Chapter 180 The Future and the Present
"He is Li Yuanba!" Guo Hao's shocked voice resounded through the sky.
Although he had guessed it before, he was still shocked when Nanhua started reporting to him.
Li Yuanba.
As the saying goes, no king is better than Ba, and no general is better than Li. Li Yuanba has all of them.
In the novel, he defeated the 2.3 million troops of the 18 rebel kings on Siping Mountain alone with his two hammers. In the battle of Zijin Mountain, he killed a million troops alone with his two hammers, making him a well-deserved god of war.
If it weren't for the fact that this group of local heroes were strengthened in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the eight-year-old Li Yuanba could have competed with Lu Bu.
Guo Hao estimated that Li Yuanba was at least a historical figure of gold quality. It was really too buggy. Yuwen Chengdu was now an unparalleled warrior, and it was probably a sure thing that he could break through the realm. With such strength, he was torn into two halves by Li Yuanba's bare hands. How powerful was that?
Overjoyed, Guo Hao directly approved Nanhua's request.
It’s just money. With Chen Xi around, he doesn’t have to worry about money.
Passing the task to Chen Xi, Guo Hao began to interact with Li Yuanba. Perhaps because Guo Hao's Three-legged Golden Crow luck and Li Yuanba's Golden-winged Roc luck were both birds, the two got along quite harmoniously.
However, just after Li Yuanba patted Guo Hao happily, Nanhua quickly took Li Yuanba and ran away.
Guo Hao covered his chest and grimaced in pain. To be honest, he had never suffered such a heavy blow since he entered the game. He felt that several of his ribs were broken.
"My lord!" Just at this time Li Ru arrived with Hua Tuo.
"Hurry, hurry, come and check the general's injuries," Li Ru urged Hua Tuo.
Guo Hao was sweating profusely from the pain. Li Yuanba had no control over his strength at all. It was equivalent to him taking a full-strength attack from Li Yuanba. If he had not mobilized the gift of the sun in time, he might have been reborn by now.
"Hiss~" Hua Tuo, a man with white hair and a youthful face, grabbed Guo Hao's shoulders. Without taking his pulse or saying anything nonsense, he stretched out his hand and inserted more than a dozen needles into Guo Hao's body.
Hua Tuo was also a little shocked. This young man in front of him, who looked like a general, had experienced such a terrible battle. The ribs on his chest felt like they were hit by a battering ram. It seemed that if Guo Hao had not been so strong, he would have died long ago.
To be honest, he was quite nervous. Although he had traveled all over the country, the highest-ranking official he had ever met was Huangfu Song, and that was when he was treating Huangfu Song's illness. Suddenly, he was brought to see the general. It would be a lie to say that he was not nervous.
However, when he saw the injured person, the tension in his heart disappeared. Being a man of great medical ethics, he didn't care who the injured person was. He just wanted to cure the patient.
"Alright! Just eat more food to replenish your energy consumption."
Hua Tuo pulled out the silver needles one by one, and then said to Guo Hao.
"Yuanhua, how is the general's injury?" Li Ru was a little nervous. Although he knew that Guo Hao was an extraordinary person and would not die, Guo Hao's identity and status made him a little nervous.
"It's okay. The general is very strong. I just helped speed up the healing process of his body. He will be fine after a rest." Hua Tuo said as he packed up the silver needles.
"That's good!" Li Ru breathed a sigh of relief, then shouted "Elai!"
"Military advisor, do you have any instructions?" Dian Wei appeared silently, which scared Hua Tuo. He looked like a black iron tower, but how come he moved without making any sound?
"Go tell the idle generals in the camp to go out and catch some wild animals. The general is injured and needs to be healed."
Dian Wei was shocked, but seeing that Guo Hao was pale but in good condition, he knew that Guo Hao was out of danger.
"Here! "
By the time Li Ru had finished arranging Dian Wei's tasks, Guo Hao had already started chatting with Hua Tuo.
"Doctor Hua, are you willing to stay in the court and work?" Guo Hao sincerely invited Hua Tuo to stay. It was really too powerful. With the injury just now, even if his internal energy left his body, he would have to lie down for a whole day. As a result, Hua Tuo restored him to normal in just a few minutes.
"Of course I will accept the invitation personally from the general. It's a pity that doctors like me have been classified as witches and sorcerers, and the idea of avoiding medical treatment has become deeply rooted in people's minds." Hua Tuo said with a sigh.
Hua Tuo was not a simple person. Official positions were just that to him. It was said that Chen Gui of Xuzhou and Huang Wan, who was the Grand Marshal, had both summoned Hua Tuo, but he declined. From this point of view, the temptation of profit had little effect on Hua Tuo.
As for fame, it has been passed down through the ages and I don’t care about it at all.
According to legend, Hua Tuo was a descendant of various medical philosophers. His medical skills were superb and he was called "the master of surgery" and "the founder of surgery" by later generations.
Guo Hao understood the elegant meaning of Hua Tuo by hearing the music of the strings. Hua Tuo was not a fool. He must want to carry forward the medical skills or revive the glory of the medical profession.
After all, Hua Tuo practiced medicine all over the world, so how could he not know the weakness of his own strength? It was only because of the Confucianism's suppression of the various schools of thought that he could never glorify his family, and he could only accept a few apprentices to teach them medical skills.
There is no way, the general background is like this. Think about what Han Yu said in "On Teachers" hundreds of years later: "Witch doctors, musicians, and craftsmen are despised by gentlemen."
In just one sentence, all professions other than Confucianism are excluded to the extreme. Only a miracle doctor like Hua Tuo can barely get a little respect, while other doctors, musicians, etc. are ultimately just menial jobs.
"After all, a person's power is limited. I hope you can write a book so that people all over the world can have fewer setbacks." Guo Hao bowed.
"I will definitely live up to the general's trust."
Hua Tuo turned around and saluted. He understood what Guo Hao meant. Supporting the recovery of the medical profession was a long and arduous task after all, but Guo Hao was willing to give him this opportunity.
When Hua Tuo followed his personal guards to find Chen Xi, Guo Hao breathed a sigh of relief.
There are people from the farming and medical fields who have emerged. It seems that the system is determined to promote the Hundred Schools of Thought. It will be another tough battle.
War and civilization. Epic wars have occurred twice. I guess it’s time to start civilized activities.
However, none of the various schools of thought are easy to mess with.
Military strategists, Confucianists, Mohists, Legalists...
Sun Tzu, Mozi, Han Feizi...
Who doesn't have some bigwigs in their family? Confucius was unable to spread Confucianism to the six kingdoms during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. This shows how many bigwigs there were at that time.
Now that Confucianism itself has been changed, maybe the first thing Confucius would do after he was born is to clean up his internal affairs.
After having a headache for a while, Guo Hao put the matter behind him. This kind of thing should be left to Chen Xi to think about. He really couldn't handle this kind of thing.
When enemies come, we will fight them with our soldiers; when water comes, we will block it with earth. In any case, we must not give up on medicine.
Even in modern times, education, medicine, law, farmers, workers and the military are the indispensable pillars of society and none of them can be missing.
As for Hua Tuo, he could only grant him a place and an official position so that Hua Tuo would have a pure land to teach his disciples. Otherwise, even if Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo were tied together, it would be a dream to promote medicine.
"My lord, we have things to do." Just when Guo Hao was feeling melancholy, Chen Xi came over. Chen Xi, who had a large number of laborers at his disposal, had already divided the projects that many soldiers needed to be responsible for. Even so, there were still many places that lacked labor.
"The gap is so big?" Even Guo Hao couldn't help being shocked. Nearly a million soldiers, and they couldn't even make a splash when they were thrown in?
"We can't let all the soldiers go to work. There are countless bandits everywhere. There are many bandits and robbers in Luoyang alone. We need manpower to deal with them." Chen Xi said unhappily. How could full-time soldiers be asked to do such things as infrastructure construction? Besides, one million people are not enough for infrastructure construction.
Think about modern infrastructure, even with more advanced technology it still took years to complete the construction of a highway, let alone the Eastern Han Dynasty Highway which was built from scratch.
After Chen Xi made a preliminary calculation of the labor required for the project, he directly cancelled the plan to reform the Allied Forces through labor. What a joke! These soldiers were all veterans who had experienced the baptism of war. If they were all transferred to serve as labor for the infrastructure construction, wouldn't all the resources be wasted?
Once the initial construction is completed, what will be the difference between these soldiers and the new recruits?
If a bloody battle is still needed to awaken these soldiers, it would be better to recruit new soldiers and throw them into the battlefield.
After Chen Xi and Guo Hao discussed it, they directly activated a group of military generals, each of whom led a legion and went to suppress the bandits. Even Gao Shun's trap camp was withdrawn to suppress the bandits.
Logically speaking, it was really an unstoppable force. How could a small village with hundreds of people stop a humanoid beast like Lu Bu? Once the electric plasma was hit, the village melted directly.
However, what Guo Hao and Chen Xi told them was to capture them alive and send them to a nearby county town to begin labor reform. Only in this way could they maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops, improve public security, and capture a group of free laborers at the same time.
In this era, bandits and robbers had no human rights at all. Those with criminal records were all hacked to death, and those without criminal records were all forced to work.
In this era, apart from the Hu people, the lowest class of people were the bandits. For the common people who yearned for peace, these bandits were stumbling blocks in their lives.
Chen Xi completely gave up the plan of labor reform for the soldiers and planned to fully implement the plan of work-for-relief. After all, there were too many refugees in the Thirteen States of the Han Dynasty, and half of the plane was constantly transporting refugees. If all of them were to be supported, the Han Empire would go bankrupt on the spot.
There are tens of thousands of living people with hands and feet. If we use the work-for-relief method to build infrastructure projects, wouldn't that create countless benefits? It can help refugees, create wealth, and improve infrastructure. Why not do it when you can kill three birds with one stone?
Chen Xi was not pretentious and started promoting it directly from Hulao Pass. He had already established a lot of credibility among the refugees before, and with the official guarantee of Hulao Pass, the refugees were very enthusiastic about participating in the project.
It is not a time of chaos, nor is it the Central Plains that has been ravaged repeatedly. The Han brand is still very loud, and simply being rescued makes a group of refugees feel insecure.
The reason is very simple. Living on relief means putting your life in the hands of others. What if food is not distributed that day? You will be in trouble.
Therefore, these displaced people are more willing to use their own strength to fight for corresponding rewards. For them, if they have no land to cultivate, then participating in infrastructure construction is the best way to make a living.
The results of this investigation led Chen Xi to directly promote a work-for-relief plan, with a money-to-grain ratio of one to two, using money and grain as wages on a daily basis. How harmonious it was, and it directly transformed all the refugees into workers, creating a lot of additional labor force out of thin air.
With this idea in mind, Chen Xi directly arranged a complete industrial chain. For example, he let the people who participated in the construction learn how to build, and then started to build houses according to the plan, and finally sold these houses to these working people at a reasonable price.
Even if you don't have enough money, you can pay a deposit first, and the government can also lend you money, and the interest rate is very low.
Similarly, if the common people who reclaimed farmland wanted to farm, they could also use their wages to purchase the corresponding land, but the maximum amount of land per household was 50 mu.
After going through this process, the money given to the people returned to Chen Xi. What’s even more outrageous is that Chen Xi didn’t give out any money at all. He just used bookkeeping to handle the flow of money.
Apart from spending a considerable amount of food every day, Chen Xi didn't pay a penny at all. He simply transferred the money from his left pocket to his right pocket and circulated it around verbally. In the end, no money was spent, the job was done, and a lot of extra profit was generated.
This method of work-for-relief was welcomed by refugees and ordinary people, and food was paid daily with no delays. As long as they could fill their stomachs, many people didn't care about the content of the work. After all, apart from farming, ordinary people rarely had the opportunity to work.
However, the launch of a large number of projects has also increased the problem of food consumption. After all, food consumption is something that cannot be avoided no matter how sophisticated Chen Xi's economic circulation methods are. It can be said that food is the foundation of any economic system. The saying that food is the first necessity of the people is a truth that has stood the test of time.
Fortunately, in order to give Guo Hao an explanation, the major families took out all the grain they had stored for many years to atone their sins, and Chen Xi was able to manipulate the economic cycle as a result.
With the support of this kind of grain, the land from Luoyang to Hulao Pass was full of busy scenes, and even a brief period of prosperity appeared. Everywhere you looked, it was a scene of prosperity.
However, only Chen Xi understood how horribly false all this was. Once there was a problem with food, the common people at the bottom would inevitably start rioting due to hunger, leading to depression or even collapse of Hulao Pass and even the Luoyang area.
However, Chen Xi was not panicked at all. The food he had was enough to support him until the next batch of food matured. With high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, there would be no problem for him to transfer food from the family to other places next year.
So during this period of time, Guo Hao led the army to frantically sweep away all threatening forces. No matter what kind of bandits you are, anyone who dares to cause trouble will die!
