"If you use 500,000 yuan, can it be completed in two years?" Li Luo asked with some expectation.

Two years?

Zhang Zhichun was stunned for a moment, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, are all the wood, bricks and tiles for the construction of the palace and city ready?" ”

Li Luo shook his head, "No." ”

Zhang Zhichun smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty forgives your sins." In this way, even 500,000 laborers will inevitably not be completed within two years. This project measurement is several times that of the capital, and it is even more than Chang'an City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Even if it's planned properly, it has to be three years. ”

Does it have to be three years? Li Luo bowed slightly when he heard this, he could still accept this time.

Zhang Zhichun saw that Li Luo had no intention of anger, and his heart was relieved. After a moment's thought, he said:

"Your Majesty, this material, especially the beams and pillars, is the most important, and the freshly cut down trees are still living trees, and they are bound to be unusable. It should be cut down at least one year in advance, then soaked in the mud pond for at least half a year, and then dried for at least half a year before it can be used. ”

"The amount of bricks and stones required is huge, and it is not enough to be burned and mined for a year. Therefore, it will take at least one year to prepare the building materials alone. ”

As far as the minister can see, the project is divided into two phases, and everyone in the early stage only prepares materials, excavates foundations, ditches, liquid pools, and four ditches, and accumulates earthwork. In the middle period, the city was built and the palace was built, and the beams and buildings were carved and painted in the later period, and flowers and trees were planted. In this way, there is no delay in labor. ”

"Your Majesty can first send someone to cut wood, burn bricks and tiles, and mine stone......"

Li Luo nodded and said, "Good." What Zhang Daochang said is exactly this principle. I want to entrust this project to the Taoist Chief, grant the post of Minister of Urban Construction, and hang the title of Chamberlain of the Ministry of Works, is the Taoist Chief willing to take over? ”

Even if Zhang Zhichun knew it a long time ago, he was a little excited in his heart at this time, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, Your Majesty is trustworthy." The poor road will live up to the king's life. ”

He has always been obsessed with the art of engineering construction, and he has also gained a lot of knowledge. Building the imperial capital and the imperial palace is the greatest long-cherished wish of every Lu Mo disciple, where would he not want to? This is a great thing to leave a name on in history.

"Good. Then I will make you the minister of urban construction and the squire of the Ministry of Works. Labor and materials, at your disposal! I have issued another decree to set up a yamen for the construction of the Governor's City, and the skilled craftsmen who participate in the project can arrange functions, promotions, appointments and dismissals, and entrust you with full authority! ”

After Li Luo finished speaking, he ordered Wei Su to serve in front of the emperor, drafted an edict for the appointment of Zhang Zhichun, and at the same time issued an edict to establish the governor's city construction affairs yamen.

"Poor Dao, thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhang Zhichun happily accepted.

I don't know if he knows that he received the order this time, and he really became a Chinese celebrity left in history.

The next day, the governor's city construction affairs yamen was established.

Although Zhang Zhichun is a Taoist priest, he is obviously a doer. As soon as he took office, he sent a letter to Yizhou Mu Li Yi, asking him to call for 10,000 captives to cut down 5,000 golden silk nanmu trees in the deep mountains of Sichuan and Shu, thinking that they were pillars.

He required that the golden silk nanmu must be more than three zhang long and more than three feet in diameter in order to be qualified.

Within three months, it will be transported to Guanzhong by ship through the Jialing River waterway.

Another 30,000 prisoners were requisitioned and sent to Longshan, Beishan and Qinling to cut wood and use it as general timber.

Another 30,000 people were requisitioned to go to Zhongnan Mountain to dig stones. Ten thousand people were levied to burn charcoal to burn bricks and tiles.

50,000 people were also requisitioned to dig moats, ditches, foundations, liquid pools, and deep wells. 50,000 people were requisitioned to burn bricks and tiles.

Well organized.

But in this case, the manpower is not enough.

Li Luo issued an edict to levy more than 100,000 captives from the south into Guanzhong, and then recruit 200,000 people from Guanzhong and Hanzhong and southern Shaanxi to participate in the construction project with a reward of two silver dollars per month.

There are more than 10,000 skilled craftsmen involved in the project, and the labor force will reach 500,000!

Eighty percent of the hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and slaves obtained by the Tang State over the years were invested in the Chang'an project.

This makes the Chang'an project huge, directly catching up with the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, surpassing the Lishan Mausoleum and Afang Palace!

It will take three years, and the cost of money and grain will reach more than 10 million stones.

The war money and family wealth that the Tang State has made over the past few years will be completely exhausted after this project.

This is because most of the labor is free, and the building materials are free, otherwise, they can't be built at all.

Why can't Emperor Yongle build a palace that is too big? Because he did not have so many captives to spare, and his timber had to be bought, the trees had owners, and almost all of them were in the hands of the gentry and merchants.

In the Ming Dynasty, when the Forbidden City was built, it needed golden silk nanmu, which was cut down in Sichuan, and it was also necessary to buy it from the local toast. Because the mountains and forests that produce golden silk nanmu are the jurisdiction of Tusi, it costs money!

Nanyang paid tribute to Zhu Di for precious wood, which seemed to be bought without spending money, but the Ming court rewarded a lot of money, but in fact, it still cost money.

Including stone quarries, brick and tile factories, most of them have owners. Zhu Di could not state the private property in order to build a palace.

Most of them had to be bought for money, and there were not so many free captives as laborers. Then, the stinginess of the Forbidden City cultivation can also be understood.

But Li Luo is different. This man was too domineering, he took advantage of the wealthy gentry to defect to the Yuan court, wantonly confiscated their monopoly industry, and the revolution was relatively thorough, so that the government controlled most of the mountains, forests, rivers, land and mines.

It can be said that the Tang Dynasty is closest to the real "Mo Fei Wang Land", which is very similar to later generations. In the past dynasties, the private occupation of mountains, forests, rivers and mines by local wealthy families would not have been repeated in the Tang Dynasty.

Because of these, most of them are national!

Do you need to buy it in later generations to cut down trees and build railways in Daxinganling? Do you need to buy oil extraction? No, you don't.

This saves a huge amount of money on building materials.

Hundreds of thousands of people moved. The people of Chang'an City also moved out of the city one after another, because the city was going to dig a lot of earth. Brick factories and brick kilns began to appear around Chang'an.

In order to maintain order and suppress the rebellion of the prisoners, the Tang court transferred 50,000 soldiers and horses into Guanzhong.

The action is earth-shattering.

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On the ninth day of the winter month, the Tang army went out again. Wen Tianxiang led an army of 60,000 to the north, attacking northern Shaanxi, and then attacking Hetao. By this time, it was already snowing heavily in the Hetao area. It was destined to be a difficult expedition.

Li Luo personally led a large army to the west, and will pass through the Guanlong Ancient Road, cross Longshan, and attack the entire Longxi.

In that year, Wuhou passed through the six out of Qishan, entered the Guanlong Ancient Road, passed through the Street Pavilion, and conquered Guanzhong. It's a pity that he died before he got out of school.

The strategic purpose of this dispatch of troops was to occupy the entire Qin homeland and block the passage for the Hexi Yuan army and the Saibei Yuan army to attack Qin.

In this way, Guanzhong can be truly impregnable.

Longyou later generations belong to Gansu, but now belong to Shaanxi. It can be said that in later generations, the entire Gannan was the territory of Shaanxi Province. The Yuan court set up the Gongchang Commander-in-Chief's Mansion in Longyou, which had 15 prefectures under the jurisdiction of Pingliang, Lintao and Qingyang.

On the thirteenth day of the winter month, the army arrived at Qishan, crossed the Wuzhang Plain, and Li Luo personally sacrificed to Wuhou.

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, Li Luo's army marched five hundred miles and came to Longzhou. Longzhou has been renamed Long'an County and placed under the jurisdiction of Fengxiang County.

Out of Longxian County, it is the Guanlong Ancient Road.

Guarding Chang'an must guard the right of Long, and guarding the right of Longxi must control Hexi. In the late Tang Dynasty, Hexi and Longyou were lost, Tubo approached Longshan, and the army approached Chang'an, cutting off the Silk Road.

Li Luo's marching route planned to go from Chang'an to Long'an County, go out of the earthquake pass and cross Longshan, pass through Guguan, along the red deer and Guanshan grasslands, pass through Changningyi, Qingshui, and reach Qinzhou (Tianshui), which is the most convenient road.

In the late Tang Dynasty, in order to resist the Tubo people, this road was deliberately destroyed, or trees were planted in the road, or huge stones blocked the road, but the Yuan court later vigorously repaired it, and it is still relatively easy to walk.

During the Han Dynasty, the Longshan Ancient Road was five miles and a sui, ten miles and a pier, thirty miles and a fort, and a hundred miles and a village, which was very developed and lively.

On the sixteenth day of the winter month, Li Luo went out of Longshan and came to the Great Earthquake Pass. But see the Longshan Mountain, the Guancheng Towering, the ancient Dao Sen Sensen. This is the first pass out of Longshan in the west, and it is also the easternmost pass of the Silk Road.

Here, before the business travelers were in an endless stream every day, the camel bells were melodious, and it was very lively. However, since Li Luo's attack on Guanzhong, the Tang and Yuan wars, and the flames of the war, the Guanlong Ancient Road immediately became cold and lonely, and the grand occasion of business and travel between them was no longer there.

The Great Earthquake Pass had already been voluntarily abandoned by the Yuan army, and there was no one at this time. The Tang army swaggered into the customs, repaired for half a day, and entered the ancient road in the mountains.

This is the Guanlong Ancient Road, and Wu Geng at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty was exiled to Longyou by King Wu through this road. The Qin people were the descendants of the Yin Shang who were exiled by King Wu of Zhou, and the Qin people came east to enter Guanzhong through this mountain road.

Li Luo rode a horse and walked on Guanlong Road, and saw the ancient stone carvings on the roadside, the broken stones, and the old site of the pass, and couldn't help but think about the past.

In the "Book of Songs", which is related to Guan Longdao, Li Luo knows that there are four articles: "Che Lin", "Xiao Rong", "Pu Jia", and "Donkey". In the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Cen Shen, Gao Shi, etc. also had poems.

The Qin people marched eastward, Zhang Qian passed through the Western Regions, Guangwu extinguished the hustle and bustle, Wuhou conquered the pass, and Tang Xuanzang traveled west to learn from the scriptures... It's all about this ancient road. Li Luo is such a thief, and he has been here in later generations... Looking for treasure, I also found a few Tang Dynasty stone carvings in the ancient post ruins on the roadside, and stayed for a while.

Longshan nine times, I don't know its height. The men of Guanzhong served in the military to conquer the border in the west, and they came here to look at it, and they were all sad.

When Li Luo saw the soldiers of the Tang Army hurrying away, he couldn't help but think of Du Fu's "Qinzhou Miscellaneous Poems", and gently chanted two of the sentences: "The Western Expedition asks about the beacon fire, and my heart is drowning." "There was a look of pity on his face.

Seeing this, Meng Hui, the attendant of Silu Langzhong, immediately recorded: "On the sixteenth day of the winter month of the second year, I went through the Great Earthquake Pass, entered the Longshan Road, sympathized with the suffering of the soldiers in ancient times, and recited the "Qinzhou Miscellaneous Poems" of the Du Gong Department. ”

Wei Su, who was with him, also hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is the Holy Lord of the Benevolence Monarch, the military is tyrannical, and the virtue is also." In addition, His Majesty is fair and strict, cherishes the soldiers, and will not make the Kansai veterans, Mochizuki listen to the flute, and stop the horse to cry. ”

This Wei Su is really good at talking.

Li Luo smiled slightly, "I know a lot of witty words." ”

Wei Su's words are from Wang Wei's "Longtou Yin", which includes "" The bright moon in Longtou is in the pass, and the pedestrians in Longshang play the flute at night. The Kansai veteran was overwhelmed, and Zhuma listened to the tears. ”

Wang Wei's poem "Longtou Yin" means that the soldiers go out to fight all year round, but they do not get the rewards they deserve, feel unfair for them, and ridicule the unfair rewards and punishments of the imperial court.

And Wei Su said that Li Luo must not make "the veteran of Kansai not worried, and the tears flow when he listens to it", on the surface, he praised Li Luo for cherishing the soldiers, and the rewards and punishments were clear, but in fact, it was also a clever admonition to Li Luo.

can admonish, and can speak so well and elegantly, that is, Wenchen.

On the eighteenth day of the winter month, the army finally passed through the solid pass abandoned by the Yuan army, and the front suddenly opened up. It is actually a large alpine grassland, at a glance, the sky is vast, the white clouds are long, the gentle slope is undulating, which is refreshing.

This is the famous Guanshan grassland.

The war horse reserves of the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, this grassland contributed a lot. The war horse of the champion Hou Zhen Xiongnu came from the Guanshan grassland.

Originally, this grassland had more than 100,000 war horses. However, after the defeat of the Yuan army in Guanzhong, the officials of the Yuan Dynasty in Shaanxi Gongchangdu Marshal's Office panicked and immediately transferred all the war horses in the Guanshan Plain to Gansu in the north.

The Gongchang Commander's Mansion sounds scary, but before the soldiers and horses were transferred to Guanzhong and annihilated by the Tang Army, it can be described as extremely empty at this time, and I have to count on the Gansu Province in the north.

And the Gansu Yuan Army was originally strong and stationed a heavy army group. But now they are all transferred to the Western Regions to suppress the homeland of the four khanates, and there are only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses at the moment, and they are not elite, and they can't stop the Tang Army that is threatening the power of a great victory and is sharp.

The holy decree of most of the capital's transfer of troops was transmitted to the distant Western Regions, and then the troops and horses were transferred back to Gansu, and it was at least a few months to come and go, and it was too late at all.

It can be said that whether it is the Marshal Mansion of Gongchangdu in Shaanxi Province or the Pingzhang Yamen in Gansu Province in the north, there are not many troops available. Far water doesn't quench the thirst of the near, who would have expected Dayuan to lose so quickly and so badly in Guanzhong?

The most important thing that Pingzhang Yamen in Gansu Province did during this period was to transfer more than 100,000 war horses from the Guanshan grassland to distant Liangzhou, and they did not dare to stay in Gongchang (Longyou).

Li Luo had known this information for a long time, so when he saw the empty grassland, he was not disappointed.

"Your Majesty, this Guanshan grassland is really a treasure land!" Tang Mu, the brigade commander who accompanied the expedition, sighed, "I have this grassland in Datang, why worry about not having war horses and cavalry!" ”

Yan Falcon, who was also accompanying the expedition, said with a smile, "You don't know, the Songpan grassland in the northwest of Yizhou is also in the hands of my Datang." With the addition of this Guanshan grassland, Datang has two major grasslands! ”

Songpan grassland is also an alpine grassland, which was originally the territory of Tibet, with an area equivalent to that of Guanshan grassland, with a radius of more than 100 miles. With these two grasslands in hand, the Tang army is indeed no longer worried about war horses.

Li Luo ran on a familiar gentle slope on his horse, and looked at the grassland on his horse, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Before, he had stood in this place, admiring the grassland scenery, and it was his senior brother who came with him.

He remembered that at that time, the sun was setting, the autumn wind was strong on the grassland, and a man in field work clothes was walking towards the sunset. The man, holding a DSLR camera in one hand and a hunting knife in the other, turned back to him with a big smile.

"Senior brother! Hurry up! We spent the night in the depths of the prairie! Do you dare? Sleep with the ancients! ”

It is still this grassland, even in later generations, it is still rich in water and grass. But there was a long time of more than 700 years in between.

At this time, it is also the sunset, and the grassland is full of sunshine and magnificent. Li Luo squinted at the sunset, as if he was in a trance, as if he saw the man again, standing at the foot of the gentle slope and looking back and smiling.

Brother......

Thinking of this person, Li Luo couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

This is a person who brought himself into the industry, who has helped him too much, and who once cared for him like a brother.

But he knew from Cui Xiuning's mouth that his senior brother was the one who betrayed him, and he was the eyeliner of Cui Xiuning's development.

It was this man who let his "glorious deeds" be fully grasped by the police department, and also provided a lot of evidence to the police. If he hadn't traveled to ancient times, he would still be in prison, and he would definitely not have been released from prison.

Hehe, senior brother, you betrayed your brother, but so what? Can you change your destiny? You are either being used by the Master or being watched by the law enforcers, and you have no control over your own destiny.

But what about me? I became an emperor and controlled the fate of millions of people, as well as my own.

And you, can't!

Li Luo retracted his thoughts in a complicated mood and ordered: "Tonight, camp here!" Within two days, you must pass through the Guanshan grassland! ”

"No!"

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The news of the imminent attack of the Tang army first reached Qinzhou (Tianshui), which immediately made Qinzhou officials panic.

"Keeper! Disastrous! The puppet Tang army is coming! has already passed the Guanshan grassland, and it is estimated that it will soon go out of Guanlong Road and go straight to Qingshui County! How good is that! ”

Qinzhou Zhizhou Duo Lost Talai hurriedly rushed into the official office of Dalu Hua Chigul Buhua.

Duo Lost Talai sounds like an authentic Mongolian name, but he is actually Han Chinese, and his real name is Wang Cheng.

Daruhua Chigul does not flower, and he is the real Mongolian official.

"It's coming, it's coming! Big deal to fight! Otherwise, what can this town do! The town guard was furious, and his Mongolian eyes widened like copper bells, "There are only more than a thousand soldiers and horses left in this state, what can this town do!" You Chita (Han Chinese), it's useless to be afraid of death! ”

Gul Buhua stood up after speaking, "Come on, put on armor, all the soldiers and horses go out of the city, go to Qingshui to block the rebels, and don't let them go out of the Longdao!" ”

What the? Zhizhou Duo lost Talai (Wang Cheng) was stunned.

More than 1,000 soldiers and horses to intercept the puppet Tang army? Isn't that? This point of soldiers and horses can be blocked, so why give up the big earthquake pass and the solid pass?

But where did he dare to dissuade him?

"Town guard officials, hurry up to the Gongchangdu Marshal's Mansion and send troops to resist!" Doshtarai said with a pleading look.

"Asking for help?" Gul Buhua snorted coldly, "The soldiers and horses of the Commander-in-Chief's Mansion were all buried by the incompetent Pingzhang Hachiya Brother in Guanzhong, and the entire three prefectures and fifteen prefectures of Gongchang can't get together 20,000 soldiers and horses now!" Asking for help is a fart! ”

"Let's fight hard! If you are afraid of death, don't go! Gul glanced at Zhizhou contemptuously.

Lost Tarei was speechless.

When Gur Buhua led the last more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to leave, he still sat in the official office, sweating in the cold.

The subordinate officials of the state government are also sad and at a loss. Many officials wanted to flee with their families regardless of it.

Just when Zhizhou Duoshi Talai and others were sitting on pins and needles, as if the end was coming, suddenly a soldier broke into the official office panting, and shouted: "Zhizhou official! The town guards didn't go to Qingshui County to stop the rebels! The town guard has gone west! ”

What went west? That's an escape!

Duo lost Talai and is not stupid, why don't you know that Gul Buhua took away the last bit of soldiers and horses, and ran away to save his life?

How could he believe that he would take this bit of soldiers and horses to fight off the rebels like moths to the fire?

It's true that the Mongols are barbaric and fierce, but they are not stupid!

How can they do meaningless self-defeating?

It's yourself who is stupid.

"Run! Come on! "The Talai couldn't care anymore. The number one town guard has run away, why is his second leader still here? Waiting to die?

While packing up the official seal and documents, Duo Shi Talai said loudly: "The rebel army is powerful, so we can only temporarily avoid the edge and leave it to be useful, so that we can serve Dayuan!" ”

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