After approving the memorials of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Liu Xie was not idle in fact, so he rode a horse to inspect the construction site under the leadership of the landlord Liu Ye.

If he even counts the river worker to build rivers, the scale of this construction site has exceeded one million. Liu Ye is worthy of being a famous official in history. The large construction site with more than one million people can be managed in an orderly manner. Liu Xie just walked around the construction site after he arrived and rode a horse. Most of the day passed.

"Your Majesty, the construction and canal of Luoyang Xindu used a total of 1.14 million people, including 760,000 young and strong, mainly responsible for the production of materials and construction, 380,000 strong women, mainly responsible for the living security of construction sites and workshops, laundry and cooking, construction of work sheds, from the collection, production, transportation, and construction, there are special divisions of labor, and a total of 405 large and large construction sites and workshops."

"In terms of project progress, the construction in the canal direction is coming to an end. Before the spring plowing arrives, several major canals should be dug and penetrated, and the mud and sand are cleaned. What Xindu and the Palace are mainly doing in the early preparations, burning bricks and tiles, preparing wood, and laying stones. At present, the Palace has chiseled a foundation of 16 meters deep, and specially transported large pieces of hard stone from the direction of Mangshan to fill it to ensure that the palace will not collapse for thousands of years, and there will be no thieves sneaking into the palace by digging tunnels, threatening His Majesty's safety."

"The entire material preparation and foundation work can be completed before spring plowing. After spring plowing, these refugees will return to their hometowns to farm, and the construction site will be mainly constructed. The number of people will be reduced by two-thirds, and it is enough to leave about 300,000 to 400,000 people."

To be honest, some things don’t feel anything when listening to the report, and they don’t feel anything when they even use paper and pen to approve it. But with your eyes, this huge construction site that can’t be seen at first glance, and the dense crowds of young and strong workers kowtowed to him, standing on a high place in the tent that looked like stars. When you think about the reason why these people gathered here was all because of your order.

The mountains and rivers change color in one fell swoop, the sun and the moon snatch the light, and the words follow the law, and the people of the world are plaguing life and death in their hands. This is the emperor.

Suddenly he understood it very clearly.

This feeling really makes people a little bit popular, and even makes him feel a little bloody. He was much more powerful than usual when he was playing with Zhen that night.

Usually, Zhen made him unable to get out of bed, but that night, Liu Xie couldn't get out of Zhen, but he was still fierce.

Otherwise, power is the best aphrodisiac for men.

And the excitement of this power is naturally accompanied by mountain pressure and responsibility. After all, a construction team of more than one million people is building a new home for themselves. No matter what political significance the new palace is given, it is essentially a house for him to live and live. This is truly supporting himself with the strength of the whole country.

So during the day the next day, Liu Xie simply left Liu Ye away, and only Li Dian and a hundred or so guards, patrolled the construction site aimlessly again. Seeing that the workers on the construction site were all excited when they took the initiative to salute themselves, they didn't look pale and thin and malnourished, and then they let go of a little of a hungry heart.

He found a big stone and sat up, waved his hand to signal everyone to sit over, and surrounded himself in a circle, saying, "Don't do it anymore, I will make the decision to let you rest for a while, chat with me, come, don't be so reserved, just chat and relax. Look, I am also an ordinary person with two eyes and one mouth, and I am also an ordinary person like everyone."

Everyone looked nervously at Li Dian, who was standing behind Liu Xie and stroking the hilt of the knife with his hands, with a fierce look on his face as if he was about to draw a knife to come out to chop people at any time. He squatted down carefully and lowered his heads one after another.

"Don't squat, sit down. If you squat, I have to squat, but to be honest, I really can't squat. I recently married a new wife, which made my waist and knees sore. To be honest, I always thought that women had such a few days a month. Now I'm a little older and realized that it's actually to let us rest, and men don't do it every day!"

When everyone heard this, they smiled on their faces, and then sat on the ground with their legs crossed in turn.

Several new guards following Li Dian were shocked. I had heard that the emperor was close to the people, but I didn’t expect that it would be okay to tell dirty jokes in public?

However, the effect is quite good, and everyone got closer at once. Liu Xie even asked someone to fry some dried fruit snacks and so on, giving everyone a point and chatting.

"Where are you all the refugees coming from this wave? Are you still used to returning to the Central Plains?"

"Back to Your Majesty, we all come from Yizhou, but we were all Sili people and locals, and there was nothing we didn't get used to."

"Is the work on the construction site heavy? How many hours a day is it working? How much is the wage? Is there any bullying you?"

"The work on the construction site is not heavy. You only work six hours a day. You can take care of two meals. The wages are twenty old money a day."

Liu Xie had no idea about old money and couldn't help asking: "Do you mean the small amount of money that Dong Zhuo cast?"

"It's either small money or old money, it's old money minted by the court before Dong Zhuo's chaos."

Liu Xie still had no idea and turned his head and asked, "What can I buy twenty old money? How much does a stone of corn cost?"

"By Your Majesty, the price of corn from Sili generation is about 400 coins per stone and 20 coins, which is enough to buy two fish and half a chicken."

Liu Xie frowned deeply when he heard this, and he really regretted that he had not taken this matter seriously before.

I worked hard all day and my salary was only enough to buy two fish or a chicken?

This is because of Luoyang's neighboring water and its decline for many years, it has resulted in relatively abundant fish and shrimp. I am afraid that there are not even two fish in other places. (The price of fish in the Han Dynasty is indeed much cheaper than that of chickens)

Liu Xie now has a certain basic understanding of the units of measurement in the Han Dynasty. Compared with the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty obviously used various small details to cheat in various small details. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was only 250g per catty, but in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was only 220-230. The consequence of retiring meritorious officials and becoming civil servants was this kind of cheating in the country. Anyway, can the data be better when reporting? It is the same as injecting water from GDP.

In other words, one stone of grain from the Eastern Han Dynasty was about fifty kilograms, but it could not reach the standard sixty kilograms.

If it is converted to fifty kilograms, the price of each kilogram of corn is about eight cents, which means that each worker can only buy two and a half kilograms of corn every day.

If converted according to the food price in later generations, how could each person’s daily salary be less than ten yuan?

The exploitation is already quite powerful!

For example, Liu Xie happened to be familiar with Wang Mang's biography and knew that during the reign of Emperor Cheng, each person settled two thousand yuan a month when he was engaged in corvee service and repairing the Yellow River, and his salary was several times that of now. He still knew a basic concept, that is, the overall inflation in the Eastern Han Dynasty was much more serious than that in the Western Han Dynasty, and the prices generally increased by two or three times or even more. During the reign of Emperor Xuan, the price of a stone of corn was only thirty yuan.

This made Liu Xie quite dissatisfied, but he knew that he could not talk nonsense without understanding the situation, so he planned to go back and ask Liu Ye if there was any layer of exploitation in the middle. If not, then ask the Shangshutai and whether the court had spared any effort to give them some more.

(This is based on the price of grain. If it is converted based on the price of housing, the value of each room in the Han Dynasty was about 3,000 to 70,000 yuan depending on the geographical location. That is to say, if these people don’t eat or drink for ten years, they can almost buy a room in the most expensive place in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which seems to be much higher than that in modern times.)

Soon, the topic talked about the situation on the construction site to the suffering of people's livelihood. For example, Liu Xie was very concerned about how much salt consumption of the people increased after the salt and iron franchise.

As a result, they never expected that after these people told him that after the salt and iron franchise, at least the salt prices in Sili area did not rise, but instead fell sharply by more than 80%, which made Liu Xie confused.

No, the Shangshu Desk has obviously received the money, and it has received a lot of money. Where did this money come from?

In fact, this is purely his old impression of cheating him. After all, when it comes to saying that salt and iron franchise is to plunder people's wealth and compete for profit with the people, modern people generally believe that the so-called salt tax is the cap tax imposed on the people.

The so-called salt and iron franchise, including the joint venture he has set up, has always believed that it is beneficial to the country but not to the people.

But the truth is the opposite. During the reign of Emperor Wu, the salt that was sold at a higher price was sold, which made great contributions to the imperial court to expel the Huns. The price of salt was about two to three times the price of grain. Following the opinions of Confucian scholars, he no longer competed for profit with the people. After "full market competition", the price of salt quickly rose to more than five times the price of grain. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, the salt price completely took off. Ordinary people had basically bid farewell to salt, which led to the people becoming poorer, the country becoming weaker, and the powerful becoming more and more powerful.

This fully proves that the state can at least be more shameful in making money by making money, and will take into account people's livelihood. In order to make money, capitalists really don't want any of them.

Just chatting like this, the more Liu Xie talked, the more he felt that he had benefited a lot. Soon, the sun rose high.

Li Dian reminded: "Your Majesty, it's time to have a meal."

"It's time to eat? Then eat here, I will eat whatever they eat."

"yes."

Li Dian was not surprised. After all, Li Dian followed Liu Xie to fight in the north and the north for several times. The emperor has always been like this. When he went to the battle, he had food like the soldiers and court officials.

The so-called master of benevolence may have only such excellent qualities that do not require any imagination.

Of course, Li Dian also knew that when he went to war, the emperor was often greedy at night, so he asked the chef to prepare a small meal for him.

However, all the workers were stunned when they heard this, but they did not expect that the emperor would eat the same pot of food with them.

After the pot of the porridge was brought over, Liu Xie inserted it with chopsticks first. Seeing everyone confused, he explained: "I just want to see if the chopsticks will float up. Fortunately, if they float up, I will kill people. Come on, eat, and make a rule. In the future, all officials from Liu Ye and below must eat with the workers."
Chapter completed!