The next day, Yang Ming went to the imperial city to attend the court meeting refreshed.

He didn't drink too much last night, because when he went down with the wine jar, Yuan Wendu and the others began to pretend to be drunk one by one, and they all made excuses to open the boil.

Today's court meeting, presided over by the crown prince Yang Zhao, is in the Qianqiu Hall of the East Palace, which is also the first time he has presided over the court meeting.

Yang Zhao is steady, after all, Yang Guang has spent a lot of effort on his eldest son, and since Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, Yang Zhao will participate in the court meeting every day.

In the past, during the Yang Jian period, the crown prince Yang Yong only went to court on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Today's major event on the Senate is still based on Luoyang, and the construction of Luoyang sounds like a super project, which will definitely cost an astronomical amount, but it is not.

The total cost of the project can be summarized as the cost of manpower, material resources and transportation.

The Great Sui is a government military system, manpower is called requisition, but it is not called employment, and the labor has no salary, which will save a large part of the expenses.

The construction of Luoyang to recruit the people, called forced labor, the Great Sui stipulates that Ding Nan's annual forced labor is only one month, that is to say, this month, the imperial court does not even have to take care of food.

What everyone is deliberating about right now is where to recruit the people.

The people of Henan will definitely not be able to run, because Luoyang is in Henan.

Wei Chong, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said: "To build Luoyang, the project is huge, and His Majesty has set a one-year construction period, but with the power of Henan, I am afraid that it will be insufficient, and it is still necessary to requisition and transfer from Shanxi and Hebei." ”

Yang Zhao nodded in agreement, frowned, and said: "Back then, the emperor built the Beijing division and requisitioned 600,000 people, and this time to build Luoyang, it should not be less than this number." ”

600,000 is good, Yang Ming hurriedly agreed: "What the prince said is extremely true, the number of labor can be apportioned, and Henan, Shanxi, and Hebei will each pay a part." ”

Dad is not there, Yang Zhao especially needs his younger brother to press him down, after all, this is the first time he has presided over the court meeting, and some things are inappropriate, so Yang Ming has to come forward to carry him.

At that time, Gao Gong presided over the construction of Daxing, there were really not many people, the stones and wood were all made of local materials, and many of them were picked up from the Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty, which shows that Yang Jian Gao Gong was thrifty.

At this time, Su Wei put forward a different opinion:

"600,000 is not enough, gold, stone and wood, Luoyang can not be self-sufficient, stone needs to be mined from Shanxi, wood also needs to be transported from the south, these two labor, but also need to be added."

This is an old saying, although Yang Ming doesn't like to hear it, but he is telling the truth.

Luoyang is a basin, there are not a few mountains, this place is very suitable for growing grain, although the north is the mountain, but the stone cannot be mined from there.

There are two reasons for this,

First, Bishan is a feng shui resort, and it is one of the seventy-two blessed lands of Taoism, there are so many cattle buried in it, and if it is mined, it will damage people's feng shui, and it will definitely be blocked by many people, after all, people are living in Pishan, but people's descendants are still alive, and no one is happy to put aside the feng shui of the bad ancestral tomb.

Second, the stones in Bishan are not good, and the texture density is far less than that of Changping County, and Changping County has a foundation stone, that is, marble.

Marble is generally distributed in China's coastal provinces, and the inland is relatively scarce, only scattered.

Changping County is two hundred miles north of Luoyang, leaning on the Taihang Mountain, which is the most suitable place for stone materials.

In the Great Sui, the mining of marble is fatal, this thing is too hard, there is no explosives, it can only be chiseled by hand little by little, but it is very suitable for the construction of the ground, platforms, columns, monuments, towers, and statues.

According to Su Wei's judgment, it would take 200,000 people to mine stone from Changping County and transport it to Daxing.

Changping County of the Great Sui, which is now Jincheng and Gaoping in Shanxi, the Battle of Changping was fought in Gaoping.

Although Gao Gong did not approve of such a consumption of people's labor, he really couldn't think of a good solution.

Yang Zhao nodded and motioned for Su Wei to continue.

Su Wei said: "The masonry used in the construction of the city wall, the most suitable red clay is billet, Changping County is red clay, and bluestone can be fired chalk (e) ash, so it is urgent to excavate brick kiln ash kiln in Changping County." ”

Laterite is the main material for burning bricks, chalk is lime, limestone is everywhere in Taihang Mountain, that is, bluestone, is a kind of limestone.

The joints between the bricks and bricks of the city wall, including the internal rammed earth, need to be boiled into a soup of glutinous rice, mixed with sand and lime slurry, as a binder, which is equivalent to ancient cement.

At present, the number of brick ash kilns in Changping County will definitely not supply Luoyang, so it must be excavated in advance to prepare.

This item requires an increase of nearly 100,000 manpower.

Yang Ming's head grew when he heard it.

Prince Yang Zhao didn't care about this, he only thought about how to do the preliminary work, so he looked at Dou Yan, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, and said:

"The affairs of Changping County are arranged by you, after Your Majesty returns to Beijing, Luoyang will start construction, and it must not be delayed."

Dou Yan hurriedly nodded: "The minister will set off tomorrow and go to Changping County to arrange." ”

He was appointed by Yang Guang as the Camp Tokyo Soil Supervisor, and he and another Ministry of Labor, Liu Su, were responsible for the materials.

Liu Su is the uncle of Liu Shu, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, and he knows why Liu Shu can't be charged with rebellion, right?

As for Dou Yan, he has to call Li Yuan uncle, but he is one year older than Li Yuan.

In the end, it was discussed back and forth, mining stone, burning lime, building brick kilns, and transporting them, and a Changping County needed to levy 500,000 people.

Yang Ming thought it was too much, so he said: "Such a large-scale requisition may cause turmoil, and the rebellion in Shanxi has just been quelled, so it is really not suitable for forced requisition at the moment." ”

There are not many people in Changping County, and they can't supply 500,000 laborers at all, so these people must have to come out of the whole of Shanxi, and Hedong can't run.

After speaking, he coughed lightly, and Gao Gong immediately understood, and said:

"The minister thinks that when 200,000 people are temporarily requisitioned in Shanxi, otherwise the supply in my rear will not be available, and there will be problems.

Yang Zhao was moved, frowning and pondering.

In fact, he also agreed with Yang Ming and Gao Gong's point of view, Shanxi is not as good as other places, just after a big war, 500,000 people were recruited from the people, but I was afraid that the people would resist.

So he said: "However, the supply of Luoyang must not be delayed, you still have to think of more ways." ”

Dou Yan, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, shook his head and said: "500,000 people, only a little, Changping County to Luoyang, separated by a Taihang Mountain, the mountain road is narrow, there are many ravines and sharp bends, it is difficult to get there, it is necessary to ensure the supply of Luoyang, transportation alone, 200,000 is far from enough." ”

This is also the truth, what everyone says, in fact, is from a practical point of view, there is nothing wrong with it.

The only problem is that Yang Guang only set a one-year construction period, and Yang Jian set it for four years that year.

Yang Ming couldn't find a suitable reason to overturn these people's opinions, Gao Gong was originally standing up for Yang Mingqiang, he knew better than anyone else that according to this plan, Changping County would have 500,000 people.

At the current court meeting, it seems that only Yang Ming is holding an opposing opinion, so the crown prince Yang Zhao reassured:

"Brother Ming doesn't know how to do the fortifications, and many places still need to ask you for advice, so let's make it for the time being, Dou Yan will immediately start arranging, and it will depend on the situation in the future."

Yang Ming sighed, looked at Dou Yan and said: "The requisition of 500,000 will definitely be attrition, Dou Shilang thinks that the casualties should be maintained within what range is it reasonable?" ”

Since Yang Ming has no way to fight for the number of people, he can only find a way not to cause excessive casualties, 500,000 people, 20,000 deaths, this is the limit that Yang Ming can accept.

Engineering is dead, it is unavoidable, and the machinery of later generations is developed, and intelligent operation cannot be avoided, not to mention such a backward Great Sui.

After thinking about it for a while, Dou Yan said: "The terrain of Changping County is complex, there are almost no decent roads, and the damage is unavoidable. ”

He is very conservative, in fact, the number in Dou Yan's heart is more than 80,000.

Yang Su repaired a Renshou Palace, and tens of thousands of people died, also because of the rush to meet the construction period.

There are many causes of death in engineering, including exhaustion, starvation, falling, sunburning, freezing, death caused by injuries that cannot be treated, and even a wind chill.

If we want to avoid this situation, we can only rely on the chief officials above, reasonable arrangements, orderly supply, and proper labor, which can be greatly reduced.

Yang Ming directly lowered his face and snorted coldly: "There are more than 20,000 dead, and this king will not spare him." ”

Dou Yan instantly changed color.

The other officials also looked at each other, and even Yang Zhao was stunned.

Because this is the heaviest sentence Yang Ming has said since he participated in the court meeting, and everyone knows that Yang Ming has always done what he said.

Dou Yan panicked, why am I innocent of grievances with you, what are you doing against me? Luoyang is not what I want to repair? Don't you agree?

For a while, the atmosphere in the hall was a little weird, and many people came forward to be peacemakers and persuade Yang Ming to dissipate his anger.

Yang Ming was really angry, few of these well-dressed beasts in the court regarded the people as human beings, in their opinion, the casualties were just a number.

But in Yang Ming's heart, they are all living lives, carrying the heavy responsibility of the family.

"Twenty thousand at most!" Yang Ming had a gloomy face and said categorically: "If this number is exceeded, either you will die, or this king will die." ”

It's okay now, no one will persuade you anymore, everyone has risen to the point of life and death, who dares to persuade you?

Even Yang Zhao didn't know what to say.

Dou Yan is now planning to stop doing it, it's so difficult, I can't do it if I want to ensure the supply and not kill more people.

Is it death to delay the construction period, and it is still death if there are more dead people, so he stood up directly and said angrily:

"I'll write a note here, play Your Majesty, I can't do this errand, please ask Your Majesty to do it with someone else."

The official is not small, this is a deputy minister, and the old Dou family is not a vegetarian, and he was forced to do this by Yang Ming, and Dou Yan was also out of the way.

"Okay, okay, don't make any noise," Yang Zhao was also unhappy, and said in a deep voice:

"Let you come, it's a discussion, not a quarrel, King Qin's worries are not unreasonable, what kind of fire are you stirring? Dare to pick a child, who do you think you are? ”

was reprimanded by the prince, Dou Yan didn't dare to speak, and sat down stupidly,

He is forty years old today, and if he is forty-five years old, he will not argue with Yang Ming.

Young, angry.

Yang Zhao waved his hand impatiently: "Wait until you return to the headquarters for the time being, and this matter will be discussed in the afternoon." ”

Then, he added: "The King of Qin stays. ”