Day.

A "caravan" of dozens of carriages, escorted by a disguised "bodyguard" of the forbidden army, rumbled out of Jinling City and headed straight for Danyang County, a hundred miles away.

Emperor Xiang Yanran, Kong Hanyou, Wang Su and more than a dozen ministers at the level of the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries disguised themselves as merchants of a large caravan and conducted a "micro-service private visit" to Danyang County.

In order to prevent the officials from cheating and cheating, of course, they did not notify Danyang County in advance, and the emperor wanted to inspect Danyang County.

Along the way, the ministers talked a lot.

"The emperor still attaches great importance to the little faint marquis, for fear that someone is framing the little faint marquis, so he actually personally visited Danyang County to verify the political achievements of the Danyang County Order."

"But so what? In the face of iron-clad facts, no matter how much Xiao Duhou quibbles, it is useless! The more the emperor values him, the more disappointed he will be. ”

"The little dusk marquis is finally going to be unlucky, and I will never see him tossing in the court again!"

"Hmph, it's your own fault! He's offended a lot of people... No, he offended everyone. This Manchu Dynasty official, prince, and gate valve, who doesn't hate him! ”

"Haha, I'll miss him later!"

The ministers all changed into the clothes of ordinary merchants and peddlers, sat in crowded carriages, and talked and laughed and laughed.

In one of the carriages, there were two third princes.

Kong Hanyou glanced at Wang Su and said lightly: "After inspecting Danyang County this time, I got ironclad evidence. I don't know how to play the little dusk marquis? ”

"The Imperial History can only monitor. How to punish crimes, this is the matter of the Tingwei Mansion, and it is also the business of the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, do you have an idea? ”

Wang Su said with a smile.

"It stands to reason that the county order falsely reported political performance in the national political performance examination, which is a capital crime.

However, the emperor attaches great importance to affection, and has the relationship between King Ping, and will definitely try his best to save his life. When the county lord of Danyang went to the Empress Dowager Shen to cry, he would definitely save his life.

To punish him for the death penalty of a marquis, unless it is not a crime of treason, I am afraid it will still be difficult.

In this case, then retreat to the next thing, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped.

It is enough for me to deprive him of the title of Marquis of Faint and the position of Danyang County Commander, so that he will no longer be able to participate in court politics in this life!

An unofficial civilian will never pose a threat to anyone again! Who would want to kill him, let the little dusk... Chu Tianxiu should write his book well, then "Journey to the West" is still quite interesting! ”

"Wonderful! As the prime minister said, the old man will definitely support it! ”

Kong Hanyou and Wang Su glanced at each other and laughed.

Xiao Duhou, between the two of them and the three ministers, decided the final fate.

The third faction that has not yet risen in the court, the new faction of the miscellaneous family.

The leader of the new force, Xiao Duhou, was suppressed by the two of them, and disappeared invisibly. As soon as the little faint marquis fell, the new forces will definitely be divided up by their two factions.

...

By noon, this large caravan of several hundred people had traveled fifty miles and "boomed" into the edge of Danyang County.

The ministers laughed and talked for a long time, their mouths were dry, and they were a little tired, but they gradually calmed down.

Suddenly.

One of the ministers was in the carriage and saw a huge thing faintly outside the carriage window, standing high on the ground of the river, nearly ten feet tall.

It's too tall to be a house.

Moreover, faintly turning.

A brilliant rainbow was striking and dazzling in the sky surrounding the giant object.

"Hey, what's that?"

The minister was astonished and pointed at it.

The ministers followed the direction and looked over one after another. Almost all of them, the ministers of the Three Princes and the Nine Secretaries, are over fifty or sixty years old, and they don't know too clearly.

As the convoy got closer and closer, they finally saw the shape clearly, and they were all stunned.

See, in the river.

A 10-zhang giant waterwheel is slowly turning, "gurgling", sending the water at the bottom of the river into the air. The water fell from the sky, and the roaring sound of the water was deafening.

This huge flow of water flowed along a long ditch made of wooden planks and bamboo tubes, several feet above the ground, through the dirt slope, and flowed ten miles away.

A pond poured into a high slope.

Then the water flows out of the pond and irrigates the surrounding farmland for ten miles.

Such a giant waterwheel can irrigate the surrounding farmland for ten miles, and the efficiency is obviously surprisingly high.

And along the way, they saw many of these giant waterwheels, to say the least, dozens of them. There are many more small waterwheels, too many to count.

The ministers were shocked and fell silent for a while.

It costs a lot of money to build a large number of such waterwheels.

To say the least, it will cost tens of thousands of taels!

However, Danyang County is a poor county, and the treasury can exceed a few thousand taels of emergency money, which is not bad.

Where did the silver come from in Danyang County?

It can't be that Xiao Duhou and the county lord of Danyang pay for it themselves, right?

This is almost impossible, which prince does not collect money from the fief, how can he have the reason to advance money to the fief?

Such a large sum of money was invested in the farmland, but the taxes and grain paid by the farmers were fixed. Just because a watermill was built, a large amount of tax grain should not be charged.

This capital is invested, but it can't be recovered.

...

After entering the boundaries of Danyang County.

The atmosphere in this "caravan" has changed somewhat.

They found that what they saw along the way, Danyang County was very different from other places.

Even at the foot of the imperial city, it is completely different from Danyang County.

The fields of Danyang County seem to be a pastoral field outside the world, and you can see some elderly farmers and shepherd boys everywhere, leading the ploughing cattle and walking leisurely in the fields, without any sorrow.

The autumn harvest will soon be followed by summer ploughing.

Danyang County is ploughing the fields with oxen and plowing the land in preparation for summer ploughing.

Men in the prime of life are barely seen in the fields.

"What about those young adults... Could it be that they were all conscripted into forced labor? ”

The ministers were puzzled, but they were silent.

...

This huge "caravan" from Jinling City was about to arrive in Danyang County.

I saw that this small Danyang county town was like an important trading town, and the merchants were extremely luxuriant.

On this post road, there are merchants and small caravans from all directions.

Judging by how they are dressed, almost all of them are vendors.

Emperor Xiang Yanran poked his head out of the carriage and asked a foot-walking merchant, "Hey, this brother, what are you doing in Danyang County?" ”

When the merchant saw the noble merchant sitting in a luxurious carriage, he was a little puzzled and said, "Buy ironware!" Danyang ironware, the world's first. Farm tools for ploughing fields, kitchen knives, kitchen knives, hammers, drills, you name it!

Buying the last batch of goods and taking them anywhere to sell, they are absolutely easy to sell, and they are all rushing to buy! ... This lord, you go to Danyang County, don't sell ironware, what are you going to do? ”

"Oh, Danyang ironware is so easy to use? I'm a silk dealer, and I've bought a batch of goods from Jinling City... Pass through Danyang County and prepare to go to Changsha. ”

Xiang Yanran was surprised and thoughtful.

It is not surprising that there is an iron mine in Danyang County, which is rich in ironware. It's just that the iron is so famous, and it's not easy to get to.

"No wonder this caravan is so large, there are hundreds of people, it turns out to be doing silk, a good business!

However, the ironware of Danyang County is now more popular than silk. Let's go to Danyang County to buy ironware, and we will have to wait for several days before we can buy the goods.

If you buy a batch of Danyang ironware and take it to Changsha to sell, you may be able to make a lot of money. ”

The footman laughed, "Don't say much, there is Danyang County in front." This lord, you entered Danyang County to take a look, and when you saw the grand scene of iron-striking in the city, you will know. ”