South of Death Valley.

The speed at which 50,000 villagers cut down trees and built bridges was extremely fast.

But no matter how fast it is, from south to north, there are also about 300 miles!

Four days later, the bridge was laid from the southern end to the first site in the swamp.

It's only twenty miles!

Su Mu, who was standing on this real island, was worried.

Because the bridge in this swamp is extremely difficult, it is not just about throwing wood on top of the swamp, but also driving the stakes downward, otherwise the wood will easily step into the swamp and become useless.

And Li Chen'an, they have been entering this swamp for a full day.

The wooden bridge is to be laid to the north...... At this rate, it will take at least two months!

For two months, the daylilies are cold!

Qin Rigang and Zhuge Buliang stood on both sides of Su Muxin, and at this moment, Qin Rigang's eyebrows were tightly locked, and he suddenly said:

"This situation is really beyond our expectations, what I thought was a simple thing now seems to be quite difficult."

"The point is, we don't have that much time."

He looked at Zhuge Buliang and asked:

"Brother Zhuge , can you summon more villagers from those villages?"

Zhuge Buliang was wearing a patched cyan hexagram, and his very delicate face also showed a dignified look.

He pondered for a moment, "I thought it would be useless to gather as many villagers as possible. ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed: "Look, this bridge, which is only three feet wide, can accommodate two people in parallel, and no matter how many people there are, they can't squeeze through." ”

"So even if you gather more villagers, their role is to cut down and resist wood...... The problem now is not that, but that piling is too slow. ”

"How ...... it is"

Su Muxin turned his head to look at this Xiucai and asked, "Brother Zhuge has any good ideas?" ”

"Ship a ship!"

Su Mu was stunned, "Shipbuilding? Where does the ship go? ”

This is three hundred miles of marshland!

There's water somewhere.

The water was not so deep that it was impossible to sail.

And in many more places there is no water, only mud!

Besides, shipbuilding is not something that ordinary people can do, it is technical work!

It probably takes longer to build a big ship than it does to build a bridge.

So Su Muxin thought that Zhuge Buliang's words were not reliable at all, and he was about to say it again, but Zhuge Buliang waved his hand and said with a smile:

"This ship is not the other ship!"

"General Su didn't know that when farmers harvest rice, they would use something called a mixing bucket...... Quadrangular, not big, used to beat the rice, the rice fell into it, and the straw was set aside. ”

"I mean, just build the simplest kind of ship...... It is larger than the mixing barrel and can transport about 100 people at a time. ”

"These township soldiers can get that thing, these 50,000 township soldiers can build dozens of them a day, and they can fit thousands of people!"

"As for sailing...... Boats don't have to be on the water! ”

He pointed to the muddy swamps, "I think boats can walk on muddy ground like this!" ”

"There are slender men in the Yangtze River, so the boat can go upstream."

"We can use rattan to twist into ropes, don't General Su's subordinates have a few masters?"

"Let them lead the ropes and drag the villagers over."

"The rest of the soldiers sat on the boat, and the villagers dragged the boat over like slender men, and I thought that they might be able to reach the other side in a few days!"

Su Muxin was dumbfounded when she heard this.

He is a dignified jinshi, and he is also the general of Ning Wushu!

He didn't expect Zhuge Buliang to come up with such a whimsical method!

He didn't know what the mixing bucket was, but he had heard the story of the Yangtze River slender man pulling the boat.

Seems doable!

But it needs to be tried.

"Then build a ship like Brother Zhuge said first...... If this move can be done, Brother Zhuge should be reused by the regent! ”

Zhuge Buliang grinned and shook his head:

"General Su was promoted, I was a little talented, I failed to take the exam five times, and I have no other extravagant hopes in this life."

"However, if this move can be accomplished, I hope that General Su can ask for a wish for the 300,000 people outside Yanjing City in front of the regent!"

"Brother Zhuge please speak!"

Zhuge Buliang raised his eyes to look at the shirtless villagers who were toiling, and his face became gloomy.

"We are all disaster victims, and we came from all over the Northern Desert Road to build this Yanjing City just for a bite to eat."

"Now the big guys have set up their homes outside Yanjing City...... It's simple, but it's finally a home again. ”

"On weekdays, there is only one thing that the villagers talk about the most and fear the most!"

Su Muxin leaned over and asked, "Is it a matter of taxes?" ”

Zhuge Buliang shook his head: "Definitely! ”

"Although those fields were reclaimed by the big guys, the big guys also knew that those fields belonged to the officials. It is natural to plant the land of the official's family and pay taxes and serve, but if you can be exempted from taxes for a few years, this is of course a great gift to the people! ”

Su Muxin frowned slightly: "What are the villagers afraid of?" ”

Zhuge Buliang looked at Su Muxin, and it seemed that he was a little difficult to speak, and he didn't seem to dare to say it.

But after a while, he said it anyway:

"That large piece of fertile land, General Su should have seen it."

"What the villagers are most afraid of is that the government will reclaim these and take back the fertile fields that are already abundant!"

"So...... The big guy is busy for nothing! ”

Su Muxin understood.

The villagers' worries are not unfounded.

Because this kind of thing is not new!

If the imperial court wants to take back the thousands of hectares of fertile land that these villagers have worked so hard to cultivate, all it needs is a piece of paper!

Define the fields reclaimed by these villagers as official fields!

For the government, this is a lot of income!

It's still income without capital!

But for the villagers, what they lost was not only the labor they paid, but more importantly, the loss of their hope for life!

Even if he is employed by the government or some big landowner who colludes with the government, he only gets a meager amount of food to feed his stomach.

If the government or a big landlord were meaner, there would be 300,000 villagers here!

In the event of a riot, the consequences are unimaginable!

Zhuge Buliang said such a thing at this moment, which was his worry.

He was one of the victims, and he knew better than he the consequences of their hopes being dashed.

Su Mu suddenly bowed to Zhuge Buliang!

Zhuge Buliang hurriedly avoided: "General Su ......!" ”

"Brother Zhuge , if you say something, I will definitely bring it to the regent!"

"You don't know much about our regent!"

"I believe that as long as the regent rescues the fourth princess safely, he will definitely meet you!"

"You are in front of him, just rest assured and speak out."

"His mind is broader than you think, and you can not only get the results you want from his mouth......"

"It's even very likely that he will reuse you, and it's time for you to do your best!"

Zhuge Buliang was uneasy, but he felt that he was thinking too much.

He smiled and hurriedly waved his hand, "I, I'm just a showman!" ”

"You're wrong, the regent is eclectic in employing people, you'll know when the time comes."

"Then now, please ask Brother Zhuge to lead this ship to sail in the swamp, let us go to the north together, and you can see the style of the regent with your own eyes!"