I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

After seeing that everyone was there, the policeman came out after asking the people next to him for instructions, and started shouting loudly,

"Mother Dut, listen up, we've already shipped the food, but this food isn't for you bastards!"

"This is for the elderly and children in your family, and for yourselves. After you register with Lizheng later, you can go to work and earn it yourself. Anyway, you go to pay for meals. How much you earn is up to you!"

Speaking of this, the policeman suddenly curled his lips, gave a meaningful laugh, and continued,

"Here, let me tell you some news, that is the Wang family village next door. I have already said that they will not only make money when they go back this time, but also replace their families with big tile houses. As for you bastards How much you can earn at that time is up to you!"

Well, if the previous words just made these men who only do some rough farm work in this life blush with excitement, then when the latter words came out, the eyes of the young and old in the whole village immediately turned red.

This is the case in rural areas. Regardless of the fact that everyone in the two adjacent villages is farming, there should be a good relationship.But in fact, the two villages have not fought each other once or twice.

Especially when the drought was severe this year, the two villages struggled to get water from a small ditch this year.

That is to say, this year, both sides are thinking of calming down the matter, after all, they are in a hurry to go out to escape the famine.Otherwise, I'm still thinking about how to fight a big fight right now.

Now that the deadly enemy said that they want to earn a big tile house and come back, this damn, are they worse than others?

They're all old men, they can't compare to reading and literacy, they can't compare to working, who the hell can be worse than who?

Guys who originally only wanted to earn some money for the New Year and to support themselves, now they are no longer thinking about earning a small amount of money. This has already involved the issue of face. People can die, but face cannot be lost. It's over.

At this time, an extraordinarily burly man squeezed directly from the crowd to the front. This man's body was extremely strong, but his whole skeleton seemed to protrude. It seemed that he was hungry, but his sturdy temperament It's not like ordinary people anyway.

"Liu Erheizi, you motherfucker, don't talk nonsense. If I hadn't been sick, I would have gone to His Royal Highness King Qin's place to make a living. Your elder brother was just a soldier who followed me behind!"

"Don't talk nonsense at this moment. What is the job and how is the money calculated? You can tell me clearly, otherwise I will beat you, and no one can stop me!"

Liu Erheizi laughed dryly twice, his original arrogance disappeared almost instantly,

"Brother Zhang San, why are you being polite to us? You have already opened your mouth. Er Heizi will naturally not hide it, and there is nothing to hide about it!"

"There is a unified arrangement at the yamen. Anyone in the village who is willing to work can go, young and old. There are even some quotas for women who can cook, but the village has to keep people. After all, children and the elderly also need People take care of food and drink, no!"

"Discuss these things yourself. It doesn't matter who stays or who leaves the yamen. Anyway, when a village elects a leader, the workload of the entire village will be counted as an integer. The money will be calculated every month. When the time comes, the yamen will directly pay the steward. Yes, why don't you divide the yamen!"

"As for the very simple job, that is to build roads. It just so happens that Turkic dogs are not very honest. The court said, then fix the roads and do a good job. If you kill them, you will be clean!"

The eyes of the man named Brother Zhang flashed brightly, and he nodded silently. This arrangement was indeed very sincere, and since the food had already arrived at the entrance of the village, it was impossible for him to do anything deceitful.

As for the leader of the village, needless to say, he himself is the leader of the Zhang family's village, and everyone present thought so in their hearts, except for him, no one can properly arrange the villagers .

As for the payment of wages once a month, depending on the workload, Brother Zhang didn’t think there was anything wrong with that. If you do more, you get more. How much money do you have?

This is making money purely on the basis of ability, not shabby!

Elders should rely on their own ability to earn money. Before Liu Daheizi went to Korea with His Royal Highness Qin Wang, he was the one who persuaded him. If his wife was not sick and he couldn't do without, he would have gone there with a knife in his hand.

Right now, after leading the villagers through this hurdle, it seems that it would be good to go to Turkic with His Highness and kill a few Turkic dogs! ?

Chapter 644 Problems exposed

The road construction project in Longyou, as the first project of the work-for-relief program, has a different meaning. This is not just an attempt, but also a model.

This is also the concept that Zhang Nuo slowly put forward, that is, no matter what policy is, find a place to try it first, and then promote it if it is easy to use. Later, it was discovered that there were many mistakes and omissions, and a large number of low-level people and officials were crying.

This is not a joke, a policy that looks appropriate on the surface, but when it is actually implemented, it will really make the officials at the bottom and the people dumbfounded.

Officials thought it was an order from the top, and they had to carry it out even if they didn't like it, while the people at the bottom thought it was a request from the yamen, so they had to follow it even if they didn't like it, so there was no way around it.

But in fact, when the feedback was sent to Li Shimin, no one knew how long it had passed.

And it's hard to say that Li Shimin's idiot will refuse to adjust the policy because of his face, and he will stubbornly carry it out.

But now it's all right, with Zhang Nuo here, Zhang Nuo won't give Lao Li face in this kind of matter, if he is not careful, there will be big troubles, okay, how can Lao Li let his temper go?

So even though Zhang Nuo is extremely confident about the work-for-relief policy, he still follows the rules and regulations, first trying it out in one place, and then promoting it to other places.

And Longyou was the first place Zhang Nuo and Li Shimin chose together.

However, the disaster situation does not allow people to get bored at this time, so Zhang Nuo put forward a suggestion, that is, to send more manpower, speed up the review, and try to find problems in the work-for-relief project, and then everyone discusses the problem. An adjustment plan came out.

In this way, one problem can be found and one problem can be solved, and at the same time, new solutions can be continuously tested, and a considerable amount of experience can be summed up in the shortest time. solid foundation.

At this time, Li Shimin was waiting in the conference room, waiting for the first official report after the start of the Work-for-Fourth Project.

To be precise, this report is a summary, a summary of the cash-for-work project that has been carried out for ten days.

Although it is impossible to expose all the problems in ten days, at least the situation, the situation of the victims, the progress of the project, the food supply and so on all need an answer.

Three additional batches of officials were sent down here, in order to ask these officials to really go to the people and investigate the most real situation among the people, instead of sitting in the yamen and patting their thighs to imagine the direction of the project.

I have to say that with Zhang Nuo's tireless teaching and promotion, the atmosphere in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty is much more pragmatic than before. , will be the confidence and support to speak out.

Not long after, the transcribed telegram finally sent to Li Shimin's hand perfectly proved this point.

In the past, if this kind of report came up, at least [-]% of the [-]% would be flattering the emperor or saying some clichés, and some even went too far, and the proportion was even higher.

But now, the [-]-word report placed in Li Shimin's hands, except for the first few words of greetings to the emperor that must be included according to the rules, the rest is all dry stuff.

The first part is the introduction, which explains in detail the arrival of labor in each county, and clearly explains the current arrival of victims.

And after talking about the arrival of the victims, it is the resettlement of the victims. The whole project is divided according to the county and village levels, and then the money is paid according to the project quantity. If the basic project quantity is reached, it will meet the standard. Everyone is rewarded.

With such an incentive policy, needless to say, the progress of the project is much better than the state of pulling civilian husbands into corvee.

But in the second part of the report, that is, when Li Shimin and Zhang Nuo asked for outspokenness, the officials who drafted the report really wrote down the problems they found.

Among them, the number one problem was brought about by working too hard, that is, this group of people felt so desperate.

You know, the vast majority of the people who come to work here are elders, or come from the whole village. Originally, the elders are the best face, not to mention that the people who work on the construction site next to them may be the same as those in their own village. The old and dead village.

Can Nima endure this?

How can you be better than the people in that shit village next door, you have to be better than them.

What's more, besides the face problem, there are real rewards, which are written there in black and white. All the work sections are subcontracted to the counties, and the workload of each county is very similar, and then each county is assigned to the village. For the number one village in the number one county, the rewards are appalling.

And those who are at the bottom of the list are basically earning hard money, so don't think too much about it.

If it is normal, it is a blessing to be able to eat enough to eat during the severe drought, and to be able to work and get paid is even more so dreaming.

But it’s different now, the same disaster victims are also working, others can get so much, but I can only get a little money here, this person feels different immediately after comparing, not to mention that every day The daily engineering quantity ranking table is hung there so brightly that it is clear at a glance who is more and who is less.

If this is provoked by someone, as long as there is something bloody, it must not explode immediately.

So the first question raised here is that there are so many thieves fighting on the entire construction site. Some people in their own village were lazy and were beaten by the leader or others, and some people from other villages were greedy for their work. Pretty gets a lot of money, and was beaten by people for doing bad things in the past, and was even beaten by people from other villages blocking the camp gate because he ranked last in the county and finally lowered the county's level.

Well, they were all stimulated by Zhang Nuo's policy of more pay for more work. To be precise, it was the group of people below who completely made fun of this matter.

Originally, it would have been okay if it was just food and money rewards, but the ranking list of engineering quantities, which is constantly updated every day, is really fatal.

And this kind of policy also brings another problem, that is, these disaster victims are a bit desperate now. They also gave an example, that is Zhang San, the leader of Zhangjia Village, who sleeps no more than two hours a day since he started working. Pulling the people in the village to work hard every day.

Chapter 645 Agreed Solutions

In the report, they also emphasized that Zhang San was originally a military soldier, and he was a team leader when he was not retired. Now that he has this opportunity, he naturally wants to lead the villagers to make a fortune.

But this guy, he's used to staying in the army, and now he's the leader, so he's naturally the one in charge of the army. The strong laborers in the whole village are strictly divided into several groups by him. , and then started working day and night almost without a break, even eating and sleeping in shifts.

After doing this, the workload naturally soared, and then Zhang San was still not satisfied, so he pulled people from several other villages and beat up the whole village in the bottom-ranked village, and released them. In other words, if they continue to beat like this, they must rush to the first place in the county.

Li Shimin looked at this report, and the more he read it, the more he couldn't laugh or cry, you said the effect was not good, now the straight road from Longyou to Chang'an has new changes almost every day, and the speed is several times faster than expected.

But you said okay, this is just the beginning, before it’s time to pay wages, there’s already a scramble to compete, and they’ve already started, and when the money is really handed out, everyone’s eyes will turn red. I know what's going to happen.

But what can he do?Could it be this time to say that you don't have to work so hard, and the ranking rewards are cancelled?

Well, even if he is the emperor, he dare not say this, because it will really arouse public anger.

But looking back, it seemed that it was not a big deal, after all, no one was killed. As for fighting or something, this kind of thing happened every day in the army, so it was fine.

Then let them go, as long as the progress of the project can keep up and there are no other troubles, then let's ignore this issue for the time being.

On the other hand, Zhang Nuo snatched the report from Lao Li and read it, and then raised his opinion.

"There is still a loophole in this thing. The money and the food are given, but these are all material rewards. Once this matter is over, no one will remember it. Lao Li, your emperor's name has not been publicized. That's a little lacking!"

"Just like this, set up a Datang Imperial Family Excellent Labor Medal to reward the best performers in this work-for-relief project. Officials and laborers will each choose one. When the time comes, send a high-ranking minister to replace the award. It will also help You, old Li, promote propaganda!"

As soon as Zhang Nuo made this suggestion, Li Shimin's eyes immediately lit up. Damn, there is such a good thing. This suggestion is wonderful. To put it bluntly, even if this medal is made of gold, it is nothing more than a little money. What in the palace? Can't find such a craftsman.

But the impact of this award is too great, especially when the victims of the entire Longyou are gathered together, everyone will know that he, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, not only rescued the victims during the catastrophe , gave them money, and took their efforts into consideration.

There are only two medals in total, so why should the others be envious if they didn't get it?Why don't you share it with others afterward?

At that time, Li Shimin's reputation as the emperor will not be able to spread.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin glanced at Zhang Nuo gratefully. After thinking about it for a while, he looked at the others and said seriously,

"From now on, the Great Tang Imperial Family Excellent Labor Medal will be selected once a year, and the entire Great Tang will select two winners at a time. At least one of them must be a commoner. Even if the two winners are commoners, it doesn't matter!"

"If there are not enough winners this year, then leave it empty. I would rather leave it empty than fill it up. And when I reply to the telegram later, I will inform them about this matter and tell them the news. I believe They will be more motivated!"

Zhang Nuo nodded in satisfaction, right? Datang is such a big empire, and now it has launched so many big projects. How can it be done without medals, not just material rewards? Improvement, everyone will also have needs in terms of spirituality.

After reading the report, it was followed by everyone's discussion. Although some problems were written in it, these were the problems that the officials discovered at the first time, and there were still some problems. We discover through our own experience and knowledge.

Moreover, let alone, don't think that these big bosses are in high positions now, so the questions they ask must be high-ranking. First of all, the questions raised by the big boss Changsun Wuji are very down-to-earth.

The first question he raised was the problem of heatstroke prevention. You must know that it is the dog days at the moment. If the heatstroke prevention problem is not done well during the hottest time, I am afraid that there will be large-scale heatstroke and other diseases at that time.

Therefore, he suggested collecting medicinal materials locally, brewing herbal tea or other decoctions to cool down the heat, and providing them to the laborers free of charge every day, so as to play a preventive role.

And it is required that during the hottest time at noon, unless the construction is in the shade, otherwise, try to organize the workers to rest under the sun.

Everyone agreed on this point, and quickly wrote it down in a small notebook.

Afterwards, everyone began to express their opinions and raised other issues, which were not found by local officials, or were discovered by local officials but were not reflected in the report.

But the officials in front of them can take these issues into consideration only through the statistics from various places and the descriptions in the report. I have to say that these people are really not in vain. Li Shimin promoted them one by one.

It didn't take long for the bustling discussions to slowly return to calm. After all, it was just the beginning. The problems that can be exposed at present are only those, and some problems can't be solved by everyone, even Some problems have also involved other departments, which cannot be resolved in a day or two.

Many questions even need to be brought up by Changsun Wuji and even Li Shimin in the court for everyone to discuss together.

Therefore, basically everything that should be said has been said, and the rest is to be summarized and sent back to the construction site.

Li Shimin saw that Zhang Nuo was pulling Zhang Nuo after the matter was done, and he was about to get up and leave. After all, Zhang Nuo didn't like to go to the palace very much, but it was a rare visit, so he had to entertain him well no matter what.

But as soon as he went out, a sergeant with an unusually ordinary face but a very serious face like a piece of wood walked up to Li Shimin and bowed to salute, but he didn't say a word.

Li Shimin frowned and looked at the people, sighed, thinking that today's meal might not be good!

Chapter 646 The Black Hand Behind It

Li Shimin waved his hand directly, turned around and pulled Zhang Nuo forward.

Zhang Nuo seemed to understand it too. It seemed that there was something important to report, and it was so important that he didn't even disclose any information in non-confidential occasions.

You must know that this is the inner palace, or the telegraph room and conference room where the security is very strict. Logically speaking, the security level of this place is a little worse than the palace where Li Shimin himself sleeps.

But just because there are a little more people here, both Li Shimin and the person who came to report chose to keep it secret very carefully, which is interesting.

Zhang Nuo is very simple. If you want me to know something, then I will listen to it. If you don’t want me to know, I don’t bother to listen. There is a spectrum.

A group of people went straight to Li Shimin's palace, and after waving back and forth, Li Shimin held a glass of wine and Zhang Nuo held a bottle of iced Feizhai Happy Water leisurely, planning to listen to the report.

Don't ask Zhang Nuo why he drinks this, it's a hot dog day, Lao Li made some ice cubes to cool down in this ruined palace, it's no wonder if it's not hot, how can we solve the cooling problem without a bottle of iced fat house happy water? .

The stern-faced sergeant finally began to report the situation when he saw that the two uncles were ready.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, after being interrogated and pursued by Baiqisi, it was initially found out that the large-scale corruption of ink during the drought relief process was planned by Tubo and Turks. By sending people to support money, Shandong Kong's reputation and connections."

"After preliminary interrogation, His Highness predicted the disaster last year. After His Majesty made arrangements, Tubo and Turkic believed that the disaster would inevitably happen, and then contacted Kong. Finally, it was agreed that Tubo and Turkic would provide funds, and Kong would provide manpower and connections. , to buy food from the areas under the jurisdiction of those corrupt officials."

"After these grains are purchased by Kong, some of them will be put back into the market at higher prices, but most of them will be smuggled to Tubo and Turks by Kong's connections. It's just that we discovered it earlier, and the grain has not yet been delivered. Go out, Baiqisi has been keeping an eye on this batch of grain, and will never let a single grain flow out!"

After the report was over, Li Shimin and Zhang Nuo kept their faces cold and didn't say a word.

Before Li Shimin said that someone was behind this large-scale corruption, Zhang Nuo only half believed it, because he felt that there was no need for others to organize it. It is not normal for an official to be greedy for money.

This time, it was just that Li Shimin caught everyone by surprise.Otherwise, such a large-scale corruption would not have been detected at all.

But Li Shimin just believed in his intuition and thought there was a problem. Anyway, there are many people under his command, so he should check it out.

But even he didn't expect that such a result was found out in the end.

In fact, he secretly thought in his heart that this time there is such a big commotion, the transportation and sale of grain in the middle will require manpower and connections, otherwise, a large amount of grain will be transported on the road, passing through so many places, without the help of the local government If so, I really think others are fools.

But these people just did it!