When Chu and Han competed, Liu Bang adopted Xiao He's suggestion, sat on the land of Hanzhong, and used Bashu as the granary, so that he could set the three Qin in the north and fight for hegemony in the east! and used the strategy of the strategist Zhang Liang to burn the plank road to paralyze Xiang Yu!

Later, when Liu Bang came back to dominate the world, he used the plan of repairing the plank road to secretly Chen Cang, and finally won the world!

In Xiao He's words, it is the land of Bashu, which is sitting on natural dangers, and can be attacked and defended!

It is a good place to avoid disasters in troubled times, but in prosperous times, it can be bitter for the children of Bashu!

Since the land of Bashu is owned by Datang, the traffic is extremely inconvenient, and it is extremely difficult to communicate with the outside world!

There are not many people in Bashu, but there are countless grains, but they can't be transported out, so the economic conditions have always been in a backward area!

In this great drought in the north, Bai Fan suggested that an army should be sent all the way to transport grain from Bashu out of the mountains, and Hanzhong to the north for disaster relief!

He also took out the mountain grain transportation artifact made by Zhuge Wuhou back then-Wooden Ox Flowing Horse!

Zhongnan Academy sent to Bashu to assist in transporting grain: Li Chengdao, Li Chengde, Li Chengxun, Qin Huaidao, Li Yexu, and Li Yehei!

And the four older brothers sent to Jiangnan were Cheng Huaimo, Changsun Chong, and the beggar gourd baby!

In order to speed up the speed of raising and transporting grain, the Bashu people were divided into three groups, Li Chengdao and Qin Huaidao, Li Chengde and Li Yexu, Li Chengxun and Li Yehei in a group, and purchased and transported separately!

When the chief official of Bashu heard it, the imperial court wanted to buy grain from Bashu for disaster relief?

Is there such a good thing?

I have never heard of it, in the past, the national disaster, either the country was unable to manage, or the management was also ordered to raise grain and grass, that is, the automatic delivery of grain for disaster relief, when did the world change? Will the national disaster relief food also be bought?

In fact, this is all Bai Fan's idea, it was originally an emergency life-saving food and grass, it was difficult to raise and recruit, and the imperial court still wanted to save money? How's that going to work? The eyes of the people are the brightest, and everyone knows who is good and who is bad!

Your court dares to set up a clever name to seize the fruits of everyone's hard work, it's okay, I can report less on the amount of grain in stock, and then it will be nothing more than a little less!

In such a vicious circle, the imperial court will never be able to raise food, and don't even think about surviving the catastrophe!

Now it's different, the imperial court has a foreign wool trade, it can be said that there is basically no shortage of money, if you can take money higher than the market price to buy the people's grain, then the meaning is different!

Those families who are rich in grain storage, seeing the benefits, will generally take out as much grain as possible and sell it to the imperial court, after all, such a grain price is not encountered once in many years!

In this way, you can raise as much food and grass as possible!

As I said before, what is Bashu? In the mountains, which are basically cut off from the outside world for trade, the most abundant food in the mountains is food, but so what? I can't sell it, I can't ship it! It's like having a mountain of gold, watching it turn into waste year after year, so its central acid is best understood only by the person concerned!

This time, the imperial court actually sent people down to buy grain, and they still bought as much as they wanted, so the chief official of Bashu who heard the news was almost fainted in surprise!

Immediately send people, no matter how dangerous the mountain road is, how far the mountain road is, within ten days, you must notify those areas with the most abundant grain reserves, and the opportunity to make a fortune that has not happened in a hundred years has arrived!

Don't do it for a few days, Bashu is boiling, since the court is coming, it should be true, everyone just needs to transport the grain to the fixed purchase place according to the document!

The people in the court obviously didn't expect that Bashu would be so harvested this time, originally thought that it would be an accident to be able to purchase two percent of the grain, but who would have thought, Bashu is simply a big granary, according to the rough statistics of the local chief official, only Bashu alone, can be purchased to meet the food needs of fifty percent of the disaster-stricken areas in the north!

In this way, there is a problem, there is a shortage of manpower! At least twice as many people!

Seeing the frowning of the imperial envoy, the chief official of the land of Bashu thought that the business was going to be yellow, and he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask why!

When I heard that it was a human hand, I couldn't help but laugh out loud!

"It turned out to be for this, in addition to producing food, Bashu also produced well-known men, and the imperial court was able to send people to Bashu to buy grain, although it was for disaster relief, but it was really helping the poor people of Bashu!

Now that the imperial court is short of manpower to transport grain, there is no problem, the official will tell the people, presumably after knowing this situation, the people will definitely help the imperial court transport grain voluntarily and free of charge! ”

Li Chengdao was puzzled, "Really? ”

"The envoy doesn't know! The Bashu people have been working hard for generations, and in order to be able to transport local goods out to their children and grandchildren in exchange for wealth, they can even not even take their lives! But the vast mountains around us are pressing us here!

This time, the imperial court gave the opportunity to make a fortune, and there was a secret treasure mountain to transport grain, which is a great thing, if this matter is not possible because of a lack of manpower, you can go and ask the people if they agree? ”

Hearing the words of the chief official of Bashu, Li Chengdao was relieved, and while collecting grain, he summoned craftsmen to build an artifact according to the drawings of the wooden ox and flowing horse, and promised that this artifact would be left to Bashu in the future to benefit the people!

Half a month later, a cart of grain finally went on the road from Bashu, and this time to transport grain, we must first go north from Jiange to Hanzhong, and then cross the Qinling Mountains from Hanzhong to the north!

The road is basically a mountain road, so the grain transportation team is very large, and the people of Shu are too enthusiastic, and finally there are almost 50,000 teams with the grain transportation team, the car repair craftsman team, and so on!

And this is only the first batch, Li Chengdao promised that the purchase of grain and grain transportation in Bashu will last for half a year, so there will be a steady stream of people from Bashu to transport grain!

It took a month to finally transport the grain to Hanzhong after going through hardships and dangers, and then it was Guanzhong after crossing the Qinling Mountains!

From Hanzhong to Guanzhong, you must cross the Qinling Mountains, the ancients did not have a mountain machinery, but they have infinite wisdom, and built a lot of roads to pass through the vast Qinling Mountains, which is the ancient plank road we know now!

And this time the grain army is divided into three routes and three ancient plank roads!

They are Chencang Road, which is the Chen Cang of the Ming Plank Road that was dark in the Chu and Han dynasties, and is now in: Chen Cang in Baoji in the north, and Mian County in Hanzhong in the south!

The other is the Bao Slope Road, the south entrance is in the Bao Valley north of Hanzhong, and the north entrance is in the Slope Valley of Meixian County, with a total length of 470 kilometers!

There is also the meridian road, the north entrance is in Chang'an County, called Zikou; Nankou is in Yangxian County, called Wukou, with a total length of 420 kilometers!

Three roads at the same time, divided into different routes out of the river into the customs, which can greatly speed up the speed of grain transportation, such a year of catastrophe, time is equal to life!

But the Shu road is difficult, it has been widely praised by people since ancient times, the wooden ox and the horse can make it easy for people to walk the mountain road, but this plank road, the road opened up on the cliff is good, although it is narrower, but as long as you pay attention to the foot, it is still safe!

However, some plank roads are not opened out of the mountain, but the predecessors have carved holes in the mountain wall, and then inserted wooden stakes or stone strips, and finally each one is connected to form a bridge structure, which is very dangerous to walk!

In addition, these plank roads have been in disrepair for a long time, and there has not been a large army walking through transportation like this for many years, so this plank road to transport grain can be said to be extremely difficult and dangerous!

Before taking the Golden Bull Road out of Sichuan and into Hanzhong, the 50,000 grain army was stunned and folded into 30 people, which made everyone who came to buy grain feel distressed and regretful! Claim that according to the martyrs of national salvation, each person will be given three times the pension!

But the Shu people said with relief: 50,000 in a plank road only 30 folded, it is really an eye-opener, it is nothing at all, as long as the court can be willing to buy grain from Shu, there are many Shu people who are not afraid of death!

With just this sentence, Li Chengdao's eyes were wet! These people do not hesitate to use their lives to fight against natural dangers in order to live a good life for their hometown fathers and elders, and this kind of feeling is absolutely touching!

And on the way to transport the grain, there are countless touching scenes, which greatly shocked the people who came out of the court, maybe this incident will be a turning point in the lives of several people! Among them, Li Chengxun's encounter is the most thrilling!

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