novelhk Chapter 406
Chapter 406
Persian County, the county warden.
Li You stood on the high platform with a cup of hot tea in his hand, checking the bustling construction scene.
Located in the desert, even in winter, there are still rare snowflakes falling, which does not delay the construction progress at all.
Especially today, it is rare to have a sunny day, Li You, who is wearing a thick woolen sweater, even feels a little hot after standing for a long time.
"Your Highness is still right, reading thousands of books, it is better to travel thousands of miles, without experiencing it yourself, how do you know that there is such a different world thousands of miles away from Xianyang City. "
Li You couldn't help but sigh.
To be honest, when he was first transferred from Sanchuan County to Persian County, Li You was full of resentment.
After all, Sanchuan County is very close to Xianyang, and its development is also very good, and Luoyang, the county seat, is the core of the entire Central Plains.
It can be said that as long as there is no accident, the Sanchuan County Guard enters the "723" court that is nine out of ten, and if there is another action, it can be ranked among the three princes and nine kings, and become a prominent existence under one person and ten thousand people.
Although the territory of Persian County is much larger than that of Sanchuan County, it is thousands of miles west of Xianyang City, and in Li You's opinion at that time, it was completely barren and barren.
Li You subconsciously thought at that time that Fusu was purely out of revenge against Li Si, so he sent him to thousands of miles away, who was originally promising.
However, complaining is complaining, Li You is still quite loyal to Daqin, so he quickly packed his bags and embarked on the journey under the escort of the soldiers of the Western Regions Protectorate.
When passing through the prairie, looking at the Yuan Donghu cavalry who had become extremely submissive, Li You's attitude changed.
To be able to become a Sanchuan county guard in his early thirties, in addition to Li Si's care, Li You's own talent is also very outstanding among his peers.
Not only in government affairs, but also in military strategy, Li You also has extraordinary attainments.
Therefore, he is very aware of the importance of the prairie, and it can be said that it really gave wings to the Great Qin army.
For Fusu to make the originally unruly Donghu people very obedient, I admire it from the bottom of my heart.
After the change of mentality, Li Si also began to study the areas he passed through.
The cities and kingdoms after the prairie, now Ili County, made Li Si discover for the first time that there were many oases in the original desert, which were enough to support a large number of cities.
This made Li Si look forward to his destination a little more.
The subsequent arrival in the Seleucid region taught Li You a deep lesson.
It turns out that outside of Great Qin, there is not only a huge world, but also many civilizations with their own characteristics.
Even Seleucus, which has declined, has a territory area that is not much inferior to that of Great Qin when it just unified the Central Plains, and a population of nearly 10 million.
And the Romans, who made Seleucus suffer a big loss and had to take refuge in Great Qin, were even more of an opponent who was growing up enough for Great Qin to pay attention to.
Although today's Rome is still a long way from Great Qin, it is in the midst of rapid expansion, if Great Qin stops, Rome can take Seleucus and other areas to continue to develop, maybe there will be a day when it will be caught up.
If there is a problem within Great Qin, the land of the Western Regions will completely fall into the hands of Rome and become a potential threat to Great Qin.
In the words of the soldiers of the Western Regions Protectorate, it is such a good and large piece of land, if it cannot be used by Great Qin, it must be destroyed, otherwise it will inevitably become the biggest trouble for Great Qin in the future.
After arriving in Persian County, Li You gradually understood the importance of Persian County.
This is not only the most prosperous area of the Persian Empire in the past, but also the entire extreme west, the transportation point of the Eurasian continent in the mouth of His Royal Highness the Prince, and the bridgehead of the Great Qin to unify the world.
If you want to take the Mediterranean, you must first firmly control the Persian county.
Although the population of Persian County was too depleted after years of war, it also gave Li You full room to exert himself.
Li You, who had excellent political ability, quickly took advantage of the desire for peace among the natives of Persian County, and relied on the prestige of the Great Qin army to quickly calm down the people's hearts.
In addition, several caravans were recruited from Daqin and used the method of cash-for-work to rebuild Persia and stabilize the hearts of the people again.
After the infrastructure was gradually improved, more and more Great Qin caravans came, which not only increased the income of Persian County, but also made Great Qin's influence expand more and more in Persian County.
In particular, the establishment of free government schools and medical centers that were synchronized with the country made the Persian aborigines recognize the rule of Daqin from the bottom of their hearts and actively learn the Daqin script and language.
However, Li You's most important work, the work of immigrants from the mainland, has not been carried out very smoothly.0 (read violent novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
Even if Li You spent a lot of energy and finally settled down in Persian County, the residents of Daqin were only barely over 10,000, and the goal of 100,000 was only just over 100,000.
And the biggest reason is that the road is too long.
Most of the people who can be moved to Persian County under preferential terms are people from the more remote and backward areas of the interior.
And the people of these regions went to Persia, either through thousands of miles of steppes and sand dunes, or first through most of the Great Qin mainland to the seaport, and then took a month's sea ship to reach Persia.
It's too much of a toss-up. []
Li You was so anxious that he couldn't do it, but he was helpless.
Because he knew that if he wanted to completely annex Persian County into Great Qin, the population of the Qin people was a very important indicator.
Only when the proportion of Qin people is large enough can the culture and customs of Daqin be truly promoted and take root in Persian County, so that the aborigines of Persian County can truly integrate into the cultural circle of Daqin and regard themselves as part of Daqin.
But the distance of thousands of miles really makes Li Youxin more than he can do.
It wasn't until the news of the Xianyang-Boshire railway came that Li You really breathed a sigh of relief.
With Li You's gaze, he can naturally see the significance of the railway.
Once the railway is completed, it will only take three to five days to travel from Xianyang City to Persian County.
It's almost 3.5 faster than the speed of the flying pigeon.
Moreover, a train can easily carry more than 1,000 passengers, or hundreds of thousands of catties of goods.
This makes it very convenient for Xianyang City to get to Persian County.
If you want to attract the Qin people to immigrate, it will become much more convenient.
Moreover, the convenience of transportation also strengthened Xianyang City's influence on Persian County a hundredfold, completely stifling the possibility of Persia getting out of control.
Therefore, as soon as he received the news, Li You summoned all the nobles and wealthy families in the Persian counties, raised 50 million yuan, and began the exploration of the Persian section of the railway.
In order to be able to get through the smooth contact with Daqin and Xianyang City as soon as possible.
Just when Li You was full of feelings, Zhou Bo, the county lieutenant, suddenly walked in with a strange expression.
Li You couldn't help but be slightly surprised.
Then his expression became solemn.