Even so, Han Du still had to bargain with himself.
How can such a person still have the slightest bit of kindness in his heart?
"As a county official, your Excellency must have some knowledge of the farming and mulberry affairs." Han Du tilted his head and said, looking straight at Magistrate Zhou, studying his reaction.
County Magistrate Zhou heard this and did not answer Han Du's words, but just sneered.
Han Du knew that this was because Magistrate Zhou was dissatisfied with him and disdained to talk to him, but with just such a sneer, Han Du could hear Magistrate Zhou's rather complacent tone. He suddenly became more aware of what he was thinking.
Share confidence.
Smiling slightly, Han Du continued, "The people working in farming can be divided into busy farming and slack farming. I won't say much about busy farming. It's just that the people are busy farming. But what about slack farming? People have nothing to do except doing corvee work for the court.
La."
Han Du spoke in an exaggerated tone and spread his hands.
Magistrate Zhou frowned and asked in a deep voice, "What exactly do you want to say?"
"What I want to say is that I can spend money to hire people during their leisure time to mine coal mines. In this way, it will not delay the agricultural work and labor, and the people can also get an extra income, even if it is just a small amount.
It would be good to buy a few loads of rice. This is the benefit I leave to the people."
Han Du copied the model of migrant workers in later generations.
"You mean, you pay to hire people?" Magistrate Zhou's tone began to soften.
"Not bad." Han Du nodded in confirmation.
Magistrate Zhou lowered his head and thought deeply, pacing back and forth.
Han Du did not bother him and just let Magistrate Zhou think hard.
Magistrate Zhou thought for a long time, and he really couldn't think of whether there was any problem with Han Du paying to hire people, or what the problem was. But after all, he had suffered a loss from Han Du. The last time Han Du bought barren mountains, he didn't think so.
Did he think there was no problem? He thought he was making a lot of money, but what happened? He almost lost his life because of this.
From that time on, Magistrate Zhou was very careful with Han Du, fearing that he would be tricked by Han Du again.
Although he wanted to reject Han Du directly, he was a little unwilling to do so.
After all, the cakes Han Du gave were quite big and looked delicious. There was one thing Han Du didn't say, that is, the people really had nothing to do during their leisure time.
The imperial court recruited civilians to repair water conservancy and repair roads during the slack period. In fact, one of the reasons was that it was worried that the people would gather and cause trouble when they had nothing to do.
If Han Du's method can increase some income for the people, let alone buying a few loads of rice, even if it can pull two feet of cloth, then it is good. It is better than doing nothing.
After thinking over and over again, Magistrate Zhou finally nodded sharply towards Han Du, "I can promise you to hire people to mine coal during the off-season, but you must also agree to one request."
"Please tell me." Han Du signaled to Magistrate Zhou but said it didn't matter.
"You can only hire people from your own county to mine, and you can't hire others." In Magistrate Zhou's view, as long as you hire people from the county, he will not be afraid even if Han Du is holding back some bad news.
.As long as he is still the county magistrate and raises his voice, these people will naturally come to his side. As for him not being the county magistrate anymore, since he is no longer the county magistrate, what does the affairs in the county have to do with him?
Han Du don't even think about cheating him.
Originally, Magistrate Zhou believed that his request was not excessive, and Han Du would definitely agree.
Unexpectedly, Han Du shook his head and refused, "This is impossible."
"Okay, I know you are not so kind." Magistrate Zhou was furious. Who is Han Du? At this juncture, he actually wanted to harm him.
"Your Majesty, you misunderstood," Han Du reached out to hold down the emotional Magistrate Zhou and explained: "How many people are there in your jurisdiction? And how many people in the capital are waiting to use charcoal? People in the capital have used it. This
Will people around the capital use it? This does not include the various government agencies around. My lord, in the future, the amount of coal mined every day will be a huge number. With the few people in your county
, let alone being mobilized, even if all men, women, old and young go into battle, it won’t be enough.”
"And if such a day comes, what will happen to the mulberry farming in the county? The mulberry farming is a big deal. If the mulberry farming is delayed, you will inevitably be punished by the court."
County Magistrate Zhou felt that what Han Du said was reasonable and that he was thinking about him. However, without any means to restrain Han Du, he really did not dare to agree rashly.
Once bitten by a snake and afraid of well ropes for ten years, he always felt that there was something deeper in Han Du's words.
"This, let me think about it again, think about it again..." In the end, County Magistrate Zhou still felt that this matter was not trivial and he needed to find someone to discuss it.
"It doesn't matter," Han Du didn't care. "That's what I said. You will tell me the result after you have thought about it. Today we should repair this road first, and then we will get down to business."
"That's right, that's right, let's build the road first." Although Magistrate Zhou did not directly agree to Han Du, his attitude towards Han Du was not as cold as before.
Next, Han Du discussed with several other county magistrates. Han Du mainly made the arrangements, and the others cooperated.
Han Du divided the 20,000 people into two parts, one part of 5,000 people, one group of ten people, and one team of ten people. Han Du divided them into five hundred groups. A total of thirty miles of road, so that each group of people
You only need to be responsible for a section that is ten feet long.
Then let the fifty craftsmen brought, each craftsman lead a team of people, and the craftsmen are responsible for teaching the people to stir and supervise the quality of the road.
The other 15,000 people are responsible for digging sand and gravel at the selected site and transporting the sand, gravel and cement here and stacking it along the road. The 15,000 people are also divided into 500 groups, each group and the road construction team.
Teams work against each other, which is equivalent to using thirty people to secure various materials to serve the ten people building the road.
After the arrangements were made, Han Du and several county magistrates set the table and presented the sacrifices. After a period of solemn sacrifices.
Han Du shook his arm and gave an order, and the vigorous road construction began.
At this time, if anyone could stand high in the sky and look down, they would find that the thirty-mile-long and three-foot-wide road outside the capital was densely covered with figures of civilians.
A touch of gray color began to appear from the figure of the civilian husband, and then grew rapidly as if it were alive.
In just three days, a new gray road appeared in front of us from scratch.
In the past few days, the close cooperation between them has brought Han Du and several county magistrates closer together.
Especially Magistrate Zhou, he has completely lost the sarcastic remarks he made when he saw Han Du a few days ago. From time to time, he would also stroke his beard and joke with Han Du.
Han Du has not gone home these days and lives in a simple work shed next to the road.
Early in the morning, Han Du rubbed his tired eyes and just walked out of the work shed when he saw several county magistrates walking towards him.
Han Du was surprised, "Why are these people so early today?"
You must know that Han Du lives in a work shed on the spot, and these county magistrates all have official duties. They all have to return to their respective county offices before dark every day, so he has been there for the past few days.
He was the first to arrive.
Unexpectedly, today, Han Du took a fresh look and asked, "Did something happen? Otherwise these people wouldn't be so active."
"Good morning, gentlemen." Han Du stepped forward and greeted everyone.
"Hey, good morning, Mr. Han. Congratulations, Mr. Han."
Han Du was stunned and asked doubtfully, "Where does joy come from?"
"Master Han, the road has been built. Shouldn't we congratulate you?"
"Yes, building a road of thirty miles in three days has never been done since ancient times. It is simply a miraculous skill."
"Master Han is really amazing."
Several county magistrates were talking to Han Du one by one, and it was very lively.
But their words confused Han Du.
"My lords, wait a minute." Han Du quickly interrupted them. Seeing that everyone was quiet, Han Du frowned and asked, "My lords, are you saying that the road has been repaired?"
"It's done, it's done. We can really see that all the roads for thirty miles have been completed. We came to see Mr. Han just because we wanted to say goodbye to Mr. Han. After saying goodbye, we each took the civilian husbands with us.
gone back."
"But it's not right," Han Du frowned even more tightly, "When I got off work yesterday, I clearly saw that there was still a small point that had not been repaired. How could it be repaired just after getting up so early in the morning?"
Faced with Han Du's questions, several county magistrates could not answer. According to Han Du, the road must not have been repaired yesterday, but when they brought the villagers here today, they clearly saw that the road had been completely repaired.
What on earth is going on? Everyone looked at each other in confusion, not knowing why.
"That's because I mobilized civilian workers to repair this road overnight last night."
Magistrate Zhou walked towards the crowd with a red face.
"Yesterday, I saw that there was only a small section of the road left, so I summoned the men to complete the repairs overnight. At that time, Mr. Han had already gone to bed from exhaustion. I couldn't bear to disturb you, so I didn't notify you."
After hearing this, Han Du was shocked. His heart skipped a beat, this old man ruined my life!
How important is building roads?
In order to build this road, Han Du went to Lao Zhu to ask for money. Later, he went to the East Palace to find the prince before the matter was completed.
The construction of this road was something that both Lao Zhu and the prince paid close attention to. It was completed yesterday. Only now did he realize that this was a major mistake.
What kind of behavior does this fall into the eyes of Lao Zhu? What is its nature?
To be serious, this can be regarded as dereliction of duty.
At that time, let alone merit, it will be regarded as a good thing if you can get away with it.
Han Du suddenly came to his senses and ran towards the work shed. He wanted to submit a letter quickly.