Awakening ability

Chapter 272 The Second Round of the Golden Wheel of Merit

The arrival of Yao Xiaoxiao and Wu Mengmeng made Fang Hao feel much more relaxed.

The planning of the fifth national highway and the sixth national highway in Taiqiu has also been put on the agenda.

There is also the construction of the national water network.

Shipping is the lowest cost mode of transportation, no matter in this world or in the modern world of the earth, shipping is the lowest cost mode of transportation.

But shipping needs such a natural environment—it must at least have navigable waterways.

Rivers and lakes in the natural world are all here and there. Although there are some tributaries, they cannot reach the whole country, and they all belong to the local water network.

To form a national water network, it is necessary to connect those local water networks.

A lot of canals had to be dug, and because of the height difference, dams and sluices had to be built in many places to adjust.

These are all big projects.

There is no problem with the technology. The reference books that Fang Hao brought from the earth contain relevant content.

Moreover, the Ministry of Industry of Taiqiu Kingdom also has some relevant experience.

With the existing materials and technical conditions, it can still be done.

The only difficulty is the cost.

Whether it is digging canals or building water conservancy projects such as dams, it requires huge material support and manual support.

On the earth with large machinery such as excavators and dredgers, it is still very difficult to dig artificial canals, let alone in this world.

Moreover, the land area of ​​Taiqiu country is really too large. A country is equivalent to the entire land area of ​​the entire earth. To connect all the water networks in such a large country is a huge project that is unimaginable.

However, once it is connected, the entire transportation of Taiqiu country will be revitalized.

This is a huge project. Fang Hao calls it a century-old project and plans to spend 100 years to complete such a goal.

The 100 years in this world are only the past ten years on the earth, which is not a long time.

Such a huge project cannot be completed in 100 years by manual excavation alone.

But with the power of monks and the power of technology, it is still very possible.

Now the steam engine has been completed, and even a steam ship has been tested in a lake, and it is expected that mass production will start within two or three years.

The steam age is approaching, which also means that the technological age is approaching. In the future, the replacement of labor with machinery will speed up.

The first thing they planned was to use the existing natural conditions to dig a large canal to connect several areas with relatively complete water networks.

The water networks in those areas span thousands of kilometers from south to north, and there are three large rivers with a length of tens of thousands of kilometers from east to west. The watershed passes through more than 20 provinces and radiates a quarter of the Taiqiu country.

And those areas should be convenient for water transportation, and they are still the most affluent areas in Taiqiu State. The annual tax paid to the treasury accounts for more than half of the total amount of Taiqiu State.

Moreover, the height difference between those areas from south to north is not particularly large. Although there is a distance of several thousand kilometers from the northernmost point to the southernmost point, due to the dense water network, there have been canals dug between those areas before. The places where canals are really needed to connect are only a few hundred kilometers away.

Among the hundreds of kilometers, there are still some places that belong to the old river channel, which is just to be deepened and expanded.

Having said that, the amount of this project is still quite large.

It's definitely not a problem if you lean on your shoulders and carry your hand.

If it was that easy, the ancients would have solved this problem long ago, so there is no need to wait until now.

The ancients were not stupid, it’s not that they couldn’t see the benefits brought by the convenience of the water network, but they couldn’t do those things without the technical conditions.

But now that Wu Mengmeng, a high-quality free labor force, is there, he will naturally make full use of it.

At Yao Xiaoxiao's request, Wu Mengmeng was dispatched to the excavation project of the Grand Canal.

——If she doesn't go, Yao Xiaoxiao is ready to do it herself.

Under such threats, Wu Mengmeng had no choice but to agree.

However, Fang Hao also made a promise to her-this Grand Canal, which runs thousands of kilometers from north to south, will be called Wujiang.

This is the name of eternal life.

Wu Mengmeng couldn't help but be moved.

A Nascent Soul Dzogchen monk played an enormous role in the project.

The storage ring can hold hundreds of thousands of square meters of earth and rocks at one time, as long as the flying sword is used to divide the earth and rocks into small pieces, and those earth and rocks can be moved to the storage ring where the spiritual consciousness covers.

Don't say that ordinary labor has no way to compare with her efficiency. Even if a thousand large excavators start working at the same time, they will not have such efficiency.

Moreover, after excavation, the embankment can also be reinforced with magic.

With Wu Mengmeng's participation, the construction process of this grand canal has been accelerated a lot.

Originally, Fang Hao planned to work on this project with Lao Luo himself, but now that it is given to Wu Mengmeng, the two of them are of course much more relaxed and can be busy with other things.

For example, building roads and bridges.

Anyway, there is no time to spare.

However, after being busy, he can see that the country's infrastructure is getting better and better every day, and he can get information about the increase in charity value from the system every day. Fang Hao's life is quite fulfilling, and he feels that it is worth being tired.

Each issue of "Taiqiu News" has a certain amount of space to publicize the great achievements of Fang Hao, the national teacher, and some reports are mixed with pictures to give people a more intuitive feeling.

It's a pity that the current technology is not yet able to print photos, and the pictures can only be drawn, so the impact on people is not so strong.

But under such publicity, Fang Hao's reputation is getting better and better, and more and more people are grateful to him.

Where Taiqiu State promotes new education, night shift literacy is also being promoted simultaneously. Over the years, more and more literate people in Taiqiu State, and the audience of media groups have also become wider and wider.

In the ninth year of Daye, the circulation of "Taiqiu News" has reached more than 100 million copies. It is the only national news newspaper in Taiqiu country. It has no competitors and firmly holds the power of public opinion.

Although in recent years, due to the improvement of living standards and the improvement of literacy rate, there are private capitals running newspapers and periodicals in some big cities, but they are all regional, and many sales are limited to one city, even covering the whole province. If it can't be done, let alone spread across the country, there is no way to compete with Fang Hao's media group.

"Taiqiu News" is still operating at a loss, but the benefits it brings to Fang Hao are enormous.

Not two days after the third national highway was completed, Fang Hao received a reminder from the system:

"Congratulations to the host, unlocking the most devout blessing achievement of 1000 million people, and obtaining the second round of the golden wheel of merit."

"I hope the host will continue to work hard and achieve better results."

(End of this chapter)