Chapter 379: The Whole Heaven Celebrates
Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
The night sky of the city, fireworks bloom everywhere, and the flow of celebratory people makes the streets of Xianyang City extremely lively.
In this festival celebrated by the whole world, hundreds of officials in the court and the central government also enjoyed this fireworks festival on the head of the city of Xianyang Palace.
Not long ago, Li Yang set the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Spring Festival as the legal festivals of Daqin. In addition to the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Spring Festival is a half-month holiday.
Whether it is a private workshop or a national engineering project, it should abide by the national holiday and statutory holidays.
Of course, if you really can't take a holiday, you should pay three times the salary, which is called overtime pay.
In addition, Li Yang also stipulates that the first and fifteenth days of each month are also rest days. It is also known as the weekend at the beginning of the month and the middle of the month.
On the surface, two days off a month will obviously affect the production of private workshops and the progress of national projects, but Li Yang understands that only by combining work and rest can production efficiency be truly improved.
Especially in the era of the Qin Dynasty, all labor was irreplaceable by machinery, and it was all done by manpower, especially national civil engineering projects such as the construction of canals, which were extremely arduous.
Before the implementation of the bidding system for such national projects, it was very normal for the staff to be reduced by nearly half in a year. However, even if this kind of national project is now subject to a bidding system and contracted to businessmen, the people have the autonomy to choose the construction period and do it for a month? Or three months? Or half a year? A year?
However, if the people want to do it in a year, it is almost equivalent to trading their lives.
Therefore, under such high-intensity hard work, it is basically difficult for anyone to hold on for too long, which also greatly affects the progress of the project.
In this way, it is obviously necessary to give appropriate rest days every month.
The five-day workweek, as in later generations, is obviously not very practical in the current Qin state. However, it makes sense to take two days off per month.
First, it does not affect the construction period; Second, it can improve work efficiency; Third, it can also protect the physical and mental health of migrant workers.
However, people at that time did not understand the benefits of this change. Only Li Yang himself knows that although this is only a small step forward, this small step is a big step in history and a big change.
To put it mildly, this change is to improve the production efficiency of the whole society, and to put it more broadly, it is to respect and protect human rights in the society, which is of far-reaching significance.
Because of this, Daqin has become the first country in human history to implement legal holidays. This initiative has naturally become a compulsory topic for future generations of students in history classes.
"Taifu, look at this Daqin today, the people have plenty of food and clothing, and the people of Daqin are safe, all of this was unimaginable before." Fusu looked at the brilliant fireworks in the sky above Xianyang City, as well as the celebratory subjects on the streets below the city, his heart was surging, and he shouted to Li Yang excitedly.
Li Yang smiled slightly, because he never thought that in just three years, Great Qin would have such a big change.
Of course, the civil and military officials present could not hide their excitement under this situation.
Who would have thought that in the original Great Qin, the old and weak cultivated insufficient temperature protection, and the military salary and tax were even more serious and could not be collected, and in just three years, the new policy completely reversed the situation.
Now, not only has grain production increased, the treasury is full, but the northern grasslands have also been unified.
At that moment, Fu Su picked up the wine glass in his hand and said to Li Yang with a respectful face: "Daqin can have today's scene, Taifu has made great contributions, and I should pay tribute to Taifu with a cup!" ”
When everyone heard this, they all picked up the wine glasses in their hands and said in unison: "Respect the monarch of the town!" ”
"Today's Great Qin is the result of the unity of all people, and this monarch respects you!"
Pretending to be forced and being proud of one's achievements are two different things, Li Yang still knows this bit of proportion, so he quickly got up, picked up the wine glass in his hand, and drank modestly with everyone.
"Bang! Boom! Boom! ”
At the moment when everyone raised their glasses to celebrate Daqin, the fireworks in Xianyang City seemed to be waiting for this moment, flying in the sky and blooming in unison......
Under the echo of these gorgeous fireworks, Fusu only felt a surge of blood all over his body, and the enthusiasm and pride that he had never had before arose spontaneously.
As the eldest son of Great Qin, who is the supervisor of the country, he deeply understands that only by making the Great Qin country rich and strong can he live up to the great Qin's country and the people in the world.
Thinking of this, Fusu drank the wine, raised the empty glass, and exclaimed with great excitement: "Great Qin reform, the whole country is united!" The country is rich and the people are strong, and it will last forever! ”
The ministers also seemed to be moved by this atmosphere, and couldn't help but shout together:
"Great Qin reform, the whole country is united! The country is rich and the people are strong, and it will last forever! ”
"Great Qin reform, the whole country is united! The country is rich and the people are strong, and it will last forever! ”
“…………”
More than 10,000 forbidden troops in Xianyang Palace seem to have been dyed by this passionate pride, and they also shouted in unison: "Great Qin reform, the whole country is united!" The country is rich and the people are strong, and it will last forever! ”
Wave after wave.
From inside the Xianyang Palace, it has spread outside the palace, and then thousands of people in the entire Xianyang City shouted together:
"Great Qin reform, the whole country is united! The country is rich and the people are strong, and it will last forever! ”
"Great Qin reform, the whole country is united! The country is rich and the people are strong, and it will last forever! ”
“…………”
The cry shook the sky, rushed straight to the clouds, and resounded throughout Xianyang City.
At this exciting time, a captain of the military department hurriedly came to Han Xin, the secretary of the military department, and said: "Report, General Han, there is an urgent military situation at the border pass!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the smile on Han Xin's face immediately faded, and he hurriedly took the secret report of the military situation, looked at it, and then quickly said to Fusu: "Your Highness, there is a secret report of military intelligence at the border pass, and the Yue clan raised troops against the Wusun and Qiang tribes a few days ago!" ”
"Oh?"
When everyone heard this, they were stunned.
And Li Yang was also stunned, because he remembered that the Yue clan sent troops to Wusun, according to the original historical records, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Wusun, which was difficult to lead, was a small nomadic tribe. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Wusun and Yue clans both lived in the Hexi region, living at the east and west ends of the Hexi Corridor, with Wusun in the west and Yueshi in the east, roughly bounded by Shandan County in Zhangye.
In 177 B.C., the Da Yue clan launched an attack on Wusun, who had been nomadic in the western part of the Hexi Corridor (present-day Zhangye to Dunhuang in Gansu), but Wusun was defeated and the king was killed. The remnants of Wusun fled to the Xiongnu, and the Dayue clan took control of the Dunhuang area.
In other words, the year when the Yueshi launched an attack on Wusun should be in 177 BC, and now it is 207 BC, which means that the Yue's attack on Wusun was thirty years in advance.
How...... Is this ahead of schedule?
However, after thinking about it, Li Yang was also suddenly surprised. After all, because of his own crossing, the situation around the entire Great Qin has changed dramatically, and now all the Xiongnu tribes have been unified by the Great Qin, which is obviously a danger to the Yue Clan. Therefore, it is reasonable for the Yue clan to expand to the southwest in advance.
But......
Thinking that the Yue clan was attacking Wusun and Qiang at this time, Li Yang felt that this was a good thing, and couldn't help but raise his head and laugh: "Hahaha, good, great!" I, Daqin, am worried about opening up a land trade road to the west, and this opportunity has come so soon, haha! ”
There will be updates in the evening.
(End of chapter)