allendalepharm Chapter 349
Chapter 349
As soon as Xiao He's words came out, the faces of the ministers below suddenly changed.
They made a preliminary calculation along the line that Xiao He had crossed, and this was a huge project with a length of at least four thousand miles!
The amount of work required to build a canal and a concrete road is not the same.
The cement road is only 10 meters wide!
But a canal must be 30 meters or even wider.
In this way, it can basically be calculated that if you want to build a Grand Canal, the amount of work should be much larger than the original construction of the Great Wall!
Of course, the difficulty of building the Great Wall lies in the fact that it was built between lofty mountains.
The difficulty of the Grand Canal is that the amount of work required is very large.
In fact, this is also true.
The Qin Dynasty built the Great Wall, and more than one million people were conscripted before and after, and the peak was about 700,000 people!
In order to build the Grand Canal, the Sui Dynasty levied more than 3 million people before and after the levy of conscription, and the population at its peak was more than 1.5 million.
You must know that the time went to the Sui Dynasty, and there was a gap of 800 years in between.
In the past 800 years, the productivity of the Sui Dynasty in all aspects has been far above that of the Qin Dynasty.
20 For example, the Qin Dynasty basically still used bronze tools, but the iron tools of the Sui Dynasty were already very perfect and mature.
Overall, the amount of work required to build the Grand Canal should have been more than four times that of the Great Wall in the Qin Dynasty.
Again, none of the ministers who can stand in this hall are simple characters.
So with a little calculation, you can roughly calculate how much manpower is needed to build this Grand Canal.
As a result, many ministers could not help but have the idea of opposing the construction of the Grand Canal.
But seeing that the right minister Feng Quji stood up, and then first saluted Yingchen, and then bowed to Xiao He.
"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Zuo, the minister has doubts about the construction of the Grand Canal!"
"If such a grand canal is really to be built, then at least one million people will need to be requisitioned."
"Such a large amount of work, according to the budget of the minister, should be far above the Great Wall built by the Emperor Taishang back then."
"In this way, will the whole world be overwhelmed, and eventually lead to the withering of people's livelihood and the hardship of the people."
"Please also ask Your Majesty and Zuo Xiang to think twice."
It is worthy of Feng Quji.
It can be seen at a glance that it is not only Xiao He, the newly appointed Zuo Xiang, who wants to build the Grand Canal, but also Yingchen, the newly enthroned Tianwu Emperor!
In this regard, Yingchen did not open his mouth to explain this matter to Feng Quji.
Now that he is the emperor, there are some things that do not require him to appear in person.
The emperor and the crown prince are different in the end.
Of course, the construction of the Grand Canal, Ying Chen and Xiao He made it clear.
Sure enough, seeing that Xiao He stood up directly, he first saluted Feng Qu, and then said, "Your Majesty has already explained to Xiao He. "
"Now in the land south of the Yangtze River, there are still millions of people in Shanyue who have not obeyed the king and do not respect Daqin, and the first task after trusting Han Xin, the governor of the East, to go to Jiangnan is to completely solve the Shanyue problem."
"If Daqin solves the Shanyue problem, it will be able to generate more than a million more laborers out of thin air, and then let them build the Grand Canal, is it difficult?"
"In addition, there are now more than 700,000 Xiongnu and Donghu captives captured in Great Qin from previous wars."
"This group of people can also be divided into a part to build the Grand Canal."
"In this way, in terms of manpower, there will be no problem for Daqin to build the Grand Canal."
As soon as these words came out, Feng Quji and the ministers who were originally opposed to the construction of the Grand Canal suddenly not only suddenly realized, but also amazed!
How could they not have thought of this method!
In this way, it is wonderful that there is no need to disturb the order of the people's lives, and a grand canal connecting the north and south can be built!
"Color!"
At this moment, in the Zhangtai Palace, all the ministers congratulated! (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!) ）
In fact, including Feng Quji, they were able to understand what benefits the construction of such a Grand Canal would be for consolidating Great Qin's rule over the Jiangnan region and developing Jiangnan in the later stage!
If the Jiangnan region is developed, then the national strength of Daqin will surely rise again.
Seeing that the proposal to build the Grand Canal was passed, Yingchen spoke.
"The purpose of building the Grand Canal is to develop Jiangnan, and the people are most needed to develop Jiangnan."
"In that case, I am going to issue an edict today."
"From now on, people who move to Jiangnan can reclaim the land by themselves, and thirty percent of the land reclaimed will belong to Daqin and seventy percent to themselves."
"Within a year, the more land you cultivate, the more land you get, and there is no upper limit."
"At the same time, for two years, Daqin will not levy any field tax on the reclaimed land, and Daqin will also provide him with cultivated cattle and improved seeds."
As soon as this edict came out, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were suddenly shocked again!
What a big deal!
They have to admire that Yingchen's hand is simply the whole world in the palm of his hand.
If it had been given by some other people, many of the people would not have believed it.
Since ancient times, the people have basically not trusted much in the imperial court.
Even during the reign of those Holy Ming monarchs, there were very few.
Therefore, before Shang Ying changed the law, he had to come up with a method of "Ximu Lixin 830".
In the final analysis, it is to tell the people through ironclad facts that the changes are true and not false.
It's not here to fool them.
But now it is Yingchen who has issued this decree!
Think about Yingchen's status in the hearts of the people over the years.
It can be said that Yingchen now tells the people that it will snow in the summer, and many people will blindly believe it.
In the hearts of the vast majority of the people, they have already been deified by Yingchen.
As the reincarnation of the Nine Heavens Thunder God Emperor, the prophecy made by Emperor Tianwu must be true.
And to solve the problem of people's trust, followed by the problem of human nature.
If there is a project in front of you that you know will make a fortune, and the person you trust the most tells you that the yield is as high as 300%, will you invest?
The answer, of course, is yes!
Not to mention anything else, after the promulgation of Yingchen's edict, many ministers in the Zhangtai Palace had already planned to wait until the next dynasty, and they hurriedly encouraged the members of the family to go to Jiangnan and then develop those lands.
It can be expected that the land in the Jiangnan area is more than hundreds of millions of acres!
What a wealth and an asset!
This edict of Yingchen was called the first order of Great Qin in later generations: "Tianwu Wasteland Order"!