If all they wanted was to build a rough, uneven dirt road barely fit for foot traffic, it would pose no difficulty at all for the current White Bear Territory.
More than a thousand able-bodied laborers could finish those sixty kilometers in a month or two.
But Lynn had extremely high standards for roads.
In his view, this road had to withstand the repeated crushing of horse-drawn wagons, as well as the torrential rains of the Northern Border's wet season and the heavy snowstorms of winter.
Its construction difficulty was several times greater than that of an ordinary dirt road.
First, to shorten the distance and facilitate transport, the road had to be straight.
That meant the serfs had to cut down every tree along the route, fill in swamps, level hills when they encountered them, and build bridges wherever there was water.
Fortunately, Lynn had already conducted road surveys and planned the route in advance, avoiding all the large swamps.
There was only one low hill, two narrow streams one or two meters wide, and five tiny patches of marshland along the way.
Second, to allow two carriages to pass side by side, the road had to be at least three meters wide.
At the same time, to ensure passing vehicles had a broad field of view, everything within five meters on either side of the road had to be completely cleared. Even shrubs had to be uprooted.
Finally, drainage ditches had to be dug along both sides of the road to effectively remove standing water, and the middle of the road had to be slightly higher than its sides.
Before construction officially began, Lynn divided the serfs into two hundred groups according to their villages, with each group consisting of five male serfs, to make management, rewards, and