Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 237 Ignoring People's Power

Chapter 241

When the child's father saw that the child stained Ran Ming's clothes, especially the mottled stain on his chest, which was like a thorn, he was even more horrified.

The parents of the child stretched out their hands to take the child, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The king has an order, so don't dare not obey!"

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you are not a man-eating tiger!" Ran Ming said with a smile: "You have come from afar to work hard, but don't worry, come to Jiaodong Kingdom. You can support yourself. Those who know how to farm, have fields to grow, and can Craftsman, there is work to do, money to earn, and food to eat!"

Ran Ming looked at more and more refugees and began to approach here, Zhao Yan was even more nervous.

Ran Ming has experienced many assassinations during this period, if something happens to Ran Ming here, he will definitely not be able to escape the responsibility, slowly Zhao Yan's forehead began to sweat.

Ran Ming comforted Zhao Yan and said: "Don't be nervous, Zizhong. I tell you that if you want to appease the people, you must first be close to the people. If you want to make achievements as a Fumin Xiaowei, you must put aside your official airs and mingle with the people. Just like a general, you must be close to the people. Soldiers eat and sleep together, and share joys and sorrows, so that not only can they receive the loyalty of soldiers, but they can also be invincible in wars!"

Zhao Yan bowed and said, "My minister has been taught!"

Ran Ming looked at the refugees with numb expressions, and felt that they should be given a real hope at this time.Ran Ming asked loudly: "Do you want to live in a big house? Have clothes to wear? Have enough food to eat every day?"

"Yes, of course I would. If you don't want to, you'd be a fool!"

There was a burst of laughter among the refugees.

Ran Ming said with a smile: "There is no such thing as a free lunch in the world. Of course, it is the same in our Jiaodong country."

Hearing what Ran Ming said, these people were somewhat disappointed.

Ran Ming continued: "You need to do it yourself, let us live in a big house, yes, build it yourself, there is no wood, but there are many on the mountain, logging is not enough, the stones and soil needed to build a house are everywhere There is a saying that is good, do it yourself, have enough food and clothing! But remember, the house cannot be built casually, it needs the planning of the government, first apply to the government, and after getting approval, you can build a house on the homestead assigned to you by the government! "

All the refugees smiled.

Ran Ming knew that it was not easy for these people, who basically had nothing, so he adopted the method of borrowing money and asked the government to provide farming tools, cattle, and seeds to help them complete their first plowing.

Of course, this is not provided free of charge, and needs to be repaid by the people.

Five years of interest, as long as the weather is good, half of their income is handed over, and that's it!

Ran Ming felt that doing this was already dark enough, but he didn't expect that once this policy was launched, countless refugees would shout for mercy from the king!

In this world, the most simple people are the people of our Han nationality.

Their needs are very low, and they work like cattle and horses throughout the year. As long as they have a bite of food to eat, they will be satisfied if they don't starve to death.

Work together as a group to help them build a house and settle down!

Ran Ming was busy appeasing the refugees, spreading the policies of Jiaodong Kingdom everywhere.

After working continuously for more than a month, in this more than a month, the major merchants of the Wei Guo Business League tried their best to get many people for Ran Ming in order to obtain the regional sales rights of Ran Ming's mellow liquor.

There are only 23 counties, which accommodate nearly 14 households with a total population of [-].

In this era, the output of fields is not like that of later generations, with an average of more than 100 catties per mu. In the best case, the output is only [-] catties.

If such a family wants to rely on farming to support five people, each person needs ten mu.

If taxes are included, at least one hundred mu of land is needed!In the absence of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, the 23 counties of Jiaodong country have only 300 million mu of land, barely housing 30 million people.

However, with the addition of the fields controlled by the major gentry clans, the Jiaodong Kingdom can barely accommodate more than [-] households and more than [-] people, and the land resources have reached their limit.

At this time, Ran Ming began to absorb work.

In the traditional Chinese cognition, scholars, farmers, businessmen.Even if they are poor farmers, no one wants to be a craftsman or a businessman.Ran Ming thought of improving the treatment of craftsmen. First of all, the salary was doubled. The income of an ordinary craftsman was enough for a family of five to live comfortably, and the workshop funded the construction of a worker's village.Centralized resettlement housing.Moreover, children can participate in county schools and have the opportunity to be officials.

In this way, the embarrassing status of the craftsmen was solved, and the refugees began to accept the arrangement of work with pleasure!

Now the young and middle-aged refugees are arranged to build houses first, and after a month and a half of physical rehabilitation training, they are sent to major coal mines, steel factories, shipyards, textile factories, breweries, paper mills, etc.!

Of course, Ran Ming's advantage lies in technology. In order to keep it secret, Ran Ming also adopted the method of assembly line operation. Each craftsman only understands the structure of one part, just like a textile machine requires more than 180 people to work together. If you want to To obtain this technology, you must buy all the craftsmen on this assembly line, all of which are indispensable!

As long as one of the 180 people is loyal to Ran Ming, he will crack the leak!

On this day, Ran Ming woke up early.

Ask the servant girl to bring washing water, after a while, someone pushed the door and entered, Ran Ming raised his eyes and saw that there were still stripes.

Ran Ming said: "Miss Tiao, why are you doing these things again. I have told you countless times that we are not suitable, so you should stop doing these useless efforts!"

Stripes smiled sweetly, and said: "Your Highness, why do you want to force others to be difficult! If you have the Tao, you can do it with sincerity, and gold and stone can make it. If I don't believe it, I will not win His Highness's heart!"

Ran Ming said: "Miss Tiao, I can't explain emotional matters. It needs to be felt, and it can't be forced. Don't you want to marry someone who loves you and you love him?"

Stripes said: "Although Your Highness doesn't like the Nu Family, this does not prevent the Nu Family from liking Your Highness."

After finishing speaking, Stripes turned and left, ignoring Ran Ming.

Ran Ming said: "Unexpectedly, Mrs. Tiao has the potential to be a poet!"

Ran Ming was very embarrassed, he knew who he was.The combined age of my two lives is about 70 years old, and I am mentally mature. Ran Ming doesn't like that young loli, but only likes that kind of mature woman.

Although Ran Ming knew that political marriage was unavoidable in this era, as long as there was room for relaxation, Ran Ming still wanted to avoid this kind of thing as much as possible!
Ran Ming put aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, began to wash up, and started exercising after finishing.

Ran Ming is used to running in the morning, that is, jogging around Buqi Mountain.

After running for less than half an hour, Ran Ming ran to the top of the mountain, doing the movement of expanding his chest. Suddenly, Ran Ming's eyes were fixed there. In just over a month,

Ran Ming discovered that the main building of the Buqi New City at the foot of the mountain is almost complete!The entire city wall has been erected, and the eighteen-mile city wall, Ran Ming's heart is even more astonished. How did this Wang Meng do it?
Is it like Yang Guang in history, who completed the Grand Canal in half a year regardless of people's strength?

Ran Ming was strangely angry, what is Wang Meng doing, how many corpses are needed to fill up the city?

Putting aside the evaluation of Wang Meng in history, since Ran Ming and Wang Meng have known each other for more than a year, Wang Meng's work is still very reliable.Ran Ming was quite aware of Wang Meng's ability to handle affairs.

When Wang Meng said that he used [-] people to build a building with a circumference of [-] miles within three months.Ran Ming had no doubts about the three-foot-high Wangcheng.

But to Ran Ming's disbelief, just over a month later, the main body of the city wall has been completed.

Ran Ming was horrified.

Calculated together with a very simple mathematical formula, a city wall with a height of three feet two feet and a width of two feet of rammed earth requires 36 cubic meters for every meter of repair, and an eighteen-mile city wall requires more than 32 cubic meters of earth and stone. Apportioned on the head of each peasant, it is nearly 8000 cubic meters of earth and rock.

Of course, if you count the female walls on the city walls, crenels, enemy towers, archery towers, horse-faced walls, urns, caves for storing soldiers, storage rooms, etc., it will require every citizen to bear more than [-] cubic meters of earth and stone. In later generations, it will take [-] Sinotruk trucks to transport these earth and rocks with heavy trucks, which can barely be completed.

Ran Ming did a rough calculation. The wheelbarrows used by the peasants were loaded with two or three rocks and soil each time, and each person needed to transport them nearly three hundred times.Not to mention the construction of the city wall, it is a bit reluctant to transport these earth and rocks for a month!

But Wang Meng built the city wall. With Ran Ming's mind, it is hard to imagine what method Wang Meng used.

There is a saying that curiosity killed the cat.

Ran Ming suddenly had the idea to find out.

Running back to the palace, Ran Ming asked someone to find a tattered shirt, put it on indiscriminately, smeared some mud on his face, and messed up his hairstyle. In just half a stick of incense, a brand new beggar was freshly baked .

Dressed up as a beggar, Ran Ming walked along the official road to Buqicheng. Before he reached the three miles away from Xinbuqicheng, he was interrogated by the officers and soldiers. In desperation, Ran Ming had to return and take advantage of At noon, when the civilians were eating and the officers and soldiers were changing shifts, Ran Ming slipped into Buqicheng quietly.

Ran Ming was very surprised, but although the construction of the city was in full swing, looking at the peasants, not only did they not have the imaginary complaints on their faces, nor were they exhausted by torture, on the contrary, everyone was radiant and full of energy.

Ran Ming was even more surprised.

At this time, on the construction site of the city wall, the barriers erected on the outside with wooden towers were so tightly covered that it was impossible to see clearly what was inside.Ran Ming thought about it, but he didn't think of a way to find out.

At this time, many folks are eating work meals, like steamed buns with the size of children's heads, two per person, and a thick layer of oil floating on top of the big bowl of braised pork.These folks laughed while eating.

"It's a pity, one month at most, such a good time will come to an end!" A black-faced man in his thirties said honestly.

Ran Ming was a little stunned when he heard this, as if there was something hidden!

(End of this chapter)