Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 214 The Grand Canal Project

"Why does the general look at me like that?"

In the mansion, Diao Chan, who was playing the piano, looked up and asked Zhu Biao, who was staring at her intently.

"What does Yuan Shi mean by giving you to me?" Zhu Biao asked straight to the point.

Diao Chan's hand that was playing the piano couldn't help but paused, and her voice seemed a little soft and said: "I don't know what the general means?"

"Nujia is just an ordinary singer."

"is it?"

"Then do you know a man named Wang Ping?" Zhu Biao asked with narrowed eyes.

"Boom...!"

Hearing this name, Diao Chan couldn't help but tighten her hand playing the piano, and a string broke immediately.

"Wang Ping, 19 years old, is from Jingzhao Mansion. He has been married for two years and has a son and a daughter."

"Unfortunately, their family was attacked by gangsters on Chang'an Road..."

When Zhu Biao said this, he deliberately paused, and sure enough, Diao Chan's breathing began to become a little short involuntarily.

Zhu Biao smiled and then continued: "It just so happened that some of my subordinates encountered this scene. Seeing the injustice, they drew their swords to help them out of the crisis. Now their family is being brought over from Chang'an by my people. I don't think it will take long. Arrived."

"I don't know if the girl knows them?" Zhu Biao said with a smile.

"No... I don't know you." Diao Chan said with a trembling voice.

"Oh……!"

"So that Wang Ping lied to me?"

"He also said it was your elder brother. Well, I have never been deceived since I was a child. I didn't expect to be deceived by this person to this point. It's really disgusting. I will kill their whole family to relieve my hatred." .”

After Zhu Biao said this, he turned around and walked out.

Diao Chan's face turned pale with fright when she heard the words, and without caring about anything else, she knelt down in front of Zhu Biao with a plop.

"General, spare your life. The little girl lied. That's the little girl's brother. I beg the general to spare their lives." Diao Chan broke down in tears.

"Oh……?"

"Then why did you lie just now?" Zhu Biao sat back in his chair and asked with a smile.

"Is my brother really in the hands of the general?" Diao Chan raised his head and looked at Zhu Biao and asked.

"Look what this is?" Zhu Biao handed a hairpin to Diao Chan.

Diao Chan believed Zhu Biao's words after just one glance.

This hairpin was a token he left to his brother, and only her brother and she knew its significance. Now that the hairpin appeared in Zhu Biao's hands, it was obvious that the person from the other side had indeed captured his brother, and had even won his brother's trust.

"My family was originally a distant relative of Shang Shuling Wang Yun. She was taken in as a singer by Shang Shuling's family since she was a child. When I was seven years old, my family awakened a gifted supernatural power. This gifted supernatural power made my family more and more beautiful. Men unconsciously fall in love with the slave family."

"After Wang Yun found out, he raised me in a deep boudoir, and even recognized me as his goddaughter, and named me Diao Chan."

"At the age of 12, I awakened my second innate supernatural power."

"This innate supernatural power allows the slave family to use the spirit to influence or even control the other party's spiritual will when they have sex with someone for the first time."

When she said this, Diao Chan looked very calm, and she didn't have the awkward and shy expression of an ordinary little girl.

"Fuck, it's still dual talent!"

"And these two talents seem to match well!"

"This woman is amazing!"

Zhu Biao exclaimed secretly in his heart, but continued calmly on his face: "Then what instructions does Wang Yun have for sending you to me?"

"The general controls the imperial guards and possesses extremely strong force. They want the servants to influence the general so that the general can assassinate the Taiwei at the right time."

"As the parent and son of the Taiwei, he will definitely not be on guard against you."

"What a vicious plan!"

Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes slightly: "Who is planning this matter?"

"I don't know the specific slave family, I only know that there is Wang Yun."

"It stands to reason that it is impossible for them not to notify Yuan Kai of such a major event!"

"And if Yuan Kai is notified, it means that Zhu Yuanzhang and himself know about it, but he just found out about it."

"Could it be that Yuan's leadership is not behind this matter?" Zhu Biao touched his chin, unable to think of a clue, so he decided not to think about these things.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Luoyang and changed the emperor forcefully, the entire clan in the world has become their enemy.

Because they are now standing at the highest point, the heights are extremely cold, and they need to beware of all the open and dark arrows in all directions.

"It sounds like you don't have much respect for Wang Yun?"

"Isn't he your adoptive father?" Zhu Biao asked curiously.

Hearing this, a sneer flashed across Diao Chan's face.

"The general doesn't know that Wang Yun has more than 20 daughters like me. We are all tools raised by him. There are more than ten sisters above me who are used by him for political marriages, or for murder like me. Enemy."

"We were just his tools from the beginning to the end."

"His means of controlling us is also using our relatives."

"Now that my relatives are in the hands of the general, then I am naturally the general's."

"The general can use me to achieve political goals, but please treat my brother's family kindly." Diao Chan knelt in front of Zhu Biao respectfully and said.

"Get up!"

Zhu Biao understands Diao Chan's situation very well. In this world, everyone is an involuntary pawn, let alone a weak woman like Diao Chan.

Zhu Biao believed that if she hadn't awakened these two talents, a beautiful woman like her would have already been accepted as a concubine by a wealthy family, or simply entered a brothel.

"Then how did you contact Wang Yun? If you succeed, what will they do next?" Zhu Biao asked again.

There is no way of contact, only a deadline.

Within three years, as long as the slave family can control His Highness to kill the Taiwei, it will be considered a success.

As for the next plan, I don't know, I'm just an insignificant pawn.

"I see!"

Zhu Biao narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking about whether to use Diao Chan to catch Jiang Taigong's fishing volunteers.

In the blink of an eye, another two months passed.

In the past two months, Daming's control over the imperial capital of the Han Dynasty has once again deepened.

With the unimpeded trade routes between Jizhou and Sili, in this city of Luoyang, various supplies began to gradually become abundant.

With such a material foundation, Zhu Yuanzhang had a plan to do things further.

Soon a notice was posted on the streets and alleys of the entire Luoyang City.

The content of the notice is only one, calling for workers.

There is no limit to the number of people, food and housing are in charge, and wages are also paid.

The imperial court...to be precise, Zhu Yuanzhang's big action naturally attracted the attention of many forces in Luoyang City at this moment.

Both the Yuan family and Cao Cao began to try their best to find out the deep meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang's move.

There was no need for Zhu Yuanzhang to conceal this, so soon Zhu Yuanzhang's plan surfaced.

"Is this Zhu Yuanzhang crazy?"

"He actually wants to build a Grand Canal that runs through the entire Han Empire, starting from Jizhou in the north, passing through Yanzhou, Sili, Yuzhou, and Yangzhou. This is simply a dream."

After getting the news, whether it was Guo Jia, Xun Yu or Cao Cao, Yuan Shao couldn't believe his ears.

Speaking of which, Zhu Yuanzhang had played this trick before.

The official roads from Sili to Jizhou, Qingzhou and other places have been repaired.

But that's just repairs, and tens of thousands of people can complete it in a month or two.

Compared with the Grand Canal project that Zhu Yuanzhang is now working on, road repairs can only be regarded as trivial.

Since ancient times, building roads and dredging canals have been a major event that wastes money and people.

No ruler dared to do such a thing with great fanfare. He was as powerful as Qin, and he was going to perish in such a large-scale enslavement of civilians, not to mention the current crumbling Han Dynasty.

"There is no need to use assassination now. Within a year, this person will definitely pay the price for his ignorance. When the time comes to eradicate him, it will definitely be effortless!" The idea of ​​the forces of good intentions.

So what makes people dumbfounded is that as soon as the news came out, Luoyang City, which was originally undercurrent, quieted down, and everyone was waiting to see Zhu Yuanzhang's jokes.

In this regard, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed it off.

He is still doing his own thing step by step.

Even after Zhu Biao reported Diao Chan's incident, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pay much attention to it, and even warned Zhu Biao not to act rashly.

To be honest, this made Zhu Biao very puzzled.

Isn't this like my old man who likes fishing?
In this day and age, hiring is easy

Because in this era, there is a lack of clothing, food, and everything, but there is no shortage of idlers.

Countless people died of cold and hunger every day outside the city of Luoyang. When they heard that the imperial court began to control food, housing and recruiting people to work again, it took only three days for 6 to [-] people to flock here.

At the same time, there are more refugees in all directions rushing here after hearing the news.

To be honest, even if Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pay them, they were willing to do it.

It is already a great kindness for them that the imperial court can control food and housing so that they will not die of freezing and starving.

However, although Zhu Yuanzhang is stingy, it is impossible not to give them a penny of wages.

Of course, what was issued this time was not five baht coins, but Daming treasure notes, 30 yuan a day.

This kind of treasure is of course like waste paper in the Han Empire, and no one recognizes it at all.

But now there are more than 100 shops in the Ming Dynasty in Luoyang City. These shops were opened by Zhu Yuanzhang during this period. These shops recognize the role of this kind of treasure. can buy anything.

And the commodities in these shops include everything from food, cloth, needles, threads, iron pots and hoes, and sell everything.

There are even various books for sale.

In this way, useless treasures have their own value, and naturally began to circulate in Luoyang City.

In a short period of time, Luoyang City has become more prosperous than before.

"How about I wait to help him?"

"Let's see how long the food in his hands can last?" In a courtyard, Guo Jia and Xun Yu sat opposite each other, discussing Zhu Yuanzhang's ruling policy.

The two of them are in a very special situation now. Originally, they wanted to unite with the Yuan family.

But after getting in touch with Yuan Shao, they keenly discovered that this man was a man of great ambition and talent, and Yuan Wei gave them a very strange feeling.

As the top civil servants of the Three Kingdoms, their intuition was quite keen, and they soon realized that the Yuan family was not a place to stay for a long time, so they gradually alienated the Yuan family.

After all, Yuan Shao is not a vassal now, and the Yuan family is not a family of vassals.

Strictly speaking, the current Yuan Shao, like Guo Jia and others, is nothing more than a son of an aristocratic family, and naturally there is no such thing as a civil servant.

Of course, they did not serve Cao Cao anymore.

They can all see Cao Cao's heroic nature clearly. Such a person can only make a difference in troubled times, but now after all, the troubled times have not yet begun, so naturally there is no need to seek refuge with Cao Cao.

After the two visited and befriended for a period of time, coupled with their own power, they also won over some aristocratic families, so strictly speaking, Guo Jia and Xun Yu have now become the fourth force in Luoyang City .

Hearing Guo Jia's proposal at this moment, Xun Yu nodded after pondering for a moment.

"It is said that the newly rising Jizhou Zhu family is rich, so let's see how rich this Zhu family is."

"Not only us, but also the Cao family and the Yuan family have to inform, so that all the noble families in Luoyang city will gather refugees from all over the country and send them to Luoyang."

"See if you can burst Zhu's stomach..."

Soon the news of the increasing number of refugees near Luoyang reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears. He sent Jin Yiwei to investigate secretly, and soon found out that the matter was caused by those aristocratic families.

Even many of these refugees were slaves disguised as domestic slaves of the noble families.

After all, it's not the time for busy farming. If these slaves are left at home, they have to be fed. If they are sent here to work for Zhu Yuanzhang, they will not only make trouble for Zhu Yuanzhang, but also save some rations. Why not do it? ?

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally accepted all this happily.

In the current Han Dynasty, population represents wealth.

It was easy for those aristocratic families to release these people, but it was even more difficult to take them back.

Zhu Yuanzhang began to dispatch more management personnel from Daming to reorganize and register these refugees.

In just one month, the number of refugees has reached a terrifying 30.

To be honest, with this number of refugees, and it is just under the city of Luoyang, no matter who they are, they will be shocked. After all, if someone plots to do something wrong, these 30 people will soon be transformed into 30 mobs.

At that time, the entire Sili may suffer.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't panic about this at all, but was very pleasantly surprised.

He began to ramp up infrastructure projects.

Mining and iron-making workshops began to be put on his agenda, as did the construction of cement roads and railways. Of course, the excavation of the most important Grand Canal was also proceeding in an orderly manner.

At the same time, from Jizhou, a steady stream of food and various living materials began to pour into Sili.

The whole Sili began to get better every day, and this kind of goodness was really visible to the naked eye.

Among them, the most eye-catching thing is the refugees. This winter, there is not even a single refugee in Luoyang City.

It has to be said that this is a miracle.

(End of this chapter)