The honor is the people here in Quanzhou, Fujian, and the temperature in Quanzhou has dropped suddenly in the past few days, and the result is a trick. Yesterday was really groggy and so didn't update it, so I'm sorry.

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The resources collected and hoarded are headed for the cultivation of the huge palace complex, and you can imagine how many materials there are.

Hundred-year-old and thousand-year-old giant trees are everywhere, and they are placed in broad daylight to blow, sun, and rain. The reason why the giant tree is a giant tree is because it is very large, because it is huge and it is transported from Shudi, and great effort must have been put into transportation. The giant trees that were transported with great difficulty were left like this, and it was not said that some insects would inevitably breed, and it was inevitable that they would decay over time.

The stone is an ordinary stone, but once the stone is larger than four cubic meters at the minimum, it is no longer ordinary.

The terrain of Afang Palace looks good, there are mountains and rivers and plains, and there is no terrain trouble in establishing a metropolis, but whether it can become the construction of the capital is worth scrutinizing again and again.

Chang'an, the capital of Guanzhong, is destined to be the capital of Guanzhong, and it will also become another administrative center in the vast land, which will not only attract dignitaries to come and live, but will also inevitably develop into a pan-regional economic center, so whether the transportation is convenient is a very key issue.

Li Si is not so sure whether the address of Afang Palace can be used as the accompanying capital, so he will change the standard again and again, and finally say that it can also be used as a cemetery or hunting ground.

In fact, looking at the location of Afang Palace, it is Weishui to the north and Nanshan to the south, and the traffic road can be built preferentially, but the terrain becomes a narrow layout, which is relatively good from the perspective of defense, but as a multi-purpose metropolis it will be limited.

Lu Zhe repeatedly looked at the map of mountains and rivers, thinking about the location of Chang'an of the Han Dynasty in his mind, and after repeatedly confirming it, he estimated that Afang Palace should be about forty miles away from Chang'an of the Han Dynasty. I was hesitant, but I no longer had any doubts about making such a judgment.

"Here." Lu Zhe's finger pointed at the position of the road and said, "With this as the center, it is a good choice to build Chang'an. ”

In the following history, the road will disappear, that is because the Han family Chang'an was chosen on the side, and then the land of the road became part of Chang'an. Lu Zhe guessed that the Han family's choice of the capital city to be built in this location was inseparable from the materials hoarded by Afang Palace, after all, they were all ready-made materials, and it was unreasonable not to use them.

The emperor used an uncertain tone, and as a minister, he naturally wanted to give some advice.

Many people have put forward their own opinions. It's really about using the existing resources of Afang Palace, and only a very small number of people will talk about transportation issues.

In fact, choosing to radiate out to the periphery with the road as the center to build the capital Chang'an is not too big a traffic problem, and there is only land transportation that needs to build a new road. The empire is becoming more and more handy with the use of waterways, and the site selection of the capital Chang'an does not cover all the water and water. The remaining question is what is the water level of the two waterways connecting Weishui, and whether it is suitable for cargo ships with a deep draft.

Li Si seemed to have done his homework, he said: "According to the shipbuilding technology of the empire, the flat longboard ships that travel on inland rivers and ships of more than 500 tons will definitely not work, and there is no problem with the following." ”

In ancient times, "material" was actually used to determine the tonnage of ships. However, because Lu Zhe promoted the new counting unit, the people may still use the old counting unit, and the official has fully adopted the new counting unit theory. Converted into units, one material is 0.325 tons. Considering the rigor of the ancients about the unit of quantity, 500 tons is actually about 1,500 materials.

In modern times, a 500-ton ship can only be regarded as a small vessel, and the most common are boats on various inland rivers or offshore fishing boats. Nowadays, 500 tons can be called a relatively large ship, after all, the largest tonnage ship in service in the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet is 2,800 tons.

Nanling is located on the Yangtze River, and has enjoyed the convenience of water transportation for more than ten years. If he wants to build Chang'an, the capital of Chang'an, not only Lu Zhe will subconsciously consider water transportation, but some civil and military ministers actually think the same way.

The part that Li Si wanted to know the most explained it, so there were not many doubts left.

"The surrounding water conservancy foundation is good, Your Majesty...... Isn't it ......" Zhang Liang has been watching the map of mountains and rivers, and it is a pity to say: "Consider not occupying agricultural land, and move the location to the west?" ”

Water is needed for farming, and the large number of water systems around the road means that there is more land for farming, so you can understand it by looking at the topography of the water system. The terrain is clearly suitable for the excavation and construction of a canal to develop new grain production areas. In ancient times, as long as there was a "canal", it was basically dug by hand, and it must have been related to agricultural water.

Many people frowned when they heard Zhang Liang's words, they didn't think of this, but only Zhang Liang bluntly admonished.

There is a granary in Guanzhong, and the first granary is around Zhengguo Canal, covering a grain production area of nearly 1,000 miles; The second granary is the Wei Canal dug and newly built by the Han Dynasty at the back, which is located on the edge of the Weishui River to the east of the road; In addition, there are a number of artificially dug canals, such as the fruit canal, the Lingyi canal, the six auxiliary canals, etc., all of which have been built successively in order to increase the grain production area.

The people take food as the sky, and they can eat enough to make the people's hearts not disordered, and the people's hearts will be stable, and the country will naturally be stable.

"There are many granaries in the southern Xinjiang of the empire, and in recent years, most of the grain in the Central Plains and Guanzhong has been transported from southern Xinjiang." Zhang Liang said with a sincere face: "But there will always be some loss when it comes to transportation, and it is always good to increase farmland in various places." ”

Is Zhang Liang right? No one can say that what Zhang Liang said is wrong. But many things are not simply one plus one, and what seems beneficial is not really beneficial.

A country has a vast territory, and some big and small things are happening in the country all the time, which is the so-called "life of the world". The rulers of the country will plan, and many times according to the needs of the ruling party to determine whether something should be done, and whether it is good to do not that thing.

The same thing is beneficial, but it does not meet the needs of the current government, even if the state knows that it will be beneficial if it is done, but for the sake of the overall situation, it will still selectively ignore it.

Doesn't the center of the empire know that the more grain you have, the better? How could they not be fools who did not know this. But for the center, they think more than that.

When the country's finances are not in order, the choice of where to go basically depends on the urgency. But fiscal adequacy is still selective, restricting but not excluding regions and more complex matters.

In the Central Plains, Guanzhong, Yandi, and even many new territories, the basis of the empire's rule in each place was different. For example, Nanling, which was first held by the empire, was the most stable area of rule, and later radiated to various counties and counties in the Yangtze River basin, because the rule of these places was stable, and the center must choose these areas when it wants to develop.

The people's will will be subordinate, the rule will be stable, and other factors will make the center feel that there is a foundation for development, and it is willing to invest more finance, and it is good to be reciprocal with the people. Whether it is to strengthen the country, it is necessary to have a stable rule as a premise.

Are local countries in the Central Plains and Guanzhong under construction? Some. What is the reason for the restoration of the original foundation, but the development of new grain production areas without investing additional resources? It is because the central government feels that the rule of those places is not stable, at least not as good as the Yangtze River valley and other places that have been included in the rule.

It is certainly a good thing to increase the amount of grain production land, but from a political point of view, if there is a lot of grain production in places where the rule is not stable, if there is a recurrence in these places, the construction of huge resources will not be destroyed by war. After the rebels occupied these places, didn't the grain-producing land they had worked so hard to build become their capital to resist the empire?

It was a national policy that several areas in the south were built into granaries, and the counties in the north depended on the grain provided by the south. There is no upper limit to how long this national policy will last. The center needs to assess the attachment of the people in various places, and it is also necessary to assess the stability of the rule, and then the center will consider investing a new round of resources to carry out targeted construction.

Zhang Liangjiu was in the center, although he could not participate in the discussion of some core national policies. But his ingenuity should not have failed to grasp this. So what does he mean by mentioning this beginning? In fact, he wanted to fight for some welfare for his hometown, and some of Guanzhong's suggestions were just a "fulcrum" to pry into the loosening of the national policy.

"Thirty miles to the west is the address of Afang Palace." Lu Zhe didn't know if he was aware of Zhang Liang's intentions. He pondered for a while and said, "Then let's move, if there is less water and water, you can also choose to accompany Chang'an to be closer to Weishui, it won't have much impact." ”

The eyes of the group have been staring at the map of mountains and rivers, and when they heard Lu Zhe come up with the final decision, they smiled no matter what they were thinking in their hearts.

The scope of foundation construction of Afang Palace is too wide, and the foundation facilities near the foot of the mountain are the most complete, and many mountains are mostly dug up, so it must be planned in detail.

The construction of the city does not mean that the mountain cannot be included, but the prerequisite is that it cannot obstruct traffic, and since the address of Chang'an, the capital of the city, has been determined, it is time to consider more detailed details.

"When the construction was carried out at the foot of the mountain and on the mountainside, the palace was built, and the original plan was to build the 'Acheng'." Li Si pointed to the map of the mountains and rivers and said: "If you choose this place with the capital Chang'an, you can only define that mountain as where the palace city is located." ”

Acheng is the abbreviation, the full name is Afang Miyagi, you can know by listening to the name that it is a place similar to Xianyang Miyagi, which belongs to the private residence of the ruler's royal family. In fact, at the beginning, Afang Palace was used as a royal leisure place, and when the Afang Palace was established halfway through history, the first emperor was necessary to go out on patrol in the later period, otherwise he lived in Afang Palace, and most of the time he worked in Afang Palace, resulting in courtiers needing to find a place outside Acheng to build a manor.

Chang'an in the Han and Tang dynasties was not far from the location of Afang Palace, but although Chang'an in the Han and Tang dynasties had the same name, it was not the same city, in fact, there was no Chang'an City in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Chang'an in the Han Dynasty had long been in ruins in the war. Yang Sui's imperial capital was located near Chang'an in the Han Dynasty and was named Daxing. After the establishment of Li Tang, it was rebuilt on the original basis of Daxing, recalling the strong country in the Han and Han dynasties, inheriting the ancient name, so that Chang'an "reappeared".

The Han Dynasty set up the Shanglin Garden and was still a little far away from the Nanshan side, but the Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty moved some distance to the Nanshan side, which means that the Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty was already very close to the "100,000 mountains", and some cemeteries and even the location of the troops were even in the mountains.

The empire is constantly changing, gunpowder has been used for military purposes, even flintlock pistols and artillery have been built, and perhaps it can also be learned from the Li Tang regime to set up some ordnance manufacturing bases in the mountains, after all, it is easy to blockade and is also a rare place for people.

It was getting late, and the patrol team could only stop at the Bashang camp that night, and the emperor's stay in the barracks made the local garrison really excited, not only did the soldiers who patrol the task not rest at night, but almost all the garrisons always made a posture of defending, after all, it was a manifestation of the emperor's trust in them, no matter what happened, it was always right to make an attitude of swearing to defend to the death.

The young men of Qin are really almost empty, and of the 20,000 garrisons in the Bashang camp, only more than 4,000 people are recruited from all over Qin, and the rest are people from Han and Yan. They were trained here as cavalrymen, and after training, they would be replenished to the cavalry corps that was lacking, so there was a special horse ranch on the edge of the barracks, and the occasional neighing of horses could be heard in the distance at night in the camp.

There is no shortage of horses in the empire now, which is based on the premise that the tribes of Longxi did not flee, the Hetao was recovered in time, and the Zhao and Yan lands were not destroyed too much, and so on.

Longxi County is still one of the empire's major horse-producing counties, and the large tribes have migrated to the Hetao and northern grasslands, and the vacant pastures have been filled by the government or private individuals.

The Hetao is famous for its abundant water and plants, and the empire regarded the Hetao as an important horse breeding base. In the six years from the Hetao to the imperial calendar, whether it was originally held, seized from the grassland Hu people, or obtained from other channels, it was basically placed on the Hetao.

Relatively speaking, the horse breeding bases of Zhao and Yan are much smaller than those of Longxi County and Hetao County in scale, and Zhao Di and Yan Land are still like this, the Central Plains and the Yangtze River Basin, which are not suitable for breeding war horses, even if there are horse ranches, they can only be smaller in scale.

"In the next twenty years, the Imperial Cavalry Corps will be expanded to at least ten." Lu Zhe only said the National Defense Army, but he didn't include the forbidden army. He said: "We have been expanding outwards again and again, and we will be farther and farther away from our homeland, and there is nothing more suitable for a more mobile branch of the army than cavalry." ”

Although it is clear that the consumption of one cavalry corps can be worth three or four infantry corps, no one will object, the reality of the empire is that cavalry is needed, and having a sufficient number of cavalry can open up farther, which means that the harvest will be more.

There are only two directions left for the future development of the empire, the sea is the first, and the Western Regions is the second, which is why it is necessary to establish Chang'an, a companion capital, close to the Western Regions. (To be continued.) )