It's another year in a hurry, and in a blink of an eye, it's the end of November, and there are only two or three months left before the New Year. Last year was the disaster year of Daqin, and the rebellion of Xiang Yu and Liu Bang pulled Daqin back, so that Daqin spent a whole year quelling the rebellion and providing relief to the victims. This year is the lucky year of Daqin, Rong Luhou pacified Sanhan and added more than 70 counties to the territory of Daqin, not to mention, the first batch of cement roads built by Daqin was also completely completed.

The highway siege is the first project that Li Chen began to build after taking office, and now the history is close to three years, and it is finally completed before the Chinese New Year this year, which can be regarded as adding another auspicious thing to Daqin.

Li Chen still remembers the slogan written on the white wall in his previous life, if you want to get rich, build roads first, have fewer children and more trees. This sentence is placed in the era of Daqin, the first half of the sentence is still correct, but the second half of the sentence needs to be reversed, it should be to have more children and plant fewer trees. Today, the population of Daqin is not enough to dominate the world, but the forest area is far larger than in the previous life. Therefore, the energy used to plant trees should be used to "cultivate the land" so that it can contribute to the population growth of Daqin.

The main line of the first phase of the expressway project is about 7,000 kilometers, mainly from Xianyang to Guanzhong, Sanqin area, and the road to the Hetao area. This gray-blue cement highway can be said to be the lifeblood of Daqin, and the role of this highway is inconspicuous compared with the original yellow mud road of Daqin, which can be regarded as providing convenience for the convoy of merchants and promoting the economic development of Daqin. But in wartime, the role of this highway was completely revealed.

In this day and age, military transportation was often capable of crushing a country. And every time Great Qin launched a foreign war, the biggest headache was not the military, but the lords of the household department. The transportation of military grain and grass is a headache, just take the battle between Daqin and the Xiongnu for the Hetao a few years ago. 10,000 quintals of grain and grass were transported from Xianyang, and the loss on the road reached 3,000 quintals. And the loss of 30% is still smooth all the way, if it is a rainy day when the road is muddy. The convoy transporting grain and grass can only wait for the rain to stop, but this person still needs to eat while waiting, and if it is delayed in this unexpected situation, the loss on the way will even reach about 50%.

On the flat cement road, the convoy transporting the baggage can travel at the fastest speed, even if it rains heavily, the cement road will not become slippery, and will not affect the transportation speed of the baggage. With the cement highway, the speed of transporting grain and grass from Xianyang to the Hetao area has been doubled. Now 10,000 loads of grain and grass are transported, and the loss on the way is less than 10%.

Today, the weather is sunny and the sun is rising very high, and at this time, hundreds of people have gathered on the highway outside Xianyang City, and the black crowd has crowded the entire road. Now the people are stepping and jumping on the cement road, it seems that they want to leave their footprints on the cement road, of course, it is the conscience merchant of Daqin who undertakes this highway, and it is not a Biguiyuan in the previous life, how can they leave footprints on the cement road.

"Your Majesty has arrived."

With a shrill chant, the First Emperor, dressed in a black dragon robe, walked out of Xianyang City surrounded by hundreds of civil and military officials. The forbidden troops armed with swords and shields around them immediately stood guard around them.

Li Chen waved his hand towards the crowd, and saw two handsome little girls from Li Jiazhuang, holding a flower tied with black silk in their hands.

"Set off firecrackers."

Li Chen shouted, and the little six sons on the side hurriedly picked up the fire fold and lit the huge firecracker with 50,000 rings.

"Crackling, crackling."

The firecrackers that had been placed at the end of the line from the city gate were ignited, crackling explosions rang out, and the smell of gunpowder smoke filled the air.

"Your Majesty, will you cut the ribbon?" Li Chen said as he handed over a pair of scissors to the First Emperor.

"Ribbon cutting?" Obviously, the First Emperor did not understand what ribbon-cutting meant.

"Your Majesty, have you seen this flower, let's do it together, I'll cut this side, you just cut the other side." Li Chen said as he gestured.

"Okay, I see?" The First Emperor laughed and strode over to the other side of the black ribbon flower.

"I'll shout one, two, three, let's cut together." Li Chen said.

"One."

"Two."

"Three."

As the words landed, the two cut the black ribbon into three sections, which also means that the highway will be officially opened to traffic.

The highway is 7,000 kilometers long, the width of the road surface is not less than five zhang, passing through some prosperous sections, the width of the road surface even has more than ten zhang of ground cracks, which can accommodate five carriages in parallel. In addition, the entire cement pavement is extremely strong, and even on rainy days, it does not affect the travel speed.

"There are thousands of roads, and safety comes first."

"The driving is not standardized, and the relatives are in tears."

On the highway, there is a warning sign with a slogan every ten miles, and there is a service area every 300 meters, which can be used for people to rest, and will also provide mule and horse feed.

"It's open, it's open."

"Let one go, let one go."

As the firecrackers rang out, some court officials still evacuated the people on the road, who were about to open to traffic, and these people were blocking the road, in case of a traffic accident, it would not be good. Under the evacuation of the court officials, the people moved from the road to both sides of the road, but they still stretched their heads out to look at the road one by one. It can be seen that the talent of Chinese people to see the excitement is deep in the blood.

"These businessmen, why are they in such a hurry to do business."

"Hmph, isn't that a hurry? This road was built under the auspices of the Hou Ye, and they all wanted to be the first to do business on this road, and they wanted to touch the joy of the Hou Ye? ”

The people on both sides of the road muttered quietly one by one.

"Drive, drive, drive."

With the opening of the highway, a number of mule and horse vehicles loaded with goods began to move on the road. The load of horse-drawn carriages on the concrete road is much more than that on the yellow mud road, so the load on these carriages is about 30% more than usual.

"Aiqing, now that the road from Xianyang to Hetao has been built, it can be said that the grassland from the Guanzhong area of Xianyang is a flat river, you see when we will send troops to attack the grassland." The First Emperor looked at the caravan galloping on the road, and his heart was full of anticipation. It seemed that he had seen the Great Qin army, from this road like a sharp blade, straight into the heart of the grassland.

"In the coming year, we will definitely be able to take the grassland in one fell swoop." Li Chen's eyes looked at the First Emperor and said categorically.

The purpose of building this road was to prepare for the capture of the grassland. This highway is different from the county road that is also built with cement, it is wider and longer, and in order to build this road, Daqin spent countless manpower and material resources. Now that the road has been built, the plan to turn the grassland into a horse grazing land in Daqin is about to be put on the agenda.

PS: I still recommend my new book "I'm Really Not a Life Tattoo Master", a fantasy brain hole text, and the first release of QQ Book City.