The pond was delayed for half a day, and the next day, Xu Guiyi was reluctant to restart the three official ships in the county order, and along the way, the official ships rarely stayed in the place, and mostly docked to replenish food and water, which disappointed the local officials who had been waiting.

However, most of the magistrates were also allowed to meet the prince on the ship, leaving a little souvenir, which was really a souvenir, and after the news came out that the prince had removed three officials who gave heavy gifts in Luoyang, these officials were very well-behaved and did not dare to give any big gifts.

A few days later, the fleet marched to Sanmenxia, Sanmenxia, according to legend, Dayu ruled the water, so that the axe will be high mountain splitting ** door, God gate, ghost gate three canyons, as if there are three gates, Sanmenxia got its name from this, here, the Yellow River is divided into three streams, the water flow is urgent, this section of the river is the Yellow River famous rapids where the rapids are.

The official boat that Yang Yong and his entourage took was huge, and it was impossible to sail this river by sails and pulp alone, and there were still more than ten miles away from Sanmenxia.

Under the sun, the thick rope is strangled on the shoulders of the sturdy slender man of the upper body, and their dark skin is stretched out of a deep ravine, in the river, the river water rushing down from the upper reaches is frantically lapping the official boat, on the shore, all the slender men use all their strength, they bend over, sing a loud trumpet, move forward step by step, every time they walk, the beads of sweat the size of beans flow all over the ground.

Although Yang Yong commanded thousands of troops and horses, I have to say that Yang Yong was still shocked by this scene, only one official ship needed more than 200 slender men to tow. The three official boats, with a total of 700 slender men, were barefoot, stepping on the rough river beach, and the horns of nearly 1,000 people sounded, instantly covering up the sound of the rushing water of the Yellow River.

In the era when Yang Yong lived in his previous life, the slender man has become extinct, and their image can only remain in some literary and artistic film and television works, or be reduced to props for performances. A vulgar song "The Love of the Slender Man" has spread all over the country, but Yang Yong saw these living slender men with his own eyes at this moment, and he knew how pale and powerless the works describing the slender men he had seen in his previous life were.

Three official ships, no more than 100 people on board. The number of slender men needed was as high as 700, and although the official ship was cumbersome, everything was based on stability and comfort. But looking at the passing cargo ships, they are only half the size of official ships, and dozens of people are needed to use the land, so it is no wonder that although the Guangtong Canal has been opened in Guanzhong. During last year's drought, it was still difficult to get grain to arrive, and it was not only the problem of the lack of water in the canals. The capacity of the Yellow River also restricts shipping.

"Huang County Order. How much do these people get in a day? "Look at these hard-working slender men. Yang Yong said with a little pity.

Sanmenxia is located in Shaanxi County, opposite Lu County. This Huang County Order is Huang Ping, the County Order of Shaanxi County, and these slender men are naturally all people of Shaanxi County.

"Shaanxi, passes." This sentence shows the geography of Shaanxi County, the county border of Shaanxi County is located in the mountains and mountains of Kuoshan, the predecessors commented on this, "according to the elbow of the Guanhe River, the silence of the Quartet," for the throat between the western Henan and the Weihe Plain, solid in the name of Shaanxi, from Shaanxi County more than 100 miles, is the world-famous Hangu Pass.

Being able to serve the prince in person and board the boat to swim with the prince, this Huangping Huangxian Ling's head has been dizzy, and he didn't react when he heard the words, so he hurriedly replied: "It is the honor of these people to be able to pull the boat for His Royal Highness, no money, no money." ”

"Nonsense, these slender men work so hard, how can they not need money, you don't want to do it, the county magistrate?" Yang Yong was furious and shouted.

"Boom." With a sound, Huang Ping knelt down in fright, his teeth chattered and explained: "Back ...... Back to Your Highness, they ...... They can be deducted...... Deduction of forced labor. ”

In addition to paying normal taxes, a man in the prime of life served as much as four months, or even half a year, during this time, the man not only had to work for the government for free, but also had his own food, and many large-scale government projects, such as building cities, roads, palaces, and the Great Wall, were mostly completed by criminals and free labor.

Serving the conscription is not only hard, but also when the project is in a hurry, many servants will die of exhaustion, I don't know how many times in history because the government is too heavy and the country is in flames, and even the country is ruined because of this, now it is the prosperous era of the new dynasty, the national conscription is considered to be at a low level, and every Ding has to complete the official 45 days of conscription every year.

Hearing that it can be deducted from forced labor, Yang Yong knows that the wrong thing is to blame the county in front of him, for the slender man, pulling fiber is their job, although it is hard, but it is a daily thing, if the government gathers them to build roads, or building a city is troublesome, the most afraid is to ask to serve in other places, so I don't know how much time to delay, and even may die on the road, Yang Yong built Renshou Palace and Luoyang Palace did not use forced labor, I don't know how many people burn incense and worship Buddha.

"Get up, it seems that this palace is wrong to blame you."

"Don't dare, don't dare, His Royal Highness Prince Xie." Huang Ping got up at this time, his legs still trembling.

A county magistrate who manages tens of thousands of people, his own words can make him kneel in fright, all of this comes from

Power, this taste of power is intoxicating, but if you are not careful, it may bring a huge disaster, if you wait for yourself to become the emperor, every move is not only related to the ups and downs of countless people's honor and disgrace, but also affects the fate of the whole country and the whole nation.

"By the way, you haven't answered Bengong's question just now, how much do these slender men get in one day?"

"Back to Your Highness, it depends on the situation, more than ten wen, less than five or six wen, if it rains and can't sail, there is no income." This time, Huang Ping finally heard it clearly and did not answer wrong.

"Five or six Wen, so low, don't they have farmland?" Yang Yong shook his head, such hard work, since the pay is so low.

"Back to Your Highness, Shaanxi County is mostly mountainous, with few fields and many people, less than two acres of land per person, how can you have food and clothing, the slender man here can get more than 100 wen a month, and the most can reach 300 wen. It's much more than farming, so the young and strong are willing to be slender men. Huang Ping explained.

Now the country is only more than 50 million people, and in the early days of the founding of the country, the land was evenly divided, it stands to reason that there should not be a situation of less land and more people, when Renshou Palace was built, although the court was well treated, but not many people were willing to work, on the one hand, of course, the people did not believe that there was such a good thing, on the other hand, it was also because the people had land. was enough to support itself, and the court had to take coercive measures to recruit all the personnel.

Huang Ping saw that the prince seemed to be unconvinced, and hurriedly explained the reason why there were many people and little land in Shaanxi County, and many places in Shaanxi County were mountainous. In times of peace, of course, the population of the plains was much larger than that of the mountains, but the war was the opposite, and the people in the plains either suffered from military disasters or fled to the mountains to save their lives. After the end of the war, the fields in the large plains had long been barren, but the mountainous areas were densely populated, and the court had to take measures to attract the mountainous population to cultivate in the plains. In this way, the court can have taxes and long-term peace and stability.

But if the war has been going on for too long, the people have already taken root in the mountains. This method does not work. The so-called homeland is inseparable. As long as they can live, although the people know that it will be better to move to the plains. Still reluctant to migrate.

Shaanxi County is even more encountered in this situation, Shaanxi County is all mountainous, and there is the danger of the Yellow River, it is the place to escape the war, the north has been in chaos for three hundred years, these people have lived in Shaanxi County for several generations, and the long life has been more than ten generations, and now it has just been peaceful for more than ten years, at most they have moved to the plain area of the county, but they are unwilling to go out of the county, which naturally causes the situation of less land and more people.

In fact, this situation has been recorded by the court, and it is divided into narrow townships and wide townships, and the so-called narrow townships refer to places with few land and many people. Kuanxiang is a place with few people and many lands, and does not specifically refer to a township or a county, in principle, the court encourages people from narrow townships to move to Kuanxiang.

It's just that the enthusiasm of the magistrates is not high, because the Great Sui is divided into grades according to household registration, the upper county, the middle county, the lower county, the upper county, the middle county, the middle and lower counties, and the number of households is the upper county, how many households are the middle counties, and how many households are the lower counties.

"I see." Yang Yong suddenly realized when he heard this, no wonder he paid the minimum salary of the craftsmen who built Renshou Palace and Luoyang Land is 400 Wen per month, which is far better than pulling fiber here for a living, these people do not leave here, on the one hand, they are difficult to leave their homeland, on the other hand, the county order does not encourage it, but if it goes on like this, with the peace of the world, the population of the narrow township will only increase, and finally become poorer and poorer.

According to the distinction between narrow townships and wide townships, in fact, the capital is about to become a narrow township, the capital alone carries millions of people, even if the grain needs to be transported abroad, if it is a disaster, especially last year's disaster, if it is not for the hundreds of thousands of people in the capital to move to Luoyang to build the city early, I am afraid that the capital will starve to death or flee the famine.

Although Guanzhong has four passes, in fact, it is still not suitable for the capital, Luoyang is only more than a thousand miles away from Daxing, but if you want to transport Luoyang's materials to the capital, the loss is amazing, and then the Grand Canal is dug, still can not change the disadvantages of Guanzhong, no wonder after the Tang Dynasty, China has never taken Guanzhong as the capital, Yang Yong does not want to wait until Guanzhong becomes a desert and then move the capital.

"Lu Aiqing, after returning to Beijing, you ask the household department for statistics to see how many narrow townships there are in the country, if necessary, the court should forcibly relocate some of the people in the narrow townships to Kuanxiang." Yang Yong commanded.

"Yes, Wechen obeys." Lu Mulin nodded in response.

Huang Ping listened with a bitter face, Shaanxi County is now a middle county, with a population of more than 50,000 and no more than 100,000 acres of land, if the court really ordered the relocation of tens of thousands of people, Shaanxi County would at least become a middle and lower county, or even a lower county, and his county order would be demoted.

Lu Mulin patted Huang County Lingdi on the shoulder: "Don't worry, if the court really wants to issue an order to move to the countryside, it will definitely not reduce the rank of officials because of the relocation of the township to reduce the population, and the local officials who do well will be promoted." ”

"Really?" Huang Ping suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and used his eyes

Aimed, but the prince didn't say anything, so Huang Ping's heart was still seven

Yang Yong naturally didn't need to explain to a little magistrate, his eyes looked at the slender men again, at this moment, the water in the place where the boat was traveling was slightly gentle, and the slender men's horns turned into singing: "Who knows? How many bends of the Yellow River in the world? How many boats are there in a dozen bends? Dozens of boatmen moving the ship? I know that the Yellow River in the world has 99 bends, and there are 99 boats in the 99 bends. Ninety-nine boatmen moved the boat. ”

Although they worked hard, there was still joy in the singing, and Yang Yong nodded when he heard it: "Tell me to go down, cross Sanmenxia, and reward ten wen per person." ”

"Yes." Soon, Yang Yongdi's order was transmitted to the shore by the soldiers of the noisy land, and the singing on the shore did not stop, but after singing the last sentence, nearly a thousand people suddenly came to say: "Thank you." "The voice is neat and powerful. It seems to have been trained many times.

"Husband, look ahead, it's such a big stone." Yun Mei'er excitedly pointed to the big stone road in the river.

Yang Yong raised his eyes and saw that a large stone in front of him was more than two feet high. Standing in the middle of the Yellow River, it divides the river into two streams, and the river water rushes down to the boulders like stormy waves. The boulder stands majestically like an angry lion, as if it has existed in the middle of the river since ancient times.

"Your Highness. This boulder is still said to be the stone pillar of the Zhenhe River left by Yu when he controlled the water, and it is still the middle pillar of the Yellow River, and it is called to me. Huang Ping explained beside him.

"Since it's the mainstay. Why are you calling you to me again? Yun Mei'er asked with great interest next to her.

"Back to the side concubine. It's a folk legend. Legend has it that a husband led several cargo ships downstream to the mouth of the Shenmen River. The weather changed suddenly, the wind did not stop, the white waves in the canyon were surging, the fog was rising, the water could not be seen, and the boat was about to be pushed to the rocks by the wind and waves. Old?.. Shout: Take the helm and come to me. Jump into the waves and stand in the middle of the rapids to navigate the boat. The boatmen approached and were about to pull him onto the boat when a wave pushed the boat downstream and out of danger. Wait for the boatmen to tie the boat downstream and return to find the old ?.. The island, standing tall in the rapids, guides the course of passing ships. From then on, the boatmen called this rock to me. ”

Yang Yong frowned and said: "This rock towers in the center, if the ship hits it, won't it be shattered, and how can you navigate the ship?" ”

"Your Highness doesn't know, because the rock towers in the center and blocks the current, when the ship comes over, as long as it rushes straight towards the pillar, the ship is about to collide with the pillar, and the backwater of the waves in front of the pillar just pushes the ship to the side of the safe channel and avoids the reef of Ming Island, Your Highness, please see, the ships above do not need to avoid the pillar at all."

Yang Yong looked up, there happened to be a ship coming from upstream, only to see that the ship rushed straight to the pillar and crashed, but when it was still a few meters away, a wave came, the boat just avoided it, and sailed directly downstream, which seemed to be thrilling, but in fact it was unharmed.

"Sure enough, the mainstay came to me." Yang Yong praised, he didn't expect this rock to have this role, and secretly thought to himself, who will be the mainstay of the East Palace?

East Palace, Yuan Qing'er just came back from the palace, and immediately ordered the family order to submit the account book for processing, these days, Dugu's mood is often depressed, Yuan Qing'er has to enter the palace almost every day to accompany him, Yuan Qing'er naturally knows what the reason for the queen's boredom is, but this matter is not something she can solve as a daughter-in-law, only to chat with Dugu's to relieve boredom.

Xing'er walked in from outside, snatched the account book from Yuan Qing'er's hand, and said distressedly: "Miss, you are much haggard these days, why don't you ask the queen mother for a few days off, or put aside the affairs of the East Palace for the time being?" ”

The relationship between the two has always been very good, even after Xing'er married the prince, she still treats Yuan Qing'er as a master and servant.

Yuan Qing'er rubbed her forehead and said tiredly: "The queen mother is asking someone to accompany her, how can she not go, and the affairs of the East Palace cannot be left behind, otherwise the prince will come back, and the East Palace will be a mess, how can the palace be worthy of the prince?" ”

"But if the prince comes back and sees the young lady like this, won't it be even worse?"

"No, the prince will come back in more than ten days, and the palace will naturally be relaxed by then." After Yuan Qing'er finished speaking, she picked up the account book on the table again.

Xing'er was helpless, so she had to sit aside and accompany Yuan Qing'er, although she was the prince's side concubine, but she couldn't replace Yuan Qing'er to enter the palace to accompany the queen, and she wouldn't sort out the account books.

When Yuan Qing'er was looking at the account book, her eyes suddenly spent, followed by a burst of dizziness, and she fell backwards, but fortunately, Xing'er was in a hurry, and she reached out to support Yuan Qing'er so that she didn't fall to the ground.

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