The spring breeze blows on the face, without the slightest coolness, with a fresh smell of grass and trees. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoSpring is coming, Luoyang City, which is like a big garden, is full of peach and willow green, and warblers are singing and dancing.

Xu Ping, who returned from admiring the flowers, looked at both sides of the road, and saw that it was still a little deserted, so he said to Yang: "The weather is warm, why is there no excitement in the market?" It's worse than in winter. ”

Yang Xue smiled: "That's natural, there were tens of thousands of Jingdong victims in the city a few years ago!" Now most of those people followed Wang Gongchen to the camp and field affairs, and there were less than 10,000 people left, and they were also arranged by Du Cao to go outside the city, where is there still such a lively. ”

This is the truth, when it was time to be busy farming in the spring, Wang Gongchen had already picked up all the people, and he couldn't delay for a moment. Agriculture is no better than any other, and once the season is over, it will be wasted for a year. Those who stayed in Luoyang were also incorporated into the newly built field affairs, because they were next to the canal, so they were naturally outside the city. As for the locals in Luoyang, how much can they increase in a year?

Where there is land, there is no people, and where there are people, there is no land, and it is really difficult to have the best of both worlds in this era.

Back at the Yamen of the Transit Division, a public official had already come up to report: "Du Cao, there is now Li Ji, the magistrate of Fangcheng County, Tangzhou, and there is something to report!" ”

When Xu Ping heard this, he hurriedly asked the public officials to take Li Jing to the reception hall of his governor's hall, and said to Yang: "This Li Jing is no better than others, I have known each other for many years, so we don't have to be formal, so we won't go back to change our official clothes." ”

After speaking, he went to the small flower hall with Yang Xu. As soon as the two of them sat down, Li Ji was led by the public servant and hurriedly walked in to greet the two. Xu Ping asked Li Ji to sit down and ordered the official to serve tea.

After drinking tea, Li Ji gave up his hand: "Du Cao, deputy envoy, Xia Guan got an errand to repair the road from Henan Mansion to Dengzhou a few days ago, and recently I have some eyebrows, so I came to report it." ”

Xu Ping said with a smile: "On the way back just now, I also talked to Deputy Envoy Yang about it. Now is the busy spring season, although you can't levy and send out errand service, but there are still van troops available, and what you can do might as well be done first. ”

"Du Cao is right, Xia Guan went to Lushan and Nanyang counties a few days ago, and they also said that it is not suitable for the people to levy and issue conscription at this time, and they will have to wait for a month or two anyway. According to the intention of the lower officials, that section of the road will be put aside first. ”

The southward road from Henan Mansion to Dengzhou does not take Fangcheng, but after passing Ruzhou to Lushan County, passing through Sanyakou and taking Lushan Pass to Nanyang County, which is also the ancient road that connects the Central Plains in the Jianghan area, and the important place of the Chu State in the Central Plains during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The reason why Li Jing, who was not along the way, was sent to preside, one was to not consider local interests too much and better coordinate, and the other was that Xu Ping gave Li Jing an opportunity to show himself. The independence of the governor is strong, and the status is high and the authority is greater, and it is not easy to transfer the transfer envoy at will, so it is relatively easy to use the general judgment and the magistrate.

After listening to Li Jing's words, Xu Ping thought for a while and said: "You can't put it all down, the conscription along the line can not be levied first, but you must send the bridge and road army to survey the road first." Including the route, the manpower and material resources to be used, there must be procedures first. It won't take many days to send peach blossom water, although there is not much rain in the north, but you can't take it lightly, it's always good to prepare early. ”

Li Jing promised and wrote down the matter. The box army that can be used now, in addition to the bridge and road box army under Lu Fang, there are also commanders such as Zhuangcheng and prison city that are available in every state. Zhuangcheng is specially built and maintained city walls, and the prison city is naturally equipped with troops, and the prisoners sent by other state armies are also the "thieves with the army" in ordinary people. Because only the prison city box army is filled with troops, and every state has it, it is considered a fixed establishment, and the other armies regardless of the forbidden army do not belong to the category of "thieves with troops".

If these manpower are arranged, the route is surveyed clearly first, and the approximate amount of labor can be obtained.

Having said this, Xu Ping said: "Around Xijing City, there are many coal mines between Xin'an and Mianchi, and they can be transported down the valley water and transported to the city along the waterway. The only thing is the lack of iron, and there are only Baofeng in Ruzhou that has produced more iron recently, and the money supervisor who built the small iron money before is also there. The road from Lushan to Nanyang can be put aside for the time being, but the section from Luoyang to Baofeng must be built as soon as possible. No matter how much is used in the new field work, iron is always indispensable and cannot be delayed. Li Ji promised to write it down carefully. This section is relatively mountainous, the population along the way is dense, the garrison is also large, and the manpower is quite sufficient, so it is possible to start work in advance.

Xu Ping said to Yang: "In the pre-Qin period, self-management was the prime minister, and the Qi country was rich in the world. Because it not only has the benefits of salt and iron, but more importantly, it is important to gather the wealth of the world. Only when roads are built, merchants come and go conveniently, and exchanges can we truly gather wealth. If the people of the world are only self-supporting and have no money to spare, this road will be useless. But can the world be called rich then? At least the least, in addition to taxes and land rent, you also have to plant for three years and have a year's savings to resist natural disasters. And once there is a surplus, it is necessary to communicate with each other. Otherwise, no matter how useful it is, if no one can use it, it will end up being nothing more than decay and uselessness, and having it is equal to nothing. We build a new field in Luoyang City, and the road to the four directions will not be sloppy, otherwise we will build things, but we can't transport them out and sell them, what is the use of the new field business? ”

Yang said: "Du Cao is right, without a road, everything is useless after all. Now there is the Luohe River and the Bianhe River through the Beijing Division, and the Yellow River is in the customs clearance, the only thing missing is the southbound avenue, and Li Zhixian's burden is really not light. ”

The basis of heavy agriculture and suppression of commerce is the self-sufficient small peasant economy, which of course does not need to be exchanged, and if there is a surplus of government requisition, there is no need for you to sell and exchange what you have, and the merchant is of course useless. This is the idea of Legalism, and the Qin State used one to rule the world, and since then it has become the mainstream thought of the world.

The basis of the commodity economy is that producers have surpluses in addition to satisfying their basic needs, and these surpluses need to be exchanged and commerce. When it reaches a certain level of development, the social division of labor begins to specialize in the production of these surplus materials for exchange, and the exchange of what is needed is to be exchanged. When it comes to the commodity economy, the first requirement of the economic center is the convenience of commercial exchange, and the transportation must be developed.

There are many rivers in this area, but due to the topography, there are several major water systems such as the Yellow River, the Huai River and the Han River, and the connection between the rivers is quite complicated. Yishui is not far from the Ru River, but one belongs to the tributaries of the Yellow River and the other belongs to the tributaries of the Huai River. How dare the water of the Yellow River system be diverted outward? One leads Luo into Bian, but also use the water in the middle of the separation, try to use mountain torrents and other water storage, and do not dare to lead the Luo River directly to the Bianhe River.

The tributaries of the Ru River to the south are not far from the tributaries of the Baihe River, and for thousands of years there have been regimes trying to connect the two, and it was the last large-scale construction of the Xianghan Cao Canal during the reign of Taizong, which ended in failure. This is related to the Huai River and the Han River, the two major water systems, the benefits are naturally huge, but it is also a cross-basin, the project is difficult, and there are many troubles.

Xu Ping has given up this kind of cross-basin canal project, there is no water diversion lake in the middle, the operating cost is large, and the future generations will be harmed if they are not careful. In the end, it was decided that the various water systems should develop internal water transportation, and the key places should be connected by land, which is the road that Li Jing is now building, connecting the three major water systems of the Yellow River, the Huai River, and the Han River by road.