"The Tianjin Bridge still exists, but there is no more in Luoyang..." Shao Shude stood at the bridge and sighed with emotion.
There are four stone pillars in the world, three are Luo and one is Ba. Luo is Tianjin, Yongji is Zhongqiao, and Ba is Baqiao.
The Tianjin Bridge on the Luoshui River is the most famous bridge in the country. It connects the Imperial City Duanmen to the north and Wangtian Street and Dingding Gate to the south. It can be called the Tianjin Bridge.
During the Tang Dynasty, every time the Luoshui River surged, it would pose a huge threat to the Tianjin Bridge. Once the bridge was damaged, it would be inconvenient for officials to go to the imperial city to work.
This understanding strengthened Shao Shude's determination to build a reservoir outside Luoyang City.
"Zhengzhou, I have ordered it to be transferred to Dongdu Town." Before leaving Luoyang, Shao Shude and Feng Wei walked side by side and said.
Zhengzhou has been really troubled in the past twenty years. The Qin clan suffered the most huge losses during the two fall-outs, which caused great damage to the social order here.
After the Cai thieves were defeated, Zhengzhou got a chance to breathe. The people who had fled to other places slowly came back, and their household registrations were restored to a certain extent. But the good times did not last long. After Shao Shude captured Heyang, Zhengzhou never felt peaceful again.
Although the consequences of the seven-year Xia Liang War were not as brutal as those of Qin Zongquan and Huang Chao, they still caused the local people to die and run away, and the population dropped again. There are now only more than 100,000 people in the seven counties of Zhengzhou, which is less than Qin Zongquan's.
There will be fewer ravages, the countryside is vast and sparsely populated, and the people are exhausted.
The transfer of Zhengzhou to the Eastern Capital was purely for political reasons. To put it more bluntly, it was to add some peripheral barriers to the area centered on Luoyang. Ruzhou has this function, and Zhengzhou also has this function.
After Zhengzhou is transferred, Dongdu Town will have one prefecture, two prefectures and 34 counties, with more than 109,500 households and more than 528,000 people.
It can be seen from the data that there has been no development at all in the past few years, and it has even regressed.
During Zhang Quanyi's time, Ruzhou, the Henan Prefecture under his rule, had about 300,000 people. At that time, the population of Zhengzhou was more than 200,000, which was almost the same as it is now.
The damage caused by war can actually be small or large, and tug-of-war is probably the most terrifying type of it.
In comparison, the ten counties of Heyang have more than 70,000 households and about 360,000 people, and the population density is significantly higher.
"Your Majesty, if the Eastern Capital wants to develop, it needs people and livestock." Feng Wei reminded.
"Every one of you wants the people..." Shao Shude sighed: "It's fortunate that Guanzhong has been in peace for twenty years, otherwise there would be so many people. In a land with one prefecture and two states, focus on developing Henan Prefecture and Ruzhou, and wait until they are almost done
, and then reorganize Zhengzhou, the palace city, and the imperial city. There is no need to be too hasty. We are short of manpower now, but there will be people in the future."
"Where do people come from?" Feng Wei couldn't help but ask.
"Weizhou!" Shao Shude laughed and rode away.
After leaving Luoyang, he went all the way north. After crossing the pontoon bridge, he directly arrived at Mengzhou City.
Li Renjun, the commander of the Huaizhou camp, received the order in advance and came to see him.
The meeting place was chosen on the outskirts of Mengzhou, where Shao Shude was inspecting a road under construction. This road leads to Huaizhou and is the main transportation artery between the two cities of Mengzhou and Huaizhou.
The original post road was really badly damaged. Heavy rains, passing troops, heavily loaded carriages, etc. all had a fatal impact on it.
The newly constructed roads have not made much technological progress. Asphalt or reinforced concrete does not exist, and the cost of gravel roads is high. A little sand would be nice.
The main advancement along this path is in design.
The total width of the road is less than 20 steps, and Shao Shude estimated it to be about 26-7 meters. The roadway is five steps wide, which is a little over 7 meters, and the effective width is more than 6 meters.
There are two or three-meter roadbeds on both sides of the driveway for future widening.
A ditch is attached to the outside, and shade trees are planted on the outermost side. There are seven steps (more than 10 meters) between trees.
The side ditch is for road drainage, so the road surface has a certain arc according to Shao Shude's requirements. He can't see it with the naked eye, but he estimates that it is no more than 10 degrees, maybe six or seven degrees.
Shade trees have two functions. One is to clarify the boundaries between official and civilian land, that is, the area within the street trees belongs to the government, and the area outside belongs to the people. The other is to increase the aesthetic feeling. On the thirteenth day of the first month of the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong
"Order to plant fruit trees on the roads between the two capitals", that is, to plant fruit trees on both sides of the post road connecting Luoyang and Chang'an. In the actual operation, there are locust trees, fruit trees, and willow trees, but it is not strictly implemented.
"Your Majesty, although this road has only been built for more than ten miles, it looks really good." Li Renjun looked at the new post road that was under construction and praised: "Such a spacious road was built to defeat Li Keyong, right?
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Shao Shude laughed and said nothing, "It's not time yet."
If I had a choice, of course I would kill the half-dead Zhu Quanzhong and then eat the towns of Yun, Yan and Qing. So what if all the heroes in the world would surround me with a net?
Historically, Zhu Quanzhong was jointly targeted by Li Keyong, Li Maozhen, Yang Xingmi, Wang Jian and others. In the end, it seemed to have worked and restrained Zhu Quanzhong. But the situation he faced was very different. He started in Kansai and gradually became a leader.
In the east, there are actually only three enemies on this side, which is better than Zhu Quanzhong who had enemies on all sides. After defeating Zhu Jin, Zhu Wei, and Wang Shifan, there are no enemies in the east. The strategic situation is much stronger than that of Zhu Quanzhong in history.
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"Whether we beat Li Keyong or not, this road looks really good. It's time to continue repairing it. Why did the work stop?" Li Renjun asked.
"Where do you get so many manpower?" Shao Shude smiled bitterly: "Around the winter solstice last year, the young people from Heyang and Heyang were going to fight on the front line again, and they had to regulate the river in Huaizhou. Finally, they took a breather, and road construction corvees came one after another. This year
Instead of recruiting Heyang Xiangyong to fight, let them hurry up and build roads and dig rivers."
What is corvee? This is called corvee.
For large-scale government projects, the main expense is material costs, not even rations. Before the difficult times, the imperial court built roads in the gold merchants, "tens of thousands of slaves were employed". Because the work was rushed and in the mountains, more than half of them died. In history, Zhang Quanyi
Luoyang was rebuilt to house Zhaozong who was patrolling the east, and he also recruited servants from Henan Prefecture.
For the government, the use of corvee was very satisfying, because it did not cost much, but it accomplished a lot of things. But officials who knew something about it knew that they should work hard to restrain this impulse to avoid provoking popular uprisings.
Shao Shude walked to the reserved roads on both sides, looked at the grass and street trees outside the drainage ditch, and sighed in his heart: If only there were road rollers, the gravel and sand would be compacted, and this road would be epoch-making.
Four carriages can be driven side by side on the main road, and one carriage can be driven on each side on the roadbed, or people or horses can be driven on it. Outside the ditch, inside the street trees, and on the broad grassland, people can also walk on it.
Compared with the width of Qinchi Road, it is much less wide, but it is enough for Heyang.
Of course, in Shao Shude's plan, this road is only the middle of the future national highway system, that is, a second-class national highway, connecting the roads between states.
First-class national highways connect major cities, commercial and military towns.
There are third-class national highways connecting counties.
Under the three-level national highway system, there are also rural dirt roads as a supplement to the national transportation network system.
Regardless of ancient times or modern times, once a war breaks out, dependence on and competition for roads will always be eternal.
The development of commerce is also eternally dependent on roads and waterways.
"Is there not much movement in Wei Bo?" Shao Shude asked as he wandered on the grass and looked at the locust trees beside the road.
"Wei Bo retreated, he must be afraid." Li Renjun replied: "Your Majesty, do you need to send troops to defend the state?"
"Don't be impatient." Shao Shude waved his hand and said, "I want to wait for news from other battlefields first. Weizhou can send envoys to inquire about it, and I will arrange the matter. Luo Hongxin is willing to give Zhu Quanzhong so much money and food, Ning
Not giving it to me?”
To be honest, Luo Hongxin is worthy of Zhu Quanzhong, and he definitely deserves his nickname "Sixth Brother".
The army pressing down on Weizhou attracted tens of thousands of Xia troops. There were no major conflicts. Small-scale fighting occurred every three days, and the atmosphere was very tense. He also sent an additional million grains and beans to Bianzhou, and two to three thousand war horses.
More than 200,000 coins and a large amount of silk were not a small sum considering Wei Bo's wealth.
"General, I understand." Li Renjun said. Whether and when to attack Wei Bo completely depended on the results of other battlefields, which made him a little upset.
On the Puzhou battlefield, Liang Hanyong and Shao Lun were trapped in Puzhou. The situation was not optimistic and it was impossible to break the situation in a short time.
On the Bianzhou battlefield, the army marched north and east, further squeezing the Liang people's space.
Zhe Zongben captured four of the seven counties in Bozhou and is currently heading north to Songzhou to garrison Zhecheng.
The Tiande army marched eastward and fought a battle with the Liang people in Zhongmou. They were slightly disadvantaged, but they did not retreat.
The Liang people in Weishi County resisted desperately, summoned a large number of local warriors, and were surrounded. It was reported that Zhu Quanzhong intended to send troops to rescue Weishi.
But in general, the purpose of breaking Zongben seems to be mainly to occupy land and attack as a supplement. This should be related to the large number of Confucius and Xiangyong released, the lack of troops on the front line, and the shortage of materials. After being firmly controlled, Zhu Quanzhong had no time to take care of it.
After the Bo, Song, Ying, Xu, Su and other states, if the money and food are sufficient, more troops can be invested. By then, the armies that have returned to Shanxi and Jiang will be almost rested and reorganized.
"Your Majesty, there is news from Hebei." Ye Li Kecheng came over and handed over a military report.
Shao Shude took it, looked at it, and praised: "My sworn brother is still so brave in battle."
After Li Keyong put down the rebellion in Youzhou, for a time he was convinced from far and near, and no one dared to move. So he led Jin, Yan, and more than 100,000 troops to march south. He first defeated the coalition forces of Wang Rong and Lu Yanwei in Yingzhou, and then took advantage of the situation to attack
Jingzhou, encircling Cangzhou.
Unwilling to be defeated, Wang Rong gathered his troops to fight again, defeated the Jin army at Zhangshui, and in turn surrounded Jingzhou. Li Keyong left to relieve Cangzhou, and defeated Zhao soldiers on the bank of Zhangshui. Wang Rong retreated to Zhenzhou in a hurry.
Just when Li Keyong was planning to continue the siege of Cangzhou, he received news of the Xia Liang War in Henan, and immediately stopped fighting.
It is said that Li Keyong wanted to make peace with Wang Rong and Lu Yanwei and fight Shao Shude together.
"The situation in Hebei has changed drastically. Hezhong, Saibei, and Heyang will be troubled from now on." General Shao Shude handed the report to Li Renjun for him to read.
Li Renjun was thoughtful after reading it.
"Weizhou side, suspend all provocations." Shao Shude said.
