"It turns out that Mr. Bai Niu is talking about Qin Zhidao of Great Qin. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

A scholar stands up, and in this year, the scholar is not necessarily much worse than the historians of later generations.

Therefore, when Chen Jincai said that there was actually a highway in the Qin Dynasty, they remembered the Qin Straight Road.

Qin Zhidao, a cross-era road, may have been paid little attention to in modern times.

But if anyone really understands it, they will find that even after more than 2,000 years of ups and downs, not even a single tree can grow on that road.

Some sections of the road modern can also be very good walking cars, if you talk about quality assurance, this is definitely a warranty 2000 years.

"Building this road, exhausting the people's power of Great Qin, and the death of Great Qin II, in addition to not doing a good job in controlling the place, in fact, it is more that this Qin Straight Road has exhausted the people's power and financial resources of Great Qin."

It was Cai Jing who spoke again, as an old minister, he had controlled the government of the Great Song Dynasty for many years, so when he started talking about Qin Zhidao, he could talk about the things inside.

That's what a person is all about, and he makes a point.

Whether it is controlling the place or Qin Zhidao exhausting the people's power, he is in one sentence.

It shows that this person was not a fluke when he became the master of the Great Song Dynasty before.

"Like Qin Shi Huang, there is also Emperor Yang of Sui.

The Grand Canal he dug was like the Qin Zhidao, which benefited later generations, but at that time it did exhaust the people's power and financial resources.

However, Emperor Yang of Sui was better than Qin Shi Huang, he dug through the Grand Canal, and it was not exhausted until he conquered Goryeo three times that the national fortune was exhausted! ”

What they said, Chen Jin agreed very much, he said that the highway a thousand years ago was Qin Zhidao.

And Qin Zhidao has indeed exhausted Great Qin's national strength.

However, he could let the cavalry go straight to the north from Xianyang, the capital of Qin, in three days.

The trip that used to take two months was shortened to three days and three nights.

According to later investigations, the Qin Empire had 300,000 strong soldiers stationed in northern Xinjiang at that time.

These soldiers need to consume 50 meals a day, of course, this is a modern unit, and the units used in the past should not be these.

Then, if it is from Xianyang to the soldiers in northern Xinjiang, transport military rations.

If you want to transport 50 tons of grain, you have to bring 9,000 tons, which is a staggering number.

Because with the transportation capacity at that time, the grain consumed by the people and livestock on the road was more than a hundred times higher than the grain that needed to be transported to the destination.

Therefore, the Great Qin Empire's construction of this Qin Straight Road is a cross-era initiative, but because he was too anxious, too many people died, and too many financial resources were consumed, dragging down the entire empire!

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty too, the Grand Canal he dug could quickly transport grain from the south to the north by boat.

The later dynasties were very stable, and the strength and stability of the entire empire depended on the transportation of grain from the south to the north.

This Grand Canal has played a big role!

What is better about shipping than land transportation is that there is less grain and grass consumed by livestock, which is a large and large expense.

Basically, after the people who know how to settle the accounts will find that basically 50 or 60 percent of the grain and grass that was originally transported fell into the stomachs of these livestock.

And taking care of these livestock requires people, and people have to eat and drink on the road, and eating and drinking is also consumption!

The combined consumption of livestock and people is already a huge amount!

A very heavy burden.

However, if it is transported by ship, people are astonished to find that a ship can carry a very, very large number of things, several times more than a horse team, and the consumption is surprisingly small.

How many people can be used in a ship?

However, two or three horses need to be taken care of by one person, and if they are transported over long distances, a horse or ox cannot pull much things, not even a cart.

So, shipping is a very, very, very amazing step forward.

The birth of the Grand Canal can be said to be a very thick blood vessel for later dynasties.

This blood vessel is of great significance, and it belongs to something like the Dinghai God Needle.

However, the sad thing is that both Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Yang of Sui were criticized by later generations of scholars because of these costly projects.

Why?

It is because of the huge cost of national strength and the suffering of the common people!

It is also a phenomenon and a manifestation of being in a hurry.

It should be that whether it was Qin Shi Huang who built the Qin Straight Road or Emperor Yang of Sui who dug the Grand Canal, they did not let the participants get much benefit, but instead got suffering and death.

"If you can get wealth by building that Qin Straight Road, you can also get a lot of wealth by digging that Grand Canal.

If everyone benefites, there will be no suffering! ”

"It's hard to imagine that after 900 years, building a highway will not get any benefits, and it will cause suffering to the common people."

"It's even harder to imagine that building a canal channel would bring an emperor a reputation for brutality.

Unbelievable! ”

"You know, after 900 years, there is a saying that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

Whether it is by water or land, it is necessary for the circulation of wealth. ”

"Building a Qin straight road from Xianyang to northern Xinjiang is not an unaffordable thing for the country.

If Qin Zhidao is contracted to some wealthy families or wealthy businessmen, they will not be forced to serve the people because they don't have that power, they will only pay money.

In this way, the people who build the road will not come out to do day work, but can get paid, which is the rights and interests that the road construction brings to the people who participate, or the benefits!

And those wealthy businessmen who have contracted the straight section cannot be apportioned, but only voluntarily.

If they can pay such a huge fortune in exchange, it must be even greater wealth!

In the northern part of Xinjiang, there is a large amount of fur horn and beef tendon on the grassland, and the most important thing is that there is a large amount of meat there.

As long as you master how to make jerky.

They can use some necessities to get what they want from the Huns in the northern Xinjiang!

This is a right to do business, and it also allows them to build a toll booth on a section of the highway they have built.

Charge some reasonable fee for how many years to pay for the return of the road repair.

These are the riches that the road building brought to the rich merchants.

Like digging the Grand Canal, it's as simple as setting up a card on the river.

As long as the rich merchant contracted that section of the river was dug up to meet the specifications, it was a canal.

He is eligible to charge for as many years as he digs the section of the river.

This is the wealth that comes from digging rivers, much the same.

Anyway, these projects will bring great benefits to the country.

It is necessary to do it, but it is just the way to do it, if it is not right, it will bring great harm to the people, and if it is done in the right way, it will bring great wealth to the people. ”

Chen Jincai shook his head and sighed when he said this: "In the original history, in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years later, there was a man named Zheng He, who was also such a tragic figure.

He, like Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Yang of Sui, is a cup lying on the table! ”