Summer passes very quickly in Yamahae-gun, and it doesn't take long after autumn to harvest it's time to harvest.

Wang Lanling took people to do farm work in the fields.

The middle and high-ranking officials in Lanling County must be able to farm, and they must also clearly distinguish between wheat seedlings and leek seedlings.

The crooked road that Wang Lanling has walked will not let the rest of the people go again.

Hu Zhong was helping beside him, and when he was resting, he said: "This year is almost a peaceful year. ”

Wang Lanling drank the ice cola sent back by his son, and said casually: "It's almost, the longer it drags on, the more I don't want to fight." ”

Hu Zhong asked: "We can be regarded as a confidant here, no matter what, if we don't do anything, when the new monarch has a firm foothold, he will probably concentrate on dealing with us." ”

Wang Lanling said: "I don't know how long it will be, at least now, no one can say when the emperor will be replaced." ”

"Besides, even if it's a replacement, will it be able to solve the current problem?"

"Today's emperor can't say what a wise monarch is, but he hasn't made many mistakes, and he hasn't done much too bad things, at least for the country."

"This kind of thing is no longer something he says alone, it is required by the situation, even if he doesn't care, the people below will do it, the difference is not so obvious."

"The army's business is a very corrosive thing for combat effectiveness, but if it doesn't do business, will its combat effectiveness be improved? Throughout the ages, what should be rotten will still be rotten. ”

There are also many armies in the world that do not engage in business, and their combat effectiveness is what it looks like, and it is still difficult to say whether they will win or lose when fighting with an army that is engaged in business.

The Jiang family is an aristocratic system, and the actual interests of the people in charge of the armies in various places are also the aristocratic group headed by the Jiang family, so the harm of military business is different from another world in this kind of feudal dynasty.

Thinking carefully about the few wrong things that the old emperor did, I found that it was not so outrageous.

The power of the empire is only dispersed to the Jiang family in various places, and the old emperor is orthodox and controls the strongest Longzhou group army in the world, so all kinds of problems are actually no problem.

The problem is Wang Lanling, even if it is replaced by any emperor in history, as long as Wang Lanling is forced to the right path, it will come to the current situation.

At the beginning, Wang Lanling thought that he was greedy enough for money to retire early, but all kinds of things around him that had no lower limit made Xiao Wang's conscience discover and embark on this thorny road.

Without Wang Lanling, the empire would be a peaceful and prosperous era similar to the rule of Zhenguan.

There is no shortage of people who can't survive in any peaceful and prosperous world, this is all trivial, but Lord Wang can't stand it, and he is not willing to give the people above a chance to apologize and appease.

"As long as we don't have to get by here, and only think about a few days of good people, that life will get better and better, we are developing all the time, and people outside are just trying to live."

Wang Lanling stood up and prepared to continue working.

"Eat and play, sleep when you are tired of playing, and eat when you wake up, this kind of life is not bad, but it should not be satisfied, everyone can eat enough is only the first step, the second part is to have hope!"

"In the past, I was looking forward to being well fed and clothed, having an iron pot house, and being able to eat meat once a week."

"Now there is also hope, so that every household can use electric lights!"

It has been delayed for two or three years, and the development of electricity has continued to hide the necessity of shackling, and it will be difficult to have such a good time for development in the future if it does not take advantage of the weak time of the empire to develop rapidly.

Hu Zhong knew that Wang Lanling attached great importance to electricity, but he did not know the principle of electromagnetic induction.

Hu Zhong said: "We need coal to generate electricity, we need coal for heating in winter, some chemical industries also need coal, and ordinary families also need a lot of coal for cooking and boiling water, and the two coal mines in the county alone are no longer enough." ”

There are two coal yards in Lanling County, one of which was originally there, and the other was discovered later.

Both coal mines have high storage volumes, but the problem is that the rate of mining cannot keep up with the rate of consumption.

Wang Lanling said: "I have already told the merchants of Lanzhou about this, and in the future, coal will be transported from Zhouzhou, and there will be surplus coal in Yuzhou, which will be transported by sea." ”

"We actually found that there are still a few coal mines internally, mainly because of the cost of mining, and I don't plan to use these strategic reserve resources for future generations."

"In terms of electricity, I will spend 10 years building a power plant and using the water from Shanhai Lake to generate electricity, so as to supply the living needs of 10 million people by then."

Hu Zhong quickly said: "Do you think that in ten years, the population of our side will reach 10 million?" ”

Wang Lanling nodded and said: "Now it is more than six million, and the population that has migrated from Jinshan, as well as the population that has migrated from all over the country, will reach ten million within ten years, which should be about the same." ”

Hu Zhong felt that there was a problem, "The immigrant population we have absorbed from Muzhou this year is more than 20,000 people, and basically all of them are the families of the surrendered soldiers, and there should be fewer and fewer in the future, I heard that there are not many people in Yanshan County anymore." ”

Wang Lanling pondered for a moment and said: "Almost, not only Muzhou, but also several other states will have people running over, don't underestimate our attractiveness." ”

Hu Zhong still didn't understand, but after seeing Wang Lanling bow his head and cut rice, he also stopped talking and leaned down to do farm work quickly.

The attraction of Shanhai County is constantly expanding under the construction of Wang Lanling.

Although Hu Zhong and the others were very smart, they were not aware of some influential factors, and they did not know the temptation of being able to defeat the Imperial Legion twice in a row, without exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and to be able to eat and clothe themselves when they came.

In any known era, there were more poor people.

Since a year ago, the people of Sarazhou have been hearing the story of Wang Lanling.

In the past two years, the people of Shanzhou have learned more and more about Shanhai County.

Shanzhou, Yunzhou, Muzhou, news about Wang Lanling and Shanhai County are always the topics of small talk of ordinary pawns in various tea shops and taverns.

With the precipitation of time, people in Senzhou, Yuzhou, Yuanzhou, Haizhou, and further away have all obtained anecdotes about Wang Lanling and Shanhai County.

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Sengzhou

After thinking about it for many months, the county guard of Kunlun County, Senzhou, finally decided the matter.

"Our county's money and grain this year have been exhausted, and most of the money and grain for next year will not be enough.

"Shanzhou and Yunzhou can't be counted on, the nearby Guazhou Mianzhou is poorer than us, I heard that Wang Lanling of Shanhai County in Muzhou is rich and rivals the country, Shanhai County is full of business, and you can make a fortune if you get a business."

"Wang Lanling's concubine Elena is from our Senzhou, you go over and talk to him to see if you can give us some business to do."