The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 269 Gou Yuan returns
  Gou Yuan couldn't understand the underlying reason, but at least in Gou Yuan's view, the Hebei family was devoted to the Han Dynasty. Thinking about the family in Henan, he couldn't help but feel a little bleak about the future of the Jin court.

But soon, Gou Yuan turned his attention to the corvees working.

Because in Gou Yuan's view, even though Liu Tai possessed extraordinary charm, he charmed the Hebei family as if Liu Bei was reborn.

But with the use of corvee on such a large scale, it is impossible for Liu Tai to charm everyone, and these common people will definitely be shaken.

After all, this is a grand canal from Jinkou to Jijun, a major project involving millions of corvees.

When Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, the whole world rebelled, not to mention that Liu Tai only controlled the land of Hebei.

But Gou Yuan soon discovered that as corvees who worked every day, their status could not be said to be very positive, but they had no intention of resisting work at all.

Every five days they work, they will have one day off, which makes the construction site particularly busy during the day off. Some people eat all the delicious food, some listen to music, and some pursue excitement.

It can only be said that although working for five days in a row is indeed very tiring, having a day to rest allows them to vent their grievances. Because they are professional corvees and they do piece-rate work. Not to mention The motivation is very high, but at least it can be seen that they are satisfied with their current work.

As for the temporary workers on the next level, their treatment is naturally not as good as that of the formal corvees.

So there is no so-called basic salary, let alone benefits, but as long as they work every day, they can still eat, they can also move bricks by piecework every day, and they will be given salt stamps as much as they work.

The most important thing is that the temporary workers want to use this opportunity to wash away their identities as deserters, bandits, etc.

Therefore, even though their work is a bit hard, they can persevere and are happy to persevere.

Because they really want to start a new life in this peaceful environment, and even if they have made a significant contribution, they can be directly converted into a real corvee with a household registration. This is quite attractive to these temporary workers.

As for those at the bottom, who do all the dirty work and life-threatening work, they are naturally the captives and aliens.

Each of these people got up earlier than chickens, worked more than cows, and ate better than dogs. I don’t care how it tasted, but at least they were full.

And every one of them was working without slacking off at all, and sometimes they even risked their own lives while working.

After seeing their working attitude, Gou Yuan believed that most of them really wanted to work.

Because Gou Yuan discovered that in the entire Yongji Canal project, the most active workers were actually these prisoners.

The managers don’t even need to use whips to hit them. The kind of positive energy to work will surprise even those who look at it from a distance.

It was obvious that apart from food, there was almost no other income increase from their work. Gou Yuan really didn't understand why he was working so hard for Liu Tai when he only had one life left.

Gou Yuan himself did not understand that it was normal, but these people knew that the entire Yongji Canal project was completed, and all those who worked on the construction project could be pardoned.

They themselves understand that even if they are of a foreign race, they still have the opportunity to join the Han nationality.

They even saw with their own eyes that the people around them became team leaders who managed them because of their hard work.

No matter how lazy you are, you will still be stimulated by the people around you, so you have to work harder, just in case the pie falls on you!
  So no matter how hard you work, you have to find a way to persevere. The entire Yongji Canal project started at the same time and is expected to take about three to two years. For people who have no hope at all, this is hope!

When they have a clear goal, when they have hope to live, and when they have enough to eat, then they have strength in their bodies.

For any laborer, they are not afraid of labor. What they are afraid of is that they will not get any reward for their hard work, and they will even be disliked by others. Their efforts all the time are just a joke in the eyes of others.

Gou Yuan could not see the class that Liu Tai deliberately arranged, let alone the political and legal system except Chen Yuanda who was working hard to maintain the order of the entire corvee in order to maintain this class.

After all, discrimination against foreigners, the withholding of salt stamps, and even forcing people to death after they gain a little power are all very normal in the engineering team. Even Chen Yuanda's subordinates have some who know the law and break the law.

Therefore, in addition to Chen Yuanda’s political and legal system to maintain order and criminal law, there is also Xi’s military history system operating in it.

However, the military history system is only responsible for recording as an independent third party, and will not summarize it until one year later.

Therefore, even if there is something fishy inside, military historians can intimidate it, but they cannot interfere directly.

However, when the year-end summary or promotion time comes, the information provided by military historians may not be as good as adults, but it can definitely drag people back.

For Liu Tai, the military history system is only for recording, rather than letting the military history system shape any justice. For the things that military historians recorded with their pens, you can write in spring and autumn style, or you can write abbreviations to show that you don't know.

But as long as it is proven that one of the history books you recorded is seriously inconsistent with the facts, then not only will you have to bear the price, but except for the disciples who took the initiative to come forward and report, all the people in this line starting from you will be dismissed from their military history positions, and within three generations of the family, Never hired.

In other words, your lineage has become unclean since you started, and it can no longer be used as military history.

It's like if the person who writes a history book makes a mistake, the historian will be skeptical of everything he records and have no confidence that what you write can be true.

Liu Tai knows very well that true justice will not be late. What he can do is to at least try his best to make delayed justice appear under the system he created, and give all those who have been wronged a chance to stand up. Chance.

I hope that as long as this kind of thing exists, people will not go to extremes, and as long as they do not go to extremes, rulers like themselves will have many opportunities to take advantage of others.

Therefore, when Liu Tai works, unless he can physically eliminate others, as long as the person is still alive, it will give people a little hope.

Gou Yuan originally only saw the opening of treaty ports between Xingyang and Jijun to allow the two sides to trade with each other. The impact this brought only surprised Gou Yuan.

Liu Tai generously allowed the people from Xingyang to go all the way from Jijun to Yecheng. Gou Yuan couldn't help but laugh at Liu Tai's arrogance and stupidity.

But when they saw Liu Tai commanding Hebei people, from noble families to captives, to work together to build the Grand Canal, people from the south of the Yellow River, no matter what their intentions, seemed to feel that their souls were being manipulated. Give him a hard beating.

To them, this was an incredible dream.

For those at the bottom, those who are not strong enough to resist Liu Tai, they have no feeling at all.

People live just to make a living, and being able to make a living here is enough. But people like Gou Yuan, who were either hostile to Liu Tai, plotted against Hebei, or even wanted to be loyal to the Jin court, saw that the Hebei aristocratic families and prisoners all devoted themselves to digging the Grand Canal. The consequences of such joint efforts It's shocking, but it feels like it resonates and cleanses the soul.

At least at this moment, in their hearts they hope to be one of them.

No matter what method Liu Tai used, not only the common people, but also the prisoners worked wholeheartedly. If you think about the Jin Dynasty court, which is still fighting among itself, the more knowledgeable people will be more helpless. , the more intelligent people will be, the more desperate they will be.

This is why Liu Tai arranged for groups of people to come from Jijun to Yecheng to see with their own eyes that he was building the Grand Canal.

Nothing is more shocking than labor. If anything, it is the collective labor of the entire group.

I don’t care whose spies are here or how many spies are involved, but when they see their entire group really working together to dig out the Yongji Canal, the more loyal they will be to the Jin court. , the more talented you are, the greater the impact you will receive.

They can better judge that building the Yongji Canal by themselves is like Zheng Guo building the Zheng Guo Canal for Qin. When the construction is successful, Liu Tai is ready to attack!
  And the most hurtful thing is not the lie, but seeing the truth with your own eyes!
  Liu Tai knew very well that he never played any thirty-six strategies.

Because Liu Tai understood that if his level of scheming were to play scheming with the aristocratic family cultivated in the Sima family's social environment, he would be killed by [-] people.

But what you need is to show your strength. Unity requires the power of unity, and then be prepared and quickly defeat the enemy. Then more and more people will support you, because the big man is getting back what belongs to him.

In the thoughts of all the aristocratic families, the Liu family will eventually clean up this broken country and rule China again.

However, Liu Tai understands that it is not enough now, because politically he has not yet shown a gesture of solidarity with the wealthy families.

Whether it is the "Qianda Tax" or the "Corvee Tax", these all show his suppression of the aristocratic family.

Therefore, the aristocratic families north of the Yellow River must unite around the Sima family, and they will instinctively resist the political system that damages them.

But when the aristocratic family under his command develops under the guidance of his own system, not to mention surpassing the opposite aristocratic family, or even just being on par with the opposite aristocratic family, then the southern aristocratic family will have a large-scale defection.

It's just that by that time, the aristocratic families that have united around him are probably the most resistant to these guys surrendering.

After all, I have gone through a lot of hardships and finally became a meat-eater. You have become the meat to be eaten, and in the end you want to serve it?

Then who will eat those of you who have stayed with Liu Tai for so long?
  These days, those who are the first to surrender are always the ones with the most united front value, and can even become benchmark figures. As for those who are stubborn, even if Liu Tai recognizes their surrender, they still need to take care of the brothers who have been following him here!
  This is why Liu Tai first established rules after arriving in Yecheng, and then gradually started to use the aristocratic family.

If the aristocratic family is activated first and the aristocratic family makes a contribution, I am afraid that it will gradually become restricted like the Jin court in the south.

After all, no one says anything to the enemy no matter how random they do, but to their own people they can only follow the rules and be reasonable.

As long as the overall order can be maintained and the positive momentum of the forces is ensured, the most important thing is to tolerate each other internally.

You can't think that you are the boss and feel that your subordinates have the ability to threaten you. If you don't kill pigs during the New Year, you can kill the thousand-mile horse instead, right?

You can't kill the benchmark by killing anyone, because this is tantamount to negating the system you built, and this system can no longer be used.

Because the people below know that no matter how good they are, they will be caught and killed. This may not force them to build a new system, but will the timing really give people a chance?

Liu Tai didn't know. For Liu Tai, what he needed now was to know to the Jin court's wanderers, spies, wealthy businessmen, powerful men, etc. that he had the ability to twist Hebei into one rope, and to continue to do his best to attack the Jin court. Prepare.

So is Jinting ready? !

Liu Tai showed his strength so openly, which made Gou Yuan unable to wipe away the sadness on his brow after returning from Yecheng.

Li Ju looked at Gou Yuan's ugly expression and couldn't help but said solemnly, "Was the land in Hebei seriously damaged by Liu Tai?"

Gou Yuan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Li Ju's words, then shook his head and said: "The land of Hebei is prosperous under the rule of the King of Han.

Not only is the spring plowing going smoothly, but the Han Dynasty is building a grand canal from the Bohai Sea to the Yellow River, called the Yongji Canal, and people north of the Yellow River are supportive from top to bottom! "

"King of Han... a big man?" Li Ju listened to Gou Yuan's words with more or less doubts.

"Ahem!" Gou Yuan coughed a few times and said, "I've been talking to people over there for a long time and it's hard to change.

But in this life, although I have never seen the soldiers and horses under Liu Tai's command, I can see that if Liu Tai really comes to attack, he will be difficult to match! "

"When the soldiers come to cover up the water and the earth, we will be the first to bear the brunt!" Li Ju shook his head and said,

"It's all my fault. I caught you and asked you just after you came back. I should let you have a good rest. You should go home and rest first!"

"Well!" Gou Yuan also understood that something was wrong with his state, so he went to rest first.

"Is Liu Tai so strong? Gou Yuan only went to Hebei once and then lost the idea of ​​garrisoning in Xingyang?"

Li Ju didn't understand a bit, but Li Ju understood that Xingyang could be said to bear the brunt, and he didn't have much choice. He could only do his best to defend Xingyang first.

"The only good thing is that although Liu Tai targeted his wealthy family, he didn't have the reputation of massacre.

Compared with those foreign bastards, even if they are defeated by Liu Tai, they will not harm the people of Xingyang! "

Of course, compared to Gou Yuan's return from Hebei, he felt somewhat invulnerable to him.

After Nazu Ti found out the news about Hebei from the scouts he sent, he couldn't help but fell silent when he read the report written by the scouts.

Because he felt the pressure coming towards him, making him breathless. He really had the illusion of facing Qiang Qin!

　No more waiting today

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)