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The sky was bright outside the window, Zheng Yuming turned over with difficulty, and moved half of his body out from under Chu Chaohui's thighs and arms.There was no magnitude [-] earthquake in Cangcheng, the royal capital of Wu Kingdom yesterday, but Zheng Yuming's body was shaken with such intensity that the victims who woke up in the morning thought for a while that they had lost control of their bodies.

Chu Chaohui, who was snoring loudly, realized that something was missing under him, closed his eyes and stretched out his long arms, took Zheng Yuming into his arms and hugged him tightly, continuing his sound dream.

Zheng Yuming turned his head to see the sunlight seeping through the gap in the window, and he knew that it was getting late today.The Prime Minister's Office has a lot of official business. Usually at this time, Zheng Yuming would get up early to deal with government affairs for an hour or two.

"Zhaohui!" Zheng Yuming gently pushed Chu Chaohui, the movement was too light to wake him up, but the snoring became a little quieter.

Chu Zhaohui didn't have the habit of snoring when he slept. It was because of his hard work and exhaustion last night that he snored loudly this morning.

The slightly dark color around Chu Zhaohui's eye sockets prevented Zheng Yuming from pushing lightly.Chu Zhaohui can sleep until noon today, as long as he sneaks into the main force of the squadron and enters the capital before three or four o'clock in the afternoon.Zheng Yuming wanted Chu Chaohui to rest for a while and wake him up after lunch.In order not to wake up Chu Chaohui, Zheng Yuming moved his sore body towards the bed little by little.

"Is it dawn?" Chu Zhaohui woke up just when Zheng Yuming could be completely removed from Chu Chaohui's arms. He pulled Zheng Yuming into his arms again, turned over his lover's body, lowered his head and pulled Zheng Yuming's back Hole to see what's inside.In addition to increasing the pleasure of making love, the drugs used by military Chinese medicine practitioners can also relax the muscles. This effect allows Zheng Yuming's body to better withstand the pleasure of love.

"Let go, today I have to help the king draft some edicts. If I don't draft them, I won't be able to read them out in time when the army squadron enters the capital!" Chu Zhaohui's careless inspection action drew Zheng Yuming's protest.

"Edict?" Chu Zhaohui stopped moving.

"It's the identity of Zhou Cheng and the others, the fief of the lord, the private soldiers of the fief, and the title of meritorious ministers." Zheng Yuming counted with four fingers.

"Is slavery going to be abolished?"

"It will not be abolished by force at once. The slave trade will be canceled first." The slave trade will be abolished, and the life of slavery will be strangled from the source.

"The policy of boiling frogs in warm water is good." Chu Chaohui looked at Zheng Yuming with admiration. The fact that Xihou could promulgate system reforms would bring less resistance than Zheng Yuming's direct implementation.

Zheng Yuming smiled proudly: "Just like Ulsan people, ideas can change unconsciously."

The half-year war in Wu State used up the materials and money that Zheng Yuming had accumulated over the past three years. However, these materials and money were not all consumed. At the same time, they greatly promoted the development of various industries in the Ulsan area.

All the military supplies needed by the army are manufactured by the handicraft workshop jointly run by Ulsan nobles and Zheng Yuming, and the factory in Nanbu Valley.The money spent on the war was turned into profits and returned to the pockets of Zheng Yuming and the nobles of Ulsan.The dozen or so workshops that make the most money are the ones that make military uniforms, quilts, and military shoes.

All the factory and workshop owners in Ulsan who are capable of producing these commodities have received orders, and these factory and workshop owners have made a lot of money. The workers who work in the factories and workshops, because Zheng Yuming had an agreement with the nobles who opened the factories and workshops, they They also earned a lot of wages. Those slaves who worked in the factory, because they were paid the same as civilians, were actually treated as slaves.

Manufacturers made money, and those suppliers of raw materials also got a piece of the pie, and common household textiles in Ulsan were united.The advanced looms in the Nanbu Textile Factory were slowly leaked out. Smart craftsmen followed the appearance and principles of the textile machines described by the female textile workers, and produced counterfeit machines suitable for home textiles. The counterfeit looms were not as good as those in the Nanbu Textile Factory. The machines are advanced, but they are several grades better than the original textile machines in Daqin.

After Ulsan peasant women used this kind of spinning machine, the efficiency was several times higher than before.Nanbu Textile Factory produces medium and high-end fabrics, and the low-end fabrics spun by peasant women make up for the imbalance between high-end and low-end fabrics in Ulsan.

Most of the fabrics used for military uniforms are low-end fabrics. The mid-end fabrics are eaten by Nambu Textile Factory, and the low-end fabrics are provided by noble weaving workshops and civilian household textiles in Ulsan.The amount of low-end fabrics is very large. In order to earn more money, noble workshops have to increase workers. Most of these workers are slaves.

The peasant women in family weaving households initially relied on their own hard work to increase their production, but no matter how hard they were willing to work, they still had to rest, eat and go to the toilet. A machine was used for fourteen to five hours at most.Some clever commoners came up with a way to keep the machine running 24 hours a day, that is, when the housewives were tired of weaving and went to rest, they hired a woman who could weave to continue weaving at home, so that the machine could run 24 hours a day. Work.

When people realized that they could make profits from hired workers, they immediately asked carpenters to make more textile machines and expand the scale of employment. These civilians became the owners of new industrial workshops.

Textiles are divided into spinning, weaving, and printing and dyeing. In order to increase production and efficiency, textile handicraftsmen began to divide labor and cooperate. A business chain of interdependence and mutual support has been formed.

Military uniforms and quilts form a commercial chain, as do military shoes. As long as the workshops and families that can make shoes are working day and night.

When Zheng Yuming placed these orders, all samples were made and placed in the hands of the manufacturer. Zheng Yuming tried his best to cultivate the awareness of assembly line manufacturing among nobles and factory owners.

Zheng Yuming's large order in Ulsan not only allowed the industrial workshops in Ulsan to flourish, but also stimulated the cultivation of cotton and hemp in Chu, Chen, and even Zhao.Most of the cotton and linen in these countries were purchased by Chu merchants. Compared with previous years, the higher prices prompted the nobles who planted cotton and linen to decide to expand the planting area next year.Zheng Yuming is happy to see the decision of the nobles of the surrounding princes and states. The textile industry in Ulsan is so developed, but he does not want cotton and linen to become the main crop in the area.

In addition to military uniforms, military quilts and military shoes, the military supply list also includes various daily necessities, medicinal herbs.The large amount of medicine needed by the army cannot be prepared by Jiang Gui and the doctor in the valley.After Jiang Kyu asked Zheng Yuming for instructions, he contracted out the preparation of some pills and ointments, and all the doctors in Ulsan received the business, and they also got rich rewards for it.The daily necessities purchased by the army also made a fortune for the little nobles in Ulsan who obtained secret recipes from Zheng Yuming.

All in all, a great turmoil in Wu State, which has not happened in a century, made the people of Ulsan from top to bottom, and they all benefited from this war fortune.During this busy manufacturing process, Ulsan Capital has made initial development.

The Ulsan area is small, and the local feudal lords are all small feudal lords. It is not difficult to guide them to abandon slavery and turn slaves into free labor, but it is not so simple and easy to implement in the Wu Kingdom.The remaining big feudal lords in Wu state, there are hundreds of free slaves in the farm at every turn. If the feudal lords want to change free labor into paid labor at once, it will definitely arouse the opposition of the big feudal lords. This is very difficult for Wu, which needs stable development unfavorable.Therefore, Zheng Yuming requested that the content of the four edicts issued by Xihou should be gentle and concealed.

After Zheng Yuming struggled to go to work in the front hall, Chu Chaohui squinted for a while.At noon, I ate the lunch cooked by Mrs. Su in the bedroom with Zheng Yuming, and then I dressed neatly, put on a cloak, sneaked out of the palace with five guards, and went to the outskirts to wait for the army.

At the end of the afternoon, Prince Sheng, accompanied by Zheng Yuming, took the court ministers and nobles out of the capital, and went to a place three miles away in the suburbs to welcome the returning army in triumph.On this day, the capital of the kingdom was almost an empty city, and the people, old and young, crowded on both sides of the avenue waiting to watch the warriors.

Prince Sheng and the officials and nobles had just arrived at the place where they were scheduled to meet. A uniformly equipped team held high the "Wu" king flag and the "Chu" general flag. Under the military flags were Chu Chaohui, Dong, Nan Sima, behind them are soldiers lined up neatly in columns and rows, with more than 200 chariots in the front, and infantry carrying various weapons behind them.

The east and south Sima led the army to the border at the end of summer, and the soldiers wore single clothes. Since Yiji cut off the military supply, the army's food, grass, clothing, equipment and other materials were transported by Nanport wooden boats.This also resulted in the uniform color and style of the clothes worn by the two Sima soldiers and the Ulsan army. They were all navy blue, dressed in short jackets, with armed belts around their waists. The soldiers wore leggings and cloth shoes, and the officers wore leggings and leather boots.

Originally, thousands of troops and horses came with a sense of power, but now the uniform clothing increased this power even more.

The people in Kangcheng, the capital of the king, have never seen an army with uniform uniforms. In addition, the infantry walking in the forefront are [-] slave civilian soldiers trained by Chu Chaohui himself. Gives people a more impactful visual effect.The people of the capital gave these elite soldiers the warmest welcome, and cheers resounded through the sky.

On this day, Xihou sent envoys to issue five edicts in front of the army.

The first way is that all slave soldiers who participated in the quelling of the chaos and resisting the Tang army's aggression were restored to the status of free citizens, and the slaves with outstanding military achievements were rewarded by the generals of the army to the royal court for their merits.Because the slave soldiers made great contributions to the peace of Wu State, Wu State has canceled the slave trading market since then, and also canceled the laws and regulations to pursue branded escaped slaves.

After the slave trade was abolished, labor trade was changed to employment.

The second way is to cancel the private soldiers on the lord's fiefdom. They don't need to guarantee the safety of the lord by themselves, and the royal court will be responsible for law and order and safety in the future.

Xihou believed that the source of the great chaos in Wu State was that Dr. Jiang raised 8 private soldiers privately, and he helped Yi Ji succeed in usurping the throne when he had the confidence.His edict claimed that he wanted to pinch the possibility of the feudal lord supporting the army to cause rebellion.

The third way is the decree of grace, after a hundred years the feudal lord can divide the fief equally among his illegitimate sons. Of course, it is also possible to distribute some to the illegitimate sons, but the income of the illegitimate sons cannot exceed that of the illegitimate sons.

The fourth way is that in the future, feudal officials will not be rewarded with feudal titles, but only money and titles will be used as rewards. The title can be inherited by the eldest son, but it has to be inherited by downgrading.The title only represents status and does not hold real power, but it can discuss politics.

As soon as Xihou's four edicts came out, the nobles discussed a lot, and one-third of them agreed. Most of these people were Ulsan nobles, one-third of them were blank or neutral, and one-third of the nobles There is dissatisfaction.

The first edict on slaves did not require them to abolish the status of existing slaves in the fief, which had little impact on their existing interests, and the nobles did not stimulate opposition to this.

The third Tweeting Order was approved by the feudal lords. When there are many sons, there will always be those who like and dislike. According to the Tweeting Order, even if the son you like is not the eldest son, you can get a share of the property openly.

The fourth way is to change the rewards of fiefdoms to money and titles. The nobles think that the material is similar. Besides, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui should be rewarded the most, and the Ulsan nobles who followed them to make contributions did not raise any objections. Most of the heroes themselves did not Objection, a small number of meritorious nobles in the capital naturally cannot come forward to object.

Only the second way, nobles with fiefs, are a little dissatisfied with the edict that they cannot raise private soldiers.

However, facing the tens of thousands of troops in front of them, the dissatisfied nobles chose to remain silent.Chu Chaohui is the actual person in charge of this army, and Xihou's staunch supporter is this military figure.The two civil strife made the nobles of the Wu Kingdom timid, and they no longer had the confidence to oppose openly.

Xihou's last edict was to order Zheng Yuming to appraise and reward the royal court and generals and soldiers with military merits.Zheng Yuming executed the last edict in the most straightforward and generous manner. When the list of rewards came out, all the nobles in the royal court burst into smiles.