Chapter 472: Full Development
"I know what's going on. Please continue talking!" Chen Xi interrupted the topic by knocking on the table.
Just because he is reluctant to kill the noble families doesn't mean he won't take action. Besides, the existence of extraordinary people does not necessarily require the noble families.
"I will follow up on this matter myself."
Chen Xi said so. Although the counselors around him were very interested in Chen Xi's methods, they did not ask too many questions because they were clear about Chen Xi's methods.
"Feng Ji, what do you think?" Chen Xi began to point to some of the counselors who had not spoken. He wanted to hear their overall opinions.
"Opinion? What opinion?" Feng Ji's eyes were lifeless and looked extremely empty.
"About your opinions on the next development direction!" Shen Pei reminded helplessly.
"Oh, the direction..." Feng Ji was silent for a moment, as if he was recalling something.
"Wake up!" Shen Pei's eyes narrowed and a mental attack hit Feng Ji's head.
"Hiss! It hurts!" Feng Ji was brought back to reality by the severe pain and was no longer as dazed as before.
"We can't develop further. Domestic construction is too complicated now. I suggest that you all invest all your efforts in construction to share the pressure with me!" Feng Jisan, who had returned to normal, sorted out his thoughts and made a casual suggestion.
He was almost driven crazy by his work on the Grand Canal. Even the preliminary works of the Grand Canal had not been completed yet. The whole thing was just an empty shell. The huge amount of data processing and personnel disputes every day almost killed him.
However, it must be said that real gold is not afraid of fire. During the high-intensity training, not only did his spiritual talent begin to deviate, it has even been sublimated to a terrifying level.
Spiritual talent is actually the sublimation of one's own wisdom and desire. Feng Ji's spiritual talent began to mutate and sublimate in the huge workload, and now it has formed a magical power similar to fortune-telling.
Of course, Shentong is mainly focused on the construction of the canal. Whether this canal can be built, to what extent it can be built, and how it should be built.
For these problems, Feng Ji can obtain the optimal solution by collecting data and intelligence, and then apply it in real construction.
It is precisely because of the sublimation of this spiritual talent that Feng Ji can continue to hold on, otherwise he would have resigned and run away long ago. Who can finish this thing?
This is no longer just a million people. Now the construction team under him has almost reached the level of 100 million.
That's one-fourteenth of the entire country. Just providing them with food, clothing, housing and transportation is troublesome enough, not to mention that he has to be responsible for arranging the lives of these people.
After all, in addition to the labor force, the supporting living facilities, accompanying family members, etc. are all within his responsibility.
He has to deal with countless things every day. Even though he has created many general templates, problems still continue to arise.
It's not that the lower-level officials are slacking off, but that they simply have no way of handling any issues related to the development of the canal.
If a group of low-level officials like them were capable of handling such a long-term plan, they would have been sitting in the Government Affairs Hall long ago. How could they possibly be low-level officials?
"How far have you come in building your canal?"
Chen Xi asked casually. He automatically filtered out Feng Ji's words. There were too many big plans and it was impossible to mobilize enough manpower. However, Feng Ji seemed to have reached his limit and he should indeed mobilize more people to help.
"Haha, has it reached that stage? The road has just been completed!" Feng Ji said with a sneer.
"So, it hasn't even started yet?"
Chen Xi had a headache. This thing could torture a strategist with spiritual talent into this state. The value of this thing was self-evident. Who should he mobilize to help?
"I know about this. How about this? Almost all the first batch of students of the Imperial College have entered the government. How about transferring them all to your side to help you?"
"It's not enough, I also want Xi Zhicai, Xun You, Shen Pei, Xun Zhan, Chen Qun, Zhong Yao, and Xun Yue!" Feng Ji quickly said a string of names.
These were the helpers he had been eyeing for a long time, and it was only because Tian Feng was not here that Tian Feng's ability to plan things would have been the help he wanted.
But since we have Xi Zhicai, this is not a problem. We can just find a person with internal energy to leave the body and take Xi Zhicai to Tian Feng to copy one.
If he hadn't known that Xun Yu would never be borrowed by him, he would have wanted both Xun Yu and Chen Xi.
"So many people?" Chen Xi frowned, thinking about the gains and losses of the investment.
These people are indeed a bit of a waste of talent in Luoyang. Previously, they were used to restrain these people and prevent them from going out to cause trouble. Now that the situation is clear, it seems to be a good choice to let them devote themselves to infrastructure construction.
To be honest, it was actually more than enough for Luoyang to have Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Xu You and himself as the top strategists left. After all, Luoyang was a political center and there were not many issues that needed to be dealt with urgently.
"In that case... we can only give up Congling!" Cheng Yu suddenly said. Although Congling is important, it does not seem to be particularly important compared with domestic development.
"We don't need to give up yet. We have enough power. There is no war in Youzhou for now. We will mobilize the Xiandeng Death Squad and Di Qing to lead troops to Congling."
After thinking for a while, Xun Yu still firmly opposed giving up the Congling Mountains. In his opinion, the Congling Mountains must not be handed over to others.
This not only represents interests, but also represents the dignity of the Han Dynasty. Giving up the occupied land to others may be a big blow to the Han Dynasty and may damage the majesty of the central court.
If at that time it causes the Western Regions countries to become disunited, it will definitely not be a good thing for the overall situation.
"Then the North will still focus on appeasement, relief and employment, and try to mobilize the Hu people on the northern grasslands to plunder Goryeo. Youzhou can send troops to help when necessary!"
Shen Pei took over the topic and began to expand along Xun Yu's line of thought.
"Yes!" Chen Xi nodded, turned around and slashed at Feng Ji. "You only have one and a half years. I will dispatch more people to support you. You must fully develop the branch canal within one and a half years!"
"Yes!" Feng Ji nodded. One and a half years was a tight schedule, but it would not be impossible if there were enough manpower.
"For the next three years, our Han Dynasty will not resort to war and will focus on development. You should all be aware of the meaning behind this matter. I hope you will not let our Han Dynasty down!"
Chen Xi sighed. The information Xu You provided was the most important after all. To fight against foreign aggressors, one must first stabilize the country. The most urgent task now was to make the pie bigger and find a way to kick all these aristocratic families out.
Fortunately, the country now has sufficient population and land, and the upper limit of development is still far away, so it is worth a try to develop with all our strength.
Chen Xi knew that he couldn't slack off now. At least in the next three years, his chances to slack off would become infinitely fewer.
But it's all worth it. The current efforts are for the purpose of being able to fish better in the future.
