It's not that Qin Zhigang doesn't exercise, he has been so busy in the past two months, so busy that he even has less time to sleep. Su Xu's body grew up again, and the amount of food grew, this disciple was an important labor in the construction of the railway, and Qin Zhigang did not dare to skip his food. Now you have to eat one meal every three days, and you have to eat 3,000 catties of barbecue meat plus 20,000 buns and 5,000 catties of vegetable soup for a meal, but fortunately, you must not be picky eaters, and the food made by the ape man who made the plate for him is mellow and he thinks it is not delicious, and the whole sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and fish are all eaten in the barbecue, and there is no need to spit out the bones. Qin Zhigang does not complain that he can eat too much, it is he who asks him to eat cooked food, in order to make Xu Xu not bloodthirsty and not manic, he, as a master, should contribute money and efforts.

Speaking of which, he now has eight disciples, but the first one to call him master is Susu, who treats him completely like a father, closer than his father, and Susu's Yuanying is also a child, and it is logical that a child younger than a ginseng doll is called Master.

The steppe railway in the kingdom of the saints has been built, but only 1,000 miles outside the kingdom has been built, and 3,000 miles have been dug up but are empty because the cement and sand and gravel cannot keep up. Now the cattle and horse convoys can no longer leave the country of the saints on the grassland, the closer they get to the snow-capped mountains, the colder it becomes, if the cattle and horses continue to be transported on the grassland without supplies and resting places, there will be a large number of casualties, but fortunately, the railway that has been opened to traffic can continue to transport materials by train.

In the icy western grassland, there is a medium-sized railway station covering an area of 800 acres at the end of the railway, where 10,000 apes and 3,000 humans braved the wind and snow. There are a lot of houses in this train station, there is a perfect floor heating system under the house, and the human and ape people can also drink a little wine and eat some snacks in the large house, and the inside of the house is not cold at all. The apes are afraid of fire, but the Terrans are not afraid, and the peat used in the heating system is completely local and does not cost anything, and the Terrans wave a steel shovel to send the peat into the stove.

As soon as the train arrives, a small group of Terrans and apes will run out of the house, they will quickly complete the unloading and let the train leave, and they will immediately return to the house to rest after the unloading, and the unloaded materials will be transferred by other teams.

Qin Zhigang saved supplies for the railway in winter, and the commander-in-chief of Layue was Shu Debao, who did not hide in the kingdom of saints to enjoy happiness, and took half of his adult sperm rats to be stationed here, and if there was a problem with the floor heating system, there would be rat spirits to repair immediately.

This is the first time that Shu Debao has taken over such a large-scale construction work, and hundreds of thousands of elites of all ethnic groups under his command personally braved the wind and snow to run to Tucheng every three days in order to successfully complete the rotation.

Tucheng also has fully universal floor heating, and the inside and outside of the tall city walls are completely different worlds, the cold wind outside the city cracks the bones and turns into ice, and the inside of the city is as warm as spring, and even the snowflakes cannot fall because of the heat in the city. Qin Dingtian has been stationed here for five years, and now even the streets have the floor heating he ordered to build, anyway, it is a coal producing area, and there are countless straws as auxiliary fuel, he is in line with the idea of not using it in vain.

The cattle on the snow-capped mountain will be divided into the old and weak in the winter to live in Tucheng, Qin Dingtian knows that these are strong children and grandchildren are to give him good wine and meat hospitality, Tucheng has a population of more than one million, floor heating all over the streets and alleys, of course, there is also floor heating in the pigsty, and the pigs can be fed very well in winter, Tucheng is self-sufficient and does not lack that bit of meat.

The strong descendants of the cow do want to eat meat, and they are good at eating wine, but after getting drunk, it is a little messy, Qin Dingtian is only allowed to consume the cow essence to eat a small bowl of wine tomorrow, and ordinary cattle are not allowed to drink. In such a cold winter, only they can brave the wind and snow to walk a large section to send supplies to the outpost outside, especially the group of assassin miners who rely on cattle to transport supplies, Qin Dingtian hates these people for killing his righteous brother, and the supplies are only according to the minimum standard, never too much. Moreover, the winter here is cold, and the bird tribe cannot patrol, so they are afraid that they will escape if they have more supplies, so they can only ask the cattle to send a few supplies to keep them alive.

Every time Shu Debao came to Tucheng, he would accompany Qin Dingtian to drink two sips, and the two would coordinate their work while drinking, and Qin Dingtian would give Shu Debao a hundred catties of peanuts every time he left. Shu Debao now understands a lot of things, he is very grateful to Mr. Xiaogang for the saint kingdom, now he brings a hundred catties of peanuts to travel thousands of miles against the wind and snow to completely eat, which was unimaginable before.

The grassland railway has invested hundreds of thousands of elites of all ethnic groups in two years and half of it has not been completed, which is very different from Qin Zhigang's original idea, he did not calculate the negative impact of the weather on the railway construction. The next three years of drought were just right for Qin Zhigang to build the railway, and after the completion of the grassland railway, he would not disband the railway engineering bureau, and the elites of all ethnic groups in the railway engineering bureau were ready to spend their own money to raise the railway and build the railway to the whole country.

On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the elder group held a meeting at the Shuitan Railway Station. At the beginning of the meeting, Qin Shi announced that the total population of Hou had exceeded 10 million, and there were only 1.6 million male strong men in the 10 million population.

The Qin family, who received six million new people at once, was a little in a hurry, this is not a demon race, the human race has to dress and eat, a house to work, and to take care of emotions.

The meeting was a little heavy all of a sudden, and Qin Hei stood up and spoke: "Grandparents don't have to worry too much about these little things, with my little brother Xiaogang, I will be able to settle these things soon." Four years ago, when Xiao Gang was less than five years old, he said that we would be rich and strong here, although we are now a little bigger, but Xiao Gang's younger brother must have a way. ”

Everyone turned their eyes to Qin Zhigang, Qin Zhigang was almost nine years old, and he still liked to sit on Zhuangzhuang's shoulders, seeing that everyone was paying attention to him, he had to slip down from Zhuangzhuang's body and stand on the bench and start speaking: "Just now, the third grandfather said that we now have a population of 10 million but only 1.6 million laborers, which makes everyone worried! Actually, the current labor can't be counted like that, I mean our human race." Now the women of our Terran race are also participating in the work, and the money is not less, so why don't you count them? There are many women working in the clothing department, the catering department, the food department, and the nursery bureau in the Ministry of Education, and half of our elders are women.

Everyone's faces were much better, and some grandmothers and aunts felt that this child was sensible after hearing Qin Zhigang say this, and they listened to what they were talking about!

Qin Zhigang took a sip of the tea handed over by Rui Rui and continued: "Who dares not to take women seriously? My Aunt Cuihua is also the minister of the two major departments, and she is the top person in Qincheng in terms of power and financial resources, and a sneeze can make the board of directors tremble. My grandmother, the vice minister of education, is in charge of the physical and mental health of 200,000 infants and young children, and even the old master admires my grandmother's benevolence and righteousness. The uncles and uncles of the Quick Calculation Bureau are also too undeserved, how can they forget such an important matter?"

Aunt Cuihua squinted her eyes and drank fragrant tea and was ready to mobilize her subordinates to clean up the Quick Accounting Bureau, but Grandma said proudly but with a steady face: "200,000 infants and young children are the algorithm of the Quick Accounting Bureau, and more than 6 million new people this year have also brought 100,000 children under the age of three, and 300,000 children under the age of six, according to the rules of our Ministry of Education, all of them will be included in the Ministry of Education at the latest in the spring of next year!"

The old master couldn't help but stand up and said: "The rules of the Ministry of Education are going to be changed, the children of the human race should be educated at least to the age of ten, especially these new people, their children have not learned to read and write, and the age should be raised to twelve years old." After the old master finished speaking, he didn't care if others understood or not, so he sat down, as if nothing happened to him.

Qin Zhigang touched his chin with his left hand like an adult and said: "What the dean said is right, everyone should pay attention to it! With our family's financial resources, we can raise the age of education to 12 years old, and the children of the new people should make up classes until they are 15 years old, and it should also be possible to set aside five days a month to study for those over 15 years old and under 20 years old." What grandma said is also very important, numbers are dead, people are alive, we can't do things according to data, errors and floats should also be taken into account. These four or five hundred thousand children will be involved in the clothing department, the food department, if it is not for grandma's reminder, we will be in a hurry next year. ”

The old master snorted, and blamed the disciples of the Quick Calculation Bureau for being too careless, everyone understood him, and he would definitely go to the Quick Calculation Bureau to train people after the meeting.

Qin Zhigang coughed dryly and continued: "You can't blame the uncle and uncle of the Quick Calculation Bureau, we all have underestimates about this year's affairs, first of all, we didn't take into account the lack of fabric, and secondly, there are too few needlework. Next year, I will help the clothing department again, and how far they can go in the future is their own business!"

Qin Shi was a little unhappy, and interrupted Qin Zhigang's words: "Although the garment department is the minister of the wallet, the chairman of the garment factory is the mother of your uncle Liangpi, but you should support you if you are powerful!"

Qin Zhigang hurriedly nodded and said: "Xiao Gang lost his words, grandparents are not strange! In the future, we should do our best, and take good care of everything we can, after all, it is our family's industry!" Xiao Gang, who will soon be nine years old, will already start to deliberately please people.

The elders nodded their heads and praised Qin Zhigang, although the old people in the family are young in body, they are already very old-fashioned, and they have a very tight control over the most profitable and easiest industries, even the First Emperor feels that the old people in the family are very powerful. Then again, as long as you're not stupid, anyone who can be young for the second time will be very powerful.

Seeing that the elders forgave their gaffes, Qin Zhi began to say something happy: "It has been raining outside for three years in a row, and it has finally stopped, although we haven't made enough clothes for the new people, but it's not very cold if it doesn't rain!"

Qin Song answered: "This is a warm winter, but it is still raining and snowing here, and now the winter outside is warmer than ours." ”

Qin Song winked at Qin Zhigang after saying this, Qin Zhigang knew that it was the meaning of letting him continue, this old and young man had already cooperated like this five years ago, and now Qin Zhigang continued: "This is all the credit of grandpa, grandpa's saint kingdom makes us not invite disasters!"

The old master couldn't listen anymore, so he stood up and waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about it, your child's path to the holy path is far better than your grandfather's, but you are not even holy, I wonder how you did it in such a big saint realm?"

Qin Zhigang's face turned red when the old master said it, and he saluted the old master and said, "God-send!" Congratulations to the dean and the elder on being holy!"

The old man sat back on the chair and said, "You have to divide a piece of land for the old man, Si Ran and Hou Ye can control a large area of the weather, the old man can live for many years with the favor of your family, and you will be the Si Yu for a few years to help the people save some effort." ”

The old master's words made Qin Song's face red, it turned out that this old man even knew this!

Qin Zhigang covered his face and said, "You know everything, and you still hold back and don't say it, deliberately embarrassing the kid." Qin Zhigang's actions and words made the elder group laugh!

The old man said proudly: "If you are allowed to be naughty, the old man is not allowed to tease you? Although you are far on the holy path, the old man's divination is not the left side door. ”

When the old master spoke, his eyes drifted to Qin Hei, and the first emperor had a feeling that the old master was peeping into a secret, Qin Zhigang also felt that the old master was pointing something, and hurriedly changed the topic and said: "The way of the dean and the elder is very easy to understand, and the last school boy admires it to the end! At present, the grassland school is the most complete school under our Ministry of Education, and it is the only school that offers high-level classes, and it should be the college next year, right? There will be a lot of students in Fengxian School who need to attend advanced classes, and it is good to turn my former chicken farm location into an academy? The ready-made manor covers an area of 10,000 acres, with a vast territory, and is located in a quiet and elegant environment, if the old man ascends to the holy throne there, he can control the sunny rain of hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile soil, and the blessing of the people!"

The old man stroked his beard and thought for a moment, and then jokingly said: "All at once the old man was sent three hundred miles away? The place is very good, I saw it on the train last time, when you pointed to it and said that there were millions of chickens here, the old man is not mistaken, right? Now there is not a single chicken left, you have to get some for the old man." ”

Qin Zhigang said: "Dean Xie is tireless, the last student will work hard to build the Academy City here, the Dean can use the Academy City as the headquarters of the Ministry of Education, and then give the Dean Elder a small Cloud City as your old courtyard." In the future, there will be hundreds of thousands of students stationed in the academy, and all the people under the rule of my Qin family will be proud to be able to enter the academy.

The First Emperor was infected by him, and he also stood up and said to the old master: "If this can be the case, then the Ming court and the elder of the court should be worshiped as the 'upper doctor'!"

The old master looked at Qin Hei with a smile and said, "I have received my mind, you and Xiao Gang are the future of Da Qin!" But the two of you are more naughty than the other when you are studying, and the old man is right to move the school farther away, so as not to bring the students badly!"

Qin Zhigang and the First Emperor were all blushing when they were talked, and everyone couldn't help but think of Qin Hei's frequent distractions in class when he was in school, and sometimes he slept and drooled in class in the summer, remembering that Qin Zhigang graduated from school in half a day, and his husband was half embarrassed by his anger, and the elders laughed endlessly!

Qin Song hurriedly rounded up and said, "Lord Dean agreed, let's do this as such! Hurry up and say other things, the elders still have something to do after this year." ”

Qin Hei covered his face and sat down, Qin Zhigang also covered his face and didn't speak, Qin Zhigang's disciples, you push me, I push you, and finally pushed Yichen out.

Yichen bowed his hand to the elders and said, "Mr. Xiaogang is now working on a huge strange car similar to a train. If this car is successful, it can gallop on a road like Qin Zhidao and travel thousands of miles a day, and its weight-bearing capacity is even more extraordinary, and it can carry 100,000 catties at a time. With this car, we will be able to speed up the completion of the Qinzhi Road, reduce the hardships of the people, and increase the power of Qincheng's export after the disaster, so as to communicate with each other and benefit the people and strengthen the country. ”

The elder group began to talk about it lively, Qin Zhigang took the opportunity to slip to his chair and sit down, this time he didn't dare to sit on the strong shoulders again, and the nine-year-old child's shame grew.

After everyone calmed down, Qin Song asked some elders to say something that could not be seen in the data, which was nothing more than the people's hearts and minds, and everyone did not mention anything about the materials sent out in the heavy rain in the past three years, firstly, because they didn't want to use it as a contribution, and secondly, because of the huge amount, there was some pain.

At the end of the meeting, Qin Zhigang asked the disciples to give the elders a lot of knitted fabrics, and the elders naturally couldn't put it down and went home happily holding things.

That night, the wallet went to beg Qin Shi to hand over the sweaters and knitted socks to him to sell, saying that in the past few years, there have been more and more factories, and the stalls have become bigger and bigger, but they are not profitable, and the clothes and quilts of the new people are completely at the parity given by the board of directors. said pitifully and tearfully, and begged him to sell this money-making thing to make money first!

Qin Shi was moved by him, mainly by the last sentence, 'Earn the money of the board of directors first'. Qin Zhigang said that when there is no money to be made outside, domestic sales can be used to promote economic prosperity, and Qin Zhigang also gave a careful explanation to the elder group, because Qin Shi was really tempted by this sentence.

The next day, Qin Shi arrived at Qin Zhigang's Cloud City at dawn, and after some conversation, Qin Zhigang felt that this method was okay, so he asked the third grandfather to work hard as a middleman to sell knitwear to the clothing department.

In this way, the knitwear that was supposed to be distributed to civilians was not distributed for the time being, Qin Shi used his own small Cloud City to receive goods from Qin Zhigang, and only gave 10,000 pieces to the clothing department for each transaction, and also gave clothes, pants, socks, and towels separately, and the wallet was also an insider's knowledge that it was not easy to make these things at a glance, so he did not dare to ask for production methods and equipment.

After the clothing department got these things, it was only used for retail, and the largest clothing store in Qincheng used a glass cover to buckle the samples, so that the most capable manager stood on the edge of the glass cover to greet the passing guests, and the price of the clothes was as high as a set of 100 taels of silver, and the socks and towels were considered gifts and followed the clothes and pants.

The people of Qincheng are indeed rich, and some of the people who came earlier have been able to come up with a hundred gold, and the family of the board of directors has already used gold tickets to buy this new type of clothing before they can make a move.

Soon, the board family got the news and drove the carriage to pull the golden ticket box to pick up the goods. It's the Chinese New Year soon, and the board of directors family is also busy preparing gifts for their families, and they don't think it's very expensive for a hundred taels of silver, but they have to look at things first.

Although these families have not earned much money outside in three years, the work sent by the Hou Ye can still earn a lot of labor fees, and the easiest thing to earn in Qincheng is labor fees, and the people can earn more than ten taels of silver per month, not to mention that these families are powerful and like to take on big jobs.

The members of the board of directors rushed to the clothing store and thought that they could get some discounts based on their different statuses, but as a result, the clothing department did not give an inch, and more and more families rushed to know that the clothing department really had no surplus goods, so everyone had to pay for bulk purchases at retail prices.

The clothing department was cleaned up by the gentlemen of the school once four years ago because they couldn't make enough goods, and this time they remembered that each board family was limited to three hundred sets. The board members scolded and scolded to pull things away, and when they got home, they could only put them on for the most important people in the family, and the result was really warm, light and snuggly, and so soft to the touch. As a result, the members of the board of directors showed their abilities and asked about the source of these clothes, and in the end, they could only learn that Qin Shi took them out.

Everyone can only guess that this is an internal product of the Qin family, just like alcohol, the Qin family controls it very strictly, and the wisdom is very high, and it can be extrapolated to the head of the chairman, but they don't know that the chairman is a child who has not yet reached the age of nine.

When the Chinese New Year was only two days away, the clothing store of the clothing department put even more amazing things, such as "autumn clothes and autumn pants", "elastic cotton socks", "cotton panties", "cotton chests" and "cotton sanitary napkins". The board members were angry and collectively demanded that the council be held to ask for the right to buy these things.

More than 30 members of the board of directors asked for a meeting, the board of directors was convened, and Qin Song personally presided over the meeting, and no one expected that the board of directors would be annoyed.

Qin Song patiently explained to everyone that these things are still in the experimental stage, and they will first satisfy the board of directors if they can be mass-produced in the future, and in order to appease everyone's injured hearts, the chairman gave each of the board members a large box of 'cotton sanitary napkins'. Qin Song criticized the wallet at the meeting to only recognize the practice of money, everyone happily carried the box and left, what they didn't know was that the 'sanitary napkin' was already in mass production, Qin Zhigang began yesterday in Cloudsdale with the 'sanitary napkin assembly line' to produce 100,000 sanitary napkins per day, just to be popularized to the entire Hou Kingdom in the coming year, these sanitary napkins will be very cheap.

Two days is just a flick of the fingers to celebrate the New Year, although the crowds in Qincheng Square are less than half of the number of people in previous years, many people are already on their way to other places.

Qin Song used paper money to settle the expenses of the Qincheng Group for a year in a very short time, and Qin Zhigang asked the apes to drive out the 20,000-pound car rack, which was a large steam truck that had not been fully installed with wooden planks. It is simplified and reduced according to the internal structure of the train, the front of the locomotive is 12 feet high, 9 feet wide, and the body is 22 feet long.

The apes clumsily fiddle with the world's first bulky steam truck, sturdy hovering above the truck, ready to take control of it at any moment.

The scene was so shocking that the board members and the people were all stunned, this thing was like a monster spewing white smoke and rumbling forward, backward, left turn, right turn, and emergency stop on Qincheng Square, doing all kinds of unbelievable actions.

Qin Song personally held the megaphone and shouted: "This is the car, it is only in the experimental stage, it doesn't need cows and horses, as long as there is something burning for it to consume, it can keep running." Its own weight will reach 23,000 catties, and it can run 90 miles per hour, with a full load of 20,000 catties, but he can hang two carriages with a full load of 50,000 catties, and the speed will drop to 70 miles per hour. We will complete ten cars by March, these cars will not be sold, they will be sent to Qinzhidao to open mountains and transport earth and rocks to speed up the construction of Qinzhidao. ”

Everyone stared at the car in the square, as for what Qin Song said, they didn't know at all, the 'car' finally made a mistake and crashed into the guardrail of the moat, the strong guardrail of the moat broke like a matchstick and fell, seeing that the 'car' was about to fall, Zhuang Zhuang shouted: "Get up!"

The "car" started and stopped in the air in response, and the stainless steel skeleton of the whole vehicle "squeaked and quacked" resisted such inertial squeezing, and the car was put back into the open space of the square gently. A city in the sky landed, and the ape-man drove up to the city and left, and after a while the square erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

The first thing that comes to mind is not how much weight this thing can carry, not how much money it can make, but what will happen if this thing is used on the battlefield?

'In the plain battle, it can break the formation with one enemy and ten thousand formations, and the horses and chariots will be crushed by it and have no power to fight back. ’

'In siege battles, it can tear open any gate and protect the soldiers from rushing into the city, and the bow and arrow stone is the same as tickling it, and perhaps only a large crossbow bed can hurt it. ’

In a word, this is a battlefield weapon, the Imperial Excalibur.