An ox cart staggered, and more than a dozen guards guarded it back and forth, marching on the official road. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Since it's a look, then it's a look.

Most of the fanfare you can't see anything, so you can only watch it quietly.

Smart people often only believe in themselves, from what they see, hear, can be regarded as true, as for what others say, most of them are just acting as some auxiliaries, most of the time, they are only willing to listen more, watch more, and rarely express some opinions, and even most of the things in their hearts, there is a conspiracy......

"Strange!" On top of the ox cart, a middle-aged scribe who was reclining suddenly stopped the cart, and then lifted the curtain to look under the cart.

A fairly smooth path stretches from the foot to the distance......

The scribe got out of the car and walked to the side of the road, his slender eyes looking left and right.

The official road has obviously just been leveled, although there is no green brick paving, but it is quite strong, it should be tamped, and then rammed again after correction and rolling, these days are relatively dry, stepping on only a little bit of dust, not most of the other roads are dusty one step slightly.

No wonder the vehicles didn't wobble so much when they moved, and the width of the road was ......

The scribe narrowed his eyes, his eyes almost narrowed into a line, and he looked at the road that stretched into the distance, and muttered.

The width of the official road is at least close to forty paces!

It's quite surprising that there are few roads this wide these days.

War is the most destructive, and even the roads are doomed.

It used to be the Shangjun Road of the Qin Dynasty, starting from Xianyang, passing through the Shangjun to Youzhou, turning around and going southwest after arriving in Liaodong, and finally Lelang, which is an important passage for the Qin Dynasty to connect the center, Hetao and Liaodong regions.

Galloping, the cavalry traveled 600 miles a day and night is called the basic standard, and if it is an emergency, it travels 800 miles day and night. It was originally supposed to be fifty steps wide, but because of the continuous war in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, it caused a lot of damage, and there has not been much repair until now.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the economic conditions and the country's financial resources were too weak. Even because of the serious shortage of horses in the early Han Dynasty, even the emperors of the Han Dynasty could not afford to equip their imperial chariots with horses of the same color, and many generals could only ride ox carts. The economy of the Han Dynasty did not recover until a long time later, and it was ruled by inaction for a long time, so there was no labor force to rebuild the road.

During this time, many roads were reclaimed for arable land, narrowed, or even ceased to exist altogether.

Moreover, the sub-feudal system in the early Han Dynasty also weakened the role of the road, the Chidao was obviously used for long-distance transportation, the transfer of soldiers and horses, and the Han Dynasty long-term princes occupied various places, rarely interacted with each other, and the people between different fiefs did not have the need for a large number of goods to be transported over a long distance, and the transportation line became shorter, so it lost the necessity of renovating the Chidao.

Of course, with the recovery of the economy, the gradually rich finances of the Han Dynasty were all invested in the war against the Xiongnu by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the use of a large number of cavalry also reduced the demand for vehicles, so there was no money to restore the road.

A wide and smooth road is naturally extremely convenient for the rapid transfer of troops on both sides of the road, or even between cities, and transporting supplies......

But in order to rebuild such a road, the amount of civil power that needs to be mobilized is a huge amount, and the mobilization of such a large conscription project is not afraid of provoking a popular uprising?

When the scribe saw that some peasants were weeding in the fields by the roadside, he walked slowly to the edge of the fields, arched his hand at one of the older farmers, and said, "Dare to ask the old man, how much is the tax here, and how is the labor?" ”

The old farmer looked up, pondered a little, and looked like a figure on the official face, so he didn't hide much, and said: "This year, because the cows and horses of the official family are used to open the fields, they have to pay an extra cent of grain, so they are five cents of land rent and one cent...... One month each for summer and winter farming and leisure service......"

"I have to pay six cents of rent, so is the surplus food enough for the family?" The rent is a bit heavy, but since it is a rented land, it is almost the same, but the levy is relatively light.

In the Han Dynasty, the levy was more complicated, for ordinary peasant households, the rent was only paid once a year, and according to the output of the acre, the fixed proportion was not heavy, but the levy was not, and often became an important reason for the bankruptcy of peasant households.

In the Han Dynasty, the first was national military service, one year in the local supplement of county soldiers, responsible for public security training, and then the second year according to the national arrangement, to go to other areas to serve in the military, generally speaking, it is a more dangerous area......

Of course, the national military service only needs to be served once in a lifetime, but if the war starts, it is necessary to obey the re-call-up and must not resist......

The military is to serve in the frontier, and the time is also 1 year, which can be offset with silver.

The above is still a fixed servitude, but it is not fixed, and the temporary work issued by the local county and county, including but not limited to civil engineering, building bridges and roads, managing rivers and canals, transferring Caogu and other labor, is called a change of labor, and can also be replaced by money.

In addition, the Han Dynasty exempted some people from forced labor, such as clans, nobles, bureaucrats with high lords and their relatives, the three elders of counties and townships, and those who were elected as filial piety and power; Doctoral disciples, other people who have passed the scriptures and those who have been specially approved for reinstatement; or those who have given birth to children, those who have mourned, and those who have been temporarily removed due to natural disasters and military disasters; The people of the places through which the emperor passed through were temporarily exempted from military service, and so on.

Large merchants or scholars could also buy a civil lord with money, and then they could be exempted from forced labor, so that the obligation of forced labor in the Han Dynasty actually fell on the peasants below the middle class.

In addition to the grassroots rat dog difference up and down......

When the old peasant heard the scribe's question, he looked at the good crops growing in the field, and his wrinkled face showed a smile, and said, "If God can take care of it, it should still be possible......

"So this way...... Don't you need to be forced into servitude? ”

The old farmer laughed and said, "That's Xianbei Nuxiu!" There was still a bit of smugness in his expression. These years have been harassed by the Hu people, burned, killed and looted, and now they see that the once strong Xianbei people have become coolies, this heart is naturally faintly a little happy......

"That Xianbei slave actually obeyed?" It turned out to be a road built by Xianbei people! How brutal the Hu people are, they don't understand the reason, they are not kingized, and they don't obey discipline, so don't they resist?

The old farmer smiled, "Hu people are also people, they all have a head and a mouth...... If you go further, you will see it......"

The scribe sighed, then took out some five baht from his bosom and put it on the edge of the field, and said, "Thank you, old man, for your doubts, and take your leave." ”

The old farmer looked at the scribe who had gone away, then at the five baht coins on the edge of the field, shook his head, and then took the coins into his bosom and muttered something in a low voice......