"Build a road?" Yu Wenkai looked at the emperor with a surprised expression, this was Wang Mang's idea for Yu Wenkai with a move, but this idea was a little unreliable in Yu Wenkai's opinion.

"That's right, it's to build roads. Wang Mang nodded and said, "I heard that the roads in the capital are in disrepair, and you said that it is useless to recruit a large number of craftsmen and strong men, so I think I can repair and widen the roads in the capital!"

"But Your Majesty, the road in our capital is already very wide. Yu Wenkai looked at Wang Mang, and said in his heart, I am afraid that he saw it when he was wandering around.

"Then it's wider. Wang Mang said: "What I want is not only the width of the road in the capital, but also the width of the road from the capital to all parts of the country." ”

"This ......" Yu Wenkai looked at Wang Mang with a long mouth, and from Wang Mang's words, Yu Wenkai saw an incomparably huge project.

Yu Wenkai's mind kept coming up with these words, and these words were all summaries of the reasons for the fall of the previous dynasty, and the emperor seemed to be a little ...... Yu Wenkai didn't dare to think about it.

As if seeing the reluctance on Yu Wenkai's face, Wang Mang spoke: "There is a sage who once said: If you want to get rich, build roads first, have fewer children and more trees, uh...... Everyone ignores the latter sentence, but the first sentence must be paid attention to. ”

"Your Majesty, our road is sufficient, and we don't need to repair it. Yuwen Kai said: "Wechen has investigated and investigated, and our road is counted among all countries in the world. ”

"Then what do you say these laborers are not used for building roads?" Wang Mang frowned and said: "You give me a solution, and you said that our road is good, right, but why can't so many big cars run when the road is good?"

"It's not that our roads are bad, it's that the size of the vehicles varies from place to place. Yu Wenkai explained: "Now the size of the vehicles used in various places is different, the capital is a place where businessmen gather, there are many vehicles from other places, so you can see vehicles in various places in the capital, there are some vehicles in the capital can not go, but these cars can go in their local area." ”

Listening to Yu Wenkai's explanation, six words suddenly appeared in Wang Mang's mind: "The book is the same text, and the car is on the same track." After a long time, the world car has not yet been on the same track?

The situation that Yuwenkai said was that the car did not have the same track, Wang Mang frowned and said: "Listening to you say this, I understand a little, but why are the vehicles in various places not on the same track?"

"On the same track?" Yu Wenkai smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, not to mention how big the world is, just say that we have more than a hundred cities in Daqin, each city has already repaired the road when it was first established, and the width of their road determines the size of their car, more than a hundred cities, how is it possible to unify the style of vehicles?"

"I don't believe there is anything in the world that can't be done. Wang Mang said in a loud voice: "Ministers, we are sitting here today, for the sake of the country's prosperity and for the sake of future generations, can we give up our efforts and go with the flow because of a small setback?"

"Your Majesty......" Yu Wenkai smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, the ministers don't think things are embarrassing, they just feel that they are unnecessary, they have been like this for so many years." ”

"Then I ask you. Wang Mang said: "Do you think that if the vehicles and roads in various places are the same standard, it will not be beneficial?"

"This ......," Yu Wenkai said.

Lin Guodong stood up and said: "Your Majesty, this Yuwen may not know much about it, but Weichen, as Jing Zhaoyin, still has some say in this matter, everyone knows that the food in the capital is transferred from other places, but because the vehicles in the capital do not match the roads in the capital, they can't get in, so the vehicles entering Beijing all have to be unloaded in the thirty miles away from the capital, and then stack the goods on the vehicles in the capital to enter Beijing, which is quite troublesome, and Weichen has also thought of many ways, but the effect is not good." ”

After a pause, Lin Guodong continued: "Today, I heard Your Majesty say that the size of the vehicle is unified, and the length and width of the road are unified, and Wechen has found the root cause. ”

Weichen also felt that it would be a great thing if the style could be unified. Wang Yongji said at this time: "You don't know, the vehicles used by the military department to transport goods to the front line are all transferred from the capital, but the vehicles in the capital are good around the capital, once they go far, every two hundred miles out of the capital, they have to change the vehicles, mainly because the length and width of the road are different, if you can really unify the road and vehicle style, not to mention anything else, just say that now it will be at least three days faster than now to send supplies from the capital to the southern counterinsurgency front, on the battlefield, the wind and clouds are changing, every minute is different, let alone three days." ”

After Wang Yongji and Lin Guodong finished speaking, the hundreds of officials in the court appeared one after another, and they all told them about their own yamen or their own benefits.

As a result, as the atmosphere of the imperial court became more and more enthusiastic, there were more and more voices that felt that the unified standards of vehicles and roads were being heard.

Looking at everything in front of him, Wang Mang blinked his eyes, and secretly said that he was not good at doing the same thing as the Emperor of the Ages, and he had to play a "car on the same track".

But why do you say that the car is on the same track? Isn't it said that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads?

Seeing the ministers talking to each other, Wang Mang coughed and said, "Everyone, we will discuss the matter of unified standards for roads and vehicles later, and now let's talk about the craftsman Zhuangding that Yuwen Shangshu said." ”

"Weichen thinks there is something to say, there are more roads in the capital that have not been repaired, and the people in the Ministry of Industry work harder, and take the strong men to run more and repair more roads. ”

"First repair the road paved from the capital to thirty miles, that road is a little uneven now. ”

"The roads to the surrounding districts of the capital must be repaired, so that we can go out to run errands faster. ”

"Lord Yuwen, anyway, what is not repaired by your Ministry of Industry, fortunately, the road will be repaired!"

Yu Wenkai listened to the buzzing sound in his ears and knew that building the road was already imperative, so he arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, the minister will take the order!"

"Not only to receive this life, but also to think about the future, after all, the future may one day be the same all roads and vehicles in the world, and the roads you build now should not only look at the present, but also look at the future. Wang Mang explained.

"The minister understands, His Majesty Xie instructed. Yu Wenkai nodded, Wang Mang didn't say this, he also understood, he was engaged in technology, and he thought that technology was the most advanced productive force in his heart, and he could see how much of a role it would play in the allocation of resources if the roads and vehicles were unified one day.

It's just that...... How long and wide will this road be, and where will the money come from?