"I communicated with a noble man, and he asked me to be patient for the time being." Pu Shou Gao said: "Xu Zi was a delegation training envoy first. According to the tradition of the Great Wei Dynasty, starting a delegation training means spending money in the local area. The government did not give him a penny, so he was allowed to raise funds on the spot. Xu Zi first set up a card to collect donations and collect money according to assets. The reason is very correct and there is nothing to be considered. Moreover, the money from the Semu merchants was very happy. Unless the lawsuit was brought to the Zhengshi Hall, the Zhengshi Hall would not support us explicitly. Over the years, the Central Wei Dynasty's Central Committee has become increasingly embarrassed and has not been as tolerant as before. "

Pu Shouchen suddenly felt a little scared and said, "Are they going to attack us?"

"It's not that." Pu Shougao shook his head and said, "It's safe inside and outside. Unless there is a huge change, the world will be in chaos."

"I see that the Great Wei has this sign."

"Yes!" Pu Shougao felt that he wanted to brief the people in the clan slowly, and he said slowly: "We have only a few choices. First, when the Great Wei falls, there will be strong people. We must keep our eyes open and follow the strong. This will maintain our old status. However, the new dynasty was first established, and the national policy was not necessarily the same as the Great Wei, so this step was still passive. The second is that we choose the strong to rely on in troubled times, show our strength, and help them succeed. In this way, if the new dynasty was established, our status would only be higher than that in the Great Wei, and would not be lower. The last way was that we would be independent in troubled times!"

"Self-reliance?" Pu Shouchen's heart thumped, and he felt his mouth dry. He yelled: "If we want to be self-reliance, we are not strong enough, right?"

"Financial power is material power, human power." Pu Shougao said: "If we say that we swept the whole country, took over the Great Wei, and annexed the Great Wei into a part of our Tianfang Kingdom, and gained the Great Wei territory and human power, our Tianfang will become the largest country in the world and will not be threatened by the Crusaders again. However, this road is full of thorns, and we need to spread it calmly, take it slowly, and don't be anxious."

Only then did Pu Shouchen realize that this clan brother actually had such ambitions in his heart!

Thinking about it, it is true. The Great Wei has billions of people and a vast territory. If the Pu family could win such a large place, how could it be that it would be several times more powerful to Tianfang?

Tianfang is still spanning Europe and Asia, but it is also being constantly embezzled and eroded in the local area, and its national strength is becoming increasingly weak. If we can obtain the manpower and material resources of the Wei Dynasty...

If there was no civil strife in the Great Wei Dynasty and no strong enemy from the north, what a foolish way for Pu Shougao, but if there was civil strife and the national strength was seriously weakened, the Pu family might not have a chance?

Pu Shouchen's heart was like a deer bumping into the air, but Pu Shougao didn't give him a chance to think randomly and explained: "If you go back and wait for me first, I want to see how long Xu Zixian can last. If it doesn't work, I will try it out. I can't just forget about it. Even if we explain to many merchants of the semen, we can't sit idly by."

"That's what it said." Pu Shouchen expressed his spirit to express his agreement. He also knew that the Pu family was not only rich and powerful, but also had quite terrifying strength hidden in the secret. If Fuzhou really had no choice but to deal with Xu Zixian, the Pu family would not mind giving this ignorant little marquis a profound lesson.

Must be profound, bloody lessons.

Pu Shougao was very satisfied with the clan brother's eyes, which were quite fierce and had obvious wolfishness.

Even after a hundred years in the Great Wei Dynasty, the people of the Pu family insisted on wearing Tianfang, teachings of Tianfang, and the language of Tianfang. The noble Tianfang people would not assimilate the Wei people, but would only assimilate them in turn.

Because the natural nobility of the people of Tianfang preserves the original wolf nature, every Pu family believes in this, and Pu Shougao himself is the same.

After the clan's brother withdrew, Pu Shougao picked up King Zhao's letter, and King Zhao promised that in the future, he would be sure that Xu Zi would be finished first, and he might not be able to maintain his position as a member of the rank of the group training. Once the group training is lifted, the tax donation block will naturally be cancelled.

If King Zhao's words were not true, Pu Shougao wouldn't mind solving this problem himself.

Pu Shougao didn't mind the powerful and high-ranking officials of Fuzhou such as King Zhao. He also had powerful political allies in the court. King Zhao's wealth also came from the help of the Pu family to a large extent. Pu Shougao was aroused, and he didn't mind taking off the firewood from the bottom of the pot!

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More than ten days passed by, and changes were happening almost every day near the villa.

The first round of screening of military soldiers in the regiment training has ended. Just wait for the second round to check it out. After passing the customs, check the hometown status and sign a five-year contract, the military soldiers will be able to enter the camp.

The surrounding villages, whether they were official or hidden households, were recruited, and five or six hundred people gathered together to build houses in the open space south of the courtyard.

According to the idea of ​​the people in the town, the group trained troops to gather a group of young men and women. After training for a few days, they would disperse and gather together if they had something to do. At most, they would build some shacks for the Wushu to live in.

But the situation in the Hou Mansion was obviously shocking the eyes of the ground... Hundreds of people drove dozens of cows, and stone rollers made more than 100 acres of river-line wasteland very normal. They opened drainage ditches, leveled the foundation, and then bought a large number of bricks and tiles to start building serious houses.

With the support of hundreds of people, and with the dozens of major workers hired, the ground level was leveled in a few days, and then the foundation was dug out and the walls were built. Many carpenters were working on the windows and beams and pillars. After more than ten days, more than a hundred rooms had been basically formed, just waiting for the beams to cover the roof.

"It is expected to be completed in about ten days..." Fu Qian was sweating all over his head, and the weather became colder. He ran around the construction site in a short robe every day to supervise the progress of the project. He also got a tax card helper, and donated the collected group training into the warehouse to record the accounts with Kong He. He was really busy.

Since Xu Zixian made it clear that those with excellent performance could be recommended as officials, all the civil servants, including Fu Qian, have been working hard.

Xu Zixian said: "How much does it cost?"

"Wage price is to replace money with service, saving a considerable amount of wages and expenses." Fu Qian smiled and said, "A strong man earns forty cents a day, and 600 people earn dozens of steads a day, and the wages are saved by hundreds of steads in ten days... Of course, the labor they serve here must be deducted from the forty-day period. Many masters force the man to serve ten days and eight days more, and everyone dare not speak. The prince is not allowed to do so, so we should keep accounts, how many days there are, how many days it takes."

"This is the best." Xu Zi nodded first. He didn't want to use the free Dingfu, but if he wanted to develop a healthy life here, truly master the heart and use the power of the local people for his own sake, he had to restrain his desires.

Take advantage of yourself, and others are bastards. Under this kind of thinking, it will not last long.

"The material money, we count for every five rooms, and we build 125 rooms. With the yard walls and the arrow towers, the wood money and carpenter labor costs, the total amount is about 3,100 cents."

Fu Qian smiled and said, "We have to add some beds, cabinets, tables, and purchase some application items, such as pots, basins, lunch boxes, spoons, etc., which were all explained by the prince, and the total price must be up to 500 jin."

"It's a big deal." Xu Zixian said: "The total price is almost 4,000 guan."

"Yes." Fu Qian nodded and said nothing.

The treatment of military soldiers in the regiment training is really nothing to say. The monthly salary is similar to that of the regular soldiers of the wing army. This is quite generous treatment. Generally, the regiment training is to take full advantage of the meal, and the salary is very small. The monthly salary of the regular soldiers in the regiment training is 500 yuan, which is already a very good income.

However, according to Fu Qian's understanding of the prince, it is estimated that the people who train in the group can still get more. It is obvious that the prince needs to take a path of training an elite. If the salary is not in place, it will be difficult to achieve this goal.

Under extreme conditions, people with talent and personal charm can train elite soldiers by just a full meal, but it is obvious that they cannot be considered under extreme conditions now.

Fu Qian continued: "The donation of the group training that was collected in ten days is more than 7,000 guan, which is half of it... However, it is still very abundant."

Xu Zixian smiled slightly and said, "I have to go to buy a shop car from here. The expenses are also quite high. I am afraid I can't save money for the time being. I plan to go to several money shops in the town to use the group training donation as collateral and borrow 30,000 guan. Mu Zhi, you and Xuanping will hire a boat from Fuzhou Port to Jiangling. After buying the shop car, you will come back quickly."

"Yes, don't worry, prince."

In fact, if you wait for another two months, you will get 30,000 yuan. Fu Qian felt that Xu Zi was not irritable or arbitrary in his work. He would discuss many things with others, but as long as he was determined, he would do it decisively, and the decision after discussion would no longer give people the opportunity to question and oppose. In this regard, his will is like steel.

"If you don't advance, you will retreat..." Fu Qian did not doubt it, but Xu Zixian muttered himself: "The current situation seems beautiful. Even if you use a lot of labor, you will still have tens of thousands of tax payments for exemption from work next year. But this is far from enough, the difference is too far!"

According to the goal set by Xu Zi first, of course, it is still far from enough now. At least in terms of territory, he can only have quite alienated invisible control over the nearby towns. It is difficult to even achieve invisible control. It is necessary to wait for the regiment to train and have sufficient financial resources to earn hundreds of thousands of chunks a year. At that time, we can only talk about controlling several nearby towns, and we can strengthen the control of the people through various means.

It’s too early to go out and open up real foundations.

The chaos is approaching, and the time left for Xu Zixian is not enough.

"Do you want to go and see the pig pen and vegetable fields?" The clerk Chen Zuo walked over a half-high brick wall from not far away and stared at him with his eyes wide open.

The surrounding buildings have basically been in the form of prototypes. Large thatched cottages and kitchens are built first. In combination with water sources and drainage ditches, sewage dirt is collected and dirt is cleaned regularly, and the garbage is sent to the garbage dump outside the town. The plan is well planned here, and the houses, greening and drainage are planned quite neatly, horizontally and vertically, and the houses are neatly arranged, giving people a very strong sense of visual impact.

You should know that the town is just a street building at this time, and there is no question of planning. The houses are all built in a mess, let alone the villages. They are all random buildings. In fact, staggered and orderly is also a kind of beauty. The premise is to be hygienic, clean, tidy, and put some thought on the color.

The military camp buildings in front of us are obviously unprecedentedly uniform, giving people the feeling that they are quite special, and naturally they are full of impact.

The roads in the camp are also quite flat, with a built canteen area, and there are tables and chairs for dining in the tall building. Some areas have been opened. Because the Hou Mansion is not enough, after the construction is made here, Qin Dongyang couldn't wait to come here with all his teeth to eat.

The buildings and various plans here are obviously very thoughtful, and have brought considerable impact to the people in the nearby town for several years.

After Qin Dongyang, Li Yi and others went to select the group's martial arts soldiers, and after posting the list documents in various places, applicants flocked to the three nearby towns, Dingkou, with more than 10,000 people, plus a large area of ​​manors and villages of noble people in Fuzhou City. Dingkou is estimated to be as many as 100,000 people.

Fuzhou Prefecture is the largest prefecture on Fujian Road. Although Quanzhou is prosperous, it is not like Fuzhou's history. It has been established for a long time and is the military and political center of Fujian Road. There are dozens of towns around the city with a population of over 10,000. In addition to several county towns, the population within a hundred miles of the city is over one million.

Xu Zixian's team training conditions are too generous. If it weren't for the nearby places close to the city and major transportation routes, industrial and commercial trade would have been very developed, and it is estimated that the applicants would be able to cut off the threshold for recruitment points everywhere.

Even so, there are many people. Li Yi and others spent a lot of energy on screening the primary election. Later, they had to consult with Zhang Tiansheng, the magistrate of Hou Guan. Zhang Tiansheng sent county magistrate Han De to bring people to maintain order. Of course, Han De was reluctant. He was very embarrassed by the inspector Xiao Zan for the last time. This year's assessment plan was the next evaluation. It was difficult to get promoted in this life, but he was in business, but he could not help but walk around for a few rounds. However, Han De soon discovered that the people in the Hou Mansion were very capable. Li Yi and others used ropes to open the range at the registration point, and people had to walk within the constraints of the ropes. Finally, everything was well organized from registration to screening.

Although Han De was quite angry with Xu Zixian, he had to admit that under Xu Zixian's condition, the people in the Hou Mansion were smarter and more capable than the other one.

"There are about 3,000 people passing the preliminary election." Fu Qian, Chen Zuocai and Xu Zi walked towards the vegetable garden first. Fu Qian said as he walked: "All are innocent and strong men. Below we have to see if we are a first-hand man, whether we are literate or not, we also have to see bows, equipment, strength, patience, and endurance. After this selection, qualified people can stay. It is expected that within ten days, the houses in the military camp will be rinsed with beams and rinses, and the beds and other things are also built. The military servants can move in directly."

Xu Zixian nodded slightly, and he was quite satisfied with the current progress and Wu Zu's selection progress.

"The number of people is not necessarily limited to one thousand, and a thousand regiments of martial arts soldiers are not necessarily enough." Xu Zixian said: "You can leave 1,500 people first, three battalions, or you can leave another one hundred. I want to set up a cavalry capital, and as long as the rest passes, they will leave a list and be the future alternate."

"Yes, prince."

Twenty days have passed, and a large vegetable garden on the north side of the southern wall of the villa has been opened and vegetables have been planted. When Xu Zixian and Fu Qian and others came over, more than a dozen vegetable farmers were fetching water by the river and watering the large vegetable fields.

"It's still too slow to carry water." Xu Zixian frowned and said, "The vegetable garden can be increased in the future. How many people can carry water to water the garden like this? The waste of manpower is the biggest waste."

The vegetable field was wet, so Xu Zixian didn't care. He walked in the muddy vegetable field with his shoes, and soon his feet were covered with fresh soil.

There are quite a few types of vegetables in the vegetable fields, with the most green vegetables and cabbage, and radishes. These can be grown in autumn and harvested in winter. The most important thing is sunflower. This is the best vegetable grown in China's native vegetables and the most cost-effective vegetable that can be harvested throughout the year. It can also be grown in spring and summer, and harvested in autumn and winter.

In addition, leeks, which need to be covered with straw mats, are also vegetables that can be harvested in winter, and have long been introduced to China.

There are also onions, garlic, etc.

There are not many types, and some of them can no longer be planted in the north. Fortunately, the weather here in Fujian is relatively warm and can still be planted and can be eaten in the deep winter and Spring Festival.

Xu Zixian noticed that there were no vegetables such as tomatoes and sweet potatoes, which means that South American vegetables such as Mexico have not yet been introduced to the Great Wei.

Chen Zuocai pointed to the vegetable directory and said, "There is about 200 acres, which is almost enough for one or two thousand people to eat. It is very convenient to buy it. As the prince said, there will be fewer vegetables after the winter begins. This time we learned from people from the north and bought dozens of large jars. After a while, the vegetables will be harvested and then made sauerkraut. In this way, there are still vegetables to eat in the deep winter..."

"Very good." Xu Zixian pointed to the distance and said to Fu Qian: "When Mu Zhi returns from Jiangling, he can consider building a pit house there so that he can grow some winter vegetables."

"It's very expensive." Fu Qian said: "I have to keep taking care of you and raising fire..."

"Cucumbers are very popular in Fuzhou in winter." Xu Zixian said: "Ordinary people will occasionally buy a few to satisfy their cravings. We occasionally provide the Wushu to raise morale. Most of the time it can be sold, which is also a source of wealth."

"I understand."

Next to the vegetable garden is a pig pen, which is pulled apart by cutting bamboo poles. The pig pen is built with bricks and tiles and separated by bamboo. More than 300 piglets have been placed in the pen and taken care of by five or six people.

"Pigherds have raised pigs in the farm." Chen Zuocai, known as Chen Dayan, is good at farming. He may not read more farm books than Fu Qian, but his actual experience is not very good. He pointed to the pig pen and said with a smile: "They know how much pig grass pigs eat and how much miscellaneous grains they are in a day, and then catch some small fish from the river and screws to fatten the pigs. This will save the most money on the pigs. Three hundred pigs need three stones of miscellaneous grains a day, ten pick pig grass, and ten pick small miscellaneous fish and screws. They can almost fatten the fastest. Before winter begins, they can slaughter a few birds a day for Wu Zu to eat."

Fu Qian smiled and said, "Six people raise pigs, and their wages are less than twenty cents a month. Mixed grains are always money. It is not enough to make money to pick up pig grass and fish screws. But no matter how many people have to raise them, they will have more manpower. The current scale and surrounding rivers and wilderness are just enough. If you raise them more, the expenses of buying miscellaneous grains will increase, which is not worth it."

Chen Zuocai said: "Pig thirty cents per pound, and a pig kills 100 kilograms of meat and then sells it into the water. Pork and pig blood can be worth four guan, and 300 pigs are worth more than one thousand guan. How can this account be calculated and people are happy..."

"Don't lose money, either..." Xu Zixian smiled and said to him: "Only six people are taking care of hundreds of pigs. You are crazy about saving money, treating people like cattle and horses... Doing the people's hands should be doubled, and the food should be served well. If I hear someone complaining that the Hou Mansion is not kind, it is your sin."

Chen Zuocai was a straight man, not like a scholar. At this moment, he lifted his hem and tied it around his waist, and a lot of mud fell on his body. In addition, his face turned yellow and he looked like an old farmer. After hearing Xu Zixian's words, he blushed and then said, "If there is such a thing, the prince will kill me, and hang his head in front of the group training and train the flagpole to show the public..."

"What do I want your head to do..." Xu Zixian joked: "Your eyes are even bigger, and you won't scare everyone to death."

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