Chapter 3 Cars and horses making noise on Qin Zhidao

Standing in front of this indistinctly wide straight road on the top of Shimen Mountain, I couldn't hide my excitement and amazement.In an instant, the high-spirited fighting spirit and earth-shattering shouts of the soldiers of the Qin Army, accompanied by the scene of chariots and horses, entered my thoughts leisurely.The ashes of this cooled history also seem to bring us into that majestic era from the solemn and solemn... Intimidate Qin Shihuang who annexed the eight wastelands in the universe.With superhuman resourcefulness and foresight, he established a powerful state of Qin. He promulgated a series of laws and decrees to govern the country, and adopted a series of methods and measures to strengthen the central government. One of them is the straight road and the straight road. This is only limited to the construction of national defense projects on the scale of the Great Wall.Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall in the north and conquered the mighty Huns, so that "Hu people dare not go south and graze horses", but the vast mountains, forests and grasslands in the north are still his long-awaited goal.For the convenience of dispatching soldiers and transporting grain and grass, he not only built "Chi Dao" with Chengyang as the center, extending to Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Hebei in the east, Hubei and Hunan in the south, eastern Gansu in the west, and Hebei and northern Shanxi in the north. ".Chidao is "fifty steps wide, and a tree is planted every three feet", and the roadbed is rammed with iron pillars to make the Chidao flat and solid.Then he ordered the prince Fusu and the general Meng Tian to build the "Qin Zhidao" about 1,800 miles long from the south to the city of Emperor Wu of Liang in the north of Chunhua, and from the north to Jiuyuan (now west of Baotou, Inner Mongolia).

Qin Zhidao went northward from Ganquan Palace in Chunhua, passed the west of Yinglieshan Village, passed the "manger beam", went northeast to Huanghua Mountain, and passed the key point of the "Ghost Gate" in the mountain.Go northeast through a winding road, enter Qilichuan in Xunyi from the north slope, enter Shimenguan, pass Miaogou, Nianziyuan, Qiandengpo, Woniushi, Laoyeling, pass Malanxun, and go to Yangjia Hutong; then pass through Liujiadian and Heilangwan to Diaoling Pass.Ziwuling, which runs through Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, reaches Baotou, Inner Mongolia.When the sons Fusu and Mengtian built the straight road, they mobilized 300,000 troops and adopted the method of "cutting mountains and valleys".In particular, the Shimen Mountains in the Ziwu Ridge, which is more than 1,500 above sea level, will not be avoided.The width of Qinzhi Road is generally 30 belts, and the widest part is 50 to 60 meters.It can accommodate seven or eight chariots and horses driving side by side, and the construction period is only two and a half years. In the vast Shimen forest, it winds like a giant python, stretching northward and flying among the mountains. It amazed future generations.

Gradually emerge from the clouds and smoke of history, stop at this section of Qinzhi Road in Shimen Mountain, the Qilichuan section is wide and flat.It is clear at a glance that after winding to the northwest through Shimen Pass, it goes straight to the highest point in front of the Shimen Gate of Shimen Mountain, and its characteristics of "cutting mountains and valleys" are also very prominent.Looking from this section of Linmu, the chiseled mountain peaks are obviously concave and convex, imposing and magnificent.Because the construction method of Qin Zhidao is the same as the construction concept of our expressway today, it is called the expressway of Qin Dynasty.It is also the earliest expressway in the history of our country.

Slowly walking on the ruins of Qin Zhidao, we tried to keep our eyes open, and found some meaningful discoveries.The broken sword of a Qin soldier?armor?Car relics?Horseshoe prints? ..., Unfortunately, things have changed, and the vicissitudes of life have already washed away those historical stories that were once fresh and worn away those historical relics that once existed.To my delight, our province has carried out archaeological excavations on the road surface of Qin Zhidao, and found pit-shaped historical relics suspected of horseshoe prints on the excavation surface.We believe that in the near future, Qin Zhidao will go all the way.The construction method and the ancillary remains along the line will take off the mysterious historical veil, allowing us to have a deeper understanding of this huge national defense project.

A detail that cannot be ignored is that we have noticed the greening requirements recorded in history for the construction of straight roads and straight roads: "Plant a tree every three feet".This shows that the Qin Dynasty paid attention to the greening requirements when building roads in thousands of years, which may be beneficial to our harmonious ecological construction today.