Everyone shook their heads up and down in unison, well, because Ben Gongzi was telling the truth.

"The most important thing is that you all should know the Qin Straight Dao, right?" Ben Gongzi stood with his hands in his hands, standing in front of the carriage and facing the people.

"What is Qin Zhidao?" Next to him, a very discordant voice came out, and he didn't have to think about it, it was not Li Xuanba's guy who was weird.

However, this son deliberately asked because of this goods on the side, hoping that these guys present also understand a truth.

"Qin straight road began in Qin, Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries in the second year, ordered to build Xianyang as the center, leading to all parts of the country Chi Road, among them, there are nine famous Chi Road, there are the Shangjun Road from Gaoling to Yan'an County, the Linjin Road through Jinyang through the Yellow River, and the Oriental Road through Henan, Hebei and Shandong through the Han Guguan ......"

"You can know that Qin Straight Road is in a flat place, its road can be as wide as 50 steps, the town is built with mud tamping, it can be opened to cars and horses, smooth and convenient, Qin controls the world with a galloping road, the East is poor Yanqi, the South Pole Wu Chu, above the rivers and lakes, the view of the coast is ......"

Yes, the Qin Straight Road can be regarded as the earliest national highway in Chinese history, which not only makes transportation convenient, but more importantly, it is also conducive to the central control of the local area, where there is a rebellion, the army concentrated in the main hub cities can rush to the place of rebellion through convenient galloping roads to suppress it.

Unfortunately, during the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the continuous wars in the last years of the Qin Dynasty caused great damage to the roads, but even so, the Qin Zhidao still played an important role in the following hundreds of years.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu nobles tried to invade Guanzhong twice, one of which entered Xiaoguan and reached Yonghe Ganquan. Since the Huns intended to peep into Chang'an, why not go south directly from Jiuyuan, but take a long detour to the foot of Liupan Mountain?

In the east and west of the Meridian Ridge, there are the Luo River valley and the Malian River valley, and the nomads invaded southward, generally taking the river valley. And at that time, the Luo River Valley and the Malian River Valley were not harassed, what is the reason for this? It is precisely because of a straight road on the Meridian Valley Ridge that the Huns have to have some scruples, for fear that the Han army will kill them in the rear through this straight road and trap them to death.

Later, the Western Han Dynasty added Zhilu County and Jiedao County in Beidi County, which were located at the north and south ends of the Meridian Ridge Straight Road, precisely to strengthen the control of this important straight road.

Although the Qin Straight Road is mostly dilapidated, the subsequent dynasties and generations will continue to repair the straight road, and many of the roads in China today are using the old Qin Straight Road in the past.

“…… However, repairing roads requires money, manpower and material resources, and if they are repaired on a large scale, they will inevitably increase the burden on the people, so why not take this way of opening a state-owned transportation industry to obtain money, and then use these money to repair roads to ensure the smooth flow of roads everywhere in China? "Ben Gongzi's eloquence made these guys finally understand why Ben Gongzi did this.

My idea is to let the postal system and the transportation industry take out part of the profits as the cost of road maintenance and road protection, and of course, in addition to these two large enterprises, all large vehicles will also have to pay annual road maintenance fees in the future.

In later generations, road maintenance was first paid by vehicles to pay tolls. After that, the reform was carried out, and it was no longer charged for each car, but directly deducted from the fuel money for road maintenance, in addition to the various payments collected by the highways, and of course, it was also inseparable from the direct income of the transportation department.

And I've got the postal system in place, and with the addition of the transportation company, I believe that the cost of road maintenance will not only be completely self-sufficient, but even a part of the new road development funds will be self-sufficient.

Bang Bang Bang ...... Wei Zheng, the black-faced dean, actually began to applaud at this moment, and the crisp applause was extraordinarily harsh in the quiet environment. "The lord can have such thoughts and thoughts, it is really the blessing of all the people in the world, and the ministers are ashamed, so they still suspect the lord ......"

While speaking, Wei Zheng knelt directly on the hard ground of the cement, and my son hurriedly stepped forward to support Wei Zheng and said with a wry smile: "What are you ashamed of, it is a blessing for Huaxia to have such loyalty and courage as you, everyone, Wang'er and others are like Dean Wei, if this son has any mistakes, just point it out, don't let me make irreparable mistakes." ”

Speaking of this, I paused and then continued: "Of course, please also save some face for me, and it is better to be tactful when pointing out mistakes, so as not to make this son lose face, and everyone's face is not good." ”

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but laugh one after another, and even Wei Zheng also showed a bright smile. Sister Qingxia smiled and bent over, and her intoxicating eyes fell on my face, which was extraordinarily charming.

Eight-wheeled carriages can be used in daily transportation, and a giant city like Chang'an City that can accommodate more than one million people, if you just walk on two legs, it is too far, so the average family has to bring their own carriages and horses, in the past, the number of horses was scarce, and most people could only use ox carts or even donkey carts to travel.

Even nowadays, the price of horses is still prohibitive for the average person, and to be honest, I believe that everyone wants to be more convenient, even if it is for a small amount of money, so that they can save a lot of time and do more.

In addition to the giant city of Chang'an, if you want to travel far, then, you must prepare a large amount of dry food and money, and you can walk at most thirty or fifty miles a day, for example, if you want to walk from Chang'an to Yan'an, this is more than 600 miles, even if you walk fifty miles a day, you have to walk for more than ten days, that is, it takes about half a month to arrive, and if you take such an eight-wheeled carriage and replace the horses in the middle of the way, you can reach it in one day at most.

This is enough to save more than ten days, as long as the price is right, I believe that ordinary people will definitely choose to ride in a carriage instead of exhausting themselves but abuse their legs.

As for what is not in line with the system, none of the things that this son has done have ever been in line with the system, whether it is rebellion, or this son-in-law, a scholar, doing the work of a businessman, or making his mother-in-law the head of an army, leading thousands of troops and horses to kill generals and capture the flag, and giving up the rights in the hands of the emperor, as well as today's six horses or eight horse-drawn carriages.

In my mind, everything that is conducive to progress and development is good, and as for those rules and regulations, go to hell first. As long as my son lives comfortably, to paraphrase a sentence from Taizong in later generations: Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, if you catch a mouse, it is a good cat.

After discussing with the ministers, it was decided that the National Transportation Company would order 50 eight-wheeled carriages and 50 six-wheeled carriages in advance. The number of carriages will be in place within a month, after which the number of carriages will be increased according to the operation of the National Transport Company.

At present, it can start manufacturing as many as 100 vehicles at the same time, and the time consumed is about a month, but this belongs to the old large-scale production, and when I have time, I will get a carriage of streamlined production lines out, and when the time comes, I will wait for the blowout.

In addition, when the wagons are in place, 5,000 crossbow horses will be drawn to fill the various post stations. The six-wheeled carriage is a mail car, which specializes in transporting letters, goods and parcels, etc., and now, the business performance of the postal company is growing rapidly at a speed that surpasses that of Britain and the United States.

Come to think of it, the people of Guanzhong have now become accustomed to using the postal system to deliver letters and parcels, and even some merchants have started to do the same, so I believe that the future of the National Transport Company will be bright.

Time flies, only less than a month has passed, and once again received the good news from Wei Yunqi, the entire land of Western Qin, has been in the hands of our Chinese Revival Army, and more importantly, opened up the Silk Road to the Western Regions, in the near future, the Silk Road that has been blocked for several years will be opened, and at that time, the trade that can be brought by the smooth trade route is definitely an outrageous amount.

This can't help but make Ben Gongzi think of another problem, international trade, there must be customs, customs is equivalent to a branch of the State Administration of Taxation, but the State Administration of Taxation is aimed at the national and domestic enterprises, and the customs supervises and inspects all commodities and articles entering and leaving the country, and collects Guan Rui's state organs according to regulations.

Each import and export trade will be supervised and inspected by the customs, customs duties will be collected, statistics will be compiled and smuggling will be prohibited. If you think about future generations, you will remember that there are reports that the tariff revenue alone exceeded 1.25 trillion yuan in a year, accounting for 30 percent of the total state fiscal revenue that year.

Think about it, the Chinese nation in later generations exceeded 1.3 billion, and the income of a single tariff reached such a height, this is why when the Chinese nation was invaded by the Western Barbarian Nation, it was firmly controlled by the Western Barbarian Nation for nearly 90 years of humiliating history.

The loss of customs administration was lost after the Opium War, and although it was still administered by the Qing court at that time, it had lost its autonomy over customs duties. In September 1853, the Shanghai Little Knife Society revolted, occupied the county seat of Shanghai, and the Jianghaiguan Customs on the Bund of the concession was destroyed by the masses.

The British and American consuls in Shanghai arbitrarily promulgated the provisional regulations on ship customs clearance, but they could not be implemented due to the opposition of foreign businessmen. At this time, foreign ships freely entered and exited the port of Shanghai, and the Jiangxi Customs was unable to resume the collection of taxes due to the obstruction of foreign forces. In the summer of 1854, the British Consul Ali Guo proposed a plan for a Sino-foreign customs cooperation, and the Governor of Liangjiang, Yiliang, sent Su Song Taidao Wu Jianzhang to meet with the British, American, and French consuls in Shanghai on 29 June.

In 1858, the Qing government signed the "Aftermath Clause of the Treaty of Commerce" with Britain, the United States, and France, which amended this method: "Let the prime minister invite the British (American) to assist in the taxation without the recommendation of the British (American) officials, and "handle it in a uniform manner."