Chapter 425: Thousand Miles of Official Road (Repair)
No problem, definitely no problem!
More than 30,000 wounded Sui soldiers who suffered from acclimatization, insect bites, snake bites, and miasma. After Wu Hou Leihu mercifully cured their injuries, they naturally responded to Wu Hou's small request.
No shame in refuting or refusing.
Although etiquette and music were not popular at this time, the people's customs were honest and honest. The moral quality of ordinary people was still on the standard line. Most of the real shameless people came from wealthy and prosperous families. There is no need to mention these.
Lei Hu is not only a great master of internal martial arts, but also a miracle doctor.
With his meticulous understanding of the human body and his own foundation in traditional Chinese medicine, he was already considered a master of traditional Chinese medicine in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
In the world of Red Mansions, with the method of soul detection, coupled with years of combat experience, there is no obstacle to further progress in medical skills.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, he was a disciple of Bao Zhilin and was quite familiar with various traditional diseases in the Lingnan area. He just changed the prescriptions and dosage according to the physical fitness of the indigenous people in this world and the different diseases. It was easy to
Let the more than 30,000 wounded Sui soldiers who fell down recover.
Then, these more than 30,000 Sui army sergeants were mobilized.
If you want to gather so many young and strong laborers at once, in the Central Plains region, apart from the imperial court, only the top noble families have such strength. But in the south, only the Lingnan Song clan has such strength, and the rest
None of the powerful nobles have such ability.
It's not that they don't have enough financial resources, it's that the population in the south is seriously insufficient.
Young labor is the main force for production, life and management of a place. If too much is used, it may affect the normal production order of a place. As long as the brain is not confused, ordinary high-level elites will not do such stupid things.
Even Lei Hu, who has 500,000 civilians under his command, would not dare to easily assign 30,000 young men to specialize in infrastructure construction such as building roads and bridges, which might lead to big trouble.
He had also thought before that when Yang Jian had taken away the main force of the Sui army and there were not many external threats to the territory, he would organize his generals to take turns participating in infrastructure construction. This would speed up the development of the territory and completely connect the territory with roads.
In this era, the road traffic in the South can only be described as a pitfall.
It's good to be connected by waterways, but the quality of the land roads is really bad. There are rugged wild mountains and forests everywhere. If you want to build and repair the roads connecting various places, you have to make great efforts and mobilize a lot of labor.
Considering the situation of the Chen court in the south at that time, it can be imagined that the organizational ability was weak, and there were also obstacles from the powerful local nobles. It was simply impossible to improve the road transportation in the south.
It also connected several prosperous cities and grain-producing areas along the waterway, and the quality of the roads was quite bad, and they were all unqualified in Lei Hu's eyes.
At the moment, the 30,000 wounded soldiers of the Sui army had nothing to do, so they were directly invited by Lei Hu to start the vigorous infrastructure construction of Wuhou.
The distance from Qiantang to Jiaxing and from Jiaxing to Suzhou is approximately two hundred miles, which connects the most important towns in the entire Wuhou territory by roads.
Things are easier to do when there are more people. Lei Hu not only wants to build roads and bridges, but also wants to open up more fields to supply food for the people and the army in the territory.
In the southern land at this time, there were many trees and flowers outside the town, and Lei Hu had no intention of wasting any of them.
More than 30,000 Sui soldiers built the road along the road designed by Lei Hu, collecting all the flowers, plants and trees along the way.
Wood has various uses. Even flowers and plants can be used for medicine. Even if it is not useful, it can be used as fuel. In short, we must not waste these seemingly useless resources.
Then, an official road from Qiantang to Jiaxing was completed from scratch at an astonishing speed, taking only ten days.
With a distance of more than two hundred miles, the task was spread among 30,000 Sui soldiers, and one person only had to be responsible for the road training of about ten meters.
Even in modern times with extremely poor physical fitness, if a person wanted to complete the construction of a ten-meter-long, five-meter-wide gravel road, it would take no more than a month to complete the project if there was no shortage of materials and rations.
The physical quality and strength of the soldiers of the Sui army were not comparable to those of Lei Hu's personal guards who were successful in practicing iron cloth shirts, but they were not comparable to the physical quality and strength of modern people.
What Lei Hu needed to do was to order his guards, who were accomplished in iron cloth shirts, to carve out gravel, bulldoze all the hills along the road, and provide a large amount of gravel to compact the roadbed, making the newly built road even more solid.
The three thousand personal guards exerted all their strength and regarded the mountain of dirt as nothing. A hill of 100 meters could not withstand their torment for a day, so it turned into gravel and hard soil and used it as road filling material.
If it weren't for the dense water network along the way, which took a lot of time to build the bridge, I'm afraid this two-hundred-mile gravel official road could have been built more quickly.
But that was it. When the 30,000 Sui soldiers who had participated in the labor came to their senses and saw that they had built an official road that was 200 miles long and 5 miles wide and was entirely paved with gravel in just ten days,
I couldn't help but let out bursts of cheers, and my happy face didn't look fake at all.
At the same time, they were also shocked by the tyrannical strength of Wu Hou's three thousand personal guards.
Especially the arrogance and tyranny of Wu Hou's three thousand personal guards who flattened the earth and mountains, and the powerful power of breaking open monuments and rocks. Thinking about it makes me feel chilly and fearful. At the same time, I have a better understanding of Wu Hou's strength.
As expected, he was worthy of being a prince who took charge of the military and political power on his own and had the ability to stand on his own in the Sui Dynasty. The strength of his army was staggering.
However, these have nothing to do with small characters like them, and are issues that the senior officials of Sui Dynasty should consider.
With the experience of previous road construction, the construction of the next road from Jiaxing to Susu was very smooth. It took less than ten days to complete the same distance of more than 200 miles, and there were no problems with the road quality.
Within the next month, all the official roads from Jiaxing to Hucheng (now Huzhou) and from Hucheng to Qiantang were opened, and the traffic situation in the entire Wuhou territory suddenly became smooth.
Thirty thousand Sui soldiers were the main labor force. When they looked back and saw the spacious and solid official roads, they couldn't help but feel excited. Unexpectedly, it only took them less than two months. Under the effective command of Wu Hou, they actually
Complete such a huge project with ease!
The four spacious official roads connecting the main towns in Wuhou's territory are thousands of miles away, but with their efforts, they took less than two months to complete. It's incredible to think about it.
But the fact is that as long as the command is proper, manpower efficiency is maximized, and there are enough materials and logistical supplies, only 30,000 Sui soldiers can complete such a huge project!
The most shocking thing was the powerful local nobles. They watched four spacious official roads come into being from scratch in less than two months.
For a moment, they were shocked by Wu Hou Leihu's methods, and some of their little thoughts were extinguished. At the same time, the four newly built official roads allowed them to see a huge source of wealth.
If you want to be rich, build roads first!
This statement is true no matter which time, space or country it is placed in. The emergence of four official roads connecting the main towns in the Wuhou Territory played a great role in the economic development of the Wuhou Territory.
Soon, business travelers gradually appeared on the four spacious and solid official roads, and the villages and towns along the official roads gradually became prosperous and lively.
When Yang Guang came to Wu Houling, he was also surprised by the sudden appearance of several spacious official roads.
And when he learned that these four official roads, with a total mileage of thousands of miles, were built by 30,000 wounded Sui soldiers and took less than two months, he felt both funny and depressed at the same time.
"Wu Hou is really a good trick!"
When we met at the Hou Mansion in Qiantang, he did not forget to joke: "Are those 30,000 soldiers still useful?"
“Easy to use, great to use!”
Lei Hu was not polite at all and said with a smile: "If I can control it for a few more months, I think the changes in the territory will be even more amazing!"
"Oh, does Wu Hou have other plans?"
Yang Guang became interested and asked curiously: "I wonder if I can tell you?"
"nothing!"
Lei Hu smiled and said: "After all, the land route is not as convenient and fast as the water route. If possible, I would also like to connect all the major rivers in the region!"
Hiss...
After hearing Lei Hu's idea, Yang Guang couldn't help but take a breath and said in shock: "Such a project is much bigger than building a road. Wu Hou is so courageous!"
"It's a pity that the King of Jin is here, and I can't control the 30,000 Sui soldiers!"
Lei Hu smiled, hey, you're not the emperor now, so of course you don't have that ambition. When you become the emperor, what you do will be much crazier than me.
He was not interested in chatting with Yang Guang about anything, and asked directly: "The King of Jin came suddenly, what do you want to do?"
"Does Marquis Wu know about the war in Lingnan?"
When talking about business, Yang Guang's face became solemn and his tone was indescribably solemn.
"Oh, Your Majesty, are you still ready to continue fighting?"
Lei Hu asked curiously, but he was a little funny in his heart.
Yang Jian suffered a lot in Lingnan. He was defeated by Song Que's 100,000 allied troops. It would not be too much to say that he had lost consecutive battles. He almost lost his face.
The original 300,000 Sui troops were reduced to less than 150,000 by now.
This is still the power of the Sui army general. Even though he was repelled by Song Que repeatedly, he never collapsed and could still maintain his basic combat power. Song Que did not dare to be too unscrupulous.
Obviously, Yang Jian was very dissatisfied with the situation and wanted to retreat.
No, Yang Guang came and brought an expected news: "I have received the order from my father and am preparing to take over the command of the Lingnan war. I would like to ask Wu Hou for advice. Is it necessary to continue this war?"
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"Prince Jin should have already thought about this!"
Lei Hu said calmly: "I won't show my shame anymore!"
Seeing that Wu Hou did not fall for the trick, Yang Guang was not angry at all, and said directly: "I am here to ask Wu Hou for a favor!"
"If I can help, I will do my best!"
Lei Hu smiled softly and did not say anything, but he also did not guarantee that he would definitely agree.
"Wu Hou is the most suitable person for this matter!"
Yang Guang smiled and said: "Please ask Wu Hou to help set up a line with the Lingnan Song clan. I want to cease the war!"