The sound of "Dangdangdang" sounded, which was the clock on the clock tower that was on the clock. Pedestrians on the street were still coming and going in a hurry. Most people did not react to the sound in particular. Only a few people stopped and took out pocket watches from their arms to time.

The person who listened to the bell ringing and then stopped to time was definitely not a local from Guangling.

At this moment, Xu Gai, an official from the Weaving Department, also stopped and took out his pocket watch to see the time.

He had no such habit at first, but because of official business reasons, he gradually developed the habit of time.

When I was in Xiaohuang, Bozhou, there was a bell tower in the city. If you want to confirm whether your pocket watch was accurate or not, you had to check the time at the time of the bell tower when it was on the right time.

In fact, this has no meaning to most people, because everyone does not need to be accurate to the "minute" time.

Farmers work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and do not need such precise time. The same is true for craftsmen and civilians. Only large-scale hydraulic workshops with textile fabrics require precise timing and calculation of output and wages.

Textile workshops need precise timing, and people who deal with textile workshops become "to time". Xu Gai is one of them. He treats good time and continues to move forward.

Because of the outstanding performance of the Henan Road Weaving Department, the imperial court began to set up weaving departments, Hebei Road Weaving Department, and Shannan West Road Weaving Department in other places to prepare for the establishment of the construction.

At the same time, the Southeast Road Weaving Department is also preparing to be established.

The Southeast Road Weaving Department is responsible for weaving matters in Huainan and Jiangnan. As an outstanding official of the Henan Road Weaving Department, Xu Sheng and several colleagues who performed equally well took on the preparation and construction of the Southeast Road Weaving Department.

The Weaving Department Office of the Southeast Road is located in Guangling, in order to take into account the three Wus in Huainan and Jiangnan. Therefore, Xu Gai came to Yangzhou from Xiaohuang, Bozhou and became a foreigner living in Guangling.

Huainan and Jiangnan were originally the former land of Chen State. Since the war ended at the end of last year, everything was in ruins. The court exempted ten years of taxes to allow the people to recuperate. At the same time, a weaving department was set up to bring more income to the treasury.

According to the experience of Henan Road Weaving Department, if the weaving department "pre-orders" silk hemp produced by the people at a reasonable price, it will be very helpful to stimulate local people to grow hemp and mulberry development.

If the hydraulic textile workshop wants to operate, it needs to build water conservancy and hire a large amount of labor, so that it can absorb a large number of landless people and allow the other party to support themselves.

Of course, to become a qualified textile worker, you need to undergo "on-job training", which takes time and skilled workers to teach step by step.

Fortunately, Henan Road Weaving Department has a large number of skilled workers, and this is why it can provide strong support for the preparation and construction of other weaving departments.

Xu Gai and his colleagues were very experienced in the establishment and operation of the weaving department. After working hard for several months, they finally made some achievements. However, the situation suddenly changed and Jiangnan became restless, casting a shadow on the prospects of the Weaving Department of Southeast Road.

In front of the gate of the Weaving Department of Southeast Road, Xu Gai stopped and looked up at the sky. He saw dark clouds covering the sun, indicating that a heavy rain was about to come.

Now it is summer and autumn, and there is a lot of rain. Once it starts, it can fall for several days in a row.

I don’t know when this rain will end.

......

The heavy rain continued for several days. In the Yangzhou General Administration Office, Yu Wenwen looked at the water curtains under the eaves and felt helpless. Now it is rainy and it will not stop easily when the rain comes, which means that it is often inconvenient to mobilize troops.

Withdrew his gaze, he looked at the letter in his hand. The familiar handwriting in the letter was written by Yuchi Chifan.

This is a letter from home. Yuchi Chifan, who is far away in Chang'an, reports his safety to Yuwen Wen, who is in Guangling.

At the beginning of the year, Yuwen Wen returned to the court. When he passed by Luoyang, he brought the princess, princesses and eldest sons with him and went to Beijing to see the big scene.

Later, he was renamed the General Manager of Yangzhou and was about to leave from Chang'an to take office, but he learned that the situation in Jiangnan was unstable, so he went south overnight. Princess Yuchi Chifan took the prince and the eldest son set out later.

As a result, the eldest son Yuwen Weihan was sick. Yuchi Chifan could not let the son travel long distance with him, so he stayed in Chang'an to take care of Yuwen Weihan, and the eldest son Yuwen Weicheng naturally stayed.

After finally waiting for Yuwen Weihan to recover, he rested for a while and recovered his strength. As a result, the prince Yuwen Weicheng fell ill again.

Yuchi Chi was so anxious that he could not take his son to set off. He still had to stay in Chang'an and wait until his son recovered from illness before leaving. In this way, he delayed until now.

Yuwen Wen's other family members had already arrived in Guangling. Although Yang Lihua was worried about her son's illness, she was not able to rush to Chang'an to avoid people thinking that she did not trust the princess. Therefore, among the family members of Prince Bin's Mansion, Yuchi Chifan and his son were no longer in Guangling.

Yuchi Chifan reported his safety in the letter, saying that Yuwen Weihan's condition was stable and began to improve. He thought that he would recover after a period of care.

Yuwen Wen breathed a sigh of relief when he confirmed that his son was safe and sound. For him, no matter whether he was a legitimate or an illegitimate child, he was his own blood, and his low medical technology level these days was enough to erase the level gap between the high and the low.

In the face of the disease, no matter how high or low is, they are equal.

His two sons were infected with wind and cold, not because of poor care from servants, but because of illness, which could not be avoided absolutely.

Suffering from wind and cold may be just a common headache, fever, cold and runny nose, but if you are not careful, it is easy to turn into pneumonia (tuberculosis). In this era without antibiotics, suffering from pneumonia means suffering from terminal illness.

Even if you don’t suffer from a terminal illness like tuberculosis, taking medicine is just an auxiliary, and it mainly depends on the patient’s body’s resistance.

Yuwen Wen now feels very lucky, thankful that he has been paying attention to letting his sons exercise and strengthening their resistance, otherwise they will easily die if they get sick.

While thinking, a knock on the door started, and a moment later a clerk came to report that the generals had arrived.

Yuwen Wen put away his letter, got up and walked out of the room, and turned into the conference hall. He saw that the hall was full of people and was full of generals.

Yuwen Wen, wearing military uniform, was still majestic, although she was not wearing armor. When the generals saw him coming, they saluted one after another.

At this moment, some of the generals in the conference hall were Yuwen Wen's subordinates for many years, while others were transferred from outside and obeyed the orders for the first time.

Yuwen Wen came to the upper head, and there was a huge map hanging on the wall behind him. He picked up a bamboo pole and went straight to the topic:

"In Jiangnan, some people are plotting against ignorant people, inciting ignorant people, besieging official offices, insulting, intimidating officials, and even provoking trouble."

"These officials and the people are the people of the court and will never be ravaged by them. What those people want to do is self-evident. Now they are provoking trouble, so what will happen next?"

Yuwen Wen said, his eyes shining coldly: "At first settled in Jiangnan, many states, counties and county officials were specially selected by the court. They bid farewell to their parents, bid farewell to their wives, and came to Jiangnan to guard the court and educate the people!"

"Among them, many of them were besieged, abused, and even had their lives worry. As the chief steward of Yangzhou, I will never allow anyone to trample on the majesty of the court, endanger the safety and even lives of officials!"

"The heavy rain is pouring down now, and I don't know when it will calm down. It's so inconvenient to mobilize troops, but so what!"

Speaking of this, Yuwen Wen looked around the generals: "Everyone, I don't like war! Because even though the country is big, it will perish if it is wary. If you can fight, you won't fight!"

"But I don't want to fight, but some people are tired of living! So..."
Chapter completed!