Chapter 196: Building the Road First

"Yes!"

Zhu Gao clapped his hands and said: "Although I am a corrupt official and corrupt official, the Zhao official family is arrogant and lascivious, and I don't know the suffering of the people...... But no matter how bad the Great Song is, it is not something that a female barbarian can be humiliated, and the Great Song Dynasty will be destroyed in ten years? Hey! As long as Grandpa Zhu is still there at that time, he will not be called Ruyi! ”

Zhang He and Hu Ren both echoed, but they heard a creak, and everyone saw that it was Yang Zongbao who flattened the copper cup in his hand to drink water, and they all knew that he couldn't hide his temperament, and he had always slapped the table or hit the bench, but now he was angry with the cup, Zhang He smiled and said to him: "Zongbao, how are you?" ”

Yang Zongbao gritted his teeth and said: "Zong Baoding followed the brothers of the family to kill the barbarian son Bao Da Song!" ”

Zhang He said with a smile: "It's good to kill the barbarian to protect the Great Song, but you shouldn't take the copper cup to vent your anger, this is the kind of field thing that Da Lang made for me, and it can't be in vain Da Lang's thoughts." ”

"This thing is called field equipment!" Sun Li smiled and said: "What Brother Zhang He said is that now that he has said it thoroughly, he expects everyone to help Da Lang and do this!" ”

Everyone said hello, but Yang Zongbao looked suspicious and asked: "Brother Sun, Zongbao has something unclear, if such a major event is true, why do we have to prepare it in private, why don't you report it to the imperial court?" ”

As soon as he said this, Zhu Gao, Zhang He, and Hu Ren were all stunned, and all kinds of thoughts flashed in their minds, but Sun Xin said: "This kind of thing, you Zongbao can be trusted, and Zhao Guan's family can also be trusted?" I'm afraid that if I really don't believe it at that time, it's better to say, what if it cures a sin of deceiving the people with a fallacy? ”

A few people thought about it, although the current Zhao Guanjia believes in Taoism, but if he really said to him, there will be female barbarian chieftains who will destroy the Great Song Dynasty in the future, he believes it, but what will happen if he doesn't believe it? Even if he didn't dare to take such a risk, Huang Jie is still dragging his family with him, both old and young, and he can't easily mess around.

Zhang Yiyi patted his thigh and said: "It's a pity that I only walk in the north and south of the Yangtze River, I don't know the news of Liaodong, I heard Brother Sun say that this Qingdao chief has not turned back in recent years, but I am afraid that there will be many twists and turns in the assassination." ”

Hu Ren also said: "The plan now is only to wait, I don't know what Brother Sun should do next?" ”

Sun Lidao: "Naturally, I went to Lujiang or Tongcheng to take a look at the lineup of the officers and soldiers, secretly peeked at the battle between the broken stone army and the official army, and learned some means of marching and fighting." I don't hide it from you, although my grandson's family is from the Western Army, but my brother has never experienced a battle array, although I have read a lot of war books and strategies, but now it can only be regarded as a paper soldier. ”

"Haha! Brother Sun, where is this, you teach children to learn literature and martial arts at home, but I can see it in my eyes, how can it be regarded as a piece of paper. Zhang He laughed when he heard this, and then compared himself and said: "My old Zhang is just a private school, and the elder brother of the Zhu family has read two more scriptures than me at most, how are you, Brother Hu?" Have you ever read a war book? ”

Hu Ren also smiled and said: "Brothers, don't be ashamed to kill the younger brother, Mengxue has read for a few years, but I have written a few articles for sale, but I have no chance to see the book of soldiers." This Zong Bao is a descendant of the Yang family, I'm afraid he has also read the book of war, right? ”

Yang Zongbao's face turned red when he heard this, and he said: "My father likes martial arts, although I have studied private school for six years, but I am not the material for reading, but I have read a few military books, but now I generally don't remember them." ”

Zhang He said: "In this way, Brother Sun's family is the most knowledgeable, even so, I still have to watch the official army fight formation to learn some means, how dare I make excuses, naturally go with me!" ”

Sun Li nodded and said: "In this way, I will rest on the spot for a day today, and tomorrow the second brother will return to Huangzhou to report the matter with Dalang, and I will go to Lujiang with Brother Zhu Gao, Brother Zhang He, Brother Hu Ren, and Brother Zongbao." ”

After the decision was made, everyone rested on their own, and the next morning they split into two roads, and Sun Xin naturally took the horse and turned back to Huangzhou.

This Anqing Mansion to Huangzhou, the official road is less than 500 miles, if it is 600 miles to expedite the military post naturally does not take a day, although Sun Xin is in a hurry to catch up with the horse, but it is inevitable to stay overnight day and night, rest the horse and eat, so it took two and a half days to go to Huangzhou.

Because he had already built a property in Huangzhou City and settled down, he naturally entered the city without hindrance, but he couldn't find Huang Jie, and after asking, he learned that he had asked Yao Zheng to supervise the road administration, and now he is leading a team of 4,000 people to repair and widen the official road from Huangzhou to Gwangju in the north.

Sun Xin didn't stop breathing, and after going home and changing horses, he looked for Huang Jie along the road, and sure enough, he found Huang Jie on the official road near Macheng more than 60 miles away from the city.

At this time, Macheng is only eighty miles away from Huangzhou, and the place of governance is the former site of Yangcheng County in the third year of Tang Wude (620 AD). In later generations, the county seat was located in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, and the new city built by Jiang Ming and others.

And the county town has been relocated many times due to war, such as the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1131~1162 AD), Macheng is the northern boundary of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the third year of Duanping (1236 AD), the county seat was once moved to Shizi Mountain (80 miles east of the county seat), and the county government moved back to the ancient city from Shizi Mountain to the Yuan Dynasty.

When Sun Xin arrived, he happened to see Huang Jie leading 100 people to move a huge hillstone (bluestone) from the side of the road to the side of the road with logs, only to see 70 or 80 people pulling the rope, and 30 or 40 people hugging a half-foot diameter log to lay on the ground in front of the stone, and it took a while to translate dozens of zhang away.

In the distance of the main road, sure enough, thousands of people went out to work, only to see that the near places were all rammed earth to level the ground, and the farther ones were digging ditches and planting trees on the side of the road, and they were not visible even further.

When the boulder arrived at the site of the site, he saw Huang Jie carrying a wooden barrel to the stone, lifting a broom stained with black ink from the barrel and writing on the stone.

When he had finished writing, a stonemason took the chisel and began to carve it, and the people who had just pulled the boulder did not rest, and each untied the rope and the tools and went out to work.

Sun Xin hurriedly led the horse to the side and said to Huang Jie: "Da Lang, what does it mean to build a road if you want to get rich first?" ”

"The second brother turned back?" Huang Jie threw away the broom, hurriedly came to greet Sun Xin, and when he saw him asking, he smiled and said: "The second brother came from Huangzhou, but do you feel that the official road under your feet is different from before?" ”

Sun Xin thought for a while and said: "It's no different, but I just feel a lot more spacious and there is less dust on the road. ”

Huang Jie said with a smile: "The road that this person and horse can walk on is called a road." The way on which the ox-carts, the donkey carts, and the horse-drawn carts traveled, was called the driveway. The original official road can run two carriages in parallel, the second brother said what should be called the feasible road for these two cars? ”

Sun Xin tilted his head to think about it, shook his head and said, "I can't tell." ”

Huang Jie replied with a smile: "It's called a dual carriageway!" Now that I have built this new road, four carriages can be used in parallel, and the second brother thinks about what it should be called. ”

Sun Xin didn't feel anything difficult to think about, and replied when he opened his mouth: "Could it be ...... Called a four-lane? ”

"Ahh Huang Jie laughed and pointed to the ground and explained: "In fact, we have a lot of trade with Gwangju, in addition to the annual two taxes escort, summer and autumn official grain relief, and regular closing adjustment, the common people and merchants have to rely on this road to travel from north to south, merchants to carry goods, this road is well repaired, it is convenient to drive, and it is easier for the people and merchants to get rich." ”