"In the year of the drought, the poor people in Qin and the hungry people in the eastern part of Qin were requisitioned to build canals and provide them with military rations, which did not violate the Qin law, but also killed two birds with one stone."

"This plan is very clever, if this is the case, within half a month, there will be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of more people on the Jingshui River Canal, and by the end of this year, it may even exceed one million people."

"If this is the case, it means that the king will build the Jingshui River Canal throughout the country, although there are great benefits, but there are also great risks!"

The book of the king flowed from Zheng Guo's hand into the hand of Li Si on his side, and by the light of the candle in the tent, he could see the book of the king at a glance, and it was evident from the meaning of the book of the king, which was given to Master Xuanqing by the king, but in addition to the arrangement for the master, it was also mixed with the national policy that was about to be promulgated.

Now, the drought in the Qin State has lasted for more than half a year, the summer planting is not obvious, and after paying the taxes, there is not much left, so it is difficult to continue to support such a foundation, and then the hungry people in the east continue to pour in.

Previously, on the canal, Li Si also thought about this problem, and now, from this king book, the problem has been solved, but he also feels a deep pressure from this king book, and the power of the whole country is pressed, which means that only success is not allowed to lose.

If the river canal fails, the whole country will be paralyzed. At that time, once the six states of Shandong joined forces to attack Qin, it would be difficult for Qin to even support the heavy civilian forces, which was the biggest danger. For this danger, I think I can see it from the perspective of the important ministers of the court.

Secondly, for the next Jingshui River Canal, it will also face a great test, and now more than 500,000 people are here, and they have already consumed their energy and Zheng Guo's energy in it.

Although it is true that the use of military rations and military systems for disaster relief can win the hearts of the people, however, such a huge number of manpower is closely gathered at the continuous construction site, and any incident may be magnified for no reason, and prejudice against counties, tribes, families, Liting villages, and all kinds of hatred and grievances will inevitably arise without taking the opportunity.

However, if there are riots or accidents, even if they can be properly dealt with in accordance with the strict Qin law, as long as the construction period of the canal is delayed and the matter of the canal is delayed, it is a crime that no one can bear.

In particular, as a river canal officer, everything involving the construction of many military formations other than the river canal is all up to him, and for several months, he has taken many Qin officials to inspect the migrant workers' camp every day, and everything is solved on the spot, no matter how big or small, and no sparks will be accumulated.

This move is to prevent trouble before it happens, if the will in this royal book is sent to the counties of Qin, then Li Si can imagine what the scene of the canal will be after half a month and a month.

"As the river canal commander and the river canal general, they are in charge of all aspects of the construction of the Jingshui canal, and the reason why this Wang Shu allows the two to have a glimpse in advance is that the two of them should prepare in advance."

"Once the Qin State uses the reserve granary, it is the power of the whole country to press on it, although Xuanqing does not know how to repair the canal, but as a patrol history, if there is a delay and chaos on the canal."

"The king's power to kill me is not an ornament!"

Retracting the Wang Shu from Li Si's hand, looking at the two people with different expressions at the moment, Zhou Qing said softly, the collection of the victims of the Qin State on the river canal can certainly bring a lot of people's power and provide enough power for the construction of the river canal.

However, the scale of one million people is also quite troublesome to manage, and it is very prone to various problems.

"The power of the whole country to build the canal, such a courage, rare in ancient times, the annals of the water family, will definitely leave a heavy mark for the King of Qin, for this canal, Zheng Guo will definitely build this canal for the Qin State, in order to live up to the name of the water family!"

Hearing the resoluteness and coldness in the mouth of the protector mage, Zheng Guo and Li Si glanced at each other quickly, and immediately, they each stepped forward and saluted again. He sighed in his mouth, exuding an inexplicable aura of excitement all over his body, and said deeply.

"It will live up to the king's expectations!"

Li Si also said in a deep voice, since he entered the Qin State from Xiaoshengxian Zhuang, he originally thought that he could be appreciated for compiling "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" in Wenxin Houfu, so as to enter the Qin court and chase a high position.

Now, Wen Xinhou has died, and the only thing he can rely on is the King of Qin, and only the matter of repairing the canal given to him by the King of Qin.

Otherwise, he will fall into the abyss, and it will be impossible to climb out again, the king book in the hands of the master, the power of the whole country is here, and it is the time to show his ability to the king of Qin, so how dare you not deal with it carefully.

In the words of the two, Zhou Qing didn't say much, bowed his head slightly, turned his body slightly, and glanced at Tong Xushou, the lilac light around his body flickered, and disappeared between steps.

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As Zhou Qing expected, yesterday had just agreed on a clever plan to deal with the drought in front of him, and the next day, one by one, Wang Shu flew from Xianyang City to the major counties of Qin, especially the counties in Guanzhong.

Opening up the official warehouse of the state government to relieve the drought was based on the military law and military system for the Qin court, but for the vast number of ordinary people in the Qin state, they had no time to pay attention to the deep-seated mysteries of the Wang Shu.

They only knew that this time, opening the official warehouse to control the water and repair the canal undoubtedly gave the old Qin people and the new Qin people the best way out. The most important one, this time the people's power requisition, made an exception without distinguishing between men, women, and children.

In the eyes of the drought, for a time, the common people and their families went to the Jingshui River Canal construction site, with the support of the official warehouse of the national government, and the chance to survive was only on the construction site.

In addition, the Qin State Bureau's participation in the construction of canals by the requisitioned civil power is directly counted as the annual conscription, in other words, compared with the construction of the Great Wall and other fortifications in Qin, where can the benefits be compared with the Jingshui River Canal.

In addition, this year's drought appeared at the time of the summer harvest, and until the beginning of autumn now, the grain planted in the summer is not much, and there is nothing to do in the autumn and winter, and the people also have a place of sustenance in their hearts.

There are even rumors that on the Jingshui River Canal, if you do a good job, maybe you can still win a farmer, why not! As for the counties in Guanzhong that have benefited from the canals, they have no opinion.

"Uncle Junior, this person ...... Too much! ”

Half a month later, Zhou Qing and Xushou stood quietly at the top of the river valley, overlooking the radius area centered on the river canal shogunate, where black and dense figures gathered.

It is simply a real crowd of people, and even Li Si, who later inherited the name of Wang Shu to levy people's power, did not expect that the main expropriation area originally planned was only in the Weibei counties that benefited from the Jingshui River Canal, and Guanzhong and the rest of the counties were only considered to levy and levy, and they could come as much as they could.

I don't want Wang Shu to be released, the whole Qinchuan is thunderous, and the counties and counties are vying to send migrant workers, and one battalion is very happy. In the middle of ten days, the Guanzhong Plateau was densely packed with more than 1,000 camps, with a battalion of 1,000 people, a full more than 1 million!

This is only half a month, half a month, the entire Jingshui River Canal is more than one million people, from the entrance of the Jingshui River Canal, east and west stretching like a black dragon.

"If there are more people, it is good, yesterday Zheng Guo and Li Si deduced, if there are more than one million people on the canal, it can be completed before the beginning of autumn next year at the latest, if more than 1.5 million people can be requisitioned, it can be completed before the summer harvest!"

There was a faint purple light in his eyes, and in the depths of his eyes in a radius of dozens of miles, there were endless figures gathered from all directions, and under the management of many officials who had been properly arranged by Li Si, they were assigned to various sections of the canal, and shovels and hammers were distributed, and they quickly entered the state.

However, in the other direction, there was also a long dragon of human figures, supported by soldiers in heavy armor on both sides, ox carts slowly entered, and bags of grain were constantly transported from the Guanzhong granary.

"It's a good thing that there are a lot of people, but, Uncle Xiao, look over there!"

Xushou nodded, for today's Jingshui River Canal, the more people, the greater the strength, according to the engineering drawings drawn by Zheng Guo for several years, they were quickly assigned to various checkpoints and fortifications to be directly connected next year.

However, then, after that, the words turned around, and his words were a little surprised, and he pointed to a certain place where the crowd of people gathered in the canal with one hand, as if he was puzzled, and his head shook slightly, Zhou Qing heard this, and saw that it was going to pass at a glance.

But the old men who walked tremblingly were also mixed in with the crowd, and even many of them were old and weak, and there were also the sounds of babies crying and children playing.

According to the Qin law, it is absolutely impossible for this kind of people's power to be levied here, ordinary people's power is levied on the canal, and they can still dedicate a little strength, but they are purely consumers.

"To be virtuous or not to be virtuous is to be virtuous. Virtue is not lost, but there is no virtue. The upper virtue does nothing and does nothing, and the lower virtue does nothing and thinks nothing. Shangren does not think for it, and Shangyi thinks for it. ”

"Li Si has already told me about this matter, although this move violates the Qin law, but it does not violate the Great Dao, it does not violate the great virtue, and the wonder of the great virtue is the law of heaven and earth, which is also a point that needs to be added to the current law of Shang Jun."

For those people, Zhou Qing noticed early in the morning, and he was originally a little hesitant, since he used the military system to deal with the drought in the Qin State in front of him, he could not have such a merciful heart.

Great benevolence is not benevolent, this move is unfair to the rest of the Qin people who have not entered the Jingshui River Canal, but from another angle, gathering these powerless people can also annihilate the slight chaos that may arise in Qin.

There is no need for military suppression, a little food supply can be wiped out, why not!

A month later, there were 1,700 camps in the entire construction area of the Jingshui Canal, in other words, more than 1.7 million people had reached this place in just over a month before Wang Shu went down.

During this period, Zhou Qing had braved the wind, going back and forth on the Jingshui River Canal, looking down, full of people gathering, and the people worked day and night on the canal construction site, especially those new Qin people, according to Wang Shu, as long as the river canal was successful, they could get the land in Guanzhong.

The consumption of 1.7 million people's power far exceeded the Battle of Changping 20 years ago, when the granary of the Qin State could support the Battle of Changping for two or three years, and now, in the face of such consumption, this time will be greatly shortened.

It is also the Qin State's accumulation in a hundred years, just the opening of the six warehouses in Guanzhong, and there are as many as millions of grains of all kinds. Within a year, there was more than enough to support the canal project.

The task of transporting "military rations" to the river canal was handed over to the national lieutenant Mengwu. To this end, Mengwu specially mobilized 30,000 infantry troops who stayed behind in the Lantian camp to form a special baggage battalion, requisitioned and distributed more than 60,000 ox carts and horse-drawn carts from various counties in Guanzhong, and transported grain and grass to the Weibei River Canal day and night.

One month's time was enough for such an unprecedented event to happen in the Qin State spread throughout the entire Kwantung Six Kingdoms, and for a time, the Six Kwantung Countries sent spies to the Jingshui River Canal to find out.

Because of this, Zhou Qing finally discovered the traces of the people who were enemies of Qin in the Kwantung region in Zheng Guozhou, and without leaving any hands, he directly selected them from the dense crowd to kill them.

Before Zhou Qing could dispose of the corpses, they were swarmed by many people around them, and they were directly turned into meat by shovels, drills, and hammers, and were filled into the bottom of the canal construction site in a scene full of resentment.

The king of Qin issued a letter to the king, opening a warehouse and releasing grain to save them from the drought, and those who were killed by the master were undoubtedly against them, the king of Qin was benevolent, Zheng Guo was benevolent, if they were really succeeded by the villains of the six countries of the Kwantung region, their own lives would be sad.

The common people don't understand the big truth, but the real benefits are needless to say, there is a balance in the chest, for a while, there is no need for Zhou Qing to deliberately inspect, those who are slightly abnormal on the canal construction site are reported.

In addition, Zhou Qing offered another good thing to the Jingshui River Canal during this time, watching the dense crowd of people working together to pull ox carts to transport various materials, which was both inefficient and a waste of time.

Immediately, it was Ling Xushou to return to Xianyang City and meet Qin Wangzheng in person, hoping to transfer the craftsmen in Xianyang to the river canal.

In the past, the years of filial piety, when Wei Ying changed the law, it was the Mo family who was famous at that time that felt that the Qin law was tyrannical and unkind, and wanted to stop it.

In addition, the rest of the Mo family's branches have two places, one is the Mo of the Chu State, where he is also the leader of the Mo family, who is good at mechanical arts, mostly ranger swordsmen, carry forward and love non-attack, and his figure has repeatedly appeared in the world.

The other is the ink scholar of the Qi State, who has been staying within the scope of the Jixia School Palace, inheriting the doctrine of Mo Zhai, in order to carry it forward and bring a steady stream of vitality to the ink of the Chu State.

In recent years, the Mo who has been the enemy of Qin is the ink of the Chu State, the reason for which the foundation is in the Shennong Mountain in Chu, and it is rumored that there are many organs in the city to block it, and for hundreds of years, the main force of the Mo family has been inherited by virtue of this.

For Zhou Qing's request, Qin Wangzheng did not hesitate, not only transferred all the craftsmen in Xianyang City to the river canal, but even sent Wang Shu to Dujiangyan in Shu, and transferred all the personnel who were good at repairing the canal there to the canal.

At this time, all the forces that are conducive to the construction of the canal must go into the canal!

Soon, in the Jingshui canal area, in addition to the waterwheels that can be seen everywhere around to divert water to irrigate the fields, there are more wheelbarrows, and only one adult citizen is needed to push the carts to transport various materials on the canal.

Lightweight, fast, time-saving, labor-saving...... After all the benefits, the bulky ox carts were modified, so that after another half a month, even the ox carts carrying Mengwu to transport military rations could not be seen, and only wheelbarrows were left, walking on the land of Guanzhong.