Chapter 1256 Jurchen Destroyed!
A group of merchants quickly made a promise: "The construction of the canal is a big deal, and we will definitely contribute the best materials, and will not cut corners and exploit people!"

"Let's go down and discuss it!" Liu Bian waved his hand and left the hall when everyone made a promise.

The construction of the canal also cheers for the interests of these businessmen, who must not dare to use defective products to make up for it.

Moreover, Liu Bian personally intervened, and no one dared to commit crimes against the wind.

Moreover, it was Xie An who supervised the construction of the canal. With Xie An in charge of the overall situation, these affairs could be properly handled.

Now that the world is unified and Liu Bian is still young, if he doesn't do a few good things that can reach the wisdom of a thousand years, how can he be worthy of his status as a time traveler.

Afterwards, the Ministry of Commerce, together with businessmen from all over the world, discussed the matter of donating materials.

The chamber of commerce that sells grain is responsible for providing food needed for the digging of the canal, the chamber of commerce that sells salt is responsible for providing salt, and the building materials merchant is responsible for providing the materials needed for the construction of the canal.If some chambers of commerce are in the business of digging things that are not needed for the canal, they will be responsible for paying the money.

Various chambers of commerce contribute funds according to their financial resources, and Mi Zhu, as the Minister of Commerce, can handle these matters in a smooth manner.

A few days later, after the discussion of the matter was completed, and after the major merchants returned to various places, they began to raise supplies.

And Xie An, after determining the route of the canal, established canal supervision departments in the counties, counties, towns and villages that the canal route will pass through.

The first level is in charge of the first level, and the county-level canal supervision department manages the county under its jurisdiction, the county level is responsible for managing villages and towns, and the town is responsible for managing villages.

The materials, money and food provided by various chambers of commerce are uniformly distributed by the governor's office where the county is located to the counties and towns in various places.

The two levels of county and county mainly do overall planning work to distribute materials and solve various affairs.

The main force for excavating canals is at the town and village level. Civil servants are mainly recruited from nearby villages and towns. They are responsible for digging canal sections within the town and village where they live.

It's like an assembly line where everyone does their job.

In just three months, the route of the canal has been determined, the money and food needed for the excavation of the canal have been raised by the merchants, and the recruitment of civilians has also come to an end.

After all the preparatory work is done, the excavation will begin.

In May of the fourth year of Yong'an, construction of the Luoxiang Canal officially started.

Before the start of construction, Xie An issued an order that the top ten who completed the area under their responsibility, counties, counties, towns, and villages, would be rewarded.

Rewards at the county level are for businessmen and officials.Those who complete the task first, the officials can get the conditions for promotion, and the businessmen can get the preferential treatment of business.The town and village levels are aimed at the common people and can obtain money and fields.

No matter what you do, if it is beneficial, you will naturally work harder to do it. Once the reward order is issued, officials, businessmen, and common people from all over the place will naturally be full of energy.

Officials went to inspect every day to solve various problems encountered in excavating the canal. In order to obtain preferential policies for future business, the merchants were not stingy with their wealth. They took out all kinds of good things, hoping to complete the project earlier.

And the folk husbands, in order to get land and money rewards, worked hard one by one.

In February of the fifth year of Yong'an, the Luoyang Canal was completed in just one year.

Luoyang is not far from Xiangyang, and Nanyang already has a large river flowing through the Han River from north to south, so the excavation of the canal was completed in just one year.

The reason why it is so fast is that the excavation of the canals in various places has satisfied the interests of all classes, the support of businessmen and aristocratic families, and Xie An, a powerful minister, is coordinating the overall situation.

In addition, the big man is rich, the money and food are in place, and the common people do not work for free. With the incentive of profit, the work is naturally fast.

The excavation of this canal did not consume much inventory of the big man. Most of them were merchants and aristocratic families funded it. The places that were not enough in the later period were made up by the counties and counties in various places, and the counties and counties in various places did not consume too much wealth.

Due to the introduction of sweet potatoes, corn and other crops, although a large number of peasants were recruited, the women and the elderly who stayed behind did not delay the farming work in various places.

After the opening of the Luoxiang Canal, the two places became more prosperous. The water in the canal also irrigated a large amount of farmland. Tens of thousands of plains were turned into farmland. There are many ferries on the canal. Every day, boats on the canal The exchanges are endless and lively.

With the successful case of Luoxiang Canal, Liu Bian decided to start excavating the second canal.

This time, the canal from Jizhou Qingzhou to Xuzhou was excavated.

The person in charge of excavating the canal is naturally Xie An. This time, there is no need for Liu Bian to do it himself. Businessmen from Jingzhou and Xuzhou approached the Ministry of Commerce, hoping to contribute to the excavation of the canal, in order to obtain preferential policies for future business .

However, Liu Bian was not focusing on the canal at the moment.

In the winter of the fourth year of Yong'an, Wanyan Aguda, who was imprisoned in Yunzhou, learned that the Jurchen ministries were in a state of scrambling for power and profit. After seeing that there was no hope of returning to the north, he still couldn't survive this cold winter and fell ill from depression.

Now Jurchen is divided into two factions, one is the old department of Wanyan Aguda, who supports Jin Wushu.The other faction is the Aixinjueluo clan, the newly emerging Jurchen aristocrats, mainly Kangxi, Obai, Dorgon and others who came and went in disorder.

These two factions have been fighting for power and profit over the years, and the friction has been constant, which has greatly consumed the vitality of the Jurchen.

Now that Wanyan Aguda died, Jurchen was even more chaotic. Originally, with Wanyan Aguda around, Kangxi's faction didn't dare to target Jin Wushu too much. After all, Jin Wushu had many veterans left by Wanyan Aguda to help.

But now that Wanyan Aguda died, Kangxi no longer had any scruples. They launched a fierce offensive against the Jin Wushu faction, wanting to seize the power of Jurchen.

Seeing Jurchen's civil strife, Liu Bian naturally would not let go of this great opportunity.

As early as Wanyan Aguda died of illness, Liu Bian ordered You and Yun Erzhou to prepare to mobilize troops.

At the beginning of March, the cold in the north gradually receded, and Youyun Erzhou gathered 20 soldiers and horses, and went north to attack Jurchen!
Xue Rengui and Su Dingfang are the top commanders in the history of China. Under the command of the two, there are fierce generals like clouds and counselors like rain. In addition, they have been fighting hard for several years, and the soldiers under their command are eager to make contributions.

The mere Jurchen barbarians, in the face of the unified big man, how can they be their opponents, but in just five months, the two swept all the Jurchen ministries, and the Jurchen generals were all defeated. Ergun's Jurchen leaders were all captured alive and sacrificed in Luoyang.

The remnants of the Jurchen were beaten out of breath by the Han army, so they had to retreat to the bitter cold north of the Daxing'an Mountains, daring not to go south.

The Han army, on the other hand, successfully captured the northern part of the Jurchen-occupied area and brought the vast Heilongjiang Plain into the territory of the Han Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)

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