no, 187 The construction of a road in a 40 stake in a 1-mile area is 40 stakes, and even if the cost is reduced to half, it will cost twenty stakes. The entire Tang Dynasty's road is tens of millions of miles, and it is less to say. In this way, how can the treasury get some money? Hearing Zhou Pengfei's answer, the officials present were all pondering and glanced at the direction of the Heavenly Immortal Palace. This immortal master can really give people a difficult problem.

"Your Majesty, this is actually not expensive. In the past, it would cost 16 to 18 to 100% of the road to build an ordinary road. However, when building a road on weekdays, it is usually a levy of labor and labor without the need for labor. It is enough to spend the labor and tool fees, and the food costs of labor and labor. Fang Xuanling looked at Li Shimin who was thinking, and also understood Li Shimin's thoughts in his heart, and spoke slowly.

As soon as Fang Xuanling finished speaking, several officials next to him nodded in agreement, but did not wait for Li Shimin to express his opinion. Someone among the officials said: "Master Fang, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has been basically no corvee service. Even if it is opened, it is just to assist in the construction of the city, and it will be dispersed in 20 or 30 days. If the road is built, it may be longer and the people will be borne. Who will go to grow grain? Furthermore, why did the pre-Qin and Sui Dynasty die suddenly? Isn't it that heavy corvee service triggering civil unrest? Although it saves money, it is also a big hidden danger." The person who spoke was Changsun Wuji. Changsun Wuji's power in the early Zhenguan years at the end of Wude was far less powerful than the late Zhenguan period. Now he is just a temporary subordinate to the Ministry of Revenue. If he really waits for Changsun Wuji to be as powerful as he later, he has to wait until Du Ruhui, Qin Shubao and others die.

But now, Changsun Wuji is right. The corvee service is indeed one of the most troublesome things for those in power. If the people are not levied, who will do the infrastructure of the critic? If the corvee service is collected, how can we control the degree? How much corve service was levied in the pre-Qin period and the tombs. In the end, it was not a sudden death, but became the first dynasty overthrown by the peasant uprising. Looking back, the Han Dynasty died in its prosperous era and ignored it. The Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties could not be called a great unification. The Sui Dynasty unified China, and what happened? Emperor Yang of Sui dug a canal and collected corvee service. He died in the second lifetime. What is this for the power in the Tang Dynasty now? A lesson from the previous experience!

Everyone knows that road construction is good, but everyone knows that the Great Wall is good at first. Now we can also see that the Great Wall is good. The Great Wall is the first line of defense against foreign enemies. Needless to say, it can be seen from the construction of the Great Wall in all dynasties. What about the Grand Canal? After the repair, it has not been for thirty years, but now it has become a major hub for commercial communication and personnel flow between the north and south of the Tang Dynasty. Who has no industry in the hands of these court officials? Who has not passed through the canal? When the rebellion in the south needed to dispatch troops from the north, it was not transferred through the canal. Although he still disdained Emperor Yang of Sui, the court officials were as clear as a mirror for the goodness of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.

This cement road can be seen through the horse racing of Li Shimin and the generals just now. It is definitely much better than this big dirt road. Although the soldiers who use transport materials for experiments have not yet come back, no matter how stupid it is, it is clear that the cement road is indeed faster and convenient than the original rammed earth road. For the country, the speed of transporting troops is faster. The speed of transporting materials is faster. In private, the goods of your own home can definitely radiate to the whole country through the cement road. For ordinary people, although you may not have so many things to transport and there are no horses galloping on it, it is convenient for you to travel. On weekdays, you can walk dozens of miles a day and have back pain and leg cramps? If you want to walk this road, it is a smooth road. It is not difficult to walk a hundred or eighty miles a day?

Li Shimin, the emperor and officials, understand these things, and believe that after the explanation, the scholars understand them, but can those people understand them? If you don’t know a word big, you might not understand them. In the eyes of the people, what is labor service? It’s a matter of losing half of your life! Besides, what does the road construction have to do with ordinary people? I haven’t guarded my own acre of three-part land yet, and it’s convenient to travel far away? I may never be able to leave my own county and village in my life. No matter how good the road is, it seems that the relationship with them is not that big. I have to work hard and have no money to make money, and I can’t cultivate the land. These sects can do it? It would be strange if I don’t riot for a long time. It’s okay to use labor service to build roads for dozens or hundreds of miles. If I build the road across the country, something must have happened!

"Oh, forget it. This immortal master gave us another big problem!" Li Shimin thought about it and couldn't think of a good method, so he couldn't help but sigh.

The ministers also expressed their deep agreement. They knew that it was a good thing but could not do it, which was enough to make them depressed. However, Huang Junming had already drawn this cake for the people of the Tang Dynasty, which made people very hungry. When they wanted to eat, they found that it was just a painting. They had to make it themselves, but they couldn't make it themselves. They just drooled at the pictures. Can it not make people resent?

"Your Majesty, since it is a question given by the Immortal Master, why not ask for the Immortal Master?" The fat man Changsun Wuji said softly.

Yes, since the immortal master said how to build roads, there might be a way to build roads without harming the people! Li Shimin and the ministers were awakened by Changsun Wuji's point. The eyes looking at the direction of the Heavenly Immortal Palace were keen again.

"You stay here first, I'll go to the Heavenly Immortal Palace alone." Li Shimin looked at the expressions of everyone asking for orders to go up the mountain and took the matter of going up the Heavenly Immortal Palace to himself. If it were said that among these officials, Zhou Pengfei, a sixth-rank green robe official, is it more familiar to Huang Junming, who is the immortal master. After the rest, Li Shimin, who is the emperor, will be given the national affairs to the Green robe official to ask. Is it a bit too cold? So Li Shimin decided to go on it by himself. As for the officials who did not have so much social interaction with Huang Junming, they also wanted to go up the mountain? It's very simple. This is a sure profit and no loss. Who doesn't want to go?

"After a while, the soldiers came back to record the time difference between them and the original road. I want to see how much better this cement road is than the original road!" Li Shimin turned over the horse, and before leaving, he did not forget to give instructions to his ministers. As the sound of horse hooves drifted away on the cement road, the court officials relaxed in addition to the necessary things, gathered together in groups of three to talk about the cement road we saw today.

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Sorry, I'm sorry, I have a severe cold in the southwest. I had a fever of 39 degrees and 5 degrees yesterday. I didn't have time to update it. Today I was also in a daze. Hey, the broken dormitory is minus ten degrees outside. I wear more clothes in the house than outside the house. I slept at night and got a cold, fever and runny nose. Today I'm just one chapter. I really can't write it anymore. I've gone to hang a drip bottle. Hey... (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations. Monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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