Tianhao handed over all issues related to art to the people, allowing them to choose freely and determine the future aesthetics.

More and more white slaves entered the North.

Torture, and so tragic that even direct death felt like a luxury torture, made the white-skinned slaves thirst for words like survival and freedom.

The work was simple, day after day to build roads, asphalt roads paved with asphalt and gravel, and parallel rails padded with sleepers. The amount of work was so large that even though the roads and railways between the two places were built as planned, the slaves were unable to attend the completion ceremony, and they were escorted by Imperial soldiers to another place to start a new project.

The appearance of steam locomotives was astounding. Because of the rubber, the sealing and comprehensive performance far exceeded similar products in the history of civilization, and the first experimental locomotive built by the Dragon Imperial Academy of Sciences reached a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. The steel beast, imbued with industrial and mechanical power, dragged the carriage back and forth between Blackhorn and Rock City, achieving satisfactory results in terms of time and cargo traffic.

In Tianhao's words: "The empire has since entered the era of industrialization." ”

The northern part of the continent was so vast that there was a growing demand for slaves. According to the plan drawn up by the young emperor, all cities (10,000 people standard) must be double-connected by rail and road. For every 50,000 white slaves, there will be an engineering team, and in the next three years, the transportation and transportation situation of the entire empire will be comprehensively improved.

The order was harsh and non-negotiable. All slave engineering corps had their own work indicators, and aside from the problem of the supply of raw materials, in terms of progress and efficiency alone, the only way to fulfill the requirements of His Majesty the Emperor was to use white slaves to death.

I get up at 6 a.m. every day, wash up and breakfast for 20 minutes, give 10 minutes to deal with personal affairs and walk, and arrive at the construction site on time at 6:30 to start the day's work.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the lunch time is 20 minutes, the personal affairs are dealt with in 10 minutes, and the afternoon work begins at half past twelve.

Evening closing times vary depending on the season. At 20 o'clock in summer and 19 o'clock in winter, the time depends on the sun, and it is impossible to work in a dark environment without light, and there is no need to consume a lot of torches for lighting for an hour.

In fact, the Imperial Research Institute has already achieved certain results in the use of electricity. The dams in the upper reaches of the Pantuo River are under intense construction, and the completion rate of the two high-power thermal power stations is more than 80 percent. Because it was once the capital of the cattle tribe, Pointe-Noire became the first northern city to lay an electric grid and allow residents to use electric lights on a large scale. The energy base is an experimental small-scale thermal power station, which produces barely enough electricity for lighting only.

In both the morning and afternoon, white slaves were given two opportunities to rest for five minutes each. Considering the physical exertion, the food provided to them is high in calories and sufficient to fill them up.

Officials all want to climb higher and sit more steadily. In this matter, the northern barbarians are no different from the humans of the civilized era. If you want to be appreciated by your superiors, you must make achievements, and it is the kind that looks good on paper and makes your superiors feel that your ability and data are outstanding.

The name "Kanghong" appears more and more frequently on the list of regular notices and awards of the Imperial Ministry of Engineering.

He is a member of the Niu tribe, a resident of Panshi Village, a neighbor of Tianhao, and a friend of Pingjun.

Yasuhiro is not a good person. He was tyrannical, ruthless and cunning. Part of the reason why Pingjun wanted to kill the brothers and sisters Tianhao and Tianshuang in the first place, and use the dead young man to survive the cold winter, was because of Kanghong's prodding...... In this way, he always secretly plucks others, and then takes the opportunity to get a share of the benefits.

As Tianhao became the number one person in Panshi Village, he was promoted to the city lord, the city lord, the king of the cattle clan, and the regent of the dragon clan...... The little idea of revenge in Kang Hong's heart was completely wiped out, and he was good at judging the situation and soon became Tianhao's staunchest supporter. Tianhao had read the relevant documents from the Ministry of Intelligence, and he observed Kang Hong for about two years, and after making sure that this person's attitude had fully changed, he finally arranged him to the corresponding position.

With his combat bravery, Kanghong soon became the leader of the hundreds. He was lucky, and led his soldiers to capture alive more than 20 white high-ranking nobles in the Northern War, and accumulated merit and was promoted to the head of 500 people (newly established after Tianhao became the regent).

When people reach middle age, the desire to fight hard in front of the battle is not so strong. Yasuhiro chose to retire and entered the Imperial Engineering Department as a veteran, and then came to the local area, where he was appointed "Commander of the 47th Engineering Corps".

Although the position is "corps commander", Yasuhiro has only a thousand reserve guards and more than 200 administrative staff under his command. They were to manage more than 52,000 white slaves.

The administrative organs, including Yasuhiro, were only responsible for supervision, and all day-to-day affairs, including the provision of food, were carried out by the white slaves themselves.

This is very dangerous in Kanghong's opinion, after all, there are too many whites in the entire engineering corps, and compared with more than 50,000 slaves, the more than 1,000 guards in his hands are really pitiful. However, the upper echelons of the empire have long had a countermeasure, and Tianhao selected a large number of people from the prisoners of war for re-education, and those with a deep sense of identity can also receive spore transplantation. Although the "Governing Army" system was mainly aimed at the countries of the South, it was also applicable to the Slave Engineering Corps. It's just that here it has to be called a different name, called "Imperial Co-Slave Security Team".

Taking Kang Hong's 47th Engineering Corps as an example, there were as many as 4,000 security guards from the Imperial Association. According to the regulations, they can be equipped with various cold weapons (white size), including long-handled combat knives, but they cannot hold hot weapons. This is done for security reasons, and of course the daily work of the co-subordinate security guards is mainly supervision, not combat.

Before Yasuhiro took over the job, the 47th Engineering Corps was actually a mess. The total number of slaves here was more than 64,000. The previous commander of the regiment was a militant, his approach to solving problems was simple and crude, and he had no interest in communicating with the prisoners. As a result, the 47th Engineer Corps failed to meet the scheduled work targets for four consecutive months, ranking first from the bottom of all the engineering corps.

After taking office, Yasuhiro carried out drastic reforms. He first divided the white slaves, selected 2,500 of them to be used in the co-slave security team, gave them better treatment (mainly food), and at the same time divided the slaves from the inside, strictly enforced labor discipline, recorded the daily work time of each person, and established a perfect work file.

The day after he became the commander of the engineering corps, Yasuhiro issued a mass execution order. More than 6,300 white slaves were beheaded, most of them procrastinating workers. It was the presence of these people who affected the overall progress of the project, most of them were officers, and there were even dozens of low-ranking nobles. Because of their status and knowledge, they naturally became the leaders of the slaves, believing that they could lead the slaves to exert pressure on the northern giants, and even strike en masse, so as to force the giant rulers to agree to certain conditions and even release themselves.

The execution was entrusted to the security team, and Kang Hong and the security team were on the side. His order was simple and straightforward———— all rebels were to be arrested, and all co-operative security guards were to be bloodied and at least two slaves' heads cut off.

It was a terrible day, and the whole slave camp was filled with fear and wailing, hoarse screams piercing eardrums, and blood in the air. After many days, the white slaves once again experienced the cruelty of the battlefield, they no longer had illusions about the future, and began to become calm and rational, understanding the essential difference between the giant ruler and their own king.

The dense pile of human heads formed a Jingguan, and no one knew where those headless corpses were pulled. The story of "stew and meal" has always been circulated in the slave camps, but no one can find any evidence, and the white people who gathered together shivered and shivered, in addition to honestly obeying orders, but also firmly remembering the faces of those who killed their own people, once compatriots, and now traitors and lackeys.

Not all co-security guards were willing to do this, but they had no choice. At that time, there was only one knife in his hand, and if he didn't cut his own people, he could only cut and kill giants. The latter, strong and armed to the teeth, stand tall in the towers and monitor everything that happens beneath their feet, and any unusual movement will provoke an attack...... It's still the same sentence: it's better for others to die than to die yourself. Whether you call me a traitor or a lackey, I'm still alive anyway, and it looks like this job that my own people spurn will continue for a long time, so it's better to think about yourself than to sympathize with those slaves who can't see the future and hope...... It's better to be a lackey than to die under the guns of giants because of rebellion.

On the first day after the reorganization of the engineering corps, Yasuhiro ordered the implementation of the last elimination system.

He divided all the white slaves into ten-man squads, and then divided them into districts, according to the daily efficiency and progress of each squad, which were recorded by the local supervision officials, and once every three days the work area data exchange and comparison, from which the team with the lowest work effectiveness was selected, and publicly sentenced to 300 knives.

In the words of Kang Hong: "Ten people are killed every three days, and only thirty people are killed in a month, and there are less than five hundred people in a whole year." This has a huge impact on living slaves, who are constantly worried about being overtaken by others and falling to the bottom. If you want to live, you have to work hard, and if you don't want to die, you have to do more than others. ”

There was a miraculous phenomenon in the 47th Engineering Corps———— every day at nineteen o'clock in the afternoon (in the summer, for example), the white slaves showed no sign of stopping to leave work, and they waved the tools in their hands and continued their unfinished work like crazy. Even though the regulator blew the whistle to signal a halt, no one cared about the cacophony. It was as if they were so happy in the dark that they had no interest in eating and sleeping.

The slaves will never know that this is Yasuhiro's ploy. He selected a small number of slaves to form a squad, signaling these people to work hard, and even when the time came, they would take the initiative to work overtime, so as to bring a sense of crisis to the others. The thought of "I don't want to die, I want to live" is so strong that even if I am reluctant, I can only pick up the iron pickaxe and continue to build the road, at most I can only curse these unreasonable and rule-breaking guys with the most vicious words in my heart.

Yasuhiro's experience soon spread throughout the country, and all engineering corps used his original law. He himself was received by Tianhao because of this, and then promoted.

His method did work, but the problem was that the amount of slave wear increased exponentially. In addition to those who must be killed at the bottom of the rankings, more and more people are dying due to overwork, and the slaves of the various engineering legions are replenished more frequently than before.

To this, the Reich War Office replied in the affirmative: as long as the progress and quality of the project are ensured, everything is not a problem. The war in the South was progressing well, and large numbers of white slaves were arriving far north of the continent from the direction of Kamui Fortress.

There were a large number of white women among the slaves. In this special era, there is no so-called "Labor Law", and there is no obscene old man wearing a star-striped hat pointing at your nose and shouting about the so-called "cooking and pregnancy circle". On the issue of slavery and the development of the empire, Tianhao's attitude is very clear: white women are also slaves, and as long as they are slaves, they cannot have imperial citizenship. Their fate was sealed from the moment they were captured, and their bodies and bones had to be buried in the land of the Empire to nourish and transform the barren soil.

The railroad from Roaring City to Suolong Pass has been completed. In just half a year, in order to build this railway, the empire mobilized six engineering regiments, and more than 300,000 white slaves participated in the construction. The effect of sectional construction is very obvious, the construction period is greatly shortened, and the quality of the project is also guaranteed because of separate supervision. When the steam train spewing black smoke enters the Lock Dragon Pass from Roaring City, it also heralds the beginning of the construction of the Shenwei Fortress phase, as well as the expansion of the empire's territory, and the overall control is fully improved.

Tianhao has a great appetite, and he aims to fight the entire southern part of the continent.

As early as three years ago, Tianhao began to brew a plan for the issuance of paper currency. With the unification of the northern tribes and the victory in the first phase of the Southern War, a large amount of gold was obtained from the county of Moriente and the city of London, plus a large amount of money that Elizabeth had collected through the sales network of Forgotten Worries...... With sufficient reserves of precious metals, in this summer that is coming to an end, the Royal Bank of the Empire opened at the same time in Blackhorn, Rock, Thunderhorn, Bucks, Roaring and other places to launch a brand-new, epoch-making banknote.

This banknote called "Dragon Coins" comes from the "Old Mama". The anti-counterfeiting technology is mainly coinage paper, ink blending, as well as special watermark marking and dark lines. A small thermal power station was built to power the Royal Mint, guarded entirely by the Janissaries loyal to the young emperor.