I became the son of Renzong

Chapter 214 Exploding This Mountain Ridge
Guochao never regarded land as a mode of transportation.

The lack of horses is one aspect, the key is that the shipping is fast and cheap.And the most important point, the territory of Guochao is just so small...

The Yellow River Basin should be the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which can basically cover most of the northern state capitals of the country except the Northwest Frontier State and East Road.

Not to mention the south, there are rivers and lakes everywhere, and there is no need to land.

During Zhao Xi's trip this time, he really saw Guochao's so-called official way.

In Guochao, the land road to the south was called the auxiliary road. Although there were many post stations, it was difficult to compare with the post stations on Jingxi Road to the west.

Officials from the south went to Beijing, even if it was Jingchu Road, they would use the Yangtze River water transport to the east, and then turn north to take the water transport route.

Zhao Xi knew that most of Henan was in the plains, especially in the east and south of Henan. There were hardly any mountains, but densely covered with rivers.

From Bianliang City to Xiangzhou direction, to Fangcheng Mountain, Yimapingchuan.

It has passed through four or five rivers, including Guohe, Helu, and Shaying.

The development of shipping was promoted due to Guochao's orientation to water transportation.

Every river has merchant ships.However, due to the inability to pass through the north and south, the scale and volume of these merchant ships are much smaller than those of the Bianhe River.

If there is a transportation line that is no less than the transportation volume of the Bianhe River, running through Xiangzhou to Bianliang, don't think about how busy this transportation will be.

Such a transportation line related to the country should have been dominated by the court.But no!Even if Guochao belongs to his family in name, it won't work.

Zhao Xi didn't recklessly hand over the report directly, not to mention the matter of refuting face, as for Guochao's current difficult situation, he didn't want to make things difficult for his father.

How many times, since he couldn't take over the water transportation, Zhao Xi always talked about the track when he was playing and chatting daily.

At the beginning, the husbands were purely novel, and they listened to it, but only as a novelty.

When Zhao Xi went deeper and talked about the importance of orbits to the country, no one found it novel.

There should be a backup plan for doing things, or you should try to think of possible accidents before things start.

Just like Zhao Xi now, even though the official way makes him look down on him, he still has to use the official way as a backup for emergency treatment.

Therefore, he wanted to lay tracks along the official road.

The official road can turn at will, but on the Huanghuai Plain, everyone knows to take it straight, and build a bridge when it meets a river, and there is no curvature that is not suitable for laying tracks.

It is also this direct access to the Huanghuai Plain that led to the fact that the official road did not turn until it reached the foot of the mountain in the area of ​​Fangcheng Mountain.

Stopping at the post station built by the mountain, a group of people worry about the mountain.

As for the track, both the Guard Camp and the Xinqian Supervising Workshop have samples, and the straight is the first.This is the general understanding of everyone.

Compared with the curve, the speed of the straight track is not one or two points faster, it is not the same.

The key point is that the track envisaged by His Royal Highness is drawn by horse-drawn carts, and the sleepers in the curve are laid, which will inevitably lead to a difference in the distance between the inner and outer crossrails.In this way, the speed of the horse running will be different, which will easily cause rollover...

Looking at the post station, one side is straight, and the other side can't see the bend in front of the road...

"Your Highness, why not lay it at the gap in Fangcheng Mountain."

gap?There are at least three or five miles away from the post station. The key is that the gap cannot be straightened, and it still has to be detoured.

Laying from the gap means that the existing post station resources can be fully utilized after being separated from the official road by a certain distance.

And for this section of the journey, building a new post station is another big expense.Merchants are used to the route, and before they change their minds, these post stations are raising a large number of idlers.

As far as Guochao is concerned, Zhao Xi really doesn't want to support idlers anymore.

The track was laid, and his purpose was to combine the Guochao post station with the track site, so as to separate the cost of these people from the imperial court...

The solution of the three redundancy must not be simply disassembled and revoked, as that will only increase instability.

Zhao Xi's purpose is also simple, to find a job that is much better than eating and waiting for death for some of the people who are burdensome, so as to change the situation of the court supporting too many people.

Between increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, Zhao Xi believes that increasing revenue is more important than reducing expenditure.

"Go over the mountain tomorrow and have a look before deciding!"

Zhao Xi probably has a spectrum. This should be the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains, and it is also the position where the so-called north-south line is drawn.This also means that this mountain is not alone, it should be a mountain range with ups and downs, continuous, and possibly forming gullies.

That is to say, it is very possible that the official road was built next to the mountain...

The mountain on which the station is backed is not high, and the vertical height is only 20 meters to the naked eye.Zhao Xi and others left the horses at the station and started climbing the mountain early in the morning.

Sometimes mountains and rivers can really deceive people, or there is a saying that "mountains are heavy and rivers are full of doubts, and there is another village."

When they climbed to the top of the mountain and looked south, there was another unobstructed view... just such a small mountain.

"Hey, it's just such a big mountain. If it's a conscript from the imperial court, it may take a year or two to dig through it."

Is it sent?Zhao Xi never thought about it.He never thought that this method of assigning laborers was reasonable, and he also knew that it was the most inefficient way.

The servants handed tea, water and rewards.And dispatching service is the only practice in the whole country that does not have reciprocal rewards.

This morning, the air is quite fresh.Zhao Xi sat down on the ground without any image... This small hill is really annoying.

Hold the ground in your hand...it's bluestone, that is to say, it's limestone...

Limestone is ground into foam, clay is added, clinker is calcined, mixed with ash, calcined again, and then mixed with gypsum... This is how earth-made cement comes about.

For a moment Zhao Xi became clear.

"Blast this mountain ridge and make the track line straight!"

My Highness!The guard battalion has become a profiteer, and it is hard to make some money when the old and new coins are replaced, which is not enough for the cost of building the track.

Now it's time to blow up this mountain ridge again... Doesn't gunpowder cost money?

Although the imperial court has granted the gunpowder ammunition to equip the forbidden troops, the military supervision has not yet been completed, and the imperial court has not yet ordered the gunpowder ammunition. That is to say, the current gunpowder raw materials are still supplemented by other livelihoods in the guard camp.

Just saying that casually would blow up the mountain ridge... Everyone didn't know how to persuade them, so they just stared at the convulsed Highness with wide eyes.

is it hard?It is only a mountain ridge of 30 meters, Zhao Xi thinks it is really not difficult.

It's not to make people learn from Yugong Yishan. When equipped with explosives... black powder is also explosives.With explosives, it really shouldn't be a problem.

In the later period, those villages and villages spent a lot of years digging roads, not to mention the magnificent buildings built collectively in a specific era.

It's just blasting a mountain ridge.Today, there are hundreds of thousands of Xiang troops in the country, and there are even more idle and useless forbidden troops.Let them have other crafts, and then live as individuals.

I have been busy for a long time, and I have only solved the way out for tens of thousands of people. This time...

(End of this chapter)