"Your Majesty, please see, this is the six main rivers of our Great Qin, all of which flow into the sea from west to east, although Your Majesty has continuously rebuilt and expanded the Chi Road plank road connecting the world after the unification of China, but there are high mountains and rivers to block, and the traffic in many places is still difficult, especially the freight and business travel between the north and the south are extremely inconvenient, the grain and salt cloth in the south must be transported to the northwest, and the leather cattle and sheep in the northwest must be transported to the south, and these big rivers are insurmountable to be transported by land vehicles and horses, although there are docks and boats, it is also difficult to ......"

Chen Xu first pointed to the map and gave a general introduction to the traffic diagram of the river and the gallop.

This picture looks much clearer than the previous traffic map of Daqin, so after Chen Xu's simple explanation of the emperor and listening to it, he kept nodding and said: "Yes, water and land transportation has always been like this, these big rivers and rivers traverse China, in the past, the princes fought in the past, these rivers were natural hazards, and now they have indeed become a trouble that hinders the transportation and freight of the north and south......"

"Could it be that the big plan that Zuo Xiangfang just said is related to these big rivers?" The Ministry of Industry ordered Jae Hong to stand up and walk to the front of the map, and then asked after taking a closer look.

"Yes, at present, these big rivers have become a huge obstacle to the economic prosperity of my Daqin, so I have formulated a huge plan, which is to rely on these six big rivers to build large passenger and cargo terminals, warehouses and trading centers at the confluence of Chidao and rivers and prosperous counties along the rivers, build large ro-ro cargo ships, and even formulate standard containers, build gantry cranes, etc., to speed up the cross-river transportation of north-south freight, and then look for excellent bays near the estuaries of these big rivers to build large shipping distribution centers such as harbors, wharves, warehouses, etcBecause there are now new large seagoing vessels, which can quickly travel to and from the southeastern coastal counties, relying on these excellent seaports and distribution centers, it is convenient to transport goods down the river to various seaports by seaports......"

"Your Majesty and your colleagues, please see, at present, Bashu is rich in grain, cloth and salt, but in the past, it was transported to Hanzhong, Neishi and Nanyang counties through plank roads, or transported to Nanjun and Jiujiang counties by river boats through the big river, but that's all, the north can hardly eat the grain and salt of Bashu, and if you want to transport the rice, tea, silk, porcelain and other rice, tea, silk and porcelain that are abundant in the southern counties of Nanjun, Changsha, Jiujiang and other southern counties to the Central Plains and Northwest counties, the cost is extremely high, and you have to cross dozens of rivers of all sizes along the way, such as the big river, Huaishui, and the big riverEven if the goods of low value are transported to the west of the river, the cost is so high that the merchants and the common people are discouraged, and the same is true of the products in the northwest......"

"If this plan of the minister is successful, then not only Bashu and the southeastern counties, but even the Lingnan regions through the Pearl River water system, can quickly transport the goods to Panyu, and then at most a month can be transported to Liaodong Bay, and to Liaodong Bay, whether it is by river boat or land vehicles, can quickly disperse the goods to Liao and Liaodong and other places, the same is true of the goods in the northwest, although the Liao country is still barren, but the vast plain of the Liao River and Songhua River water system occupied by Donghu is a huge cultivated and woven plain, It is extremely suitable for growing millet rice and grain, and in time Liaodong and Liaoguo will inevitably become the main grain-producing areas of our Great Qin, so that the goods from the northeast and northwest can be easily transported to the southeastern counties by sea ships, and with the traffic of Dongfang Road and Chi Road, these goods can spread to the Central Plains and other places......"

"Your Majesty and you, please see, these places marked in black are the nodes and hubs of the water and land transportation arteries temporarily planned by the minister, as long as the docks and warehouses are built in these places, and the waterway, land, and sea transportation are integrated into a whole, under effective management and planning, then the entire cargo transportation of our Daqin will be connected into one, forming a water, land and sea transportation network covering the whole country......"

Under Chen Xu's explanation, the First Emperor's eyes lit up when he listened, and he couldn't help but stand up and walk down the nine steps, standing in front of the map with Chen Xu's fingers and eyes, and the civil and military officials were the same, one by one they were dumbfounded, and even a group of top marquis such as Feng Quji and Meng Yi couldn't help but squeeze to the front of the map to watch carefully, and while discussing in a low voice, they kept nodding their heads in recognition of Chen Xu's huge planning map.

To tell the truth, from ancient times to the present, China has never had such a unified era, and there is no such vast territory, let alone such a peaceful and stable environment and such a vigorous economy, so it is impossible to talk about such a vast and complex water, land and sea transportation network that integrates the entire China.

After Qin Shi Huang conquered the Six Kingdoms, he did use great manpower and material resources to continuously recruit people, prisoners, and slaves to build post roads and plank roads connecting the whole country, and even planned to build a straight road to the Northwest Great Wall.

The expansion and construction of the Chi Road has indeed greatly improved the traffic between the old places of the Six Kingdoms, but now it has completely failed to keep up with the economic development of Daqin, as for the plank road is more backward, all of them are built in the mountains and deep canyons, most of them are suspended on the steep cliffs, it can only be said to meet the most basic traffic and exchanges, and it does not have much effect on the transportation of bulk goods.

As for the straight road, it has been completely abandoned at the moment, and the Xiongnu have been just stammered before they are completed, and Meng Tian, who built this road, has lost his position as commander of the Northwest Army.

Therefore, even if the first emperor used countless people's and financial resources to continuously expand and renovate transportation, and constantly strive to integrate China as a whole, he had to be limited to the pattern of this era and the backward restrictions of transportation, and the implementation of the same track could not completely solve the backward situation that hindered national integration and economic development.

With Chen Xu's improvement of steel smelting, the development of flexible steering four-wheeled carriages and bearings and stronger steel axles, land transportation has been greatly improved, and later the creation of sailing ships has greatly improved waterway ship transportation, and now there are large sailing ships that dominate the sea, and the time is fully ripe for the integration of waterway and maritime transportation.

"Okay, good, Taishi's plan is unprecedented, once it is completed, my Great Qin, Southeast, Northwest, and even Lingnan and the princely kingdoms will benefit greatly......"

The First Emperor stroked his hands and praised again and again, not only listening carefully, but his eyes were constantly roaming back and forth on the entire map, and his eyes flashed with extreme surprise.

Chen Xu's huge transportation project almost immediately turned his expectation of dominating the six countries of China into reality.

It was a plan he had dreamed of but had never dared to think of.

Because this huge project has gone far beyond his vision and ideological pattern.

This cannot be said that the First Emperor is not eloquent enough, it can only be said that Chen Xu has occupied the memory advantage of more than 2,000 years of civilization inheritance.

If you want to get rich, build roads first.

The great credit for the rapid rise of China in later generations is the huge road infrastructure, from ordinary highways to highways, from ordinary railways to high-speed railways, later generations of China hit a huge national strength, in just 30 years to build the world's largest highway network and the longest high-speed rail mileage, the convenience of transportation brings the rapid development of the economy, that is a trend that can not be stopped.

And with this experience of the purpose, Chen Xu just implemented it according to the script.

"Zuo Xiang, such a huge project, I don't know how much it will cost?" The Financial Services Department asked tremblingly.

"Yes, with such a huge plan, I'm afraid the amount of money and food spent is also an incomparably huge number!"

"Then ......"

The onlookers of civil and military officials also began to discuss the most realistic issue while they were excited, that is, money.

The current Daqin is completely different from the Daqin a few years ago, starting from the new commercial law, a large number of old laws and regulations have been abandoned or greatly modified under the promotion of Chen Xu, especially various government projects, Chen Xu strives to promote the imperial court to solve it by commercial means, that is, he said to the emperor at the beginning: everything in the world can be paid for business!

The construction of the Eastern Road also allowed the imperial court and the emperor to see the power of commerce, which could indeed greatly reduce the pressure on the imperial court.

At present, all kinds of projects in Daqin, in addition to the beginning of the emperor's construction of the mausoleum and the major water conservancy and transportation projects, most of the projects are actually approved by the imperial court, and then the bidding is solicited, and the merchant receives the order to complete, and the imperial court only issues the project and supervises the payment, under the detailed and strict legal constraints, both the imperial court and the merchant are in accordance with the rules, after all, there is still a left minister squatting above the left phase at all times, and there is a first emperor squatting above the left minister, the first emperor is now obedient to the words of the left minister, so the princes and princes can't hold back after the accident, This also led to the current office atmosphere of the imperial court is very good, and the abuse of power for personal gain, corruption and bribery, self-enrichment, passive sabotage, and even collusion between officials and businessmen to build tofu slag projects will basically not occur.

All subjects in the world are alone, that is, all of them are shrouded in the halo of the emperor.

And the emperor wants to kill people depends on his mood, it doesn't matter whether he is tried or not, once something goes wrong, the royal family will kill him, so all the officials are still very restrained from their desires.

The discussion above the hall slowly fell silent.

Almost all officials, including Feng Quji, Meng Yi and others, turned their heads to look at Chen Xu.

"Hmm, such a huge project must cost a lot of money, can the Taishi have an approximate budget?" Qin Shi Huang also twisted his beard and groaned, and his face slowly calmed down.

"Yes, the minister's estimate is about four billion ......."

"Bang Dang~"

Before Chen Xu's last word 'money' could be exported, a group of princes and princes crowded in front of the map staggered down a large area, and the Finance Department directly knocked over the map and almost rolled onto the chair, even the emperor was shocked, and his fingers tightened and unconsciously tore off a few beards.