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On the first day of the new year, Zhou Cheng, who lived in the barracks, did not sleep in. He got up early to go back to the living area in the valley, and went to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui to pay New Year's greetings.The army had its annual holiday on New Year's Eve, and there was no one else in the barracks except the officers and soldiers on duty. The soldiers all went back to the valley living area to enjoy the festival.

What Zheng Yuming implemented to the slaves in the valley was a half-big pot meal system, where houses, clothes, and meals were all allocated.Clothes are distributed according to size, and meal tickets are provided for meals in the cafeteria. Those who want to start a small kitchen can exchange meal tickets for food and cook by themselves.Houses are allocated according to two classifications: family-owned and single.

Chu Chaohui used coins to buy many strong men from the surrounding vassal states as soldiers. None of these strong men lived in the valley. Like single slaves, they were assigned dormitories shared by two.

Others with small families divided houses according to the number of people, ranging from one to four.Zhou Cheng used to be single, and was assigned a dormitory for two people. After he was promoted to an officer, his salary was improved, and he was assigned a whole room.

The Zhou family and their relatives who had fled from the state of Lu were rearranged after ten days in the refugee camp. Zhou Cheng’s parents, sister-in-law, and nephew had to go to the valley according to regulations, because as long as they serve as soldiers in the valley, the soldiers’ family members No one is allowed to live outside the valley. This is to prevent soldiers from leaking the military strength in the valley when they reunite with their families outside the valley.

Chu Chaohui, the tiger under the control of Sima Ming, was in the barracks in the northeast of Nanbu. The two thousand slave soldiers in the valley were his hidden power. Apart from hiding the number of regular soldiers, the iron factory in the valley also had to hide the number of regular soldiers. Strictly confidential, the quality of the weapons made by the iron factory is beyond the times. Every knife and sword that leaves the factory is a treasure of gold in the vassal states.

In addition, the glass factory cannot let the outside world know. If the people of Daqin know that Minghui Valley can make glass, not to mention that King Wu will become greedy, other princes may start a war to compete for it. Qi and Lu fought for more than a dozen gold mines. In the [-]s, the gold content of glass manufacturing was much higher than that of gold mines.

In order to maintain maximum secrecy, in addition to controlling the entry and exit of personnel in the valley, the guards around the iron factory and glass factory were strictly guarded, and the workers in the factory were warned not to discuss the affairs of the factory with other slaves.Except for the slaves related to the two factories in the valley, no one else knew what the two factories produced. They just thought that the iron factory produced ironware, and the glass factory crushed stones, because the glass raw material is a kind of stone.

On the day Zhou Cheng's parents and relatives were resettled, Zhou Cheng asked for leave to pick his parents into the valley.On this day, Zhou Da finally knew that his son had a debt of five hundred gold.

In the refugee camp, the thirty or so people picked up by the Hu merchants lived a very comfortable life, except for the hygienic rules that made them unsuitable, because the refugee camp provided one meal of millet rice and two meals of millet porridge every day. The house was airtight, the two distributed an old quilt, and there was a brazier to keep warm. Life in the refugee camp was much better than in their hometown.Mr. and Mrs. Zhou and their relatives are very grateful to be able to come to Nanbu.

The feeling of gratitude disappeared on the day of leaving the refugee camp. When they learned that the price paid by more than [-] people from Lu State to Nanbu was as high as [-] gold per person, they were all stunned. Zhou Da and his wife squatted on the ground and wailed cry.

"Five hundred gold, how long will it last!" Zhou Da held his head, feeling like he was standing beside the abyss again. In Zhou Da's memory, the Zhou family was the richest only when he got married. After saving eight pieces of money, Zhou Da used the eight pieces of gold to marry his wife. After that, the Zhou family never had any surplus money. back.

"Our family has to pay back for more than two years." Zhou Cheng grimaced and sighed slightly. He didn't have the nerve to ask his relatives to pay him back the pick-up fee. Zhou Cheng felt that this entrustment was completely caused by his ignorance. No wonder Wei Qing said that businessmen are the most treacherous, and they should be dealt with carefully.

"What? Can it be repaid in just over two years?" Zhou Da jumped up, and the mouths of the relatives next to him were also wide open. Twenty gold is a huge amount in their eyes. After the amount of money spent by each person, they were too scared to promise to pay back the money, because they did not owe so much taxes to the lords and nobles. If they knew the amount of pick-up fee, they would not dare to come to Nanbu.

"I don't need to spend money in the army. I can save more than 100 gold every year, and three hundred gold in two years. Father and mother..." Zhou Cheng glanced at the silly girl, thinking that his widowed sister-in-law would not be so stupid as to do anything. Can't do it?As long as some mindless work can be done, there will be income. "Father, mother, and sister-in-law go to work, and they can earn sixty or seventy gold per year, and more than 100 gold in two years. In this way, we can pay off our debts in two and a half years at most."

Zhou Cheng has calculated carefully by himself, the slave with the lowest income in the valley can still settle to [-] gold by the end of the year. There are three people in the Zhou family working hard, and the debt will definitely be paid off in more than two years, but Zhou Cheng plans to The building has to say goodbye.

"Second nephew, the six members of my uncle's family will pay back 120 gold after earning money in the valley." Zhou Cheng's cousin's eyes are bright. For my own nephew.

Several other relatives of the Zhou family also stepped forward and expressed that they would go to the valley with Zhou Cheng, and that they would definitely repay Zhou Cheng's expenses in the future, and would not let the person who rescued them out of the misery be in debt.

"No, only craftsmen, family members can go to the valley." In addition to the family who went to the valley to serve as soldiers, there are also craftsmen's families who can enter the valley. Zhou Cheng's relatives are all farmers, and there are no craftsmen.

"Nephew, if the uncle's family doesn't follow you into the valley, they won't be able to pay you back." Uncle Zhou Chengtang thought that such good treatment could only be enjoyed in the valley.

"Uncle, you can go to the recruiting office first. If you don't get recruited, you can save money by farming and working here in Nanbu." Reclaiming wasteland in Nanbu is tax-free for the first year. You can do odd jobs. As long as the family works hard, twenty gold a year will usually be saved.

The relatives of the Zhou family all wanted to have a tiger like Zhou Cheng in their family, and all the young people in the family went to participate in the recruitment of soldiers. Unfortunately, the relatives of the Zhou family were malnourished in the state of Lu, and each of them could not pass the test. They were all eliminated by the doctors at the soldier recruitment office.In the end, these families were divided into various refugee groups based on the family unit. This arrangement was a preventive measure Zheng Yuming took to prevent refugees from forming groups.Before the separation, Zhou Cheng took out his last few gold and distributed it to his relatives, asking them to buy some necessary daily necessities after they stayed.

Because at the end of the year, housing construction in Nanbu and the valley stopped, and the population in the valley increased too fast, so there was no spare room for Zhou’s family. Zhou Cheng’s family had to live in Zhou Cheng’s dormitory first. After the valley house is built, it will be redistributed.

Zhou Cheng gave up the dormitory in the living area to his family, and he had to live in the barracks in the west of the valley.Fortunately, Zhou Cheng has a horse mount, and it only takes 10 minutes to ride from the barracks to the living area, which is very convenient.

When Zhou Cheng came to live on horseback, people in the living area had already started to get up one after another, and some children dressed like balls were running around to pay New Year's greetings. The people in the valley basically had no relatives with them, neighbors and familiar people. The people who are the ones they go to pay New Year's greetings to.

Zhou Cheng tied the horse to the stable before returning to his dormitory. Good horses are rare, and Zhou Cheng was reluctant to tie the horse outside to suffer from the cold.

Zhou Da was already standing at the door waiting for his son, Zhou's wife was arranging things in the room, and silly girl was standing in front of the pit bed and wrestling with Xiao Bao.

"Hurry up, get everything ready and come with me to pay New Year's greetings to your lord." Zhou Cheng came in and saw that his nephew was not dressed properly, so he hurriedly urged.

"It will be ready soon." Zhou's wife pushed the clumsy silly girl away, and quickly dressed her grandson.

"Are we all going?" Zhou Da seemed very cramped. He pulled off the padded coat on his body. It was Zhou Cheng's old clothes. The Zhou family didn't make it in time to distribute the clothes. They went to the valley at the end of the year. All others are not eligible for distribution.

"Only military officers and heads of various departments can bring their families to adults to pay New Year's greetings, and others can't even go if they want to."

"I know! I know! There are good things to eat when you go to the adults to pay New Year's greetings!" Silly girl suddenly clapped her hands. She and Zhou's wife were assigned to help in the cafeteria. What they heard most was that the food in the two adults' houses was delicious. .

Zhou Cheng had a black line tattooed on his forehead. As a silly sister-in-law, he cared most about food all day long. When he ate, he never knew what it meant to have a full stomach. He would put things into his mouth, bluffing Zhou's wife to watch the silly girl as long as she ate, so that people in the valley who didn't know the truth would think that the silly girl was not full, and kindly stuffed too much food to choke the silly girl to death.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui did not receive New Year's greetings from the slaves at the villa this year. Last year, not far from the villa, they built a row of two-story small buildings. Many, in order to improve work efficiency and facilitate the handling of affairs, it is necessary to build a comprehensive office. If you want to discuss things with the person in charge, you only need to search in the office, and you don’t need to search all over the valley.Both Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohuihui have their own offices in this office.The two also accepted New Year greetings in the lobby of the office this year.

Last year, the population of the valley increased by more than 4000. Adding the original population of more than 1000, the valley now has a population of 6000, including more than 800 soldiers, 500 artisans, more than 1 farmers, and Seventeen eight hundred are women, children and the elderly.The population in the valley is dominated by young males.Due to the spontaneous influx of refugees, Nanbu has grown faster than the valley. Today, there are more than [-] people, and the proportion of the population is also the labor force.Zheng Yuming's plan is to increase the valley's population by [-] every year, and strive to have a population of [-] in five years, and Nanbu should preferably have a permanent population of [-].

The population of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States in the original time and space was about 2000 million to 3000 million. The background of Daqin was similar to that of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, and the population would not exceed this figure.Large vassal states have a population of several million, while small vassal states have only 10,000+.Wu State is the least populous of the six vassal states. The population of Kangcheng, the capital of King Wu, is only about 3 to [-], and the population of Dacheng is even smaller, with only more than [-] people. It will not exceed [-]. If the valley and Nanbu are developed according to the steps planned by Zheng Yuming, after five years, the population will be larger than the total population of Gongzi Guangfeng. However, Dacheng is also absorbing foreign population. , the population of Minghui Valley and Nanbu may not exceed the total population of the feudal city.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui came from the 21st century, and they are used to the expansion of cities in the Celestial Dynasty. The population growth rate of 6000 in the valley in two years is too slow, but other people in the valley only feel that Zheng and Chu are changing. Witchcraft, especially the first batch of slaves who came to the valley, they all know the primitiveness in the valley, they have witnessed the changes in the valley with their own eyes, apart from the incredible feeling, they only worship the master.

When Zhou Cheng arrived at the office with his family, he happened to meet Fan Jin, Da Zhuang and Guo Carpenter’s family coming out to celebrate the new year. Zhou Cheng and these people were familiar with each other, so he hurried forward to say hello and introduced his parents .Mr. and Mrs. Zhou lived in a small mountain village all their lives. They seldom deal with outsiders, so their manners were cramped and impolite. However, Fan Jin and the others were all from the bottom class, so they didn't care. He touched his head, pinched his face, and stuffed a Wu coin as lucky money by the way.

Fan Jin's wife, Da Niu, just had a full moon, and it was too cold outside, so she and her daughter didn't go out.Ge Erniu is now more than five months pregnant, and she is close to Ge Carpenter's wife. She is very happy to see the child, and stuffed two copies of the New Year's money.

Dr. Jiang was promoted to Dr. Zuo after the harvest festival, and he is trying his best to develop his power in the capital. Da Zhuang and Yu Kui must pay attention to the changes in the situation in the capital of Wu, and they have not returned to the valley for the Spring Festival.Because no one in her husband's family could take care of Ge Erniu, after Ge Erniu became pregnant, she moved back to live with her natal family.

When Zheng Yuming saw Zhou Cheng coming in, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.The fact that Zhou Cheng was taken advantage of by Hu merchants and carried huge debts was the biggest news in the valley at the end of last year. It took half a month for the people in the valley to discuss it before it stopped. In the era without TV, telephone and Internet, the speed of word of mouth is amazing. , Zheng Yuming heard about it the next day.

"Happy New Year to the two adults, may the two adults..." Zhou Cheng looked up at the two sitting side by side, and continued: "May the two adults be with each other every year."

When Chu Chaohui heard it, it was true that his subordinate was the most mellow and mellow, and his words were also the most pleasant. "Zhou Cheng, lead the troops well, and the officers who lead well will reward the buildings in the future."

"Obey! I will do my best." Zhou Cheng heard that his boss is good, and the rewards are what his subordinates want most. When he got excited, he stood up straight and gave Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming each gave a military salute, and Zhou Cheng's weird behavior shocked the old couple. They stood there with their silly wife and grandson at a loss.

"This is your nephew, he's cute." Zheng Yuming gave Chu Chaohui a sideways glance, and Chu Chaohui used the valley house as a reward, which was something other than military expenses.

"This is the New Year's money, take it well." Huo Sihua is responsible for distributing the New Year's money to the children. Seeing Xiaobao's pair of dark single eyelids staring at Zheng Yuming curiously, he quickly stuffed a red envelope into Xiaobao's arms, and led Zhou Cheng's family went to the side to drink morning tea, and there were many people waiting behind Zhou's family to pay New Year's greetings. After receiving everyone's New Year's greetings in the valley, Zheng and Chu had to go to the Nanbu Governor's Mansion to accept the New Year's greetings from Nanbu people.

"Daniu Huangzhong wishes your lord New Year's greetings!" Daniel's sonorous voice overwhelmed Huang Zhong. Now that Daniel has been selected as Zheng Yuming's bodyguard, from today onwards, Daniel will be inseparable by Zheng Yuming's side.Huang Zhong, on the other hand, had passed Chu Chaohui's personal assessment, and was being trained by Chu Chaohui as an intelligence leader.

"Please stand up, both of you!" Zheng Yuming looked at the two kneeling in front of him, a bit dumbfounded. Daniel was used to kneeling in the palace, but in the valley and Nanbu where kneeling was not practiced, he always forgot to salute. Huang Zhong, who got up to pay New Year's greetings, bowed and knelt down.

"Huang Zhong, wait for you to follow to the governor's office." Chu Chaohui told Huang Zhong that he had to let Huang Zhong get familiar with the environment of Nanbu as soon as possible and establish an intelligence network as soon as possible.

"Yes! Your Excellency!" Huang Zhong was excited. He was only familiar with the local customs and customs, and had no talent for governing the country. He had traveled around more than [-] vassal states, and no nobleman thought he was talented. After being denied again and again, Huang Zhong himself They all think that they are mediocre people, but they don't want to be appreciated by Chu Chaohui, which makes Huang Zhong arouse a spirit of repaying the death of his confidant.

Huang Zhong and Daniu were led by Huo Sizhong to have breakfast, and now Jiang Gui and Chu Chaohui, two healers who were captured by the bandits, came in.

"Meet the two adults!" Jiang Gui was the one in the valley who had the most casual attitude towards Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui. Jiang Gui put all his energy on his medical research.

"The three doctors worked hard." Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui admired Jiang Gui very much. This witch doctor is very inquisitive. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui only have medical concepts and some rough formulas. The practice depends on Jiang Gui's own exploration. Jiang Gui is now Medical skills have improved rapidly. In addition to malaria medicines, some medicines to fight parasites, and the use of vaccinia to treat smallpox have achieved results.

"It's not hard, it's not hard." The two doctors who followed Jiang Gui waved their hands repeatedly. Before the end of the year, these two doctors had brought their families into the valley. They were very satisfied with life in the valley, except for taking too many apprentices. Make it hard for them.

After all the stewards in the valley had come to pay their respects, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui went to the Nanbu council mansion. As soon as they arrived at the council mansion, Tuoxiong and his son from the Eagle Tribe came.

After the Eagle Tribe cooperated with Nanbu, life became more and more prosperous day by day. Tuo Su took the tribal warriors and subdued the surrounding small tribes with food and weapons. Many small tribes were annexed by the Eagle Tribe, and the slightly larger tribes surrendered. It has become the largest tribe south of the Changhe River, but the chief of the largest tribe, when he came to pay New Year greetings to Zheng and Chu on the first day of the first lunar month, his face was gloomy and his mind was heavy.