[The festival is not over yet, so let's ask for tickets first, and some slight modifications have been made in combination with the previous details, which will not affect the direction of the story outline]

In early spring and February, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and what happened in this year can be described as strange and changeable for Wang Xingping, but now he is happy with the result.

In his previous life, he accidentally traveled to this strange world hundreds of years ago, in the southwestern barbarian land. And his life began with the murder of his father and family, and through his personal efforts, he finally managed to support the fragile court in today's small situation, and accidentally obtained the news of his companions, so that he could settle down and plan his future. The current situation is not good or bad, it seems that the business name has been stabilized, the iron factory is smoothly transforming into a military factory, and there is a small number of armed forces in hand, but in Guizhou this place still has to live tremblingly, without him, the foundation of the Ming regime is too weak here.

After the New Year, the North Gate New Town has begun to take shape, and a number of occupied military cantonments around the Jierong Station have also begun to resettle the fugitive military households recruited by Wang Xingping after they were recaptured, and the size of the main army of the Thousand Households has also doubled compared with the previous year, finally with nearly 600 people. These people are known as Qian'er to the outside world, and they are guarding the north of Guiyang City, not only Zhang Xiang's peace of mind, but even under the mutual wrestling of their respective interests, even the Shuidong Song clan endured this breath and did not pursue Wang Xingping's actions. Of course, Wang Xingping also knows the proportions, although the recovery of Juntun is only aimed at the Song family, but only five places have been selected, and the original cattle breeding pen Song family manor is already the largest one.

The original Song manor has been cleaned up under the care of more than 20 military households who have recently moved in, and Xiao Shisan, a Han military household who was previously accepted by the Song family as a slave, took his whole family to the Jierong Institute after Song Zhong's death, and became one of the tun residents of the cattle pen.

Wan Shiying's family also regained their own fields and homes in the cattle pen, but Wan Shiying himself was still left in the Jierong Institute because of his excellent fighting. But there are ten thousand brothers to support Xiao Thirteen, Xiao Thirteen also hardened, originally he was still a little afraid of the Shuidong native soldiers, but he witnessed the native soldiers being beaten in front of the soldiers of the Jierong Station, and his former neighbors were among these dozens of people's army, how could he no longer believe Wan Shiying's original words.

Although the Xiao family is from a military family, but there is a lot of population in Shuidong, and soon after the New Year, Xiao 13 went everywhere to collect a lot of people who were willing to take refuge. Of course, there is also his selfishness, Wang Xingping personally promised that the people who came would be given enough arable land according to the rest of the army, and this cultivated land was not sent except for the military rations supplied by the Jierong Institute, which made Xiao Shisan even more urgent, and he didn't want to cheapen this good land.

Wang Xingping was helpless when he learned about this, once the oppressed person turned over, he was not thinking about how to help the persecuted military households, but trying his best to seek benefits for his family first, but he was not annoyed, the initiative was still in his hands, and now it was not a bad thing to have more Dingkou directly under the central government, taking a step back, if he was worried that the clan would be big, he would be able to break people up and distribute them everywhere in the future, but it was a little early to think about it now.

Several other tunbao is also the same as the cattle pen here, the elite soldiers stay in the Jierong for training, and those with slightly worse assessment results will be stationed in each fort after separate training, and after the New Year's Festival, Wang Xingping did spend money to let each tunbao work to build a simple fortress, all of which are circular tulou styles, and the defense is much stronger than the previous manor.

It is true that strength plays a decisive factor in the judgment and influence of ordinary people's hearts, but the resettlement of the recaptured military camp in such a short period of time is the contribution of Wang Zhongde and his brothers, and the second is also relying on Wang Xingping's own planning.

On that day, Song Zhong was killed in the cattle pen, and he reached a gentleman's agreement with Liu Hao, and Liu Hao and Juntun had nothing to do with each other from then on. The basis for supporting this agreement is that Wang Xingping promised to carry out in-depth cooperation with Liu Hao on trade, and after that war, Mr. Liu had a preconceived idea of the image of this new guard army, Wang Xingping promised that in the future, after meeting the needs of the officials and soldiers, he could supply some iron tools to the cattle pen in a limited way, which was exactly what Liu Hao needed, and Wang Xingping's subordinates did not move the fields of the native people in the valley according to the agreement, which also made Liu Hao gradually feel at ease. As for the future, Wang Xingping also thought of a long-term deal, guaranteeing that Liu Hao's side would definitely be tied to himself driven by interests.

After the war, the next day, he not only followed his promise to bury his mother's second good life, but then found Lang Zhong to treat his mother and the rest of the wounded soldiers to treat the war wounds, and then pulled Liu Hao to go door to door to give the families of the fallen soldiers a pension silver, and the water and land dojo should also be enough.

As for those who died in battle on their side, one of them took his wife and children to be raised by Jierong, and the other had no queen and placed his wife, and the injured not only received some of the same money, so that Wang Xingping's prestige among the local people and military households rose a lot in less than a month. However, most of the local people counted the accounts of this battle on Song Zhong, who had already died, saying that he forcibly occupied the military field and really deserved to be killed, which made Wang Xingping sigh.

Under the instruction of Wang Xingping, the grain planting of the Futai and the farm tools of Poly Bank were all loaned to the military households of Le Xinlai without interest, and they also made installment payments. Compared with the exploitation of the people at this time, it is really a clear stream, which makes the tun households grateful to Dai De, and Liu Hao, who was originally in the money lending business, although he complained in his heart, but because of Wang Xingping's strength, he did not dare to come forward to be this villain, and even the rest of the gentry who exploited the peasants in previous years also died down, seeing that the Wang family firm had established a foundation in the military tun and the local people.

The second day of February is the Spring Dragon Festival, which is different from last year's circling in various things, and now Wang Xingping also has the heart to follow the tunhu to enjoy the spring cattle sacrifice in the field, looking at the new grass sprouts after the snow melts and the ice disappears, the new Mr. Wang can't help but laugh from the bottom of his heart.

The good news continues, a few days after the Spring Ox Festival, a messenger from Chongqing brought news that my sister Wang Ruoxi added a sister-in-law to her husband's family and named Jian Tao. Although it is the son-in-law's family, but after all, it is also her grandson, the queen mother is very happy these days, and she has specially prepared a congratulatory gift for people to send to Chongqing, thinking that her daughter will give birth to a son-in-law, and it will be more stable and convenient in her husband's house in the future.

Wang Xingping also let Ye Xianlian go with him, this Brother Lian came back from Guangdong last time to send a letter is considered to have gone through experience, this time Wang Xingping wants to take the opportunity to do some business cooperation with his brother-in-law in Chongqing, Futai also wants to open a branch there, let my sister and brother-in-law be responsible for the operation, Chongqing is not better than Guiyang, it is a real southwest town, if you talk about business opportunities, there should be more business opportunities, and Sichuan salt, there is a semicolon after the salt, of course, there are other unexpected benefits, It is very important for the business system that Wang Xingping wants to create.

The queen mother is also in a good mood now, when Wang Laiting was newly mourned, the Wang family was worried and embarrassed, but she didn't expect her son to be so precocious, and he could re-support the family business in a year, and he was more prosperous than when his father was there. He knew that his son was interested in the imperial examination, but the mother was obviously more concerned about her son's marriage, and there were more than a dozen matchmakers who were sent out these days, so Wang Xingping moved to the Beicheng campus to live in order to hide from his wife after the New Year.

According to the imperial court system, the new military attache has to go to the military department to report, but Guizhou is also a remote place, the ancestral system does not have to go to Beijing Kanhe, the place can be done cheaply, as for the unveiling post sent to Beijing for inspection, since a few brothers and sisters helped to do it, he is a letter and does not need to test the language, the Yellow Book Household Department also has a file to check, everything does not have to contribute by himself, sometimes think about the official here is the emperor is far away, it is not all without benefits, at least the stumbling on the road can be avoided.

After more than a month of development after the new year, Poly Bank's production capacity has been improved, and the craftsmen inside have increased their monthly silver, so they are more motivated, and even the output of defective products is much less. Originally, each craftsman could make two electric switches a month, but there were still some defective products, but now at this rate, there are many fewer defective products, and each person can roughly have three outputs per month.

Originally, there were 50 craftsmen in the iron factory, and the output of 150 muskets a month was 150, and some were recruited later, but there were also some such as Ding Deshui's uncle and nephew who gave up the way of craftsmen and chose to join the army. Among them, fifty skilled workers were retained by Wang Xingping to specialize in building muskets, and the remaining fifty people were responsible for swords and armor, and the remaining less than 100 people with slightly inferior skills were specially trained to make agricultural tools and tools.

Nowadays, the official price of a musket is still two taels and five dollars of silver, two taels are the costs reported at the time, and five dollars are profits, and most of these five dollars are used by Wang Xingping to deal with officials everywhere.

However, because of the improvement of the process, in addition to various costs and profits, it is close to half, and this alone can bring Wang Xingping a monthly income of one hundred and fifty taels of silver, and the agricultural tools and swords together are equivalent to this. As for the previous time I had told Zhang Heming that the cost could be reduced again, but now that the minister of the army does not ask, Wang Xingping himself will not break it, he will not think that there is too much money, not to mention that there is also a share of Zhang Heming and Sun Chongxian.

For more than three months, Sun Kaizuo's garrison camp has been equipped with more than 300 electric guns, Sun Garrison has set up a standard battalion with all firearms, and the battalion officer is Wang Zhongde's uncle Wang Jianzhong, who is not a few years older than him, and in private Wang Xingping also left more than 100 for himself, the durability of these muskets is not good enough, and the loss will be great if you really want to fight, and judging from the last few conflicts, if the musketeers can form an array and match the gun array, the effect is indeed better than any armor, It seems that it is not unreasonable that those great powers in history have gradually begun to embark on this path at present, and it should also come from the summary of actual combat.

So next, he plans to let a workshop specializing in swords and armor also switch to the production of muskets, one is to step up equipment, and the other is to make more money, after all, this is to recruit the population, and to expand the business, the foundation of the Wang family is almost about to be hollowed out again, this is still some benefits he got privately when he liquidated the Gu family before, but at that time, there was no team of his own, and most of the heads were divided by the officials in the city, and thinking of these made him feel painful.

After finishing these business matters, Wang Xingping took Xiaoliu to wander around the city, and naturally there was Yang Wencong with him, and even Ma Shiying came out.

Without him, it is precisely because the county exam is about to begin.

The so-called county examination, also known as the children's examination, has a total of three levels: county, government and hospital, and can become a student after passing the college examination, which is commonly known as Xiucai. Only Xiucai is eligible to participate in the township examination, and if he passes the township examination, he is a person and has obtained the qualification for the Beijing examination. Usually, the so-called county schools and government schools are also eligible for admission after becoming a student, but now it is no longer so strict, and people with a little background will send their children to study in official schools, and Wang Xingping is because some people are optimistic about making an exception to enroll.

But Yang Wencong is different from Ma Shiying, Yang Wencong has already passed the hospital examination, is a serious student, and Ma Shiying is a tribute to the last subject, Wang Xingping also heard him say that as soon as the township examination is finished this year, he will go to Beijing with the new department's lifter, and he will directly participate in the final palace test in the spring of next year and go through the motions to become a formal jinshi.