Jiang Beiting sat behind the desk and was silent, thinking about how to deal with this matter.

The construction of the galloping road Xianyang has already issued a formal document, 50 steps wide, the roadbed must be tamped with a metal pestle, a tree is planted every three zhang, the center of the roadbed is padd every three feet with a sleeper, two wooden rails are laid on it, the width of the wooden rail is the same width as the axle, which is convenient for horses to pull the car and gallop on it.

In fact, the Chi Road of the Qin Dynasty is almost a mixed road of highways and railways in later generations, and the concept of fifty steps wide is not easy to understand, but it is more intuitive to translate it into 69 meters, which means that all Chi roads must be built 69 meters wide in flat places.

God, if Chen Xu knew this data at this time, it is estimated that he would jump up and urinate Qin Shi Huang's face, what is the concept of Nima 69 meters, and the two-way eight-lane highway in later generations is also up to 40 meters wide, and it would be good if the mountainous area with a complex situation can be built into a four-lane road with a width of no more than 20 meters.

However, Chen Xu obviously didn't know, and he didn't study archaeology in his later life, so he didn't know the scale of the Qin Dynasty's galloping road, and he was still building his small thatched hut in Xiaohe Village at this time.

In fact, the construction of the gallop road is not as complicated as imagined, the so-called policies and countermeasures, the Qin Dynasty's laws and regulations are indeed strict, and the prisoners and slaves are indeed cruel, but the hearts of the people are flesh and blood, no one will really treat the common people under their rule as cattle and horses, and the people are all tired and starved to death. Officials will definitely be punished if they don't collect taxes, so in the construction of roads, various places are constantly shrinking according to the situation.

Moreover, the various ethnic groups in China have been constantly integrating since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, hundreds of small princes fought each other until there were only seven countries left in the late Warring States period, and then the seven countries became one country, and the Zhou Dynasty became the Qin Dynasty, and the whole of China was integrated with each other in this constant war, and the connection between countries became closer and closer, and the roads between cities and cities were naturally more and more smooth.

As the first imperial prime minister in Chinese history, and he learned from Xunzi the art of the king, in addition to the implementation of the art of the Legalist, his knowledge and vision will definitely not be too shallow, all the Chidao is actually just connecting the big cities between the seven countries, and the road actually exists for a long time, but it is just to expand and trim and then tamp, plant trees and pave the tracks.

What's more, the predecessor of Qin Chu Chi Road is Wuguan Road, which has existed since ancient times, and this road is also a strategic place, and Qin's two attacks on Chu were killed from this road, and the road situation is still very good.

Therefore, Jiangbei Pavilion did not have much resistance to the empire to build Chi Road, but he was very worried about choosing this time to start construction, and he knew that the biggest problem in building Chi Road was not to build a roadbed, because those roads already existed, and most of them only needed to be simply expanded and repaired, and the biggest problem was sleepers and rails.

In this era, there are lush primeval forests everywhere, and towering giant trees can be seen everywhere, but if you want to cut down these trees and make them down the mountain, and then cut them into sleepers and wooden rails one by one, it cannot be done by manual labor alone, you must have a large number of more handy and sharp tools, the trees can be carried down the mountain, but you can't always gnaw down with your teeth and then gnaw them into straight and smooth wooden rails of the same size, right?

After thinking for a long time, Jiangbei Pavilion slowly rolled up the bamboo slip and sighed and said: "The orders of His Majesty the Emperor and the county guard cannot be violated, according to the laws of Daqin, delays in the start of construction and delay in completion will be punished, and those who are light will be beheaded, Liu Xiancheng, you pass it on now, and the three elders, Sifu and You Jia of the seven towns and nine towns of Pheasant County will go to the county government to listen to the order in two days!" ”

"Lieutenant Fang, please immediately mobilize the soldiers in the county to prepare, three days later, the official recruitment of servants, all men over the age of fifteen and under the age of sixty must serve, according to the county guard arrangement, I must recruit at least 6,000 people in Pheasant County, if there are those who do not follow, escape, fake sick people......"

"Lord Jiang, this can't be done?" Before Jiang Beiting's words were finished, the county lieutenant Fang Kuan jumped up directly, "Lord Jiang, you just came to Pheasant County, you may not know much about the situation in Pheasant County, according to household registration statistics, there are indeed more than 8,000 households in my Pheasant County, and after two Qin-Chu wars, each time my Pheasant County will inevitably suffer the first impact to recruit a large number of strong men, and the current situation is that Ding is not yet a member, and there are less than 5,000 adult men registered, most of whom are fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys who have only been registered in the last two or three years, where do you let me recruit 6,000 people?" ”

"Then recruit the fourteen or even thirteen-year-old boy husband in, or recruit the healthy woman, anyway, there must be no one less than six thousand, otherwise the county guard will blame him, and you and I will not be able to deal with it!" Jiang Beiting stood up with an unhappy face and said.

"Master Jiang, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy is still a minor, how can he bear such heavy labor, I am afraid that the road will be killed and injured before it is completed, for the sake of the people of Pheasant County, please think twice!" Liu Tong, the county magistrate, jumped a few times, but he couldn't help but bow and salute.

Jiang Beiting sighed, turned around and pointed to a huge snake skin hanging on the wall of the county government's outer hall and asked, "This snake is big?" ”

"Great!" Fang Kuan and Liu Tong didn't know why the county order suddenly asked a question, so they could only nod blankly at the same time.

This snakeskin is green, four feet long, and three feet wide when opened, if it is not dead, it must be a big python that can almost swallow a jackal calf alive.

"Do you know how old the man who killed the serpent was?"

"I don't know~" Fang Kuan and Liu Tong shook their heads together.

"I'll tell you the truth!" Jiang Beiting withdrew his eyes from the snake's skin and looked at the two assistants, "The person who killed this snake is only fourteen years old, and it is the young boy you call a minor naturalized child. ”

"This ...... How is this possible? Fang Kuan and Liu Tong both opened their mouths.

"This is a few days ago when I took office when I passed by the county Beiqinghe Town to buy, hundreds of people can testify, with me to come to the post of the escort can also testify, just into the Pheasant County met such a young hero, at that time made me very emotional, Pheasant County has always been a soldier to rush, the people here are also brave, and the old Chu country is strong and the people are rich, the soldiers are strong, five years ago the Great Qin first attack Chu, under the attack of the Chu army led by the Chu general Xiang Yan, Li Xin and General Wang Jian led the 200,000 Qin army almost annihilated, it can be seen that the Chu people's combat effectiveness is strong……”

Jiang Beiting paused when he said this, sighed slightly, and said, "What I want to say has been understood, have you ever understood!" ”

Understand, Liu Tong and Fang Kuan couldn't understand it in their hearts, what you mean by Jiangbei Pavilion is that we Chu people are a top two, whether they are men, women, or children, they are heroes and heroes, and after making a hard slap, let us Chu people all die of exhaustion and starvation, and then you will be promoted to become rich.

But at this time, the status of the two of them was a big difference from Jiangbei Pavilion, so they naturally didn't dare to say this, so they could only keep their heads down and not speak.