If ordinary people with little cultivation have to travel for several days even to leave the city gate, and it is difficult to communicate with other areas in the city, then even if a tall city wall is built on the edge of this giant city, tens of millions of people will be trapped.

Surrounded by it, it cannot be called a good place to live.

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Decline, which was the original purpose of the city's formation.

A metropolis with a population of tens of millions consumes countless materials every day, which are far from being fully supplied within the city. It requires a continuous flow of food from the outside world to maintain the most basic survival of ordinary people.

For civilians, if the cost of living is extremely high and there is even a risk of starving to death, why bother living in a big city?

Therefore, for these large cities, the design and operation of their transportation systems is particularly important. If the traffic conditions in the city are not ideal, it will not only affect the city's economy and material circulation, but also cause the city to lose its role as a resource concentration center.

meaning.

In order to solve transportation problems in an ancient giant city like Kuaiji City, which was 500 miles square, high-level monks forcibly controlled the speed of water flow in the city, so that the Yue people could "use boats as carts and jade sticks as horses."

One of the quite typical examples.

As a medium-sized passenger ship with no additional services, and its speed is freely supported by the water flow in the city, the price of buying a "ticket" to board the ship is naturally much cheaper than ordinary land transportation.

In fact, according to the "price tags" hanging inside and outside the cabin, since the boat can carry passengers quite quickly and the driving under normal circumstances is not more strenuous than that of a small boat, it is calculated by adding one small coin for every ten miles.

The travel fare for a single person is only 2 N small coins.

From the small harbor next to the Yuwang Ancestral Temple to Fuyangli near the East Guomen of Kuaiji City, it is about 120 to 30 miles by water. The boat travels for more than an hour and only costs 14 small coins in tolls, which is quite a lot.

It’s affordable.

…

Two skilled helpers were hired to work on the bow deck and in the cabin. The owner of this boat was an old boatman in his fifties, with a short beard, a pale face, a rectangular face, and a hand holding

Holding a bamboo pennant about four feet long, he sat alone on the right stern of the boat.

When the rain became heavier and heavier, the old boatman glanced towards her, slowly took out a raincoat from the wooden frame on the side, put it on his body, then grabbed the bamboo pole and tilted it

Pointing to the same position on the left tail, indicating that Zhao Qing can use the rain gear on it.

Noticing that the other party seemed to have no signs of being wetted by the rain, the well-informed old boatman was not too surprised. He stood up with his legs slightly bent and swayed a little as he walked. His hands were like dead wood weathered by the years.

Hold the boat pole tightly.

Suddenly, he pierced the long pole in his hand suddenly, plunged it into the water between the two tails, then recovered it with quick movements, lifted it up, and waved it lightly and like a leaf. It depends on the level of his strength.

, has already reached the state of ease.

To everyone's surprise, the target the old boatman suddenly used to prick with his bamboo pole was not the big fish in the river that most people imagined, but a small and thin bronze coin, the hole of which was penetrated by the tip of the long pole.

Then with a shake of his arm, it flew up and landed in a pottery urn next to him.

He didn't know why such a small Ge coin appeared in the rapid water flow, and why he picked it up with a bamboo pole and collected it in time, as if he had predicted it in advance.

When the old boatman suddenly stood up and sat back down, his robe rose slightly, revealing the old man's legs, which had appeared weak before. They were actually a pair of prosthetic limbs made of bronze, faintly revealing the coldness of golden color.

The luster makes people feel a unique perseverance.

Now it seems that the original identity of the old boatman should be a member of the Xiliu Division of the Yue Kingdom, that is, a full-time sailor, and he has made considerable achievements, so he received this very rare prosthetic limb after the war.

, after leaving the army, he transformed into an ordinary boatman.

"I've done this water journey to Fuyangli dozens of times by boat, and I'm considered an expert. Hey, I'm going to reveal a secret. Do you two want to hear it?"

"The 'leg-shaped device' attached to the broken leg of the boatman is not the kind that foreign victims are reluctantly attached to and can only walk slowly, but is deeply integrated with the skeletal muscles and can exert 50% to 60% of the strength.

'Golden Bone Planting'."

"'Golden Bone Implantation'? I heard that without reaching the second stage of Yang Jin's cultivation of 'Alternating Meridians and Circulation of Blood and Qi', rashly implanting other objects in the body can easily lead to serious consequences, and even death...

…Does this 'Old Golden Leg' actually have such a profound level of cultivation?"

"That's natural. In the 'Changing Boat Race' in Xiaonan Lane five years ago, he ranked among the top ten among the five thousand households in the surrounding area, and he was still disabled."

"Now, little pig, you know why I have to wait a little longer to find this boat before traveling, right? How can other boats easily meet such a master?" Several passengers sitting together lowered their voices.

, exchanging information they know about the old boatman.

"Alas! I quit my job of seventy-five small coins a day and took my family to travel to the Datang area to get rich. I just hope to be assigned a better field..." Another simple farmer looked at him

The wife, who was holding the baby in her arms, murmured to herself and prayed to the Duke of the East and the Queen of the West.

"Look at the man sitting in the corner, how his clothes are a little different?" "It's not that it's just different from those of us Kuaiji people. It seems that even the dozen or so foreigners over there don't look like this."

"Could it be that? Ask your father..."

In the cabin, which is about five feet square, the passengers are busy with their own things. Some are chatting, some are taking a nap, and others, like Zhao Qing, are enjoying the beautiful scenery of the waterway.

They may be businessmen purchasing supplies, simple farmers, or literati and knights traveling around. They have their own stories and experiences, but they meet on this simple boat.

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Half of the more than seventy passengers in the boat were carrying heavy luggage and were people from other places who had come from afar.

As we all know, King Gou Jian of Yue is currently implementing the policy of "everyone has a private plot" to promote good farming, aiming to transform Yangzhou, a land that was reduced to an "inferior" place in "Yu Gong" after suffering the great flood in ancient times. Now the sea invasion is complete

The receding mountains turned into plains and redeveloped into fertile paddy fields.

After going through the war, Gou Jian deeply felt that the main grain-producing areas in the core areas of the Yue Kingdom, that is, the mountainous area in southern Kuaiji, had insufficient land of 1.23 billion acres. Most people lived a life of "cultivating along the Linglu, one after another".

Farming and a life of "feeding animals and deer" and a life of both fishing and hunting cannot support the power of the country's rise, and cannot bring about the prosperity of the country and the prosperity of the people.

Therefore, when he and Wen Zhong ordered the large-scale expansion of the Shanyin Waterway and Shanyin Land Road extending from the east and west of Kuaiji City, they also planned a large area north of the foothills of Kuaiji Mountain and between the east and west rivers for the construction of water conservancy projects.

Engineering, reclaiming agricultural land.

Among the many large-scale projects, the "Fuzhong Datang" is undoubtedly the most important one. Its initial planning covers an astonishing area of ​​2 billion acres. It is expected that about 1.4 billion acres of paddy fields will be reclaimed in ten years, making Vietnam

The center of gravity of China's agricultural production began to shift from hills to plains and water network areas.

"Uneven food and soil means unimproved land." Every poor family who moved to the rich and middle-class pond was granted free land of 100 acres per household, contributing to the growth of Yue's strength and producing a large amount of land.

Food is supplied to the entire Shanhui Plain, increasing the population carrying capacity, thereby achieving a virtuous cycle.

"In ancient times, there were no wanderers. During the festivals and festivals, the people settled in their homes, enjoyed their palaces, served their superiors, communicated with their superiors, and immigrated from place to place. In today's world, the rulers above are not peaceful, the people are not in harmony, and the people are restless in their residences.

Enjoy your palace; be old and sick, use money, be strong and cunning, and use your strength to make the people wander around; be trivial and gluttonous, so the people are worried."

If the country is not well governed and civilians have no land to cultivate, they will become "nomads" who have no fixed residence and wander around. These people have very limited loyalty to their own country. They are more willing to migrate to any place with better living conditions.

Since the total population of the Yue Kingdom was greatly lost in the wars in the past, Gou Jian also had policies related to migrating people from other places into Vietnam. He treated "naturalized" foreigners equally and also distributed land. Considering the long-term development of the Yue Kingdom,

Being in a state of zero land tax due to rest and recuperation;

Even if we look at the four seas of Kyushu, it is still the best choice for wanderers to migrate, so that "people from all over the world, including Dongyi, Xiyi, Gumi, and Juwu, have heard that Yue has a lot of food, poor government, and trustworthy people, so they return home in waves."

Therefore, there are many people across the country."

The indigenous people on the sea in the east, the foreign Yue people near the junction of Yue and Chu in the west, and the south were originally the Gumi of Yue's vassal state, so forget it, but the last "Juwu" actually refers to the "Juwu" that the Yue State now surrenders to.

The state of Wu, the Kingdom of Shangguo, is in a bit of trouble.

The good people of Shangguo abandoned the rich land of Wu, which was known as the most powerful country in the world under the rule of King Wu Fucha, and came to Yueguo. This undoubtedly proves that Fuchai's continuous campaigns and military projects have caused the loss of people's hearts.

The country's living conditions have caught up with the level of big countries. Normally, this should be a good thing to boost the self-confidence of the Yue people. But the key problem is that the Juwu people who migrated are still at the same level as the Yue people.

Enemies with hatred of country and family.

As for the passengers on the boat this time, after several young people secretly questioned and received confirmation from the elderly, four middle-aged people wearing Wu-style clothes were faintly isolated in a corner of the cabin, and from time to time they

He was threatened by Yue people who pretended to draw their weapons.

After leaving the Kingdom of Wu and migrating to the Kingdom of Yue, they were looked at with strange eyes by people along the way. These four middle-aged men may have been accustomed to this kind of indifference and rejection. They huddled in corners as much as possible, for fear of attracting others' attention.

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However, after enduring the humiliation for nearly half an hour, the Wu people could no longer hold their breath. Three of the strong men took the initiative to pick up the Wu hooks they were carrying from the package, and unabashedly placed them on the last

A location where the blade can easily come out.

This provocative action instantly made the already tense atmosphere on the ship even more tense. Both sides showed a tense posture, making the air seem to freeze.
Chapter completed!