Ji Xinyu finished the play, said goodbye to Shi Tuo and withdrew in the direction of Lingchuan Mansion, while Shi Tuo rushed to the restaurant in Lingshan Town, waiting to welcome the upcoming prefect Ji Yushan.

Before it was time to eat, Zhao Qingzhi and Li Huai in the restaurant were drinking tea and chatting, and after several days of hard work, the mining of silver ore was finally on the right track, waiting for the prefect to come and inspect.

This time, the name of the owner of the silver mine is naturally Zhao Qingzhi's, after all, it is indeed a bit ostentatious to let a prefect own a silver mine, and Shi Tuo can only get a small share from Ji Yushan.

In the decades when Zhongzhou was rarely stable, in order to balance the authority of civil and military officials, the emperor first stipulated that military attaches could not participate in the affairs of Jiuqing, and then in the next few years, he sent low-ranking civil officials to sort out border affairs, and thus began the system of civilian officials unifying the army. You say that people are low-level civil officials, but from the system, they are your bosses, and they are not in charge of you for no reason.

During the Jingtai period, the Guangxi general army asked for no control from the governor, and finally obtained a parallel position, but this was only a short-lived event, and it was of no great use, the system of civil unification and military affairs in the era when the military generals had no right to speak was unstoppable by the military general group, with the deepening of institutionalization, the military generals could only succumb to the civilian officials, unless you regained the power and the right to speak.

The civil official group in the imperial court has been operating for many years and has been deeply rooted, and now in the imperial court, the eunuch party has begun to take charge, and the civil officials have begun to vassal in order to protect themselves, and the capable military attaches are mostly in the border garrison, and the military attaches who can cling to the eunuch party are mostly young people who have no name in vain, and they have no ability or thought of fighting for the interests of the military attache group.

In such an environment, Shi Tuo could only obey others, and rushed to the restaurant in Lingshan Town, Shi Tuo met Li Huai and Zhao Qingzhi who came to greet him.

"The villain Li Huai (Zhao Qingzhi) visited General Shi." Li Huai and Zhao Qingzhi are both unofficial and tasteless little people, although Li Huai can speak in front of the prefect, but he still does not dare to slack off on Shi Tuo, seeing Shi Tuo coming on horseback, he and Zhao Qingzhi bowed and saluted.

"You don't have to be polite, Lord Ji hasn't arrived yet? The prince of Shu has just arrived at the mine......" Shi Tuo said.

As soon as he was halfway through his words, he was interrupted by Li Huai and said, "General Shi also invites you to sit upstairs and talk in detail." ”

"Okay, go upstairs first." Shi Tuo handed over the horse to the soldiers behind him, and walked upstairs with Li Huai and the others.

Before a few people went upstairs, there was a family member outside, the prefect arrived, and everyone was busy at the door to greet the prefect Ji Yushan.

Soon Ji Yushan and Shi Tuo came to the living room of the restaurant to sit down, and as soon as he sat down, Shi Tuo couldn't wait to say: "Lord Ji, today the prince of Shu went to the silver mine, and said that he had already surveyed the silver mine ten days ago, and he has been gathering people to mine it today these days, I don't know what Lord Ji thinks about this matter?" ”

"General Shi doesn't have to worry too much, the silver mine is already being developed, even the prince of Shu can't get involved." Ji Yushan replied.

"That'...... Who discovered this mine? Will it offend the prince of Shu because of this? Stow said worriedly.

"General Shi, now ...... Who discovered this mine first, or is it heavy? As for offending the prince of Shu...... We didn't offend him, this mine was discovered by Master Zhao, and we mined it first. Ji Yushan looked at Shi Tuo with a smile and said.

"That being the case, that's Shi Mou's overthinking." Stein doesn't delve into it anymore.

At this time, at the side of the small tea shop in the north of Lingshan Town, Ji Xinyu had already asked the others to go back to Lingchuan Mansion first, and he and a few guards were also drinking tea and resting, listening to Aiden's return in his mind, Ji Xinyu said: "It seems that this Shituo really doesn't know these dirty things about Ji Yushan and others." ”

"According to the analysis, it should be like this, and then wait for them to open the mine before we dive into the ore collection?" Aiden asked.

"Anyway, they don't know the value of manganese ore, and they can't refine it, so let them toss it, and then see the situation." Ji Xinyu said indifferently.

Ji Xinyu actually wanted to hear more about how much Ji Yushan knew about him, but now it seemed that Ji Yushan didn't care about his current situation. Think about it, there is only a small ferry port from this Qiongzhou City to the east bank of the Nandu River, and the east bank is full of wild places where the poor people stay, and there are twenty or thirty large and small villages next to the post road within a radius of dozens of miles near the Zhangwu Village ferry, and the population is becoming more and more scarce further south.

It wasn't until you walked sixty or seventy miles southeast along the post road that you arrived near the waters of the Wenchang River that the village gathered place, which was also the seat of Wenchang County. Now the place where Ji Xinyu is located is inconspicuous, and the dignified prefect will definitely not pay too much attention to it, as for the future...... I don't know.

After completing the acting task, he no longer paid attention to the situation in the mine for the time being, Ji Xinyu returned to Lingchuan Mansion and inspected the training of the guards and the progress of the musket production of Niu Gu and others, He Xingwang came to report that due to the increased demand, pork and other meats and Xue Rui confirmed the fixed channels not long ago, and it was not yet fully delivered, and it was often difficult to buy meat.

Ji Xinyu thought about it, he still needed to have his own farm, and asked He Xingwang to inform Xue Rui and ask him to help find crops called "red potatoes" or "sweet potatoes" in various places, and drew a pattern and handed it to Xue Rui. In addition, a livestock farm was opened next to the paddy fields that are now being opened in the north of Yeongcheon Province, mainly raising chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, and supporting cattle and horses. In the original Shu Wangfu, there were special people to raise horses, which belonged to the auxiliary soldiers of the Guardian Division, but this time he did not bring auxiliary soldiers to Qiongzhou, so he could only let He Xingwang go to various places to find talents who can breed.

The planning of the breeding house is also a drawing drawn by Ji Xinyu for Aiden, so that Li Hongzhuang selected a group of stonemasons and carpenters who have completed most of the construction of the houses, and began to build the farm with a group of helpers composed of villagers.

The farm is divided into four areas: pigs, sheep, cattle and horses, with the largest scale of the pig farm, followed by sheep, and horses and cattle again. Each area has several rings, each with a sink, a trough and a manure cleaning tank, and the whole needs to be slightly tilted to facilitate manure cleaning and keep it dry. Finally, a large concrete digester was built at the southernmost end of the entire farm, with a manure inlet, a fermentation chamber, a liquid manure pond and a digestate pond.

Use lime to mark the approximate location on the ground, call the stonemasons and blacksmiths to give drawings, the location and connection of each area on the drawings are clearly marked, only need to be built according to the size, and Ji Xinyu asked Aiden to make a steel gas pipe for pouring on the fermentation room. After a detailed explanation of the craftsmen and the spiritual teachings of Aiden, the craftsmen and villagers began to construct after they understood it.

Arrange the craftsmen to start construction, Ji Xinyu and Aiden began to study the transmission of biogas and the production of pressure gauges, biogas can be transmitted with steel pipes, Aiden has made a steel outlet, and the follow-up only needs to connect the steel pipes. Ji Xinyu plans to build a workshop ten meters away from the biogas digester and build a biogas furnace inside, which can be used as fuel for the kitchen or other purposes.

The pressure gauge parts can only be completed by Aiden, Ji Xinyu to assemble, after several failures, finally made a volume of 40 cm large round pressure gauge, the volume is a little larger, but it is also very easy to use, it is installed on a blocked steel pipe at one end and connected to the gas outlet, handed over to the craftsman for installation.

After a few months of construction, at this time Lingchuan Mansion has completed most of the infrastructure construction, after returning from Qiongzhou City, Ji Xinyu revised the plan, and also built a 600-meter-long and wide Lifang in the south of the workshop area with reference to the scale of Qiongzhou City Lifang, which is separated from the workshop area all the way.

The two rows of more than 400 acres of rice fields newly opened up by the river in the east have also been opened up and planted with rice, and now a part of the refugees who have been called over are arranged to take care of it, and Ji Xinyu also discussed with He Xingwang for a long time about the handling of the refugees, and decided to distribute land to these displaced people.

And the only few children were arranged by Ji Xinyu in a newly built house in Lifang, and Zhu Mu, a professor brought by Shu Wangfu, was responsible for teaching reading and literacy, and a college was being built on the roadside in the center of Lifang, which was prepared for future students.

The craftsmen in Lingchuan Mansion and the villagers recruited from outside each have at least two taels of monthly money per month, which also allows the nearby merchants to see business opportunities, and after He Xingwang's instructions, Ji Xinyu decided to lease out part of the three rows of two-story small buildings built as an experiment to form three 1.2-kilometer-long commercial streets.