On the city wall, Ayena's red lips were slightly open, and she covered them with her jade-like hands. Her face was filled with shock, and her words were overflowing.
"So…cement is actually this strong?”
"No wonder! No wonder Master was so calm. So, he already had a plan in mind?”
"Master…how much does he know? This is really shocking!"
As the princess of the Western Region, and having learned martial arts from a young age, Ayena was quite confident in her knowledge. However, she had never heard of cement before!
It was only at this moment that he understood how shocking cement was!
……
"As expected, the system's products are definitely top-notch!”
"With such cement walls, the cities under my rule will be impregnable in the future. Who would dare to invade?!”
Li Qiu was also very happy.
He was determined to eliminate the traitors, so the pressure in Li Qiu's heart was naturally not small.
Especially Li Er and Jie Li Khan, they weren't easy to deal with. Even if he became famous at a young age, he didn't dare to underestimate them.
Now, with a 'divine item' like cement, after spending a certain amount of time, he could completely eliminate the worries of the rear. There was no need to talk about the many benefits!
"Furthermore…cement roads are much better than ordinary stone and mud roads. They are also of great help to the war!”
Thinking of this, Li Qiu's heart became even more agitated. He immediately ordered,"Pass down my order. Have the soldiers who are currently free to mine more materials!”
"We must mine as many materials as possible in the shortest amount of time, produce as much cement as possible, build bridges and roads, and strengthen the walls of many cities in the Western Regions and Tubo!”
Logically speaking, the Western Regions and Tubo were both under Li Qiu's control. They should be unified and given a common name to show Li Qiu's sovereignty.
However, Li Qiu didn't need to do that.
This was because Li Qiu's goal was not just the countries in the Western Regions, but the Central Plains, or even the entire world!
Change the country's name?
It wouldn't be too late to make a high-profile announcement to the world on the day he entered the Central Plains and expelled the Turks!
"Yes, Your Highness!"
"We accept your orders!"
No one dared to refuse Li Qiu's orders, and at this moment, they did not have any doubts. They immediately started to work at full speed, hoping to produce as much cement as possible in the shortest time possible!
After all, everyone already knew the benefits and power of cement. Who would dare to underestimate it?
Under such circumstances, the production speed of cement naturally increased by a lot!
Li Qiu began to teach everyone how to pave the road with cement!
There were not many difficulties in paving the road with cement. The only two problems were laying the foundation and leveling the road surface...
It was not difficult to lay the foundation. He just needed to find enough stones to lay them down. As for the smoothness of the road, it was not difficult either. He could use thick and straight tree trunks to roll over it.
Although it couldn't be extremely flat, at least there wouldn't be too big of a deviation. It could be relatively flat. Whether it was horses or livestock, they could run on the flat cement road without worrying about falling or accidents...
And with Jia Xu and Chen Qingzhi's 'civil and martial' supervision and planning, all the progress was extremely fast!
Mining materials, making cement, and then starting from the capital, paving the road with cement, extending to the nearby cities.
After that, they transported a large amount of cement over through the cement road and reinforced the city walls of the next city with cement.
After that, he would build roads and renovate them…
One after another…
When winter arrived, one after another, flat and spacious cement roads had completely connected the cities of the Western Regions!
Especially around the capital, there was a wide and bright cement road that stretched to the end of the line of sight...
The city walls of the cities were all thick and tall. Although they were not as shocking as the imperial cities, they were still far superior to ordinary cities. They were enough to make the enemy feel terrified and powerless.
Before the end of the year, all the cities in the Western Regions were finally transformed and made impregnable. After that, they continued to expand outwards and gradually transformed the Tubo Empire…
……
On this day, Jia Xu came to ask for an audience.
"Wen He, do you have something important to discuss with me?”
"My lord!"
Jia Xu cupped his hands and nodded.”
" It's already the end of the year, and because it's winter, the food consumption is extremely high. If we don't think of a way now, I'm afraid…"
During this period of time, Jia Xu was in charge of internal affairs and logistics. In terms of food, he had already increased revenue and reduced expenditure, and had thought of many ways.
However, it was still not enough.
After all, there were more than 100,000 people, and the food production in this era was very low. How could it be enough?
Of course, Jia Xu didn't say all of this explicitly, but directly looked for Li Qiu to discuss countermeasures…
Li Qiu saw that Jia Xu did not look anxious and could not help smiling.
"Wen He, you should already have an idea, right? Why don't you tell me?"
"My lord…"
Jia Xu's voice lowered." Jia Xu indeed has some ideas, but this matter cannot be publicized. Otherwise, your reputation will be greatly damaged!"”
Reputation represented the people.
If his reputation was damaged, he would lose more than half of the people's hearts. If he didn't handle it well, the gains wouldn't make up for the losses.
"Just say it."
Li Qiu did not care. Instead, she wanted to know what Jia Xu was thinking.
Jia Xu didn't hide it either. He said in a low voice," My lord, in Jia Xu's opinion, the city walls and roads of the Western Regions have already been repaired.”
"There is no need for those captives to exist.”
"Although they are indeed good laborers and can be used to build roads and city walls for Tubo, the current conditions are insufficient.”
" If we continue to feed them, we won't have enough food…"
At this point, Jia Xu did not continue.
There was no need to continue, because his opinion and thoughts were already very obvious. That was to kill all the 60,000 captives!
This thought caused Li Qiu to be slightly shocked.
" You're worthy of being a Poison Warrior…This way of thinking is truly vicious…"
"But…"
Li Qiu shook his head and smiled." Wen He, if it's a special period and food is really scarce, perhaps this is the only way."”
"But now, we shouldn't have reached the end of the road, right?”
"How long can our rations last?!”
Jia Xu said without hesitation," Take the capital as an example. At most, it will be empty by the end of spring. Even if we live frugally, it will be empty by the beginning of summer at most.”
" But if we save the rations of sixty thousand captives and hold on until the end of summer and early autumn, it shouldn't be a problem. We can wait until the food matures…"
"I see!"
Li Qiu finally understood why Jia Xu had such thoughts, but he did not agree.
"However, those 60,000 captives are quite useful!”
(No. 5)
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