After Jiaozhou was basically pacified, Guo Peng focused all his energy on the construction of the Grand Canal.

After the Canal Office was put into operation, the Canal Office's branch office was indeed arranged at every key turning point in the Grand Canal.

Officials in the Canal Office take turns to enter these sub-departments to supervise local officials to build the Grand Canal without any mistakes.

In order to further confirm that the construction of the Grand Canal was indeed carried out according to his own requirements, Guo Peng also decided to leave Luoyang in November of the 10th year of Yande, inspect all the way from Hebei to Jiangnan, and personally inspect everything about the Grand Canal.

If you do well, reward, or if you don't do well, kill.

Anyone who dares to argue or drag him down on the issue of the Grand Canal will be killed without any mercy.

The Grand Canal is the lifeblood of the future country and is one of the biggest reliances for the Wei Empire to safely survive the cold period of the Little Ice River.

With the Grand Canal, communication can be made between the north and the south, and wealthy food in the south can urgently support the bitter and cold areas in the north.

In fact, Mr. Guo was also thinking that if he had potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes on his hands, he would not have to be so nervous about doing big development or big projects.

South America, a place favored by God.

The origin of potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes, you can wait for something to grow by sprinkling a handful of seeds, and you can pick something to eat with your hands.

Compared with the ancient Chinese who worked hard to dig food from the ground, they were really happy.

However, perhaps it is because they are so happy that they are in a mess and do nothing all day long.

The ones raised by the God-given land may not be the chosen sons of God, and only those in relatively bitter and cold places can be tempered by the descendants of Yan and Huang who have a strong will to survive.

Perhaps, it is precisely because survival is not so easy, because food does not grow so easily, and because good times are always too short, that Chinese people will constantly strengthen their governance model and survival methods.

Everything may be classified as the wisdom of survival.

Just like the Grand Canal, like the Great Wall, like the destruction of locusts, like the meticulous farming, like the water control project that has been around for thousands of years.

If I had potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes on my hands now, Mr. Guo would definitely not have been like this now, almost like whipping his subjects to rush to build the Grand Canal.

There is no need to race against time, no need to compete with God for time, life, and future.

As long as these high-yield crops are spread and widely planted, you can seize the future.

But he didn't.

He has no high yield crops.

But even if not, aren’t the Chinese still alive for thousands of years?

Isn’t the thousands of years of history of China a difficult survival history of thousands of years of struggle with the sky, the earth and the people?

Mr. Guo cannot bet on the future, and there is no precedent in history to pursue it. Neither the Qin and Han Dynasties nor the later Eastern Jin Dynasties, the Song, Qi, Liang and Chen, have ever had the experience of governing such a huge territory and such a huge population.

The Wei Empire was a complete alternative, a complete historical accident.

The Wei Empire empire was on a historical track that was deviated by Mr. Guo's amazing acting skills and determined beliefs.

Where can this path eventually go?

Mr. Guo is not clear about it.

He appointed the prince to supervise the country and left half of the leadership team. Guo Peng took the remaining half of the leadership team from Luoyang to Jizhou and made such thoughts.

People in the Spring and Autumn Period have already put forward the view that the country will be prosperous without difficulty.

In Guo’s opinion, how could it be so difficult to make a country prosperous?

Only with no disasters can it develop.

But from another perspective, a country that has endured many disasters and has been stubbornly surviving must be the most prosperous country.

Potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes are good and important, but they may not necessarily be promoted now, and they can’t get them even if you want to.

It is still a question whether the sea ships that can travel from Asia to South America to find high-yield crops can be built. Even if they go, it is still a question whether they can come back alive.

Hope is too slim, and it is irrational to hope for high-yield crops, and it is a cowardly idea to escape.

Without God's favor, can't you survive?

Mr. Guo doesn't believe in this evil.

Just as he didn't believe that he was just unable to deal with the politics of the gentry.

The imperial examinations were all popular all over the world, and the imperial examination bureaucratic groups were booming and gradually replacing the group of scholars, which was also almost impossible to achieve at that time.

At present, whether the Wei Empire he created can successfully withstand with the wisdom and laws of survival passed down through eternal inheritance remains to be tested by history.

At least, Mr. Guo is willing to believe that the Wei Empire and the brave people he created can survive with his hard-working hands.

For humans, survival has never been an easy task.

Even if there is no crisis in food, there will be crises from other places.

Either from oneself or from outside, in short, survival has always been a very difficult thing.

Fortunately, in the Wei Empire he dominated, no one felt that survival was a simple thing.

On the sixth day of November of the 10th year of Yande, Guo Peng left Luoyang and set off for Jizhou. Five thousand soldiers and more than 800 officials of all sizes were accompanied. He followed Guo Peng from Luoyang to the prefecture capital of Jizhou, Ye County, which is also the northern pole of the Grand Canal.

Today, Jizhou is the state with the highest proportion of officials from the entire Wei State. As the prefecture, Wei County is located in the prefecture, from the county prefect to the village head, all of whom are from the civil servants.

Liu Di, the governor of Wei County, was an official that Guo Peng admired very much. He wanted to make great achievements and then directly promoted him to the central government to become a high-ranking official, setting an excellent example.

Now it seems that Liu Di did not disappoint Guo Peng's expectations for him. He is almost fifty years old, but he still focuses on the front line and works hard and is very hardworking. He has not relaxed his duties just because he has become the prefect of two thousand stones.

Obviously, Liu Di did not forget how he came along. He had deep awe and gratitude for the current dreamy reality.

He accompanied Guo Peng on the Grand Canal construction site in the Yexian section. When Guo Peng was very satisfied when he watched the canal workers who were prisoners of war, waving various tools to work on the construction site.

"Has these prisoners of war ever been well-behaved? Have they ever caused trouble? Or have they escaped and rebelled?"

"It's also true, and being well-behaved is not considered a matter of being well-behaved, but I divided it and rule it according to the method assigned by Your Majesty, used prisoners of war to control prisoners of war, used the Wuhuan people to control the Wuhuan people, and used the Xianbei people to control the Xianbei people.

Choose the most diligent and sweetest-mouthed team leader, let him act arrogantly, so that he can not work, and drive others to work. Soon, those prisoners of war workers will hate this person so much that they are tiring."

Liu Di said with a smile: "Our people are generally not directly responsible for management, but instead assign tasks to the team leader, let them do it, and then be responsible for timely acceptance.

If you accept it, you will be rewarded. If you do it badly, you will remove his position and replace it with another person. This former team leader will always be tortured to death quickly, and this cycle will be repeated."

Guo Peng nodded.

"It's good, so it won't cause real resistance from these workers, and it will also properly vent their anger and let them continue to work honestly.

By the way, I heard that several prisoners of war were killed in other counties every day. At least three of them died in a month. How did you do it?"

Guo Peng asked Liu Di.

Liu Di replied slowly: "I am not pitying these people. I just feel that letting them die in vain is too wasteful. Many people can live for a long time and use it for a long time just by eating more food or resting for a while.

But they were forced to exhaust them early in order to save some money. In this way, when there are any major projects that require employment in the future, they have to collect local people for labor service, which will inevitably affect agricultural production, which is not good."

"Yeah, not bad."

Guo Peng agreed with Liu Di's statement: "Many places do not consider this, but only focus on one place and do not consider the interests of local people in the long run.

The slower these prisoners of war laborers die and longer they live, the more things they can do, and the more people's labor labor will be relieved, which is also beneficial to production.

People always have to do things. When there are prisoners of war, you don’t have to collect the people for corvee service. If there are prisoners of war, you have to collect the people for corvee service. Isn’t this a behavior of sacrificing the foundation and chasing the bottom line? I think this is not advisable.”

As he said this, Guo Peng immediately called Pang Tong, the attendant of Nanshufang, and ordered him to draft an edict to issue it to all officials in the world who were responsible for managing prisoners of war labor.

Guo Peng asked them to improve the treatment of prisoners of war laborers and give them at least two meals a day, one meal a day.

Then strictly limit the number of deaths of prisoners of war and strictly order them to take turns to work to reduce the number of deaths of prisoners of war and increase the sustainable use of prisoners of war.

If many people die anywhere, they will be held accountable.

Wherever people die, they will be rewarded.

At the same time, the number of times and number of people levying corvee by local governments is strictly restricted, and local governments are not allowed to abuse their requisition power to disturb the people's military training and daily farming.

Governments along the Grand Canal must remember this requirement even more, and Mr. Guo will continue to search all the way.

If a place does not comply well, and does not adopt new regulations to arrange work, it will be responsible for the million prisoners of war that Guo has fought hard to get back from the war.

By the way, those with poor accommodation conditions must also be improved. The accommodation conditions are too poor, which can easily cause plague. If a plague occurs in some places, Guo will take the heads of their responsible officials.

It can be said that after being an emperor for so long, no one knows the terrible plague than Mr. Guo.

Although Mr. Guo has always advocated promoting people to develop living and hygienic habits, over the years, small-scale plague transmission has been as difficult as small-scale locust plagues.

Small-scale infectious diseases will occur in some places, which will be detected by local governments in a timely manner and isolate them immediately, thereby isolating the danger.

Once this infectious disease breaks out, it often doesn’t know the source or how to treat it. After isolation, it won’t take long to die and then burn their bodies. The outbreak of the infectious disease ends.

Unknown so.

After seeing such cases with one's own eyes many times, Guo Peng felt that the plague in ancient times was not that simple.

Many large-scale infectious diseases that may also be modern have also broken out in ancient times, but the technical means at that time could not let the ancients know what disease they suffered from and how it originated.

But it is certain how to end it is certain - the patient is quarantined and dies, and the plague is over.

Guo Peng does not have a microscope or modern medical equipment. He cannot study these infectious diseases from the perspective of viruses and bacteria. Apart from isolation, there is really no way to deal with these sudden infectious diseases.

Because of the problem of message transmission, it is difficult to find patient zero to ask what he did. The source of infection and chain of infection are simply impossible to determine. All they can do is isolate.

The doctors in the large clinic tried to find some clues and use some medicines from the patient's death, but the significance was not great. In the end, the patients who got sick basically died.

All that remains is the record of the large clinic.

Guo Peng asked the large clinic to record the time, place, number of people, and patient's symptoms and deaths in each infectious disease outbreak, and keep them separately for future generations to investigate.

However, so far, perhaps Guo is well prepared, or perhaps the Wei Empire is lucky, and there has been no large-scale mobility plague that occurs with the flow of business and travel and population.

Because Guo Peng popularized the concept of infectious diseases and the importance of isolation for local grassroots officials year after year, basically every time an infectious disease occurs, local officials can react more quickly to isolate them.
Chapter completed!