Behind me is the earth

Hongye Mountain is named after the maple trees on the mountain.

Whenever autumn comes, the mountains are covered with red leaves, slowly like fire.

Together with Mangshan in Beiwan, it belongs to the remnants of Wuwang Mountain, and together with the Yinshan Mountains in Yinshan County to the north, they form a barrier that separates Yuntai County from Beiwan.

If not, there would have been no need for the Beiwan rebels to use Fengtai County as a springboard to invade Yinshan County.

"Sir, is this road newly built?"

After leaving the city, Si Nian sat on his horse and looked at the neat bluestone road, curious Ren Pingsheng asked.

When she came from Le County, the official road outside the city had not yet been paved with bluestones.

"right."

A group of more than 20 riders, horseshoes fell on the bluestone road, making a constant "pat, pat" sound.

When going out for fun, Ren Pingsheng was not in a hurry. He walked in front, followed by Xiaowan, Si Nian, and the four maids Qingyin, Siqi, Wangshu, and Ruhua, as well as some attendants. Behind him is Chen Dachui leading a team of guards to protect everyone's safety.

Ren Pingsheng looked at the winding road ahead.

The road is smooth, and even the edges and corners have been carefully polished manually. Every stone slab has been inspected and there are no sharp or frizzy edges.

This is because he has very high requirements for roads. Although he does not have the conditions to lay asphalt roads and concrete roads, in the planning, these bluestone roads will also be used for cars in the future. In the future, he can bring several new energy vehicles here, whether they are pulling or pulling. It's very convenient for transporting goods or transporting people.

“This time we fought with the rebels and captured more than 5,000 people, all of which were used to build roads.

Within the county, the roads to each market town must be built into smooth stone roads.

The sections currently being prioritized for construction are from Chengguan Town to Qingcheng Town, Chengguan Town to Hongyeshan, Chengguan Town to Beibu Town, and Beibu Town to Nanmen Town in Yunlong County. These four important sections are to be built as first-class roads. A smooth stone road three feet wide was built.

In addition, four stone bridges will be built on the Qingshui River to facilitate people's travel with Yuntaiwei. "

Ren Pingsheng raised his whip and pointed to the road ahead, introducing the road construction project in Qingshui County.

Whether it is to mobilize the army to the battlefield more quickly, or to facilitate the factories in Qingcheng Town to mobilize resources more quickly, there is a need to build roads.

Road construction will play a very important role in the development of the next five years.

Moreover, Ren Pingsheng had a plan. As long as the fiscal and taxation population could afford it, roads would be built wherever the war progressed and the territory was conquered.

However, building roads is extremely labor-intensive, material and financial. The more than 5,000 captives have to allocate some of them to quarry and polish the stones in the quarry on the Yunlong Mountain, and some of them have to polish the stones. Bluestone slabs were transported everywhere, and more people built bridges and roads in various sections.

With these more than 5,000 people, not to mention all the road construction plans in the county, even these four strategically important roads will definitely not be completed this year.

Moreover, in the case of forced labor, these captives, as laborers, had to ensure their food supply as much as possible, otherwise the loss of labor during the road construction process would be very high.

Although there is no need to pay, the daily consumption of grain and grass alone is about 5 tons, which is 150 tons in one month, equivalent to 300,000 kilograms of grain, more than half of a granary.

It can be said that it is something that requires a huge cost.

"Moo~"

A team of ox carts came from the direction of Yunlong Mountain.

The top of the bullock cart was filled with piles of stone slabs, which were all brought from the Yunlong Mountain Quarry. They were transported all the way here and the cows were panting from exhaustion.

Behind the bullock cart, there were hundreds of people pushing wheelbarrows, each with high stone slabs stacked on top.

Although it has entered late autumn, these workers are all sweating.

Walking further, we soon saw a construction site where road construction was underway.

"Keep your damn eyes open for me and work hard to reform! If anyone dares to cheat, don't even think about asking me to score you!"

The supervisor held a notebook and pen in his hand, riding a small black donkey and strolling along the roadside of the construction site. A pair of eyes patrolled these workers.

"The construction site supervisor actually managed to keep these prisoners submissive with just a notebook and a pen."

Si Nian was greatly surprised.

In her impression, when the government collects corvees, there must be supervisors with swords and whips to ensure the progress of the project.

"Most of these prisoners are ordinary people who were kidnapped by the rebels in Beiwan. Those who were bandits and bandits and committed heinous crimes have already been punished from the beginning.

To control these prisoners, there are only two simple methods.

One is food distribution. Everyone is registered and registered, and every hundred people are organized into a group. Points are scored according to the group and food is distributed. A team that works quickly and well, with adequate daily food rations. For groups that work slowly and with poor quality, their quotas will be reduced. In this way, in each group, everyone supervises each other and no one dares to be lazy.

The second is ideological transformation. These prisoners had to undergo half an hour, or two quarters of an hour, of ideological education every day after work and during dinner to establish correct and positive thoughts for them. After undergoing labor reform and ideological education, prisoners can be registered as households and divided into fields, become citizens of Qingshui County, and can also join the army to protect their homes and people. "

Ren Pingsheng explained to her.

He wanted to keep Si Nian to work for him. Although she was a woman, she had excellent kung fu and knew a lot about strangers, cultivators, monsters, etc. If he could keep her, for him, Just a big helping hand.

Si Nian praised him and said, "Sir's ability to govern the world is admirable."

In addition to overseeing the work at the construction site, she also saw some young men wearing green gowns and black gauze hats pointing at the construction site and directing the prisoners to work.

She looked at the eight or nine hundred people, some were mixing sand and lime, some were digging soil, and some were leveling the roadbed. They were busy and coordinated with each other.

Even the captives are working seriously, and there is no common numb look on their faces. Instead, they all have serious faces, and occasionally smile, but also with bright faces. Such people are often full of life. of hope.

In her opinion, Qingshui County is really a paradise-like place!

She saw it and couldn't help but admire in her heart: "Mr. Ren is really a capable minister in governing the world! It's really unfair for such a person to be trapped in a small Qingshui County!"

Everyone walked around the construction site, and the road turned into a rutted dirt road again.

At half past one in the afternoon, everyone arrived at the foot of Hongye Mountain.

Looking at the Hongye Mountain in front of him, Ren Pingsheng felt emotional. When he first crossed over, he spent more than two months wandering around in the Red Leaf Mountain.

Now, more than a year later, he has built a large family fortune in this world.