Throughout February, all countries in the world were busy dealing with internal affairs and were not too enthusiastic about conquest. It was rare to see a harmonious scene.

Lingnan, through the merger of states and counties, began to conduct population census and land survey of dozens of states in Lingnan. Li Jia, who had been pretending for several years, finally began to take action on the local area.

The first one opened in Jianwu Town, the emperor's hometown.

Under the emperor's personal order, the Li family of Yongzhou directly accounted for more than a thousand hidden households and two thousand tenant households, with more than three hundred hectares of land. According to the tax standard, they had to pay more than three thousand shi of grain at one time.

The Li family alone can make Yongzhou financially wealthy for a while.

Some emperors took the lead, so of course no one dared to be presumptuous. In addition, Jianwu Town was Li Jia's base camp, so he knew everything about it. All the powerful people were named, and the transfer envoys Si Yamen and She Sheng Si came to visit together.

, who can bear it?

As a result, Jianwu Town alone has acquired about one million acres of land, created about 20,000 new household registrations (referring to hidden households), and is expected to increase tax revenue by more than 100,000 yuan each year. Jianwu Town has become the second largest town outside Chengtian Prefecture.

Taxpayer.

For this reason, Li Jia followed the rules and established the new Lingxi Province, with Yongzhou as the capital, governing the three governorates of Yonggui and Rong, and more than ten prefectures in the northwest. Basically, the territory of Yongguan was governed by the Lingxi Jiedu envoy in the Tang Dynasty.

It is inseparable from modern Guangxi.

And since there is Guangxi, Guangdong is naturally not far away.

Therefore, Li Jia set up Lingdong Prefecture, in addition to Chengtian Prefecture, to seize Hezhou, Lianzhou in Hunan, and dozens of prefectures to the west of Fengzhou. The government was located in Guangzhou. After all, it was the capital of the capital, so strict control was needed.

Increased control, such as Hebei in Beijing, can neither be innovative nor too traditional, and the priority is to protect the capital.

To be honest, the two newly established prefectures are basically based on modern ones. Although the area is large, the population is very small.

Jingnan Prefecture, with Nanping as its core, has a population of 7.8 million.

If according to the estimates after merging prefectures and counties, there are more than ten prefectures in Lingxi and Lingdong prefectures, and more than 300,000 people go to Chengtian Prefecture. The population of each prefecture is at most about the same as Jingnan Prefecture. In the land of Lingnan, the new population

It could be two to three hundred thousand more.

For ordinary people, spring plowing time cannot be delayed, so they must go out and go out of their homes. They cannot hide, otherwise they will go hungry after half a year of drought. With the pressure of the weather and the court, although the population registration is difficult and the land measurement is difficult,

It was difficult and dangerous, but it still started slowly.

The common people were busy, and the court was also busy, but Li Jia had no time to spare. He was ready to fulfill his long-cherished wish and start building roads.

There is a saying that if you want to get rich, build roads first. This does make sense in peacetime, but strategically, it is extremely important.

Generally at the end of a dynasty, when peace lasts for a long time, the combat effectiveness of soldiers naturally declines, but no matter how it declines, it is still stronger than that of ordinary people. Therefore, the initial uprising troops cannot deal with the officers and soldiers. After all, the scale of supplies cannot compare.

Later, the reason for its growth was due to the unfavorable campaign of the Qing Dynasty, and it gradually became bigger. This was the case in the late Ming Dynasty. There was no money to maintain the post roads, so the roads were naturally abandoned and the march was difficult. People often moved before they arrived.

For example, Yongzhou and Guangzhou are thousands of miles apart. If there is chaos and banditry, such as when Li Jia mobilized the tigers to leave the mountains during the uprising, the local troops are weak and can only dispatch the central government, but it is often difficult to arrive in time. Therefore, the local forces can only be strengthened, but this will lead to local chaos.

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Therefore, starting from the Qin Dynasty, every new dynasty built large-scale roads and attached great importance to the post road system. This was the blood vessel of the imperial court. Only Chongzhen dared to abolish it if he had no money. The general imperial court was just abandoned.

For example, after the Anshi Rebellion broke out, there was a distance of three thousand miles between Fan Yang and Chang'an. Information about the rebellion was transmitted to Chang'an six days later, which shows how fast the transmission speed of the post station was.

Having digressed, let’s get back to the topic.

In ancient times, roads were usually built with rammed earth or cooked earth. For example, in the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, the earth was stir-fried with fire so that there would be no insects or grass, thus ensuring the quality of the earth.

Of course, if it is on an important road, such as the Royal Road, it will be built with green bricks and paid special attention to.

But not to mention the manpower, these costs are relatively high, and like rammed earth and cooked earth, they are easy to damage and difficult to repair. Of course, as long as the cost is not considered, like Qin Chi Road, it is difficult to break for hundreds of years.

However, the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated. In the Han Dynasty, there were floor tiles like today's floor tiles, which were also made of loess and were very hard. There were no heavy vehicles in ancient times and they were fully capable of meeting daily use.

Moreover, the construction and maintenance costs are relatively cheap. If a corner is missing, just a brick can be repaired. It will not get muddy when it rains, and there will be no sand when the wind blows.

The key is that it requires less manpower and material resources. It only takes a few hundred people to bake bricks. It is extremely convenient and does not require digging mountains to remove rocks.

Therefore, after summing up, Li Jia decided to focus on brick roads and began large-scale brick-burning paving.

Wouldn't it be perfect to pave the road with bricks and add fine sand and gravel?

In the plan, there are prefecture roads and county roads.

From Yongzhou to Guangzhou, and from Guangzhou to Changsha, one horizontal and one vertical cross the prefectural roads, which are called prefectural roads.

However, states and counties are connected and are also called county roads, so the standards are naturally very different.

The prefecture road is a main artery and has high requirements. The standard is basically ten feet (thirty meters) wide. Trees are planted on both sides and open channels are built. A stone tablet is buried every one mile on the road to indicate the location. There are post stations every thirty miles.

, each one hundred and fifty miles away, there are large inns.

Naturally, the county road does not need to be that wide, three feet is enough, and the inns are also set up in this way.

The inn is mainly used for accommodation by civil servants when they are on business trips. It does not accept ordinary people. It also takes care of the logistics and mailing tasks of the military depot warehouse. Different departments are responsible for it, and intelligence personnel who supervise various places are also hidden.

Of course, in order to facilitate the people, the land adjacent to each post station was given to merchants to open shops, hotels, or wine shops. Even if they were engaged in leather and meat business, they could operate as long as the rent and taxes were paid. The money was used to maintain the daily maintenance of the post station itself.

the way.

In order to avoid over-employment in the post station or excessive extortion by officials, Li Jia also stipulated that only officials of the fifth rank and lower grades, and officials with official duties, can be reimbursed for expenses. Others who are visiting relatives or returning home or for other purposes are not allowed to live there.

At the inn, you can only go to the hotel.

The highest direct management agency of post stations in the Tang Dynasty was the Ministry of War, one of the six ministries, and there was a "Minbu Jia Bu Lang" who was responsible for the management of post stations nationwide. According to the fifth volume of "Liu Dian of the Tang Dynasty":

"The doctor in the driving department and the foreign doctor in charge of the country's chariots and chariots, as well as the records of the private horses, cattle and miscellaneous animals of the stables, herders and officials in the world, and the government orders for their entry and exit, and the number of their names."

Li Jia disagreed with this. The erosion of the post station by bureaucracy was obvious to all. Naturally, there was a lot of waste and consumption.
Chapter completed!