"Ignore them first, it will be easy to add trouble to talk about it at this time, and when the north bridge is built, they will not be allowed to disagree. As long as they dare to shirk, their father is willing to get a broken bridge out, and then engrave the names of all the officials on the Liangzhejiang Road at the bridge, telling the people of the world that it is not that the king is reluctant to make money, but that someone is obstructing it! ”

If Hong Tao was bad, he didn't plan to discuss it with the officials of Liangzhejiang Road at all. We are the king of the Great Song Dynasty, and we have to beg for people to build a bridge, dream! You have the right, I have the money, whoever is willing to bear the infamy of the ages will try.

Wang Qi fled with the drawings in his arms, and went to Shen Kuo to discuss the details of the project. Staying with my adoptive father is a lot of unexpected knowledge, but the mental pressure is also a bit great, and he often talks about a good thing that benefits the country and the people into a bad thing that harms others and himself, and is complacent.

In fact, Wang Qi still underestimated his adoptive father, if he knew the whole truth, he would immediately have to go to Kaifeng to complain to the emperor, not so tricky!

Hong Tao didn't plan to build a bridge at all, what north and south bridges, what suspension bridges, and what dams the river were all made to hide people's ears, and the drawings were the same, all fake.

Wang Qi was right, with this money, it is better to get dozens of simple wharves and hundreds of ferries upstream and downstream. At this time, there are no railways, let alone logistics trucks and private cars, and the problems that bridges can solve can be solved by ferries, and the cost is even lower. As long as there are enough of them, the bridge has no advantage.

But every data on the drawings and every technical solution for building the bridge is true. Hong Tao did survey many times, and even used the water hammer of the sea ship to measure the water depth of the Zhenjiang section of Guazhou several times, and the data of the wet period, the dry period, and the non-abundant and non-dry period were all there, and they were also handed over to Wang Qi.

What is it called? This is called professional play. My uncle once said that making up nonsense to deceive people is a small trick that does not enter the stream, and the true meaning of fooling people lies in fooling themselves together.

When you really dissolve yourself in this game, play an important role alive and enjoy it, you can barely reach the glorious title of a big liar.

Hong Tao has long won the title of a big liar, this time he wants to challenge himself, it is useless to deceive the people around him, it is not good to deceive the enemy, and it is not fun to deceive the people around him with the enemy.

He wants to deceive everyone, and no one who has nothing to do with it, who is watching from near and far, wants to enter his own game, and has to assume his own role, and vividly interpret a scam into reality.

This idea was not improvised, it originated from the first time I entered the Yangtze River and saw Guazhou Island and the small sandbar in the river. At that time, I really thought about whether I could use their convenience to build a bridge across the river to directly connect the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River. If it is feasible, we will simply build a bridge on the Huai River to connect the whole south with the whole north.

In this way, goods and people from south to north do not have to rely only on a crowded canal, and the original post road can be repaired and connected from the northern border to the coast of the South China Sea. With the canal and the north-south arterial road as the center, radiating the branch lines in the east and west directions, what will be the situation at that time?

Tropical fruits produced in Liangguang can be transported to Kaifeng by land within ten years; The seafood from the East China Sea can also be put on the table of people in inland big cities within four or five days; The beef and mutton in the north can also go south smoothly, and the specialties of the Sichuan and Shu regions will go by land and water after the Yangtze River goes out of Sichuan, and the time for going north and south will not exceed ten years.

The era of great exchanges between the north and the south and the exchange between the east and the west will come, and it will play a decisive role in the country's economic construction and development.

Is there any chance that such a good thing will succeed? Hong Tao felt that there had to be. Aside from money and time constraints, there weren't many engineering challenges.

The ancients were able to build the Great Wall between mountains and rivers, and there is no reason why they can't open roads and build bridges when they meet water, not to mention the help of ammonium oil medicine, which is a hundred times easier than pure manual digging.

But should I do such a good thing? Not really. The great improvement in transportation conditions was decisive for the development of commerce, but it was not the only one, it was decisive for the strengthening of the centralization of power by the ruling class.

Since the Qin Dynasty, there has always been a local military coup in China, and there is only one reason: the land area is too large. Due to the constraints of transportation and communications, the central government is unable to keep abreast of changes in local political power, let alone dispatch troops to suppress it at any time.

At this point, China and its European counterparts have two completely different choices: the Europeans will retreat to the second best place if they can't rule too much area, and simply go their own way, not seeking great unification, but at most making an alliance.

But the Chinese rulers are much more persistent than their European counterparts, especially want to unify Kyushu, and they have to create conditions without conditions! If anyone becomes the emperor and does not make the land the boss, he will not be praised by future generations. They don't care what your people's livelihood and internal affairs are, and the land is not big enough is the original sin!

Against this cultural backdrop, China's rulers had to rack their brains to come up with all sorts of ways to strengthen the centralization of power. For example, Shang Ying, who did not hesitate to turn the people into fools, fools, and weak chickens in order to strengthen his rule.

Another example is the liuguan system, which began in the Han Dynasty, in order to avoid confrontation between the local government and the central government, all local officials could not be locals. In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, this method was even worse, not only could not be an official in his hometown, but even his wife's hometown could not go. At the most frustrating time, the law stipulates that two officials cannot be officials in each other's hometowns, which is collectively known as the Three Mutual Laws.

Later dynasties basically continued the basic idea of the three mutual laws, and Zhu Yuanzhang even played for a period of time with the southerners and the northerners, and the northerners and the south, as far away from their hometowns as they could.

It's a pity that after tossing for a long time, the old Zhu family didn't escape the local uprising, it can be seen that the official system is not the decisive factor, the system is not effective, and it is in vain for all the officials to let the aliens be.

However, Lao Zhu must have cultivated a lot of bilingual talents, at least he must be able to understand the local dialect, otherwise an official born in Tangshan, Hebei Province, will go to Sichuan to try the case, and he will not be able to have a translator.

This kind of system is also unchanged from its roots, does it have any effect? Indeed, ancient politicians were not fools, how could useless policies be tinkered with for nearly two thousand years.

However, there are two sides to everything, and there must be a good side and a bad side. By employing non-local officials, local forces have been effectively curbed, but local construction has also been greatly weakened.

Dare to ask who would go out of office after a few years of tenure, regardless of personal gains and losses, to build someone else's hometown? Under this system, most officials come with the idea of not making mistakes.

The so-called Qing officials have a chance to fight at most, standard opportunism, and will not consider the issue of policy succession. How convenient is your tenure, and will it have a negative impact on the work of the next term...... What the fuck does. Anyway, I'm not from here, and I will leave after leaving office, and I can't hear the scolding if I want to, and I can't taste the consequences of my mistakes in governance.

Whether it is a person or an official, if there is no restraint, the moral bottom line will immediately drop a lot. As long as you are not responsible, 99 percent of this matter will not be able to be done, and it is not surprising that the policy of patting the brain abounds.

At this time, back to the traffic problem, the centralization is already so strong, if Hong Tao builds the cross-river bridge again, so that the north and the south become a thoroughfare, is there still a way for local forces to live? At the slightest disturbance, the forbidden army of the imperial court will roll in.

The central government can still pinch its nose and say a few words of truth when the transportation is inconvenient, and now it's all free, I have a big fist, so I'll beat you! After the fight, you have to say that you are the scum of the nation, and the ancestral graves will be dug up.

Hong Tao is playing with his life, secretly encouraging the middle and lower classes of people to use the power in their hands and dare to protect their own interests, how can he do this kind of loss-making business where relatives and enemies are happy.

But the old saying comes again, everything has a fucking double-sidedness. Isn't it mentioned earlier that transportation conditions also play a decisive role in the development of industry, commerce, and economy, and it is also true that rapid development cannot be achieved without improving transportation.

This put Hong Tao in a dilemma, if you want to vigorously develop industry and commerce, you have to build roads and bridges, but building roads and bridges allows the imperial court to extinguish the small flames that you have lit anytime and anywhere, should you build roads and bridges?