The former prefect of Henan was transferred to Guizhou half a month ago, because the imperial court was in a hurry, and he didn't even have time to make a simple handover with Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting calculated that when the prefect of Henan left, it was the time when he received the will to reinstate.

The first official position after leaving the office was Sun Chuanting of Shangqiu Zhi County, who was no stranger to Henan.

Henan is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, every time the dynasty changes, it is a place of war and disaster, plus a Yellow River passes through this place, every time the last years of the dynasty, the people of this land are full of disasters.

However, Henan is located on a plain, and the fertile soil and abundant water brought by the Yellow River make this land very suitable for agriculture. As long as the country settles down, this area will be the first to recover.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Henan was the area with the most frequent wars, when the Ming Dynasty opened the country, the population of Henan had been reduced to one-tenth compared with the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and a large number of fertile fields were abandoned.

In order to redevelop the Central Plains, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted a series of measures, such as relocating people to reclaim land and setting up guards and tuntian, so that Henan became a migrant society with mixed military and civilian populations.

After the end of the troubled times, the flooding of the Yellow River became the biggest daily threat in Henan. Because of the uneven distribution of servitude for water control, a large number of Lijia households went bankrupt, land annexation became more and more serious, and military attachés with hereditary privileges became the dominant ones in Henan's local society.

This situation was also seen by those in power in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the authority of the central government in the middle of the Ming Dynasty had not yet declined, so the rulers at that time still had the courage and spare strength to carry out the reform of enslavement and clean up the tuntian, which limited the political privileges of the military attachés in Henan.

However, soon a large number of descendants of military households in the guard station entered the government through the imperial examination, and gradually formed a family centered on the gentry, and established the local social domination system of the gentry class in Henan, which also led to the "abuse of clothing and crowns" in Henan.

The enlightened gentry, represented by Shen Li, Lü Kun, Yang Dongming, etc., advocated the idea of practical learning and devoted themselves to the local practice of rebuilding social order in Henan, but only alleviated the contradictions, but did not solve the problem.

After Wanli, the local suppressed township eunuchs and powerful forces rebounded in retaliation, leading to the rapid intensification of local social contradictions in Henan.

When Sun Chuanting served as the magistrate of Shangqiu, he had already clearly seen this problem, but as an outsider, he had to compromise with the local gentry and use moderation to appease the local people.

But soon he was transferred back to the capital, and then because of the fierce party struggle between the DPRK and China, Sun Chuanting, who did not want to be involved, chose to return to his hometown.

Sun Chuanting originally thought that it would take a long time to return to his hometown to recuperate. But he didn't expect that after just over a year, he received an order to recover, and he returned to Henan, where he had been a minister, only this time he was appointed as the prefect of Henan.

The sudden appointment, which did not receive any news beforehand, made Sun Chuanting feel a trace of worry in his heart.

He rushed all the way to Luoyang, only to learn from his deputy Feng Jie about the situation he was going to face.

The imperial court wanted to build a centralized grain trading market in Luoyang City, and build a land passage from Luoyang to Sanmenxia, connecting the water route from Xi'an to Sanmenxia.

If this road can be successfully built, the transportation conditions from Henan to Shaanxi will be greatly improved.

The treacherous shipping conditions from Sanmenxia to Xiaolangdi make it difficult to exploit the value of the Yellow River shipping.

Although there are trade roads connecting Luoyang to Tongguan, the mountain roads are difficult and difficult to travel in the mountains. In comparison, it is not as good as the 600-mile Shangyu Ancient Road from Qiyu Town, Neixiang County, Henan Province to Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province, which is more suitable for entering Shaanxi.

However, although the Shangyu Ancient Road is famous, it is only a mountain road that is 25 meters narrowest and 4 meters wide, barely allowing horse-drawn carts and donkey carts to pass.

However, the 300-mile new road from Luoyang to Sanmenxia is required to have a standard width of 8 meters, and some sections must not be less than 6 meters, and a new city will be built in Sanmenxia.

These are not the most important things, the important thing is that Henan Province has to raise one-third of these construction investments.

It is no wonder that after hearing the news of this road construction, the former prefect of Henan immediately accepted the appointment of the imperial court, and would rather go to Guizhou, which is poor and poor, than stay in Luoyang City, which is full of flowers.

And the officials of Henan Mansion will greet him so warmly after seeing Sun Chuanting's arrival.

In fact, you can't blame these officials, although Henan Mansion has a prosperous city like Luoyang City, but Luoyang City, including King Fu, there are 10 palaces. And the place outside Luoyang City was under the control of the squire Haoqiang and the officers of the guard.

Moreover, Henan Province is located at the junction of three provinces, and most of the area under its jurisdiction is mountainous, so this tax is naturally only enough for annual expenditure. Now the sudden construction of a grain market and a 300-mile thoroughfare, the additional forced labor for this purpose alone is estimated to make the local people, who are barely living, rise up to make trouble.

After learning about this news from his colleagues, Sun Chuanting could not sleep for a long time that night, and when he got up early the next morning, he received an invitation from Li Chaoqin, a eunuch who had come to Luoyang to inspect on behalf of the emperor, and asked him to meet and discuss the construction of the Luoyang-Sanmenxia Road.

Sun Chuanting hurriedly changed into his official uniform, and went with an entourage to follow the comer. On the south side of King Fu's mansion, in a relatively elegant mansion, Sun Chuanting met the chief eunuch who came out of the celebrant eunuch.

In the spacious lobby, the morning sun spreads in front of the small half of the hall, and today is obviously a sunny day.

When Sun Chuanting walked to the hall, he found that in addition to Li Chaoqin, who was seated at the top, there were several officials sitting on both sides, but they were not people he was familiar with, and they looked like officials sent from Beijing.

"Please sit down, yesterday I heard that Sun Futai finally arrived in Luoyang City, and the miscellaneous family took the liberty to ask you to come over to talk today, I think Lord Sun shouldn't be surprised, right?" Li Chaoqin smiled and greeted Sun Chuanting.

Li Chaoqin, who wore a python robe and jade belt and a mink cage beam crown, all showed his prominent status and status as valued by the emperor. After he left Beijing, the local officials who passed by on the road were all sincerely frightened in front of him, and did not dare to look directly at him.

However, Sun Chuanting ignored this, and just made a regular salute to Li Chaoqin without humility or arrogance, and sat down unceremoniously.

"Xiaguan already knew a little bit about the construction of the road between Sanmenxia and Luoyang City yesterday. Most of these 300 miles of avenues are located in mountainous areas, opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water, and the amount of work can be described as huge.

Moreover, the population in the mountainous area is already sparse, and with such heavy forced labor, I am afraid that the roads have not yet been built, and there are already civil unrest in the local area.

What's more, the avenue, which cost a huge amount of money, is required to be completed within three years, and Henan Prefecture will have to bear one-third of the cost of road repair, and the lower officials think that it is absolutely impossible..."

Sun Chuanting's face was grim, and before he could sit down, he clearly expressed his opposition in front of Li Chaoqin.

The smile on Li Chaoqin's face suddenly froze, if it was in the past, he would definitely have let people drive out this local official who didn't know the height of the sky.

However, although the outfit on his body can frighten those local officials who are not well informed, most of the officials in the capital know that the power of the celebrant is not as powerful as before.

And the eunuchs who were promoted by the Apocalypse, although they were not replaced by Chongzhen, they were also left aside for several months.

Now that Chongzhen is willing to let them come out to do something, he naturally doesn't want to make any bad rumors. What's more, the construction of the avenue has nothing to do with him, and today he is just playing the role of an introducer.

Therefore, after Li Chaoqin adjusted his emotions, he still smiled and said: "What did the officials of Henan Mansion say to Lord Sun, the miscellaneous family doesn't know very well. However, the miscellaneous family called Master Sun to introduce the significance of the construction of this avenue and the scale and source of the investment.

Lord Sun might as well be calm, listen to the introduction first, and then go back to the court to explain your proposition. Yan Shiqi, come and talk to Master Sun about the significance of building this avenue. ”

Yan Shiqi, the former secretary of the imperial palace and the former Guozi supervisor, suddenly stood up from his seat, and bowed to Li Chaoqin and Sun Chuanting, who was sitting opposite, before he spoke a little nervously.

"After the construction of the road from Luoyang to Sanmenxia, the cost of material transportation into Shanxi and Shaanxi will be reduced to more than one-tenth, which is about twice the cost of canal transportation.

And the amount of goods transported on this road every day will increase by more than 30 times as much as it is now. From Luoyang to the Sanmenxia area, vehicles will be able to pass through the whole process, and there will be no need to pick horses and people as in the past. The current journey of about 10 days will be shortened to 2-3 days.

This avenue will also greatly improve the traffic conditions of Xin'an, Yima, Mianchi County, in the past these three counties were surrounded by mountains, although they belong to Henan rule, but the traffic is inconvenient, Henan government can not timely and effectively manage these three counties.

The isolation of the environment in the three counties has also led to the difficulty of importing materials, resulting in high prices and inconvenient lives for tens of thousands of people..."

After Yan Shiqi's narration entered the state, the tension in his body slowly disappeared, and his language became more and more organized.

Sun Chuanting, who was originally worried that the construction of this road would increase the burden on the local people, listened to Yan Shiqi's account of the benefits of building the road, and couldn't help but feel a little difficult to choose.

The construction of this highway not only allowed Henan Prefecture to strengthen its control over the three counties in the mountainous area to the west, but also created a new trade route.

As a native of Shanxi, Sun Chuanting knew very well that the roads built by this standard were completely incomparable to the ancient roads.

The geographical location of Luoyang City will make this newly built road a thriving new trade route.

"So, how much money will it cost to build this road?" Sun Chuanting finally couldn't help but interrupt Yan Shiqi's words and asked.