"The Empress Dowager may be leaving."

Zuo Rou sat there with Jin Ling'er's letter and said to Xiao Song: "Jin Ling'er asked me to go back to help, saying that she can't take care of the family alone." ”

"Then go back, and come back together when we're done." Xiao Song leaned next to him and looked at the letter together: "There are a lot of things to deal with, and some things are not at ease for others to help, although you are a little stupid, you are still obedient, you go and help her some." ”

"Bah...... I don't even know how smart I am, so you call me stupid. But I'm a bit dumber than you, but I'm smarter than them. ”

Zuo Rou was a little unwilling, but Xiao Song didn't say anything, after all, Zuo Rou, she didn't know where she got her confidence these days, anyway, she felt that she was smart.

"Then when do you think I'm leaving?" Zuo Rou turned his head sideways and looked at the people around him: "I'll leave Qiaoyun behind." If you don't have anyone around to take care of you, that's not going to work. ”

"No, it's been more than 2,000 miles along the way, and Sister Qiaoyun is still more relieved to be by your side. I don't have a problem with this, anyway, it's not a life and death, and it's coming after spring next year. Xiao Song held Qiaoyun's hand and said: "Let's go, I think let's leave in the next few days, if it is after Chongyang, the weather will be cold in the morning and evening, and the road is not easy to walk, and the autumn rain will delay things." ”

Zuo Rou thought about it and discussed it with Qiaoyun, and felt that this was also a matter, so the three of them briefly discussed it, and set off early the day after tomorrow.

This person was leaving, and he was a little reluctant to give up, so Zuo Rou gestured five fingers at Song Gou.

"What does that mean?"

"Two days, five times a day!" Zuo Rou said categorically: "Leave the addiction too much and then go." ”

Song Gou's expression at that time was that the old man was looking at his mobile phone, and Qiaoyun was not as domineering as Zuo Rou after all, she looked to the side shyly, but her hand was also behind Zuo Rou and secretly gestured at Song Beiyun for a three.

Oh...... Simple math is just an eight.

Xiao Song pondered for a while, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and shouted outside: "Come on, give all the wolfberries sent by the Xixia envoy a few days ago to the lord and I stew mutton!" ”

The soldiers outside scratched their heads and walked into the courtyard: "Lord Song...... It's ten pounds. ”

"Stewed!"

After that, until Zuo Rou and the others left, Song Beiyun's mental head always seemed very bad, even when he sat there during the day and held a meeting with the local squires and officials, he could fall asleep while talking, and when people asked him if he had a disease, he generally replied that he was not adapted.

After two days of bald skin experience, Xiao Song finally sent the red-faced Zuo Rou and Qiaoyun into the carriage early in the morning, and after thousands of instructions, he watched them leave.

Xiao Song finally breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time, the big black bull behind him finally dared to take a few steps up, and he sneakily touched Song Beiyun's shoulder.

"What for?"

"Dashuai." The big black bull looked around and carefully took out something wrapped in cloth from his arms: "Good thing." ”

"What's that?"

"I've seen the handsome's posture these days, that is, I've been squeezed dry, so I feel sorry for the handsome, so I secretly got a big black donkey's cow from the villager's house, and the handsome went back to make up for it."

Xiao Song frowned, and looked at the cloth bag with disgust: "You eat it yourself." ”

"Dashuai, it works! Work well! ”

"Really?" Xiao Song lowered his voice and asked, "Don't lie to me, this thing is so disgusting." ”

"Dashuai will know if you try it, if you eat this thing, the cow can die."

Xiao Song pondered for a moment, took the cloth bag and put it into the small bag he was carrying, and patted the shoulder of the big black cow: "Good job." ”

In the following days, Xiao Song had no worries around him, and he devoted himself to the construction of this Jinghe River, almost day and night.

Shengsheng tanned his white-faced scholar into a black-faced god, and his whole person became several degrees darker, and he became more and more sophisticated.

The biggest problem in Jinghe County is the problem of manpower, because the number of people is small, so it can only borrow people from Chang'an, but this borrowing people is not a long-term solution after all.

So Xiao Song buried himself in a new temporary recruitment system, that is, the Five Marches system. The so-called Five Marches Army is to recruit personnel from the people to give military treatment, but do not participate in the battle, the wooden marching army is responsible for pioneering mountains and forests, the water marching army is responsible for the maintenance of river embankments, the earth marching army is responsible for reclamation of farmland, the gold marching army is responsible for mining and alchemy, and the fire marching army is responsible for the preparation of constitutional governance.

This system does not conflict with the current military system, and can greatly increase the flexibility of personnel, plus the military system is equivalent to giving those recruited people a living guarantee, after all, the Great Song Dynasty is a standing military system, under such a premise, there is always a job to ensure income in drought and flood.

This kind of work is very precious to the people of the northwest, so on the day of the implementation, nearly 1,000 people came to sign up, and the follow-up should only be more, and the number of the entire team can be pulled to 10,000 or even tens of thousands.

On the tenth day of Zuo Rou's departure, Xu Li appeared in front of Song Beiyun again, this time with roast chicken, good wine and a guaranteed contract in his hands.

In the ten days before signing the contract, he first went to investigate the situation here, including the review of various costs and sales problems, etc., and then drafted a guaranteed contract.

"Xu Li, you're a little ruthless." After reading the contract, Xiao Song shook his head and said: "There is no reason to say that the government will eat all your unsalable goods, and at most you can give priority to procurement." ”

"What if it's unsalable?"

"Then you have to find a way, first of all, your workshop is a private industry, if you have to go online with the official uniform, you can only do it in a cooperative way, this underwriting model will not go long. And you have to know that the government's own workshops will participate in the competition, and if they are underwritten, the quality will never be improved. Xiao Song shook his head and said, "I can't sign this contract." ”

"You mean you want me to compete with the government's workshops?"

Xiao Song leaned there and was silent for a long time: "Although there will be a risk of leaking the core technology, it doesn't matter. What I need is the stable development of the entire industry, I will transfer part of the first generation of technology to you, and your follow-up research and development work will depend on you, the two sides will develop in parallel without interfering with each other, but the final product will compete. ”

"What if it leaks out?"

"Generally not, not to mention anything else, just the special steel, I give you the formula, you may not be able to come up with something. The Academy of Sciences in the Great Song Dynasty is not a vegetarian, and there are three aspects that can never be privately owned, one is energy, one is materials, and one is transportation, and these three aspects are always controlled by the state, so you can only become a distributor or a buyer here. ”

Xu Li thought for a moment and nodded slightly: "What about the salt soil?" ”

"It's a traditional business, so you'd better not touch it. That piece of bread is someone else's, and if you touch it, there will be problems. Xiao Song waved his hand and said: "Don't touch the traditional industry, the current private power is not enough to shake these." ”

Xu Li was silent for a while, then pointed to the contract and said, "So you don't sign this contract, right?" ”

"Yes." Xiao Song nodded and said: "Underwriting is not feasible, and the entire industry will choose the bidding system in the future." ”

"Bidding?"

Xiao Song explained the bidding process to Xu Li in detail, simply put, no matter what department purchases, it must choose better quality, lower cost and better after-sales, which is the foundation of social competition and the driving force to stimulate science and technology as a whole.

"I see." Xu Li nodded and said, "That means that whether it is public or private, as long as it does not meet the standard, don't do it, right?" ”

"Yes." Xiao Song said categorically: "This is the future of the country, whether the Great Song Dynasty can really become the father of East Asia depends on this set of plans." Even the supporting products of the army, the imperial palace, the government and so on in the future will also adopt the bidding system. ”

"Wouldn't that breed corruption?"

"You don't know how thick the cage I put on it, and it is difficult to eliminate corruption under any circumstances, so since this is the case, it is natural to choose a better method, just like the imperial examination, everyone understands that it is difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family, but in the end it is only difficult but it is necessary." Xiao Song stroked his palms and stood up: "As long as you open a door, someone will naturally do the things behind." ”

Xu Li didn't say anything more, there is no way to verify whether this road is good or not, or even whether it is right or wrong, but after all, it is necessary to try and make mistakes, and he has missed countless times over the years, but if he doesn't try, who knows whether it is right or wrong.

"If I invest 10 million yuan, I will pay back in a few years."

"It's up to you to do business." Xiao Song spread his hands and did not give an answer: "Good luck, three years." Bad luck, no return. Isn't this business, Xu Li. ”

Xu Li thought for a while, and filled himself with a glass of wine: "Maybe." ”

The two chatted until late at night, Xu Li did not leave, stayed in the county government for the night, and the next morning the two wandered together on the desolate streets of Jinghe.

Look here and there, there are no hawkers selling and no crowded markets, some are just the hurried figures of peasants working in the fields with tools at sunrise.

In the end, it is a border place, but the land of Longxing around Chang'an is now so dilapidated and decadent, Xiao Song feels that the pressure is huge.

But it's good that here she is like a little girl who has just entered the school, and she can show off her strength without being dressed up by others.

"Is this where the second part of your five-year plan began?"

"Or else?" Xiao Song laughed: "I also want to be in Jinling, do you want to let others?" ”

"Hahaha, that's right."

"Chang'an is divided into two, Liao ate Wannian and Luoyang, I ate Chang'an and Xianyang, do you think Liao has won in comparison?"

"Needless to say? How does Xianyang compare to Luoyang. ”

"Hahahaha, Xu Li, Xu Li, you also have a time to look away." Xiao Song shook his head and said: "You will know in a few years, when the road is opened by me and this tree is planted by me, I can't help their comments." ”

After Xiao Song finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and waved: "Xianyang, Chang'an, is the center of the earth, take this as a point, I want to go all the way to Central Asia and bring the Silk Road out of the fucking way!" ”