Following the volunteers all the way, Li An looked at the situation at the table, and his heart was half cold, there were many grass houses on both sides of the official road, but there were not many people on both sides of the official road, thinking that this was already an area of anti-thief activity, Li An thought that most of the people here had been killed, otherwise why couldn't he see any people after walking for so long.

In his heart, he is full of disgust with the style of doing things of these anti-thieves, and he is silent on the surface, because things are beyond his ability, he is just a fast catcher, and he doesn't have that ability to manage it.

The scout took Li An through the county seat of Maoming, and Li An saw an even more sad scene, because of a huge county town, there was no one to see all the way over, and the houses in the county town were all dilapidated, and at a glance, he knew that no one lived in them for a while.

Li An secretly scolded in his heart, "Damn the anti-thief, the scourge of the people is so miserable, why didn't the prefect send troops again to eliminate the anti-thief." "The original people lived a little harder, so they had a life to live, but now they are rebelling against thieves and harming the place, and a human place has become a ghost domain.

Li An thought about what he saw in his heart, and hated the actions of these anti-thieves, and other colleagues may not have a trace of waves when they came to see this scene, but under the teaching of his father, he had a conscience heart, so he would feel like this.

Through Maoming County, there are a lot of fertile fields outside the city, but unfortunately I can't see a person working, the best fertile fields are abandoned because of anti-thieves, Li An has seen the news related to the north from the Di Bao, I have never seen such a scene before, Guangdong Province is relatively peaceful in the entire Ming Dynasty, and it is located in the southern region, the crops are abundant, and the people have not starved to death.

The cement road outside Maoming County has been built here, why build the road here, because Chen Zijian plans to use it as a satellite city of Zhangjiacheng in the future, Chen Zijian can't look down on the various buildings in the original city, let it be dilapidated, and wait for something to burn down, and then rebuild buildings with various functions.

Li An's eyelids jumped, how did the official road under the horse's hooves become like this? A hard road with no edge in sight, stretching far away, Ang Lee sits on a horse and can't see the end, how much does such a road cost! Li An opened his mouth, such a good road, let the government build it, even if it is necessary to form 100,000 conscripts, it is impossible to build the official road so well, how to carry such a large piece of stone, and to put so many stones together so smooth, Li An really can't think of the amount of work.

Lament in my heart! Such a road, I don't know how many people died, I can't see a single person along the way, maybe those people have been buried under the official road, this is an official road paved with human life, Li An doesn't know such an artifact as cement, thinking that the cement road is made of big stones, such a road is really as Li An thought to do, then this road is really paved with bones.

The power of science and technology is unimaginable to Ang Lee, and the official road he fantasizes about is just a mere 500 people spent three months to pave it, and the Zhangmao Highway is 42 kilometers long, that is, 84 miles of road.

Riding a horse, I soon arrived at a service area of Zhangmao Highway, which used to be a place for eating and resting of the China Construction Road Construction Bureau, and later after the completion of Zhangmao Highway, it became a garrison point for the Volunteers, providing food and lodging for the Volunteers patrolling outside.

"Do these thieves eat like this every day, and how many people's fat and ointment do they have to loot to be like this?"

Li An ate a piece of whale meat in his mouth, and felt that there was some beef, damn thief, I don't know if it is very important to cultivate the cow, and actually killed the cultivated cow to eat meat.

Li An's table was full of people, in addition to the volunteers and thieves, there were also people who helped the thieves, seeing those people, Li An felt very strange, because these people were dressed neatly and tidy, and their faces were refreshing.

Li An grabbed a piece of meat with his chopsticks, and asked expressionlessly, "This hero, do you plough a lot of cattle, and you can't use up more farming to the point where you want to kill dogs and eat meat!" ”

The meaning of the mockery in the tone shows the attitude, whether it is from the official to the local people, they know its important role, and these thieves actually killed the cattle, which is more hateful than killing the people, this is an era when human life is not as good as the life of the ox, people die when they die, but the cattle die to report to the official. The death of a cow is a major matter that the county order has to ask about, on the contrary, if an ordinary person dies, the county order has no time to deal with it.

There is a volunteer sitting opposite, this is not to spy on Li An, what tricks can he play alone, Zhang Yuan asked curiously, "Hehe, catch the fast master, who told you that this is beef, have the whales heard of it?" ”

Zhang Yuan's tone also had a bit of a ridiculous taste, this kind of common sense of Zhangjiacheng, some people from this prefect didn't know it, some common sense began to circulate among the volunteers, and Chen Zijian's Ming Dynasty version of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" was first taught from the volunteers.

For example, why the wound needs to be disinfected with alcohol, and then bandaged with steamed gauze. Why can't we just quote water sources from the wild? How hair grows! Whales are the largest marine animal in the world.

The Ming Dynasty version of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" was compiled into a book by Chen Zijian, and there was an hour every day dedicated to learning, some common sense is common sense for Chen Zijian, and some things are really wild for the people of the Ming Dynasty, such as the people living in the interior, and it is impossible for creatures like whales to know. Because of Chen Zijian's supreme position, whatever he says, the inferior people will listen to it! Even if someone questions it, it's useless, who dares to question the chief master in Zhangjiacheng! Because in this way, the common sense of "100,000 Whys" can be popularized, and it will be popularized from the volunteer army to the people. No one dares to object to Chen Zijian's "100,000 Whys"!

Ang Lee was stunned when asked, whale? What fish.

Zhang Yuan explained, "Whales are a kind of big fish in the sea, I heard that there are more than 100,000 catties, a whale can feed tens of thousands of people, and can also use whale oil to make a lot of soap." I've heard that there is ambergris in whales, but I don't know how to get it. The chief asked people to get the skeleton of a whale back and put it in the Oriental Square, so that people can see the world, I went to see it last time, and the skeleton of the whale alone is more than ten zhang long and one zhang high. ”

Li An listened to what the volunteers said, the first thing is not to believe, living in Yuezhou City, he has never been to the sea, so he naturally does not know the whales in the sea, and the place where he lives determines his knowledge, especially in this era of underdeveloped information, some people have never left the place of life for 50 kilometers from birth to death, and how many things can they know.

Li An knew that what he was eating was not beef, and he had less resentment in his heart, and he was full of curiosity about the strangeness here, the status of the anti-thief volunteers in front of him should not be very high, but his remarks were not like an ordinary person, he had a certain amount of knowledge, otherwise how could he say that nonsense.

Zhang Yuan: "Ang Li, go over and take a bath, otherwise you won't be allowed to enter Zhangjiacheng like this, and you'll lose your clothes!" As for the hair, uh, you're not one of ours, this can't be managed, but it has to be cleaned. I know you don't understand our rules, Aunt Zhang, come here. ”

There are a lot of staff in the service area, who are responsible for daily work, and Aunt Zhang came over with a smile, "Yuanzi, what's the matter?" "Aunt Zhang is familiar with the volunteers here.

Zhang Yuan: "This person's name is Li An, I'm going to see the chief later, you can tell him about taking a bath." ”

Aunt Zhang: "Okay, just leave it to me." ”

Li An looked strange from the side, the woman in front of her should be an ordinary person, but she talked casually to the thief.

Soon, Li An changed into a linen dress and came out, wiped the water traces on his head, the whole person was a lot cleaner, the original body was a little greasy, and it was clean and neat after using that soap, no wonder I saw everyone so clean, it turned out that the effect of soap is somewhat similar to that of pancreas, but the pancreas is used to clean clothes, and it is only used by large families in Yuezhou City.

Soap can be used by ordinary people here, and the price will not be very high, Li An is becoming more and more incomprehensible about these anti-thieves, it is unexpectedly good to eat, and now this kind of soap can be used by ordinary people, and the official road is so smooth, so that this turtle from Yuezhou Mansion is dumbfounded.

When he arrived at the service area, Zhang Yuan explained Li An's identity to the brigade commander, and the brigade commander asked Zhang Yuan to take Li An to the Zhangjiacheng Government Building, where Chen Zijian has an office space, of course, he rarely does things there, whether Li An can see Chen Zijian, Zhang Youde needs to deal with it.

Although Zhangjiacheng has been building houses and providing accommodation for up to 200,000 people, the population has increased dramatically, exceeding the population of 380,000 people.

However, Zhangjiacheng is already familiar with this situation, there are not many problems in management, from the old to the new, that is, the people who have come to Zhangjiacheng for a month, they are considered to be old people, and they are basically familiar with the affairs of Zhangjiacheng, and then let them be responsible for the "education" of the new people, and let the new people tell about their affairs in Zhangjiacheng.

After coming to Zhangjiacheng, the people rarely escaped, the reason is very simple, the people who can be caught can't eat enough in the original place, live in a grass house, belong to the bottom of the people, Zhangjiacheng's food and accommodation will attract them, the key is that the volunteers "invited" people not to "invite" a person in the family, but to "invite" all the people in the family, a family in Zhangjiacheng, who would dare to escape.

Of course, Chen Zijian gave the people such good conditions, and the price was not nothing, that is, the silver coins went out like flowing water, of course, because there were various commodities, such as soap, salt, steel farm tools, hoes, shovels, furniture, and the silver coins returned to his hands like water, and the silver coins turned around, and the people got benefits, and Chen Zijian did not fall.

Li An followed Zhang Yuan over, and saw a prosperous city, this city has a key place, that is, there is no city wall, Li An heard that this was originally just a small village, and after more than half a year, it became like this, shouldn't the thieves occupy the county, eat, drink and have fun in the county, and when the materials of the county are consumed, they will harm other cities again, and the thieves here are good, and the good Maoming county town is discarded, but built in this kind of place where there is no natural danger, are you not afraid of the enemy's counterattack? In ancient times, the site selection was very important, and it was built at random like here, and Li An looked all the way that the terrain here was relatively flat, and there was no moat, which was conducive to the attacking side.