If Wu Haogu's newly revealed ability in military science can be covered up a little, then the current prosperity of Jiehe Commercial Market has fully revealed his talent in management.

If it is said that Wu Haogu will not fight, people may still be able to believe it. If Wu Haogu wants to say that he can't operate, he is undoubtedly telling a huge joke.

Moreover, through the management of the river business market, Wu Haogu has also accumulated a group of talents who are good at management!

These are all talents who can do practical things, not the kind of talents who have a bunch of big truths and can only do without hard work.

Tong Guan, who knows Wu Haogu's abilities and the talents in his entrainment very well, naturally wants to use Wu Haogu's skills to manage Shuofang Road now.

The suppression of the local government by the Northern Song Dynasty was relatively severe, and it is said that "the money was also collected, the soldiers were also collected, and the punishment was also collected". However, there are still some special policies in the northwest region, and some rights have been appropriately delegated, so that the local government has a little room for operation. Therefore, Tong Guan also wants to work hard to run Shuofang Road.

To tell the truth, although Tong Guan is a traitor recognized by later generations, no one can deny that he is a very enterprising traitor, a model worker among traitors, and he is not busy for the Great Song Jiangshan Expedition to the West. As for the later failure of the Xuanhe Northern Expedition, in fact, the responsibility is not on him as a thief. If you really want to trace back to the roots, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty are the biggest responsible people, right?

It was these kings who valued literature over military force that made the Great Song Dynasty a country where it was difficult to let go of their hands and feet to train an elite army.

Otherwise, it is the sign of a "military revolution" that appeared in the battle of Wudinghe, take good care of it, water it a little, and apply some fertilizer. The custodian has grown a semi-modern army, even if there are no muskets and cannons, spears, bows and arrows, swords and shields, it can withstand all kinds of "daring" in Liaodong outside the Saiwai......

Wu Haogu looked at the model of thieves who was bent on seeking advice, and sighed softly: "Daofu, Shuofang Road and Jiehe Commercial Market are different after all. The reason why Jiehe Commercial Market can prosper in such a short period of time is indeed a unique aspect. Although Shuofang Road is also a border land, there is no benefit of water transportation, and the traffic is too inconvenient. ”

Wu Haogu, who had been a merchant in the Northern Song Dynasty for several years, certainly knew how scary the cost of land transportation was in this era. Therefore, it is impossible to develop an area far from the sea and without inland waterway transportation to rely on.

Even capitalist agriculture and animal husbandry are difficult to develop - the cost of transporting agricultural products by land is unbearable, even if the cost of land is zero, the transportation of agricultural products from Shuofang Road to the Guanzhong region is about not a little competitive.

Tong Guan frowned and asked, "But Shuofang has green salt, and there is a boundless grassland where horses can be raised." ”

Wu Haogu shook his head: "Qingyan is only two or three hundred thousand a year, and if there are more, I am afraid that the transfer department elsewhere will jump up." As for raising horses, that's a mess of the herd supervisors, will Shuofang Luzhi interfere? ”

"The herd warden can't keep horses well." Gao Yu shook his head again and again, "Half of the horsemen of the forbidden army in Kaifeng Mansion have no horses, and the rest don't have decent war horses...... Isn't it all the fault of the shepherds? ”

Wu Haogu smiled: "Horses are not good, there is a lot of land!" When the herdsmen changed the law in Xining, they were able to collect 300,000 yuan in rent a year, and they were afraid that they would have to double it if they were greedy for ink by officials at all levels!

Now that there are good places to raise horses such as the Hetao grassland, the herd supervisors are not allowed to rent out all the horse farms in the Central Plains and then raise the horses to Shuofang? It would be great if we could pick out a million acres and place some knights from it, and it would be basically useless to let Shuofang Road run a horse farm. ”

Tong Guan nodded slightly. Wu Haogu's analysis is good, the horse farm on Shuofang Road really can't be done, and the herd supervisor will never give in. And the green salt ...... There are really not many benefits that can be obtained.

Wu Haogu then said: "Besides, it won't be long before there will be a transfer division or a transfer judgment lawsuit on Shuofang Road, and Qingyan must be the wealth of the transfer department." ”

Tong Guan stroked his beard and looked at Wu Haogu, as if waiting for his countermeasures.

Wu Hao Gu said: "Shuo Fang Zhisi can touch the only ones that can be touched by Yingtian and iron smelting, the former is the government soldier Tuntian, it is unreasonable to hand it over to the transfer envoy, and it should be controlled by the Zhisi all the way." And the latter is a major matter related to military politics and diplomacy, and it must be controlled by the Division! ”

"Is iron smelting still a matter of diplomacy?" Tong Guan was a little puzzled.

It is a reason to say that iron smelting is a weapon to build, but it is a bit far-fetched to say that iron smelting is related to diplomacy.

"Of course," Wuhao Ancient Dao, "at least half of the Hetao Grassland will belong to us, so that we will be very close to the Obscure Grassland."

The people of the tribes are extremely strong, and they have a feud with the Khitan, so they rise up against the Liao from time to time. However, trapped in the iron ban of the Khitans, it was difficult to deal a fatal blow to the Liao State. Now that the Hetao grassland is half in my hands, the conditions are ripe to stop the smuggling of iron tools. And how can such things be done without knowing that the civil servants can do it well? Even if they can do it well, it will inevitably leak the news and cause unnecessary war. Therefore, it should be under the direct control of the Department of Manufacturing. ”

Wu Haogu actually didn't want to buy iron tools for the divination people at all...... That's the Mongols! is super fierce, the Khitans are like grassland white rabbits compared to them. But this is an opportunity to get involved in the iron smelting industry!

"Good!" Tong Guan clapped his hands, "This reason is good!" Tongwan City is the place where the western thieves smelt iron, and there are many blacksmiths in the city, which is just to be used. ”

Wu Haogu said with a smile: "I heard that the big officials have detained a lot of blacksmiths in Qingtang City? ”

"That's right!" Tong Guan smiled, "It's all in Yan'an!" ”

"It's better to be detained in Tongwan City." Wu Hao pretended to think for a while, "Don't hide it from the big officials, there are also engineers under a certain family who are good at iron smelting and mining." It's better to let them take care of the iron smelting affairs of Tongwan City first, Xixia Sword and Qingtang Jia are all good things! ”

It's really embarrassing to say, the iron-smelting technology of the Great Song Dynasty is actually inferior to barbarians like Xixia and Qingtang, at least in terms of quality.

Therefore, Wu Haogu could not let go of this opportunity to absorb advanced foreign technology...... You have to get all the skills of Xixia and Qingtang iron smelting! By the way, let Zhu Xingshu and Zhou Daxia practice in Tong Wancheng.

"It's so good, I'll leave it to you." Tong Guan didn't know Wu Haogu's plan, and thought that people would really help, so he smiled and said, "By the way, there is no shortage of hard-working coolies, and there are tens of thousands of prisoners here!" ”

"These coolies still have to be used in Tuntian," Wu Haogu said, "and the affairs of Tuntian cannot be handed over to the state and county." Originally, I thought that the government soldiers could not fight, but now it seems that as long as there are officers who are proficient in military science to be responsible for command and training, the government soldiers can still fight. Then there is no reason to hand over the government soldiers to the local states and counties.

And if this tuntian is done well, it will also be able to make great gains. ”

"How can Tuntian do a good job?" Tong Guan asked with a frown.

Wu Haogu smiled: "This has to be found in the history books." ”

"History books?"

"Yes," Wu Hao Gu Dao, "how did Qin Zhi do the cultivation battle, now Shuofang Road should follow it!"

Shuofang Road is located in a remote place in the northwest, surrounded by enemies on three sides, and the land is wide and sparsely populated. I am afraid that it will not be easy to govern Shuo with the methods that are common elsewhere. In my opinion, in the next ten years, Shuofang Road will not have many people, but will be dominated by government soldiers. Since there are not many people, naturally there will be no prosperity. Therefore, Shuofang Road should be based on the Tuntian ploughing war. ”

"Tuntian ploughing is based on warfare?" Tong Guan stroked his beard, his eyes narrowed, and he really looked like a traitor.

After a while, he suddenly laughed: "Da Lang, it's a shame that this eunuch of our family is the Jingluo pacification envoy of Shuofang Road." If it were someone else, who would dare to propose a battle in the fields on Shuofang Road? This is a support for soldiers! ”

Tuntian soldiers are also soldiers! Moreover, while using the government soldiers to prepare for war, it is inevitable to select a large number of "new-style officers", so that it is easy to create a military system outside the original mercenary system of the Song army.

If Tong Guan is a dignified man with eggs, I am afraid that Zhao Guan's family will not be able to eat and sleep.

Wu Haogu shook his head and said: "Actually, it can't be said that you support the army, the government soldier is a five-year military service, and it is impossible to become a private soldier of Brother Daofu." Most of the officers who will lead the troops in the future will be from the right list of jinshi, and they will also rotate from time to time. With such soldiers and horses, why not worry? ”

It looks quite reassuring...... I just don't know how the monarchies that used this kind of military system in later generations always encountered revolutions?

"That's right!" Tong Guan, who didn't know how powerful the new-style army was, smiled, "Since that's the case, I'll bother Dalang to go to Kaifeng Mansion and exercise for our family." ”

Of course, Tong Guan is not suitable for himself to jump out and say that he wants to "support the army and respect himself", even if he has no eggs, others will suspect that he has different ambitions.

Therefore, this matter must be raised by others, and the most suitable one to raise is undoubtedly Su Dongpo, the right minister......

"Okay, let's go to Kaifeng Mansion!" Wu Haogu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart - the black cauldron was finally thrown out!

The credit is the greatest for Gao Yu, and it is Tong Guan who supports the self-respect of the army, and my martial arts are a businessman without strength, a proper fat sheep!

At this time, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and then I heard Zhao Zhongge's voice coming in: "Taiwei, the urgent report of Mida Cave, the Khitan people seem to have moved!" ”

"Khitan!?"

"What's going on?"

"Come in and talk!"

Wu Haogu, Gao Yu, and Tong Guan, who were drinking and talking in the room, suddenly became nervous.

Before the Western Thieves were finished, the Khitan came, this is not a joke!

Brother Zhao Zhong pushed the door in, and in his hand he held the Imperial Dragon Internal Guard of Mida Cave in his hand, commanding Yang Keshi to send a military intelligence delivery.

Brother Zhao Zhong saluted the three of them, and then said unhurriedly: "The soldiers and horses of the Qing army of the Liaoguo River crossed the Liaoxia border a few days ago and entered Quyechuan to set up camp!" ”