In early autumn, Gao Yue has stood on the hill on the west side of Funing Village, under his feet, the surrounding of the walled city is crisscrossed by earthen canals introduced from the Wuding River, cutting out a large area of fertile fields, the rice is not completely neat, they are clustered into clusters, the direction is different, staggered, from a distance it looks like golden fireworks, and the blue sky, and the white clouds form a strong contrast, making people's eyes warm and comfortable.

The whole weather was windless, and a large number of generals and Qiang households were bending over, holding large and small sickles, carrying wheat cages, and harvesting rice into the warehouse.

This group of Funing Zhai surrendered to the six government party items is also rare, actually very quickly under the guidance of the generals of Dingwu and Yining Army, learned rice farming, and did a decent job, if there are a few more rounds of farming, it is estimated that they will be completely adapted to this kind of agricultural life.

Not only Funing, under the auspices of Gao Yue, by the deputy envoy of Yingtian Wang Shao personally operated, the entire Baiyu Shannan and the east side, from the Baibao River in Gyeongju, to Funing by the Yellow River, the Baima River, Tuyan River, Dali River, Xiaoli River, Wuding River basins, all use Qiangtun to camp fields, grazing, and the results are remarkable.

This area was originally the agricultural and pastoral elite of the entire Baiyu Mountain, but now that it has fallen into the hands of Gao Yue, how can it not be used to its role? As Gao Yue said to the emperor: "Bai Yu Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, and it is easy to graze crops in the south of the mountain and Shandong, and the Qiang people in the mountain boundary here are strong and dare to fight, and they can be collected as the righteous servants of the city, awarded bows and arrows, good horses, and trained as a familiar Qiang army. ”

Now Wang Shao has organized more than 20 Qiangtun in Gyeongju, Yanzhou, Suizhou, and Yinzhou, and collected 130,000 party men and women from Liufu, Lishi surrendered, and attached to them (including 20,000 of the soldiers of the Shubo army) were given fields, cattle, and farm tools and seeds, and rice and wheat were harvested, and forty percent of the income was returned to the public and sixty percent to himself, but in fact, he had become a "farmer slave" of the Tang family - Gao Yue secretly allowed the fine seal to build a number of "Emperor Heavenly Shrines" in the local area, attracting the familiar Qiang to worship in faith, and the rats were very grateful and promised to Gao Yue, " Ji Gong protected us with a sword, and we repaid Ji Gong with prayers. ”

Of course, spiritual conquest alone is not enough, Gao Yue has other operations to convince people's hearts, he sent all the leaders and children of Qiangtun to Gyeongju School Palace to learn Confucianism, which formed an interesting phenomenon: the top level in Qiangtun received a Sinicized education, and the bottom began to believe in the Emperor Heavenly Sect - Gao Yue thought that by doing so, it would be difficult for the top and bottom to get together because of differences.

Then Gao Yue also taught the party to make wine with Qiang, and for a time this group of Qiang people drank wine, and the sixty percent of the harvest left behind was surplus, all of which were used to make wine, so that they still had to rely on the Tang people to import cotton cloth, salt and other daily necessities, "The party in Qiangtun only needs to do four things, farming, animal husbandry, winemaking, and working for my Tang to fight." This is Gao Yue's goal.

At this time, a group of party men and women knelt in front of Gao Yue, holding the harvested ears of rice and offering them to Jihou.

Gao Yue pulled out the fullest and most abundant of it, broke the chaff with force, and then saw that the grain inside was snow-white, and when he put it in his mouth, a refreshing slight sweetness suddenly appeared.

"Funing's rice raisers, it's really as sweet and delicious as meat fat, in my opinion, this place has been renamed since then, and it's called rice fat." In this regard, Funing changed to "rice fat" in Gao Yue's mouth.

It is not enough to plant rice and wheat and graze horses, from the rice fat to the northeast, about 150 miles, Bai Yu Shandong side of the remaining veins straight into the Yellow River, and the east of the river across the river Fu Valley, across a Jialu Valley, this place produces good iron, Gao Yue in the previous to build it as an iron official, at the same time the Gyeongju artillery bureau and the gun bureau moved here, so that the forging of artillery guns, arrows, armor, projectiles and other weapons, there is no need to transport raw materials from Xingyuan, Xingqin Prefecture long distance.

At this time, Gao Yue simply invited Xiao Yi and Zixingyuan Mansion to come, and told him that the iron official of Jialu, as well as the artillery bureau and arrow furnace of Mizhi, would be outsourced to the merchants in Hedong.

Xiao Yi immediately received it, the merchant was very efficient, and soon Huo Liang, a big household in Hedong, was selected, Gao Yue promised him, the cost of the smelting furnace, shed, road, and post station of the reed and rice fat will belong to you, and the needs of the military weapons after the construction also depend on you, no need to pay taxes, the army directly uses the money of the branch division to pay, in addition, he also gives you 1,500 Qiang households who specialize in forging, you can raise them according to the prescribed salary qualifications, and they will do a good job for you, and the continuous manufacture of weapons is enough for you to make money, "As soon as the cannon sounds, the gold is ten thousand taels." "It's not false, the term of the contract is ten years, and after ten years, the government may take back the smelting business of this reed for self-operation, of course, you or other big businessmen can continue to operate, but after that, you need to pay taxes.

Huo Liang was unequivocal after handling it, and immediately hired people, and drove the Qiang households sent by Gao Yue to repair the smelting furnace, cannon platform, cart, mold, lifting weight and other facilities, and it didn't take long for the entire Jialu Valley to be a scene of red light and smoke billowing - the base of the military weapons was closer to Gao Yue's camp and more convenient!

Gao Yue is very proud of this, the historical plane of the later Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo also in the rice fat, Jialu business to build a village, but Jialu village has just been built for a year, garrison 2,000 soldiers, there is a small sailor 100 people, the financial support of the Hedong Transit Division can not support, the reason is that the Song Dynasty in order to protect the Jialu village built successfully, sent Hedong, Yanyan two heavy troops to protect, has spent a lot of money; Then he had to transport food and military pay for a long distance to supply, and the generals stationed heavy troops everywhere to take the opportunity to embezzle, so that Song Shenzong had to consider dismantling the other surrounding forts and only keeping one Jialu Village.

In the face of the dilemma, at that time, Yin Lu Huiqing of Taiyuan Mansion said that he wanted to open the source, so he said that Mizhi went to Fugu, and there were 10,000 or 20,000 hectares of fertile land, which was called "Xitou Cang" in Western Xia, and we could recruit the people of Hedong and Yanyan to farm, and then harvest grain to support military supplies. As a result, where is the simplicity of things? It costs money to recruit people to camp the fields, and when farming, in order to prevent the Western Xia from plundering and harassing, they have to send troops to protect the farming, and they are busy for a long time.

And Gao Yue crossed the river by touching the stones of his descendants, first of all, he did not need to build a city in Mizhi and Jialu, the former party had already helped him build it, and the latter had no military significance, and the transportation was unfavorable, since there was no need to build a city, there was no need to send troops to station, and there was no burden; secondly, he directly used the surrendered party items to camp in the rice fat camp, charged forty percent, and had no other expenses except for the initial investment; Moreover, he directly contracted the official metallurgical affairs of Jialu Iron to the merchants, and did not need any investment.

"Yi Song, your model of Jialu Metallurgy can be said to be the first to open up the world!" Xiao Yi was amazed by this.

"Brother Jing's praise, Jialu has good iron, and it is close to the water source, so it is natural to let the businessman to undertake it, the so-called 'poor girls are difficult to marry, and beautiful women marry first', what innovation do I have?" Gao Yue replied.

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