Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1248
Qin Qiong sneezed.

"Well, it seems that a lot of people have been offended recently, and people scold them all day long."

Zheng Rentai, the commander of the governor Biaoqidu, said with a smile, "It is estimated that there are still people who stabbed grass secretly and poked it with needles."

Qin Qiong didn't take it seriously, "A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned, so don't pay attention to it."

As the prime minister on tour, Qin Qiong has always done things neatly, and he likes to simplify complicated things.He doesn't like any convoluted intrigues. Many grain merchants in Jiangling City want to make a fortune and deliberately drive up grain prices. That is courting death.

He set a limit on the grain selling price for the grain merchants, in fact, he has saved enough face for them. Fifty cents per bucket of rice is a price only available to grain merchants, and the official warehouses of the imperial court are actually prepared to sell them for twenty cents per bucket of rice. This is the price of rice in Luoyang.

Of course, the grain in the official warehouse is distributed according to the household registration population. The price of twenty cents a bucket is not expensive, but there is a limited amount of grain that can be bought every month. It can be full, but it is impossible for you to sell it again, even if You yourself cut down on food and clothing, and it is also forbidden to sell the low-priced grain bought in the official warehouse and then sell it privately. Once found out, not only will you be disqualified from the allotment, you will also be sent to Hedao labor camp.

In the past, it was mainly to release grain for disaster relief, and did not sell grain, but now it is officially going to start the quantitative allocation of official warehouses. Every citizen will first be issued with food stamps, and then get grain by ticket.

Once the official storehouses start selling grain, in fact, it is impossible for private grain merchants to maintain such a high price. Of course, they will still have business. After all, the amount allocated by the official storehouse is relatively dead. Matching, and disaster relief food.

If big families want to eat more fine grains, they can only buy them from private grain merchants, which must be expensive.

But now Qin Qiong even has to take care of this, and he is not allowed to sell too high.

People from the Dushui Supervisor, Jiang Zuo Supervisor, and the Ministry of Industry have already started measuring and laying out lines around Jinghu Lake, and the white ash is being sprinkled. This is to open up Jinghu Lake and prevent flooding.

The prefect, the county magistrate, and the captain led the master, Liucao, etc. to go into battle, followed by the county magistrates and county magistrates. Now that the river is dry and the water is shallow, it is a good time to dig the river.

According to the plan of the Metropolitan Water Supervision, not only to dredge the existing river channels, but also to re-open some river channels that were previously silted and broken. Some river channels will even be straightened, some will be widened, and some will be dug deeper.

Some river courses will also serve as canals, some will need dams to intercept them, and some will need to build gates to release water and release floods.

Trunks, tributaries, diversions.

Split into pieces.

All chief officers have to sign military orders, and they will be held accountable if they fail to complete the task.

Red flags have been erected on the assigned river sections, and barracks on construction sites are also being built rapidly. They use materials, chop bamboo, cut grass, and build bamboo huts, but the scale is very good, and the arrangement is neat. Cisterns, wells, toilets, baths, laundry pools, etc. were dug.

Specially set up garbage disposal points, sundries piles and so on.

Each construction site has also set up a medical clinic and a school.

Qin Qiong issued a death order to officials at all levels. Digging rivers and repairing dikes is the top priority at present. Relief is provided by work, and the victims are gathered in the river to dig the river. The court distributes food for relief. management guidance.

In order to boost morale, the officials not only told the victims that digging the river not only provided free food for disaster relief, but also that anyone, young or old, who worked hard, would get work points. It can be replaced with Wuheliang.

A strong man who does a good job in one day can get ten full work points and five liters of grain a day, which is half a bucket of grain.And a young woman who does a good job in a day can also get seven work points, which means that she can get three and a half liters of food.The elderly can get up to six work points, and the young can get five work points.

Half-grown children can get two work points a day and earn one liter of food.

"Everyone works hard. When the river is dug and the embankment is repaired, then the places behind the embankment can be dug to drain water, and the fields will be built. Everyone will have a share in the created fields. If the land is granted, everyone can get it."

"Qin Xiang said that in the future, the rice seeds from Guangnan will be introduced, and they can be harvested twice a year, and one mu of land can get three or four stones of rice a year. From now on, we will no longer be afraid of floods, waterlogging, or famine!"

After waking up in the morning and having a meal of disaster relief, the victims began to work under the leadership of the county magistrate and booth chief.

Layer upon layer of subcontracting.

Each channel, each county, and each county divides the contract, and the county divides the allocated river into several sections, and then assigns tasks to the people in each township and mile.

In order to increase enthusiasm, even started a competition.

At the end of each day, whoever dug the most rivers will win a prize, and the prize is food.And in the lump sum section of each mile, there are also competitions, and the top ten are also rewarded, and they are also rewarded with work points.

Lao Liu was rated as No.1 in this village yesterday, and the reward is an extra [-] work points, which is equivalent to a bucket of grain. After the locust food was mushy, he was full of energy again, ready to fight hard to win the first place again, and got another half bucket of food.

But it's obvious that all the young and strong people in today's competition are holding back their energy, and everyone wants to win the prize.If you can't get first, even if you can get tenth, it's not bad, and there is an extra liter of food.

Ma Zhou and Li Gang went south from Luoyang, went to Jiangling City first to visit Governor Qin Qiong, left Jiangling to take office in Hengshan County, passed by the construction site of the Jingjiang River, saw the hot scene, and couldn't help sighing.

"When Yang Guang dug canals and recruited millions of civilians, there was no such atmosphere." Li Gang sighed.

"It's different. When Yang Guang recruited peasants to dig canals, the common people served free labor. Most of them served overtime and brought their own dry food. When they arrived at the construction site, they couldn't eat well and sleep well. The labor was heavy. Everyone felt that If you are dissatisfied, if you are not careful, you will be whipped, and how many people will die of freezing, starvation, exhaustion and disease?" Ma Zhou's family is on the edge of the canal, and he is quite familiar with the situation of canal digging.

Back in the Sui Dynasty, canals were dug mainly for transportation. For ordinary people, they didn't feel any personal benefits from it.But right now, the rivers are being dug mainly by the local people, and they are all digging at their own homes. After digging, they can prevent floods and waterlogging, and they can also build fields and divide land in the future. Relief, let them go back to their hometown to dig the river. Not only will they have relief food to eat, but they will also have food to pay for their wages. Who would not be passionate about such a good thing?

"That's right, it's also digging a river, but the conceited Yang Guang and I, the pilgrims, have completely different methods, let's judge each other!" Li Gang sighed.

Ma Zhou looked at the construction site in full swing, "It's just that the Jinghu project is too big. There are ten phases every three years, and it will take 30 years. I am most afraid that I will not be able to persist, and I am afraid that people will die."

"Although 30 years is a long time, it won't be too tiring for the people. There must be Zhang Youchi. As for your worries about the death of the people and the death of the government, the sages are at their peak, and there is no problem in three to forty years." The two boldly talked about some taboo topics.

The emperor is not yet 30 years old now, so it should be no problem to live another 30 years, but after all, the emperor had a stroke experience, and no one knows whether the emperor will suddenly have a seizure someday. It will be more dangerous every time.

"Don't worry so far, even if you only complete the first phase, it will still be very useful." Li Gang said. In 30 years, the emperor may still be able to persist until that day, but he, an old man, will never see that day. If he can see the completion of the first phase, he will be very satisfied.

(End of this chapter)