After the end of the imperial examination, there was some confusion in the circle of Chinese scholars in Guangzhou City, and there were frequent incidents of cutting robes and breaking righteousness.

The reason for the occurrence of the matter of cutting robes and severing righteousness is very simple, some literati and scholars in the same circle criticized the People's Army together, and then they signed up for the People's Army's imperial examination, and now it is directly exposed.

If the Tao is different, it is normal to cut the robe and break the righteousness.

The imperial examination is the main topic of discussion among Chinese scholars in Guangzhou City at present, and soon, a matter about "roads" has become a new topic.

Recently, on the north side of Guangzhou, the People's Military Government closed a section of the road to others, saying it wanted to build a road.

Building roads is a normal thing, but the construction of roads by the People's Army has made many people strange.

Under normal circumstances, there are only a few ways to build roads:

The simplest is a dirt road, and then the dirt road is flattened, as people step on it, the road will become potholes, and puddles will appear on rainy days, plus mud, step on a foot, shoes and clothes will be stained by muddy water, most of the roads in the city and ordinary roads outside the city and some official roads are such dirt roads;

The second kind of road is to pave a layer of small stones on the first contact, such a stone road can resist some rain, but the rain will bury the road surface, and the stone road will have no effect, part of the official road is this kind of stone road, and there are also families with little wealth will pave stone roads;

The third is the masonry road, or with the fired bricks, or with the quarried stone after a certain treatment, the masonry laid on the ground also becomes a masonry road, walking on the masonry road does not need to worry about the problem of muddy water, the road in the mansion of large households, some city gate areas, imperial cities and other places, are brick and stone roads.

Obviously, dirt roads are the easiest to repair, and masonry roads are the most labor-intensive and material-intensive, and the roads newly built by the People's Army are very different from dirt roads, gravel roads, and masonry roads, and the roads built by the People's Army are called cement roads.

Cement factories outside Guangzhou have begun to produce cement on a large scale, and there are currently three main uses for cement: one is to build hydraulic facilities, one is to build houses, and the other is to build roads.

A cement plant has been established in Guangzhou City, Fang Nan has ordered cement plants to be built in various cities, and the technicians of the Ministry of Industry have taken action, and the cement plant is more suitable for providing cement nearby, and it is more troublesome to transport cement over long distances, after all, a large amount of cement is needed to build roads and water conservancy facilities.

The original official roads in Guangdong were all dirt roads and gravel roads, and it happened that the cement factory had already produced cement on a large scale, so Fang Nan ordered the deployment of manpower and material resources to start building cement roads to replace dirt roads and gravel roads.

Cement roads are not just made of cement, they need to be mixed with cement, sand, and pebbles before they can be used for paving.

In fact, it is also possible to add no pebbles, but only the cement road built by mixing cement and sand may be a little smooth, if there is some water on the cement road, it is easy for people to fall, add pebbles to increase the friction of the cement road, and reduce the cost of road repair, stabilize the road and other effects.

In addition, the cement road will be built with a low side and a slightly higher middle, so that on rainy days, the rainwater will flow to both sides and will not leave water on the road.

Because of the difference of the cement road, it has attracted the attention of some people, who do not know how the cement road built by the People's Army is different from other roads, and this will not be known until the first cement road is built.

Compared with the official road, although Guangzhou City is a big city, most of the roads in the city are dirt roads, and it stands to reason that cement roads should be built in Guangzhou City first, but Fang Nan gave up after thinking about it carefully, because Fang Nan thought of the future Guangzhou City.

As the current seat of the central government of the People's Army, the People's Army will definitely focus on the development of Guangzhou City, with the emergence of cement, there will even be more than four high-rise buildings in the city of Guangzhou in the future, and finally Guangzhou City will become a modern city.

Nowadays, many places in Guangzhou City are planned very unreasonably, some roads are more spacious, some roads are narrow, and the most important thing is that facilities such as sewage canals, which will be more troublesome in the process of rebuilding from the old city to the modern city.

Compared with the reconstruction of the current Guangzhou City, Fang Nan wants to build a new Guangzhou City next to the Guangzhou City, and the old Guangzhou City will become part of the new Guangzhou City.

Under such circumstances, Fang Nan suspended the construction of cement roads in the city of Guangzhou.

The new Guangzhou City is already being designed, and Fang Nan is personally involved in it, and there are even many facilities in the design drawings that the designers of the Ministry of Engineering do not understand.

In this regard, Fang Nan just smiled and said, "You will know later." ”

The new Guangzhou City (not counting the old city) occupies twice the area of the current Guangzhou City, and there is still a direction for future expansion.

Even if the new city is the same size as the old city, and with more high-rise buildings, the new city can accommodate much more people than the old city, but there will be many factories built in the new city, and factories will use up a lot of the new city.

Guangzhou City is not suitable as an industrial city, Foshan is more suitable as an industrial city, but in the era of industrial infancy, factories can only be established in densely populated cities.

There are also a large number of illiterate people in Guangzhou, illiterate, can only do some hard work, when the factory work becomes the best choice, only when basic education is popularized, the situation will change, then the factory will move from the city, or to the suburbs, or to other industrial cities.

In the modern era of the industrial revolution in Western countries, the wealth of the countries is increasing, the wealth of the capitalists is increasing, the wealth of the workers is increasing very little, and the environment of the cities is rapidly deteriorating because of the fog of the factories.

Workers working in factories are not safe, and they are very vulnerable to mechanical injuries and disabilities.

"Taking history as a mirror", Fang Nan never thought that the rule of the People's Army would become like that of modern Western countries, and for the sake of money, the group of capitalists oppressed the workers too severely.

A strong government is the most crucial thing, and more importantly, everything in the current development under the rule of the People's Army is led by the People's Army and rules are formulated, and the People's Army is willing to play with some businessmen, then these businessmen must obey the orders of the People's Army, and all those who dare to violate the rules formulated by the People's Army will be severely punished.

The development of industry is important, but people's lives are also important, and the environment is equally important, and Fang Nan will lead the People's Military Government to try to find a balance.

It should be noted that the development of industry does not necessarily mean the emergence of steam engines, but also the development of steel mills, cement factories, glass factories, shipyards, and other factories.