In addition to the Great Wall, Qin Shi Huang also had a feat that was ignored by everyone, but Westerners were very envious
So, what exactly is this feat, and the matter has to be talked about after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms.
After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, in order to more conveniently exercise control over the whole country, in addition to demolishing the original passes of the Six Kingdoms, he also began to build from 220 BC, with the imperial capital Xianyang as the center, in a huge arc to the north, northeast, east and southeast of the imperial highway, and this highway was called Chi Dao at that time.
According to relevant historical records, this kind of road has strict requirements for specifications, with a width of about 50 steps, and even the trees planted on both sides of the road are also stipulated at an interval of about 30 steps.
The construction of the imperial highway centered on Xianyang and radiating to the north, northeast, east and southeast, in the present, can probably be called the construction of the national highway network, and Qin Shi Huang was able to think of the problem in such detail three thousand years ago.
After the completion of the Chi Dao, Qin Shi Huang opened up the territory and expanded the territory, and internal chaos and other affairs were much faster.
According to statistics, these highways are 6800 kilometers long, to know that there was no advanced machinery and equipment at that time, even wrought iron was not popularized, the workers' tools were very primitive, but the road, but all the way over the mountains, the terrain conditions are much more complex than now.
Under such circumstances, Qin Shi Huang spent more than ten years to build and transform 6800 kilometers of roads, and it was carried out simultaneously with the construction of the Great Wall.
Some people say that Qin Shi Huang abused the people's strength, but if you think about it carefully, if it is really abusive, blame him for being too anxious, because building the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Miles and building chi Dao is not a good thing that is beneficial in the thousands of autumns.
I don't need to say more about the role of the Great Wall.
What about Chi Dao?
Contemporary researchers were surprised to find that there were many chidao rough routes that were parallel to the current highway.
Three thousand years ago, people's work did this step, which really made us descendants feel incredible, and with the deepening of chi dao research, there was a surprising discovery, what discovery?
Regarding the construction of the earliest road network in history, the West has always said that they are the earliest in the world, and the evidence is:
In 150 AD, the Roman Empire built a road system from the walls of Antonius in Scotland to Rome and then to Jerusalem, which functioned like Qin Shi Huang's road, to strengthen its control over the territory.
But the scale, although it is also very remarkable, but compared to qin shi huang's chi road, the scale is much smaller, about 5900 kilometers.
Compared with Qin Shi Huang's Chi Dao, not only is the total length less than nearly 1,000 kilometers, but the time is also about 400 years later.
Therefore, this honor cannot be taken away by the West, we have such an old ancestor, can Westerners not envy it?
The more Swenqing read the books on the history of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the more he felt that Qin Shi Huang was great, every move he took seemed to be able to be used for thousands of years, he really deserved to be an emperor for thousands of years, in Chinese history, it was probably rare to compare with him.
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