Go to ancient times and engage in construction

Mr. Guang had a good night's sleep. After waking up the next day, most of his body recovered, and he also had an appetite. He ate a lot of breakfast that day, and he especially liked a kind of food called bread coated with maple syrup.

The room layout of Nanbu Governor's Mansion is very simple, but the courtyard layout is exquisite and unique.The passage in the center of the courtyard is paved with river pebbles, and there are several strange rocks standing upright. Several fruit tree seedlings are planted in the courtyard. These fruit tree seedlings are grafted from the branches of fruit trees in the courtyard of the villa.Many 21st-century rare flowers and trees in the greenhouse of the villa were irradiated with blue light, and their genes mutated, making them more adaptable to changes in the external environment. They were planted casually by Zheng Yuming next to the forest for the winter and still survived strongly.

After the Nanbu Governor's Mansion was completed, these flowers and trees were transplanted into the yard by Zheng Yuming.There are Clivia, all kinds of chrysanthemums, various tulips, various roses, the most special is the genetically modified blue rose, this kind of blue rose is not as gorgeous as imagined, its blue is close to lotus color, more pure and charming.

The young master just ate breakfast, and he became much more energetic. He moved to the courtyard to admire the flowers and trees, and saw all kinds of chrysanthemums and roses competing in beauty.

"Zheng Qing, Guang has never seen such a big and beautiful blue flower." Young Master Guang stared at the blue rose without taking his eyes off it. "This flower is most suitable for Zheng Qing." Young Master Guang reached out and plucked the best blue rose and handed it to Zheng Yuming.

"Uh, thank you, young master." Zheng Yuming took the blue rose, and it was the first time in his life that someone gave him flowers, and he felt three black lines drawn on his forehead.

Chu Chaohui was one step behind the two of them, and he was annoyed that the young master didn't get back to Dacheng immediately after he recovered.Seeing that the young master gave blue roses to Zheng Yuming, the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch. It seems that many things are God’s will. Before blue roses were cultivated in Japan, they were considered impossible, so the English bluerose (blue rose) has "not possibly" means.Young Master Guang's love for Zheng Yuming is destined to be impossible to bear fruit.

After Young Master Guang got off the boat, he was so dizzy that he didn't bother to take a look at Nanbu Village. Now that he has the energy, Young Master Guang wants to take a walk around Nanbu.Just when Zheng Yuming and his guards supported Young Master Guang to leave the Governor's Mansion, Young Master Guang's eldest uncle Wei Ren sent a horse to deliver a letter, telling Young Master Guang to return to Ulsan Monarch's Mansion quickly, because King Wu sent a messenger to the city.

Upon hearing this, Wei Shen hurriedly asked Zheng Yuming to arrange for them to return to Dacheng.The four-wheeled carriages of the nobles in Dacheng were all stored in the village near the king's capital. The nobles went back without driving. All the ordinary carriages and mule carts in Nanbu were requisitioned to send Young Master Guang and the nobles back to Dacheng.Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui also went to Dacheng with the envoy because they were worried that the envoy sent by King Wu would be unfavorable to Young Master Guang.

Prince Guang's two uncles, one guarding Dacheng, and the other leading the fief's Huben army, waited for the return of the mission on the edge of the fief.After the embassy landed at Nanbu, Wei Shen sent someone to deliver a message to Young Master Guang's uncle, telling him that Young Master Guang had already returned to the fief, and that he was going to rest in Nanbu for one night before returning to the city because of his poor health.

After Wei Ren received the news, his heart fell to the ground. It was because of Mr. Guang that the Wei clan existed, and the Wei clan had the prosperity and wealth it has today.The security of the nephew is the security of the cornerstone of Wei's backing.Wei Ren had a good night's sleep that night.

Good Sleep was interrupted by King Wu's messenger early the next morning.It turned out that the news that Dr. Jiang's private soldiers were ambushing on the hillside to rob and kill passing businessmen spread to the capital two days later.King Wu was shocked when he received the news, because his second son was going back to Dacheng by that road, and now bandits appeared on that road. King Wu was worried about his son's life, so on the one hand he sent Huben to suppress the bandits, on the other hand he sent The messenger arrives in the city to see if Young Master Guang has encountered any accident and has returned safely.

The courier hurried on, and arrived at the edge of Ulsan's fiefdom in two days. He met Wei Ci who was stationed there. Because Wei Shen hadn't had time to inform him, Wei Ci almost fainted on the spot after hearing what the courier said.From the capital to the city, there is only this road, and the messenger did not see any trace of the mission along the way. Doesn't that mean that Young Master Guang and his party have suffered misfortune?

Before there was any definite news, Wei Ci's garrison did not dare to move, so he could only send someone to follow the messenger back to Dacheng to see if the mission had returned to Dacheng through the mountains.The messenger arrives in the city and hears Wei Ren's report that Mr. Guang has returned to the fief safely. He still insists that Wei Ren send an attendant to call Mr. Guang back. If he does not see Mr. Guang with his own eyes, the messenger does not dare to go back to make an appointment. The old King Wu, The older he gets, the more cruel he is to the waiter. If the son Guang really suffers from misfortune, the waiter who goes back to report the letter will basically lose his life, and will be killed by the angry King Wu.

The messenger saw the safe and sound son Guang with his own eyes, and heard from Wei Shen that they walked the inland waterway and avoided the bandits by chance, and rode back to the capital with satisfaction to report to the king of Wu.

King Wu's concern for Gongzi Guang moved him to tears.In addition to being moved, I am even more grateful to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui.Apart from Young Master Guang, the other nobles in Dacheng were grateful to Zheng and Chu. These nobles were ordered to travel to Tang country without stopping. I am a bit complaining, but now there is really an ambush on the way back, and the ambush is very brutal. The fact that none of the pedestrians and traders who passed by that day could survive, made the nobles realize that without the return journey arranged by Zheng and Chu, they might be with them. Like those pedestrians, they have already died under the hillside.

The day after Young Master Guang returned to the city, both Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were promoted.Zheng Yuming was appointed director of Ulsan, and Chu Chaohui was promoted to Sima of Ulsan.Apart from Nanbu, the two of them, as long as Zheng Yuming sends people to reclaim the wasteland to the north and east of Nanbu, the reclaimed land will become the fief of the two.

Zheng Yuming was very satisfied with the entrustment order. Nanbu is [-] kilometers north to the mountains and [-] kilometers east. There are so many places, as long as the water conservancy is repaired, at least [-] mu of fertile land can be reclaimed, and about [-] households can be resettled. s population.

Chu Chaohui was also very satisfied as a Sima. It was Wei Shen who allowed him to recruit troops in an upright manner. A Sima in Ulsan could have a thousand tigers and horses under his command.

Wei Shen returned to Dalseong for a week, and after a few days of detailed discussions with Zheng Yuming, a meeting of nobles was held. At this meeting, Wei Shen put forward the slogan of vigorously developing Ulsan. , and also asked the nobles to open workshops, which is what Zheng Yuming called factories. The products and technology produced by the factory are provided by Nanbu. The technology can be bought out with coins at one time, or they can cooperate. The Ulsan government office is used as mortgage currency.All the nobles participating in the cooperation have to form an offensive and defensive alliance. Opening a factory must abide by the rules of the alliance. There is one rule of the alliance that the nobles do not understand, but it is what Zheng Yuming insists on the most, that is, the craftsmen and workers must be paid monthly. Remuneration, remuneration has a minimum limit, in addition to remuneration, there are other protective working terms for craftsmen and workers.

The craftsmen in the nobles' fiefs are all domestic slaves who don't need to pay, they just need to provide them with food, clothing and accommodation. Now the nobles can't figure out how to give such good treatment to the slaves when opening a factory, and they start to hesitate.

Chen Meng was the first nobleman to sign the alliance contract. The four-wheeled carriage had already tasted the sweetness for him. The large order brought back from King Wu’s capital had forced him to look for craftsmen everywhere. He understood better than other nobles that craftsmen are creator of profits.The Wei family was the second to sign, and the patriarch of the Guo family, who had always followed the lead of the Wei family, also followed suit. Many nobles saw that the three major families had signed. There should be no harm. The mentality stepped forward to sign the alliance contract.

Most of the nobles in Ulsan have written their names on the contract, but there are still some small nobles who have not joined. They have a kind of resistance to new things, fearing that such things will change their superior life. These small nobles are unable to resist, so they hold Take a wait-and-see attitude.Wei Shen didn't force these small nobles who waited and watched, and let these small nobles enjoy the treatment of getting high-yield grain seeds.Of course, these little nobles who did not join the alliance were so annoyed that they had to throw themselves into the river a few years later.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui relied on the profits earned by Nanbu textile factories and porcelain kilns to develop their own strength. Apart from the construction of Nanbu, half of these profits were used to maintain Chu Chaohui's army.A soldier's monthly salary and daily food consumption are not the bulk, and the army's consumption focuses on equipment.A good weapon costs thousands of gold in Daqin, and the weapons that Chu Chaohui used to equip soldiers are all of high quality, because they are made by the Valley Iron Factory themselves, so they don’t need to cost thousands of gold, but the cost of a weapon is also high. More than fifty gold, plus bows and arrows, is a lot of expenses.Weapons and arrows will be consumed continuously during training, and soldiers need to build armor.Rattan armor is cheaper than metal armor, but the army cannot always use this kind of equipment that may be burned. Before the invention of thermal weapons, the metal protection of soldiers' battle clothes will always exist.This kind of metal equipment consumes a lot of money.

Zheng Yuming calculated a detailed account, equipping a soldier, including the training cost of the soldier for a year, about 250 gold is enough to maintain it, a thousand soldiers is 25 gold, this is not counting the pension for soldiers who died on the battlefield, Injury treatment expenses, disability benefits.There is also factory spending to serve the military.Calculated in this way, 1000 soldiers would have to be supported by 35 gold in cash.

If Chu Chaohui wanted to expand his army, Zheng Yuming had to prepare money to support it.Now there are 100 to 1000 soldiers in the valley, plus more than 70 guards in Nanbu, plus 90 valley patrols who have undergone simple training, Chu Chaohui can only make up an army of [-] people, and expand the army to [-]. Another [-] strong men had to be recruited, not to mention where the [-] strong men were recruited from, just the extra [-] gold budget each year gave Zheng Yuming a headache.The total profit of the textile and porcelain factories is about [-] gold. This is already the expansion of the two factories to the limit, and there will be no skilled craftsmen to use them if they continue to expand.

Just when Zheng Yuming was having a headache, the craftsman who developed the glass in the valley finally stabilized the glass production process and could produce transparent glass without air bubbles.Half of the credit for this technology improvement is due to the discovery of coke. With coke, the quality of products in both iron factories and porcelain factories has made a leap forward, and glass has also been born due to the increase in temperature.

Where there is glass, there is a mirror, because Daqin craftsmen have long been able to refine metal mercury and tin, just paste shiny tin foil on the glass surface, and then pour mercury.Mercury is a liquid metal. It can dissolve tin and turn it into a viscous silver-white liquid. It sticks tightly to the glass plate, and a mirror is made.

With the appearance of glassware and mirrors, Zheng Yuming can have millions of gold in his hands every year.When these rare and precious things are sold abroad, like porcelain, they are secretly sold abroad by businessmen.When glassware and mirrors appeared in the palaces of princes and nobles, the Ulsan area, where these two things were produced, was strangely absent from sale. After the grand festival at the end of the year, Gong Ziguang even regarded a mirror he bought from Chu as his treasure. It was given to Zheng Yuming.

Entering November, it became very easy for Nanbu to go abroad to buy labor. More and more people took the initiative to go to Nanbu. Sincerely.The name of Zheng Yuming's Luoyan and Chu Chaohui's one-finger magical skills are spread everywhere by businessmen who have traveled all over the world. Every time Wang Jie goes to a country, he always talks about Zheng and Chu, especially Zheng Yuming's sentence of stealing Mencius, "the old is supported, the young There is something to teach, the poor have something to rely on, it is difficult to help, the widowed, lonely, disabled and sick have something to support' The famous sentence followed Wang Jie and resounded through every vassal state he visited.

When the Nanbu ships went abroad to recruit strong men, as long as the common people heard the word Nanbu, they would post it willingly. Go to the paradise where the widows, widows, lonely, disabled and sick all have something to support?This kind of life attracts people, and Nanbu is now the legendary paradise. Some common people who heard the rumors began to take the initiative to defect, and some down-and-out aristocratic children became interested in it.

Because of celebrity effect, there are more and more foreigners in Nanbu, and safety issues have become the top priority.For this purpose, Zheng Yuming set up the Public Security Bureau, whose function is similar to that of the police station in the 21st century. The head of the Public Security Bureau is replaced by Wu Datemporary. Two villagers of the village.100 of the [-] guards in Nanbu were drawn into the security team. The security team is responsible for handling the security of Nanbu Village, registering outsiders, and paying attention to suspicious outsiders.

Ten miles to the north of Nanbu, a row of barracks was built, which is Chu Chaohui's barracks on the bright side. The number of soldiers in the barracks is limited to 1000. Those who are responsible for training these soldiers are slave officers from the valley. The valley continues to train the strong men recruited with gold coins from various places, and the number of soldiers in the valley will expand to 2000.

When Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming were free to work in Nanbu and the valley, Wei Shen also started his reform in Dacheng. The slave market was cancelled, and all civilians in Dacheng looking for livelihood were concentrated by the management bureau set up by Wei Shen. Management, skilled workers will be hired by the nobles as employees, and those with qualified physical fitness will be recruited to the barracks as auxiliary soldiers. The recruitment of auxiliary soldiers is to cover up to the outside world. The wasteland was reclaimed on the aristocratic fief, and the agricultural tools and seeds for reclaiming were provided by the fief nobles. Wei Shen wanted to drive away some old and weak people who could not even grow land, but thinking of the old cleaners in Nanbu, Wei Shen drove these people to clean up. Dacheng, no pay, just two meals a day and a thatched shed that can shelter from the wind and rain, and there will be some small benefits during the Chinese New Year.

The measures Wei Shen took also required a lot of money to support them. Before the paper mill had a lot of profits, Wei Shen used his own family property to maintain it. Young Master Guang found out later and handed over the key to the warehouse of his mansion to Wei Shen in tears.The son Guang's two uncles also donated most of their property after hearing that.But at that time the paper mill had already started to make money, and the money of Mr. Guang and his two uncles was useless.

Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming's relationship deepened in Wu Wangdu. On the return ship, they were only one step away from having a deep communication, but after returning to Nanbu, Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming became so close that they couldn't see each other. Because the two were too busy, they were too busy to talk sweetly when they met.