Chapter 929: You Fu Returns
Luo Chong and Tang Yao returned home, and the railway construction project in Xingang County was also going smoothly at this time.
With the help of trains, more materials can be transported at one time, so more manpower can be invested in the installation of rails.
On the fifth day of the construction of the Xinwei Line, the mileage of traffic has reached 17 kilometers. Using trains to transport rails, eight carriages can load 300 rails at a time, which is 15 kilometers in mileage.
There were originally more than 1,000 people laying the roadbed in the front. Their speed of building the roadbed was much faster than laying the railway in the back. The roadbed had been built for 30 kilometers, and the railway that could be opened to traffic in the back was less than 10 kilometers, but as time went on, the gap became smaller and smaller.
The entire engineering team had a total of 32 slaves in the village. These people were divided into four parts: soil mining, road laying, tamping, and track laying. The four teams rotated every three days, striving to make all the slaves master all the techniques of these four parts. The Xinwei Line was the first railway line of the Han tribe, but it was also a good opportunity to train road builders. Luo Chong would never waste this opportunity.
In the future, if the scale of road construction workers is to be expanded, then these experienced people can be dispersed like seeds, as the backbone of the new team, and then these people can be used to train new teams, and then gradually expand.
In addition, although the purpose of this project is to train workers, in order not to slow down the progress of the project, every time a person is replaced for track laying, they will not be replaced directly, because it is too slow to retrain a new batch of workers. Luo Chong asked them to only replace half of them each time. For example, for the two villages responsible for installing the track, only one village is transferred each time. After the new village is proficient, the old village will be transferred and replaced by a new team.
In other words, although a group of people need to be replaced every three days, each group of people can stay in the track laying link for six days, which is enough for them to learn the technology.
In fact, laying rails is basically a matter of no technology. After all, it is the lowest level of rails, and it is basically a straight line. Lay a foundation, arrange the sleepers, and then put the rails up, and finally nail them on it to fix them.
It was nothing like the high-speed rail tracks in Luo Chong's previous life. It had concrete sleepers and spring steel pads, and the spikes were screwed in with screws. It was much more troublesome to operate than the steam train tracks with wooden sleepers.
At the same time, just as Luo Chong took Tang Yao home to pack up and prepare a gift for her to bring back to Tang Ji, the guards sent Luo Chong another message. It turned out that You Fu, who Luo Chong had recalled before, had returned from Takuhai County.
"Chief, You Fu has now arrived in Liuyang County. Should we let him come here directly, or should we go there later?" The guards asked Luo Chong's opinion.
"Let him come over and see me in Hanyang City." Luo Chong thought about it. He had already arranged the time to send Tang Yao. It would be useless to go there now. It would be better to let You Fu come back to talk.
"Yes!" The guards agreed and turned to pass the message.
The giant eagle quickly flew to Liuyang County with Luo Chong's news. You Fu, who had already landed in Liuyang County and was waiting, also received Luo Chong's message asking him to go to Hanyang City.
When he saw the letter, he was uneasy.
In the past, when the Han tribe was still very weak, You Fu had always played the role of a pioneer, taking a few people to adventure everywhere, opening up traffic roads for the Han tribe, looking for waterways to the south, establishing trade bases on the grassland, and finding an estuary from the Liuyang River. He helped the Han tribe to make friends with the Tang tribe, and also recruited small tribes to establish the Tuohai County in the south. His contributions were absolutely unquestionable.
But this year, Luo Chong suddenly changed the reign title and came up with a great destiny of "accumulation of the world", which suddenly made the tribe shift from strategic expansion to strategic contraction.
Before, he tried to find benefits everywhere and occupy resources everywhere, whether it was land, grain, livestock, or population, as long as the Han tribe could use it, Luo Chong wanted everything.
But now, the Han tribe has stopped expanding and started strategic contraction to consolidate its own grain reserves and carry out construction. This was originally a good thing, but it was also the development bottleneck that the Han tribe is now facing. You Fu knew that this was right, but he was inexplicably flustered.
He felt that he was suddenly useless. The two brothers Youfu and Youye didn't like to stay in one place and farm. They liked to explore and seek excitement. They were also willing to run around to do business. But now the Han tribe suddenly didn't need these. What else could he do?
A person is not afraid of being used, but he is afraid that he is not even worth being used. Then he will really become a waste.
Although Youfu knew that Luo Chong was not the kind of person who would throw him away after using him, he would still feel nervous when he was about to face an unknown future.
However, what should be faced must be faced. At worst, he can just restrain his temper and ask the leader for a local official position. The leader should not refuse him, right?
With a nervous mood, Youfu finally returned to Hanyang County, which was just a large open space when he came here. Thinking about the fact that he had to find more than a hundred wild men for Luo Chong for an ox cart, it always makes people smile when he thinks about it now.
In Hanyang City, as soon as You Fu returned, he was taken directly to Luo Chong's home by Luo Chong's personal guards. The guards told the leader to receive him in his own study.
You Fu was naturally very happy with such treatment. The study room of the chief's house was not open to anyone who wanted to go. People with average relationships or people Luo Chong was not familiar with would only be received in the office of the government building. And You Fu could be considered a veteran of the Han tribe, right? He
was led by the guards into Luo Chong's study room. You Fu immediately saluted and greeted Luo Chong. Relationships were relationships, but the rules should still be followed.
"You Fu greets the chief. Chief, I'm back." This guy came to Luo Chong's desk and bowed to the ground with a big salute.
Luo Chong did not neglect him. After all, he was a veteran who had lived in a straw hut together. He quickly got up and walked around the desk to personally help You Fu up.
While reaching out to pull You Fu's arm, he sighed.
"It's okay, it's okay. I haven't seen you for so long. I feel like you've gained some weight. Are you doing well in the south?"
You Fu blushed. He was indeed a little fatter, mainly because he didn't have to run around. Although he was responsible for negotiating with those independent clans and small tribes around Takumi County before, he was near Takumi County after all. He had everything he needed, so he was naturally doing well.
"Thank you for your concern, Chief. I have nothing to do, but I have gained a few pounds of weight." You Fu said self-deprecatingly.
"Hahahaha, you just came back and didn't rest, but I called you back immediately. Come on, sit down, come on, bring some tea and snacks, let's have a good chat today." Luo Chong pulled You Fu to the tea table at the window of the study, and then instructed the maid guarding the door outside.
"Yes, thank you, Chief." You Fu also quickly agreed, and the two of them sat cross-legged on the futon next to the tea table.
After the maid brought the tea and cakes, Luo Chong took a sip of tea and said.
"Just now you said you had nothing to do, so those small independent tribes around Takuhai County and the Tang tribe are gone?"
"To report to the leader, yes, now near the mouth of the Liuyang River, including the east bank where the Tang tribe is located, there are no other people except the Tang tribe and our Takuhai County. Not to mention those independent tribes, even the savages have basically been looted by us." You Fu ate a piece of pastry made of chestnut flour and wild honey, drank a sip of tea, and then continued to report to Luo Chong.
"We are very powerful in the area where the Liuyang River meets the sea. The scale of Tuohai County is not small. In addition, we have a very friendly relationship with the Tang tribe now. Moreover, we have sufficient food and advanced production. We can recruit many small tribes just by recruiting them.
Those tribes are not fools. There are countless benefits for joining us, but if they refuse us, they will have to bear our blows. Especially at the end of last year, when the leader asked Dashu to lead troops to force those clan tribes, the local small tribes were even more afraid of us.
So my lobbying mission went very smoothly. Basically, as long as I stated my identity as a Han tribe, and then publicized the policies of our tribe and what kind of life they can live after joining, these people would immediately agree and take out a lot of food to entertain me. Otherwise, I would not have gained weight." You Fu introduced the situation and complained about himself again.
"Haha, it seems that you are living very comfortably over there. They are afraid of the strength of the Han tribe and dare not resist. In order to gain more benefits, they will definitely try to please you. This is normal." Luo Chong also said jokingly.
"No, no." You Fu waved his hands quickly, and continued to complain, "The chief is right. They really want to please me, but what can they give me? Those small tribes can't give any good things, just some meat and food, plus some local fruits. Does our Han tribe lack these?
Besides, I know what I can agree to and what I can't agree to. If it is something forbidden by the tribe, no matter how they please me, I will not agree."
Luo Chong also nodded in agreement. You Fu came from the Han tribe. What good things has he not seen? He may not be interested in the things of those small tribes, but eating and drinking should not be wrong, right? At most, it is just a social event as a diplomat.
After a pause, Luo Chong asked You Fu again.
"Since there is nothing to do in the south, have you thought about what you want to do this time you come back? I don't have any special arrangements for you for the time being. If you have something you want to do, I can consider it."
You Zhi was stunned when he heard this. Didn't the chief think about what to arrange for him?
I'm not in the right state today, that's all, wait for me to sort out the following ideas.
(End of this chapter)
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