When the people of Wenshi, Jiangdong began to carry out a series of activities, they were also busy at various construction sites in southern Sichuan and Sichuan.

Various materials were stacked high in the workshop, and a large number of simple sheds were filled with laborers who were used to build roads and build bridges.

Without the assistance of large-scale equipment, many places can only rely on manpower at present.

If it weren't for the relatively mature conditions for gunpowder production and use, Fei Qian wouldn't dare to say that it was building roads in the mountains in the southwest.

Fei Qian, who was used to the construction speed of infrastructure maniacs in later generations, felt that the current construction of the Han Dynasty was too low, but with sufficient gunpowder and a construction queue of skilled craftsmen, it scared the people of the current era of the Han Dynasty.

Many village leaders who have visited the construction site and gentry from all over the country were surprised or even frightened by the well-organized construction site.

Scheduling and coordination is not a simple problem.

Just like cooking, some people are busy when cooking, while others do well but take a long time. Only a small number of people can cook the dishes quickly and well.

How many of these local natives in Sichuan and Sichuan have a concept of overall planning?

They didn't even understand why sanitary sheds were added on the construction site, as well as simple sickbeds and medical rooms. At the same time, in order to avoid the unique parasite problems in southern Xinjiang, all domestic water was passed through the sedimentation tank and then led to the lime pond. After secondary sedimentation, it was boiled and drunk.

To open the way, we cannot avoid invading the originally natural, wild, and uninhabited areas. In such areas, what is scary is not tiger, leopard, bear, but insects and bacteria.

For tiger, leopard, bear, if there are too many people, they are just a dish, while for insects, bacteria, if there are too many people, they are just a dish.

In the entire plan for the infrastructure of the major artery in Jiaozhi in southern Sichuan, Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, Xu Huang and others did not want to eat directly into fat people in one go, but instead prepared to explore one after another, with villages in various places as the center, select nodes, and then develop the next section.

A large amount of labor was passed through Chang'an and gradually transferred to Sichuan and Shu. These labors included slaves, prisoners, and some had to betray themselves for some things and became laborers.

This type of labor was originally a consumable in history. As long as it can be completed, it doesn’t matter how many deaths are. However, for these relatively intelligent counselors under Fei Qian’s rule, labor was not just a consumable, but also a producer and a consumer.

In addition to a fixed amount of labor per day, these labors are also allowed to exchange for remuneration for extra labor. For example, if a labor service stipulates that fifty cars of earth are transported back and forth, then more than fifty cars of earth are the rewards that the person receives on the same day.

This kind of measure that was almost as simple as it could be, but it made the current labor force of the Han Dynasty burst out with unprecedented initiative and accelerated the speed of development and construction.

At the same time, because labor can be rewarded, they will naturally want to spend it. The money spent has caused the surrounding villages to spontaneously organize various goods to trade, and these goods do not need to be troubled to organize transportation and transport, because these things are all taken care of by the people in the surrounding villages.

Roasted bugs, smoked mountain rats, as well as hare pheasants, rice wine and fruit wine, etc., will appear in specific markets every day, tempting the paid labor to purchase. Originally, if the official instructions were used, people would not only send time and effort to collect the commission, but also cause public grievances. But now, they are delivered to the door with a smile, and they are less than the original commission, and they are happily back.

Then the natives in these villages will use their money to buy things in Han towns farther away. They will also buy some raw materials needed for processing various food, clothing and other items for the market in these labor camps...

Of course, things have smooth sides, and naturally there are other side of the downturn.

When opening a road, the amount of gunpowder is needed is very large.

Although Xu Huang is the commander-in-chief, he cannot say that he is staring at the front line every day, and those who are blasting on the front line are basically big head soldiers. Among these big head soldiers, after the project volume is expanded, the original sophisticated grenades are obviously not enough, and there are indeed different directions, one is military and the other is engineering.

So later, I started to recruit some special blasting personnel, and taught them by the original experienced grenadiers. One person took more than a dozen people to conduct gunpowder training.

Of course, the quality of these assault-trained personnel cannot be compared with the original grenadiers. For safety reasons, Xu Huang also deliberately mixed the personnel responsible for gunpowder blasting, forming a backbone with a few grenadiers and military police. Then, these trained blasters were added to be responsible for the key points, especially the blasting of rocks.

Then these blasted rocks can be used as paving materials...

But if you go up the mountain too much, you will eventually encounter tigers.

Just a while ago, an explosion occurred inexplicably in the convoy transporting gunpowder. The entire convoy was almost destroyed among the forty or fifty people. The corpses of the surviving few became fools and could not ask anything.

No one knows what happened during the transportation process.

It may have been ignited by accident, or it may have been spontaneously ignited by black gunpowder...

There are many possibilities, but the specific reasons are probably only those transport convoys that have become bone-breaking wreckage.

This is helpless, and there are not many good ways to do it. It can only be to reduce the amount of each transportation and transport it in a small amount and multiple times. In this way, even if something happens, it may be a car, and not to destroy the entire convoy.

In addition to the problems during transportation, there is also a squib.

Squids are the most common problem encountered during blasting, but if they are not handled properly, they will die.

Sometimes it is because the gunpowder is damp and cannot explode.

If you really can't explode, it's still easy to say. The most feared thing is that the fuse gets damp and then burns slowly than usual. The blaster saw that it didn't explode for a long time, and then it went over...

Such problems occur almost every few days. Of course, it is not just about blasting, because the quality of the personnel themselves is very poor, and coupled with their own neglect of safety, even if there are relevant safety regulations, safety accidents occur from time to time.

Or all kinds of accidents, I am basically injured every day.

There is basically no one to care about small wounds, and large wounds depend on whether God will give you another chance. However, as the temperature gradually increases, the number of bacteria and fungi in the jungle is obviously much higher. The humid and warm environment is the paradise for these bacteria and fungi, and it is also the hell of those wounded people.

Even small wounds may be infected and inflamed later, and once they enter the stage of sepsis, they will be basically done and even gods cannot save them.

Especially when opening up places where there were no people before, casualties suddenly increased.

The terrain on the Jiaozhi line in southern Sichuan and Sichuan is relatively complex and the natural environment is even more harsh. Sometimes it is done well, and then suddenly there are stones falling, wood falling, landslides, etc., which also causes many casualties.

At the same time, the lees in the woods became crazy as the temperature rose. The labor itself had no way to be equipped like mountain soldiers, and it was accompanied by heavy physical labor. Even though they repeatedly claimed to pay attention to lees, their blood was rippling when they worked, and a group of people attracted a large area of ​​lees around them.

In front of the flesh and blood, even if simple herbs are applied, it will not last long. Many laborers are bitten by lees. Those who know a little can use smoke and salt, but those who don’t know can use laborers to pull them directly...

Later, when work started every day, a bunch of bonfires used to smoke insects were lit to disperse mosquitoes and lees, which had some effects, but in places where smoke was not covered or were relatively thin, there were still many labor attacks, which were not only blood loss, but also easily contaminated with bacteria and became sick.

There are no specific anti-inflammatory drugs, only herbs.

And ordinary herbs often have no way to deal with inflammation, especially acute inflammation.

Unavoidable casualties arise.

Such death is even more morale than a blast accident.

Because of the daytime whine of the injured, those uninjured laborers were timid. For these laborers who could not read a few words, they did not understand that these injuries were deaths caused by bacterial and fungi infections. Seeing these patients having hallucinations due to fever, most workers easily thought that they were infected with some strange events, or were defecated by some worms...

Even if the military marquis Sima and others in the construction site know what the real situation is, it is very troublesome to solve these inexplicable remarks. These labor service are not from the same place. They are rumbling in local language. They can't say that they can send a mouth to their mouths when they go to work every day, or they can lay a stick to put the labor service's mouths on them?

So these situations were reported to Xu Huang.

Xu Huang also had a headache.

Later, Xu Shu found out, so he sent a letter, which contained a few words, "The Gods in the Five Directions can rest their souls."

Later, Taoist priests from the God-sect in the Five Directions came.

First, I searched for the cemetery, looked at the feng shui, checked the tomb, and set the location. I held a great Dharma Assembly when I was buried. Not to mention, when the Dharma Assembly was completed, everything stopped. There was no news everywhere, and the wounded, who were still injured, may not survive, would not talk nonsense all day long. When I was awake, I could explain my funerals...

The cemetery faces the road, without any seal or hill, only the stone tablets are covered on the ground, and the name of the deceased is written on it. If there is no name, the title of the day is written on it. At the front there are five tablets of the God Cult in the five directions, and there are incense burners made of stones. There are some trees on all sides, and the green mountains and green damasks in the distance are combined. Not to mention the living people watching, the dead are very satisfied when they lie down.

Taoist priests from the God Cult in the Five Directions said that this is their "professionality". Although this land is not the best, it may not allow future generations to be prosperous, rich and noble, but at least there is no problem in letting the dead rest in peace and calm the soul.

In fact, this is not a completely unreasonable superstition. If you choose a cemetery in a cold and wet place, you may not be able to raise any zombies, but you may raise a bunch of fungi, bacteria, snakes, insects, and then when future generations clean the graves every year, they will be bitten by insects and seriously contaminated with unknown bacteria...

Therefore, this Taoist priest from the Five God Cult is not completely unfair. He is just because he does not understand the officialdom, so he is excluded from a remote place.

Although he gave comfort after his death in labor service, he could not completely prevent the casualties of labor service when building roads and building bridges. Later, Xu Huang even began to send soldiers in the labor service queue, specializing in the safety matters. When he finished work early every day and at night, he gave a special lecture on what happened, which was more or less a result that the casualty rate did not continue to rise.

The road extends and expands little by little.

However, this does not mean that these forests that may have been uninhabited for hundreds of years and thousands of years will easily surrender to humans. Shortly after the arrival of summer, the number of mosquitoes rose sharply, and then the epidemic occurred.

If it were later generations, there would be a complete set of solutions to deal with malaria caused by mosquitoes. But the problem is that in the Han Dynasty, except for Fei Qian himself, most ordinary people do not know what malaria is caused and what kind of treatment is needed.

If the feudal dynasty practices were customary, the construction period was the first priority, and human life was a consumable, and dead people were even better than patients, because the patients needed some more and less care, and the dead people were directly asked to replenish the quantity.

But here at Xu Huang, he understood that the value of these labors was not just the cornerstone used to pave the way. Some of these labors were skilled brickworkers and carpenters. From being confused about nothing to being proficient in getting started, he could be considered half a craftsman. How big is the gap during the period?

At the beginning, Xu Huang thought it was an ordinary disease, so he ordered the suspension of construction and comprehensive cleaning. He dug ditches, sprinkled lime, burned mugwort, took medicine and bathed, and drank soup according to previous epidemic prevention methods. However, this set of measures does have some effect on ordinary bacteria and fungi, but for malaria, whose main source of transmission is mosquitoes, the effect is not very large.

A few days later, malaria in a certain camp began to enter a period of large-scale outbreaks.

At first, there were a few people every day, but later it became more than a dozen or dozens of people a day. The small sanitary sheds on the construction site were immediately filled with, and the transmission characteristics of mosquitoes in summer made other healthy people infected even if they had no direct contact with the patients.

The number of people who are sick is increasing. Many people have poor physical fitness and are tired of building roads, and their mortality rate has risen again. From the beginning, one or two deaths to three or four deaths a day, followed by seven or eight people and more than a dozen people.

Those who died of an epidemic cannot be buried directly according to the requirements and must be burned. At most, even the wood used for burning cannot be waited for drying, so they are sprinkled with turmeric oil and burned hard.

There are continuous new patients and continuous deaths every day, which has caused great panic to break out in this labor camp again, indicating that entering the mountain is an inevitable occurrence of rumors of breaking the mountain god. In fact, to a certain extent, this is not a "rumor". After all, those initially infected are indeed labor to enter the mountains to open forests and build roads.

The morale in the construction site continued to decline, as if fear was everywhere.

Sima, the military marquis who was in charge of the construction site, understood a little, followed Xu Huang's instructions, comforted the labor service, adjusted the work continuously, and promoted the epidemic control. However, even if he received Xu Huang's instructions, he felt that his idea was right. After all, labor service was the labor service, and the project progress was his own.

The conflict that had been slightly alleviated began to intensify, but after Xu Huang received the information, he found that some places were already very serious.

The labor service and soldiers at the construction site had a dispute, believing that the soldiers were going to let them die, which led to greater riots. Under the double fear of the epidemic and despair, many labor service eventually lost their minds and used iron hammers and wooden shovels to fight with the soldiers, and many people died...

When Xu Huang led his soldiers to the construction site where the riots occurred, everything was over.

The dead soldiers may not understand why the labor force was still timid yesterday, and why it suddenly became so crazy, and those crazy labor force also did not know why things had developed to the current situation.

Some laborers fled into the mountains, but it is obvious that most of these laborers who fled into the mountains will die in the primitive forests, and even the corpses are gone. Even the elite mountain soldiers around Xu Huang dare not enter the mountains alone without any equipment and preparations, let alone these laborers who originally had little control over the forests?

Other laborers were stunned after the incident. When Xu Huang and others came, they didn't even have the desire to resist. They were like the courage and anger of laborers. After venting, there was only an empty shell left, and even their consciousness was lost.

Xu Huang frowned, looked at the labor service, then waved his hand and ordered all of them to be killed and buried on the spot.

Whether innocent or intentional, the facts of these labor riots are before us.

The rule of the feudal class is not for reasoning.

However, such a construction site, from soldiers to labor, disappeared, whether on the books or physical, and had a small impact on other construction sites. Even the natives in the surrounding villages began to have some discussions about the construction of mountain roads.

It is said that it is from the mountain god, it is from the worm, it is from the miasma, it is from the toxic, it is from the sacrificial, and it is from the sacrificial.

Under such circumstances, Xu Shu and Xu Huang agreed that they could only temporarily stop going south, at least avoid the summer period first, and wait until autumn and winter before continuing, and at the same time, sending people to send specialized doctors to study the emerging epidemic.
Chapter completed!