When Zhao Qian lived in the dormitory on the construction site, there was obviously no one here. Zhao Qian put down his bedding without asking anything. The dormitory environment was not bad for him, and when he was in the army, he slept in the open and lived in a place with a roof and a wooden bed.

After finishing his workload on the first day, Zhao Qian still felt very tired, but after three days, he got used to the workload. The person in charge of the construction site is a guy who frowns half the day every day, but he is not a bad person. I eat and live with my co-workers every day, and everyone knows each other. The workers on the construction site were all nearby farmers, and Zhao Qian talked about why everyone didn't participate in farming, and Zhao Qian couldn't help but sigh when he answered.

"Now there are more cattle and a special farming team, as long as they are given some money."

"It's not interesting to farm at home, and my wife counts all day long. It's better to be here, at least no one always dislikes me for not being able to make money. ”

After talking about his own affairs, the worker asked Zhao Qian, "This brother, you don't look like a person who works hard." Why do you come here to do the work of digging the earth? ”

"I can't say, I have to come. Ha ha. Zhao Qian said with a smile.

Such a simple explanation was enough for these workers to understand, and everyone did not pursue it. It can be seen that the internal environment here is quite relaxed, probably because they don't know each other very well. Someone went on to ask, "How long are you going to be here?" ”

"It's going to take over the month."

"Me too, I'm going to go home when I'm done this month. The wheat harvest will be almost in a month, and I need to come back quickly. ”

"yes, I'm still too tired to harvest wheat. If only there were a team like the farming team. All I had to do was give them some wheat, and they gave me the land. ”

"How much land do you plant?" Zhao Qian asked as he scattered cigarettes for everyone.

"Ten acres of wheat were planted."

"My family planted five acres of wheat, and when the wheat was harvested, we planted another five acres of corn."

Zhao Qian didn't ask them if they participated in the farm, and the people on the farm probably wouldn't be busy on the construction site. The farm now has various infrastructure indicators, and civil construction is required during the slack time.

After that, I worked for a few more days, and every day was almost dull. Except for someone who couldn't find something, the whole was quite stable. Zhao Qian took advantage of his spare time to read as much as possible the railway construction materials, and the road construction was next to a river, Zhao Qian felt that many things on paper suddenly became clear.

The railway is not simply laying sleepers, just fixing the rails. Ballast will also need to be built under the railway, and the land under the gravel ballast will also need to be treated. The overall investment is not only huge, but also requires a very high level of management. There are hundreds of people on any construction site. Even laying railways on the Great Plains still has complex engineering problems, and there are many rivers on the plains, and bridges need to be erected. In addition, the railway is theoretically not allowed to be crossed, and culverts need to be dug underneath. Culverts also require a technical content. Dad said that the purpose of building up engineering troops and railway troops is to complete these technical tasks.

It's not that I look down on the farmers, they don't have special training, and it's good if they can complete the excavation work with quality and quantity. Half a month passed in a blink of an eye, Zhao Qian still couldn't understand what his father meant, and he decided to continue working. Most things are only done for three or two days, but there is no way to figure out the most basic truth, since my father sent him, there must be a reason. It's just that Zhao Qian himself doesn't understand the reason.

In two days, it was time to pay the salary, and Zhao Qian also went to receive the salary together among everyone. After receiving their salaries here, many people over there took their packages and left, and the collective dormitory, which already had a lot of empty seats, quickly seemed empty. The person in charge knew that Zhao Qian had a bit of a background and was here to work and practice. Seeing that the matter could not be covered up, he took the initiative to find Zhao Qian and said tentatively: "Commissioner Qin, I should have told you about this matter a long time ago." There is a shortage of manpower right now. ”

Zhao Qian didn't blame the person in charge of the construction site, his performance was not bad, and his salary was not deducted. Zhao Qian had heard these workers say that they were going to leave after receiving their wages, and they didn't mention the bad words of the person in charge during this time, so naturally they had nothing to do with the person in charge.

Seeing that Commissioner 'Qin Ming' was so reasonable, the person in charge poured bitter water. "It's hard to find people now, and even fewer people are willing to work hard. People in the cities are reluctant to do such hard work even if the wages are low, and people in the countryside are now thinking of going to the farms, where at least there are many livestock to use. We can't afford to pay higher wages for things like digging up, and now the wages are at the top......"

Zhao Qian nodded again and again, and was suddenly stunned. The person in charge didn't know what was wrong with Zhao Qian, and asked Zhao Qian a little uneasily. Zhao Qian smiled reluctantly: "I suddenly remembered something and was distracted." ”

The person in charge saw that Zhao Qian had a good attitude before, and felt that Zhao Qian probably wouldn't speak ill of him after he went back, so he took this opportunity to leave. Zhao Qian sat in the empty dormitory, his mind racing fast. He understood what his father was thinking. It is true that the father's approach is not to take a long-term view, but to focus on the present. Money is a general equivalent, and one of the important uses of a general equivalent is to purchase labor. Zhao Qian's willingness to take gentle measures against neighboring countries is not only because of cultural cognition, but also because Zhao Qian has participated in wars and knows the fragility and preciousness of life. But his father is not such a person, if according to the "Tao Te Ching" description, in addition to his partiality to the Great Song Dynasty, his father can be called "heaven and earth are unkind, all things are dogs, saints are unkind, people are dogs!" ’

If he understood correctly, Zhao Qian felt that the next goal of the Great Song Dynasty was to buy the labor force of the Wa Kingdom. In fact, the Great Song Dynasty had not done it before, and Zhao Jiaren had asked the Four Kingdoms to organize people to participate in the construction of water conservancy facilities in the south of the Great Song Dynasty. It's just that at that time, the scale of use was very small, and the total height was not more than 10,000 people.

Now the Great Song Dynasty plans to build a railway with a mileage of several thousand kilometers, and if the workers on the construction site have such an attitude, God knows when it will be completed. Just thinking about it, Zhao Qian's guard and 'worker' asked Zhao Qian in a low voice, "Prince, do you want to go back now?" ”

Zhao Qian was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood where to go back. He shook his head, "Let's not go back yet, let's walk along the railway line for a while." ”

It took Zhao Qian a month to go out this time, and if it weren't for other arrangements, Zhao Qian probably wanted to go for a few more days. On the way back to Kaifeng, Zhao Qian carefully combed through the errands given to him by his father several times, and the more he thought about it, the more he admired. Even those famous monarchs and ministers in history only did some 'big things'. It's over when the big things are done, and the rest of the long time has to wipe the ass for these big things.

Those conservative ministers are basically against all kinds of tosses, and it cannot be said that their reasons are completely unreasonable. The current Great Song Dynasty is different, the ministers work hard, thinking that after completing the goal, they can go back and report back. When the best of the ministers really finished their work, they saw that the Zhao Guanjia was already waiting for them in front of them. Zhao Qian didn't understand why his father could always accurately select the most capable person among the ministers, but now he felt that he understood. Because his father's vision of the entire national plan is so far-reaching that he will not make any decision that will make a century-old plan.

Only those who do not understand what will happen in the future will clamo for the 'long term', and those who can see the future will only pay attention to the present. The present is the only way to the future. After this period of visit, Zhao Qian determined that if he wanted to complete the railway within the planned time, he would need to increase the infrastructure workforce by five times. With the current attitude of the Great Song Dynasty's own labor force, this is an impossible task. The timely completion of the railway is a goal that must be achieved, so Zhao Qian's external work is particularly important. It is only by getting along with other countries that it is possible to buy labor from other countries.

Back in Kaifeng, Zhao Qian went straight to his father, and when he was led in by the secretary, he thought there was no one else, but he saw General Yang Tiexin, whom he had known since he was in the army, reporting to Zhao Jiaren. Zhao Jiaren waved his hand to let Zhao Qian sit down, Zhao Qian greeted Yang Tiexin first, and then sat down honestly.

Yang Tiexin led his troops north last year to deal the final blow to the northern barbarians. At this time, he was telling about the things that impressed him in this war. "Official, I didn't know that sheep can also suck blood."

Zhao Qian was also startled when he heard this, thinking of sheep, which are naturally white-haired and horned, and adult sheep always chew leaves or grass with very unfriendly eyes. This thing actually sucks blood? I really didn't expect that.

"When we saw the barbarians in the north this time, we had already fled north as much as possible, and finally saw what it means to be blown by the wind and grass, and the cattle and sheep are low. But I really didn't expect that several times I saw some sheep die, and other sheep gnawed on the flesh of those sheep. They don't eat it, they just smash the blood out of it. It's scary to watch. ”

Zhao Jiaren doesn't think it's strange, there are many things in nature that have not been observed by humans. What's wrong with sheep sucking some blood, isn't it just to supplement nutrition and minerals? So Zhao Jiaren said with a smile: "I used to read history books, saying that there are large forests north of Yinshan, and there are grasslands between the forests. I didn't get to any great deserts, but I said that there was a shortage of water in some places. Now look at the deterioration of the environment in the north, which is caused by the rapid increase in population and barbaric grazing. ”

Yang Tiexin nodded violently, "That's right." The Han people were strong and occupied Yinshan. The barbarians were beaten far to the north, trying their best to escape the Han army. Without the Han army, the barbarian population would have increased. When they destroyed the local vegetation to the point that they could not be blown by the wind and grass, they would see cattle and sheep, and they began to move south in the event of a natural disaster. In the past, the ministers just thought that the barbarians were not as vicious as the legend said, and they would only flee when they encountered a strong enemy. After this expedition to the north, I understood why they were like this. The further north you go, the shorter the daylight hours are in winter. This time we had crossed the Great Lake and pursued to an area full of trees and swamps. It's only an hour or two bright in the winter. And there is really the aurora in the sky that the official family said. Looking at the ethereal situation, the troops were a little frightened. ”