Chapter Ninety-Two: Road Construction Begins

Of the 30,000 victims, Nanpi intercepted some of them first, and 30,000 people were sent to Cangzhou City. It took half a day, a group of ten households, and 10,000 victims to register and make a register, and they were led back by the lieutenant. The other 20,000 were simply investigated, and rations were sent to Haixing and Huanghua.

The next day, the road construction work began quietly.

Starting from the south gate of Cangzhou City, there are two directions, one to Nanpi and the other to Haixing. The original existing road was filled with pits, removed the buds, and then the roadbed was solidified and paved with bricks and stones. On the general road, the heaviest car will not weigh more than 1,000 catties, so the general red brick can be very strong.

It turned out that there was no road, so I built a bridge when I met the water and went around the mountain. It is necessary not only to contact as many towns and towns as possible, but also to save distance as much as possible.

When the major project was launched, the leaders had to inspect it as usual. Xu Qing stayed outside the city for the night, and before dawn the next day, he put on civilian clothes and took a few entourages to look all the way.

But I saw the red of the sun in the distance, shining on the earth and the fields. Every short distance you walk, you can see dozens of shirtless men busy on the road. At this time, it was past the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather was not too warm, and everyone was working on the road in the steep cold wind.

Seeing this scene, Xu Qing was a little moved in his heart. How difficult it is to prosper the country, and to enlighten the saints, I have had many difficulties in China since ancient times, but it has also cast the unyielding personality of the Chinese people.

Xu Qing looked at this hot scene, sighed in his heart, nodded to his entourage and said, "This is very good, this official will go to see what the migrant workers eat in the morning later?" ”

In the past, it was good to have one meal a day to help the victims, and as long as they did not starve to death, they would starve to death. And Xu Qing's cash-for-work guarantee guarantees three meals, which can be called the conscience of the industry.

In Xu Qing's view, the road construction work, the hard work is worse than ploughing the land, it doesn't matter if you don't eat well, the passers-by who build it will be rotten after a few steps, which is in vain. Xu Qing wants to build a "new decade, old decade, and another decade of tinkering", at least 30 years of wind and sun, people take a good road of horses and treadmills.

When I walked to a set, I saw the peasants in the set, and then I went out with a hoe. At this time, the grain is almost ripe, and it is necessary to hurry to dry the fields and make the last effort to increase income. Xu Qing's entourage went to find the lieutenant chief, and secretly said to the lieutenant that the great official was here, and then shook the official document. The lieutenant did not doubt that he had him, and greeted him respectfully. Seeing Xu Qing, he immediately bowed:

"Meet Shangguan, Shangguan come in and drink saliva?"

Xu Qing shook his head and said, "Don't be busy, take me to see what the migrant workers eat first." ”

Li Chang said with a smile: "Today I eat black flour steamed cakes, black flour scones, one steamed cake for one person, and two scones." ”

Black noodles are much worse than white noodles, they are coarsely processed grains, and they are also the most common food for the common people, that is, the disaster victims eat the same as ordinary people. But this kind of meal is already many times better than that of officials in other disaster areas.

The lieutenant continued: "This is eaten during the day, with a bowl of soup for lunch, and we don't cook it at night, but we distribute it to the migrant workers together with the wages and food to take it back." ”

Xu Qing asked again: "How long does the migrant worker work?" ”

Li Chang said: "Get up to work on the fifth watch, eat when the sun comes out, give them a gap for after eating, and rest for an hour at noon." Rest early at night, and when the sun is red, you will go to work. ”

Xu Qing nodded and said, "Very good, tell me about the migrant workers, what are these migrant workers doing?" ”

"Yes," said the chief's eyes and his face were full of energy, "They are preparing the land, and before the road is built, the turf on the ground must be removed, and the potholes and potholes must be filled in neatly, so that the civil servants can lay stones and tamp them." Someone has burned bricks, pulled bricks over and wet mud stacks. After three days in the sun, this road will be hard! ”

"Shangguan, please take a look at the villain."

Xu Qing followed the lieutenant to the side of the road and took a closer look.

At this time, the migrant workers were working hard, sweating profusely. As soon as the sun came out, there was a masculine beauty shining on the oily and shiny copper skin of the civil servants.

More than a dozen migrant workers threaded ropes on all sides of a large round stone plate. After putting on the rope, the eight men each held one end of the rope.

The lieutenant stepped forward and said, "It's time to do it, Shangguan be careful." Xu Qing knew that it would be very dangerous for these hundreds of catties of boulders to be lifted carelessly, so he took a few steps back.

But seeing that the leader coughed a few times, the eight big men holding the kiln bent their backs, held the pole, and prepared to get up.

"I'll yell at everyone twice!" The big men shouted:

"Hey, hey, hey!"

After a loud bang, the stone slammed into the rammed earth.

"In the first month, in the first month." Everyone followed: "Hi Yang Hi." ”

The head sang again: "White Horse Silver Spear Xiao Luo Cheng." ”

Everyone: "Hey, hey, hey! ”

"At the age of twelve, hit Dengzhou, fight Dengzhou to save Qin Qiong!"

"Hi Yang Hi!"

As soon as everyone shouted, three or four hundred catties of kiln were lifted high above their heads, and then smashed into the rammed earth on the ground. Every time the stone fell to the ground, Xu Qing, who was three zhang away, felt that the ground shook.

When the head shouts heroic, and from time to time to say a few jokes, causing all the big men to laugh, the river work is extremely hard, everyone can be happy in the bitterness, and they will be happy in the bitterness.

Everyone walked along, and the chief saw that Xu Qing was fascinated, so he explained to Xu Qing: "When the rammed earth is solid, then build new soil, splash water layer by layer and ram it, and tamp it into seven inches for each foot of empty soil, and we hit it to six inches, and finally throw it down vertically with an awl, so as not to leak as a break." ”

Xu Qing thought for a while, he remembered that the Song Dynasty Li Jie's "Building the French Style" said that every five inches of empty soil is solid when it is compacted into three inches. And here a foot of empty earth is beaten to six inches, not seven, which is really real. He praised the chief a few words and rewarded him with a penny.

The riverbank is still full of the sound of digging for soil.

When the sun came up, the sun became dazzling, and dozens of peasant women came to the embankment with baskets of steamed black flour and black flour scones. But I saw that the basket was heavy, and the steamed buns and scones were piled up like a hill. A few half-grown children in the back carried the soup, and there were buckets of soup.

Xu Qing got up, walked to the two children who were filling the soup, picked up the spoon containing the soup and stirred it into the bucket, but saw the oil flowers and shallots tumbling on the surface of the soup. I tasted it myself, there was some clear soup and little water, and he said to the inside:

"People who do hard work like to eat salty, and this soup is light."

Hearing Xu Qing say this, the two children showed a look of fear, they trembled when they saw the chief, and they couldn't be at ease when they saw the person who made the chief tremble.

Li Chang said: "The villain understands, it must be improved." Xu Qing nodded, and then Wen Yan said to the two children: "Take it down!" ”

After looking at it for a day, the travel speed of each point is about a day and a half miles, which is still the reason for the time spent on brick burning and quarrying. As long as the victims stay here for 60 days with peace of mind, Xu Qing will be able to build a 3,000-mile "standardized" highway!

In fact, there are not so many roads, and there are not so many towns and villages along the way as road repair points. There are also some victims who have been sent to various places in Cangzhou to open up wasteland and build canals and dams.

What Xu Qing was most worried about before was whether the victims would not accept the 'work for relief' and 'work for rent' and cause some trouble. In such an extraordinary period, disaster relief is the biggest thing, and one bad thing is that chickens fly and eggs are beaten. The sky is angry and people are resentful, even the emperor can't protect Xu Qing.

It wasn't until this moment, seeing that most of the people had calmly accepted the arrangement, that the big stone in his heart fell to the ground. No matter how clever his plan is and how strict the rules are, players must first accept his gameplay.

Fortunately, the common people in this era are still very simple, and as disaster victims, they are even more cautious, and they will accept the government's arrangements as long as they are not too excessive.

Haixing and Huanghua also received the victims one after another, and used this batch of cheap labor to build infrastructure as planned. It's just that these tens of thousands of victims have advantages and disadvantages. Some people are strong, naturally some are old and weak, some are hard-working, and there are very few people who eat mixed rice.

Zhao Lu intercepted some people in Nanpi before, all of them were people with a whole family, strong and strong. Later, after Qin Shi's choice, he went down step by step, and by the time he arrived in Haixing, there were only a few thousand people left. The rest are the old, weak, sick and disabled, orphans and widows, all of whom have nothing to do but eat white rice. There are three thousand of them.

Haixing County Ling Yan was not honest, and sent the three thousand who couldn't do anything back to Cangzhou.

Xu Qing's head hurt again.

These 3,000 people are mainly orphans and elderly people who lost their relatives in the typhoon. These people are not able to work, and no one wants to accept them, so they must be treated differently, otherwise there is only a dead end.

At this time, it was Zhan Zeng who wrote a letter to Xu Qing, so that Xu Qing had a way.

It turned out that during the Sui Dynasty, there were four major government-run charities in the local area: birth, old age, sickness, and death. They are the Salesian Bureau, the Nursing Home, the Anji Fang, and the Drain Garden. It's just that there was chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and these minor institutions have been destroyed.

These four charities are run by the government and are led by well-known and caring individuals. The Salesian Bureau is responsible for the adoption of orphans, and the almshouse is responsible for the elderly who are childless and unable to support themselves. Anjifang is responsible for curing the sick and saving people, and there is the ultimate care, and if it can't be cured, it will be buried by Leaky Zeyuan.

At this time, Xu Qing thought of the Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce. Let the chamber of commerce contribute some money, the government contribute some money, and add the words "Cangzhou Chamber of Commerce" to the names of the four charities, and let the businessmen serve as the responsible persons.

It is rare for businessmen to take off the "rape" brand and put on the "righteousness" clothes, so they are also enthusiastic.

The three thousand people are not completely worthless, but those orphans are useful, their own homes are gone, if they can be in Cangzhou, it will increase the population by a few hundred for nothing. In this respect, orphans are more valuable than other victims.

The second is the old man and the sick, and of course, there are hundreds of "laizi" among them. The old man was taken away by the people of the almshouse, went to see the courtyard, guarded the fish pond, and gave them a job and a bowl of rice.

The patients were temporarily put in Anjifang, and they didn't want to do the work, as long as they didn't infect the disease, Xu Qing thanked them a thousand times. In the end, Laizi remains. This group of people is unwilling to work, and they want to eat and drink for nothing. On weekdays in their hometowns, they are just idle people who steal chickens and dogs. For these people, Xu Qing is also a scoundrel, so he can only reduce their rations again and again.