Chapter 827: Small Differences Between Administration and People’s Livelihood

"It's time to work, it's time to work, the river sand dug out last year, spread it on the road and fill the gaps."

When Bi Gou and others were eating, the drizzle stopped.

The days of rest and learning characters for the captives of the Southwest Barbarians were over, and they pushed wheelbarrows, pickaxes and shovels to soak the sand piles by the river.

The river sand dug out before the arrival of last winter, and the silt was cleaned up by the way. The silt was used to fertilize the fields, and the river sand was put together.

It was frozen hard in winter, and after a rain, it was still hard inside, with frost.

It needs to be dug with a pickaxe, large pieces after large pieces, put on the wheelbarrow, and pushed to the gravel road surface.

The gravel road surface has bulges in some places after winter, and sinks in some places when it rains.

It must be leveled with sand and rollers, otherwise it will accumulate water and continue to sink, becoming a depression.

The people have finished the cotton spinning and sorghum stalk weaving work, and helped to build the road while there is nothing to do.

The court provides free soup, black bread and pickles.

The people could not get their wages, so they were willing to repair the roads.

The people of Jingzhao Prefecture no longer had to pay for the work, and they felt that they had taken advantage of the situation, so they quickly reported back to the court.

The captives certainly could not be idle, as they were in better health than when they fought against the Tang army.

To put it bluntly, the food they received when they were soldiers was not as good as when they were captives, and Lijiazhuangzi provided them with sufficient food.

The Khitan captives were once again responsible for management, and their families had all come. Now they were employed, and they did not feel that they were captives.

A group of people left and returned to Khitan to help with spring plowing and trade arrangements. They had knowledge, experience, and plans.

A small number of people from the Sixteen Guards were sent out to take charge of the supervision. For every hundred captives, there were basically three people watching.

The captives had no other ideas, and they worked hard, learned knowledge, and hoped to become officials after returning.

Those who did not want to go back told Lijiazhuangzi about their family situation, and Lijiazhuangzi went to the southwest to find someone to bring their families out.

The latest news shows that more than two thousand families have arrived at the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the soldiers and generals in the southwest are in charge.

When the weather gets warmer, they will go south along the Yangtze River, take the canal to the Yellow River, and arrive.

When they arrive at a family, they will be given a building to live in, not the shacks and tents they built.

Others are very angry that they were captured and their wives and children are with others.

These people are holding their breath and working hard, hoping to go back one day and take it back.

Obviously, they will not rebel even if they are asked to, and there is nowhere to run.

Even if there is a chance to grab a horse, a horse that can outrun the three horses ridden by the Yulin Flying Cavalry in rotation?

Rush to the mountainside and travel by land, cross the mountains and ridges, Qinling, cross it, and a few people want to survive in Qinling?

Or go all the way west and take the plank road, and no one on the plank road will stop you?

Therefore, they hold pickaxes and shovels, and have no other ideas.

They just hope that the person in charge of guarding them will give them a good evaluation in the notebook, accumulate more points, and exchange for more resources.

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“It’s not the right time to build roads now, but it’s too late to catch up.”

Li Yi watched the people in the village plowing the soil beside the cement road and estimated the situation.

At the beginning of spring, the road was leveled, and it will continue to be built when the rain increases and the temperature rises.

If it is not built now, the amount of work will be large in the future, and the people are farming and have no time.

Now we know that we can’t do our best, but we still have to do it.

After the repair, it will be easy to repair it when there is a recurrence.

There is no need to build roads in the village, all cement roads, and space is left on both sides of the road.

Turn the manure in, and plant flower seeds in a few days. In summer, you can see flower bushes, but no shrubs.

Song De and the palace maids and eunuchs stood by and listened to learn.

Learn the purpose, knowing that the road should not be built immediately, but still have to be built.

Administrative orders and actual conditions may not always be consistent. Many seemingly unreasonable administrative orders have special considerations behind them.

Of course, this consideration does not include pushing people’s grain when they see that they are about to be harvested.

Behind such considerations are bureaucrats, not people's livelihood.

The real consideration is to actively organize the people to plant seedlings or change to other crops while watching the flood.

It's too late to know that other crops are not good enough, but it's better than leaving the land idle. If you can increase the income by one point, you can increase the income by one point.

Doing your best to get four points of loss and compensation for the people is administrative flexibility.

It's the same now. After knowing it, you have to repair it. If you don't take the opportunity to repair it, repairing it later will cause people to miss work.

Don't the people know it? They are just like tidying up the land. It's better to do it than not to do it.

Li Yi said these words to Song De and the palace maids and eunuchs. This is called administration and people's livelihood.

"Just like fighting a war, you should win by being normal and winning by being extraordinary. In terms of administration, it's difficult to win by being extraordinary. It's better to be upright and try to give the people a little help."

Li Yi said and went to the river to see how the river water was thawing.

Due to weather reasons, the upper reaches of the Yellow River have not yet opened, but there are ice flowing in the lower reaches.

If the upstream river is fully opened, but the few fields still fail, ice flood will occur.

At the beginning, artillery will be used, and then blasting will be used when the blasting technology is good enough.

If it really doesn't work, it is still better to use artillery, because the kinetic energy of the artillery shells is the greatest.

Li Yi didn't have a shrapnel bomb, so he blasted the ice surface with a blasting bomb, but it didn't have much effect.

So if he thinks the ice flood is coming, he will try to drill holes and blast with gunpowder, densely, just to loosen it up, and use more gunpowder.

Otherwise, the ice flood will wash away the Anbei Protectorate.

There are also small ice floes in the Ba River, with irregular shapes colliding back and forth and flowing downstream.

"Any news from Lantian County?" Li Yi asked, looking at the river.

"No, the ice floes downstream have also been washed away. The river channel there is better, and the silt was cleared in autumn."

Song De knew what the owner was asking. Lantian County was a county that Zhuangzi paid special attention to. It was connected to the Ba River and had many industries.

"Any news from Hukou Waterfall?" Li Yi asked about another place.

"Yes, our people have built a land boat there. Now the ice at the mouth of the waterfall has been washed down, and the big ice blocks on top have not been seen yet. It is said that we have to wait for ten days."

Song De immediately gave an answer again. It was not easy for him to be the manager.

"Just arrange the things that need to be arranged. Don't learn from Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It's useless to work yourself to death."

Li Yi looked back at Song De, satisfied, but not satisfied.

With so many assistants around, I asked you a question, and you let your assistant answer it. Can I still look down on you?

Song De grinned: "It's just that others are in charge. I just happened to take a look and remember it."

'Buzz~~' There was a sudden movement in the sky. A large group of pigeons flew with whistles, circling back and forth.

Some flew behind and threw out when they drew an arc, and quickly flapped their wings twice to return to the team.

Others found that they couldn't catch up, so they took a shortcut and squeezed in again.

"It's a bit good. A good carrier pigeon will take the initiative to land in the grass to hide when the enemy is close, fly close to the ground little by little, and fall into the grass again after flying more than ten feet.

Until it feels completely safe, it will fly into the sky and rush to the nest. There will be eagles raised in the grassland to deal with it."

Li Yi saw the pigeons and was satisfied, but he had his own opinion.