Short video spoiler history: The beginning of modern warfare

Chapter 46: The Difficulty of Shu Road and Liquid Gold
While Zhu Yuanzhang and others were still pondering what a steam engine was, the sky screen quietly changed.

[The Sichuan Basin and the Guanzhong Plain are separated by two mountains: the Qinling Mountains and the Daba Mountains]

[Let's watch a video. These plank roads hanging on the cliffs were important passages for the ancients to enter and exit Shu.]

[If you don’t find food after a trip, the person may still be gone]

As the explanation went on, a plank road on the cliff appeared on the sky screen, winding upward. The road was so narrow that only one person could pass through.

You can also see iron chains nailed to the cliffs. Many climbers have iron chains hanging around their waists, holding the chains with both hands and moving step by step, not daring to look at the cliffs below their feet.

The perspective switches to the climber looking down, and one can see that there is almost no place to stand on the steep slope, and the plank road is only the size of a foot, and one can be crushed to pieces if one is not careful.
During the Zhenguan period, Chang'an City.

Chang'an was a prosperous city with many merchants from Shu. Ordinary people had long heard of the dangers of the Shu Road, but they had never expected it to be so steep. They were all stunned.

Inside Yipinju, many diners swallowed their saliva.

What is shown on the skylight was rebuilt by later generations, and it is impossible to imagine how the plank road was carved out in the early days.

[The Qin people were the first to build the Shu Road, and they spent decades to build a passage through Hanzhong]

[That is the Baoxiadao. After the road was built, the Qin people collapsed because there was still a mountain in front of them, the Daba Mountain.]

[At this time, the King of Qin thought of a way. He told the King of Shu that there were five cows in Guanzhong that could pull gold, which he could give to the King of Shu.]

The King of Shu was very happy and quickly found five strong men to dig a path through the mountain, which later became the Jinniu Road.

[As soon as the road was completed, the Qin army marched straight into the Sichuan Basin along two routes and destroyed the Shu Kingdom]

This anecdote tells the story of King Huiwen of Qin's plan to destroy Shu. Many scholars were very excited. When they came across a story they were familiar with, they would explain the inside story in detail and vividly, attracting other people's attention.

"This King Qin is too cunning!"

"Bullshit, it's obviously the King of Shu who is greedy!"

[Baoxia Road and Jinniu Road became the two earliest Shu roads that ran through the north and south. Based on this, people dug more Shu roads, divided into the northern line and the southern line]

[There are 7 most important roads. Most people will choose the Jinniu Road, which was opened the earliest, because it is closest to Chengdu. There is a famous pass on the Jinniu Road - Jianmen Pass.]

[Jianmen Pass is located in the middle of Jianmen Mountain. The peaks on both sides are like swords that go straight into the sky. There are 72 peaks like this in Jianmen Mountain, but only Jianmen Pass is accessible.]

[So during the Three Kingdoms period, the Shu general Jiang Wei's 3 defenders were able to resist the attack of the Wei general Zhong Hui's 10 troops here, which shows its importance]

[Later, Wei General Deng Ai sneaked across the Yinping Road in the west, bypassed Jianmen Pass, and headed straight for Chengdu, the capital of Shu Han. Liu Chan surrendered, and Shu Han was destroyed in one battle.]

Nanjun in the late Han Dynasty.

It had been a long time since there was any news about Shu Han. Unexpectedly, the next time he heard the news was the demise of Shu Han. Liu Bei felt dizzy for a moment.

Jiang Wei, Zhong Hui, and Deng Ai are all people I have never heard of.

"Rebellious son!" Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was overwhelmed by anger and was about to walk out with his sword in hand.

Zhuge Liang and others hurriedly stopped him: "My lord, the details of the defeat in Chengdu are still unknown, and there is still room for maneuver before the incident!"

"Kong Ming, don't try to stop me. This rebellious son is incapable of destroying the Han Dynasty. I must kill him today!"

Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and others hurriedly stopped him and finally persuaded Liu Bei to stop.

[The Migang Road was built to facilitate the entry of people from Sichuan into Hanzhong. For example, the battle between Zhang Fei and Zhang He in Shu Han was to defend the Migang Road.]

[The Litchi Road was built to facilitate people from eastern Sichuan to enter Hanzhong. In order to win the favor of Yang Guifei, Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty built this Litchi Road to transport lychees.]

[A horse gallops through the dusty world and the concubine smiles. No one knows that it is the lychees coming. This is what I am talking about.]

During the Zhenguan period, Chang'an City.

Li Shimin snorted, and suddenly understood Liu Bei's feelings towards Liu Chan, who wasted countless financial, material and human resources for a mere woman.
Following the explanation on the sky curtain, the people of Nanjun in the late Han Dynasty also learned about the Qishan Road, and even more about Zhuge Liang's six expeditions to Qishan and Ma Su's loss of Jieting.

Looking at Ma Su apologizing and Ma Liang begging for mercy, Liu Bei smiled bitterly. The rebellious son Liu Chan had even lost Chengdu, so how could he have the face to blame Ma Su?

The generals' eyes turned red, they had reached Mei County, and were only a little bit away from Chang'an.
Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and others persuaded and comforted everyone, saying that no big mistakes had been made and there was still hope for a turnaround.

Then he listed the clues that had been sorted out previously.

He entered Shu, pacified Hanzhong and was named King of Hanzhong, inherited the throne as King of Hanzhong, lost Jingzhou, his generals were killed, Zhang Fei was killed, and he was defeated in the Eastern Expedition to Yiling.

Zhang Fei's battle with Zhang He at Micang Road was probably before the pacification of Hanzhong, and his six expeditions to Qishan were after the great defeat in Yiling.

"Tianmu mentioned that when the lord inherited the throne, he rewarded Ma Chao. It seems that the threat from the rear was already resolved during the battle for Hanzhong."

"Cao Cao is definitely not someone you can easily deal with!"

Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong integrated the information and guessed it roughly after a little speculation.

It was unknown how many years had passed since the defeat at Yiling and the sixth expedition to Qishan.

The difficulty of trying to attack Chang'an with the strength of Yizhou and Hanzhong is probably difficult for others to understand. Liu Bei suddenly felt a little guilty.

Yecheng.

Cao Cao and others also restored the general outline of the matter, but they were still shocked.

Shu Han lost Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, suffered a great defeat in Yiling, and all its elite troops left. Liu Bei entrusted his son to the care of others in Baidi City. Later, Zhuge Liang made six expeditions to Qishan and entered Guanzhong!
Cao Cao's face was gloomy and uncertain. Zhuge Liang was a disaster and could not be kept!
"My lord, Liu Zhang knows that Liu Bei covets Yizhou and will never give up his foundation. We can form an alliance with him. If the two of them fight, it will surely consume Liu Bei's military strength, and there may be an opportunity to take advantage of it!"

"good!"

To the right of Qishan Road is Chencang Road, which is famous throughout the ages because Liu Bang openly built a plank road but secretly passed through Chencang to enter Guanzhong.

To the right are the Baoxiade Road, Tangluo Road and Ziwu Road.

The Baoxiade Road was the main road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong during the Han Dynasty, while the Tangluo Road was developed during the Tang Dynasty.

[Ziwu Road is the most difficult of all the ancient roads. When Wei general Cao Zhen attacked Shu, he took Ziwu Road.]

[As a result, the Dayu plank road was cut off, and Cao Zhen spent a month to cover only half of the distance. He had no choice but to retreat.]

[After the Litchi Road in the south was built during the Tang Dynasty, in order to deliver lychees to Yang Guifei more quickly, the Ziwu Road was rebuilt several times before it gradually became unobstructed.]

[For more than 3000 years, the difficulty of the Shu Road has made countless people sigh]

[Li Bai's poem says: Forty-eight thousand years have passed since then, and there has been no human contact with the Qinse]

[But today's Chinese Shu Road is amazing, including the Xicheng High-speed Railway, Lanzhou-Chongqing High-speed Railway, National Highway 108, National Highway 210, National Highway 212, etc. It twists and turns, tunnels and bridges, and travels from north to south.]

[If Li Bai were alive today, we could proudly say to him: The road to Shu is still there, but it is not difficult]

During the Zhenguan period, Chang'an City.

Looking at the winding roads crisscrossing each other and the high bridges supported by huge pillars, it is truly the case that mountains can be cut through and bridges can be built over rivers.

Even though I have witnessed incredible projects such as the control of the Yellow River and the Three North Shelterbelt Project, it is still so shocking and unimaginable to see that the closed Shu Road has been transformed into new roads that cross mountains and run through the north and south.

Under the sky, vehicles are speeding on the highway, and no one is going to where. There is also a long car, carrying something unknown, passing by. The bridges and roads are still standing tall under the scorching sun, which makes people yearn for it.

Compared to the reason why it could move freely that no one knew before, now we know that it is the work of the steam engine, unveiling its mysterious veil. During the Hongwu period, Jinling City.

Everyone stared intently at the scenes on the sky. The bridge piers stood from the bottom of the mountain to the middle of the mountain. A road was built on them, winding around one side of the mountain and passing through the mountain at the end.

Everyone watched as the car drove past and finally disappeared into the mountain that had been forcibly broken through.

This is Sichuan, the most isolated province surrounded by mountains, but its transportation is still so developed. You can imagine the situation in other places.

"So there was fraud in ancient times?"

"I worked hard but didn't get any money, and I also lost my family"

"The King of Shu just didn't download the anti-bombing APP [dog head]"

Who would have thought that Chinese people would cheat Chinese people?

Qin Xianyang City.

Ying Zheng looked at the word "fraud" and the corners of his mouth twitched twice.

"I used to think that lychees were sent from Guangdong to Chang'an, but I didn't expect it was from Sichuan."

"There are also lychee brothers in Panzhihua"

"It now takes 3 hours to get from Chengdu to Xi'an. My military advisor never got there in his lifetime. The Shu Kingdom perished in 263 AD. The ticket price is still 263 yuan."

"What would the prime minister think if he knew that he could travel from Chengdu to Xi'an for less than 90 kilograms of rice?"

Yecheng in the late Han Dynasty.

Cao Cao looked at the sky and said a few words, feeling helpless. He never expected that the Shu Han regime and its people would be so popular among the people that some people would still remember and cherish their memory a thousand years later.

The screen changed again, and it was a program where young people were chatting.

[Oil, known as the blood of industry and liquid gold, is the material basis of modern civilization. During the Anti-Japanese War, many people may not have noticed a detail]

[Is that why so many people are eyeing our resources like coal and timber, but no one is touching our oil? ]

[Logically speaking, we have many large oil fields, such as Daqing and Karamay, so why doesn’t anyone want to take advantage of our oil?]

[Speaking of this, there is actually a history of mistakes and some coincidences.]

During the Zhenguan period, Chang'an City.

"Coal!" Fang Xuanling exclaimed. This had been discussed before when mentioning the Little Ice Age at the end of the Tang Dynasty. There should have been related improved technologies in later generations, and this might be the key to allowing ordinary people to survive the long cold nights of the Little Ice Age.

However, the protagonist of this issue is not coal, but oil?

This is an extremely unfamiliar word, and no one knows what it means?
But whether you know it or not, this thing is liquid gold?
Everyone couldn't help but swallow their saliva. Could it be true this time?

[In fact, at the beginning of the 20th century, the influence of oil had gradually surpassed that of coal]

[But the oil exploration theory at that time was mainly based on the theory of marine oil]

[China's geological structure does not conform to that rule, so everyone thinks there is no oil in China.]

[At that time, some people were unwilling to give up and organized people to search in Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia.]

[But after searching for a while, they really didn’t find it. It was for this reason that no one thought of targeting China Petroleum at that time.]

[But after the founding of our country, I thought about this and felt that it was not right. If we look through many history books, we will find that oil has been recorded in many of them.]

[For example, the "Han Shu - Geography" records that Gaonu has Weishui, which can be dipped. Another example is that "Mengxi Bi Tan" says: There is oil in Yan territory, and it is said that Gaonu County produces oil water, which is this. In "Compendium of Materia Medica", Mr. Li Shizhen also ate oil.]

[And a lot of this oil comes out from underground, so how can you say we don’t have oil here? ]

"Bring the Book of Han to us!" Li Shimin gave the order calmly and ordered someone to bring the book.

"Your Majesty, I remember that Tianmu mentioned oil when he mentioned the Central Asian area before." A civil servant in charge of recording stepped forward and said.

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

"Is this true?"

"I dare not deceive your majesty, this is indeed the case!"

At a glance from Li Shimin, someone had already brought out the thick records.

During the Hongwu period, Jinling City.

Zhu Yuanzhang also gave the order in a hurry. Although he already knew the result, he still wanted to confirm it with his own eyes.

Coal and oil!
Especially oil, which is known as liquid gold, the blood of industry, and the material basis of modern civilization. These glorious titles are destined to be valuable.

And according to Tianmu, oil was not discovered and used until hundreds of years later.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but stand up and pace back and forth.

[Thinking of this, we decided not to follow the advice of foreign experts and just look for it among the people ourselves]

[Later, I met a local uncle in Xinjiang. With his help, we discovered the first large oil field in New China, called Karamay]

[But the matter is not over yet, because everyone found that the previous theory of marine oil was wrong. According to this theory, there should be no oil in Karamay, but the reality is that there is oil again.]

[This attracted the attention of many scientists. Later, based on the situation in Karamay, we proposed a new theory of terrestrial oil.]

[Based on this new theory, we discovered Daqing Oilfield, Shengli Oilfield and other oilfields one after another. Only then did we completely get rid of the label of a country that does not produce oil.]

[This incident seems to have a sense of God blessing China]

[No one can discover these resources when we are in a precarious and lack autonomy]

[And when we became masters of our own affairs and needed oil, they arrived just in time and as promised]

During the Hongwu period, Jinling City.

The video is very short and only talks about some past events in the process of oil extraction in China.

From the open comment section, we can get a glimpse of that shameful past, it’s that damn Japan.

From the few words we can see that the Japanese pirates who coveted oil were able to explore wantonly in the Central Plains, which shows what happened in the past.

Reading them one by one, I feel very sad.

"Dad, this Japanese country is causing quite a lot of trouble!" Zhu Biao was a little annoyed. How could such a small country like Japan dare to covet the Central Plains? It was really too much!
"Don't worry, there won't be six major anti-Japanese commanderies this time!" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly.

"From now on, that Xinjiang uncle has to spend money to buy lamp oil [covering face]"

"Little RB was really just a little bit off that time. This might be the fate of the country!"

Xu Xiake recorded petroleum

(End of this chapter)