Chapter Eighty-Four: Demons

In the past, Shannan Dongdao was equivalent to a province, and after the death of Murong Yanzhao, plus the troops were transferred to fight in the area of Tanzhou (Changsha), the provincial leadership was vacant.

Cai Lingxing, the history of Xiangyang Thorn, can't control Shannan Dongdao, and only belongs to the second-in-command of the city leader, not the provincial leader.

Strictly speaking, in recent years, Shannan Dongdao only belonged to an administrative name, not an actual jurisdiction.

Without the Jiedu envoy, the Xiangyang Thorn History could not control the Thorn History of other state capitals, and they were all at the same level as each other.

Now that Xiangyang Mansion has become Hanjing Mansion, it has been directly promoted from the first level of the city to the level of the capital of the municipality directly under the central government, and Cai Lingxing, the second-in-command of the city, is a little out of reach the position of the second-in-command of the province.

And Wang Pu used to be the prime minister, and now he is also a first-class Taifu, he comes to serve as the Yin of this Hanjing Mansion, and the level is enough, he can manage the civil affairs of the whole province.

On the first day, the meeting was with local officials from Xiangyang, civil affairs and military officials from other prefectures in Shannan Dongdao, who attended the banquet but were not summoned.

The daytime of the second day was the time for Zhao Dezhao to meet them.

At this time, Zhao Dezhao also really knew how big Shannan Dongdao was and how many officials there were.

Shannan Dongdao has jurisdiction over Xiangyang County, Nanyang County, Shangluo County, Ankang County, Huai'an County (Miyang), Wudang County, Fangling County (Fang County), Handong County (central Hubei), Fushui County (Zhongxiang, Jingshan area), Jingling County (Xiantao area), Jiangling County (Jingzhou area), Yiling County (Yichang area), Badong County (Zigui area), Yun'an County (Chongqing Fengjie area), Nanpu County (Wanxian area), Nanbin County (Zhongxian area).

The Liyang County (the area around Li County, Hunan) and Wuling County (the area around Changde) south of the Yangtze River have not yet set up a higher jurisdiction after being captured by the Song army, and now they are also assigned to the Shannan East Road.

If it weren't for the fact that there was still a war going on in Tanzhou (Changsha), Zhao Dezhao wondered if it would have been assigned to Shannan Dongdao.

There are eighteen prefectures and counties, and the area is much larger than a province in later generations, and the Song Dynasty at this time only covers an area of more than one million square kilometers.

According to the notice of the imperial court, the military and political officials of each state and county must have a first-in-command and a second-in-command, so some states come to command envoys, and some states come to assassinate history.

These people and their entourage have made the streets of Xiangyang much more lively.

Zhao Dezhao fell into the complicated meeting procedures, and on the second day, he first met with all the assassins, commanders, and jiedu envoys, and then met separately.

And all the officials, Zhao Dezhao did not let go even after the meeting, which made everyone speculate.

On the Jinyiwei side, after resting for two days, the recovery training was the mainstay, and the training was supervised by Yuan Burang.

On the third day of Zhao Dezhao's arrival, he held a banquet in the Jiedu Embassy to entertain the local families and the elderly in Xiangyang, and those who were over 70 years old were given silver money to condolence.

And on the fourth day, the notices plastered all over the city attracted everyone's attention.

There are only a few main notices, one is to inform the entire Shannan East Province that the imperial court is going to build the Hanjing Mansion, in addition to the existing inner city, but also in Xiangyang, Fancheng, to build an outer city, with a total area of more than 100 square kilometers.

Nowadays, there is no concept of square kilometers, according to the counting method of the Great Song Dynasty, it is 400 miles of city outline.

This area stunned everyone, because the largest city in the country is only half the size of this area.

Second, in the next three years, Shannan Dongdao will no longer pay grain taxes to the imperial court, and all grain taxes will only be shipped to Xiangyang.

The imperial court did not have much money, and only gave the first year of start-up capital, and in the following years, it had to rely on the support of local taxes in Xiangyang.

Third, each prefecture and county selects men between the ages of 16 and 25 and female dependents between the ages of 14 and 20 from among the registered population with many children in the family to serve in Xiangyang.

A total of 100,000 people are selected every year, and there is no need to carry food, which is rationed by the imperial court.

This article is the most sensational, because first of all, you don't need to bring your own food when you serve, and you need to bring your own food when you serve in the past, and the court doesn't care.

Secondly, this service will take not a month or two as usual, but a year.

The last one is that women can even serve!

The reason why the number of people counted in the Song Dynasty was by household was because women were not counted as registered population.

If a family has three sons who have reached adulthood, they must be separated, but if there are seven or eight daughters in the family, there is no need to divide the family if there are no sons.

Now, allowing women to serve in the military has also eased the burden on many farmers.

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms have not yet ended, which means that the world is still in a chaotic stage, and there is no Confucian power.

The call only sparked a lot of discussion, and no one objected.

Fourth, facing the entire Shannan East Road, the Hanjing Mansion issued a talent promotion order, and all the elders with a skill can register with the local government and send them to Xiangyang by the government.

In all dynasties, rulers like to issue virtuous orders, and they all require them to be scholars and children of large families, but this time, they only seek their talents.

Whether it is a carpenter, a blacksmith, or other craftsmen, or even a good farmer, even if he is illiterate, the court wants it.

The opposition to this article is the greatest, because letting a clay-legged person be an official, even the smallest official, is an insult to the reader.

After the news spread on the Hanjing side, the post envoys from all walks of life immediately rushed to the states and counties to convey these general orders.

At this time, Zhao Dezhao still did not let the officials of various states and counties leave, and kept receiving officials at all levels every day to appease the people.

Even if someone asked, Zhao Dezhao was shirking and just letting them wait.

Only a few people know what they are waiting for, waiting for the steel plant in the downstream of Yuliang Chau to be completed, waiting for the upstream waterwheel to be completed, waiting for the textile factory to be completed, and waiting for the cement factory to fire the cement......

In fact, at the beginning, even Wang Pu did not support these four general orders, because in addition to the first one, the last three were problematic.

Hanjing Mansion is to be built, needless to say, but let people take a year off of production to serve, so who will do the farm work?

Many of the service members were the main laborers in the family, and when he came to serve for a year, his family was afraid that they would starve to death.

The imperial court supplied food, and Zhao Dezhao also said that he would issue clothes to the servicemen, which was unprecedented and would also increase the pressure on the imperial court.

Not to mention that women can be allowed to serve and mud-legged men become officials.

However, Zhao Dezhao didn't say anything, but just asked Liu Xiao to go and see the workshop that several of them had organized.

Then, several of them were shocked and could no longer say anything against them.

The scene in front of them completely subverted their cognition.

After Zhao Dezhao arrived in Xiangyang, although he was busy, he was very relaxed.

He just got acquainted with officials from all walks of life, set up files for everyone, and conducted evaluations, and he didn't have to do these things himself.

It is still very easy to eat and drink every day and make friends with officials from all over the country.

The busy people are Pei Ge'an and Liu Xiao, the attendants in charge of affairs, as well as the craftsmen who arrived in Xiangyang last year.

When Liu Xiao came to Xiangyang, Pei Ge'an had already sorted out the formula of cement, which needed the size of wood, equipment, raw materials for ironware, and some simple component drawings.

In the past few months, Liu Xiao has been busy with these.

And when Pei Gean arrives, he needs to build all these seemingly inexplicable things into working tools, processes, and products.

She just had a meal with her family, who had already arrived last year, and began to walk through the various construction sites and workshops.

And the craftsmen also began to accept her instructions separately.

A girl who is only ten years old, entering a dirty workshop, is not convincing at first.

It was not her who everyone was afraid of, but the attendant behind her, Zhao Dezhao behind her.

After she learned about the status of women in today's society, she didn't have the idea of establishing her own power, at least at this stage, this is unrealistic.

The only thing she can rely on is Zhao Dezhao's support.

In the carpenter's workshop, she first arranged for the group to combine different wooden pieces, plus a little iron, into one large spinning machine, two looms.

Moreover, these three machines are not yet human, but are ready to be driven by water trucks.

The waterwheel has been developed in China for thousands of years, and in the Western Han Dynasty, it was already possible to use the waterwheel to pump water, grind noodles, and grind tofu.

The manufacture of the waterwheel does not need to worry about Pei Ge'an anymore, what she needs to do is to make the waterwheel and the spinning machine and the textile machine linked.

The only drawback is that this waterwheel is still an old-fashioned waterwheel, without iron shafts and bearings, and most of the kinetic energy is consumed by itself.

However, this cannot be solved for the time being, because the precision of the bearing, and the material, are difficult to directly put in place at one time.

And now Zhao Dezhao needs to show everyone, and he can only settle first.

Some of the parts that were strange in everyone's eyes were assembled under Peigan's instructions, and then they were driven by the waterwheel and began to operate.

Of course, there are also many problems in this, the material is unqualified, the specification precision is not enough, and it took Pei Gean most of his time to solve.

A little girl became the head steward of all the workshops, and obeyed all the disciplines.

Among them, the most shocking thing was not the craftsmen, but the soldier Lu Duoxun.

This angry young man who scolds the sky, scares the ground, and scares the air in the middle has always been arrogant and arrogant, and no one is convinced.

Zhao Pu is an incompetent person in his eyes, he is not good at writing, he is not good at doing things, except for being able to pull relationships, he has good popularity, and it is not worth mentioning.

Wang Pu is a wreck in his eyes, and he can't do anything else except good history.

Anyway, in his opinion, he is only a smart person in the world, and everyone else is stupid.

But now, he is a little afraid of Pei Ge'an, in his eyes, Pei Ge'an is a demon.

She is not a normal girl at all, a normal girl, can read and hyphenate? Do you know how to make these large tools?

When he saw that Pei Gean instructed the blacksmiths to build a steelmaking furnace that blew up and down, and sprinkled some powder in the molten iron, the iron could melt almost water, and he strengthened his understanding.

But I'm more afraid of her......

This girl has been protected by both the forbidden army and the chamberlain, all because of that prince.

How was the prince able to restrain this demon? Or is this demon originally cultivated by the prince?

He felt he needed to figure it out.