Chapter 1221: Building the Expressway

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In the process of defeating Ma Teng, Zhang Yu captured more than 10,000 Roman troops.

Originally Zhang Yu wanted them to dig canals, but after thinking about it, Zhang Yu felt that they should use a different way.

Zhang Yu made these ten thousand people smoke opium.

Yes, put them on drugs and then put them back.

Fushou cream has already been smoked by a certain number of people in the West. This time, Zhang Yu directly let 10,000 people smoke it, and finally sent them back in batches.

After they go back, these people are the seeds, they need drugs, and they need to import them from Zhang Yu.

Then, there is a certain market.

And these 10,000 people will also drive more people to smoke.

Zhang Yu brought not only drugs, but also tobacco.

Zhang Yu has already started to promote tobacco, and it has already reached a certain scale.

These prisoners of the Roman army usually took drugs while working, and felt very good for a while.

After smoking for about ten days, Zhang Yu asked them to take part of the drug, and then went back with the caravan to the west.

These people can only go back in batches. Now that several strongholds have been destroyed, it will take some time to recover.

What's more, envoys should be sent to tell the Romans that Ma Teng and his sons have perished, and now is the era of Zhang Yu, so that they can continue to trade if they want to trade, and stop directly if they don't trade.

No contact with each other, now it is the West that is uncomfortable.

Zhang Yu has already opened up a large number of markets, even if he does not rely on other places, he can develop rapidly.

The development strategy has been determined, and it doesn't matter if there is no Western participation. When Zhang Yu becomes stronger, he will use powerful force to kill him.

Zhang Yu stayed in Wuwei for more than ten days, and then handed over the affairs here to Xi Zhicai, and Zhang Yu left by himself.

This time he first went to Luoyang, and then to Jingzhou.

At this time, Jingzhou was the base camp for attacking Shuchuan.

Zhang Yu wiped out Liangzhou, and could even semi-encircle Shuchuan.

However, it is still difficult for Shuchuan to get in.

If you can't get in directly, then you have to think about it in the long run.

Guo Jia and Chen Gong have been operating here for a while.

Zhang Yu asked two cabinet members to promote here, and the efficiency is still very high.

In Jingzhou, Zhang Yu called Chen Gong and Guo Jia.

"Two gentlemen, there is only one Shuchuan left in the whole of China, and this Shuchuan must also be unified, and the unification will be completed within one or two years." Zhang Yu said.

Unification is the basis for taking off. If there is no unification, Zhang Yu will have to maintain a large number of troops, and there will be a large amount of military expenditure every year.

Not only that, but a lot of materials still have to be transported here.

Therefore, unification is very important to any era and any country.

Guo Jia said: "My lord, I have already confirmed that Liu Bei is critically ill. I'm afraid he won't last long."

Zhang Yu nodded, this Liu Bei was arrogant and extravagant, poisoned by the drug ointment, he really couldn't last long.

The death of a Liu Bei will greatly speed up the process of unification, because there is only one Adou in Shuchuan.

This Dude doesn't have much talent, especially when he's still young, so he might be able to use it at that time.

And this Pang Tong is not Kong Ming. This Kong Ming is good at handling government affairs and can handle all kinds of government affairs very well, but Pang Tong is not.

Pang Tong is good at conspiracies and military affairs, but he is not familiar with government affairs.

Shuchuan does not have a very capable internal affairs personnel, and there will definitely be many disadvantages.

"Speed ​​up and use more dark means when necessary."

Using means, Zhang Yu can no longer take care of so much.

"My lord, we are now looking for people in key positions to secretly instigate rebellion. Some people have been instigated, but the instigation has not yet reached the top level."

"At the same time, some merchants in Shuchuan are willing to cooperate with us, as long as the lord does not harm their interests when the time comes."

Guo Jia has been here for a few months, and the speed of advancement is still very fast.

Zhang Yu nodded and said, "Of course, there is just one thing, except that some of their wealth is not confiscated, the land and others are no different from other businessmen."

Zhang Yu believed that these businessmen wanted to cooperate with him. After they arrived in Shuchuan, if they did not smuggle, they would have stagnated and even been living on their laurels.

In Shuchuan, how much business can do.

They finally understood that Zhang Yu would definitely rule the world.

And it won't be long before they will be unified. At that time, he waits for his wealth to be confiscated. Why not cooperate with Zhang Yu now and keep his family property.

As for Liu Bei, Liu Bei's reputation was not very good. Although he didn't do anything evil when he arrived in Shuchuan, he enjoyed himself all day long after arriving here, doing nothing.

These aristocratic families know that there is no future with Liu Bei, and now Liu Bei is dying.

After his death, their life may be even more difficult, so these businessmen plan to turn against Liu Bei.

There is no psychological burden on everyone to rebel against Liu Bei.

Zhang Yu is quite satisfied with the arrangement between Guo Jia and Chen Gong.

Then he said to Chen Gong: "Gongtai, the cabinet still needs you, and there will be another round of innovation in the future. You are in charge of education so fast, and you need to go back and arrange more talents."

To deal with Shuchuan, Zhang Yu no longer needs to use any clever tactics.

Just let Guo Jia, the person in charge of intelligence, take charge.

Zhang Yu shifted the main affairs to the internal affairs.

In Jingzhou, Zhang Yu also began to deal with internal affairs.

First of all, he must continue to advance the construction of roads and canals.

This is a national policy, and the entire land of China must be able to communicate quickly, so that such a large country can be effectively governed.

"With the national strength, the military has come to an end. I want to reduce the army by 200,000, and use the military expenses saved by the 200,000 troops to build a Beijing-Shanghai highway." Zhang Yu said with a budget in his hand.

This is a form he made himself.

He wants to build a highway, which will be deducted directly from the military expenditure.

This military expenditure is the money he has budgeted and prepared before.

It was originally estimated that it would take two years to fight Liangzhou, but it turned out to be more than half a year.

With a lot of military expenses left over, Zhang Yu had to use some of it to build a road.

This highway is really high speed, because he needs to use cement.

Directly use cement to transform the original driveway to make the road faster.

Choosing to lay cement on the original road is also to reduce the difficulty of construction and speed up construction.

There is a toll on this road, of course not from pedestrians, this road only collects money from vehicles.

You can walk freely on it, but if you deliver goods and get your car on the road, you will be charged.

In this way, certain costs can be recovered.

The cost of cement fired by Zhang Yu and the others is still very high.

But he wants to use the market and demand to activate the entire industry. When the entire industry rises, the price may come down.

A new round of major developments in internal affairs is also coming.

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