"Helmsman, Li Yi's wife has arrived at Maotou Mountain, do you need to send someone to arrest her?" A man dressed as a merchant reported to a man.

"Let others do it, for example, Song Ruhua met a robber on the way back to Zhongzhou City!" The man said.

"Yes, my subordinates will do it." Another man left.

If anyone saw it from the sidelines, it turned out to be him.

A month later, the 100,000 civilians and 50,000 slaves compensated by Zhao were all handed over.

Li Yi was all settled in the outer city of Zhongzhou and built a temporary residence.

"It was instructed that all the people should be allowed to build houses freely on the land of their choice in the northern part of the outer city, but they must follow a unified plan, and no one in the west or one in the east is allowed.

All the people were allowed to participate in the construction of the walls and receive wages.

In addition, all slaves can be removed from slavery and restored to freedom as long as they complete the task. Li Yi commanded.

A month later, Li Yi was accompanied by Gao Ren, Zhuge Jun, Yi Shangtian and others to inspect the construction of the city wall.

Zhuge Jun walked in front and introduced to Li Yi: "Master Hou, now that the city wall of the entire inner city is being built, plus 150,000 people and slaves, the progress is very fast, and now the unfinished city wall has reached 9 meters, and the corridor can be built soon."

The 5 cement mills are constantly working day and night in turns, and now they are still a little unable to keep up with the construction speed!

The subordinate has sent craftsmen and carpenters to build 5 more cement mills, providing for the construction of the yard, the prison, the county warden, and the city walls. ”

Li Yi saw a slightly older man struggling to move the stones to the artificial lift.

"Old man, so tired, why don't you choose a brisk job." When the old man saw a group of officials walking up to him to ask questions, he was a little scared and nervous, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

A person similar to the position of the squad leader on the side looked at the crowd walking over.

He didn't know Li Yi, but he knew Zhuge Jun, who often came to inspect the work on the side of the city wall.

"Ah, military advisor, this is Lao Luo, the people from Zhao State. told him that Master Hou allowed everyone to choose their own jobs and did not force them.

But he has to do this, he is tired, but he can get more wages. The team leader said to Zhuge Jun.

Zhuge Jun looked at everyone: "This is our Zhongzhou City and County Shou Li Houye." ”

As Zhuge Jun finished speaking, all the people who were working knelt on the ground.

"Meet Master Hou!"

Li Yi said loudly: "Fathers and fellow villagers, get up.

With the city wall in Zhongzhou City, there is stability, and everyone can live and work in peace and contentment.

This city wall is getting taller and taller, and my Li Yi is getting more and more confident in my heart, thank you.

I heard that many people's houses have not been built yet, and I will ask Li Jiajun to help everyone build their houses as soon as possible, so that everyone can have a peaceful Spring Festival as soon as possible. ”

Li Yi climbed the ladder again and looked at the construction on the city wall.

Wide corridors with holes every few meters for archers to defend.

On the four corners of the entire city wall, there is a lookout for monitoring the enemy in the distance from a high place and giving early warning.

"We came to this Zhongzhou City from Zhao State, and we didn't have enough food and clothing before, but now we have improved.

As long as you work, you can get paid, which is a lot of wages. Crowd A, who was working, said.

Crowd B, who was polishing the stones, replied, "Even if you don't pay me, I have to come for three meals a day." ”

"Hou Ye Li, you really love the people like a son! Build a house for us, pay us wages, and find officers and soldiers when something happens, and the officers and soldiers will deal with us seriously, unlike the officers and soldiers in Zhao State who did not dare to provoke before. Crowd C took over the conversation.

A young man, looking at the shuttlecock meat on his body, said, "I really want to go to the inner city to have a look, I heard that there are buildings, and the streets are clean and can show shadows." ”

"Erniu, don't dream of good deeds, someone has to guarantee you to enter the inner city."

"Hmph, I heard that as long as you become Li Jiajun, you can have your own house in the inner city, and you can take your family over.

I don't know when Li Jiajun will recruit again. The young man called Erniu said.

"Li Jiajun is all one as a hundred, can you choose?"

"Hmph, wait and see!"

The conversation between the two was interrupted by the sound of the meal being served.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat, everyone line up, and the team leader comes over to get the meal!" Several soldiers dressed as cooks shouted.

"There is meat and sweet potatoes, it's so delicious!"

Many people are just for Li Jiajun's food, almost every household has someone to come to work, and they are not allowed to take it away, and the food is enough!

Li Yi saw it once, someone hid a sweet potato, and the steward wanted to come forward to reprimand him, but was stopped by Li Yi.

Later, after the steward learned about the situation, he knew that there was a disabled old father at home, and his salary was monthly, so he could only secretly hide a sweet potato every day and take it home.

Zhao Guo is quite authentic, and he did not compensate some of the old, weak, sick and disabled in full, and many of them are young and middle-aged.

In fact, Zhao Guo also knew that his father, who was old, weak, sick and disabled, went to Zhongzhou City, and it was impossible for his son to be at ease in Zhao State, so it was better to drive away together.

Anyway, they are all poor people, and they will starve to death when they go to Zhongzhou City.

……

Soon Li Yi finished inspecting the construction of the city wall and left to the outer city to inspect the houses of the common people under construction.

"Master Hou, the villain's name is Wang Er, and he is the head of this village.

Master Hou came to see our village, and the villain was a little flattered!

The villain leads the way to Hou Ye! Wang Er knelt in front of Li Yi and said resignedly.

Wang Er has seen Zhuge Jun once, but he has never seen Li Yi.

But seeing that everyone, including Zhuge Jun, was following behind a young man, and thinking of the age of Marquis Li in Zhongzhou City, he guessed that this should be Marquis Li.

Li Yi nodded, in response to Wang Er to show them the way.

Wang Er walked in front, constantly introducing Li Yi or answering Li Yi's questions.

Rows of bungalows, built in villages.

Just like in the village of later generations, the neighbors are together.

All the costs of building a house are borne by Zhongzhou City, and if you want a better house, you can spend your own money to let the craftsmen build a better one.

Or you can go to the inner city to buy a house, but people from the outer city who want to enter the inner city must have someone from the inner city as a guarantee, or live in the outer city for 3 years, or have made significant contributions to Zhongzhou City.

As soon as this policy appeared, it directly led to the supply of two shopping malls under construction in the inner city, which exceeded demand.

Zhuge Jun urgently discussed with Li Yi to build 6 shopping malls in Dongcheng, plus the previous 2 shopping malls, a total of 8 buildings.

This was the most famous commercial area in Kyoto during the later Great Qin Dynasty.

Li Yi walked to the front of a house that had been built,

Each house has a yard and three houses.

The living conditions were the same for the people who had moved from the outer cities.

Li Yi saw a family cleaning up clothes to dry in the yard, and a child eating food that seemed to be a little broken.

"Kid, how about I exchange this sweet potato for the food in your hand?" Li Yi squatted down at the gate of the courtyard and said to the children inside.

The child was a little frightened, and suddenly many people gathered around his door.

Just when the child was at a loss, the adults in the house came out to see Wang Er.

"Village chief, is there anything wrong with coming to my house? My son went to the inner city to build a shopping mall and hasn't come back yet.

This time, I would like to thank the village chief for taking care of my family so that my son can go to work in the inner city. An old man thanked Wang Er.

Now there is a clear division of the entire Zhongzhou City, whether it is life in the inner city, even if you go to work, the salary is much more than that of the outer city.

The most important thing is to work in the inner city, and you will often meet a lot of officials.

Li Jiajun's officials are very approachable, and they will pay for meals and purchases.

If you behave well, you can be promoted into the inner city.

"Uncle Wang, what are you polite to me! This is our Hou Ye Li from Zhongzhou City, come and meet Hou Ye. Wang Er introduced.

"Meet the ...... Hou Ye"

Li Yi hurriedly helped the old man.

"I just saw that some of the children's food is going to go bad, is it because the child's father is not paid enough for his work?" Li Yi asked patiently.

"Master Hou, no. My son's salary is very high, and our family is still thinking about saving some money to start a business.

Thank you, Master Hou, two months in Zhongzhou City is much better than our decades in Zhao Kingdom.

In the future, the old decay will be buried in this Zhongzhou City. Li Yi listened to the old man's somewhat excited words, and he was also a little happy.

Can be recognized by the people, the future of Zhongzhou City can be expected.

Li Yi asked Zhuge Jun to leave some food for the family, and Wang Er took him away to inspect other places.

The old man took the child's hand and looked at the back of Li Yi and his party, and then looked down at his little grandson: "Okay, this Zhongzhou City is good!" I'm old, but blessed are my grandsons. ”

……

"Master Hou, the 100,000 people of Zhao Kingdom are basically on the north side of the outer city.

On the west side of the outer city was where 50,000 slaves lived.

Master Hou, do you still have to inspect the slaves? Zhuge Jun was a little speechless and stopped.

Li Yi actually wanted to know what kind of people were the slaves compensated by Zhao Guo?

Is it the wild man you've seen in other cities before?

Or some eunuch families became slaves because they were punished.

"Go ahead, and you will be a member of our Zhongzhou City in the future."

Li Yi soon saw what a slave was?

also knows why Zhuge Jun asked Li Yi if he looked at the slave.

The first is housing, Li Yi originally planned that all housing would be the same, and each family would have its own courtyard.

But seeing the environment where the slaves lived, Li Yi frowned a little.

Soon, someone in charge came to see Li Yi.

"Why, everybody has to be shackled?" Li Yi asked solemnly.

"Back to the Hou Ye, slaves from all countries are like this. Many of the slaves were dark people in their hearts, and if they were not shackled, they were afraid that they would be in trouble. He Guan said in fear.

Li Yi pointed to a child with his finger, "Will he also be in trouble?" ”

He was sweating like rain, and fell to his knees.

Li Yi didn't care about anything, he knew that slaves had no human rights.

It's like livestock, slaughtered and at the mercy of others.

Gao Ren, Chen Pi and others protected Li Yi and walked forward.

There are men, women, children, and old people, these are the slaves that Li Yi saw.

It was no different from the people on the north side, but their lives were very different.

But Li Yi didn't find that there was hatred in the eyes of these people, but some people were very satisfied.

Wherever Li Yi went, the slaves were shouted by the steward to kneel down and salute Li Yi.

"You have shackles on your feet, your clothes are a little torn, and a few people are crammed into a room, but I see that you are very satisfied, can you tell me why?" Li Yi stopped and asked a man.

The man didn't reply for a long time, maybe he wasn't used to it, maybe he was overwhelmed.

Since becoming a slave, he has only worked in his life, nothing else, can only eat one meal a day, he is still rancid, and being able to live proves that his body can resist!

The man said in a hoarse voice, "I can eat enough, three times a day." ”

Li Yi: "If I opened the shackles for you, what would you do?" ”

After hearing Li Yi's words, the man looked very dazed.

What will I do?

I don't know!