Playing intrigue is worse than engaging in infrastructure

After Song Qingyuan started planning the official road connecting Mobei and Dingyuan City, he completely forgot about the pattern on the eaves wall.Only occasionally when picking up the documents, the eyes would involuntarily fall on the letters under the official documents.

Every time there is a handwritten letter from the residence, the ink is different in shades, it should be that there is an urgent report of the enemy's situation in the middle of the writing, and it may be ready to go into battle in the next second, so I can only put down the pen in my hand in a hurry .That's why there are several handwritings of different colors on a letter.

Sometimes if the situation is not so urgent, Lianti will even leave a sentence in the letter, "Because I have to deal with ××, wait for me for a while".

In the last letter, the story about the deputy general who was washing clothes by the river and was bitten by a big bastard was divided into three parts before finishing the story.

Now, thirteen letters are neatly arranged, and there is a lot of letters, lying quietly and properly in the top drawer.

For people like Song Qingyuan, sometimes letting go is an attitude in itself.

"Your Highness, did you call me here for something?"

When Dalantai saw Song Qingyuan, a moment of guilt flashed across his face.The main reason was that he was perfunctory to Song Qingyuan that day, for fear that Song Qingyuan would ask about the eaves wall totem again.

He really couldn't afford to offend either of these two people!

Fortunately, Song Qingyuan didn't call him over for that matter this time. The other party seemed to have forgotten what happened a few days ago, and silently handed Dalantai a blueprint.

"This is?"

Da Lantai looked at the blueprint in his hand with a puzzled expression. After a while, he frowned slightly and said, "Your Highness is planning to build an official road to the Southern Zhou Dynasty?"

The topography of Mount Fu is shown on the map, which is not difficult for Dalantai to recognize.What puzzles him is that this road is not a necessity for them, but it requires a lot of manpower and material resources.Song Qingyuan is now anxious to build this road, which seems to be completely contrary to what he said before, "Mobei will have to rest for two years after this battle".

Song Qingyuan sighed as if he had expected such a reaction from Dalantai, "There is a mistake in what you said just now. Dingyuan is no longer the territory of Southern Zhou."

From Dingyuan to Quzhou, they are now in Mobei.

Dalantai was a little surprised that Song Qingyuan would say that, and for a moment didn't know how to react, so he nodded blankly.

"In your opinion, what is the identity of the people in these places?" Song Qingyuan asked again.

"These people from the Central Plains..." Dalantai subconsciously said, before he could finish organizing his words, Song Qingyuan interrupted him.

"In your opinion, they are people from the Central Plains, but to me, as long as their place belongs to the territory of Mobei, they are the subjects of Mobei, no different from the people in the city."

Dalantai wanted to refute, but found helplessly that what Song Qingyuan said seemed to be correct.Just like the people of their Hunke tribe, they did not belong to Mobei decades ago, and now they have settled down in the new city, calling themselves Mobei people?

Thinking about it this way, it seems that it is indeed somewhat inappropriate to call them "Central Plains people".

Song Qingyuan saw Dalantai bowed his head in thought, and stopped talking. He knew that Dalantai was a smart man, so he would understand the meaning of his words.

He knows that most people now have the same thoughts as Dalantai. Even if Heliantai cuts off Tong and Qu to Mobei in the future, for them, the people there will still be different from them." People from the Central Plains. And the people of the Central Plains will not have any sense of identity with the identity of "Mobei people".

Only Song Qingyuan knew how important this sense of identity was.If both of them are unwilling to accept each other, then the land of Tongqu will never truly belong to Mobei, and even greater conflicts will break out in the future.

And it was because of this that Song Qingyuan told Lianti at the beginning that he must not allow his subordinates to hurt ordinary people.

After more than ten years of prosperity and decline in the Southern Zhou Dynasty, the increasingly heavy taxes and corvees in the past few years have made the people on the border miserable.

Song Qingyuan has no intention of being a savior, but if he can help the people in Tongqu to live a better life and speed up their integration with Mobei, he doesn't mind playing this role for a while.

To completely belong to Mobei to Tongqu, first of all, it is necessary to change the concept of these people in Dalantai.

It is obviously impossible to take one "Central Plains person" like him.Fortunately, Dalantai quickly understood what Song Qingyuan meant.

Although he didn't understand the meaning of doing this, since Song Qingyuan told them to treat those people as subjects of Mobei, Dalantai would definitely do it.

After all, Song Qingyuan's ability is obvious to all, even their king has to listen to Song Qingyuan's orders, where did he come from Dalan Terrace for his self-confidence and disobedience.

"Then His Highness built this official road to shorten the relationship between the two places?" Dalantai felt blessed in an instant, and immediately understood the purpose of this road.

"Yes." Song Qingyuan added with an expression of "children can be taught", and added: "Besides, the Tongqu area also produces grain, and they also need our salt, beef and mutton."

There are also soybean oil, raisins, Qu Yuanli, soap, woolen cloth...

Now many things produced in Mobei are the daily necessities of the people. With such an official road, the trade between the people is frequent, so why not integrate as soon as possible.

And the soybean oil workshop he had considered before can now be built directly in Tongqu.

The people in the Central Plains are not like the grassland people. They have enough cattle and sheep to refine meat oil. They rarely see oil stars. Song Qingyuan had considered selling the squeezed soybean oil to the Southern Zhou Dynasty before, but due to the difficulty of transportation, he had no choice but to give up.

Now if the soybean oil workshop is built in Tongqu, not only can the local people have oil to eat, but they can also sell it to other areas to make a profit.

Now wait for He Liantai to negotiate a peace with them and officially allocate this area to them, Song Qingyuan can start to implement his plan.

"Then His Highness, do you want people to prepare things for road construction now?" Da Lantai, who knew Song Qingyuan's work style well, couldn't help but ask.

"If King Mobei's side goes well, Heliantai should negotiate a peace with us this month, and the road construction can start at the beginning of next month at the latest."

Song Qingyuan estimated the time and told Dalantai: "Send someone to the cement workshop first, and let them start transporting cement to Muhe tribe in a few days."

In this way, it can save more than ten days of transporting cement back and forth.

As for other projects, anyway, they have the big weapon of black powder, which saves time and effort when building roads.

Da Lantai received the order, but did not leave in a hurry, but stood on the spot and asked, "Does Your Highness have any orders?"

He knew very well that Song Qingyuan would never let himself come here if it was only for this matter.

Sure enough, Dalantai saw Song Qingyuan looking at the map and saying to himself: "When opening up tea gardens before, the soldiers and generals who were in charge of digging the mountains were in charge of the progress of the project, but in the future, things like road construction will be more frequent. I'm afraid it's not appropriate for a general to take charge of it."

Last spring, Song Qingyuan discovered this problem when he was building a series of water conservancy facilities such as reservoirs and building a new city.

There was no official in charge of this matter in Mobei, but because he was in charge of it at the time, he only temporarily promoted a few officers.

And with the development of Mobei, there will be more such things in the future.But it was impossible to make Song Qingyuan responsible every time.Therefore, it is extremely urgent to set up a special department to take charge of this business.

Looking at the blueprint in his hand, Da Lantai also felt that this was a problem.If roads and cities need to be built in the future, His Highness can't always manage it.It is also time for Mobei to establish a department dedicated to the construction of various projects.

"It's just that there has never been an official in charge of this matter in Mobei..." Dalantai said hesitantly.

He didn't mean that there was something wrong with Song Qingyuan increasing his official positions. Didn't the officials in Xincheng also use the examination system he proposed?

It's just that Mobei has never had a similar official position before, which means that there is no one who understands this matter.In the past, there were only a group of people responsible for repairing the palace, but they were all in charge of the internal servants, which did not match the civil and water conservancy engineering talents Song Qingyuan needed.

If he rashly appoints an official in charge of engineering construction, he may be a layman who doesn't understand anything, and may mess up the task assigned by Song Qingyuan.

That was what Dalantai was worried about.

Song Qingyuan heard what he meant, Dalantai's worries were not unreasonable, and he himself knew that the establishment of a brand new department could not be accomplished overnight.

But talents, after all, have to be cultivated slowly.

"Let's hold another exam in the same way that the officials of Xincheng were selected before, and see if we can select some people with talents in this area." Song Qingyuan himself was also a little worried.

Now we can only hope that Mobei has such a hidden talent.

This is a good idea.

Da Lantai nodded with joy.He still has a good impression of the officials in the new city, so he naturally has a lot of expectations for the method of "examination and selection".

"It's just what is the test?" He suddenly realized a new question.

Song Qingyuan did not personally take charge of the last exam, but just outlined a general procedure, and after giving his own suggestions on the exam questions, he handed over the full authority to other people.

I think this time is no exception. According to His Highness's words, this assessment will be handed over to him.Da Lantai looked at Song Qingyuan seriously, waiting for His Highness to give him some guidance on the content of the exam.After all, he himself is an out-and-out layman.

But to his surprise, Song Qingyuan didn't answer himself, but asked jokingly: "Didn't the exam questions already be given to you?"

"Huh?" Dalantai blinked blankly.

Has His Highness given it to him?Why doesn't he know.

His bewildered appearance successfully made Song Qingyuan laugh. He laughed briskly, then pointed to the blueprint in his hand, "Isn't this just an exam question?"

"Are you saying that I want to give them the map of Fushan, and then let them design an official road as an assessment?" Da Lantai thought for a while, and then understood Song Qingyuan's meaning.

Seeing this, Song Qingyuan smiled and nodded, very satisfied with Dalantai's reaction speed.

"In this way, it will be clear at a glance whether the person taking the test understands the knowledge of road construction!" Da Lantai clapped his hands excitedly.

As for other talents in urban planning and water conservancy construction, Song Qingyuan didn't have extravagant expectations.

If this exam can select people with talents in this area, then as long as they learn some theoretical knowledge, and then practice a few times in person, it is estimated that they can meet the current needs.

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