Cai Ji told Cao Shuo about the construction of the three roads.

Cao Shuo asked, "How long will it take to build all three roads?" ”

"There aren't enough people." Cai Ji said: "I even used it for women from nearby villages, and I haven't built much so far." ”

"How many men do you have now?" Cao Shuo asked.

"Count only soldiers or people's husbands and women?" Cai Ji didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

"How many soldiers?" Cao Shuo asked.

"Three thousand." Cai Ji said: "They were all pioneers who had followed the army at the beginning, although these people have withdrawn from the standing army, and they are really good at building bridges and paving roads." ”

"How many husbands and wives are there?" Cao Shuo asked again.

"There are more than 10,000 people, and women can't count them." Cai Ji said: "Sometimes they come, sometimes they don't. When they come, they will receive a copper coin for each person, and if they don't come, of course they will have no money for them. ”

"More than 10,000 people." Cao Shuo said: "It's a lot, why is the road built so slowly?" ”

"There are a lot of people, but the procedures for building roads are too complicated." Cai Ji said: "If it's just the bluestone paved, Gongzi asks to polish the bluestone smoothly, and the splicing can't have too big gaps." In this way, the road will not be easy to repair. ”

"It's just that the rough bluestone is paved on the road, and in the future, the car will be very bumpy." Cao Shuo said: "We build roads not only for the sake of beauty, but also for practicality. ”

"I understand what Childe said." Cai Ji said: "It is precisely because of this that I asked the soldiers and the people to pay attention to polishing. ”

"Where have the roads been built lately?" Cao Shuo asked.

"It's not far outside of Shouchun City." Cai Ji said: "The road has not been built yet, so I didn't pave the road to the gate of Shouchun City first. ”

"Come with me to see it." Cao Shuo stood up and walked towards the door of the study.

"Childe going now?" Cai Ji followed behind him and asked him in surprise.

"Now, of course." Cao Shuo said: "Is it possible to wait until you are not there to go?" ”

Cai Ji didn't ask any more questions, and accompanied Cao Shuo out of the study.

Seeing Cao Shuo walking out, Deng Zhan and Zhu Ao hurriedly greeted him.

Cao Shuo instructed them: "Bring some guards and come with me to see General Cai build the road!" ”

Deng Zhan beckoned some guards and followed Cao Shuo to the outer courtyard.

By the time they reached the gate, the guards had already prepared their horses.

Cao Shuo and the others got on the horse, and Cai Ji said: "Son, the nearest road is at the north gate of Shouchun. ”

"Then go to the North Gate." Cao Shuo shook the reins and went to the north gate.

Several gates in Shouchun City are different.

The south gate faces the main road, the city wall is thin, and the surrounding area is also empty.

And the north gate is close to the side of the mountain, and when the city wall is built, it is also a bend, and only the city gate hole is like a long alley, and it is necessary to go around a good way.

Passing through the city gate hole, Cao Shuo and others came to the outside of the city.

Looking at the mountains not far away, Cao Shuo asked, "How did you build the road under such terrain?" ”

"It's simple." Cai Ji said: "With the help of gentle slope construction, although the road is high and low, as long as the bluestone is polished well, the road is smooth." ”

"Where does the bluestone come from to build the road?" Cao Shuo asked again.

"There are stones everywhere on Palgong Mountain." Cai Ji said: "If the stones here are only used to build roads, I am afraid they will not be used up in a thousand years." ”

"So many?" Cao Shuo said in surprise: "I see that there is a lot of soil on Bagong Mountain. ”

"Childe sees only part of it." Cai Ji said: "Bagong Mountain is a very strange place. ”

"Tell me about it." It has been two or three years since he occupied Shouchun, and although Cao Shuo has also been to Bagong Mountain, he has never carefully studied the scenery and landforms here.

Cai Ji has recently built roads, and his understanding of the situation must be very detailed.

Cao Shuo immediately became interested in what he said.

"The mountain is divided into many hills." Cai Ji said: "Some hills are mostly rocky, while some are mostly mud. Herbs and fairy grasses are everywhere in the mountains here. A few days ago, some mountain people found a Ganoderma lucidum tree that was larger than a horse-drawn cart. ”

"Lingzhi bigger than a horse-drawn carriage?" Cao Shuo smiled: "That's worth a lot of money"

"It's not worth much." Cai Ji said: "It's just a wood lingzhi, if it's a blood lingzhi, as long as it's the size of a clay pot, you can buy three wood lingzhi the size of a carriage." ”

"You know a lot now, and you know what is called Wood Lingzhi and what is Blood Lingzhi." Cao Shuo asked, "Is there any blood lingzhi on Bagong Mountain?" ”

"Absolutely." Cai Ji said: "Someone has dug it up, but they just have to dig graves, and ordinary people will not do that kind of immoral thing."

Speaking of this, Cai Ji suddenly realized that something was wrong.

He dug the grave by hand to dig the grave is a lack of virtue, in order to dig the grave and dig the grave, he specially set up the Faqiu Zhonglang General and Cao Shuo, who touched the gold school captain, I am afraid that he is the ancestor who did the lack of morality

"I'm not talking about the son" Cai Ji said very embarrassedly: "I mean the people dig graves"

"No explanation." Cao Shuo waved his hand: "It's okay if you don't explain, with such an explanation, I feel as if I have done a lot of bad things." ”

Hehe smiled, Cai Ji said: "How could the son let people dig graves and dig graves, that is borrowing money from the dead to save the common people, which is different from tomb robbers digging graves." ”

"Don't talk about that." Cao Shuo asked, "What else is on the mountain?" ”

"It's too much." Cai Ji said: "Only Gongzi can't think of it, and there is no mountain that can't be found." ”

"It's no wonder that a few warlocks chose to do alchemy for Emperor Wu here back then." Cao Shuo said: "It seems that Bagong Mountain is really a place of beauty and wisdom. ”

"Not only herbs, but even scorpions and centipedes have their own mountains." Cai Ji said: "Tangjia Mountain in the south, the mountains are full of scorpions. And the shelf mountain in the north is full of centipedes. It's so strange that there are no scorpions where there are centipedes, and there are no centipedes where there are scorpions. ”

"According to you, where there is soil, there is no stone, and where there is stone, there is no soil?" Cao Shuo asked.

"It's not." Cai Ji said: "Where there are stones, there is also soil, but there are not many. Where there is earth, there are stones, and there are also not many. We found a few rocky hills, and the stones mined there were hard. Although it is more time-consuming to polish, it can be guaranteed to last for thousands of years. ”

"After you say so, the mountains are full of treasures." Cao Shuo said.

"Of course." Cai Ji said: "It's just that the place where we build the road is far away from the stone quarrying mountain, or I'll take my son over to have a look." ”

"The hill in front of your house can be seen at any time." Cao Shuo said: "The key now is to see how far the road you have built is from what I want. ”