"It's open!"

The Weishui Bridge was officially opened to traffic, with an order.

Originally, there was only a simple passage bridge on Weishui in the north of Chang'an City, which could only accommodate the passage of light carriages, and it was a one-way street, which was no longer enough to meet the passage of the people of Chang'an City, as well as the transportation of goods, and the Weishui Bridge perfectly solved this problem.

Chang'an Business Travel is both looking forward to and worrying about the opening of the Weishui Bridge, hoping that once the Weishui Bridge is completed, the traffic pattern of Chang'an to the north will be greatly facilitated, and worrying that rumors about bridge tolls have been continuous.

After all, it took the imperial court 200,000 yuan to complete the construction, and the collection of bridge tolls is understandable, but if the bridge toll of the Weishui Bridge is too high, I am afraid that it will immediately change from good governance to tyranny, especially for some poor people, even if the bridge toll is small, it is a heavy burden for them.

When the standard of the bridge toll came, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, manpower is free, according to the carriage charge, although the price of ten cents is expensive, but it is already extremely humane, not to mention that there is only a twenty-year toll period, once the imperial court recovers the cost, the Weishui Bridge will be free immediately, and will not become a tool for the imperial court to collect money, for a while, everyone shouted happy.

The toll is reasonable, coupled with the completion of the brick road construction supporting the Weishui Bridge, taking the Weishui Bridge to the north, not only saving time and effort, removing the cost of carriages and horses and labor, and even more money-saving, suddenly the entire Chang'an City to the north of the business travel heard the wind and moved, and the Weishui Bridge became the best choice.

However, the first group to pass through the Weishui Bridge was not the merchants of Chang'an City, but a group of Hu people's faces, that is, the Turkic people of Chang'an City.

Since Li Shimin agreed to the decision of the Turkic tribes to return to the grassland homeland, the Turks in Chang'an City can be described as ecstatic, although Chang'an City is good, but more people still miss the grassland, and suddenly many Turks are immediately ready to return to the grassland, plus the Weishui Bridge opened today, just to take advantage of the bridge to return.

Of course, those who really want to return are those adults, especially the middle-aged generation of Turkic people who miss the glory of being the king and hegemon in the steppe in the past, while the younger generation of Turks is more nostalgic for the prosperity of Chang'an City, and most of them choose to stay.

Merton looked at the returning Turkic tribes and couldn't help but suddenly realize that this was probably the real reason why Li Shimin came to the Weishui Bridge in person.

It is also a very coincidence that Ashina also wanted to use this bridge to return to the Turkic tribes that day, but unfortunately it was stopped, and now the Turks in Chang'an City have passed through the Weishui Bridge in a grand manner.

"Your Majesty the Heavenly Khan, after the ministers go to settle the Turkic tribes, they will immediately come to serve in front of the tent of the Heavenly Khan." The new Turkic Khan Li Simo knelt respectfully in front of Li Shimin and said.

Li Simo is a smart man, he knows that with the strength of the Turks, it is not enough to gain a foothold in the grassland, and the Turks want to regain their homeland, so they can only rely on the Tang Dynasty.

"After the Turkic tribes go back, they must be careful to guard against Xue Yantuo, I have sent a special envoy to let Xue Yantuo give up the Turkic homeland, I think Xue Yantuo will definitely not be reconciled, once Xue Yantuo's departments have any changes, you can immediately ask for help from the Tang Dynasty." Li Shimin looked at the Turkic tribes, there are few young generations, and he can't help but have a little more confidence in the plan of the outer ten paths that Merton said, of course, the younger generation stays in Chang'an City, and there is no lack of Turkic generals who want to be protons to the Tang Dynasty, after all, if the Turks want to gain a firm foothold in the grassland in the future, they still need the support of the Tang Dynasty, and the family members who stay in Chang'an City are the best proof of loyalty to the Tang Dynasty.

"Thank you for your mercy!" Li Simo's confidence suddenly increased, with the support of Datang, he suddenly increased his confidence in recapturing the Turkic homeland, how strong Datang is He knows in his heart, although Xue Yantuo is strong now, but compared to the Turks ten years ago, it is still much inferior, such a powerful Turk was defeated in the hands of Datang, and Xue Yantuo's defeat has been decided.

"Go ahead!" Li Shimin waved his hand.

"Farewell!" Li Simo got up, stretched out his hand, and the returning Turks set off again, heading towards the north one by one with great expectations.

With the departure of the Turkic tribes, the change of Jiucheng Palace really came to an end, but its impact did not end, but shifted the war from Chang'an City to the grassland, the former grassland overlord returned, and the grassland will rise again.

Li Shimin solved the matter of the grassland, and then focused his attention on the Weishui Bridge again, and looked at Li Yundao: "Li Aiqing's bridge-building skills are superb, and now he is healed, it is really a blessing for the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Yun happily obeyed, building the bridge is the greatest pride of the Xiangfu family, if Li Yun can take charge of the Tang Dynasty bridge repair, it will definitely be twice the result with half the effort.

Zhang Liang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the construction of such a super bridge must involve a lot of interests, although he was moved, but as soon as the emperor opened Chrysostom and handed it over to the Xiangfu family, he could only accept it.

"Your Majesty, now that the Weishui Bridge has been built, from the perspective of Weichen, it is time to start the plan for the Yellow River Bridge." Zhang Liang bowed forward and spoke.

"Yellow River Bridge!"

Suddenly, Li Shimin's breath was stagnant, although the geographical location of the Weishui Bridge is important, but after all, it is driven by Chang'an City, and in terms of traffic arteries alone, compared with the Weishui Bridge and the Yellow River Bridge, it is simply the ratio of fireflies and the moon.

A simple bridge can also be built on the Weishui River, but the Yellow River can not be built at all, only the boat ferry, Fenglingdu is one of the largest Yellow River trading docks, you must know that the cost of the boat ferry can be much higher than a little bridge toll.

Li Yun frowned and said: "The theory of building the Yellow River Bridge has already been completed, but the Weihe Bridge is only 200 zhang after all, but the Yellow River needs to be at least a thousand zhang away, plus the Yellow River is quite deep in silt, and the difficulties that need to be overcome are unknown, and the rush to build the Yellow River Bridge may only be half the effort." Wechen wanted to postpone the construction of the Yellow River Bridge, but first the easy and then the difficult, and built the bridge that also hindered the north and south Huai River. ”

"Huaihe Bridge!" Zhang Liang frowned, although the Huaihe Bridge is also extraordinary, but compared with the meaning of the Yellow River Bridge, it is very different.

"Not bad! The Huai River and the Yellow River are similar to the situation, both are sediment siltation, but its difficulty is much smaller than that of the Yellow River, once the Huai River bridge is built, accumulated in the muddy river bridge construction experience, then the construction of the Yellow River bridge in the future is not a problem. Li Yun said confidently.

"Accurate!" Li Shimin responded, he also knows the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and the investment in the Yellow River Bridge will definitely be larger, so you must be foolproof, and you can try the Huaihe Bridge before you do it again.

"However, in addition to the Huaihe Bridge, the construction of other places similar to Weishui in the world should also be accelerated." Li Shimin added.

Li Yun nodded and said: "Your Majesty rest assured, Weichen has personally cultivated the craftsman of repairing the bridge in the Weishui Bridge, and at present, there are three people who can build a similar Weishui Bridge, and more than ten ink people can build a bridge of more than 100 zhang, plus the application of reinforced concrete, the bridge that has been under 100 zhang will be built as a traditional bridge builder, plus the Yangtze River and the Yellow River can be crossed by boat, Weichen promises that within 50 years, except for the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, all rivers in the world will build bridges, and the carriages and horses will be unimpeded. The bridge over the Yellow River and the Yangtze River will be completed within 100 years, and Datang will no longer have a moat to change the road. ”

Li Shimin's heart was surging suddenly, he just imagined this picture, he couldn't help but be proud, from then on, all roads in the world are paved with brick roads, there are bridges on the rivers, and the traffic is flat.

"I look forward to that day!"

Li Shimin was full of brilliance, and his depressed mood because of the Turkic rebellion was suddenly swept away.