Yan Wang Shen was a British lord and a qualified politician at the same time. The establishment of the Golden Terrace soon spread all over the world, and people from all over the world who consciously had talents went to Yan Kingdom to show their talents, wanting to be valued by King Yan.

King Yan did not exterminate those old nobles who were willing to submit, and also gave a way for these old nobles to participate in the assessment, and as long as they passed the assessment, they could succeed to the official position.

Compared to those commoners, the old nobles have a lot of knowledge, as long as they are not stupid, they can basically pass. It's impossible to do the same now.

Regardless of their origins, Yan recruited talented people with gold, jade, and officials, and the arrival of a large number of talents made the reform of Yan Kingdom advance rapidly.

Qi country, Linzi.

After the death of King Qi Wei, his son ascended the throne. During the reign of King Qi Wei, after the reform of the law, the state of Qi was at its peak. As the king of Qi who was the king of the same year, he died not long after he became king.

After his death, the group of famous ministers who created the prosperity of the Qi State with him also began to wither. The current King of Qi is a monarch who is very happy, but his will is not firm. Coupled with its greed for enjoyment, the strength of the Qi State also began to gradually decline.

It's just that King Qi didn't know that when the Qi State was weakening, the Yan State was rising rapidly.

After Wang Xu ascended the throne, he was not in a hurry to control the court and show his authority. Instead, he first asked Sun Bin and other old ministers to learn, and it took a year to learn how to govern and govern the country.

Because of the vast territory of Huaiguo, close to the Yangtze River or tributaries, the transportation is quite fast, but the road becomes rugged and difficult to travel where it is not close.

The inconvenience of the roads had an impact on the transit of goods, the collection of taxes, and the rule of the Wang dynasty over the Huai Kingdom.

So Wang Xu and the enthroned ministers discussed, began to levy labor, and built a gallop road through Jinling throughout the Huai State.

Wang Xu ordered the craftsmen to discuss and come up with a convenient and feasible plan to connect the whole country.

The children of the Mo family, the children of the public losers, and the children of other craftsmen began to discuss. And borrowed the map of the mountains and rivers of Huaiguo, and even sent a large number of craftsmen to visit in person.

It took two years for the craftsman to come up with a practical plan.

In order to speed up the passage of the road, the craftsmen laid two wooden tracks on the ground, laid sleepers under the tracks, and the foundation of the road also needed to be repaired and leveled. After repairing, it will allow the carriage to pass quickly.

Wang Xu ordered people to build a track outside Jinling City, and then let the carriage run on it. Sure enough, with the rails, the carriages not only carried more cargo, but also became faster and more powerful.

Seeing the great success of this kind of rail carriage, Wang Xu immediately ordered that labor should be levied from all over the country and start to build a gallop road.

Because Huaiguo sits in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the entire Huaihe River Basin, there are abundant water sources, so many places can rely on water transportation and do not need to build Chi Road, which greatly reduces the difficulty of the project.

Wang Xu levied 300,000 yuan of labor, then allocated money and grain, and began to build a gallop road across the country, which was 50 meters wide, and there were two wooden tracks running parallel to it. All wooden tracks are made of hardwood and are treated with antiseptic treatment.

On the gallop road, a post station is built every fifty miles, and the post station is responsible for protecting the gallop road from being damaged in addition to allowing pedestrians and officials to rest, and once the gallop road is damaged, it is necessary to seize the time to overhaul it.

At the same time, the emergence of the gallop also made Huaiguo's carriages have to be customized according to the standards of the track. Therefore, Wang Xu issued an edict on the same track, stipulating that all carriages in Huaiguo must have the same track.

The construction of Chidao is not a simple matter. The construction of a gallop road requires a lot of time, money, manpower and material resources, after Huaiguo just started to build the first gallop road, only a month, the money spent is staggering, but compared with the benefits brought by the construction of the gallop road, Wang Xu still decided to pass.

The foundation of the road was tamped and a large amount of stone was used in the foundation of the road to prevent it from collapsing due to rain or flooding.

At the same time, all the foundations need to be piled with three feet of soil, which needs to be tamped. The soil used needs to be steamed in a steamer first, and all the insect eggs and plant seeds in the soil are steamed. Then mix with glutinous rice juice and lime and then tamp it.

It takes a lot of glutinous rice, but it has to be done, and in this era when there is no concrete, glutinous rice juice and lime are the best binders.

After repeated tamping, the ground of the trail becomes extremely hard, and at the same time, there are well-established drainage ditches on both sides of the trail. Prevent excessive rain from soaking the road.

After repeated tamping, the inside of the trail will become very hard, and as long as it is not soaked in water for a long time, the trail will not become muddy.

Fifty paces wide were laid with two or four tracks, and the rest of the road was for the army to pass.

The laying of the tracks greatly increased the speed of the horse-drawn carriages, and the transportation of grain and grass was also greatly accelerated. The number and quality of horses in Huai were much worse than those in the northern countries, so Wang Xu bought a large number of horses. even used a lot of money to buy Maxima.

The news of the reform of Zhao Wuling's Hufu cavalry archery has been passed back by the secret guards, and Zhao Guo's strength in cavalry and archery has been greatly improved because of Hufu. At the same time, the appearance of cavalry made Huai pay attention to the advantages of this new unit.

Compared to bulky chariots, cavalry is more agile and is very useful for both scouting and outflanking enemy forces.

When other countries were still hesitating, Huai learned from Zhao at the first time, restructured the army, increased cavalry, and began to implement Hufu cavalry shooting.

The Huai State spent a lot of money on the three kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, and Yan to buy good war horses. Some of these horses were given to the army, and the other part was to establish horse farms to breed good war horses.

Although Huai has a vast territory, there is no place to produce horses, and the horse trade can easily be cut off by other countries. Therefore, Wang Xu ordered people to try to open horse farms in Nanyang, Huai'an, and Jinling, wanting to breed a large number of horses to provide war horses for the army.

Although the land of Huai'an, Jinling and Nanyang is flat, it is not the best place to raise horses, so the quality of the horses bred here is not as good as the horses of the Qin, Zhaoyan and Three Kingdoms, but as long as the stallions have been improved, there is still a chance of breeding excellent war horses.

The appearance of cavalry, although flexible, did not have the indomitable impact of chariots. Therefore, the chariot is still retained in the army, but the role of the chariot is becoming less and less, and it is now considered an auxiliary class.

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