Chapter 47: Relieve worries and solve doubts Yuan Tiangang

Li Daozhen looked at her drooping hair in the bronze mirror (a virgin hairstyle in the Tang Dynasty), sighed a long time, she messed up her hair and combed it into a lush bun.

Xiaotao looked at Li Daozhen's hair style, pouted and said, "My wife, this is a woman..."

Before Xiaotao finished speaking, Li Daozhen raised her eyebrows and said unhappily: "I want you to talk too much!"

Xiaotao retreated embarrassedly.

Although Li Daozhen's makeup was impeccable and beautiful, Li Daozhen did not give the order to stop, and the two maids with pigtails did not dare to stop. In the room, more than a dozen large boxes had been locked, and the whole room seemed extremely empty. Several servants carefully carried the locked boxes back and forth.

Li Daozhen looked outside the house from time to time. Suddenly, Xiaotao saw two people carrying a mouthful of sandalwood boxes tilted, and hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, it's the vase that is filled with my wife's beloved, breaking your legs..."

The sound of gentle footsteps sounded, and Li Daozhen quickly adjusted his mind and sat upright. Li Daozhen's eyes instantly fell on the knife in Li Daoxing's hand.

Li Daozhen asked knowingly: "This is..."

"Sister really doesn't know?" Li Daoxing handed the horizontal sword in his hand to Li Daozhen. Chen Ying's horizontal sword was not surprising, but the sword at the level of General Zhongwu and above was slightly different from the horizontal sword in the Tang Dynasty. The horizontal sword used by ordinary soldiers belonged to the seventy-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh-seventh

Li Daozhen took the horizontal knife and slowly pulled out the scabbard and looked at it carefully. After looking at it for a long time, Li Daozhen was suddenly stunned and even put the scabbard into the scabbard, reaching his hand in front of Li Daoxing: "Come on!"

"What?"

"letter!"

"What letter!"

Li Daozhen didn't say nonsense, raised his horizontal knife and smashed it at Li Daoxing's head. Although the horizontal knife was not unsheathed, if this knife was hit, Li Daoxing would definitely not be able to get out of bed for half a month.

"Don't!" Li Daoxing quickly took out the letter Chen Ying wrote from his arms.

Li Daozhen opened the envelope, and only 28 words were included: "I once thought that I had a lot of emotions and harmed the Brahma practice, but when I entered the mountain, I was afraid that I would be able to see the whole world. How could I get the Dharma of the whole world and live up to the Tathagata and you will not let you down."

Originally, Li Daoxing really didn't understand what this meant. At this time, he murmured: "Don't let down the Tathagata and don't let down the Qing... Hey, this bastard is so beautiful..."

Li Daozhen showed a murderous look. Li Daoxing felt a chill behind his back, so he quickly changed his words: "Sister, can you not leave? Brother, you go too. I have no intention of staying in Chang'an."

Li Daozhen's tears flowed down.

Li Daoxing said: "Aren't you worried about... those gossips? Who dares to talk too much? I tore his mouth."

Li Daozhen handed the letter to Xiaotao: "Lock it up!"

"Lock it up?" Xiao Tao was puzzled and murmured: "Isn't these just a few words?"

"This is gold not changed!" Li Daozhen picked up Chen Ying's horizontal knife and raised it forward: "Set out and go to Lingzhou."

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As early winter began, the first snow in Chang'an City did not fall for a long time. Although the weather was getting colder, the Chidao project could not be delayed. Chen Ying had to bite the bullet and take the post immediately.

The Tang Dynasty court was very efficient at this time. With the issuance of a decree by Li Yuan, the civilians recruited by Jingzhao area began to arrive one after another.

The drawings of the Ministry of Works were also placed in front of Chen Ying. Chen Ying had to separate the civilians from ordinary civilians who had skilled skills, and then organized the ordinary civilians into several small teams based on the family, township, and city as a clan. First, dig canals on the edge of the official road to fill soil and level the road, while civilians who know how to craft will carry out track construction work according to the prescribed standard sizes.

At this time, a huge construction site was formed on the official road from Chang'an to Huazhou for more than 100 miles. As many as 50,000 or 60,000 civilians were working vigorously at the same time.

Although Chen Ying was in charge of the construction of the Chidao, in fact he didn't have to experience it himself. He also had a doctor in the Ministry of Works, a doctor in the Water Department, four staff members, and six other twelve officials assisted him. Chen Ying divided the eleven assistants, each of whom shared the work.

The doctor of the Ministry of Works is responsible for the quality control of the road, the doctor of the Ministry of Water is responsible for digging ditches and filling soil to level the road surface, and the other four officials and six chief officers are responsible for the control in sections.

At the same time, Chen Ying also had dozens of old officials of Hou Mo Chen family led by Xu Jingzong, who existed as reviewers and tracked the quality throughout the process.

Although Li Yuan only needed Chen Ying to act and confuse Wang Shichong and Li Gui, Chen Ying did not want to deal with the obstacles like this. He really wanted to master such a way of enlightenment. For a long time, Chen Ying only noticed Guanzhong's strategic position, but forgot another benefit brought by Guanzhong's strategic position.

Guanzhong is well-connected because there are four levels of defense, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. During wars, people who flee in Hedong, Hexi, Luoyang and Shandong often choose Guanzhong first, which is a place where talents gather.

However, since the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Guanzhong has lost its foundation as a capital, and in later generations, Xi'an could not even be ranked first in the top second-tier cities.

To put it bluntly, Guanzhong was overdeveloped and destroyed the ecological balance. As time went by, Guanzhong's population increased, and the land in Guanzhong was not enough to feed the more than 4 million people in Guanzhong. In this case, Guanzhong needed all counties and states in the world to fight against the horse, but the backward transportation methods in ancient times wasted a large amount of valuable resources on road transportation.

If Chen Yingcheng built the Chidao, he could take advantage of Chang'an's geographical advantages and make Chang'an a commodity distribution center. As the starting point of the Silk Road, Chang'an's materials have never been able to support Hexi, which has made the grain prices and living costs in Guanzhong inflated. Once the Chidao is completed, such Chang'an can be safe and sound.

However, another very serious problem is facing Chen Ying. If all the tracks on the Chidao were built with wood, it would be not enough to cut down all the trees in Guanzhong. The key is that the wear of the wood is really amazing.

However, it seems unlikely to use steel rails in this era. The key is that the steel production of the Tang Dynasty was too low at this time. Chen Ying thought about it and decided to restart the blast furnace steelmaking plan in Lingzhou.

However, at this time he was no longer the head of Lingzhou. He could not take care of Lingzhou's affairs. Suddenly, Chen Ying's head flashed and he decided to go to the East Palace to see Li Jiancheng and seek a solution.

When Chen Ying came to the East Palace, he was about to go out at the entrance of the East Palace Palace. Just when Li Jiancheng was raising his legs and about to get on the carriage, Li Jiancheng saw Chen Ying.

Li Jiancheng waved his hand at Chen Ying and said, "Chen Lang, it happened to be here. I will take you to see a great sage."

Chen Ying smiled slightly and said, "Where is the great sage worthy of His Royal Highness's condescending reign?"

Li Jiancheng whispered: "Yuan Tiangang!"

Yuan Tiangang was in office at the end of the Sui Dynasty and served as a salt official. He was a free official, and used his skills as an elegant talk. He had traveled with Du Yan, Wang Yan, and Wei Ting, and showed them one by one. He said that Du Yan "Lan Tai, the school is complete and extensive, and will show his articles" (Lan Tai, also known as Jin Kui", and is a 'Xiankui', which refers to the left nose cell. That is, the nose wing, the school, and the part in front of the ear gate, which is the intelligence and intelligence), said that Wang Si "has been completed, and the heaven and earth are approaching, and the fifth rank of officials for less than ten years" (Di Tai, the vertical lines on both sides of the nose wing to the edge of the mouth), and said that Wei Ting "face is like a tiger. He should use martial arts as an official". These three people seem to be at a high level, but Tiangang warned: "But all three kings will be punished for a long time, so I will see it."

Later, Du Yan was later appointed as a bachelor, Wang Lian was appointed as the crown prince Zhongyun, and Wei Ting was appointed as the left guard. All of Yuan Tiangang's prophecies were fulfilled.

Occasionally, I heard Wei Ting say that Yuan Tiangang has the art of face-to-face skills, and Li Jiancheng was very surprised and wanted to find Yuan Tiangang to solve his worries and doubts.
Chapter completed!