Chapter 138 "The Soldier"
The group talked and laughed, and the originally boring journey became vivid.
The dirt-paved road is potholed, but fortunately it is winter, and if it is the rainy season, I am afraid that this road will not be able to pass.
"If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. The road is so dilapidated and pothole-ridden that even if it could produce food, it would be far from the outside. If a place wants to develop, the first thing is to have a good road to the outside world, so that the two places can do business and go back and forth, and the more people who flow, will drive economic development. Resting on one's laurels will only make people's thinking more and more outdated, and make the development of cities more and more backward. Therefore, our first priority is to build a smooth and spacious road to the outside world. "Walking quietly on a bumpy road, speaking to others what is in your heart.
"An An is right, before the war, this place was also very barren, every harvest season, because the road is muddy and difficult to walk, the game in the mountains, the output in the field, none of which can be transported, over the years, the road is becoming more and more difficult, and the people here are getting poorer and poorer." Looking back on previous years, Xiao Qifeng agreed with what Jing Jing said about the idea of building roads first if you want to get rich.
"Yes, Princess, you don't know? There are many timbers in this mountain, and the game and wild fruits in the mountains are even more diverse, but because of this broken road, even if there are many things harvested, they can't be transported, and they can't be turned into money, and gradually, no one has cut down the timber on the mountain, and no one has hunted the game in the mountains, and the wild fruits are even more rotten, and the people here are getting poorer and poorer. "Changming has been here with Xiao Qifeng for a long time, and he knows a lot about the situation here.
"The princess just came, what she can think of, can't the officials and people here think of?" Leng Yue tilted her head and asked with some confusion. She didn't understand, the princess could think of the crux of the problem just by walking this way, why couldn't the officials and people here see it?
"Do the officials see it, but they don't know it? It doesn't matter if the people see it or not? The important thing is that no one took the lead in doing it, and no one applied to the imperial court for money to be allocated for the construction of the road. Changming heard Leng Yue ask this, and opened his mouth to answer her doubts.
"Yes, this court doesn't allocate money, what does it use to build roads? Even if the imperial court appropriates the silver and peels it off layer by layer, I am afraid that there are very few of them here. Chang Huan shook his head as he spoke, and there was no sarcasm in his voice.
"After years of conquest, the treasury has long been empty, even if the emperor has a heart, there is nothing to be done without money." Thinking of the emperor's gray hair for Liaodong, Xiao Qifeng was rare and said a fair word for him.
"Oh, what can I do? Could it be that the master is not here to contribute, and he has to pay for it himself? Leng Yue exclaimed in surprise when she heard this, such a shrewd person as the master would have to do such a costly and laborious thing? She just couldn't figure it out.
"Be your carriage well, the master naturally has her plans in her heart, what are you doing with it? It's getting worse and worse! Leng Qiu saw Leng Yue sitting in the carriage, dancing with her hands and babbling, and couldn't help but reprimand with a straight face.
Bad reprimand, Leng Yue was not angry, sat obediently and looked at everyone without saying a word, if she didn't look at her grunting eyes, she would have been deceived by her obedient appearance.
"Okay this time, when we came, didn't the emperor give the princess a lot of silver? It's just right to build roads. Changqing listened to this, thinking of the large stack of silver tickets handed over to the princess by the emperor, and took over the conversation and said.
"You're still not convinced? The princess had other plans, so how could she use it to build roads? Chang Huan pointed at Changqing with a horsewhip and said with a smile.
Changqing is an upright character, and he thinks things are simple, but when he heard Chang Huan say this, he didn't get angry, but he just said puzzledly, "This silver has other plans?" But didn't the princess say that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads? Could it be that this road will not be repaired? ”
Quietly looked at Changqing's confused appearance, and said, "Changqing, don't blame Changhuan for saying you, you have to use your brain more to do things, think more, the so-called roads lead to Rome, and if you want to build roads, there is not only one way." ”
"What good idea did the princess come up with? You might as well talk to your subordinates. The subordinate brain, if he cultivates for 1,800 years, I am afraid that he will not be able to catch up with the corner of the princess, and the subordinates are still suitable for going to the battlefield with the prince to kill the enemy. "Speaking of going into battle to kill the enemy, Changqing's eyes are shining.
"It's a very simple solution, what do you think all this is?" Quiet stretched out her finger and pointed to the mountains in the distance.
Everyone looked in the direction she pointed, and all they saw were barren mountains.
Quietly pointed to the stone mountains, and said to everyone, "We can use local materials, look, aren't these bluestone slabs the best materials for paving the road?" ”
Seeing that everyone was looking at the mountains in the distance, he quietly turned his head and looked at the man beside him. "Xiao Qifeng, I asked you to organize those soldiers who retired from the battlefield to come here for this. Although they are disabled, they have cultivated strong willpower beyond ordinary people during their career in the army. They may not be able to do the delicate work, but it must be a piece of cake for them to pave the way. Xiao Qifeng, you, the former leader, told them that when the country was in danger, they stood up to protect their homeland, and now that the war is long gone, the construction of their homeland still needs them to continue to shine. ”
"Princess, those of them were seriously wounded on the battlefield, missing arms and legs, do you really believe that they can complete such a difficult task?" Chang Ming asked suspiciously, to be honest, he was a little uncertain in his heart when he handed over such a difficult task to those brothers who had retired from the battlefield. It's not that he doesn't trust the brothers who used to fight together, but since those people were injured and retired from the battlefield, they have long lost their former brilliance. The persecution of life made them decadent.
"Yes, if it weren't for the general's summons, they wouldn't have come to Liaodong. They used to be iron-clad men who were not afraid of death on the battlefield. But now......" Thinking of the former brother and the current miserable and decadent situation, Changle shook his head and couldn't say any more. The horse leather shroud is okay for them, they are afraid, they are afraid, they lack arms and legs, and they are half dead.
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