Everyone shook their heads up and down, well, because this young master was telling the truth.

"The most important thing is that you must all know Qin Zhidao?" This young master stood with his hands behind his back, standing in front of the carriage and facing everyone and said to everyone.

"What is Qin Zhidao?" A very disharmonious voice came out next to it. You don't have to think about it. It would be strange if it wasn't for Li Xuanba.

However, this young master deliberately asked this question because of this guy next to him, hoping that the guys present would understand a truth.

"The Qin straight road began in Qin. In the second year when Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he ordered the construction of a road that was centered on Xianyang and leads to all parts of the country. Among them, there are nine famous roads, including the Shangjun Road, which is now Gaoling and Shangyan County, which is the Linjin Road, which passes through the Yellow River and Jinyang, and the Eastern Road that is located in Hangu Pass and Henan, Hebei and Shandong..."

"You can see that the straight Qin road is in a flat place, and its road can be as wide as fifty steps. It is built with soil, and can be opened to traffic and horses, which is smooth and convenient. Qin uses the road to control the world. It is the east, the Yanqi, the South Pole, Wu and Chu, the rivers and lakes, and the coastal view is from…"

Yes, Qin straight road can be regarded as the earliest national highway in Chinese history. It not only makes transportation convenient, but more importantly, it is also conducive to the central government's control of the local area. Wherever rebellion occurs, troops concentrated in major hub cities can rush to the rebellion site through convenient roads to carry out suppression.

Unfortunately, during the period of Qin's demise, the years of wars in the late Qin Dynasty caused great damage to the road, but even so, the Qin straight road still played an important role in the following hundreds of years.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Huns aristocratic forces tried to invade Guanzhong twice, one of which entered Xiaoguan and went straight to Yongji and Ganquan. Since the Huns were interested in peeping at Chang'an, why not go south from Jiuyuan and take a detour to the foot of Liupan Mountain from afar?

The east and west of Ziwu Ridge are the Luohe River Valley and the Malian River Valley. Nomads invaded the south and usually went to the river valley. At that time, neither the Luohe River Valley nor the Malian River Valley were harassed. What is the reason? It is precisely because of a straight road on Ziwu Ridge that the Huns had to worry about it, fearing that the Han army would kill them to their rear through this straight road and trap them to death.

Later, the Western Han Dynasty added Zhilu County and Qiudao County in Beidi County. These two counties were located at the north and south ends of Ziwuling Road, in order to strengthen control over this important straight road.

Although Qin straight roads were mostly ruined, the subsequent dynasties and generations continued to repair straight roads. Nowadays, many of the roads in China use the former Qin straight roads.

"...But repairing roads requires money, manpower and material resources. If it is repaired greatly, it will inevitably increase the burden on the people. So, since that is the case, why not use this method of starting a state-owned transportation industry to obtain money, and then use this money to repair the roads to ensure the smooth flow of roads in China?" My master's joking comments made these guys finally understand why I did this.

My idea is to let the postal system and transportation industry take out some of the profits while taking the blame for the self-paying losses. Of course, in addition to these two large enterprises, any large vehicle will also need to pay the road maintenance fee every year in the future.

In later generations, the maintenance roads were first relied on vehicles to pay tolls to obtain the maintenance fee. Then, reforms were carried out, no longer charged for each vehicle, but the maintenance fee directly deducted from the gas money, as well as various payments collected by the expressways, which of course are inseparable from the direct income of the transportation department.

And I have already put this postal system in advance, and after this transportation company, I believe that the cost of maintenance roads can not only be completely self-sufficient, but even a part of the new road development funds can be raised by themselves.

Papa... Wei Zheng, the black-faced dean, began to applaud, and the crisp applause seemed particularly harsh in the quiet environment. "It is a blessing for the people of the world to have such thoughts and ideas. I am ashamed and I still suspect my lord..."

As he said, Wei Zheng knelt directly on the hard gang ground poured by the cement. This young master quickly stepped forward and supported Wei Zheng and smiled bitterly: "What are you ashamed of? China is the blessing of China. Everyone, I hope you are like President Wei. If I make any mistakes in this young master, please point them out, don't make irreparable mistakes."

Speaking of this, I paused and continued, "Of course, please give me some face and make it more polite when pointing out the mistakes, right? So that I won't let this young master be embarrassed and everyone's face is not good."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but laugh. Even Wei Zheng showed a bright smile. Sister Qingxia bent over and her intoxicating eyes fell on my face, which was particularly charming.

Eight-wheeled horse-drawn carriages can be used in daily transportation, and a giant city like Chang'an City that can accommodate more than one million people is too far away if you walk on two legs alone. Therefore, most families have to bring their own cars and horses. In the past, the number of horses was rare, and most people could only use ox carts or even donkey carts to transport.

Even nowadays, the price of horses is still deterred by ordinary people. To be honest, I believe everyone hopes to be more convenient, even if it costs a small amount of money, so that it can save a lot of time and do more.

In addition to the giant city of Chang'an, if you want to travel far, you must prepare a lot of food, money, and you can only walk thirty or fifty miles a day. For example, if you want to walk from Chang'an to Yan'an, it is more than 600 miles. Even if you walk fifty miles a day, you have to walk more than ten days, which is almost half a month before you can reach it. If you ride in such an eight-wheeled carriage and replace the horses in the middle of the road, you can reach it in one day at most.

This saves more than ten days. As long as the price is appropriate, I believe that most people will definitely choose to ride in a carriage instead of tragicting themselves and playing with their legs.

As for what is incompatible with the system, no matter what I do, whether it is rebellion, or the business of the scholar, or the fact that my wife becomes the leader of a army, leading thousands of troops to kill generals and seize the flag, giving up the rights in the hands of the emperor, and now six horses or eight horses to carriages.

In my mind, everything that is conducive to progress and development is good. As for all the rules, go see the ghost first. As long as I live comfortably and freely, to use the words of 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 all the officials, it is decided that the National Transportation Company will order 50 eight-wheeled carriages and six-wheeled carriages in advance. They will be in place within one month. After that, the number of carriages will be increased according to the operation of the National Transportation Company.

At present, it can start to build as many as 100 vehicles at the same time, and it takes about one month. However, this is an old-scale production. When I have time, I will build a carriage production line and come out. Then, I will wait for a blowout.

In addition, after the carriage is in place, 5,000 horses will be transferred to enrich the stations. The six-wheeled carriage is a postal carriage, which specializes in transporting letters, cargo parcels and other items. Now, the operating performance of the postal company is growing rapidly at a faster rate than that of the UK and the US.

Think about it, the people in Guanzhong have now adapted to using the postal system to deliver letters, parcels, and even some merchants have begun to use this method to deliver goods, so I believe that the prospects of the National Transportation Company will be bright.

Time flies, and less than a month has passed, and once again received the good news from Wei Yunqi. The entire Western Qin land has been fully in the hands of our Chinese Revival Army. More importantly, the Silk Road to the Western Regions has been opened. In the near future, the Silk Road, which has been blocked for several years, will surely open up. By that time, the trade that is smooth trade routes can bring is definitely an outrageous amount.

This made me think of another problem. International trade requires customs, which is equivalent to a branch of the State Administration of Taxation. However, the State Administration of Taxation targets all citizens and domestic enterprises, and the Customs supervises all commodities and items entering and leaving the country, inspects and collects Guan Rui's state organs according to regulations.

Each import and export trade will be supervised and inspected by the customs, impose tariffs, compile statistics and ban smuggling. This is a large amount of money. Thinking about later generations, I remember that there are reports that the annual tariff revenue exceeded 125 billion yuan, accounting for 30% of the total national fiscal revenue that year.

Think about it, the Chinese nation in later generations exceeded 1.3 billion, and the income of tariffs alone reached such a height. This is why when the Chinese nation was invaded by the Western Barbarians, it was firmly controlled by the Western Barbarians for nearly ninety years of humiliating history.

The loss of customs management rights was lost after the Opium War. Although it was still managed by the Qing court at that time, it had lost its autonomy in tariffs. In September 1853, the Shanghai Xiaodaohui Uprising, occupied Shanghai County Town, and moved to the Concession Bund, Jiang Customs, which was destroyed by the masses.

The British and American consuls in Shanghai arbitrarily promulgated the provisional regulations on ship customs clearance, but it failed to implement it due to opposition from foreign merchants. At this time, foreign merchant ships entered and exited Shanghai Port freely, and Jiang Customs was obstructed by foreign forces and could not resume tax collection. In the summer of 1854, British Consul Aliguo proposed a plan to form a customs joint between China and foreign countries. The Governor of Liangjiang Yiliang sent Susong Taidao Wu Jianzhang to meet with the consulars of the British, US and France in Shanghai on June 29.
Chapter completed!