A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 258
Wang Xu was overjoyed when he learned that this Heshi Jade Bi was actually a treasure bearing the destiny, and hurried to the ancestral temple to ask the ancestors.

Although Zijue was in a deep sleep, he would still use the system's automatic reply to reply to these simple things.

Wang Xu asked about these treasures, and after learning about the magic of He's Bi, he wanted to find more treasures.

As a result, Zijue did not agree, but told him that although the Treasure of Destiny is good, it is just icing on the cake.If he could really change his fate against the sky, Chu State would not be destroyed by Huai State, and the Zhou family would not become the city lord of Luoyi.

Hearing this, Wang Xu gave up the whole world's idea of ​​looking for the Treasure of Destiny.But even though he dismissed this idea, he valued treasures like He's Bi even more.

After the Huai State annexed the Western Chu State, it expanded its territory to Jiangzhou and Hanzhong.It has already fully bordered Qin State.

The roads in Hanzhong and Bashu are difficult, and the logistics and transportation are difficult. In addition, the land of Hanzhong has just experienced war, and the people's livelihood is dying. A large number of fertile fields have missed the cultivation period. Places like Hanzhong and Jiangzhou need to recuperate.

Now it is not suitable to fight with Qin State, so after occupying Hanzhong and Jiangzhou, Sun Bin ordered people to seal off all the checkpoints leading to Qin State, and sent a large army to garrison them.

Next, Huai State needs to allocate supplies to help Hanzhong and Jiangzhou restore their vitality, and at the same time provide relief to the victims.Because of the war, there was not enough food in Hanzhong at this time, and Huai State was needed for support.

The roads in Hanzhong are difficult, the Han River is fast-moving, and there is a high chance of capsized ships. It takes at least [-]% to transport [-] shi of grain and grass to Hanzhong. Fortunately, the grain production in Huai country has always been high, even if it is due to the war. However, the size of the Huai country is large, and even the grain storage is enough to supply it. The only problem is transportation.

Therefore, Huai State returned to the road of building Chidao.

If you want to firmly control Hanzhong, you need to build roads, and if you want to transport grain to Hanzhong, you also need to build roads, and even use roads against Qin in the future.Wang Xu quickly agreed to recruit Minzhuang to build the road in Hanzhong.

Compared with the roads built in other places, the roads built in Hanzhong and Jiangzhou are extremely difficult.In this era, there is no gunpowder and no large-scale construction machinery. If you want to open mountains and split rocks, you can only use fire.First burn it with high fire for three days, wait until the stone is burnt red, and then pour cold water on it.

It is conceivable how difficult and time-consuming it is to excavate rocks and build roads in this way.

After Wang Xu agreed, Huaiguo immediately mobilized a large amount of supplies and people to build roads in Hanzhong and Jiangzhou. At the same time, there were many Yi tribes living in the mountains and forests of Hanzhong and Jiangzhou.

Some of these Yi tribes surrendered to Western Chu, some remained independent, and many of them were hostile to Western Chu and Huai.

Now that the road is being built, these hidden dangers must naturally be dealt with.Wang Xu ordered Xu Fan to lead five thousand Shanyue elite soldiers to pay these barbarians.

Those who are willing to accept the rule of the Huai state will be given preferential treatment, and those who are not willing to accept it will send a large army to conquer these barbarian tribes with a stick in one hand and sweet dates in the other.

Although most of these Yi tribes lived in the mountains and forests, they did not need to communicate with the outside world.On the contrary, many things must be traded with the outside world, such as ironware and salt.

As long as you master these, you can recruit some tribes who are willing to submit to Huai country, and then let these tribes attack the tribes who are not willing to submit to Huai country.The Huai country's Shanyue elite soldiers are the last resort.This is also the experience that Huai country has gained from its continuous expansion to the south over the years.

As for sending a large army to conquer, it is completely thankless. This is the lesson Huai and Chu have learned in the past.The mountains and forests are overgrown with vegetation, among which there are many poisonous insects, snakes and ants, and miasma. It is easy for a large army to conquer the environment and cause a lot of casualties.

It is the best way for Huai country to send Shanyue elite soldiers to fight on a small scale.In this way, the Huai State was able to pay off those barbarian tribes, and traded slaves with tribes willing to surrender to the Huai State.

The population of those tribes that were unwilling to submit was plundered and sent to Huai State for road construction.As for the population, Huai State is not too large, and the construction of roads in Hanzhong and Jiangzhou requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

Moreover, the mountain is steep, and the casualties of road construction are high, let these slaves come.At the same time, the Huai State did not intend to force these slaves to death. As long as they worked here for one year, they would be granted farmland and become private households of the Huai State.

Huai State enlisted a large number of people to build roads, and at the same time, the construction of Chidao in other places did not stop.Before Huai State annexed Western Chu, the population was already 100 million. Now that it has captured Western Chu, the population is close to 300 million.

It is precisely because of such a large population that the Huai country was able to allocate so many people to build Chidao.

The Huai State expropriated a large number of people to widen the road from Hanzhong to Xiangyang, which passed by the later Shennongjia.In later generations, the Shennongjia area is full of virgin forests, let alone this period.

Fortunately, the road passes through the edge, otherwise the construction of this road would be more difficult.

The flow of the Han River is fast, and Yunyang is surrounded by mountains and rivers, making it difficult for the Huaiguo navy to pass.In some places where sailing is difficult, the boat must be pulled by a tracker.

In addition to these, some places with difficult roads are built using plank roads.

The plank road needs to make holes in the cliff, then penetrate into the hardwood, and then support it with wood under the hardwood.Two strips of wood and rock form a triangle, and a layer of planks is laid on top of it next.In this way, a road was opened on the almost vertical cliff.

Huaiguo opened up the Chidao in Hanzhong, turning the road that could only be used by two people in parallel into a plank road with a width of two feet, parallel carriages, and a hundred miles.

Below the plank road, there are either the cliffs of the abyss or the surging river. It is extremely difficult to build, but after the completion of the construction, the distance from Xiangyang to Hanzhong has been shortened by one third, and it is also easier to pass.

However, because of the width of the plank roads and the fact that they must be built along the mountain and are too tortuous, these plank roads cannot be laid with tracks and cannot pass rail carriages.

In addition to the Hanzhong plank road, the Huaiguo road from Yicheng to Jiangzhou also used plank roads extensively.At the same time, because of the turbulent course of the Yangtze River and the numerous reefs in the water in Kuimen, a large number of trackers were also used here.

Jiangzhou and Hanzhong are connected with Huaiguo through two ways of water transport and plank road.

Hanzhong and Jiangzhou were short of food due to the war. Huaiguo also adopted the method of labor relief to recruit a large number of people to dig plank roads and build roads, which not only speeded up the speed of road construction, but also benefited the people.

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The ancient plank road of the Three Gorges and the ancient plank road of Hanzhong are a kind of passage formed by drilling holes on the steep rocks and building bridges to connect pavilions in ancient China. , The ancients who only had iron tools were able to dig hundreds of miles of plank roads on the cliffs. It has to be said that this is a miracle in human history. "Global History · Ancient Chinese History · Plank Road"

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