Section 1031 Construction of the Tang Dynasty (1)

"Oh, Your Majesty, it's not easy for the ministers to see you!"

The Zhang brothers were allowed to enter Wu Zetian's box when Princess Taiping left, and when they met, they complained a little and gave Princess Taiping eye medicine.

It's a pity that Wu Zetian didn't listen to it, which disappointed them.

She took a fancy to these two well-behaved faces, and even killed the martial arts family and her own granddaughter who spoke ill of them.

But she has a different view of Princess Taiping.

There's no way, this daughter is against the sky!

According to Wu Zetian's knowledge, the total strength of the Western Army is more than one million, and the control string is 600,000!

600,000 cavalry dispatched, such as the large-scale southward movement of the Hu people in the north, the emperor of the Southern Dynasty did not have a night to sleep peacefully!

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The train travels on the vast desert, and the sand sea can be seen outside the window as if the sand sea extends endlessly, where the sand dunes look like countless yellow dragons swimming in the sea from afar, the scales shine in the sun, and the sand sea looks like countless beehives have been built up up closely.

What is surprising is the greenery on both sides of the railway, on both sides of which drought-tolerant sand-tolerant plants such as red willow, sand dates, camel thorns and reeds are braided into grass squares, and 446 kilometers of sand-blocking fences made of cement iron railings and reed rows are erected on the outside.

The grass grid is generally one meter square, and its fortification is determined according to the sand dunes and wind conditions on both sides of the road, and the general width varies from 20~100 meters. The sand barrier is 1.3 meters high and 8 centimeters thick. Fences and grass squares stretch along the dunes, like a thousand-mile chain that binds the yellow dragon and immobilizes it, as well as a continuous green belt, like a "desert green corridor".

Its majestic momentum is moving, and it also adds a unique scenery to the great desert.

"If we didn't make the green belt to prevent wind and sand, soon the railways and roads in the desert would be flooded, so we used the groundwater in the desert to build long cement pipes so that we could irrigate the green belt." Princess Taiping explained.

The wonders in this desert amazed Wu Zetian and the ministers, and when someone asked how many miles such a green belt was, Princess Taiping said lightly: "More than 10,000 miles!" 2 million yuan is spent on road maintenance every year! ”

Everyone was shocked!

More than 10,000 miles of green belt was spent on how many people and property were used to get out, and after it was done, the maintenance cost was so high that Xifu dared to spend it.

Everyone noticed a phenomenon that sometimes when passing a house in the green belt of the desert, a man and a woman saluted the train, and the soldiers of the Western Army on the train also returned the salute.

"This is a road worker in charge of maintenance, a member of the military, usually a couple, and we have a couple almost every 25 miles. Every day, they take care of the water protection station where they are located, and at the same time walk the kilometers of roads under their jurisdiction, take care of the fragile vegetation along the roadside, and make sure that the drip irrigation lines are in good condition. It is also necessary to resist extreme living conditions such as high temperature difference, strong sunshine, and heavy dryness, and fight against the flowing wind and sand...... "Princess Taiping respects the authentic."

"They're willing to do it!" Everyone was amazed,

"Of course!" It's really not easy to do, so they are all admitted to the military, given them good treatment, and their children can definitely enter the military academy as officers!

Others watched the excitement, but Wu Zetian gradually understood why her daughter's westward expedition was successful, and Wu Zetian understood it better.

With the railway, it is possible to continuously transport personnel and materials to the front line, which is a major artery of the westward expedition!

As far as she knew, Wei Xi was busy with the war, and the logistics support was handed over to Princess Taiping, and the first priority of Princess Taiping's administration was to build roads, roads, roads!

She put a lot of power into building roads, year after year, building roads non-stop, laying a deep foundation for the legend of her husband's victory, and she has also become a legend!

Known as the "mother of infrastructure"!

The railway she presided over the construction of the railway, deep into the barren, overcoming countless difficulties and obstacles, the railway through the plains, grasslands, deserts, Gobi desert, forests, swamps, mountains and ......, she built countless bridges and tunnels, creating a lifetime of glory!

Wu Zetian had a complicated expression, and he was deeply touched after witnessing it with his own eyes.

In Chinese history, all emperors who have achieved a little bit are the big bosses of infrastructure madness (this is Wu Zetian's idea, she knows what it means to be a 'infrastructure madman' and ' The big boss'), Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ancient times, in order to conquer Baiyue, built the Ling Canal, connecting Lingnan and the Central Plains together, in order to facilitate the delivery of materials to the northern front, he built the Qin Chi Road, which is an ancient highway, which is 1,400 miles long, which greatly changed the Qin Dynasty's power balance against the Hu people in the north, the Qin army started from Xianyang, and traveled along the Qin Chi Road for three days and three nights to reach the northern front, and Hu Ma did not dare to cross the Yin Mountain!

Compared with the road construction of Qin Shi Huang and Princess Taiping, it is far from enough.

Princess Taiping presided over the construction of this artery that runs through the east and west, starting from Dengzhou on the coast of the East China Sea in the East, passing through Luoyang, and reaching the Bosphorus Strait that Eurasia longs for, with a total length of more than 16,000 miles!

The numbers alone are already sensational.

In ancient times, it was not easy to travel, and many people's life trajectory would not exceed 100 miles.

But Wei Xi's invention of the train changed the fate of many people and forged the legend of his wife.

The 16,000-mile railway is still double-tracked!

According to Princess Taiping, she has already started building a bridge across the Bosphorus!

Against the sky, against the sky, against the sky!

After the completion of the construction, he continued to advance to the coast of the Atlantic, from the east, her ocean (the name of the Pacific Ocean was given by Wei Xi, and everyone thought he was going to please his wife) to the Atlantic, more than 20,000 miles of railroad.

She's a slender woman!

Seriously, Wu Zetian was a little suspicious that the railway was actually built by Wei Xi, but the facts told her that Princess Taiping told her all the roads passing on the railway, like a few treasures.

For example, the bridge she just passed, ten miles long, cost 100,000 yuan of cement and steel bars, the data she knew very clearly, because it was the first bridge she presided over the construction of more than ten miles long, and she had come here to inspect as many as three times, she pointed to a hillside at the height of the bridge and said that she had lived there back then, and the mountain mosquitoes there were extremely ruthless, even if she was well protected, she was bitten by a bag, and her arm hurt for a week, so she was impressed......

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built a 3,400-mile Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which caused the anger of the heavens and the earth, and the railway built by Princess Taiping was 16,000 miles long, which was not only successfully repaired, but also won the heartfelt support of the people!

Suddenly, Wu Zetian felt that this daughter was extremely strange, and she had done something even greater than her mother and father!

Princess Taiping saw her doubts, and smiled sweetly: "Your Majesty, no matter what I do, I will always be your good daughter!" ”

Wu Zetian was relieved, no matter what, Princess Taiping would call her a mother..