When he learned that this Heshi jade turned out to be a treasure carrying destiny, Wang Xu was overjoyed and quickly went to the ancestral temple to ask his ancestors.
Although Zijue is in deep sleep, he still uses the system's automatic reply to reply to simple things like these.
Wang Xu asked about these treasures. After learning about the magic of He's Bi, he wanted to find more treasures.
As a result, Zijue did not agree, but told him that although the treasure of destiny was good, it was just the icing on the cake. If he could really change his fate against the will of heaven, the Chu State would not be destroyed by the Huai State, and the Zhou family would not become the lord of Luoyi City.
After hearing this, Wang Xu gave up the idea of searching for the treasure of destiny in the world. However, even though he gave up this idea, he still valued treasures such as He's Bi.
After Huai State annexed Western Chu State, it expanded its territory to Jiangzhou and Hanzhong. It has full border with Qin State.
The roads in Hanzhong and Bashu are difficult to navigate, and logistics and transportation are difficult. In addition, Hanzhong has just experienced a war, and people's livelihood is in decline. A large amount of fertile land has missed the cultivation period. Although the Huai Kingdom did not carry out massacres, there were still many people who died in the war. Places like Hanzhong and Jiangzhou need to recuperate.
It was not suitable to fight Qin now, so after occupying Hanzhong and Jiangzhou, Sun Bin ordered people to block all the passes leading to Qin and stationed a large army.
Next, Huai State needs to allocate supplies to help Hanzhong and Jiangzhou restore vitality, and at the same time provide relief to the victims. Because of the war, Hanzhong was running out of food at this time and needed support from the Huai State.
The roads in Hanzhong are difficult to travel, the Han River is turbulent, and the ship capsize is very likely. Transporting a hundred thousand stones of grain and grass to Hanzhong will consume at least 70%. Fortunately, the grain output of Huai State has always been very high, even though the grain has been reduced due to the war. However, the Huai State is large, and even the stored grain is enough to supply it. The only problem is transportation.
Therefore, Huai State returned to the road of building Chidao.
If you want to firmly control Hanzhong, you need to build roads. If you want to transport grain to Hanzhong, you also need to build roads. Even if you want to use troops against Qin in the future, you will also need to build roads. Wang Xu quickly agreed to recruit Minzhuang to build the road to Hanzhong.
Compared with the Chidao built in other places, the Chidao built in Hanzhong and Jiangzhou are extremely difficult. In this era, there was no gunpowder or large-scale construction machinery. If you wanted to cut mountains and rocks, you could only use fire. Burn it with high fire for three days until the stone is red, then pour cold water on it.
You can imagine how difficult and time-consuming it is to dig out rocks and build roads in this way.
After Wang Xu agreed, Huai State immediately mobilized a large amount of materials and people to build roads in Hanzhong and Jiangzhou. At the same time, there were many Yi tribes living in the mountains and forests of Hanzhong and Jiangzhou.
Some of these Yi tribes submitted to the Western Chu State, while some remained independent, and many were hostile to the Western Chu and Huai States.
Now that we are preparing to build roads, these hidden dangers must be dealt with. Wang Xu ordered Xu Fan to lead five thousand Shanyue elite soldiers to clear out these barbarians.
Those who are willing to accept the rule of the Huai Kingdom will be given preferential treatment, and those who are unwilling to accept will be sent to conquer these Yi tribes with a big army and a stick in hand.
Although most of these Yi tribes live in the mountains and forests, they do not need to communicate with the outside world. On the contrary, many things must be traded with the outside world, such as iron and salt.
As long as you master these, you can win over some tribes that are willing to submit to the Huai State, and then let these tribes attack the tribes that are unwilling to surrender to the Huai State. The Shanyue elite soldiers of Huai State were the last resort. This is also the experience Huai State has gained from its continuous expansion to the south over the years.
As for sending a large army to conquer, it is completely thankless. This is the lesson Huai and Chu learned back then. The mountains and forests are overgrown with vegetation, and there are many poisonous insects, snakes, ants, and miasma in them. It is easy for a large army to conquer the country and cause a large number of casualties.
The best way for Huai State to send Shanyue elite soldiers to fight in small scale. In this way, the Huai State was able to clear out the barbarian tribes and conduct slave trade with tribes willing to submit to the Huai State.
The populations of those tribes who were unwilling to surrender were plundered and then sent to the Huai Kingdom for road construction. Regarding the population, Huai State is not too large, and building roads in Hanzhong and Jiangzhou requires a lot of manpower and material resources.
Moreover, the mountains are steep and the casualties of road construction are high, so let these slaves come. At the same time, the Huai State does not intend to force these slaves to death. As long as they work here for one year, they can be granted farmland and become residents of the Huai State.
Huai State conscripted a large number of people to build roads. At the same time, the construction of Chidao in other places did not stop. Before Huai State annexed Western Chu, its population was already 11 million. Now that it has captured Western Chu, its population is close to 13 million.
It is precisely because of this large population that Huai State was able to allocate so many people to build Chidao.
Huai State recruited a large number of people to widen the road from Hanzhong to Xiangyang. This road passed by Shennongjia in later generations. In later generations, the Shennongjia area was full of virgin forests, not to mention this period.
Fortunately, the track passes through the edge, otherwise the construction of this track would be more difficult.
The flow of the Han River is rapid, and Yunyang is surrounded by mountains and rivers, making it difficult for the Huai navy to pass. In some places where navigation is difficult, trackers must be used to pull the boat.
In addition to these, some places with difficult roads are built using plank roads.
The plank road requires drilling a hole in the cliff, then passing through the hardwood, and then using wood to support the bottom of the hardwood. Two strips of wood and rock form a triangle, and a layer of planks is laid over it. In this way, a road was opened on the almost vertical cliff.
Huai Guo opened up the Chi Road in Hanzhong, and opened up the road that could only carry two people parallel to each other into a plank road that was two feet wide and could carry carriages parallel to each other for hundreds of miles.
Below the plank road, there are either cliffs in the abyss or turbulent rivers. It is extremely difficult to build. However, after the construction was completed, the distance from Xiangyang to Hanzhong was shortened by one-third, and it became easier to pass.
However, due to the width of the plank road and the fact that it must be built along the mountain and is too winding, these plank roads cannot be laid with tracks and cannot pass tramcars.
In addition to the Hanzhong Plank Road, the Huai State also made extensive use of plank roads on the road from Yicheng to Jiangzhou. At the same time, in Kuimen, a large number of trackers are also used here because the Yangtze River is fast and there are many rocks in the water.
Jiangzhou and Hanzhong are connected to Huai State through water transportation and plank roads.
Hanzhong and Jiangzhou were short of food due to the war. The Huai State also adopted a work-for-relief method to recruit a large number of people to dig plank roads and build roads. This not only accelerated the speed of road construction, but also benefited the people.
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The Three Gorges Ancient Plank Road and the Hanzhong Ancient Plank Road are a kind of passage formed by drilling holes in the cliffs to build bridges and pavilions in ancient China. They are also important transportation routes for military strategists to attack and defend. The engineering is arduous and the road is dangerous. It is unimaginable that in more than 2,000 years ago, it was difficult to imagine. Years ago, the ancients with only iron tools were able to carve hundreds of miles of plank roads on the cliffs. It has to be said that this is a miracle in human history. "Global History·Ancient Chinese History·Plank Road"
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