After the large, medium and small sled trucks were ready, the two routes were dispatched together, and the food was sent along the way, and they rushed directly to Jingmen and Xiaogan, Liu Mingqi and others took Yulin Guards and Qianniu Guards on the way back to Beijing.

The carpenters still have to stay, make some sleds and prepare for replacement, and then they may have to go on an expedition to Hunan.

By the way, Sima Bei really has to play.

After he asked the sled to Xiangyang, he ran directly to Suizhou parallel to Xiangyang by empty car, and then went from Suizhou to Xinyang in the Jingji area to the north.

After a long circle, I sent over more than a dozen sled cars and a group of experienced carpenters, which happened to help build more standard sled cars at the support base on the other end of the Gyeonggi area.

The terrain of Xinyang is very important.

It is convenient for it to fight southwards. Xiaogan goes southeasterly and Huanggang.

After supporting these two places, it can immediately extend to Yuexi and Wangjiang in Anhui to the east.

Further south is Jiujiang Prefecture, an important city in Jiangxi.

It is better to go directly to Xiaogan. After passing Wuhan, you can go directly to Yueyang, Hunan on the banks of Yunmeng Lake, and radiate to Changde, Hunan.

Look, you can solve some disaster relief in some areas of four provinces in one breath!

These places are the westernmost areas of disaster relief in Jiangnan area and belong to the farthest area, and they must be reached in the end.

It is the fastest and most convenient to walk from Gyeonggi area.

So there is a huge demand for sleds and carpenters here.

Sima Bei's support came just right.

Because the practice in Xinye has proved that large, medium and small sled trucks are safe and reliable, and can transport food hundreds of miles away during blizzards.

Now there are finished products to refer to, and there are also carpenters who have participated in the production to present their opinions. Xinyang's construction and transportation work began to accelerate instantly.

Because the progress was too fast, all 500,000 shi of bran and grain prepared everywhere in Beijing were sent out in five days.

Is it egg?

I originally thought that Jiangnan was the main force, so why has it become the center of the court now?

But the situation is so good and the roads are opened so quickly, of course it is impossible to continue waiting for Jiangsu and Zhejiang to cross mountains and rivers.

If you have the strength, you will get there.

Emperor Jing and a group of ministers gritted their teeth, took out three million stones of rice and wheat flour from the warehouse, and exchanged nine million stones of bran 1 to three, totaling 12 million stones of grain, divided into two parts and sent it to Xinye and Xinyang in a hurry.

It was just by chance that when the food arrived in two places one after another, Blizzard became significantly weaker.

After calculating the time, it has been raging for more than 37 days. According to normal circumstances, it should be time to become weaker.

But from the stop of the blizzard to the complete transformation of the blizzard, the roads, crops, and houses will see the light again, at least half a month or a month later.

If you want to return to normal again, it may be until March.

It is still unknown whether we can rush to plant rice and whether we can produce and save ourselves.

Therefore, the pace of disaster relief cannot be stopped for a moment, and the grain must continue to be transported to the Lianghu area.

When Liu Mingqi and others left, 20,000 skilled workers who gathered had arrived.

On the one hand, they wait for the snow to stop, and on the other hand, they are training to remove snow better and faster.

When Liu Mingqi and the others returned to the capital, 20,000 people had quickly begun to clear the snow, digging all the way, and heading towards the predetermined target.

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Speaking of which, when they stayed in Quhe Town, the one that Fei Ge wrote the most in Xiangyang, Jingmen, Shiyan and other places opposite was not grain, but honeycomb coal.

During a blizzard, there is no way to go out. If the house does not store enough firewood, this period will definitely be the most sad.

Even if there are firewood stored, after nearly a month of consumption, there is not much left in ordinary people's homes.

At this time, the first village in Hubei, Xiwa Village, arrived at the small sled car. The food sent by them was certainly cheerful, but the thousands of honeycomb coal and dozens of honeycomb coal stoves were the most thankful for them.

People who don’t have a honeycomb coal stove can dig a hole on the ground at home, burn the honeycomb coal red, put it in the pit, and then add new ones continuously.

In this way, not only can you boil water and cook, but you can also ensure that the whole family is warm at all times.

Compared with the cold and cold before, life is now in heaven.

Because they were specially reminded to ventilate, they also tried to open a gap so as not to cause tragedy of coal poisoning.

Seeing the great benefits of honeycomb coal, Cui Zhenyu, a fifth-rank magistrate of Xiangyang Prefecture who was guarding Xiwa Village, immediately sent a letter from Feige to beg for tens of millions of honeycomb coals the next day.

No, the best thing is to mobilize 50 million honeycomb coal in the first batch. If you have a honeycomb coal stove, you can give it to it. If you don’t have it, you won’t need it for the time being.

Look.

Fifty million are just the first batch.

Not only Xiwa Village, but also Wang Jun, the judge of Xiangyang Prefecture, who was stationed at the second stop, also wrote almost the same document, believing that the vast Hubei towns and villages need at least 100 million honeycomb coal to save the crowd from water and fire.

There is no discount for disaster relief.

Especially when it comes to life-saving.

From then on, Liu Mingqi brought thousands of honeycomb coals ranging from tens of thousands to each batch of rescue supplies.

Even so, within two days, the prefect of Xiangyang City Zhu Kuanjie even proposed the saying that "collecting 200 million honeycomb coal in Xiangyang can solve the difficulties of 50 miles and eight villages in a radius."

Liu Mingqi only brought one million honeycomb coal this time, less than one percent of what they asked for.

So he could only send a letter to the honeycomb coal manufacturing workshop, allowing them to produce it with all their strength and load it into the truck and transport it over.

Liu Mingqi also informed Miao Yan and asked him to send troops to protect the honeycomb coal workshop, so that he would not be sold to anyone else for the time being, including the people of the Imperial Palace.

The coldest season in the Imperial Palace has long passed, and honeycomb coal is the icing on the cake for them, and it is definitely not a timely help.

Even if there are so many people who need it urgently, how can it be compared with Hubei and Hunan 10 to 20 million people?

So during this period, in addition to the busy grain transport carriages, there were also many cars transporting honeycomb coal on the official roads in Beijing, Xinye and Xinyang.

On the way back to Beijing, Xiong Dabao was still lamenting that it would be great if the Gyeonggi area was also closed down.

People as serious as Deng Hui nodded in agreement.

After all, after seeing a large sled cart weighing 30,000 kilograms, it can run at a faster speed. When you look at the carriage on the flat road, you can only carry a weight of 2,000 kilograms at most, and you suddenly feel that the difference is too big.

The loss and time here are too much spent.

Liu Mingqi's heart moved.

The official road is straight and has few curves. At best, the ramps are undulating, but the amplitude is not large.

In this case, can we make the Qin Dynasty lane in sections?

In the Qin Dynasty, the First Emperor Ying Zheng was really tough, and he would definitely spare no effort to attack the barbarians on the border.

However, the large-scale transportation of materials will inevitably bring large-scale losses. Not to mention the exaggerated thirty to one in later generations, it is possible at least 10 to one.

The so-called thirty to one means transporting grain and grass from Jiangnan to the border, and transporting one stone of grain to one stone, at least thirty stone of grain must be prepared from Jiangnan, because the rest are eaten by the transported people on the way.

This creates a huge burden.

The Qin Dynasty was a great dynasty. They came up with a way to lay two tracks in the middle of the Qin straight road to fit the two wheels of the carriage. Have you noticed it? There were many wheels of the Qin Dynasty, with a carriage in the middle, like a car wheel, which was sunken and could just hold the track.

Then the horse pulled the carriage and ran on this well-fitting track, which was very labor-saving.

It can almost run three to five hundred miles a day when transporting tens of thousands of kilograms of goods, and it is not difficult to deal with. The loss has dropped to the lowest point, which can almost be summarized as two to one or even one to one.

This greatly solved all the logistical support problems of Meng Tian’s 300,000 Great Wall Legion, so that he could defeat the Huns and even went deep into the grassland and set up the nine-sided border in the northwest.

Unfortunately, because the battle in the early Han Dynasty was too tragic, almost all the precious heritages of the Qin Dynasty were destroyed, including this special mode of transportation.

Fortunately in the misfortune, Qin Zhidao stayed. - Well, no matter what kind of bandits and robbers, they would not go crazy to destroy the path made of this soil, otherwise they would probably suffer.

General Qing, General Qiu Bing and others, if they had these logistical support, how could they have to wait for decades to defeat the Huns and then half of them surrendered to the Han Dynasty?

The two genius generals were done directly.

More people don’t know that in fact, the first railway in Britain was extremely lacking in iron, so it used wood as tracks to run trains on the wooden tracks.

However, the wood was too easy to lose and could not support it at all, so it gradually attracted iron ore from overseas colonies and turned into railway tracks.

Naturally, it was impossible for Liu Mingqi to do trains now. He just wanted to restore the transportation of carriages like the Qin Dynasty. This efficiency could be increased ten times and the loss could be reduced ten times.

But this is not easy either.

First of all, the loss of wooden tracks is too great and cannot afford to use for many years.

It would be great if it was a railway track, but if you were paved by the roadside, if no one was in charge, you would not be dug up completely in three or five days.

Then you need to use a road protection team and a repair team.

The road protection team and the repair team are two long-term expenses. How to implement payment, road maintenance, toll fees, etc. is a problem.

Moreover, in recent years, we must focus on grain production and ensure people's livelihood. All other expenses and innovations must be pushed back later.

I can only wait and see the situation before discussing it.

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Note: The more I read the information, the more I feel that the Qin Dynasty is so great.

According to my preliminary judgment, the most important reason why the Qin Dynasty is so powerful is that it uses the Legalists as the system to mobilize the whole country, enforces orders, concentrates all efforts to do things, and makes military achievements the law, which must be abide by.

At the same time, with the Mohist school as the main force, various machines, equipment and equipment that are conducive to war - such as bronze swords, overwhelming crossbows, Qin straight roads, wooden rail transportation roads, etc.

Then he respected the farmers and developed agriculture in Sichuan and Hanzhong Plain to provide sufficient food to supply combat needs.
Chapter completed!