Chapter 488: Labor is glorious
Li Jiancheng came to Chang'an, Li Xin personally greeted him, on the one hand, Li Xin still admires people like Li Jiancheng, the style of Confucianism, the style of the elderly, on the other hand, after all, it is also the brother of Li Xiuning and Li Zhiwan, Li Xin has a reason to greet him in person.
"The Tang King greeted him personally, and he was terrified." Li Jiancheng was smiling and gentle, but he looked like a sincere gentleman, but there was still a trace of fatigue on his face, thinking that because of Li Zhao's unstable situation during this time, he was a little worried in his heart. I don't know what kind of requirements Li Xin is going to make for his arrival.
"Brother Jiancheng, Li Xin came to greet you, I don't care about your identity as Prince Li Zhao." Li Xin joked with a smile.
"Also, this prime minister of yours is much more majestic than my prince." Li Jiancheng looked at Li Xin, and sighed in his heart, all the people were gone, and he didn't agree with him being with Li Xiuning because Li Xin was not from a family, but he still admired Li Xin's bravery in private, as for his father, he was even more eye-catching, and he couldn't win over, but he became a life and death enemy, and now he forced himself to come to Guanzhong in person. If it was back then? Li Jiancheng felt a little regretful in his heart.
"Brother Jiancheng, let's go, first take you to meet Yuanji, and the 50,000 elite soldiers." Li Xin got on the war horse with a smile and said to Li Jiancheng on the side.
"That's very good." Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly in his heart, Li Xin ordered 50,000 Li Zhao prisoners to build roads has long been spread all over the world, some people say that he is cruel, some people say that he is merciful, Li Zhao curses Li Xin internally, because Li Yuanji has been made out as a coolie, naturally no one will say that Li Xin is good.
"This time I am going to build the passage from Chang'an to Bashu, and the amount of work is very large, and I don't know if I can repair it in my lifetime." Li Xin's face was red, and he said: "But if it is repaired, the distance from Bashu to Chang'an will be shortened a lot in the future, and the connection between Chang'an and Bashu will be greatly increased." ”
"Such a large-scale project. The cost can be far away on the Grand Canal back then, and the virtuous brother can rest to abuse the people's power, lest when my Da Zhao enters Guanzhong, he will receive a broken Guanzhong. Li Jiancheng said with a slight worry. Of course, what he was worried about was not Li Xin's rule, but that he was worried that he would rule a ruined Guanzhong in the future, and he didn't know how many years he would have to recuperate.
Li Xin smiled when he heard this, and said immediately: "Brother Jiancheng rest assured, when it comes to wealth and prosperity, the current Guanzhong can be far above the state, and the king is still worried that the king will enter the state in the future." All I saw was starvation, and it took a lot of effort to provide disaster relief alone. Brother Jiancheng, I heard that the people's power in Bingzhou is very powerful! ”
Li Jiancheng frowned, although the two sides are only separated by a Yellow River, but the lives of the people on both sides of the Yellow River are completely different, which he felt from entering Guanzhong, but the smiles on the faces of the people in Guanzhong are more. The dish on the face is basically absent. It is very different from the merger state. He wondered if he would wait until he returned to Dazhao and learn to reduce rent and interest like Guanzhong.
"It's better not to worry about the affairs of my big Zhao, Tang Wang. I heard that you let these captives build roads, and the literati of the world are extremely dissatisfied! Li Jiancheng countered.
"It is because the people who built the road were all soldiers of Da Zhao. In the future, they will also be Li Tang's people, and this king will be extra kind to them, not only to let them eat enough, but also to let them eat well. Let them have the strength to work, if it is the defeated people of other alien races, I am afraid it will not be so simple, and I don't know how long this road will be built. In the future, when this king will unify the world and use troops to plug the outside. Capture all those aliens and let them help us build the road, hehe, this king believes that this road will be built quickly and at a very low cost. Li Xin said triumphantly.
"You." Li Jiancheng's face changed when he heard this, he faintly saw that countless aliens on this road in the future were wearing ragged clothes, thin and only skin and bones left, eating things that no one could eat, using shoulders and hands to build this road, behind him, both sides of the road were full of boundless corpses, Li Jiancheng fought a cold war, looked at Li Xin with horrified eyes, I didn't expect Li Xin to be so brutal, using this way to build the road, no wonder Li Xin is sure that he will not abuse the people's power, this does not need to abuse the people's power at all, a road was made out of the white bones of aliens.
"Why, does Brother Jiancheng think that the younger brother is cruel? There will be a big war in the Central Plains Dynasty every few hundred years, and at that time, the alien races on the grassland will take the opportunity to rise, just like the current Turks, Liang Shidu, Liu Wuzhou and even your Da Zhao are not all looking up to their snorts, if Emperor Wen and Emperor Wu took such measures against the Turks, how could the Turks become strong? Li Xin seemed to see that Li Jiancheng was dissatisfied in his heart, and said indifferently: "If it is not my race, its heart must be different, not only the Turkic people, but also the Tubo people, the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions, and the Nanyang people, as well as the Goguryeo and Fusang people, aren't they all like this?" When this king wins the world, he will first use the captives to build roads, and then fool those ordinary people to come to the Central Plains to do things, how about it, build a brother, so that there is no need to abuse the people's power. ”
"You, you're terrible." Li Jiancheng shook his head and smiled bitterly. I didn't expect Li Xin to adopt such a method, but this method does not need to abuse the people's power, but it is other people who die.
"How? Brother Jiancheng, I don't think you should do the position of prince, come and help me! The State Prince, the Ministry of Industry. Li Xin joked with a smile: "I see that you are very tired of being this prince, and when will you be killed by your brother." Li Xin is a bit strange, he knows the layout of Li Yuan's Jinyang Palace, Li Yuan is preparing to build it after the palace in Chang'an, and the fastest way to enter the palace is to pass through the Xuanwu Gate. I don't know if the Xuanwumen Incident in history will happen.
"King Tang, this is not how to sow discord." Li Jiancheng's face changed, he glared at Li Xin with some dissatisfaction, and galloped towards the official road in the distance.
Li Xin shook his head, in the end, he was an honest man, Li Xin reminded him at this time, but he was still angry, such a person deserved to be persecuted by Li Shimin, and in the end, Li Shimin was killed by his own hands.
The two led a team of people to the construction site soon, the construction site was in full swing, or lifting stones, or digging stones, Li Xin did not use gunpowder, but took the most primitive thermal expansion and contraction, first burned the mountain stone with fire, and poured cold water on it, so that the stone fell easily. Of course, Li Xin still built a lot of tools, shovels, pickaxes and other objects, which made the progress of the project much faster.
"Where is Li Yuanji?" Li Jiancheng looked at Li Xin dissatisfied, the current weather in Guanzhong is still relatively cold, these people are working at this time, and the degree of hard work can be imagined. Especially although these people are wearing clothes, their clothes have long been worn out, and some wounds are faintly visible on their bodies, which makes Li Jiancheng very angry.
"What? Brother Jiancheng, this kind of work is normal in my Guanzhong army. Li Xinyang pointed to the distance, Li Jiancheng looked into the distance, only to see a military camp in the distance, there was a burst of shouting and killing in the barracks, Li Jiancheng could see that the soldiers inside were also naked, training hard there, which made Li Jiancheng extremely frightened in his heart, Li Xin's command was an elite soldier, he didn't believe it at first, but now he believes it. How to train so hard is not a crack soldier.
"Go, call Li Yuanji." Li Xin said to Duan Qi beside him. He also wanted to see what Li Yuanji was tortured into.
After half a ring, I saw a young man with loose hair, ragged clothes, and wounds all over his body, led by Duan Qi, trotting over.
"Motoyoshi." Li Jiancheng looked at the other party for a long time before he saw that the other party was Li Yuanji, and he couldn't help but have red eyes, jumped off the horse, and took the big coat on his body and draped it on him.
"Li Xin, you are too much. He's your uncle. Li Jiancheng turned around and scolded.
"Yuanji, how is it, this period of exercise has taken off the fat on your body." Li Xin didn't care about Li Jiancheng, but said to Li Yuanji.
"Li Xin, today's things will be rewarded in the future." Li Yuanji said viciously that everything on the construction site was regarded as a shame by Li Yuanji, not because he was treated inhumanely, but because he felt wronged in dignity.
"Humph! You are the king of Qi, but these soldiers are also your Li Zhao's army and soldiers, why, they can work, but your dignified King of Qi can't? If it weren't for your incompetence, they would have returned to Hedong by this time and reunited with their families. How can they suffer here? Li Xin said disdainfully: "Look at what you were like before, what you look like now, you should thank this king." ”
Li Jiancheng glanced at Li Yuanji, and had to admit that Li Yuanji's impetuous aura in the past had disappeared, and instead of calm, this change made Li Jiancheng feel very comfortable. There is much less hostility towards Li Xin.
"Labor can change a person, especially those in your upper echelons, and you have to participate in labor." Li Xin glanced at the people around him and said, "In the future, not only you, but also this king will also work." Only by understanding the fatigue and pain in labor, can we truly understand the greatness of the common people, we eat and wear are the blood and sweat of the common people, although we are high, but the real greatness is not the king, nor you, but those people. Those who live in the lower classes. ”
"The prime minister's lesson is that the ministers are afraid." Pei Shiju and the others whispered one after another.
"Li Yuanji, this king heard that you are doing all kinds of evil in Bingzhou, and I don't know how many things you have to do to oppress the good, this work is to make you understand that without your identity, you are not much higher than ordinary people." Li Xin said with a cold snort.
"The words of the Tang King, this king will remember it in his heart." Li Yuanji's eyes showed gloom, which made people shudder, and looked at Li Xin coldly. (To be continued......)