Yang Guang wants to build a new eastern capital Luoyang, and requisition two million young and strong people in one go!

Soon after, in order to build the Grand Canal from north to south, millions of young and strong people were recruited, and the entire Central Plains was crying.

"Yang Guang is dying!"

After hearing the news, Lei Hu returned to Qiantang City with his wife and children, and recruited his subordinates to write a sentence like this, which made his subordinates Wu Zhongchen scratch their heads.

Seeing that his subordinates didn't pay attention to the point, Lei Hu reminded: "To build the eastern capital of Luoyang, Yang Guang recruited two million young and strong people, and it took less than three years, and in the end, just over half of the young and strong people who are still alive are just over half!" ”

Hearing Lei Hu mention this, the atmosphere in the conference hall suddenly became solemn.

There is no way, the construction of the eastern capital Luoyang, almost exhausted millions of young and strong people in one breath, which made the civil and military ministers here feel heavy at the same time, and at the same time, they felt quite incredible.

They are not like their counterparts in the north, because Wu Guogong Lei Hu has always attached importance to the people, and because the number of people in the territory has not been abundant, they are very sensitive to a large number of casualties among the people.

In order to build the eastern capital of Luoyang, the casualties in just three years reached one million, and it was terrifying to think about it, and the family population affected was probably no less than five million, right?

After years of efforts to encourage childbirth and immigration, the population of the entire Wu territory was only close to 9 million in the five years of the Great Cause, and it is conceivable how much change it would take to affect the population of 5 million at once.

If it happens in the territory of Wu Guogong, I am afraid that at least more than eighty percent of the civil and military forces here will have to go to the labor camp to report, and half of them will have to be reformed to death through labor!

From this point of view, Emperor Yang Guang's actions of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty are indeed suspected of death.

Of course, at the same time, it feels quite incredible in my heart.

Large-scale projects were carried out one after another in the territory of the Duke of Wu, such as building roads and bridges, digging canals, renovating city walls, planning cities, and building ports.

It can be said that since Lei Hu dominated one side, there has not been a year when he has not done engineering.

The civil and military forces here are all good at old projects, and the number of various projects within the territory alone can be compared to the construction of several eastern capitals of Luoyang.

As for the labor casualties due to high-intensity labor, although there are nearly 100,000 laborers, most of them are still good laborers even if they are injured and do not die, as long as they are cultivated.

If it is calculated according to the loss of young and strong labor in the construction of the eastern capital Luoyang, I am afraid that the young and strong of Wu Hou Ling have died at this time, and the entire territory is full of mourning.

Not to mention any economic development, it is difficult to take care of whether you can afford to eat enough.

But in fact, the infrastructure construction of the territory of the Duke of Wu is very perfect, and it can be said that it is the first part of the entire Great Sui Dynasty.

At the same time, the economic development of the territory is very rapid, the living conditions of the people are quite nourishing, and the tax revenue of the government is also stronger than that of its northern counterparts.

It can be said that the tax revenue of the Duke's territory alone can be compared to the total tax revenue of the northern elite provinces, and the resources that the government can mobilize are even more incomparable.

At present, the restriction that restricts the development of the territory of the Duke of Wu is the area of the territory in addition to the population.

It is not an exaggeration, if Wu Guogong can control the entire south, within ten years, the development level and population of the south will be on par with or even surpass that of the north.

The main difference is that Wu Guogong was able to easily mobilize a large number of warriors under his rule and use them as the main force of labor for development, which the northern imperial court simply could not do.

With the continuous development of the economy of the territory of Wu Guogong, the living standards of the people in the territory have been greatly improved, and Lei Hu has put forward the slogan of health and nutrition, and the quality of life and nutrition of the people will far exceed that of the north, and the physical fitness of the people in the territory will slowly catch up with the people of the north.

This is truly people-oriented!

Years of habits, as well as the influence of Wu Guogong, the management of the local area by the territorial officials gradually became scientific and reasonable, and it was quite incomprehensible to the northern counterparts who built an eastern capital, Luoyang, killing and injuring nearly one million young and strong people.

According to their many years of experience, as long as the personnel distribution is reasonable, it is very simple for two million young people to build Luoyang, the eastern capital.

At least digging the foundation is very simple, the back of the high wall also has exquisite construction machinery, this era is still very much a lot of architectural talents, otherwise like Daxing City as high as a hundred zhang, the rest of the provincial capital city at every turn as high as fifty or sixty zhang of the city wall how to build?

With the help of construction machinery, as long as there is a considerable number of warriors to contribute, the work of building the city wall, which consumes the most physical labor, will be solved.

After that, there are the cumbersome buildings in the city, which are nothing compared to two million young and strong laborers!

Of course, this is only equivalent to the territory of the Duke of Wu, if there are two million young and strong laborers, almost all commercial and civilian projects can easily win the difference, and the counterparts in the north are obviously still in the category of desperately squeezing labor and not taking the name of labor seriously.

It was mainly due to the unwillingness of the officials in the north that they treated young and strong laborers like livestock, coupled with the imperfection of logistics and supplies, which resulted in a terrible situation of nearly one million casualties in just three years.

These situations, Lei Hu had a discussion with his subordinate Wenwu before, in addition to sighing, can you talk about businessmen?

You can't go to Daxing and tell Yang Guang that the officials under your command are a bunch of waste, and if you build a project like Luoyang, the eastern capital, let me do it, at least it can reduce the consumption of more than ninety percent of the people's manpower.

I'm afraid that Yang Guang will have to turn his face on the spot!

As for the people's power lost in the construction of the eastern capital of Luoyang, he will not be moved in the slightest by an existence like Yang Guang who does not care about the lives of the people at all, let alone the casualties of nearly one million, even if all of them are dead.

Otherwise, this person would not have started the construction of the Grand Canal on a larger scale after he had just finished the construction of the eastern capital Luoyang.

If we really want to operate according to the style of the officials in the north, it is not normal for the Grand Canal project, which stretches for thousands of miles, without killing millions of young and strong people.

Lei Hu expressed his thoughts in his heart, and immediately frightened the civil and military forces present to the point that their faces turned pale.

Millions of young and strong people died?

This will affect the families of the Central Plains people who are at least seven floors or more, and will even shake the foundation of the Great Sui State.

Wait a minute......

The civil and military forces present immediately reacted, and they looked at each other at a loss, if they really wanted to follow their guesses, the behavior of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty in building the Grand Canal was really no different from Xun Death.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we can't meddle in the affairs of the north, but in the affairs of the territory, you all have to be mentally prepared!"

Lei Hu said coldly: "The imperial court will levy millions of young and strong laborers, which will definitely cause a backlash from the people everywhere, and when the time comes, there will be few people who will run to us to avoid labor!" ”

Speaking of this, his face slowly and leisurely said: "You must be ready to receive it, I hope that the population of this territory can break through the 10 million mark in one go!" ”

The civil and military forces present became excited, and their faces were full of excitement and red light.

The number of people in the territory of the Duke of Wu can really break through the 10 million mark in one go, it will really be a gratifying thing.

During Yang Jian's reign, the population of the entire Great Sui reached its peak, with nearly 9 million households, or 45 million people.

Of course, if it is in the hands of the family gatekeepers, as well as the hidden households in the hands of the Buddhist sect, as well as the hidden households fleeing the war, and the population of ethnic minorities all add up, it should exceed 50 million!

Before the introduction of high-yielding crops such as potatoes and corn to the Central Plains, such a population was quite remarkable.

Compared with the heyday of the Han Dynasty, it is only a difference of more than 10 million people, which shows that the statement of the emperor's prosperity is not a joke.

It's a pity that after Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, it was only five or six years, not to mention all kinds of large-scale projects, and there were countless casualties due to various internal frictions.

The construction of Luoyang, the eastern capital, alone will kill and injure nearly one million young and strong people, and if the Grand Canal is built, and millions of young and strong people will be killed and injured, with the foundation of the Great Sui, it can still afford it, but it will also hurt the vitality of the fundamentals.

Moreover, the casualties are all young and strong, and this is a huge blow to agricultural production, and if it is not handled well, it is likely that there will be a situation where there is land but not enough labor to cultivate it.

At that time, the collusion between the local tyrants and the government will easily lead to the unfavorable situation of annexing the land and begin to create a large number of displaced people, which is quite fatal to the Sui Dynasty.

These have little to do with Lei Hu and the territory of Wu Guogong.

Of course, Lei Hu also instructed his subordinates to prepare for the martial arts, as long as there are homeless people wherever there are, the people below can secretly go over to recruit and win over.

Anyway, the cultivated land area of the territory of Wu Guogong is very large, and according to the situation of the Ming and Qing dynasties, as long as it is properly developed and utilized, it is very easy to support hundreds of millions of people.

Lei Hu is not so ambitious, if he can exceed 20 million before the arrival of the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it will be very easy to unify the south and sweep the world, and it will not take any effort to attack the weak with the strong.

Just when the civil and military forces in Wu Guogong's territory were ready and even began to accept sporadic evasion of civilians, the imperial court sent a letter to Wu Guogong, demanding that Wu Guogong also take out a sufficient number of young and strong laborers to join the excavation project of the Jiangbei Canal section.

It's just wishful thinking!

There is no need for Lei Hu to say anything, the civil and military ministers in the territory are fiercely opposed.

What are you kidding, Wu Guogong is a standard prince, how can the southern feudal towns that listen to the propaganda and do not listen to the tune, how can they obey the dispatch of the imperial court and take the initiative to organize labor to participate in the rough Grand Canal project?

If you send people away, it's like a meat bun beating a dog, it's completely a deal with no return!

"My father thinks that this is a good opportunity for us to meddle in Jiangbei affairs and take the initiative to absorb the displaced people!"

After his subordinates finished venting their dissatisfaction and anger in their hearts, Lei Hu unhurriedly put forward a contrary opinion: "Originally, our practice of recruiting fugitive civilians was too passive, but now that Yang Guang has given the opportunity, if we take the initiative to directly win the excavation project of the Grand Canal in the northern section of the river, we will firmly control the initiative in our hands!" ”