One thousand four hundred and forty-eighth decision-making
For Shaofu and Da Nong, any high-level project is a political achievement that they are eager to achieve.
Since it is a political achievement, of course there is no objection.
Even, in the eyes of many people, the emperor's idea has risen to the point where it is related to the safety of the world and the stability of the country.
Must be repaired!
If you don’t cultivate, you are not a human being!
You must know that Yan Xiong was in charge of the Long Canal Project back then. Now, Yan Xiong is already the governor of Julu County. There are rumors that he is likely to be transferred to Henan County as the county governor in the near future.
Historically, the governors of Henan counties were popular candidates for entering the imperial court.
In the past sixty years, half of the governors of Henan counties eventually became Jiuqing.
The rest, even those who suffered the most misfortune, were rewarded by the emperor before taking office.
There are also rumors that Sima An, the supervisor of Shanglin Garden who presides over Kunming Pool, is likely to take over the position of Liu She who is retiring as Shaofu Qing in the future.
As for the Baoxie Road project, although the two state abbots funded it, the Shaofu and Da Nong were responsible for the specific work.
All relevant presiding officials were promoted.
Among them, there was even a miracle of jumping from four hundred stones to a thousand stones!
This is a Qianshi powerful official in Guanzhong!
If it is released outside, at least it will be the layout of a county lieutenant!
Therefore, in the eyes of everyone, the super project proposed by the emperor is simply a project with its own promotion buff.
Whether you can get promoted and make a fortune, marry a beautiful lady, and reach the pinnacle of your life depends on this gamble.
Therefore, the ministers soon reached a unanimous opinion.
The only difference is where to practice first?
The ministers who were born in Guanzhong all felt that it was most important to build the Weihe Canal first and open up the water connection between Guanzhong and the big rivers, especially Luoyang!
The reason is also very good - since the fourth year of Yuande, Guanzhong has needed to transfer millions of dan grain from Guandong every year to meet the needs of Chang'an and Maoling (no way, there are too many people!)
In order to transport grain from Aocang to the customs, the Shaofu spent more than 10 million yuan every year. This was because the civilians who transported the grain were all prisoners of war and slaves and did not need money.
If this canal can be built, millions of dollars in expenses can be saved every year, and thousands of free labor can be put to other places where it is more needed.
For example, should the official offices of various yamen in Jiuqing be made more beautiful?
You know, many of the mansions built by the powerful in Maoling today are so magnificent that they are blinding!
Officials in the Guandong region, especially in the Liang and Huai areas, feel that Huai Si has been dilapidated for a long time and must invest heavily in support!
You Guanzhong people are human beings, but we Huaisi people are not human beings?
It beats your lungs!
So, not surprisingly, these scum immediately started quarreling over this.
Liu Che felt a little irritated when he heard this, and simply said: "There is no need to argue anymore, sir. I have ordered Guiyi Shanyu to find a way to solve the workers' problem. Once it is solved, the two lines of work will be constructed at the same time!"
In this world before the Christian era, the greatest advantage is that there is no need to consider the life and death of other peoples/countries at all.
Even in many other places, many rulers do not even care about the life and death of their own citizens.
Liu Che, aside from other things, heard that when the military officials went on the Western Expedition, the Daxia people directly took their own citizens, craftsmen, and women as gifts to the Huns in order to send away their father.
It is said that there are as many as 3,000 craftsmen alone!
Therefore, Liu Che was not worried at all that Xia Yi would not be able to complete the tasks he assigned.
A mere 100,000 slaves, considering the population of Munan, is simply easy!
What's more, there is help from the Northern Huns...
Not long ago, Liu Che received a message from Flying Pigeon in Longcheng. Representatives of Cheng Zhengying and Zhuo Wangsun happily reported to him: Someone had ordered a huge batch of ordnance from them.
Including tens of thousands of bows, hundreds of thousands of arrows, 5,000 pieces of leather armor, and thousands of weapons.
This is really a top-notch contract!
Naturally, the price is also very impressive.
A bow requires a strong male slave or a young female slave to exchange it...
For the entire contract, the other party had to pay a total of over 100,000 male and female slaves!
There is no need to guess who the buyer is.
Besides the Northern Huns who lost their underpants and most of their weapons and equipment in the Battle of Yanji, who else could there be?
After all, the Northern Huns were preparing to march westward again, but the problem was - in the Battle of Yanji, they not only lost a large number of young men, elites, and livestock.
They also suffered heavy equipment losses. The Han army only captured weapons and armor, which were piled up like mountains. At least hundreds of thousands of weapons and tens of thousands of armor were captured by the Han army.
And their own production capacity is very limited. If they have to rely on themselves to get it together, they may not be able to get it together until the day they die.
I have no choice but to find a deal with the Han Dynasty.
And Liu Che actually had a headache too!
The weapons of the Huns, such as bronze collars, horned bows, leather armors, bronze helmets, etc., were really looked down upon by the Han Dynasty!
After the Shaofu officials monitored the seized weapons, they gave up the idea of recycling them.
These scum weapons have poor craftsmanship, impressive materials, and almost no redeeming qualities.
Originally, the Young Master had planned to treat all these things as rubbish at a low price, sell them to South Vietnam and Fujian, exchange them for random items, or simply auction them by stone in Chang'an and let merchants dispose of them.
But Liu Che stopped him.
Although the Han army looked down upon these weapons.
Maybe even the armies of other countries during the Warring States Period looked down upon him.
But, the Huns will definitely want it.
Now, don’t people just come to your door looking for deals?
Therefore, everyone is happy with this transaction.
The Huns bought the weapons they lost, while the Han Dynasty got rid of those things that were of little value even for recycling, and by the way made a small fortune, solving the project population gap and the bachelor's wife problem.
It’s truly a win-win!
As for where will the Huns go to find so many high-quality people for a while?
That has nothing to do with the Han Dynasty.
It was precisely because he was about to receive so much cheap labor that Liu Che came up with the idea of digging a canal!
"If we can get more than 100,000 laborers every year, why worry about the Grand Canal?" Liu Che also expressed emotion.
Up to now, all classes of the Han Dynasty have become accustomed to using cheap Yi Di slave labor.
Whether it is in the reclamation group in Anton, or in the whaling industry at sea, or among workshops, blast furnaces, mines and fields.
Cheap, solid Yidi slave labor is always the best option.
And the vast majority of singles and peasants who cannot afford a wife are also happy to welcome the emperor to send him warmth and praise his wife.
In the past few years, at least among the reclamation groups in Guanzhong and Anton, Liu Che has successfully eliminated single men over the age of eighteen.
Can't afford a wife? It doesn't matter! Go to the pavilion chief to report, and then you can wait for the country to allocate...
She is still a woman from a foreign land. If she is lucky, she might even be a golden and blue-eyed Ocean Horse!
Wouldn’t it be nice to marry someone into your family and have a bunch of kids?
The only headache is probably that to marry a wife, you have to borrow money from the government.
The average price of a Yi Di Xijun ranges from 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, and the interest rate is 11%. You have to repay the loan every year. If you can't repay it, you have to work in a workshop or a young manor to repay it.
But what does it mean to marry a wife and have debts?
Many singles have said that even if it is ten times higher, I can accept it!
And through this, national integration is happening and progressing quietly.
In the future, it would not be surprising if a mixed-blood Jiuqing or Huangxu General appeared in the Han Dynasty.
However, the slave trade of the Han Dynasty was essentially different from the slave trade of later generations in the West.
Over in Anton, all slave labor has become a "dispatch system."
Although the mainland is relatively cruel and cold.
However, under normal circumstances, people still cherish their own property and tools.
Perhaps in two or three generations, these slave workers today may become free citizens.
Therefore, Liu Che kept a cautious eye.
Male barbarians of the same culture and race who can assimilate have relatively loose control and enjoy some basic rights and protections.
As for those weird guys, want to enter the Great Wall?
Cut the small penis first...
This time is no exception, and Liu Che has chosen the person to do this - Guiyi Shanyu Xia Yi.
In this way, no one can blame the Han Dynasty in the future!
The bastards who do this are Huns!
The advantage of this is obvious, that is, nowadays, there are basically no holy mothers who will pity the miserable plight of the Yidis slave laborers.
Now, if anyone dares to question this policy.
Then, those who benefit from this will definitely spray the other party to the point of paralysis.
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When the officials heard this, they even took care of the workers.
That would be even more gratifying.
Some people are even jumping up and down, eager to participate in or control this great project.
The reason is simple - since there are already workers, this project has no harm at all.
There is no need to exploit the people or collect corvee labor.
From the local government all the way to the court, there will be no objections.
Once the project is completed, the participants will instantly gain maximum reputation. In the future, they may be able to use this political achievement to become the ninth minister or even the third official!
Or go one step further and directly become a god and enjoy eternal sacrifices after death!
Just like Erlang Guankou of Shu County, Du Bo of Guanzhong, King Xiang of Jiangdong, and Ji Xin of Shanglinyuan.
Live as a human hero, die as a ghost, be fed by blood for generations, and be incense for thousands of years!
No one can resist such temptation.
Not even Confucius!
Therefore, immediately, all the ministers applauded one after another, saying that - for this matter, I am the most suitable.
Someone even introduced Liu Che in a roundabout way about his glorious past, especially his achievements in engineering.
All it takes is for someone to issue a military order to guarantee the construction time.
Liu Che looked at it and was also very pleased.
What he fears most is that bureaucrats are unmotivated!
And if bureaucrats only have enthusiasm and motivation, then nothing in this world can stump them.
However, Liu Che is not the kind of person who can be easily fooled.
He waved his hand slightly, and the whole place immediately fell silent.
"Shang Aiqing..." Liu Che looked at Shang Rong and said, "First of all, you will take people to help me along the Wei River, eastward to Taolinsai, survey the geography, environment and river direction along the way, and come up with a plan!
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Upon hearing this, Shang Rong immediately bowed happily and said, "No! I will live up to your majesty's expectations!"
Liu Che then looked at Zhang Wei, the Shaofu Prime Minister, and ordered: "You will lead people from Xingyang to Luoyang to survey the geography, environment, and rivers along the way, and give me a plan!"
When Zhang Wei heard this, he was also very happy and said: "No! I will obey the holy order!"
As soon as these two decisions came out, everyone knew what Liu Che meant.
This is to let the young master and the big farmer compete and fight against each other!
Those who win will naturally get more authority, more projects, more organizations and opportunities in the future.
As for those who lose, they may be unable to recover for many years, and may even lose their right to speak in engineering matters.
Therefore, Shang Rong and Zhang Wei's expressions were also grim and extremely serious.
For bureaucrats - they can ignore everything, but they cannot ignore the yamen/entities that compete with them.
Liu Che looked at it and was very satisfied.
As an emperor, he knew very well that he could not cover everything, nor could he pay attention to everyone and everything.
Therefore, the best governance model is to bring two opposite parties together and let them compete with each other and supervise each other.
In this way, the emperor could feel much more relaxed.
Liu Che has always relied on this method to have some leisure time.
