The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 264 The big fish dies and the prince dies

Soon Cao Yi and Wang Bo began to build the canal from Yecheng to Jijun, while Guo Pu was combing the entire Zhangshui River.

As the entire project began, the area north of the Yellow River, especially the Jizhou area, naturally became lively.

Chu Hui originally wanted to manage the project by himself, but Liu Tai said that of course he had to handle such an important project by himself, and soon he personally coordinated the resources of the entire project.

Because Liu Tai knew very well that for people of this era, as long as the court paid for the project to be completed, the task was considered completed.

But for Liu Tai, if such a large-scale project is successfully completed, he can successfully cultivate a fairly mature engineering team, a group of enterprises that can become the backbone of the county, and a large number of backbone craftsmen.

Of course, the most important thing is that it will become much easier if I want to further sort out the water veins in various places or further build local roads in the future.

Liu Tai naturally knew that if he wanted to get rich, he had to build roads first, but Liu Tai understood better that in ancient times, water transportation was more convenient than land transportation unless the horses were put to death and made [-]-mile express or [-]-mile express.

Therefore, after the Yongji Canal connects the north of the Yellow River, I can use the Yongji Canal as a branch to sort out the entire waterway north of the Yellow River. I will use waterways as much as possible where waterways are possible, and build roads where waterways are impossible.

As the project leader, Cao Yi became aware of Liu Tai's involvement almost immediately after Liu Tai managed various supporting facilities.

No way, Cao Yi was too impressed when he attacked Liu Tai in Youzhou last time.

As long as Liu Tai takes action, he seems to have endless wealth that he can squander, and his logistics seems to have endless guarantees.

Even against foreigners, Liu Tai was able to keep the team's morale up, which made the entire project a lot easier.

So after Cao Yi found out what materials he needed and reported them to the above, the materials he needed were dispatched from the warehouse to him in almost no time. This feeling was really great!

To be honest, Cao Ni's feeling was certainly correct. Based on the project formulated by Cao Ni, Liu Tai selected a suitable location near Cao Ni's project to build a material supply base.

The materials required for various projects will be reserved at 200% according to the needs of this period, and the township and village enterprises that need supporting equipment will also be put into operation first.

This is why when Cao Yi needs materials, these materials can be dispatched directly.

Of course, even if the canal is built, there is no need to worry about having no place to dispose of these excess materials.

Because the canal is only building the main trunk road, there are still some remaining shipping tributaries that need to be built by the local government.

After all, you can't expect Liu Tai to build a Yongji Canal and mark all the river channels leading to a certain village.

These must be implemented one by one by the local authorities. The materials stored in the remaining material supply base are definitely not enough for the construction of waterways in a county.

Even if the waterway construction goes smoothly, there are still various infrastructure facilities such as road construction waiting for counties to slowly develop.

But with this material supply base, local corvees who moved bricks with Cao Yi, craftsmen who participated in the construction, and distributors who collected various raw materials, etc., even if official organizations were mobilized, there was still a simple construction The system is there.

No matter how rudimentary it all is, having such a system ensures that a county has its own productivity.

When the county invests in and repairs some of its own infrastructure, there will be no problem.

The profits produced by these township and village enterprises will become an important source of tax revenue for local governments.

This is the biggest role of the Yongji Canal project.

As the project progressed, the salt stamps written by Liu Tai were turned into various basic materials and put into the Yongji Canal project.

Through the construction of the Yongji Canal project, this project will gradually promote the development of the entire industrial chain from top to bottom.

Even if the Yongji Canal project is completed, it doesn't matter. The official construction team will definitely have other projects to continue working on.

Instead of the unofficial construction team, Liu Tai left behind the seeds to continue to survive in the local area.

You know, infrastructure construction, at least in this era, is a project with considerable development potential.

Because we had just gone through troubled times, everything was in ruins and waiting to be revitalized. Even though it took more than seventy years to build New China from scratch, it gradually became somewhat peaceful.

For this era, basically as long as Liu Tai is alive, civil engineering projects will always be able to feed the people.

After all, the canal can be expanded in the east and the water veins can be connected, but if you want to build the land in the north, you can only build roads, which requires the work of civil engineering bodies.

Even if you can really unify the world, then you must build a viaduct from Luoyang to Hanzhong, and build it as a spectacle.

No matter what history says about you, no matter what the world says about you, no matter how many people die to build this viaduct, you must be Yang Guang and build this bridge across the Qinling Mountains!

Only in this way can your visit to this world be worthwhile.

At this moment, with the supply situation of supplying materials successfully completed, Liu Tai's attention soon focused on people.

After all, Liu Tai firmly believes that talents are the basis of all production activities. As long as people are resistant, the project will be delayed.

For ordinary corvee labor, Liu Tai focused on providing enough money and building enough supporting facilities.

Hundreds of thousands of engineering personnel can develop and develop the basic necessities of life, which can create a lot of consumer desire.

Although during work, you have to stay inside the construction site and have to go in and out.

But there are only two days of consumption every week, and by this time all kinds of small kitchens have come out outside the engineering team.

Workers will naturally go out to spend money. If they want to be elegant, official performers will come to sing and they only need to charge a certain fee. If they want to be vulgar, there will be a temporary spring building that will make the corvee legs swing the next day. , hold your waist and go out.

Of course, if there is a corvee who wants to study, he can even arrange for military historians to come here to give lectures and teach as long as he puts it forward.

All in all, the main purpose is to satisfy all the needs of the corvee, whether it is material or spiritual. As long as you have food stamps in your hand, everything from the fireworks of delicious food to the elegance of art can be obtained.

In this process, except for a very small number of people who like to save money, they can keep their money. For Liu Tai, only by letting the salt stamps circulate can the total value of the entire society increase in value through the circulation of salt stamps.

The most important thing is that these corvees even include temporary workers who come to help from nearby counties. They feel that they are gaining benefits from the labor process, which naturally has a very positive effect on the stability of society. Of course, for Liu Tai, seeing the funds withdrawn so smoothly, he always felt that the salt stamp he filled out at the beginning was a bit too little.

But after all, Liu Tai did not have a professional background in finance. He could only issue corresponding credit currencies based on his long-term experience, and he really did not dare to issue more.

Ten billion is issued a year. When I wrote down ten [-] billion salt coupons, I was still trembling.

I was deeply afraid that I would write too many salt coupons and cause inflation, so I only used one cautiously every month.

But with the smooth operation of the Yongji Canal project, Liu Tai really wanted to give himself a slap in the face, because there were too few salt tickets!

However, a large part of the problems in the world can be solved with money, but there are still some problems that cannot be solved with money.

For example, they were the prisoners of Shi Le and Liu Yao who were working for him.

These prisoners are also divided into categories. Among them, Liu Tai thinks that the Jie tribe who are the most inhuman have been sent to the Coal and Steel Company in Youzhou to dig mines there until they die.

There is always human flesh in the food. Scum like you have no right to survive in your own country.

Secondly, there were foreign miscellaneous captives. Liu Tai decisively announced that as long as they could learn Chinese, understand Han rituals, work hard all the time, and make great contributions to the construction of the canal, they would be able to take Han names and be incorporated into their Chinese ancestry. .

Although they are not Han people, they belong to the Chinese ancestry and receive the same treatment as Han people, and their descendants can be included in the Han nationality.

In addition, when you take Han names, you use the canal as your surname, such as Yong for Yongji Canal, Yun for the canal, and water and other names related to the canal. This means that your ancestors at least sweated for the construction of our Han Dynasty and have the ability to join. Qualifications to the Chinese nation.

Li Tai knew very well that as long as this canal still exists, these people will definitely feel a sense of belonging when they look at this tangible canal.

And when they are influenced by Han culture, their descendants will inevitably rely on the canal to survive and become a part of China.

The third type is the Huns, and Liu Tai treats them the most favorably among the foreign races.

Because although they are all prisoners, as long as they have Han names and understand Chinese, they will basically become managers to manage these miscellaneous people.

They were treated the same as Han prisoners, and Liu Tai also told them that as long as they completed the tasks assigned to them every day honestly and waited until the construction of the canal was completed, they would be able to successfully become part of China.

Your descendants can become glorious Han people if they know how to speak Chinese and practice Han rituals.

All in all, Liu Tai's main theme is "You are enemies of the Han Dynasty, so you have to spend your life to atone for your sins."

But your son is innocent, and the big man is willing to accept him, tolerate him, educate him, and make him a member of the big man. "

And knowing that he would not stay here all his life, that as long as this project was completed, he could regain his freedom, and even his descendants would have the opportunity to become Han Chinese, for the Xiongnu people who were already very Chinese, they naturally started working hard.

For the last Han prisoners, Liu Tai adopted a more direct method.

Every half month, a group of the most industrious captive corvettes would be selected and announced that they would be released after serving their sentences.

If you want to leave, you can leave directly. If you want to stay and work, you can enjoy the treatment of formal corvee, stay and save money to go home, and at the same time have the right to manage Han captives!

There is nothing more exciting than watching the people around you, who were originally captives like yourself, not only gain freedom in the blink of an eye, but also become your own managers.

If the other person is his enemy, he must work hard to get out of prison. If this guy is his brother, what could make him more envious than his brother driving a Land Rover!
  What are you waiting for? Let’s get to work! juvenile!
  All in all, as Liu Tai subdivides one group after another and cares for one group after another, adhering to the principle of either giving enough money or giving money in place, he is a payment machine that cannot earn emotions, thus speeding up the work efficiency of the entire Yongji Canal Project. .

At this moment, Guo Pu and Wang Bo felt as if they were getting to know the world for the first time.

To be honest, in their eyes, Liu Tai seemed to have endless money, and he was like a money-splitting boy, throwing money crazily into the project with all kinds of ridiculously handsome postures, thereby advancing the overall progress of the project. Push forward and keep moving forward.

The project, which was originally scheduled to take two years, has been accelerated with Liu Tai's participation and has shown unlimited potential. It is feared that it can be completed in a year and a half.

However, they are really curious, are we big men really so rich?

In other words, is this entire Yongji Canal really worth spending so much money on?

However, Liu Tai's courage to spend money on Yongji Canal quickly affected Xingyang, and was passed on to Zu Ti through Xingyang, and then was clearly known to Sima Rui and others.

Although they didn't understand where Liu Tai got so much money and food, they knew that it was impossible for Liu Tai to defeat him after spending so much money on the Yongji Canal.

Therefore, after confirming this point, why should I and others log in and continue the civil strife?
  If there is no civil strife now, will we have to wait until Liu Tai repairs the Yongji Canal before civil strife breaks out?
  Therefore, the conflict between Sima Rui and the Wang family of Langya became more and more acute. Although Wang Dun also had more and more opinions on Sima Rui, he even secretly asked Zu Ti if he wanted to join the army, but Zu Ti sternly refused, which made Wang Dun had to be afraid of Qizu Tilai.

However, despite Zu Ti's suppression, the conflict between Wang Dun and Sima Rui became increasingly acute.

While Liu Tai was constantly throwing money at the entire Yongji Canal project, he was blocked by Chu Hui!

"Mouyuan? Why are you here? I always feel that your smile is dangerous!"

Liu Tai looked at Chu Hui's shadow covering his face and was a little unable to react for a moment.

"Your Majesty, I heard that you have spent nearly [-] yuan on the Yongji Canal. I came here to see how you spent almost one-third of a big man's tax revenue in just three months." Chu Hui said to him. Liu Tai said,
  "Of course, if you still have it, can you allocate some to me? It can be used for the operation of the court and the settlement of the people. The big men are all in need of money!"

"This is a bit complicated to explain. Let me explain. I can't explain it at all. Just think I'm playing a trick."

Liu Tai couldn't help but explain, "It seems like I released a lot of money, but in fact most of the money released was recovered. I just used my time to complete this trick smoothly."

"Even if what you said is a trick, the tax revenue received by the imperial court is definitely not fake!" Chu Hui couldn't help but sigh.

"You just treat money like pork. In the process of circulation, the tax is just a little bit stuck!" Liu Tai shrugged, "Forget it, let's not talk about it for now, why are you here, but what happened What’s the big deal!?”

Chu Hui nodded and said with a serious expression, "Tian Tian sent news that the big fish died and the prince died!
  So I rushed over immediately and invited the king to return to the palace. Ge Hong and Fotucheng would work together to avoid the disaster and temporarily avoid the risk! "

"?" Liu Tai's face was filled with questions, he had no idea what was going on.

(End of this chapter)