Chapter 198: [Zhao'an]
Qin Chi Road is indeed the earliest "national highway" in Chinese history, which was built in the second year of the First Emperor, that is, in 221 BC. After Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, the following year he ordered the construction of a gallop road with Xianyang as the center and leading to all parts of the country.
Among them, there are nine most famous gallop roads, including the Shangjun Road from Gaoling to Shangjun (northern Shaanxi), the Linjin Road through Shanxi through the Yellow River, the Dongfang Road from Hanguguan to Henan, Hebei and Shandong, the Wuguan Road from Shangluo to the southeast, the plank road from Qinling to Sichuan, the Western Road from Longxian to Ningxia and Gansu, and the straight road from Chunhua to Jiuyuan.
Moreover, one of the most famous political achievements of Qin Shi Huang recorded in the history books, "the book is the same text, the car is on the same track", which is also directly related to the gallop and the track, but the world was in chaos at the end of Qin, and the Han dynasty deliberately erased Qin Shi Huang's such political achievements after winning the crown, only highlighting his brutality and harsh government, which is why the mystery was buried.
Of course, Huang Jie's patriarch is also fictional, he can't tell the truth to Sun Xin, he got all this insight from a strange dream, right?
But it was said that Sun Xin was ignorant when he heard it, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Can Yan Qi and Wu Chu come and go the next day?" I...... But it's hard to believe! I heard that Qin Shi Huang was cruel and unkind, and drove hundreds of thousands of people to build the Great Wall, many of them died of evil and disease, and the corpses were thrown into the city foundation as materials, and some women begged their husbands to plead bitterly, resulting in the collapse of the Great Wall. I also heard that ......"
Huang Jie rolled his eyes and said, "The second brother is also a person who has read books, hasn't he ever read "Zuo Biography"? The reason why the martyr cried and caused the collapse of the city was because Qi Liang's wife did not hang, and Qi Liang was the general of Qi State, and he died in battle. Qi Zhuang Gong and Ye saw his wife and wanted to comfort him, but his wife did not hang him with courtesy, so that Zhuang Gong went to his house and hanged him. How did it get to the mouth of the second brother, but it was the people who died and entered the city as the basis, and the woman cried and collapsed? β
Sun Xin listened to Huang Jie's quotation of scriptures and classics, and he also blushed, and said with a forked hand: "Da Lang's top talent, erudite and strong memory, new and teachable!" β
Huang Jie thought about it, then clapped his hands and got up and said, "Okay, I wanted to talk to the second brother about this galloping track, but what kind of Jiang girl cried in the city, so I lost interest." If you don't believe it, after a few days, when the track and the special carriage are made, I will try to see the truth with the second brother. Anyway, the second brother must be an Anqing affair like this, what is the eldest brother going to do? β
Sun Xin also remembered the matter, so he told them all the way from Xishui to kill the Wang Leopard team back to Anqing, and also described in detail the reaction of Wang Qing, the leader of the Broken Stone Army, after Sun Li planted the flag in front of Anqing City, and finally told Sun Li about Sun Li's decision to lead a few people to the direction of Lujiang and Tongcheng, and prepare to follow the official army to observe and stand in formation.
Huang Jie touched his chin with a slight beard stubble and thought about it: "Big brother's idea is good, but it's useless to stare at the officials and soldiers." A few days ago, the palace newspaper sent that the ministers of the court and the central government moved to pacify, but I was afraid that I had already sent a pacification envoy to the south, and this battle was estimated to be unfought. β
When Sun Xin heard this, he also smiled and said: "If you want to be rich, Shoudingxing is selling wine vinegar." If you want to be an official, you will be recruited to kill people and set fires. I inquired with my brother near Anqing, this Wang Qing's family was originally a rich family, only because Wang Qing loves to make guns and sticks, and people are strong and aggressive, the family made money and he found an archer to be the head of the messenger, and now he has rebelled and won the city, and the thief army under his command has broken 10,000 people. β
Huang Jie nodded and smiled: "There was an example in the previous dynasty, but it was just a martial arts position such as Xuanwulang and Baoyilang, and then he was a partial official such as a regimental training envoy, and he should not be willing to do so, I am afraid that he will be willing!" β
After thinking about it, Huang Jie clapped his hands and said: "Second brother, go back to the city to rest, now these four lanes, repaired to Macheng is counted as the first phase, and after the completion of the repair, it can be set as a model, and Professor Hu or cousin Yao Rong will take over to do the second phase of the Macheng to Gwangju, so I can't let go of it in the past few days." When the cultivation is completed, I will also come to make some plans, and the discipline of the eldest brother and the second brother will see this as a good show. β
Sun Xin naturally agreed, so he also beat his horse and turned back to Huangzhou.
After almost five days, he waited for Huang Jie to turn back, and the eighty-two miles of four-car official road from Huangzhou to Macheng was also completed. The original official road is in accordance with the Tang system width of one zhang two feet (3.6 meters), but also inherited the pre-Qin set the "five-foot road" regulation, and the widened road is three zhang two feet (9.6 meters) wide, and the shoulder of the road also extends one foot out to dig out the drainage ditch, the road is based on rammed earth, the middle is paved with three inches thick gravel, and the upper layer is tamped with loess stirring and steaming through the triple soil.
The renovation of this road, the Huangzhou government spent a total of no more than 80,000 pieces of work and tools, which was only more than 6,000 yuan when converted into silver. Moreover, none of the farmers who had encroached on farmland due to the expansion of the road along the way came out to make it difficult, but because they all knew that the government had to use the road widening project to resettle the displaced people in order to provide relief for work, and Huang Jie, who was in charge of the repair project, was also sensible.
Anyway, as long as the displaced people are not allowed to cross the border, the people of Huangzhou can keep most of the crops in the farmland and harvest, which is a great kindness. If not, if the Huangzhou Mansion really does not provide relief to the displaced people, when the displaced people cross the border in large groups, one person only needs to pick up a bunch of millet in the field, and the grain of the farmland near the left thousands of acres will be lost.
Therefore, on the day Huang Jie entered the city, many people from nearby villages helped the old and the young, and came to greet him, Sun Xin crowded in the crowd, and naturally heard the story about Huang Xiucai's "one-man and one-handed relief of the homeless", and Cao Bao in the Cao Zhizhou family who walked with Huang Jie was also said to be a mighty and majestic, martial arts, one person, one bow and one gun, stationed at the head of the city for three days and three nights, and did not take off his clothes and armor to deter the small hero.
If it weren't for Huang Jie's lack of official status now, and he was still in the age of a weak crown, he would have been able to give him an umbrella and a flag for the people. At the beginning, Kou Zhun was just in Qingzhi County, where he had been in the township for a few years, and he was able to get the Wanmin umbrella to fill the faΓ§ade, how could Huang Jie be worse than him.
After entering the city, Huang Jie first went to the Zhizhou Yamen to pay errands, and then went to the county school to take a vacation with Xuezheng before returning home. However, before he sat down, he took out a copy of the newspaper and Sun Xin who came with him, and said in a deep voice: "On May 15, the official family sent Tong Guan and Tan Zhi to be the envoys of the Xuanfu system, and led the forbidden brigade of 50,000 to the south along Yingchang Mansion, Caizhou, and Guangzhou, to encircle Anqing Mansion with the Wuwei Army and destroy the Broken Stone Army in one fell swoop. β
Sun Xin was shocked when he heard this, but he still asked, "Didn't you say that you want to recruit An?" Why did it change to suppression? β
Huang Jie smiled bitterly and said, "Second brother, can't you see that this Tong Guan is coming to Huangzhou?" I'm afraid that he is going to fake the Dao, and it is fake to exterminate the Broken Stone Army, and it is true to recruit An and Huang Jie! β