Just when Cai Jing returned to Xianyang City.
The recruitment of laborers across the country is also in full swing.
No one, including Cai Jing and other civil and military officials, had expected that recruiting civilians would cause such a huge response.
Not to mention the believers of Taiping Dao and Tianshi Dao.
There were millions of ordinary people who wanted to build the canal.
In other words, recruiting tens of millions of laborers is not a difficult task at all.
The main reason is because of the generous treatment given to them by Ying Yuan.
In a month, I can rest for two days and earn one or two taels of silver.
Where can I find such a good job?
You have to know that in this society, for some poor people, earning one or two taels of silver is enough to support their family for a year if they are healthy.
Therefore, faced with the temptation of huge profits, and since it was organized by the court, they would naturally go there one after another.
...
The next day.
Cai Jing came to the Secretariat.
When I passed by the Ministry of Works, I only saw a few people.
Cao Cao bowed to him and said, "Mr. Cai, you are back.
Here are the details of the recent recruitment of laborers near Xianyang City. Please take a look."
As he spoke, he handed a memorial to the other party.
After the other party took the memorial and read it carefully, he slowly said: "This is a good thing.
The most difficult part of building the canal was recruiting laborers. If they were forced to recruit, trouble would surely arise.
The current situation is already the best outcome for the imperial court."
Cao Cao nodded and said, "Now, most of the assistant ministers, directors, doctors, and deputy ministers of the Ministry of Works, as well as other officials, have traveled to various parts of the country to oversee the recruitment of laborers.
On the Ministry of War side, I intend to mobilize 300,000 troops to assist the Ministry of Works in building the canal."
With a large number of laborers, some problems are inevitable.
At that time, the army will need to use force to suppress it.
Now, after two years of recuperation.
The total strength of the imperial guards has reached 400,000.
It was a helpless move to withdraw 300,000 yuan at once.
Even Cao Cao felt that 300,000 soldiers were too few.
Once they are scattered across the country, they will not be enough.
Cai Jing pondered for a moment, then said, "In the name of His Majesty, contact those kings of different surnames and ask them to send troops to assist us.
As for the 300,000 troops, deploy them all to the Jiangnan area. As long as there is no chaos in Jiangnan, there will be no chaos in the country."
Now the military power is firmly in Ying Yuan's hands.
Even if he wanted to send troops, he needed Ying Yuan's approval.
Of course, in his eyes, it was the emperor who proposed to build the canal.
So, in order to build the canal and mobilize the army, the emperor would agree to it no matter what.
This is indeed the case.
...
Xuanzheng Hall.
When Cai Jing asked Ying Yuan for permission to mobilize the army to manage the civilians.
The latter agreed to this without any hesitation.
Is there any need to hesitate about such things?
The army manages the civilians.
This means that when civilians riot, the army can suppress them.
What effect will it have if the army directly suppresses riots?
It will definitely cause public outrage!
By then, this effect will spread across the country.
Wouldn’t the Qin Dynasty be in chaos?
Once the Qin Dynasty was in chaos, wouldn't the heroes that emerged at the end of the Sui Dynasty come out?
Therefore, the army must be sent out!
But Ying Yuan didn't consider this at all.
The prerequisite for the army to suppress a riot is that there is a riot that needs to be suppressed.
Given the current situation of canal construction, riots are almost impossible.
In Ying Yuan's previous life, that is, during the Sui Dynasty, many laborers died during the construction of the canal.
Most of these laborers died of exhaustion.
Because they have to work day and night.
But in this world.
Because Ying Yuan did not determine the specific time for building the canal.
Therefore, for Cai Jing and others, the construction period was not very tight.
Since they are not in a hurry, there is no need to make the laborers work for eight or nine hours a day.
Moreover, the civilians can rest for two days a month...
That's the treatment.
Anyone who still has evil intentions, or criticizes the court for this or that, is most likely a traitor.
If the treatment of their laborers were converted to modern society.
It's something like this: 10,000 yuan a month, with two days off on weekends.
With such good treatment, the poor would definitely rush to get it!
After discussing the matter of sending out the army, Ying Yuan suddenly remembered something and asked:
"Have all the rising stars of the Twelve Clans of Jiangnan been properly arranged?"
Until now, he still has no idea who those rising stars are.
Because in his eyes, it was not important.
What’s important is that those so-called rising stars may engage in nepotism and collusion with their cronies.
By that time, the entire court would be in chaos because of them.
Why not do this?
Hearing this, Cai Jing clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured that everything has been properly arranged at the Ministry of Personnel.
Most of them have been sent to other places to serve as officials, and after they have made some political achievements, they will be called back to Xianyang.
However, I have taken a fancy to several young talents and have not sent them out to other posts, but have instead retained them as clerks in the Secretariat."
The so-called clerks are errand runners.
They hold official positions, but they are mostly minor ones.
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