books44 Chapter 449: Undercover Team.
Chapter 449: Undercover Team.
Ji Congliang burst into tears and sobbed.
Ye Kun added, "Look, your nephew Qin Chou is now a minister of nine ministries. Your son-in-law Qin Erwu is now the deputy commander of the military department; your daughter Ji Qinnu is now a first-rank lady. You have brought shame to your whole family just for that little bit of money, do you know? You have also ruined the future of your children and grandchildren, do you know that?"
Ye Kun said these words to Qin Chou and Ji Qinnu.
Let them restrain their relatives in the future!
Ji Congliang cried: "King of Han, I know I was wrong."
"It's too late to admit your mistakes. Ma Zhao is a man of integrity."
Ye Kun sighed, "Back then, Madam Baochan's uncle and my eldest brother-in-law Jiang Youbao were both investigated by Ma Zhao. When I went to plead for them, Ma Zhao scolded me as a thief."
Qin Chou smiled bitterly.
He still remembers clearly the time when Jiang Youbao carried manure.
Ye Kun changed the subject and said with a smile:
"Sir Qin, you and I both started out as farmers, and we know what farmers fear the most. When you encounter corrupt officials, it's hard to explain. After we go back, we have to hold a meeting to discuss how to make officials afraid of corruption and abuse of power, so that this world can be truly peaceful."
Qin Chou nodded repeatedly: "That's right, that's right..."
After passing Luoyang, part of the planned cement road has been completed.
A small parallel railway is under construction.
Everyone's carriages got onto the cement road and started speeding away. It was really fast and steady!
According to the carriages, this is an eight-lane avenue with a green belt in the middle. It looks even more magnificent than Qin Shihuang's Qin Straight Road!
There are service areas and inns every thirty miles along the road.
Jiao Nu saw the straight road, as smooth as a mirror, and was amazed: "Such a road is great, sitting in the car, it is not bumpy at all!"
“It’s good, but it’s not durable and requires frequent maintenance.”
Ye Kun pointed at the road and said, "Cement is not as hard as stone, but stone cannot withstand the rolling of the iron wheels of a carriage, and will gradually form ruts. In addition, cement has a shelf life and will stop working after 20 to 30 years. To completely solve this problem, we need rubber tires."
The iron covering on the carriage wheels and the horseshoes can cause damage to the concrete road surface.
However, the load capacity of ancient horse-drawn carriages was not high, which was a factor that was favorable to the road surface.
Jiao Nu smiled and said, "If it can be used for twenty or thirty years, that's pretty good. In the future, build a highway from Chang'an to Zhuo County, and run back and forth when you have nothing to do. That would be fun."
Ye Kun laughed: "You and Madam Caiqin said the same thing. From now on, you two should travel together and travel all over the country."
Wei Caiqin also said something like this: if we could pave cement roads all over the country, and travel thousands of miles every day, that would be great!
But Ye Kun knew that with the current cement production, it would be extremely difficult to build a thousand-mile highway!
The highway from Luoyang to Xingyang is only 300 miles long, and Ye Kun made up his mind to build it after repeated discussions.
At present, only hundreds of miles of road are open to traffic.
When we returned to Xuchang, it was already June.
The weather is hot.
Regarding the handover, Qin Erwu brought good news and sent more than 10,000 workers to participate in the construction.
They also brought back a large amount of refined rice.
Ye Kun was very satisfied and instructed the Ministry of Industry to disperse more than 10,000 laborers and send them to work in cement plants, lime plants, coal mines and iron mines.
When more laborers came later, they were treated the same way, and were sent to mine coal or open mountains to build roads.
In the era of great construction, Ye Kun does not mind having too many people.
One or two million can be digested!
Wu Qiong was a little worried and asked Ye Kun: "There are too many workers coming to Jiaozhi, and they need food. It is also a pressure for us."
"As for the food issue, go find Lord Qin Chou."
Ye Kun chuckled, "It is said that the wheat yield per mu in Mr. Qin's experimental field this year is close to 300 kilograms. As for rice, it may reach 400 kilograms this year. With this yield, we should have more food than we can eat."
In China, as long as there is no war, no civil unrest, and no unnecessary disturbances, productivity will recover quickly.
In the past, the world was divided into three parts. Ye Kun, Xiahou Chang, and Xiao Dequan each had hundreds of thousands of troops, and there were also logistical personnel who were idle. The vast majority of productivity was used to serve the war. The people had no time to farm and were exiled everywhere, so naturally there was not enough food.
Now, except for Liaodong, the land of China is peaceful, the standing army is only 200,000, and productivity has been greatly liberated.
Food production has more than doubled.
Research on fertilizers is ongoing and is being tackled.
Technicians have found that adding a small amount of soybean powder to composting can significantly improve fertility.
In fact, this is homemade nitrogen fertilizer.
Potassium fertilizer is very simple, it can be replaced by wood ash; as for phosphate fertilizer, you need to find phosphate mines and mine them.
So Ye Kun was not worried at all about grain production.
Wu Qiong asked again: "Do we need to pay the laborers coming from Jiaozhi and Tianzhu?"
"Do you have a lot of money?" Ye Kun rolled his eyes and whispered:
"Don't be too considerate of those foreign laborers. We will dig the Grand Canal in the future, which will require millions of people. I can't afford to pay them all."
Wu Qiong was stunned for a moment, then he understood.
If Ye Kun wants to control the Jiaozhi Peninsula and the Tianzhu Peninsula, he must carry out a major change of blood.
Inviting local indigenous people to mine coal and build roads, and then immigrating the descendants of Yan and Huang, is the only way to solve the problem once and for all.
After returning to Xuchang, Ji Congliang and others were put in shackles and displayed to the public for three consecutive days.
Then, Ma Zhao made a judgment based on Ye Kun's opinion:
"All the corrupt officials' property will be confiscated, not even a needle will be left. Ji Congliang and his wife will be sent back to their hometown when they are old, and their descendants for three generations will not be allowed to serve as officials.
Others under the age of 40 were tattooed and sent to work in coal mines. Their families were not held accountable and were sent back to their hometowns to become civilians.
This is already very considerate to Ji Congliang.
Of course, Qin Chou and Ji Qinnu also spent money as a way of atonement for their sins.
Qin Chou and Ji Qinnu came to thank Ye Kun.
Ye Kun said: "You can use Ma Zhao's certificate to give some money to take care of the Ji family. Then, let them return home on their own."
Ji Qinnu asked: "King of Han, my parents are old. Can I buy a house in the Central Plains so that they can live with me in their old age?"
Ye Kun nodded in agreement: "Okay, take your parents back and talk to them about this."
"Thank you, King Han."
Ji Qinnu thanked him and took her leave.
Gongsun Erniang, who was originally in charge of supervising the construction of the capital in Zhuo County, was also ordered to come to Xuchang to investigate the case of Yang Zhao, a disciple of the Mohist school.
The next day, Ye Kun convened a meeting of nine ministries and talked about Ji Congliang's corruption and abuse of power. He said:
"Such things have happened right under our noses in Zhi County, and I believe they have happened in other places as well. I suggest setting up a secret investigation team to conduct a thorough investigation across the country. Once discovered, we will investigate and deal with it.
The undercover inspection team will be selected from the Ministry of Finance and Taxation, the Ministry of Law, and the disciples of the Mohist School, and then randomly assembled and dispatched to various places. "