Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 387 Prepare to go south

There is a huge construction site about a dozen miles away from Sun Yuanhua's receiving the captives. This construction site is the site where the railway is being built.

In order to speed up, Sun Yuanhua adopted the method of starting at two ends and proceeding at multiple points.

In this way, a large number of manpower is required. Originally, the number of manpower in Sun Yuanhua's hands was still a bit stretched, but after taking over these captives, the manpower problem can be greatly improved.

Sun Yuanhua had a team of supervisors in his hands. The number of supervisors in this team was about 3000. They were selected from the reserve force and specially set up for these prisoners.

After all, these captives will not behave like those workers.

At this time, Sun Yuanhua led a supervisory team of more than 500 people. In addition to these supervisory teams, Sun Yuanhua also brought a large number of scribes.

These scribes are now right in front of the captives, sitting behind the tables that have been prepared, holding books, and registering the captives.

There were more than 2000 captives, and an hour had passed by the time all the captives were registered.

Sun Yuanhua looked at the captives who had been registered, and shouted loudly: "Everyone follow me now, remember, don't think about escaping, otherwise you will die miserably."

Although Zhao Yi didn't know where the people in front of him were going to take him, he didn't have any other thoughts.

After completing the handover with the soldiers escorting the prisoner, Sun Yuanhua led the prisoner to the railway construction site.

The construction site is located in a territory called Yangyuan County.

Although Yangyuan County is called a county, it is under the jurisdiction of Xuanzhen, so there is no county magistrate in it, but it is managed by military management.

Yangyuan County is close to Datong Town, at the intersection of Xuanzhen Town and Datong Town. Zhao Wen stationed three hundred households in Yangyuan County.

When Zhao Yi and other captives came to the construction site, they were a little puzzled. They had never seen a railway, so they had no idea what these busy workers were doing on the construction site.

Zhao Yi looked carefully, and found that the entire construction site was very large, covered with long strips of iron.

There are also long strips of wood piled up near the iron block, but these logs are shorter and thicker than the long iron block.

In addition to these things, there are many piles of gravel.

There are busy crowds everywhere on the construction site. Some of these crowds are digging on the ground with tools in their hands, some are carrying long strips of wood and laying them on the ground where the foundation has been laid, and dozens of people are carrying Hold a long strip of iron and put it on the long strip of wood.

There are still carriages coming and going on the construction site, pulling goods.

These wagons were surprisingly large, with four wheels and three horses pulling them in front.

The entire construction site was in full swing, and there were shouts of chant everywhere.

There are many houses around the construction site. Obviously, this is where these workers live.

"What is this for? What is this building? Why have you never seen it before?" The young man who followed Zhao Yi pointed at the busy construction site with a dazed expression on his face.

Zhao Yi squinted his eyes, looked at the construction site quietly, and suddenly realized: "Now I finally understand what this is for us to do. This is for us to work."

These captives stood in an open space in front of the construction site under the guard of Sun Yuanhua's supervisory team.

It wasn't until this moment that the captives finally realized that they were going to let people like themselves work.

"Just do the work, anyway, it's better than letting us go to war. According to the style of these people, letting us work will definitely not treat us badly." Standing at the front of the captives, Zhao Yi murmured.

After Sun Yuanhua brought the captives to the open space in front of the construction site, he headed for a grass pavilion on the construction site.

Sun Yuanhua sat under the grass pavilion, picked up a teapot on the table under the grass pavilion, didn't care about the image, and directly drank mouth to mouth.

Sun Yuanhua put down the teapot, wiped the water stains on his mouth, and then said to the attendants behind him: "Go and find these stewards on the construction site, I have something to arrange?"

After a while, these stewards stood in front of Sun Yuanhua.

Sun Yuanhua looked at the captives in the rear, and said to the supervisors who were building the railway: "These captives are about 2000 people. I will divide them into five groups later, with more than [-] people in each group. I will give all of them you.

Guanshi Liu and Guanshi Wang, you lead these people together with your current manpower to build the railway to Xuanzhen for me.

Li Guanshi and Zhang Guanshi, you lead these people and your current manpower to build the railway to Datong Town.

You have enough manpower now, and there will definitely be more and more manpower in the future, so during the Chinese New Year this year, I hope you can complete the railway from Xuanzhen to Datong Town. "

Sun Yuanhua looked at the stewards standing behind him, and pointed to the prisoners behind him.

"Don't worry, my lord. As long as there are more captives to replenish, we will definitely complete the railway construction on time."

These stewards patted their chests and said swearingly.

Sun Yuanhua nodded, then took the roster from those clerks, and began to assign manpower to these stewards.

After the distribution, it was already afternoon.

These stewards took the rosters and led their respective men to collect their captives.

Zhao Yi was assigned to Manager Li, who was in charge of building the railway to Datong Town.

Li Guanshi led the captives assigned to him to the side of the construction site he was in charge of. Standing on a stone, he shouted at these hundreds of people: "You are all a group of captives now. Now your responsibility is to follow I'm talking about building these railroads."

Li Guanshi pointed to the half-built railway next to him, and said again: "You have never seen these things before, and you don't know how to build a railway, and workers will teach you later.

Let me tell you, you are just a group of captives. You didn't have a penny when you built the railway, and you were provided with three meals a day.

Of course, it is not for you to work endlessly, you only need to work here for two years.After two years, you will be free.

At that time, if you don't want to leave, you can still apply to become workers of the construction team.Our Xuan Town pays the workers very well. Each worker gets two silver dollars a month. If they do a good job, they will be rewarded. "

A smile gradually appeared on Zhao Yi's face, "Two silver dollars, my dear, Xuan Town must be rich.

Silver dollars are a good thing. In Daizhou City, one silver dollar can be exchanged for one, two, three, four.Calculated in this way, there are nearly three taels of ordinary silver in a month.

Isn't it just two years? As long as you survive for two years, when you make money, you will get a daughter-in-law first. "

A trace of excitement gradually appeared on Zhao Yi's face, not only Zhao Yi, but all the prisoners who heard Li Guanshi's voice began to get excited.

Three meals a day, in Daizhou, only two meals a day in good times, and not enough to eat, and work for Shangguan when the farming is busy.

Anyway, it's all work, so it's better to work for these people, at least you won't treat yourself badly.

After Li Guanshi babbled a few words to these prisoners, he led them to the construction site.

In order to prevent these captives from making trouble, the team in charge of the work also hurriedly followed behind the captives.

Building railways, especially the most primitive steam engine railways, is not a sophisticated thing, so these captives learned very quickly.

"It's nothing more than laying the foundation, laying the wooden stakes, and then putting the iron bars on the wooden stakes, which is too simple.

I may not be able to repair bricks and tiles, but I can do this kind of work once I see it, although I don’t know what to build these things for. Zhao Yi looked at the workers who were building the railway and said confidently.

These captives stood quietly in front of the construction site, watching the workers at work, and the time passed slowly.

The sun had completely set on the western mountain, and the whole world began to darken.

"Okay, that's it for today. It's getting late now, and you will start working officially tomorrow." Steward Li looked at the sky that had begun to darken, turned around to look at the prisoners, and at the same time rang a bell. Worker's gong.

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At the same time, Zhao Wen was sitting in the hall of the Zongbing Yamen. He looked at Song Hu and Liu Wu standing in front of him, and laughed loudly: "Okay, okay, finally took down the entire Shanxi town."

"My lord, when the rest of the Shanxi town saw our army, they didn't resist at all and surrendered directly. We said we were going to fight, rather than accepting the surrender." Song Hu said carelessly with an excited expression on his face.

"By the way, did you bring those captives back? How many are there in total?" Zhao Wen asked.

Liu Wu chuckled, "My lord, there are a lot of prisoners this time, there are more than 8000 in total."

"So, including the captives from Shanxi Town, we have a total of nearly [-] captives. Pass my order to keep [-] captives in Shanxi Town, and escort all the rest to Xuan Town and hand them over to Sun Yuanhua."

Shanxi Town is one of the important towns in the Nine Borders. In the early Ming Dynasty, each town in the Nine Borders had almost [-] soldiers. However, with the collapse of the Weisuo system, military households fled seriously, and the number of troops became less and less.

By the time of Chongzhen, there were only 2 soldiers left in Shanxi Town.

"We left between 100 and 3000 people in the occupied military fort, and there are almost [-] people left in total." Liu Wu said again.

Zhao Wen nodded, "You've done a good job, the remaining people can hold the occupied place firmly in their hands."

Early the next morning, Zhao Wen divided the 200 captives into four batches, and each batch of captives was escorted to Xuanzhen by [-] people.

After dealing with these matters, Zhao Wen left more than 2000 people in Shanxi Town, including more than [-] prisoners.

Zhao Wen divided the Chinese army he led into two parts, each with 3 people, led by him and Zhao Daniu respectively.

In addition to Song Hu's former army, Zhao Wenbing divided into three groups and attacked directly to the south of Shanxi.

Song Hu is in the west, Zhao Daniu is in the east, and Zhao Wen is in the middle.

As for Song Hu, he was arranged by Zhao Wen to be the last to gather the captives.

Zhao Wen stood in the school grounds of Zhencheng, Shanxi. Following Zhao Wen's order, the three-way army set out from Zhencheng, Shanxi like a strong wind.

The current main target of Zhao Wen's middle road is Taiyuan Mansion.

At this time, Liu Wenzhong also received a letter from Zhao Wen.

After Liu Wenzhong read Zhao Wen's letter, he hurriedly gathered the civil servants in the town to deal with the matters arranged by Zhao Wen.

After intense discussions, Liu Wenzhong finally chose to select 200 students from the university now opened in Xuanzhen.Then selected some senior, capable, and loyal scribes from various ministries in Xuanzhen.

Liu Wenzhong merged these people together, and then selected 1 reserve soldiers to organize into a huge team and go to Shanxi Town.

In order to prevent insufficient manpower in the future, Liu Wenzhong has the idea of ​​expanding the university's enrollment.

The school in Xuanzhen is mainly in charge of by Liu Wenzhong, so there is nothing wrong with Liu Wenzhong's expansion of enrollment.

Now it is only Shanxi Town, and in a while it will be the whole of Shanxi.

There is only one university in Xuanzhen now, with a total of 2000 students in it.

These 2000 people seem to be a lot, but as the territory continues to expand in the future, judging from the current number, it is not enough at all.

Moreover, it is impossible for all the students in this university to be sent out. If they were all sent out, wouldn't the university be abolished?

The students recruited by the university in Xuanzhen are basically young people in their 20s. After all, the main purpose of Zhao Wen's university is to train local officials and researchers who will conduct research in the future.

Middle school graduates are also within the scope of the university's enrollment, but the school has only been established for a few years, and the earliest batch of middle school students have not yet met the graduation requirements.

Although the students in the university did not meet the graduation requirements, they were much better than those in middle school and elementary school. Otherwise, Liu Wenzhong would not have been able to select those who would go to Shanxi Town in the university.

Now the colleges in Xuanzhen are basically young people in their twenties who have studied, and some of them even have a reputation as a scholar.

Too young for either party.However, if you are too old, your thoughts have been fixed, and your ability to accept new ideas is very poor.

The age of 20 is the age group with the most active thinking and the fastest acceptance of new ideas in one's life, and young people in this age group are energetic and efficient.

After dispatching the manpower requested by Zhao Wen, Liu Wenzhong brought Tang Ruowang over.

Today, Tang Ruowang is mainly in charge of two middle schools, and is also the principal of the only university in Xuanzhen.

Now he has already resigned from the position of Qin Tianjian, and stays in Xuanzhen wholeheartedly.

Tang Ruowang rode a bicycle and parked at the gate of the office compound, tidied up his clothes, and walked in.

Since the bicycle and tricycle were brought out by Zhao Wen, there has been a trend of cycling in Xuan Town.

Especially in the town of Xuanzhen, if anyone can't ride a bicycle, he will be laughed at.

Now you can see young people riding bicycles to and from get off work everywhere on the streets of Xuanzhen, and there are also vendors selling goods on tricycles.

"My lord, are you looking for me?" Tang Ruowang walked into Liu Wenzhong's classroom and looked at Liu Wenzhong.

Liu Wenzhong put down the brush in his hand, stood up, pointed to the chair next to him with a smile on his face, "Mr. Tang, sit down."

Tang Ruowang nodded and sat on the chair next to him.

"I came to you today to tell you something. I plan to expand the enrollment of the university. The main people for the expansion are those young people in Xuanzhen who are around 20 years old and have a reputation as a scholar." Liu Wenzhong sat behind the desk again , said slowly.

(End of this chapter)