After Yu Yunwen left, Lu You stood in the corridor for a while, calmed down, returned to his room and closed the door.
He was not sure whether Yu Yunwen only saw him and Wang Qi sitting together and chatting, or whether he heard the content of the chat?
If you just saw it, it doesn't matter. You can use it to find out the information, which is harmless.
But if he heard the content of the chat...
He had heard that Yu Yunwen, as an official of the Privy Council, held a tough stance against the Ming Dynasty. He had a very tough attitude and disliked the Ming Dynasty. It would be really bad if he knew the content of his conversation with Wang Qi.
I don’t know how he would report what he had done to Chen Kangbo and the court.
Will the imperial court regard itself as a spy and investigate itself?
Lu You was a little uneasy.
But he also felt that if Yu Yunwen knew the content of his conversation with Wang Qi just now, he might not be able to pass the test so easily, and Yu Yunwen would not give him a piece of advice later on: "Don't get too close to people from the Ming Dynasty."
If he planned to report him, there was no need to give himself such a warning.
Therefore, he most likely didn't hear anything. He just saw the scene where he and Wang Qi were talking, and he had some doubts about himself. .
There is no real hammer.
After comforting himself in this way, Lu You lay on the bed with complicated emotions.
As soon as he lay down, various emotions collided in his head, making him dizzy and exhausted after a while.
So as soon as his eyes closed, he fell asleep.
In the next few days, Lu You did not have any chance to meet and talk with Wang Qi alone, but Yu Yunwen didn't seem to have any special reaction. He ate, slept and traveled as usual. It was okay when the three of them got together to discuss matters about the Ming Dynasty in private. Special move.
Lu You gradually became convinced that Yu Yunwen really did not hear the content of his conversation with Wang Qi, but only saw the scene, so he had the previous reaction.
He began to feel relieved, and instead of continuing to observe Yu Yunwen, he focused his attention on observing Mingguo.
When they advanced to Jinan Prefecture, they passed by the renovation site of the old Yellow River route. Chen Kangbo and Yu Yunwen were very interested and asked Wang Qi if they could go and have a look.
Wang Qi thought there was nothing wrong with it, so he nodded, and then took them to visit the Yellow River renovation site.
On the renovation site, farm laborers organized by farmers' associations from surrounding areas were coming and going. They were very busy carrying various building materials to and from the construction site and the building materials storage area.
"This is the old course of the Yellow River in the Later Han Dynasty. After the Yellow River changed its course several times, it has been abandoned. Now after renovation, it is prepared to serve as the entrance of the Yellow River to the sea, restoring the Yellow River to its state in the Later Han Dynasty, avoiding the Huaihe River, and preventing the Yellow River from taking over the river again. The Huaihe River flows into the sea, restoring vitality to the Huaihe and Huaihe areas."
Wang Qi stood at the edge of the construction site and pointed to the towering river embankment project and said: "The Ming Dynasty spent tens of billions of dollars in investment to prevent the Yellow River from harming the Central Plains and to restore Hebei, Shandong, and Henan to their original state. Grain-producing land.
In this way, the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty will be further improved, and the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty will become better. The land of the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River is suitable for producing grain. Once restored, the food security of the Ming Dynasty can be more guaranteed. "
After speaking, Wang Qi looked at Chen Kangbo and the other three people meaningfully.
"His Majesty has made up his mind to accomplish things that the Southern Dynasties failed to accomplish in the past. He must not let the Yellow River continue to harm the people of the Central Plains. Once the Yellow River project is successfully completed, the emperors of the Southern Dynasties will definitely be pleased, right?"
After hearing this, Chen Kangbo looked unhappy and felt that Wang Qi was scolding them secretly.
Yu Yunwen lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking.
Lu You looked around the construction site, looking at the orderly state, and felt quite a bit in his heart, but as he looked around, he discovered another bright spot.
"Master Wang, where are the supervisors on the construction site? Or the army? Why didn't you see them?"
Wang Qi looked at Lu You, then looked back at the construction site.
"The supervisor didn't watch, so he probably went to work on the construction site, right? As for the army... why are there troops on the construction site? The military has its own tasks. At most, the migrant workers on the construction site can take turns to serve as security guards. What do you want the army to do?"
"What? No army?"
Lu You was quite surprised.
The expressions of Yu Yunwen and Chen Kangbo also changed, which was incredible.
Chen Kangbo even asked: "If we don't arrange the army, what will happen if there is a riot on the construction site? With so many people gathering together, isn't the Northern Dynasty worried about riots?"
Yu Yunwen was also very concerned about this issue and stared at Wang Qi.
It was only then that they discovered that the construction sites in the Ming Dynasty were different from those in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Farmers in the Southern Song Dynasty had the obligation to perform corvee service. It was a matter of course that they were forced to work during the slack season every year. It was their natural duty to contribute to the court, and they were not paid in the first place.
They say they are in charge of the food, but they also know what they are eating.
Basically, all the meal expenses have been embezzled by officials, big and small. What can be given to these forcibly recruited migrant workers are things that normal people will not eat. Even if they do not know how to eat, they will not be full.
It is common for people to starve to death from exhaustion and illness on construction sites after being hungry and full, as well as doing strenuous physical labor. It is not surprising at all.
It is precisely because of such harsh conditions that the peasants who were forcibly recruited would always find ways to escape. In order to curb the escape, the Southern Song Dynasty government would use the army to supervise the work. If anyone dared to make trouble, they would face serious consequences.
And even if the officials on the construction site did not embezzle the food of the migrant workers and feed them, the court would still send troops to monitor the construction site to prevent accidents.
The reason is that the imperial court does not trust the people and is on guard against the people, for fear that they will cause chaos.
In this era, transportation is not convenient, and the distance between people is very large. If someone wants to rebel, they can basically be limited to one area, one county, or even one village. There are very few manpower at their disposal, and it is difficult for the government and army to pacify them. Very small.
If you want to launch a major uprising, you must have the ability to connect multiple regions to launch rebellions. This ability is not something everyone can possess.
Therefore, this invisibly greatly increases the difficulty for the people at the bottom to rebel, and also reduces the difficulty for the government to contain the rebellion.
But once the labor force is gathered to work, it will be different.
Farmers from various regions were gathered together. With so many people, such harsh working conditions, and such cruel officials and supervisors, the grievances in the hearts of the farmers would continue to accumulate.
Once this anger reaches a critical point, it will trigger riots.
At this time, there are so many people on the construction site, tens of thousands of them at every turn. Once a riot breaks out, it will be a large-scale uprising. Ordinary security forces cannot control it at all. If the army is not deployed in advance to defend it, the rulers will not be able to rest assured.
Therefore, whenever the feudal dynasty wanted to carry out a major project, many officials would always object, and the reason for each objection was definitely not just a waste of too much money.
Their most powerful objection is that they are worried that people will gather in large numbers and that once a riot breaks out, it will be difficult to control.
There are really many such examples. From the Qin Dynasty onwards, migrant workers have rebelled on construction sites throughout the dynasties. Some of them have made such a big fuss that they can even become the direct trigger for the collapse of a dynasty.
Therefore, when any feudal dynasty wants to carry out large-scale projects, the cost it has to pay is definitely not only the construction cost and labor cost.
The biggest cost they need to pay is the security cost, which is the security cost spent to prevent people from rioting.
This kind of cost is so high that no dynasty can deal with it hastily, because there is a risk of the dynasty's collapse at any time.
Song Dynasty, as a veteran, has experienced many construction site rebellions and is well versed in this principle.
Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty was carrying out the Yellow River Project, many senior officials, including Zhang Jun, directly asserted that the Ming Dynasty would no longer have the power to launch a war, because most of their power had to be used to prevent migrant workers from rebelling on the Yellow River construction site. .
But strangely enough, no riots had occurred on the Yellow River construction site in the Ming Dynasty more than two years after the project was launched, which puzzled the emperors and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Why weren't there riots?
This unscientific.
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