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In order to solve the deflationary crisis that may be caused by the continuous decline in grain prices, the household department proposed to requisition 800,000 young men from Jiaozhi and Dongwu to build roads. Good guy, this is definitely a big deal that even Qin Mu didn't think about.

If 800,000 young men were really recruited from Jiaozhi and Dongwu to build roads, I am afraid that there would not be many young men left in these two places.

On the other hand, this is also a huge help in reducing the number of indigenous people in these landworks, and the reason why Great Qin has not sent officials to govern these places is because there are too many indigenous people in these places.

For the sake of long-term peace and stability in the future, Qin Mu's plan is to first clean up the natives in these places, and then move the people from the country, and then officially send officials to govern them.

This huge road construction plan can be regarded as a multi-task, so after a little consideration, Qin Mu agreed.

Perhaps the first emperor of that year recruited hundreds of thousands of people to build the Great Wall, and also had the intention of reducing the number of young and strong people in the six kingdoms in order to stabilize the newly occupied territory.

Of course, this was just Qin Mu's own speculation.

It took the first emperor to requisition hundreds of thousands of people, and it took ten years to build the Great Wall in the era of relatively backward production in the pre-Qin period, which is really unimaginable.

If he also recruited 88 captives to build roads, how many roads could be built in ten years?

Qin Mu couldn't help but be full of longing, maybe in a decade or two, even if Daqin is not a road for every village, at least it will not be a problem for counties to connect with roads.

The death of the first Qin had a lot to do with the construction of the Great Wall, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled because they were escorted to build the Great Wall.

However, Qin Mu was not worried about the recurrence of the old things, the prisoners of war recruited from Jiaozhi and Dongwu were completely different from the requisitioning of labor from the country, and these prisoners of war became rootless water when they arrived in the territory of Great Qin, and even if someone wanted to rebel, there was no popular base. It's hard to make a climate.

In addition, it will not lead to the withering of all domestic industries because of the requisition of a large number of young and strong laborers, and it will even have the effect of solving the domestic crisis. In any way, it is impossible to repeat the fact that the pre-Qin dynasty died due to the construction of the Great Wall.

On this matter alone, on the second day, Qin Mu summoned the cabinet ministers and the six ministers and squires, held a high-level meeting, and reached a consensus with these main ministers first, and then submitted it to the court for public discussion, which was strongly promoted by Qin Mu and approved by the main ministers. The court was finally able to get through;

Of course, it is not immediately necessary to requisition 800,000 young people back at one time, this requires a gradual process, one hundred or two hundred thousand at a time, and then another 120,000 after this side is on the right track, and so on, it will take two to three years to really reach 800,000 people.

Because of this buffer time. This matter was relatively easy to understand in the court.

The household department then set aside 8 million dragon coins to collect and hoard grain, and slowly raised the price of grain in the country;

Seeing that grain prices have begun to rise, farmers across the country are happy. It's a given.

In the past, grain prices continued to fall, and now that the autumn harvest is imminent, I am afraid that few farmers will be able to sleep peacefully;

You know, a lot of ordinary people. The most important hope of the year is the output of the field.

The 8 million yuan is only a special fund set aside for grain collection, and it cannot be put into the grain market at once, otherwise the grain price will be pushed too high all of a sudden. It's not a good thing, because many people in the city buy food for three meals a day, and the high price of food will affect their lives.

In this regard, the household department has a relatively perfect plan, and Qin Mu does not need to worry about the range at which the grain price is kept reasonable.

He thought more about how to unconsciously control Japan's grain production and supply, and change Japan's industrial structure, so as to firmly hold this island country in the palm of his hand.

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In the vast Indian Ocean, black clouds are rolling, torrential rain is pouring in, and white waves are raging.

The four treasure ships and 40 flying scissor warships of the ocean-going fleet, under the command of the sea like the wind, are struggling to fight the wind and waves.

The waves were roaring, everyone was roaring, the sea was blue, the light was dim, the waves were like mountains, and the hull of the ship was constantly thrown to the top of the waves, and then it was deep into the bottom of the waves.

Many sail handlers even had to tie themselves to the mast with ropes so as not to be thrown away from the violently undulating hull.

Anyone with a modicum of nautical knowledge knows that when a storm strikes at sea, it's best to find a haven to take refuge.

But not every time the storm comes, you can get lucky to find a safe haven, that is only with the wind and waves to fight to the death, at this time, sideways rampant is a big taboo, a huge wave will overturn the ship, sailing downwind is not good, the big waves will also make your boat out of control.

If you don't want to die, you can only rush up against the wind and waves, rush up the wave mountain again and again, and plunge into the wave valley again and again, this is your only choice, you can only be brave.

If it is a small boat, lower all the sails and fight the storm with oars. But a treasure ship as large as the sea and the wind could not be driven by oars alone, but it could not keep all the sails.

Leaving only a part of the sail, the sail surface will be recessed after the wind, so that a curve like a wing is formed, and the air flow speed on the raised side will inevitably increase, and the pressure will decrease.

Using these principles, the angle of the sail is constantly adjusted, so that the boat does not sail in the direction of the wind and waves with the force generated by each side of the sail.

The positive force (thrust) on the windward side and the negative force (pull) on the leeward side combine to form a resultant force so that both forces act in the same direction;

Only then will you be able to get your ship to the end of the waves, using the blade-like bow to keep the waves from sinking.

These things are easier said than done, and under the storm and huge waves, the sailors on board are hoarse, and they fall to the ground again and again, and try to get up, desperately maintaining the power of the battleship.

Dozens of warships plunged into the valley again and again in the storm, and rushed to the end of the waves again and again, tenacious, the wind and rain penetrated everyone's clothes, hitting people in the face and making people almost unable to open their eyes;

The black clouds were rolling, pressing straight to the surface of the sea, and the waves were constantly lapping on the side of the ship, and the waves were pouring down on the face.

The hurricane bent the mast, which could break at any moment, and the hull of the ship was torn by a huge force, and even made a squeaky sound, as if the ship would fall apart at any time, which was thrilling. The sea is roaring, the sailors are roaring, the thunder is roaring:

I'm sailing,

I'm sailing,

Across the ocean,

Facing the storm,

Approaching you.

I'm flying,

I'm flying,

Through the waves,

Through the clouds,

Be free

The storm finally passed, and the golden sunlight poured through the fading clouds, and the sea was full of golden light and rainbows. Almost everyone on the battleship was exhausted, slumped on the deck, looking at the rainbow in the sky, looking at the vast sea, and smirking stupidly

Hai Rufeng walked out of the command cabin, his body was already drenched with sweat, looking at the endless sea and sky, and let out a long breath, this was not the first time he had encountered a storm at sea, but it was the most violent of all the storms encountered.

He knew in his heart that as the navy went farther and farther, the storms encountered would become more and more numerous and stronger, and he knew from the mouths of the European mercenaries on the ship that in the Atlantic, the storms were more violent and unpredictable.

In any case, Daqin's navy must not nest in a safe harbor, it must rush out to meet the wind and waves, overcome the storm, and go to the unspoken ocean.

The soldiers could rest in peace for a while, but Hai Rufeng had to gather staff members as much as possible, because there were only three days to go from India.

After he returned to the cabin to change into dry clothes, he came to the command cabin, and as soon as the deputy admiral Ke Chenshu, the capital servant, and more than a dozen staff officers saw him come in, in addition to the heavy duty, they immediately got up and saluted, and their movements were neat and uniform, strong and powerful.

Hai Rufeng returned a military salute and then asked everyone to sit down.

The hull of the treasure ship is huge, and the command cabin is located on the top floor, which is nearly 100 feet long and 50 feet wide. There is not only a long table with a seat of 30 people, but also a huge sand table. All kinds of facilities necessary for operational command are readily available and very spacious.

Hai Rufeng sat down and said, "According to the information provided by the merchant ship that returned last night, the Mughal Dynasty Sha. Jahan's fourth son, Deccan Governor Aurangzeb, had just destroyed a small central state, and the tribes of south-central India were facing increasingly severe conditions.

According to His Majesty's will, we are here to protect these Hindu tribes in the central and southern parts of the country. Hinduism differs from Buddhism, which preaches the equality of all beings, and Hinduism has a caste system with strict hierarchies.

We need to help Hinduism, to further strengthen the caste system in India, and to prevent the Islamization of India as a whole.

In short, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and even Christianity and Catholicism, only the coexistence of various sects in India will be conducive to our long-term dominance of India. This is easier said than done, so if you have any suggestions, please express your opinions. ”

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(To be continued......)