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The two-foot-eight-foot-high city wall is also more than two feet wide, and the foundation of the wall has not yet been built, but the gates leading to various Guanjin have even been named.

Puding Street is cut off from the waist, and the west gate on the side of the Yandi Palace is ready to be built to lead to Weiqingwei, so it is named Weiqingmen.

The Nanjing street in the north is mostly merchants from the two Zhejiang, the foreign merchants who do tea and horse business here all the year round, now across the north of the street are also blocked by a new city gate, the avenue outside the Xuanyuan Temple leads straight to the Lu Guang River a hundred miles away, so this gate is named Lu Guangmen.

There are two city gates in the east, the one next to the Lingguan Pavilion in the north leads to the twelve horse heads of Hongbian, which is the Hongbian Gate, and finally there is only a new east gate that extends all the way from the Hualong Bridge.

Wang Xing said calmly, just looking at the naming of the city gate in the official, it was really simple and rude.

For such achievements in governance, the officials and gentry in the city were extremely optimistic, so the city gate had just been erected and received donations of more than 3,000 taels from the rich households. Seeing that this move to build the city is the people's desire, Zhang Heming and Sun Chongxian are also in a very good mood, and even Yang He, who has always sung against the governor, is rarely low-key, and when he talks about this matter in the routine recital, he only says, 'Or it is not useless to do things on the side', although it is still a reluctant look, but it seems that there is nothing wrong with this matter just by listening to the tone.

To build the city wall, the guards who plan to be requisitioned are 2,000 people, the local craftsmen are another 400, and the rest is the service of Yu's department and the north outside the city, and the city wall of more than 600 zhang should be around 1.2 million workers according to the previous practice, which is indeed a little compact in two years in terms of the scale of Guiyang City's current mobilization, but Wang Xingping feels that there is not much risk, and he has his own reasons for telling Zhang Heming that two years will take place.

The two-year period is not slow, nor fast is it, but it is precisely in Wang Xingping's filial piety.

In fact, judging from Wang Xingping's systematic study in the school these days, the so-called eight-strand scholar is not as difficult as imagined.

Based on his previous reading, the Four Books and Five Classics are nothing, and the content of less than 500,000 words adds up to just the text of a novel that is not too long, and millions of words of novels Wang Xingping has read a few in the past year to relieve his leisure and boredom. As for the truth in the scriptures, the various interpretations and commentaries of later generations are more complicated than those of the Ming Dynasty, and even if they have not studied it deeply, they can say a lot.

In addition to the general scriptures and meanings of the imperial examination, it is the eight-strand art system, and the first thing to solve the problem is to solve the problem correctly. In order to avoid such repetition, a truncated question was born, and two originally unrelated sentences were put together as a way for the answerer to relate them.

This is the real difficulty, Ma Shiying once said to Wang Xingping, this kind of topic is often strangely difficult, even if he has such a foundation to take the test, it is inevitable that there will be misses, fortunately, there are many places where such topics are prosperous in the south of the Yangtze River, or because of the peak of the literary style, it is inevitable that there will be many repetitions. In addition to the interference of these luck elements, the ordinary imperial examination is actually not so terrible, and the people in Guiyang are almost produced in a few big families, but they are not dominant, but they are really gathered in so many families.

This time he came back from Chongqing, Wang Xingping was not ready to go anywhere, he just wanted to run the family industry and then wait for the filial piety period to pass and then go to participate in the scientific examination to gain fame, and he had seen the benefits of being an official. Originally, some people persuaded him to keep filial piety for a year, but Guizhou's qualification review was not as strict as imagined, and there were many people who only kept filial piety for one year, but Wang Xingping himself felt that it didn't matter, anyway, he was still young, so why bother to increase pressure on himself.

Time flies quickly, although it has only just passed a few days after the beginning of winter, but the various construction sites outside the north city have also moved, and the stones mined from the surrounding mountains have been transported to several places planned for the city gate to be cut and polished.

Although Wang Xingping is a supervisor, he still accepts people, especially Ding Deshui, who is doing the actual affairs, and he has to concentrate on his studies on weekdays, so he naturally does not have much time to spare during the day.

Fortunately, a group of friends have gradually gathered around him, Wang Zhongde and now his uncle Wang Jianzhong in Guiyang Weizhong are very close to Wang Xingping, he is a celebrity in front of Zhang Heming, and other officials are quite stammering now. The only person in Guiyang Mansion who can not give him face is probably Yang He. Wang Zhongde's contribution this time is not small, as for why he left his post and ran to Guiyang City without permission, it is already a trivial matter, and no one will ask again.

Gu Congxin was also happy, he risked his involvement to get a firearm for Wang Xingping, and as a result, he was appreciated by Fu Jun, although he did not have any credit in it, let alone be rewarded, but he was named in front of Zhang Heming, and the benefits in the future will naturally not be short.

Outside the country, scribes like Ma Shiying and Yang Wencong can be kind to themselves, especially Ma Shiying is an old man, and now there is no pressure from the imperial examination, so he simply helped Wang Xingping to build the city wall of the outer city of Guiyang, and spent much more time on the construction site than Wang Xingping every day. Although Yang Wencong was enthusiastic, he always had to deal with the imperial examination, so he had to fish for three days and dry his nets for two days.

The Futai has undergone an accident, and the people were originally uneasy, but Wang Xingping first funded the settlement of Gu Fengming's family, and now Gu Erzhou has been dismissed, but because of the stroke, he was not included in the prison, and he did this to clean up the hearts of the people. Monk Xu and Yang Shunqing, the former henchmen of the Gu family, can also rest assured to do things and stop thinking about him.

Before the beginning of winter, Wang Xingping made the decision to increase the wages of the guys who were still on the counter, so they were all happy, and the hidden worries in their hearts were all gone, and they were all boasting about the benevolence of the owner.

For a while, all the opponents who were outside were gone, and Wang Xingping also had the appearance of repairing Qi Zhiping, which made his mother Xiao very unhappy.

It is true that compared with the Futai in the inner city, the Poly Iron Works under the package of the outer city that has not yet been repaired is more under the care of Wang Xingping, Wang Xingping still goes to the academy every day to study, and the business on the counter is also becoming more and more smooth. In my spare time from school on weekdays, except for the occasional visit to the construction site, I spend almost all of my time in the iron yard.

Now the Poly Iron Works is dedicated to making firearms for the officials, and the scale of craftsmen has gradually expanded to more than 70 people, so that it will only take the end of the year to arm all of Sun Changzuo's 300 families. Next year, one year will be enough to arm another 2,000 soldiers, and this is not counting the factors that have increased the scale of the iron field. According to Wang Xingping's original intention, he was preparing to get craftsmen from Guangdong after the New Year's Festival, and then recruit craftsmen locally, so that he could raise the scale of three or two hundred people, so that there would be no need to produce firearms exclusively. Swords, guns, armor, and even civilian iron needles and iron pots can be produced slowly, and trade with the people can also be done.

Today is the Xia Yuan Festival, although it is not as lively as the Shang Yuan and the Middle Yuan Dynasty, but many people go to the palace in the city to watch and burn incense to pray for blessings. Today, Poly is also slaughtering sheep and pigs, celebrating the delivery of the first batch of 150 new muskets in the official, Wang Xingping specially ordered to invite the master of the restaurant in the city to treat the laborers, in addition, every year in the lower yuan, the craftsmen will stop working on the furnace, especially the rules in the iron smelting.

It is precisely because of the shutdown of work, so Wang Xingping can make another arrangement, of course, the reward is to be in the evening, the pig samples have to be sacrificed to the furnace god and Laojun before the workers can enjoy, this morning in addition to the fact that there are still things to be busy and can not be distracted, the rest of the workers are all neatly lined up in a column to stand in the empty field in front of the iron factory, a team of ten people stood in six teams, Ding Deshui himself stood in the front and commanded everyone to march in the procession.

Wang Xingping once said to Ding Deshui that in the future, there will be more and more workers in the iron works, and if you want to manage your life well, you must do what you want to order. Ding Deshui gathered the workers to practice in his spare time according to Wang Xingping's queue method, which is quite easy to use these days, and the young generation of novices was quite unconvinced before, but Ding Deshui was relieved after a few times to clean up. Sometimes at night, Wang Xingping will personally live in Tieye, and after dinner, he will organize the workers to read and write, and after a long time, this matter has been spread, Wang Xingping's reputation has grown a lot because of the placement of Gu Fengming, and this time because of this matter, even Zhang Rulin was amazed, and said that this is the unity of knowledge and action without class, so the reputation of Poly Bank in the industry is also bullish, plus the treatment that is higher than that of the industry and the care of the government, Ding Deshui privately already knew that the workers of several nearby iron smelting companies were ready to switch to Poly's door after the New Year.

Last night Wang Xingping spent the night in the iron factory, and this morning he personally inspected the reward sent and went to Hualong Bridge with Ding Deshui, although this place is famous for private kilns, but there is a palace of Yuwang. The tenth half of the lunar calendar is the day when the water official Dayu is in the lower realm for the people to relieve their misfortunes, although Wang Xingping does not believe in ghosts and gods, but he follows the customs of the villagers, and this side is a little far away from the Wang family's industry, just on the way to discuss some things with Ding Deshui.

The two walked all the way, the distance was not far, the left was not more than a mile, looking at the people on both sides of the street had already placed the three-color dumplings and vegetarian stuffed buns at the door, and they could already see the Hualong Bridge from afar, and the water color of the families in the river under the bridge [Note: the rich families put various colored boats in the water to pray for blessings in the Xia Yuan Festival] also looked at each other slowly and slowly went down the river.

Wang Xingping looked at it in front of him and said meaningfully to Ding Deshui who was walking beside him: "This Guiyang City is a little smaller after all. ”

Ding Deshui promised, "The proprietor is now supervising the construction of the outer city, and when the city wall is enclosed, it will be twice as big." ”

"Compared to Shangxian in the south of the Yangtze River, it is still too small, and when you go out of the city, it is all barbarian territory."

In many counties and towns in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the city wall is more than two or three thousand zhang, compared to Guiyang, even if the outer city is completed after two years, the total scale is only less than 1,500 zhang, which is always too small.

"But the barbarians are also afraid of the proprietor." Wang Xiaoliu interjected beside him.

Ding Deshui naturally knew Wang Xingping's thoughts, but he didn't say that he had a grudge with the barbarians, but only said that this time he came forward to entertain and let Yu's subordinates bow their heads and help the government build Guiyang New Town, which was a great means. It would not be surprising if Zhang Heming or Sun Chongxian directly intervened in this matter, but how old is the proprietor, it can be said that he is far-reaching, and he is indeed good to his brothers, and there are many things that others don't know, but Wang Xingping has discussed with him. For example, the workers and the guys on the counter give shares, and at the end of next year, not only will they receive wages and dividends, but also accept the wives and families of the guys who are willing to come to do things. In the past, when I was in Sichuan, I didn't say that I had heard of it, and I was afraid that I didn't dare to think about it, but Wang Xingping told his thoughts to himself so clearly, and it was to do it publicly, all these things had to be publicly promised to the workers in writing in the end, and even Ding Deshui, the beneficiary, felt confused and even persuaded Wang Xingping a few words, but when Wang Xingping firmly expressed his determination, Ding Deshui was left with admiration and gratitude.

"You don't know anything until you kill it, where are they afraid of me, it's just a dormant minions for the time being, this layer of window paper in Guizhou will still break sooner or later."

Ding Deshui is no longer the same as before, he personally applied this set of exercises and management methods taught by Wang Xingping, and naturally knew the benefits. Listening to Wang Xingping's words now, he already had some thoughts in his heart, and said: "What the proprietor said is true, but if there is really a day, these brothers who are practicing now will be enough to keep it thorough. ”

Thinking about this after all, Ding Deshui added in a low voice, "Don't hide it from the owner, the villain has also seen it, these methods of the owner, in just two or three years, the brothers of the iron factory can go sideways in Guizhou, I'm afraid it won't be slightly worse than the official army." ”

Naturally, he didn't want to say anything about rebellion, but he was used to being cautious on weekdays, and after all, it was a bit taboo.

The rebellion of the miners was too common in the Ming Dynasty, and these craftsmen often watched over each other, so they were able to respond to every call, and they were not sloppy in their work, and they also developed a good habit of abiding by rules and disciplines. When Qi Jiguang organized and trained the new army, he liked to use mining craftsmen, which was also the reason.

Wang Xingping didn't expect Ding Deshui to speak so bluntly, but he avoided the point of knocking on the side, he naturally didn't want to confront the imperial court, he really had his own team to sleep soundly, no matter what the size of the team was, it was always a team that could be controlled.

Unconsciously already standing at the door of the Yuwang Palace, coinciding with the festival, the palace seems to be building Jiao, outside there are two small officials climbing on the pole at the gate of the palace to hang the lanterns at night, the three lanterns have been hung up two, only the signs on both sides of the door are written on some words Wang Xingping looks carefully, the two sides on the left are written 'Heaven and Earth Water House', 'Wind and Rain', and the right is 'Guotai Min'an',' He saw that the handwriting was excellent, and was thinking about going home and practicing it, but he heard a call from the west.

"The proprietor ......" A voice came from far and near, but it spread very quickly, and it was Ding Deshui's nephew Ding Yi.

He held a vellum paper envelope in his hand, and when he approached, he said loudly, "Shopkeeper Ye has a letter." ”