Datang first village

The man's head was shaved, and the woman's hair was cut short. Kazuo Ota didn't see how the woman took a shower, so it should be similar to these male workers. .

Those who have taken a bath get their clothes and a basket, and then each person has two pieces of cake plus a bowl of rice porridge, a side dish, and a fish.

Compared with the nobles of Wa Island, this meal is probably not bad.

The cake is made of caramel dregs, bean dregs, and stale noodles. It is not like the fragrant biscuits used in the military, which are added with oil and spices. It is just steamed out after adding some dough, and then put it in a big basket. Here There are pancakes, and then porridge.

Kazuo Ota is still feeling, Datang is really rich, and it is better to feed these poor people than the nobles of Wajima.

While sighing, Ota Kazuo was paying attention to a few people standing on a slope not far away. These people are very special, not because of their special appearance, but because of their special combination.

An old man with a short beard who looked about seven or eighty years old was wearing a Chinese-style robe.Standing beside the old man was a little girl who was at most four years old and dressed in extremely gorgeous clothes.On the left side of the old man stood a gorgeously dressed warrior with a long knife, and on the right side of the little girl stood a woman whose clothes were no less than that of the princess of the Wa Kingdom.

Behind the four of them, forty strong guards were distributed in a fan shape.

The few people in front seemed to be talking, but Kazuo Yuanda couldn't hear clearly.

"Li Yuanxing's heart is getting more and more cruel!" The little girl was naturally Wu Zhao, and Wu Zhao couldn't help but said after seeing the scene in front of her.

Ruthless?

The scene in front of me once appeared in the land of China. In the late Qing Dynasty, I don’t know how many Chinese people were shipped to the so-called Jinshan to repair the railway.The history of blood and tears of Huagong is definitely not something that can be written in one book. Everyone who reads history will feel sad about the end of Qing Dynasty!

The cabinet master sighed softly, he didn't want to explain, he knew Li Yuanxing did nothing wrong.

"Girl, you are doing barbaric things in the name of civilization!" That's all the cabinet master said.

Wu Zhao wanted to refute, but she couldn't.

"At that time, the guys who claimed to be civilized people were actually doing barbaric things. When grandpa came out, Li Yuanxing said something, and grandpa listened to it. Whether it is civilization or not, the most basic thing on this planet The law is still the law of the jungle. That's why Li Yuanxing said that he doesn't bother to put on the cloak of civilization, only the top of the food chain is qualified to change the world."

The master of the cabinet didn't avoid anyone, but all the words of these words could be understood.

But the meaning, only Wu Zhao can understand.

The cabinet master slowly pulled out a yellow scroll from his cuff, raised his hand and handed it to the young general beside him, Xi Jun buy it!Then he said to Wu Zhao: "The emperor of the Tang Dynasty personally wrote the imperial decree, and the Japanese will be demoted to the third class! Those who pass the first Tang civil and military examination are no different from the Tang people!"

Li Yuanxing just doesn't have any kindness.

But Emperor Datang was more direct, he had already seen the benefits of foreign wars.I also understand what colonization is, so I issued this edict, which means that these Japanese laborers are the third-class slaves in terms of status, and they are three levels lower than the Tang people's slaves.

The exception is only for a small number of people. In the Tang Dynasty, they must pass the literary or martial arts examination to be eligible to enjoy the same treatment as the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Literary examination refers to five items: classics, rites, history, righteousness, and art.The martial arts examination is: four items of martial arts, skills, history, and etiquette.

The classics are naturally the classics, and the famous works compiled by the Datang Royal Academy are all called classics.History is a history book.At least one must know a brief history from Zhou to Tang.Rites, Zhou Rites, Han Rites, and Tang Rites must be understood. This can be said to be learning on the level of social morality.

Righteousness refers to the behavioral rules of Datang people, which is lower than the moral level and can be understood as the rules of Datang.

Art, poetry, books, music, painting, chess.At least one thing must be understood.

Wu refers to basic force, physical fitness, and basic boxing skills.Technique refers to knife skills, sword skills, etc., a special skill.

Did not pass the literary test, or the martial arts test.Even if the Japanese were mixed into the first-class service, they were not as noble as the Tang people who were in the third-class service.

After telling Wu Zhao, the master of the cabinet said to Xi Junmai: "Mr. Mai! It's hard work for Grandpa, let the supervisors here take a look at this, and tell them not to talk too much, just understand it in your heart. "

The master of the cabinet was very kind, Xi Jun bought a military salute and trotted down.

[-] laborers can be regarded as solving a big problem for the Yizhou construction site. There was a shortage of laborers here, and a large number of laborers were transferred to Jiangning and Huating. The manpower for farming around Yizhou has already caused headaches for the chief officials of various states and counties. Unfortunately, there are still more people working as slaves.

Of the 3 people, less than [-] of them knew Chinese, and their status was immediately superior to others.

The gray-blue hessian clothes were taken back, and all were replaced with azure blue fine linen executive uniforms.The allotted shoes are also completely different. They are no longer hemp shoes, but cloth shoes with thick soles of muslin.

There are more than a dozen who can write Chinese characters, and can write more than [-] characters.

In exchange, a sky blue silk gown, calfskin short boots, and a full leather briefcase for each.

On the second day, all these people were brought to the construction site. Ten people were assigned to a tent and started to work. They wore something like shoulder armor, which was made of coarse hemp.

Carrying stones, turning the ground, pulling carts, and smashing foundations.

Wu Zhao came to inspect the work, and sat in the big tent listening to the reports from the officials of the Ministry of Industry.

"Your Highness, the foundation is five miles a day, and it can be drilled..." As soon as the official of the Ministry of Industry opened his mouth, Wu Zhao dropped the bamboo board in his hand on his head: "Shut up! A total of 430 miles, there are no mountains and no ditches. It’s a plain, do you have 3 people and only five miles of foundations a day?”

Wu Zhao's angry look made the cabinet master just laugh.

Wu Zhao continued: "There is no need to open the road. The gravel and mixed lime are all done by machines, five miles a day?"

The official was sweating profusely with his head down, but he didn't dare to look up. The five miles a day was based on the speed of laying foundations from Chang'an to Luoyang, plus one more mile.

"3 people, no matter how long the line is, it's almost a dozen miles. You say five miles a day!" Wu Zhao really turned his face.

The official just wiped his sweat.

In fact, it takes about five miles a day to lay the foundation from Luoyang to Zhengzhou, but the terrain is incomparable with this side. There are many ditches and mounds, either digging or filling, so naturally it is much slower.There is a flat river here, all plains.The only possibility is that it will occupy some cultivated land, or pass through several villages.

In the four hundred miles, a total of six bridges need to be built.

The largest one is the one on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and its length is only more than 200 meters. The rest of the small rivers are all short bridges within [-] meters.Li Chun was not used for these bridges, the Ministry of Industry had already sent people to build them, and now the foundation was laid and handed over to the [-] laborers.

The transportation of raw materials has nothing to do with these [-] workers.

"Ten miles a day!"

"This, I'm afraid it won't be done! My servant, my servant!"

"Shut up!" Wu Zhao hit the official on the head with a small bamboo board, but the cabinet master said at this moment: "Girl, come back and sit down. It's useless to get angry. Road construction is hard work. They haven't been home for more than half a year, and they have worked extremely hard here, and this hard-working old man will give them credit!"

The chief official of the Ministry of Industry here hurriedly saluted and thanked the cabinet master.

"Girl, tell them how to fix it fast! Well done!"

"These 3 people, you divide into dozens of different teams. You have to make arrangements for what women do, and what men do. It's not a problem for a thousand-man team to lay the foundation. Tell them to work the fastest and best. Rewards. Those who do the worst, give them pig food, and believe that they can't do it quickly! They can't do it well!"

The official's face turned pale, and he muttered, "They're already eating pig food."

Wu Zhao was delighted when he heard this. "What you said just now, explain it in detail!"

"Returning to Her Royal Highness, after seeing the imperial decree, several of us discussed it. They can't eat the same as our Tang craftsmen. So today at noon, it was originally noodles, but the logistics side changed it to use [-]% bean dregs. Make noodles, and then add the mixed vegetables, and boil the old corn dregs into it. Don’t be afraid of your scolding princess, I have raised forty pigs in my family, and these pigs eat like this.”

Wu Zhao couldn't close his mouth with a smile, and approached the official and whispered, "I know you are a good person, think about what those evil officials did in the former Sui Dynasty, if you are more ruthless, you can guarantee that you can reach ten miles a day."

The official nodded and went out thoughtfully.

The dignified sixth-rank official was reprimanded by a four-year-old girl for a long time, but he didn't feel any resentment. When he went out, he seemed to have figured it out, and happily asked his subordinates to discuss it.

Wang Ba had been waiting outside the tent for quite a while, when he saw the official come out, he greeted him with a smile: "Received the reward!"

"No, I was scolded." The six members of the Ministry of Industry replied with a smile.

"You still laugh when you're scolded?" Wang Ba couldn't understand.But when the official learned, Wang Ba also laughed, and said in a low voice: "You might as well go back and check. As far as I know, if there are many cruel officials from the former Sui Dynasty alive, they must have worked in that slave workshop. You pick one out, these people definitely have a solution!"

"Is this appropriate?"

"You'll know if it's suitable after you've tried it!" Wang Ba smiled and patted the sixth-rank official of the Ministry of Industry on the back twice before striding into the tent.He gave a military salute to the cabinet master, and then clasped his fist at Wu Zhao.With a smile on his face: "The last general invited experts from Jeju in Luzon, and found a three-foot-high red coral in the sea. The princess must like it!"

Wu Zhao tapped Wang Ba's calf with a bamboo board: "I'll be happier if you send 20 laborers to Qinling Mountain as soon as possible. You know that sixteen people died in Qinling Mountain in the past month. No matter how careful you are, there is no way to avoid death, there are several dangerous places, and you will be given [-] Wen a day, and those craftsmen earn their lives!"

"Princess benevolent, I will go back to Wajima immediately."

"Also, that Japanese city lord, take him to live in Suzhou and Hangzhou for a few days, let him see what prosperity is. Money is not a problem, and treasure is not a problem. This time it is done, and I will give you a treasure at the end of the year. You are definitely the first clipper that travels at least two hundred miles per hour!" (To be continued.)