After discussing the affairs of the Western Regions, positioning the horse thief as Tuyuhun, and making arrangements for military strikes, he didn't care much about it, and the weakest childhood of the Great Sui wiped out such a powerful Turkic, and now I'm afraid that this little thing will not come true?

The monarch and ministers discussed the state affairs for more than an hour, and Yang Tong began to practice martial arts, and this life-saving skill did not fall for a day, which has become an instinct.

Taifu, who had not appeared for a long time, and Liu Xuan, the sacrificial wine of Tsinghua Academy, hurriedly came in from outside the hall, but was stopped by Shura Wei outside the door.

"Call Yin Mingyue over, the old man has something important to tell the saint!" Liu Xuan is a Taifu and the only remaining Confucian of the Great Sui, but it is probably because of excitement, and there is a rare bit of rudeness in his voice.

"Wait, Taifu!" The guard hesitated, but nodded, leaving one person to guard, and the other person went over and called Yin Mingyue over.

"The last general will see Taifu!" Hearing that it was Liu Xuan, Yin Mingyue didn't dare to slack off, she walked quickly outside the hall and bowed to Liu Xuan.

"Mingyue Gong!" Liu Xuan returned the salute, called Yin Mingyue's eyes breathing fire, and said in a deep voice: "The old man wants to see the saint, and he is tired of informing him." ”

"This ......" Yin Mingyue was annoyed, but she didn't dare to be rude, this old man was very big, not only the Shangshu Ling Jing of the Ministry of Commerce was his student, Yang Gongren, Yang Shidao, Wei Zheng and others had also listened to his classes when they were young, and they were half of his disciples, if she was rude, she would have to be sprayed with saliva. He hesitantly glanced at the sword-wielding figure in the courtyard, and then looked back and asked, "Is Taifu in a hurry?" ”

"It's a big deal." After Liu Xuan finished speaking, he shook his head again: "But it's not too urgent, it's just when will the saint rest?" ”

"Each hand tried his best to swing the knife a thousand times, now it's almost now, it should be about a moment, if it's not an urgent matter, Taifu might as well wait." Yin Mingyue said with a pretty face.

Liu Xuan was speechless, listening to this data, it all made people have a toothache.

Since the Wei Dynasty, the war is not stopped, the status of the warriors is extremely high, and the nobles who have occupied a high position for a long time have gradually developed an atmosphere of attaching equal importance to civil and military affairs.

Therefore, the scholars of this era do not just read dead books, most of the readers can ride skills, archery and technical skills, and Liu Xuan is the same, naturally he knows how painful it is to try his best to split the knife a thousand times, and he feels gratified, supported and admired Yang Tong, who is already the emperor, and is so enterprising, so he said: "Then wait." ”

Although his affairs are important, a moment is not very long! Wait to get up. It's just that waiting for someone is a boring thing, once this person gets older, he will become chattering, bored, Liu Xuan looked at the cold Yin Mingyue, and asked with concern: "Mingyue Gong, what is this year?" ”

Yin Mingyue's face darkened, and she said stiffly: "Twenty-two." ”

"It's not small!" Liu Xuan sighed and said, "Mingyue is loyal to the country and is determined to be the king, but he has delayed his life's events. ”

These words have come to the sore spot of Yin Mingyue. In this era, those who are not married at the age of twenty-two are safely the oldest leftover women.

Seeing that Yin Mingyue was silent, Liu Xuan thought that she was worried about lifelong events, and comforted: "Mingyue Gong doesn't let her eyebrows, there are few men in this world who can match." ”

'Finally the truth! Yin Mingyuexin said.

"But if you don't marry again, no one will want it"

“……”

Time passed in this way, in Liu Xuan's sharp bombardment, Yin Mingyue wanted to kill little by little, until Yang Tong completed the number of knife dances, Yin Mingyue ran over to say goodbye as if she had been amnestied, she was afraid that she couldn't help but slap this chattering old guy to death for a while.

When Yang Tong heard the news, he met with Liu Xuan, this old man has also gone south from Yecheng, and he didn't plan to let him bother to work hard, but this old man was extremely energetic, as soon as he heard that Yang Tong was going to run Daxing School Palace and Luoyang Jingshi School Palace, he volunteered to ask for his life, and he didn't agree to do it.

"What is the important matter for Taifu to come in such a hurry?"

Taking Liu Xuan into the palace, Yang Tong took the towel handed by Yin Mingyue, wiped his sweat, and looked at Liu Xuan suspiciously, it seems that this old man has recently chosen a site to build a school in Daxing, what big deal can he have? As long as the location is set, it can be declared to the Ministry of Industry.

"Back to the saint, the old minister was ordered to build a school palace in Daxing, and at first he thought that Lishan was good! But it's too far from Daxing. ”

"It's farther away!" Yang Tong almost laughed, what kind of big deal is this?

Liu Xuan said again: "But the old minister still went to Lishan, but found some interesting things in the ancient tomb of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum. ”

"Huh?" Yang Tong was taken aback, and looked at Liu Xuan with a strange expression: "Taifu went to rob the tomb... Belch... Went to archaeology? ”

Yang Tong looked at Liu Xuan, whose beard and eyebrows were all white, with a shocked expression, and his eyes were full of admiration.

Even in the 21st century, when science and technology are developed, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang can only be explored to the surface, and it is incredible that this old man buried in the loess to his chin actually got into it and came back alive.

Liu Xuan glanced at Yang Tong blankly, he didn't understand what 'archaeology' was, but the word 'tomb robbery' was quite intuitive, he shook his head: "The old minister really wants to be so lacking in morality, and he won't forge the Lianshan Sutra to cheat money back then." It was a mountain man who strayed into the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and accidentally found something interesting, so he came to consult with His Majesty. ”

"What could make Taifu so excited?"

Yang Tong asked very curiously, although more than 800 years have passed, but the Qin Dynasty of Qin Shi Huang is a quite remarkable era for China, many skills are more advanced than today, but it is a pity that they are lost, if you can get some craftsmanship beyond the current in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, it is definitely more valuable than the treasures of the city.

"Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, abolished the division of feuds, established counties and counties, unified currency and weights and measures, built the Great Wall, and repaired the straight road! Can the saint know that there is a saying that the book is the same as the text, and the car is on the same track? Liu Xuan asked.

"Of course I do." Yang Tong smiled and nodded.

"Then what does the saint know about the 'rail' of this car on the same track?" Liu Xuan said with a smile.

"Looks like a rut?" Yang Tong remembered what the history teacher in junior high school said, but seeing Liu Xuan's mysterious appearance, what the history teacher said was definitely wrong.

"Lao Chen used to think so, but after looking at the things handed over by the mountain people, he knew that the track of the car on the same track was not a rut!" Liu Xuan asked Yin Mingyue on the side for a set of four treasures of the study, sketched two parallel lines on the white paper, and drew a carriage on it.

"This is the mountain people on Lishan picked up a piece of stone carving engraved on the pattern, the old minister was interested in this strange thing, so he took the old minister to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang to explore, but after walking for a long time, he couldn't breathe well, and he couldn't enter again. And in the tomb road, the minister found traces of this pattern, which was a prominent roadbed, on which there were square timbers, the two were on the horizontal line, and on the top, there were two parallel timbers! It could only be that it was old, and the wood had rotted, leaving only a conspicuous trace, but there was one wheel there that was relatively intact. ”

"This ......" Looking at the sketch drawn by Liu Xuan, Yang Tong's eyes widened, isn't this the railroad track? With the addition of horse-drawn carriages, it becomes a train...... Uh, still a carriage.

Good guy, the Qin Dynasty actually had such an advanced concept, which really shocked Yang Tong.

Was it invented by Qin Shi Huang? Or did Xiang Shaolong bring it? Or maybe Qin Shi Huang himself was a traverser.

For a moment, Yang Tong was a little confused.

"The traces on the graveyard are very straight, there is no such thing as a corner, and naturally there is no turning and rollover accident; If we make this kind of road according to the pattern, it is completely possible to make the carriage larger, longer and taller, and then install the carriage with a combination of labor-saving pulleys, so that the horses can save effort, run faster, and carry at least several times more things. With this thing, you can save a lot of manpower and material resources! Liu Xuan said excitedly, he remembered what he thought and felt along the way.

Looking at this radiant old man, Yang Tong gasped,

This old man has even thought of the principle of the train, but it's not just as simple as a Confucian? It's a great scientist and genius who surpasses everyone in the contemporary era! Not to mention anything else, just his mentality of thinking that people dare not think and can't think about it has steadily surpassed all the demons in the Great Sui Dynasty, this is purely a thousand-year-old goblin!

"Holy Lord, do you think the old minister is making a big fuss?" Seeing that Yang Tong didn't respond for a long time, and looked at him with a strange gaze, the old man was annoyed.

"No, no, no!" Yang Tong came back to his senses and hurriedly explained: "Taifu's whimsical ideas shocked me. ”

"Do you think it's feasible?" Liu Xuan hurriedly asked.

"I think it's completely doable, absolutely doable!" Yang Tong said with a smile: "Take the compass, the ground motion instrument, the repeater, and the movable type printing as an example, who would have thought before it appeared?" Before, the reason why they didn't appear was not that they didn't exist. It's that no one thinks about them at all, and that's what makes them dusty, and I think that all kinds of virtuosity are incredible miracles that some genius shows people when most people think it is impossible. So, unique ideas are sometimes key! ”

"Then the saint supports the old minister's idea?" Liu Xuanmei opened his eyes and laughed.

"Yes, big support."

"Lao Chen thinks that after we succeed in the test, we can first arrange this track on the strategic road, and then take Luoyang as the center to radiate to Guanzhong, Jianghuai, and Qingxu, and we can also build a bridge over the Yellow River and radiate to Hebei! There are also counties, which can also be centered on county governance and radiate to each county. Liu Xuan finished his imagination energetically, and then said: "And if the new carriage is pulled by enough horses, or if the horses are changed halfway, the speed can be increased again." Yes, there should also be a post station for changing horses in the middle, anyway, I have no shortage of horses in Dasui. ”

"County to county?"

"That's it!"

"......" Yang Tong was frightened by Liu Xuan's imagination, in the fully mechanized 21st century, it is still impossible to connect counties and counties, how can it be possible with the scientific and technological level of Dasui? Looking at Liu Xuan, who had a big brain, he suddenly felt that his head began to hurt a little, and said with a wry smile: "Taifu knows the cost and manpower?" ”

"If the manpower is insufficient, send the army to the grassland to catch it! If the grasslands are gone, you can go to the Western Regions to catch them. Lao Chen heard that there are many people who eat big food... In short, in order to achieve county and county access, let's work harder for the Great Sui soldiers... Anyway, the Holy Lord will also defeat those barbarians in the future. Liu Xuan said as a matter of course, as if the word 'idiot' was written on the door of his head.

"......" This old man really dared to think that he was even crazier than him, the emperor, Yang Tong didn't know how to answer, so he simply responded silently.

"The old minister is too excited, the saint doesn't have to take it to heart!" Liu Xuan also realized that he was overexcited, settled down, and finally returned to normal, he coughed lightly, and said: "Now that the great cause of reunification is the most important, it is a one-day work for the counties and counties to pass through, so we can take our time; And if this thing wants to be promoted, not only to lay tracks, but also to explore and build important links, and even wood to be preserved, although it is time-consuming, laborious and costly, but once completed, I will complete a earth-shaking transformation! ”

Yang Tong nodded approvingly, if you want to get rich, you need to build roads first This is not just talking, once the 'horse-drawn train' can be laid into a huge transportation network, the speed of material circulation in the Great Sui will reach an astonishing height, and the army's response speed to the war will also be several times higher than now, he saw that Liu Xuan Zhenzhen was speechless, and seemed to have a perfect plan, so he asked with a smile: "Taifu has said so many ideas, there must be a very perfect idea, right?" ”

"Exactly!" Liu Xuan nodded and said, "This track involves the safety of countless people's lives and property, and there is no room for negligence. Even if you recruit people to help, you can only dig the roadbed and tamp the road surface, and important tasks such as laying timber, binding, and connecting must be done by specialized people. ”

"Taifu's words are extremely true, and life safety should not be careless." Yang Tong agreed with the words, this track seems to be very simple, but there are still a series of problems to be solved, such as specifications, load-bearing, and balance, and ordinary people really can't do it.

"The old minister suggested that it was time to open a track and study the new carriage at the same time. This requires a group of carpenters to polish the qualified wooden rails, plus a team of craftsmen who are specially responsible for laying the tracks, as for the timber can be harvested by the slaves, and when the various craftsmen are mature, they will be the masters to bring out a group of apprentices, and the masters can be separated to the various counties to start work; In addition, it is also necessary for the Criminal Department to formulate relevant laws and regulations, and once someone takes it home to be burned as firewood, it will be severely punished, and then it will be disseminated to the people by officials such as the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Ministry of Armed Forces. "Liu Xuan's specialty is not engineering, and the level of strategy and internal affairs is also top-notch, but it's a pity that he was born at the wrong time, and he wasted a lot of time in vain, he has been thinking about this matter for a long time, and he already has a relatively mature plan, which is not a fantasy.

This may sound simple, but it is difficult to popularize the rule of law and supervise and punish lawbreakers. However, this is also within the scope of Yang Tong's bearing, no matter how difficult things are, as long as there is a direction, there is always a solution, the first track can be used to test the water, if it is successful, it can be centered on Luoyang and key counties, and extend to the surroundings step by step, at least the Heluo area should be popularized to all cities.

"And then? Where is Taifu going to start? ”

"The Silk Road is extremely busy, and this section of Luoyang and Daxing will inevitably become the busiest section of Dasui, and this section can be opened first."

Yang Tong thought for a while and asked again: "By the way, Taifu Ke has calculated the section from Luoyang to Daxing, how much does it cost?" How long does it take? How much manpower is needed? ”

"......" Liu Xuan was dumbfounded.

Although the wooden track is relatively easy, but from Luoyang to Daxing, there is also a considerable distance, according to his vision, the road to be repeatedly tested, the wooden rail to be repeatedly polished, the carriage to be repeatedly changed, the combination of the three to be repeatedly tested, and the force and other issues to be tested, etc., in short, there are many, many things to be tested one by one, which makes him where to answer? After a long time, he smiled bitterly: "This thing that has disappeared for more than 800 years, there is no information to learn from, it is no different from starting from scratch." The saint asked, but the minister really couldn't answer. ”

Yang Tong patted his forehead, even if it is a modern railway, it takes a lot of time, and when encountering complex ground types, the construction period needs to be delayed again and again, not to mention the Great Sui era? Although the materials are light and relatively easy to make, there are many problems to solve from scratch. He laughed at himself and said, "I will let Shangshu Province and Kaitian Yuan fully cooperate with Taifu, but the world has not yet been unified, and I don't have time to stare at this matter, so I will have Taifu Lao in this matter." ”

The cost of this section of the track is really pitiful compared to the Sui treasury, not to mention that there is free labor to do the heavy work, which is even more cost-saving.

Looking at the white-haired Liu Xuan, Yang Tong said with concern: "Taifu is too old to withstand the toss, just say the idea and let the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry and the Tiangong Institute do it." ”

Liu Xuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, the old minister still wants to take this new carriage to Daxing!" It won't die until it comes out. ”

"......" Yang Tong said in his heart, "I was just afraid that you wouldn't last that day, so I said this", but he said: "Regarding the wooden rail, I have a little idea......

Although Yang Tong didn't know, he had seen the railroad tracks, and he must know more than Liu Xuan, who only saw the imprints, so he proposed the 'concave', 'U', 'L' wooden rails and the wheels with 'concave and convex' sides for Liu Xuan's reference. He was also told that the wood resting under the track was called a sleeper, and offered to repair the line.

Liu Xuan was deeply inspired and immediately started to draw various graphics.

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