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Chapter 68 High-speed rail and the "Great Wall of Fire"

After solving the problem of the two "provincial governors", it was already noon of the next day. During this time, 10086 characters were misappropriated to feed a crab.

After lunch, Jiang Cheng summoned Gongsun Zan and discussed the specific details of the "Yan Great Wall".

At this time, a small episode occurred: Gongsun Zan, as a new member of the Taiping Dao, spent a whole day designing and drawing a blueprint of the "Great Wall" in order to show himself well.

Want to give it to Jiang Cheng.

"My Great Wall is based on the Great Wall of Qin, with a beacon tower every ten miles, and a 'garrison tower', which can effectively prevent the invasion of foreign races and guard the border of China."

Gongsun Zan was very proud when talking about his masterpiece.

However, Jiang Cheng only took one look and knew why Gongsun Zan lost to Yuan Shao: Before Gongsun Zan died, he ordered people to build a tower dozens of feet high and took thousands of soldiers to defend it.

Thought he could keep Yuan Shao at bay.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shao broke it with a trick of "digging the ground", and finally he committed suicide before the tower collapsed.

Why?

It’s because Gongsun Zan is only good at fighting and not good at other things.

When facing foreign tribes who only knew how to fight, he was always successful. However, when he met those old villains in the Central Plains at the end of the Han Dynasty, he pales in comparison - what's the point of building such a big tower?

It can only defend but not attack, mobility is a problem, and supply is also a problem.

It's completely self-defeating.

The towers were combined with beacon towers, one every ten miles. The signal fire was easy to transmit, but the question was, how much work would it take? How many soldiers would be stationed in each tower, and how many soldiers would be stationed there every ten miles?

To defend a thousand miles of border, we need hundreds of thousands of troops.

China has a vast border, so wouldn't that mean millions of people?
How are supplies delivered?

How long will it take to be built?

"Bogui, did you make a budget when you designed the drawings?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Hearing this, Gongsun Zan asked in confusion: "What is a budget?"

Jiang Cheng: “…”

There was really nothing to say, so he finally accepted the blueprint and said, "It's a very good drawing, don't draw it again next time. In our Taiping Dao, the general is only responsible for fighting, and others are responsible for engineering construction. You just need to train the soldiers and be ready to take over!"

What else could he say?
He did not even calculate the cost when carrying out construction. Fortunately, Gongsun Zan did not gain control of the world, otherwise he would have definitely failed.

"The 'Flame Great Wall' I want to build is not a city wall in the traditional sense, but a new type of defense line. A professional master has already designed the blueprints!" said Jiang Cheng.

Immediately, he took out the plan for the "Flame Great Wall" on the border that he had prepared long ago.

It was a six-story building.

One side is sealed to serve as a city wall externally, and the other side is hollow to assist in internal defense.

Two-layer design.

The lower layer is a "railway" with a "station" built every hundred miles. It is heavily guarded and there is also an exit gate. It was built according to the "high-speed rail route" of later generations.

Between high-speed rail and subway.

Above, there is an open-air highway for passing vehicles.

The entire road starts from the peninsula, bypasses the border, passes through Bingzhou, and goes straight to Xichuan, covering all places in the current Central Plains. The overall design goes straight to Hainan and ends at Treasure Island.

Of course, only the northern section is being built nowadays.

"My Yan Great Wall is not only used to defend against foreign races, but will also be a key hub for international trade in the future, and will play a role in promoting economic development." Jiang Cheng added: "In addition to garrisoning troops, it is also a major route for marching. With the steam-powered vehicles that have been built now, I want the army to be able to reach Bingzhou from Yingzhou in Dongdao within three days!"

Traveling a thousand miles a day is the minimum standard.

Compared with the high-speed trains of later generations, this speed is naturally child's play, but compared with the trains of the late Qing Dynasty, it is definitely a world of difference - this is also a new technology derived from the combination of science and technology with mysticism.

Of course, only temporarily.

Electricity is currently developing, and high-speed railways will inevitably appear in the near future.

By then, the railway will not need to be replaced, it only needs to be upgraded and it will become a high-speed railway line.

For this purpose, Jiang Cheng reserved space specifically.

Even "wires" were set up. "This..."

When Gongsun Zan saw the designs of the "high-speed rail" and "highway", he immediately looked embarrassed and stopped mentioning his own design.

I also suddenly understood why Jiang Cheng's military affairs had to be separated from construction.

Professionals do professional work.

Showing off one's skills in front of an expert will only make things more ridiculous.

"Um, about the great supernatural power?" Gongsun Zan asked.

"I've prepared it for you!" Jiang Cheng said with a smile: "Fire escape, a motorcycle, a Six Roots Purity Gatling gun, 10,000 bullets, a hundred grenades, and a pistol!"

Nowadays, some light weapons no longer need to be suppressed.

Jiang Cheng was no longer worried.

Because as his cultivation level continued to improve, he gradually became a little "inhuman", and he only needed to be on guard against high-powered firearms such as sniper rifles.

As for the pistol, his two "golden guns" can no longer hurt him.

After acquiring the "crisis sensing" ability, you may not be as fast as a gun, but you will be faster than the hand that shoots, so you can dodge it.

In addition, with the practice of "controlled nuclear fusion", he himself has become outrageous.

There seemed to be some changes in the genes, so that the hardness of the body remained the same, but the toughness reached a terrifying level, and the skin... was not much worse than rhinoceros skin.

I can't shave my beard anymore, so now it's starting to grow long.

The nails cannot be cut with clippers, so every time I have to ask Hua Tuo to cut them with his magic weapon "Cranial Axe" which is comparable to the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, and it takes a long time to cut.

To be honest, he didn't even know if he could be killed by an ordinary gun.

Just haven't tried it.

It may not be unstoppable.

Of course, all of this is reflected in his defensive abilities, and if he fights, he often spar with Zhao Yun, and can only barely defend himself, without any ability to fight back.

Without using the "Thunder and Lightning Magical Power".

If the left is zero and the right is fire, that’s another story.

"Thank you, Great Heavenly Master!"

Gongsun Zan took the "Gatling" and caressed it affectionately as if he had received a beloved woman, thanking her repeatedly. Then he started to learn how to ride a motorcycle, and a torture began.

His torture was also Jiang Cheng's torture.

Gongsun Zan is as stupid as Dian Wei and does not learn quickly.

Jiang Cheng couldn't help but see things in a positive light: "People's talents are completely different."

Guan Yu learned how to ride a bike in just one second!
……

On the other hand, when Yuan Shao learned that Gongsun Zan had surrendered to Jiang Cheng, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

But thinking of the horror of Shennong's army, he had to swallow his anger and gave up his plan to attack Youzhou. Instead, he took Yan Liang and Wen Chou to attack Qingzhou.

This time, Guan Hai also asked Jiang Cheng for help.

But Jiang Cheng ignored him.

He was devoted to building the "Yan Great Wall" and did not want to go to war with others for the time being. Guan Hai, who had taken the initiative to leave Julu and proclaimed himself king, had nothing to do with him anymore.

Jiang Cheng didn't want to finally raise the banner of the "Shennong Army" and then be labeled as a Yellow Turban bandit.

Of course, in reality the Yellow Turbans were just “thieves”.

The Shennong Army was known as the "Yan Bandits" and was even more notorious, but he himself did not know it.

However, although Jiang Cheng did not participate, he still watched the show from a distance: Before Guan Hai could directly confront Yuan Shao, he was beheaded by three "fugitives" who fled from Xuchang.

It was Liu, Guan and Zhang.

The three men occupied Qingzhou and actually gained momentum. They organized an army of 100,000 and directly confronted Yuan Shao!

(End of this chapter)