At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Someone Guo built the Qinling-Shu Road. Although he was very careful for several years, he asked Hanzhong County and Yongzhou to use labor force carefully.

Even so, the Shu Road Project has killed almost [-] prisoners of war and slaves. This is still the result of relaxing the construction period and pursuing quality, and almost all the prisoners of war and slaves obtained by Guo's conquest of Liangzhou were thrown into it. .

It is estimated that the number of deaths would not be very low if local households went to build roads.

Like Yang Guang, both speed and quality are needed...

It can only be said that the people of the world are pitiful.

It is farming, working, and paying taxes.

Yang Guang deserved to be killed.

Someone Guo sighed.

To build the Grand Canal, prisoners of war alone are definitely not enough.

The current prisoners of war are busy building roads on the Shu road, and they are too busy paving roads in Liangzhou. It is impossible to mobilize them to build the Grand Canal.

The captured Xianbei and Liaodong prisoners of war are building roads on the land of Liaodong, crossing Liaoze to build roads. The construction period and manpower are also very tight, and it is impossible to support the Grand Canal.

The population obtained during the development of Jiangnan was basically incorporated into the local household registration to open up wasteland, and the prisoners of war and slaves obtained were also used in local projects, and they were not enough for themselves.

In short, the Wei Empire is carrying out a comprehensive large-scale infrastructure project, and projects in various places have been launched one after another. Only the Central Plains, which was developed earlier, can spare manpower to help.

Therefore, the construction of the Grand Canal must mobilize the people of the Wei Empire.

It is impossible for Guo to not care about human life like Yang Guang. Two million people rushed to complete the canal in five months. The canal was repaired and the corpses were scattered all over the field, and every household was decorated with white flags.

That is tantamount to forcing the people to rebel.

He must consider a lot of things, as well as the capacity of the population, not to die and so on.

It is necessary to use a large number of auxiliary troops to join this project, to reduce the production pressure of Li Shu as much as possible, and to choose to carry out general mobilization during the slack period, so as not to delay agricultural production.

It is necessary to dispatch the strong men of each state, county, and county in turn, take turns to act, and adopt a rotation system, which cannot be used to death in one go.

We should take pity on the strength of the people, give them sufficient food, and provide them with sufficient logistical support.

In order to arouse their enthusiasm for labor, appropriate tax cuts and incentives should be given to offset their resentment and dissatisfaction with being forced to work.

While pursuing quality, we should not pursue speed too much, so as not to cause a large number of casualties among the people of Li, and not prevent them from living a normal life so that they cannot even have children.

There are too many things to do, so someone Guo feels that it is almost enough to complete the canal from Yangzhou to Luoyang ten years before Yande, and it is considered a huge victory.

On this basis, Tian Feng also proposed to connect the north and the south to the point of Hebei, and Hebei should also be connected.

Mr. Guo can understand his thoughts at a glance, but that is not what Mr. Guo cares about most. What Mr. Guo cares about most is whether it is beneficial to do so.

The Sui Dynasty did this for the purpose of cleaning up Gaoguli.

In order to clean up Gaogouli, Yang Guang realized the difficulty of transporting grain by land. In order to improve the transport capacity, he stored grain in advance to Jixian as the general logistics base of the army, so he repaired the canal from Luoyang to Jixian to connect the north and the south.

As a result, Yang Guang had the confidence to send out millions of troops to crusade against Gaogouli, trying to kill Gaoguli in one go.

Yang Guang has a military purpose, but Guo does not have a strong military need.

Koguryo is gone, the royal family of Koguryo and the entire ruling class have been exterminated by Yu Jin, and all the culture has been completely destroyed, and all the people left are the common people.

There will be no Gaoguli in the future.

Pingzhou has been established, and the disaster has been swept away.

It is impossible for other fishing and hunting peoples in the Outer Xing'an Mountains to compete with the power of the Wei Empire. They will be wiped out in Guo's development plan in the future.

As for Tian Feng's conquest of Xianbei, this is barely a reason.

In the future, Guo plans to gather more than 15 cavalry troops, led by himself, to go straight into Mobei, destroy the Xianbei regiment, destroy all nomadic forces that can be seen and found, and then officially start the construction of the desert animal husbandry of the Wei Empire Economic Zone.

For this reason, Guo has repaired a large number of granaries in Jizhou, stored a lot of grain, and made a lot of preserved meat for that day.

If the large amount of food is not enough, it will be difficult to say whether the battle should continue. It is not that Guo does not understand mathematics.

And the meaning of going out to fight is of course to leave Jizhou, not to build the Grand Canal directly to the grassland.

This is not for the future Northern Expedition Xianbei, but for his own political purposes.

But Guo was still tempted.

The biggest reason for repairing the Grand Canal was not for the Northern Expedition to Xianbei, nor for further control of Liaodong, but for the future kings and future subjects.

I can make a lot of preparations in advance, repair the granary to prepare food, and lay the foundation for a smooth passage through the initial Little Ice Age in the future.

At that time, I might still be alive, and it would not be difficult to lead the people through the initial crisis.

But this wave of small glaciers cannot be seen alive by oneself.

I will die, sooner or later, it is impossible to live through this little ice age.

If he could live, he would no longer be a human being, either a god or a ghost.

After all, it is impossible for Guo to find something as weird as the Life and Death Grass.

If you can guarantee to lead your people through the initial crisis, you will need the king of future generations in the subsequent crisis.

Can they do it, can they do it, will they let the people of Jizhou starve and suffer from cold?

Can they safely control the farm villages, store strategic food reserves safely, and safely let the people of Li survive the crisis?

Will Guo's arrangements and operations in the north be completely bankrupt because of their messing around?

This is something Guo is not sure about.

If it really reaches that point, without strong transportation capacity, it will inevitably cause a large-scale fleeing of Jizhou people to the south.

It's hard to say how many people will die.

We should not pin all our hopes on future generations, and we should not expect too much of the subjective initiative of future generations.

There are some things that the predecessors did not do well, and we cannot blame the future generations for not doing well, let alone assume that the future generations must be better than the predecessors, and just throw the blame on the future generations with peace of mind.

From the day the Wei Empire was established, or since Guo died, it has generally been going downhill.

He felt that he had to keep a hand.

In order for the later people not to suffer from hunger and cold, it may not be unfeasible to prepare a way of life for them in advance.

From this point of view, if something terrible and unpredictable happens later, causing disasters in the whole of North China, this Grand Canal is also the way of life for the people of North China.

I would rather be busy at this time, be a little tired, or even take a little risk. Guo also wants to do more for future generations.

Do as much as possible, so that they will suffer less, suffer less disasters, have something to eat, and some clothes to wear.

They are really suffering, and it shouldn't be more difficult.

Throughout history, they have always been just a series of numbers on the household registration register, and no one has ever seen them as real people.

Zhu Yuanzhang may have seen them as human beings, and then they are modern.

Thousands of years of glorious Chinese history were forged by their blood and tears. This point, Guo felt that he could not forget it no matter what, and could not deny it.

In Chinese history, there are not only princes, generals, talented scholars and beauties, but also them.

So someone Guo felt that he had to do something.

At that time, even if he is dead, gone, and unable to continue to protect them, this Grand Canal can still bring them some hope.

Fellowship is life.

Traffic efficiency saves lives.

So, people these days suffer a little bit.

While I was alive and still in control of the situation.

With this in mind, Mr. Guo felt that Tian Feng's suggestion was meaningful, both for North China and South China, so Mr. Guo felt that it was okay to do so.

But whether to do it or not is one thing, and the conflict between Tian Feng and Cao Cao is another.

Tian Feng proposed to build the canal to Jizhou to connect the distance from Yecheng to Luoyang, so as to connect the north and the south and realize the real connection.

His purpose is by no means pure, what exactly is his thinking, Guo is very clear.

This plan has the support of some people, but it has also been strongly opposed by a group of people.

As soon as Cheng Yu and Cao Cao heard about this plan, they immediately expressed their strong opposition on the table.

Cheng Yu and Cao Cao believed that building a canal was very difficult.

According to their forecast, at least 50 laborers need to be mobilized, and it will take at least two years to ensure safe and high-quality completion.

The money spent will definitely not be less than the money needed to repair the Shu Road.

Repairing the Shu road caused a large number of deaths due to the danger. The Grand Canal was built on flat ground, so the danger is not great, but the amount of work will be huge. If people's power is excessively used, accidents will happen.

What Guo Peng needs is a canal waterway from Luoyang to Yangzhou, not a waterway to Hebei.

If you want to connect to Hebei, you must add at least 20 laborers, pay more than tens of millions of dollars and a lot of food, which is not worth the candle.

And in various senses, there is no need to extend the canal to Hebei. As long as the canal can reach Luoyang, any material can enter Hebei through the Yellow River.

Given the distance from Luoyang to Yecheng, there is no need to add an additional canal.

It's a pointless thing to do.

PS: May the dead rest in peace, may the living work hard, and may the motherland prosper.

Chapter 991 One Thousand and One

Cao Cao's memorial is mainly to refute the unreasonableness of this matter.

Cao Cao believed that it was completely unnecessary to build the Grand Canal to Jizhou.

Following Cheng Yu's opinion, I think there is no need to discuss this at all, and I feel that Tian Feng's doing so is suspected of abolishing the public for personal reasons, which is not something Shang Shupushe should say.

And as a native of Jizhou, doesn't Tian Feng need to avoid suspicion?

Cao Cao restrained himself a little, and discussed the matter as it stands, and extended it to some of Tian Feng's issues. Although he criticized, he still kept a lot of it, and he didn't seem to tear his face.

Probably because of the existence of Tian Rou and her daughter, there was a little room for both parties to turn around.

But Cheng Yu was different.

Cheng Yu made a statement, that is to punish Tian Feng to death.

Cheng Yu criticized Tian Feng, saying that as the minister of the Ministry of Industry, he should have a certain understanding of how much this project will cost. Now that he understands, he should not say such things.

What is Tian Feng doing this for?

Cheng Yu pointed out that this is because Tian Feng is from Jizhou, and he hopes to seek some benefits for Jizhou people.

For this reason, he even did not hesitate to pass on the price paid for such interests to the entire Wei State.

Guo Peng built the canal to develop Jiangnan. As the political center of the country, Luoyang needs to have sufficient connections with Jiangnan, and the distance is really far away, making it inconvenient to rule.

Building a canal to strengthen the country's control over the south of the Yangtze River is beneficial to the country and the people.

What does Jizhou need?

How far is it from Yecheng to Luoyang?

Can it be compared with the distance from Luoyang to Yangzhou?

If not, what is the point of building the canal?

People in Hebei want to obtain benefits in the south of the Yangtze River, can't they use sea transportation?

When they used sea transportation to make a fortune before, the inland business travelers in the Central Plains were still walking on their legs bitterly!Now seeing the advantages of the inland canal, are you jealous?

Does Tian Feng think that Jizhou and Yangzhou have the same status?

Did Tian Feng think that Jizhou, like Yangzhou, was in danger of a great deal of unrest?

Or are Jizhou people dissatisfied with the central government's rule?

As a native of Jizhou, what would Tian Feng want to say?

Is he threatening the Central Committee, His Majesty the Emperor?

Is Tian Feng going to lead the Jizhou people to rebel? !

The old minister implores His Majesty not to listen to Tian Feng's nonsense, to sternly examine Tian Feng, and ask the mastermind behind this matter!