Ball Ball Cultivation

Chapter 426 Road Construction

After the establishment of the Yuanchu Kingdom and the stabilization of the unified dynasty, the initial cultivators with excellent spiritual roots reached the fifth level of Qi training. Even those with poor spiritual roots could reach the second level of Qi training.

These people's cultivation has improved, but due to lack of training, their corresponding spells cannot keep up with their cultivation. It is time to lay a solid foundation.

The newly built factories produced salt, sugar, tea, medicine and other materials, but it was time-consuming to transport them due to the blocked roads. Qiuqiu led the monks to speed up the road and bridge construction plans, using magic to build bridges and roads, and contribute to national construction.

Qiuqiu transferred Sima Hui to the imperial city in Beijing to take charge. The lord of the secondary capital was his grandfather Xu Ye, and the lord of Shencheng on the northeast coast, Xuan Shen, trained male and female doctors.

Xuanchen opened up maritime transportation, opened routes, and protected ships. He also developed the marine aquaculture industry and increased seafood production.

The deputies of the ten main cities were all trained by Sima Hui. The city lords only controlled the general direction to ensure that when the central government issued new policies, they could be implemented quickly and thoroughly.

According to the national road planning formulated by Li Junfeng, the road planning of the thirteen main cities has been specifically planned according to the topography.

Using existing industrial technology, roads paved with stone slabs are the most cost-effective.

Qingwu was in charge of commanding the army and coordinating the work: the cultivators with golden spiritual roots, who had all practiced basic swordsmanship, were assigned to the mountains that blocked the passage, to split stone slabs of a certain specification.

Monks with earth spiritual roots are the most popular. To build an official road that is wide enough for two carriages to pass through, about six and a half meters, the foundation must be consolidated first.

According to the width of the wheels, stone tracks were laid to facilitate traffic. One official road had exactly four stone roads, with a pair of tracks going back and forth.

These cultivators with earth spirit roots will widen or reshape the planned roads, and pile the soil on both sides onto the roads and compact it. The deep ditches dug out from the soil will serve as drainage channels to store water for irrigating the fields. The middle road will be piled two meters high and paved with stone slabs to prevent water accumulation and facilitate passage.

Every kilometer or so, or when passing through villages and towns, the road will be widened to ten or eighteen meters and paved with stone slabs to avoid traffic congestion.

The monks with wood attributes are responsible for collecting wood for building the ten main cities, and are also responsible for arranging flowers and trees in the courtyards and squares.

Because they cannot destroy the ecology and prevent concentrated logging, they can only form a team again to enter the primeval forest to look for wood and collect medicinal herbs.

Because they have embarked on a cultivation journey, each soldier is equipped with a storage bag, so completing the collection task as required and keeping any herbs accidentally collected is the most sought-after task.

Water- and fire-attributed monks collaborated to build river channels and excavate new ones. Volcanic ash was mixed with a certain proportion of clay or other adhesives, wetted with water ball magic, and then mixed evenly. The mixture was then spread on the riverbed and burned with fire ball magic. This made the river channel stronger and more durable, stronger than cement.

The returning Blue Star people really like things like building bridges and roads to accumulate merit and educate the people.

Without Qiuqiu's arrangement, the Blue Star monks devoted themselves to new construction.

These people have relatively high levels of cultivation. In just two years, the two with the best spiritual roots who dispersed their energy and rebuilt their spirits have successfully established their foundations again. Most of the remaining cultivators remain at the advanced stage of Qi training.

It is not only because the Xu family army provides abundant resources, but also because, in order to take advantage of the great national fortune established by the New Yuanchu Kingdom and enjoy the benefits brought by the national fortune, corresponding merits must be supported. Therefore, the Blue Star cultivators have done their best for the infrastructure construction of the Yuanchu Kingdom!

At that time, bridges were mainly stone slab bridges, and arch bridges had not yet appeared. With the detailed drawings provided by the designers, large stone arch bridges could be built quickly and efficiently.

Especially those bridges with a width of more than 100 meters, whether it is quarrying or transportation, it is basically impossible for ordinary people to complete it with the backward technology today!

But for the monks of Blue Star, it was incredibly simple. Splitting the mountain to quarry the stones, transporting them in storage bags, and building them with immense strength, a few monks working together could build a stone arch bridge a hundred meters wide in just a month.

The most amazing ones are Qi Shi and Qi Shu. They just follow the local methods, calculate the materials, and build roads nearby. When they encounter places blocked by mountains, they just split the mountains and divide the mountains into the required sizes and put them into the space inside. When they encounter places that need to build bridges, they release stones.

He muttered something to himself, and his words came true. The stone pillars and slabs were quickly put back into their positions according to the blueprint. In just a cup of tea, the 100-meter-long bridge was completed. The bridge was eight meters wide and could accommodate two carriages.

Now these laborers who are digging the ditches are all men who are burdened with sins.

The State of Yan was located in the north. Even if the canal was dug, the land would be frozen for half a year and construction would be impossible.

The most manpower was invested here, the road was completed the slowest, and the planned river channel was in a semi-grounded state.

The fir trees in Baishan are the best material for building the beams of the main room of the Thirteen City Lords' Mansion. Originally, monks with spiritual roots were arranged to come and cut them down. They were also equipped with large storage bags, so it was easy to complete the task.

A team of ten wood-type warriors encountered a snowstorm on their way back. The young cultivators who were only at the fourth or fifth level of Qi training were no match for this natural disaster.

They encountered another large-scale avalanche, and the team of ten was about to be buried under the snow, but were rescued by a team of more than 300 people who suddenly appeared.

When Qiuqiu got the news and rushed over, he saw the kind-hearted rescuer running and reminding the ten-man team: "Run this way, there is a mountain blocking the way."

The team of ten people was rescued in this way. In this team was Mingshan, who was at the fifth level of Qi Refining. He was a good boy who knew how to repay his gratitude. Although he was young, his cultivation was high. Although he was not the team leader, he was in charge of a high-level storage bag filled with food and water.

Mingshan obtained everyone's consent and distributed food to the 300 people during the three days of being trapped. He also boiled snow water in an iron pot and distributed it to everyone to maintain basic food and clothing.

In the absence of Qiuqiu, they coped with the crisis and finally persevered to get out of the snow-capped mountains.

Qiuqiu also secretly overheard that these three hundred people were a backup plan left by the State of Yan to restore the country. After Qiuqiu and other immortals left, they would help the Murong family restore the country.

Back in the Imperial City, Mingshan sought out Xuanshen, his closest confidant, and explained the plight of these Yan survivors. While they weren't citizens of the Yuanchu Kingdom, they were still obeying orders. They'd been trained from childhood as death squads, their code of conduct being that their master's orders were paramount! They'd even kill innocent people to complete their mission!

I ask Xuan Shen to come forward and give these saviors a chance to live honestly.

Xuan Shen sought Qiuqiu's consent. These people had done nothing wrong and were just serving their respective masters. In recognition of their kindness in saving people, Qiuqiu specially pardoned them.