In addition to the hypothetical bridge between Xiangyang and Fancheng, Li Bao also had other ideas, the new Xiangyang City took Shannan Dongdaolou and Zhaomingtai as the center point of the cross street, and then expanded Xiangyang City to the northeast corner to form an additional small city, and built a bridge at the narrowest point of the Han River in the northeast corner.

The construction of the bridge refers to the type of stone arch bridge, and at the same time, the experience of building small bridges on the moat at the gate on all sides of Yangyang is accumulated, and when the technology is mature, the large bridge over the Han River is built.

In order to increase the success rate of building large bridges, Li Baofelt that he would teach Zhang Chengye the reinforced concrete method of later generations. At this time, the cement fired in Weizhou was very coarse cement, but it was much better than most building materials at that time.

It is the cities under the rule of Li Bao, especially Weizhou, which have long been indestructible after the processing of cement concrete, at least with the siege weapons of Datang today, their attack power on the city of Weizhou has been reduced a lot.

It is because Li Bao is confident that he will use the existing financial and material resources of Weizhou to build a high-level capital. Of course, the Fancheng side cannot be pulled down, and the urban area of Fancheng proposed by Li Bao should be expanded by three times, and the total area of the urban area will reach more than 40 square kilometers.

In the future, the urban area of Xiangyang will be the royal capital and the residential area of the nobles of the new empire, as well as the center of commerce, while Fancheng will be a civilian area and a sub-commercial center.

Before the bridge was built, it was temporarily carried out in the form of barges, and the walls of the two cities were strengthened. As the capital, we must put the construction of the castle first.

The use of the latest building materials and construction methods, and Weizhou has been building aggressively in the past few years, is a rapid development of construction technology. Especially for the new type of cement, it saves a lot of manpower for the construction craftsmen in Weizhou. In addition, the black fire/medicine invented by Li Bao has provided a huge boost to the production of cement in Weizhou.

In recent years, Weizhou's cement production has increased rapidly year by year, and now it can produce 300,000 stone of cement per year, and this industry has produced great economic benefits. The merchants of Weizhou sold cement to the Western Regions, and this miraculous building adhesive was greatly welcomed by Sogdian merchants in the Western Regions, who came to Weizhou to negotiate the distribution of cement.

Zhang Chengye immediately made this situation clear to Li Bao, and after Li Bao learned of the situation, he immediately approved that the cement could be sold, but the production process must be kept secret, and the price was always 100 catties.

Upon learning of this price, the Sogdian merchants immediately agreed, and they discussed with the officials of Weizhou to sign an exclusive cooperation agreement, but the shrewd Zhang Chengye immediately refused.

However, the Sogdians were promised that as long as they came to buy it, they could be given special discounts, such as buying more than 10,000 catties of cement, and giving them an extra 1,000 catties of cement, and other people who came to buy them would not enjoy such discounts.

At the same time, Weizhou also provided paid escort services for Sogdian merchants, and the business of the Longmen Dart Bureau was even more popular because of the hot sale of cement.

Since Li Bao decided to increase cement production, there are many mountains around Xiangyang, such as Wanshan and Da Xian Mountain, which can be used as raw material sources.

Moreover, the soil and water conservation of Xiangyang has always been good, and the surrounding forests are relatively lush, so it is also a good choice to build the capital here.

Of course, Li Bao planned Xiangyang in this way, another reason is that Li Bao wants to develop the navigation industry, in this era when all countries in the world are relatively blind, he, as a prophet, sent people to find Latin America as soon as possible, and carried out early colonial activities, and will definitely occupy more fertile and fertile land and people for the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, the Arabs only dominate on land, but the maritime trade is only between Asia and Africa, and the Indian Ocean is the strongest. East Asia reached the Tang Dynasty, and the flourishing of maritime trade in Guangzhou was the result of the gathering of Arabs.

Since the traverser has such an advantageous condition at this time, Li Bao must take advantage of it, Xiangyang is not far from the Yangtze River, and there is the Han River as a channel, it is very convenient to use the advantages of the Yangtze River waterway to develop water transportation, and the grain and wealth in the south of the Yangtze River can be easily transported, and there is no need to transport a large amount of food and wealth to the Guanzhong area, which will consume great manpower and material resources.

In addition, as Xiangyang on the Han River, the connection with Xingyuan Shuzhong is also closer, and at the same time, Xiangyang can greatly travel in all directions, without worrying about being threatened by the alien race that rises in the future. Not to mention the pain of losing clouds and having no strategic barrier like the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty.

In addition, the construction of the passage city pass around Xiangyang has also been included in Li Bao's planning, Xiangyang is located in the middle of the country, extending in all directions, but in order to maintain the safety of the new capital, Li Bao also has to pay attention to the checkpoints around it.

In his planning map, he also specially strengthened the construction of the surrounding city passes, such as going north to Nanyang and then northeast to the Fangcheng passage between Tongbai Mountain and Funiu Mountain, which must be guarded by heavy troops; To the northwest, Shangluo and Wuguan had to build large gates.

However, as the capital, Xiangyang and Fancheng must be taken as a whole, and Nanyang to the north of Xiangyang is also a key, and Xiangyang is a very standard place for four wars. Jianghan in the south, Hankou and Xinyang in the east, Central Plains and Luoyang in the north, and Chang'an and Hanzhong in the west. The areas where major events have occurred in China can always have something to do with Xiangyang. Xiangyang and Nanyang are both in the Nanyang Basin and have the same status in the basin.

With the changes of history, the status of some regions will change, but the status of Nanyang area has always been very important. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Fangcheng Mountain and Hanshui in the Nanyang Basin were originally the national defense hazards that the Chu State relied on to fight against the northern princes.

During the Warring States Period, after Qin captured the Nanyang Basin according to Wuguan, it became an advance base for Qin and Chu. At the end of Qin, Liu Bang went to Nanyang and Renwu Pass, and took the lead in entering the customs. During the Chu-Han War, the two sides held each other in the Chenggao area, and the situation of the Han army was tight.

During the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of the Western Han Dynasty, some people also proposed that the Jianghan Dynasty should move to Wuguan and enter the attack. When Wang Mang was in power, Liu Bosheng and Liu Xiu brothers started in Nanyang, and in the battle of Kunyang, they broke Wang Mang's main force.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the county of Guandong Prefecture raised troops against Dong Zhuo, and Cao Cao proposed that Yuan Shu lead the army of Nanyang, Tundan, Xi, and Bawuguan, and Zhen Sanfu. After Cao Cao pacified the north, he slightly took Jingzhou, that is, from the south to Xiangyang. After the three-legged situation was initially formed, Guan Yu tried to attack Xiangyang to tend to Wan and Luo.

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Huan Wen Northern Expedition, first from Xiangyang Wuguan, entered Bashang, and shook Guanzhong; Later, he marched north from Xiangyang, defeated Yao Xiang of the Qiang people on the north bank of Yishui, and recovered Luoyang. Liu Yu's northern expedition to Qin, from Jingxiang's northward army into Nanyang, the army divided into two routes: all the way to Yiluo to attack Luoyang from the south, all the way to Wuguan to contain the Qin army in Guanzhong, and cooperate with the frontal attack at Tongguan.

Liu Song and Yuanjia's Northern Expedition also followed Liu Yu's old rut, sent troops from Xiangyang to the north through Nanyang, and attacked Hongnong and Tongguan in the Sanchuan River Valley. Soon after Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved his capital to Luoyang, he repeatedly personally commanded troops to capture Nanyang and advance to Xiangyang. During the confrontation between the Eastern and Western Wei, Gao Huan of the Eastern Wei sent an army to attack the Wuguan from Nanyang in the three-way attack.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Cang seized Nanyang. Tang defeated Zhu Cang, and thus went south to pacify Xiao Mill, who had seized Jingzhou. When Song and Jin confronted each other, Yue Fei went north from Xiangyang. Recovering Yingchang, Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places. When Emperor Jin Hailing invaded the south, Wu Gong first stuck to Xiangyang, and then went north from Xiangyang, launched a counteroffensive to Henan, and regained Xincai, Caizhou, Dengzhou and other places to contain the Jin soldiers who invaded south from the direction of the Huai River. Mongolia Taps Gold. Tuo Lei led the army from the Southern Song Dynasty to borrow the road, and went out of Nanyang from Hanzhong to Bianjing.

When the Mongols attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, the Middle Route Army often went down from Nanyang to Jingxiang, and later did not hesitate to attack Xiangyang in five years to shake the foundation of the Southern Song Dynasty's national defense.

From the perspective of the overall situation, the Nanyang Basin has the characteristics of east-west extension and north-south convergence. Whether it is in the north-south dispute or the east-west dispute, Nanyang is at the forefront of its confrontation.

During the confrontation between the north and the south, the military defense line between the south and the north usually extends from the mouth of the Yangtze River in the southeast to the southeast of Gansu, and Xiangyang in the southern part of the Nanyang Basin is in the position of the connecting hub of this long defense line.

The two important towns of Xiangyang and Nanyang represent the confrontation and stalemate between the interests of the north and the south in this region. The rivalry between the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties between Nanyang and Xiangyang typically reflects the position of the Changnanyang Basin in the north-south relationship. When the north and the south confronted each other, the north and the south often shared the Nanyang basin according to Xiangyang and Nanyang.

However, throughout the ages, Nanyang and Xiangyang have always been divided and resettled by successive rulers, which is a typical example of "divide and rule". Hubei has Xiangyang Koukou, but Dengzhou and Xinye in the north belong to Nanyang; Henan controls Nanyang and most of the Nanyang Basin, but the Han River falls in Xiangyang.

Several passages in the Nanyang Basin, Hubei and Henan each have half of them. Hubei wants to be independent, it can't block Shangluo, Luoyang and Fangcheng roads, and the Central Plains army can continue to go south through Nanyang.

Henan wants to be independent, but Xiangyang in the south is not under its control, and the troops of Suizhou, Jingzhou and even Hanzhong can attack Nanyang at any time, like a mang on his back. It means that no one can control the entire Nanyang Basin, let alone close all the doors.

It is because Xiangyang and Nanyang are clamping each other, and now Li Bao plans to use Xiangyang as the capital, so he is bound to hold Nanyang firmly in his hands.

In this way, the Nanyang Basin area will accumulate a large number of soldiers and Dingkou, and Li Bao intends to emulate the story of the Northern Song Dynasty and shock the world with the majesty of the capital.

At the same time, Li Bao was very concerned about commercial exchanges, and he wanted his empire to vigorously develop commerce in the future, so he chose Xiangyang, which was well-connected in all directions, as the capital. However, if he wants to prosper in business, he must make the road traffic smoother, so he must make great efforts to develop the cement industry.

The cement industry is a labor-intensive industry that requires a large amount of manpower, so Li Bao instructed his subordinates to focus on capturing prisoners in the future, and not to kill them as usual.

Li Jian worked hard for a long time, and finally explained his thoughts and main points clearly, Zhang Chengye and the others all fell into deep thought, after all, with such a large amount of information, they had to digest it well.

As a representative of high-level officials in Weizhou, Zhang Chengye Jingxiang has gradually learned to look at things from an economic and macro perspective after following Li Bao over the years. Li Bao's foresight represents the future and the development trend for a long time, although they are rare elites in this era, but the limitations of the times make it impossible for them to see too far.

But past experience made them believe that Li Bao had a super strategic vision and the strength to strategize, and since Li Bao insisted, they had no reason to object, because they were still Li Bao's subordinates.

Li Bao solicited their opinions and explained his thoughts in detail, this is an excellent superior character, they are very grateful to Li Bao, it is Li Bao who pulled them out of the humble time, and now they have become a strong person that everyone should pay attention to.

But they themselves knew that without Li Bao, they didn't know how many detours they would have to take, and they still didn't know whether they would be able to reach such heights.

However, thinking of the difficulties of building a new capital in the future, Zhang Chengye and Jing Xiang couldn't help but have a little headache, but Yang Yinyue was very relaxed, and he was still immersed in the dream of leaving a name in history, he was not concerned about how many difficulties there were in front of him, but about the glorious style after the completion of the new capital in the future, and his name would be engraved with the construction of the new capital.

Xu Wenqiang has already gone from respect to worship for Li Bao, and he completely agrees with his vision of Li Bao, and only needs Li Bao to give him orders.

Li Bao saw that the time was almost up, and he said to Zhang Chengye again: "The matter of Xindu, here for the time being, next I will arrange for Mrs. Liang and Mrs. Liang of Shanhe Society to come to Xiangyang to assist you, and at the same time, they will also start the investment promotion work in Xiangyang City, and many yamen, Shanhe Society headquarters, Xinglong Qianzhuang, etc. of the Northwest Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Weizhou City will move to Xiangyang." ”

In this way, it can bring a lot of popularity and attention to Xiangyang in the short term. At the same time, I will give Chang'an a chapter as soon as possible, merge Shannan West Road and Shannan East Province into Shannan Province, and make Xiangyang and Fancheng the capitals of Shannan Province, and let Yang Shi and Zheng Xiang show me as the envoy of Shannan Province.

At that time, I will arrange for Xinglong Qianzhuang to issue a batch of bonds for the construction of Xiangyang, which will be open to all the people under our rule, as well as other feudal towns.

Hearing this, Zhang Chengye felt a lot more settled, if he could issue bonds, then Weizhou would not have so much financial pressure in the early stage, and at the same time, he could accumulate enough start-up capital for the construction of Xiangyang.

Then everyone discussed some issues about the construction of the Xindu Neifang District in the future, and Li Bao specially pointed out that there is no longer a fence in the Xindu Lifang, and at the same time, the commercial wine shops and other living facilities in the Lifang will be opened on a preferential basis.

At the same time, Li Bao also has some ideas that that the curfew is open, and the curfew relaxation in the city at the end of the late Tang Dynasty has almost become a secret that is not open, but in Chang'an and other big cities are still strictly implementing the curfew policy, as a traverser with the mentality of the market economy in later generations, Li Bao really can't tolerate the curfew policy, so he added all his ideas when he planned the new capital.

Zhang Chengye and others have followed Li Bao for a long time, because they are also accustomed to Li Bao's ideas and ideas, and they all agree with it.

At this point, the Xindu planning seminar has been completed, and the rest is to operate the above things, Li Bao looked at the relaxed expressions of his subordinates, but his mind did not relax, now the time is too tight, and he sometimes has the idea of not waiting, because at this time Datang is still in the quagmire of war and cannot extricate himself.