The spring is chilly and the coldness is still there. In the withered mountains, bursts of spring thunder suddenly came. Amid the earth-shaking explosions, thick smoke rose from the hillside of a valley, and then there was a harsh sound of collapse.

A huge rock was blown up to the valley because the soil and rocks at the bottom were blown up and had no support.

The rocks rolled faster and faster, and their momentum was shattered and unstoppable, crushing all objects along the way.

The thick smoke dissipated, and the huge rock blocked the road finally stopped and stopped moving at the foot of the mountain. The position he had occupied was already "empty", and the two roads facing each other finally had the possibility of closing.

The young and strong, who had already had a good time, began to build roads, and tried to complete the construction of Yichun Road before the deadline, so that the transportation between Tanzhou and Hongzhou would be smooth.

Yichun Road is a major road connecting Dongting Lake (west) and Pengli Lake (east) areas. This road has existed since ancient times. It is only more than 700 miles away from Changsha, Tanzhou to Nanchang, Hongzhou. If you take a waterway, it will be more than 1,500 miles away.

However, the old road is rugged. Due to the terrain along the way, it is very difficult to widen some bottleneck sections. Therefore, although countless business trips have been around for thousands of years, Yichun Road is still the same.

Later, the Zhou State included Dongting Lake and Pengli Lake areas under its jurisdiction. Because the Zhou State's court had sky-blasting thunder in its hands, it planned to use sky-blasting thunder to open mountains and split stones, but the power of sky-blasting thunder was still a little smaller.

To broaden and rebuild Yichun Road, it was just a rough estimate. The amount of thunder required was extremely exaggerated, and the court could not afford the huge financial expenditure, so the matter was abandoned.

But now it is different. The court has "strong explosives" in its hands, which is far more powerful than the thunder of the sky. It is very convenient to use it to open mountains and split stones. Although it is a bit expensive, it is cost-effective to use it in key locations.

Therefore, the widening of Yichun Road and the reconstruction project began in full swing.

The people involved in this project include ordinary people who serve in labor (the service period is one to two months), hired workers who have signed contracts, and a large number of slave workers, plus supervisors and maintaining order. A total of nearly 100,000 people participated in this project, which was limited to one year.

With the help of "strong explosives", the Yichun Road widening project, which has a one-year construction period, is about to be completed successfully. The road construction team that is moving in the east and west at the same time finally "meets" today.

Yichun Road, which was widened on the original road, has been widened by "hard explosives" in several narrow areas along the way, and several areas have been "bent bends and straightened" and become flat and easy to move. The road surface of the entire road has doubled on average, allowing business travelers to travel to and from east to west to faster.

This is very important. With the rapid development of the prefectures and counties in Dongting Lake and Pengli Lake, personnel and materials exchanges between the two places are becoming increasingly frequent, and the requirements for transportation capacity are becoming increasingly greater.

If we take the Yangtze River waterway, it is very convenient for people and goods to go from the Dongting Lake area upstream to the Pengli Lake area downstream, so you can just take a boat downstream.

However, it is more troublesome and time-consuming to travel from the downstream Pengli Lake area to the upstream Dongting Lake area. Especially long-distance transportation of bulk goods, going upstream will increase many transportation costs.

Now that Yichun Road has been successfully widened, it can be foreseen that this will greatly facilitate the exchange of people and goods at both ends of the east and west. As the popularity of Yichun Road increases sharply, villages and towns along the way will also prosper.

Seeing that this large-scale project was about to be completed as scheduled, the officials involved in the construction of the road were smiling, and Zheng Tong was in a good mood for the road construction, but he still convened his subordinates to hold an on-site meeting and made various arrangements for the smooth "finalization" of the future.

We have worked hard for a year and everything goes well. We must not make mistakes due to carelessness, which will reduce the political achievements and contributions we have obtained.

Now, Yichun Road is about to be widened. Zheng Tong’s requirement is that the responsible officials of each section must personally check the construction quality of the section they are responsible for. Then he will check one by one, and if he finds problems, he will rectify them within a specified period of time.

They checked the quality of the road by themselves, and then welcomed the formal inspection of the officials sent by the court, striving to pass the "acceptance" at once, laying a solid foundation for everyone's future career development.

As the "old person" of the emperor's residence, Zheng Tong was simply in the emperor's heart, but other officials were not so lucky. They may not be appreciated by the emperor for the rest of their lives and do nothing. The expansion of the Yichun Taoism is a project that has left a famous name for the emperor. If they can attract the attention of the emperor with excellent performance, they will inevitably have a chance to be promoted in the future.

So officials of all sizes and big and small have worked hard to perform, and everyone's performance is indeed outstanding. Therefore, Zheng Tong has drafted a memorial. When the Yichun Road is successfully completed, the names of those who have made contributions will come to Datianting.

It is precisely because of the power to show off his merits that Zheng Tong commanded officials of all sizes and big and small, and he did not speak in plain words and said benefits. Officials can indeed see real bright prospects for the career path.

The widening project of Yichun Road is an experiment in which violent explosives are used in large-scale projects. Through this experiment, the officials in charge of the road construction and the craftsmen who implemented the specific implementation have mastered the use of "strong explosives" well and prepared for the future Shu Road and Jingxing widening project.

Shu Road is the main road connecting Guanzhong and Shu, while Jingxing is the main road connecting the Taihang Mountains and Jinyang and Yecheng. These two important roads must be widened, and officials and craftsmen with experience in using "strong explosives" will definitely have the opportunity to be reused.

Only with the opportunity to display one's talents can one attract the attention of the emperor, and only in this way can one have the opportunity to rise to the top.

At the on-site meeting, Zheng Tong repeatedly told him that after explaining all the matters, he looked at his tired but energetic subordinates and did not forget to encourage him: "The Dayuling Road widening project, which started at the same time as the Yichun Road widening project, has almost been completed."

"Our performance is not worse than them, so we must do a good job of finishing the work and strive to have the opportunity to participate in the next Shu Road or Jingxing widening project, and we must have better performance in these complex road construction projects!"

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The north wind blows, and it is frozen for thousands of miles. Although it is already spring, the Lushun area is still cold and cold. The undulating sea surface of the past has now frozen. Standing at the commanding heights of the port area, looking southward, the sea surface outside the sea has become ice.

These ice may be frozen into pieces, like land, or just fine crumbs of ice floating on the water surface. They can be barely sailing, but in any case, it affects the inlet and exit of Lushun.

The climate in Liaodong is cold. Every winter, the sea surface in the coastal areas will freeze. The ice belts of more than ten miles wide make all ships unable to move. This is the so-called "ice period", also known as "sealing sea".

The sea surface is frozen, and fishing boats that were originally anchored on the coast will be frozen on the ice, and the sea boats coming from the outside of the sea cannot be bent on the shore. In this climate, the Lushun Sea is no exception.

Although Lushun (Mashijin) is a harbor with less freezing sea surfaces in the coastal areas of Liaodong, the freezing sea surface area outside the port area is relatively small, mostly mainly floating ice, but still cannot avoid freezing of sea surfaces.

According to previous circumstances, the ice age will not end until at least February.

By then, as the weather gradually warms up, the ice surface that had already frozen into pieces will gradually break and turn into a large amount of floating ice, and then gradually melt. When the floating ice disappears, it is already late spring.

The climate in Liaodong is cold in winter, so if the imperial court wants to use troops to Liaodong, whether by land or sea, it will only start in late spring. The short half-year time limit in summer and autumn has greatly restricted the government troops fighting in Liaodong. It is very likely that they have to withdraw their troops before the arrival of winter before the arrival of winter.

So in order to gain a longer combat time, whether spring can break the ice smoothly becomes the key to whether sea transportation can be carried out smoothly.

Ren Chong, a sea route transfer commissioner from Liaodong Road, was standing on the coastal defense fortress outside the Lushun Port Area, looking at the frozen sea surface in front of him, without any worries.

The imperial court was about to use troops to Liaodong. Although the scale of troops was not large, the prince was the general manager of the marching, which shows that the emperor was generous to this military use.

Therefore, as the "old person" of the emperor's secret residence, Ren Chong and the transfer officer who supervises the transfer of grain and grass, he must ensure smooth logistics transportation in any case.

However, the freezing of ports during the ice age was unsolvable and it was not changed by human will. This year, the sea surface of Lushun still had a freezing situation. Without breaking the ice, Lushun Port would not be able to operate normally.

Now, the sea surface of Lushun is frozen into pieces, and the same is true for the Laizhou waters across the sea. Goguryeo must also know that there will be an ice age along the coast of Liaodong, which will not end until February. Therefore, it is impossible for the Zhou people to take a sea boat to harass the north during this period.

This view is not wrong, but it is wrong now.

In recent years, the Laizhou government and Beiyang Trading Company have been constantly exploring ice-breaking methods. Now they have trained many ice-breaking teams and accumulated a lot of ice-breaking experience. The related ice-breaking methods are becoming more and more perfect.

After all, as long as you are willing to spend money, then the problem that can be solved by spending money is not a problem.

Ren Chong took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. At this moment, several fires suddenly flew into the sky on the ice outside, and sparks burst out, which looked very beautiful.

That was the agreed signal that the ice breaking project was about to begin.
Chapter completed!