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Chapter 246 Building the Canal(1/2)

At night, Xiang Yu was circulating his blood and his body was shining with golden light, like a Buddha.

The acupoints in the body opened wide and turned into vortexes, absorbing the spiritual energy from the outside world. The spiritual energy entered the body like a tide, constantly refining and turning into true energy.

The true energy flows into the body, nourishing the body, and strengthening the acupoints.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

The heart was beating violently, and Xiang Yu was exercising his breathing method and tempering his internal organs.

Then, another trace of true energy entered the dantian and strengthened the surroundings of the dantian. At the same time, the outer periphery of the dantian was slowly expanding.

The diameter of the dantian has reached a size of ten kilometers and is still slowly expanding.

In the dantian, the true qi turns into true liquid, settles together, turns into lakes, and is stored in it.

These true qi are reserved energy and can support warriors to explode for a long time.

After a long time, Xiang Yu opened his eyes.

With one punch, the void suddenly shattered and turned into a huge crack.

The cracks were pitch black and seemed to lead to an unknown place.

It only lasted for a moment, and the black crack disappeared.

Xiang Yu restrained his breath and returned to his dullness.

After estimating, his combat effectiveness is no less than Xiang Yutian at his peak.

At this moment, if you fight with Xiang Yutian, the one who dies will be Xiang Yutian.

"Cihang Sword Book, I have taken a new path. As long as I follow the path I have opened up... I will definitely break the void. This is a compensation for Cihang Jingzhai!"

Xiang Yu said in his heart.

At this moment, as long as he wants, he can break the void and leave.

But at the moment when the void was broken, Xiang Yu felt uneasy.

It seemed that after it was broken, there was a great danger and it was suppressed.

Standing up, Xiang Yu began to write "Cihang Sword Classic·Broken Chapter", which supplemented the shortcomings of Cihang Sword Classic, but it was still very difficult to enter the Broken Realm.

It’s like many people who read Sun Tzu’s Art of War, but after reading it, few people become famous generals.

...

I woke up the next day and continued to patrol the canal.

Supervise the construction of the canal.

The construction of the canal used 500,000 migrant workers, military guards, many engineering designers, and many surveying and mapping.

I am busy and building a canal.

It was far away, like a huge construction site.

In the Sui Dynasty, males must serve as regular service at the age of 21 until they are 60, serving for one month each year, and later changed to twenty days a year. Of course, in reality, two consecutive months, or even three months of corvee labor also occurred occasionally.

During corvee service, it is free labor and no wages are paid.

Corvey service is mainly after autumn harvest, before spring plowing, without delaying the farming season, and the impact of corvey service on society is limited.

There are two types of corvee labor. One is nearby corvee labor, mainly in the county, mainly in building roads, building canals, digging water wells, digging river dams, etc., mainly to benefit the local area.

This corvee service has almost no harm to the people, but it is more beneficial.

One is long-distance corvee, mainly from the state, and to a place that is hundreds of miles or thousands of miles away, they go to perform corvee. Without a train, you can walk fifty miles a day, and you will need to walk on the road for more than ten days, and there will be one month left.

As the distance is farther, the number of people is too large, and various problems are gathered, which is prone to problems.

The stone man had one eye and thrust the world around him.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River was built and the world rebelled.

In fact, is it wrong to build the Yellow River?

No!

The Yellow River is uneasy, the world is uneasy!!

There is no mistake in building the Yellow River, but the mistake is in extensive management, which has caused a lot of chaos.

In fact, it doesn’t cost much money to build a canal. Anyway, it’s free, and many things can be free. It can be managed extensively, which will cause big problems.

Five hundred thousand civilians gathered together, and Xiang Yu organized an army like a marshal, divided into fifty strands and constructed in sections.

Monitor all regions and deal with problems in a timely manner.

"The time is still too short. The harvest will start in September, and the harvest will not end until the end of October. Spring sowing will begin in March next year. In other words, there is only four months in the middle, and the canal can be built... If calculated, the journey is one month long. The construction time of the canal is only three months a year!"

Xiang Yu calculated the project, and the excavated earthworks.

With the gathering of 500,000 people, the food they have to spend every day is enough to bring the price of food nearby to rise.

We must also prevent officials from seizing food for migrant workers.

The canal needs to be built, and it cannot delay autumn harvest or spring plowing. This cannot be compensated by paying wages to migrant workers. In many cases, even if you have money, you cannot buy food.

Due to inconvenient transportation, a lot of food cannot be transported in.

Or, by the time the food is transported in, many people will starve to death.

Secondly, migrant workers should not be hungry. Migrant workers in later generations were just owing wages. However, many unscrupulous officials of the Sui Dynasty also had food arrears.

For example, use inferior products as good products, trade old products for new products, mix sand, resell grain, etc.

Even though the prince Xiang Yu, who was personally the foreman, still had subordinates who were corrupt.

After cutting off hundreds of heads in succession, many officials finally calmed down.

After working hard for a long time, the construction is finally almost completed.

"Congratulations to Your Highness, the construction of Shanyangdu has been successful in two years!" Xiao Meiniang said respectfully. At this moment, she was dressed in a woman's clothes, like a handsome young man.

"Shanyangdu, also known as Guhangou, was built in the Spring and Autumn Period. The construction of Fuchai was just a dredging and expansion, and the project volume was not large!"

Xiang Yu said: "Besides, this place is located in Huainan and it is not too cold in winter, but it is hard to say when you go to the north, especially Tongji Canal!"

In this era, there is no cotton or cotton coat, many people will be frozen to death in winter construction.

Moreover, even if there is cotton, it is best not to do it in winter.

But if construction is not done in winter, it will only take one month at most.

It takes decades to complete the northern section of the canal.

"It is best to extend the construction period and pay wages... It should be a construction team of 100,000 people responsible for special factory construction, which can greatly increase wages... In nature, it can be similar to the production and construction corps!"

Xiang Yu estimated.

It is OK to gather hundreds of thousands and millions of people together, but it is OK to do corvee service in the short term, but long-term corvee service will affect spring plowing and autumn harvest.

Moreover, farmers are not as technically as specialized workers

One hundred thousand people can work in twelve months a year, and the efficiency is higher than that of millions of people. It is more efficient, saves money, and is easy to manage.

Shanyangdu, after the construction is completed.

The people nearby disbanded one after another, and as the cost of two consecutive years of labor service, some taxes were exempted.

At the same time, Xiang Yu led everyone to the north and wanted to build the Tongji Canal.

Tongji Canal mainly connects the Huai River and the Yellow River, Sizhou and Kaifeng, and to Luoyang.

...

Halfway through the journey, the team separated.

Some of them were led by Yuwen Kai and continued to survey and mapping; some, Xiang Yu led more than a dozen guards toward Luoyang.

As we walked, Hulao Pass was approaching.

Looking at the steep checkpoint, Xiang Yu suddenly realized that in history, the Tang army fought here in Daxia. During the fierce battle, Li Shimin led the 500 Xuanjia Army to win by surprise, attacked the Daxia Army with a critical moment, broke the formation in one fell swoop, captured Dou Jiande, and completely laid the foundation for the Tang Dynasty to unify the world.

However, he came.

Whether it is Li Yuan or Li Shimin, he is no longer able to establish the Tang Dynasty.

When I walked here, I gradually slowed down. The moss marks on the side of the stone steps were fresh. The canopy on both sides of the mountain road was flowing green, the orioles did not sing, and the grass leaves were as tender as yellow.

Thinking of this, Xiang Yu couldn't help but stop the war horse, and his mind was inspiring.

At this moment, a man and a woman came to the roadside. The woman was about twenty years old, with bright eyes as water, beautiful as a fairy, with a purple wood hairpin on her head, wearing a white dress, with charm in her simple and elegant look.

The man is in his early twenties, elegant and indifferent.

"Brother Pei, it's been a good time lately!"

Xiang Yu asked.

"Greetings to the prince!" Pei Ju said respectfully, "Crown Prince, but you are going back to Beijing!"

Xiang Yu said: "That's true. If the canal is not built, the world will be uneasy. But relying solely on corvee will delay spring plowing; but if the spring plowing is not delayed, it will be completed in no time or month. Therefore, I plan to set up a engineer to engage in special merit project construction..."
To be continued...
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