Chapter 394: Human Engineering

Han Qi left quietly, but the movement was still not small, what should be known, everything should be known, after all, as a privy deputy envoy, he needs to have a certain amount of attaché and protection, and of course, there are also materials taken from Weizhou.

The auction must continue, in order to ensure its normal operation, and in particular, it is necessary to ensure the successful receipt of funds, which is the most critical place.

Although, under normal circumstances, no one would be so bold as to dare to touch Han Qi's funds, but what if it is not ordinary?

The momentum of this auction conference is very large, so many chambers of commerce have arrived, it is difficult to ensure that no one is not tempted, especially Ye Qingchen, if the third division comes to cut off Hu, what will he do?

In fact, the three divisions already knew about this matter, but they were not so detailed, knowing that the momentum of this auction conference was very large, but how much transaction volume there was, then I don't know, the most important thing is that Zhao Xin's entry into Beijing disrupted a lot of deployment, and all the eyes on the capital side were cast on the other end.

Han Qi left a part of his subordinates, and almost 2 battalions of the forbidden army, Weizhou side, located in the entire northwest inland, and the border, at least 600 miles away, it can be said that it is the hinterland of the hinterland, 2 battalions of the forbidden army, 1000 people, enough to ensure safety.

It has been almost a month since Han Qi arrived in Weizhou, because of the security deposit, they can purchase some of the materials in Weizhou locally, as well as in the places around the northwest, those materials have arrived for more than 20 days, and these materials collected from Jingzhao Mansion, which have been sent to Lingzhou more than 10 days ago.

Whether the Lingzhou side will successfully use these materials according to the previous predetermined plan is a key.

Lingzhou is a blank piece of paper, although it is said that in order to resist the Northern Song Dynasty, the Western Xia built some military buildings, but overall, it is still a blank piece of paper, if you want to develop, it is free to paint and calligraphy.

The better Lingzhou will develop in the future, for Han Qi, it will be a huge credit that can be mentioned constantly in the next ten or twenty years, and all the funds for the development of Lingzhou have been raised, this step is very crucial.

Han Qi's departure did not cause an incident, the Weizhou Conference was already very stable and normal, they didn't have to worry about it, and even in a sense, the Weizhou Conference had formed a system of its own.

Auction is a very new thing, a system that has never appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, but as long as 10 days, continuous trial and contact, Weizhou has been very familiar with this kind of process, things have been divided into different numbers, and then according to different rules, call the number.

In the cattle business, after 10 days, it gradually decreased, becoming a few thousand a day, less than 10,000 figures, and on the twelfth day, the horses also appeared to be unsold, for the first time, 500 of the 8,000 horses were not sold.

This is a normal occurrence, a large number of chamber members, after buying enough horses, the craze begins to slowly decrease, and in the end, this number of transactions, may not be as they expected, all of them will be sold.

However, this is just one day, the next day's share is all completed, and then, sometimes it will appear, sometimes it will not appear, in short, the sales of horses will change between 7000 and 8000, however, it is certain that even if the horse is not sold, it can be sold most of it, according to the current average price of about 110 guan, 9 percent is close to 20 million, plus the volume of cattle and sheep, the minimum volume will reach 20 million.

Such a huge amount of money is a very good thing for the development of Lingzhou, and it is unceremonious to say that when such a huge amount of funds are injected into the development of Lingzhou, Lingzhou can achieve leapfrog development.

Money can't solve all problems, but it can solve most of them, especially for this barren northwest, and sometimes, a certain amount of money can be invested to produce much higher results than in the mature central region.

The appearance of a large number of animals is a good foundation in itself, and these animals are better than manpower, which can bring higher efficiency.

The population looted from Lingzhou, Han Qi didn't pay attention to this before, but after several conversations with Zhao Xin, he understood the important role of people for productivity and a project.

He won't understand what the terrible production efficiency produced by the Daimyo's Mansion is going on, and he doesn't have the luxury of expecting that such an efficiency can be achieved in Lingzhou, but one thing is certain, any project, someone must exist.

As a relatively wealthy state in Western Xia, Lingzhou has natural superior conditions, not only has a large number of pastures and livestock, but also has a very large population.

There are almost more than 300,000 people, and among these people, except for a few young or very old, there are many young laborers left, and these people are named slaves, and there are almost 150,000 young and strong people, and they can all work hard.

As long as there is food and funds, the construction of Lingzhou can be started.

When Han Qi was thinking about what Lingzhou was going to become, in Lingzhou, hundreds of miles away, a general battle on the plain had already begun to kick off.

When Han Qi left Lingzhou, he made full preparations, and he had already arranged a series of plans, which was a large-scale project with a total investment of more than 1.5 million yuan, spread across Lingzhou and several roads around, involving a huge number of personnel.

But now, this time the auction has obtained far more than imagined, and even in the early stage, it has exceeded 1.5 million, so Han Qi has to leave, and he has to make changes on the basis of the original.

About 15 days after Han Qi arrived in Weizhou, the migration began at the Weizhou Cattle and Horse Conference, and the first batch of purchased materials arrived.

The barren northwest has produced fewer things, but it is concentrated in Lingzhou, which still plays a little role, mainly because of some production tools, some tools, or modified on the basis of weapons.

The northwest cannot be said to be without war, but at present, between the Liao and Song dynasties, it is in a relatively intimate process, and part of the transaction of the Lingzhou peace agreement has not been completely completed, and Han Qi has withheld the best silks, and it will not be delivered until the Hebei livestock arrives.

The relationship between countries is just a foundation, the most important thing is actually those fortresses, after the fortresses in Lingzhou showed their effect, Han Qi used the remaining funds to build a number of fortresses when he was in Lingzhou and the peace talks, so to speak, the entire Lingzhou is guarded by water, there is Lingzhou in front, even if it is the previous Western Xia, the country to attack, not afraid, let alone the current Liao State.

It cannot be said that the Liao State is not stronger than the Western Xia, even if the Liao State made a lot of mistakes in this summer expedition, and suffered a lot of losses, but the strength of the Liao State is still above the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia.

However, when the Liao State controlled the Western Xia, the pressure on the northwest decreased, and the reason was the foundation.

That's right, the foundation of the Liao State lies in the Sijing, and the core area controlled by the land of the Four Capitals is the source of the power of the Liao State.

The Liao State brought hundreds of thousands, but Zhengxia only used 100,000, not that he didn't want to bring so much, but it was difficult to bring so much.

If the Liao State wants to attack the Northern Song Dynasty, it may make a partial division on the Western Xia side and concentrate all the men and horses to attack, which is impossible.

This is different from Western Xia, even if the strength of Western Xia is low, there are three or four hundred thousand troops, and it is in the northwest, and it can take out all its strength without scruples, which is a big trouble.

With a strong defense, the relationship between different countries, and the Lingzhou agreement, the pressure on the northwest is greatly reduced, so there is enough strength to invest in the development of Lingzhou.

The military, except for the front-line troops on the border, the rest of the troops will all be invested in this development, and all the craftsmen belonging to the military will serve this development.

Because of the war in the northwest, when Han Qi arrived in the northwest, he carried a large amount of iron materials, and later, the Daimyo Mansion also sent a lot of them, which were originally intended to be made into various battle array weapons, but unfortunately, the Western Xia was defeated too quickly, and the Liao State directly besieged the Western Xia in Xingqing Mansion, and then then, the explosives came up, and there was no war or anything.

Now, there is a large surplus of this iron, which is just used to make various tools.

The iron materials of the Daimyo's Mansion are of good quality, and the tools used to make the castle are also strong and durable, and for the huge 4-way craftsmen, thousands can be made in a day.

It had been preparing long before Han Qi set off, and now, when the first batch of supplies arrived, the siege had actually begun.

When there is no motivation and no modern digging tools, manpower has become the simplest tool.

As early as the Qin Shi Huang period, in order to build the Lishan Mausoleum, 720,000 people were mobilized, the highest reached 800,000 people, and nearly one million people were spent to build the Great Wall.

When technology was not developed, large-scale projects could only be started with huge manpower.

Of course, Lingzhou does not have the mobilization capacity of the previous projects, but the Lingzhou project will not be so big, and enough personnel have been mobilized as much as possible.

In the entire Lingzhou, there are as many as 250,000 people involved in this construction, of which 150,000 are prisoners from Western Xia, they are all driven out and work, and the remaining 100,000, more than 60,000 are forbidden troops and box troops, they are mainly supervisors, and the rest are staff transferred from the northwest, these people are the main force.

Slaves and soldiers, they have no professional skills, they can only do the most basic, hard work, what really determines the technical content of the project, it is these middle-aged laborers and skilled workers recruited from all over the country, especially some masons, they are the key to determine the final results of the project.