The men were shaved and the women's hair was cut short, and Kazuo Ota didn't see how the women bathed, so he thought it would be similar to these male workers.

After bathing, the person receives clothes, a basket, and then two pieces of bread per person plus a bowl of rice porridge, then a side dish, and a fish.

Compared to the nobles of Wajima, this food is probably not bad.

The cake was made of starch syrup, bean dregs, and aged noodles, not like the military fragrant biscuits with oil and spices, but with some dough added and steamed out like that, and then loaded in a large basket, where the cakes were distributed, and then the porridge.

Kazuo Datian is still sighing, Datang is really rich, and it is better to give these poor sour food than the nobles of Wajima.

At the same time, Kazuo Ota was paying attention to a few people standing on a slope not far away, these people are very special, not because they look special, but because the combination of these people is very special.

An old man with a short beard who looked to be about seventy or eighty years old, dressed in a Han-style robe. Beside the old man stood a little girl who was only four years old at most and dressed in an extremely gorgeous manner. On the left side of the old man stood a gorgeously dressed warrior with a long sword, and on the right side of the little girl stood a woman dressed no less than the princess of the Japanese Kingdom.

Behind the four of them, forty sturdy guards were fanned out.

The few people in front seemed to be talking, but Kazuo Ota couldn't hear it clearly.

"Li Yuanxing's heart is getting more and more ruthless!" The little girl is naturally Wu Cao, seeing the scene in front of her, Wu Cao couldn't help but say.

Is it ruthless?

This scene in front of me once appeared in the land of China, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, I don't know how many Chinese people were loaded onto ships and transported to the so-called Jinshan. It's to build a railway. The history of blood and tears of Chinese workers is definitely not something that can be written in a book, and everyone who reads history will feel sad about the end of the Qing Dynasty!

The cabinet master sighed softly, he didn't want to explain, he knew that Li Yuanxing had not made a mistake.

"Girl, under the banner of civilization, doing barbaric things!" That's all the cabinet said.

Wu Cao wanted to refute, but she couldn't.

"At that time, the guys who claimed to be civilized were really doing barbaric things. When grandpa came out, Li Yuanxing said a word, but grandpa listened. Whether it's civilization or not. The most basic law on this planet is still the law of the jungle. Therefore, Li Yuanxing said that he was too lazy to put on the cloak of civilization, and the top of the food chain was qualified to change the world of this world. ”

The words of the cabinet master did not avoid anyone, but all the words of these words could be understood.

But the meaning of it can only be understood by Wu Cao.

The cabinet master slowly pulled out a yellow scroll from his cuff. He raised his hand and handed it to the young general beside him. Xi Jun buys! Then he said to Wu Cao: "The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty personally wrote the holy decree. The Japanese and other servants were demoted to the third class! Those who pass the preliminary examination of Tang Wenwu are no different from Tang people! ”

Li Yuanxing just didn't have any kindness.

But the Tang Emperor was more direct, he had already seen the benefits of foreign wars. I also learned what colonization is. That's why this holy decree was issued, which means that these Japanese laborers are third-class servants in terms of status, and they are three levels lower than the Tang people's service.

The exception is only for a small number of people, who must pass the literary examination or martial arts examination in Datang to be eligible for the same treatment as Datang people.

Literary examination refers to: scriptures, rituals, history, righteousness, and art. The martial arts examination is: martial arts, skills, history, and etiquette.

The scriptures are naturally the scriptures, and the famous works sorted out by the Tang Royal Academy are all called scriptures. History is history books. At least a brief history of the thoughtful Tang. Etiquette, Zhou etiquette, Han etiquette, and Tang etiquette must be understood, which can be said to be a learning at the level of social morality.

Righteousness refers to the rules of behavior of the Datang people, which are lower than the moral level and can be understood as the rules of the Datang Dynasty.

Art, poetry, calligraphy, music, painting, chess. At least one thing you have to understand.

Wu refers to basic martial arts, physical fitness, and basic fist and foot kung fu. Skills are swordsmanship, swordsmanship, etc., a special skill.

There is no literary examination, or a martial arts examination. Even if the Japanese are mixed with the first-class service, they are not as noble as the third-class Tang people.

After saying it to Wu Cao, the cabinet master said to Xi Junmai: "Jun buy!" I worked hard to run an errand for my grandfather, and let a few supervisors here take a look at this, and told them not to talk much, and I knew it in my heart. ”

The cabinet master was very kind, and Xi Jun bought a military salute and trotted down.

30,000 laborers can be regarded as a big problem for the Yizhou construction site, where there is a shortage of labor, a large number of laborers have been transferred to Jiangning and Huating, and the manpower for farming around Yizhou has given the chief officials of the prefectures and counties a headache, and there are more people working as hard laborers.

Of the 30,000 people, less than 200 of whom knew Chinese, were immediately superior in status.

The gray-blue burlap garment was taken back and replaced with a blue linen supervisor's robe. The shoes issued are also completely different, no longer bast shoes, all fine cloth shoes with thick soles.

There are more than a dozen of them who can write Chinese characters, and they can write more than 500 characters.

Again, a sky-blue silk gown, calfskin boots, and a full-leather briefcase for each.

The next day, all of them were taken to the construction site, and they were assigned a tent and began to work, and the thing like a shoulder armor was put on, which was made of coarse linen.

Carrying stones, turning over the ground, pulling carts, smashing foundations.

Wu Cao came to inspect the work, sitting in a big tent and listening to the report of the Ministry of Industry officials.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, the foundation is five miles a day, and it can be punched out......" As soon as the official of the Ministry of Industry spoke, Wu Cao dropped the bamboo board in his hand on his head: "Shut up!" A total of four hundred and thirty miles, without mountains or ravines, all plains, do you have 30,000 people and only five miles a day? ”

Wu Cao's angry appearance made the cabinet master just laugh.

Wu Cao continued: "No need to open the road, gravel, mixed lime are all machines drying, five miles a day? ”

The official was sweating profusely and lowered his head, but he didn't dare to raise his head, this five miles a day was according to the speed of laying the foundation from Chang'an to Luoyang, and another mile was reported.

"Thirty thousand. How long the queue is, it's almost a dozen miles. You say five miles a day! Wu Cao really turned his face.

The officer just wiped his sweat.

Luoyang to Zhengzhou is actually about five miles a day to lay the foundation, but the terrain and this side can not be compared, there are many ditches, and mounds, either digging or filling, naturally it is much slower. It's all plains. The only possibility is that it will take up some arable land, or pass through a few villages.

In these 400 miles, a total of six bridges need to be built.

The largest one is the one on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The length of the bridge is only more than 200 meters. The rest of the small rivers are short bridges within 100 meters. Li Chun was not used for these bridges, and the Ministry of Industry had already sent people to build them, and now they were laying the foundation and handing them over to the 30,000 laborers.

The matter of raw material transportation has nothing to do with these 30,000 laborers.

"Ten miles a day!"

"This. I'm afraid it won't be done! Subordinates. Your Majesty! ”

"Shut up!" Wu Cao used a small bamboo board to knock the official's head a few times. But the cabinet master spoke at this time: "Girl, come back and sit down." It's useless to get angry, it's hard work to build roads. They haven't been home for more than half a year, and it's very hard here, and this bitter old man has rewarded them! ”

The chief officer of the Ministry of Industry here hurriedly thanked the cabinet master.

"Girl, tell them how to fix it fast! Well repaired! ”

"These 30,000 people, you are divided into dozens of different teams. You have to have an arrangement for what women do and what men do. A team of 1,000 people who lay the foundation will not have a problem every day, and they will be rewarded for doing the fastest and best work. If you do the worst work, give them pig food, and you will believe that you will not be happy! It's not good! ”

The official's face turned pale and he muttered, "They are already eating pig food." ”

Wu Cao happened to hear this, and he was immediately happy. "What you just said, tell me about it once!"

"Back to Her Royal Highness the Princess, after seeing the holy decree, a few of us have discussed it. They can't eat the same as our Tang craftsmen. So at noon today, it was originally noodles, but the logistics side changed it, using sixty percent bean dregs and four percent noodles, and then chopped vegetables, and boiled the old corn dregs. I'm not afraid of your scolding, princess, I have forty pigs at home, and that's how these pigs eat. ”

Wu Cao couldn't close his mouth with a smile, approached the official and whispered: "Zhilu Dao, you are a good man, think about what those evil officials in the former Sui did, if you are ruthless, you can ensure that you can reach ten miles a day." ”

The official nodded, and walked out thoughtfully.

The dignified six-grade official was reprimanded by a four-year-old girl for a long time, but there was no resentment, and when he went out, he seemed to have figured it out, and he happily went to his subordinates to discuss.

Wang Ba had been waiting outside the tent for a while, and when he saw the official coming out, he greeted him with a smile: "Received the reward!" ”

"No, I was scolded." The Ministry of Engineering replied with a smile.

"You're still laughing when you're scolded?" Wang Ba didn't understand a hundred. But as soon as the official learned, Wang Ba also smiled and said in a low voice: "You might as well go back and check." As far as Ben Jiang knows, if there are many cool officials of the former Sui who are alive, they must be working in that slave workshop, if you pick one out, these people definitely have a way! ”

"Is this appropriate?"

"You'll know if it's the right thing if you've tried it!" Wang Ba smiled and patted twice on the back of the six-rank official of the Ministry of Works, and strode into the tent. gave a military salute to the cabinet master, and then hugged his fist at Wu Cao. A smile on his face: "The last general invited a Jeju expert in Luzon to find a three-foot-high red coral in the sea, the princess must like it!" ”

Wu Cao knocked on Wang Ba's calf with a bamboo board: "I will be even happier if you get 200,000 laborers to be sent to Qinling Mountain sooner." Do you know that sixteen people died in the last month in the Qinling Mountain, and even if you are careful in the work of opening the mountain, there is no way not to die, there are several dangerous places, and you can give fifty yuan a day, and those craftsmen earn money for their lives! ”

"The princess is benevolent, and she will go back to Wadao immediately."

"Also, what kind of city lord is that widow, take him to Suzhou and Hangzhou to live for a few days, so that he can see what prosperity is. Money is not a problem, and neither is the baby. This time it was done, at the end of the year, I will give you a baby, a clipper that runs at least 200 miles every hour, and you are definitely the first! (To be continued......)