"Watch the traction!"

"Good! Watch out for the guide trough! ”

The director of the workshop, who was there with a tin horn and roaring, was busy supervising a newly built workshop, and like the Yongxing Coal Mine, the "Yongxing Elephant Machine" was used here for a relatively single purpose, just to squeeze the steel bars from the cone into smaller diameter steel bars......

The original method was more brutal, using gravitational potential energy, and the workshop was built directly at the foot of the mountain.

However, the small amount of steel bars produced in this way is one of the few products that can make Zhang De feel that he meets the standards in this era.

"Envoy, news is coming from Chang'an, and the signal from Dunhuang to the end has been built."

"Is the cost of the observatory coming out?"

"Out of Yangguan to Putao City, and at the end, a signal observation station will take two thousand times."

"Labor costs are also taken into account. People who can understand the letter number, put Luoyang, where can you not find an errand with a monthly income? It's enough to be an arithmetic gentleman for Hanmenzi. ”

Lao Zhang said this, and the people below replied: "The newly made Zhuangzi in the Western Regions can have a share, and the Chang'an shop also has dividends, and the most important thing is that there is a property in Luoyang South City, which is still worth it after all." ”

"Exchanging life for money, the truth that will remain unchanged through the ages."

After that, Zhang De said, "How many of them are willing to stand up in the 'Zhongyi Society'?" ”

"In addition to the Taiyuan gang, there are also Luoyang upstarts, all of whom are willing to apportion. After all, there are many important things on the Silk Road, and the sooner you know, the sooner you know, the sooner you will be convenient. ”

These signals on the Silk Road, if you want to say convenient, are absolutely convenient. The difficulty of maintaining it is also high, there are a total of nine signal "lights" for the signal, and the materials such as fuel and glass are absolutely expensive on the Silk Road, so that the horse bandits and sand thieves risk their lives to rob them, which is not a matter at all.

However, Zhang De has been preparing for so many years, starting from Jingluo plate rail, to breeding and training carrier pigeons, and he can afford the losses in the early stage.

All that is needed during this period is to use time to illustrate the problem.

In the experiment in Dunhuang the year before last, someone stole the signal lampshade of the China Resources and a large amount of lamp oil. Zhang De didn't talk nonsense, Hebei swordsmen went out, even if they hid in the hands of the eunuch leader of Dunhuang Palace, they cut off their heads overnight and hung them in the west of Dunhuang City.

Toys for cut-off dogs, all damn it.

With the signal, everything in the Western Regions has been shortened from three to eight days of message transmission to one day. Although the amount of information transmission is still insufficient, it is not much worse than MeSign in the post station system, and it is even more accurate.

Because the numbers don't lie.

At this time, the letter number, the main content of the code, is biased towards "military" and "commercial", the former is Zhang De's secret benefits to Cheng Chubi, Guo Xiaoke and others, the outside world does not know much, even if it is the "Zhongyi Society", only a few people know a rough idea.

Lao Zhang is also just in case, if Li Dong doesn't want to cultivate his own monkey version of the "Champion Hou" Cheng Chubi, then as soon as Luoyang's official document comes out of the provincial department, the news can be transmitted on the same day. How to deal with the envoys of the imperial court, that is half a month or even a month later.

In the past half a month, if Cheng Chubi can't arrange a good backhand, so many years of training in the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate will probably be grinded to the dog.

"That's right, Shiro." Lao Zhang lowered his head and flipped through the official document and shouted Zhang Zhen, "I heard that the newly recruited sailors in Jiangxia are all going to the South China Sea?" Li Jingren also helped matchmaking? ”

"The newly purchased manor in Jiaozhou has been settled, and half of those who died of dysentery have died, and there are many more people who are willing to go to the stone pond for thousands of miles to sell sandalwood. The most important thing is that there is a shortage of labor in Jiaozhou at present, I heard that Hangzhou will audit people, borrowed people to rob people, and now there is a shortage of money, ships, and people, and sailors are the most lacking, not to mention that it takes 12 years to build, that is, to build a big ship in 8 years, and there are not many good ones that can lower the sails. ”

Zhang Zhen said, and said, "Before the people of the Gundam country, the western frontier of the Persian country was gone, and there were countless slaves, and the ships in Lingnan wanted to make a detour to the country of Piao, and after the country of Gundam landed, they would go to redeem some white slaves and black slaves. Especially the black slaves, the hometown of the two Sha Wujing, there are few who have not been punished by the palace. ”

"Shaheen and Shahli's hometown? Himyar? ”

"It seems to be here, the news from the Western Regions last month, isn't it the envoy? The Turks are now about to invade the hinterland of Persia, and I have heard that they have fought with the tribes that have invaded the western frontier of Persia, and the battle is still undecided, but presumably sooner or later there will be news of it. ”

War brings turmoil, turmoil brings displacement, and displaced people who have lost the protection of their homes and countries become goods, placed on shelves, stuffed into the hold of ships, and sold far away.

In the past few years, after eight years of purchase, the merchant ships of the Gundam country were mainly built with metals such as gold, silver, copper, iron, etc., but in recent years, the main source of profits for the merchant ships of the Gundam country is the slave trade.

Zhang De knows this, but he does not express any opinion on it.

Jiaozhou lacks population, fangs are scattered in the mountains and mountains and difficult to catch, and most of the black and white slaves are castrated, and they don't have to worry about hormones flying wildly if they are strong, and they are simply the best quality slave labor for the owners of the manor and the mine owners.

The most important point is that the Persians were unable to suppress this huge number of slaves, but for Jiaozhou, 500 soldiers in one town were enough to suppress more than 30,000 slave laborers, and it was effortless.

The new-style manor economy replaced the old-style manor economy, and at the same time, because of the successful Quyuan plough popularized by Li Chengqian, the crown prince, and the improvement of the production level of animal husbandry, the small-scale peasant economy that could afford to use oxen and cultivate more acres of land developed simultaneously and at the same time.

The manor economy of the old era was marked by the destruction of the Boling Cui clan, and in the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, Lao Zhang, an engineering dog who crossed illegally, opened his eyes.

The reason why it is eye-opening is because the new manor economy, the most typical representative, is fucking Emperor Li......

The engineering dog had a personal need to drive labor into the towns, and Emperor Li also had a personal desire to drive the population into the city strongholds and reduce administrative costs.

In short, the direction is reversed, and the end point of the result is the same.

The egg hurts.

Lao Zhang's personal egg pain is fleeting, after all, all this is a floating cloud, there is no Xiaobawang learning machine, all this is spicy and disgraceless.

What is the difference between a society that doesn't even have an eight-digit machine and a clay tank for marinating salted fish?

A handsome and dashing Yushu big cousin, at this time, the mood is almost the same as that of a salted fish.

"The Turks have gone west?"

"Yes, there is a Khazarian who said so. They were to follow the Khazarian horse caravan and march west into Damascus. ”

Sula looked at his eldest cousin with a gentle expression, although he really wanted to go to the Tang Dynasty now, but it was obviously a bit difficult.

"Khazar? Khazarian Ministry? ”

One person suddenly said, "In this way, the Turks have occupied the area around Lei Zhuhai, but I don't know if the person who presided over this western expedition will be Ashina thin cloth." ”

"If it's a thin cloth, then the Turks have stabilized."

"Let's wait and see, anyway, our people are almost in Mulu."

Far away from social communication, the strange gang that was isolated from the outside was still wandering, Su Lie repeatedly figured out the map, and judged the location according to the astrology, but he still deviated some distance.

Because of this distance, Su Lie had to look back at the team, and his mood was extremely entangled.

You said that there were only a few people when I set out, how did it become more than 20,000 here?