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492 Cars and Roads (Down)

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"Dong Weng, just such a road, it can be seen that these short ambitions are not small."

The staff master next to him has also been staring at the inscription, and the thoughts of the readers are always similar, and the master actually came to a conclusion similar to Shi Kefa. And his Dong Weng was speechless - Shi Kefa's loyalty to the Ming Empire was incomparable, and if he learned that there was such a group of people in other circumstances, what they did would threaten the future of the Ming Dynasty, and he would definitely pounce on it and bite it. But at this time, in addition to being nervous, there was also a faint hint of excitement in his subconscious......

――Will this road opened up by the short period also point out the future direction for the Ming Dynasty?

Shi Kefa stood in place and sank for a long time, Wang Shishi had already paid the fee, and he couldn't bear to wait for a long time, so he asked the little follower to come over and urge, and the group hurriedly got in the car and continued to move forward.

Before leaving, Shi Kefa glanced at the end of the stone tablet again, and the last paragraph was the reason for the toll - the cost of this road project was too high, although the Qionghai Trading Company had advanced the funds, but after all, it could not fully bear it. After the completion of the main road project, the follow-up pavement maintenance, greening management, and the addition of various auxiliary facilities such as drainage ditches and street trees will also continue to be invested, so it will be put into use in the form of toll roads. The proceeds are used to pay for routine maintenance personnel and to repay the advances borrowed for the construction of the roads on an annual basis.

The charging rules are also clearly written above: only for vehicles, free for pedestrians. Trucks are charged according to their weight, and finally there is a limit of 20 years to the charging year.

After reading this inscription, Shi Kefa felt that the three words "toll station" were not very dazzling. It makes sense to think about it -- the whole road is so clean, with green trees on both sides, and the green turf on the middle road is always luxuriant, it is obviously impossible to say that it is not managed by a special person, but if a group of people are arranged to do this kind of thing, they must ensure their livelihood, and where will the money and food come from to support them? No matter how rich the government is, it is impossible to continue to lose money like this.

Moreover, with the difficulty of paving this highway, the grade is high, and although the cost is not specified on the inscription, Shi Kefa, a Confucian scholar of the Ming Dynasty who has no understanding of engineering and economy, can also guess that it must be an astronomical amount. It is not easy for the short trading firm to lend such a large sum of money to build the road at one time, and it is not easy to recover the money after 20 years, and it is unrealistic to say that they are completely free to give away, even passers-by like Shi Kefa, who have nothing to do with it.

However, he thought that it would be a good idea to borrow money to repair the road, and to repay the fee, if Da Ming could do the same...... But the thought was fleeting. Not to mention that it is impossible for a wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty to be willing to lend a sum of money for decades. Even if the money was really borrowed, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to use it for road construction - so many victims had to be relieved every year, so many arrears had to be repaid, and there were still large tracts of lost land outside the customs waiting to be recovered...... There are so many things that are more important than just a road.

But...... If there is really such a high-grade highway in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, what a huge impact it will have on the government! -- It is also about the same distance, if the road in front of us is not built on the remote and remote Hainan Island, but between Jingshi and Tianjin Wei, the Cao Yun, which has always caused headaches to the imperial court, will be completely changed to Haicao at once, and there will be no longer the suffering of food shortage.

Or if it is transferred between Beijing and Dezhou, the price of grain in the capital can drop by at least three or four percent in the summer and summer every year. And if the Ming Dynasty and the thirteen provinces can be connected by this kind of road......

Shi Kefa shook his head vigorously, feeling that he was probably delusional - even if he was short, he didn't have the ability, at least not now.

"Unless they have the ...... of the world"

The future scholar of Nanming Dongge, the last of the four towns of Daming, suddenly muttered such a sentence in his mouth, but he immediately covered his mouth in a bit of panic and looked around - fortunately, no one noticed his gaffe. The little attendant was chatting with Wang Shishi warmly, and the always meticulous staff master next to him was also frowning, not knowing what he was thinking.

"What are you thinking?"

In order to avoid being seen as flawed, Scofaso first opened his mouth to ask a question, and the staff member was stunned for a moment, and then arched his hand:

"Dong Weng, the students are just wondering: why is there a title written in the pen of the head of the people, 'Inscription on the reconstruction of the Western Expressway', and is there a road similar to this before? It's impossible to think about it. ”

Shi Kefa was stunned, and he replied without thinking about it:

"Of course it can't be...... It's absolutely impossible! ”

The two of them summed up for a while, and they couldn't guess why the commander-in-chief Ying Rongwei wrote this. Master Jian said that since Mr. Ying only greeted you this morning, he must not refuse people thousands of miles away, so just go and ask directly? Looking at these short writing habits, most of them are straightforward, and there may be unexpected gains.

But Shi Kefa thought about it and forgot it, after all, he didn't know anyone well. And it's not a big deal, maybe it's just a clerical error. Rather than being confused about the inscription, Shi Kefa was more concerned about how much the car costed. He asked Xiao Shi, who gave him the number that surprised him slightly:

"Only a dozen copper coins? That's not too expensive, isn't it? ”

When the little stone heard this, he cried out:

"My lord, how far have we come! Besides, we are a light car that carries people, and we don't make money by freight, but just according to the fixed amount of jiā, and there are many of those large trucks. And there is more than one toll station along the way, all of them are collected according to the road section, we go on the road from the villa halfway, but we have to pay according to the whole section of the road, and we have suffered a big loss - the short rules are the worst, when do you say that our Ming road has a toll? ”

Shi Kefa couldn't help but laugh - he had been in contact with Xiao Shi for so long, and this was the first time he had heard the word "We Da Ming" from his mouth. I often hear how "we Qiongzhou" is...... At this time, I remembered that Da Ming was coming.

"In that case, if someone is going to a place that happens to be in the same road as the place of departure, wouldn't there be no need for jiā money?"

After listening to Wang Shishi's words, Shi Kefa thought of a lot of leaks in terms of fees, and heyed:

"Yes, there aren't many people with such good luck."

"Then if someone gets to the place where the fee is about to be charged, but goes around the side, can't they also escape the fee?"

The master next to him suddenly said with interest, but Xiao Shi shook his head:

"How is it possible, didn't you see that the station was by the river, but the bridge still swam over...... Other stations are also selected in the critical place, either the bridge or the pass, pedestrians can probably go around, and the car is cut off to get around. Feasible people don't need jiā money, so why bother to take a detour. ”

"What about hard breaks? Rush over! ”

The little follower next to him clenched his fists and shouted, looking afraid that the world would not look good, but Wang Shishi glanced at him with some disdain:

"It's a bad idea - these toll booths also double as checkpoints and outposts, don't look at the loose ones now, it's too peaceful. If someone commits an offense, or if there is an invasion by a foreign enemy, a sentry will immediately come out and inspect the vehicle. Those soldiers all use firearms, and no matter how fast the chariots and horses run, they can't be faster than the firecrackers! ”

When he said this, Wang Shishi suddenly nodded:

"Come to think of it, there is at least one benefit to the storage of these toll booths."

"Huh?"

"There is no one to cut the path on the road anymore, because it is too short to do this job. Those who dare to steal business from the short-term government will definitely not end well, hehe......"

Listening to Xiao Shi's angry words, Shi Kefa and his master both smiled relatively bitterly - they were really born in happiness and didn't know how to be blessed. Speaking of fees, this kid was too young to forget when he came: In fact, there are many states, counties, and military towns in Daming that block the road and set up cards on official roads, so they still take money for nothing. If anyone could build such a road, I am afraid that the money collected would be more than ten times more than here.

…………

As we get closer to the city, there are more and more vehicles on the road. They are fast and slow, but they move in an orderly manner, and the road is always clear.

Shi Kefa and the others had already listened to the teacher explain to them the rules of "walking on the right" during class, and they just thought it was quite new at the time. At this time, we can see the application of the jiātong rule in practice, and understand how important this rule is: pedestrians walk on the far right, that is, on the outside; Then there were cars of normal speed like theirs, with an inside lane for four-horse express and overtaking...... In the middle, separated by a road covered with smooth turf, is the lane that comes from the opposite side, and according to the same rules, clear and unambiguous

Of course, this also has to do with the fact that managers with armbands and small red flags can often be seen along the way, and all drivers have to obey the instructions of those managers. The little attendant once asked curiously what would happen if he didn't listen to the instructions of those little red flags, but Wang Shishi pointed to a set of numbers that were drawn on the back of the butt of each car, which was a combination of the heavenly and earthly branches and numbers:

"See this? This is called a license plate, and every car is different, and you can't go on the road without it. If someone doesn't obey the order, or bumps into someone, or causes some other trouble. Everyone can find the owner of the car with the license plate, and at least they will lose money, or they will be detained, and if they are worse, they will be lost in the coal mine and reformed through labor......"

"Huh? Isn't that man's cart on the road without this brand? ”

The little follower didn't believe it, Shi Kefa and the others also felt that this was a bit unbelievable, Wang Shishi shook his head with a smile:

"Of course not, this is mainly to limit the big cars that can hit and injure people. Generally, the speed of the trolley pushed and pulled by manpower is not fast at all, and of course there is no need to be licensed. ”RA！ ~！

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