Datang: Ten Years of Proton, Leading an Army of Millions to Return

Chapter 132: King Chu, King Chu, he...has given everything!
But he was also really curious.

Immediately.

With a smile on his face, Guo Chaodui walked towards a group of resting common people.

"Brother, what is this thing? Why is it so long? Why did you spend so much effort laying this thing? What is its use?"

"By the way, we came from the Tang Dynasty in the south and haven't seen it before, so we asked."

Guo Chao didn't give them a chance to look down upon them. He directly made it clear that he came from the Tang Dynasty.

Du Ruhui rolled his eyes behind him.

"Oh, he's from the Tang Dynasty, haha... This, this is called Yan Chi Dao."

"His Majesty said that when the paving is completed, many carriages and chariots can be driven on it."

The old man sat on the ground and smiled.

"Yanchi Road?"

Du Ruhui sounded familiar, but couldn't remember what it was.

Without waiting for Guo Chao to ask, Du Ruhui smiled and squatted next to him: "Brother, is this a road? Can cars walk on it?"

Du Ruhui was very confused.

Without him, it’s just because this Yan Chi Dao is too abstract.

They couldn't understand it at all.

The two wooden rails side by side are very narrow, not wide.

There are a lot of pieces of wood in the middle, and the gaps between these pieces of wood, as well as both sides of the wooden rails, are filled with stones.

You can drive on this road.

I'm afraid it would be difficult for people to walk.

It's not at the same level as the cement roads in the city.

"Yes, is it possible to drive on this road?" Qin Qiong was also confused.

Kong Yingda and others also have messy minds.

no matter what you think,
I can’t even figure out how to drive on such a road.

There are too many stones!
The old man who was sitting and resting smiled softly.

"We don't know either, but His Majesty said it's okay."

"Because Qin Chi Dao used to walk like this. The carriages moved very fast at that time! We Dayan are just restoring the glory of Qin Chi Dao."

Qin Chi said.

The entire route is a wooden "railway", which is no different from modern railways, except that others are made of wood.

Such a wooden road is called Qinchi Road.

And it has been passed down to later generations.

Even future generations can get a glimpse of the "railway" of previous generations thousands of years ago, which is very magical.

And this moment.

When he mentioned Qin Chidao, Du Ruhui suddenly woke up.

"What, Qin Chidao!"

"Qin Chi Dao... Yan Chi Dao... I understand, I understand! No wonder it looks so familiar. It turns out that this is the Great Yan version of Qin Chi Dao!"

"This, this, this, Dayan, is actually doing something so careless and effortless!!"

Du Ruhui's eyes widened in disbelief.

Qin Chidao was not in Chang'an, but he had visited once before, thinking about whether he could regain his country again.

After all, the existence of Qin Chi Road can make transportation more convenient and can open up official roads, which will benefit everything without any harm.

but….
The price is too high, too great to be believed!

So this plan was put on hold.

After so many years, Du Ruhui thought he had forgotten this thing long ago, but he didn't expect that he could still hear it in Dayan.

Build Qin Chi Road.

It consumes too much manpower and material resources. Dayan... Dayan is so determined!

Where did they get such a huge amount of finance? !
Du Ruhui didn't understand.

And in fact.

Dayan's treasury is about to overflow with wealth.

On the one hand, non-Han slaves were exploited and their blood and lives were used as oil for the Great Yan train. On the other hand, various government direct sales products such as perfumes and bicycles were launched, making massive amounts of money.

Outside, Chen Qingzhi could lead his troops to the Turks from time to time to fight against the autumn wind.

Down to many factors.

Dayan’s treasury is too rich!
Li Kuan is not afraid of having no place to spend money, but Li Kuan is afraid of having no place to spend money.

"What is Qin Chi Dao?"

Military attachés such as Chai Shao and Qin Qiong were trapped.

They are relatively powerful in the military field, but their political and economic aspects are relatively weak.

Du Ruhui quickly explained.

When he explained, Chai Shao and Qin Qiong both widened their eyes.

"This, Dayan! He actually has such finances!!"

They were also in disbelief.

Nowadays, it is difficult for the Tang Dynasty to even have enough food to eat. Even if it is full, it still needs repair work in various places, as well as the expansion of the army to guard against the Turks and the Great Yan, etc.

It can be said that the money is simply not enough.

Even if it were enough, it would never be needed for such flashy work as repairing Qin Chi Road.

Yes.

Flashy.

Although repairing Qin Chi Road can greatly increase portability.

But its importance is too low, and it costs a lot of property and material resources. Isn’t it just flashy?

can be determined.

Their generation doesn't know how to practice Qin Chi Dao at all.

But what about Dayan?
This country, which was founded less than two years ago, is actually repairing something so flashy.

They...are they so rich?
Where does the money come from? !
Qin Qiong and others were really confused.

As an expert in economics, Du Ruhui was even more horrified and could not comment.

The more we stimulate the economy, the more we understand the necessity of repairing Qinchi Road.

But Dayan just did it...
From a certain perspective, Dayan's national power... is so powerful!
"It is a pity that so much manpower, material and financial resources are wasted on Yanchi Road just for transportation convenience."

Du Ruhui couldn't help but lamented.

"Waste? No, no, no, it won't be wasted."

"His Majesty said that as long as Yanchi Road is built, it will take more than half the time to reach Liaodong City than usual, and the city will be more portable. Because bicycles and other products exist and are competitive, the price of carriage rental is very cheap, so we usually People can also ride in horse-drawn carriages.”

"This transportation is more portable, so things like delivering things during wars, visiting relatives in peacetime, etc. are much more portable."

The old man kept explaining.

The nouns that come out of my mouth keep popping up every time I open my mouth.

Very cultured.

And there's a reason for that.

He has not read the book.

But when Yanchi Road was being built, many literate people came here to point out and talk about it, so they just wrote down some of it.

now.

These words stunned Du Ruhui.

This makes sense...

Is this what a farm worker should say?

When I think of the farmers and workers in the Tang Dynasty, I have no idea. When I think of the farmers and workers here...
The corners of Du Ruhui's mouth twitched.

This great inflammation, even the farmers and workers are better than some of the scholars in the Tang Dynasty.

This is outrageous too!

and this.

In fact, it is also a country. When it becomes strong, it naturally exudes confidence.

Just like any scholar from any village in later generations, if he goes to Feizhou, he will be regarded as a very literate person.That's a good statement.

I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail.

The Phoenix tails of their Great Yan, such as this farmer and worker, were better than some of the Chicken Head [scholars] of the Tang Dynasty in terms of culture.

"Wait a minute, this Yanchi Road..."

suddenly,
Du Ruhui seemed to have thought of something, widened his eyes and said, "You...you still want to build to Liaodong City?"

How far is Yanyun City from Liaodong City?
As a civil servant, he didn't know.

However, Yanyun City was once an important city of the Liang Kingdom, and Liaodong City was an important city of Goguryeo. It can be said that the distance between the two countries is the same.

This distance is unimaginable.

Does this also require repairing Yanchi Road?

Wow…how much financial, material, and manpower is needed!

Du Ruhui was extremely shocked.

I instinctively thought this was bragging.

He is also an expert at this.

Those who work as an economist often like to flatter their subordinates and brag.

In order to stimulate their fighting spirit and motivation.

but….
Countless magical things appeared in Dayan, which made Du Ruhui hesitate again.

Could it be that they weren't bragging?
"Hahaha, the repairs have reached Liaodong City, yes! They are already under repair!"

Looking at Du Ruhui's jaw-dropping look, the old man was so proud that he even straightened his back and was a little proud. This was the self-confidence given to him by the country of Dayan, the self-confidence in facing foreigners.

He straightened his back, extremely confident, and said loudly: "And it doesn't just have to reach Liaodong City."

"In the entire Yanchi Dao plan, I secretly saw the tip of the iceberg. His Majesty also planned to cultivate it to the Tang Dynasty."

Go to the Tang Dynasty to cultivate?
What is he doing! !

When Du Ruhui heard this, his heart skipped a beat.

Qin Qiongchai Shao and the others were all startled.

And soon.

The old man solved their confusion.

"It's good to build it until the Tang Dynasty. This is good! There are many barren mountains and ridges along the way between the Great Yan and the Tang Dynasty. There may be bandit Turks. When building the Yanchi Road, His Majesty will definitely send heavy troops to protect the road. It will become a safe zone in the future. Some people can go back to visit their relatives!"

The old man said with a smile.

The old man's words were actually one of Li Kuan's intentions.

This year has passed, and it has been more than a year since he left Datang.

During the period of blood and tears last year, many people of the Tang Dynasty came to visit him and encountered too many misfortunes.

Many people died on the way.

Swamps, biting cold winds, Turks, Goguryeo and so on.

Multiple dangers.

Therefore, it is very necessary to establish an official road guarded by Dayan's army.

There may be many difficulties and obstacles along the way. No Turks will stop because this is the Great Yan official road, but the Great Yan army will escort them, just like General Baihu escorted those people back to Youzhou.

Escort all the way.

in this way.

The security may not be [-]%, but at least it is safer than before.

Is not it?
"Such a vast project, Lord Dayan... is really awe-inspiring."

Du Ruhui couldn't help but speak.

Then he realized that he had said something wrong and quickly changed his words: "Ahem, brother... Hey, look, what do those people do? Can you tell us?"

Du Ruhui changed the topic.

At the same time, I was really curious about those people not far away.

The old man looked along Du Ruhui's finger and saw a group of people on the wooden track. They were all teenagers and girls.

He holds a ruler, notebook, and pen in his hand.

"Oh, them, they are students of the academy."

"Look at that school uniform... They should all be students from the Department of Transportation. Their major is wooden rails, so they come here from time to time, and teachers will lead them in practice."

"When they graduate, they will be our bosses."

"Oh~ They are all professionals, how good they are! They are much better than us who do hard work. They don't use physical strength."

The old man was amazed and envious.

Then he seemed to think of something and said quickly: "Hey~ By the way, I said you should hurry up and register a household registration with the government? Our Dayan is much better than the Tang Dynasty."

"What are you looking forward to in the Tang Dynasty? Come to our Great Yan, here... you have everything you need, and it all belongs to us people!"

The old man did not forget to promote Dayan.

I want to pull Du Ruhui and the others over.

Du Ruhui snorted coldly.

"How is Dayan?"

"Brother, I don't think so."

"Look at you, you are already this old, and you are still forced to do corvee by the Great Yan government. But in our Tang Dynasty, at your age, you are exempted from corvee."

Du Ruhui retorted.

He wanted to poke the old man's sore spot.

Let the old man know that Dayan is not so perfect.

Qin Qiong also nodded repeatedly. After all, after such a long time, after Du Ruhui reminded him, he finally discovered that Datang surpassed Dayan.

"That's right, brother, at your age in Datang, you can be sure... you don't have to do anything."

"But Dayan is different. He still wants you to work. This is tyranny!"

"Yes!" Kong Yingda agreed: "Brother, I advise you to return to the Tang Dynasty. There is no such tyranny in the Tang Dynasty."

"After all, Dayan's rapid development was achieved with your physical strength."

Use the blood of one generation to exchange the labor of several generations.

in those days.

Isn’t that what Yang Guang is like?

When the Grand Canal was being excavated, corvee labor was imposed, and people as young as thirteen or fourteen years old, or as high as six or seventy years old, had to work.

Then, everyone knew about it later.

The government forced the people to rebel!
The people cannot stand such tyranny!
But who knew, the old man shook his head and looked at Du Ruhui and the others with great disgust.

"What? We are not doing corvee work, we are doing work."

"Our Great Yan is developing rapidly. It is true that many people shed blood and physical strength, and some even died of overwork, but those are damn slaves!!"

When the old man said this, his eyes became fierce: "They! It would be a shame not to die!"

It was the first time for Du Ruhui and others to see the talkative old man become so terrifying.

They had seen those slaves when they entered the city. They were all Turks, Goguryeo and other foreigners.

There were no Han slaves. Even the Han people who had helped the Turks enslave the Han people did not let them do slave work after the King of Chu came to power. Instead, they were all executed directly on humanitarian grounds.

The nobility of the Han people made the King of Chu look down upon him... Han people were slaves, even dirty Han people.

Du Ruhui sighed.

Come to think of it, this old man has an unknown past, right?

In fact it is.

The old man was once a slave, but now, under the leadership of the King of Chu, he became a slave and became his master.

When he returned to his status as a master for the first time, he would still be afraid of those former foreign slave owners at first, but now that it has been so long, he is no longer afraid!I even wanted to kill those people myself!

"Ahem, that's off track. Where did we go?"

Hearing this, Du Ruhui was about to remind him loudly, but the old man smiled and said, "By the way, I remembered it."

"You think I'm a corvee, no... I'm not."

"Corvee service in the Tang Dynasty was compulsory and had to be performed. Even if you were sick, you had to do corvee service."

"But this is not the case in Dayan. This is a job. I am a worker on Yanchi Road. We have to get paid every month. And if you want to work, you can work. If you don't want to work, you can just resign. There are four hours a day." Eight hours].”

(End of this chapter)