Bingzhou did not hold a Yuan meeting last year. Sima Teng abandoned the state and fled, Jinyang hangs alone under the iron hooves of the Huns, who still has the heart to celebrate the New Year? In addition, last year's Zhengdan solar eclipse added a lot of bad luck to this year.
However, on the first day of this year, Jinyang completely changed his appearance.
Early in the morning, before the scorched smell of firecrackers had completely dissipated, the hall of the Governor's Mansion was full of seats. After the drum music was played, the officials offered their worship. Today, from the six prefectures of Bingzhou, five guardian ministers came. These two thousand stone officials, facing the people in the seat, still respectfully offered wine to celebrate the New Year.
Shangdang Prefect Cui Ji, Leping Nei Shi Wenqiao, Taiyuan Commander Ge Hong, Xinxing Prefect Xu Xian, and newly appointed Yanmen Prefect Guo Xing were all picked by Liang Feng. In just one short year, except for the Xihe Kingdom, the four borders of Bingzhou are safe, which is truly a shocking move.
In the middle of the lobby, Liang Feng, dressed in a blue court dress, sat in the main seat. This is the spring clothes in the five o'clock court clothes, and the color is much brighter than the black court clothes in winter, which makes his face more like a crown jade. However, the top of the head is the Liang Guan, and the silver-printed blue ribbon around the waist adds great dignity to the handsome face.
Wen Qiao finished the cup of Jiaobai wine, and said loudly: "Last year, Leping increased 5,000 households, reclaimed a thousand hectares of wasteland, and set up 2,000 troops. I am in Sanyuan, and I would like to congratulate the envoy."
The Yuanhui in Bingzhou is different from other places. In addition to the Lunar New Year, it is also necessary to report the achievements of the year. Wen Qiao's achievements this year are not small, and now they are all very loud.
Liang Feng nodded: "Under Leping's rule of Antai, the people live happily, this is really the merit of Taizhen. We should add more troops this year to prepare for foreign enemies."
Hearing this, Wen Qiao's heart froze. This is the first time Liang Shijun has pointed out the tensions facing Bingzhou. After all, the country of Leping last year was still in the rear to defend against the Huns, developing agriculture and reclaiming the wasteland. However, once he had a bad relationship with Youzhou, Leping turned from the rear to the front line, and he might have the responsibility of defending the land.
But what was in his heart was never revealed on his face, Wen Qiao respectfully returned the salute: "Xiaguan understands."
He has also been familiar with military books since childhood, and now other prefects of Bingzhou have experienced fierce battles. People like Ge Hong still have a military rank. Wen Qiao was young and vigorous, and naturally did not want to be left behind. And to be honest, he was a little bit disgusted with Wang Jun. Although they are both high-ranking families in Bingzhou, Wang Jun is the heir of a concubine, and his identity is inherently delicate. In addition, this person was ruthless and immoral, and he murdered the Crown Prince Minhuai together with Empress Jia back then, resulting in the loss of the Crown Prince of the country. This alone is enough to make people of insight cut off from him. As for marrying a daughter to a Xianbei, it is even more disgusting.
Now that Wang Jun is entrenched in Youzhou, he has posed a threat to Bingzhou. If there is a battle to be fought, he is not afraid at all!
Backing aside, Wen Qiao watched others congratulate him. Hearing it all the way, even he was amazed. Last year, Bingzhou had been fighting, almost from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. However, during this period, 30,000 households were added and thousands of hectares of wasteland were reclaimed. This number, placed in the Taikang period, is also extremely astonishing, not to mention the current troubled times. The population that Sima Teng took away back then not only made up all of them, but also greatly increased. The efficiency of land reclamation is even more astounding.
And such a large-scale shelter of refugees did not disturb the state and county! If he hadn't ruled the Leping Kingdom with his own hands, even if he heard about it, he wouldn't believe it. It is really a cash-for-work scheme, which is the easiest way to bring peace to the people!
As long as they spend the same amount of money and food as the relief, they can let those refugees reclaim the land. Building roads, building water conservancy, building Wubao, even women and children can raise livestock, weave and spin yarn. Every ounce of manpower was used to the extreme. And this kind of hard work did not make the people feel cold. On the contrary, they know that what they are doing is desperately trying to settle down in the future.
Turn the refugees who are feared by everyone into obedient people under the rule. Such a method is called shocking. If Liang Shijun takes office, I am afraid that this troubled world will be quickly pacified. Wen Qiao was born in Gaomen since he was a child, and all the people he has met are the top-notch romantic characters. There are six elders in his family, and they are called "six dragons", all of them are talents in the world. But who can be like Liang Shijun? Just by what the emperor did, one could see how graceful the Duke Liang, who was known as "the most capable minister in the world", was back then.
And such a large-scale Tunna population brings out another astonishing fact. This Liang Zixi really has the ability of Guan Zhong and Fan Li!
There is a shortage of food in Bingzhou. After all, the army has been in chaos for years, and the court has never given much food. Such a doubling of the population will inevitably bring great pressure on the finances. But Bingzhou was not stretched because of this, because Liang Shijun opened up two ways to make money.
One is coal.
The charcoal used by villages in the mountains in those days has now become a heating material in every household in Bingzhou. After a year of exploration, three coalfields have been opened, and Leping accounts for one of them. Countless amounts of coal are shipped from mines every day. These are still small heads, and the bigger profits are in Rui Tan!
This thing comes from coal and looks like charcoal, but the smoke is thin, flameless and shiny. What is even more rare is that the heat is amazing, and it does not go out for a long time. Once launched, it immediately became the favorite of the dignitaries. However, the method of making this thing is still kept secret and cannot be explored by outsiders. Therefore, the price of Swiss charcoal has also risen steadily, and it has become the largest cargo sold in Bingzhou.
And this charcoal, but also with a new furnace. The shape is different from the charcoal basin, most of which are made of copper and iron, and there is a furnace in the furnace to prevent the charcoal fire from burning out and burning the furnace wall. At the same time, the charcoal stove is equipped with a flue, which can discharge charcoal poison. As long as you use it properly, you can avoid the sudden death of burning charcoal in winter.
Rui charcoal has been bought, and it is not reasonable to buy a few more charcoal stoves? As a result, it is a large amount of income. And this led to the second transaction, iron.
Shangdang has been producing iron since ancient times, and although the mines were controlled by the imperial court, private iron merchants still emerged one after another. But no one has ever produced such an output like Liang Shijun!
Today, the agricultural tools used in Bingzhou reclamation are all iron tools. Only this one, the efficiency has increased sharply, and the number of official fields that have been cultivated has more than doubled. Swords are more than everything, and even the arrows carried by the archers in Bingzhou are more than three times that of others. And that charcoal stove that sells extremely well, it is said that the cost is not expensive.
The cloth business is also picking up. Originally, Jizhou and Yanzhou were big weavers. But the years of war have long since lost its former glory. In Bingzhou, the fleeing weavers were gathered up and started a weaving factory. In just a short period of time, the pattern and dyeing of the cloth have made great progress, and it seems that the spinning loom has also changed. Nowadays, grain is expensive and money is cheap, which cannot be offset, and most of the transactions in the market are made of silk. If it can be twice as fast as other people weaving silk, how much food is it
It's just these few things, it's an extremely scary number. What's more, the Liang Mansion is also in charge of the business of white porcelain, colored glaze, salt and so on. Therefore, even if Bingzhou swallowed the refugees, it did not really give birth to fatigue. In troubled times, people are the root of everything. As long as the cultivated wasteland is harvested, why worry about the unrest in the prefecture
Listening to the recitation of that sentence by sentence, Wen Qiao only felt convincing. Such a capable minister is the one who should be his assistant! Looking at Guo Xing, the prefect of Yanmen, who was sitting beside him, Wen Qiao couldn't help showing a faint smile. It seems that it is not Guo Tong's lineage that the emperor wants to reuse, but another Shuzong of the Guo family. It's a pity that Guo Tong put on such a big air, but he couldn't see the current situation clearly. Is the state still in the past? Gaomen are separated, and now Liang Shijun, who has a strong army, money and grain power, and also serves as the governor, is the head of this state!
It is a pity that General Yi was alienated by the imperial court and went to Jizhou. Just look at how this year's war of seclusion will look like. Thinking of the heavy responsibility on his shoulders, Wen Qiao's body became more straight. A high-spirited young man, who wouldn't want to make a contribution
Yuanhui, in accordance with the usual practice, held an official banquet after offering congratulations, and it did not end until the evening. But after the foreign officials met, there was also the retainer Xiao He.
"My son, I wish my father good health and longevity!" Liang Rong raised his glass in earnest to congratulate his father on his birthday.
Rao was tired all day, and Liang Feng also smiled: "Rong'er is also Antai every year."
Different from the official banquet, all those who came were people who called themselves "Langzhu" or "Master". Only this year, a few more.
"Zhichuan, is there any use for the microscope that came out of the workshop?" Liang Feng turned to Ge Hong and said.
Even if he is not very good at human-travel relations, Ge Hong's eyes still light up when he mentions the microscope: "This mirror is really exquisite, and it can see tiny things. I have observed a lot of vegetation bugs with Ji En. The Buddhist Sumeru mustard seeds. I mean, there's something to be said for it!"
Although Ge Hong had been by his side for a long time, calling him the master was a recent thing. However, Liang Feng felt that what really moved Ge Hong was the establishment of the concept of creation. This Taoist temple is different from the Wynn Temple. It is not so much a religious place as it is a research institution. Not only continued the research in Shangdang Taoism, but also raised the idea of "three living things" to the highest level.
Here, biology, chemistry, astronomy, physics, and even medical research will be carried out one after another. In fact, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was the peak of exploration and discovery. Coupled with the decline of Confucianism and the prosperity of Lao Zhuang and Zhuang, the study of "Tao" and nature has become more acceptable.
Liang Feng did not directly create schools, but incorporated them into religion. Taoist thought has a tendency to explore the world, so Taoists are keen on alchemy and want to use human power to conquer the sky. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Taoist system had not yet been fully developed. What if the "dao" was changed
And Ge Hong is the most suitable candidate. A being that opens the door to natural science.
Such an idea was something Ge Hong had never thought of. More importantly, he originally thought that the emperor believed in Buddhism, but was only interested in alchemy. Who would have thought that Liang Feng's positioning of the concept of creation is completely different from that of Huai'en Temple. If you enter this way, you can also be an official!
Where is this Buddha? Obviously still serious!
With the telescopic mirror and the microscope, there are endless ideas and a new Taoist view that represents the meaning of life and creation. Ge Hong finally lowered his head. What he asked for, everyone in front of him could achieve. Whether it is saving the world, living people, or seeking the Way. You know that the master knows each other, what more can you ask for
And if this person can ascend to a higher position
Because of these ideas, Ge Hong is less resistant to even Buddhism. And Xumi mustard's confirmation made him feel a little bit more emotional. It turns out that all things in the world are interconnected!
Seeing that Ge Hong was fascinated, he wanted to discuss it carefully. Duan Qin interrupted with a smile: "The microscope is the next best thing. This year, the Fuzhong has forged a hundred iron swords, which is even better than a hundred refinements!"
In this era, military industry is also a manifestation of military strength. At that time, the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu competed to make knives. Sun Quan ordered one thousand man-made knives, and Pu Yuan made five thousand knives for Liu Bei. However, these swords still have fifty or even seventy-two refinements. When it comes to "Hundred Refinements", it is a good steel knife that cuts iron like mud. Therefore, Cao Cao obtained five hundred-refined hundred swords, and he can be recorded in the history.
And now, the Liang Mansion has produced a hundred steel knives in one breath, and the number is an overwhelming victory. And on this, the credit of hydraulic hammer forging and pouring steel method is indispensable.
After the giant waterwheel was used for blasting, grinding and hammering, the function of wrought iron was added. Such simple mechanical energy greatly reduces manpower consumption and makes it possible to achieve things that could not be easily accomplished. Not to mention knives, even armor making has reached a new level. Now it takes half a month to make a breastplate without a few craftsmen hammering, and the rough embryo can be made in one day! Although there is still some distance from the real plate armor, the time and cost are reduced too much.
The steel filling method is the product of the mixed use of small blast furnaces and coke. The original Hundred Refinement method is to use hammer forging to eliminate impurities in refined iron. Time-consuming and labor-intensive, the output has never been able to increase. After the blast furnace, Liangfu craftsmen began to experiment with the mixing of pig iron and wrought iron, and gradually touched a higher level of techniques. Coupled with the introduction of urine quenching, the resulting knife is both rigid and soft, which is even better than the performance of the Bailian Knife. This kind of knife is long and sharp, cutting armor dozens of times, and the blade is dark blue and black, and it takes a few nights. Liang Feng personally named it "Su Tie Dao".
In fact, technology is sometimes just a matter of poking a window. Liang Feng doesn't know much, but if he provides ideas, there are naturally skilled craftsmen who can realize it for him.
Cui Ji also said: "Shangdang has also made a lot of profit from tea and salt this year. There is also border trade. If the Tuoba team wins Wang Pengzu, there will be no shortage of horses, cattle and sheep this year."
The battle between Tuoba and Youzhou continued. But secretly, the Bingzhou side also stirs the wind and stirs the water. Because Bingzhou is gradually stabilized, and it is quite benevolent to the people, the population near Daijun is moving to Bingzhou. If Dai County is empty, and Wang Jun has no people to stand by, even if he wins, what can he do? What's more, he may not be able to win!
Zhang Bin snorted: "You should also let Youzhou experience the suffering of the people's displacement. Now that the court is helping, the lord's great cause is more stable!"
What he said was, of course, Yecheng. According to the news from Yi Yan, the officials they secretly inserted had already controlled the lifeline of Ye City. Only waiting for Yi Yanchun to send troops, capture more cities, and then join the officials to defend the army. So unknowingly, in less than a year, the soldiers and horses will be able to erode Jizhou. After winning several counties, wouldn't it be more certain to fight with Wang Jun
The word great cause is like a torch to lure butterflies, making it difficult for everyone to control themselves, and become more and more enthusiastic about it. This is only the first batch, there will be a second batch, a third batch, and even countless civil and military forces, pushing him to a high position.
Looking at the cheerful faces, the pepper cypress wine on his lips also showed a bit of bitterness. At this point, how can anyone step back
The soft melody seemed to be heard in his ears again, but when Liang Feng turned his head, he found that the figure that had always been by the left hand had disappeared.
Probably to avoid suspicion, except for a few text messages, Yecheng did not send anything. Or, that fortified city is the gift of congratulations he presented? But in previous years, what did he give away
Liang Feng put down the wine glass, threw these irrelevant things out of his mind, leaned on the table, and continued to listen to the conversation with a smile.