When the rolling smoke appeared in sight, Chang'an City was in sight. Xin Qingji rode a tall horse, which was a horse that was crossed with a sweat-blooded horse and Dayuan horse. After two generations of breeding, it was specially bred to train horses for transportation for the nobles.

Reliable, obedient, good-looking, and far exceeds that of its parent.

The number is small, and there are currently only more than one thousand horses in the country.

Xin Qingji was able to get one because of his contributions to the body.

Otherwise, even if he is the nephew of Zheng Guogong Xin Wuling, it would not be enough to get a scarce BMW.

Because most of these horses are the treasures of Taifu, who are kept in captivity in Hehuang and Hexi horse farms, waiting for the kids to come.

There are only thirty or fifty horses that can be delivered to Chang'an for people to use every year.

The twelve nobles and doctors will lose one point, so where can others get it?

That is, Xin Qingji, because he built a base for the country and got back the spoils equivalent to one year's national fiscal revenue, he was personally approved by the Prime Minister and given a horse as transportation.

The tall and handsome war horse carries the body of the master.

Along the way, countless merchants and people looked at each other.

But Xin Qingji looked at the rolling smoke in front of him, but his heart was a little nervous.

"I heard that the Prime Minister went to Xinfeng for inspection and would not come back within a few days?" Xin Qingji asked Jin Sheng carefully, the commander who accompanied him back to Beijing.

Jin Yan is the eldest son of the son-in-law Duwei Jin Sho.

At that time, Yanhe Palace Break, Jin Chong died in the chaos, while Jin Ri-jeong was placed under house arrest in the imperial prison.

Later, he was released because of Mrs. Jin of Shu, but he lost all his rights and only had a "definition" and died of illness in the second year of Yongshi.

But the Jin family has never been implicated again.

In fact, it is not just the Jin family, but many people who changed the palace to the sun were pardoned.

Among the twelve ministers and officials now, there are several who were the enemies who had even betrayed the prime minister.

For example, the Great Honglu Yu Jiyan was the Jingzhao Yin of that year.

He betrayed the Prime Minister and was ordered by the rebels to close the road.

After the Prime Minister quelled the rebellion, he was thrown into prison, then released and pardoned, and was eventually appointed as one of the ministers.

He has become a proof that the prime minister has a broad mind and embraces all rivers.

It's not just Jiyan.

In fact, many rebels and officials from that time were later pardoned and forgiven.

Only those stubborn, extremely vicious, and stubborn deadly members are investigated to the end.

For example, the nobles, scholars, and scholars of the southeastern counties and states were wiped out.

Their land and wealth all became the resources for the prime minister to buy the hearts of the people in the southeast.

This made the Southeast the largest fortress in Hexi, except Guanzhong.

In Linzi, Qufu, Lujun and other places, local people directly hang the twelve crowns of the Prime Minister, worshiping him like an emperor.

But, are those who are forgiven really forgiven?

If outsiders don’t know, how can Xin Qingji not know?

The Great Master Yu Jiyan seemed to be a noble and powerful official, but in fact he had no freedom at all.

Every morning and evening, someone will report his words and deeds that day.

In the Xuanshi Hall, he was the Prime Minister's vocal insect and tool man.

Although most of the traitors and rebels were pardoned.

However, almost all were left idle.

Only a few people, like Jin Yan, who have connections and backstage, can come out to do things.

But it is impossible to reuse it in the end.

Of course, Jin Yan also understood his situation, so in front of Xin Qingji, he did not dare to put on the airs of the Prime Minister's relatives, and replied with a smile: "The Prime Minister did go to Xinfeng, but inspected the newly built gunpowder workshop..."

"Oh..." Xin Qingji nodded.

Today's gunpowder has replaced the past's simplicity and has become the most important strategic material of the Han Dynasty.

The state even imposed a "saltpeptide tax", stipulating that each farmer must pay the country a total weight of no less than ten kilograms of nitroso soil each year.

However, the nitroso soil collected from various places was prepared in the county and was uniformly transported to the gunpowder workshop near Chang'an. The gunpowder produced was directly sent to the arsenal of Chang'an City.

The Prime Minister's Taiwei's Office is responsible for issuing and transferring the transfer.

"So, the Prime Minister is no longer in Chang'an..." Xin Qingji felt deeply relieved.

"Well..." Jin Yan nodded, then smiled and said, "So the Prime Minister ordered the officials to take you directly to Xinfeng..."

"..." Xin Qingji's smile suddenly frozen on his face.

The person they admire most in their generation is naturally the prime minister.

At the same time, the one who is most afraid and afraid is also the prime minister!

Especially for people like Xin Qingji who make mistakes.

However, no matter how afraid or feared, Xin Qingji could not escape and had nowhere to escape.

So I could only bite my teeth and muster up the courage to follow Jin Yan, turn from the road outside Chang'an and head to Xinfeng.

Nowadays, it is extremely fast to go from Chang'an to Xinfeng.

Because, an unprecedented asphalt road connects the political center and industrial center of the empire.

On the road, there are brigades of caravans and caravans walking towards each other at all times.

All the cars and horses were loaded with all kinds of supplies.

Grain and raw materials are all transported to Xinfeng.

Various handmade and industrial products were shipped to Chang'an, waiting to be loaded with carriages leading to all parts of the empire.

With Xin Qingji and his party, they got closer and closer to Xinfeng.

The pressure they felt was getting bigger and bigger.

Finally, after crossing Lintong and entering the jurisdiction of Xinfeng.

Their eyes were already shocked by the scene in front of them.

Once upon a time, Xinfeng was an agricultural grain-producing area.

Most of the land in the territory is farmland, and this place is the origin of the famous "Xinfeng Mai" today.

Back then, the people of Xinfeng made a lot of money by selling wheat seeds.

But now, the farmland in Xinfeng is shrinking.

Instead, there are workshops and workshops, densely spread across the road, gradually squeezing the former farmland.

On both sides of the river, blast furnaces rose from the ground.

This is the third generation blast furnace, which uses the latest refractory bricks and smelting technology. Each blast furnace can produce as many as thousands of kilograms of iron every day.

The rolling iron flows out of the furnace every moment, and is forged and tempered by dozens or even hundreds of craftsmen, and becomes cast iron blocks.

Then, the formed iron blocks were sent to heavy-duty carriages, which were pulled by four horses and drove on tracks paved with logs.

And from these tracks, transported to the next location.

The tracks that are all over the sight are like spider webs, which are the biggest feature of Xinfeng at present.

They connect all the workshops in Xinfeng and become the link for transportation of each workshop.

Therefore, the production, processing, cooperation and assembly of products are all linked by these tracks.

This makes Xinfeng's production efficiency the best in the world.

More than 40% of pig iron in the world, more than 60% of fine iron and more than 70% of crude steel in the world are all produced and processed here.

More than half of the arrows, iron armor, more than 80% of the muskets, cannons and their parts are also here.

Those who win the new prosperity will win the world, which has become a proverb and a consensus across the world.

Of course, at the cost, this place has become the most polluted area in the Han Dynasty.

Food and drinking water are no longer safe.

Now, all the grain and water in Xinfeng's jurisdiction are transported from Chang'an.

Most of the people have also changed from farmers to workers or workshop owners.

Just over Mount Li, I am still following the life of working from sunrise to sunset for thousands of years.

Although it is not the first time Xin Qingji and Jin Yan come to Xinfeng, nor is it the first time that they have seen such a scene.

But they are still full of awe and shock.

Because of this huge workshop area, the endless track network, and the blast furnaces that are constantly sucking and spitting out of molten iron.
To be continued...