"This horse, that horse," Wang Ju looked at among the dozens of war horses, and pulled out some of the war horses. ＝＝＝＝

Ren Duo Lazhen finally saw that Wang Ju's so-called good horses were selected according to the specifications of first-class horses in the Song Dynasty, the height of the horse, the robustness, the age of the mouth, the bones, the quality of the actual horse, and a lot of knowledge, but this civil official did not understand, anyway, the mouth age is moderate, tall and strong, and there are no obvious scars, that is a good horse.

It seems that Wang Ju really didn't make any trouble, and reached the specifications of first-class horses, Wang Ju also didn't pick out the horses, only nine horses were removed, and then said: "Rindola, bring these nine horses back, and replace them with nine real good horses, and I only need good horses, if you don't want a thousand miles of horses, then you can bring the prisoners of war back." ”

Rindola went back with nine horses in a huff.

Ye Bi Ma was so angry that he couldn't do it, but it was better to solve this matter as soon as possible, after all, compared to horses, people are more important, and in exchange for one or two thousand soldiers.

So he chose nine more horses, and he was afraid that Wang Ju would find trouble, these nine horses could be regarded as real good horses, no less than the horses that Wang Ju selected and gave to Zhao Ji and Zhao Niannu.

Renduo Layan led nine good horses to Huachi County.

This time, I finally waited for Wang Ju to reply: "Ten days later, you will send someone to Liyuan Fort to pick up people." ”

"Why is it delaying until ten days?"

"Some of them are in Zhiluo County, some are in Huachi County, and some are digging coal in Huanzhou, how can this official immediately gather them together! Can't you afford to wait for ten days? ”

In fact, there were no prisoners of war at the Huanju Coal Mine, and there were originally, but after 6 successive coal was transported to the two major workshops in Hwachi Waterside and Gyeongju City. All the prisoners of war were transferred back to Huachi. However, what Wang Ju said is not completely false. Most of them are building roads. There are also a few that continue to take advantage of the spring flood to improve some water conservancy projects. It may not take ten days to assemble, but it will take several days to assemble.

And Ren Duola falsely thought that Wang Junai was a war maniac, and he couldn't afford to provoke him for the time being, so he had to pinch his nose and go back.

"Brother Zishen. How many days does it take for Naola's road to be repaired? Wang Ju asked Ge Shaohua after waiting for him to leave.

"In just the past few days, the main thing is that the stones of the five stone bridges have not been smoothed, and the road surface has been repaired."

Wang Ju nodded, there was no cement as a coagulant in this era, and the coagulant used was nothing more than lime, or glutinous rice flour, and the adhesion was poor, so when building a stone bridge, we must pay attention to reasonable design, and the second is that the stone and bricks must be smooth. In this way, there can be wholeness. Therefore, after the stone is mined, it must be smoothed. in order to be transported to the river to build a bridge.

There is no big river from Fengchuan Town to Zhiluo County, but there are many mountain streams and small rivers, and there are some small bridges originally, but these bridges are not solid.

The polishing of this stone is a waste of labor, as long as the stone is polished, the remaining engineering problems are not too big, even if it is handed over to the battalion soldiers in Zhiluo County, it can be easily completed. Besides, it's not a bridge, it's just a small stone bridge.

After Wang Ju finished speaking, he left Huachi Town again.

Spring has officially arrived, but soon the spring floods will come with the melting of glaciers.

Therefore, some small water conservancy projects must also be completed.

Wang Ju went down for many more days and began to hand over the prisoners of war.

Ren Duo Layan led a team of Western Xia officers and soldiers to Liyuan Fort, and many Song Dynasty soldiers stood in front of Liyuan Fort, including Wang Ju himself. Rindola came, but no one greeted him.

Anyway, everyone knows that the two countries are friendly? Whoever believes it, the soldiers of Huachi Town are not masochists, they have been slapped in the face again and again, and they can continue to shout that the two countries are friendly and peace is precious.

However, Wang Ju said coldly: "Ren Duo La, remember, this official forgives you once, and next time you want someone, it is impossible." ”

Rindora didn't speak, thinking to himself, do you still expect next time, a few months later, when our army comes, see if you have a next time.

Wang Ju looked at the soldiers behind him again and asked, "Inspector Yao, and everyone, how much do you say a person can be worth?" ”

Yao Ji was strange and said: "Human life is at stake, priceless. ”

"Inspector Yao, why did I hear that when I was a teenager, the value of human life was not as good as a mule?"

"This, this ......" Yao Yu didn't know how to answer.

"Human lives also have a price, including these prisoners of war. The official still doesn't want to make trouble, but have you ever thought about how many mines in my dynasty lack mine slaves? ”

"Mine slaves?" Yao asked strangely.

In the Tang Dynasty, prisoners were used for mining, and Zhao Kuangyin wanted benevolent governance, so he banned this system. The business model of the major pit mines has been changed to a service system, giving some money to do living expenses and mining costs, giving some rewards for more work and more rewards, and using ordinary people to mine, and the second is to change to a contract system, so that large households pay a certain amount of minerals, and large households are responsible for their own profits and losses. But in fact, the pit and mining system ruled by this person will also make everyone miserable.

The service mine supervisors and officials are greedy for ink, harsh miners, and at the same time greedy for ink minerals, so that many mines are in a state of loss, and the large contractors will be even more miserable, often able to produce 100,000 catties of pig iron mines, can force large households to pay 200,000 pig iron classes, large households are forced to do so, so they have to be more harsh miners, just like this, often many large households are forced to ruin their families.

However, because of the economic development, the mining industry in the Song Dynasty was very good, and it was also one of the huge revenues of the Song Dynasty. But no matter how dark the mining industry is, there is no such thing as a mining slave in the Song Dynasty.

Wang Ju said again: "Sell these prisoners of war to those mine owners through guò disguised means, these prisoners of war are all worthy of killing, and transport them to the pit, no one asks about their life and death, let alone pay for them, and it is Ding Zhuang, Yao Inspection, how much do you say those mine owners will give to buy a mine slave back?" ”

Ren Duo Lazhen was dripping with cold sweat, and Yao Ji was also a little sweaty.

Wang Ju continued: "If you use this money to reward the meritorious soldiers of the three armies, will the morale of the soldiers be higher when you say they fight?" ”

"That's true, alas, how much does it cost?" Jiang Du slapped his thigh and said in annoyance.

The laws of the Song Dynasty also prohibited human trafficking. But the ban continued. The people are still selling women in large numbers, that is, slaves and maids, including some officials. For example, when Xiao Gu knew Guizhou, he asked his officers and soldiers to do business for him and sell women, which happened. The price of women is high or low, one looks at the age, and the other looks at the appearance. An average of more than a dozen yuan a piece, but when you buy it back to be a prostitute, you have to train it slowly, and being a slave is just doing some rough work, where is it important to be a mining slave as Wang Ju said?

What's worse is that there are still a lot of pit mines in the Song Dynasty, not only the common gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead mines, but also jade mines, porcelain clay mines, lime mines, and carboniferous mines. Well salt mine, alum mine...... Too much, too much. There are many mining industries in Shaanxi.

Using a female mouth as a comparison, how much money does a mine slave get, and how much can these more than 1,000 prisoners of war sell.

Rindola almost blew up his lungs.

He endured the nonsense of Wang Ju and the soldiers, sneered, and continued to stare at the horizon in the distance.

The hour of suffering was over, and figures appeared on the horizon, and prisoners of war arrived.

But Rindola was dumbfounded again, all of them were ragged, skinny, and dull-eyed, and the whole person did not look like a person, and a ghost did not look like a ghost.

Ren Duo roared: "Wang Ju, you wait and see." ”

"Wait," Wang Juyi stopped him and asked, "What do you mean?" Do you want to invade, or do you want to plunder again? ”

Knowing that he was angry, he lost his mouth, so he said: "Wang Zhixian, why is the abuse so much? ”

"They came to the border to burn and kill, and plundered, do they still want to sacrifice them as ancestors?"

"You!"

"Listen well, all the soldiers, in order to teach these robbers a profound lesson, although they are released, each person must be whipped with ten lashes before he is released, and he must be whipped to see blood, and if there is no blood in that whip, the official will whip that person."

"You!"

"What are you? You think the official is joking? The next time they invade, they won't be able to go back if they want to. ”

The three armies rushed up and began to whip violently, and some of the prisoners of war were knocked unconscious, and then handed over to Rindola one by one.

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"Get out, get out!" Ye Wei was so angry that he overturned the table.

"General Ye Wei, have you forgotten the story I told about lying down and tasting guts?" Song Ji persuaded from the side. But in my heart, I said that this Wang Ju was too ruthless, more than 2,000 prisoners of war, less than 1,500 came back alive, it was this 1,500 people, tortured to the point that they were not human, before they were repatriated, at night in the barracks of Xinjiang Ballast Fort, there were many people who had nightmares, and suddenly got up and shouted.

Ye Yanma let out a long breath, and finally calmed down.

Song Ji said again: "General Ye Wei, and there is also good news, Gyeongju Xinzhizhou has been elected. ”

"Who?"

"Cai Ting."

"Cai Ting? Is this another official like Sun Wei? ”

"Not necessarily, I'm not very familiar with this person, but I've heard about him, he is a good friend of Fu Bi, the former prime minister of the Song Dynasty."

"What's the good news?"

"Good news, he is a friend of Fu Bi, but Fu Bi has a very bad relationship with Han Qi, the current Xiang of the Song Dynasty. Cai Ting came to Gyeongju, will the Song Dynasty support him and believe him? ”

"That's good news."

"So General Ye Wei can't be in a hurry, bear with it for a few more months, if His Majesty personally conquers Gyeongju, General Ye Wei can take the initiative to ask for his life, crusade against Liyuan Fort, once Liyuan Fort is broken, Huachi Town will be broken, and that Xiaozhi County will be captured alive, General Ye Wei can vent his anger as much as he wants."

"Yes." Ye Fuma exhaled again, and this sullen breath gradually dissipated under Song Jiqi's persuasion. Song Ji said again: "That wine can be banned." ”

"Tell the order."

Wang Ju didn't know that Song Ji had hit the idea on his soju head, but went to the workshop. Last year, this workshop could only be said to be researched, and it was not officially put into production. This is also inevitable, all the technologies are integrated together, Wangjiazhai does not have the ability and financial resources, so it must be put in this workshop to improve.

However, as soon as the spring flood comes this year, it can be officially put into production, mainly to produce new stone cannons, after the production of stone cannons, these officials and craftsmen will bring the technology back to the capital, how the capital uses this technology, and Wang Ju has nothing to do. And Wang Ju also has a pessimistic attitude, others don't know much, but Wang Ju knows how tight the finances of the imperial court are. But that still has nothing to do with Wang Ju.

But the workshop will not be closed, and there will be some official craftsmen from the Gyeongju Workshop, as well as the craftsmen invited by the Zhu and Li families for Wang Ju, and the apprentices invited some time ago, so that they can continue to produce, but they have nothing to do with stone cannons, but to produce armor weapons and change the clothes of the soldiers in Hwachi Town.

While watching, Wang Ju thought that the emergence of this new type of steel is also an innovation, and if it is used well, it will play a very important role in the military.

The first is the military offense, and the second is defense. Attack is arrows, weapons, and defense is armor.

But compared with the attack, Wang Ju attaches more importance to this defense, the armor of the Song Dynasty is too heavy, and the soldiers can't run, how to fight a good battle? Therefore, the emergence of new armor may play a milestone significance. Exactly how, after the autumn war, you can know.

However, steel is not the only material used to make armor, this material also includes strength and toughness, which has nothing to do with leather armor, paper armor, rattan armor, under the same toughness and strength, there is another material that can be competent, and the weight is lighter, that is, ceramics. However, that ceramic is not the current ceramic of the Song Dynasty, and the technology is more complicated. However, there is a way to replace, do not use the current Song Dynasty ceramics, but use bone china instead, first use a few silks, must be silk made of inner and outer armor, can not use kudzu hemp, but even with silk, it is lower than the cost of steel, in the silk armor embellished with bone china pieces, then the weight will drop to more than ten catties.

Think about how much mobility, how many degrees, and how much combat effectiveness will be increased for the army by the infantry heavy armor of the Song Dynasty from more than 50 catties of infantry armor to more than 10 catties of silk and bone china mixed armor?

Don't know if this method is feasible?

But it can also be researched, although it will cost a lot of money, but bone china is made, even if it cannot be used for armor, it will also produce economic benefits, and it will not waste the cost of research.

Wang Ju was thinking about the feasibility of this method, and the second eldest son hurriedly ran over to report: "Xinzhizhou is here." (To be continued!)

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