readx; "On the twenty-sixth day of March, the Holy One will accept the world's sons to bow down in the new outer city!" This news spread and quickly generated a strong response among hundreds of thousands of people in Beijing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

You must know that the emperor is not a mortal, but the Son of Heaven, who lives in the Forbidden Nine Chen, and of course ordinary people are difficult to see the face of the sky. In the past, after passing the examination, there would be a "palace examination", that is, the emperor himself took the examination. The first name of the palace examination is "Zhuangyuan", the second is "Bangyan", the third is "Tanhua", and the rest are "Jinshi". There are millions of students in the world, and these hundreds of lucky people are lucky enough to see the true face of the emperor's Lushan.

And this time, Enke, the emperor actually wants to meet with all the lifters before the exam! This was another great grace, and the students were all very excited and carefully prepared, and everyone hoped that the emperor would look at them more often and even ask themselves a word. As long as you play it properly and please the emperor, you may be able to ascend to the sky in one step.

Before dawn that day, the men of the city freshened up early, and came to the new outer city in their clothes to wait. The appointed time for the meeting was noon, but everyone wanted to occupy a good place, to be closer to the emperor, and some even pushed and shoved for a good position.

However, after a while, the lifters suddenly realized that the emperor did not necessarily come from any direction. The new outer city is so big, and it is pointless to compete for territory now.

Idle is also idle, and the lifters watched the expansion project of the Beijing Division.

At present, the project is still in the preparatory stage, specifically digging a moat to extract soil, and building a brick kiln, which is still early before the actual construction begins. Despite this, the construction site that is dozens of miles long on the east, west, and north sides of the Beijing division is still tense and busy, and there is a scene of labor in full swing.

In the past few days, Zhu Youjian asked Concubine De Bao Yulian to associate the hospital, and on the other hand, the expansion project has not stopped for a day. On the workers' side, the Mongol captives had not yet arrived, and now they were mainly recruited citizens and displaced people, numbering about 20,000. Under the guidance of hundreds of craftsmen, they were assigned to different working faces and began to excavate at the same time.

In this era, there were no excavators, and the soil was completely reliant on manpower. There are two tools for digging the earth: a hoe and a shovel. Under the guidance of the veteran workers from Qinwangzhuang, each group of workers made a clear division of labor: some used hoes to loosen the ground, some used shovels to take soil and load trucks, some pushed carts full of soil to the designated place to unload, some distributed management tools, and some were responsible for supervising the progress of the work and taking care of the front and back. Although there are a large number of people, they are busy but not chaotic, complex and orderly, and the efficiency is much higher than that of the same number of people but each working alone.

There is a fixed amount of work per person per day, and if you complete it, you will be rewarded, and if you don't complete it, you will be punished, and if you exceed the quota, you will be rewarded. An extra shovel of soil is equivalent to an extra penny, so every worker works very hard, in contrast to the lack of effort in the past when he was in the service of conscription.

As for the women among the displaced people, Zhu Youzhen also recruited a lot. Although they are not as good as men in manual work, they are better at cooking, delivering water, and taking care of women and children, and they are acceptable for lower wages.

In the southeast, the dredging of the Tonghui River is also in full swing. In fact, after hundreds of years of use, the riverbed has been silted up in many places, and the river that was once five feet wide has now become a stream several feet wide, which is no longer navigable.

Zhu Youzhen's workers here were almost the same as those who expanded the new outer city, in order to connect with the Grand Canal in Tongzhou as soon as possible, so that supplies could reach Beijing directly by water. Different from the natural river channel in the past, this time all the bottom is paved with strip bluestone, although the amount of work is much larger, but it can effectively prevent leakage, and it will be much easier to desilt in the future.

The crowd watched for a while, and some people praised the project, believing that it was a merit in the present and a benefit in the future, showing the emperor's ambition to govern the country. Some people don't think so, or they think that the Jingshi is big enough, and it is a waste to build a new outer city to work and waste money; Either they think that no matter how many city walls are built, they can't stop the Jurchen iron cavalry, and Daling River and Jinzhou are typical negative teaching materials.

But no matter how they talk about it, the attitude of the vast majority of the lifters towards the workers who do the work is quite unanimous: dismissive. In their view, these workers could only sell coolies here because they could not read and write, and of course they could not compare with themselves who had read the poetry and books of the sages. The so-called laborers govern people, and laborers govern people, and these people deserve to be governed.

As the minutes passed, the sun rose higher, and the lifters became impatient. Although the March sun is not very poisonous, the new outer city is a wilderness, and there is no shade at all. After a long time in the sun, many of them are sweating profusely from the heat. But in order to maintain the demeanor of scholars, they were not willing to take off their clothes to cool off, but instead sneered at the shirtless and sweaty workers.

Suddenly, a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old took off his coat, jumped down from a pit that had been dug more than a man deep, took the shovel of a worker who was sitting on the ground resting, and helped the worker to shovel up the soil. The worker hurriedly stopped: "This son, how can this be done?" You see your clothes are so clean, but don't get dirty..."

"It's okay, anyway, the Holy One hasn't come yet, I see that you are working hard and hard, and I can't help but want to come down and pick up a few shovels." The young man laughed.

The worker smiled and said, "Childe, this digging is not as good as your poetry, it's just a stupid job." The villain sees that you have fine skin and tender meat, but you can't do this..."

"Don't underestimate me, I think I did much heavier work back then!" The young man did as he spoke, and sure enough, he was waving like the wind, and in a short time it was filled with a cart of dirt, but he was also tired and sweating. He simply stripped off his shirts, threw his clothes on the ground, and continued to work hard, beads of sweat the size of beans sliding down his muscular back from time to time and smashing into the fishy smell of dirt.

The young lifters are working hard below, but the other lifters above are talking. Someone shook his head and sneered: "This person is really ridiculous!" The Holy One is about to come, but he has surrendered himself to the company of these vulgar people, and has made himself filthy. After being seen by the saint for a while, isn't it abrupt to be driven by the saint? Insult Sven, insult Sven! ”

The young man heard it, but he raised his head and sneered: "You said that I insulted Sven, but I didn't think so." You say that the workers are vulgar, and I don't think so. The expansion of the Beijing division is to defend against foreign aggression. As a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, resisting foreign aggression is not only a supreme honor, but also a responsibility for everyone, regardless of men, women and children. The students are not talented, although they can't go into battle to kill the enemy, they can help the workers build the city here, even if they only add an iron shovel of soil, they are very happy. You are very good at talking, I wonder if you have contributed to the country? ”

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