The governor of Yizhou wrote an official document to Chang'an City, mentioning the road construction.

He first praised the cement road currently being built in Longxi, and then said that they also planned to build a road in the direction of Jinchang. These two roads converged in one place, not only the closer communication between Yizhou and the Central Plains, but also the It also facilitates Illinois officials to go to Beijing to sue.

As the Yizhou side thinks, the Central Plains Dynasty really wants to strengthen their rule and management of this place in Yizhou. Now that the Yiwu people themselves propose to build this road, and they contribute their own money and efforts, then there is no disagreement. His Majesty the Emperor agreed with a stroke of his pen, and wrote them a letter full of approval.

The next day, the emperor mentioned the matter again in the early court, encouraging officials and families from all over the country to actively build roads.

However, the officials below who were born in the gentry did not take it seriously. It is not easy to build roads, and their families cannot get taxes from the local people. It is also empty, and the power of the family is also weak. In the end, this person on the dragon couch took all the advantages. Do you really think they are stupid?

Yizhou is in that borderland, so how can the situation in their Central Plains be the same as Yizhou?

Although Yiwu has now been incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, it has only been a short period of ten years. In this era of inconvenient transportation and difficult communication, the short period of more than ten years can't change much.

Just like the people in Yizhou still call themselves Yiwu people, the Yiwu royal family is still their actual ruler. When the Tang Dynasty was strong, they were a state of the Tang Dynasty. It's Yiwu country.

Historically, the Central Plains Dynasty also had a period of decline. At that time, they could not even keep the Hexi Corridor, let alone places like Yiwu Gaochang.

So those Yiwu people are obviously building roads for themselves. How is the situation in the Central Plains the same? The roads here must be paid for by the imperial court, and the imperial court will come forward to repair them.

Sitting on the dragon couch, Li Shimin watched the old fried dough sticks below all with unmoved faces, and suddenly felt that the coffin board in Longxi was a bit cute.

[Luo Coffin Baner: The bully is usually cuter. 】

In Changle County, after a period of exploration and practice, with the help of Luo Yong's disciples and some Changle people, those craftsmen and peasants from Yiwu quickly mastered the essentials and tricks of laying wooden tracks.

But they still have to follow Luo Yong's agreement with the governor of Yiwu to pave this track all the way to Jinchang City.

Jinchang City is not very far from Changle County. If you ride a horse, you can get there in half a day. Therefore, this section of wooden track is not very long. It will be laid in winter, and it will be laid about a year ago.

There are two wooden tracks going back and forth, which are laid along the side of the post road from Changle County to Jinchang City. Now there is a long section of this post road that has been paved with concrete roads, which is also the process of laying wooden tracks. Provides certain convenience.

However, the construction of this cement road has come to a standstill recently, it is said that because the imperial court is going to send troops to Xue Yantuo, there is some negligence regarding the road construction on the Longxi side.

"Fortunately, I listened to Saburo's advice that day, and I didn't wait for the court to come forward to build this road, otherwise I really don't know what year and month I will have to wait."

On this day, the governor of Yizhou came to Changle County to observe and inspect, and heard about the slow construction of the cement road in Longxi recently, so he said with emotion.

"In the face of foreign enemies, it is natural to focus on warfare." Luo Yong said.

Such things as marching and fighting cannot be neglected at all, and logistics and food are also very important.

The two talked a few more words, went to the best restaurant in the county to have a meal, and then Luo Yong said that he would arrange for them to rest first, and then go to see the wooden track with them tomorrow.

However, the Governor of Nai Prefecture was very impatient, saying that the two or three days' journey from Yiwu to Changle County by horseback was nothing to him at all. Go and have a look.

So Luo Yong ordered an officer to drive a specially-made rail carriage, and went to the wooden track outside the city together with the governor of Yizhou and others.

The wheels of this kind of carriage are specially made, which can run on both flat ground and tracks.

When they arrived at the place, the guards drove the carriage onto the track. The section where the car went up and down the track was also designed ingeniously. It was funnel-shaped from wide to narrow and from low to high. It was very easy for the car to get on and off the track.

"Assassin, please get in the car." Luo stood by the door with a smile and raised his hand to signal.

"Saburo please too." The governor of Yizhou also bowed his hands to Luo Yong, and then got into the carriage first.

While getting into the carriage, he took a look, and found that the carriage was no different from ordinary carriages, except that there was a pole standing obliquely in the front of the carriage, whose purpose was not known.

When all the people got into the carriage, the governor of Yizhou asked Luo Yong, and Luo Yong told him that it was the brake.

"Brakes?" As an aborigine born in the seventh century AD, the Governor of Illinois did not know what brakes were.

"This wooden carriage is too fast to stop by reining in the horse alone, so we made a brake." Luo Yong said, signaling the guards in front to start, and then said to the people in the car: "Everyone Just look at it."

As soon as Luo Yong said this, the horses in front started to gallop, and the people in the carriage only felt their bodies leaning back a little, and then they didn't feel anything anymore.

At this moment, Luo Yong pushed the car window, and they saw the scenery outside the window quickly skipping by, but they sat in the car, and they couldn't feel the bumps at all.It's cold in winter, but these people don't think it's windy at all, and the inside and outside of the car look very fresh.

After a while, Luo Yong said to them: "The time is short, and now only this section has been repaired. There is no wooden track in front, and the guards are about to brake. If you feel novel, you might as well go to the front." Take a look."

So these people all leaned forward to look at the driver in front of him, and saw that he was shouting, and the movements of his hands were also very skillful. While reining in his horse, he pushed the wooden pole next to the seat, and then slowly, The fast-moving carriage stopped very smoothly, and was quietly fixed on the wooden rails. The horses in front stepped on their hooves in small steps, but did not move the carriage for half a minute.

"This is the brake?" The governor of Yizhou thought that this thing was really easy to use.

On weekdays, the old and young in the family get on and off the carriage, and every time they have to ask a special person to lead the horse, fearing that the livestock will be disturbed and run again. If the brakes are also pressed on those carriages in his family, then they will go up and down backwards. You can feel more at ease if you don't have a carriage.

And this wooden track, which is also great, the carriage is so fast and stable on it!The speed is not much slower than riding a horse by yourself, but the comfort is more than a hundred times higher!

This deal is well worth it!It seems that Luo Sanlang really has no money. For the journey from Changle County to Jinchang City, he provided him with such good technology without money.

Speaking of it, this Changle County is really barren, there are not even a few decent big trees, and the price of wood is quite expensive. To be honest, it will cost them a lot of money to lay this section of wooden track.

But after the wooden track from Changle County to their Yiwu is laid, the merchants here will definitely go to their Yiwu in an endless stream. The money spent today will be earned back sooner or later.

A few people got out of the car to let the wind go, and bought a wooden track and a wooden track carriage, and then drove back again.

On the way back, they didn't open the windows again. They sat in the car and talked. After a while, they arrived outside Changle County again.

"Quick! It's really too fast!" These Yiwu officials all praised.

In the next two or three days, these people were extremely easy to talk to.

Luo Yong said that driving on wooden rails was different from driving on flat ground, and asked them to arrange for a few people to come to Changle County to learn to drive before the road was completed. So they signed an order for a batch of wooden carriages.

On the way back, most of the governor of Yizhou and others were very happy, except for a thin old man.

"Then why is Luo Sanlang so enthusiastic about our road construction in Yizhou? Don't you worry that he has plans?" When resting on the road, this man said to the governor of Yizhou.

"This road has been repaired, and it will be quite beneficial to Changle County." The governor of Yizhou waved his hand and said nonchalantly.

"His post as county magistrate is only for a few years, how is it the same as you and me?" the old man said again.

"What do you think?" the governor of Yizhou asked him.

"There must be some conspiracy against our Yizhou." The old man said firmly.

"The Lishi Luo Sanlang is not a sinister and vicious person. Even if he has plans for our Yizhou, what does it matter? Isn't what he plans is the bargaining chip for my Yizhou to negotiate with him?" said the governor of Yizhou. road.

"There is really no need to be too wary of Luo Yong." Other people on the side also spoke at this time.

"Those merchants who come and go, all of them are Luo Sanlang, who is not a bad character."

"Whether in Lishi, Chang'an, or in Changle County, I have never heard of him harming others."

"I can't trust such a person, so I, Yiwu, will just close the door and live my life, and come out to deal with people."

"That statement makes sense."

"I don't know which benefit he is interested in Yiwu. It's not just for food, right?"

"We'll know then."

"..."

Luo Yong did not expect that these Yiwu people had already made such speculations behind their backs, and he was also thinking about buying some cheap coal from Yizhou in the future.

But no matter what, the trust these Yiwu people have in him is what Luo Yong wants to see.

Now it is the 15th year of Zhenguan, Luo Yong is only 22 years old now, his life has just begun, and there is still a long way to go in the future.

At this stage, for him, it should be the right season for sowing, not harvesting.

At noon after seeing off these Yiwu people, Luo Yong was sitting in a small hall in front of the county office looking at the account books when Qiao Junlin came back from the outside and said to him: "Ding Chaoyi came to the county again today. heard?"

"Never." It was almost time for lunch, Luo Yong closed the account book and replied.

Luo Yong had heard about Nading's court meeting before. He was an official sent by the court to supervise the road construction, and he was mainly in charge of the section from Jiuquan to Dunhuang.

A group of officials in Changle County have dealt with him several times because of the arrangement of corvee.I heard that there were many generals from his ancestors, and some ancestors participated in the Han Dynasty when Emperor Wu sent troops to conquer the Xiongnu, and made great contributions to the occupation of Longxi by the Han Empire. Their family has a special feeling for the land of Longxi, so this Once the sage said that he wanted someone to come to Longxi to supervise the construction of the road, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to come and supervise the work.

His official position is the imperial court official, which is a civil official, which means that he has no specific position and correspondingly has no rights. He will go wherever the emperor assigns him, and his status is quite embarrassing.

Doctor Guanglu of Tang Jian is also a Wensan official, but his rank is much higher than that of Ding Chaoyi, and his family is also more prosperous. The family of Ding Chaoyi is indeed a bit down-to-earth now up.

"He came here this time to collect donations." Qiao Junlin casually put a few books on the table, and took two sips of tea from the cup.

"Oh?" Luo Yong put down the account book: "Then you go and have a look with me."

The two of them went out immediately, although there was little snow in this Longxi winter, it was still very cold, especially on a windy day, when they arrived at the shop where Ding Chaoyi and the others were, both of them were very cold. Suffered from the cold.

Luo Yong went into the room and saw that the hall was empty, there were not many people there, so he immediately said to the shopkeeper:

"I heard that Ding Chaoyi came to collect donations today, but there is no one there. Go and call them all over. In this cold weather, there is no business to do anyway."

Seeing that the magistrate Luo said so, the shopkeeper had no choice but to go out and call for someone.

Luo Yong then sat with Na Ding Chaoyi and several others, exchanged pleasantries with each other first, and then picked up a topic at random to say that although Luo Yong was not very sociable in the past, after all, they were two people. Being a man in the world, and the people in Changle County are very respectful to him, when he came, the atmosphere in the room immediately heated up.

Na Ding Chaoyi is a typical scholar, with a thin skin, and although he came from a poor family, he is still from a noble family. It is really embarrassing for him to be able to bite the bullet and come out to donate today.

Some time ago, he also collected donations in Jiuquan, Jinchang and other places, but they didn't go very well. He expected that Changle County would not be too good, but he didn't have an account for himself if he didn't go through all these places.The cement road that was half built just stood there day by day. Right now it is the slack season in winter. If the construction is not started at this time, by the beginning of spring next year, the common people will be farming, grazing and grazing. Where do we go to find a civilian husband?

Not long after, many people entered the shop one after another, and every one of them greeted Luo Yongju with a smile when they saw him.

"Why did you hear that Ding Chaoyi came to the county to collect donations, but none of you came?" Luo Yong asked them with a smile.

"Hey, for such a big matter as road construction, the imperial court doesn't bring money and silk, so what can we do?" One of the shopkeepers said to Luo Yong.

"Then what else can we do, let's pay." Luo Yong said with a smile: "The rich pay more, and the poor pay less. It's really not possible. Paying a few pennies and five pennies is also a part of our common people in Changle. I don't mean it."

"How much do you pay for the county magistrate?" someone asked Luo Yong.

Luo Yong bowed his hands to Nading Chaoyi and said, "The white cloth produced in my county this year has just been shipped to Chang'an City for sale, and the money hasn't arrived in my hands yet. There is no money in this county right now anyway."

He paused here, and then said again: "But I still have some, if you need it, you can ask someone to move it at any time."

Ding Chaoyi bowed his hands and thanked Luo Yong. The merchants in the hall saw Luo Yong said so, and they all untied their money bags and donated some more or less.

Changle County has been very lively for more than a year. Since the needle workshop was opened, merchants from nearby have been coming and going frequently. How could these merchants in the city not make any money?

Na Ding Chaoyi was very happy to get the money. Although it was not enough to build many roads, it was still the wishes of the local people and he felt the support from others.

After leaving this restaurant, he returned to a guest house where he was staying. Because money was tight, he didn't live in any big guest house, so he chose a cheap and affordable one.After returning, he told his entourage that he asked them to drive the carriage to the county government to bring some things back, and the magistrate of Naluo would take whatever he gave, no need to say much.

As a result, about two or three quarters of an hour later, the two attendants brought back a cart full of money and silk from the county government.

The attendant said to him: "There are more over there, at least four or five carts can be loaded. The county magistrate Luo also said that we will build roads in Changle County in the future. If we don't have enough money, come and tell him."

When Ding Chaoyi heard about it, he put on his shoes and got off the kang in a hurry, and went to the county government. When he saw Luo Yong, he bowed his hands to him and said, "Today, I have to give generously to you. Ding will never forget it."

Luo Yong hurriedly reached out to help: "Sir, the road was not built for his own family, so why should he thank me?"

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