Chapter 257: Impractical Zu Wenyuan

"West...... East ......"

"Borrow the rudder to block the wind to change the direction of the wind...... Borrowing slurry to block water to change the flow direction of water ......"

As Yuwen Shihong got closer, he could already hear that Zu Wenyuan was not looking at the river in a daze, but seemed to be quickly calculating some math problem.

It turned out to be research on the mechanics of pondering.

"Ahem."

Yuwen Shihong cleared his throat and reminded him that there was someone behind him.

Zu Wenyuan glanced back at Yuwen Shihong, and immediately frowned impatiently, and turned his head back, as if he didn't recognize who Yuwen Shihong was.

After about a few seconds, Yuwen Shihong saw that Zu Wenyuan seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then slowly turned his head, as if he had just reacted to who he had just seen.

"Ahh Your Majesty! Weichen was distracted for a while! How offensive! Please forgive your Majesty! ”

Zu Wenyuan's nerves seemed to be a little rough, and he was actually slow to react like this.

Yuwen Shihong couldn't laugh or cry.

"It's okay," Yuwen Shihong coughed twice, and glanced at the twenty hundred-man ships not far away, led by Tang Yong:

"Tang Yong is just a marching commander, and he has already built twenty ships, what about your achievements?"

Hearing this, Zu Wenyuan scratched his head, and then said with disdain:

"Hmph, ordinary ships, I don't like them, what I want to build is a thousand-mile ship."

"......" Yuwen Shihong was so arrogant that he was speechless, no wonder Zu Wenyuan had to die before he could become famous and famous in history.

It turned out that for reality, he was not practical at all.

At least when he was needed, he was of no use at all:

"Okay, you think slowly," after a pause, Yuwen Shihong continued:

"I'm afraid that when you figure it out, the Turkic barbarians have already gone south for the second time and slaughtered the people in the territory of Qi."

"Hey."

"Huh?"

Zu Wenyuan, who didn't ask about the world as soon as he thought about it seriously, suddenly turned solemn when he heard this.

And Yuwen Shihong knows that Zu Wenyuan in history is a person who is very sympathetic to the people, and he hopes that his talent and knowledge can benefit the people.

And in history, he did this in his short career.

So

"What Turks went south? What slaughter? ”

"Don't you know that in order to resist my Zhou country's northward movement, the Qi State actually asked for aid from the Turks and led troops south?"

"The Turkic barbarians crossed the border, except for not a single inch of grass, that is, corpses were everywhere and rivers of blood flowed, and the Qi State actually acquiesced."

"After this matter gradually spread from the border states of Qi to all parts of Qi State, many people of Qi State were worried that the Turks would go south for the second time, and chose to come to our Zhou State for refuge together with the local county guards and county orders."

"Unfortunately, there are not enough ferries at the moment, if there are so many boats, the people who defected to my Zhou country overnight will be at least one million."

"At present, the people of Qi have crossed the river every day to come from tens of thousands to 100,000 bamboo rows."

As soon as he heard the news, Zu Wenyuan's face sank and sank.

Seeing this, Yuwen Shihong sighed even more quietly:

"Hey, I thought you could build some ships in the half year that you came to Luoyang to preside over the shipyard, but it turned out to be ......."

Yuwen Shihong deliberately looked around the banks of the Yellow River, in addition to a pile of mess, the formation also sank into the Yellow River, and he sighed regretfully.

"Your Majesty! Within 10 days! The minister will build a hundred great ships to cross! ”

"And ten days later! Build one every day! One can carry a thousand people! ”

“???” He suddenly boasted so solemnly about Haikou, Yuwen Shihong was surprised to hear it:

"Where do you get the confidence to be one ship a day? Although the crime of bullying the king is no longer killed, the deception of the king will also be sent to heaven. ”

However, the solemnity on Zu Wenyuan's face did not diminish in the slightest, and he did not have a trace of fear because the consequences of Yuwen Shihong's failure to do it were very serious:

"Although the minister has not built the hull of the ship, the machinery that uses the power of the water to propel the ship forward has been figured out!"

"And in the past six months, the timber cut by the lumberjacks is more than enough to build a hundred ships with thousands of people and labor, and the minister is not boasting."

"Oh......" turned out to have a clear understanding of the capital he owned, but he was not a person who was in a hurry to pursue results, and his mind was focused on the details and the most important links, such as the power of the ship.

It seems that he is not satisfied with the equipment used to propel the ship forward by the thrust of the current, so he continues to think about it.

I see.

"Then you have to keep your promise, or else...... If you are thrown into prison for your gaffes, I will not have mercy on you. ”

"Your Majesty, please rest assured!"

In response to Yuwen Shihong, Zu Wenyuan lowered his head slightly, and there was a burst of neurotic squirming of his lips, and he buzzed for a while before he raised his head with deep eyes and said to all the hired laborers:

"It's all down! It's all down! ”

"A hundred foremen!"

Yuwen Shihong looked at Zu Wenyuan from a distance and beckoned a large number of poorly dressed laborers to come over.

"Remember the three-zhang deck? Nail the three decks to each other and connect them into a nine-zhang deck! A group of 1,000 sticks! ”

"There are ten groups in total! Hurry up, hurry up! I'm going to see the finished product tomorrow! ”

"Remember the curved board? Assemble ten arc-shaped plates to form a five-zhang high arc-shaped plate! No need to dig holes! ”

"One group fights two thousand! There are 10 groups in total! I will also see the finished product tomorrow! ”

"Widening the baseboard! Thicken three layers! A total of 3,000 pieces! ”

……

Tang Yong was full of excitement, and when he came to Luozhou in the west along the Yellow River, he happened to see the people of Qi crossing the river on bamboo rafts on the surface of the Yellow River in the Luozhou section.

And Dugu Yongye took the local patrol and responded on the shore.

Even many officials brought tables and chairs to wait on the shore, and as soon as those who crossed the river came to the shore, they immediately recorded their household registers.

There were also a lot of people from Sinong Temple, because they were implementing the peace order, and the relief money was distributed to the people by the local Si Nong Bureau.

Unconsciously, the officials of the Si Agricultural Department and the Assassin's Mansion cooperated with each other.

After the officials recorded the household registration on the spot and distributed it to the people, the officials of the Agricultural Affairs Department next to them cooperated with the simultaneous handing out the relief money.

After the patrol has "gathered" 100 people, a patrol will lead the team to go to the place where it is still wasteland, and open up new settlements on the spot, and distribute the wasteland evenly according to households, with each household rated at 10 acres.

Tang Yong saw that Dugu Yongye was very busy, so he waited patiently on the side, and when he was done, he would disturb him again, so as not to delay him to do things for the people.

At the same time, he thought to himself, a thousand dollars is not much, but it is not a lot, because it is counted by people, even children.

A household is counted as a family of five, and a person of five is 5,000 yuan.

It doesn't cost much money to buy some materials and build a simple straw hut next to the ground, and the rations can be bought for four months at most, that is, 300 liters of millet, which is only 1,500 yuan.

The remaining more than 3,000 yuan, in addition to buying salt, can even eat a few meals of meat.

It can be said that it is much richer than staying in Qi country.

"Ah, my quota in Los Angeles is full."

Tang Yong silently "helped" the people calculate how to use the money, and Dugu Yongye suddenly closed the household registration book.

And on the surface of the Yellow River in front of him, there are more than a dozen bamboo rows rowing over.

"What quota?" Tang Yong didn't understand what the quota meant, and neither did the people who were waiting to get their household registration.

For a while, the people who were waiting were panicked, for fear that Zhou Guo would suddenly "change his hexagram" and not accept their defection.