Dress to be a celebrity

With an imperial decree, the king of Qi became the king of the generals, and the rest of the generals were also given additional titles and salaries. Beijing also brought gold, silver, wine and food from the imperial court to fully reward them for their military exploits.

But with the imperial decree came not only rewards, but also a difficult problem of settling the inner captives on the spot.

It is said that the three elders of the cabinet suggested that the captives should be resettled like the common people in the pass, instead of demarcating the grasslands as in the previous dynasty, thinking that they would guard the outside.

——The meaning of the elders, now that the northwest is not calm, let these herdsmen wander in the pastures outside the pass. If spies from the bandits infiltrate, or these people have a rebellious heart, it is easy to ruin the overall situation of the Western Expedition.

In addition, this one is only a few thousand old and young, and it doesn't take up much space just to live.Build houses for them, and then build a workshop area like Hanzhong Economic Park nearby, let them work there in exchange for money, and buy food and cloth from the pass, which is enough to maintain their livelihood.

The great grassland that has been vacated will soon have the Shaoqing of the Taipusi to plan and build a horse farm, and raise thousands of good horses for the Dazheng cavalry.

The three elders planned this way, and the Holy Majesty also thought it was good, so he handed over the important task of resettling the border residents to the second son.

These generals are not very good at the administration of peace of the people, so they turned their attention to King Qi and Supervisor Yang: "His Royal Highness participated in the establishment of an economic park when he was in Beijing, and took care of the great cause that is related to the livelihood of the people in the city. If you want to do these small things, you can do it easily." It can be arranged. Master Yang has made good friends with Hanzhong Mansion again, if there is anything missing in Liangcheng, won’t your lord send a letter and ask the prefect of Song to come?”

Yang Rong stroked his clear beard and nodded slightly: "I built oil plants in Yulin, Yansui and other places, and the prefect of Song Dynasty sent people to watch them build them. They didn't use bricks and stones, but pre-built them with bamboo reinforced cement. When building a house, use bamboo sticks to string them together, pour cement, and in a blink of an eye there will be a spacious cement house.”

The house was built quickly and conveniently, but it is said that it will not last for a long time, and it will need to be reinforced and rebuilt in a few decades.However, these herdsmen have lived in low and airy tents for many years, and they have built concrete houses to keep them warm. I am afraid that they will not be willing to move out in the future.

The generals all laughed: "No, after living in tents on the grassland for several months, and being able to live in a brick house in Liangcheng, sleeping on a heated kang, I feel that the house is clean and spacious, which is better than the days before. Sitting around the brazier in the middle, it's like the sky and the earth."

First put them in a decent house, and then have a place to receive money and food every day, and people's hearts will be settled.In the future, when this house can be destroyed, I am afraid that the border residents who belonged to them will live as prosperous as Hanzhong, so are they afraid of rebuilding the house?

Speaking of Xingye, everyone was very confident in arranging jobs for these people: "With His Royal Highness King Qi here, it's not easy."

Only the King of Qi knew how much money he had put into the mine when he was running the mine. The money was not only in his palace, but even his mother, concubine and grandfather followed him to put in money.

It was still in Beijing, at least he knew where the mine was.Now in the foreign army town here, where the grasslands are everywhere, where did he dig a coal mine or a stone mine?

Pointing at him is better than relying on Yang Jianjun to move these people to Yulin to dig fire oil.

King Qi has always been firm in his mind. Although everyone praised him as a virtuous king who helped the world and the people, he himself was still able to hold on. When he returned home, he wrote a letter of resignation to his father and a letter to his brother who was far away in Hanzhong. He sent people to resettle the herdsmen.

Anyway, he is the "Great General King", and it is enough to just fight the war, and the rest is "not in his position, not seeking his own government"!

Yao Langzhong cautiously put the letters from King Qi and the others into his arms, and rushed to Hanzhong with his guards.

Compared with Liangcheng, which is freezing cold, Hanzhong has a bit of spring at this time.The new grass in the field is not green, but there will always be a few wintersweet branches inserted obliquely behind the house; through the glass windows of the rich people's house, you can see pots of narcissus in marigolds, quiet and elegant orchids, and green leaves blooming. on the windowsill.

Arriving at Zhou Wang's mansion, the feeling of spring is even stronger.

There are not only Samuume in the courtyard and potted flowers on the desk.After Angel Yao proclaimed the decree and shared the letter, when he stayed to accompany King Zhou to eat, the vegetables on the table were rare in winter, and they were extremely fresh——

Even in the capital, the weather may not be able to eat so many fresh vegetables.

Yao Langzhong was amazed by the meal, and sighed: "The land in Hanzhong is really different from other places. No wonder it can grow so much auspiciousness."

King Zhou laughed and said, "It's not that the land is different, there are greenhouses, and our Song prefect is good at farming and mulberry, so we can grow all kinds of vegetables in winter."

Song Shi was an accompanying guest at the table, and when he heard the words, he hurriedly humbly said, "This is all the experience of the predecessors, I'm just good at summarizing it." Don't mention it in this life. predecessors.

Yao Langzhong said with a smile: "That's right, my subordinates are only concerned that Master Yang wants me to entrust Master Song to help them think of ways to settle the affairs of the Tatar tribesmen attached to them, and for a moment I forgot that Master Huan offered Jiahe to the prefect of Song Dynasty. scene--"

At that time, King Zhou was commanding in the hall, and Yushi Huan opened the box himself, and took out a whole box of auspiciousness for showing!

One box!

He has been an official in Beijing for several years, and all the auspicious things he has seen are not as big as that box!When he thinks about it now, he still feels the blood rushing in his chest.

He didn't know how Huan Ling was able to offer those Jiahes so safely, without even trembling his fingertips.If he showed that kind of limelight in the hall, he might be too excited to hold Sheng Jiahe's box with both hands!

He peeked at Huan Ling, only to see that he also seemed to recall the glory in front of the palace in the past, his brows were bright, and he couldn't hide a little joy and complacency. friendship--

It was probably to call the little eunuch to give Zhou Wang a chopstick, then call the eunuch to give him a chopstick, and then reach out to hold Master Song's chopsticks. Arrangements in turn, I don't know if it is thoughtful or I am so nervous that I can't even care about eating.Fortunately Master Song was sitting under his shoulder, always remembering to pick up vegetables and ladle soup for him, so as not to make this imperial censor hungry.

Seeing that he was not so calm, Yao Shilang felt a little bit of comfort in his heart.I bowed my head to take a bite of the rice, and felt it was soft, smooth and chewy, and my mouth was filled with the aroma of new rice, which seemed to be much better than the ordinary round-grained rice I ate in Beijing.

It's a pity that he didn't come to Hanzhong at the right time. If it's summer and autumn when wheat and rice are harvested, I'm afraid he can see auspiciousness all over the fields. What would it look like?This Hanzhong uses electricity from the sky, and eats auspicious grains, is it still the land of the world!

Even Hanzhong was not the only one. When he passed the Datong Mansion when he was passing the letter to Liangcheng, he heard that there was a variety of different wheat.If Song Zhifu gave a little advice, what kind of big deal would the resettlement of herdsmen in Liangcheng be?I'm afraid that if we don't build an economic park, we can afford to support the people in this department just by teaching them how to farm.

Yao Langzhong couldn't help but cast a glance at Song Shi, and asked, "I'm afraid that the imperial army will go deep into the grassland after the spring warms up, and they won't be able to take care of this matter. I don't know what your Highness has arranged. What is Mr. Song's idea?"

His Royal Highness Zhou Wang had just read his younger brother's letter, and knew that the second emperor's younger brother was determined to fight for the country and settle the affairs of the border people. As an elder brother, he also shouldered the responsibility of calming the nine borders. I remember that there are coal mines in Datong Prefecture. I visited Datong last time. I also heard that they also followed the example of the third emperor and Song Zhifu and built a coal refinery. Maybe you can ask people to look for it near Liangcheng. If there are any mines, if there are none, it is better to send their strong laborers to work in the pass, and the young and old will herd less cattle and sheep in Liangcheng."

After speaking, he asked Song Shi again: "What do Mr. Song think?"

Mr. Song thought... Let's analyze the specific issues in detail. Without investigation, there is no right to speak.

He then asked Lord Yao: "Have you ever met those herdsmen? How many animals did they bring?"

Lord Yao only remembered a lot, but he couldn't count them: "It looked like a lot, but the cows and horses were thin. I heard that it was snowing heavily in winter, and there was not enough fodder. Many of them froze to death when they moved back, and some were killed when they marched back. Cattle and sheep eat meat..."

Ashamed, because the cattle raised on the grassland are not farming cattle, there is no prohibition against slaughter, and they also ate a lot of them.The mutton in the prairie is tender and fragrant, without any smell, and the beef is stewed so soft and delicious that it makes people salivate when they recall it.

Master Yao ate the banquet in Hanzhong, recalled the mutton in the grassland, and felt that the mutton eaten in Liangcheng was extraordinarily delicious in comparison.

Although this mutton is not on the list of famous people's "greedy" products, Mr. Yao is also an old gourmet. Talking about mutton is like a good sentence, and the words are exquisite.The king of Zhou couldn't help yearning for it, and sighed: "It really is a good product. There is no such kind of mutton in the Central Plains."

However, the intention of the imperial court now is that it does not intend to allocate pastures to those herdsmen and let them graze freely on the grasslands. No matter how good this mutton is, it may be difficult to eat it.

When Song Shi saw that King Zhou seemed to want to eat, but he was afraid of troublesome others, and refused to say "yes", he couldn't help feeling sorry for him--when he was a small leader, he would generously pay for the treats given to him by the employees, but now this My brother-in-law wants to eat prairie mutton, so why not let the children eat it?

eat!Must eat!

The grassland people are all attached to it, so are you afraid that there will be no little sheep!Isn’t the best industry on the grasslands to be animal husbandry and subsequent deep processing?Even if the imperial court doesn't set up pastures for the herdsmen to raise cattle and sheep, it's okay to let them raise them in houses!

It happened that Mr. Yang asked him to build a house with cement prefabricated boards, so he transported more to build the cattle and sheep pens.Equipped with two extruders, let the cattle and sheep eat hay, fresh grass and some puffed starch and protein feed, so that the cattle and sheep will grow meat easily if they eat a balanced diet.

The cows raised can be sold to various places as farm cattle. The little fat sheep on the grassland first brought a few to satisfy the king of Zhou's gluttony. The young couple can have a stew of mutton and a pot to nourish their bodies even if they have nothing to do in winter.The rest are kept for shaving wool, milking goats, and selling mutton: the shaved wool is built on the spot for spinning, and then twisted, or made into felts and carpets; and a food factory is opened to process all kinds of milk. The finished products will also be supplied to the king of Zhou and the government of Hanzhong first...

By the way, it can also be made into cans and supplied to King Qi's army as military rations.

His idea is not entirely selfish, but it can be regarded as a two-way strategy: Although raising cattle and sheep in a house is more tiring than free-range breeding, and requires more labor, but the herdsmen in this group have just arrived, and the court is still worried about them. They arranged something to keep them in Liangcheng.For herdsmen, it is easier to raise livestock than cross-bank mining, and they must get used to it after a while.