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Unexpectedly, Yang Wencong asked him if he had brought a musket when he met, Wang Xing said calmly that even if he really had it, he wouldn't dare to use it casually to show off, it was a militaristic weapon that could kill people, and it would be a great deal to hide one or two at home, if it wasn't for the endorsement in advance and the help of Wang Mingde and Gu Congxin, he wouldn't dare to bring the firearm to the north corner, not to mention that he came out for an outing now, if he knew that Yang Wencong was such a crazy character, maybe he wouldn't dare to come to the meeting.

Ma Shiying came out to solve the danger at this time, and said to Yang Wencong, "Have you ever seen someone who shoots willows with a crossbow from his waist?" ”

Yang Wencong smiled, wiped the sparse beard under his chin and said, "This is also true, but I am always unwilling to see it." ”

Ma Shiying also smiled when she heard this, "Wait for Yinglong, you will be a jinshi in the future, and there will be a chance." ”

Zhongjinshi, it's not a joke about a family like Yang Wencong. No matter what the background is, after winning the jinshi, there is no shortage of prefects to do, the firearms in the armory want to try is not a matter of words, if you can go to the Ministry of War or the Ministry of Industry Yu Heng Division to find a job, then the best weapons in the world can be held in your hands every day.

I don't want Yang Wencong to hear it, but he was a little frustrated, "How long will it take?" ”

The eldest man of the Yang family is uninhibited by nature, and he has never been constrained by the imperial examination, and he can patiently study at home because of the revenge in his heart, which is rare among the sons and brothers of such a family.

"You don't want to be noisy, or think about how to explain to Shibo if you really don't succeed in this subject, he has to look bad on his face as a scholar of the country." Ma Shiying teased Yang Wencong, but she didn't see the embarrassment of the two.

Yang Wencong said: "Forget if others don't know, why don't you know why my father asked for a school official?" ”

This is not a secret, Yang Shikong asked himself to serve as a school official, naturally because he still offended a lot of people. However, Ma Shiying heard about the new appointment, and said: "I heard from my father that Mr. Lu Yuan has been reappointed as the head of the Water Division, and he will be in office a year ago. ”

The water department is the water department of the Ministry of Industry, in charge of auditing, estimating rivers and sea ponds, river defense, ditches, water conservancy and other matters. Yang Wencong also heard his father mention this appointment in his letter, but most of the appointments of the imperial court still have a later purpose, I am afraid that there are still important things for Yang to do in Caoyun, and it is difficult to predict what the situation will be in the future.

Sure enough, another person sighed when he heard this: "It's a pity that the water division is not a camp." ”

The four Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of Industry are in charge of the Camp, Yu Heng, Dushui, and Tuntian, and the Tuntian Division is in charge of the coal kilns and material support in various places, and the Yu Heng Division is in charge of munitions and coinage, copper mining, and sulfur, etc., and the Camp and Repair Division is the first-class fat difference among the four divisions, and is in charge of the royal court, the mausoleum altar and temple, the palace wall and the warehouse, the house, and the barracks.

Wang Xingping had already grasped the rhythm of Yang Wencong's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Just looking at this stone forest house, you can know the ability of Lingzun to camp and rectify, but the ministry is like being blind." ”

Everyone laughed again when they heard this, only Ma Shiying didn't laugh, and said lightly: "It's not easy for the camp division now, so it's okay not to go." ”

Ma Shiying said that the first three halls were rebuilt naturally, in the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, the first three halls that had been rebuilt since the time of Shizong together with Wenzhao, Wucheng Second Pavilion and the surrounding Langfang, have been burned to the gate of the Qianqing Palace, and the outer dynasty was completely destroyed, but it was cheap The emperor found a reason for lazy government. This time the reconstruction dragged on for a very long time, from the burning of the three halls in the twenty-fifth year of Wanli to the beginning of the reconstruction of the arrow tower in August of the previous year, it dragged on for nearly 20 years, and it was helpless for the Ministry of Industry, one had no money, and the other was that the south was also very short of big wood that could fill the beams, and the internal supervision had requisitioned timber in Yunnan and Guizhou before, which made the people resentful. Therefore, when this matter is mentioned, it is obvious that the errand of the camp division is not as oily and watery as imagined.

But since this topic has been talked about, and today is another elegant meeting, Yang Wencong's interest has risen a little.

He then took out a scroll from the house, which was already framed, and the boy who accompanied him lifted it high with a pole, but it was a landscape. The upper half of the painting is the old trees and withered vines in the garden, and the half is the autumn color of the river scenery outside the garden, the brush and ink are dry and prosperous, but the brushwork is also realistic, Wang Xingping has seen a lot of paintings in this life, but it is not much so fine.

Looking at the inscription again, it is written in the four words of Wutong Garden, which is quite elegant regardless of the color composition.

Yang Wencong saw everyone's expressions, and said with a smile, "Today's arrow, how about making this painting a colorful head?" ”

Everyone agreed in unison when they heard this, it is rare to have such a colorful head, Yang Wencong's paintings have never been good, just looking at this one, they all like it, naturally they can't take care of the snacks and drinks, and everyone who has not sat down firmly stood up again and went to the shooting range.

But it was less than half an hour after the excitement, and the lottery head was settled, and Wang Xingping won the first place in this event with an indisputable advantage. Even he himself couldn't believe that his bow skills were actually top-notch among the children of military families.

Yang Wencong was not surprised that Wang Xingping said that he could pull this bow in a good year, but said happily: "It is worthy of a ...... who has killed people."

Everyone was speechless for a while, but they saw that Yang Gongzi had taken down the scroll and handed it to Wang Xingping. "This painting is heavenly."

Wang Xingping is not in a hurry to get a painting, he has already figured out Yang Wencong's temperament, as long as it is interesting, he loves to do it, and there is a matter on his side that is lacking such a helper who can paint.

Then he said: "I don't want this painting, it's just that there is an interesting thing here for my little brother, I don't know if Brother Yang is willing to help me." ”

Yang Wencong has been bored at home these days, and when he heard the fun, his eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked what was the matter.

Wang Xingping had already asked Wang Xiaoliu to take out a small cloth bag at this time, and Shi Shiran took out a few swarthy short stick-like things from it.

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, he explained: "The iron smelting at home recently made some charcoal essence when forging iron, and the younger brother thought it was fun and made it into a paintbrush. ”

Yang Wencong said in his heart that it was really interesting, "You want to use this charcoal pen to paint?" ”

"It's a drawing."

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Ten days later, seeing that the frost was about to fall, the paulownia leaves in the back garden of the government were deeply locked, but several officials were watching something in front of them with great interest.

"This is Tiancheng, you painted?"

Looking at the drawings spread out on the table, they were three feet wide and narrow, and the dense annotations on them made Sun Chongxian and Zhang Heming look at it for a while before they reacted that this was a map of Guiyang City.

Wang Xingping was still modest, "There are people who do it for you, but I just follow the example of the ancients, and I put more effort into it." ”

"Is it the Flying Bird Method?" Sun Chongxian is an expert at first glance.

This made Wang Xingping a little surprised, "Dafu Mingjian did use the method of "Keeping the Order Map". ”

"Shou Ling Tu" is a method used by Shen Kuo to draw a map in the Northern Song Dynasty, there is a record in "Mengxi Bi Tan", Shen Kuo once drew a map of the world called "Shou Ling Tu", feeling the difference between walking distance measurement and actual distance in the mountains and rivers, remembering that in ancient times, someone made "Flying Bird Map", measuring the size of the earth from the perspective of flying birds, so that the map has a realistic sense of overlooking from the sky, which is extremely accurate.

At the same time, Shen Kuo improved the positioning method of the east, west, north, south and four solstices in the past, changed the four solstices to eight solstices, and finally evolved the orientation fixed point of the map to twenty-four solstice, making the maps he drew more accurate than those of his predecessors. Wang Xingping's drawing of this map and the roughness of the ordinary local map is not a style at all, just this fine annotation is far better, nothing else dare to say, these days at least this Guiyang City and the surrounding geography he is already familiar with the heart, plus those novel symbols and annotations, suddenly make this map much more vivid.

"It's still different from Shen Kuo's method." Sun Chongxian looked at this drawing and said to himself, although it was according to the ancient law, but in this map, there is no quasi-hope, tooth melting, inspection, high and low, square oblique, and straight, but it is very precise, and it is really impossible to see the doorway.

He wanted to ask, but after all, the other party was just a teenager, and he had to call himself Mr. Sheng in private, but fortunately, this picture was well marked, and he could distinguish the basic pattern as long as he looked at it a few times. Especially this Guiyang City, and the general map is different, but like standing on the south of the city on the mountain overlooking down, the perspective is a little crooked under the rough look, but if you look carefully, it is as vivid as in front of you, and the distance and height are truthfully seen.

Wang Xingping called this the method of perspective, saying that it is the drawing of the Taixi people, as far as the Song Dynasty Zhang Zeduan's painting of the "Qingming Riverside Map" heard to be the same. With this method, the scenery near and far will be real and credible.

It's just that outside the main city in this picture, the north side of the Rouyuan Gate, including the north corner, is wrapped into a new city wall, and the new city is slightly smaller than the old city, protruding in the north of the city, and there are three city gates in the east, north, and west. Zhang Heming felt that it was quite similar to the shape of the Beijing Division, but he turned the north and the south upside down.

Wang Xingping explained Sun Chongxian's doubts while drawing the blueprint of the new city outside the north gate, "I originally wanted to build a new city of Qianzhang, but in the end, it was only talked about more than 600 zhang, which is indeed smaller." ”

But Zhang Heming's face did not see a trace of blame, he first heard Wang Xingping propose to build a city in exchange for the wrong plan to use troops, thinking that this is such a result, it is good to be able to build a new more than 500 zhang, and now Wang Xingping said that in the end to build 600 zhang is beyond his expectations, and said with a smile: "600 zhang is not easy, it is better to save the people's strength." ”

Wang Xingping smiled, "What is there to save for the people's power of the barbarian department." ”

Zhang Heming asked, "An Bangyan really agreed so happily?" ”

Building the city wall is not a trivial matter, although as a governor, it is not without problems to start building directly without asking the imperial court, but in the end, it is necessary to let the cabinet know that it is good if there is no problem, but if it affects the money and grain taxes of the officials, even if the center does not ask, the local officials will come out to fight the grievances. So this matter was able to be finalized at the beginning because Wang Xingping made a package ticket in front of Zhang Heming, and there was no need to worry about money and food. And the officials are not worried, then they need to worry about the Wang family or the Xuanwei Division, so Zhang Heming will feel that this negotiation is a little easier, originally it was just a meeting today, and the other charters even if the two sides think it is feasible, they have to think about it in the long run, but I didn't expect it to be really done now.

"Before drawing, the students spent some time surveying, so they delayed for a while, so the old man stayed for a long time." The surveying and mapping in the early stage is actually quite simple, this level of infrastructure is actually far from how scientific planning is, there are a few craftsmen who follow the public of the government to read the information together, it is actually very fast, but it is also delayed to work with Yang Wencong to draw the map, fortunately, Yang Wencong is still smart, whether it is perspective or the meaning of various annotations, it is easy to understand, and finally the errand is successfully completed.

"It doesn't matter." Zhang Heming laughed, where would he blame this delay in time.

He also understood the truth of slow work and meticulous work, how could he not even afford to wait for this little time after patiently waiting for six years to participate in the palace examination to elect officials. The more detailed the work in the early stage, the less people will criticize the report, and besides, he believes that there will not be many repetitions of this kind of once and for all.

In the end, Wang Xingping's negotiations with An Bangyan and the two sects were naturally really reached, and the conditions offered by the other party were also a little special.

"Conditions?" Zhang Heming was not surprised if he had the conditions, but he was still a little nervous in his heart, but as soon as he said it, he thought that it was Wang Xingping who said, and he suddenly felt relieved.

Wang Xingping's plan was that Guiyang Wei and the Shuixi Ministries would jointly send people to build the city, and the Yu and Liumu Ministries were mainly responsible for providing wood and excavated stones from the Shuixi Forest Farm, and after these materials were transported to Guiyang, the people of Guiyang Wei were responsible for building the city wall. Guiyang here because the city is in the mountain, but there is no need to burn bricks to wrap the city, all with stone is the best. In the official office of Shuixi, only the money for the work is paid, but it will not be much, and the cost of the early stage will be maintained.

This time, if the cost of the entire project is calculated correctly, it should be around 16,000 taels, but the timber and stone in Shuixi are also considered to be taken from the nearest materials, and Yu's department does not dare to say anything more. And the government only used to bear the wages of the people and the rewards of the guards, and it still got a big bargain, and the overall cost was finally calculated to be about half of the original cost, but it would never exceed 10,000 taels, Zhang Heming was obviously quite satisfied with this number.

And for Wang Xingping, it is not a big problem, although the construction of the city is related to the military, it is also a political achievement project, I believe that as long as the construction starts, even if there is something wrong in the middle, Zhang Fujun will not leave a handle for political opponents. Even if the full amount is 20,000 taels, I believe that the imperial court is willing to come out with a one-time investment.

The only thing to worry about is the benefits.

Yes, it is the benefit of all parties, and it is not early to be profitable, or to be able to do anything, it requires accurate control and weighing of interests.

For Wang Xingping, his own business name has been encircled by this outer city, although it is certainly inconvenient to close the city gate at night for commerce, but it is safer, and this alone can make the land price rise a lot. As for the government, the benefits are naturally more, and there is no need to elaborate on them one by one.

It's just that Shuixi took the opportunity to put forward a few demands, one is to release a group of prisoners from the headquarters, An Bangyan gave a few names, all of them are leaders with some status among the twelve clansmen, and they were placed in the internal prison of Guiyang Mansion because of various crimes. An Bangyan said that 'considering his prison situation is excusable, please be spared from death', these are all taken in in previous years, and Shuixi is willing to pay more money for ransom and undertake labor, so he can naturally push the boat down the river. There is also the hope of doubling the quota of Yi iron in the government city every year, this is actually Wang Xingping, who is driving iron smelting, helped An Bangyan think, and the sects of various ministries are naturally willing, there is no decent iron smelting in Shuixi, and the agricultural tools and weapons are all dependent on the city, and the iron tools are controlled by the officials, if Guiyang Mansion is willing to open this mouth, then Shuixi will not suffer a loss to help build the city.

Thinking that in this way, he could nearly double the scale of Guiyang City, so he agreed to give the barbarians some iron tools, not to mention that he still had to give money to buy them.

Of course, the bulk of the cost of building the city still came from public funds, and although there was almost no surplus left in Fuzhong in previous years, the treasury gradually filled up after the autumn endowment, as well as the transfer of foreign provinces. Guizhou here is also cheap, and unlike the local people in the south of the Yangtze River who have much resistance to repairing the city, Wang Xingping also took the lead in saying that he would donate 500 taels of silver, plus the construction of the city can be completed in a year and a half, and there is not much pressure on the silver to be divided into a few years.

Thinking about the good achievements, Zhang Heming was also in a good mood, and asked Wang Xingping casually, "How many man-hours does Tiancheng expect to complete?" ”

Wang Xingping pretended to frown and thought about it, but he said the answer that he had already made in his chest.

"Two years ......"