Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Zhao Sheng's design for the administrative part this time was extremely simple, simply because this city was not an administrative unit managed by the state, but was merely equivalent to a large warehouse. At first, Zhao Sheng did not even include the surrounding villages.

However, as a princess, Li Shuya could consider including these people in the three hundred counties she was granted, because after all, people are needed to do the work.

History always repeats itself surprisingly. When the people of Luancheng learned that the county lord was going to build a city, they knew that their good days were over.

Zhao Sheng and his guard Zhang Liang measured the land and found that some of the land still had crops, so they first drew marking lines, started to build the necessary parts in unimportant places, and finally merged several places.

Another advantage of doing this is that it avoids having to take a detour when building the city first and then transporting supplies.

As for corvée labor, Zhao Sheng agreed with the princess that the so-called corvée laborers should be treated like employees, and even if they were not paid, they should be guaranteed to have enough food and drink.

Li Shuya naturally obeyed her sixth brother and handed over all power to him. All the guards under him obeyed her.

Zhao Sheng still did the same old things. He would wait for the supplies to arrive and the labor service to come, then have a big meal.

"Dear guard brothers, and fellow workers here, today's meal includes wine and meat. It may be a bit hard later. Guard brothers, please do not beat, scold, or oppress the workers here in the future.

If you have something to say, talk about it. If you are sick, go see a doctor. If you don't want to work, go back to your village chief and tell him, "We can't control your legs, but this Luancheng will take several years to build. If you run away today, you won't be able to escape tomorrow."

Zhao Sheng's opening remarks were straightforward and lacked any technical content. Besides, for these ordinary people, no matter how much you say or how nicely you say it, in the end, all they want to hear is one sentence: "Can you eat without working?" Of course, this is not the voice of everyone, but it is the voice of the majority.

Some of the people who could come here to perform labor service were those who could not pay taxes and had others pay them for their crimes, some were the hated people in the village, and the last category were lazy people. In order to punish these people, the village chief would also make them perform labor service.

Therefore, corvee labor in ancient times was actually a very terrible thing. People would be beaten and scolded, not necessarily by yamen runners, but by a group of people from the next village.

Mr. Zhao said these words to directly hand over the conflict. If you don't want to work, go back to the village chief and ask him to replace you. But you have to work for me. If you don't do your job well, get out. I also don't allow my people to beat or scold you.

Everyone doesn't have to understand and they don't need to understand, just start working the next day.

According to the location of the rope markings, there are several unplanted wastelands, so let's start from here.

A tall building rises from the ground, and building a building must have a foundation.

The first thing these laborers did was to dig the foundation, and they dug quite deep.

The extra people were used to carry gravel, both large and small, all in carts. The amount each person worked was measured, so no one could be lazy.

In this era, getting paid according to work is still very motivating. At the beginning, everyone didn't know what was going on, and some people were only thinking about things at home.

As a result, at the end of the month, the supervisor announced everyone's workload. According to the workload, one point was worth one cent, and many people could get eight cents a day.

If you cheat and fail to complete the basic points, not only will you not be paid, but the working period will also be extended.

The guards sent by the palace gave these people a few points every day. In order to facilitate settlement, Zhao Sheng invented a kind of bamboo stick with official certificates on it. Every time a task was completed, one could get a bamboo stick.

After work, they went to the clerk to record the accounts. Considering that some people were illiterate, Chinese characters were written on one side and dots were used on the other side. In this way, everyone would know how much money they should get by counting the dots, and they would all feel that they would not be cheated.

Time flies, the crops on the requisitioned land have been harvested, and the laborers are digging according to the lines drawn on the ground.

"Zhao Long, have you noticed? The soil here is very good. Next time the trucks come to transport lime, have them take some of it back."

Zhao Long was also a farmer, so after hearing what Zhao Sheng said, he naturally understood what was going on.

"Remember, some of our land has recently been used to grow soybeans. This soil must not be mixed with land that has not been used to grow soybeans. Otherwise, it will become useless if we take it back."

After hearing these words, Zhao Long believed it without a doubt. Ever since Zhao Sheng came to Shigang Village, everyone was no longer like before, doing their own thing and no one was sharing any good things or experiences.

Shigang Village, which originally had a small population, has both new arrivals and old people leaving.

Even the land they left behind had few people willing to take over, because there was no good soil there, and even if crops were planted, the harvest would be very little, or even nothing.

Luancheng is now digging the foundation, piling up stones and mixing them with white lime. It will become very hard in a few days.

Because this is the administrative center of the inner city, the city wall is only two meters high.

There are four gates. The east and west gates are usually closed. Only the north and south gates are opened during the day and closed at night.

Strictly speaking, the inner city is also the city lord's mansion, or the city lord's palace.

But Zhao Sheng designed such a simple facility with walls surrounded by houses and rooftops accessible, so that the structure looked like it was guarded by soldiers inside and outside.

Outside the inner city, the construction was not exactly the same as that of ordinary cities. A few miles southeast of the inner city, Zhao Sheng began to build several workshops.

The original idea was based on food storage, and the workshop was to make food, including soybean oil, protein meat, compressed biscuits, a kind of puffed biscuits, spicy strips, etc.

They are roughly divided into oil workshops, bean processing workshops, compressed grain workshops and civilian food workshops.

At present, the products produced by the workshop are not very single, and there is a sense of cooperation between them.

While these workshops were being built, Luancheng's city walls were also built. At first glance, everyone felt that the city was asymmetrical because the industrial area was too large.

Zhao Sheng also had his own selfish motives. He only had a small amount of property, and he had agreed with Li Shuya to move everything into Luancheng, which required a corresponding protection mechanism.

Mr. Zhao racked his brains in designing this group of workshops. Many of them produce soy products, so no one knows what the next step in the assembly line operation will be.

For example, after soaking soybeans, the next step is definitely grinding them. It may not necessarily be used to make tofu, but may also be used to make other things, and no one will tell you.

You think you are making dried tofu, but maybe you are making the raw materials for spicy strips.

Tofu is also made here, but it is sold by designated vendors, and the supply is limited. After all, these workshops do not necessarily only produce tofu, they also sell dried tofu, bean curd sheets, and even protein meat, and the sales also rely on vendors.

However, such vendors are divided into different areas, and some goods depend on whether one has sufficient qualifications.

Construction is underway in Luancheng in full swing. Now there are not only corvee laborers on the construction site, but more people from the surrounding areas who volunteer to work. After all, who wouldn't want to work for money?

In Shigang Village, most people are still doing their old jobs. Some technicians will probably be taken to Luancheng, and those who stay behind are either planting beans or growing beets in the fields.

Zhao Youfu stared at the plaque on the gate with the words "Chongzhen" inscribed on it, and stared at it several times.