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When they first heard the news, Song Liang and the deputy general were shocked. After all, King Shun’s difficulties were obvious. They only wanted to ask for help from nearby counties and courts. They never thought that King Shun would be able to reach out to help them. Thinking of them is really underestimating.

But after being surprised, Song Liang didn't have any hope. He only thought that what was brought in was just a few hundred or a few thousand shi of grain. When he arrived at the team escorting food, grass and weapons, Song Liang realized that he had been shocked long ago.

This is more than hundreds of thousands of shi grains. Looking at the endlessly winding procession and the piles of things on the carts, it must be tens of thousands of shi.

Song Liang was really shocked for a while, then got off his horse and walked over to a person who was clearly in charge, and couldn't help but confirm: "This...is this all given to the border guards by His Royal Highness King Shun?"

The person in charge of this errand was Xie Jingan's Su Wei, who had been with Xie Jingan for several years. He was stiff and stiff by Xie Jingan's side, but when he came out to do the errand, his mouth suddenly became sharper. When I returned to Mozhou, I was thinking about the border military day and night. I was so busy all day long, but I still found ways to support the soldiers at the border. Isn't that right? The snow just started to melt, and His Highness can't wait to let people It's just that Mozhou has a small population and it's necessary to prepare for spring plowing. There is really no manpower available, so even these children and elderly people have come in handy. Although the journey is a little slow, it is fortunate that it is worth living. "

Su Wei, who was on errands, explained King Shun's painstaking efforts in a few words. Song Liang and the lieutenant were really moved when they heard it. They said a few words of thanks and expressed their loyalty. However, Su Wei held them down, shook his head and said, "Let's talk about Xie En's words later. The most urgent thing is to look at the things His Highness sent over. General Song, please see what this is?"

As Su Wei was talking, he took out a strange-looking thing from the package that carried his treasure all the way. The outside of the thing was made of iron, but it looked like a cylinder. Looking carefully, there seemed to be a piece of colored glaze inside. Song Liang was puzzled After receiving it, he turned it over and over again, and asked curiously: "What is this? Is it something that can be used for fighting? But it doesn't look like a knife or a sword, and there is no sharp edge. Could it be something? Hidden weapon? But where is the organ?"

Song Liang studied it, and when Su Wei saw that he had done enough, he showed a subtle smile, and said slowly: "This is not a weapon used to hurt the enemy, but a clairvoyance that His Highness has worked out with a hundred craftsmen."

"Clairvoyance?" Song Liang and the lieutenant both showed unbelievable expressions, and subconsciously put the cylinder on their eyes and looked into the distance. They were startled when they saw it, and their already big eyes became more and more staring like copper. Ling, trembling with excitement, began to stammer, "This...how did this be made? It's clairvoyance, really clairvoyance. From such a distance, it looks as if you are right in front of your eyes. With this thing, In the future, we will not beat the jaw like we beat a child."

The more Song Liang talked, the more excited he became. As soon as he raised his leg, he wanted to run towards the city wall, so as to feel the magic of clairvoyance again. Let's see what this is."

Suwei asked someone to lift a cement board prepared earlier in the morning, and it fell on the ground with a bang, pointing to the cement board and said: "This is something that His Highness King Shun finally asked people to make. Don't look at it now. The appearance of a stone is extremely hard, but it is actually made by mixing a powder mixed with water and sand. The cost is cheap and it dries quickly, but it can be dried in a day or two to form an extremely hard cement board. , much harder than bluestone slabs, even if you smash it, you can't break it, it is the best to use it to repair the city wall, no matter how many barbarians come, they will never break the city."

As Su Wei said, he drew out the saber at his waist and slashed hard on the cement board. Sure enough, as he said, there was no crack at all. The knife, however, had some small cracks.

Song Liang and the lieutenant's eyes almost popped out, and then they stuffed the precious telescope into their arms. After thinking about it, they felt that it was wrong, so they took out the precious one and handed it to the lieutenant, repeatedly telling him to take care of it. , before someone brought up a huge hammer.

The two arms exerted all their strength, and even let out two breaths into the palm of the hand, and swung the hammer round to hit the concrete slab hard.

Song Liang's strength is much stronger than Su Wei's. With this hammer, the gravel flew, but it only made a shallow hole, and there was no sign of shattering. Song Liang was very excited, and squatted down carefully. After touching the cement board, he couldn't stop nodding and said: "Good thing! It's really a good thing! What's this... I'm afraid of the cement building the city wall. No matter how many people he comes, I can't open my city. Door."

Song Liang walked around the cement slab twice happily, as if imagining the scene after the city wall was built with cement, his finely lined face was covered with flowers, and after a while he jumped up as if his butt was on fire, and grabbed the old guard Said: "What are you waiting for, what about this cement? Come here quickly, as much as you can, I ordered this to go down and start repairing the city wall. I heard you just use sand and water, right? How much sand and water? How much more? Is it enough to just put it on like the white ash that pastes the wall? Or do you need to use some special utensils, tell me about it one by one, and I will count it as a great achievement for you.”

Seeing Song Liang tugging at himself as if he couldn't wait to build the city wall, Su Wei's smile became brighter, stretched out his hand and gently pressed Song Liang's hand, and said softly: "General Song, there is no rush for this matter, let's take a look first. His Royal Highness King Shun asked his subordinates to send something."

Could it be that there are such magical things that look like fairy objects?

Song Liang only felt like he was dreaming. He had been poor at the border for so many years, and his lifelong wish was that the court would not withhold military rations so that his friends could eat enough to fight the war. Seeing so many unheard of things that I dare not even think about, suddenly makes people feel a sense of unreality.

With this kind of erratic mood, Song Liang, under the guidance of Su Wei, watched what kind of alcohol could wash away the poison of the wound, and Song Liang was shocked by this alcohol, but the only pity was that the wine was not allowed to drink Hearing this, Song Liang scoffed at what he said would burn his throat. He had never drunk any kind of strong alcohol, and he didn’t dare to drink it, not to mention that the alcohol smelled so fragrant and could be poured on the wound. , it is absolutely impossible to be poisonous, Song Liang thought to himself, when he is injured, he must find a chance to taste it, such a fragrant wine, if he doesn't take a sip, it will be a waste of time in the world.

After visiting Baijiu, Song Liang looked at the new weapons again, including knives and arrows, a crossbow that he had only heard of but never seen before, and a weapon called a gun with blood grooves on three sides.

The name is very appropriate. Looking at the deep blood groove, Song Liang knew that such a stab would be a big hole that was difficult to heal. People who are dexterous enough to get close can play a big role. As for ordinary soldiers, I'm afraid it won't be very useful, but they can be tied around the waist or legs for self-defense.

After looking at the weapons, Song Liang looked at the leather armor and some military uniforms and other miscellaneous things. Not only are there many styles, but also a lot of them, especially the cement that can build the city wall in a few days, which is enough for him to make people And Shangshashishui repaired the entire Pingzhou City.

Song Liang was naturally overjoyed by this, but he was shocked by more things. He looked at the cart after cart of food, grass, and military equipment for a while, and then said with some difficulty: "These...these are prepared by His Royal Highness Shun Wang in the winter. What came out?"

Su Wei naturally understood why Song Liang was so surprised, and couldn't help but deepen his smile, and said with a smile: "Of course, except His Royal Highness Shun Wang, who would care about the soldiers who care about the frontier? His Highness also said that the time is too short and we can only prepare Out of these, when he further develops the fiefdom, there will be more grain, grass and military equipment sent to the border in the future. His Highness also asked his subordinates to give the general a word. His Highness said that as long as he is the feudal lord of the fief, he will not Let the soldiers be hungry, eat enough to eat, wear warm clothes, use the best swords, and match the best medical officers, so that the soldiers can go to war without any worries."

After Su Wei finished speaking, Song Liang remained silent for a long time, opened his mouth a few times, but finally said nothing, and saluted in the direction of Mozhou, then turned solemnly, facing Su Wei As soon as he clasped his fists in gratitude, he began to send orders like burning his buttocks. In just a moment, everyone from the lieutenant general to the criminal slaves who were exiled in the city began to act.

With the arrival of the escorting grain, grass and ordnance team, the whole Pingzhou began to be busy, repairing the city wall, training troops, and making the grain into easy-to-carry dry food. Even Song Liang also served as a scout, and no one could take it away. With only a dozen or so people with him, he quietly headed towards the direction of Jaheo to check the movement of the enemy troops.

This busy work lasted for a month. As the snow completely melted away, weeds began to grow, and the city wall was repaired. Even the people who built ordnance did not have enough iron, so they used cement to make a lot of cement thorns and scattered them on the flat ground outside Mozhou City. When they went up, they had waited anxiously for a long time, and finally saw the shadow from a distance.

Pingzhou has been busy this month, and the entire Mozhou and the nearby counties are not in vain. With the guidance of craftsmen from the Equipment Department, merchants who are neither short of money nor short of people, and some aristocratic families only spend less than a short time. In half a month, several workshops with a large area were built.

In the industrial area planned by Xie Jingan, there are no longer stretches of woods or sparsely populated villages, but workshops springing up one after another like mushrooms after rain.

After the workshop was completed, merchants from aristocratic families eager to make money immediately began to manufacture goods. Thanks to these workshops and the temptation of the Xie Jingan Chamber of Commerce, more and more merchants from the north and south of the river came to Mozhou and children from aristocratic families who wanted to share a piece of the pie. More, the narrow streets of Mozhou can be described as rubbing shoulders, and because of the embarrassing location of the workshops in the industrial zone, although the merchants still want to delay, the plan to build cement roads is still on the agenda .

The raw materials required for cement roads are cheap, and the only troublesome thing is to level and compact the original roads. However, this is not a problem when it comes to money. In just over half a month, the industrial area outside the city gate of Mozhou was connected. The cement road in the district has just been repaired. It is not too wide. In future generations, it will be four lanes at most, but it is fresh and tight in this era. The cement road is smooth and strong. Since the day it was built, there will be people watching every day , the longer the repair time, the more people onlookers, and when it was completely completed, most of the people in Mozhou City were startled, and they surrounded the concrete road in amazement, with people walking and jumping on it from time to time, There are also many squatting down and touching it as if touching some rare treasure.

Even Mr. Liu was not immune. Although he already knew the purpose of cement, he was still amazed when he looked at this road. Regardless of his identity, he knelt down and stretched out his hands to touch it. After a while, he stood up and said in admiration: "This thing of cement is really ingenious. Who would have thought that it is just some ordinary things that can be seen everywhere, and such a smooth road surface can be built. If such a road can be built in the north and south of the Zhou Dynasty, the traffic will be very fast. It is much more convenient, that is, if there are any important military reports in the future, they can be sent to the imperial court some time in advance, so that the Holy Majesty can have more time to deal with government affairs."

After Master Liu finished his speech, Lin Yan couldn't help but continued: "More than that, soldiers are extremely fast. With such a road, the soldiers don't know how much energy and time they saved, and it also gave the army more mobility."

The two of them talked about the importance of the concrete road like no one else, and the other officials of the palace and the guards who followed were very excited when they heard it, but Xie Jingan's expression was calm.

It's not that he wasn't excited, but that he was already excited when he was preparing to build it. Moreover, he has seen more ingenious roads in later generations. Facing such an ordinary cement road that seems to be seen everywhere in later generations, it is really hard to be excited. Feeling.

After visiting the cement road for half a morning, Xie Jing'an couldn't wait to go back to the palace when Liu Master Bo Linyan's mood calmed down a bit. Because old Mrs. Chen is now half of his confidant, he didn't meet him in the flower hall and met him in the study. people.

It was the first time that Mrs. Chen was received by Xie Jingan alone in the study room after entering and exiting Prince Shun's Mansion so many times. He was immediately shocked, his stooped back seemed to straighten up a bit, and he entered the study room with a rather radiant face and saluted Xie Jingan. When he asked a question, he said very considerately: "His Royal Highness, fortunately, I did not disgrace my life. The housekeeper went south this time and bought more than 5000 slaves. They all signed the deed of sale, and they are all in this box."

Old Mrs. Chen said as he handed over a red lacquer box that was as big as half an adult's arm in his arms.

Xie Jingan's eyelids twitched when he heard the figure of more than 5000, and he endured and endured before he laughed out loud. After taking the box, he calmed down for a moment, and then slowly said: "Well done, buy these slaves... Did you attract anyone's attention?"

Old Mrs. Chen said firmly: "The old man sent this time is a steward who was just promoted from the family's children. He usually works in Zhuangzi and has never shown his face in Mozhou. He is a bit clever. Gouzi I just want to practice it, so that in the future, when some juniors in the family become relatives and become stewards or companions in the outer courtyard, there are very few people who can know him, not to mention outside, even at home. His Highness can rest assured that he is a servant of the Chen family."

Although he still had some misgivings, Xie Jing'an was relieved after hearing what Old Master Chen said. He didn't care about those people in the court impeaching him. It will be miserable when he returns to Chang'an.

Xie Jing'an secretly prayed a few words in his heart, then put it aside and asked Old Master Chen, "Then when will these 5000 people arrive in Mozhou? How do you plan to transport them back?"

Old Mrs. Chen said confidently: "Your Highness, don't worry about this. The 5000 people say it's not a lot, and it's not too many. Let them pretend to be refugees and mix with the people who come to Mozhou to recruit workers and find work. Outsiders are determined to see Nothing came out."

"Refugees?" Xie Jingan frowned, "How did you come up with such an idea, could it be that the Great Zhou Dynasty suffered disasters other than this king's fief?"

Mrs. Chen said: "In addition to some prefectures and counties on His Highness's land, there are also prefectures and counties in the north such as Yunzhou, Weizhou, Daizhou, etc. that were also hit by snowstorms. It is said that it is more serious than ours. They have died of freezing and starving. Many people have died, and they have gone south to form refugees."

There was also a snow disaster in Hedong Road, Xie Jingan was really surprised, he thought it was just that his place was a bit special, and he didn't want it to be a large-scale weather change, so he couldn't help frowning and said: "This king didn't receive any news about such a big event."

Old Mrs. Chen said: "Perhaps His Highness's fief was also affected by the disaster. Those refugees would go to the rich states and counties in the south even if they went, and would not come to His Highness's fief. Besides, the people around His Highness are busy with their affairs, so it was a momentary negligence. Alright."

This is also possible, after all, he is just a dispensable vassal king now, and he is generally not known about major events in the court. If he wants to know what news, he can only rely on the people below to report, but the people around him As a favor, the newly established intelligence organization is still in the process of running in and is useless. It would be amazing if he was well-informed.

Xie Jing'an shook his head, thinking to urge the intelligence organization again, he said: "Then what about these refugees? Where are they now? What's the situation? Are the servants you bought selected from among these refugees?"

"That's not true," Old Master Chen said, "Some of them were bought by refugees in exchange for food, but most of them were lonely people in southern states and counties. They couldn't survive there, so they voluntarily sold them to old people. , signed the contract of sale."