The fifth is more presented, big guys, are there still tickets?

The hooves of the horses beat on the official road outside the mouth, and a dozen or so horses galloped forward. The knight on the horse, who had been riding first, suddenly reined in the reins, and the Mongolian horse, which was running happily, neighed, and stood up with its two hind hooves. The figure on the horse, with a red robe and black yarn, and a sword hanging from his waist, looks like a Confucian official who is about to put pen to paper, which is Hu Linyi, the new supervisor of the Kuzhang Railway.

On the side of the official road, there is a large construction site.

The camp for tens of thousands of people has already been leveled. Zhuangding mobilized from collective farms in the northeast, as well as laborers recruited from Beizhi, Shandong, Shanxi, and other places, were gobbling up sorghum bread rolls. Clustered in clusters. The foremen are still shouting: "Hurry up and eat, you have to work when you are full!" The emperor issued a holy decree that the railway must be paved to the trading city before the end of the 7th year of liberation, otherwise no one will have good fruit to eat! ”

Hearing the foreman's scaring words, Hu Linyi showed a wry smile on his face, this errand is not easy - to build a railway from Zhangjiakou to the trading city! It also had to be completed within 1854. If it can't be completed on time, the emperor Lao Tzu has no way to deal with these hard-working workers, but he will be unlucky as the railway supervisor. Because this errand is a military order! If you can't finish it on time, it's a military law job!

Fortunately, the project budget is quite sufficient, but the standard of the light railway, according to the budget of 5,000 silver dollars per mile, and the construction fund of 2,500 miles of railway is 12.5 million. Moreover, as long as the quality and quantity are completed, the remaining funds of the construction funds can be divided and moved home by the officials who supervise the yamen. Therefore, the errand that Hu Linyi got this time can be regarded as a fat poor. He had already asked the foreign engineers and accountants who supervised the yamen to calculate. This time's work. 11 million is enough for a full fight. The most rear. You can always drop 1.5 million silver dollars!

And in order to be able to share more money, the personnel of this yamen are very lean, except for the necessary engineers and accountants, there are less than 100 people wearing official robes. And it didn't occupy a large yamen in Beijing, but rented a few offices in the commercial port of Tianjin - in other words, how does this so-called railway supervision yamen look so much like a commercial house?

One was dressed in a coarse cloth robe, wore glasses, and had an abacus hanging from his neck. The middle-aged man who also had a pair of ears for the wind trotted out all the way. He arched his hand towards Hu Linyi, who had just come off the horse, and said with a smile on his face: "Master Hu, the journey is fine, it's not early today, do you want to rest for a night and then inspect the construction site?" ”

This man is from Shanxi, and his voice is full of the smell of old vinegar. His name is Qiao Zhiyong, and he is the assistant of the railway superintendent yamen. He was born in the Jin Dynasty, and spent money to buy a Chongqing prefect in the early years, but he "sold" Qi Shan, the Chengdu general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time, and became an official of the Ming Dynasty.

"Zhong Deng. Tomorrow and tomorrow...... Now every day cannot be delayed, if it is not completed on time. You and I will be dismissed at the least, and killed at the worst! We all have military orders. ”

Hu Linyi threw the horsewhip to the bodyguard beside him, took Qiao Zhiyong's hand and walked towards the camp. He took the job at a risk, and the military order was no joke. Although the head may not be killed, there is no escape from dismissal and exile. Moreover, the rules here in the Ming Dynasty are strict, and the dismissal and exile will be over! I have not heard that there is an opportunity to "serve in front of the army" and "make meritorious service by committing crimes"! If it weren't for Zeng Guofan's loss of the enemy camp and Hu Linyi's lack of backstage, he would not have taken on this errand that would be exiled if he was not successful.

However, Emperor Zhu is not unreasonable, he is not as stingy and harsh as Zhu Yuanzhang. This errand can make a lot of money if it is done well. His Majesty the Emperor does not have "zero tolerance" for corrupt officials, but relies more on the system and public opinion to restrain them. For example, the construction of the Mongolian railway this time was like this, and commercial management was adopted, and if it was not for the construction in the war zone, Emperor Zhu would definitely have awarded the project to the construction company.

Just as Hu Linyi and Qiao Zhiyong walked towards the big tent in the center of the camp, the sound of labor trumpets sounded.

"Whoa, oh, everybody, hey...... Hi...... Hi! Pull hard, push hard, let's be full of energy! Let's work together to push the cart! Whoa, ahem! Cough! Cough! ”

The team had returned from pulling the condoms in the nearby mountains, and had dragged cartloads of timber to the camp with horses and horses. These timbers are used to make railroad sleepers, and they are cut down in the mountains and forests outside Zhangjiakou. Most of the workers who cut and carried the timber were strong men from the collective farms in the Northeast. The governor's yamen and the general army yamen of the three provinces of Heijiliao jointly issued an official document, recruiting a total of 30,000 strong men, and everyone carrying foreign guns, which were also issued to the railway superintendent yamen. In addition, more than 50,000 collective farms and military households were employed by the Northeast Development Corporation to work on the construction site of the Northeast Railway.

These strong men are not all willing to leave their Zhuangzi, if they are allowed to choose, they would rather stay on the land to live a good life, their wives and children hot kang head, plus dozens of acres of land is the dream of farmers. Now, I hand over the land to others to cultivate on my behalf, and I come out to earn wages by myself, and I can earn more money than I can earn, and where is this hard work comparable to farming in the Zhuangzi. But if you don't come out, you can't do it, there is a military order from above, and if you can't meet the recruitment target, you will have to deprive yourself of the land, which is everyone's life!

Yang Laobai pushed the cart full of wood hard, and cursed in his heart this world that does not allow poor people to live in peace. Now he looks much stronger than when he just left his hometown of Anren Town, Dayi County. In Sichuan, it is hard, but in Heilongjiang, it is hard work, or as long as you are willing to work hard, life is really good, at least some eat.

First of all, the fertile land on the edge of the Heilongjiang River can produce oil! Although only one crop can be planted a year, the harvest is by no means the same as the double cropping rice in the south – in this era, there are no chemical fertilizers, and they are all supported by biological fertilizers and the fertility of the land itself. The land in Sichuan has been cultivated for thousands of years, and the fertility of the land itself is no longer sufficient. And the land on the edge of the Heilongjiang River has not been cultivated, of course, it is not fertile. Moreover, the summer sunshine hours in the north are very long, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, which is conducive to the growth of crops. In addition, the winters in Tohoku are extremely cold, and there are few pests that can adapt to this harsh environment. Therefore, in the future, the Northeast can become the granary of the country.

The second is that there is no need to pay rent for the land (exempted for 3 years), although the land is not owned. But it's free forever! and all the grain that is harvested shall be their own. If it weren't for the fact that the price of grain here in the Northeast was too cheap, Yang Laobai's income last year would probably have surpassed that of Liu Zongying, a landlord in his hometown. However, he has definitely eaten better than most of the landlords in China in the past year or so, and there is meat almost every meal, and the white-flour steamed buns are even more open to eat. That's how to eat, and the family is still full of grain.

The third is that there is a lot of extra income. Although there are 50 acres of land to be taken care of, there is not much farm work to be done. The collective farm was ploughed with horses, which were supposed to be owned by the farm, but they were taken by the "owner" to raise them, and when they were pulled out to plow the land, they asked each family to receive a little grain as payment. In addition, the "owner" also built a mill in his house, and the wheat collected by everyone was also handed over to his family to grind into flour. It's a bit of a "capitalist tail", but everybody is willing to do it. Because the time and effort saved can go to the nearby mountains to dig some mountain goods and dig up some ginseng medicinal materials, which is easier to get money than farming. Moreover, the "owner" is elected by all the bankers on one person and one vote, so they do not dare to put forward too high a fee. Since the peasant households of a Zhuangzi are all gathered together from all over the world, there are almost no fellow villagers and clansmen, and it is difficult to form a potential force at present. This grassroots democracy is genuine.

Because the life in the Zhuangzi was good, no one wanted to leave the Zhuangzi to work, but the military order to levy coolies in three days and two ends was issued...... It seems that things in the world are always unsatisfactory! When Yang Laobai was thinking like this in his heart, the carriage pulling the wood had already entered the camp. (To be continued......)