Qiming 1158

Chapter 981 The construction site of the Ming Dynasty is not the same as the construction site of the Southern Song Dynasty

After Yu Yunwen left, Lu You stood in the corridor for a while, calmed down, returned to his room, and closed the door.

He wasn't sure whether Yu Yunwen just saw him sitting and chatting with Wang Qi, or heard the content of the chat?

If you just see it, it doesn't matter. You can use inquiries to prevaricate the past, which is harmless.

But if he heard the content of the chat...

He had heard that Yu Yunwen, as an official of the Privy Council, had a tough stance towards Ming, and he was very disgusted with Ming.

I don't know how he will report his actions to Chen Kangbo and the court.

Will the court see itself as a meticulous work, and thus investigate itself?

Lu You was a little uneasy.

But he also felt that if Yu Yunwen knew the content of his conversation with Wang Qi just now, he would not be able to pass the test so easily, and Yu Yunwen would not give himself a piece of advice [not to get too close to the people of the Ming Dynasty] later.

If he intends to report himself, there is no need to give himself such a warning.

Therefore, he probably didn't hear anything, just saw the scene where he was talking with Wang Qi, and had some doubts about himself.

No real hammer.

So comforting himself, Lu You lay on the bed with mixed emotions.

As soon as he lay down, various emotions slammed into his head, and after a while, his head was dizzy and exhausted.

So he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

In the next few days, Lu You and Wang Qi didn't have any chance to meet and talk alone, but Yu Yunwen didn't seem to have any special reaction. He ate, slept and hurried as usual. When the three of them gathered together to talk about the Ming Kingdom in private, it was nothing. special move.

Lu You gradually became convinced that Yu Yunwen really didn't hear the content of the conversation between him and Wang Qi, and only saw that scene, so he had the previous reaction.

He began to feel relieved, instead of continuing to observe Yu Yunwen, he focused his attention on observing the Ming Kingdom.

When they advanced to Jinan Mansion, they passed through the renovation site of the old Yellow River Road. Both Chen Kangbo and Yu Yunwen were very interested and asked Wang Qi if they could visit.

Wang Qi felt that nothing was impossible, so he nodded, and then took them to visit the Yellow River renovation site.

On the refurbishment site, there are often farm laborers organized by the peasant associations in the surrounding areas. They are very busy carrying various building materials, going back and forth between the construction site and the building materials storage site.

"This is the old route of the Yellow River in the Later Han Dynasty. After the Yellow River has been diverted several times, it has been abandoned. Now after the renovation, it is planned to be used as the entrance of the Yellow River to restore the Yellow River to the state of the Later Han Dynasty, avoiding the Huaihe River and preventing the Yellow River from taking over again. Huai into the sea, let the two Huai region restore vitality."

Standing on the edge of the construction site, Wang Qi pointed at the towering river embankment project and said: "Da Ming spent tens of billions of dollars in investment to make the Yellow River no longer harm the Central Plains, and to make Hebei, Shandong, and Henan return to the original state again. Food production.

In this way, Daming's fiscal revenue will be further improved, and the lives of Daming people will be better. The land of the two Huaihe Rivers is suitable for grain production. Once restored, Daming's food security can be more guaranteed. "

After speaking, Wang Qi looked at Chen Kangbo and the other three meaningfully.

"His Majesty has made up his mind to do things that the Southern Dynasty failed to accomplish at the beginning. To do it in place of the Southern Dynasty, we must not let the Yellow River continue to harm the people of the Central Plains. Once the Yellow River Project is successfully completed, the previous emperors of the Southern Dynasties will certainly feel gratified, right?"

After Chen Kangbo heard it, his face was not good, and he felt that Wang Qi was scolding them secretly.

Yu Yunwen lowered his head, wondering what he was thinking.

Lu You looked around at the construction site, looking at this orderly state, he had some thoughts in his heart, but looking at it, he found another bright spot.

"Master Wang, what about the supervisor on the construction site? Or the army? Why didn't you see it?"

Wang Qi looked at Lu You, then looked back at the construction site.

"The supervisor didn't look at it, maybe he went to work on the construction site? As for the army...why should the army be arranged on the construction site? The army has its own tasks. Here, at most, migrant workers on the construction site can be arranged to take turns to serve as security tasks. What do you want the army to do?"

"What? No army?"

Lu You was a little surprised.

The expressions of Yu Yunwen and Chen Kangbo also changed, which was incredible.

Chen Kangbo even asked: "If you don't arrange for the army, what if there is a riot on the construction site? With so many people gathered together, isn't the Northern Dynasty worried about a riot?"

Yu Yunwen was also very concerned about this issue and stared at Wang Qi.

It was not until this time that they discovered that the construction site in the Ming Dynasty was different from the construction site in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Farmers in the Southern Song Dynasty were obliged to serve corvée, and it was a matter of course for them to be forced to work during the slack of farming every year. It was their natural duty to contribute to the imperial court, and they were not paid in the first place.

They say they are in charge of the food, but they know what they eat.

Basically, all the meal expenses were embezzled by big and small officials, and the migrant workers who were recruited by force were given food that normal people wouldn’t eat.

Starvation and fullness, as well as heavy manual labor, death from exhaustion and illness on the construction site is a common occurrence, and it is not surprising at all.

It is precisely because of such bad conditions that the peasants who were forcibly recruited would always try to escape. In order to curb the escape, the Southern Song government had to use the army to supervise workers with weapons. If anyone dared to make trouble, they would face serious consequences.

Moreover, even if the officials on the construction site did not embezzle the food of the migrant workers and fed them, the imperial court would still send the army to supervise the construction site in case of unexpected events.

The reason is that the imperial court did not trust the people, and guarded against the people, for fear that the people would cause chaos.

In this era, transportation is inconvenient, and the distance between people is very large. If someone wants to rebel, they can basically only be limited to one region, one county, or even one village. There are very few manpower available, and it is difficult for the official army to pacify. very small.

If you want to start a big uprising, you must have the ability to link multiple regions to launch a rebellion. This ability is not something that everyone can have.

Therefore, this has invisibly greatly increased the difficulty of the people at the bottom of the rebellion, and also reduced the difficulty of the government's containment of the rebellion.

But once the labor force came to work, it was different.

Farmers from various regions are gathered together, so many people, such a harsh working environment, and such brutal officials overseeing the work, the grievances of the farmers will continue to accumulate.

Once this anger reaches a critical point, it can lead to riots.

At this time, there are so many people on the construction site, and there are thousands of people at every turn. Once a riot occurs, it will be a large-scale uprising. Ordinary security forces cannot be controlled at all.

Therefore, whenever the feudal dynasty wanted to carry out a major project, there would always be many officials objecting, and the reason for each objection was definitely not just wasting too much money.

Their most powerful objection is that they are worried that large numbers of people will gather, and once a riot occurs, it will be difficult to control.

There are really many such examples. From the beginning of the Qin Dynasty onwards, there have been no less than migrant workers rebelling on the construction site in all dynasties, and some of them have become so big that they can even become the direct fuse of the collapse of a dynasty.

Therefore, when any feudal dynasty wants to carry out large-scale projects, the cost to be paid is definitely not only the construction cost and labor cost.

The biggest cost they need to pay is the cost of security, the cost of security to prevent people from rioting.

This kind of cost is so high that no dynasty can deal with it hastily, because there is a risk that the dynasty will be destroyed at any time.

As a veteran of the Song Dynasty, he has experienced many construction site rebellion incidents, and he is well versed in this reason.

Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty carried out the Yellow River Project, many high-ranking officials, including Zhang Jun, directly asserted that the Ming Dynasty would not have the power to wage war, because most of their power was used to prevent the revolt of migrant workers on the Yellow River construction site. .

But at a strange time, since the project was launched more than two years ago, there has been no riot at the Yellow River construction site in the Ming Dynasty, which puzzled the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Why wasn't there a riot?
This unscientific.

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