Tang Dynasty

Chapter 157: Rise

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In the inner city of Guangzhou, the General's Mansion, more than two months have passed since time flies.

The branches of viburnum, white magnolia, and kapok trees that grow luxuriantly and densely protrude out of the wall are already full of buds. In the sound of cicadas chirping, the scent of summer heat has been eagerly expelled from the drowsy warm spring breeze; it is racing to envelope this ancient city.

And not far from the general’s mansion diagonally across the street, in the new courtyard, Zhou Huaian also raised his head in a pile of books and rubbed his stiff face, which had been seen for too long; he called behind him. Said: "Tea is here."

Then, amidst the swaying and friction of the subtle objects, a pair of small hands struggling to hold things caught in his eyes; but the small pendant "Iris" was holding a tea tray larger than her head with some effort, cautiously Using her head to assist in supporting the paragraph, she walked over and put it aside; she took the lid of the yellow-glazed celadon and blew it before sending it to Zhou Huaian's hands; and after all this, her face was a little strenuous There are already thin beads of sweat on the upper and nose.

However, Zhou Huaian would not feel pity or sympathy, at least he provided the other person with the opportunity to support themselves. In this troubled world, many people want to support themselves.

And after this period of recuperation and rest, the scabies and other skin problems on the little things are cured, and the hair has become dense and soft. Although the face is still thin and there is not much meat, the skin gradually becomes more delicate. , It seems more pleasing to the eye at last.

"Well, it's still hot, and the cooking temperature is slightly worse..."

Zhou Huaian took a sip of the tea cup

"But the ingredients are basically complete... It's considered an improvement..."

If you want a more suitable life in the hot and humid Lingnan land, it is the most basic skill to cook the corresponding tea soup; from the nobles to the traffickers and pawns, there are corresponding prescriptions and materials; Zhou Huaian is now In his daily life, it also includes part of these experiments with different tea recipes.

"Wait, Bai Jingjing..."

Zhou Huaian suddenly remembered something and couldn't help asking.

"How come you do this kind of thing..."

"Sister A... A sister took the bear wolf dog to take a bath..."

"Ok,.."

Zhou Huaian couldn't help but patted her forehead with happiness, then waved her hand to sit down.

"You take a break first... and then come over and copy something for me..."

Since the beginning of spring, this little pet "bear wolf dog" has got a new problem. He likes to jump into mud flats or puddles to roll around with his toys and ride people inadvertently, and then scrape around with mud and sewage. What kind of tagging.

"Yes it is..."

The small pendant promised with a pleasing eyebrow. It is hard to imagine that when she and the skeleton spirit were just starting to do housework, all kinds of utensils were constantly knocked to the ground, or a tragic scene of knocking down a pile of furnishings by mistake;

Therefore, the price of being a maid is all kinds of miscellaneous doubling of losses and damage, so that Zhou Huaian inevitably produces a certain psychological shadow, and within a period of time, except for the fall-resistant wooden utensils, other objects are not Dare to let them use.

During this period, because of these two clumsy hands, she often yelled at her hands and body, or after scratching or scratching, she secretly hid in the corner, holding her head and shed tears; or Zhou Huai'an has to come to treat the aftermath and give them compulsory medication and cleaning; otherwise, these two fools who don’t know how to take care of others or how to live by themselves will have their usual style, but I’m afraid they will soon get infected and Festered.

However, in these days, it is somehow arranged for other experienced servants who have been slaves to take turns to teach by precepts and deeds; the performance of her two is finally from the horrible at first, barely evolved to the point where it is so sloppy and can still be accepted by pinching the nose. . Of course, besides this aspect of daily life, they have other attributes to develop.

For example, the reading and memory abilities of this small pendant are pretty good, and it also writes a hand-made teeny script, so sometimes it can be written and copied. Then, Zhou Huaian found that she did have the foundation for ink painting, so she simply taught her simple black and white drawings and three-dimensional outlines.

As for the skeleton spirit, in addition to barely learning to make a bed, stack a quilt and make tea and boil soup, it also seems to have so much experience in serving flowers and plants. Therefore, in order to make the best use of the material, try to defraud the use value, and simply take care of and feed the pet "bear wolf dog" daily work; so for a period of time, both people and dogs are in trouble. In those days, you can often hear the screams of her being forgotten to feed, and she is so hungry that she can't choose to eat the bite of the bear, wolf, and dog.

And as a punishment for corresponding dereliction of duty, it is to be forced to be locked up with a bear, wolf and dog, to deepen feelings and connections at close range. Then, in the midst of the torment day and night, she gradually became surrendered and obedient.

Zhou Huaian's new title is now the food judge of the Grand General's House, which is the original official position and status of Pang Xun's uprising. Therefore, he can be called a "virtual judge" or "virtual judgement". Although he is not as expensive as the traditional "Sima, Bujia, and Changshi" who sits on the three seats of the traditional officials, he can be regarded as an important person in the general's mansion. The middle level ranks, and the status is still higher than that of the Six Cao Counselors and the scattered soldiers who joined the army and the record of joining the army.

He still serves as the deputy commander of the Sanjiang Patrol Army, and continues to lead and preside over the daily affairs of the local and military affairs through the messengers and documents that come and go; this is also one of the results of the struggle and compromise with the generals afterwards; also Another result was that he was able to bring a group of soldiers into the city to stay permanently; although the current stay is only in the corner of the outer city, it also represents a kind of closeness and important order.

Of course, what is more important is that this regiment will continue to practice and operate some of his ideas and measures through regular rotations; and during the period of staying in Canton, Zhou Huaian has done a little bit as much as he can. Things.

It was based on the mature experience of the original several special brigades that reorganized the logistics system and material distribution sequence of the rebels; also unified the daily supply of large civilian biological materials in Guangzhou, and established a set of original battlefield medical and sanitation and epidemic prevention systems. In the end, it is finally to control and weaken the time epidemics one after another in the past few days.

Then, it organized the manpower to re-renovate the roads between Guangzhou and Meizhou and Shaozhou, and restored the post system of “ten miles and one pavilion”, “30 miles and one station” and “eighty miles and one hall” on these two lines to benefit. Message delivery and personnel dispatching exchanges.

It also dredged several sections of silted canals in Guangzhou, and set up special water officials; strengthened the dams of the main stream of the Pearl River to enhance the effect of water conservancy irrigation and the use of water transportation in the river network.

At the traffic hub in the suburbs of Guangzhou, a mobile market within the rebel army was established so that the people and horses can communicate with each other for needs.

In addition, he set up a special workshop in Guangzhou to teach some simple measurement methods and mathematical principles. At present, he has quickly formed two batches of Qingtian envoys and Tuntian officials, and began to clear the land in the Pearl River Delta basin. And the preparatory work for enclosing and farming.

Then, in order to complement this long-term workshop with hundreds of people, all the paper mills, bookshops, engraving and printing craftsmen in Guangzhou city were gathered to create a writing bureau dedicated to the volunteers.

At least from engraving to movable type printing, there are actually not too many technical problems. The difference is that a little bit of thinking emerges instantly; when the movable type of pottery fan and copperplate is produced, the lower volatile castor is used. The ink made of sesame oil replaces the traditional ink with greater diffusion; it can print popular simple textbooks and storybooks and other selected books in batches with lower material and labor costs.

It even produced more than a dozen original printing presses that used animal power to rotate an array of iron shafts to crush the slate, to replace the relatively cumbersome and laborious manual printing and pressing of this era; although, I want to achieve one manual. It is still something that can be expected, but it is not a problem to achieve that every team or even every fire has a book that is read and used in rotation.

Announcing the redevelopment of the maritime ban and encouraging trade with them, and then hosting large-scale auctions. The various materials backlogged in their hands will be connected to the many large and small ships seized by the rebels. They will be dealt with to the remaining maritime merchants in the city. At the expense of tax reduction and exemption, they are encouraged to attract and attract businessmen from outside the region to continue to come to Guangzhou for business and trade.

Therefore, a few Banshang ships just arrived. Although they are only merchants from Linyi Kingdom on the southern tip of the Indochina Peninsula, the ships are not expensive goods, but rice and kapok cloth, but they also represent a certain kind. A good beginning and starting point; as the saying goes, "No one will do business that loses money, and someone will rob the business of decapitation." They still can't stop their determination to take risks and seek profit.

In particular, Guangzhou, which has a unique geographical location since ancient times, makes any overseas business forces who want to trade with China an important transit and gathering place that cannot be avoided and bypassed.

Then Nanhai County (in today's Foshan, Guangdong), collected and integrated local iron yards, large and small iron yards, and mining and smelting; divided into several categories and uses according to scale and fineness, and unified the production of weapons (public) and the provision of various agricultural tools (private) . Because the local area has a long history of coal mining and charcoal provided by abundant forest resources, and most of the pig iron smelted from all over the Lingnan converges here along the river, the local iron industry has already seen its first impressions. Scale up.

They are all projects that have a very deep and good innate foundation, and only need a little guidance to make things happen, and the most effective projects in the short term are mainly projects. And because he is basically a new creation from scratch, and has not infringed and touched much of the existing power structure, the backlash and dissent caused are also minimal results.

"If you encounter a master, maybe many people will survive.",

That was when Huang Chao came to visit a few days ago, he seemed to be deeply in memories and felt a bit.

"Why does King Huang act like this?"

Zhou Huaian said that I don't remember this pot.

"Since I have raised the banner of pleading for the people of the world,"

"How can we completely avoid the sacrifices made for the great cause..."

Therefore, his current main responsibilities have been transferred to the title of the emissary of the epidemic; don't underestimate such a seemingly insignificant title. The actual scope and powers involved are not small at all.

Most of the time, under the banner of epidemic prevention and control, send people to the rebels to carry out (hygiene) inspections and search (source) work; and have the rights to mobilize nearby manpower and materials, and even requisition a certain percentage of the army. Convenience. Then, he also made two requests to Huang Chao who came to inspect:

"Please take the lead from Huangwang headquarters to follow suit..."

"Wang Wang, please lend me a team of Owl Guards for support and deterrence, and then give a few more expedient killing spots..."

Starting from the headquarters of Huang Chao, which is more resolute and decisive in execution, and then promoted and spread to most of the rebel army, it will undoubtedly have a role model to a large extent, and it can also avoid the disparity of equality among the people.

With the help of a team of owl guards, it is to show their attitude and position by pulling tiger skins as a banner. By the way, they are also monitoring nearby in disguise to show their unselfish attitude. As for the number of places used for killing, it is entirely to deter and solve some who may be stupid and stubborn, and to avoid extraneous trouble. After all, infectious diseases cannot be delayed without delay.

At least in this era of fear of epidemics like tigers and wolves, not many people will make death deliberately embarrassed or set up obstacles to block various measures that may involve their own lives; this is also convenient for Zhou Huaian to carry some of his own in it. The amount of private work and potential purpose.

The small step to further obtain rights and resources from the rebels is to start with this inconspicuous little place and the details that ordinary people shunned; such as the current intermittent outbreaks of plague and summer sickness. According to his vaguely remembered history, most of Huang Chao's subordinates were from the North. It was because the pandemic broke out in this area outside Guangzhou after traveling south to Guangzhou. the result of.

If you can cut into this node and reduce the loss of the corresponding epidemic, what kind of results and gains can you get? For example, let Huang Chao's rebels have more time to prepare and gain a foothold in Lingnan, and the preserved forces will be more complete and stronger, and what kind of chemical changes and chain reactions will occur on the original historical track.

On the other hand, the unexpected gains are those of the volunteers who have been intensively managed and treated. At least they are truly grateful for Zhou Huaian who has always been compassionate for them regardless of their own safety. All kinds of unrequited thoughts. (End of this chapter)