"The ten roads of the Tang Dynasty are paved with brick roads, like Qianmo being connected." Everyone couldn't help but gasp, and I have to say that the scene that Merton depicted was too tempting.

"Merton, do you know what you're talking about?" Qin Qiong was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly turned his head to Li Shimin and pleaded: "Your Majesty, Merton is young and ignorant, and he has no mouth to hide, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive me." ”

Li Shimin smiled coldly and said, "I want to hear these unabashed words. ”

Merton looked unconvinced and said proudly: "If before this, building a brick road is indeed a matter of labor and money, but now, the horseshoe has spread all over the Tang Dynasty, and I am no longer afraid of the wear and tear of the horse's hooves, the oversized load capacity of the four-wheeled carriage, and the ordinary rammed earth official road can no longer carry the sunny day. The time is ripe for the construction of brick roads. ”

Li Shimin sneered: "Is it understandable that the rammed earth official road has restricted the sale of four-wheeled carriages in Mojia Village, and you are trying your best to encourage the imperial court to build roads, and your biggest selfishness is to sell the four-wheeled carriages in Mojia Village." ”

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty also looked at Merton with a scrutinizing eye, and it is conceivable that once the ten brick roads of the Tang Dynasty are built, the sales of four-wheeled carriages in Mojia Village will definitely increase tenfold, becoming the biggest beneficiary.

Merton nodded without hesitation: "Mojia Village will indeed benefit from the four-wheeled carriage. However, Weichen believes that compared with the benefits obtained by the imperial court, the benefits of Mojia Village can be described as a drop in the bucket. ”

Li Shimin's heart moved, and he said: "Then you talk about the benefits of the imperial court." ”

"First, once the brick road is built, it is not easy to be damaged, once and for all, and the people's forced labor is reduced. Merton Road.

Fang Xuanling couldn't help but bow his head, the annual conscription, road repair is the big head, if the brick road is laid, a time to build within ten years of worry-free, the people's conscription will naturally be greatly reduced.

"Second, the brick roads are repaired, the materials flow between the roads, the business travel is endless, and the tax revenue of the imperial court will definitely rise sharply."

Wei Zheng snorted coldly: "Datang is agriculture-oriented, how much is the commercial tax?" ”

Merton disagreed, but did not refute in his mouth: "Commercial tax is a trivial matter, and the real role is the circulation of materials in the Tang Dynasty, the minister heard that Guanzhong has always been short of grain, usually need to transport grain from outside the customs, once the brick road is repaired, the cost of grain transportation is greatly reduced, Weichen assures, the price of grain in Guanzhong and Suwu and other places such as fish and rice are not much expensive." ”

Merton's move suddenly said to the hearts of the ministers, Guanzhong is seriously short of grain, every year from outside the Guan, the cost of transporting grain from outside the customs can be described as astronomical, starting from Emperor Wen of Sui, once the food in Guanzhong is tight, the emperor will bring the court to Luoyang to eat, and later the Tang Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, not without one of the reasons. Not to mention other places, the Guanzhong area is definitely in urgent need of such a brick road.

Merton continued: "Wechen thinks that there are three reasons why Datang needs to build a brick road, Datang has a vast area, taking Lingnan Road as an example, the road is far away, and the documents exchanged between the court and the court can only arrive in more than a month. If there is a brick road from Chang'an to Lingnan, it will definitely be able to arrive in ten days at most. The imperial court's ability to control must have multiplied.

Where the brick road is paved, it is the land of the Tang Dynasty. Merton snapped. Throw the biggest killer one.

Li Shimin's breath couldn't help but stagnate, in the face of the emperor everything is empty, only the country alone is the most important, it is conceivable that once the brick road is built, once the border is unstable, the imperial court will definitely be able to get the news in the shortest time, and mobilize troops and horses to quell the rebellion as soon as possible.

In the same way, once a foreign enemy invades, the imperial court can also form an effective counterattack in the shortest possible time, and the odds of victory are greatly increased.

Li Shimin suddenly breathed rapidly, obviously very excited, it is conceivable that once the brick road of the Tang Dynasty is rampant, the imperial court's control of various places will definitely be like a finger, and the country of the Tang Dynasty will definitely be stable.

Seeing this, Wei Zheng suddenly stood up and shouted: "Your Majesty think twice, have you forgotten the experience of the Grand Canal?" ”

"The Grand Canal!" Li Shimin's eyes suddenly regained a trace of clarity.

Emperor Yang of the previous dynasty of the Sui Dynasty recruited millions of people to build the Grand Canal, and finally directly shook the Sui Dynasty.

Wei Zheng pointed at Morton and shouted angrily: "The violent Sui is because of the abuse of the people's power, so that the second died, Merton, you actually have ill intentions and bewitched the emperor to retake the road of Emperor Yang of Sui." ”

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty also suddenly looked at Morton with an unkind eye, and the brick roads were built in the Tang Dynasty, and the amount of work was not much smaller than that of opening the Grand Canal.

Qin Qiong and the others also looked at Merton with worried eyes.

Merton laughed, and bowed his hand to the ministers: "When Weichen was building the road, he also sighed at the Grand Canal, and he was moved by a poem, and I asked you to taste it." ”

If Qin Huaiyu and the three of them were here, they would definitely lament, and the Mo family began to write poems again without saying a word.

And at this moment, the ministers of civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty showed an expectant expression, not to mention anything else, only the poems that were circulated, which of them were unique masterpieces, and most of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were poets, so they naturally wanted to see the good poems of the Mo family.

"Ten thousand dragon ships are green silk, and they will not be returned to Yangzhou.

It should be the Heavenly Sect that opens the water, and there are no mountains for more than a thousand miles.

As far as the Sui Dynasty died, it was a river, and it has been thousands of miles away.

If there is no water temple dragon boat matter, Gongyu will not have much merit. ”

After reading a poem by Merton, the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu suddenly sighed slightly in his heart, Mo Jiazi is indeed talented, and the Sui Dynasty died for this river, so far thousands of miles to Lai Tongbo, this sentence will definitely become a famous sentence through the ages, Merton's poem, that is, the reason for the death of Sui, can be regarded as the name of the Grand Canal.

"Since the opening of the Grand Canal, dozens of cities on both sides of the river have benefited from this, countless southern rice is transported to the north by boat every day, how many people have been able to survive, although Emperor Yang of Sui is tyrannical, but Mo can assert that the merits of the Grand Canal, even after a thousand years, will definitely benefit China." Merton said flatly.

"Weichen can say unceremoniously, a brick road is enough to reach half of the canal." Merton said unceremoniously that with the carrying capacity of the brick road and the characteristics of rain or shine, its transportation volume is not much inferior to that of the Grand Canal

The role of the Grand Canal can be said to be needless to say, and the court officials also know that a Grand Canal creates countless profits for Datang every year, and let Datang have a few more brick roads comparable to the Grand Canal out of thin air, and the benefits in it can be said to be heavenly.

Merton continued: "Moreover, the Grand Canal of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty caused the people to leave their homes, and even served for more than several years in a row, while the brick road was not, not to mention that its construction difficulty was much smaller than that of the Grand Canal, and the people did not need to leave their homes, but only needed to requisition the people along the official road. ”

After Merton finished speaking, Baiguan nodded in his heart, compared with the Grand Canal, building a brick road is indeed less risky, and there are many benefits.

In fact, not only Li Shimin, but also many of the hundreds of officials were moved, and the military couldn't wait.

Wei Zheng snorted coldly: "Fifty miles of official road in Mojia Village cost twenty-three thousand!" The ten roads of the Tang Dynasty are connected and there are thousands of miles, that is, nearly 4.6 million yuan, where did the imperial court come up with so much money. ”

"Four million six thousand guan!"

As soon as Wei Zheng said this, everyone immediately gasped.

At this moment, the Tang Dynasty has just been established, and it has accepted the mess of the former Sui Dynasty, and there is so much money to be rebuilt. Li Shimin and the others suddenly turned gloomy, the brick road seems to be good and the risk is low, but just buying bricks is enough to make people prohibitive.

Morton went up and said with a shy expression: "Mo still has a skill......