Li Hao picked up a handful of water and wiped it on his face, and the slippery feeling was like the softest silk, flowing down his fingertips. Huaqing Pool really lives up to its name, and the hot spring is washed with water. It's a pity that the skin on his body is black and thick. In particular, the calloused feet did not look like a twenty-one-year-old man, but like the feet of an old peasant.

No way! For the railway from Hanzhong to Chengdu, Li Hao walked along the Meridian Valley, and the Baochuan Road also walked around, Qishan Road, Chencang Road, and Fu Luo Road.

Looking at the map drawn by Li Hao, Li Xiao also had to admire this young brother. In order to build the Shuzhong Railway, this kid didn't even have time to go on a blind date. Drilling mountains and mountains all day long, just thinking about connecting Shuzhong and Guanzhong as soon as possible.

In the provinces of the Ming Dynasty, Shu is a little special. It is isolated from the Central Plains all year round, making it seem like a paradise. The land of Guanzhong is full of corn, but the people of Shuzhong are still growing rice.

Low productivity has led to extreme poverty in Shuzhong. Zhang Xianzhong's disaster made Shuzhong even worse. The men were either taken to serve as soldiers or as food. Anyway, there were a lot of people who were arrested, but few came back.

Many women had made their homes in the valley, where they could have a little land for their pitiful cultivation, and now they could see people working in the fields.

It's very simple, poke a hole in the ground with a wooden stick, then sprinkle a few grains of rice in it, and just step on it once, Yun Ye is sure that they are planting rice, not budding grains.

God, isn't it time to plant rice? I've never seen a seed sown, I've only seen a rice plant, so if you plant a damn crop, there will be a harvest?

The county official's explanation made Li Hao helpless, they were all people who escaped from the city, and they really didn't know how to farm. The women who ploughed the fields with hoes on their shoulders were probably the best girls in the past.

The imperial court has a policy that when the family returns to the city, the original house and land of the family will be returned. But no one will go, the evil things Zhang Xianzhong did in the city made them live in a terrifying nightmare for the rest of their lives. As soon as you close your eyes, that blood-red mouth that eats people will appear in the most terrible dreams.

They would rather live a miserable life in the ravines than go one step closer to the city. Even, they plan to stay in the valley for the rest of their lives. Since Zhang Xianzhong was so vicious and didn't harass this river valley, then other vicious jackals shouldn't either. The valley gives them peace of mind, and the outside world terrifies them.

Li Hao stood halfway up the mountain, just looking at the group of women who were surrounded by coarse cloth and showed their shriveled breasts. Farming in this way is just planting one gourd and reaping two scoops. No wonder people are always starving to death here!

It is rare for people to starve to death in today's Ming Dynasty, but it is not uncommon in Shu. Especially Chengdu and Fuling, which have been seriously harmed by Zhang Xianzhong!

In a small piece, a small piece of the field are all women and children, the little children with a huge belly, behind the mother in the ground practice holes, Li Hao more than once saw, those children from the ground to dig seeds, even the soil together with the mouth to eat, very natural, will attract beating, beating, do not cry, just looking for the next opportunity to steal seeds to eat.

The big belly is definitely not too much to eat, Li Hao knew what was going on, took out a rice ball wrapped in bamboo leaves from his arms, put it in front of the child and turned around, he didn't want to see the child's eating appearance, it would make him sad, but he was wrong, he didn't see it was even more sad than seeing, and the sound of eating "woo", "woo" and "woo" came from behind him, like a wild dog grabbing food, while eating, it made a threatening sound to protect food.

There is no more terrible enemy in the world than hunger, and food and clothing are no longer a problem outside of Shuzhong. Even in places like Liaodong, where grain prices are surprisingly low, people are feeding pigs with handfuls of corn.

But in Shu, a large number of people still starve to death every year.

The roads that had been devastated by the war could not withstand the crushing of heavy grain trucks. No matter how much grain you have outside, it is impossible to bring it in to solve the problem of feeding the people in Shuzhong.

The outside can't get in, and of course the inside can't get out. There is no way to form a commodity circulation, which makes the people of the land of abundance even poorer.

Railways, railways are too important. With the railway, the outside world will open up to Shuzhong. People no longer have to live in hunger and cold, and the imperial court will bring in truckloads of grain from outside to feed the people of Shuzhong. Of course, there are few people in Shu now.

Li Hao has never hated a person as much as he hated Zhang Xianzhong, if Zhang Xianzhong was alive, Li Hao would personally break him into pieces. Pity! No matter how heinous a person is, he can only die once, and if possible, Li Hao will discuss with the king of Hades and cut him a thousand and eight hundred times.

After Li Hao's continuous investigation for two years, the Xi'an-Chengdu railway plan was finally settled. Take the Qishan Road in Gansu, then pass through the Jinniu Road, and finally arrive in Chengdu. The whole journey is more than 1,300 miles, and most of these roads are extremely difficult mountain roads.

It is not an ordinary difficulty to build a railway in such a place.

Building the railway is not something Li Hao should worry about, he is only responsible for making plans. The real construction was Shi Kefa, who had a lot of foreign coolies in his hands. "Even if it is filled with corpses, the railway from Xi'an to Chengdu must be filled." This is Li Xiao's original words, full of blood, but there is no way.

In these years, building railways in the middle of lofty mountains and mountains is a work with a very high risk factor. If you don't get a landslide, hundreds of people will be buried in it, and you need the spirit of Yugong to move mountains if you want to dig it out.

There will not be a Ming man who will risk his life, which is also what Li Xiao specially instructed. The population of the Ming Dynasty is very expensive, and the lives of those coolies are very cheap, very cheap!

When I went back to my hometown during the Chinese New Year, the graves of my parents and sister were still there. The three elder brothers are all fighting overseas, and only Li Hao can go home and burn some paper money.

The spring in Guanzhong came earlier than Liaodong, and the trunks of Liaodong were still bare, and Guanzhong was already full of mountains and fields.

"Childe! The hour is almost up, and it will be too late to enter the city. The old servant stood outside with his new clothes in his hand and whispered for instructions.

As one of the four brothers of the Li family, no one dares to underestimate this fourth son of Li. This time, he was invited by Shi Kefa to give a geology class to the students of Xi'an Railway College.

After doing road exploration for so many years, Li Hao can be called a first-class geologist in the Ming Dynasty. The terrain and landforms he has seen are probably something that most Ming people have never seen in their lives.

Li Hao also has his own selfishness, and it is inefficient to explore alone, if he can set up an exploration branch in the Railway Academy. We can recruit many promising young people to join this arduous but necessary work. As Li Xiao's younger brother, he still knows about arresting people for work.

Standing up from the hot spring water, Li Hao wiped his face.

The beautiful maid arranged by Shi Kefa was driven out, and the only one who came to wait for Li Hao to change his clothes was an old servant. The old guy was bought by Li Hao!

Passing by Xi'an once, Li Hao found that under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, someone was selling himself with grass on his head. After asking the onlookers, I found out that this guy's wife was very sick and needed two silver coins to buy ginseng to be cured.

Li Hao, who had a lot of money, threw two silver coins to the old guy, and the old guy appeared at his door the next morning, saying that he was bought by Li Hao, and he was Li Hao's slave in this life.

Anyway, the old guy decided that Li Hao was his master. There was no way, Li Hao could only take Lao Liu with him.

Wearing the new clothes handed over by Lao Liu, Li Hao felt comfortable. Silk things feel better when worn on the body than coarse cloth.

I am going to give a lecture at the college today, and as a visiting professor, Li Hao does not want to be late. Li Hao still cares about the four words of being a teacher!

went out and got into the carriage, and soon the carriage drove along the official road to Xi'an City.

Shi Kefa has a very good way, and Sun Chuanting has to buy his face. The Railway Institute run by Shi Kefa is not far from the Drum Tower, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the later generations, it belongs to the prime location.

Li Hao walked inside the college, and the steward in charge of reception was very attentive to Li Hao. Although Shi Kefa did not mention Li Hao's identity to anyone, the person who can let the minister personally intervene will definitely not be an ordinary person.

"This is a first-grade classroom, and their curriculum is just about teaching them how to use the math they have learned before on the railroad. You're going to give a presentation today to a second-year student, and they'll be more detailed about their specializations.

The college has just been established for three years, and there is a shortage of teachers. Many students who have just graduated have stayed on as instructors. Oh! In front of it is the small auditorium, and the students are already waiting in it. The steward is a very talkative person, and he introduced Li Hao to the buildings he passed by while walking.

Li Hao didn't speak, but just responded with "um", "um", "ah" and "ah", and his perennial presence in the wild made him form a taciturn character. When he is free, he can sit all day without saying a word, much like a depressed person.

Walking to the door of the auditorium, two people opened the door of the auditorium.

"Wow!" Li Hao was greeted by a tide of applause, and the sudden applause startled Li Hao.

After so many years of training, Li Hao's mind has been honed. Back then, I followed Scar to mix on the ship, and I have seen the conference battles of dozens of warships, and these hundreds of students in front of me are small scenes!

Stepping on the specially laid red carpet, Li Hao greeted the students on both sides while walking. is a mess with a personable demeanor, if Li Xiao is here, he will definitely doubt his own bloodline, or Li Hao's bloodline.

Walking up to the podium, a table had already been set up on it. There is a microphone on the table, and Li Hao's words can be heard by the audience through the loudspeaker.

"Hey! Feed! Li Hao's mouth approached the microphone and tried it!

Sure enough, Li Hao's voice echoed throughout the auditorium. It can be seen that Shi Kefa is now a rich man. The microphone is now worth a lot of money, and he is willing to get it for his college, which shows that Shi Kefa attaches great importance to the Railway College.

"Since the beginning of Pangu, my Chinese ancestors have lived on this land......" The speech was written by Li Hao himself, and now he doesn't read the manuscript at all, but comes easily. The graceful demeanor dwarfs the students in their prime below.

In the end, he has seen the world, Li Hao explained the knowledge of geography in an easy-to-understand and humorous way. The future of these Daming railway undertakings was listened to attentively one by one, and bursts of applause rang out in the auditorium from time to time.

Before I knew it, it was already dark outside, and the speech was over. When the students left, many people looked at Li Hao with enthusiasm in their eyes. They also want to be like Li Hao, who can walk on the land of China. Let the railway line of Daming be laid along the line planned by itself.

Shi Kefa was in the capital, and it was his nephew Shi Yu who received Li Hao!

"Brother Li is worthy of being the pillar of my Ming Dynasty, and he has worked hard for you all these years." As the son of a high-ranking cadre, the two have known each other in the capital.

Shi Alcohol's admiration for Li Hao is absolutely sincere, and he has almost traveled to Hanzhong in two years, and he can't bear this hardship.

"After seeing the withering in Shuzhong, I thought about building this section of the railway as soon as possible. What a pity! This section of the railway is more than 1,300 miles long, and most of the mountains in the middle are not easy to construct. If you want to get through, I'm afraid it will take ten years to do it.

I heard that Minister Shi handed this matter over to you? ”

"It's really up to me to do it, my second brother has already gone to Quanzhou in advance to buy good Egyptian coolies and Kunlun slaves. In addition, my uncle also specially asked the two generals Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming to capture many Qiang people in Qinghai. In this way, it is no problem to get four or five thousand people.

If the construction is carried out in sections, the construction period will be greatly shortened. But in that case, it was a test for the general scheduling of the project, and now I am also in a difficult situation for this. I also hope that Brother Li will give advice, after all, you are the one who has personally walked this road. ”

"That's natural, I'll explain it to you again in the report to the imperial court."

"Thank you so much, Brother Li, there will be a dinner party for you in a while. In addition to the young teachers in the academy, there are also many singers. Shi Yu raised his eyebrows at Li Hao, and at a glance, he knew that this was a veteran of flowers.

Although Li Xiao disdains the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, the people still strictly abide by the etiquette cultivated for many years. In these years, everyone's ladies can only be kept in the show building, waiting for the future husband to carry herself home in a sedan chair one day.

The women who appear at this kind of dinner party, except for the singer, are only the dancing girls. Of course, there are occasional cameos from the women of the Church Division. Pity! Since Li Xiao took the stage, there have been many newcomers in the Teaching Workshop Division. Now relying on a group of old women to support the scene, it is gradually abandoned by the squishy circle.

"I don't really like to drink and feast!" Li Hao doesn't like this kind of occasion very much, maybe he has been tired in the past two years, and Li Hao just wants to stay alone when he is free.

"Brother Li! Don't you want to get more faculty for your exploration college? Tonight, there are many top students who are about to graduate who are screaming. Rest assured, your identity is kept strictly confidential, and no one will want to use your identity to cling to you. ”