Zhao Jin's attitude made several people in the room a little surprised, in their minds, with Zhao Jin's style, they would not care about the price of copper, especially in firearms-related matters, but they didn't expect Zhao Jin to attach so much importance to it.

After all, Xu Housheng has been working by Zhao Jin's side for a short time, and he doesn't know Zhao Jin's reaction so well, after hearing these words, he subconsciously felt that he was refuted and reprimanded, and he didn't dare to say it again for a while.

This discussion was about firearms, he stopped, and the others didn't have anything to say, Wang Zhaojing over there was careful, but he could see that his feelings were fluctuating, and he glanced at Zhao Jin.

Zhao Jin shook his head with a smile, but said: "It's not yet the Shangyuan Festival, let's be busy like this, let's go back to our own stall, arrange a rest, and don't delay the business." ”

Meng Zhiqi and Zhang Hubin hurriedly agreed to step down, everyone had different identities and positions, they left, Wang Zhaojing, Ji Xiang and Xu Housheng stayed as usual.

Zhang Hubin's waist was straight, his steps were strong, and he walked out of the conference hall like this, Meng Zhiqi looked back when he went out, but he was a little stunned, it turned out that when he was a personal guard, he could always serve by the side of Jinye, and he could participate in any opportunity.

As soon as they left, Wang Zhaojing said to Xu Housheng with a smile: "Housheng, this side of the council hall is to discuss things, fight when you should fight, and point out if you say something wrong, even if it is your brother-in-law, you have nothing to worry about, if we don't dare to say anything, then there will be no growth today." ”

Wang Zhaojing could say this, but Zhao Jin was inconvenient to say, he just smiled and nodded at Xu Housheng, and when he said this, Xu Housheng became a lot more relaxed.

"Brother-in-law, those foreign monks are very eccentric, it is said that if we take them captive, they will definitely be anxious and afraid, but they quickly settled down, and now they are still working very hard, according to Lao Lu's words, what to ask and say, there is no hiding private." Xu Housheng talked about the priests who had been arrested in the workshop.

"Especially that Tang Ruowang, not only has a Chinese name, but also learns the official language well, and he is very knowledgeable about artillery, so he really helps a lot."

Hearing Xu Housheng's words, Zhao Jin said with a smile: "They don't care what the court is or not, as long as they can let them preach, they are willing to do anything." ”

"Foreigners and foreigners are also different, that Lao Lu is also a foreign monk, never mention missionary things, occasionally chanting scriptures, nothing different from us, what are the rules for starting a family that day, I am really ready to take root in our Xuzhou." Xu Housheng's words made everyone laugh.

Louis master and servant and others are all mingling, Louis drinks, interested in women, Xuzhou accent of the official dialect is more and more proficient, everyone naturally likes, his servant Bordeaux more and more like to go to the Xuzhou martial arts hall, to teach his martial arts and experience to the young people of Xuzhou, Bordeaux enjoys the process very much, the same, he also likes the young scholar's respect for him and the title of "teacher".

"Because these foreigners find that it may be easier to preach in Xuzhou than elsewhere, or it is more valuable to preach in our Xuzhou than in other places, but no matter what they think, there is a strict order on our side, that is, they are not allowed to preach, and our people are not allowed to believe in religion, once they are found out, they will be severely punished!" Zhao Jin said it categorically.

Zhao Jin has emphasized these words more than once, and everyone naturally understands that he has emphasized it so many times, and everyone dare not slack off.

But there are some things that Zhao Jin didn't say, in the perception of those priests, Xuzhou may be a little more "Westernized" than other places in the Ming Dynasty, and this familiarity may make them decide to stay here.

"These foreigners are not bad at eyesight, our Xuzhou place is a hundred times stronger than Daming!" Regarding Zhao Jin's words, Wang Zhaojing had other feelings.

Not only did he think so, but Ji Xiang and Xu Housheng also thought so, Niu Jinbao and Sun Dalin, who were standing there, also had a look of approval on their faces, each with a proud look, Wang Zhaojing raised his voice slightly and said: "Whoever comes to our Xuzhou will feel that our side is the best place in the world, and those foreigners have seen a lot along the way." ”

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From the end of the second year of the Apocalypse to the beginning of the first month of the third year of the Apocalypse, the whole Xuzhou is a festival scene, from the rich and noble people to the common people of Limin, from the Jiading military camp of the Zhaozi camp to the homeless grange, everywhere is lively and festive.

Everyone has been busy for a year, food and clothing are abundant, and when it comes to this New Year, it is natural to celebrate, but those top rich businessmen went directly to Qingjiangpu, although the competition has ended, but the excitement continues, and it is almost in a carnival.

Compared with the festive and lively everywhere, Zhao Jin and his partners are not so idle, and several of them have at most accompanied their families to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and they didn't even eat the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Zhao Jin went to the Fengpei regiment to eat Chinese New Year's Eve, and then the first year of junior high school was in the pro-guard brigade regiment, and the second year of junior high school rushed to the Suzhou regiment, and when he returned from the Pizhou regiment, it was already the sixth day of the first lunar month, and then he accompanied his family at home to eat the New Year's dinner, the parents' side was fine, Xu Zhenzhen only went to tease the child, and Mu Shulan, who had a big belly, directly lost her temper.

But these are all trivial matters, and Zhao Jin came to the council hall the next day to work, and the leaders of the entire Zhao Ziying camp at all levels began to get busy on this day.

Thousands of years of inheritance in China, this New Year is a major event, many people want to finish the whole New Year, especially in various places in the Ming Dynasty, many rich people even want to play until February, but here in Xuzhou, many customs have quietly changed, for example, before the fifteenth day of the first month, many places have begun to be busy.

In other places, there is no one to talk about business in the first month, and in Xuzhou, the Xuzhou salt market and bazaar will be opened on the seventh day of the first month, and many businesses at the beginning of the year will be negotiated at this time, especially the distribution of private salt from several surrounding provinces, and then the same is true in Qingjiang City, before the canal is opened, a lot of prices will be set first, and many products can already be seen at this time.

After a busy year, rest is indeed very important, but it is even more important to make money and make a fortune, and if the wealthy businessmen of Qingjiangpu who like to enjoy do not know this, they will not have their current net worth.

In the past, it was a bad year but thought about the New Year, but now it is a good year but don't want to celebrate the New Year, there are keen people who think of this, and can't help but sigh Zhao Jin's ability to turn stones into gold, Zhao Jin and Zhao Ziying's storage zài, not only the shock of the Quartet, the protection of the territory and the people, but also with subtlety, everyone has been changed a lot.

There are also people who are not qualified to celebrate the New Year, such as the displaced people in Shandong who participated in the Wenxiangjiao Rebellion, and the refugees who have just come to Liaodong from Dengzhou Mansion, they have just received food and clothing, so naturally they don't want to celebrate the New Year.

It is a great good deed to gather these displaced Liao people who may have died in the chaos of the army, or who died of hunger and cold, and tens of millions of people are alive.

But Zhao Jin and Zhao Ziying are not good people who open a good church, and the displaced people and refugees who have been taken in have no reason to eat in vain, and the resettlement they get and every grain of food they eat have to be exchanged for heavy labor.

Except for breakfast, everyone had to complete their daily ration to be fed, to build their own dwellings, to level roads, to dig ditches, to dig mud fields at the edge of canals, to feed livestock, and so on.

In winter, except for the coldest twenty days when the land was frozen hard, the rest of the time was spent in the construction of water conservancy, the various rivers near the grange were to be widened, the excavated soil was used to fertilize the fields, and the people were selected in this relatively leisure season.

Those who have skills and are willing to learn various crafts will be selected, and those who know how to spin and weave will also be registered on the register, and these people will be given preferential treatment in the coming year, not only for their crafts, but also for those who know how to farm and those who know how to grow cotton.

The farms on both sides of the Yellow River do not have a day of leisure in winter, and they are not at all relaxed compared to the busy farming time, strengthening the dams, digging the river troughs, and doing everything related to water conservancy.

"Keep them busy, only when they are busy, they don't have time to think nonsense."

Zhao Ziying has a lot of experience in absorbing and digesting the displaced people, and the so-called useless work is also useful, in a large amount of labor, let these displaced people get used to collective actions, familiar with the orders and queues of the displaced people and refugees, is the best source of group practitioners.

Every Zhuangzi has someone who has been sent to the Xujia family in Jingshan, and the iron ore and coal mines here require a large number of manpower, and there will also be training here, and the same labor in exchange for their own food and clothing.

But the largest scale of work, or around the Yellow River unfolded, since Zhao Ziying in Xuzhou has its own grange, with enough manpower, began to make a fuss about the Yellow River, although the work of thousands of people for the rolling Yellow River, even the Xuzhou section of the Yellow River has no effect, but this work has been continuing, the scale has expanded from thousands of people to tens of thousands, and now it is nearly 100,000.

For many things that Zhao Jin and Zhao Ziying did, even the people close to them in Xuzhou would be evaluated as waste, only on the Yellow River water conservancy, no one said anything wrong, at most, it was just that the local tyrants actually did such things, and they really had bad intentions.

Even the gentry and local tyrants who were most hostile to Zhao Ziying, and even the government that was inseparable from Zhao Ziying on the surface, gave all kinds of assistance and convenience in the construction of the Yellow River water conservancy.

In fact, at the very beginning, Wang Zhaojing and others wanted to build water conservancy, Zhao Jin did not understand this, in the past memory, the Yellow River is just a wide river, the shallow river surface inside, now the Yellow River is surging, but in the dry season, the river beach is exposed a lot, the water potential is very small, how not like there is any danger.

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