Throughout February, all countries in the world were busy dealing with internal affairs and were not very enthusiastic about conquests, so it was rare to have a harmonious scene.

Lingnan, through the merger of prefectures and counties, began to re-invest population and land measurement in dozens of prefectures in Lingnan. After several years of installation, Li Jia finally began to attack the local area.

And this opening was the first to open in Jianwu Town, the emperor's own hometown.

Under the emperor's personal order, the Li family of Yongzhou directly explained more than 1,000 hidden households and two thousand allusions, and the land was more than 300 hectares. According to the tax payment standard, more than 3,000 stones of grain had to be paid at one time. Li family alone could make Yongzhou's finances rich for a while.

Some emperors took the lead, so naturally no one dared to be arrogant. In addition, Jianwu Town is Li Jia's base camp, so they naturally understand clearly. All the wealthy families and powerful people were named one by one. Who can bear it?

As a result, Jianwu Town alone has been inspected for about one million mu, and the newly registered household registration (referring to hidden households) is about 20,000. It is estimated that the annual tax payments will be increased by more than 100,000 stones. Jianwu Town has become the second largest taxpayer outside Chengtian Prefecture.

To this end, Li Jia established a new Lingxi West in accordance with the rules, with Yongzhou as the capital, governing three gates, Yong, Gui, and Rong, and more than ten northwest prefectures. Basically, the territory of Lingxi Jiedushi and Yongguan was inconsistent with modern Guangxi.

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

Therefore, Li Jia set up Lingdong Prefecture. In addition to Chengtian Prefecture, he seized Hezhou, Lianzhou, and west of Fengzhou in Hunan, dozens of prefectures were the prefecture. The prefecture was located in Guangzhou. After all, it was a capital and needed strict control. For example, Hebei in Beijing could neither innovate nor be too traditional, and it was the key to defending the capital.

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

The population of Jingnan Prefecture with Nanping as its core reached 700,000 to 800,000.

If we estimate after the merger of prefectures and counties, there are more than ten prefectures in Lingxi and Lingdong, each with more than 300,000 people in Chengtian Prefecture. The population of each prefecture is at most similar to Jingnan Prefecture. In Lingnan, the new population can be increased by 200,000 to 300,000.

For ordinary people, spring plowing cannot be delayed, so they must go out and walk out of the house and hide it. Otherwise, they will be hungry after half a year of waste. Taking advantage of the pressure of the weather and the court, although there are many difficulties in population and land measurement, they still start slowly.

Some of the people were busy and some of the courts were busy, but Li Jia was not idle. He was ready to fulfill his long-cherished wish and began to build roads.

There is a saying that if you want to be rich, you should first build roads. In peacetime, it makes sense, but strategically, it is extremely important.

Generally, at the end of the dynasty, the combat effectiveness of soldiers naturally declined after a long period of peace, but no matter how they declined, they were stronger than ordinary people. Therefore, the rebel troops at the beginning could not deal with officers and soldiers, after all, the scale of materials could not match.

The reason why it grew stronger was that it was not good for clearing out and gradually became bigger. This was the case in the late Ming Dynasty. It had no money to maintain the post road, and the roads were naturally abandoned and the difficulty of marching was difficult. Often, people would transfer before they arrived.

For example, Yongzhou and Guangzhou are thousands of miles apart. If there are bandits, such as Li Jia's rebellion, the local soldiers are weak and they can only send out the central government, but it is often difficult to arrive in time. Therefore, they can only strengthen the local area, but it will also lead to chaos in the local area.

Therefore, starting from the Qin Dynasty, every newly built dynasty built a large-scale road construction and attached importance to the post road system. This is the blood vessel of the court. Only when Chongzhen had no money could he dare to abolish it, and the ordinary court was just aborted.

For example, after the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Fan Yang went to Chang'an three thousand miles apart, and 6 days later the rebellion information was transmitted to Chang'an, which shows how fast the post station teleported.

Going far and back to the topic.

In ancient times, road construction was usually done by ramming the soil, smashing the soil into pieces, or using cooked soil. For example, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, the soil was fried with fire, so that there would be no insects or grass, and the quality of the soil was ensured.

Of course, if you are on important roads, such as the Imperial Road, you are built with blue bricks and pay special attention to it.

But let’s not talk about manpower, these costs are relatively high, and such as rammed earth, cooked earth, etc., are easy to damage and repair. Of course, as long as the cost is ignored, it will be difficult to break for hundreds of years, like Qin Chi Road.

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

Moreover, the construction cost and maintenance cost are relatively cheap. If you lack a corner, you can make up a brick. It is not easy to be muddy when it rains, and there is no wind or sand when it blows.

The key is that the manpower and material resources are used. Only a few hundred people are needed to burn bricks, which is particularly convenient and does not require digging mountains and picking up stones or something.

Therefore, after summarizing it, Li Jia decided to take brick roads as the key and start burning bricks and paving the roads on a large scale.

Isn’t it perfect to pave the road with bricks and add fine sand and stones?

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

From Yongzhou to Guangzhou, from Guangzhou to Changsha, there are horizontal and vertical routes, crossing the prefecture road, and it is called the prefecture road.

The standards are naturally very different when the county is connected, and it is also called county roads.

The mansion road is a major artery, with high requirements, and 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 mile on the road, indicating its location. Every thirty miles, a post station is set up, and each one is 150 miles, and a major post station is set up.

The county road naturally does not need to be so wide, three meters are enough, and the inn is also set up.

The station is mainly for civil servants to use for accommodation when traveling on business trips. It does not receive ordinary people. It also takes into account the tasks of military stations, warehouses, logistics and postal services. Different departments are responsible for it, and it also covers the supervision of intelligence personnel from all over the country.

Of course, in order to facilitate the people, the land adjacent to each station is handed over to merchants to open shops, hotels, or restaurants. Even if they run a flesh-and-steal business, they can be operated as long as they pay rent and taxes. The money is used to maintain the station's daily life and maintain the road.

In order to avoid excessive labor at the post station or excessive blackmail by officials, Li Jia also stipulated that only officials with a fifth rank and who have official duties can reimburse the expenses. Other people who visit relatives, return home, and other purposes cannot live in the post station and can only go to hotels.

The highest directly managed organ of the post station in the Tang Dynasty was the Ministry of War, one of the six ministries, and the "Ministry of War Jiamen Lang" was specially designed for the management of the post stations nationwide. According to Volume 5 of the "Six Dictations of Tang Dynasty":

"The doctor of the Ministry of Veterans, the Yuanwai Lang is in charge of the carriages, chariots, and the world's traditions, posts, stables, pastoral officials, private horses, cows, and miscellaneous animals, and distinguish their entry and exit from the Lanyi government and control their names."

Li Jia dare not agree with this. The erosion of bureaucracy on the post station is obvious to all. Naturally, it is wasteful and consumes a lot.
Chapter completed!