At this time, almost all the troops have been arranged, but what about the fourth division? The Fourth Division was previously transferred by Liu Hou to two brigades to "protect" the Xianbei cavalry, and the remaining one brigade continued to take over the territory left by the Wei State.

The brigade that received the territory had no way to move, so he could only let him continue to do the finishing work, and the two brigades that "protected" the Xianbei cavalry, Liu Hou asked them to "protect" the Xianbei cavalry to Jinyang, and then turned back to Xuchang.

Liu Hou felt that in this situation of a national operation, the defensive force of Xuchang, the center, was still too weak, so he asked these two brigades to come to Xuchang to strengthen the defense force of Xuchang, and these two brigades could also be used as a reserve force.

If the war in that place was tight and needed reinforcements, Liu Hou could send them out to reinforce these places at any time. After all, organizing such a big battle, it is inevitable that some places will be ill-considered, and if there is no reserve force, it is very dangerous to have no troops that can maneuver to attack.

After arranging the soldiers and horses from all walks of life, there is still a question to discuss, that is, the second strategy proposed by Guo Youzhi before, he proposed to requisition and send people to build roads.

For his proposal in this way, Liu Hou did not agree. Although the imperial court did not officially abolish the conscription system, in fact, during the years of Liu Hou's reign, the imperial court never ordered the conscription of conscription. The system of forced labor, which has lasted for thousands of years, has existed in name only. He didn't want to make another exception and resurrect a system that had made the people suffer.

The reason why Liu Hou didn't like the conscription system was actually influenced by the legend of Meng Jiangnu crying down the Great Wall. The story of Meng Jiangnu is familiar to later generations, reflecting the deep suffering brought to the people by forced labor.

Therefore, Liu Hou has always been paid even if he wants to invite a man to work, and he comes and goes freely, never forced. This is tantamount to the nature of hired labor, which is completely different from the nature of forcing ordinary people to work for themselves for free.

For example, in addition to some of the prisoners, there are many people in the baggage team of the Hong army, who are people's husbands, or it is more accurate to call them migrant workers, because let them work not only to provide food and shelter, but also to pay wages, under such a good treatment, the people are scrambling to serve the Hong army.

Under the effect of the upward and downward movements, local officials in various places did not dare to levy conscripts to work for the government on their own, and this kind of measure undoubtedly allowed the people everywhere to recuperate, but various large-scale projects in various places have also come to a standstill.

In fact, there is still a certain reason for the government to levy and issue conscription in ancient times. At that time, the productive forces were backward, and the state or government had to carry out some large-scale projects, such as building the Great Wall, paving bridges and roads, and building imperial tombs, etc., and hundreds of thousands of people had to work together at every turn.

Due to the backwardness of the productive forces, the government can also receive less tax revenue, and a country's fiscal revenue, excluding the maintenance of the army, officials, and members of the royal family, is already very little money that can be used on these large-scale projects.

However, these projects consume huge manpower and material resources, and the materials used in the projects cannot be saved, which is already a large expense, and if these hundreds of thousands of laborers also have to be paid, the overstretched state finances are likely to go bankrupt. Therefore, if the feudal society did not levy forced labor, those large-scale projects would basically not be able to be carried out.

Due to Liu Hou's disapproving attitude towards conscription, local officials in Shu Han did not dare to levy conscription. The world has been in turmoil for many years, the people's livelihood has withered to the extreme, the financial revenue of various places is even less pitiful, and many places have difficulty even maintaining the basic administrative expenses of the government.

In the sphere of influence of Shu Han, although peace has been restored, there are broken roads, broken official offices, and broken city walls everywhere

In fact, these are not the most impactful, the biggest impact is that the water conservancy projects continue to be dilapidated, of course, this is also because no officials are willing to organize the construction of water conservancy. Water conservancy facilities are very important for agricultural production, so the people in some places have to organize themselves to build some water conservancy facilities.

However, the lack of water conservancy projects in the government doomed them to make a small fuss, and they could only focus on some small projects in their own villages and townships, and they could not do anything about some large-scale water conservancy projects.

This makes the hidden danger of floods everywhere in Shuhan, but now the world is undecided, and no one in the court has paid attention to this aspect of the problem for the time being. And Liu Hou didn't realize it for the time being, and his blanket abolition of forced labor, from a certain point of view, hindered the development of society.

Although Liu Hou did not agree with Guo Youzhi's proposal, the problem of the destruction of the road still had to be solved, and after thinking about it, he couldn't think of any good way.

In total, Kebineng led more than 50,000 people to surrender, and most of these 50,000 people were elite cavalry, all of them young and strong, and they could not be better used for hard work. However, these people are wild and untamable, and it is not easy to get them to work obediently, so they have to use some violent means. Therefore, the labor site of these Xianbei people is often supervised by a considerable number of soldiers with loaded guns.

Before, Liu Hou's arrangement of these Xianbei people was still the old way: mining. Prospectors discovered a limestone deposit near Zhongshan (now Pingshan County, Shijiazhuang), so more than 50,000 Xianbei people were arranged to mine here.

Of course, Kebineng didn't need to mine, and he was taken to Xuchang and placed under house arrest. Now Liu Hou has decided to let these more than 50,000 Xianbei people change their careers and become road builders instead of miners. Building roads is heavy physical work, and it is most suitable for these young and strong Xianbei people to do it.

Now the new roads in Shuhan are basically using cement, and with the current output of cement factories in various places, cement is not enough everywhere, and it is impossible to supply them with it, so if you want to build roads in the north, you have to build another cement factory.

In other words, the cement plant of the Ministry of Industry is almost becoming a training base, and those technicians and cement plant managers are almost just familiar with the business, and they are sent to other places to build a new cement plant.

This time was no exception, Liu Hou also transferred a group of newly trained personnel from the cement factory of the Ministry of Industry to Zhongshan to build a cement factory near the limestone mine. As for the other raw materials for firing cement, of course, they are also mined nearby.

As mentioned earlier, the First Division captured more than 100,000 Xianbei people, although most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, but under the threat of whips and butcher knives, these people still had a certain ability to work.

These people were originally arranged to dig coal near Jinyang, and the excavated coal was transported to Zhongshan to burn cement. However, with the withdrawal of the 50,000 Xianbei people of the Kebineng Division, now the limestone mines in Zhongshan Kingdom are empty, and Liu Hou can only let the coal-digging Xianbei people captured by the First Division go out to the Zhongshan Kingdom to excavate limestone.