Chapter 136: Meeting

The hands of people are short, and the mouth of eating people is short, since he has received Shi Bin's 'favor', although the greedy Liu Zhizhou does not fully believe in Shi Bin's promise, saying that he will give him more than half of the credit for building the road, but maybe it is the desire for promotion, or maybe it is the effect of the third aunt's pillow wind, he finally allocated half of his army to Shi Bin to support him in building the road.

In his opinion, those road repairs are what the Xiang army should do, and it is better to be a favor to eat dry rice there to ensure that Shi Bin can keep his promise.

After all, Shi Bin may be able to help him train those wastes to some use.

The total number of troops in Tanzhou was only 5,000, and Shi Bin was allocated 2,500 people, a full five battalions, and if you add the 2,400 regular troops under his own command and the 5,000 village soldiers who were hidden, there would be a total of 10,000 strong laborers. In this way, the progress of the project will be much faster, and his goal can be achieved as soon as possible.

As soon as the money was in place, Shi Bin held another meeting, and the preparations were completed, but the next thing was not as easy as he thought, how to repair it, and where to repair it was a problem.

In this antique meeting hall, the fragrance of tea is overflowing at this moment, and everyone's faces are pleased. It's all rough people who don't have much cultivation, joking loudly and talking about meat.

You must know that once the road is built and the people's hearts are attached, this Tanzhou can only belong to the eldest brother Shi Bin, and they will naturally be able to get a piece of the pie.

Although there is definitely still a long way to go, maybe it is not even so easy to walk, but this goal will no longer be a mirage, but a goal that is very likely to be achieved, and the feeling of being able to firmly grasp Tanzhou in your hands will definitely be different.

At this time, Shi Bin was a little fluttering, he remembered Emperor Zhaolie, known as Liu Yuzhou, will he be called "Shitan Prefecture" at that time?

Seeing that Shi Bin hadn't woken up from his dream, Jia Ling, who was sitting on the side, quietly stretched out her hand to Shi Bin's waist and twisted it heavily.

A burst of pain came, and Shi Bin remembered that he was advocating the meeting, and he was presiding over this important meeting.

But now it made the field as noisy as a vegetable market, and immediately woke up and returned to the state.

"Brothers, live up to our painstaking arrangements, Liu Zhizhou has not broken his promise, and the funds and manpower have been put in place. Today, we invite everyone to come here to discuss how to fight this tough battle of road construction. This spring flood has given me a lot of knowledge, big brother and I, a mountain person, really didn't know that the flood had such a great destructive power, and it could almost isolate our Tanzhou from the outside world. If it weren't for the fact that we had already trained a naval army in Xiangtan, I am afraid that we would all be trapped in this Tanzhou city now. ”

This is the truth, Zhao Gang was the first to agree, and jumped up from the chair to express his strong support for road construction, and said that no matter how it is repaired, he is willing to be the vanguard wherever it is repaired.

"Big brother, I'm afraid we can't be happy too soon. Things will change a little bit, for better or worse. Wang San said.

Can there be changes, for better or worse? But the people did not believe it. With strong labor and funds in hand, and Liu Zhizhou's support behind him, can there be any changes?

"Wang San, don't miscalculate this time, don't be alarmist, it's not good to vent everyone's anger at this time. All the brothers know that you are powerful, but we also have money and people, even if Liu Zhizhou does not fully support you, he will not make trouble again. Is there anyone else in this Tanzhou who dares to stop us from building roads and doing this good deed that benefits the people, so that he is not afraid of being scolded by thousands of people? Yi Jun asked a little unconvinced and slightly angry.

"Brother, now that the seedlings in the field in the spring are the time to take good care. But it is impossible for us to build roads without disturbing the villages passing by, and they will definitely have to spare some manpower and material resources to support us in building roads, and if something happens to these seedlings, they will have no rations. This is a matter of life and death, this kind of risk no one wants to take, although they dare not dare to openly and we dare, but they can be delayed, until they put the crops in the field so that they can rest assured to help us. But we can't waste time like this, otherwise we won't be able to finish this thing in five years, who knows if Liu Zhizhou will support us next year? Without local support, we can't do much with our gang and the money in our hands. ”

Hearing this, Yi Jun immediately shut up, and most of the joy on the faces of everyone in the hall disappeared.

"Brethren, don't worry so much, it's just a speculation of mine, and besides, it's not a dead knot that can't be untied, so why be so depressed?" Seeing everyone's expressions, Wang San immediately relieved again.

"You calf, if you have something to say, you can fart quickly, you want to see the brothers make a fool of themselves?" Zhao Gang's fiery temper broke out again, pointing at Wang San's nose and scolding.

"Zhao Gang, don't be like this, the three brothers just now were just telling the truth. You should thank him for helping you as a pacesetter. If he hadn't pointed out the loopholes, if we had started in such a frizzy way, maybe it would have been difficult to complete it in five or six years, just as Wang San said. The result is that the good name is not left, but it leaves a notoriety of working hard and hurting money, do you say we are at a loss? Shi Bin immediately stood up to appease Zhao Gang and mediate the conflict between the two.

If the development according to Wang San is indeed a loss, not only will he lose face with Zhao Gang at that time, but even Shi Bin will become the laughing stock of the whole Huguang. At that time, the fight between Jia Yidao and Zheng Qing will be very unfavorable to Shi Bin, which will greatly affect his promotion, and then affect the interests of everyone, then his current anger will be the original sin.

Zhao Gang, a northerner, has the biggest advantage that he is atmospheric and straightforward, he will admit it immediately if he makes a mistake, and he will never die for the sake of face, so he immediately admitted his mistake to Wang San and expressed his full support for Wang San's views.

"So we have to think about how to get on good terms with the big people in the villages, so that they can support us and not overly oppress the free farmers and tenants. It's best to find a way to make the pipes durable and not take much effort. Li Chao continued.

Everyone knows that the silver-like pewter head is a face-saving project, and it is not suitable for the current Tanzhou, Li Chao's words are very correct, and he must not lose face.

So everyone brainstormed, they are all in an interest group, one is prosperous and one is lost, and only by twisting into a rope can they rise as soon as possible.

"Big brother, why don't we just summon those noble clans to a meeting? Do some exchange with them? Xie Qiangbing spoke at this time.

Everyone knows about the exchange of interests, but what is the exchange? Nowadays, the most expensive thing is food, what is more important than food? I'm afraid that this exchange of Xie Qiangbing will be difficult to achieve.

"Brother Qiangbing, I'm afraid it's hard for them to agree to this exchange just for a meeting, so it's better to just make a soft and hard deal. While coaxing them to exchange, while forcing them to obey... What do you think, big brother? Sai Zilong said with a wicked smile at this time.

Everyone in the audience secretly said in their hearts: Sure enough, he is an old bandit leader and spy leader, and he is coercive and tempting in three sentences, but this is indeed a good way. Most of those rich people are misers, and they are masters who want money and don't want their lives, and it is estimated that it is difficult to achieve things through negotiation alone, and they really have to coerce them.

"Zilong, your method is not bad, let's see how you are going to do the exchange of interests, if it is suitable, I will leave it to you, you are also an expert anyway." Shi Bin also understood today's society, and was no longer so unconditionally benevolent, and said with a slightly sly smile.

"Of course, food is expensive now, but I think there are more expensive things than this."

What is more expensive than food in these troubled times? Even human life is not more expensive than food?