Putting the name Qinling in the Han Dynasty is a bit treasonous.

However, fortunately, the origin of this name is very early, and it was called this name before the Qin State. However, people today prefer to call it by the oldest name, called Nanshan.

The former imperial censor Zhang Buyi noticed this problem and wrote to Liu Chang specifically, hoping to change the name to Hanling or Tangling.

But the ministers disagreed. The word Qin is just a geographical concept. Why do you have to make it so complicated?

In the end it was nothing.

The northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains are not as lush as Yanzhi Mountain. Because it is winter, looking around, it is actually bare. The solitary trees are sprinkled with a thin layer of gray snow, which is not very obvious. The whole mountain seems to be covered with snow.

It was covered with the carcasses of unknown plants and animals, and no animals could be seen. Only the bushes were shaking and something was flying by.

"Forehead!"

"Oh!"

With a muffled groan, the farmer raised his shovel, stabbed it hard into the land in front of him, and threw the soil aside with great effort. Looking from the top of the mountain, for hundreds of miles, you can see everything.

When I saw the people gathered together, some were digging, some were transporting, and some were spitting into their hands, rubbing them together, and picking up tools. It was in full swing, and at regular intervals there were people being stoned.

The bonfire piled inside burned weakly.

There were officials wearing thick winter clothes, patrolling back and forth, either scolding or explaining.

There were also fully armed soldiers, passing by in small groups from a short distance away.

In the direction parallel to them is the endlessly flowing Wei River.

They were digging canals to shorten the transportation distance from Tongguan to Chang'an. Of course, the farmland along the road could also be irrigated. This water transport canal was not long, and it did not use many people, only thirty to forty thousand people.

Liu Jing got out of the car and spit out a mouthful of thick fog.

Even though he was wearing thick clothes, the cold still penetrated through the winter coat and hit his bones hard.

Liu Jing looked at the distance. There were seven or eight officials around him. These officials were usually big shots in charge of the inspection officials. It was difficult for the people who served here to see them. But at this moment, these people were no longer what they used to be.

He looked so powerful, with a smile on his face, and bowed down in a low voice, not daring to look directly at Liu Jing's face.

"Wang County Magistrate?"

"Mr. Liu!"

Liu Jing felt the astonishing cold and couldn't help but said: "Light more bonfires, but be careful not to run away from the water. In addition, make sure these people wear winter clothes. If you kill one person from the cold, I will not spare you."

! It is up to you to distribute these materials, and finally submit them to the internal history, and we will report them."

"only!"

"Mr. Liu, it's cold right now, so you might as well go to the county..."

"I'm here to inspect the canal, not to avoid the cold!"

Liu Jing interrupted the officials rudely, and then walked on foot to the edge of the project under their leadership. Officials along the way came to pay their respects, but Liu Jing ordered not to pay visits and to concentrate on their work. The officials worked even harder.

The people even dared not raise their heads.

Liu Jing nodded, "That's right. The number of people summoned by each county was complete, and it was so fast..."

"According to your order, the local Zhongliang House came to build and serve your Majesty..."

The county magistrates laughed. The powerful men in the Qin and Han Dynasties were really worse off than dead, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. In the future, these squires would even be able to compete with the temples in the local area, and sometimes they would dare to stand up to the county magistrates. But at this moment

Well, these county magistrates have to hold military positions during wartime. There is a seamless exchange. The daily work includes taking the people for three drills. There are sufficient weapons in the arsenal. Let alone the powerful ones, they can evade the county magistrates.

I don't even dare to have such thoughts.

If you are unlucky, it is common for you to encounter these cruel officials in the early Western Han Dynasty, and your family will be destroyed. A large group of cruel officials in the early Western Han Dynasty like the powerful people in these places the most. These feel like Zhou Bo saw the enemy, so big

What a war effort!

However, apart from the powerful, of course there are also many ordinary people involved.

Even if powerful forces are mobilized, they are only mobilizing their own tenants, retainers and the like.

Therefore, Liu Jing is still more concerned about the safety of these people. Even if they are powerful, they cannot be allowed to freeze to death here. If they freeze to death here, what a pity. What will happen to the next corvee?

Liu Jing inspected the long canal project and discovered many problems.

Among them, there were two issues that aroused Liu Jing's vigilance. The first was the enthusiasm of the people. Along the way, Liu Jing found that these people who served in corvee were not very motivated. Of course, he wanted to make the people enthusiastic.

It is impossible to build it spontaneously. The Han Dynasty abolished many Qin systems. Their slightly negative attitude, if placed in the Qin Dynasty, would start "shaving beards, hair, and toes" three times in a row.

The officials of the Han Dynasty had a gentler attitude towards dealing with things. After all, the Han Dynasty always flaunted its benevolence and morality everywhere, claiming that it governed the country with filial piety. The idea of ​​benevolent government has basically become the mainstream. Even if it is just pretending, you have to pretend it.

Things are good. Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, it is relatively rare for officials to treat the common people. Even the most cruel and ruthless officials will not have trouble with the people at the bottom, because this matter is politically incorrect.

In fact, it is easy to solve this problem. Let the officials be more cruel, or find a few chickens and kill them to scare the other monkeys.

But Liu Jing was not willing to do this, because he himself was a victim of corvee. He was forcibly taken to the border to serve as corvee, and he escaped only halfway through when the Han Dynasty built a house.

The advantage of being from a lower class background is that Liu Jing knows what these serving people are thinking in their hearts and knows how to treat them.

Liu Jing immediately issued an order. According to the standards of the army, a reward system was implemented among the corvee groups. They were set up according to the standard of ten people. Among them, those who performed outstandingly every day could be rewarded, while those who performed poorly among them were to be punished.

Accept the punishment.

This reward system has nothing to do with officials, it is entirely with those who do the work.

This is to avoid the situation in the Qin Dynasty where officials crazily oppressed the people for the sake of competition.

The Qin State likes to compete very much. Whether it is training, farming, or corvee work, everything must be compared to get a ranking. County and county will compare harvests. Those with poor harvests will be punished, and those with good harvests will be promoted. The army will compete with the army to train.

As a result, the corvee work was also faster than the progress, which led to the cruelty of the Qin officials. For these rewards, they would often crazily oppress the people and force them to do things. As long as they did not kill them, they would do whatever they wanted.

There are also those who seek out witches to catch ghosts to serve as corvees in order to win the game.

Liu Jing's method only targeted the common people and avoided this kind of harm.

Another problem is the consumption of farm tools. The number of damaged farm tools does not match the number of farm tools that were just delivered, which is obviously an act of corruption.

After a rigorous investigation, a few petty officials who collected broken farm tools to sell iron soon became members of the corvee army.

The construction speed of the channels is very fast. It seems that the water channels here can be connected in at most one year.

This made Liu Jing more determined. Sure enough, this small-scale construction channel was much more reliable than building a palace in Luoyang.

...

Standing at the door of Houde Hall, Liu Chang looked outside helplessly.

Although it hasn't snowed yet, the weather is getting colder and colder.

In recent years, the climate across the north has become colder and colder, and winter has lasted much longer than before.

Liu Chang is not bad, he has rough skin and thick flesh, and is not afraid of the cold wind. I just wonder if there are people who have been killed by the cold in various places.

Zhang Buyu wore extremely thick clothes and stood behind Liu Chang, shivering in the cold wind.

His body bones are not as strong as those of Liu Chang, and he is extremely afraid of the cold.

"I heard that it snowed in many places in Tang, Zhao, Liang, and Qi..."

"Six counties reported disasters."

Liu Chang gently stroked his chin, "What a pity, if there is a lot of cotton at this moment..."

Zhang Buyi trembled and said: "Your Majesty, why don't you ask the kings of the Western Regions to send merchants to Shendu to obtain a large amount of cotton? You can buy seeds and finished products... We also have things they don't have.

, can be exchanged."

"I have given the order a long time ago... However, most of the areas in Shendu are now occupied by the Huns. The Huns and my great Han are mortal enemies..."

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, Jizhou is a capable king. He will not refuse to trade with the Han..."

"It is precisely because of his ability that he will strictly control the flow of things that the big man really needs to the big man."

And the capable Jizhu whom Zhang Buyi spoke of is currently leading his incompetent brother to kill indiscriminately in Shendu territory.

The body poisoning at this moment is really lively.

It can be considered a multi-party battle.

The first is Pushamitra Sunga, the destroyer of the Mauryan dynasty in India. He was originally a general of the Mauryan dynasty.

As the saying goes, "Good birds choose trees to roost in, and wise ministers choose their masters to kill."

This man killed the chariot king, ended the Maurya Dynasty with regicide, and established the Sunga Dynasty, with the capital still being Fahrenheit. Because of the unfair means he used to ascend to power, most of the Maurya Dynasty after the split was disobedient.

He and the Jilinga people even counterattacked several times, causing the new king a headache.

The Mauryan Dynasty during the reign of King Asoka repeatedly repelled the Greeks and nomads from all directions. Upon hearing the news of the end of the Mauryan Dynasty, the Kingdom of Bactria established by the invading Greeks was the happiest. They took advantage of the opportunity

The Mauryan Dynasty ended, and Kabul, Gandhara, Punjab and other places were included in the territory of the kingdom.

The regicide Sunga was furious and led his army to regain these areas. He had killed the Peacock King himself, so how could this land be returned to outsiders?

At this moment, King Demetrius II of the Kingdom of Bactria is resisting the counterattack of the regicides. In order to resist the counterattack, he cruelly oppressed the people and forced them to pay more grain as his military expenses. He vowed to follow

The Xunjia Dynasty fought to the end, but this move caused a rebellion.

Eucratides, the general who oversaw the area north of the Hindu Kush Mountains, launched a rebellion and proclaimed himself king in Bactria. From then on, the kingdom was divided into northern and southern dynasties with the Hindu Kush Mountains as the boundary, and they fought against each other.

It was in the midst of a melee between so many parties that Ji Zhou barged in.
To be continued...