"The territories of our imperial court extend far beyond a hundred and eighty thousand kilometers. If all the official roads across the land were to be made of cement, I'm sure the national treasury won't be able to support it." Shangguan Xuanyi furrows his eyebrows tightly as he thinks of the state of the treasury.
Xiao'er thought for a while and said, "It's indeed a grand endeavor to convert all the country's official roads into cement roads and it's not something that can be accomplished quickly. The construction would surely require a great deal of silver. However, as the saying goes, roads pave the way for wealth, so it is absolutely necessary to repair them."
Developing the entire nation's official roads into concrete paths is not a simple matter, as it incurs a huge cost in human, material, and financial resources.
Although in this era, there is one policy which doesn't exist in modern times, that is, making use of labor in the idle times of agricultural year.
