Chapter 75: The Great Forced Labor

In the early summer of May, the north of Chang'an City, adjacent to the Wei River, was crowded with people, and the sound of passwords resounded in the sky.

The people were carrying a heavy fiber rope, with red ears and red ears and gritted teeth, and the messenger of the Inner History Mansion dragged the head of the fiber rope and shouted in his throat: "The Son of Heaven ordered me to build a royal city, Guanzhong Qian is a million, the Son of Heaven's pardon cannot be violated, brothers pull with me!" ”

"Ho Ho Ho ......"

The hoarse roar spread all over the field, and hundreds of thousands of people pulled the fiber rope under the scorching sun to drag the huge building ship slowly into the wharf, the Han Cheng and Qin systems gathered the combination of military service and conscription since the third dynasty of the Xia and Shang dynasties, and the military conscription law was unimaginably strict, and the emperor ordered the Beijing division to go out, and within seven days, millions of people in Guanzhong were exhausted.

The Han law stipulates that those who have five doctors and above are exempt from forced labor, and ordinary small forced labor can be replaced by more endowments, but there is no pardon in front of the million-level great forced labor, whether you are a powerful landlord, a wealthy businessman, a proud and self-conscious Confucian student, or a brave and ruthless ranger, you must prostrate under the iron bar of the strict Han law.

If you have escaped from conscription for a long time or instigated others to escape from conscription together, as long as you have no two words, you should be killed according to the Han law!

Beheaded, abandoned the city, beheaded, one after another beheaded and murderous, under the Han law, no one dared to say that the Han law was unfair, Huaiyin Marquis Han Xin died, Zhou Bo died dangerously, Zhou Yafu died unjustly, the level of Liang King Peng Yue was hung on the gate of Luoyang City in the heart of the world to show the public, how many rebel princes and kings, and the corpses of the princes and nobles who were guilty of capital crimes were piled up.

The strict laws of the Han Empire are not Confucian cannons, but the mountains of corpses killed with butcher knives, and the mountains of blood and bones are cast, can you be greater than Han Xin and Zhou Yafu in terms of merit?

If not, then there is only one result of challenging Hanlu.

Die!

Strong mobilization, strong execution, and extremely strong grassroots organization are the secrets of the Great Qin Empire's domination of the world, and it is also the true essence of the Han Empire's mighty Eight Desolations!

The Han law is implemented to the extreme fairness, only a few times the emperor can interfere temporarily change, such as Chao mistakenly digging the Taimiao to temporarily avoid death, but after all, he can't escape the killing intent of the hundred officials and marquis, and he can not be killed if he violates the Han law, so he must be prepared to be killed by someone who does not follow the rules, so the people of the time did not cry out for Chao Wrong, because he separated the love of the brothers and nephews of the Son of Heaven, directly forced against Liu Wu, the king of Chu, indirectly forced Liu Jianglu, the king of Qi, and dug the Taimiao to commit the crime of great disrespect and deserved death! Chao's wrong death is not unjust.

Millions of people were ordered by the Son of Heaven to serve the conscription, pulling the rope to drag a large ship into the inland port outside Chang'an City, there are more than a dozen of the same big ships in the Wei River, and it is difficult to distinguish the real from the false with thousands of sails fluttering in the distance.

Knock knock!

The north of Chang'an City has been a grand occasion of crowds of people, with the stone of Guandong coming in batches, the prince held the edict of the Son of Heaven and issued an edict, and millions of households in Guanzhong must each family out of a Ding to repair the royal city, and then Guanzhong million conscripts rose up.

What is the concept of a million people? There were 700,000 prisoners in Lishan who repaired the tomb of the Qin king, and 300,000 people who built the Great Wall, and one million people was equal to the sum of the two.

Such a large-scale conscription is unprecedented since the destruction of Qin, and Emperor Taizu Gao repaired the second palace of Le Weiyang, and built Chang'an and built Changling's tomb.

As soon as the prince gave the order, Guanzhong was shocked and the world was in an uproar.

The government and the opposition unanimously opposed the large-scale conscription, and even more radicals denounced it as a sign of the death of Qin, and the world's turbulent rhetoric poured into Chang'an City, and the snowflakes poured into Changle Palace, as well as the Linguang Palace in Ganquan Mountain.

The officials and ministers were shocked, and the Empress Dowager Dou, who had always hated big movements, didn't say a word, even the Son of Heaven in the Linguang Palace of Ganquan Mountain did not move at all, and the two palaces were silent as if they couldn't wake up.

The three dukes and nine kings were familiar with the internal situation and kept silent without mentioning half of the words of opposition, under the premise that the crowd was angry and the world was in an uproar, the conscription actually spent two full months in peace, and the impression was that the tyrannical Qin Xiu Qin King Mausoleum was often whipped, corporal punishment, and the harsh law of beheading did not fall on the people.

Not only did they not fall behind, but at the end of a month of forced labor, no people returned to their homes, but they were more actively engaged in more heavy projects.

No one dies of overwork, no one dies of malnutrition, no complaints and resentment are heard on the construction site, no passive slacking off work but all are aggressive, and incredible self-discipline is born in the body of millions of people.

Some huge stones are huge, three zhang square and weigh tens of thousands of catties, a few people drive more than 20 cows to drag the fiber rope and slowly bring up the boulder, the wood under the boulder is padded on the ground and makes a creaking sound, the old cows use their strength to feed and go forward, and the people are responsible for pulling out the giant wood to the front of the situation and continue to drag.

Similar scenes can be seen everywhere on the construction site, with four oxen dragging an elongated ox cart on eight wheels, a modified flatbed cart turned into a wooden wagon that can carry heavy loads, and a few iron plates inlaid to increase the strength to load sand, bricks and lime.

Knock knock knock...... Bang Bang Bang!

The long sound of the drums suddenly turned into a crisp golden sound, and all the people automatically stopped their men, lined up in a neat line under the command of the Northern Army, and then slowly drove into the open-air canteen in the distance.

Zheng Tong led the head of the team, behind him with more than 200 men from Nanzhuang to serve in the service, there were 1,000 people in his team, and each captain of the people led a waist card, which was engraved with a galvanized lettering number, the number was the number of the open-air canteen corresponding to each team of people, and the canteen regularly served light meals, and the standard was actually three meals a day in the Pingyang Hou Mansion.

"Wash your hands! You can only eat after washing your hands, and if you don't wash your hands and get caught, you won't want to eat lunch. ”

The guy in the cafeteria had a face full of meat, holding a big horse spoon and scolding, a pair of bull's eyes swept over the sloppy bastards in the team from time to time, and saw those bastards cowering and hiding in the team, and scolded: "Xu Letou, let me see you stealing steamed buns again, discounting your claws and sending the official." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Xu Ji covered his head and smiled, and the men in his companions laughed.

The eldest son of the Zheng family's second room, Zheng Tong's younger brother Zheng Sui washed his hands from the collection pool, shook the water stains on his hands indiscriminately, and was immediately frightened by the big horse spoon and retreated: "Don't come over to the stinky boy of the Zheng family, don't go over to line up!" ”

"Cut! Why is it fish soup again, I am tired of drinking fish soup every day. Zheng Sui suddenly walked to the end of the team with a lack of interest, and after a while, the team was long lined up in four teams and extended.

Each person has a bamboo lunch box containing a bowl of fresh fish soup from the Wei River, a large pot of cooked vegetable stew, and three fist-sized mixed noodles.

A large pot with a diameter of one zhang deep and one zhang is boiling the soup that this thousand people drink, this season the big boat can catch thousands of catties of various fish in a net, the fish caught in the evening of the previous day are distributed to a number of canteens, the cooks have no time to cut the fish scales to remove the gills and remove the internal organs, wash it with water several times and throw it directly into the cauldron to set up a fire and stew, so stew until noon the next day for them to drink.

As the saying goes, thousands of tofu and fish, after Huainan Wang Ming's tofu was brought to Chang'an, it was immediately applied to the meals of the servants, and the tofu fish became the standard because it was resistant to cooking and good processing, but it would be tired of eating it for two months in delicious things.

The chubby guy fished down the first spoonful, the tofu fish at the bottom of the pot was scooped up along with the soup, and the second spoonful was the pure white fish soup, which was full of three buns in one soup, and the tofu fish in the fish soup could also be used as a dish.

"Look at what kind of mess this is today, oh! There are beans, sprouts, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and pig blood. ”

"There are so many fatty slices, this Chef Lu won't fill his pockets!"

Several young people picked up the lunch box left and right, and were glared at by Zheng Tong and reprimanded in a low voice: "You talk too much!" Hurry up and eat and rest, we only have half an hour to rest. ”

The people who ate next to them did not pick the fat and thin, ate the lunch cleanly, returned the lunch box and went straight to the shade to sleep away from the sun, and when it was late, he could not arrange a good place to rest, so he had to take his clothes and cover his head to barely resist the summer sun.

The left-behind bureaucrats in the command post were also eating, and the gap between the small stove prepared for them in the back kitchen and the food of the people outside was not too big, nothing more than four more cold dishes, four roasted vegetables, and the same tofu and fish soup were drunk, and the food was still mixed noodles and steamed buns.

Busy on the construction site for more than two months, many people have tanned skin and messy beards, they have not gone home to rest for several months, the prince specially allowed their Mu Xiu to be accumulated, and after the matter is completed, some Mu Xiu will be subsidized as appropriate, so the officials are also fighting for this big project.

Cao Shi's image can only be said to be slightly better, he is much happier than the people present, he can go home the next day to rest overnight, and make a bed in the command post the next night.

"I'm tired!"

Lieutenant Ning Cheng was on duty today, and last night in the palace forbidden to accompany the three princes and Jiuqing to study the new city plan until the middle of the night, he didn't have time to rest, and he got up early this morning and came to the town in good spirits, and he was busy with his clothes and didn't go home for five or six days, and he was physically and mentally exhausted and didn't even want to say a word.

"I can't stand walking too much, so I can feel comfortable by soaking my feet for a while." Cao Shi took a hot towel, put it on his face, and lay still.

Ning Cheng replied in agreement, and waved his hand to beckon the little official to take a wooden bucket of hot water and be familiar with the operation, although the position made him not very good at dealing with Pingyang Hou, but he still admired this person's talent and conduct, at least he did not have the bad character of Chang'an Liehou to cover up extravagance and arrogance, and he was humble and low-key and rarely said ugly strange things.

The two of them simply exchanged a few words on official matters, knowing that such a big project is not something that can be seen in three or five days, and there must be enough patience and perseverance to do big things, Ning Chengcheng started by doing one thing a day for more than ten years, and he knows very well that he must not be impatient to do things, and he must not let go of his mouth if he is not in a hurry, and he must not let go of his mouth, but this kind of experience is not good for Pingyang Hou to communicate.

After the peaceful lunch break, just as the drums sounded again, the prince hurriedly walked into the command post, saw Cao Shi hurriedly stood up and saluted, waved his hand and said eagerly: "The renovation of the temple in the south of the city broke ground today, I have invited the imperial grandmother and the queen mother to watch the ceremony, you hurry up and follow me." ”

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