The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 538

After discussing the matter of the Western Regions, positioning the horse thief as Tuyuhun, and making arrangements for military strikes, I no longer care about it. When the weakest Sui was young, he wiped out all the powerful Turks. Now he is still afraid of such a trivial matter. no?
The monarchs and ministers discussed state affairs for more than an hour, and Yang Tong began to practice martial arts. This life-saving skill has not been lost for a day, and this has become an instinct.

The Grand Tutor and Liu Xuan, who hadn't shown up for a long time, hurried in from outside the hall, but were stopped by Shura Wei outside the door.

"Call Yinmingyue over, I have something important to report to the Holy One!" Liu Xuan was the Grand Tutor and the only surviving Confucianist in the Sui Dynasty, but it was probably because of excitement, and there was a rare bit of rudeness in his voice.

"Teacher, wait a moment!" The guard hesitated for a moment, but still nodded, leaving one to guard, and the other went to call Yin Mingyue over.

"The last general will see the Grand Tutor!" Hearing that it was Liu Xuan, Yin Mingyue didn't dare to neglect, she hurried to the outside of the hall and bowed to Liu Xuan.

"Mingyue Gong!" Liu Xuan saluted, called Yin Mingyue with fire-spitting eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I want to see the Holy One, please inform me."

"This..." Yin Mingyue was annoyed, but she didn't dare to be rude. This old man is very old. Not only is Ling Jing, Shangshu Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce, his student, Yang Gongren, Yang Shidao, Wei Zheng and others also listened to his lessons when they were young. , can be regarded as his half disciple, if she is rude, she will be sprayed all over her face with saliva.He glanced hesitantly at the sword-wielding figure in the courtyard, then turned around and asked, "Is the Tai Tuo in a hurry?"

"It's a big deal." After Liu Xuan finished speaking, he shook his head again: "But it's not too urgent, it's just when will the Holy Majesty rest?"

"Each hand swung the saber as hard as it could a thousand times. It's almost done now, and it should take about a quarter. If it's not an urgent matter, Tai Tu might as well wait." Yin Mingyue said with a sullen face.

Liu Xuan was speechless, the stats made people's teeth ache.

Since the Wei Dynasty, there have been endless wars, and the status of warriors has been extremely high. The nobles who have occupied high positions for a long time have gradually developed an atmosphere of paying equal attention to both civil and military affairs. Wen Yunwu, both civil and military.

Therefore, scholars in this era are not just reading dead books. Most scholars know how to ride, archery and martial arts. The same is true for Liu Xuan. Naturally, he knows how painful it is to try his best to hack a thousand times. Yang Tong was still so forging ahead, he felt gratified, supported and admired, and said: "Then wait."

Although his affairs are important, a moment is not very long!wait up.It's just that waiting for someone is a boring thing, once this person gets old, he will become chatty, bored, Liu Xuan looked at the cold Yin Mingyue, and asked with concern: "Mr. Mingyue, what is the year? "

With a dark face, Yin Mingyue said stiffly: "22."

"It's not small!" Liu Xuan sighed, and said: "Ming Yue is loyal to the country and determined to be the king, but he delayed his life's important events."

These words touched Yin Mingyue's sore spot.In this era, those who are not married at the age of 22 are definitely older leftover women.

Seeing Yin Mingyue's silence, Liu Xuan thought she was worrying about life-long affairs, and comforted her: "Mr. Mingyue does not give in to a woman, and there are few men in this world who can match her."

'Finally the truth! 'Yin Mingyue Xin said.

"But if you don't marry again, no one will want you"

"..."

In this way, time passed bit by bit between Liu Xuan's sharp bombing and Yin Mingyue's attempt to kill. It was not until Yang Tong completed the number of sword dances that Yin Mingyue ran over to report as if she had been amnesty. She was afraid that she could not bear it for a while Just slap this chattering old guy to death.

When Yang Tong heard the news, he met Liu Xuan. The old man had already left Yecheng, and he didn't intend to trouble him, but the old man was very energetic. Gong, so he volunteered to ask for his order, and if he didn't agree, he would not do it.

"Teacher came here in such a hurry, what's the matter?"

Bringing Liu Xuan into the palace, Yang Tong took the towel from Yin Mingyue, wiped his sweat, and looked at Liu Xuan suspiciously. It seems that this old man has recently chosen a site to build a school in Daxing. What can he do?As long as the location is determined, you can report to the Ministry of Industry.

"Returning to the Holy Lord, the old minister was ordered to build a school in Daxing. At first, he thought Lishan was good! But it is too far away from Daxing."

"It's really far away!" Yang Tong almost laughed, what's the big deal?

Liu Xuan said again: "However, the old minister still went to Mount Li, and found some interesting things in the ancient tomb of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. The old minister thought it would be useful for us in the Sui Dynasty, so he came back from Daju on purpose. Please, Your Majesty. Take a look."

"Ah?" Yang Tong was taken aback, and looked at Liu Xuan with a strange expression, "Teacher went to rob the tomb...uh... went to archaeology?"

Yang Tong looked at Liu Xuan, whose beard and eyebrows were completely white, with a look of shock, his eyes were full of admiration.

Even in the 21st century with advanced technology, Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum can only be explored to the surface. It is incredible that this old man who was buried in the loess to his chin actually got inside and came back alive.

Liu Xuan glanced at Yang Tong blankly, he didn't understand what 'archaeology' is, but the word 'grave robbery' is quite intuitive, he shook his head: "If the old minister really wanted to be so wicked, he wouldn't have faked even The Shanjing defrauded money. It was because some mountain people strayed into the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang and accidentally discovered something interesting, so they came here to discuss it with His Majesty."

"What can make Tai Tuo so excited?"

Yang Tong asked very curiously. Although more than 800 years have passed, the Qin Dynasty of Qin Shihuang was a very great era for China. Many skills were more advanced than today, but it is a pity that they have been lost. The mausoleum has obtained some craftsmanship that surpasses the present, and it is definitely more precious than Qingcheng's treasures.

"Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, abolished feudalization, established prefectures and counties, unified currency and weights and measures, built the Great Wall, and built straight roads! Does the sage know that books have the same text and cars have the same track?" Liu Xuan asked.

"Of course I know." Yang Tong smiled and nodded.

"Does your sage know what the 'track' of this car is on the same track?" Liu Xuan laughed.

"Looks like a rut?" Yang Tong remembered what his junior high school history teacher said, but seeing Liu Xuan's mysterious appearance, the history teacher must have said something wrong.

"The veteran also thought so before, but after seeing the things handed over by the mountain people, I realized that the rails on the same track are not ruts!" Liu Xuan asked Yin Mingyue at the side for a set of four treasures of the study, and outlined two pieces of paper on the white paper. Parallel lines, and draw a carriage on top of it.

"This is a pattern engraved on a stone carving picked up by the mountain people on Lishan Mountain. The old minister has always been interested in this strange thing, so he asked him to take the old minister to explore the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, but he couldn't breathe for a long time. In the tomb passage, Chen found traces similar to this pattern. It was a protruding roadbed, and square timbers were horizontally placed on the roadbed. The two were on a horizontal line. , there are two parallel woods! It can only be that it is very old, and those woods have decayed, leaving only a conspicuous trace, but there is a wheel there that is relatively complete."

"This..." Looking at the sketch drawn by Liu Xuan, Yang Tong's eyes widened. Isn't this the railroad track?Add a carriage, and it becomes a train... er, a carriage.

Good guy, Qin Chao actually had such an advanced concept, which really shocked Yang Tong to the extreme.

Was it invented by Qin Shihuang?Or was it brought by Xiang Shaolong?Or Qin Shihuang himself was a time traveler.

For a moment, Yang Tong was a little confused.

"The traces on the tomb path are very straight, there is no such thing as a corner, and naturally there is no accident of turning and overturning; if we make this kind of road according to the formula, we can completely increase, lengthen and heighten the carriage, and then install it on the carriage." Put on the labor-saving pulley combination, so that the horse saves labor, runs faster, and the load can be doubled at least several times. With this thing, a lot of manpower and material resources can be saved!" Liu Xuan said excitedly, and he picked up his Thoughts and feelings along the way.

Looking at the old man in high spirits, Yang Tong took a deep breath,
This old man even thought of the principle of the train, but it's not just as simple as a great Confucian?A great scientist and a great genius who surpasses all contemporary people!Not to mention anything else, just his mentality of thinking about people so much that he dare not think about them, and he doesn't know how to think about them, has already firmly surpassed all the evildoers above the Great Sui Dynasty Hall. This is purely a thousand-year-old goblin!
"Your Majesty, do you think the old minister is talking nonsense?" Seeing that Yang Tong didn't respond for a long time, and then looked at him with a strange look, the old man was annoyed.

"No, no, no!" Yang Tong came back to his senses, and quickly explained: "The Tai Tuo's whimsical ideas shocked me."

"Does His Majesty think it's feasible?" Liu Xuan asked hastily.

"I think it is completely feasible, absolutely feasible!" Yang Tong said with a smile: "Take the compass, seismograph, continuous crossbow, and movable type printing as examples. Who would have thought of it before it appeared? The reason why it didn't appear before is not because of them. It does not exist. It is because no one thinks about them at all, which makes them dusty. I think that all kinds of superb skills are when most people think it is impossible, some geniuses show people incredible miracles one by one. Therefore , unique ideas are sometimes the key!"

"Then His Majesty supports the old minister's idea?" Liu Xuan smiled openly.

"Support, strongly support."

"The old minister thinks that after our test is successful, we can first arrange this, this track on the strategic main road, and then use Luoyang as the center to radiate to Guanzhong, Jianghuai, Qingxu, or build a bridge on the Yellow River to radiate to Hebei! The counties can also take the county as the center and radiate to the counties." Liu Xuan finished talking about his imagination energetically, and then said: "And if the new carriage can be transported with enough horses, or if the horses are changed halfway, it can be Increase the speed again. That’s right, we should also set up a post station for changing horses halfway, anyway, we don’t lack horses in the Sui Dynasty.”

"County-county rail?"

"That's it!"

"..." Yang Tong was frightened by Liu Xuan's imaginings. In the fully mechanized 21st century, it is impossible to connect the county to county by train. How could it be possible with the technological level of the Sui Dynasty?Looking at Liu Xuan, who had a big brain hole, suddenly felt a little pain in the head, and said with a wry smile: "Does the Taifu know the cost and manpower?"

"Insufficient manpower, send the army to the grasslands to catch them! If the grasslands are gone, you can go to the Western Regions to catch them. The old minister heard that Dashi has a large population... In short, in order to reach the counties, we should work harder for the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty... Anyway, the Holy Majesty will kill those barbarians in the future." Liu Xuan said as a matter of course, and the word 'idiot' seemed to be written on his forehead.

"..." This old man really dared to think that he was even crazier than the emperor. Yang Tong didn't know how to answer, so he responded silently.

"The old minister is too excited, the Holy One doesn't need to take it to heart!" Liu Xuan also realized that he was too excited, calmed down, and finally returned to normal, he coughed lightly, and said: "Now the great cause of reunification is the most important thing. Connecting counties and counties is not a one-day effort, we can take it slowly; and if this thing is to be promoted, not only the laying of tracks, but also important links such as geographical exploration and construction, and even the timber must be preserved, although it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Cai, but once it is completed, our Da Sui will definitely complete an earth-shaking transformation!"

Yang Tong nodded in agreement. The saying that roads should be built before getting rich is not just talk. Once the "horse-drawn train" can be laid into a huge transportation network, the speed of material circulation in the Sui territory will reach an astonishing height. The reaction speed of the war has also increased several times compared to now. Seeing Liu Xuan's plausible words, he seemed to have a complete plan, so he asked with a smile: "The Tai Tuo has mentioned so many ideas, so he must have a very complete idea, right?"

"Exactly!" Liu Xuan nodded, and said: "This track involves the lives and property safety of countless people, and there is no room for negligence. The method of working for relief is not suitable. Even if the people are recruited to help, at most they can only dig The embankment, the tamping of the road, and the important things of laying timber, binding, and joining had to be done by dedicated people."

"Taifu's words are very true, and life safety cannot be careless." Yang Tong agreed after hearing the words. This track seems to be very simple, but there are still a series of problems to be solved, such as specifications, load-bearing, and balance. Ordinary people really can't do it. .

"The old minister suggested that we can first open a track and study new carriages at the same time. This requires a group of carpenters to polish the qualified wooden track, and another team of craftsmen who are responsible for laying the track. As for the wood, it can be harvested by slave soldiers. All kinds of craftsmen have matured, and they will be masters to bring out a group of apprentices. If there are more masters, they can be separated to start work in various counties; in addition, the Ministry of Punishment needs to formulate relevant regulations. , and then officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Armed Forces will spread the word to the people." Liu Xuan's major is not engineering, and his level of strategy and internal affairs is also top-notch. The matter has been considered for a long time, and there is already a relatively mature plan, which is not a fantasy.

This sounds simple, but it is very difficult to popularize the rule of law, supervise and punish lawbreakers.However, this is within Yang Tong's tolerance. No matter how difficult things are, as long as there is a direction, there is always a solution. The first track can be used to test the water. If it succeeds, it can be centered on Luoyang and key counties. Extending to the surrounding area step by step, at least the Heluo area should be popularized to all cities.

"Then what? Where does the Taifu plan to start?"

"The Silk Road is extremely busy. The section between Luoyang and Daxing will inevitably become the busiest section in the Sui Dynasty. This section can be opened first."

Yang Tong thought for a while, and then asked: "By the way, has the Taifu ever calculated the approximate cost of the road from Luoyang to Daxing? How long will it take? How much manpower will it take?"

"..." Liu Xuan was dumbfounded.

Although the wooden track is relatively easy, there is still a long distance from Luoyang to Daxing. According to his vision, the road needs to be tested repeatedly, the wooden track needs to be repeatedly polished, the carriage needs to be repeatedly modified, and the combination of the three needs to be tested repeatedly. Questions such as force need to be tested, etc. In short, there are many, many things that need to be tested one by one. How can he answer them?After a while, he smiled wryly and said, "This thing has disappeared for more than 800 years. There is no information to learn from. It is no different from starting from scratch. The old minister really can't answer the question asked by the Holy One."

Yang Tong patted his forehead. It takes a lot of time to build a railway even in modern times. When encountering complex terrain, the construction period needs to be delayed again and again, let alone the Sui Dynasty?Although the material is light and the production is relatively simple, but starting from scratch, there are many problems to be solved.He laughed at himself, and said: "I will ask Shangshu Sheng and Kaitianyuan to cooperate with the Taifu, but the world has not yet been unified, and I don't have time to focus on this matter, so I have to work with the Taifu."

Compared with the treasury of the Sui Dynasty, the cost of this section of the track is really pitifully small, not to mention that the heavy work has free labor to do it, which saves costs even more.

Looking at the gray-haired Liu Xuan, Yang Tong said with concern: "Teacher is old and can't stand the trouble, just tell the idea and let the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry and Tiangong Institute do it."

Liu Xuan chuckled, and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, the old minister still wants to take this new-style carriage to Daxing! He won't die before it comes out."

"..." Yang Tong said in his heart, 'I just said that because I was afraid that you wouldn't last until that day', but he said: "I have a little idea about the wooden rails..."

Although Yang Tong doesn't know how to do it, he has seen the rails, so he must know better than Liu Xuan who only saw the imprints, so he proposed the 'concave', 'U', 'L'-shaped wooden rails and 'concave-convex' sides. The wheels are for Liu Xuan's reference.He also told him that the wood that sleeps under the track is called a sleeper, and proposed to repair the repair line.

Liu Xuan was deeply inspired, and immediately started to draw various graphics.

(End of this chapter)