Playing intrigue is worse than engaging in infrastructure

"Your Highness, the king of Mobei sent news that the house over there has been built, would you like to go and have a look?"

The sun had just set to the west, and Song Qingyuan was planning to go back to the bedroom to rest for a while, when Jiang Duo brought back the message from Lian Ti.

In the past few days, Song Qingyuan has been compiling the textbook called "Basic Knowledge of Carpentry" in the carpenter's workshop, and at the same time, he has to take care of the production progress of Qu Yuanli, so he is so busy that he does not touch the ground.

After finally finishing the work there and preparing to rest for half a day, the news of the completion of the new house came.

What can he do?All I had to do was turn around on the way back to the sleeping hall and go to the newly built concrete house next to the barracks.

Although Song Qingyuan said that these rooms were "built for the women who boil soybeans and make soap, so as not to make it inconvenient for them to work every day in the military camp where men gather together."But the effect after the actual construction is more than that.

There are more than a dozen neat gray cement houses lined up side by side, which is more than enough for half a battalion and two or three hundred soldiers.

Song Qingyuan had his own considerations in building so many houses.After winter came, he mentioned a sentence to the merchants in the city who had done soap business with him: If some people slaughtered mutton, some of the unwanted wool would be taken back and sold to him.

Those merchants were also real people, and they took Song Qingyuan's words seriously in their hearts.If someone wants to kill sheep in the current royal court, they will have their hair shaved first and sold to those merchants before proceeding to the next step.

Collecting bit by bit like this actually allowed him to save a lot of wool.

However, the wool has not been washed, and the fine wool and coarse wool have not been sorted, and they are piled up in such a mess, which looks very unattractive.

At first, Song Qingyuan put these wools in the warehouse in his palace, but after being rejected by Jiang Duo several times, he had no choice but to find another place for them.

Later, the wool arrived at the workshop, and Song Qingyuan specially hired those women to separate the wool into coarse wool and fine wool, and then washed it and dried it to store it.

As early as that day, when he met the woman selling straw weaving, he had already thought about it.

Wool can not only be made into wool felt, but also knit into woolen sweaters!

Although he doesn't know the advanced wool weaving skills, he has seen how women weave straw and rabbits.

I think they are all knitting, there should be something in common, and it won't be too difficult to learn...

And this house is not only for the convenience of women's work now, but also for the future development of a series of wool products manufacturing industries such as wool felt and woolen clothes.

Speaking of drafting, Song Qingyuan suddenly remembered that he even mentioned the straw weaving that he promised to weave for him that day when he was in the mine, but how many days have passed, and there is no sign of it.

It just so happened that today he was going to meet Lian Ti, so he had to take this matter and make fun of him.

Song Qingyuan's move was not because he was so obsessed with a little straw trinket, but he was so busy during this time, when he thought that at the same time, Lian Ti had nothing to do every day except practicing martial arts and training soldiers, he My heart is very unbalanced.

According to Jiang Duo, he is still getting along well with Daju.

Two people... Ah no, one person and one lion ran to the mountains to play every day, and they had to wait until it was getting dark every day before Daju came back covered in dirt.

Lian Ti also often bathes Daju, which can be said to be very consistent.

But why does he work so hard here, even mentioning that he is leisurely like an old man every day.

Don't worry about scarcity but inequality, this should be the truest portrayal of Song Qingyuan's heart.

Along the way, Song Qingyuan was thinking about how to be eccentric when he saw Lian Ti later, so as to satirize the other party without appearing very narrow-minded.

But when he arrived in front of the newly built house, before he had time to say a word, he was stunned by the continuous praise like a series of cannonballs.

I don't know how Lianti managed to undergo such earth-shattering changes in such a short period of time.

Obviously before, he often made some shocking remarks, which fell through Song Qingyuan's spectacles, but now he has suddenly become the leader of the boasting group.

Song Qingyuan was shocked by the unexpected change of the other party, and forgot to say what he had prepared.

Just when he finally came to his senses from the countless compliments and was about to mock the other party with the mine promise, he saw Lian Ti take out a palm-sized straw weave from his sleeve and hand it over.

The straw weaving is not very vivid, but it can still be vaguely seen that it is made according to the appearance of Daju.

Song Qingyuan's taunting skills were already at full capacity and he was about to speak, but his mouth was blocked by Lian Ti's big straw woven orange.

Not only that, even the voice of laughing is also remembered at this moment.

"I don't know what animal His Highness likes, so I made up a big orange. If His Highness likes it, I will make a Ubud for His Highness in a few days."

"This weaving method was learned from my mother and concubine's weaving before. I thought I remembered it, but I didn't expect it to be rusty after so many years. Your Highness does not dislike..."

Lian Ti was still chattering, but Song Qingyuan had already clenched his fists.

You are so good at weaving straw, it's a shame that you are not allowed to study knitting sweaters!

Song Qingyuan gritted his teeth secretly.

Such a comparison shows how narrow-minded and unreasonable I was on the road just now.

He tried his best to pull out a smile, took the big straw woven oranges that Lian Ti handed over, and said, "One is fine, and you don't have to trouble the king for the rest."

I have to say that Lian Ti must have really put a lot of effort into this straw weaving, and anyone with a discerning eye can see it at a glance.

Very well, his image is a little bit worse.

Song Qingyuan's expression of wanting to smile or not made Lian Ti a little unpredictable. He tentatively asked, "What's wrong, Your Highness?"

Song Qingyuan shook his head with a smile, put away the straw woven oranges, and said, "It's nothing, I suddenly feel very undignified."

"Huh?" Lian Ti didn't understand.

"It's okay." Song Qingyuan patted the horse's back very casually, and changed the subject: "How is the building going?"

The topic finally returned to Lian Ti's familiar dimension, and he took Song Qingyuan around while explaining.

After Song Qingyuan drew up the pouring drawings and handed over the responsibility of supervision to Lian Ti, he never paid attention to this place again.It is also the first time for him to see the finished product, so it is inevitable that he feels novelty.

The finished house is much more spectacular than it looks on the drawing board.A dozen or so rooms that look exactly like copied and pasted stand together, which is very eye-catching.

And in the near future, many women with ingenuity and ingenuity will welcome here, who will start spinning wool and knitting sweaters with wool, adding another layer of thick barrier to the winter of the common people.

In the royal court, the women's college that the people speculated will also be established.At that time, this place will become an internship place for students in the textile industry.

When he first chose the house next to the barracks, he also had some considerations.In the future, a large number of married or unmarried women will come to work and live here, and they will inevitably be targeted by some hooligans, which is very unsafe.

But if it is built next to the barracks, there will be no worries in this regard.May I ask which rogue robber would not think about committing crimes under the noses of the soldiers in charge of city defense?It's not that life is too long.

As for whether the soldiers in the barracks will know the law and break the law, it is even more impossible.If they really dared to have such a crooked mind, they would hang their heads at the gate of the barracks the next day.

This is also a point that Song Qingyuan admires Lian mentioned.In this era of mandatory conscription or separation of military and agricultural registration, it is really rare for Lianti to be able to train a professional army.

Lian Ti's pro-military system is more like the military system of later generations.Soldiers in the barracks are selected by registration, and will undergo corresponding training after entering the barracks.Different arms such as infantry, archers, and cavalry have different training contents.

Soldiers don't do production, the only thing they need to do is to help the cultivated land belonging to Lianti when they are not fighting.

However, judging from the conditions of those lands, it should be that they have not worked too seriously.

All expenditures in the army are also provided by the treasury, and soldiers who died or were injured in battle will also receive corresponding subsidies and pensions.

The pros and cons of doing this are obvious.

To raise such an army, the annual expenditure will not be small.According to Song Qingyuan's rough estimate, just mentioning such a pro-army would cost much more than the entire military expenditure of the Southern Zhou Dynasty.

But the benefits are also obvious - other armies dare not go head-to-head with Lian Ti's pro-army.

No matter in the war with the Southern Zhou Dynasty or other tribes, Liandi's army has never been defeated.Of course, such achievements are also inseparable from Lian Ti, a natural military commander and excellent general.

Song Qingyuan had discussed with Lian Ti several times about what tactics should be used in different battle situations.

With just a few sentences, it can be seen that the opponent's unimaginable military... is not so much a talent, but rather a gift.

Lian Ti is like the most ferocious wolf on the snow mountain and the fastest eagle in the sky. He seems to be born with this ability.

The kind of acumen and judgment derived from the blood is not comparable to other people who have read many military books and experienced several wars.

With such an army led by such a person, it seems that it is not surprising that the Southern Zhou Dynasty was defeated steadily.

The author says:

Lian mentioned: My wife is awesome (star-eyed);

Song Qingyuan: Clenching his fists, he silently recited "Not Harmonious and Silly x Discussing the Right and the Short".