Chapter 494 Recruiting the people (Happy Lantern Festival)
"Who is this?"
Wang Shichong had a smile on his face, but his heart was numb with one shock, two shocks, and three shocks, and he almost couldn't help but curse loudly.
Yangzhou was separated from Wu Guogong by the Yangtze River, and Wang Shichong was a thoughtful person, so he naturally knew some of the main civil servants under Wu Guogong's government.
The person in charge of the first batch of people crossing the river was one of the three deputy division chiefs of the Engineering Department of the Duke of Wu, and he was considered a senior member of the civil servants of the Duke of Wu.
It is not surprising that the other party has the level of strength in the world. Wu Guogong's territory where all the people practice martial arts is not a joke. The strength of the civil servants can only be regarded as weak chickens. The strength of the military generals is terrifying. Just like the giant man in front of him who is over 10 feet tall.
Wang Shichong brought great pressure.
The giant man's aura is exposed, which is the standard strength of a first-class master in the world.
Because of his height and strong body, as well as his strong aura, Wang Shichong actually felt a little bit of pressure in his heart.
He was familiar with the generals in the army under Wu Guogong, but the face in front of him was a stranger. He was obviously a new military expert under Wu Guogong.
Why do you say that? The giant man was wearing the unarmored military uniform of Duke Wu's army, and he couldn't hide his military aura.
The reason why I was so shocked was because the guy in front of me might be the first-class master in Duke Wu's army!
Anyone who is not a fool knows what this means.
This means that after years of accumulation, the army under Wu Guogong has begun to emerge with first-rate masters.
Since the strange giant man in front of us can become a first-class master, then naturally other first-class masters will appear in the army under Wu Guogong. This is a certain thing.
Wang Shichong's heart suddenly felt heavy and unspeakable. The strength in Wu Guogong Leihu's hands will be even greater!
There are completely different things between having first-rate experts in charge of the army and not having first-rate experts in charge. At least there is no comparison in terms of high-level combat capabilities.
The fierce generals of this era were extremely ferocious. They could kill generals and seize flags with ease, and even penetrate military formations with one person. If there were no masters of the same level to stop them, they would easily be killed and defeated.
Especially when top-notch masters attack with all their strength, they can already cause the lively vitality of heaven and earth to vibrate, bursting out with extremely powerful and huge lethality. This is also a valuable thing for fierce generals in the army.
As a neighbor across the river, Wang Shichong knew that the army under Wu Guogong was unusual.
Martial arts is flourishing even among the people, not to mention the military. Almost every soldier is successful in martial arts. The military provides training techniques and materials. Any soldier who is not bad at martial arts training will be able to train in martial arts during five to ten years.
At the very least, they can all become elite level players.
It has been almost twenty years since Duke Wu became a prince in the south. During this period, many second-rate masters emerged in the army. Now first-rate masters are beginning to appear. According to the normal promotion situation, it is obvious that the time has come when the first-rate masters begin to explode.
This situation made the ambitious Wang Shichong very depressed, and he immediately thought of leaving Jiangdu.
With such a powerful neighbor like Wu Guogong, his desire to rise in Yangzhou is simply a fool's errand. Otherwise, he may die in an unknown way just after he takes the lead.
He did not believe that Wu Guogong had no ambitions. At least he had the ambition to unify the south and even occupy the Jianghuai land. Anyway, Wang Shichong did not think that there was any hero who could fight with Wu Guogong in the Jianghuai land and the south. He was one of the four great clans.
Neither can the Lingnan Song clan.
In an instant, Wang Shichong had countless thoughts in his mind, but there was no expression on his face. His heroic nature was undoubtedly revealed.
"The last general is Xiong Kuo Hai, and Tian is the commander-in-chief of the production and construction corps that is crossing the river this time. I have met the palace supervisor!"
The giant man who followed the deputy director of the Engineering Department of Wu Guogong Mansion, neither humble nor arrogant, raised his hands and said: "Whenever there are more troubles for the palace supervisor in the future, I hope the palace supervisor will not get bored!"
"You're welcome, you're welcome. Since the court has an order, Wang will definitely not hold back!"
Wang Shichong repeatedly bowed his hands politely, looked at the sky and said with a smile: "It's already noon, why don't you two and your entourage have a casual meal with Wang first, and continue working in the afternoon?"
"That's fine!"
The deputy director of the Engineering Department in charge nodded and smiled. In the future, we will need the help of Wang Shichong, the contact officer, so he will not offend this person.
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Soon, Jiangdu officials, including Wang Shichong, saw the speed and terrifying efficiency of Wu Guogong's production and construction of the corps.
After scientific and reasonable distribution of the 10,000 men brought by Xiongkuohai, and with the assistance of sufficient excavation tools, a canal section dozens of miles long was built in just half a month.
Moreover, the width and depth of this section of the canal are much wider and deeper than planned by the government.
In this way, when the canal is connected to the two major water systems of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, it will be able to carry larger ships, and its navigation capacity will be several times stronger than the canal planned by the government.
As subsequent people and horses continued to cross the river, each team of 10,000 people was responsible for the construction of canal sections ranging from tens to hundreds of miles. According to scientific and reasonable management and construction methods, the progress of canal construction every day was quite amazing.
What was even more astonishing was that Wang Shichong was surprised to find that the construction troops under Wu Guogong did not suffer an unusually large number of casualties, and there were even very few injured people.
The most incredible thing to him was that every construction corps with a scale of 10,000 people was accompanied by dozens of doctors, who immediately dealt with the wounded and sick who appeared within the construction corps, and easily curbed abnormal casualties.
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This is much better than the canal construction project normally organized by the government, which involves a lot of casualties when building a section.
Wu Guogong only sent out three construction corps of ten thousand people, and in just one month, he easily completed the construction of a section of the canal from the Huaihe River to the Yangtze River. After filling with water, the navigation capacity was quite strong.
The construction of such a canal was not very fast, but it was completed within the time specified by Yang Guang and the court.
What is most interesting to the officials and people in Huainan and Jiangbei is that in just one month, a canal with a length of more than 400 miles was urgently built, and there were not many casualties. This is incredible.
No wonder Wu Guogong submitted a letter to take over the construction of this section of the canal project. At least his production and construction corps was responsible for it. Not only was the task completed within the specified time, but there was no large-scale casualties like the canal construction in the North.
For this reason, the local governments in Huainan and Jiangbei did not feel distressed at all when allocating money and food. They even had an idea in their hearts, hoping that any major projects in the future would be handled by the Production and Construction Corps under Wu Guogong.
They were all moved by Wu Guogong's noble integrity. Only a thoughtful person like Wang Shichong would be surprised to find that the three production and construction corps with a scale of 10,000 people sent by Wu Guogong were building the canal very fast, but they were not without manipulations secretly.
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For example, the reasons for encouraging local people to move to Wu Guogong's territory are also very strong. If you want to escape the continuous and crazy labor of the government in the future, it is best to move to Wu Guogong's territory as early as possible.
During this period, there were many salesmen who traveled through the streets and alleys in various villages, as well as storytellers in wine shops and teahouses. They compiled stories about the construction of the Great Wall, the construction of canals, the construction of palaces and the construction of straight roads in the North, and told them in detail.
The people in Huainan and Jiangbei listened.
The people were frightened when they heard this. They were not as arrogant as Yang Guang, and they did not know the importance of those projects to the Sui Dynasty. They knew that in just four or five years, the entire Northland was severely damaged, and Ding Ding died.
There are more than three million people.
Three million!
Such an astonishing number immediately set off a storm among the people in Huainan and Jiangbei.
The people in Huainan and Jiangbei were very lucky. Fortunately, Wu Guogong helped them take on the labor of building the canal. Otherwise, with the horrific casualty ratio of the people in the north, if they were drafted to build the canal, at least half of them would have died.
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It was a life-and-death matter involving hundreds of thousands of families, and it frightened the people in Huainan and Jiangbei who had escaped.
At this time, whether it was hawkers walking in the streets or storytellers in taverns and tea shops, they all proposed to the frightened people to move to Wu Guogong's territory south of the Yangtze River.
Not to mention that the people there have a prosperous economy and live a prosperous life. Just being able to avoid the imperial court's labor conscription is a great benefit.
No, with the completion of the canal construction project, three production and construction corps with a scale of 10,000 people left one after another, but Wang Shichong was surprised to find that the number of people following the evacuation team was not at all warmer than the three production and construction corps with a scale of 10,000 people.
The army is poor, even worse than that.
Wu Guogong's territory was also well prepared and dispatched a sufficient number of ferries as soon as possible. The Yangtze River was very busy for a while, and boats filled with people were crossing the river almost everywhere.
For such a situation, local officials in Huainan and Jiangbei did not take it seriously whether they were aware of it or not. It was just the migration of tens of thousands of people. What was it worth?
Only Wang Shichong vaguely noticed something was wrong. Was Wu Guogong deliberately recruiting people?
However, there are only tens of thousands of people, which is nothing to the Wu territory with a current population of more than 6 million, right?
However, what happened next quickly solved Wang Shichong's doubts and made him admire Wu Guogong's methods. At the same time, he became more determined to leave Jiangdu, a stable place, as soon as possible.
The power of the propaganda team under Wu Guogong was quite astonishing. In the Huainan and Jiangbei areas, they only deceived tens of thousands of people and dragged their families back to their territories with the production and construction corps that had completed their work.
But when the news spread to the Huaibei area, the construction of the Tongji Canal had just been severely punished. Hundreds of thousands of Huaibei people hung white sails on their homes.
The people, who were disappointed and fearful of the imperial court, immediately became agitated after hearing the news.
Immediately afterwards, hundreds of people made up their mind to take their families and go to Wu Guogong's territory south of the Yangtze River...