The Ministry of Works of the Great Xia Empire is now very busy. In addition to building cities on newly-regulated lands, it now has a new task.

The construction of the Daxia storm is the road where you can ride horses and drive the new four-wheeled carriages from the empire.

Several such roads have been built in the empire, from Yangdu to Nibuchu, Chita, Ulanwude, east, from Yangdu to Qiqihar, Harbin, Boli.

To the south, there are two directions, one is from Harbin to Changchun, and the other is from Qiqihar through Baicheng, Nong'an County to Changchun.

In addition, Yangdu goes southwest, passes through the pastures of Neikalkha and goes to Qingcheng, Jiuyuan, and Fengzhou through Shangdu.

The road was subcontracted to various provinces, prefectures and counties, so that they could use the winter break to build.

The standard width of Daxia Chi Dao is twenty meters, in both directions, with three rows of birch trees planted in the middle, and the road on each side is ten meters wide. It is more than enough to run two four-wheeled carriages side by side.

The roadbed of the road is made of gravel and soil, and drainage ditches are built on both sides. Bridges and cement are used in low-lying river ditches. Since most of the empire's territory is deep inland, with drought and little rain, there is no need to worry about soaking and collapse of the road surface. Gravel is used every year and the soil is constantly repaired.

This kind of road surface allows the carriage to load the most cargo under drought, rather than soft grasslands like that, where cargo wheels that are not loaded will sink deep into the ground.

Such a road was a common road in later China before every village was opened, and it could also be used by cars. It would be more suitable if it was in a place with less rain and drought.

The roads mentioned above have been built one after another since Hanhai Kingdom. Originally, the empire simply built the road surface and built drainage ditches on both sides. After the empire was officially established the year before yesterday, it added the task of widening and planting trees. In three years, like the densely populated Yangdu-Chita-Ulan-Wud, Yangdu-Shangdu-Qingcheng-Jiuyuan-Fengzhou, and Yangdu-Qiqihar-Harbin-Boli-Shuangcheng-Vladivostok, have been completed.

Yangdu-Baicheng-Nong'an-Changchun, Harbin-Changchun-Jilin, has not been finalized yet.

Ulan Ude-Chaktu-Mulun-Kizil-Yenisei-Achin is in progress.

To the east of the Yenisei River and west of Lake Baikal, which is newly included in the jurisdiction, the Angara River can be transported when there is no freezing, and traffic can also be carried out through the Krasnoyarsk-Turunsk-Bratsk road built by the Russians. Of course, this road must also be rebuilt according to new standards.

When Aqin arrived at Linhuang Mansion, this four thousand-mile road was in the sequence of priority coordination at the imperial level.

Starting from Aqin, it was divided into three prefectures: Dingyuan (Novosibirsk), Dingfang (Omsk), and Linhuang Prefecture (Chlyyabinsk), which are all affiliated with Anxi Province, which is the provincial capital of Dingyuan.

In view of the importance of this place, the State Council was promoted to a former Shanxi immigrant who performed well in Shannan Province. Li Kaifu was appointed as the governor (from the founding of the country, all the chief executives of each province were renamed the governor, and the titles of governors and senior officials were abolished), and also served as the governor of Dingyuan Prefecture. Li Kaifu's primary task was to recruit personnel to build the road under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry Transportation and Water Resources Department.

In fact, Li Kaifu only needs to measure the length of the road first, then calculate the required earth, stone and saplings, and coordinate the manpower, food and accommodation according to the progress of every 100 people per day.

After the measurement, he himself only needs to be responsible for the construction of the largest Dingyuan Prefecture (including the four counties of Tomsk, Dingyuan, Chentang and Altaysar), and the remaining ones are instructed to be completed by the prefects of the other two prefectures.

Nowadays, the imperial officials are short, and Anxi Province is deep in the border, and there are foreign countries around it. Since the establishment of Anxi Province, Nikan has transferred Alina over and turned his Western legion into Anxi legion.

Currently, his Anxi Army is under the jurisdiction of the Tomsk Brigade, Bayan is the commander, and Hulujin is the deputy commander, and his resident is Tomsk.

In the Dingyuan Infantry Army, Wang Chengluan was the commander, two thousand musketeers, five hundred artillery soldiers were stationed in Dingyuan, and one thousand infantry soldiers were stationed in Chentangcheng (Semi).

Dingfang Brigade, Alin A also served as the prefect, and Dingfang City (Omsk) is also the headquarters of the Anxi Army.

In the Linhuang Brigade, Luo Jizhi was the commander, Xiao Chenghan was the deputy command room, and Luo Jizhi also served as the prefect.

Guo Tiancai and 9,000 cavalrymen were stationed in Yenisesk, Krasnoyarsk, Achin and Yenise.

Linhuang Mansion (Chlyyabinsk).

Xiao Chenghan returned to the familiar place, and it was still the same courtyard, but things had changed. Most of his tribes moved to the vicinity of Dingyuan. After the Hanhai army defeated Amin and Darhan, he simply brought together all the Khitan alliance tribes north of the Wuyi River and formed a new tribe, which belonged to the Bogra tribe and was directly under the jurisdiction of the Government Council.

These tribes are quite small in total, with nearly 3,000 households and about 1,000 farmers, most of whom are descendants of mixed-race Han and Bukhara farmers.

He sat in his previous study without making a sound for a long time.

In the past, as a member of the Kazakh Khan Xiaoyuz Khitan Alliance, his title was "Bi" and he also had several Wurou Bass under his command. Unfortunately, these people, including his younger brother, disappeared.

Fortunately, his wife and children are still there, otherwise he really wouldn't know how to explain to his dead parents.

He is also Tuoyin's son-in-law.

After Luo Jizhi served as the prefect of Linhuang Prefecture, Xiao Chenghan also served as the county magistrate of Linhuang County.

In fact, the huge Linhuang Prefecture now has only three counties, Linhuang County, Kurgan County, and Wuyi County. Most of the counties are mainly herders.

To the north of Linhuang Prefecture, to the west is the Tsarist Russian Empire, and to the south is the Kazakh Khan. The land of the four battles was definitely unusable. Therefore, before completing the construction of the Chidao, Luo Jizhi, Xiao Chenghan and others also had the important task of building the city.

Sun Dexin is the son of Sun Xiujie and a graduate of Hanhai University who specializes in transportation, bridges and water conservancy. In later generations, he will be the same as everyone else. However, in this life, he has to stand alone. Fortunately, there is an old man from the Ministry of Works. Now he is in charge of the Linhuang Mansion to guide Luo Jizhi to build a city.

"Tu tuk"

Xiao Chenghan was still in a trance, and the door of his study suddenly knocked.

He looked at the wall clock on the wall and immediately realized that he had already discussed the construction of the city and the road with Luo Jizhi and Sun Daocheng.

The location was chosen in his study - Luo Jizhi was very close to humane. Knowing Xiao Chenghan's sad past, he still gave up the courtyard of his former city to him, and moved into the former "Honglu Temple", which was where Ismir Ya'an once lived.

After Luo Jizhi came in, he saw the tears on Xiao Chenghan's face and joked: "There is about one hour left to have lunch, and this meal will be a blessing for my sister-in-law."

Xiao Chenghan quickly calmed down, "Where is there, she is a Mongolian, and she doesn't know how to cook. Fortunately, the cook in my family was still there, so let him prepare."

The three of them talked casually for a while, and Xiao Chenghan was always very careful. The two people in front of him were the younger brother of Dahan's brother-in-law, the other was the uncle of Dahan and the son of Duke An Guo. Although they were younger than him, they could stand alone and were in charge of the most remote parts of the empire, which was even more respectful.

Soon we entered the process of discussing the construction of the city and the road.

Sun Dexin said: "Your Majesty, the Government has not issued any order or order to us to build a city of standards or scale. We only let us wait and see if we are in a hurry. I am not polite, I mean."

At this time, Luo Jizhi had already spread a map on Xiao Chenghan's desk, which was drawn by his Linhuang Travel in recent months.

"The city is still built between several large lakes. Deputy Commander Xiao's former tribe had already processed the swamps around the lake when he built the old city, and the old city was leaning against Huangshui on the north side."

Let me mention here that Huangshui, which is the Mias River in later generations, has Xiao Chenghan’s tribe called his city Linhuang Mansion, that Huangshui is indispensable.

"Turn the new city southward and close to Lake Smolino. My opinion is that this city is in the land of four battles and must be built very appropriately."

(Lake Smolino, the lake south of Chelyabinsk in later generations, was taken from Turkic, and this name is still used here)

Luo Jizhi smiled and said, "What is the right thing to do?"

Sun Dexin continued: "It is farthest from the core of the country and is in the four battles. Only one cavalry brigade can not be built too large. If it is too large, it cannot be defended. If it is too small, it will not be able to defend. If it is too small, it will not be able to defend. Therefore, a medium-sized city is the most suitable."

Luo Jizhi nodded, "It makes sense, but since our country showed its power in the southern Siberia area, there seemed to be a joint effect. Some small tribes around that were originally attached to the Siberian Khanate and Kazan Khanate, especially those who spoke Turkic and Sauron, have moved closer to us."

"In the past few months, I and the deputy commander have arranged this matter. There are more than a thousand households. Now they are all placed in the north. I have also deduced it. According to our affordable iron, cloth, grain, salt and other things, it will inevitably attract many tribes south of the Wuyi River, especially tribes that originally belonged to the Khitan Alliance, to come and surrender."

"In this way, in the next year, more than a thousand households will come to surrender. On the one hand, we must do a good job of supporting the city, and also consider this factor when building a city."

Sun Dexin nodded, "That means that there is enough manpower. In this way, work will start immediately while the weather is still good. It is of medium scale. I think it is better to use a two-story diamond castle, considering the defense factor, it is best to use a two-story diamond castle."

"No," Xiao Chenghan spoke at this time, "Two, you are waiting for the first time, and I'm afraid you don't know the situation of the surrounding tribes. Now, there are dozens of tribes of all sizes around you. They either believe in Christ or believe in Allah, and their buildings are unique."

"The Great Xia Empire established its foundation with Han people and Chinese dialect. How could it be missing buildings with unique characteristics of Han people? The Ministry of Education recommends that it is the Han style, horse face, city tower, female wall, and flying eaves. That is the Han style. If it is prosperous here, well, no need to think about it. In the future, Russia, Kazakhs and others will definitely come to trade in large quantities."

"How to show the characteristics of the empire? The most obvious one is the city."

"Okay!" Luo Jizhi praised, "I also agree to build the Han family city. If it is ten miles in a radius, well, I will calculate it. Ten miles is five million square meters. If it is left to the streets, city walls, schoolyards, patios and other places, there is at least three million in area."

Seeing Xiao Chenghan's inexplicable expression, Sun Dexin smiled and said, "This is arithmetic that only people in the empire can understand at least two levels of schools. You might as well wait until you have free time to let Jizhi teach you."

"Three million square meters, calculated based on the 300 square meters of courtyards, that's ten thousand units, one can live in four households, and this is 40,000 households. Oh, isn't it too big?"

Sun Dexin smiled and said, "Of course there are not as many as 10,000 units. Think about it, how many courtyards should there be two, three, or even four. It is impossible to have one entry. At best, five,000 units are just 20,000 units, and 100,000 units are almost there. The empire is going to rush deep here, and a large number of immigrants will be indispensable in the future."

"What's more, the winter is not that cold here. I have carefully investigated it. There are limestone and clay nearby. It is not a problem to burn bricks and tiles on the spot. There are also many gold, silver, copper and iron minerals near Saridege Mountain. Such an important place must be mined and smelted. In addition, the workshop and its craftsmen may also need a large number of residences. Don't worry, it won't be empty, let alone you have three thousand cavalry."

"Okay", Luo Jizhi made the final decision, "It's settled. It's May. We will try to take out the construction drawings before the large number of craftsmen from the Ministry of Works arrive. By the way, you just said that you have to set up shops in this city for trade with the Russians, Kazakhs, and even the Crimean Khanate."

"No," Sun Dexin shook her head, "That's too dangerous. The shops in the city must arrange merchants familiar to the empire to settle in. A large amount of trade must be arranged outside the city. I will definitely take this into account when making drawings, don't worry."

"Ahem," Xiao Chenghan intervened, "The two officials, the officials have another suggestion."

"oh?"

"In the past, several canals were built around Linhuang Mansion, among several large lakes. According to such a convenient method by the empire, several more places were built, and the two, there were many large lakes near the old city, and most of them were flat land. The ground was mixed with fallen leaves, soil, livestock, and bird droppings. The soil was more than three feet thick, and some places close to the jungle were ten feet thick."

"These places do not need to be taken care of except for irrigation. Sowing seeds will bring considerable harvests. The Ministry of Justice still recommends that the empire immigrate in large quantities. Not to mention anything else, millions of acres of fertile land can be opened near this old city."

"This..." Luo Jizhi scratched his head, "It's good, but unfortunately the empire's land area is too vast and immigrants are needed everywhere. I don't know if it's my turn."
Chapter completed!