Chapter 12: The rare talent

Xu Erniang slowly placed the food box on the table, opened the food box, and took out the dishes inside. The damp wooden house had just been baked with charcoal, and it was steaming inside. Chen Ying subconsciously rolled up his sleeves, and Xu Erniang inadvertently sprinkled the soup from the plate on Chen Ying's thin fleece.

Seeing the soup dripping on Chen Ying's arm, Xu Erniang was shocked and quickly brushed her sleeves to wipe it. Suddenly, Xu Erniang found that Xu Jingzong was staring at him in a daze. In the end, the shyness of the woman had the upper hand. Xu Erniang gave in embarrassedly. When she saw Chen Ying on the side, she seemed to have no feelings, so her heart gradually calmed down.

Chen Ying didn't know these little thoughts in Xu Erniang's mind, but he knew that in the ninth year of Wude, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin would start a bloody killing between his brothers. After a battle of dragons and tigers, Li Shimin became kings, Li Jian succeeded and failed, and the Tang Dynasty created an unprecedented great situation in the hands of Li Shimin.

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin commanded Li Jing, Su Dingfang, Cheng Zhijie, Qin Qiong, Yuchi Gong, Xu Shiji and others to destroy the Eastern Turks, and then successively destroyed the Western Turks and Gaochang, and re-occupied the Western Regions. The Tang Dynasty became more and more powerful, and it reached Lake Berga in the north, Lingnan in the south, and Caspian Sea in the west, and all became the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

In this case, Chen Ying naturally did not have the nominal aloofness of "hidden when encountering chaos" and "the turbid water of the Cangwa is turbid, so he can wash my feet". He wanted to be witnesses of the great era that have been passed down through the ages, rather than being an unknown bystander.

When Li Yuan was obviously not as generous as Li Shimin, Chen Ying felt that he would take advantage of this excellent opportunity to become an important person in the Tang Dynasty.

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "No farming is not stable, no work is not rich, no business is not alive. In fact, nothing is important. The key is to live meaningful."

Xu Jingzong was increasingly unable to understand Chen Ying, but he knew that everyone had their own secrets. Even when he was facing his father-killing enemy, Yu Wenji, he knelt in front of Yu Wenji, dressed naked, and ordinary people thought that Xu Jingzong was begging for life in a humble manner, but no one knew that Xu Jingzong was just numbing Yu Wenji at that time. He thought that as long as Yu Wenji was within five steps of his approach, Xu Jingzong also asked Yu Wenji and compensated for what an ordinary man's wrath was.

It’s just a pity that Yu Wen and he did not believe in Xu Jingzong at all, which made Xu Jingzong bear such a bad reputation. In Xu Jingzong’s view, perhaps Chen Ying used pastoral joy to dispel Li Yuan’s suspicion of him. In any case, this was a good start. Once the emperor eliminated his vigor about Chen Ying, Chen Ying’s future was limitless.

Xu Erniang suddenly remembered something and said, "Langjun, is this still called Qinglinli?"

Just then, a loud noise from the wooden house suddenly came from the loud noise of dogs.

Chen Ying was secretly surprised. He did not raise a dog, nor did anyone bring a dog to the Qinglin. Chen Ying was about to get up, but heard Lan'er crying voice saying, "Don't kill it, you can't eat it..."

Chen Ying and Xu Jingzong walked out of the wooden house and found that more than a dozen people in the distance were falling heavily. Several people used their net bags to catch a yellowish wild dog. The wild dog didn't look big, at most three or five months old.

Seeing Chen Ying appear, Lan'er seemed to have seen a savior and quickly shouted: "Sister, help me, help me..."

Chen Ying was speechless, waved his hands and everyone scattered. The yellow wild dog was quite humane. Seeing Chen Ying waved away everyone, he leaned against Chen Ying and shouted at the dozen people who had just caught it.

It made Lan'er cry and laugh.

The puppy followed Lan'er back to the house, and Xu Erniang said again: "Is this Langjun still called Qinglinli?"

Chen Ying had not answered yet, but Lan'er said: "How is this possible? This is Langjun's manor, it should be called Chenjiazhuang!"

"That's fine!" Chen Ying was about to nod.

Xu Jingzong suddenly spoke, "It is quite inappropriate for Mr. Lang to recruit workers at this time!"

Chen Ying said in surprise: "What's wrong?"

Xu Jingzong said: "Liang Zan selected refugees on the official road in front of Baqiao, saying that he was looking for a farmer for his husband, but rather that he was looking for a martial artist for his husband. The 100-pound stone lock was placed on the side of the road, and he carried one of his hands for hundreds of steps without breathing. He sent a bucket of rice on the spot and hired it immediately..."

Chen Ying was shocked when he heard this.

Since Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, he received strong support from the Guanlong nobles and Shandong noble groups. Therefore, he was very afraid of the family and nobles, and he restricted the hereditary princes and marquises very strictly. The mansion and fiefdom were separated, and the fiefdom was also collected by local governments on their behalf, and the descendants of the title were strictly prohibited from interfering. In addition, there were many restrictions.

Especially in Chang'an, there were very strict restrictions, and the number of large families had the number of harem households and farmers. Since the Tang Dynasty did not unify the world at this time, especially when Hedong was lost, this method was relaxed and abolished, and few people have adhered to their duties anymore.

In theory, Chen Ying should not specifically select young and strong farmers to dispel Li Yuan’s suspicion of him at this time, but it is better to be a group of elderly, weak, women and children. Especially Liang Zan’s almost blatant method of recruiting soldiers is in the eyes of those who are interested. For Chen Ying, it will definitely do more harm than good.

However, Chen Ying was preparing to build a workshop, but he had to work hard, not the elderly, weak, women and children. How to solve this problem is another headache.

Chen Ying said: "How to resolve this matter?"

Xu Jingzong said: "This is an unsolvable problem. There have been no natural disasters and no man-made disasters recently. There were not many refugees at first. I am afraid that the ones whom the Langjun recruited were not real refugees, but spies from various families."

"This..." Chen Ying thought about it again. What Xu Jingzong said was not unreasonable. In the early Tang Dynasty, the Guanzhong area still had a large amount of fertile land for cultivation, and the population of Guanzhong was not far from the Han Dynasty. In this era, without natural disasters, refugees were very rare.

However, Chen Ying wanted to build an iron yard, and there were too many core secrets involved. If the iron yard here had just been built and the core secret was leaked, how could he make money? Chen Ying was unwilling to do wedding dress for others.

Chen Ying did not think of a solution for a while. Every large family has a family of polite families. Such polite families have slaves for generations and are very loyal, but Chen Ying does not have this innate advantage.

However, Chen Ying's mind changed his mind and immediately had an idea. He decided to use the tricks to use these "fake" refugees with ulterior motives to first encircle three thousand acres of wasteland, clean up the weeds and trees in the three thousand acres of wasteland, and build permanent houses for craftsmen to live in, and also use the water sources needed for life and steelmaking. These things consume a lot of financial and manpower, but do not have core technology, and even if they learn it, they are useless. In this way, the problem of manpower shortage has been temporarily solved, and secret leakage can also be avoided.

Chen Ying said: "No long-term workers are recruited for the time being, only temporary short-term workers are recruited."

After thinking for a while, Xu Jingzong understood Chen Ying’s intention: “My husband is wise!”

Outside the wooden house, hundreds of young and young refugees recruited by Ryozan were also very hard to do their work. After dinner, they began to clean the weeds in the open space outside the wooden house with wooden hammers, then mix the lime and soil, spread them flat on the ground, and use wooden hammers to compact them into a flat ground.

At midnight, a small courtyard made of three-combination earth rammed in one village appeared in front of Chen Ying.

The entourages and craftsmen who followed Chen Ying, plus the refugees recruited, had a total of 200 people. There must be no one living in a small wooden house, and the wooden house must be Chen Ying's sixteen armed entourages and Chen Jingyong, all set up camp tents outside the wooden house and guarded the wooden house.

Even Xu Jingzong lived in a marching tent.

As for the craftsmen and the recruited tutors, they could only feel wronged that they were lying around the bonfire and lying on the ground. Fortunately, it was not cold at this time, and the weather was slightly cool, and it was not unbearable.

At the third update, there was a sudden loud noise from outside the wooden house.

Chen Ying walked into the courtyard wearing a cloak, but found that Chen Jinyong held his right hand and held three armor-breaking arrows in his left hand, standing in front of the wooden house door looking around.
Chapter completed!