Hearing this, Liu Ying's face tightened slightly, and she couldn't help but fall into a short period of thought.

In the final analysis, according to the technical level of the Han Dynasty today, it is actually difficult to speed up all projects involving construction through technical means.

Whether it is building a city, digging and repairing water conservancy canals, or even building the Great Wall of the North separately like the Warring States Powers, the only way to speed up the progress of the project is actually to pile up people.

The reason is very simple: it takes 100 years to dig for the same channel with 1,000 people, and 10 years for 10,000 people to dig, so if 100,000 people dig it, the time can be shortened to one year.

It's like the Great Wall of Qin, at a normal rate, it is impossible to complete it in less than 180 years.

However, the first emperor was full of courage and courage, desperately working for the people and money, levying labor on a large scale, and insisting on frantically piling up people on the construction of the Great Wall.

There were enough people, and the Great Wall of Qin, which was evaluated as a world architectural miracle by later generations, was naturally completed in a very short time.

But correspondingly, the popularity and national fortunes of the Qin Dynasty also decreased at the speed of light with the construction of the Great Wall, which eventually led to the death of Ying Qin II.

For another example, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty built the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, just for a section of the Yongji Canal, and issued an edict to more than 100,000 men and women in the counties of Hebei to divert Qinshui, reach the Yuhe River in the south, and pass Zhuo County in the north.

With such a terrifying degree of 'code people', the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was naturally almost completely completed in just a few years, but Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty also ruined the national fortune of the Great Sui because of excessive labor and labor.

If Yang Guang was not in a hurry at that time, but slowly plotted to spend 30-50 years to complete the construction of the Sui-Tang Grand Canal by two or even three generations, it would not have ruined the Sheji and let the Guanlong Li family pick peaches.

After Yang Guang's death, he will not be ridiculed: Yang.

The same is true for today's Han family.

Whether it is Chang'an City, where there is not even a shadow, or the upcoming renovation of Zhengguo Canal, the Han court needs to make a trade-off between 'piling up people to increase the speed of construction' and 'controlling the number of laborers so as not to lose money and labor'.

In the past, the choice of the Han family was: even if the capital city of Chang'an is not repaired, it must not waste the people and money!

After all, the negative case of Qin's great construction of the country, the loss of the people's fortune and the destruction of the country's fortunes, and the subversion of the society has only been more than ten years ago.

With the lesson of 'Violent Qin', coupled with the continuous wars, the emptiness of the government treasury, and the inability of the central government to maintain huge administrative expenditures, the Han family has also pulled up the banner of 'Huang Lao Wuwei' and played the low-cost operation of a small government.

Allowing the people to rest and recuperate, in fact, means that if they can avoid labor, they will try not to levy labor, so that the people can devote themselves to agriculture and farming, and the panic in the world will settle down as soon as possible.

In this context, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream for Liu Ying to improve the progress of Zheng Guoqu's renovation work through code people and through free labor.

- Your old Liu family said that Xu Min rested, so he had to talk, right?

Your Majesty requisitioned soldiers and people's husbands, that is, there are traitors in the Kanto region, and we ordinary people want peace and want the world to be stable as soon as possible, so we will endure it.

Why build a canal and still want to be conscripted for labor?

Your old Liu family, I'm afraid that the country is sitting too peacefully, and you want to have some excitement, right?

Of course, the people did not want to be conscripted into labor, and this was only secondary.

The most important thing is······

"At home."

Liu Ying was thinking about it, when he saw Xiao He's worried face, and there was a faint bitterness in his eyes.

"Your Majesty has set out on this expedition, and the edict has issued a decree to the young and strong villagers in Guanzhong, and there will be no less than 200,000 soldiers alone!"

"And cooks, people's husbands, and the like, even more times."

As he spoke, Xiao He pursed his lips and shook his head helplessly.

"In today's pass, there are only a million households, but millions of people; Remove their women and children, old and young, and fear that the young and strong are less than a million. ”

"However, this time, Your Majesty set out on the expedition, and nearly 600,000 young people were sent to the pass!"

"At this time in Guanzhong, I am afraid that there will be no usable labor······"

Hearing Xiao He's words, Yang Chengyan on the side also hurriedly nodded in agreement.

"Yes!"

"And in the past hundred years, the world has been full of wars, and the people are suffering and tired; The Han Kingdom is square, when the people are allowed to cultivate and rest, and rule by doing nothing. ”

"If labor is sent again to repair the canal, I am afraid that the people's hearts will be in turmoil, and the society will be unstable······"

As Xiao He and Yang Chengyan vied with each other to dissuade them, the atmosphere in the hall fell silent a little.

Xiao He and Yang Chengyan were right.

Today's Han family, as long as there is no war, should try to avoid conscription and forced labor.

But hearing the dissuasion of the two, Liu Ying was only full of reverence, looking at her mother Lu Pheasant, who was sitting upright and 'studying seriously'.

"You can guess that!"

——Regarding the rhetoric of Xiao He and Yang Chengyan, Queen Lu Pheasant had already expected it!

Even the way to deal with this set of rhetoric has been told to Liu Ying after returning to the palace!

Barely holding back the surprise in her heart, Liu Ying only glanced at her mother Lu Pheasant gratefully.

When Liu Ying raised her head again and looked at Xiao He and Yang Chengyan, Liu Ying's eyes were full of confidence.

"In this matter, Xiao Xiang and Shaofu don't have to worry about it."

"Lonely: This time, the matter of protecting Zheng Guoqu will not be sent to the prison!"

With this sentence full of determination, Liu Ying smiled confidently again, and looked sideways at Yang Chengyan.

"Lone has consulted the collection of Shiqu Pavilion and learned that Zheng Guoqu's maintenance requires 50,000 people, and it can be done in three months!"

"Today's Shaofu, the official slaves who minted money are nearly 10,000; and the rest of the divisions, they can also get ten thousand! ”

"In this way, it is twenty thousand servitudes."

"The remaining 30,000 are lonely and want to publish a document in Guanzhong to enlist forced labor; Anyone who is fifteen years old and fifty years old, both men and women, is allowed a hundred denarii a day. ”

As she spoke, Liu Ying couldn't help but glance at Lu Pheasant beside her again, and a little admiration surged in her heart again.

"Another."

"The private slaves and servants of the families of Chang'an Gonghou Guixun and hundreds of officials and courtiers can also be sent to repair the canal, and they are also allowed to pay 100 yuan a day!"

Hearing this, Xiao He and Yang Chengyan couldn't help but widen their eyes, and looked at Liu Ying with disbelief!

Instead of relying on the power of the government to forcibly levy labor, but to guide the people with remuneration and voluntarily participate in the repair of Zheng Guoqu?

Xiao He is not very optimistic about this.

However, regarding the article of 'private slaves participating in the repair of Zheng Guoqu and giving money and remuneration', in Xiao He's opinion, it is quite feasible!

Only in this way, there is still one last problem left for the manpower to renovate Zheng Guoqu.

"Meritorious princes and nobles, courtiers and officials, and private slaves of the people, if they are sufficient, they should be given 30,000 slaves; A hundred dollars a day is three million dollars. ”

"Zheng Guoqu's maintenance has been working for three months; In this way, it will cost nearly 30,000 yuan! ”

This time the levy of private slaves in Guanzhong was used to pay the budget for the labor of renovating Zheng Guoqu, and Yangchengyan looked at Liu Ying with doubts.

"Dare to ask the family."

"——Where did this money come from?"