Chapter 17: It's Raining

Building a road was a major project.

In Roman's view, the complexity and difficulty of this task were no less than that of spring plowing.

He would lead people along the route he had planned for preliminary leveling.

Roman liked efficient methods.

So, the route he planned was very straight, a direct line, convenient for transporting personnel and the rock salt being mined.

This also meant that they had to cut down trees along the way, move rocks, fill swamps, clean up all the shrubs and weeds, and even cross hills and streams—along the route there was only one hillock and a few small rivers about three or four meters wide, not hard rocky mountains and large rivers.

This road, 40 kilometers long, had to be at least four meters wide.

Since all the vegetation on either side of the road needed to be cleared, the actual width was about ten meters, making the road's field of vision as broad as possible.