Chapter 644 Tragedy in the World (Asking for Monthly Votes)
If we talk about the best player in the Saint Sect, it is naturally the Evil King Shi Zhixuan.
He held an important position in the court, and even directly took action to cause the disintegration of the most important enemy of the Great Sui Dynasty, the Turks, and his name was recorded in history books.
It's just a pity that there are very few talents like him in the Saint Sect!
The carefully trained apprentice Hou Xibai has a stronger character of a wanderer.
As for Yang Xuyan, he didn't dare to show up at all!
It is estimated that the Queen of Yin is also depressed. Most of the disciples of the Saint Sect have some psychological problems and their personalities are quite unruly. They are really not suitable for officialdom.
However, he still feels that the Queen of Yin's behavior of completely giving up officialdom is inappropriate.
Now, in order to expand the influence of the Taoist lineage, Jia Huan is giving bad ideas to his senior brother Zuo Youxian by writing letters.
Jia Huan's idea was very simple. He wanted to take some of his disciples out of the mountains to participate in the construction of the highway by the current Sui emperor. He wanted to get a group of minor officials who managed the laborers through the relationship with Zuo Youxian.
Otherwise, how could the current Sui emperor abuse the people's power? The construction period of the hundreds of miles of highway was limited to three months.
Damn, even in modern times, such a construction period is quite tight!
In order to complete the task on time, the officials in charge of the specific affairs squeezed the hundreds of thousands of laborers who were recruited to work so hard that their bones were squeezed out.
In the history books, it was only written lightly that only one or two of the laborers who participated in the project survived.
What is the concept?
Hundreds of thousands of young and strong people were lost in vain. How many hundreds of thousands of young and strong people can the Sui Dynasty lose?
Jia Huan didn't have any other ideas. He took the opportunity to stuff some of his disciples into minor officials.
It would be better to let more young and strong laborers leave alive, and by the way, promote the benevolence and righteousness of Taibai Temple.
At the same time, he also had the purpose of verifying his ideas.
If it weren't for the fact that the banner of the Taoist ancestor's true teachings was too eye-catching, he really wouldn't mind learning from General Tiangong.
Ahem, General Tiangong and Tianshi Sun En made the people in power wary of Taoist masters.
The Taoist sect was completely surpassed by the Buddhist sect, and the suppression by the court and government played a great role.
In addition, the Taoist sect was a mess, and there was no possibility of cooperation at all.
Fortunately, his senior brother Zuo Youxian was quite capable, or the Queen Yin had a lot of face in the current Sui Emperor at this time, and soon his ideas became a reality.
Many Jianghu wanderers who took the initiative to surrender were sent by Jia Huan to the construction site of the Chidao project as supervisors.
Of course, most of the supervisors sent had some good intentions. At least they would not be stingy if they could help those poor young and strong laborers without endangering themselves.
In addition, among the external skills training methods taught to them by Jia Huan, there were also many extremely energy-consuming and strength-consuming training methods, which could be fully utilized at the construction site.
All Jia Huan had to pay was to purchase some medicinal materials and a simple recipe for medicinal food. He was not so stingy.
Among the wanderers in the martial arts world that Taibai Temple had recruited, there were naturally some ruthless people who did not take human lives seriously.
Jia Huan would naturally not send them to be supervisors. Wouldn't that be helping the tiger?
Most of these guys were arrogant and domineering. Now that they had received martial arts instruction from Jia Huan, they were in high spirits and wanted to do something.
Jia Huan took them along the construction site of the Chidao Road and visited those dishonest gangsters one by one.
For a while, the reputation of Taibai Temple was spread out, making many nearby green forest forces hate them, but they could do nothing about them.
You know, no matter in ancient or modern times, building a large project like the Chidao Road for hundreds of miles means huge profits.
Most of them were naturally eaten by the powerful and wealthy.
But the remaining soup was enough for the nearby martial arts and green forest forces to eat their mouths full of oil. Just providing all kinds of tools and materials is a considerable income.
Not to mention, there are also a large amount of food and vegetables, which are all money.
And many green forest forces took the opportunity to recruit escaped young and strong laborers to strengthen themselves!
In fact, the main force of the famous Wagangzhai later came from escaped laborers.
But the behavior of the Taibaiguan disciples is simply a heinous crime!
They are so shameless to target the green forest forces that behave badly near the Chidao project under the banner of eliminating violence and protecting the good.
With a master like Jia Huan in charge, which green forest force can withstand the impact of Taibaiguan’s many disciples?
The current situation of the Sui Dynasty is still quite good.
The government’s control over the local area is still quite strong.
For example, the famous leaders of various rebel armies later did not come forward at this time.
For example, Wagang Zhai Rang was still in the system at this time.
Even if there were green forest heroes, they had not formed a scale at this time.
Not to mention the confrontation with the government, even the nearby underworld forces are stronger than them.
Jia Huan, with a group of disciples who had just joined, naturally looked for weak persimmons to squeeze.
The effect was good, and the reputation of Taibai Temple gradually spread.
For some reason, Jia Huan also got a nickname of "evil sword"!
He didn't know which bastard gave him this nickname, otherwise he would have to teach him a lesson.
He is obviously an upright and kind young man, but the underworld nickname he took is not serious at all.
Unfortunately, Jia Huan was not happy at all in the face of the big situation.
Whenever he saw the many bodies of laborers thrown away casually on both sides of the highway project, he felt bad.
The current Sui emperor is quite crazy. He is very strict about the deadline of the highway project and has no intention of making any concessions. It seems that the hundreds of thousands of young and strong laborers who were conscripted are real cattle and horses.
The heavy code is pressed down layer by layer, and the supervisors in charge of specific affairs are under great pressure.
Those with better tempers can restrain themselves, while those with bad tempers directly take out their anger on the poor young and strong laborers. Various whipping and humiliation are commonplace.
High-intensity physical labor, poor eating and sleeping, and various tortures, young and strong laborers died one after another in a short period of time.
There are too many dead laborers, and the construction period is busy. The supervisors and low-level officials in charge of specific affairs simply threw the corpses into the fields on both sides of the highway.
At a glance, the highway is full of corpses!
In the surrounding sky, crows can be seen everywhere.
The wild dogs on the road have bloodshot eyes, and their eyes looking at passers-by are particularly crazy and sharp.
The smell of rotting flesh and blood filled the air, and could be smelled for a hundred miles!
If the surrounding government had not organized the villagers to dig pits and bury the dead, it would not take long for a terrible plague to appear.
"When the country prospers, the people suffer. When the country perishes, the people suffer!"
Seeing such a man-made tragedy, Jia Huan's mood was not much affected, but he could not help but sigh repeatedly.
After several generations, he had seen many tragedies, and there were even more tragic things than the current one!
However, the Taoist children and some of the disciples who followed him were shocked and stimulated.