Chapter 429

"That's probably a lot, right?" Wang Yang couldn't help but smash his tongue. Wang Yang remembered that building the Imperial Street cost 120,000 jin, and building a road that is three meters wide and more than 1,200 miles long, the wing soldiers alone had to use five armies, that is, more than 12,500 people.

I am afraid that the money spent would cost would be enough. Wang Yang remembered very clearly that the ministers in the court were crying poor every day. Even the maintenance and transformation of the imperial streets, Gao Taotao knew it with emotion and reason, which made the Minister of Revenue nod and agreed to transfer the funds.

"Of course there are quite a few. I have also read the memorial they presented to the emperor's grandmother, and it will cost about 260,000 yuan."

"The Ministry of Revenue has no difficulty in keeping it. It is said that it is for the people of the world and will definitely try to raise enough money and grain for the Ministry of Industry to build this important road." At this point, Zhao Xu couldn't help but smile coldly.

"It is for the sake of the people of the world. According to my opinion, they are afraid that they will not be able to show that Wang Wushan has made too much contribution, so they will simply take the lead and take the initiative to take this job. Moreover, with your lessons from you, as long as you do it, they will do it. With so much labor, there will be no big problem in two years."

Wang Yang did not expect that those guys would be so cruel and just used a trick to get rid of the firewood. Originally, Wang Yang planned to turn the general into an infrastructure maniac, build Bianliang and build Chang'an, and build Chang'an.

The cement straight road appeared on the land of China more than a thousand years in advance, but now that I have just started to set out on the road, the Ministry of Works has come forward to act bravely. However, do they think they can do this?

Don’t forget that you are the one who invented cement, and you are the one who first applies cement to buildings. At most, they can only make profits.

What’s important is that their use of the wing soldiers to do this is exactly the same as Wang Yang’s own idea.

"Your Majesty, don't you think this is a good thing?"

"Well? Why did Mr. Wushan say this?" Zhao Xu was standing on Wang Yang's side, complaining wildly to the old party officials. He didn't expect that Wang Yang would actually say such a sentence, which really caught people off guard.

"Your Majesty, you think that there are three disadvantages in the Song Dynasty: redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses. When Emperor Shenzong was there, he thought about doing it, but unfortunately he had never been able to do it. I don't expect that these old party members had a precedent for changing the military system..."

"...You mean, they turned the wing soldiers into labor?" Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment, and soon came back to the point. Yes, isn't this the truth?

The wing soldiers were originally the most important part of the Song Dynasty's bloated and lack of combat effectiveness. In the past, the father had always wanted to change, but he had never found a suitable solution.

But now, Wang Yang used a military wing soldiers here, and the Secretary of Ning needed to use the five military wing soldiers, although it seemed that there were not many.

However, using them to build roads is equivalent to converting their military pay into wages, and there is no need to spend any additional money to hire craftsmen.

"And these soldiers can do the road maintenance, construction and garrison stations in the future. In addition, if we can build all the important roads of our Song Dynasty into such a solid cement road, then we will have a lot of good things to offer to His Majesty at that time."

"Sir, what good thing is it?" Zhao Ji couldn't help asking.

"Eight-wheeled carriage." Wang Yang looked at Zhao Ji and thought for a while and explained. "Eight-wheeled carriages can be pulled by four horses. If you travel on the cement straight road, you may not have a problem running more than 200 miles a day. It is more than enough to carry fifty travelers carrying luggage. If you can change horses and coachmen in the middle, it is possible to change four or five hundred miles a day."

"Wouldn't that mean it only takes three days to get from Tokyo to Xijing?" Zhao Ji couldn't help but take a deep breath and said.

"Well, for example, from Kaifeng to Pingxia City, it is only about 2,000 miles away. If it is replaced by this kind of cement straight road that is difficult to invade and cannot be muddy, if it encounters warning, it will be a four-day situation. You can send a large army to Pingxia City..."

Hiss... In the restaurant's private room, there was a sound of breathing. Everyone looked at Wang Yang in front of him with an incredible expression, as if this guy was flying a blue whale from the sea to the sky.

"Xu Zhao... You are familiar with military strategy and have a lot of knowledge. Let me tell you what you think." Zhao Xu moved his neck stiffly and said to a guard standing behind him.

This guard, Xu Zhao, the top scholar of the King of Kewu, who was beaten up by Wang Yang on the Imperial Street, is currently serving as the guard of the Right Ban Dianzhi, which is the guard beside the emperor.

"I will tell Your Majesty that Pingxia City is about 800 miles from Chang'an, and Chang'an is about 1,200 miles from Kaifeng. If the carriage can run for four or five hundred miles a day according to Lord Wang's words, it can arrive in four or five days. However, if a carriage can only carry fifty people, if 10,000 troops are transferred, how many carriages are needed?"

Xu Zhao's eyes fell on Wang Yang, with a bit of provocative expression. "At least two hundred vehicles are needed, and if it weren't for war, wouldn't these vehicles be vacant? This is a waste of taxes from the court."

"These cars and horses can naturally be used to transport on weekdays. For example, in the past, merchants wanted to sell goods from Chang'an to Kaifeng, either boarded a boat for about ten days, or traveled almost twenty days."

"And, along the way, the time has been delayed for so long, maybe it has already missed the business opportunities or important things. If it only took four or five days, it would be possible to get from Chang'an to Bianliang to do business and earn more than ten days of money. If it were you, what would you choose?"

Wang Yang talked slowly, but directly told Xu Zhao that he was dumbfounded and speechless.

"Two hundred vehicles seem to be a lot, but in fact, it is not a lot. If you want to put two hundred vehicles on a cement straight road that is one or two thousand miles long, you may not be able to see one for ten miles. Are there many?"

“…It’s really not many.”

"What's that? But I'm a little worried that according to the ancestral family rules, four horses will lead to problems with a car... because it doesn't seem to conform to the ancestral system..." Wang Yang smiled dryly after looking at Zhao Xu, who was emitting his eyes when he heard it.

After thinking about it, Zhao Xu curled his lips: "Is it possible that those old party members can do the first day of the lunar calendar, but I can't do the fifteenth day? Mr. Wushan, this matter will be handled by the generals. You can make an eight-wheeled carriage first and let me see if it is really as you said, and you can gallop like the wind on this cement straight road."

Wang Yang opened his mouth and didn't say much in the end. Well, since the emperor likes it, just do it. Anyway, there are countless inventions and creations in his mind. Edison can have one or two thousand inventions in his life. Why doesn't he, an excellent time traveler, have no such thing?

To be honest, this thing is not a difficult task, at least for Wang Yang, it is just a problem of ordinary physical components.

What he cared more about was not these things. These things that could improve the production and living standards of the people of the Song Dynasty were created and handed over to others for promotion. What he really wanted to do was to establish an industrial system that could widen the gap between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization.

Only by allowing the farming civilization to enter the advanced gunpowder era can we truly leave the nomadic civilization far behind and no longer have to be afraid of the iron hoofs of those nomadic civilizations.
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