Daming: Let you build roads, you have access to highways throughout the country

Chapter 19 is ordered to build roads

The first section of the road was built in Qingzhou City, so it attracted many people to watch!

In this era, the construction of roads and bridges was a big project, usually organized by the government, and sometimes, it would be organized by some rich merchants and landowners who wanted to accumulate good and merit, but the latter was generally to build a short section of road.

The roads in Qingzhou City have also fallen into disrepair, and many places have become dilapidated and potholed.

On weekdays, it is not uncommon to see the horse-drawn wheel trapped in a hole and come out in half a day.

This road, ah, is repaired, broken, not a day is complete, but everyone is used to it.

It’s good to say something on weekdays, but whenever it rains, it’s muddy and difficult.

Now, hearing that His Royal Highness King Qi was ordered to build a road, the people were clapping their hands!

Especially this time for road construction, there was no taxation, no collection of people, all the people were long-term and short-term workers hired by His Royal Highness King Qi, and all the expenses were paid by the King of Qi’s mansion, how could the people not applaud.

This road construction project, at the beginning, was quite normal, the foundation was tamped and repaired a little smoother.

This section of the road is considered the main road, and since the construction of the Qi Royal Mansion, it is this road as soon as it opens, and it naturally has to be repaired well.

The people have been discussing for the past few days, whether to sprinkle stones or sand on it, but when a truckload of asphalt comes over, everyone is dumbfounded.

At first, carriages came in from outside the city, and these carriages were all specially made.

The rear is not the usual flatbed, but a cylindrical tin can is built on it.

On the side, there is also a cigarette pipe, cooing with smoke, which is stronger than the smoke of ordinary people’s cooking.

There were special people, who kept adding some firewood to a stove below, and the carriage approached, and you could hear the gurgling sound of the tin can.

And when the asphalt was sprinkled on the ground, everyone woke up abruptly, and inside this large jar, there was burned hot, melted asphalt.

After the asphalt was sprinkled on the ground, the employees quickly flattened it with special tools before it solidified, and then the employees in the rear scattered the fine sand and gravel on the surface.

The first layer of asphalt will be poured into the surface and firmly grasped with the surface.

After setting slightly, a second crush is carried out to make it stronger and flatter.

After that, a layer of oilcloth is laid on it, and here the oilcloth replaces the original cloth. The tarpaulin is not complete, but one by one, it looks like a low-cost tarpaulin of very bad quality, this tarpaulin is not used for waterproofing, but to replace the cloth and extend the service life of the road.

The asphalt is sprinkled three times in total and finally rolled into shape.

Although it is nothing compared to the highways of later generations, in this era, it is already very luxurious and rare to be able to build roads with such high standards.

There was an indescribable smell from the road, which was unique to asphalt.

This will inevitably be severely criticized by environmentalists in the future life, but in this Qingzhou territory, it has become a landscape, and the crowd of onlookers every day is endless.

After the first section of the road is paved, it runs along here and on both sides.

Looking at this dark pavement, the people look at me, I look at you. It was very novel and weird, because no one had ever used this method to build a road before.

“What kind of road is this?”

“Listen to the people of the Qi Royal Mansion, this is called an asphalt road.”

“It will take three days to dry before you can pass, and you are not allowed to walk now.”

“Three days and two days, you can wait, but this kind of road seems to cost a lot of silver.”

Not to mention that so many workers have to pay for their wages, just to build the road surface, the materials consumed, obviously cost a lot of silver.

Others may not understand, but the oilcloth, can everyone not understand?

This thing is not cheap, His Royal Highness King Qi is actually so extravagant to build roads!

It’s simply unheard of, unseen!

However, such a large amount of money, used to repair the road surface of the Qingzhou territory, for the people of this area, it is a great good thing.

Looking at the gradually forming sections of asphalt roads, everyone was full of joy when they talked about it.

This road surface is black throughout, giving people a very deep and stable feeling, and it is more solid to look at.

The original smell of some bad smell, at this moment, only felt a little special, even, the people of distant villages, after hearing the news, deliberately ran to the city to take a look at this rare asphalt road.

This is the Daming Dynasty, the first asphalt road, there is no next land, but we Qingzhou is the only one!

The inexplicable sense of pride made the people straighten their waists when they talked with people outside!

The people who came to dare to see it on purpose, after returning to the village, inevitably bragged again.

Although the current process is relatively limited, Zhu Rong exchanged craftsmen who specialize in road construction from the system to command, and then hired so many hired workers to complete the workload and improve the quality of asphalt roads by increasing manpower.

From a distance, it is very flat and oily.

Looking into the distance, there is no end in sight, and when you look closer, it is clean and unstained.

No more such dusty scenes!

Jiangyin Hou has never taken His Royal Highness Qi’s tossing and turning seriously, only knowing that he has built some workshops outside Qingzhou City, and he has not seen it in the past.

The three farms in the manor were shocked by the walk around.

But His Royal Highness King Qi has prepared so many chickens, ducks, and pigs, it seems that he really intends to be an idle prince and immerse himself in eating, drinking and having fun.

Although there is no big future, but his daughter’s marriage is at least comfortable.

And now, after a large number of hired workers came to sign up, the manor is not so lively.

The old man thought that His Royal Highness King Qi had settled down, and his attention had been on the construction of King Qi’s mansion, studying the drawings every day.

Of course, the most concerned is the silver issue, and if he can’t send silver in the capital for a day, he can’t start construction for a day.

On this day, I pondered going to the site to compare the drawings, and then studying and studying to see if there was anything that could be changed.

And he came to Qingzhou City again, and the first asphalt road has been built!

This is a main road that stretches from the East Gate to the West Gate.

And now, it has been dried, and it is precisely the time to open.

This road has always been closed to traffic.

The east gate and the west gate are guarded by the city gate.

Today, I heard that His Royal Highness King Qi is going to hold a passage ceremony at the east gate!

At this moment, the people in the city all came out of their homes and stood on both sides of the east and west gates, most of them were at the east gate, because His Royal Highness King Qi, soon after, would appear at the east gate.

During this time, the name of His Royal Highness King Qi can be described as thunderous, everyone knows it, and the people want to see the demeanor of King Qi.

There are also some people at the West City Gate, and just waiting for an order, everyone will try this newly paved asphalt road for themselves.

Jiangyin Hou came from the west and was stopped at the West City Gate.

Jiang Yinhou jumped down from the carriage and looked at the black asphalt road, dumbfounded.

The last time I came here, I didn’t have this stuff!

How did this road come about?!

After a long delay, he grabbed the city gate guard next to him and asked, “What’s going on here, this, this road?” ”

“Back to Jiangyin Hou, this is the asphalt road that His Royal Highness King Qi has just built. Today, at the east gate of the city, worship the gods of heaven and earth, and the auspicious passage is the way! ”

When Jiang Yin Hou heard this, his eyes widened.

The road built by His Royal Highness King Qi?

Asphalt… Asphalt highways?

The answer of the city gate guard, like a thunderclap, exploded in Jiangyin Hou’s mind.

He suddenly remembered the scene when His Royal Highness King Qi was thrown into the Qi clan.

At that time, His Royal Highness King Qi was talking nonsense in the court hall and put forward three major suggestions, the first is to open the sea ban, the second is to attach importance to merchants, and this third is precisely to re-repair the official road, but also make a big statement, to get rich, first build the road, moreover, the road he built will not be invaded by rain!

This kid really ran to Qingzhou to build a road.

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