Chapter 429

"That's a lot of money, isn't it?" Wang Yang couldn't help but smash his tongue. Wang Yang remembered that it would cost 120,000 yuan to build the Royal Street, and to build a road that was three zhang wide and more than 1,200 miles long, they would have to use five armies, that is, more than 12,500 people.

I'm afraid that the money spent will be enough for two or three hundred thousand. Wang Yang remembered very well that those courtiers were crying poor every day, and even to maintain and renovate the royal street, Gao Tao knew it with affection and reason, which made the household department nod and agree to transfer the funds.

"Naturally, there are a lot, and I have also seen the share they presented to the imperial grandmother, and it takes about 260,000 yuan."

"There is no difficulty on the part of the household department, saying that it is for the sake of the people of the world, and they will definitely try to raise enough money and food for the Ministry of Industry to build this important road." Speaking of this, Zhao Xu couldn't help but smile coldly.

"It is said that it is for the people of the world, according to my opinion, they are afraid that they will not be able to see Wang Wushan, your credit is too great, so they simply take the initiative to take this job first, not to mention that with your experience, as long as you do what you do, they will do it, using so much labor, there will really be no big problem in two years."

Wang Yang didn't expect that those guys would be so ruthless, and directly engage in a trick to draw salaries, originally Wang Yang was going to turn the prison into an infrastructure maniac, and engaged Bianliang to engage in Chang'an, and engaged Chang'an to engage in the frontier.

The cement straight road appeared on the land of China more than 1,000 years in advance, but now, their side has just begun to hit the road, so the Ministry of Industry has jumped out of a posture of wanting to see righteousness and courage, but do they think they can do it?

Don't forget, it was you who invented cement, and you were the first to apply cement to buildings, and they can only make political achievements at most.

The important thing is that they used the van soldiers to do this, which coincided with Wang Yang's own ideas.

"Your Majesty, don't you think this is a good thing?"

"Huh? Why did Mr. Wushan say this? Zhao Xu was standing on Wang Yang's side, complaining wildly about those important ministers of the old party, but he didn't expect Wang Yang to come up with such a sentence, which really caught people off guard.

"Your Majesty, you think, my Great Song Dynasty has three drawbacks, redundant officials, redundant soldiers, redundant expenses, and the reform of the military system, when Emperor Shenzong was there, also thought about doing it, but unfortunately it has not been possible, but I don't want to, these old party members, poured a precedent for reforming the military system......"

“…… You mean, they turned the soldiers into servitude? Zhao Xu was stunned, and soon came back to his senses, yes, isn't this the truth?

The box soldiers were originally the most important part of the bloated and lacking combat effectiveness of the Great Song Dynasty, and in the past, the father and emperor always wanted to change, but they have not been able to find a suitable way.

But now, Wang Yang used the box soldiers of the first army here, and that Ning Shangshu needed to move the box soldiers of the fifth army, although it seemed that there were not many of them.

However, using them to build roads is tantamount to converting their military pay into wages, and there is no need to spend additional money to hire craftsmen.

"And in the future, road maintenance, as well as construction and garrisoning post stations, can be done by these soldiers, in addition, if we can build the main roads of my Great Song Dynasty into this kind of solid cement road, then there are still a lot of good things that Weichen can give to Your Majesty."

"What is it, sir?" Zhao Ji couldn't help but ask.

"Eight-wheeled carriage." After Wang Yang glanced at Zhao Ji, he thought about it and explained. "An eight-wheeled carriage can be drawn by four horses, and if it travels on a cement straight, it will be no problem to run more than 200 miles a day. It was more than enough to carry fifty travelers with luggage, and if you could change horses and coachmen along the way, it would be possible to travel four or five hundred miles a day. ”

"Doesn't that mean that it only takes three days to get from Tokyo to Saikyo?" Zhao Ji couldn't help but gasp.

"Well, for example, from Kaifeng to Pingxia City, it is about more than 2,000 miles, if it is replaced with this kind of cement straight road that is difficult to invade by rain and will not be muddy, if there is a warning signal, it will be a four-day scene, and you can send a large army to Pingxia City......"

Hiss...... In the private room of the restaurant, there was a complete sound of gasping, and everyone looked at Wang Yang in front of them with an expression of disbelief, as if this guy was releasing a blue whale in the sea to the sky.

Xu Zhao...... You are familiar with the art of war, and you have a family history, so you can tell us what you think. Zhao Xu moved his neck a little stiffly, and said to a guard standing behind him.

This guard, Xu Zhao, who was violently beaten by Wang Yang on the royal street, is currently serving as the right pandianzhi, that is, the guard next to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, Pingxia City to Chang'an is about 800 miles, and Chang'an to Kaifeng is about 1,200 miles, if according to Lord Wang's words, the carriage can travel four or five hundred miles a day, and in four or five days, it can be rushed. However, if a carriage can only carry 50 people, if 10,000 troops are transferred, how many carriages will be needed? ”

Xu Zhao's gaze fell on Wang Yang's body, and he said with a bit of provocation. "At least two hundred vehicles are needed, and if it weren't for wartime, wouldn't these vehicles be empty, which would be a complete waste of the court's taxes."

For example, in the past, merchants who wanted to sell goods from Chang'an to Kaifeng either took a boat for ten days, or traveled for almost twenty days."

"And on this way, the time has been delayed for so long, maybe the business opportunity has already been missed, or it is an important matter, and if it can only take four or five days, you can rush from Chang'an to Bianliang to do business, and make more than ten days of money, if it were you, what would you choose?"

Wang Yang spoke unhurriedly, but directly said that Xu Zhao was dumbfounded and speechless.

"Two hundred cars seems to be a lot, but in fact, it's not much, do you want to put two hundred cars on a cement straight road one or two thousand miles long, I'm afraid you won't see one for ten miles, a lot?"

“…… That's not much. ”

"What's that, it's just that Weichen is a little worried, according to the ancestral family law, there will be problems with four horses and a car...... Because it doesn't seem to be in line with the ancestral ......," Wang Yang glanced at Zhao Xu, who was shining brightly, and then smiled dryly.

After Zhao Xu thought about it, he pouted: "Could it be that if those old parties do the first year of junior high school, I can't do the fifteenth?" Mr. Wushan, this matter will be handed over to the general as a supervisor, you first make an eight-wheeled carriage and let me see if it is really as you said, on this cement straight, you can gallop like the wind. ”

Wang Yang opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say much, yes, since the Son of Heaven likes it, then do it, anyway, there are countless inventions and creations in his head, Edison can have one or two thousand inventions in his life, why don't you have this excellent time-traveling person?

To be honest, the eight-wheeled carriage, this thing is really not a difficult thing, at least for Wang Yang, it is just an ordinary physical component problem.

And what he cares more about is not these things, these things that can improve the production and living standards of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, just create them and give them to others to promote, and what he really wants to do is to establish an industrial system that can make the gap between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization far wider.

Only by allowing the agricultural civilization to enter the advanced gunpowder age, then can the nomadic civilization be truly left far behind, and there is no longer any need to be afraid of the iron hooves of those nomadic civilizations.

It's a pity that Zhao Xu can't take power yet, and now he is thrown in the prison to be responsible for renovating the toilet ditch, as for Gao Taotao, although the old lady seems to be very kind, but in fact, she is also a standard old-fashioned.