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Chapter 148: In Progress

Just as the civil officials were happily preparing to implement He Bai's plan to revive the country, early the next morning, He Bai went to the military camp to listen to the military information about the return of the sentry detectives sent by Huang Zhong.

"Report to the lord." Huang Zhong bowed and said, "According to the news sent back by the provocateur and the Shadow Guard, Zhang Rao's thieves heard that the lord led elite troops to Beihai Kingdom to take office and came to attack him. So he led the Yellow Turban thieves to look out for Lu Township, Donglai County three days ago, preparing to fight against our army with the Yellow Turban thief Guan Hai on the mountain."

"Three days ago?" He Bai asked in confusion. It is necessary to know that Zhang Rao's thief army has 40,000 or 50,000 people, including old, weak, women and children. It is not easy to retreat safely. Maybe it takes only more than ten miles a day. Just like Liu Bei's retreat in Xinye, it is very easy to be pursued by the cavalry. "Where have they been now?"

Huang Zhong also thought of the way to pursue the light cavalry quickly, but Zhang Rao was not a mediocre person, so he had already had a countermeasure. So he said, "Zhang Rao's thieves secretly moved all the supplies when the lord entered the country. This time he retreated to Donglai, basically retreated lightly, and could travel fifty miles a day, and he had already entered Donglai at this time."

"Is this thief so alert?" He Bai was a little disbelief. In history, as soon as Kong Rong arrived in Beihai, he summoned the scholars and civilians, gathered troops to speak out, and issued a proclamation. He also wrote letters in person, communicated with the states and counties, and planned together. The momentum of the thief was a big deal. Unexpectedly, he was easily defeated by Zhang Rao, and even the county was taken away. However, Zhang Rao ran away without a single arrow. How could it be so strange?

Even Guan Hai, who led his troops to meet Zhang Rao on the Donglai border, asked this question very strangely. Unexpectedly, Zhang Rao made such an explanation and said: "The new Prime Minister of Beihai He Bai, it is rumored that he had defeated many Heishan brothers at the end of last year, and even Heishan General Zhang Yan was very afraid of him. Moreover, when he came to Beihai, he heard that Mr. Kang Cheng had come to welcome him abroad. Mr. Kang Cheng is a moral wise man. If he can get his respect, he must be an extraordinary person."

Guan Hai then suddenly realized that Guan Hai had made friends with Zhang Rao for many years and knew his ability. After the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Que was captured and killed early, he could still use his own ability to gather heroes to occupy the Beihai, and compete with the Yellow Turban leaders from all over the country to attract support, which made Qingzhou governors and prefects of various counties and states quite a headache. Since Zhang Rao said that He Bai was not easy to deal with, it would definitely not be easy to deal with. It is normal to retreat for the time being.

Guan Hai said again: "It is a good thing for Brother Zhang to lead the people to retreat for the time being. But he heard that the emperor was humble and unvirtuous, abdicated and gave up the wise, and was ready to go to Donglai County to become a vassal. And the newly arrived Donglai Xiang Lu Zhi is a famous wise man in the world. Brother Zhang is so in awe of so much that he is confident that he can deal with him?"

Zhang Rao sighed, "Shangshu Lu is both civil and military, how could I say I can deal with him? With the passing of the three generals of the Heavenly Kings and the Generals, I almost had no chance of success in my Yellow Turbans. Now, He Bai, the two wise men of Lu Zhi, are afraid that there will be no place for us to live. I moved my subordinates to Donglai because I had some spare time at this time and followed Zhang Yan, the King of Donglai who came to visit the vassal state, so that I could find a way out for everyone."

Guan Hai frowned. Zhang Rao once said, if there is something to do about the Yellow Turban, do your best. If the matter cannot be done, then look for an opportunity to surrender. Is it time to do something that cannot be done? Guan Hai asked: "Brother, you are from Beihai, why don't you subdue He Bai in Beihai? But come to Donglai to subdue the deposed emperor Donglai?"

Zhang Rao smiled and said, "He Bai is a virtuous person, but he is a minister. What is the benefit of joining him for us? No matter how deposed the emperor is, he is also a vassal king. With the righteousness of abdication, we will be safe for a lifetime under his wings. If King Donglai regained the throne one day, wouldn't you and I have the merit of following the dragon!"

Guan Hai nodded repeatedly after hearing this. Zhang Rao said that the Yellow Turban career was not his own career. Since it could not be accomplished, it would be better to find a way out for himself. It would be better to be under the command of King Donglai than to be under the command of He Bai, the Prime Minister of Beihai. So according to Zhang Rao's words, we discussed together how to act so that King Donglai would pay attention to it.

Since the Yellow Turban Thief Zhang Rao's troops had left Beihai Kingdom, He Bai was not willing to cross the border to pursue the matter forcibly, so he had to order the three thousand officers and soldiers in the Xia army and four thousand civilians to move to Xiami City. Turn the empty Xiami City into a military city to guard against the thieves in Donglailu Township returning to Beihai to cause rebellion.

The domestic thieves left for no reason, and domestic security immediately stabilized. It was when He Bai was carrying out the construction project to revive the Beihai industry. After a few days of rough inspection, Wang Beihai left more than 400 million yuan in wealth, 70,000 stones of grain, and other precious treasures worth no less than ten billion yuan.

When he was checking, he was stopped by the Princess Beihai. Peng Yu had no choice but to suppress Princess Beihai and others in the name of the court. Finally, after discussion, he left only 30 million yuan to support Princess Beihai and others. Although Princess Beihai and others were dissatisfied, because they had no choice, they had lost their descendants. They were guilty and did not dare to argue with Xi Lu, who was under the name of the court. They could only aggrieved acquiesce.

After hearing this, He Bai couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that the talented and virtuous subordinates like Xi Lu were indeed more useful than those of square moral men like Peng Yu. No wonder the wise monarchs in history had more or less a few treacherous ministers on their side. If there were really many righteous people in the court, it would not be a good thing.

After this incident, He Bai also deeply understood the principle that water was clear and there was no fish. For some subordinates who were not too much, he still put tolerance first. So he ordered Gongsun Ju, who had become the Hou Jiacheng in Longchi Township, to send Xi Lu ten gold to show rewards. After Xi Lu got He Bai's affirmation and reward, he also became more motivated and worked harder.

After fifteen days of on-site exploration, discussion and planning, there has been a clear architectural design plan among the officials of Beihai. According to He Bai's instructions, the roads are divided into county roads and township roads. The county roads are ten steps wide and the township roads are five steps wide. The length of Beihai Yiguo Road will be increased to more than 23,000 miles. Stone bridges are built, with more than 800 wooden bridges. A total of 13 rivers are silted, hundreds of ponds, and 1,000 wells; 5,000 fields canals, which are more than 500,000 miles long.

One hundred and thirty schools were built, and one thousand five hundred professors were hired, each of which could be used for the study of the children of 1,000 households. There were one hundred clinics, five hundred doctors and two thousand doctors were hired for the purpose of 2,000 doctors. In addition, according to He Bai's order, each county would build one schoolyard, which could be used for the performance of 3,000 people. The total estimated cost was 1.4 billion yuan.

As soon as this plan was released, all the officials under the Prime Minister of Beihai were shocked. Unexpectedly, the plan was about 400 million more than expected. Fortunately, the money of Beihai was backed up, otherwise, even the three officials and one-level Sikong in the court could not make such a big construction plan. It would definitely take the emperor nodded and participated.

However, in He Bai's hands, it was only the first phase of the project in three years. It can be imagined that He Bai's courage is far better than that of the Three Dukes. If this matter is done, it will be afraid that the whole world will be shocked.

However, the whole world was not shocked, but all the people of Beihai Kingdom and the county-level officials were shocked first. The new Beihai Prime Minister intends to collect 200,000 labor laborers within the county and states, and the initial period was as many as three months. As soon as this order was issued, the entire Beihai Kingdom suddenly complained.

But when they heard that this battle was not a waste of time, and they did not have to bring their own food and tools. Instead, they had wages, the people all banned their words and began to suspicion. With the clerks under the New Kingdom's Prime Minister's clerks, the wages could be collected every day and every month, but after the grains were collected, the people's suspicion suddenly turned into hope.

At this time, the people had no other means of making money except farming. Apart from working for wealthy families and wealthy families, they could only search for food everywhere in the fields to prepare for winter storage. They were busy all year round for the family's mouths, and they were afraid that there would be inexplicable labor orders in the county. I didn't expect that labor was issued this year, and the scale was unheard of, and I didn't expect it to be paid labor service. This is a labor service that has never been heard of since Pangu opened the sky and split the earth.

After hearing the invitation from the labor force order of the wealthy family, the rich family immediately started to wail after hearing the invitation from the facial agent Jeong Yuan. Is the purpose of asking for advice still unclear? Isn’t it just to raise money and grain? However, how much money and grain will be spent to supply the huge labor force of 200,000 people?

If the new Prime Minister of Beihai just took office, he wanted to burn three fires, which was something that everyone could understand. However, the first fire of the new Prime Minister was to stop the retreat and fill the gaps, which made the children of various families automatically resign due to fear. The second fire was to recruit famous domestic scholars as subordinates, and most of them were poor scholars, which made everyone even more disliked. Now the third fire is to raise money and grain for 200,000 people to work, so that everyone would pay for the achievements of being very happy. It seems that who would be willing to take it out?

So nearly a hundred wealthy clan leaders and wealthy monks were unmoved at all with the painstaking consolation of Jeehara, the facial features officer, and the old gods closed their eyes and rested, neither urging or silly speaking, but just talking silently.

After all, Mihara said he had done it, but he still saw that everyone was not chewing at all, so he wanted to leave. Anyway, the money left by King Beihai was more than enough, so he didn't want to say anything to these bad guys or profiteers. But thinking that this was the first important task since he was a facial agent, but there was no result at all, Mihara felt a little unwilling and angry.

So Bingyuan continued to advise: "Dear local geniuses, I have already made it very clear before. This project is a grand event that covers the entire Beihai country, and is prosperous and has generations. The Prime Minister He Jun called on the whole county to act together to create a grand event based on the principle of someone giving out people, making efforts and having money. He called on the whole county to act together to create a grand event. He did not count the amount of money and grain, but it would be good if he had the intention. Why didn't you just say a word or pay a monday or a monday?"

It would have been long since the fine merchants had been fine. If they did not count their wages, it would take at least 600,000 stones for three months of food for 200,000 people alone. There were 97 wealthy families and wealthy families present, so each family would need to share 6,000 stones of food, worth more than 100 million yuan. If the wages and materials were included, it would definitely be an astronomical big sum of over one billion yuan. Even if everyone present gritted their teeth, they could gather together, but why should everyone pay this amount of money?
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