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Li Qian experienced soreness all over his body, then slowly numbness, and now he is full of energy and energy, and he slowly eased up.

Li Qian really didn't expect that when he became a people's husband, he would do it like this, which was even harder than farming at his own home.

Every morning, when the sky was bright, he went to work, digging mud in the river beach in full swing, picking it to the bank of the river two miles away until it was half dry, and then mixing stones and mud and sand to build up the river embankment. At the end of the day, there was a special gong for breakfast, and a special person who delivered food came to the construction site with food, and it was only a small half pillar of incense, and after breakfast, he immediately continued to dig the river. Although it took a lot of effort and hard work, the recovery was also fast, and what Li Qian didn't expect was that the government not only provided them with lunch, but also night food at the time of the unitary.

What Li Qian enjoys most every day is to gobble up his night food, touch his round belly, and lie comfortably on the temporary wooden planks built by the government on the river beach, fantasizing about how many days before he can get a salary of one or two silver.

At this time, Li Qian had completely forgotten the idea of rebellion that he had been preparing a few months ago, and he was even secretly glad that he had not rebelled against a group of people from a neighboring village.

And Li Dazhuang, who was with him, even calculated where to use it: he went to the market to pull three feet of cloth, bought a new dress for his two sons, and then cut two catties of meat to go back, so that the family could eat two meals beautifully.

Occasionally, though, they wonder if the government could keep recruiting them like this! One tael of silver a month, and after a year, even if you are generous, in addition to the two taels used, there are ten taels of silver! A whole ten taels of silver! Not to mention Li Qian and Li Dazhuang, even Second Uncle Li, who has been farming for so many years and has lived for most of his life, has never had so much silver! It's only been a year! If you can apply for two or three years, wouldn't you be able to buy two acres of land? Thinking about it, Li Qian and Li Dazhuang can almost wake up laughing in their dreams.

However, it's just a thought, how is it possible? The salary of one or two silver a month is not only their own people, but now they already know how determined the government is and how bold the new emperor is, and he wants to manually excavate the Yellow River for dozens of miles, and also strengthen the river embankment, and wait for the Yellow River to break and tie the water of the Yellow River in the Yellow River, and go to Shandong along the Yellow River to the open sea. How many people are there?

Li Qian, according to the foreman Li Youcai, the task of excavating this two-mile river in Xiangzikou Town is 5,000 people, think about it, how many people will be needed for those tens of hundreds of miles of river, at least 300,000 people! This is not only that, Li Qian once heard Li Youcai, who was a police officer and foreman, say that the emperor's order was not only to excavate the 100-mile river channel from the Yellow River to the Daqing River, but also to excavate more places in the rest of the rivers in Shandong, but that there was no such a large scale, and it was just to use the existing channel of the Daqing River to widen and deepen. The total number of people added up is probably 6.7 million or even millions of people.

Li Qian couldn't imagine that everyone was a salary of one or two silver a month, and that millions of people would have to pay a million taels of silver in a month, and there would be food, sleep, digging farm tools, etc., how much would this cost and what a price, Li Qian analyzed it like this, but found that he really didn't understand, what the hell was the plan of this government and the emperor? For the government and the emperor, there is no benefit at all.

Li Qian, who couldn't figure it out, could only stop thinking about it anymore, and worked hard every day, as if he didn't work hard, and received so much salary, as if he couldn't stand the government and the emperor who paid for it.

Because of Li Qiankong's strength and hard work, Li Youcai, the foreman, saw him and ordered him to be a small foreman, responsible for supervising the work of 500 people. However, while Li Qian was supervising, he still worked hard, leading everyone to dig the river together, and now, not only Li Youcai admired, but even the people under his command also followed suit and worked hard.

Li Qianren was also clever, and carried out division of labor and cooperation with his subordinates, and asked people to borrow more than ten ploughing oxen to bring plows to roll the sediment, and put baskets full of sediment on wooden boards, and rolled wood under the wooden planks, so that more than a dozen people could pull hundreds of baskets of sediment and transport them to both sides of the river embankment for reinforcement. For a time, the efficiency of excavating the river was much faster.

In order to speed up the progress, Li Youcai asked people to light torches, excavate overnight, transport sediment, and even rush to work. However, this way, the progress of the project is faster!

A few days later, when there were still three days left before a month, Li Qian was working hard, putting a basket in his hand on the wooden board on top of the rolling wood, and was about to let people transport the basket away, when suddenly there was a burst of cheers, at first it was not clear what it was, but later, the voice became louder and louder, and Li Qian heard it clearly: "It's finished." Complete the mission three days early! ”

However, it was the 5,000 men who dug the river, and they dug out all the rivers that were two miles long, one mile wide, and an average of one zhang and five feet deep three days in advance. Li Qian saw Li Youcai's face overjoyed, and he was carried into the air by more than ten people, and he, who had always been extremely majestic, actually showed a cheerful smile for the first time!

Li Qian is also full of joy! That's it! Yes, after nearly a month of hard work, 5,000 people working day and night, digging, transporting, compacting, and repeating, such a large project was finally completed. Rao is Li Qianping is calm, and he can't help but feel a little proud and excited!

The next day, Li Qian and others were led by Li Youcai to the next section of the river to excavate and help, but the adjacent section of the river was almost completed, but it was only two days late and it was also completed.

In the entire territory of Dongming County, a month or a few more days, one after another, the section of the river to be excavated has also been successfully completed.

In other places, this is also being staged.

…….

Wei Yuan learned that the excavation of the Yellow River in Dongming County had been completed that night, but he was in Puzhou City to see how to bypass the Yellow River Ancient Road, and by the time he arrived in Dongming, it was already the next day.

At this time, the ships that diverted from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to the north to the mouth of the Yellow River unloaded a large number of treasures specially assigned to him by the emperor to build the embankment, and also let many oxen and carriages pull to both sides of the river beach of the Yellow River that had been excavated.

Wei Yuan wanted to see this treasure that even the emperor praised himself.

At the sound of an order, the construction of the embankment began. Under the command of the soldiers and foremen of all sizes, the men compacted the earthen embankments, hammered wooden stakes into the earth, and piled up stones. The general embankment ends here, and at most it is stacked with wave-proof stones. Unexpectedly, Wei Yuan saw the deacons of the Ministry of Public Works and the Ministry of Agriculture, leading several foremen, leading the people to pour the black ash from the ox cart and carriage to the ground, mix it with fine sand, pour water and stir it, turning it into black mud. The men then glued the mud to the slope of the embankment, embedding it between the mud and the stakes and stones, filling all the gaps.

Wei Yuan understood, these must be strange Sanhe soils. He asked a deacon from the Ministry of Public Works about it, and he replied, "Lord Yuqincha, this is a fine architectural treasure invented by Banzai, and it is called cement!" Regardless of the fact that it is extremely soft now, it will harden in a few days, and finally become as hard and firm as a stone. No matter the impact of this current, it is also as stable as a mountain, as a river embankment, it is the best! ”

"What? Is there such a treasure in this world? Better than Sanhe soil? Wei Yuan exclaimed, what surprised him the most was that this treasure was actually invented and made today. Could it be that this is a method from the West? But as far as he knows, even several foreigners he has come into contact with have never said that there is such a strange thing in the West.

A few days later, when Wei Yuan came to Dongming County again to inspect, he was stunned: this treasure called cement had really repaired the entire river embankment to be extremely hard and firm. He tried to hammer the concrete floor with a wooden stake, but found that it was in vain, and the concrete floor was like a natural stone!

Wei Yuan is overjoyed! Hurriedly ordered to hurry up and transport more cement and repair the embankment along the excavated river.

In a month and a half, Wei Yuan went from Lanyang County in Kaifeng Prefecture to Dongming County, the Daimyo Mansion of Zhili, and then to Heze County, Caozhou Prefecture, Shandong. After entering the territory of Puzhou, the existing Wei River and Zhaowang River, the upstream tributaries of the Daqing River, were used to connect the old course of the Yellow River with the upper reaches of the Daqing River.