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For other empires, people would do things like road building, but they would definitely not invest as much as Li Cong. In their opinion, this is simply a problematic move in their minds. They know the convenience brought by a road, but the huge investment is definitely not they are willing to bear, mainly because in this era, roads are built on stones, and the cost of roads paved with bluestone slabs can be said to be very huge. Just like the widest street in the capital of the Eastern Empire, eight horse-drawn carriages can walk side by side, all of which are made of bluestone slabs. One question arises. How many bluestone slabs do you need?This road has been repaired for 30 years. During these 30 years, millions of slaves have lost their lives. The length of this road is only less than 400 kilometers, but this road is already the longest in the Eastern Empire. The road is good, the length of the bluestone slab is only 50cm, and the width is 25cm. The width of the road is 20 meters, and one kilometer requires 160,000 bluestone slabs. This whole road uses tens of millions of bluestone slabs, even for two people. If you carry a piece, it will take as much manpower as it is to transport it, and some of them are unqualified and replaced. At that time, the price of bluestone slabs was not very valuable, only less than forty cents. , But if it is shipped to the capital, the price will be 5 taels of silver. This kilometer of road will cost 800,000 taels of silver. Who can bear it? Back then, it took hundreds of millions of silver for various expenses to give this road. Even if it is so, it must be invested in the maintenance of millions of silver every year. This is a normal year. If there is something important, it will be overhauled. There is no tens of millions of silver in the overhaul. It is absolutely impossible to come down.

Although there may be some officials who swallowed money, it can also reflect how vast the project is, and the livelihood issues that arise are also very important. If it is not slaves, but ordinary ones. In terms of labor.It is estimated that the Eastern Empire at that time would not have done such a thing. After more than 100,000 years of development, these four empires will only have such bluestone roads in some relatively large cities. It is very good.That is, only the interior of the imperial city contains some of the more precious stones. As for what the people’s road looks like, they don’t care about that. Of course, they all know how good a good road is during war. Yes, but this is no way. Finances are already very tight. If we continue to use this, I really don’t know how they should live. Now there is no way to mix things up, they are already a lot. Foreign debts.There will never be any more money on this road. Looking at Li Cong, the tens of thousands of kilometers of road is a preliminary plan for Li Cong. This is also trimmed to defend the border. The other is I want a large artery to appear in my own territory.Li Cong also studied the economic zones of the four major empires. They are basically in the riverside branches of the major empires. This is because they do not have a land transportation point, and the inland waterway occupies a large area. Share, if there is no such thing, it is estimated that they would not do that, which is why they would do it.What Li Cong has to do is to create an economic route in his own territory for no reason. It is very necessary to develop the economy.

Li Cong just took advantage of the opportunity of building roads to pull up a large amount of labor. In the past, after all, they belonged to the people of the Southern Empire. They wanted to accept Cao’s house for a while. Simple things, but Li Cong quickly brought them a lot of work.Either pruning roads, or some reservoirs, and some huge warehouses. The people at Cao's Commercial Bank will always bring you some jobs. You can pay with food.It’s fine if you want to use silver. Anyway, you can work with peace of mind. Eminem is an obvious example of these people. He can be said to be a typical example of a person who is full and the whole family is not hungry. My parents don’t know where I’ve been, and I don’t know where I came from. I grew up begging for food on the street since I was a child. I never thought I could eat every day. It’s full, I’ve lived for decades. This is the first time there has been such a thing. He was caught here by the Cao’s commercial armies when he was begging for food. Those of his own partners, as long as People with physical problems were sent to another place called a welfare institution, and they said that someone would help them, but people like themselves who were powerful but not capable were brought here by them. They said If you do a day’s work, you can give yourself three catties of wheat. If you can learn well, you will get 5 catties of wheat a day after one month. After half a year, you can choose whether you want grain or silver. Actually at the beginning At the time, I wanted silver, but I still want to fill my stomach with a slim waist. It's a good thing to get this food every day.

He had seen the corvee given by the government before. They were all told when you were asked to go there. What is this the garden of the duke and the king? As long as you do it well, the adults will be sure You won’t lose your talents. What is the result?I’m tired every day, but I can only get a miscellaneous bread every day as something to satisfy my hunger. Such a life is really uncomfortable. At the beginning, many people didn’t believe this, including him. I think so too. Although the Cao’s family members belong to a duke and king, they can defeat the lords of the Southern Empire. This ability is not something ordinary people can have. Look at theirs. The promise seems to be much stronger than those people. Dozens of them are still waiting and watching. When they brought dozens of carts of food, Eminem would not hesitate. This might be an opportunity for him. In fact, I don’t want to be a beggar every day, but there’s no other way. I don’t have the ability to do other things and no one will let myself do it. That’s why he feels this is an opportunity. Yes, he can do things like coolies. In the past few days, he has been doing one thing, which is to carry some powdery things off the car and mix them with sand and water. There is nothing to do with them.Those people would use their cars to take them on the road there. I had never seen something like this before. This thing looks like mud, and I asked my little The captain is now.But he said that this thing is used to build roads, to build a dirt road?This is Eminem's question mark every day.

It can be said that there are many people who have questions like him, but the person who has been repaired said that they can come and have a look at tomorrow. These Cao’s business people are also true. Why can’t they go today? They have to wait until tomorrow, but they all know that it is said that the newly built roads are called highways, and they are all very hard, not to mention that the carriage is overwhelmed.Even if you use a hammer or something to smash it down, there is no problem. There will never be any problems. They are all excited because of this. Forget it, you can see what's going on there tomorrow. .Eminem entered his dream with his own questions. Although it was the work shed arranged on the construction site, he was also the first to have his own quilts. As mentioned above, as long as it is a month of work, these quilts are Everything is my own. It's really nice to come here to work.Not only will you have a lot of food, but you can also have a lot of things for yourself. There are still a lot of things mentioned above. If you have done it for a year, you will be a skilled master in the future, and your salary will be fine. Doubled.But you have to go to work elsewhere, otherwise the money is not your own. The few people who work with them are all local people, and they have to worry about some things at home, let alone.I haven’t heard of those far away, so naturally I can’t just pass by casually. No one knows what it looks like outside, but it’s all those people’s ideas, not much like myself. It's just a person, no matter what you are, there is nothing I want to miss here for Lao Tzu, and I must continue to work with the people from Cao's house.

In the next morning, Eminem was woken up by a few people in his house. At this time, it was just dawn. Some of them had already started to go over there to see what was going on there, Eminem. Naturally, I also want to know what this legendary very hard road is all about. After all, I have been thinking about this problem for several days. How could the mud become hard?Some houses in the village are also made of soil embryos, although they are much better than mud, but relying on their own strength, if you really go up with one foot, this wall will not have much ability to bear, Eminem and the others By the time it arrived, dozens of people had already watched it. The first impression was that the road was really smooth. Although it hadn't reached the acceptance standard on the earth, it was the best ever on this planet. Of course, the good stones in the palace are naturally much better than this, but the bluestone paved road in the capital is nothing compared to the one in front of you. There is nothing good. , Basically it’s like that. Just when they tried it quietly with their feet, the horse-drawn carriage over there was already ready. The carriages of Cao’s house were different from other carriages. Others All of the carriages of Cao’s are all four-wheeled carriages, which is why they can pull more things. They need four horses to pull. The horsemen on this carriage work hard. After waving the whip, the four horses in front ran with difficulty. The people around quickly stepped aside and looked at the groom in surprise. Does this guy have a nerve problem?How could such a thing be done?

They can see that the cargo on the carriage must be at least thousands of today, and even heavier. If it is slow, it should be no problem, but now you are at such a fast speed if there is so much on the road. If there is a small pit, the entire carriage may be destroyed. Everyone knows such things, but what they thought did not appear. The carriage passed by like a gust of wind, and there were still more than a dozen carriages. , If this is the previous road, it is estimated that the dust raised can make them back several meters, but now what they are thinking about does not happen at all. The carriage ran out for a few hundred meters before it started to slow down, because the roads are all It is not that long. If it is really very long, it is estimated that this horse can run to the city over there. This speed is the first time they have seen it. In the past, it was even those who were riding horses. It is impossible to reach this speed. The quality of the road is also very important to the horse.A good road can make the horses run farther. Eminem and the others hurriedly climbed up to touch the road in front of them. My god, there was nothing at all.There was no trace of the heavy weight just now. What the hell is this path?How could it be so powerful?They were all surprised. If such a road is built, they all know that the carriage will have to travel one day and one night before reaching the nearby county. The speed of the carriage just now is estimated to be within a few hours. It is estimated that it will save a lot of time. The leader just said that in the future, there will be such a road everywhere. Wouldn't life be much more convenient in the future?

"Haha, okay. I said what do you guys do? You still have to work today. This thing just felt rare when it first came out. If I ask you to come and see it in the future, I guess you I don’t want to look at this thing. Just clean up and get ready to start. The above said, this is a miracle. You are the people who made miracles. You will be recorded in history. You will get old in the future. It is estimated that this road will be healed. At that time, someone will talk about who trimmed the road. At that time, it will be your glorious moment.” A guy with the appearance of a supervisor came over and said, and he was all kind. It's not the kind of fierce supervisor. There is no such thing as beating people on this road, but there are rules.You will do a certain amount of work in a day. If you don't reach this number, your salary will be deducted. Of course, if you can do better.We can also give you some more money. This can all fluctuate up and down. Of course, in order for these people to have enough rest time, the time beyond working hours is limited to two hours, after more than two hours No matter how much you do, you won’t get any salary. Hearing that the supervisor said that they were all passionate about it. There is nothing wrong with what they said. The people around don’t even know what they’re doing. Yes, many people want to come over and see what’s going on, but they don’t have that good luck. We still do very good work, we have our own food, and we still like this job. Just go to work as soon as possible, the rest is not so lucky.

This is just a microcosm of all the construction sites. Because there is no machinery in this era, so even if the cement comes out, it will have to be paved by hand. If it is according to the standards on the earth, some are made here. Things are not very qualified, but the people here don't have so many requirements. Besides, some carriages on the highway are not as heavy as those trucks on the earth, and naturally they will not be overweight. The car crushed the road, so all these things were done very well. Eminem went back to the place where he worked yesterday. The road on his side was still covered. It is said that It was not very hard yet. He looked at the cement and other things he had made again. He had to work hard. After he gained trust here, he could go there to learn how to build roads. At that time, if I was transferred to a new department, I could be promoted. I would work with people from Cao’s house in the future. I don’t have any relatives anyway. As for those skilled, I would not be able to. Learning to build roads is also a very good thing according to what the supervisor said. In the future, there are still a lot of places to build roads. You can be considered a skill to survive. It is not a cool thing like the current one. I thought about it. Here, this guy is more motivated. You must let yourself stay here. There are many people who think like him. Most of them are the lowest level of the previous society, and they don’t want to. It looks like that, just because they lost at the starting line in the early stage. Now there is an opportunity for them to make up for it. They will never give up this opportunity.

At present, on the 40,000km construction site, Li has started building from 15 places at the same time, and each place has established a large cement plant with an annual output of 300,000 tons. Anyway, such things as cement plants are available as long as they are suitable. , The total output can reach one million tons, but because the skilled workers are not very skilled now, if they are all skilled, the cement in these factories is not enough at all. Now we still look at the cement factory. It is possible, but it will not be used much in the future.So when the first phase started, Li Cong had already started the site selection of the second batch of cement plants. There was no difficulty in choosing these places, but transportation was a problem.The cement needed for road construction is definitely not a small amount. A car can only transport more than two tons of cement. What can the two tons of cement do?It’s almost the same if the road can be built by two meters. Because of this, choosing a suitable address is more important. Another thing is to get water. This is not the same as on the earth, just get some points. This well-drilling team will be able to solve the problem. There are not so many people from the geological exploration team here, even if they do.I haven’t visited here before, and it’s impossible to find the location of groundwater. Although the local people have places to drink their own water, they are generally located in places where water resources are not very abundant. If they use water for their own lives, it's OK.But if you use such a large-scale project, this little water is not enough, so now Li Cong has to solve the water problem first, but this is also a problem for the second phase, and the first phase is fine. of.

For Li Cong to make such a big plan, the senior management of Cao's house also felt that it was not very feasible, of course.Money matters are understandable to everyone. Although the cost is very huge, it can be solved for the current Cao family firm, especially since these people are still a large number of slaves sent by the Western Empire. What the firm wastes is to send them all over the place, and the rest is not a big deal.Wu Zuoxi felt that it was okay to build roads, but there was no need to build such a large cement. The people at Cao's Commercial Firm used this kind of cement before, but it was only used to build military facilities. At times, such a thing is considered to be a high-end product.It’s impossible to use it on such a large scale. It’s only now that I feel it. In fact, there is nothing advanced in such advanced products, that is, it looks like this, but some military defense products built by this thing are very good. There used to be a cement fortress that was besieged by 2000 people from the Southern Empire for nearly three days. In three days, four soldiers killed the Southern Emperor’s army of about 150 people and prevented the Southern Empire from moving forward quickly. Line reinforcement is a good thing. At that time, the people of the Southern Empire wanted to get this thing, but they won’t be able to mass-produce it when they get it. In fact, if the people of the Southern Empire continue to study, it is estimated that they will have their own hope in a few decades, because this thing is not some high-tech products, but they are not like that. Perseverance is enough, and they are really not good at researching them.

Gu Xin is the person in charge of this plan, but from the bottom of my heart, this plan is too big. At the beginning, he thought it was a sign that Li Cong was going to leave him in the cold. After all, let himself be in charge of thousands. Wan's slave, don't you look down on what you are?There is simply no effect at all. You must know that when you were in charge of the training camp before, those fifth-level fighters were quickly put into the Cao’s business at all levels of the army. They were all middle and high-level officers. , It’s not comparable to what it is now, and because of this reason, he didn’t feel how important this matter was at the beginning. Li Cong personally said a few words to this guy, which meant that Cao’s house would plan for the next few years. Basically, it has something to do with this. We want all the land occupied by Cao’s house in the Southern Empire to become our own place. In addition to the previous minimum security policies, it is the current road construction plan. All of them know clearly that the people of the Southern Empire will never give them a chance. As long as there is a little slack, the people of the Southern Empire will definitely take these things back without hesitation. , They are not stupid, this is the same as a malignant tumor. People in the Southern Empire wanted to take the malignant tumor from their body. If they couldn’t do it, their body might turn into a malignant tumor. It’s a waste. At that time, it was impossible for oneself to regret it. Although the Southern Empire is not very strong now, their feelings are understandable and clear. That’s why Li Cong wanted to quickly establish this. A highway.As long as there is a problem on the border, the support from various places can pass quickly.

The Southern Empire was surprised that the people of Cao's House of Business did this. They were the same as the people of the other three empires. They started investigating this matter after the Cao's House of Business had gathered so many slaves.In fact, the people of Cao’s House of Commercial Bank did not conceal this. They knew that the cement of Cao’s House of Commercial Company was some very valuable things. When the news was not clear, the senior officials of the Four Empires I feel very happy because Li Cong has something to do. As long as this guy has something to do, many things will be better in the future. At least there is no need to always guard against them. There will be some in all empires. Some of the roads I took out, but the longest is the 400 kilometers long road in the capital of the Eastern Empire, who knows that the people from the Cao’s house are 40,000 kilometers up.This is one hundred times that of the Eastern Empire back then. It is undeniable that the people of Cao's House of Business can put out more money than the people of Eastern Empire, but what about other things?How does he accomplish it?Is such a path so easy to complete?If this is also possible, they will re-evaluate the capabilities of Cao's Commercial Firm.But when the news came, they knew that what the people at Cao’s firm did was different from what they thought. They didn’t mean to use bluestone slabs at all. Such things could no longer keep up with others. Now, what people use is cement-like things. What they used to say is very expensive, but now they can be produced on such a large scale.This kind of thing made them feel impossible, but this is another fact, and there is no way that such a fact is placed in front of them, and they will not stop it.

If the people of Cao's Commercial Bank do other things, they can still go out and interfere, but what they do now is to build roads within their own limits.No one can stand up and say anything, especially the people of the Southern Empire. They are the most depressing thing. When the treaty was signed in the past, they said that they wanted the right to build roads.Now it’s for that reason. Many times these things are not so simple. The people of Cao’s Commercial Bank said that this road is to facilitate the lives of the people, but the people of the Southern Empire can see that they are on the front line of thousands of miles. The people of Cao’s Commercial Bank could not be stationed in all places, so they could only hoard troops at some points, but what if the people of the Southern Empire didn’t attack these places and bypassed them?They didn’t have any solution. The people at Cao’s Commercial Bank must have seen this potential threat, so they thought of other ways. The first thing they thought of was the issue of road construction, as long as it was what they called After the road is repaired, the Cao’s army can quickly go anywhere. In the past, Li Cong thought that as long as there were airships, it could be supplied, but after a war with the Western Empire, Li Cong did not Feeling that these things are so easy to do, he now understands that things are not as simple as he thought. The traffic in other places is temporarily out of control, but there is still no problem within the scope of his own rule. This is just an experiment. If this 40,000 km road can be quickly built, Li Cong will have 400,000, 4 million or even 40 million km of roads to build in the future.

In fact, since the people of the Southern Empire discovered the actions of Cao’s House of Business, they have begun to use a lot of small actions for the people of Cao’s House of Business, but unfortunately none of their actions have worked. They think When we wanted to incite the people to make trouble, some people killed them with a single word. When we followed you, we didn’t have anything. Even the food problem was not solved for us. How do your officials live their lives? , Eat ours, drink ours, and in the end they haven’t treated us as human beings, but the people from Cao’s Commercial Bank felt different after they came. Not only did they give us food and drink, they also found a lot for us. Work, have you done this?They really didn’t do it. Let’s not say that you haven’t fought a war yet. If we really want to change our current lives, we will stand up first and resist you. They will go to the former officials and landlords. ?These people should all support our southern empire, because we used to give you benefits. Now that Cao’s house has occupied this place, you don’t have a good life. You should support us. .But unfortunately, they guessed wrong again. These people didn't want to go back to the time when the Southern Empire ruled, but there were too many things to do to go back to that time.Do we have the guts to do it?That's impossible. We don't have the courage. You should know by looking at these people in our family. Didn't we get up and toss in the beginning?But at that time, when we got into trouble, there would be no one of you. To put it bluntly, we were treated as cannon fodder. Sorry, we won't be so stupid this time. Our heads are the most important thing.

In addition, Li Cong also made relevant regulations for the large number of southern empires in the occupied area.The common people everywhere are the best. The Baojia system established by Li Cong is also quite good. This leaves some strangers without the basis for their own survival. If you want to go to other places, it doesn’t matter. You can let you here. The person gave you a letter of introduction.Although it is easy to publish such a thing, it will be investigated when the time comes. Li Cong also told these people that it is a good thing to open a letter of introduction to others, but if the person you are driving out is out The problem is that you don't need your head. For a while, these meticulous works are except for those hidden deeper.Other people have no room to survive, because they have only just been here for less than a few years. It is impossible to have so much information at all, and only those senior meticulous works can stay. Others People are likely to be killed, they know that after they are exposed.They all fled the Cao's business house one after another. Li Cong had no opinion on their escape, but he didn't kill them all, of course.There are also many of them that can help us do things. For example, if some of the weak-willed are discovered by us, we can give you a new identity and expose you to the southern empire, so you have no choice. Continue to go back, and I can give you some money to let you live with me. Of course, you have to find out all the top and bottom of you. That's the only way to make those who think they think The good meticulous work that I have hidden has also come out. Now it can be said that there are people from the Southern Empire on the Cao's House of Business, but the number is definitely not that many, very few.

The battle between the Eastern Empire and the Northern Empire has begun to escalate. The people of the Northern Empire did not have any mercy. After the retreat of the Eastern Empire’s warships, they checked some of the Eastern Empire’s offices in the Northern Empire, and also removed them. The pot was occupied. In fact, the government of the Northern Empire did not intend to do that. It was purely because some frontline officers had red eyes. Some merchant organizations in the Eastern Empire were all very rich. Do you have a good future? Since the army can't give it to yourself, then you have to fight for one. Just like the one in front of you, you have to move them all to your own home. Otherwise, I'm really sorry. At the beginning, the people in the Eastern Empire didn't think that things would be so big, so they didn't say anything one by one. They just blocked the matter and hoped that the Northern Empire was there. They don’t even look for this if they take a low profile. Who knows that apart from stealing money, they actually liked Lihu. The people of the Eastern Empire had longed for the place of Lihu, and their naval power required It’s much stronger than the Northern Empire. The Northern Empire’s doing so is too shameful for them. If this is the case, we can teach you a lesson. The people of the Northern Empire brought a lot of ships to show their might. After wandering around Lihu, it seems that this place is already theirs, but the news from the Eastern Empire also made them feel that things are not good. More than 3,000 warships in the Eastern Empire are already sailing, and they can still handle this. But then the news turned out to be that the first to go out was the advance force, and the more than 200,000 ships behind were the main fleet. This is fucking bullying.

The Northern Empire had only half a million naval warships. The Eastern Empire came all at once. Although it was a long journey, it took several years to come, but the people of the Eastern Empire dare to come to this place. Come, they won’t be afraid of this. People must have their own supply plan. It turned out that the people of the Eastern Empire started to build some supply points in the coastal areas. Although this is the Warcraft Mountains, most of them are The warcrafts that know that rarely go to the beach, they all like to stretch out in the Warcraft Mountains, so if you want to build some supply points along the way, there is no problem. The three thousand warships in front can be said to be to build supplies. By the time, the ships behind will be able to transport supplies to the front line bit by bit, which can also support the front line. This is something Li Cong never thought of. I really did not expect the Eastern Empire. The people of are actually people with such advanced thinking, so they can grasp the essence of naval warfare so quickly. Some islands are of course very important, but seaside cities are also very important. No one is a fool for such things. Yes, the Eastern Empire can do it, can't the Northern Empire do it?In theory, there is no problem, but the Northern Empire’s financial capability does not allow them to do that, and they are now at the door of their homes. If they build a supply point, wouldn’t they just stay close and seek further distance, so the Northern Empire’s people let it go. A chance to defeat an opponent outside the country, now they can only wait for others to come to their own land to do things, this kind of thing is also done by those stupid people in the Northern Empire, replaced by Li Cong's words , It would never do such a thing, it was a fool.

This is why the development of the Northern Empire is different from that of the Eastern Empire. Such a gap cannot be completed in a short time, and it may be enlarged in the future, so the last enemy may be the people of the Eastern Empire. , This is also certain.