Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Chapter 995

Wei Wu originally thought that it would take at least two or three days to arrange for the Ministry of Revenue to dispatch officials to accompany him.

To his surprise, someone came to inform him at noon the next day that the officials from the Ministry of Revenue were ready.

Moreover, none of these officials were from Jiangnan. They could follow him immediately after receiving his order.

Wei Wu was quite surprised at first, but then he thought, this time he was going to Jiangnan to restructure the land and increase taxation.

The Ministry of Revenue is not in a hurry about anything except making money. Anyone who dares to block Zeng Tai's financial path will be fought to the death.

Since the Ministry of Revenue was ready, Wei Wu didn't want to waste time and immediately sent someone to notify Qingxia and Master Zheng.

There weren't many people traveling this time. Of course, the "not many" here refers to Wei Wu's side. Including him, there were only five people in total.

Shen Lin, Zhang Hai, Zheng Shiye and Qingxia, while there were more people from the Ministry of Revenue, totaling more than 40 officials of all ranks.

After all the officials from the Ministry of Revenue arrived, Wei Wu waved his hand and the group immediately set off towards Suzhou.

But this time Wei Wu did not choose to go directly along the canal, but wanted to try out what it felt like to travel on the newly built cement road.

So after coming out of Yingtian Prefecture, more than 20 carriages followed the direction Qingxia pointed and came to the cement road.

Just as Wei Wu had planned, the carriage had just approached the cement road when it saw from afar that the intersection was blocked.

It looks similar to a modern highway toll booth, with five queues outside the toll booth leading to the concrete road.

The only difference is that what was used to block the carriage was not a horizontal bar, but a set of barricades fixed to the ground with pulleys.

Whenever a carriage passed by, someone would pull the barricades aside on both sides to allow the carriage to enter the passage.

To be honest, Wei Wu was quite satisfied with this arrangement, as it already gave him a bit of the feeling of high speed in later generations.

The road is a little narrow, only three meters wide, but after all, it is ancient times, so we can't ask for more.

The productivity is there, and three meters is enough. You should know that Wei Wu's elephant carriage of prince-sized specifications was only two and a half meters wide.

An ordinary horse-drawn carriage is only about 1.3 meters long, and a three-meter-wide road is wide enough for two carriages to pass side by side.

A group of more than 20 horse-drawn carriages passed the toll station and drove along the cement road towards Changzhou.

On the way, officials from the Ministry of Revenue lifted the curtains of the carriage to look in, and from time to time they let out exclamations and sighs.

You should know that even in the capital, only a few roads are as smooth as this cement road.

But now the road they are on leads directly to Changzhou, which is more than two hundred miles away!

In fact, it was not just them. Even Wei Wu was lifting the curtain to observe, while not forgetting to chat with Qingxia beside him.

"This road is really well built. If the rest of the road is built to this standard, then our project will be considered a success."

"Master, please rest assured. Whether it's the road to Changzhou or the other road to Zhenjiang, the quality is the same."

"Yeah! Well done, thank you for your hard work."

Wei Wu nodded and praised, then stopped talking and silently checked the situation along the way.

We spent two nights in an inn on the cement road, and finally arrived in Changzhou after a total of one and a half days.

This speed is already as fast as traveling by water. Traveling along the canal between Yingtianfu and Changzhou takes one day downstream and two days upstream.

However, after arriving in Changzhou, Wei Wu did not choose the land route, after all, the cement road here was only half built.

Next, Wei Wu took a group of people to travel by water, and after another day, they finally arrived in Suzhou City.

After getting ashore, Wei Wu and his group went straight into the city and came to the prefectural yamen, but they were stopped as soon as they arrived at the door.