Chapter 12 Talents are Rare

Xu Erniang slowly put the food box on the desk, opened the food box, and took out the dishes inside. The damp wooden house had just been baked over charcoal, and it was steaming hot. Chen Ying subconsciously rolled up his sleeves, and Xu Erniang inadvertently spilled the soup in the dish on the thin fluff on Chen Ying's arm.

Seeing the soup dripping on Chen Ying's arm, Xu Erniang was taken aback, and hurriedly wiped Chen Ying with her sleeve. Suddenly, Xu Erniang found that Xu Jingzong was looking at him in a daze, and finally the woman's shyness prevailed, Xu Erniang was embarrassed to give way to the outside, and saw that Chen Ying didn't seem to feel anything, and her heart gradually calmed down.

Chen Ying didn't know these careful thoughts in Xu Erniang's heart, but he knew it. In the ninth year of Wude, there will be bloody killings between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's brothers. After a dragon and tiger fight, Li Shimin finally became the king, Li Jiancheng was defeated, and Datang created an unprecedented good situation in the hands of Li Shimin.

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin commanded Li Jing, Su Dingfang, Cheng Zhijie, Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong, Xu Shiji and others to destroy the Eastern Turks, and then successively destroyed the Western Turks and Gaochang and reoccupied the Western Regions. The Tang Dynasty will become stronger and stronger, and it will become the territory of the Tang Dynasty as far north as Lake Belga, as far south as Lingnan, and as far west as the Caspian Sea.

In this case, Chen Ying naturally does not have the nominal nominal high of "hiding in case of chaos" and "the turbidity of the waves can wet my feet", and he wants these witnesses of the great era through the ages, rather than being an obscure bystander.

In the case that Li Yuan obviously did not have Li Shimin's generosity, Chen Ying felt that he had to take advantage of this excellent opportunity to become a pivotal person in the Tang Dynasty no matter what.

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "No farming, no stability, no work, no wealth, no business, no life." In fact, it doesn't matter what you do, the key is to live a meaningful life. ”

Xu Jingzong became more and more unable to understand Chen Ying, but he knew that everyone had their own secrets. Even when he faced Yu Wenhua, the enemy who killed his father, he knelt in front of Yu Wenhua, dancing naked, ordinary people thought that Xu Jingzong was humbling and begging, but no one ever knew that Xu Jingzong was just paralyzing Yu Wenhua at that time, he thought that as long as Yu Wenhua was within five steps of him, Xu Jingzong would also let Yu Wenhua and compensate for the wrath of the puppet.

It's just a pity that Yu Wenhua didn't believe Xu Jingzong at all, which made Xu Jingzong bear such a notoriety. In Xu Jingzong's opinion, perhaps Chen Ying used the joy of the countryside to dispel Li Yuan's suspicion of him, no matter what, this is a good start. Once the emperor discourages Chen Ying, Chen Ying's future is unlimited.

Xu Erniang suddenly remembered something and said, "Lang Jun, is this still called Qinglinli?" ”

At this moment, the sound of dogs suddenly came from outside the wooden house.

Chen Ying was secretly surprised that he didn't have a dog, and no one brought a dog to Qinglin. Chen Yingzheng wanted to get up, but heard Lan'er's crying voice say, "Don't kill it, you can't eat it......"

Chen Ying and Xu Jingzong walked out of the wooden house and found that more than a dozen figures in the distance had fallen heavily, and several people used their nets to buckle an earthy yellow wild dog, which did not look big, at most three or five months.

Seeing Chen Ying appear, Lan'er seemed to see a savior, and hurriedly shouted: "Lang Jun help, Lang Jun help ...... life"

Chen Ying was quite speechless, waving his hand and everyone dispersed, the earthy yellow wild dog was quite human, watching Chen Ying wave away from everyone, but leaning against Chen Ying, barking at the dozen people who had just caught it.

Provoked Lan'er to burst into tears and laugh.

The puppy followed Lan'er back to the house, and Xu Erniang said again: "Lang Jun is still called Qinglinli here?" ”

Chen Ying hadn't answered yet, but Lan'er said: "How is this possible, this is Lang Jun's manor, it should be called Chenjiazhuang!" ”

"That's fine!" Chen Yingzheng wanted to nod.

Xu Jingzong suddenly said loudly: "Lang Jun is recruiting workers at this time, which is quite inappropriate!" ”

Chen Ying was surprised: "How is it inappropriate?" ”

Xu Jingzong said: "Ryazan selected homeless people on the official road in front of the Baqiao, saying that it was for Langjun to find a villager, but it was better to say that it was for Langjun to find a martial artist, and the stone lock of one hundred and ten catties was rested on the side ......of the road, and he walked one hundred and ten steps with one in both hands without panting, and he was sent a bucket of rice on the spot, and he was hired immediately."

When Chen Ying heard this, he was taken aback.

Since Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, he has received the full support of the Guanlong nobles and the Shandong aristocratic group, so he is very jealous of the gate lords and nobles, and the restrictions on hereditary princes and marquis are very strict.

Chang'an, in particular, is very strictly restricted, and the number of tenants owned by major families is shakudo and grange. Because the Tang Dynasty did not unify the world at this time, especially when Hedong was lost, this law was relaxed and abolished, and very few people no longer abide by their duties.

It is said that Chen Ying is trying to dispel Li Yuan's suspicion of him at this time, so he should not specifically select young and strong villagers, preferably a group of old and weak women and children. In particular, Ryazan's almost blatant method of recruiting soldiers fell in the eyes of those who had a heart, and for Chen Ying, it would definitely do more harm than good.

However, Chen Ying was going to build a workshop, but he had to be young and strong laborers, not old and weak women and children, how to solve this problem, another headache asked.

Chen Yingdao: "How to solve this matter? ”

Xu Jingzong said: "This is an unsolvable problem, there have been no natural disasters and no disasters recently, there are not many displaced people, but I am afraid that Lang Jun recruited not real displaced people, but spies from major families." ”

"This ......" Chen Ying thought about it, what Xu Jingzong said was not unreasonable. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Guanzhong area still had a large amount of fertile land to be cultivated, and the population of Guanzhong was not far from the population of the Han Dynasty.

However, Chen Ying wants to build an iron workshop, and there are too many core secrets involved in it, if the iron workshop on his side has just been built and the core secrets are leaked, then how can he make money? Making wedding dresses for others, Chen Ying is unwilling to do.

Chen Ying didn't think of a solution for a while, every big family has a shadow household, such a shadow household has been a slave for generations, and his loyalty is very high, but Chen Ying does not have this congenital advantage.

However, Chen Ying's brain thought about it. Suddenly I had an idea. He decided to make use of these "fake" homeless people with ill intentions, first enclose 3,000 acres of wasteland, clean up the weeds and trees in these 3,000 acres of wasteland, and build permanent houses for craftsmen to live in, and also use the water needed for life and steelmaking. In this way, the problem of manpower shortage is temporarily solved, and at the same time, secret leakage can be avoided.

Chen Yingdao: "For the time being, we will not recruit long-term workers, only temporary short-term workers. ”

Xu Jingzong thought about it for a while and understood Chen Ying's intentions: "Lang Jun is wise! ”

Outside the wooden house, hundreds of homeless young people who were recruited by Ryazan took the lead in working very hard, and after dinner, they began to use wooden hammers to clean the weeds in the open space outside the wooden house, and then mix lime with mud, spread them on the ground, and tamp them into a flat ground with wooden hammers.

In the middle of the night, a small courtyard made of rammed soil appeared in front of Chen Ying.

The servants and craftsmen who followed Chen Ying, plus the recruited homeless, were as small as 200 people. A small wooden house must not be able to accommodate so many people, the wooden house must be Chen Ying's, Chen Ying's sixteen armed servants plus Chen Jinyong, they all set up camp tents outside the cabin, guarding the cabin.

Even Xu Jingzong lived in a marching tent.

As for the craftsmen and the recruited helpers, they can only be wronged to lie on the ground around the campfire. Fortunately, this time is not a cold winter, the weather is slightly cool, and it is not unbearable.

At the time of the third watch, there was a sudden loud dog noise outside the wooden house.

Chen Ying walked into the small courtyard with a cloak, but found Chen Jinyong holding a bow in his right hand and three armor-piercing arrows in his left hand, standing in front of the wooden house and looking around.

Sixteen guards and servants also held weapons and divided them into three layers, inside and outside, to keep the cabin impenetrable. If it weren't for Ryazan's clumsy performance before, Chen Ying wouldn't be able to see the gap, but compared with Chen Jinyong, Ryazan was marginalized, but it was not a loss at all.