Zhao Zhen led the return, and everyone was overjoyed. The people and the defenders greeted Zhao Zhen one after another, and Zhao Zhen and others only entered the city under the celebration.
Zhao Zhen grabbed the beast's hand and said, "My brother, come, let's go in together!" As he said, everyone lined up. Most of them looked at the beast with surprise and envy. Unexpectedly, this body smelled so full of peculiarities. , The huge-looking fierce man could reach the sky in one step and became Zhao Zhen's guest and friend.
Since Beast surrendered to Zhao Zhen, he has been training his soldiers and horses in the Commander General of Xin Wang Jun. At the same time, he was taught martial arts by the martial arts master sent by the General Commander. The beast itself is powerful, and there is a kind of intuition and reaction nerve of a beast. At this time, after the formal study of martial arts, the martial arts of the beast is said to have surpassed the current Bronze Dragon Army commander Gao Pang under Zhao Zhen.
And when Zhao Zhen treated the beast so courteously, he also knew the temperament of the beast. This guy called his real name, not intentionally. He really admired and got close to the name of Zhao Zhen too much. But the person with the name Gao Pang is the defeat of the beast, not worthy of his admiration. Therefore, the wild beast was not aware of the consequences of saying the wrong thing, and at the same time was forgiven by Zhao Zhen. Because this beast of savage origin has no other people's intestines, and in the future, Zhao Zhen's side will only be a confidant who is loyal to Zhao Zhen himself.
Speaking of loyalty, are other generals not loyal to Zhao Zhen? Can't say that. Other generals are loyal to Zhao Zhen, some are for Zhao Zhen's prince, some are for Zhao Zhen's improper courage, some are for their own future, and some are for Zhao Zhen's ambition to break gold. But what if Zhao Zhen is an ordinary citizen? I am afraid that many people will not be loyal to Zhao Zhen. What if Zhao Zhen wants to surrender to Jin Kingdom and counterattack Da Song? Most generals would not follow Zhao Zhen. What if Zhao Zhen opposes that human beings want to be hostile to human beings in the world and want to exterminate humanity? Then I believe that all the generals and army of Xin Wang will oppose Zhao Zhen, except for the king and concubine and the fierce beast. Even Zhao Qing'er, Zhao Zhen's side concubine and army commander-in-chief, would not be totally anti-human to Zhao Zhen. This! It is the difference of loyalty.
When everyone entered the city, Dongyu, who was wearing a black gauze mask, was about to step forward, but was severely stopped by the official surnamed Gao. He said, "Retreat, if you don't understand the sword, you can't enter. Even if you want it now. After Xie Jian enters, we have to wait for us to welcome Master Gao, so let's wait first!"
In the walled city, fruit trees lined up in rows, farmland on one side, and rows of houses everywhere were built amidst the busy people of the people. There are also luxuriant flowers and long bean vines. Farmers loosen the soil, weed and fertilize the land. On that grassland, horses, donkeys, cattle and sheep continued to make people feel endless abundance.
Near the fortress on the mountain half slope, there are kilns and kilns everywhere. Brick-burning, brick-making, iron-making, workmanship, craftsmanship!
In the flowers, there is a constant buzzing sound. The swarms of bees flying in the sky like thin clouds gather nectar among the flowers. The current honey has also become a specialty of the Shitiaoshan Xinwangjun. The honey produced is not only self-sufficient, but also surplus, which can be processed and sold.
Behind the fortress built on the hill is a warehouse that is being built. This warehouse is very important and the craftsmen are expanding. The main reason is that the city walls and houses are being built with all their strength, so the warehouses are short of manpower and have not yet been established.
"Welcome your lord to return home..." A civil and military officer named Zhao Zhen led a group of people bowed to meet each other. For Zhao Zhen, the actual ruler of Bluestone City, he respected them more than the high officials and emperors of the Song Dynasty. The reason is simple, because Zhao Zhen gave them a bite of rice to eat.
Zhao Zhen didn't have any spare time. He said to Zhao Xiaodao next to him: "Knife, you immediately classify the young and middle-aged young men selected from among the people. The weakest ones will be separated, and the strongest ones will start training. We. We can’t rely on the recruits who have been trained in the commander’s mansion. We also have to train our own troops. The rest are from work to teacher, and all the people below must be immediately assigned and let those old foremen choose people! The speed must be fast. Jinbing will soon have the opportunity to attack. We must first build the city walls and houses so that the people can live in first. Also, the gunpowder workshop was established immediately. We cannot rely on the Taihang Mountain headquarters to supply the medicine. It is too far away. ."
"The final commander!" Zhao Xiaodao immediately clasped his fists and left. Looking at Yang Fan, Zhao Zhen laughed and said: "Yang Fan, you did a good job this time. Before my main attack, I took away all the horses of the Golden Army. You deserve to be a well-known ringleader who knows horses very well. You bring it. The horses that come back must be sorted, selected for me, and bred! Also, reward you with five thousand taels of silver, hundred taels of gold, and five silks and satins." "Thank you, lord!" Yang Fan surprised Zhao Zhen. Hold a fist.
Yang Fan's martial arts are a bit worse than Gao Pang's beast, but he has some horrible ideas. If he hadn't robbed the camp ahead of time this time, Zhao Zhen would really not be able to deal with the golden soldiers of the ten thousand team. Yang Fan had come to Zhao Zhen relatively early, so he was able to obtain the position of commander of the Dragon Army by virtue of his qualifications. Of course, although he is inferior to the martial arts of Gao Pang Beast and others, his martial arts is also very impressive. General generals are not his all-in-one generals.
The donkey covered his eyes and turned around the grindstone. Bags of beans and bags of rice were pierced and turned into powder in a blink of an eye. The quick-handed boys and girls take care of everything with the help of Lux, making tofu for making tofu, refining oil for refining, and making flour for making flour.
The flour made by Zhao Zhen is mainly for making buns! The biggest advantage of steamed buns is that they save food and are convenient. One or two big buns, plus a bowl of porridge, the belly of a strong man is flattened. Of course, maybe not full, but not too hungry. In this era of food shortage, half full is not bad. When Huizong was the emperor before the Jin Bing came, the people who did not live up to their lives changed their lives and the food was not without them. Now the Jin Army invades. On the contrary, it would be heavenly treatment to survive starvation under the protection of the King of Letters. This is also the reason why all the people in the area occupied by the letter king desperately support the letter king army and the letter king Zhao Zhen.
The people are very simple, whoever allows them to live, they will support whoever. A top of the tent was taken out, and several officials instructed the children to take care of the children, the weak and the disabled, and everything went in an orderly manner.
Regardless of the dust on her body, Zhao Zhen came to the river, looked around, and asked Li Yuxuan, who now manages Bluestone City, and said, "The waterwheel has not been erected yet?"
Ever since Li Yuxuan took all the people around him to Zhao Zhen, he was appointed by Zhao Zhen as the manager of Bluestone City. Li Yuxuan's introduction of scholars, who can be recognized and supported by the people, shows that this person has real abilities.
Hearing Zhao Zhen’s words, Li Yuxuan sighed: "My lord, you don’t want to think about it. We have to repair the outer walls, build big houses, and build inn warehouses. All these things require manual labor. Yes, but we only have more than 50,000 laborers, and the rest of the girls and children can't do much. They are just apprentices. What can they do? Our lack of manpower is already fast!"
Zhao Zhen is also sad, he knows that he has a lot of manpower on hand. A bluestone city occupied by hundreds of thousands of people and 25,000 cavalry, can it be said that there are few people? But my biggest weakness is time constraints. But is there any way? I have tried my best to attack, sneak and ambush the Golden Army. But Zhao Zhen knew that in winter, no matter how difficult the Golden Soldiers were, Wanyan Lou's room would definitely lead an army to come. Perhaps because of his own record, the number of soldiers and horses in Wanyan Lou's hands has decreased a lot, which is different from that of the 100,000 troops in the history of attacking Shanzhou City. But he knew that there would be a big battle in winter. In winter, their people must be able to live in the big houses in the city, and his army must guard the thick walls.
Zhao Zhen shook her head and said, "Let’s build close to the city walls and houses first, and gather everyone together to repair them quickly. I tell you that you can use pulleys and levers to make it faster. Have you used these tools?" "Of course I did. ." Li Yuxuan said in an interface: "Otherwise, how can we build half of the city wall in such a short period of time. The lord can rest assured that in another month, the city wall will be built."
Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "The livestock and farming must not be pulled down. We must feed the people under the rule and let them know that they can have a good life, have meat to eat, and clothes and clothing. It is our credit. This way. First, they will spontaneously stand up to protect our own home in order to protect everything they own, even if the Jinbing and the emperor can't help us! This is also taking the people to self-respect, do you understand?"
Li Yuxuan nodded. Since he knew that the person in front of him was a true believer, he knew that his feet were standing next to a prince who was bound to seize the nation's artifact in the future. He knew that they wanted to be independent from Emperor Zhao Gou's court, but it was the first time he came into contact with Zhao Zhen's thoughts. But this is of secondary importance. The important thing is that he believes in Wang Zhaozhen and knows that he believes in Wang Zhaozhen. He must have his own truth in what he said and did. Some things are done, and the consequences cannot be seen right now. You have to wait for time to see the situation.
Zhao Zhen sighed, and said: "Their unreliable labor force is amazing. We don't have enough food to feed everyone, but we can also let them eat some meat and eat meat. How much meat is there, is it enough?"
Li Yuxuan understands Zhao Zhen's thoughts, since everyone can't eat enough, then eat something good to make up. He said: "Even if it is not enough, it is enough to buy some. What we have is meat, there are endless fish and shrimps in the river, and there are countless mountain fruits on the mountain, as well as rabbits, sick horses, and some stocked old cattle, sheep and pigs. We can supply these laborers with some meat for a small price, no problem."
Zhao Zhen nodded and strode towards the earth kiln. Because Qingshi City had to house hundreds of thousands of people and more than 20,000 troops. So on a limited site, Zhao Zhen opened a lot of kilns to save space. There are many underground kilns, dozens of large holes and even small holes, creaking in the holes, and a cage full of rabbits. It is not difficult to take care of these rabbits. In the Zhongtiao Mountain at this time, the little rabbits have suddenly changed from a few thousand to tens of thousands, which is called an outrageous one. Rabbits belong to the murine family, and their babies are the same as mice. It’s called efficiency. You don’t know if you don’t raise rabbits. It turns out that the vitality of rabbits is so terrible that they will die easily, but they are also terrible when they give birth. Not so, these rabbits will not become the main food of the wolves on the grassland. I want to know that there are thousands of wolves on the grassland, but they are not a small number. These wolves are capable of feeding them. If there were no wolves, the grassland would feed the rabbits so that the spring grass would not grow.
Zhao Zhen looked at these rabbits, satisfied, and ordered to go down: "You don't have to keep too many, just use 50,000 as the base number, otherwise, even if we deliver food, our manpower will not be able to take care of it. Kill the old. , The skin and meat must be taken care of, let people be busy, and give everyone more rabbit meat to eat!" The little official on the side responded immediately.
I don’t know, I can’t help but think about raising rabbits when I see that rabbits are easy to raise. The same is true for grazing people, always thinking that they have a lot of cattle and sheep. If you raise more, you will eat more naturally. In the end, something big happened because there was no forage. Greed will cause great disasters and make you lose everything. Zhao Zhen would never be so greedy and make such mistakes.
The Yin`dong is very good. The mushrooms cultivated in the decaying wood and straw can grow wildly. This is a kind of water plant, fat and fat, and I have to pick it twice every night in the morning. Zhao Zhenda is satisfied with the efficiency of this plant growth. Now in the entire area occupied by King Xin, there are a large group of capable people in the commander-in-chief’s mansion. But here, I can only worry about it alone. In order to eat, Zhao Zhen has worked hard to find a way.
Finally Zhao Zhen arrived at the iron shop, and the jingle was endless. Old man Zhang, who was in charge of ironing, walked out quickly and said: "Master is back, the younger one is late..." Zhao Zhen helped him with a hand, and said with a smile: "Don't be polite..."
Old man Zhang turned back to the blacksmith's area, and Zhao Zhen also stepped in. As soon as he entered the shop, he felt the smell of heat and sulfur.
As Shitiao Mountain's resources are limited after all, Zhao Zhen did not establish a large-scale smelting workshop here, let alone a blast furnace forging equipment. Only the blacksmiths in the form of small workshops made weapons and repaired weapons for the Xinwang Army of Zhongtiao Mountain.
Seeing the rows of iron-strike masters being nervous and busy, Old Man Zhang chuckled silly. Then he roared: "Silly old fifth, go quickly and get the knife!"
Foolish Old Five is of course not a fool, but the fifth son of Old Man Zhang. Although this child is young, he is also in charge of the iron shop. A small person can be very powerful, and very clever, and he is also careful in doing things. He is a rare talent in the blacksmith workshop of Xinwangjun.
I saw this tall young boy running barefoot, and after a while, he held a long arc-shaped knife in both hands. Old man Zhang wiped his sweat, took it from his son, and dedicated the knife to Zhao Zhen. This is a kind of knife, but it is made of extraordinary, and it is made of good steel. The biggest technology of ironmaking lies in steelmaking. Good steel has its own good swords.
The key to refining is fire. The high melting point of fire can better remove impurities and make iron into steel. So Zhao Zhen built a high-temperature furnace tens of meters high in the Taihang Mountains, using coke. Only when the stove is raised high can the melting point of the fire be increased, and only by using coke can the combustion temperature of the fire be increased. If you want to start a blast furnace, you have to burn out refractory bricks. In the Taihang Mountains where Xinwangjun is entrenched, refractory bricks are directly used for smelting the iron and steel industry after being fired.
The scabbard of the long arc knife is made of pine wood with a slight rosin smell. The handle of the knife is made of paulownia wood, wrapped in black hemp, and then wound with fine thread.
Zhao Zhen struck her finger on the handle of the knife, and pulled the knife out of its sheath with a light draw. The blade was shining with cold light, the surface was chromed, and the knife was shiny. Zhao Zhen flicked her fingers on the knife, a soft sound, a "ding" sound, crisp and pleasant. The blade has a chrysanthemum pattern and is very sharp. Zhao Zhen drew a knife in his hand, and the room was full of brilliance. The whole new knife was like a plum of mercury, bright and clear.
"Well, you are all heroes of my Zhongtiao Mountain Song Army!" With Old Man Zhang as the leader, the craftsmen in the house knelt down.
Zhao Zhen smiled slightly, and continued: "Send my order, those craftsmen and masters do not need to kneel when they see the superiors like me. Foreman Zhang has merit, and he wants to reward one hundred taels of silver! Lao Zhang, get up, hehe, this is Your credit, I just said, but you really typed it out. From now on, Lao Zhang is the master craftsman here. Lao Zhang, you set a level for your subordinates. From apprentice to master craftsman, you count it yourself. Calculated in terms of their respective skills. Also, you believers must be careful. Has the division of work that I mentioned is carried out? As soon as possible, I need to administer a large number of soldiers quickly, and use a knife to strike slowly. That’s not enough. So. , You must let your apprentices be able to fight their own weapons as soon as possible, and you, specialize in making better steel and making more powerful weapons! Armor! Your weapons must be famous. In the future, you will receive direct disciples, yours. Disciples can also inherit this name! Is Ou Zhizi very good? You will be even better than him! They have treated swords for a lifetime, and they are as poor as a dog, and you will be rich and rich in the future, but you can’t get my stone. Tiaoshan, you must remember this!" In the whole shop, more than a hundred men cried to earth shaking.
In the Song Dynasty, the status of craftsmen was very low. They were only subordinate to the Ministry of Industry, and they were all inferior positions. There are also developed ones, but there are very few such people. And some talented people, because of various temperaments, behave better than others, and in the end they are not good.
"My lord..." everyone called, Zhao Zhen turned her head and saw some disabled elderly people also kneel down at the door. They are all talents of training, but they have broken hands and feet and no one pays any attention. In ancient times, what did craftsmen create wealth? It is their hands and feet. If their hands and feet are not good enough to work, what value is there for them
So these disability in the eyes of others is waste. But these wastes are still useful in Zhao Zhen's eyes. So he spent money to hire these trash people, because the minds of these people are the greatest wealth.