cattle and horses by good roads is completely different from that of the improvement of automobiles.
For example, some extremely brutal terrains are filled with swamps and rocks. Everywhere you walk, you have to step one foot deep and one foot shallow. If you try to walk blindfolded in a normal posture, you will fall down with blood on your face within three steps.
If a car drives in this kind of environment, it goes without saying that it is a high-risk industry.
But if the road conditions are better, the situation is completely different.
Safety, speed, and even carrying capacity will be greatly improved.
The road conditions were perfect throughout the whole journey, even if there were some mistakes or overloading, it would be fine.
but……
Road conditions are important to cars, but not so important to cattle and horses. To say the least, they are not that exaggerated.
If nothing else, let me just give you the most obvious example.
In the military field, especially the field of artillery, there is a very important concept called "mule-horse".
The meaning of mules and horses is that no matter how large or advanced your artillery is, you must have enough mules and horses to pull it.
Without this thing, in many cases, no matter how advanced your artillery is, no matter how powerful its range is, or even more powerful than the air force, it will be useless.
This is also the real reason why artillery has never been eliminated by the Air Force.
After all, no matter how useful the Air Force is, firstly, it is expensive and costs a lot of money; secondly, the Air Force must have reliable airports, and the artillery can only be pulled by mules and donkeys.
No matter how difficult it is to destroy an airport, it can still be destroyed.
But mules and horses can walk as long as there is a road. You can't blow up the entire war zone into a magma zone, right?
This case is the clearest explanation of the special characteristics of mules and horses.
In other words, in an era when mules and horses were the main means of transportation, the demand for good roads was really not that great.
Even as long as the road conditions are not so steep, even if there are many potholes, it will not make much difference to the ox cart and donkey cart, at least there is no qualitative difference.
So……
In an era when productivity is underdeveloped and budgets are tight for everything,
In order to achieve an improvement without qualitative change, it is naturally not cost-effective to spend a lot of money to build a large-scale cement road.
After all, there are no road rollers these days, and automatic brick paving machines are all manual labor. Even if there is cement, it is still a huge project.
However, Li Sheng did not completely ignore cement roads.
First of all, this Lingzhou City...
Although a large number of apartment-style buildings have been quickly built to facilitate centralized heating, water supply, and public service resource allocation plans, they are still primitive compared to modern towns.
To put it bluntly, they are just groups of solid buildings that are warm enough and able to withstand certain turbulent situations.
Although it was miraculous for this era, in Li Sheng's eyes, it was still far from it.
first……
The sewer has not been dug yet...
The earliest underground drainage system in ancient times was born very early, but as a part of the official urban construction plan and a specialized public service construction project, it was still in the Song Dynasty, and there was no trace of it in this era.
Although a large number of buildings have been built, in the final analysis, the main purpose of sewers is to drain water and discharge domestic water, and it is not a high-end project.
Therefore, Li Sheng's next plan is to dig sewer channels.
at the same time……
This is the northern part of the Great Wall after all. Although the main Turkic force has been defeated, Li Sheng has not forgotten that there are still horse bandits nearby.
This group of people has never gone to the south of Lingzhou to wreak havoc, but the entire Mobei area north of Lingzhou will be included in the royal order of the Tang Dynasty sooner or later. Of course, it is impossible to let the origins of this group remain a mystery.
Bandits have been wreaking havoc.
...In order to achieve this goal, of course we must launch a public security war.
The core of the public security war is to cut off the contact between the opponent and the grassroots people, and wait until this step is completed...
The herdsmen of Saibei were all incorporated into the people of the Tang Dynasty.
By then, if these gangsters have no source of money, who knows if they will jump over the wall in a hurry?
So in Lingzhou City...
In addition to standard residential and industrial housing, there are naturally some other needs.
Li Sheng did not intend to build the city wall.
This thing is so low.
Since it was going to be built, Li Sheng's plan was of course to build a bunker similar to that used during the Anti-Japanese War.
These bunkers can be built very thickly. With the reinforcement of steel bars and the next-generation black technology solid material such as cement, the thickness, hardness, and toughness are superimposed...
No army in the world can even attempt to defeat it!
These bunkers can be used as normal houses on weekdays.
For example, it is used in office buildings in industrial areas, landmark residences in residential areas, commercial centers, or the Lingzhou Prefectural Government Office...
In case of unrest, it can be used as a bunker immediately.
Perfect!
But after planning...
However, Li Shenghe did not plan to stay in Lingzhou, but planned to take Danqing and Mian'er back to Youzhou first. It was the end of the year, and he had to celebrate the New Year with the folks, right?
Besides, after the new year, it’s time to ask Lao Li where they live, and say New Year greetings and so on...
So Li Sheng took the teachers and students of Northwestern Polytechnical College and had a meal together, and then...