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Li Shi reported that Longmen Shipyard is indeed developing a new ship with a hollow bow, which is close to the launching stage.

Qin Mu resisted a strong impulse and did not go to Longmen Shipyard immediately.

He was afraid that he would go, and he couldn't help but make irresponsible remarks. In terms of science and technology, Qin Mu slowly learned to control himself, and was more about providing a piece of soil for the craftsmen of Daqin, rather than pulling out seedlings to help them grow.

For example, the steam engine, although it was made out in advance by itself, but in fact, because the basic industry is too weak, its efficiency has not been fully reflected.

It's like "Chirp! A satellite was launched, but there was no satellite receiving station on the ground, no mobile phone, this satellite was just a meteor, and it could not play its due role.

The steam engine is also quite similar, after the continuous improvement of the craftsmen, the steam engine can basically be used, but the various supporting textile machines have not yet been able to have a revolutionary breakthrough, can not really transform the power of the steam engine.

In addition, the basic industry is too weak, and the steam engine cannot be produced on the assembly line, so it can only be built one by one by relying on the craftsmanship level of individual craftsmen.

This is the negative effect of the promotion of seedlings.

Longmen Shipyard here, with the ingenuity of the craftsmen themselves, has made a breakthrough, if you go to point fingers, it may affect the performance of the craftsmen.

When the craftsmen have tapped out all their abilities, if they are not satisfactory, they should adjust it appropriately, which should be better.

The next day, the Xuanzheng Hall was always in court.

Secretly instructed by Qin Mu, Xu Feihong, a member of the Ministry of Labor, asked for the official road from Changsha to Kunming.

As soon as this watch was handed to the emperor, a stone stirred up a thousand waves, except for a few important ministers, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty disregarded the etiquette of the court, and immediately discussed it.

Shang Qingchen was even out of class during the Ministry of Rites, and loudly reprimanded Xu Feihong, thinking that this was a disaster to the country and the people. Shang Qingchen's words were supported by many people, and the court was divided into two factions and debated with each other.

In this regard, Qin Mu, as the emperor, had already been prepared, and he stayed out of the matter and let the court argue endlessly.

He had in mind that China in the nineties of the twentieth century.

At that time, China was not wealthy, but it invested heavily in road construction and vigorously developed domestic transportation. Most of the road construction money is a bank loan, and there is a toll to repay the loan.

Although ordinary people have a lot of complaints about "tolls". But from a national strategic point of view, there is no doubt that this move is the foundation for China's economic take-off.

Without the huge investment on the road in the nineties of the twentieth century, it is difficult to imagine such a brilliant economic take-off in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Now that there are also a large number of deposits deposited in Huitong Bank, Qin Mu is thinking about it at the moment, whether it is also in the form of a bank loan to renovate the road in Daqin.

The people of this era do not have such a concept, and an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang even wants to nail all the common people to the land. It is forbidden to leave the township at will, and if you want to go far away, you must have an official road guide document.

Under such a concept, who would devote their energy to building roads?

However, Qin Mu came from later generations, and Daqin adhered to the policy of encouraging industry and commerce in the Song Dynasty. To develop industry and commerce, it is inseparable from a sound road network.

The controversy in the court was so fierce that it was difficult for Qin Mu's train of thought to continue, and the entire hall was buzzing. Qin Mu coughed lightly twice, raised his hand and motioned for the ministers to calm down.

"Xu Qing, you say. What is the significance of spending huge sums of money to repair the official road from Changsha to Kunming? ”

Xu Feihong bowed down and went out of class, under the gaze of the ministers of the palace. He shook his body and said: "Your Majesty, the so-called spending huge sums of money to build roads is a move to work hard and lose money, and there is a huge misunderstanding in this understanding. ”

"What's the misunderstanding?" Qin Mu asked noncommittally.

"Since ancient times, the Central Plains Dynasty's control over the southwestern provinces has been extremely weak, and it can only be left to the autonomy of the local Tusi, which makes the southwest an important factor affecting the stability of the Central Plains Dynasty;

The death of Tang was actually the death of the Nanzhao Rebellion at that time. In the Song Dynasty, Nong Zhigao rebelled, and Jiaozhi invaded, with huge losses and hundreds of thousands of casualties. In the Ming Dynasty, not to mention anything else, the Banzhou Rebellion alone, the military and civilian casualties in the southwest exceeded one million, and the Battle of Pingbo became one of the three major expeditions of Wanli.

These facts do not seem to have aroused sufficient attention from our DPRK, still less have we ever thought of fundamentally solving the problems in the southwest. Although the imperial court set up governors of three provinces to specialize in changing the land and returning to the stream, some of them were really rootless trees and sourceless water.

The reason why the southwest has been free from the control of the Central Plains Dynasty is that the transportation is inconvenient, the imperial court's troop projection, the difficulty of material rotation, the lack of communication between the people of the southwest and the Central Plains, and the low sense of identity;

If the transportation problem is not solved, even if the imperial court now spends a lot of energy to temporarily realize the transformation of the land and return to the river, it will be difficult to ensure the long-term peace and stability of the southwest.

Returning to the question of whether spending huge sums of money to build roads was a waste of labor and money, in the early Ming Dynasty, in order to control Yunnan, the garrison in Guizhou was nearly 200,000 at the most, and there were more than 100,000 in Yunnan.

Your Majesty, if the DPRK also stationed so many troops in the southwest for a long time, the treasury will bear a huge amount of military expenditure every year, and in the long run, this will be the real labor and loss of money, and it will be a waste of money, and the money will not be able to solve the problem fundamentally;

Nowadays, the ministers are only spending the money on the garrison to build the road. Chen believed that once the road from Changsha to Kunming was completed, it would not only fundamentally solve the problem of Daqin's weak control over the southwest, but also save the national treasury a lot of military expenditure in the long run, and at the same time play a historic role in promoting the integration of the people in the southwest with the Central Plains. ”

Xu Feihong's voice clearly echoed in the Xuanzheng Palace, no one can question the fundamental reason why the traffic inconvenience is difficult to control in the southwest of the previous dynasties, from this point of view, building roads is indeed the fundamental way to solve the problem of the southwest.

Qin Mu was still noncommittal, and then asked Shang Qingchen, who had fierce opposition to the Ministry of Rites, and said, "Shang Qing, now it's your turn to talk about the reasons for your opposition." ”

Shang Qingchen's momentum was a little weaker than Fang Cai, and he went out and said: "Your Majesty, building bridges and building roads, this is a good thing in itself, and the imperial court should also advocate it." The minister was not against building roads, but only against spending huge sums of money on roads at this time;

Looking at all dynasties, don't you know that unobstructed roads are the fundamental way to solve the problem in the southwest? The reason why the successive dynasties did not build this road is that the southwest mountains are steep and steep, and the cliffs are numerous, and if you want to build a road from Changsha to Kunming, the arduous journey can be imagined.

Now that the Great Qin State Zuo was first established, the people's livelihood has not been restored, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be lifted, and the most important thing at present is to give the people rest and recuperate, how can we go the opposite way and build a large number of buildings?

His Majesty, the first emperor repaired the Great Wall and went to Yuyang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty dug the canal and went to the heroes, Yuan Zhi was repairing the Yellow River and stirred up the chaos in the world. ”

It is undeniable that the reason why Shang Qingchen and others oppose it is also out of a public mind, but there are limitations in their thinking, at least they do not know that the road to US hegemony is largely paved with the white bones of Chinese workers.

Their gaze is still confined to the country, and they feel that the construction of roads must be to collect labor from the country and move silver from the treasury.

They still adhere to the traditional idea of "people who have been far away since the cultivation of Wende", and they do not know how to extract the blood from the outside to maintain the operation of the country. For a moment, it was impossible for them to fundamentally change their thinking.

Qin Mu didn't want to talk too much about the big truths with them, and if he debated with them, he would be inferior, because you couldn't compare to them at all when it came to quoting scriptures.

At this time, Gu Rong, the commander of the East China Sea Fleet who had just returned, stood up and said to Qin Mu: "Your Majesty, the minister supports the construction of the road from Changsha to Kunming. ”

Qin Mu smiled slightly and asked, "Admiral Gu, why do you support it?" And what kind of support? ”

Gu Rong shook the armor on his body, and said with a big bag: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know what the truth is, the minister only knows that as long as it is what His Majesty wants to do, it is the minister who wants to support it desperately, and the minister is promoted by His Majesty to the grass, and the emperor's grace is mighty."

As soon as this mighty wave came out, a suppressed laughter suddenly sounded in the Xuanzheng Palace, which was originally strict, and the corners of Qin Mu's mouth couldn't help but curl.

Gu Rongtian didn't care, and continued to be stunned and stupid: "What are you laughing at, isn't it the emperor's grace?" His Majesty treats the minister like this, and the minister has nothing to repay. Now that the imperial court wants to build a road, the ministers should be loyal to His Majesty, isn't it just to build a road, what's the big deal?

The ministers do not need to quarrel, as long as Your Majesty is willing, the money and people for the road construction are all covered by the Royal Navy, and the minister assures His Majesty today that if the Royal Navy cannot gather enough funds and labor for the imperial court to build the road, the minister is willing to come to see him. ”

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