As the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

Qingji wants to attract merchants from all over the world to gather in Wu, and if the transportation is not convenient, or it is full of dangers, it is obviously difficult to let merchants enter Wu.

After all, the gains outweigh the losses!

However, Qingji wants to vigorously build bridges and pave roads in Wu to lead to the Central Plains, how easy is it to talk about?

Dazai Jiza had to bite the bullet and say: "King, building an official road bridge to the Central Plains is an extraordinarily huge project. I don't know how many manpower, material and financial resources I want to invest in Wuguo! ”

"If the king waits for a few years, when the treasury is abundant, and then builds official roads and bridges, it will be safe."

"How many years to wait?"

Keiji couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Dazai, what year is the year?" It's not that the widow can't afford to wait, but please Dazai must know that Wu Guo has implemented a new law, and everyone in the world is looking at the widow and Wu Guo! ”

"If the road of Wu has been so difficult and dangerous, it does not lead to the Central Plains, and only the waterway is feasible, wouldn't it be ridiculous and generous?"

"Those who are interested in entering Wu will be disappointed and will not return to Wu."

After a pause, Qingji said again: "Moreover, Wu Guo has a great project, and all the valuable ones are manpower. Last year, our Wu State captured more than 50,000 Chu troops, which could be used as labor, only food, not money. ”

"As for the financial resources, the Chu people paid thousands of gold or equivalents, which is enough for one use. And those who have material resources can take it from the ground, and it only takes time to toss and turn! ”

Qingji is considered in all aspects!

Human, material and financial resources, the three are actually not lacking in Wu now.

More than 50,000 soldiers of the Chu army can be used as free labor to pave the way for Wu to repair bridges, as long as they give a mouthful of food.

In terms of financial resources, there is the war reparations of the Chu State, and the material resources are needless to say!

The ancients generally relied on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to build roads, and most of the ground was tamped with loess.

In some places, cooked soil and rice milk are used to burn the soil again so that there are no insects and grass.

The city's main roads are basically paved with large stones!

Cooked soil, rice milk, gravel and other materials, Wu Guo is not lacking, only need manpower to move workers.

Ji Za saw that he couldn't convince Qingji, so he could only sigh and lowers his hand: "Since the king insists on building bridges and paving roads, the old minister should obey." ”

"However, the 50,000 soldiers of the Chu State are opening up mountains and forests in the south, and the reclamation of fields has already achieved results, if you give up halfway at this time, I am afraid that all the efforts made before will come to naught!"

Hearing this, Qingji secretly thought about it in his heart.

Ji Za was right, the more than 50,000 Chu soldiers had been resettled in the southwest of Wu to open up wasteland.

The southwest of the Wu Kingdom, that is, the area of Anhui later, is still a barren place, which has not yet been developed, and can be described as high mountains and dense forests, and swamps everywhere!

There are hundreds of miles in circumference, not to mention the inaccessible track, but there are only a few scattered villages, and there is not a single decent city!

In such a barren place, Qingji naturally needs manpower to develop.

More than 50,000 soldiers acted as the vanguard, and only the state of Wu overcame obstacles to develop that barren land.

With the current production capacity, they have achieved little, but they are not without results!

At this time, if they are all pulled back to build bridges and pave roads, I am afraid that all the previous achievements will be wasted, and the southwest of Wu will still be that desolate scene.

"Thirty thousand, that widow only needs thirty thousand people."

Qingji said in a deep voice: "The rest of the people are still staying in the southwest to reclaim the barren tuntian. Fan Li, the matter of building official roads and bridges to lead to the Central Plains will be handled by you with full authority! ”

"Yui!"

Gu Xiao

Zhisu Neishi Fan Li immediately agreed.

Investing 30,000 manpower to repair bridges and pave roads is already a very huge project.

After all, in this era, many small countries do not even have a population of 30,000!

Even though Qingji is eager to complete the official roads and bridges in Wu as soon as possible and invests more manpower in this regard, the development of the southwest area of Wu still cannot be ignored.

That place, vast and sparsely populated, is barren, and almost occupies half of the territory of Wu!

Half of Wu Guodu is like this, how can Qingji accept it?

At this moment, the right prime minister Ji Ran frowned, and finally spoke: "King, the minister has a word, I don't know whether to say it or not?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"The king drove the Chu army to surrender to the people, reclaim the barren fields, build bridges and pave roads, and the project was huge. However, the prisoners of war will inevitably become tired, and then they will be passive and slack off, which is not convenient for the national policy of our Wu country to recuperate! ”

Hearing this, Qing Ji bowed his head slightly and agreed.

A person who has worked for many years, and it is unpaid labor, like the walking dead, will inevitably be passive and slacking off.

So what's the solution?

"What do you mean?"

"Returning to the king, the minister thinks that the government can make regulations. All prisoners of war who served for the state of Wu, after five years of labor, can be free, is Wu Lishu. ”

"After that, the government will distribute houses, farming tools, farm tools and other living things, so that they can settle in Wu and survive without worry!"

Regarding Ji Ran's proposition, Qingji agrees.

However, before Qingji could speak, Shaofu, who was sitting on Ji Ran's side, snorted and said, "The right prime minister's words are wrong. ”

"Is it too lenient to let a prisoner of war serve only five years of hard labor for the state of Wu and return his freedom?"

"It is important to know that prisoners of war are also the same as slaves. If a slave serves five years of hard labor, can he also get out of slavery and serve me as a Wu Guolishu? ”

Obviously, the being left has already seen the doorway.

In this era, the status of prisoners of war is not high, and they are often like slaves and prisoners, and if there is no accident, they have to die of hard labor for the rest of their lives, or they are lonely!

Some prisoners of war were even used as slaves and sold by the government in various places to earn enough money.

What's more, it will also be used as a sacrifice, an adult martyr, and a burial of some princes and nobles!

Therefore, after only five years of hard labor, Wu had to release the prisoners of war and distribute their houses, arable land, and farm tools to ensure their survival.

This really makes the old people such as the divorced and Shen Xi unable to figure it out!

If the prisoners of war are released without guaranteeing their well-being, the prisoners of war will become homeless "savages", and then they will be captured by the ministers and doctors and made to become their slaves......

How can Qingji not know the idea of being divorced?

However, Qingji did not expose the separation in person, but set his eyes on Ji Ran's body.

Ji Ran immediately said with a smile: "What Shaofu said is inevitably biased. ”

"Prisoners of war are not equal to slaves, or prisoners. In the laws of our Wu State, there is also a saying that criminals can serve hard labor to offset their crimes, since prisoners can serve hard labor to offset their crimes, why can't prisoners of war? ”

"This ......"

was stunned for a moment, and then said: "A prisoner is a prisoner, and a prisoner of war is a prisoner of war, how can the two be confused?" Right Prime Minister, you must know that the prisoners are Wu people, and the prisoners of war are Chu people! ”

23shu8*com