"Okay, then choose a place for the market. When I have the cloth, I will send people to Xinye to publicize it, and the merchants from the north will naturally come to Fangling to buy cloth. Guan Ping said with a smile.

Xinye's specialty is Mi's liquor, which has been exported to East Asia and is a well-known trademark.

Since there is a shortage of cloth in the north, if Fangling can come up with cheaper and high-quality cloth, and Xinye and Fangling are not far away, the merchants will definitely be willing to come to Fangling to buy cloth.

As Li Zhong said, this is to save the labor cost of selling cloth.

As for where the market is located, it is of course a good ferry, and there needs to be a small flat land near the ferry.

Since it is a cloth market, it may form the size of a small town.

And if the cloth business is too big and the funds are too much, you also need to be careful not to be spied on. It is also advisable to set up a township chief and recruit officials to manage it.

Moreover, it is better to set up a barracks nearby.

Fire prevention, anti-theft, anti-warlord.

For the location of the bazaar, Guan Ping immediately had a goal, so he first sent a civil official to serve as the head of the township, and sent many small officials to assist in the construction management.

In addition, it was necessary to set up factories in nine counties, build warships, recruit and train new soldiers, and the construction of the civilian army in Fangling County was in full swing all of a sudden.

The matter will be divided first, and in a few days, Guan Ping will go to the market to have a look.

On the morning of this day, Guan Ping learned a piece of news and came to the front yard of the Taishou Yamen. In the front yard, there are a few bitter mountain people.

Guan Ping recognized one of them, it was the mountain man surnamed Zhang he met when he was hunting that day. Among the mountain people was an old man with gray hair.

The old man was dressed in a common man's brown coat and cloth shoes. The clothes were covered with pudding, and they were very shabby. But a pair of eyes are extremely energetic, with the temperament of a reader.

Guan Ping guessed that this person might be a reclusive Hanmenshi.

"I've seen Taishou-sama." After the mountain people who Guan Ping knew saw Guan Ping, they immediately took the lead in saluting. Guan Ping helped the old man up with a smile on his face, and then said, "Dare to ask the old man's name." ”

"Returning to the adult, the villain Zhang Bang." The old man replied very respectfully.

Immediately, Guan Ping had a conversation with the old man, and learned that the old man was indeed a Hanmen scholar, because he was forced by the government's expropriation and expropriation, so he led the Zhang family to hide in the mountains, and his surname defected one after another, so there were thirty-two households.

Last time, Zhang Bang sent a few mountain people down the mountain to sell furs and medicinal herbs, and met Guan Ping. These mountain people told Guan Ping's words to Zhang Bang.

In view of the fact that life in the mountains is really hard, Zhang Bang also knows who Guan Yu is, so he led people down the mountain to defect, and at present, thirty-two families are gathered outside the city.

"From then on, my Zhang clan has been entrusted to Lord Taishou." Zhang Bang bowed very respectfully and said.

"The old gentleman is serious, I am too guarded. Protecting the territory and the people is where the duty lies, and it is incumbent upon us to do so. Guan Ping picked up Zhang Bang, said generously, and then said with a pleasant face: "Sir, don't worry, there are many barren fields outside the city." So I will send a piece of land for you to cultivate. Thirty-two households can be divided into one mile, and the old gentleman is the chief. ”

"Thank you, Lord Taishou." Zhang Bang is an old man in his last years, and it doesn't matter if he is the chief or not, and Guan Ping's attitude is what he cares about, so he is grateful.

Because this was the first batch of Heihu mountain people to come down to Guan Ping, Guan Ping attached great importance to it and asked Sun Qian to help choose a piece of wasteland and arrange for the Zhang family to settle down.

And he sent soldiers to help build houses. As for the rest, the Zhang clan people dispose of it themselves. When they descended the mountain, they brought with them food rations, ploughing cattle, farming tools, food, clothing, shelter and shelter.

Guan Ping did this very neatly, and the government sent people to the mountains to publicize it, and many mountain people went down the mountain to Guan Ping.

The population of Fangling County under Guan Ping's rule was slowly increasing.

After a few more days, Guan Ping was free to go to the market with Li Zhong, a merchant. Zhou Xiong led his own soldiers and was responsible for protecting Guan Ping.

As for the affairs in the county, it was handed over to Sun Qian, and the Yi nationality was disposed of.

At the beginning, there were five businessmen, and Guan Ping promised to go out and give out 30% of the dry shares. The other four went to other counties to help deal with the matter of setting up a factory, but only Li Zhong stayed in Fangling and became Guan Ping's business consultant.

It's early spring, and although the cold winter has passed, the cold is still there, and the weather is very cold. But in spring, there is plenty of rain, and it just rained yesterday, and the mountain road is already difficult to walk, and after the rain, it is even more muddy to walk south.

Guan Ping, Li Zhong, Zhou Xiong and a few others rode horses and walked cautiously across the mountain road.

The road is muddy and difficult to walk, but the road is quite wide. Guan Ping sent the army from Xinye to Fangling, and it was this road that he walked.

But in winter, when there is little rain, the roads are dry and firm. The weather at this time of year is rainy.

It was the first time Guan Ping had walked such a road, and his brows couldn't help frowning deeply. From the morning to noon, Guan Ping and his entourage walked dozens of miles of mountain roads.

The soldiers chose a place, surrounded the cloth, and laid branches on the ground. Outside the perimeter, the soldiers buried the pot to cook. Inside, Guan Ping and Li Zhong sat on a small stool together.

There were no planks on this trip, and there was muddy ground under your feet, laying branches. The stool was also unstable and uncomfortable to sit on.

Guan Ping was very worried about such a road, and said to Li Zhong: "This road is too difficult to walk. Later, the factories produced cloth, which also had to be transported from the counties to the bazaars for sale. Such a road is very difficult to transport cloth. ”

Li Zhong nodded, arched his hand and said, "What Lord Taishou said is very true. ”

In fact, this road has seriously affected the commercial activities of Fangling, Fangling produces fur and medicinal materials, because of the road, it will delay the trip and increase the cost.

In addition, the Fangling area is a poor mountainous area, and there are really not too many people who are willing to come to the Fangling area for business activities.

Even if Guan Ping set up a factory, he still needs to transport the cloth to the market on the edge of the Han River to sell, and the merchants will be willing to come, otherwise who would be willing to walk more than 100 miles of mountain roads to the county seat to buy cloth?

Guan Ping wrote down the incident and immediately sent an accompanying official back to Fangling to tell Sun Qian that he was from Iraq to build roads. This kind of thing is only done by the government.

If the government doesn't have enough manpower, let the army help.

Anyway, Guan Ping is the chief regent of Fangling Taishou, of course, if he asks the army for help, it will affect the training of the soldiers. But as the saying goes, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

In the face of wealth and strong soldiers, Guan Ping first chose to build roads to be rich.

Besides, it shouldn't take too long to build a road. By the way, road building is also manual work, which can cultivate the physical strength of the soldiers.

This incident was just a small episode, and Guan Ping and his party did not finish the mountain road that day, and then set up camp in the mountains. In the evening of the next day, Guan Ping and his entourage arrived at the market.

It was a small plain, and the plain was so large that it could even establish a county seat.

To the south of the plain are lofty mountains and mountains, and to the north are Hanshui. In this section of the Han River, the current is relatively gentle. The topography of the plains is low on one side of the river bank and high on the side of the mountain.

The bazaar was built in the middle of the small plain, and a number of houses have been built in the bazaar, mainly warehouses and yamen.

In the future, inns, hotels and other facilities will be built one after another to provide residents for businessmen to live in.

On the side of the bazaar is a shipyard that is building warships. This is what Guan Ping began to do when he pacified Fangling County.

Sailors.

And now the warships have not been able to build a few, but Guan Ping has already selected the candidates for the navy, namely Liao Hua and Ding Feng.

The camp of these two people is arranged on the left and right sides of the market, and they are also responsible for protecting the safety of the market while training daily.

Guan Ping also considered the selection of naval generals. There are not many generals under his command, and the rest are not suitable to be generals of the navy for various reasons.

Ding Feng is a native of Yangzhou, and the right Sima of the Eastern Wu Dynasty has the attributes of a naval general.

Liao Hua is a native of Zhonglu in Xiangyang, don't look at people who are very fat, but they are good at water, and the Jingzhou Navy is actually okay.

At present, there are 2,000 people under each of the two commands, and Guan Ping's plan is to expand the command of the generals to 4,000 within two or three years.

That is, to establish a naval army of eight or nine thousand.

A total of thirty or forty thousand sailors and infantry troops, if there is such a scale, the small fist is a little bigger, and you can show your muscles.

Attacking Xiangyang in the east, it seems that you can also try it?

Anyway, whether Guan Ping is studying waterwheels, plows, or Mi's wine, or setting up factories, it is all for the purpose of making the country rich and the people strong, and the country rich and the people strong.

There is only one purpose.

It is to attack Yizhou and Jingzhou according to Longzhong's plan.

The reason why Guan Ping came here was not only to watch the bazaar, but also to see Liao Hua and Ding Feng, the two old generals who had been on standby for a long time.

Guan Ping first visited the bazaar, Guan Ping set up a township chief in the bazaar, and in the future, this area may be a small town-sized place.

There are pavilion chiefs under the command of the township chief, as well as officials.

The township chief's name is Qian Sheng, an official in his thirties. He was very enthusiastic to take Guan Ping to visit the market, but at present, it is very deserted, only a huge warehouse and a few buildings, there is really nothing to visit.

Guan Ping also stayed here at night and rarely ate fish.

Of course, there are mountain streams and rivers in the mountains, but the fish have many small spines and are not delicious. Guan Ping eats pork most of the time in Fangling.

It is rare to come to the edge of the Han River and eat a delicious fish soup. There are 2,000 soldiers stationed on the left and right of this place, and there is nothing to worry about.

At night, Guan Ping slept peacefully.

It is on the edge of the Han River, and the sound of water is very loud. Sleeping in this place, it is more difficult to fall asleep.

The next morning, Guan Ping woke up. Breakfast is rice porridge, eggs, grilled fish. After eating and drinking, Guan Ping sat in the yamen of the township chief and sent someone to invite Liao Hua and Ding Feng to come over.

Speaking of which, I haven't seen each other for a while, so I don't know how these two goods are doing.

Liao Hua's guy has now become another Sima, a trumpet leading general. I don't know if there is a beautiful maid stuffed into my tent?