From Shaoguan through Guangzhou to Guilin and Nanning, this national highway that runs through the territory of the two Guangzhou, which is thousands of miles long, and relying on the construction of this national highway, the prefecture towns, prefecture towns, and county towns in the territory of the two provinces are connected into a network, and ferries are set up on the rivers and rivers in various places, and pontoon bridges are erected. Some people boast that in the territory of Liangguang, people can start from the more prosperous market town bazaar and arrive at the equally prosperous market town market in Liangguang. This is far from being regarded as an official unit above the county seat.

This project, which is enough for Jiang Yihong to write a big book on his epitaph in his own chronology and for future generations, was completed in just a few years.

"Yes! At that time, the lord sent down the roll, and I was so scared that I didn't say that I would abandon the official and not do it, and return to the countryside, even if I had the heart to commit suicide. At that time, Liangguang had just pacified the anti-donation and anti-grain thieves everywhere, and the lord had just defeated the British invasion. If someone else is in charge of the two provinces, it is necessary to be quiet and inactive, and rest with the people. However, our lord did the opposite. At once, hundreds of thousands of people were recruited, and this great work was raised. ”

When he received the official document and road planning and design plan on the same day, as well as the digital distribution plan for soliciting migrant workers, Jiang Yihong was so frightened that he wanted to commit suicide. He seemed to see Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty digging canals, Qin Shi Huang repairing the Great Wall, and before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Great Yuan Dynasty also built rivers on the Yellow River. "Mo Dao Shiren has one eye, and this thing is out of the world."

"Alas! When I think about that day, it should be ridiculously tight. If it weren't for the colleagues around him to stop him, I am afraid that the grass on the old man's grave would have been three feet high at this time. Jiang Yihong was also very jokingly ridiculed about his troubles back then. That time, the official office sent him more than ten official documents at one time, which were divided into categories, and he was scared to the point of suicide after only seeing the first few copies. If it weren't for the subordinates around him to remind him, there were still a few official documents, which seemed to be about the construction money and food for the project, the rations for migrant workers, etc., which stopped him from looking for a short-term view. As a result, after reading all the documents, I realized that this large-scale construction of roads and dredging of rivers was also a clever move to enable the local government to recover quickly. It's just that the premise is that you have money and food in your hands, a large number of tools made of fine iron, and a relatively reliable cadre team.

When Jiang Yihong saw baskets of shovels, pickaxes, hoes and other good iron tools unloaded from sea ships on the Pearl River wharf, grain, rice, oil and salt calculated in thousands of stones carried out of the cargo hold, and silver dollars wrapped in red mulberry paper piled up into small hills, and butter and oil tongbao with a larger volume, he believed that the official document sent by the official office said that the money, grain and tools were ready, and as long as he was responsible for organizing the construction manpower, it turned out to be true.

"It turns out that the lord is playing the abacus of cash-for-work." With reliable money and food, Jiang Yihong's courage also splashed. When he ordered people to post posts in all provinces, prefectures, and counties, and at the same time issued official documents, informing officials in various places that the lord would build roads in various parts of Guangdong and Guangxi, and ordered officials at all levels to cooperate!

The content of the list is also very simple, that is, it is similar to a job posting. It is stipulated that a young and middle-aged laborer can be treated with three full meals a day on the construction site every day, and the salary is paid every month. If there is overtime work, there is a night meal and overtime pay. At the end of the list, it is specially noted that workers can choose whether to ask for silver dollars and treasures, or grain, rice, oil, salt, cloth and other physical objects.

At this moment, all parts of the two Guangxi provinces became lively. The original unstable factors suddenly disappeared into invisibility. Originally! As long as you are willing to work hard, you can have a bowl of stable tea and rice to eat when you go to the official's house to build roads, as well as wages. Why do you have to carry your head in your hands and rise up to rebel?

However, it would be a lie to say that there are no minor disturbances happening everywhere. However, the situation is different from place to place, and the natural expression is also different.

For example, in Meixian, Jiaoling and other places, Hakka women went to the recruitment office to register, and after being rejected by the officials, the spicy woman took an official document to accuse the official in charge of recruitment: "The notice of the grandfather of the country does not say that women are not wanted, but only that suitable young and middle-aged labor is good." No, I'll pick up a burden for you to walk dozens of miles to see!? ”

A few words were so white that the officials present had nothing to say. In desperation, I had to go up to the peak to ask for instructions. The reply was, "Did the lord ever say that he didn't want women?!" As a result, a large number of Hakka women appeared happily on the road construction site.

In Guangxi, what is even more a headache for officials is that the ethnic minorities in the mountains and forests everywhere also beat gongs and drums to sign up at the recruitment office. Not only did he have to participate in the work of building roads for Grandpa Guo, but he also said that we don't want silver, but only oil, salt and cloth, and we must be very active in the construction immediately, and we must give them tools on the spot!

The local Han people are unhappy, this is clearly to grab jobs and business! Moreover, these barbarians, who have lived in the mountains and forests since they were children, climb over the mountains and mountains like walking on the ground, if they go to the construction site, can they still have our range? So, the two groups quarreled.

However, fortunately, the officials who recruited migrant workers on the scene were brought to Guangxi by the second son, Li Huabao, and they were relatively experienced and courageous in dealing with similar things. At that moment, he ordered his soldiers to separate the two groups of people who were about to break out into a fight: "Those who do not obey orders will be disqualified from recruitment!" And sit back! If there is a village that dares to make trouble, which village will not be allowed to recruit workers! And don't think about trade again! This first lesson gave these recruits a solid discipline lesson. You must listen to orders, or you will be unlucky. This is the most simple and vivid conceptual consciousness instilled in their minds.

"It's all the people under the rule of Grandpa Guo, what kind of Han people, Miao people, barbarians?! If you talk about barbarians, there are a lot of barbarians in my Nanyue army! The lord has long had something to say, whether it is Han or barbarian, just see if you abide by the law and agree with Huaxia! ”

Or, you just obey the law and wait for the recruiting officials to dispatch them. Either that, if you object to the recruitment of officials, you will end up disobeying orders. This dilemma was placed in front of the Han people and the so-called barbarians present, as long as there was no problem in their heads, they all chose the lesser of two evils.

These small turmoil are staged in different forms and plots in various places.

However, in the face of Li Shouhan's strong material foundation, the road construction project was in full swing.

At first, the old man saw that the cost of each mile of the national highway was about 150 silver dollars, which really frightened the old man. It's not a road! This is clearly paving the ground with silver! Although it is said that this includes the rations of the people, it is also a frightening amount. I have two Guangdong land, from east to west, from south to north, the number of national highways is roughly calculated, there are more than 10,000 miles! What's more, there are rivers along the way, ferries must be set up, and pontoon bridges must be built in places where the water is gentle. ”

"When I was in Guangxi that day, the students saw each other for the first time, and the views of adults were the same. However, when the students saw the grain and rice that were being carried day and night in the harbors of Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and other places, and the oil, salt, and cloth that were transported by boat, the students' hearts were put back in their stomachs. In the land of Guangxi, the people of Miao Yao and the Han people are mixed together. This generation doesn't care about gold and silver, only cares about rice, grain, salt, cloth and other things. With these things, students can ensure that their generation does not get into trouble, and even go to the road construction site with joy. In their opinion, even if it is a silver dollar with white flowers and a good Tongbao with yellow and clear flowers, it is not as good as those thick and beautiful flower cloth and cotton cloth, and it is not as good as a jar of refined salt that is as clear as snow. When they took the silver, they also wanted to exchange these things with the Han merchants, so it was better to receive them directly from the officials, so as not to let those unscrupulous merchants make profits from them. ”

The scene on the road construction site, just like Jiang Yihong and Huang Xigon sighed, sufficient material support, full wages at the end of the month, and full food have made road construction workers a rather enviable profession. Moreover, according to the experience of the Nanyue Army in organizing similar projects in various places for many years, when paying wages, workers are often given the following choice: "You are a big worker, and you have six overtime days. According to the regulations, you can receive three and a half silver dollars a month. Counting the night shift allowance, you can receive a total of four silver dollars. Do you want silver dollars or shopping vouchers? With the shopping voucher, you can go to the shopping point attached to the construction site to exchange for the goods worth six silver dollars in the market. What good farm tools, flower cloth, cotton cloth, oil and salt, grain and rice, as well as needles and threads, rouge pollen, all kinds of things, there are so many! ”

In front of the real good things in front of them, most people choose to exchange their wages for this real goods, originally! Isn't it true that everyone comes out to work hard just to have money to buy these things? Now not only do you not have to bargain with those small traders, but you also have to endure their black exploitation. Grandpa Guo also rewarded us with more things!

Those Miao people and Zhuangmin people came out of the villages, looking at the past when a chicken could only be exchanged for a needle, but now they are placed there at random like rice grains in a rice bowl. Large bundles of whole flower cloth cotton exude a warm and pleasant atmosphere.

"If you have a set of large and small needles, you will be given a thimble and a ball of five-colored threads, as long as you have twenty tongbao."

"A fine piece of cotton cloth is enough for half a silver dollar!"

"Hoes, pickaxes, ploughsticks, axes, and the tools commonly used at home are all for a silver dollar!"

Every road-building camp scattered in the wilderness became a hot land that radiated outward. Not only are the migrant workers working with high morale, but also the villagers in the vicinity have also benefited from it. The vegetables they grow, the fish they raise, the chickens and ducks they feed, and the fruits in the orchard all become the things they need on the construction site. Of course, they didn't have any other requirements, "Don't give us silver dollars and tongbao, just give us shopping vouchers!" We also wanted to buy something to use at home! ”

In this back and forth, on the surface, Li Shouhan spent at least one hundred and fifty silver dollars per mile of road. However, a large number of Nanzhong industrial manufactured products have become commodities to offset the cost. A large amount of rice was transported from the warehouse and processed into rice grains, which became rations for the people. The cost, profit, impact, and benefit of this are all the numbers listed in the account books of the official office.

As officials trained by traditional education, Jiang Yihong and Huang Xigon are also outstanding people. They only saw that this major project had gone, and instead of disturbing the people, the local government quickly became stable, and the economy and people's livelihood quickly recovered. (Just kidding, a large number of living materials and funds have flowed in, and there is a large demand for materials, and the local economy is not recovering, so it is called a ghost!) ）

"My lord, the students also followed the second son to various construction camps that day, which can be regarded as a small experience."

"Oh? Zonglin, the old man wants to listen to your high arguments, and I am willing to hear about them! ”

"All the road-building camps, whatever the task they undertake, and who they are composed of, are governed by the Department of the Art of War. Every day, they all march in and out of the queue. Daily diet and daily life are also measured by the military system. With the sound of the horn, the camp was silent. Within a few days, the original villagers and people in Xidong were all one, like a strong force. With the students observing from the sidelines, as long as they are trained a little and allocated to the armor equipment, they are hundreds of thousands of strong troops. It is no less than the hundreds of thousands of Lishan prisoners led by Shaofu Zhang Han back then, not to mention that it is not difficult to break the army of the six Kwantung countries led by Xiang Liang to pacify the world! ”

Huang Xigon is not bad at all, the people everywhere are in accordance with the establishment of the Nanyue Army, starting from the most basic level A, all the way to the so-and-so battalion named after the road construction camp (similar to the modern so-and-so lot. Three meals a day, work, finish, rest, overtime, patrol and maintenance of construction sites and camps are all adopted by the system of the Nanyue Army. As a result, these hundreds of thousands of people quickly changed from lazy and disorganized peasants and mountain people to reservists with a sense of discipline and organization in their heads, mastered the movements of the queue, and possessed a sense of basic military qualities. It's just that these people themselves may not be clear about this. However, this point was understood by Huang Xigon.

"The students have just arrived in the provincial capital to take over the post of governor in the past few days, and they must learn about the affairs of the province together with the political envoy and other colleagues. I don't know if I don't see it, it really scares the students! In the past few years, there have been no military disasters and no floods and droughts in Guangdong. However, in this way, there are more rice reserves among the officials and people everywhere. It was time for the new rice to appear, but there was nowhere to digest the old grain stored in the warehouses everywhere. In previous years, old grain could be shipped to the north, to the Central Plains, and to the south of the Yangtze River. But now, the lord has issued an order to prohibit the shipment of grain and rice to the north. All grain and rice exports must have official documents and passports, and violators will be punished as smugglers. My lord, think about it, this is the case in my Guangdong province, and the southern and central parts under the jurisdiction of the lord can be more than several times more than ten times more grain and rice than Guangdong. ”

"If you say so, not only will the lord's large-scale army raise troops this time, but it will also be of great benefit to the country, just like the construction of roads?" Jiang Yihong combed his beard, which had become sparse and gray, with an ivory mustache comb, and pondered Huang Xigon's words.

Regarding the amount of rice stored in the warehouse of the government in Guangdong Province, Jiang Yihong still has a good idea. In recent years, Guangdong Province, especially the Pearl River Delta region, has really been a good year, and at least tens of millions of stones should be counted in the government warehouse. If we add in the amount of rice in the private grain reserves established in the name of Siwucang and other villages and families, then this figure will be at least two more heels.

(Because rice has the advantage of being easier to store than processed rice, and it can be stored for a longer period of time.) Therefore, Li Shouhan stipulated that all warehouses that need to be stored for a long time, whether official or private, should be carried out in the form of rice. ）

"With the stored grain and rice in my Guangdong province, we can supply the needs of millions of soldiers and horses for at least a year! It just so happened that the money and industrial products were used to purchase rice from the villagers and process it into grain and rice, not only to ensure military supplies, but also to benefit from this great expedition! ”

Huang Xigon stood up, straightened his robe, and bowed deeply to his seniors. "Students have also walked to the hinterland of South Middle School. I saw that the soldiers and civilians of Nanzhong were like the people of Qindi in Guanzhong back then, and they were happy when they heard the war. At first, I didn't know what it was about, but then I gradually learned the mystery. It is nothing more than that the military, civilians, ordinary people, workshop owners and merchants can benefit from the great conquest, so there is a matter of gearing up when they hear the sound of drums. Now that the old gentleman is an official under the command of Liang Guogong, why not follow the example of the sages and implement this system in Liangyue. At that time, the students were willing to lead the officials of Guangdong Province to follow the old gentleman Jiwei, thinking that Qingyun was attached! ”

Huang Xigon's words, Jiang Yihong heard them very clearly, and he also understood the meaning of his words. As an old-qualified bureaucrat, Jiang Yihong jumped from the political envoy of Liangguang to the governor of Liangguang, and his wife has been an official for several years, living in eight seats, not to mention his majesty, and he can also have a lot of silver in his pocket every month. He knew where this benefit would come from. Didn't you stand in line well back then, so you have today's results?

Just now, Huang Xigon also made it very clear, as long as you take the lead and take another step forward, our officials from Guangdong and Guangxi provinces will follow you together, and we will take another step up together.

What is the Attachment of the Green Clouds? In other words, it's from the Dragon's Minister!

"Although the old man is a few years old, he has a heart for the country and the people, but he does not dare to be inferior to the princes. As long as it is beneficial to the country and the people, the old man is willing to do it. What's more, the lord's move is a move by the world, and my generation is naturally duty-bound! ”