"With enough steel, urban construction can be further developed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Liberalism is what we need. Shang Wen continued.

"The Qin State needs cities, you can look at the entire Western Regions, as well as the Hexi Corridor, the Northern Region." Shang Wen stood up and took the pen and gestured on the map.

"In these areas, there are no big cities at all, and the population is not concentrated enough. It's a very bad situation for us. Shang Wen said to Meng Yi.

"The next step is for the government to selectively establish some cities in areas where railways converge and trade is developed, so that the Qin State can be regarded as completely controlling these areas." Shang Wen said to Meng Yi.

"Hmm." Meng Yi nodded and agreed with Shang Wen's idea, Shang Wen had such an idea before, and now such an idea is more certain, but it's right to think about it, Shang Wen's idea is a little ahead. However, as more and more conditions matured for the development of the Qin state, this allowed the Qin state to begin to have the conditions for building large-scale cities. Shang Wen also thought this way when such conditions were met.

"To build a city, we still have to wait and see, after all, there are still some conditions that are not mature, and when they are mature, it is when we popularize them on a large scale." Meng Yi said to Shang Wen.

"Yes, first of all, railway construction must keep up with the pace of the times." Shang Wen nodded in agreement.

And in the southern frontier of the Western Regions of the Qin State. On the construction site of the United Railroad Company.

"Your railroad project isn't going very fast." Wang Zhao looked worriedly at the people from the Western Regions in the company who were working. Although these people have worked hard. But in the face of huge engineering projects. Such a pull is still not enough.

"There's no way around it. There are too few people. Although the material is sufficient. However, this man is too small. I can't speed up without anyone. Li Ming said embarrassedly. He is the main supervisor on the construction site. Although he personally only sleeps four hours a day, he has a lot of work. If you count the mileage, it will be more than 7,000 miles. But with only 7,000 slaves and more than 1,500 railroad workers, he was powerless in the face of such a large engineering project.

"Oh. This is not good, this railway construction is related to national defense construction, and if you don't speed up the progress of the project, we will not be able to strengthen our defense. Wang Zhao said.

"Sir, we also know this, but unfortunately, we are very understaffed now, and the chief should know this better than us. Moreover, this slave is a consumable, and if one dies, it cannot be replenished by the other. Li Ming said.

"We can't replenish manpower, and the project schedule is very tight. I can't help it. Li Ming said.

"It's annoying to hear it." Wang Zhao shook his head and said.

"Alright. Listen up. Slaves will have it, but you have to speed up the progress of your project, otherwise, it will not be beneficial to anyone, you repair it as soon as possible, and you don't have to worry about slaves. Wang Zhao said.

"So, can I ignore the slaves in my hands?" Li Ming asked. His question was actually a way to speed up the project.

There are some engineering supervisors like him, I heard that they also have a certain number of slaves in their hands, but they finish faster, the reason is that they do not hesitate to slaves, the slaves are divided into three shifts to take turns to repair, although it is said that the three shifts take turns, but the time point of overtime is very much, such as when the two shifts are handed over, the previous shift will have to work for an extra hour and a half, so that the speed of the project has suddenly accelerated a lot. And slaves simply did not have time to rest. Overtime has become the norm. And such engineering intensity is very costly for slaves. Many slaves were exhausted to death. Many slaves died of exhaustion while laying the railroad tracks. And there are a lot of such things. The consumption of slaves was very large, but it was not replenished, and although the speed of the work was much faster, the further it went, the slower the speed of the work. The reason is naturally that the consumption of slaves is very large, and the workers recruited from the Wei and Chu countries. Their labor intensity did not dare to increase, because they had the nature of labor immigrants, and they were protected by the laws of the Qin State. The intensity of work is not raised at all.

"Hmm. Possibly. I don't know how long it will take for those slaves to arrive, but I think within a year, it should be able to solve some problems. Wang Zhao said.

"Oh." Li Ming didn't get the answer he wanted, and he didn't dare to work overtime indiscriminately. Other people can do this on the construction site, but the speed has slowed down a lot in the later stage. He didn't want to see such a pace drag on, so he didn't dare to do it.

"I know you're the slowest of all the engineering teams." Wang Zhao said to Li Ming at this time.

"It's good that you cherish the labor in your hands, and the idea may be right, but don't forget it. The weather here is special, and the weather here is much colder than in the mainland. I'm just reminding you that this is the Western Regions. Once the weather is frozen, construction cannot be carried out. Although the death of a slave will slow down, your progress will be accelerated, as for the slaves. I think there will be many solutions. Just wish you could think about the progress of the project. Wang Zhao said to Li Ming.

"Yes, sir. I'll speed it up. Li Ming nodded in acknowledgement.

"Good. Very good, that's easy to say. Wang Zhao nodded.

"I hope I can see a railway built to Yueshi as soon as possible. In that case, you will have plenty of slaves. Wang Zhao said with a smile. Then he got on his horse and went to inspect the next construction site.

"Whew." Li Ming exhaled at this time.

"Zhang Shun." Li Ming shouted loudly.

"Zhang Shun, Zhang Shun, hurry up and come out for me." Li Ming shouted a little anxiously.

"It's coming. Here comes the head. I'm coming. Hearing his boss's loud shout, Zhang Shun quickly ran to Li Ming.

"Head. What's the matter? At this time, Zhang Shun asked with a smile.

"From today onwards, work overtime, regardless of the life or death of slaves, the speed must be accelerated." Li Ming ordered.

"Ahh But. Zhang Shun hesitated.

"Leave it alone. There are a lot of slaves, and someone will add them to us when the time comes, do you still worry about these? Li Ming asked dissatisfiedly at this time.

"Good. Head, I see. I started working overtime to increase the speed. Zhang Shun nodded. Although there were some things that he didn't understand, Zhang Shun decided to speed up the process, after all, the main person in charge here was him Li Ming, not himself.