Everyone sat down, Guo Song said to everyone: "To manage 500,000 refugees, it is not enough to rely on our army alone, we must be self-governing, these 500,000 are huge resources, we must make full use of them, scholars, craftsmen, farmers and herdsmen, etc., to build schools, organize armies, build cities, take soil and burn bricks, build houses, this is a very cumbersome, very huge affairs, but to start implementing it immediately, first of all, we must do two things, recruit officials from among the scholars, and secondly, recruit soldiers, these two things are the top priority, and we must not delay for a moment. Starting today, Pan Changshi and Cao Beijia, you are responsible for these two things, and I need manpower to be transferred from the army, Liang Wu! ”

"Humble duty!" Liang Wu stood up and said.

"Recruitment is more professional, you are responsible for assisting Pan Changshi in recruitment!"

"Obey the order!"

Guo Song clapped his palms, "The discussion is over, everyone goes to do things, if there is anything to find me alone!" ”

Everyone got up and went out, and Cao Wannian stepped forward and said with a smile: "I have something to find the envoy." ”

Cao Wannian has been promoted to Hexi Jiedu Mansion, Zhangye County Order should be taken over by Jiuquan County Commander Yu Xude, Don't Driver was originally engaged in the history of assassination, which is equivalent to the position of assistant mayor, Hexi Jiedu Mansion's other driver, in fact, is in charge of government affairs.

"Let's talk as we go!"

When Cao Wannian was a member of Guo Song's staff in Fengzhou, he was responsible for the resettlement of locust victims, and he was very experienced in the resettlement of refugees and knew Guo Song's requirements.

Therefore, after he established the refugee camp, the most important thing he did was to build hundreds of latrines, use a large number of quicklime for disinfection, and build a medical camp, and the sick people were sent to the medical camp for resettlement, which played a decisive role in facilitating the people and preventing the epidemic of epidemics.

Cao Wannian said: "Is there any requirement for recruiting readers, and whether there is a need for an exam, this need to make Jun clear first." ”

Guo Song thought for a while and said, "What about your opinions?" ”

"Meng Xuezheng proposed to write the Analects silently, and at the same time to take the school calligraphy examination, being able to dictate the Analects is the foundation, and the calligraphy is selected as officials, and those who are slightly inferior can be called into the school to prepare for the opening of the school."

"How many students are among the refugees, have you counted them?"

"Preliminary statistics are about between 1,000 and 1,500 people, many of whom originally had a superior family background, but as soon as the Tubo people came, they had nothing, and they had no power to tie up their families, and their lives were very difficult."

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "I am not running a charity house, scholars can use it, but it must be matched with virtue, you just need to understand what I mean." ”

"Humble duty understands! In addition, he also wanted to know how the envoy thought about the establishment of a new county. ”

Guo Song smiled, "Is it too early to consider building a new county?" ”

"That's not what the envoy said back then, early planning, early preparation, early construction, this is what the envoy said back then, and he didn't dare to forget it."

Guo Song nodded, "Fengzhou and Hexi are not the same, but it is good to prepare early, there is enough manpower, and when everyone returns to Longyou, there will be no one to be found, I suggest to build a new city by the Zhangye River, no more than 100 miles away from Zhangye, the circumference of the city wall is about 30 miles, can garrison defense, in fact, it is built with reference to Guzang County, but the village should be accelerated, it should be built in batches, and people will be moved away in batches, do you understand what I mean?" ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Guo Song explained a few more words, and asked Cao Wannian to be busy, and when he saw that it was still early, he returned to the barracks.

During this time, he has been very concerned about the progress of Yang Jun's firearms development, Yang Jun's understanding of gunpowder is very high, and he has successfully made a fuse, although it is still a little short of his own requirements, but at least it can be used.

Guo Song entered the camp and went directly to the firearms test camp in the southeast corner, where a 30-acre test site was set up, with several large tents, and 30 Guo Song's personal soldiers led by Yang Jun were responsible for the development and testing of firearms here.

There is also a pottery workshop in the city, where several ceramic craftsmen fire ceramics according to Yang Jun's requirements.

In the big tent, Yang Jun was leading a few soldiers to add medicine to a porcelain jar, and when he saw it, he quickly got up and saluted.

Guo Song smiled: "The porcelain jar has been made? ”

The tightness of the porcelain jar is a big problem, which seriously affects the effect of the explosion, Guo Song drew a sketch of the thread mouth before setting off for Dadou Tugu, I don't know if it was burned.

"Qiqi envoy, it was burned out a few days ago, but we found that the porcelain jar was too small, so we re-burned a big one."

Guo Song saw that the porcelain jar on the table was quite large, he carried it, weighing at least forty catties, and more importantly, the wall of the bottle was very thick, full of half an inch, such a porcelain jar would not be broken if it fell high in the soil, and ordinary stones could not be broken, and it must be smashed with a hammer. ”

He looked at the lid again, the lid was very small, there were three circles of screw mouths on it, which could be screwed together with the screw mouth on the bottle body, and there was a small hole in the middle, which should be the opening for inserting the fuse.

"Have you tried it?"

"The small bottle has been tested, and it has gone very well, but the power is still not good, and today I tried a big jar."

As he spoke, the gunpowder had been filled in place, Yang Jun squeaked and tightened the cap, and said with a smile: "The craftsman said that this threaded mouth is a good thing, and it can be used in many places." ”

"Don't talk this nonsense, give me a test."

Yang Jun hurriedly agreed, and several personal soldiers carried out the large porcelain jar weighing dozens of catties and placed it in a very sturdy wooden house.

"Wait!"

Guo Song stepped forward and asked, "How to control the explosion time?" ”

"According to the burning time of the arquebus, we put a section of the arquebus in the bottle, if the soldiers defend the city, the arquebus can be thrown down the city when it burns to the mouth of the bottle, and then the time of the three drums explodes, almost exactly when the bottle hits the ground, of course, it is not very accurate, we have to experiment, there is no other way for this thing, it is to keep experimenting, improve again and again."

A soldier lit the arquebus with a fire breaker, turned and ran, ran dozens of steps, jumped into the pit and covered his ears, and everyone around covered his ears, and for a moment, 'Boom! There was a loud bang, and the small wooden house was blown to pieces, and the fragments flew high, and the farthest log flew thirty paces away.

The soldiers cheered, hugged and jumped and jumped, and Yang Jun was also very excited: "We have blown up this wooden house more than a dozen times, but it has not been damaged, and this time it finally succeeded." ”

Guo Song was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "How much can be made in ten days?" ”

"The key is to burn porcelain, which can probably make more than 100 of them."

Guo Song nodded, "Hurry up, I plan to use it to guard Liangzhou!" ”

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Early the next morning, the Hexi Army began to recruit soldiers outside the refugee camp, and the conditions for recruitment were very generous, three times a month to pay the army, if there was a battle, the army would be doubled, and if the recruitment was selected, three sheep or a cow would be rewarded at one time, and the condition was that the soldiers were under the age of 35 and over 17 years old, and those who had served in the army were excellent.

Yesterday afternoon, the Tang Army had widely publicized the situation in the refugee camp, and for a time there were many recruits, and long queues formed at the five recruitment points.

The recruitment conditions of the Hexi Army are still relatively high, first, the height is not less than 5 feet 7 inches, that is, not less than 1.75 meters, followed by weightlifting, you must lift 100 catties of stones to lock over your head at one time, and then you have physical strength, carrying 30 catties of heavy objects to run 30 miles within the specified time.

These conditions seem to be relatively high, but in fact, if you have been a soldier, these conditions are not high, and you have to carry armor, spears, bows and arrows, war knives, dry food, water bottles, blankets and other items weighing forty or fifty pounds to run dozens of miles before you can rest.

Guo Song also watched the grand occasion of recruiting soldiers at the scene, which was like a festival, attracting tens of thousands of people to join in the fun, and hundreds of people stood on both sides to cheer for the runners.

The process is not cumbersome, young men first report their homes for registration, place of origin, name, age, whether they have been in the army before, and measure their height after the registration is completed.

The second step is to stand in front of the height column and measure, generally speaking, it is more than five feet seven, if there are special elderly people who are less than five feet seven, you can also sign up, then you need to go to another table to register.

The third step of the process is to lift the stone lock, this is a hard condition, a tall and strong young man shouted, easily lifted the hundred-pound stone lock over his head, preliminarily qualified, he got a number plate, and then quickly put on a pair of leather armor, a pair of bows and arrows, carrying a spear, almost thirty pounds, he seemed to be not heavy enough, picked up a knife, and ran to the north with long legs.

Fifteen miles ahead, someone would register his number plate, and then turn around and run back, and the time was half an hour, that is, he had to run back in an hour.

"This young man is kind of funny!"

Guo Song smiled at his own soldiers: "Others want to take a little less, but he doesn't have enough, let's see what his name is?" ”

The soldiers went to inquire, and came back after a while and said: "I have heard, this person's name is Wang Wuning, a native of Tianshui, and he was a soldier of the Lintao Army of Longyou." ”

Guo Song smiled dumbly, "Was he captured by us?" ”

"It should be."

After looking at it for a while, Guo Song urged the horse to go to the official camp.