The absolute superiority of force in a small area made it impossible for Luo Rucai to resist.

Therefore, after being captured by Su Qing and Su Baiyi, Luo Ru surrendered!

Not only did he surrender, but even the 200,000 troops under him were swallowed by Su Baiyi Xiaona.

Inevitably the night was long and dreamy, Su Baiyi did not dare to gather these 200,000 people together for too long, and after confiscating their weapons on the first day, there were escapes and riots that night.

The next day, I counted it a little and said it was 200,000, but in fact it was not that much. Because 20,000 or 30,000 were wiped out during the siege of the city, and in the past few days, people have fled one after another, and another 10,000 have gone, plus Luo Rucai lied about the number, in fact, after Su Baiyi gathered all the people and counted them, there were 150,000 people.

About 50,000 foot soldiers, 20,000 elites, and 80,000 homeless.

The 150,000 people were divided into seven groups, each with 20,000 troops, and the soldiers of the three railway guards were asked to escort these unarmed homeless people into the railway construction site along the line from Guide Fu to Luoyang.

Su Baiyi's original formation of these homeless people who usually couldn't even eat was in chaos, and then reorganized and formed a brigade in a militarized form, with 20,000 people in each railway brigade, which was divided into five levels: squadron, squad, large class, and group.

The captain and squadron leader of each railway brigade have Jinyi guards or students, and the rest of the squad leaders, squad leaders, and group leaders are selected immediately.

The task of these people was to build the railroad and fill in the earthwork of the roadbed.

Su Baiyi stipulated that each worker's daily labor pay was 10 cents, and that women were 8 cents, and that the railway governor Yamen was responsible for providing food and lodging, and each person had three meals a day, each meal cost one cent, and the rest of the work could be exchanged for food, cloth, or other items.

In the Governor's Palace, the division of labor was an intangible currency.

The reason why these homeless people are not born against the imperial court is not because they like to take risks and hunt for curiosities, but because their hometown is in trouble and cornered, and they can't support their wives and children, so they have no choice but to rebel against these grass kings.

But after following the grass king, it would be good, obviously not.

They were still hungry and fed, and they went to the wilderness everywhere they went, plundering the people of the land, and the grain and silver money they obtained had to be given to the grass kings in addition to their own food. Sometimes when they encounter officers and soldiers, they have to act as human city walls and human shields, and the grass king is used as cannon fodder.

Many people starved to death halfway through, and many more died in the war.

Even if they don't die, no one is born to like to hide in Tibet all day long.

Therefore, when they heard that they could have three meals a day for working for the yamen, the governor of the railway, and that there were extra jobs that could be exchanged for food, vegetables, and cloth, they were simply happy to death.

"Don't talk about giving work, I work with him for three meals a day!" A hungry boy like a thin hemp pole scratched his head, nibbled on the head of the nest in his hand, and chatted with his companion at the same time.

Of course, these Su Baiyi knew.

He doesn't have to do anything at the moment, just giving these jobs to make a living is already a Buddha in the hearts of the people. However, he still insisted on giving these refugees some daily necessities in addition to making ends meet.

Subsistence can keep people alive, so the reward in addition to food is the hope in the hearts of refugees. Su Baiyi built the railway for the benefit of one party, not for extortion.

Of course, Su Baiyi had another layer of consideration for doing this.

Everything pays attention to a signboard, and he also has the meaning of playing the signboard of the railway governor's yamen. For a railway, it takes a lot of manpower to fill the roadbed, and it also takes a lot of manpower to transport materials. Because all the rails are produced in Guide, in order to be transported to various places, the rails must be loaded from the steel workshop in Guide Province, and then transported along the Yellow River upstream, from the river bank to the railway, which naturally requires a lot of manpower.

A mere 200,000 people is just a drop in the bucket for the entire Longhai Railway, and it would be good to have one-tenth of it. In this era when there are no machinery, everything depends on the hands of working people, and the demand for manpower in engineering is huge. When Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, he enslaved the world, and there were 2.5 million people who died in the river alone, and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty did not dig the canal again, but a large part of it was made up of the old river channel in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Even if this Longhai Railway is not as large as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it should not be underestimated.

Su Baiyi felt that it should be necessary for two or three million people to work at the same time.

Now there are only 200,000 people.

So how to find future generations?

Do you have to attack the Grass King to get it?

Su Baiyi really didn't have this mind, so he wanted to spread his reputation and let those homeless people take the initiative to gather under his command. There is still a reward for food and lodging, and there is no need to pin your head to the waistband of your trousers and fight against the court, once there is such a good errand, those homeless people will follow the grass king to eat instead of building the railway unless they are crazy.

What Su Baiyi never expected was that this kind of errand of getting ten centimeters a day turned out to be a sweet treat.

Not to mention the displaced people, even the people of Guide Mansion couldn't sit still after hearing about such a good thing, and they ran to the Yuyuan Railway Yamen to ask if they could join the construction of the railway.

Su Baiyi waved his hand very generously and said: "Of course you can, if you are strong and can endure hardships, you can come to sign up, the treatment is the same as others, work ten centimeters a day, in addition to three centimeters for food, the remaining centimeters can be used to buy soap, cloth, glass, medicine, food, as well as oil and salt, but you can't exchange money." ”

Such a good opportunity is spent on the money of the imperial court, and it would be too sorry for myself if I didn't create some benefits for Yuyuan. Corruption is impossible, nor is it possible to blatantly exploit workers.

But if this work can only be exchanged for the goods produced in the Yuyuan, and the goods in the Yuyuan are sold to the imperial court at a low price, they are extremely profitable.

"I want to see Su Baiyi, don't stop me, Ben Shuai wants to see Su Baiyi!"

There was a commotion outside, and Su Baiyi in the office frowned.

Of course he knew that it was Luo Ru who came.

Luo Rucai chose to surrender after being caught by Su Qing, Su Baiyi did not lock him up like a prisoner, nor did he give him an official or beg the court to give him a knight or something like he did with the Caotou King of Zhao'an, he treated everyone equally, no matter whether you were a homeless or a handsome before, as long as you surrendered, you will become my Su Baiyi's manpower.

Luo Rucai is naturally no exception, but Luo Rucai's identity is relatively special, and he has not been assigned to seven railway brigades for the time being, but let Fu Lin be guarded in Yuyuan, starting from the handicraft workshop. Of course, in view of this Luo Dashuai's special status, there are naturally people staring at him to prevent him from escaping.

Labor reform?

There is no point in crying and screaming, everyone Pu Yi is the emperor and can participate in the labor reform, and you are a grass head king who is still crooked.

Su Baiyi frowned and walked out of the office very unpleasantly, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The two students on the left and right said, "Sir, this Luo worker has a lot of strength, and he ran out of the glass workshop, and he has to see Mr." ”

"Luo Worker!" Su Baiyi looked at Luo Rucai with a serious face: "Do you have any dissatisfaction?" If your group leader treats you badly, or withholds your work, or behaves unfairly, you can explain to the Governor, and the Governor will do justice to you! ”

"My Lord Su!" Luo Rucai had a bitter face, his eyes were almost squeezed out of water, his hands were black and seemed to be carrying things just now, his two thick lips were slightly dry, his hair was unkempt, and the whites of his eyes were covered with bloodshots. These two days of life really made him unacceptable: "How can you treat me like this? This handsome is also a generation of heroes, since the surrender of the imperial court accepted Zhao'an, I don't want to be a marquis and a duke, at least give an official. But now, you let Ben Shuai move stones in the workshop, Su Baiyi, don't take such a practice. ”

"You don't want to do it?" Su Baiyi's face sank.

"The old ghost wants to do this." Luo Rucai said with a bitter face: "And my woman, Master Su, you should be merciful and let them follow Ben Shuai, and Ben Shuai should not be crowned a prince and marquis, just make an idle official in your railway yamen?" ”

"Humph!" Su Baiyi said: "If you want to do it, if you don't dare, you will get out, Lao Tzu will pull you to the vegetable market and wipe it." You don't want to do it? Do you know that those homeless people are excited to cry when they hear such good things? You led troops to attack my Guide Mansion, how many people died? Still recruiting? Hmph, that's Lao Tzu putting gold on your face, you don't know what to do, you don't accept the governor's recruitment, you are the enemy general captured by the governor, the governor should have escorted you bandit leaders into Beijing and asked Your Majesty for a reward, or you go and tell Your Majesty about the official? ”

"As for you women, don't think about it!" Su Baiyi continued: "They have been incorporated into the women's camp by the Governor, and they also have to work. Some laundry, some cooking, some weaving, some spinning, how good is life? Ben Governor thought that after a period of reform, he would choose those who had been reformed well and be matched with the officers and men of the army. ”

"You dare to ......" When Luo Rucai heard that Su Baiyi was going to give away his woman, he was immediately furious, and his eyes widened: "You dare to insult my wife and concubine, even if Ben Shuai dies here, he will fight with you!" ”

Su Baiyi thought for a while and said, "Luo Dashuai, in good conscience, are those women willing to follow you, and you didn't take it by chance?" Don't worry, Ben Du is only doing this to give those women freedom, not to insult you, with your current situation, even if they are willing to follow you, what do you do to feed them? ”

Luo Rucai bowed his head and was silent.

Su Baiyi said again: "Go back and work hard, if the transformation is good, I will prepare a separate courtyard for you, and return your old wife Zhang to you." ”