"If it is 500,000 yuan, can it be completed in two years?" Li Luo asked with some anticipation.

Two years?

Zhang Zhichun was stunned, "You dare to ask Your Majesty, are the wood, bricks and tiles used to build the palace and city? "

Li Luo shook his head, "No."

Zhang Zhichun smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty forgives your crime. In this way, even if you work 500,000 yuan, it will definitely not be completed within two years. The measurement of this project is several times that of the capital, and even more so than that of Chang'an City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Even if the planning is appropriate, it will take three years."

Does it take three years? Li Luo nodded slightly when he heard this. He could still accept this time.

When Zhang Zhichun saw that Li Luo had no anger, he felt relieved. After thinking for a moment, he talked:

"Your Majesty, this big material, especially beams and pillars, is the most important. The big trees that have just been cut down are still live trees, and it will definitely not be used. It must be cut down at least one year in advance, and then soaked in the mud pond for at least half a year, and then dried for at least half a year before it can be used."

"The amount of bricks and tiles and stones requires huge amounts, and they are not enough to be used without firing or mining in a year. Therefore, the preparation of building materials alone will take at least one year."

"As far as I see, the project is divided into two phases. In the early stage, everyone only prepares materials, digging foundations, ditches, Taiye ponds, and four ditchs, and accumulates earthworks. In the middle stage, the city will be built and the palace will be built, and the beams and painted buildings will be carved and flowers will be planted. In this way, no labor will be delayed."

"Your Majesty can send someone to cut wood, burn bricks and tiles, and mine stone..."

Li Luo nodded and said, "Serious. What Master Zhang said is exactly this. I want to entrust this project to the Taoist priest to be the Minister of Urban Construction, and be appointed as the Minister of Works. Can Taoist priest take over?"

Even though Zhang Zhichun had known it for a long time, he was a little excited at this moment and quickly bowed and said, "Thank you Your Majesty to be trusted. I will never let you down."

He has always been obsessed with engineering construction techniques and has a deep attainment. Building an imperial capital and an imperial palace is the greatest wish of every Lu Mo disciple. How could he not want to do so? This is a great thing that has been famous in history.

"Okay. Then I will appoint you as the Minister of Urban Construction and the Minister of Works. You can allocate labor and materials! I will issue another order to form the Governor's Urban Construction Office. The skilled craftsmen who participate in the project can arrange responsibilities, promotions, appointments and removals, and you will be given full authority!"

After Li Luo finished speaking, he ordered the imperial guards to serve Wei Su, drafted an edict on appointment to Zhang Zhichun, and issued an edict to establish a governor's city to build a affairs office.

"I, thank you Your Majesty!" Zhang Zhichun happily accepted the order.

I don’t know if he knew it, but as soon as he received the order, he became a Chinese celebrity left in history.

The next day, the Governor's City built a government office and was established.

Although Zhang Zhichun was a Taoist priest, he was obviously a practical person. As soon as he took office, he sent a document to the Yizhou governor Li Yi, asking him to call for thousands of prisoners and cut down 5,000 golden nanmu trees in the deep mountains of Sichuan and Sichuan, thinking that they were pillars.

He required that the golden nanmu must have a straight drying of more than three feet long and a diameter of more than three feet to pass.

Within three months, it will be transported to Guanzhong by boat through the Jialing River waterway.

Another 30,000 prisoners were conscripted in Guanzhong and they went to Longshan, Beishan and Qinling Mountains to cut wood for general timber.

Another 30,000 people were recruited to mine stones and mined them in Zhongnan Mountain. Ten thousand people were recruited to burn charcoal to burn bricks and tiles.

Fifty thousand people were also recruited to dig moats, ditches, foundations, Taiye ponds, and deep wells. Fifty thousand people were recruited to burn bricks and tiles.

The arrangement is well organized.

But in this way, there is not enough manpower.

Li Luo issued an edict to recruit more than 100,000 prisoners from the south to enter Guanzhong, and recruit 200,000 civilians from Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and participate in the construction project with a monthly salary of two silver dollars.

The more than 10,000 skilled craftsmen involved in the project, the labor force will reach 500,000!

Eighty-percent of the hundreds of thousands of prisoners and slaves obtained by the Tang Dynasty over the years were devoted to the Chang'an project.

This makes the Chang'an project vast, chasing the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, surpassing the Lishan Mausoleum and Afang Palace!

It will take three years, and the money and grain will cost more than 10 million stones.

The war money and home search money that the Tang Kingdom has made over the years will be completely exhausted after this project.

This is because most of the labor is free and building materials are free, otherwise, they would not be able to be built at all.

Why can't Emperor Yongle afford to build a large palace? Because he didn't have so many prisoners, his wood also required money to buy it. The big tree had its owner, almost all of which were in the hands of gentry and merchants.

When the Ming Dynasty built the Forbidden City, golden nanmu was needed to go to Sichuan to cut down and buy it from local chieftains. Because the forest that produces golden nanmu is in the jurisdiction of chieftains, it costs money!

Nanyang paid tribute to Zhu Di for precious wood. It seemed that he didn't spend money to buy it, but the Ming court rewarded it a lot, but in fact it still spent money.

Including stone yards and brick factories, most of them have owners. Zhu Di could not have taken private property as state-owned in order to build a palace.

Most of them have to pay for money, and there are not so many free prisoners to be laborers. Then, it is understandable that the stinginess of the Forbidden City is cultivated.

But Li Luo was different. This man was too domineering. He used the wealthy and wealthy families to join the Yuan court and confiscated their monopoly industries. The revolution was relatively thorough, allowing the government to control most of the mountains, forests, water and land and mines.

It can be said that the Tang court was closest to the real "My king's land" and was very similar to later generations. The fact that local tyrants in history privately occupied mountains, forests, waters and mines will never happen in the Tang court.

Because most of these are from the country!

Do you need to buy it when cutting trees and building railways in Daxinganling in later generations? Do you need to buy it when mining oil? No.

This saves huge building materials costs.

After the imperial edict, hundreds of thousands of people moved. The people of Chang'an City also moved outside the city because large amounts of earth were to be dug in the city. Brick factories and brick kilns began to appear around Chang'an.

In order to maintain order and suppress prisoners to rebellion, the Tang court transferred 50,000 troops into Guanzhong.

The movements were earth-shaking.

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On the ninth day of the winter month, the Tang army set out again. Wen Tianxiang led his army 60,000 north to attack northern Shaanxi and then attack Hetao. At this time, the Hetao area was already snowing heavily. This was destined to be a difficult expedition.

Li Luo personally led a large army to fight westward, and would pass through the Guanlong Ancient Road, cross the Longshan Mountains, and conquer the entire Longxi.

Back then, Wu Hou went out of Qishan six times, entered the ancient Guanlong Road, passed Jieting, and conquered Guanzhong. Unfortunately, he died before he succeeded.

The strategic purpose of this dispatch was to occupy the entire Qin Dynasty's former territory and block the passage of the Hexi Yuan army and the northern Yuan army to attack Qin.

In this way, Guanzhong can be truly imperfect.

Longyou later belonged to Gansu, but now belonged to Shaanxi. It can be said that the entire Gannan in later generations were all the territory of Shaanxi provinces. The Yuan court set up the Gongchangdu General Mansion in Longyou, with the fifteen prefectures under the jurisdiction of Pingliang, Lintao and Qingyang.

On the thirteenth day of the winter moon, the army arrived at Qishan and passed Wuzhangyuan. Li Luo personally sacrificed to Marquis Wu.

On the fifteenth day of the winter, Li Luo's army marched 500 miles to Longzhou. Longzhou has been renamed Long'an County and is under the jurisdiction of Fengxiang County.

After leaving Long County, it is Guanlong Ancient Road.

To defend Chang'an, you must defend Longyou, and to defend Longyou, you must control Hexi. In the late Tang Dynasty, Hexi and Longyou were lost, Tubo approached Longshan, and the army approached Chang'an, cutting off the Silk Road.

Li Luo's marching route is planned to go from Chang'an to Long'an County, exit Dazhen Pass and cross Longshan, pass Guguan, follow the Malu and Guanshan grasslands, pass Changning Yi, Qingshui, and reach Qinzhou (Tianshui). This is the most convenient road.

In the late Tang Dynasty, this road was deliberately destroyed to resist the Tubo people, either planting trees in the road or blocking roads with huge rocks. However, the Yuan court later vigorously repaired it and is still easier to walk.

During the Han Dynasty, the ancient Longshan Road was five miles apart, one shovel, ten miles apart, one shovel, thirty miles apart, and one shovel, a hundred miles apart, which was very developed and lively.

On the 16th day of winter, Li Luo came out of Longshan and came to Dazhen Pass. But he saw Longshan winding, the city was towering, and the ancient roads were vast. This is the first pass to go out of Longshan in the west, and it is also the pass on the easternmost side of the Silk Road.

In this place, there were endless business trips every day, and camel bells were melodious and very lively. However, since Li Luo attacked Guanzhong and the battle between Tang and Yuan, beacons broke out everywhere, and the ancient road of Guanlong immediately became cold and silent, and there was no longer the grand occasion of business trips and travels.

Dazhen Pass had been voluntarily abandoned by the Yuan army, and at this time there was no one in Langran. The Tang army entered the pass in a swaggering manner, and after half a day of repair, it entered the ancient road in the middle of the mountain.

This is the ancient Guanlong Road. Wu Geng in the early Zhou Dynasty passed this road and was exiled to Longyou by King Wu of Zhou. The Qin people were descendants of the Shang Dynasty who were exiled by King Wu of Zhou. The Qin people came to the east and entered Guanzhong through this mountain road.

Li Luo rode on a horse and walked on Guanlong Road. When he saw the ancient stone sculptures, broken stones, and the former site of the pass, he couldn't help but think about the past.

The four chapters related to Guanlong Road in the Book of Songs include "Che Lin", "Xiao Rong", "Jian Jia", and "Si Yu". Li Bai, Wang Wei, Cen Shen, Gao Shi and others in the Tang Dynasty also had poems.

The Qin people advanced eastward, Zhang Qian opened the Western Regions, Guangwu destroyed Wei Xiang, Wuhou conquered Guanzhong, and Tang Xuanzang traveled west to seek Buddhist scriptures... They are all related to this ancient road. Li Luo is so elegant thieves, and later generations have come here... looking for treasures, and found several Tang Dynasty stone carvings at the ancient post site on the roadside, and stayed for a while.

The nine rounds of Longshan Mountain are unknown. The man from Guanzhong served in the military to fight the border in the west, and when he looked here, he was sad.

When Li Luo saw the Tang army soldiers who were rushing to the road, he couldn't help but think of Du Fu's "Miscellaneous Poems in Qinzhou", and gently recited two of them, "I asked about the beacon fire in the west, and my heart was broken and I stayed here." His face showed a look of pity.

Seeing this, Meng Hui, the doctor of the Silu, saw this and immediately recorded: "On the 16th day of the second year, he passed Dazhen Pass and entered Longshan Road. He sympathized with the suffering of soldiers guarding the border in ancient times, and recited the "Miscellaneous Poems of Qinzhou" by Du Gong's Ministry of Works."

Wei Su, who was attending the service, quickly said: "Your Majesty is a benevolent lord and holy lord. He is virtuous and virtuous. Moreover, your Majesty is fair and strict, and he cherishes his soldiers. He will not make the veterans of Guanxi look at the moon and listen to the flute, and stop the horse to cry."

Wei Su is really good at speaking.

Li Luo smiled slightly, "You have many witty words, and I will know it."

Wei Su's words came from Wang Wei's "Longtou Song", which included "The bright moon in Longtou is approaching the gate, and the pedestrians in Long play the flute at night. The veterans in Guanxi are worried, and the horses stop cry when they hear it."

Wang Wei's poem "Longtou Yin" means that the soldiers go on war all year round but cannot receive the rewards they deserve. They feel unfair for them and ridiculed the court for their unfair rewards and punishments.

Wei Su said that Li Luo would definitely not make "the veterans in Guanxi are worried, and the horses burst into tears when they hear it." On the surface, they praised Li Luo for cherishing the soldiers and clearly rewarding and punishing, but in fact they were also clever advice to Li Luo.

If you can give advice and speak so nicely, you will be a civil servant.

On the 18th day of winter, the army finally passed Guguan, which the Yuan army gave up, and suddenly became clear in front of it. It turned out to be a large mountain grassland. At first glance, the sky was vast and the wilderness was vast, the white clouds were lingering, and the gentle slopes were undulating, which made people feel refreshed.

This is the famous Guanshan Grassland.

The war horse reserves of the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties made great contributions to this grassland. The war horses that champion Hou attacked the Xiongnu came from the Guanshan grassland.

Originally, this grassland had more than 100,000 war horses. However, after the Yuan army was defeated in Guanzhong, officials of the General General Office of Gongchangdu, Shaanxi, panic and immediately transferred all the war horses from the Guanshan Plain to Gansu in the north.

Gong Changdu's General Office sounds scary, but before, all the troops were transferred to Guanzhong and were annihilated by the Tang army. At this time, it was extremely empty and had to count on the Gansu province to the north.

The Yuan army in Gansu was originally strong and stationed a heavy army group. But now they have all been transferred to the former places of the Western Regions to suppress the four Khanate countries. At present, there are only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, not elite. They can't stop the Tang army, which has the power of great victory and is in a sharp position.

The imperial edict of the majority of the troops was passed to the distant Western Regions, and the troops were then transferred back to Gansu. It took at least a few months to go back and forth, and it was too late.

It can be said that neither the General General's Office of Gongchangdu, Shaanxi or the Pingzhang Yamen in Gansu to the north, there are many troops available. The far water cannot quench its near thirst. Who would have expected that Dayuan would be defeated so quickly and miserable in Guanzhong?

The most important thing that the Pingzhang Yamen in Gansu Province did during this period was to transfer more than 100,000 war horses from the Guanshan Grassland to the distant Liangzhou generation, and they did not dare to stay in Gongchang (Longyou).

Li Luo had known this information for a long time, so when he saw the empty grassland, he was not disappointed.
To be continued...