As soon as the morning sun rose, the road was busy, and the carriages full of sand, gravel, shovels and people kept moving around. Whenever there is a big pit, the carriage will stop immediately, the people on the carriage jump down, and then the people on the carriage throw down the shovel, and then shovel the sand and gravel down, and the people at the bottom are busy filling the sand and gravel into the pit, and then mix it with lime in the process of landfilling, and then use the shovel to pat it solidly, and then use the wooden rammer on the cart to tamp it, after tamping, there will be people who come behind to drive the water buffalo, mules, horses and other livestock, with huge stones to smooth the road. Everything is so orderly, as it has been since the beginning of the world.

The problem is that this scene should have appeared not at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but after liberation. Lu Xun has a saying, there is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, there is a road, which is the true portrayal of most roads before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Because maintaining a road network that spans 9.6 million square kilometres requires at least perverted control and organizational capacity at the grassroots level to ensure that if a road is badly damaged, it will be repaired immediately.

It is estimated that many people who type on the keyboard will not understand this, but Li Shouhan understands it very well, because he himself has done related work before, and he has a deep understanding of this hardship. (Those mechanized troops who pulled up hundreds of thousands of armed to the teeth during the Anti-Japanese War at every turn, and all kinds of gods who beat and beat devils can die!) Don't say where you got so much fuel and technical support personnel, and don't say that the water network in southern China is not conducive to the mobility of mechanized troops and heavy troops, even in North China and other places, with the road conditions before liberation, basically trucks drive out and wait to be pulled out by donkeys! Even the Tohoku region, which had the best level of transportation network construction at that time, was painstakingly operated here by Japanese devils for many years, and it can be regarded as the most developed transportation network. However, this level of traffic situation was also constantly complained about in the eyes of the Soviet Red Army. Syllable! Another brick flew over. "Nonsense! I have read countless memoirs written by German generals, which are full of all kinds of complaints, dissatisfaction and complaints about the tattered traffic conditions of the Red Empire! If it weren't for the tattered traffic, bad weather, my Third Reich would have paraded Moscow a long time ago, drank the Maurals, and the tracks of tank No. 4 ran over the Crimea! "Ladies and gentlemen, what you said about the bad road traffic situation in the Soviet Union also depends on who you compare with. The Soviet Union was also a European industrialized country with a complete industrial system and was able to manufacture all kinds of industrial equipment and vehicles on its own. At that time, China was a purely agrarian country, a semi-colonial and semi-feudal agrarian society. How to compare?? ）

He understands better, such a huge system needs leaders, but he doesn't have the ability of a certain Shaoshan opener, and he can easily pull up hundreds of thousands of cadres, he can only learn from the devil, organize road protection teams along the highway, recruit local young people to participate, give silver dollars, provide tools, provide rations, purchase building materials such as sand, lime, etc., and allocate land and houses. It is even stipulated that the family members of the road escort team have a wedding and funeral, build a new house, and the government also gives some congratulatory gifts. At that time, this treatment was still very attractive, so young people along the highway participated, including two people, Liu Zuo and Wang Wencai.

Speaking of these two people, it is necessary to connect with the slavery and tenant change that the former talked about. The two of them are from southern Gansu, where local tyrants and inferior gentry have been rampant since ancient times, and according to the founding leader, where there is oppression, there is resistance. Since you are a tycoon and an inferior gentry who are lawless, the Chinese who dare to attack the sky and kill the emperor will naturally not spare them. The two of them are the best of them. It's just that at the beginning, because there was no backer, at most it was a scoundrel who scared the big family and ate two meals of wine and meat. But since the road was built near their house, they suddenly felt like the clouds had cleared. Oh, so you can do that. So, they organized the brothers who had been involved in the slavery together, joined the road guard team together, and then took the weapons they received from the road guard team to surround their own owner's compound, and almost scared the owner to death on the spot. Then the two told the proprietor that they must immediately burn all the deeds of sale and return the slaves to freedom. Burn all the debt certificates, let's re-sign the IOU according to the interest rate standard issued by the government, and if the debt has been paid off according to the interest rate standard issued by the government, then write it off immediately! At the same time, the new policy was immediately implemented, and the landlords and wealthy owners had to hand over the arrears of the past years. If there is one thing that is not satisfied, the brotherhood of the road escort team is very willing to rush into the compound to satisfy the female relatives of the owner, and by the way, to satisfy Liu Zuo's personal hobby, planting radishes.

The so-called planting radish is to rush down the head of the person and bury it alive, because people will not die for a while and a half, so the legs will move for a while, especially with a sense of picture, if it is filmed, whether it is with a strong contrast of red, green and gold, or the ink effect that has just become popular recently, I believe it can be a box office hit better than any of Lao Mouzi's films. Of course, it is possible to be edited or even banned because the footage is too much, but in that case, the pirated copies will come out again.

As soon as he heard Liu Zuo's warning, the ordinary landlord and wealthy owner were so frightened that they opened the door and cried and begged for mercy, saying that you welcome Lord Liu Zuo to satisfy my daughter, but for the sake of you becoming my son-in-law, planting radishes is still free. Liu Zuo saw that he had relented, but he didn't burn and plunder on a large scale, but just asked him to hand over some money, fulfill his previous promise, and leave. However, this incident caused a huge wave, and since there were those who took the lead, the people of southern Gan, who had been bullied by the gentry, certainly did the same. The literati under the gentry did not dare to resist openly, so they had to secretly say that what kind of bullshit road guard, this is the bandit team, which specializes in robbing good people. It's a pity that they forgot that the gang they protected had been bandits for 2,000 years, and they didn't see any dissatisfaction. In the final analysis, whether bandits are bandits or not bandits is a trivial matter, and whether the bandits rob them or not has a share of what they rob, that is a big matter. You know, there is no financial support behind the bandits, so it's no wonder that they can succeed?! You know, now the whole world understands that the biggest supporters of raising terrorists, oh no, it's raising ghosts, it's the thorns of the beautiful family, and other departments!

After some hard work, the potholes on this section of the road have almost been filled, and a fairly smooth and wide thoroughfare has already taken shape. So Liu Zuo and Wang Wencai beckoned their brothers to rest for a while, and the two of them did it together, Liu Zuo took out a steel wine jug from his backpack, and simply rinsed the two drinking cups he carried with him with spring water a few times, took out some peanuts and a few portions of cured meat from the backpack like a trick, and spread the tung oil poncho on the relatively flat ground, and drank it with Wang Wencai. After three glasses of wine, Liu Zuo suddenly said with emotion: "I said Wencai Lao Geng, you said that if there was no Mr. Li, would the grass on our grave be quite high?" ”

Wang Wencai put down his wine glass when he heard this, and said with emotion: "Who said it wasn't, if there wasn't Mr. Li, the two of us wouldn't talk about drinking now, there would be no paper ashes." By the way, why do you say that they are all scholars, why is the gap between Mr. Li, Chen Xiucai and Master Zhou so big? ”

Seeing this, it is estimated that many people are confused, what is this talking about. What Mr. Li, Master Zhou, Chen Xiucai's? In fact, it is very simple, the Mr. Li in their mouth is the Li Derun who appeared earlier. And Chen Erren is also a Nanzhong official on the ground in southern Gansu. Liu and Wang always called him Mr. Li because they respected Li Derun, while the others were official titles, and even the name of "Xiucai" was quite derogatory. Before Li Shouhan's soldiers were strong and strong, not only Liu Zuo and Wang Wencai were attached, but many official gentry and landlords also joined one after another, including a famous landowner named Chang Kaisheng. In fact, this person is not a big landlord, at most he is supporting the empty posture of a gentry landlord. When the family was an official, he saved some belongings, there were many fields and mountains in the countryside, and there was a salt number in the city. It's a pity that the opportunity was slow to see the opportunity back then, and he didn't grab the distribution right of Nanzhong refined salt, and as a result, the salt number that was originally making money was beaten to death by Nanzhong refined salt, and the family began to fall from then on. This person has always been famous for rogue speculation on weekdays, and he is quite proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling. Therefore, as soon as he saw Li Shouhan's great momentum, he pulled out the long-term workers and tenants in his family, and then he also wanted to participate in the road escort team, and expressed his willingness to resolutely implement the new policy, and to double it. The new policy says that rent and interest should be reduced, which is not enough, I don't want rent, just be kind and charitable. And for other officials and gentry who resisted the new policy, he took the initiative to send troops to attack, and even exterminated the clan at every turn. His performance is more than three times more loyal than those old people who have followed Li Shouhan since the Ha Jing period! Therefore, at the beginning, he was quite highly valued, and his official position was constantly promoted, and everything seemed to be very perfect.

But since Li Huayu died in battle, he doesn't know when he began to change, although there is no obvious betrayal, but small actions are constant. According to Li Shouhan's requirements, any road escort team, no matter who is in command, must arrange a certain proportion of cadres and trustworthy trainees in Nanzhong, and Chang Kaisheng is no exception. But one day, he actually suggested that the cadres and personnel of the road escort team arranged by Nanzhong intended to kill him, and said that he had discovered a weapons warehouse with bad intentions. Therefore he proposed that these men withdraw from his escort and that they should not send any more people to him in the future. Because he had some evidence, Lu Xuezhi, the new straight road supervisor in charge of the matter, hesitated, and his staff also had a dispute, Liu Zuo said that Chen Xiucai advocated quitting, because Chang Kaisheng had always performed well and should not fall out. Master Zhou advocated giving him more benefits, such as letting him manage more people, governing a larger area, and allocating more weapons and money to appease Chang Kaisheng. Only Mr. Li slapped the table and said, "It's against him, this is the lord's territory, the lord is looking at us, if we back down, let the lord think of us." We have to back down even a small hooligan, and now that we have launched the road guard, where will we retreat in the future? Is it that one day his woman quarreled with someone in the vegetable market and was bullied, and we had to retreat to Guangdong or even Nanzhong? ”

Under Mr. Li's strong instigation, according to the previous methods of handling similar matters by the Nanyue Army, and considering Li Shouhan's possible attitude, Lu Xuezhi, as a competent official, decided to immediately mobilize the forces that could be mobilized to suppress Chang Kaisheng. Because Liu Zuo and Wang Wencai performed excellently, loyal and reliable, they ordered the two of them to go with the arms that were scolded by the gentry as a desperate team to calm down the turmoil on Chang Kaisheng's side.

Under the pressure of the soldiers, Chang Kaisheng saw that things were not good, and immediately claimed that it was a misunderstanding, announced that he would continue to accept the leadership, and would not ask the cadres and personnel of Nanzhong to withdraw, and apologize at the same time. Because Chang Kaisheng's behavior has not caused serious consequences, Supervisor Lu also accepted it. But a wave of unsettled waves, Chang Kaisheng saw that he could not get rid of the Nanzhong cadres of the road protection team, so he began to clean up his Zhuang Ding, announcing that as long as someone participated in the road protection team directly under the jurisdiction of Nanzhong, he was no longer allowed to serve in his Zhuang Ding team, the reason was that one heart could not be used for two purposes. No one else took this seriously, but Liu Zuo Wang Wen confirmed that something was wrong, so he contacted Mr. Li and asked him what he thought. After listening to their report, Mr. Li immediately made a report to Supervisor Lu, and said, this matter is not simple, the so-called outside must first be safe, I think Chang Kaisheng is to eliminate dissidents first, and he must not be allowed to get his wish. Because of what happened last time, Supervisor Lu agreed with him again, and in the end, Chang Kaisheng didn't expel anyone, everything was as usual.

In this way, it was quiet for a while, but as the Qing army moved south and the party struggle in Nanjing intensified, Chang Kaisheng began to move again. This time, Mr. Li asked for an authorization from the superintendent Lu Xuezhi, that is, if Chang Kaisheng had the reality of a military rebellion, Liu Zuo Wang Wen could immediately suppress it, although the superintendent Lu agreed, but he was very puzzled, he said: "Mr. Li, I don't believe you, but this Chang Kaisheng really has that much courage?" Mr. Li smiled and said: "Chang Kaisheng, a scoundrel and a broken family, is most accustomed to doing so, which is to make a desperate bet for wealth and wealth." Now that the Qing army is heading south and Nanjing is in chaos, I think he can't sit still. Now Liu Zuo and Yuan Wencai are by his side, but there are fewer weapons and personnel than him, if he suddenly attacks, and Liu Zuo and Wang Wencai are not prepared, he will inevitably suffer a big loss. When the time comes, he will say that these village hooligans will attack the road guard, and then he will pretend to spend some money to appease him, and he may hide from the world. As a result, as soon as he said this, he was besieged even at the meeting. Chen Xiucai immediately retorted: "I see that your starting point itself is problematic, we should appease the people with many powerful parties, Liu Zuo Wang Wencai is not a big local family, but a group of poor men in the Hakka family, not to mention the unstable foundation, they are not evaluated well everywhere, and some people have complained to me that they are a group of ruffians and villains." If we do not strive for a strong foundation, but support them, is it not a sacrifice of the basics? Still look at the last time Chang Kaisheng asked them to hand over their weapons to his command, we should agree, anyway, they don't have many weapons, whether they hand over or not is not the same, we oppose and offend Chang Kaisheng. ”

Master Zhou didn't object to Mr. Li, but he thought that it was unlikely that Chang Kaisheng would suddenly change, because no matter what Chang Kaisheng was doing, it was illogical to gamble with his life rashly. In the face of their doubts, Mr. Li just looked at Lu Xuezhi with a smile and said: "A hundred fire guns, for you it is just a matter of writing a note, give it to Liu Zuo Wang Wencai first, if you can use it best, if you can't use it, I will let them return it to you." "Governor Lu finally agreed, and gave you an additional two hundred firearms, on the grounds that it was a reward for your two predictions being correct.

As a result, on the day of April 12, Chang Kaisheng really suddenly attacked, under the pretext that Liu Zuo Wang Wencai's subordinates raped the people's daughters, and asked his subordinates to pretend to be nearby villagers, carrying short knives, axes and wooden sticks to attack Liu Zuo and Yuan Wencai's station. It's just that what they didn't expect was that before they got close to the station, Liu Zuo Wang Wencai opened fire together with three hundred firearms, and immediately beat them up and crawled. Before they could react, the road escort team armed with a shuttle dart knife rushed up, and without saying a word, it was a slashing and killing, so frightened that these Zhuang Ding forgot the purpose of coming, and hurriedly shouted Misunderstanding, we are Chang Kaisheng's subordinates. Liu Zuo and Wang Wencai don't care about this, as long as they don't surrender, they will be killed. After solving these people, Liu Zuo Wang Wencai let Zhuang Ding, who surrendered, lead the way and directly attacked Chang Kaisheng's compound, Chang Kaisheng resisted, and initially blocked Liu Zuo Wang Wencai's offensive. However, because of the evidence of his rebellion, Mr. Li had persuaded his superiors to pull the cannon over, and under the bombardment of the artillery, all resistance was in vain. In the end, Liu Zuo and Wang Wencai captured Chang Kaisheng, and then according to Liu Zuo's personal habits, Chang Kaisheng planted radishes, and Chang Kaisheng's little wife was also included in the harem by Wang Wencai. It's just that Wang Wencai soon monopolized her, because she was too hypocritical, saying that her skin was not good, so she could only wear satin clothes, and she would get pimples all over her body when she wore clothes made of other materials. Wang Wencai said that such a loser girl can't afford to raise herself, whoever loves to raise it.

After quelling the turmoil, Lu Xuezhi, as a meritorious person, was promoted by Li Shouhan to one level, and sent the experience of southern Gannan to the whole army for reference and implementation. And Liu Zuo and Wang Wencai also got the lottery and were promoted to the leaders of the road maintenance team in the entire southern Gannan region.

Wang Wencai took a sip of wine and smiled at Liu Zuo: "I told you a long time ago that I want you to read some books and know a few more words." You see, at the beginning, you only cared about planting radishes everywhere, and you didn't want to know a few more words. Now my sir wants to write to you, and I'm worried that you won't be able to read it! ”

"What, Mr. Li wrote to you?"

"This is natural! Liu Laogeng, why am I also a person who has studied in ethnology for a few years! As he spoke, Wang Wencai took out a leather book from his arms and took out a letter from it with great care.

"Mr. Lee's letter the day before yesterday! He's proud now! married Yongxin beauty He Guiyuan again, and worked with the big horse Shi Lang! According to the person who sent the letter, Lord Shi relied on Mr. Li a lot, and he had to discuss with Mr. Li on major military and political matters before making cuts. ”

"If that's the case, we people also have face!" Liu Zuo's small eyes were a little red with excitement.

However, in Li Derun's letter, he poured bitter water on his two old friends.

"If I can't refuse, I really want to go back immediately, Shi Lang is a staff member who is busy all day long, it's like being in the road construction team, I drink mountain spring water every day, eat big fat fish and big fat meat, and travel everywhere. It's like now, tired every day! ”