After taking Du Zhongxiao back to the Houya, Han Yueniang breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank God, Dalang is back safely! That Chang Wei is an old slave in the governor's mansion. You took him to the governor's city. I really sweated for you, for fear of being embarrassed by the governor's misfortune. Just come back!"

Xiaoqing said with red eyes: "No. At first, I didn't know that my husband took people away. When I heard people say that they were powerful, I realized what the risk the officials took. It's all my fault for being ignorant and making a frustrated. "

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "What's wrong with you? Chang Wei was a fool who was trying to die. Who could save him? When he arrived in the city of the city, his husband heard the whole story, so he ordered him to be killed in front of the steps. It can be seen that slaves are not allowed to do so recklessly in his family."

Everyone said he was lucky, and Han Yueniang hurriedly ordered to serve wine to welcome Du Zhongxiao.

Seeing everyone busy, only Du Zhongxiao knew in his heart that everyone, including himself, had underestimated Xia Sheng before. The defeat in the northwest, and officials and people all over the world looked down on Xia Sheng. There were many people who attacked Xia Sheng from all aspects. Judging from Chang Wei's incident this time, Xia Sheng was definitely not the kind of person who was highly powerful and domineering and ignorant. Even today, he is still clear-headed and at least he is strict in his governance.

Xia Shu was in the northwest, and he was not interested in the border affairs and wanted to enter the Zhongshu, but was not active in doing things. Another way, he did not have the ability to revive the dead, so how could he turn the tide? But not being able to do it in the northwest does not mean that Xia Shu was not able to do it in the mainland. At least in this era, Xia Shu was an excellent official and was determined to do something.

The family prepared a banquet to welcome Du Zhongxiao, and the storm subsided.

On the second day, Du Zhongxiao called Qiao Baoping, the official of the field affairs of the camp, and said to him: "The autumn harvest has passed, and now the field affairs of the camp is sufficient money and food, which is not as embarrassing as he was short of money and food a few days ago. This time, when he went to the prefecture city, the prefect ordered that the law of the land affairs of the camp, not only should the same as before, but also to organize the township soldiers. If there are township soldiers, they should have military equipment. The war warehouse of the artifacts in the state can lend us some, but most of them still have to find a way for us. The county collects iron mostly to make agricultural tools. Now we need to make weapons, and we need to buy more iron."

Qiao Baoping was a little embarrassed: "Officials, blacksmiths who built fields, made farm tools are very good. Many businessmen from other countries came to us to buy farm tools. Bei Zhi was just trying to make more farm tools by making money by making more farm tools in winter. If you make weapons, you are afraid-"

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's okay, now you have money and food, just recruit more people. Yongcheng is located on the bank of the Bian River. You can ask merchants to come and send us a message. Any blacksmith can come here to give us more money and food. Also, choose skillful people in the nearby countryside, and you can do work as an apprentice in blacksmiths and learn for a few days. Many of the work done by blacksmiths do not require skilled craftsmen."

Qiao Baoping thought for a while and nodded. The craftsmen in this era were still master-apprentice systems. They started out as handymen. They couldn't learn any craftsmanship and had to satisfy the master before they began to teach skills. It was too slow to cultivate talents in this way. Du Zhongxiao built a field, because it was the official who paid money and grain, and there was a reward mechanism for the master to train his apprentice. It is precisely because of this that the field can make full use of the apprentice.

After discussing the military staff, the armor, Qiao Baoping said: "If an official recruits the village soldiers, he will teach him to read it. Whether it is a reading of ten days or a reading of half a month, it will delay the farming time. He organized the village soldiers, and this year the opening of land, land reclamation, canal construction, and road paving of many villages will be delayed."

This is exactly what Xia Shu asked to organize the township soldiers to annoy Du Zhongxiao. The manpower of the camping and field responsibilities was limited. After a few months of training, the township soldiers delayed the winter to do projects. The camping and field responsibilities are more attractive than ordinary villages around. Many of the reasons are because the personnel organization is effective and the infrastructure is better. People are going to dance horses and guns, who will do various projects?

After thinking about it, Du Zhongxiao said, "It is better to do this. All the matters of building bridges and paving roads are combined with the teachings and readings of the township soldiers. After the teachings and readings, they will directly take the township soldiers to build bridges and pave the roads. Anyway, their money and food are distributed in the field affairs, and they will not be confused."

Qiao Baoping bowed and said that it was. This is the benefit of farming and farming. Each village under his rule is a whole, and the relationship is much simpler.

After talking about organizing the township soldiers, Qiao Baoping sighed: "Just just harvested the autumn grain and got the harvest, the land camp has finally recovered and is no longer as difficult as before. The magistrate wants to run the township soldiers. Now the thieves around cannot afford it, so it would be great if they drag it over a few years. Build more large ditches, rectify the surrounding land, and recruit more people. The land camp will have several times more money and grain than Yongcheng County."

Du Zhongxiao sighed and said nothing. It is okay to renovate the land, but it is not easy to recruit people for land camps. Most of the surrounding migrant population has been absorbed. If you recruit people, it may be from other prefectures and counties. People and households are officials' political achievements. Which official is willing to let the people under his rule come to the land camps? What's more, with the development of land camps, the surrounding landlords have increased the treatment of hired farmers, and it is difficult to recruit people.

Taking into account the income of the field business this year and talking about the field business business affairs, Du Zhongxiao felt that the field business in Yongcheng had encountered a bottleneck, and it would be difficult to develop as quickly as before. Manpower is limited after all, and now it is not an era of small land and many people.

After talking about the matter of the field affairs, Qiao Baoping suddenly said: "Official, the steam engine that Tao Shiqi has been tinkering with has recently said it will finally be useful. He asked me to tell the official, if you have time, go and take a look."

"Oh--" After hearing this, Du Zhongxiao was shocked. It has been several years since he proposed the idea of ​​a steam engine. With his own guidance from the side, Tao Shiqi has been working hard, and Han Jiang and Su Song have been assisting from the side, it is time for some results. It doesn't need to be very advanced. As long as he can be loaded on the ship, he can be transported on the Bian River, it is a success.

The Song Dynasty was different from Britain in history. It did not have a large number of colonies, but had a huge domestic market. The most important thing now is not the development of light industry, but the heavy industry combined with the military. A gunpowder and a steam engine are the core. If a coal-steel consortium is formed, the road to industrial revolution can be initially begun.

Yu Dasong's textile industry was not a good introduction to the industrial revolution, and transportation was more suitable. With official power, if the steam engine entered the practical stage, railways and ships could be built. Once the transportation problem was solved, the developed economy in the mainland could be transformed into military strength in the border areas. With the continuous transport of materials from the mainland to the border, it could be changed to the strength of the Dangxiang and Khitan.

Xia Shu was determined to implement the law of protecting the army, embracing the army to the people, and reducing military expenditures. In fact, once the transportation problem is solved, the army in the northwest can increase several times, and the use of people can kill the party.

Thinking of this, Du Zhongxiao could no longer sit still, stood up and paced back and forth. Imagine that if a railway leads to the northwest, there would be enough money and grain to support hundreds of thousands of troops, and to attack Dangxiang in several ways. How many people are there in Dangxiang? There are 600,000 troops, 300,000 troops, and Yuanhao can't resist it even if he has great skills.
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