After picking up Du Zhongxiao and returning to the back office, Han Yueniang let out a sigh of relief: "Thank God, Da Lang is back safely!" That Chang Wei is an old slave in the Zhizhou Prime Minister's Mansion, and you escorted him to the state city, I really sweated for you, for fear of being embarrassed by the Zhizhou Prime Minister. It's good to be back! ”

Xiao Qing said with red eyes on the side: "It's not." At the beginning, I didn't know that the prime minister took people away, and I heard people talk about it, and I realized what kind of risk the officials had. It's all because I'm ignorant and forced Chang Wei to be in a hurry, and I got into this situation. ”

Du Zhongxiao smiled: "What are you wrong? That Chang Wei Hu came to his own death, who can save him! When he arrived in the state city, the prime minister heard what had happened, so he ordered him to be killed with a rod in front of the steps. It can be seen that in the prime minister's house, slaves are not allowed to act so recklessly. ”

Everyone said that it was lucky, and Han Yueniang hurriedly ordered the wine to be placed to catch the wind for Du Zhongxiao.

Seeing everyone busy, only Du Zhongxiao knew in his heart that everyone, including himself, had underestimated Xia Zhu before. The Northwest was defeated, and the officials and people of the world looked down on Xia Zhu, and there were many people who attacked Xia Zhu from all sides. And judging from Chang Wei's incident this time, Xia Zhu is by no means the kind of person who is in a high position and is ignorant. Even today, he is still sober-minded, and his administration is at least clear-sighted.

Xia Zhu is in the northwest, first, he has no intention of doing things, he wants to enter the Chinese book, and he is not active in doing things. Limited by another condition, he has no ability to bring the dead back to life, so how can he turn the tide. But if it doesn't work in the northwest, it doesn't mean that Xia Zhu can't do it in the mainland. At least in this era, Xia Zhu is an excellent official, and he has the heart to make a career.

A wine feast was prepared at home to catch the wind for Du Zhongxiao, and the turmoil subsided in this way.

On the second day, Du Zhongxiao called Qiao Baoping, the Confucian official of the camp and field affairs, and said to him: "The autumn harvest has passed, and now the camp has enough money and food, and it is no longer the embarrassing appearance of being overstretched a few days ago. This time I went to the state city, and the governor of the state instructed that the law of protecting the army should be promoted in the camp field, not only to let each family protect each other as before, but also to organize the township soldiers. If there are village soldiers, we must have armaments, and we can lend us some of the armor in the cane state, but most of them still have to be figured out by ourselves. In the county, most of the iron is used to make agricultural tools, and now to make weapons, it is necessary to buy more iron. ”

Qiao Baoping was a little embarrassed: "Officials, blacksmiths who run fields, and the farm tools they make are sold very well, and many businessmen from other states come to us to buy farm tools. I want to take advantage of the winter farming slack to make more farm tools to make money, if it is to make weapons, I am afraid-"

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's okay, now that you have money and food, just recruit more people." Yongcheng is located on the bank of the Bianhe River, you can ask the merchants to take the message out, and all the blacksmiths can come to us and give us more money and food. Also, choose some skillful people in the nearby countryside and apprentice them as blacksmiths, so that you can work for a few days. Many of the work done by blacksmiths does not require skilled craftsmen. ”

Qiao Baoping thought for a while and nodded. The craftsmen of this era were still apprentices, and they began to do handymen, but they could not learn any crafts, and they began to teach skills only when they were satisfied with their masters. It is too slow to cultivate talents in this way, and the field affairs built by Du Zhongxiao are because they are officially paid money and food, and there is a reward mechanism for the master to train apprentices. It is precisely because of this that apprentices can be used in the field service.

After discussing the staff and armor, Qiao Baoping said: "Officials, if you recruit village soldiers, you must teach them." Whether it is read every ten days or half a month, it will delay the agricultural time. As a result of the organization of village soldiers, many villages have been delayed this year in clearing wasteland, cultivating fields, repairing canals, and paving roads. ”

This is exactly where Xia Zhu's request to organize the township soldiers made Du Zhongxiao upset, the manpower of the camp and field work was limited, and the township soldiers were trained for several months, so they delayed the winter project. The camp is more attractive than the ordinary villages around it, in part because of the well-organized staff and better infrastructure. Everyone has gone to dance horses and get guns, who will do all kinds of projects?

After thinking about it again and again, Du Zhongxiao said: "It's better to do this, build bridges and pave roads, and combine them with the township soldiers." After the teaching and reading, the villagers were directly dragged to repair the bridge and pave the road. Anyway, their money and food are all distributed in the camp and fields, and there will be no confusion. ”

Qiao Baoping said yes. This is the advantage of the camp and field affairs, and the villages under the rule are a whole, and the relationship is much simpler.

After talking about the organization of the township soldiers, Qiao Baoping sighed: "I just harvested the autumn grain, and with the harvest, the camp and field affairs have finally eased up, and they are no longer as overstretched as before, and Zhizhou will run township soldiers." Now there are no thieves around, and it would be nice if it dragged on for a few more years. Repair more big ditches, tidy up the surrounding land, recruit more people, and the money and grain for field work should be several times that of Yongcheng County. ”

Du Zhongxiao sighed and did not speak. It is okay to remediate the land, but it is not easy to recruit people for the field work, and most of the floating population around has been absorbed, and then recruit people, it may be from other states and counties. Households are the achievements of officials, and which official is willing to let a large number of the people under his rule come to the camp to do farm work, not to mention that with the development of camp field work, the surrounding landlords have improved the treatment of hired farmers, and it is difficult to recruit people.

Counting the income of Yingtianwu this year and chatting about the affairs of Yingtianwu, Du Zhongxiao had a feeling that Yingtian in Yongcheng had encountered a bottleneck, and it was difficult to develop as quickly as before. Manpower is limited after all, and now is not the era of few people and too many people.

After talking about the affairs of the camp and field affairs, Qiao Baoping suddenly said: "Official, what kind of steam engine has Tao Qiqi been tinkering with, recently said that it is finally easy to use. He asked me to tell the officials that if I had some time, I would go and have a look. ”

"Oh-" Hearing this, Du Zhongxiao was taken aback. It has been several years since he put forward the idea of the steam engine, and with his own guidance, Tao Seventeen has been working hard, and with the assistance of Han Jiang and Su Song, it is time for some results. It doesn't need to be advanced, as long as it can be loaded onto a ship and can be transported on the Bianhe River, it is a success.

Unlike the historical Britain, the Great Song did not have a large number of colonies, but it had a large domestic market. The most important thing now is not the development of light industry, but the integration of heavy industry with the military. A gunpowder, a steam engine, is the core. If a coal-steel consortium is formed from this, the road to the industrial revolution can be initially started.

The textile industry in the Great Song Dynasty was not a good introduction to the industrial revolution, and transportation was more suitable. There was official power, and if the steam engine entered the practical stage, it was possible to build railways and ships on a large scale. Once the transportation problem is solved, the developed economy of the interior can be transformed into military strength in the border areas. With a steady stream of materials from the interior transported to the frontier, it is possible to change the contrast of strength with the party and the Khitan.

Xia Zhu was bent on enforcing the law of protecting the army, bringing soldiers to the people, and reducing military expenditures. In fact, once the transportation problem is solved, the army in the northwest can be increased several times, and the number of people can be piled to death.

Thinking of this, Du Zhongxiao couldn't sit still anymore, stood up, and paced back and forth. Imagine that if there is a railway to the northwest, there will be enough money and food to support several hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the party in several ways. How many people are there in the party? There are 600,000 troops, 300,000 all the way, pushing hard, Yuan Hao can't resist even if he has great ability.

What kind of protection law, what Du Zhongxiao implemented in the camp field is not Baojia, in fact, it is just a collectivized village. In fact, Baojia's idea of restricting the peasants to the land is completely contrary to the policy implemented by Du Zhongxiao, and it is not all the way. What Du Zhongxiao wants to do is to develop the economy in the hinterland, and then make use of the transportation network to transform economic strength into military power against the border areas to the greatest extent.

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