Chapter 54: Making the Impossible Possible
How to make more reasonable use of the people's power in his hands, Pei Min has been thinking about this issue recently!
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Now Longyou is the most indispensable is labor, after more than three months of repair, the key several main roads, the expansion of the expansion, the rest of the rest. The local clogged canals should be dredged and dredged.
Not to mention that all of them have been completed, at least the key and important places have been repaired and sorted out.
As for some small places that can't be taken care of, Pei Min doesn't plan to arrange manpower to take care of them for the time being.
After all, that was the business of the local county magistrate and village officials, and there was no need to use this labor indiscriminately.
How to arrange this next, how to use these labors to bring the greatest convenience to Longyou, Pei Min has several plans in his heart.
However, he wants to hear what the grassroots people mean, and his subjective plan is to benefit the people, but whether it can solve the people's needs is more unknown.
There is a good saying, "If you don't make decisions for the people, it's better to go home and sell sweet potatoes."
Now Pei Min is the number one leader in the military and government of Longyou, and it is a matter of course to think about the people, and solving the urgent needs of the people is what he should do.
Now when he heard the people's voice of "opening Longshan Mountain and repairing Wusheling Mountain", Pei Min was immediately dumbfounded.
The seven words "open Longshan and repair Wusheling Mountain" are simple to say, but it is difficult to do!
Longshan is the boundary mountain of the Loess Plateau of Guanzhong and the Loess Plateau of Longxi, and the watershed of the Wei River and the Jing River, with twists and turns and steep. The main peak mountain is thousands of zhang high, the average altitude is higher than Helan Mountain, there is a poem that describes the Longshan Mountain as "the mountain is high Taihua 3,000 zhang, and the danger is 200 heavy in Qinguan".
If you want to open Longshan, it is not easy to talk about.
As for Wusheling Ridge, it is even more difficult.
Wusheling is the natural boundary between the Longzhong Plateau and the Hexi Corridor, where the climate is severe and cold, and there is the saying of "flying snow in midsummer, cold air and bones", and it is known all over the world for its steep mountain and dangerous terrain.
Longshan, Pei Min just looked at it from afar, what was it, he couldn't say.
But he had climbed it himself, and not so long ago.
From Liangzhou to Shanzhou, Wusheling is the only way.
At that time, Pei Min still felt that Wusheling was like a giant dragon, with its head in the west and tail in the east, high in the west and low in the east, covered in clouds and fog, meandering, particularly spectacular, and even issued a sigh of resisting 100,000 soldiers with one army.
How easy is it to repair Wusheling Ridge?
Seeing that Pei Min didn't speak, Yuan Luqian was also speechless for a while.
Pei Min turned out the topographic map of Longyou from the desk, looked at Longshan Mountain and Wusheling Ridge on the map, and read the seven words "Open Longshan and repair Wusheling Mountain" in his heart, and the more he read it, the more he felt that it was imperative.
If Longyou wants to develop and become an important economic lifeline like Liangzhou, Longshan must be opened, and Wusheling must also be repaired!
It all stems from the four words "Silk Road"!
The Silk Road began during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when Zhang Qian hollowed out the Western Regions, opening up the passage between the Western Han Dynasty and the Western Regions.
After nearly a thousand years of development, especially in the early Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin defeated the Eastern Turks and Tuyuhun, destroyed Gaochang, and surrendered to the south and north of the desert. His son Gaozong Li Zhi destroyed the Western Turks and set up two protectorates in Anxi and Beiting, which made the Tang Dynasty control the sovereignty of the Western Regions and became the world's most developed and powerful country at that time, and the level of economic and cultural development was at the peak of the world. Through the Silk Road, the East and the West took the Great Food Empire as a bridge, and both the official and non-governmental organizations carried out comprehensive and friendly exchanges.
This trade road also has another proud name for the Chinese people, called "Towering Khan Road".
Because of the rapid development of the Silk Road, the Silk Road has brought unpredictable economic effects to Datang, and it is not an exaggeration to call it the lifeblood of the national economy.
Liangzhou was originally a remote and barren place, because of the Silk Road, it developed into the third largest economic center of the Tang Dynasty, and Liangzhou Guzang has become an existence that can be compared with Chang'an and Luoyang.
Longyou is also the only way to go through the Silk Road, but the impact is far less than that of Liangzhou.
The reason for this lies in the two places of Longshan and Wusheling in the final analysis.
Pei Min looked at Longshan and Wusheling and said, "I think what the people want is reasonable!" ”
Yuan Luqian Xian has made sufficient preparations, and said solemnly: "The Western Regions Trade Route starts from Chang'an and goes to Dunhuang, which we call the eastern route, and there are three roads to go, commonly known as the northern route, the southern route, and the middle line. The northern line is from Chang'an, along the Wei River to Yu County, through Huang County, over Liupan Mountain Guyuan and Haiyuan, along the Zuli River, in Jingyuan across the Yellow River to Guzang. The southern line is from Chang'an, along the Wei River through Longguan, Shangtai, Didao, Caohan, from Yongjing to cross the Yellow River, through Xining, the more big Doutugu to Zhangye. The middle line and the south line diverge in Shangqi, cross Longshan, go to Jincheng County, cross the Yellow River, trace the Zhuanglang River, and turn over the Wusheling to Guzang. ”
"This northern route is the route of the Han Dynasty, and there are almost no supplies along the way, and few people take it. Although the supply conditions of the southern route are good, the detour is longer, and most of the caravans are mainly on the middle route, followed by the southern route. However, the middle line of Longshan, Wusheling has brought great disadvantages to the caravan, deeply affected the development of Longyou, if Longshan opens, Wusheling can be repaired, then Liangzhou's wealth will pour into Longyou, and the wealth of Guanzhong will also pour into Longyou, Longyou will benefit greatly, become not inferior to the existence of Liangzhou. ”
"It's not all!" Pei Min looked at the map with burning eyes and said: "The smoothness of this middle route can stimulate the prosperity of the trade route to a greater extent." At that time, it will not only benefit Longyou, but also have great benefits for Liangzhou and Datang. All kinds of commercial tariffs have to be increased by several percent, to say the least. ”
Yuan Luqian sighed: "That's what I said, but it's too difficult to act. With the solidity of Longshan and the danger of Wusheling Mountain, if it were not for the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of people, it would take years to achieve it. Moreover, during the period of repairing and opening the mountain, the middle line trade route will inevitably be affected, which is not good for the country. The project is too large, there are too many unknown obstacles, and the failure may be too high. If it is easy to say if it succeeds, if it fails, it will cost people and money, and it may even destroy itself. In the face of such an unknown possibility, why did the imperial court agree to the policy of opening Longshan Mountain and repairing Wusheling Mountain? Being able to stabilize the medium-term business and maintain the current interests is a great choice. As for the long-term impact, it is better to seek a change than to seek stability. ”
Pei Min made Yuan Luqian a little speechless, and muttered for a while again, looking at the map, wanting to give up, but thinking of the people's requirements, his heart moved, and said: "In fact, if we can complete it within a year, in this year, let the caravan go to the southern route for a while, it will be exchanged for a long-term future." Whether it is in Datang, Liangzhou or Longyou, this kind of effort is worth it. ”
Yuan Luqian's face changed drastically and said: "In a year, it is impossible to do it." Brother Jingyuan must not follow Yang Guang's example and force the people to rush to work, causing terrible consequences. ”
Pei Min said with a smile: "Where does Brother Luqian want to go, I'm just thinking that if you can open the mountain and crack the rock, the construction period will be greatly reduced, and the impossible will become possible." ”