Hongye Mountain is named after the maple trees on the mountain.
Whenever autumn comes, the mountains are covered with red leaves, slowly like fire.
Together with Mangshan in Beiwan, it belongs to the remnant range of Wuwang Mountain, and together with the Yinshan Mountains in Yinshan County to the north, they form a barrier that separates Yuntai County from Beiwan.
If not, there would have been no need for the Beiwan rebels to use Fengtai County as a springboard to invade Yinshan County.
"Sir, is this road newly built?"
After leaving the city, Si Nian rode on his horse and looked at the neat bluestone road. Curious Ren Pingsheng asked.
When she came from Le County, the official road outside the city had not yet been paved with bluestones.
"right."
There was a group of more than twenty riders, and the horseshoes fell on the bluestone road, making a constant "pat, pat" sound.
When he went out to play, Ren Pingsheng was not in a hurry. He walked in front, followed by Xiaowan, Si Nian, and the four maids Qingyin, Siqi, Wangshu, and Ruhua, in addition to some attendants.
Behind him is Chen Dachui leading a team of guards to protect everyone's safety.
Ren Pingsheng looked at the winding road ahead.
The road is smooth, and even the edges and corners have been carefully polished by hand. Every stone slab has been inspected and there are no sharp or frizzy edges.
This is because he has very high standards for roads. Although he does not have the conditions to lay asphalt roads and concrete roads, in the planning, these bluestone roads will also be used for cars in the future. In the future, he can bring several new energy vehicles, whether they are pulling
It's very convenient for transporting goods and transporting people.
"This time we fought with the rebels and captured more than 5,000 people, all of which were used to build roads.
Within the county, the roads to each market town must be built into smooth stone roads.
The sections that are currently being prioritized for construction are Chengguan Town to Qingcheng Town, Chengguan Town to Hongyeshan, Chengguan Town to Beibu Town, and Beibu Town to Nanmen Town in Yunlong County. These four important sections are to be built as first-class roads.
A smooth stone road three feet wide was built.
In addition, four stone bridges will be built on the Qingshui River to facilitate people's travel with Yuntaiwei."
Ren Pingsheng raised his whip and pointed to the road ahead, introducing the road construction project in Qingshui County.
Whether it is to mobilize the army to the battlefield more quickly, or to facilitate the factories in Qingcheng Town to mobilize resources more quickly, there is a need to build roads.
Road construction will play a very important role in the development of the next five years.
Moreover, Ren Pingsheng had a plan. As long as the fiscal and taxation population could afford it, wherever the war progressed and the territory was conquered, the roads would be built.
However, road construction was extremely labor-intensive, material, and financial. The more than 5,000 captives had to allocate some to quarry and polish the stones at the quarry on the Yunlong Mountain, and some to polish the stones.
Bluestone slabs were transported everywhere, and more people built bridges and roads in various sections.
With these more than 5,000 people, not to mention all the road construction plans in the county, even these four strategically important roads will definitely not be completed this year.
Moreover, under the condition of forced labor, these captives, as laborers, must try their best to ensure their food supply, otherwise the loss of labor during the road construction process will be very high.
Although there is no need to pay, the grain and grass consumed every day is about 5 tons, which is 150 tons in one month, equivalent to 300,000 kilograms of grain, more than half of a granary.
It can be said that it is something that requires a huge cost.
"Moo~"
A group of ox carts came from the direction of Yunlong Mountain.
The top of the bullock cart was piled with stone slabs, which were all brought from the Yunlong Mountain quarry and transported all the way here, making the cows panting from exhaustion.
Behind the bullock cart, there were hundreds of people pushing wheelbarrows, each with high stone slabs stacked on top.
Although it has entered late autumn, these workers are all sweating profusely.
Walking further, we soon saw a construction site where road construction was underway.
"Keep your damn eyes on me and work hard to reform! If anyone dares to cheat, don't even think about letting me score you!"
The supervisor held a notebook and pen in his hand and rode a small black donkey, strolling along the roadside of the construction site. A pair of eyes patrolled the workers everywhere.
"The construction site supervisor actually managed to keep these prisoners submissive with just a notebook and a pen."
Si Nian was greatly surprised.
In her impression, when the government collects corvees, there must be supervisors with swords and whips to ensure the progress of the project.
"Most of these prisoners are ordinary people who were kidnapped by the rebels in Beiwan. Those who were bandits and bandits and committed heinous crimes have already been punished from the beginning.
Controlling these captives only requires two simple methods.
The first is grain distribution. Everyone is registered, and every hundred people are organized into a group. They are scored according to the group and the grain is distributed. Those who work quickly and do well in the group will have sufficient daily grain quotas. Those who work slowly and have poor quality will
If a group is formed, the quota will be reduced. In this way, in each group, everyone will supervise each other and no one will dare to be lazy.
The second is ideological reform. These prisoners must undergo half an hour, or two quarters of an hour, of ideological education after work every day to establish correct and positive thoughts for them. After reform through labor and ideological education,
If you are a prisoner, you can create a household registration and divide the fields, become a citizen of Qingshui County, or join the army to protect your family and the people."
Ren Pingsheng explained to her.
He wanted to keep Si Nian to work for him. Although she was a woman, she had excellent kung fu and knew a lot about strangers, cultivation, monsters, etc. If he could keep her, for him,
Just a big helping hand.
Si Nian praised him and said, "Sir's ability to govern the world is admirable."
In addition to overseeing the work at the construction site, she also saw some young men wearing green gowns and black gauze hats pointing at the construction site and directing the prisoners to work.
She looked at the eight or nine hundred people, some were mixing sand and lime, some were digging soil, and some were leveling the roadbed. They were busy but not chaotic, cooperating with each other.
Even the captives are working seriously, and there is no common numb look on their faces. Instead, they all have serious faces, and occasionally smile, but also have bright faces. Such people are often full of life.
of hope.
In her opinion, Qingshui County is really a paradise-like place!
She saw it and couldn't help but admire in her heart: "Mr. Ren is really a capable minister in governing the world! Such a person is trapped in a small Qingshui County, it is really an incompetence of his talent!"
Everyone walked around the construction site, and the road turned back into a rutted dirt road.
At 1:30 in the afternoon, everyone arrived at the foot of Hongye Mountain.
Looking at the Hongye Mountain in front of him, Ren Pingsheng was filled with emotion. When he had just traveled through time, he had been wandering around in the Hongye Mountain for more than two months.
Now, more than a year later, he has built a large family fortune in this world.
