The nobles of Jinyang have always been more sensitive to wealth and goods, perhaps because they are accustomed to seeing the scene of the city changing the king's flag, and they have a clear understanding of the false titles and positions of status and official positions, but they have an unusual love and dedication to gold, silver, and goods. Maybe in this world-shattering world, these things are the only thing that makes people feel at ease.

The earning power of Jinyang Royal Manor is eye-catching, but the nobles who can have a relationship with Jinyang Palace are still very limited. Li Qi was happy to cooperate with these nobles to establish an interest group, including the sons of Meng Zhixiang, the envoy of Xichuan Jiedu.

Meng Zhixiang went to Chengdu, his family still stayed in Jinyang, and now his two sons are working under Li Qi. The names of the four cousins of the Meng family are easy to understand, Fan, Yong, Ju, and Ye, that is, when he was born, where Meng Zhixiang was fighting. Meng Yifan is in Fanyang, that is, Zhuozhou; Meng Yiye, who was just born, was in Yecheng, that is, Weizhou.

Meng Zhixiang was the eldest son-in-law of Li Keyong, the king of Jin, and the founding emperor of Shu after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, but he died after only three months of emperor addiction. Li Qi's eldest uncle looks honest and honest, looks like an old peasant, but in fact he is calm and meticulous, and has always been trusted by Zhuangzong Li Cunxuan.

In another history, during the Xingjiaomen Change, Li Siyuan was embraced as the emperor, but Meng Zhixiang's family was detained. At this time, Meng Zhixiang, who owned Shu Land, also gave birth to the intention of separating himself from the territory, constantly provoking Li Siyuan's bottom line, killing Tang envoys, and beheading officials sent by the imperial court, hoping that Later Tang Mingzong would be able to send troops to crusade against him, just to justifiably break away from the Later Tang Dynasty and stand on his own.

Who knew that Li Siyuan's patience was better than him, and he actually endured all these rebellious things. Meng Zhixiang couldn't wipe his face, so he had to nominally still submit to the Tang Dynasty and maintain a severing relationship with the Later Tang Dynasty. Finally, Lao Meng finally consumed Lao Li to death, and after Li Siyuan's death, Meng Zhixiang couldn't wait to become the emperor.

As a result, only three months after he ascended the throne, he also followed his old friend Li Siyuan. Because the eldest son Meng Yifan and the second son Meng Yiyong died somehow, in the end, it was Meng Chang's stupid man who inherited the position of the lord of Shu and was destroyed by Zhao Song.

In Li Qi's view, Meng Zhixiang's personal ambition is not big, and his ability to be emperor is also a coincidence, and he was pushed to that position by fate, which is not a big threat.

In this era, there were no virtuous ministers, and those who were a little more upright and loyal were all killed by Zhu Wen and other warlords. As for the accumulation of wealth, which warlord did you see during the Five Dynasties period as a fuel-efficient lamp? Lao Zhu searched more ruthlessly in front, and he didn't cause any big trouble.

The problem of the first emperor Li Cunmiao was that he was in a hurry to take back the military and political power of the envoys in various places, which touched the interests of most of the generals, poked a hornet's nest, and finally failed to end......

In this era, because people's general life expectancy is only more than 40 years old, there is a general lack of patience when doing things, and it seems that they are eager for quick success.

There is no way, time is running out, some things are not done quickly, and there are really no people.

The ancients did things far less calmly than the later generations.

After pacifying Shudi, Zhuang Zong ordered Meng Zhixiang to take over Guo Chongtao's position, in fact, he sensed Guo Chongtao's ambition to stand on his own feet in Shu, but he didn't expect to cheapen Meng Zhixiang in the end.

The frost falls and it is the season of winter irrigation of farmland.

Water from the Xinzhou Muma River is diverted from both sides of a barrage dam, and is transported through four main canals to the branch canals of the fields on both sides, and finally through the hair canals in the fields into a green wheat field. After the farmland is watered for winter, it can effectively kill most of the pest eggs in the soil for the winter, and retain some more moisture for the field, and can also play a part of the effect of heat preservation.

Winter seems to have come a little later this year, and even in October, the weather is still very warm during the day. However, in October, the temperature at night has dropped below freezing, and the mountains have withered and yellowed, and before sunrise in the early morning, you can already see the white frost on the branches and leaves of the grass and trees.

Although the weather outside is getting colder day by day, in the Longshou Mountain Hot Spring Manor built by Li Qi in Xinkou, it is as warm as spring.

It's a pity that the flat glass that Li Qi is looking forward to has not yet been trial-produced, so the vegetable greenhouse of his dreams is nowhere to be found.

The Wudai Mountain and Yunzhong Mountain around the Xindai Basin are all iron-rich areas, and the hot spring manors built by the Longshou Mountain and the Xinchuan Shuihe River in Xinkou are naturally not missing iron-smelting workshops. With the increasing number of iron parts used in his machine workshop, steel production has become the most important thing for Li Jiqi.

After pouring cement and building several water storage dams along the Muma River and Hutuo River, the mechanized production mode powered by water power has brought its own weaving and grinding workshops to the stage of primary industrial production, and the production efficiency has been greatly improved. These workshops not only earned Li Jiqi a lot of money, but also allowed more than 16,000 military families in the Tuntian area of Jinyang and Xin Dynasty to live a relatively wealthy life.

After all, the semi-industrial mechanical production method is incomparable to the handicraft workshop in terms of production efficiency.

The construction of reservoirs, dams, and aqueducts has allowed more farmland to be irrigated, increasing the grain output of Juntun's farmland by nearly one-third.

It's a virtuous circle.

At least so far, nearly 40,000 Tuntian military households in the Xindai, Shanbei and Yunzhou areas have been able to achieve self-sufficiency, and there is a surplus of annual production to supply Xia Ruqi's Luze army.

In this era, the precipitation in northern Shanxi, Yunzhou and Shanbei was quite abundant, and it was not as dry as in later generations. After a heavy snowfall, the already sparsely populated banks of the Sanggan River fell silent. Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, wild trails and people come, this glance, all the snow-capped endless mountains, but also full of desolation.

There are more than 10 hot springs in Longshou Mountain, this place is not far from Shuozhou and Yanmen, the veteran An Jinquan, Kong Qing and Yanmen Jiedu envoy also built another courtyard in the vicinity to imitate Li Qi, and also went to Longshou Mountain Hot Spring Villa to avoid the cold after the snow.

"This place is as warm as spring in winter, and my body turned out to be a little dark, and I couldn't stand the wind and cold, so I ran over to spend the winter." After Zhou Guangfu got out of the carriage, he said with a smile.

Li Qi greeted him, looked at a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy behind him and asked, "Is this Ling Xun?" ”

"It's my nephew, my eldest brother's son, and I'm about to let him go to Jinyang Academy, so why don't I take him over to see you first." After Zhou Guangfu finished speaking, he sighed secretly.

The eldest brother mentioned by Zhou Guangfu is the son of Zhou Dewei, and the father and son unfortunately died in Huliupo during the expedition to Liang that year. However, this Zhou Guangbi is not Zhou Dewei's biological son, but an adopted son, and his biological father is Li Cunxiao, a rebel general of the Jin Kingdom. In that year, Li Cunxiao was provoked by Wang Rong of Zhenzhou, etc., and rebelled against Jin according to Xingzhou, and later Li Keyong, the king of Jin, led an army to conquer Xingzhou, and Li Cunxiao was killed after surrendering. However, after all, he was the righteous son of the King of Jin, and Li Keyong did not punish his family, but ordered Zhou Dewei, who had no heirs at that time, to marry Li Cunxiao's wife and adopt Zhou Guangbi. This is all grassland customs in the past, but Li Cunxiao's rebellion is a taboo in the Jin army, and few people mention it again. Zhou Dewei had a good relationship with Li Cunxiao, so he always regarded Zhou Guangbi as his own. Zhou Dewei had no heirs, and it was strange that after marrying Li Cunxiao's wife, he gave birth to two sons in a row.

This may be a kind of good retribution.