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Xiwei and the Department of Punishment rushed to do it. The new department took office three times. The county magistrate was arrested on the same day, and the ancestral property was returned to the merchants. Finally, the county magistrate was removed from the official post.

Now county magistrates don't have to be as stable as before, let alone have an iron rice bowl. As long as they bend the law for personal gain and don't do anything, someone will immediately replace Wu Shamao.Especially local officials at the middle and lower levels, they will be replaced as soon as they say they are replaced.Si Qi Tong maintained a clean and honest environment in the middle and lower official circles to a certain extent.

The establishment of the Ministry of Labor immediately attracted a large number of officials to settle in. The collective new officials took office three times, went their separate ways within a day, and resolved hundreds of private wage disputes.

The businessmen from all over the place were shocked like a frightened bird, and the businessmen reacted one after another to resist by dismissing and not appointing.

Soon the land of the merchants' shops was taken back by the landlords, and they began to be auctioned and resold at high prices.

The profiteers still have nothing to hide when they want to drill holes. In the end, they can only obediently follow the procedures to hire people and pay wages.

As a result, a wave of employment was born, because there are more and more hawkers doing business in the private sector, and the business environment is good. It is not as messy as it used to be, and it is the world of speculators.But now whoever is a speculator, the court will attack first.It has given many honest businessmen a great sense of security.

More and more people are paying taxes, more and more people are coming out of the countryside to work, and the population flow is also increasing, which adds great pressure to security issues.Even for a time, the army could only be suppressed.There are also road problems. Except for the main city of Tianjing, other places are dirt roads, and it is very difficult to walk when it rains.

It happened that the Ministry of Industry had failed many times because of the relationship between gunpowder and firearms, but the failures also created some sub-items.For example, there is a kind of stone that can be smelted into cement, and then it will dry in three hours on the ground, and the cost is cheap.

The Ministry of Industry reported this trivial incident, and Xie Lanzhi gave them a sum of money from the private treasury to hire someone to repair the road.

When Wei Zhao of the Ministry of Industry received 5 taels of silver, he was in a daze. Cement is so cheap, labor is so cheap, and even the people of Tianjing volunteered to help for free because of the new order to repay their favor, so 5 Both can be repaired outside Tianjing.

Regardless of whether Wei Zhao dared to disturb Xie Shuai, because Xie Shuai was leaving for Honghe next month, she would travel long distances to the North Region for the sake of the development of the south.This matter was once a hot topic in both civil and official circles.

Occasionally, idlers in teahouses would ask acquaintances: "Did the Marshal go to the Northern Territory?"

"Not yet? Probably soon."

"I don't know if the Marshal is used to eating when he went to the Northern Territory?"

"That is to say, I hope the marshal can take good care of himself."

"It's better to go early and return early, so His Highness doesn't have to worry."

At the same time, Wei Zhaogang from the Ministry of Industry posted a notice for road construction. On that day, a thousand people came, including men, women and children, and they brought rice and sweet potatoes with them.

Wei Zhao thought that the labor for nothing was worthless, but he couldn’t really refuse to give some money, so he used the extra money to buy eggs and cheap Xiaoguo fruits as afternoon refreshments on the construction site.

Unexpectedly, more people came. A three-mile road was repaired in less than half an hour. At night, people spontaneously patrolled and protected the road until the road solidified.

The 5 taels was repaired outside Tianjing, and it was even at the gate of a rural village. The rural people can walk on the good cement road when they leave the village. The children also like to play here at night, and the adults will move stools here. Nice place to chat, eat.

Some villages had some savings. Seeing that the cement road at the entrance of the village looked better than the stone road, and the pile of mud behind the village was very unsightly, the village head appointed the middle-aged men in the village to pick stones and paved a road in the village.The village's spontaneous road construction was passed on to the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry passed it on to Si Qitong. Si Qitong personally wrote a plaque for this village: Village of Good Roads.

As soon as the plaque was placed in the countryside, the whole village became a celebrity.

The whole village is full of pride. If you go out and say that you are from the village of good roads, you will be envied by others.

With the example of the village of good roads, many villages spontaneously contributed, and the wealthy started to build roads, and some clan villages spent their own money to buy cement from the Ministry of Industry to repair roads and agricultural canals in the village.Of course, these things happened after Xie Lanzhi went to the Northern Territory.

There is a wave of entrepreneurship in Tianjing. Usually, the government is worried that the people will abandon their fields. Now they find that the production of super rice has increased, and there is some cost of cement to repair agricultural canals.No matter how many other businesses you do, you cannot do without food.What's more, the vast number of agricultural officials are staring at it day and night, and they dare not relax at all, so the government naturally does not worry about the people's insufficient production.

The people at the bottom know more and more the importance of agricultural technology, and Si Qitong also specially compiled the agricultural book he counted: Dajin Agricultural Technique.

It is distributed to various yamen for free copying and distributed to the common people.

Illiterate people can hire painters, and the government will reward them with food.

Since agricultural books do not require high-end drawing skills, they only need to be easy to understand.Many folk painters came to apply for the job one after another, and after a while, they were taken to the Secretary of Agriculture in person by the government to let the painters paint.

Agricultural books used to cost a tael of silver to buy from bookstores, but now the government distributes them for free, and many people are scrambling to get agricultural books and paintings. A village will probably keep two copies, or for leaders who can read a few words Everyone.

The first agricultural book, Da Jin Agricultural Technique, was thus born.There are a total of [-] items of Dajin Agricultural Techniques that have been coordinated and updated, and each item is the insight that Si Qitong got from Xie Lanzhi.After Si Qitong refined and modified it himself, he obtained a agricultural book that did not belong to the previous dynasty.

Many of the planting methods in it have to be tested by the Secretary of Agriculture on the public land before they dare to issue them, but most of them work, so they are recorded in it.

In the streets and alleys of Tianjing, every family is happy and harmonious. Merchants have a stable environment to promote consumption.But because the production of sweet potatoes is good this year, many people can eat three meals, and the meal at night is sweet potatoes.

But it's better than nothing to eat, and it's much better than outside the south now.There were constant uprisings and famines, and just after the epidemic, the Shiguo Mansion launched a war against the small country.Let the people of small countries flee to the south and Tianjing.

Added a lot of pressure to the soldiers on the southern border.Now Xie Lanzhi has no intention of accepting refugees from outside, and the management costs are huge.What's more, the south has only been stable for two years, and the interior has not yet fully developed, and it has just barely had enough food and clothing.Really can't afford too much.

And even though the border guards surrounded the border tightly, there were still people smuggled in, and there were more and more unfamiliar accents wandering around Tianjing every day.Although it is very law-abiding, it is a hidden danger after all.So Xie Lanzhi suddenly remembered that there was an abandoned transport canal in Tianjing, and this group of people could just be used to repair the canal, and they would only take care of some sweet potatoes and taro, so that they would not starve to death for a while, and they could gather together to take care of it.

Xie Lanzhi also referred to modern folk techniques and mobilized ten people from each village to form a militia. Every month, they could receive two buckets of rice and fifty catties of sweet potatoes as a salary to take care of these foreign refugees.And supervise them to repair and transport the canal.

At the same time, the streets of Tianjing were bustling and bustling, and it was a grand scene, but as a Xie soldier beat gongs and drums to signal to make way, the people pushed to both sides one after another, wondering if there was going to be another war?

This is Xie's hundred-mile fast soldier, and he will not make such a fuss when important things are usually needed.

The rider hadn't slept for two days. He could have arrived in Tianjing in a day by boat, but General Zuo was worried that the firearms would be intercepted. After all, even if the territory of Tianjing was safe, accidents would inevitably happen.

In order to ensure safety, he spent an extra day on the road at night, so that he was delayed by two days.

Military Machine Pavilion had received a secret letter from Xie Xia a long time ago, and now Xie Guang was rushing to pick up the rider at the gate of the palace with people, and he notified Wei Zhao of the Ministry of Industry by the way.

As soon as Wei Zhao arrived at the gate of the palace, he saw the general waiting here.

Xie Guang greeted Wei Zhao: "Master Wei didn't sleep last night?"

"I'm rushing to catch up with work." Wei Zhaodao: "Thanks to the great love of the two masters, the matter assigned by the masters, I can't relax until I finish it in a day."

Xie Guang believes that firearms are not easy to develop. He only knew what a nest gun was seven years ago, and this year he only knew what a firearm is.

He said, "How's the progress?"

Wei Zhao said with shame on his face: "My eldest disciple has perfectly reproduced the late emperor's flintlock gun, and he can fire a few more rounds, but he just can't produce a lot of it."

Xie Guangdao: "I heard that the former emperor's flintlock gun cost tens of thousands of taels to build. Your big disciple has now reduced it to 5000 taels, which is a very big improvement."

The distance between thirty thousand and five thousand is a full six times.If you ask him, the marshal is still eager to mass-produce it within a year, which sounds impossible.

"Don't say that, the marshal has her own reasons for ordering, not to mention you still don't know the news from Weidu?" Wei Zhao reminded him: "You have to have a sense of crisis."

Xie Guang didn't see the death of the two reserve generals with his own eyes, but they were shot to death by a weapon from a long distance away, and both of them were in the chest. It is said that Hu Xiong's gunmen specially picked the generals to kill, which sounds very scary.

The two were chatting, when the sound of horse hoofs came, the horse's tail was blown up, and the figure of the rider immediately stopped at the gate of the palace.

The guards of the palace raised their weapons in response to this posture.

Xie Guang hastily raised his hand to stop it: "My own!"

The rider got off his horse and couldn't even hold back his words. He took off the package on his back and handed it to Xie Guang, and then passed out.

In the past two days, the rider didn't eat a grain of rice, and at most drank saliva, and then he became dizzy after being nervous and relaxed.

"This is a hero. This general will credit him with merit, and he will be taken to the Imperial Hospital for treatment!" Xie Guang ordered.

Two guards came over and picked up the rider and ran towards the Tai Hospital.

Xie Guang hugged his bag and said, "Let's go to Lanzhang Palace!"

Wei Zhao followed behind him, and the two rushed to Lanzhang Palace.

Xie Lanzhi heard that the rider had safely brought the firearm back to Tianjing. She was very curious about what was so special about Hu Xiong's weapon?She sent out so many compositions to the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry made [-]% to [-]% of them, but the power was far from enough, and the barrel of the gun could not be used.