Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was the end of the year. On the fourteenth day of the winter month, (Cheng) Chendu Mansion, the imperial palace, Meng Chang's fortieth birthday, in the court, the ministers celebrated their birthdays, singing and dancing.

"Your Majesty, this is the most fashionable monkey show in Shu right now, and that monkey is called Sun Wukong."

"Zhe'er, Jue'er, I'll come back this time and leave after the New Year. This is called Journey to the West, I've seen it, I heard that it was written by a young man from a mountain village, it's a pity, it's a pity that your third brother is so smart, if he can see it, how good, hey. Meng Chang sighed.

Meng Chang has a total of three sons, the eldest son Meng Xuanzhe, the second son Meng Xuanyu, and the youngest son Meng Xuanbao, but unfortunately Meng Xuanbao was born smart, and he could recite poems and write ten thousand words when he was a child, but he died at the age of seven.

"Father, today is your birthday, so I won't mention the sad things I used to do." Meng Xuanzhe, the eldest son of the envoy of the Lingwu Dejun Festival, comforted.

"Yes, father, the third brother has knowledge under the spring, and he will definitely bless his father and bless my Shu Kingdom." The second son, Meng Xuanyu, also said.

"Okay, everyone Aiqing, let's raise a glass together, I wish Shu a smooth wind and rain, and live and work in peace and contentment." Meng Chang cleaned up his mood and raised his glass.

"Your Majesty is like the rising sun, and the rivers and mountains live together." The ministers raised their glasses.

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Zhao Yuan's reputation in Shu also began to spread slowly, completely breaking Zhao Yuan's idea of wanting to keep a low profile.

"The youngest adult in our Danling now is actually Zhao Yuan, a young man from Gray Plains Town, I really can't imagine it, if it weren't for his business getting bigger and bigger, maybe everyone wouldn't be able to find out." A businessman in Danling County sighed.

"Yes, soap, cement, mushrooms, and that strange caravan of transports, all of which have this young man, it's not easy."

"Their workshop army is too powerful, our Danling's bandits have been completely eliminated by them, last month, I heard that the workshop army has been driven to Tongyi, it is really mighty."

"Yes, I heard that the workshop army invited by Tongyi has come over, and a lot of bandits have been cleared, or they should be back soon. It will not be so dangerous to go out in the future, and the military discipline of the workshop is very good, which is not at all different from those soldiers, and sometimes they take the initiative to help. ”

"That's because the Workshop Army is well treated, do you know how much their soldier costs every month, this is the number."

"After clearing the bandits in Danling, there are a lot of seizures alone, if only other garrisons were so powerful."

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Danling Zhao family, because of several new commodities in Shu has a certain reputation, but what really promoted Zhao Yuan to become famous in Shu is Zhao Yuan's "copy" of several books, especially the story of Journey to the West, after being widely circulated, I slowly knew that the origin of this book was actually Zhao Yuan.

"Atom, our lieutenant Yilu, you can't keep a low profile right now." Danling County, Wan Yunjun looked at Zhao Yuan and said with a smile.

"Second brother, don't make fun of me, your official position is one level higher than mine." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

Although Wan Yunjun's official position is higher than Zhao Yuan's, Zhao Yuan is the deputy lieutenant of Yilu from the seventh rank superior, and Wan Yunjun is the deputy lieutenant of Zhiguo from the seventh rank of the lower rank, but he basically has no management, and the workshop army is firmly in Zhao Yuan's hands.

In the current situation, Zhao Yuan may have become the most powerful military official in Shu. With the deepening of the crackdown on bandits, some bandits with minor evil deeds were also incorporated into the escort team. If the evil deeds are serious, the workshop army will be arrested as laborers, and a few of the most heinous crimes will be directly used to anger the people. The manpower of each mine of cement raw materials has become sufficient, which has also led to the increase of cement production.

Up to now, the soldiers and horses of Zhao Yuan's workshop have expanded to two thousand, and they are still expanding.

"I don't care, I'm not as busy as you." Wan Yunjun said with a smile.

"By the way, you're here this time to send troops to Tongyi, and you're about to return to the division, right?" Wan Yunjun asked.

"Yes, in order to ensure the transportation network of Tongyi, our workshop army has to be dispatched, and the banditry in various places is becoming more and more serious." Zhao Yuan nodded and said.

Thanks to the good system formulated by Zhao Yuan for the workshop army, the actions of the workshop army will be in accordance with strict regulations, and Zhao Yuan does not have to follow when he goes out of the army, but now that the suppression of bandits is about to end, Zhao Yuan also has to come to the county seat to deal with some last things. The weather was already relatively cold, and Zhao Yuan didn't let Meng Ying and Luoluo come over.

"I didn't expect this escort team to develop to this point in just such a short period of time." Wan Yunjun sighed.

"Troubled times are coming." Zhao Yuan looked out the window, the one in the north was about to be in a yellow robe.

"Second brother, how are your families prepared, the food is almost stored." Zhao Yuan asked after thinking about it.

"It has been prepared for a long time, and as soon as the grain is harvested this year, we have started to store it, and recently we have built several large granaries with cement." Wan Yunjun said with a smile.

Danling County is located in the southwest of Shudi, which is still relatively far away from the center of the storm, and now has an army in hand that is not weak, and it can basically guarantee its safety.

But once the war breaks out, production is destroyed, a large amount of land is left uncultivated, and a large number of displaced people arrive, food will definitely become the most important thing.

"By the way, do you remember the few people we arrested when our cement workshop first opened, one of the little leaders, called Qi Biao, is now a meritorious servant, and he became a personal guard captain under Miao Shijie." Wan Yunjun thought of a funny thing and said with a smile.

"I know, that kid wanted to rob us at the beginning, but I didn't expect to be caught by Shao Meng, and then in the first trial, I found that they didn't have much evil, so they were co-opted, he was very familiar with the bandits in Danling, and later made a lot of contributions, second brother, you said that he was interesting because of his mantra." Zhao Yuan nodded, and couldn't help but laugh when he thought of Qi Biao.

At the beginning, many refugees arrived, and some people who were originally just green-skinned hooligans also became bandits, and they were very arrogant, resulting in most of the passing business travelers traveling in groups, and the mountain where Qi Biao was located had not been opened for a long time, so he had to fight the idea of the rich in the county, and was finally caught by the escorts.

"I hate unruly people the most, haha, I heard that the team he led hit his former peers the hardest." Wan Yunjun said with a smile.

The workshop army now has more than 2,000 people, a small team of every ten people, and a brigade of 100 people.

"Now they don't want to be happy, second brother, this is also the end of the year, while it is not so busy now, find time to gather all the stewards of the workshop, let's have an annual meeting." Zhao Yuan said.

"This year has changed too much, atomic, to be honest, when I was separated from the family, I was still very nervous, I didn't want to be able to do it to such an extent now, do you know, now Shu said that we are ten thousand families, the first thing that comes to mind is not my family, but more to say that I Danling Wanyunjun, to be able to get to know you, is my Wanyunjun's greatest luck."

"The second brother is serious, this is also the second brother, you have struggled by yourself, take advantage of this annual meeting, let's all summarize it well." Zhao Yuan smiled and nodded.

"Okay, after the workshop army comes back in a few days, we will hold such an annual meeting, and call Zhang Xucong and them all when the time comes." Wan Yunjun looked at Zhao Yuan gratefully.

In the past, when Wanjia came to the New Year, they would also summarize the business of the year, but I didn't expect that after the division now, there will be such a day.