The convoy was faster this time, but the road was not bumpy.
Li Xiang opened the window and looked outside.
Green pines were planted three feet apart on both sides, and the road was extremely wide, about fifty paces wide. The pavement is firmly tamped with iron vertebrae and is raised above the ground in a turtle-back shape, which is conducive to drainage. Stretching intervals, spectacular and beautiful.
The driveway is extremely flat and has deep ruts like railroad tracks. The two wheels of the carriage just happened to be stuck in the rut, so it just ran forward along the rut.
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 side streets on the left and right sides, which can be used by the 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!
As Bai Qi and the others continued to attack the Japanese country, they had been working overtime to mine the occupied gold and silver mines day and night. Today, several batches have been shipped continuously.
On the contrary, the population that was transported was mainly Japanese women, and there were not many male laborers. After all, various places in Japan also need labor.
For example, take those gold and silver mines. Without a large amount of labor input, how could Bai Qi 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 populations were originally planned to be used to develop Liangzhou and Xizhou to be established, but since building Chidao requires a lot of labor, Liangzhou and Xizhou can only be temporarily pushed back.
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 original arrangement of distributing land to them to build the Great Northwest has now become a work-for-relief arrangement, giving them a job to build Chidao.
For the ancients, being able to take care of food was already good. 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 also signed up to participate.
"Chi Dao still needs to be repaired, and it has just begun."
Li Xiang stroked his beard proudly. This was a big project and he was confident that he would complete it in his lifetime. By then, the complete Chidao can save a lot of time.
Time flies by so quickly and is so precious. He could never get enough of this magnificent mountain and river. Of course, there is something more important. In this way, he can better control the county and county towns below.
Besides, what if it couldn't be completed in his lifetime? If his generation can't finish it, there will be another generation. Li Xiang will not force it, and use one generation to complete the work of two or three generations. Countless experiences in history have told him that blindly pursuing progress and making too big a step will lead to trouble!
Some measures are beneficial to the future, but they harm the present! At that time, Emperor Qin Yingzheng and Emperor Yang Guang built the Chidao and the Grand Canal, which benefited several dynasties for generations to come. However, the Qin and Sui dynasties spent hundreds of years of national fortune, and the powerful Qin and Sui dynasties They can't help but consume so much, not to mention that Li Xiang's subordinates are not even unified yet.
Thanks to the Japanese state, he made it possible 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 major project that may take decades. At this stage, Li Xiang is not greedy for progress, and he will not think about reaching the sky in one step. Just build the rough prototype first and connect the more important locations. As for the remaining counties, after he unifies the world, there will be plenty of time to proceed slowly.
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 current territory is not small anymore, and there are enemies everywhere, so every state needs to deploy troops for defense. Therefore, it is very important that the troops between various states can maintain strong mobility and reach the place they want to go in the fastest time.
After all, only with roads can business travel develop, exchanges with various places become more frequent, and during wartime, troops from all over the place can be assembled 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 world no matter how you say it. Thieves are inevitable everywhere in the world, no matter who is under the command of any prince! Let alone troubled times, even in prosperous times, how can we survive 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.
"Lord, don't worry!" 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 and others basically stood 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 Chidao Great Wall. Aren't these actions a political move that would benefit future generations for hundreds of years? But in the end, they all ended up dead. Of course, Hu Hai is a trap. Is the death of Qin II really just Hu Hai's problem?
Today's Jin army has not yet unified the entire Han Dynasty! Besides, don’t others 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 enough political attributes that they can see 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 the others will report it to a halt as soon as possible!
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