Datang Library

Chapter 156
When Chu and Han were fighting, Liu Bang adopted Xiao He's suggestion, sitting in the land of Hanzhong, using Bashu as a granary, he could establish the Sanqin in the north and fight for hegemony in the east!He also used Zhang Liang's stratagem to burn down the plank road and paralyze Xiang Yu!

Later, when Liu Bang came back to fight for hegemony in the world, he used Mingxiu's plank road to secretly cover Chencang's tricks, and finally won the world!

In Xiao He's words, it is the land of Bashu, which is surrounded by natural dangers, where you can advance, attack, retreat, or defend!

Putting it in troubled times is a good place to avoid disasters, but putting it in prosperous times will make the children of Bashu suffer!

Since the land of Bashu is owned by Datang, the transportation is extremely inconvenient, and it is extremely difficult to communicate with the outside world!
There are not many people in Bashu, but there are countless grains produced, but they cannot be transported out, so the economic conditions have always been in a backward area!
During this severe drought in the north, Bai Fan suggested sending out a large army to transport grain from Bashu to the mountains, and go north from Hanzhong to deliver disaster relief!

He also took out the magic tool for transporting grain in the mountains made by Zhuge Wuhou back then-Wooden Niu Liuma!
Li Chengdao, Li Chengde, Li Chengxun, Qin Huaidao, Li Yexu, and Li Yesi were sent by Zhongnan Academy to Bashu to help transport grain!

And those who were sent to Jiangnan were Cheng Huaimo, Changsun Chong, and the four oldest brothers of the Beggar Gang Cucurbit Boy!

In order to speed up the food collection and transportation, several people from Bashu were divided into three groups, Li Chengdao and Qin Huaidao, Li Chengde and Li Yexu, and Li Chengxun and Li Yesi, to purchase and transport separately!

When the chief official of Bashu heard that, the imperial court wanted to buy food from Bashu for disaster relief?

Is there such a good thing?
I've never heard of it. In the past, when national disasters occurred, either the country was unable to manage them, or the management also ordered the raising of food and grass, that is, automatic delivery of food for disaster relief. When did the world change?Will the national disaster relief food also pay for it?
In fact, this was all Bai Fan's idea. It was originally an emergency life-saving food and grass, and it was difficult to raise money. The court still wanted to save money?How about that?People's eyes are the brightest, everyone knows who is good and who is bad!

Your court dares to set up a trick to seize the fruits of everyone's hard work. It's okay, I can report less food storage, and it will be nothing more than paying less!
With such a vicious circle, the court will never be able to raise food, and the catastrophe will never be able to survive!
It's different now, the imperial court has foreign wool trade, so it can be said that there is basically no shortage of money, if it can use money higher than the market price to buy food for the common people, then the meaning will be different!

Those families with rich grain reserves, seeing the benefits, would usually take out as much grain as possible and sell it to the imperial court. After all, such a price of harvested grain has never been encountered once in many years!

In this way, as much food and grass as possible can be raised!

As I said before, where is Bashu?In the mountains where trade is basically cut off from the outside world, the most food in the mountains is food, but so what?It can't be sold, it can't be shipped!It's like having a mountain of gold, watching it turn into waste year after year, so only the person concerned can understand the heartache!

This time the imperial court actually sent people down to buy grain, and they still bought as much as they could, so the Bashu chief official who heard the news almost fainted in surprise!

Immediately send someone, no matter how dangerous the mountain road is or how far the mountain road is, within ten days, those areas with the most abundant food must be notified, and the once-in-a-century opportunity to make a fortune has arrived!

Don't want it for a few days, Bashu is boiling, since the imperial court is here, it is true, everyone just needs to transport the grain to the fixed purchase place according to the document!

Everyone in the imperial court obviously did not expect that Bashu would be so rewarding this time. They originally thought that it would be an accident to be able to purchase [-]% of the grain, but who would have imagined that Bashu is simply a big granary. Bashu alone can purchase enough to meet [-]% of the food demand of the disaster-stricken areas in the north this time!
In this way, there is a problem, lack of manpower!At least twice as many people are needed!
Seeing the imperial envoy's frowning, the chief official of Bashu thought that the business was about to fail, and was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, and hurried forward to ask why!
Hearing that it was handmade, I couldn't help but burst out laughing instantly!

"It turned out that it was because of this that in addition to producing grain, Bashu also produced well-known men. The imperial court could send people to Bashu to buy grain righteously. Although it was for disaster relief, it was really helping the poor people in Bashu!

Now that the imperial court is short of manpower to transport grain, it’s no problem. This official told the people that after knowing this situation, the common people will definitely voluntarily help the imperial court to transport grain for free! "

Li Chengdao was puzzled, "Really?"

"The special envoy doesn't know! Bashu people have suffered for generations. In order to transport local goods to their descendants in exchange for wealth, they even sacrificed their lives! But the vast mountains around us firmly hold us here. ah!

This time the imperial court has given the opportunity to make a fortune, and there is also a secret treasure to transport food in the mountains. "

Hearing the words of the chief official of Bashu, Li Chengdao was relieved, and while collecting grain, he summoned craftsmen to make artifacts according to the drawings of wooden cows and horses, and promised that this artifact would be left to Bashu in the future to benefit the people!

Half a month later, a truckload of grain finally started on the road from Bashu. This time, the grain transportation had to go north from Jiange to Hanzhong, and then cross the Qinling Mountains from Hanzhong to the north!

All the way is basically a mountain road, so this time the food transportation team is very large, and the people in Shu are too enthusiastic. In the end, there are almost [-] teams including the food transportation team, the car repair craftsman team, and so on!

And this is only the first batch. Li Chengdao promised that the purchase and transportation of grain in Bashu will last for half a year, so there will be a steady stream of people transporting grain from Bashu!
It took a month to finally go through hardships and transport the grain to Hanzhong, and then pass the Qinling Mountains to pass to Guanzhong!
From Hanzhong to Guanzhong, one must cross the Qinling Mountains. The ancients did not have mountain-traveling machines, but they were infinitely wise. They built many roads to cross the vast Qinling Mountains. These are the ancient plank roads we know now!

And this time, the army of grain transportation is divided into three routes and three ancient plank roads!
They are Chencang Road, which is the Chencang where the plank road was built in the Ming Dynasty and Chencang was secretly hidden in the battle between Chu and Han. Now it is: from Chencang in Baoji in the north to Mianxian County in Hanzhong in the south!
The other is Baoxie Road. The south entrance is Baogu in the north of Hanzhong, and the north entrance is in Xiegu in Meixian County. The total length is 470 kilometers!
There is also Ziwu Road, the north entrance is in Chang'an County, called Zikou; the south entrance is in Yang County, called Wukou, with a total length of 420 kilometers!
The three roads are transported at the same time, leaving Sichuan and entering the customs in different routes, which can greatly speed up the speed of grain transportation. In this year of catastrophe, time is equal to life!
But the road to Shu is difficult, and it has been widely praised since ancient times. Wooden cattle and horses can make it easier for people to walk on mountain roads, but this kind of plank road, the road opened on the cliff is not bad, although it is narrow, as long as you pay attention to your feet, it is still safe!
However, some plank roads did not come out of the mountain, but the predecessors dug holes on the mountain wall, then inserted wooden piles or stone strips, and finally connected each other to form a bridge structure. This kind of walking is very dangerous!

In addition, these plank roads have been in disrepair for a long time, and no army has been transported like this for many years, so this plank road transportation of grain can be said to be extremely difficult and dangerous!

Before going out of Sichuan and entering Hanzhong on the Jinniu Road, the 30-grain army transported [-] people in a daze, which made the people who came to buy the grain feel distressed and regretful!It is claimed that according to the national salvation martyrs, each person will receive three times the pension!
But the Shu people said with relief: "It only took [-] out of [-] to cross a plank road. It's really an eye-opener. It's nothing at all. As long as the court is willing to buy grain from the land of Shu, there are many people in Shu who are not afraid of death!"
With just this sentence, Li Chengdao's eyes were wet!In order for the elders in their hometown to live a good life, these people did not hesitate to fight against natural dangers with their lives. Such feelings are absolutely moving!

And this time during the food transportation, there were countless touching scenes, which greatly shocked the people who came out of the court. Maybe this incident will be a turning point that will affect the lives of several people!Among them, Li Chengxun's experience was the most thrilling!
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