After explaining the dirty information, Zhao Ran asked about the recruitment of three ministries to build roads.
Yuan Hao even laughed: "Baozhong came to the mountain to talk about this matter. The three leaders did not agree at first. When Baozhong said that they would pay per person, they began to hesitate, and finally they all asked for a higher price.
The price Baozhong negotiated was twelve cents per person per day, nine cents for women, which is a bit more than the original price."
Zhao Ran said: "It doesn't matter, it's all small money. How much did you recruit?"
"The original number was 500, but in the end, all the small heads of the clan came to Baozhong and asked for more posts. Baozhong said that many small heads even gave him money in return, stating that for every additional post of their tribe, they would
Give Baozhong two cents, haha! Now there are more than 800 people. Baozhong asked if he wanted more, so I ordered a thousand people for him."
"As long as we can go down to the mountains to help, we can eat as many as we come. One thousand people are not enough. Two thousand people are barely enough."
"The words are good, but if we really let go, I'm afraid these leaders won't be so active."
"What the Supervisory Yuan said makes sense, so let's follow the Supervisory Yuan's method. How are these posts allocated among the three departments?"
"The Qionghe tribe is still the main one, accounting for the majority, followed by the Chama tribe, and the least is the Longbai tribe. I heard that the chieftain Danmu of the Longbai tribe is very strict. Even Baozhong was not able to join this recruitment.
Zhebo Mountain, if a few small-headed people from the Chama tribe helped deliver it, it is said that two small tribes from the Longbai tribe planned to secretly send people down the mountain, and the total number was only fifty or sixty people."
Among the three Baima tribes, the Longbai tribe is the largest, with about 40,000 people, followed by the Chama tribe, with less than 20,000 people, and the smallest Qionghe tribe, with a total of just over 8,000 people. But on the contrary, it is the Qionghe tribe with the smallest population, which has a population of less than 20,000.
Daomen has a more positive attitude towards Ming Dynasty.
The year before last, when Zhao Ran took office as the abbot of Baima Court, no one from the Longbai tribe or the Chama tribe came to pay homage, let alone any expression. Only two chiefs from the Qionghe tribe came to present a few gifts on behalf of their chieftain, Meisi.
No matter what the reason is for the Qionghe Department, as long as they have this attitude, Zhao Ran will definitely give them a little sweetness, and in the final solution in the future, he will also give the Qionghe Department better conditions. Of course, these
This is all a story for later, let’s finish building the road first and then talk about it.
Because there were enough recruits, the construction of the southern line, which was originally scheduled to wait until the northern line was completed, started a month ahead of schedule. The main force in road construction was these thousand people.
Zhao Ran wore a robe and made a ritual before starting work, but there were only a few responders, which was in sharp contrast to the Western Front and the Northern Front. He didn't take it seriously. There must be ways after the ritual.
Various miracles appeared, and the reactions of the tribesmen must have been wonderful.
The time has entered July, and the southern line project has also been started for a month. Compared with the western and northern lines, Zhao Ran has deployed very few demon cultivators on the southern line, such as Five Color Master, Qingtian layman, Huangjiao Daxian, Feilongzi, etc.
I only go there every once in a while, and there’s not much work to do – there’s too much work to do, and the project is progressing too fast, so how can we make this road act as a catalyst?
The demon cultivators went there just to show their holiness in front of people, smoothing the road for a few feet and then retreating, or carrying a few cubes of gravel and soil before disappearing. Of course, in order to maintain a sense of mystery, they still chose to stay in the dark, but they no longer avoided the people.
They got up at night to watch.
Legends such as the Nine Heaven Phoenix, the Dragon King of the East China Sea, the Kunlun Kirin, and the Laojun Qingniu were so noisy among the tribesmen that starting from that month, some tribesmen came to the White Horse Courtyard one after another to offer incense. Zhao Ran was very pleased that this was
For the first time in the five years since its establishment, Baimayuan has received confidence from the people of the three tribes. Although it is not much, it is a start after all.
The wages of Baimayuan are paid like this: each headman will receive a salary of twelve cents per person based on the number of tribesmen sent, and then they will give the kickback to Baozhong, and Baozhong will not reduce the number of employees for the next month.
The promise was made, and then the rebate was returned to Baimayuan, which then paid five cents of wages to each member of the tribe who came to work for the day.
At the same time, Baimayuan mobilized merchants in the city and opened several grocery stores at the foot of Haizi Mountain where Qionghebu lived, selling grain, salt, cloth, farm tools, pots and pans, pickles, etc., and even opened a wine shop.
After more than half a month, a cargo depot was even set up to purchase specialties from the mountains.
The opening of several shops gave Haizishan, which had been closed for several years, a platform for communication with the outside world. After the people of the Qionghe tribe spent their earned wages, they returned home and used their savings to
He took out the cowhide, sheepskin, medicinal materials, etc., exchanged them for money at the goods station, and then went to the shop to make a big purchase. The rest went to the restaurant to have a drink.
In order to maintain the market, protect the rights and interests of the people, and enable them to participate in market transactions at fair prices, Baimayuan has set up the Fangtang Haizishan Police Station here, with a dianzhao building directly connected to the office. In just over a month,
A small street has taken shape.
Baozhong's family moved to this small street permanently, and was appointed as the deputy director of Haizishan Police Station. However, he was alone. He had no director above him and no soldiers below him. He shouldered the responsibility of the small street alone.
He has the heavy responsibility of public security. At the same time, he also has the power to control the number of civilian workers in the ministry.
Although he is just a fireworker layman, in the eyes of the people of the Qionghe tribe in Haizishan, he is an official figure, representing the authority of Baimayuan in this small street, so the guide is busy all day long receiving guests.
Meet the big and small heads of the Qionghe tribe.
Baozhong was also a thoughtful person, so he simply wrote down his daily meetings and conversations with these leaders and sent them to Baimayuan. It didn't take long for Baimayuan to get to the bottom of the situation in the Qionghe tribe.
Zhao Ran looked at this summary of the situation and couldn't help but laugh: "There are only more than 8,000 people in total, but there are more than 20 groups among them. Only one-third of the big chieftains can really keep their word. The Qionghe tribe still has
So weak."
Yuan Hao twisted his beard and said: "Meisi's control is probably not good enough. Abbot, do you want to take action in advance?"
Zhao Ran thought for a while and said: "Don't be anxious, wait a little longer, and think about it more. Now it's just the Qionghe tribe. It's best to involve more people from the Chama tribe and even the Longbai tribe."
Yuan Hao asked again: "Is the abbot satisfied with these materials?" Two days ago, the Taoist priest Dian Zaofang he sent to the governor's office copied a thick stack of official documents, all of which were the Xia army's logistics supplies during the Baima Mountain War in the 18th year of Jiajing.
Many of the black materials on dispatching, generals' morale, etc. are accompanied by transcripts of text files that the Xia army did not have time to burn after they captured the Baima Mountain camp.
In addition, there are several records related to the Baima Sanbu chieftains who sent to discuss the matter with the Ming army. They are full of complaints about being plundered by the Xia army and the people's livelihood was difficult. They clearly listed a long list of bad deeds of the Xia army generals, including famous and famous ones.
There are seventeen or eight people with this surname.
Zhao Ran also saw the accusation against Yeli Huaide in it. This man also played an exemplary role in plundering the people of the Hongyuan tribe, and his record was full of misdeeds. If he really wanted to hand this document over to Xingqing, he would suffer the same consequences.
No need to walk around.
Therefore, Zhao Ran took up a pen and circled his name and deeds, and told Yuan Hao: "Let them write it again. Do not include Ye Li Huaide for the time being. If you can add some local party survivors, the three chieftains,
It would be nice to have a record of people’s accusations.”