readx(); "Xiaotangshan Huangzhuang Farmland Water Conservancy Comprehensive Demonstration Project", this is the name given by Zhu Youzhen for this project. As the humble wooden sign with the name written on it was erected in front of the construction site, the intense and innovative project unfolded vigorously.

The first thing that surprised Chen Zilong was the food of the workers. In this era, the only project that can achieve this scale is river engineering. Chen Zilong's father, Chen Suowen, was a magistrate and was quite familiar with river workers, and Chen Zilong also studied it. The disadvantages of river engineering have been present in all dynasties, the Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, corruption has gradually emerged, and the maladministration of river engineering is even more full of tricks and peaks, and the people are unbearable, and it has seriously weakened the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Take, for example, the workers' meal. The vast majority of river workers in this era were "official repairs", that is, the government organized construction. Most of the workers came from forced labor and were not paid, but food was still provided by the government.

Chen Zilong has seen the food on the river workers with his own eyes, and it can no longer be described by the word "poor": no matter how many people there are, they just boil a big pot of rice porridge and nothing else. When it is time to open the meal, all the workers rush up, whoever squeezes to the front first and eats first, and can eat quickly can also hold one or two more bowls, but the movement is slow or weak, and the squeeze can not squeeze others, it is good to get some gruel.

In addition, there are always some scoundrels who bully the weak and are afraid of being brutal and unreasonable, and when they finish eating, they will rob others of their food, and whoever dares to resist will be punched and kicked. And the government often likes to use such people to "maintain order", and the robbed dare not speak out. River work is the heaviest physical work, and you can't even eat enough, so can you still do it well? Therefore, there is no one who is not passive and slacking off, and the project is also perfunctory, and when the flood really comes, it is useless at all.

And the reason why the government wants to make the food of the servants so poor is nothing more than because they can make money from it. Generally, when the government reports the river labor expenses to the household department, the food expenses of a servant are reported according to the annual report, which is 12 taels a year. However, the actual cost of food was calculated on a daily basis, and the original standard was four cents of silver per person per day. On the surface, it is almost the same, but it is impossible for river workers to work for 12 months a year, for example, if they only work for 3 months, the overreported 9 taels will be "intercepted" by the local government.

Even if there are the remaining three taels, the government has to find ways to deduct it, and the only way to do that is to lower the food standard. As for the quality of the river work, they don't bother to care. There are even black-hearted officials who specialize in eating "river workers" and still look forward to flooding every year and breaking down the river embankment every year, so that they can repair river workers every year and make money every year. The folk proverb "civil officials eat grass, military attaches eat soil" is a spicy satire of this kind of corrupt behavior.

But the construction team under Hao Daming is completely different. When the meal arrived, all the workers stood in accordance with the team to which they belonged, lined up in a neat line, and went to the "canteen" to eat. The "canteen" is actually five large tents, and there are three large cauldrons of dry food and vegetable porridge outside each tent, and there is a special person responsible for serving the rice, and you can't do it yourself. There is only one kind of stir-fried cabbage, which is really not delicious, but the amount is very large, and the pot is almost empty, and someone will fill it up immediately.

Workers walk in front of the cauldron in turn, and they can eat as much as they want, but they must hand in the corresponding meal tickets. This meal ticket needs to be bought with money, so there is no problem of "eating for nothing". Of course, meal tickets are very cheap, even if they are a welfare for workers, and they are only sold to workers in the construction team, and outsiders cannot buy them.

Chen Zilong is fresh, but the workers have long been used to it. There were a lot of other people, but none of them cut in line randomly, they were in order, and when it was everyone's turn, they ate quickly, and they all ate quickly. Chen Zilong sighed, thinking that if this was according to the original method of rushing up, it would not be completely chaotic!

As people gobbled up their meals, Chen Zilong realized that he was hungry too, but he didn't have a meal ticket. Hao Daming hurriedly smiled: "The master of the Ministry of Industry specially instructed that the villain must take care of Mr. This place is not as good as the city, the conditions are more difficult, the villain opened a small stove for you, four dishes, one soup, two meat and two vegetables, and a jar of good wine, please go back to the headquarters to use it slowly. ”

Chen Zilong remembered Zhu Youzhen's entrustment to him, shook his head and smiled: "The Holy Lord asked me to come, but I didn't enjoy the blessings behind closed doors. Although I have designed the construction plan, there are many specific matters that I still need to learn from your brother and everyone. Am I also in line with everyone to eat? Remove the small stove, send me some meal tickets, let's eat together, there are more people and it will be lively. ”

"How does this work?" Hao Daming waved his hand again and again, "I heard what the master of the Ministry of Engineering said, Mr. is a senior apprentice of Xu Ge, and he is a person who asks questions in universities." We're all rough people..."

"What a rough and fine person, I'm used to working in the fields." Chen Zilong smiled, "I don't believe that I stretch out my arm to compare, I'm darker than you." I like to be lively, and if you let me eat a small stove by myself, I am not happy. ”

As long as you put down your body, ordinary people are the easiest to deal with, and soon Chen Zilong will be familiar with Hao Daming and others. He also quickly figured out why there was no problem of deducting workers' food here: because the workers' meal tickets were not sold by Hao Daming to the workers, but were uniformly produced and sold by the Jingyang Merchant Gang under the supervision of the Ministry of Industry, and the "value" of each meal ticket was also fixed and known to everyone. Workers spent their own money to buy meal tickets, and if they couldn't buy the corresponding food, they could go to the Jingyang Merchant Gang or even the Ministry of Industry to file a complaint. Once verified, the "project manager" will not only lose his job, but also have to suffer a lawsuit and ask for guilt, so even if someone has this heart, they don't have the courage.

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The ship is far away, and the reason why the government wants to make the food of the servants so poor is because they can make money from it. Generally, when the government reports the river labor expenses to the household department, the food expenses of a servant are reported according to the annual report, which is 12 taels a year. However, the actual cost of food was calculated on a daily basis, and the original standard was four cents of silver per person per day. On the surface, it is almost the same, but it is impossible for river workers to work for 12 months a year, for example, if they only work for 3 months, the overreported 9 taels will be "intercepted" by the local government.

After dinner, the brigades blew the assembly whistle and began to dig the drainage ditch of the aqueduct. Because it is getting darker and darker, it is inconvenient to go up the mountain to get stones, but digging a ditch is not in the way, and it can be done in the dark. Moreover, the excavated earthwork can be used to build the river embankment.

At this time, Chen Zilong understood why Zhu Youzhen said that "it may not cost too much silver", because many of the materials needed for the project are locally sourced and do not need to be bought. The traditional river work is not good, just this earthwork, according to the current market, a piece of soil will cost four cents of silver. The earthwork used in a section of river construction can range from tens of thousands to millions, how much of an expense does this have? That's the benefit of "integrated engineering".

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The sky is getting darker and darker, but the construction site is in full swing, and labor calls are coming and going. Chen Zilong has dreamed of this scene countless times, and he doesn't want it to become a reality today! With tears in his eyes, he picked up a shovel and joined the army of labor.

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