Chapter seven hundred and eighteen.
If you want to drive express delivery in ancient times, you will probably have to complain to death! Even if there is a river transportation to help transport, it will take two months for the vast team to retreat from Yicheng to Chang'an. It will be too difficult to leave without the era of unopened expressways!
During this period, countless Qiang people were frozen to death and closed down on the road. Wang Hou was also extremely cruel along the way. If it were women and children, some support would be given. The older Qiang people simply let them fall in the snow and ignore them.
On the one hand, the most nostalgic among the tribes is probably these old people. When they live in the tribe, they will form tenacious conservative forces. On the other hand, the old people really can't do much work. Although Wang Hou is a rich man, he has to eat one on the way every time he transports a piece of food to Guanzhong, and he lives a tight life. Therefore, these old people who cannot bring much profit will use the ability of nature to eliminate as much as they can.
Cruel and real!
However, the cruel survival of the fittest was the Qiang people who arrived at the center of the former empire, but they still couldn't help but glared and their mouths widened in surprise.
There is no way. Even later generations will be amazed and fascinated by miraculous buildings cast by humans, just like tourists taking photos around the pyramid, let alone the productivity of this era is not as good as the Se Qiang people.
And Chang'an City is definitely one of the miracles of this era.
Well, of course it is not the already dilapidated Han Chang'an City! It is the Tang Chang'an City that Wang Hou rebuilt by the Wei River since the year of his expedition!
Well, it is not appropriate to say this, because the Time and Space Administration made a mistake, or Schrödinger's watch and other principles, in this era, Wang Hou, it is hard to say whether the glorious Tang Dynasty in the future can appear. Anyway, the magnificent Chang'an City was once again proposed to the project by Wang Hou.
Even if we put aside the political elements of Chang'an as a capital of a country and as an important international land port on the Silk Road, Chang'an City must show its majesty! At least it looks particularly majestic and lively at first glance. When doing business here, you can definitely make a fortune. With the current dilapidated Han Chang'an, who is like a beggar's nest, who is willing to come here to do business?
Moreover, this Western Expedition allowed Wang Hou to see another commercial truth, and distance was the cost! Although Guihua City has specialties, it really needed a large-scale transit station in Guanzhong where the east and west converge.
It's right in front of you!
The palace walls of Chang'an City in Han Dynasty were only ten meters, and the northern defense wall built during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han was only six meters. This time, if you want to do it, you have to do a big one. In Wang Hou's hands, the magnificent Chang'an City wall was fifteen meters, and there were also wall buildings more than five meters high at the city gates everywhere, making the highest point twenty meters high.
Moreover! If there are mountains around, twenty meters are not very high, but this generation is the Wei River Plain. There is no building around that is higher than the Chang'an City Wall. Suddenly, when we came to this cement-gray city wall, it was like a giant mountain suddenly rising from the ground, full of shock.
Not to mention these local buns withdrawn from Longshang, Wang Hou himself did not expect that he would randomly mark the figures on Cai Hou's paper and simply mark them sixty feet, and actually build such a huge creature.
However, when I saw the huge city suddenly appearing in front of me by the setting sun, I was most excited not the owner of Wang Hou, but the young master Cao Zhang!
"Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, I'm here!"
The urban development of the Han Dynasty was still in its early days. Even in Yecheng, Xudu, there were only a few taverns and singing halls, and the Han Dynasty cities strictly implemented curfews! Cao Cao used a stick to kill the uncle of the ten eunuch Jian Shuo because of the curfew. So it was said that it was a flying eagle! In addition to hunting and teasing a folk girl, the playboy in the Han Dynasty was really meaningless.
So Cao Zhang's dandy life was not considered a matter of beginning until he went to Qingzhou! Because Wang Hou's city did not implement curfews! The red light district of the song halls and restaurants that were open until midnight was a "bathing city" that only existed in the late Ming Dynasty. Well, it is not suitable for children. The casino that broke the bank and the Liyuan were also specially built by the government. In short, Wang Hou had been digging all his thoughts. Compared with the cold political center Xudu and Yecheng! No matter whether it is Zhaocheng, Island City, or Lianjiao and Guihua City built later, this is a city with more fireworks and humanity!
Since the previous year, Wang Hou has been fooled to this desolate Guanxi, Cao Zhangdu has not returned to Huacheng for three years. These days, Cao Zhang has dreamed that he has played billiards at the Gaojia Gambling House, gambling horses at the racecourse, or doing something that cannot be written in Chuguan. Seeing a big city suddenly appear, this guy was like a demon, saliva flowing from the corner of his mouth, and he left the team and ran straight over with golden light. Sun Shangxiang behind him shouted without even hearing that.
However, while Wang Hou was satisfied and helplessly, he rushed to the magnificent Five Gate Tower, which was more than five meters high and was particularly spacious and magnificent. The next second, Cao Zhang stayed there stupidly as if he was struck by lightning.
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"Scammer! Scammer!"
He raised his head and poured a bowl of frustrated bitter wine. The third young master was as mean to be heartbroken, swaying in the yard with a confused fist. Looking at his depressed appearance, even Wang Hou himself couldn't help but shake his head helplessly.
A typical gold and jade are outside, and it is a shattering among them! The city wall outside looks particularly magnificent, but as soon as it enters inside, it is empty! Except for the Sanqing Giant View built on the right side of the city's central axis when he set off, the government treasury on the right was built, and the remaining location was empty and the ground was not leveled.
Fortunately, Wang Hou traveled through the steel and cement. He did not need to use three-piece soil inch by inch to cast it inch like later generations. He directly set up a five-meter wall, nailed the steel bars in the middle, and then dug a cement pit on the ground to mix the cement produced in Liaodong with gravel stones evenly. Then the migrant workers pushed the carts along the slope and poured them out, and cast them quickly as if they were three-step jumps.
There is no trick, one is the lack of materials, and the other is the lack of labor.
But now!
When we returned to Chang'an City on the side of the Wei River, it was already evening, and it was even darker today. However, the entire huge city was filled with campfires. About 250,000 migrant Qiang and Di people were all in their positions and were assigned to various construction brigades at the four corners of the city wall. Seeing the felt bags that were emerging like mushrooms after the rain, a stream of light kept flashing in his pupils.
Chapter completed!