"Hmm"

Walking out of the crowd, Zhou Peiling's eyebrows tightened, but they fell on the street.

The last time he left Chang'an, he still remembered that the top of Chang'an was dominated by loess, and if it was summer, it would raise a huge amount of dust, which would make people very uncomfortable.

Although there are also stone paving roads, they are too scarce and can only cover part of the area.

But at the moment, the ground was pitch black, and it was very neat, which made him feel a little puzzled.

Yang Chenglong looked at this scene, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl, and said with a smile: "Xiaoshan, it's better to tell me where and what you're doing, otherwise after the government affairs district closes, you will have to wait until tomorrow." ”

"I see. ”

Zhou Peiling had no choice but to put down his mind and jump on the carriage.

The leather whip sounded, and the horse pulled the carriage and walked forward, Zhou Peiling felt that the drive was too flat, and there was no bumpy feeling, which really surprised him.

Although he wanted to ask the reason, he was also afraid of making Yang Chenglong unhappy, so he closed his mouth and prepared to ask again later.

Because of the flat ground, the carriage also moved quite fast, and after a while, the group immediately came to the government affairs area, and then reported all the files about Danjiangkou.

Looking at these materials, Yang Chenglong felt a little relaxed: "As long as this Danjiangkou Bridge is successful, then the lord's plan in the future will be more than half successful." ”

"The lord's plan is not that the lord intends to attack the Song Dynasty" Zhou Peiling raised his eyebrows slightly, and hurriedly asked.

After handing over the information to the Ministry of Industry, all his colleagues couldn't bear it, and directly asked Yang Chenglong for a few days off, and then ran to Chang'an City and began to mess around.

In the past few years, these people have always stayed in the deep mountains and old forests, and they have long been suffocated, of course, they should take advantage of this excellent time to run around to relax their mood.

Yang Chenglong's expression paused slightly, his eyes swept around, and he asked with a bit of scrutiny: "Where did you hear about the attack on the Song Dynasty?"

"Isn't this what everyone is saying, the reason why the lord wants to build the Danjiangkou Bridge and the Shangjun Railway is to be able to attack the Song Dynasty and unify China?" Zhou Peiling replied disapprovingly.

He didn't have much good impression of the Song Dynasty, and when he was building the railway, he was harassed and attacked by the other party, so he also had some bad feelings towards Xiangyang, and he was resistant to the arrival of Lu Shikui, and even deliberately ignored the other party.

Yang Chenglong shook his head and replied: "These are just rumors, you can't believe it, understand" Seeing that the other party's expression was still the same, he explained again: "And if the Danjiangkou Bridge is successfully built, then the products we produce can be transported to the Song Dynasty faster and earn more profits for us, this is the purpose of the lord, do you understand?"

"Is that all?"

Zhou Peiling nodded, still suspicious in his heart.

If it is said that commercial profits, then the Danjiangkou Bridge can indeed play a considerable role, when he left, there were already many businessmen with goods, directly to the land of Junzhou, which shows how powerful the development of Junzhou should be.

However, this railway can transport people and goods, and naturally it can also transport soldiers and ordnance, the two are not in conflict, of course, the Chifeng Army has now been renamed the Huaxia Army, and it can directly mobilize 100,000 soldiers and horses to arrive in Junzhou in just three days.

This efficiency is much faster than usual.

Therefore, after the completion of the construction of the Danjiangkou Railway, Xiangyang's actions have indeed converged a lot.

"Of course, these things don't matter. It's just that you know, why did I transfer you here for?" Yang Chenglong didn't pay attention to the changes in the other party's heart, and asked directly.

Zhou Peiling shook his head and replied, "Please also ask Minister Yang to inform me one or two." ”

"It's simple. It was for the purpose of rebuilding the Qin Straight Road. Yang Chenglong took out a document and landed it in Zhou Peiling's hand.

Zhou Peiling was puzzled in his heart and asked, "Isn't Qin Zhidao for the purpose of building a railway?"

He had also heard of the Qin Straight Road, which was a military transportation project built by the Qin Dynasty to resist the Xiongnu.

Its builder was Meng Tian, who led 100,000 workers to build it from the 35th year of Qin Shi Huang, and it took two and a half years to complete.

Starting from Xianyang, it extends to Jiuyuan County.

All with loess tamping, a total length of 736 kilometers, its flat, straight, wide, are in line with the characteristics of modern highways, its main road can run side by side twelve large trucks, known as the world's first road. By the Han Dynasty, the Qin Straight Road was more widely followed. It was not until after the Tang Dynasty, due to the eastward shift of the political and economic center, that some sections of this famous highway were gradually abandoned, and it was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that the Southern Maritime Silk Road arose, and the Qin Straight Road gradually declined along with the Northern Silk Road.

Of course, after Xiao Feng moved into Chang'an, although he intended to use it, it was far less fast than the railway, so it was put aside, and it was not mentioned again until now.

"Alas. You also know that the cost of the railway is too high, and in order to connect the various prefectures in the territory, it will consume most of my taxes, so how can it be built casually."

Yang Chenglong replied: "But you also know that there are still many county towns in my court, and there are still many rural villages in these counties, and there is an urgent need to change the status quo, so the lord proposed to rebuild the Qin Straight Road." ”

Zhou Peiling was a little puzzled, and asked again: "According to the lord's meaning, isn't it to renovate the Qin Straight Road?"

It's just that in this case, it will definitely not bother Yang Chenglong, and even recruit him in, so although this plan is named Qin Zhidao, it is only a similar name, and its specific plan must be different.

"That's right. If you just rebuild the Qin Straight Road, you only need to let the county officials along the way be responsible, and there is no need for you and me to mix. Therefore, the purpose of this Qin Straight Road is to build roads, and then all the county towns can be connected to the state capital. In this way, our mastery of Kannai can also be improved to a higher level. Yang Chenglong said.

"What is this road" Zhou Peiling was a little confused.

Yang Chenglong smiled: "When you came here, did you notice the changes in Chang'an?"

"Changes in Chang'an" Zhou Peiling thought for a moment, and then shouted: "Minister Yang, you mean the ground" Then he showed a trace of confusion and asked: "It's just this ground, why is it called a road?"

"That's right, this is the road. ”

Yang Chenglong smiled and said: "Speaking of this road, it is just a name, because of the appearance of this thing, the carriage is several times faster than usual, so it is called the road." But you don't have to worry about it, that's just a title. ”

Zhou Peiling knew it in his heart, and complained: "It turns out that this is just Minister Yang, how did this happen?"

He had examined the ground carefully, and found that the road was all made of stones, but because of the presence of something dark brown and rather sticky, it was glued together and could bear considerable weight.

"Speaking of which, this thing is also an accident. As you know, in order to meet the demand for steel for the construction of railways, we have been mining iron ore and coal mines everywhere, and now the annual output is tens of millions of stones. In the smelting of coal mines, when refining coke, a strange substance is produced, because its color is indigo, and it shows a liquid viscous state, so it is called asphalt. Yang Chenglong began to explain.

Zhou Peiling's heart moved slightly, and he complained: "Asphalt"

"That's right, asphalt. ”

Yang Chenglong replied: "It was also an accident, because the asphalt was quite sticky, so it was used as a binder by those miners to build rooms. The rooms built with this material are not only very sturdy, but also difficult for rainwater to penetrate, so they are widely used in various aspects. ”

"If you can do this by building a room, then the asphalt must be pretty good. Zhou Peiling replied.

"It's a by-product of smelting coke, so not many people care. Later, because some people were tired of the sewage, they built a path with this thing, and then there was no damage to the road whether it was windy or rainy, and many people followed suit, and began to build roads with this thing one after another. Yang Chenglong continued.

He was also quite surprised by all this, and it was only after seeing the path with his own eyes that he realized its usefulness.

What happened after that, just like the railway, began to vigorously promote asphalt roads in Chang'an City, first in the government affairs district, and then other roads began to be renovated one after another, until now there are not many loess roads in Chang'an City.

After hearing this, Zhou Peiling smiled: "In this way, the lord means that this asphalt road is used to pave Qin Straight Road?"

"That's right. And this time it is different from the Qin Dynasty, but it is to use this thing to connect all the counties and railways, so that we can use the railway as the backbone and the road as the branch, and connect all the places. In this way, no matter what happens everywhere, we can react in less than a week, and we will not be like the Song Dynasty, which could not do anything. Yang Chenglong replied.

Compared with the railway, the cost of the Qin Straight Road project is not much, but the amount of work is too large, according to his rough estimate, if you want to cover all the counties in Guanzhong, you have to build at least 10,000 miles, and it will take at least 20 years.

Such a heavy project is simply impossible for ordinary people to control, and only people like Zhou Peiling can do it.

Looking at Zhou Peiling eagerly, Yang Chenglong asked, "You, can you do it?"

"Minister Qiqi, his subordinates are certain"