"Third uncle, over the past few days, your Iron Hammer Village has expanded a lot, can you tell this king how much new population has been added?" Yang Er asked Uncle Liang with a smile.

"Huh! You don't know, lord! Since the success of trying to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes in this village, the village has not worried about food, and the people of the townships and villages to which Heaven County belongs, there are many people who are not hungry for food and hunger, and they flock to the village after getting the news, how can I settle so many foreign populations here! So they scattered and belonged to Shijiazhuang, Jinjiazhuang and Tongjiazhuang. Now not only has the population of my Iron Hammer Village doubled, but the population of the three villages has also nearly doubled. The current population of my four villages is about 80,000 people, and the population of my Iron Hammer Village alone has reached more than 20,000, which is more than 4 times that of the original prince. Third Uncle Liang walked beside him and introduced.

"So how much new land has been added in the past six months? What was the harvest? Yang Er was also very satisfied with the increase in population here, for him, the increase in population was the most important, and the size of the chassis occupied was secondary.

"Back to the prince, the heaven county order here since the prince left a book, do not dare to restrict the development of my four villages, and more nearby large manors take the initiative to unite with me and become one, now I am the scale of the four villages, in fact, the land area has already been tripled. Nearly 250,000 acres of land have been returned to us. Today, except for some crops such as buckwheat planted in accordance with the requirements of the county government, the rest of the land is planted with sweet potatoes and potatoes, two high-yield grains. If we take into account the upcoming harvest in the field, the total harvest is estimated to be more than 3 million stones. In addition to the fact that each farmer kept enough winter rations and spring crops, all the surplus 2.6 million stone grain was sent to the Shaohua Mountain Guangtong warehouse for storage. Hehe! Your Highness, this is not counting the grain produced in the Shaohua Valley! Lord Wang, please ---" After saying this, Third Uncle Liang led Yang and the others into the main hall of Iron Hammer Village.

Yang Er sat in the main seat, Uncle Liang, Shi Yuanwai, Jin Yuanwai and Tongzhai Master sat in the left compartment, accompanied by Song Tailor, the director of the Jin Wangfu Quilt Factory, and 5 middle-aged people dressed up outside the staff. Yang Er's entourage of officials and generals sat down with the right-hand side.

The problem of food and raising chickens are not the focus of Yang Er's attention now, these are already on the right track, and hundreds of planting experts have even been sent from here to support Luzhou Mansion. Seeing that the Song tailor was also there, Yang Er hurriedly asked him about the batch sewing of down jackets.

"Tell the prince that the prince values the matter of letting me supervise the making of duvets, and has now built a quilt sewing workshop in this hammer village, and hired nearly a thousand women in the village to sew in shifts without interruption. In the other three villages, hundreds of women were hired to set up quilt workshops, which were also sewn in different shifts. Now it has 50,000 down vests and 30,000 down jackets. Tailor Song got up and habitually touched his goatee and reported.

"In less than 20 days, this output is still very good, Uncle Liang, you can organize people to drive cars and horses, and first send 30,000 pieces of down vests and down jackets to at least Huashan Hua Gongming and Liang Shitai. In the future, the live chickens slaughtered and fed were all transported to Shaohua Mountain as military rations, in addition to ensuring the use of each village itself. After Yang Er said this, he quickly took a sip of tea, he hadn't drunk water all the way, and he was thirsty. put down the teacup and said: "Chief Song, there is another capable person here in this king, let him cooperate with you here for a few days, and he will instruct you and others to sew down pants and duvets." What is Uncle Ma's plan? After speaking, Yang Er immediately named Uncle Ma.

"Brother, oh no, Your Highness, the villain is here!" Ma Shumou didn't expect Yang Er to suddenly call his name, and after being stunned for a moment, he quickly stood up and agreed, and almost said the wrong thing.

"This king will stay here for at least 3 days, and you will assist Song Changchang in making down pants and duvets for these 3 days, if you can't teach them, you will stay here until the church, do you hear clearly?" Yang Er said to his brother very seriously on this occasion.

"3 days is enough, very simple things, if you can't learn it, then why are you still alive, is it a waste of food?" Ma Shumou still said in a very ruffian tone, and it is still difficult for him to learn to speak in the language of this era.

"There are also a few wheelbarrows left for the blacksmiths here to imitate. It is also a few days that you have to look at and come up with qualified samples, so that they can also be manufactured in batches here for sending grain to and from Guangtong warehouse. ”

"Well, there's no problem with the villain." Uncle Ma replied casually and sat down directly. A face that does not understand the etiquette of officialdom and does not know the size of the style caused everyone present to show dissatisfaction.

"This king also has good news to inform you, in Zezhou Prefecture, Hedong County, ironstone ore and blackstone coal mines have been mined, and the reserves are huge, which is the blessing of the people of Hedong." Yang Er said loudly, pausing slightly to bring tea to moisten his throat, and at this time, everyone in the hall applauded loudly and was excited. This means that from now on, Hedong does not need to be restricted by Li Yuan of Jinyang to build weapons with iron.

"Everyone, be quiet." Yang Er saw that everyone was happy, and the voices of discussion were endless, so he had to remind everyone. Seeing that the prince still had something to say, the hall fell silent again.

"Uncle Liang and the owners of each village, in view of the fact that there is no shortage of iron ore in Hedong, it is necessary to build a blast furnace in each village to make steel, this matter will become a key issue in each village this winter, and it cannot be delayed, and the third uncle is still the main one to promote the advancement of this matter. As for the iron ore, this king has written to Lord Sima Pei of Luzhou, Hedong, and the iron ore from Zezhou will arrive here in 15 days at the latest and be handed over to the third uncle for unified blending. The refined refined iron is uniformly sent to Shaohua Mountain for storage. Do you have any questions? After Yang Er finished speaking, his eyes swept towards Uncle Liang and the other four village owners. He also knew that there was a certain degree of difficulty in this matter, and building an iron-making blast furnace was an extremely difficult technology, and there was definitely no one who was good at it in these four villages. This is to make the development of Sizhuang not only agriculture, but also the development of industry, manufacturing and other categories, is it possible that in the whole winter of farming is really to eat and sleep, sleep to eat and make villains?

Seeing that Third Uncle Liang and the others were still hesitating, Yang Er said again: "It's normal for everyone to have concerns. But don't be embarrassed, everyone's concern is nothing more than not knowing how to build this blast furnace for smelting refined iron, and how to refine this refined iron? The king had already thought of this, and the technicians and craftsmen of the blast furnace iron smelting would also come with the iron ore, so everyone only needed to allocate manpower in advance to plan the construction site. The king would like to remind all the owners that the place where the iron blast furnace should be built should be set up in another place, downwind and away from the villagers' homes. After speaking, Yang Er looked at the owners present again.

"Lord Wang, even if you have been waiting for me, where do I have something to say, please rest assured that with my old man Liang here, I will refine good iron for the prince. Everyone, take a stand! Saying that, Uncle Liang turned his head to look at the other three owners around him and a few owners who joined in later.

"We will obey the decree of the prince and devote ourselves to smelting iron for the king." Everyone stood up and bowed to Yang Er, and responded in unison. Yang Er hurriedly gestured for everyone to sit down, secretly glad that the smelting matter had been settled, of course, this is not enough, to really form a large-scale steel business, it is necessary for the entire Hedong County to move, and form an industrial scale and related industrial chain.

After settling down many matters in Iron Hammer Village, seeing that it was still early, he left Uncle Ma to find the Song tailor, Yuwen Chengdu and Lai Hu'er two generals because they wanted to guard the silver money cart battle, led the guards to stay in Iron Hammer Village to repair, Yang Er himself took Wu Yunzhao, Jin Jia, Tong Huan, Zhong Jian, Chuchen and more than 50 guards to Shaohua Mountain.

Far away to see the foot of Shaohua Mountain has built a walled gate, there are soldiers stationed on the walled gate, the flag is displayed, the word "Yang" and "Jin" are written on it, walk in and see, there are roughly 300 soldiers stationed here, there is a general standing on the walled tower and look at Yang Eryi and his party from a distance to move closer to the walled gate. The sharp-eyed soldiers had already seen the big beetle flag behind Yang Eryi and his entourage, and knew that it was the King of Jin who had arrived, and hurriedly reported the guards.

"Oh! Since the prince is here in person, he hurried out of the village with the general to greet him. After saying this, he immediately turned around and went downstairs, and ordered all the soldiers to quickly open the gate of the fortress and stand in two compartments to greet him.

"The last general, Shi Danai, welcome the prince." Under the leadership of Shi Danai, all the officers and soldiers knelt to welcome the arrival of Yang Er and his party.

Yang Er and his entourage hurriedly got off the horse, stepped forward quickly, and helped Shi Danai up with a smile. "The general is polite, please hurry up." The crowd listened before they got up.

"Well, that's good. The location of the walled gate here is very good, and it is in the place where Shaohua Mountain enters the valley. Can ordinary people come in and out on weekdays? Yang Er looked at the layout up and down and around the walled gate, and asked casually.

"Lord, how can I come and go here at will, anyone who enters must have a handwritten seal document from Uncle Liang, and those who go out of the valley must also check the awards of the two directors of Hua and Liang. Dereliction of duty should behead the head of the general on duty, how can it be child's play! Shi Danai replied with a straight face.

"Well, that's exactly how it should be. Order the lieutenant to be on duty for you for a while, and you will lead me into the valley. Yang Er didn't want to stop for a long time, so he said to Shi Danai.

Entering the Shaohua Valley, this scene is different from the beginning, the mountains in the valley are all reclaimed, the blocks are very strict, the ditches are interspersed, and the waterwheel automatically draws the river water to flow to the fields and ditches under the impact of the small river flow. Many people are ploughing in the fields, children are also running and playing in the fields, bursts of laughter and laughter came, many young women were washing clothes by the river in twos and threes, and even people were singing in the fields under the trees, a scene of paradise, and the scene outside the mountains was completely different, everything here was full of harmony, health and calm, Yang Er instantly felt that what he saw in front of him was an illusion, this kind of scene was not exactly what he wanted to create in the whole territory of Dasui?

On the road ahead, a puff of dust flew up, and a team of military horses galloped in. It was the Shaohua Mountain people led by Hua Gongming and Liang Shitai who came to greet Yang Er's sudden visit.

When they got closer, the generals grabbed the horse's head and dismounted and knelt down, singing in unison: "Hua Gongming, the head of Shaohua Mountain, and the generals did not know that His Highness was here, and he could not meet him from afar, so please punish His Highness." ”

"All the generals, please get up, this king has come suddenly, and I have not informed you in advance, so don't mind, they all get up and speak." Yang Er was also excited when he looked at the generals he hadn't seen for a long time, especially when he saw Liang Shitai, the first general he had attached, who was particularly close.

"Shi Tai, I haven't seen you for half a year, are you okay?" Yang Er took Liang Shitai's hand and asked.

"Thank you for your concern, the last will be here to do some things in Shaohua Mountain for the lord, everything is fine. Look at me, in this foreign land, there are plenty of food and clothing, and there is meat to eat every day, and they have grown white and fat. ”

Liang Shitai's witty answer made the generals laugh.

"Here General Hua is in charge of civil affairs, and you are in charge of training the army, you can't just know how to eat and drink well, but there is a delay in training the army?" Yang Er also asked Liang Shitai and Li Ruqi and Qi Guoyuan behind him with a smile.

"The lord rest assured, this general has never slackened off here to train the army for the lord, after Director Hua arrived here, this general is even more concentrated on training the army, and has now trained 30,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry. All of them are elite soldiers, and they can go directly out of the valley to attack the city for the main public. After that, Liang Shitai confidently glanced back at the two lieutenants behind him, Li and Qi.

"Oh? Shitai, you have 50,000 elite soldiers here, okay! Good! General Gongming, you strive to gather 100,000 elite soldiers for this king within 3 years, including at least 50,000 elite cavalry. If there are not enough horses, just write to Luzhou and ask for it. After 3 years of 100,000 elite soldiers, the king is useful. Yang Er looked at Hua Gongming and Liang Shitai and said.

"Please rest assured, within 3 years, we will train 50,000 elite soldiers for the lord, and we can make a military order." Hua Gongming said confidently, looking at Liang Shitai and the other generals, he also nodded confidently at this time.

"Okay, lead the way in front of the head, and go to the mountain village to talk again." After Yang Er finished speaking, he turned around and got on the horse. Seeing this, the generals also turned on their horses and ran up the mountain together.

Yang Er and his entourage were very satisfied with Shaohuashan this time, and the construction in all aspects was carried out completely according to his expectations, and it seemed that it was a very wise decision to let Hua Gongming come here to govern. For Hua Gongming, he can manage many affairs in the entire 19 villages of Taihang Mountain, and it is easy to manage this small Shaohua Mountain, and there is also a detailed development plan for His Royal Highness Jin, which is even simpler.

Yang Er inspected the construction of Shaohua Mountain Village, inspected the construction and guarding of more than 10 large-scale natural dry cave warehouses, and inspected the construction of Guangtong warehouses and the storage of materials and grain. They inquired in detail about the progress of grain and field expansion in the Shaohua Valley. Yang Er only made some constructive proposals on the basis of the existing ones, such as the winter fire prevention of the cave warehouse and the Guangtong warehouse; After the arrival of winter, the ice in the river is taken for storage, and the construction of cave freezer matters. When Yang Er had done all the things he thought he should do and was ready to turn back to Iron Hammer Village, dozens of truckloads of large quantities of chicken and tens of thousands of down jackets transported from Iron Hammer Village were sent to the Shaohuashan Military Camp.