In the main hall of the Jiedu envoy, Zhao Dezhao's subordinates sat on the Hujie army from Jingzhou, commanding Murong Yanqing and Xu Fan, the assassin of Jingzhou.

The Murong family rose Murong Zhang, who was promoted from the Xiangzhou Mabu Military Colonel to Kaizhou (Kaixian County, Chongqing) during the Tang Dynasty.

Kaizhou also belongs to Shannan Dongdao, he has four brothers, and gave birth to three sons, and then these descendants are officials, almost all of them are in Shannan Dongdao.

After Murong Zhang's death, Murong Yanzhao was better than the blue, he was not only the official envoy to the Shannan Dongdao Festival, but also Zhao Kuangyin's sworn brother.

With such an identity, coupled with many meritorious contributions and early death, Zhao Kuangyin naturally has a preference for the Murong family.

However, he also knew that the Murong family was not well rooted in Shannan Dongdao, so after Murong Yanzhao's death, he transferred Murong Yanzhao's younger brother and the current head of the family, Murong Yanzhong, to Cizhou to serve as the assassin and began to divide the power of the Murong family.

Today, the highest position of the Murong family in Shannan Dongdao is Murong Yanqing, who is the commander of the Hujie army, and the Hujie army is stationed in the north of Jingzhou, and most of the Murong family members are scattered in Kaizhou, Jingzhou, and Xiangyang.

Compared with other officials, Murong Yanqing has to know a little more, because he has twenty-two juniors, and now they are all in Jinyiwei.

Just from the training method of the new army, it can be known that the imperial court now has mastered the production of one or several new weapons, and both the emperor and the prince have great trust in this new weapon.

Now the forces of the entire Shannan Dongdao are concentrated, not so much to build a new city, but to produce new weapons.

So no matter what other people say, he is calm.

"Stay tomorrow to entertain the elders of Hanjing, the scholar family, my Murong family has been developing in Shannan East Road for many years, and it can be regarded as a local scholar family, whether it is food or money, but if the Murong family can be satisfied, they must try their best to be satisfied."

Zhao Dezhao smiled and said, "Uncle Murong Shi is too worried. Although the court is slightly insufficient, it is also very clear what the foundation of the stability of the court is.

I came to Xiangyang for open source, and the foundation of open source is manpower. Therefore, in two days, there will be a notice to the world, and the plan of the imperial court will never harm the interests of each family.

However, in the future, in terms of heralds and transportation, I hope that Uncle Shi and the local authorities in Jingzhou can support more......"

"This is natural, my Murong family will always look forward to the Zhao family, and I dare not or forget."

Zhao Dezhao also believed this, otherwise, they would not have arranged most of their children into the new army.

When the interests of the Murong family were not touched, the relationship between the two families was indestructible.

Murong Yanqing hesitated for a moment and asked, "Stay behind, my subordinates have a word, I don't know if I should ask." ”

"But it doesn't hurt to ask."

"The little nephew Rixin is now the general of the Jinyi Guard Firearms Battalion, but now the training is mainly aimed at, measuring, and throwing objects in addition to marching and arranging. Don't say that Rixin has doubts, and their subordinates are also doubtful. I don't know if staying behind can solve a puzzle or two. ”

Zhao Dezhao said with a smile: "Wait a few more days, five days at the latest, you should be able to make samples first, let me sell them first." ”

Murong Yanqing was not disappointed, knowing that since the imperial court's actions were so big, it would not make everyone confused.

Anyway, when he came over this time, he didn't rush back.

After the Jingzhou officials left, Zhao Dezhao met with the officials from Kaizhou again, and it was not until dinner time that he finally had free time.

Entering the middle courtyard through the small door behind the lobby, Zhao Dezhao was about to greet his two pregnant wives, but he saw his father-in-law Wang Pu chasing after him.

"Second brother, the official configuration of this Hanjing Mansion is properly placed, but what to do next, how to cooperate with you, please make it clear."

"Don't worry...... Tong Liang, I will show the content of the notice I wrote to the adults, and I will go to meet Mrs. first. ”

Just one day after coming, no one has rested well, and the backyard is still a mess, and many of the clothes brought have not been sorted yet.

Wang and Chen are pregnant, and today they only met with the families of a few major officials, and rested in the backyard.

The Jiedu Embassy was not large, and the personnel were a little crowded, but Zhao Dezhao did not want to expand.

Because of the entire Xiangyang City, he is ready to demolish and rebuild.

The inner city of Xiangyang is more than two square kilometers, and the area of the north of the city is more than one square kilometer, Zhao Dezhao is ready to build a palace here, and the south of the city, as an official area, set up major yamen.

In the future, there will be no more residents in the inner city of Xiangyang, everyone will move to live in the outer city, and there will be no commercial development, only industry.

On the other side of the river, Fancheng will develop into a commercial and industrial city, with the two sides of the strait relying on each other.

However, the plan was too big, and the relocation could not violently drive everyone out of the city, and new houses had to be built in the outer city to gradually move people out.

Therefore, if you want to build the inner city, except for a few buildings, most of them can not be built until the outer city is built.

To build a new city, it will take a huge amount of manpower and material resources, and it will not be able to operate until there is some industrial base and the economy improves.

Zhao Dezhao had enough patience to realize his plan step by step.

"Is Madame alright?"

"The two ladies are fine, it's just that the second brother is ......" Liu Xiao lowered his voice and said: "Second brother, the saltpeter has been transported by dozens of ships, and now a warehouse in Beifu is full." That thing is flammable, and it is not safe to put it in Beifu! ”

Zhao Dezhao paused for a moment. exclaimed: "Who told you to put it in Beifu?" ”

Beifu is a courtyard behind the Jiedu Embassy's Mansion, where the forbidden army that protects Zhao Dezhao lives.

Liu Xiao actually arranged saltpeter with the personnel, and Zhao Dezhao couldn't help but be a little scared when he heard the news now.

Liu Xiao was a little ashamed and said: "At the beginning, the second brother asked the old slave to properly place the saltpeter and protect it strictly, but the old slave didn't dare to put it outside the city, so he could only watch it under his nose." ”

"Let you protect it closely, not let you keep it by your side, you don't want to die." Zhao Dezhao pondered for a while and said: "You immediately arrange for personnel to be carefully transferred, transported to the outside of the city overnight, and then send a team of forbidden troops to guard it." ”

Thinking that there were hundreds of tons of refined saltpeter around him, Zhao Dezhao didn't even dare to sleep.

If this explodes, the entire inner city of Xiangyang will be destroyed.

Liu Xiao immediately arranged for someone to go to the transfer, Zhao Dezhao was frightened and prepared to go over to take a look.

"Second Brother ......"

Turning his head, he saw that it was Pei Ge'an and a group of chamberlains coming out of a room next to him, and there was a Lu Duosun in the middle.

As soon as Zhao Dezhao was about to speak, he heard Wang Pu shouting again: "Second brother, such a notice will cause chaos in the entire Shannan East Road, and I can't obey orders." ”

As soon as he turned around, Wang Pu walked over menacingly. "Now that I have just arrived in Hanjing Mansion, everything should be based on stability, how can I issue such an unreasonable notice and make the world chaotic?"

Pei Ge'an originally ran to Zhao Dezhao's side like a child, but when he saw Wang Pu getting angry, his eyes widened, he couldn't help laughing, and quickly covered his mouth. asked in a low voice, "What did you do to make this good old man angry?" ”

Wang Pu walked over with the notice. "What dynasty and no generation have to serve during the busy farming period, let alone let women serve, what is the reason? There is also this talent order, it turns out that illiterate people can also be appointed as officials, which will make the world chaotic! ”

"Don't be impatient...... "Don't be impatient," Zhao Dezhao turned his head and asked Pei Ge'an. What have you been busy with today? ”

"In the morning I went to the ironwork camp, the woodwork camp, and had people assemble the linkages, spinning and looms. In the afternoon, I went to the cement factory and went around, preparing to let the people below make a kiln of cement samples first. ”

Her expression was serious, her eyes were flying, and she looked like she was about to praise me.

Zhao Dezhao rubbed her head, her short hair grew a little longer, and she didn't prick her hands anymore.

After a deep sigh, Zhao Dezhao smiled and said, "My lord, it's better to go to the Iron Camp tomorrow, take a look at the Wood Camp, and I'll tell you my truth when I come back." ”

Wang Pu asked suspiciously, "What is the reason?" ”

Lu Duosun stood up at this time, saluted and said: "Fu Yin, can you give the drafting documents to your subordinates, your subordinates have some guesses. ”

Wang Pu handed the document to Lu Duoxun, he read it at a glance, smiled, and said with his fists: "Today I only went to three places with Sister Pei, but each has its own gains. ”

Wang Pu's tone was a little stiff. "Say."

"Let's talk about the first iron battalion to go, my subordinates once thought that the iron knife was already the most powerful weapon today, but after today, I found that Sister Pei's father actually made some alloy, and it was extremely strong.

The blast furnace erected by the iron battalion now, blowing wind up and down, and a hot gas chamber, although the subordinates did not know the reason, found that the temperature of the furnace was higher than in the past, although it could not completely turn iron into water, but it was not much worse.

Moreover, four blast furnaces, a furnace of steel every two days, enough to have 3,000 catties, equal to 6,000 catties of steelmaking a day, it is said that there will be larger furnaces in the future, more furnaces, as long as there are dozens of blast furnaces, a day of steelmaking 100,000 catties is not a problem. ”

He is still too conservative in what he said, and when he has a machine tool, he will produce huge pieces of steel and build a qualified converter, and there will be thousands of tons of steel in a furnace.

Now a furnace of 3,000 catties, only one and a half tons, what is this?

Lu Duoxun spoke quickly, but his words were clear, intonation, and infectious. After he finished talking about the Iron Battalion, he turned to the Wooden Battalion.

"After the Iron Camp came out, we went to the Wood Camp, where hundreds of waterwheels of more than 10 meters in size had been built, as well as various wooden components.

The subordinates didn't know what it was at first, but when they put it together, they found that the wooden wheel was equivalent to sixty spinning wheels in the past.

Such a huge spinning wheel does not need manpower, only a waterwheel can be driven, and a simple assembly can make a machine made of wood, equivalent to 60 people spinning and weaving. Finally ......"

Wang Pu knew that Sister Pei was extraordinary, but he didn't expect to do so many things in one day. I was a little awe-inspiring in my heart, but I said indifferently: "What does this have to do with the announcement?" ”