Princess Consort Is No Pushover

"Plus I ate more than you in my previous life?" Yun Ruoyue blinked playfully.

"..." It seemed to be true, Chu Xuanchen was speechless.

Yun Ruoyue said, "Okay, I'm not joking with you anymore. Time is urgent now, and digging ponds requires a lot of manpower. Since Zhang Shifan refuses to send people, then we can spend money to let ordinary people dig ponds. Self-reliance, through labor in exchange for food, so that they have something to do, so that they will not become refugees, and solve the problem that they cannot live due to the flood; second, it can also mobilize their enthusiasm and enhance their sense of collective honor. "

"Sense of collective honor?" Chu Xuanchen said.

Yun Ruoyue nodded, "Yes, in a catastrophe, if the country mobilizes the collectiveness of the people and allows them to participate, it will enhance the people's cohesion and sense of patriotism. For example, encourage the people to donate money, so that the people have a sense of participation, dedication It seems that it is because of them that disasters are resolved and the country becomes better. Only when the enthusiasm of the people is mobilized and the whole people is united to save the country together, the people have a sense of belonging to the country. In this way, everyone feels that the country is changed by its own strength. Well, everyone will be more patriotic."

"So that's how it is. Tomorrow, the king will send people to put up notices on the streets, inviting people to dig ponds." Chu Xuanchen said.

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Early the next morning, Chu Xuanchen sent people to post notices to recruit workers.

The condition stated in the notice was that the workers would be provided with food, and each person would also have a wage of ten Wen per day.

When the common people heard that going to work not only provided food, but also wages. They didn't have any food to eat, so when they saw the notice, they rushed to sign up, crowding the registration counter.

Soon, 5,000 people were recruited.

While recruiting people, Chu Xuanchen called all the officials and told them to requisition the land for the pond.

If you want to dig a pond, you must first requisition the land with silver, and then you can dig it after the land is requisitioned.

The officials immediately went to expropriate land, and tried to only acquire land with relatively poor soil quality.

It is easy to do things with money, as long as the right price is given, many people are willing to sell their worthless land to the government.

In this way, the officials first requisitioned several pieces of land, and then Chu Xuanchen ordered the workers to start digging the pond.

As a result, at this moment, Mo Li suddenly reported, "My lord, we encountered obstacles when we were expropriating land in the west of the city!"

"What obstacle?" Chu Xuanchen asked coldly.

Moli said: "The land we want to expropriate happens to belong to Zhang Shifan's family. We offered him a suitable price, but he disagreed. He said it was his family's land, and his Zhang family's land was buried inside it." For the ancestral grave, no matter how much money the prince gives, he will not sell it. Then, he brought the nearby landowners to make trouble in the fields, and now most of the landowners do not agree with us to requisition the land, I am afraid that the land requisition will cause trouble.”

"Well, he is Zhang Shifan. In order to fight against this king, he even put the lives of the people at risk. This king wants to meet him in person. Mr. Chen, Mr. Yang, please go with this king. This king wants you to cooperate. A witness." Chu Xuanchen said.

Chen Xi hesitated for a moment, then nodded hurriedly.

Yang Shixun also nodded quickly.

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When Chu Xuanchen led the crowd to the west of the city, he saw that Jiang Ning and the drunkard Yu Wenxian had arrived.

The two were talking to Zhang Shifan, as if trying to persuade Zhang Shifan.

Chu Xuanchen did not expect that Jiang Ning would be here at this time. When he called everyone to discuss water control affairs, Jiang Ning said he was sick and did not come.

I didn't expect that he would appear here today.