"I have a letter with a noble man, and he wants me to be patient for a while." Pu Shougao said: "Xu Zi first made a group training, according to the tradition of the Great Wei Dynasty, the opening of the group training is to spend money in the place, and the yamen did not give him a penny, allowing him to do cheap and raise funds on the spot, Xu Zi first set up a card to collect donations, and collect money according to assets, the reason is very correct, there is nothing to scrutinize." Moreover, receiving money from the businessmen, the top and bottom are very happy, unless this matter is brought to the political affairs hall, the political affairs hall will not support us openly. Over the years, the center of the Great Wei has become more and more embarrassed, and the attitude towards the Semu people is not as tolerant as before. ”

Pu Shouchen was suddenly a little frightened, and he said, "Are they going to attack us?" ”

"Not yet." Pu Shougao shook his head and said, "It's quite stable inside and outside, unless there is a great change, the world is in chaos." ”

"I see signs of this in Dawei."

"Yes!" Pu Shougao felt that he had to slowly explain to the people in the clan, he said slowly: "We don't have such a few choices, first, when the Great Wei falls, there will be a strong man, we have to keep our eyes open and follow the strong, so as to maintain our old status, but the new dynasty is just established, and the national policy is not necessarily the same as that of the Great Wei, so this step is still passive." The two are that we choose the strong to cling to in troubled times, show our strength, and help them succeed. In this way, when a new dynasty is established, our status will only be higher than in Great Wei, not lower. The last way is for us to choose the opportunity to stand on our own feet in troubled times! ”

"Self-reliance?" Pu Shouchen's heart was pounding, and he felt that his mouth was also a little dry, and he said in a loud voice: "If we want to stand on our own, we don't have enough strength, right?" ”

"Financial resources are material resources, and they are human resources." Pu Shougao said: "If it is said that it will sweep the whole country, take the Great Wei, annex the Great Wei as a part of my Tianfang Kingdom, and obtain the land and manpower of the Great Wei, my Tianfang will become the largest country in the world, and will no longer be threatened by the Crusaders." However, this road is full of thorns, so you need to spread it calmly, take your time, and don't rush. ”

Only then did Pu Shouchen know that this clan brother actually had such ambitions in his heart!

Thinking about it, this is indeed the case, the Great Wei has hundreds of millions of people and a vast territory, if the Pu family can take such a big place, how can it be different from adding several times the strength of Tianfang?

Tianfang is still across Europe and Asia, but it is also constantly encroached upon at home, and its national strength is getting weaker and weaker......

If there is no civil strife in the Great Wei and no strong enemy in the north, how can Pu Shougao's words be a fool's dream, but if there is civil strife and the national strength is seriously weakened, the Pu family may not have a chance?

Pu Shouchen's heart was like a deer, but Pu Shougao didn't give him a chance to think nonsense, and explained: "If you go back and wait for me first, I want to see how long Xu Zixian can last, if it doesn't work, I will try to do it, this matter can't be just settled." Even if we explain to many colorful businessmen, we can't sit idly by. ”

"That's it." Pu Shouchen mentioned the spirit and agreed, he also knew that the Pu family was not only rich and powerful, but also hidden quite terrifying strength in the secret, if Fuzhou really couldn't do anything about Xu Zixian, the Pu family didn't mind taking action to give this little marquis who didn't know the height of the sky a profound lesson.

Be sure to be a deep, bloody lesson.

Pu Shougao was very satisfied with the eyes of his brother, which was quite fierce and had an obvious wolf nature.

Even if it has been in the Great Wei for a hundred years, the people of the Pu family still insist on the heavenly dress, the heavenly teachings, and the heavenly language, and the noble heavenly people will not assimilate the Wei people, but will only assimilate them in turn.

Because Tianfang people are naturally noble and retain their primitive wolf nature, every Pu family believes in this, and Pu Shougao himself is the same.

After the clan brother withdrew, Pu Shougao picked up King Zhao's letter, in which King Zhao assured that in the future, it would be determined that Xu Zixian would be finished, and he might not be able to keep his position, and of course he would not be able to keep the position of the regimental training envoy.

If King Zhao's words were not true, Pu Shougao wouldn't mind solving the trouble himself.

He also has powerful political allies in the court, and King Zhao's wealth largely comes from the help of the Pu family, which provokes Pu Shougao, and he doesn't mind coming to the bottom of the kettle!

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More than ten days passed in a hurry, and changes were taking place almost every day around the annex.

The first round of screening of the regimental training soldiers has ended, and only the second round of Xu Zixian personally inspected, passed, checked the state of origin, and signed a five-year contract, and the soldiers could enter the camp.

Ding Zhuang on the surrounding villages, whether they were official households or hidden households, all those who had not completed their remaining labor were requisitioned, and five or six hundred people gathered together to build houses in the open space south of the courtyard.

According to the idea of the townspeople, the regimental training of soldiers and horses is to gather a group of Ding Zhuang, and after a few days of training, they will disperse if they have nothing to do, and then assemble when there is something, and at most set up some shacks for the soldiers to live in.

But the situation here in the Hou Mansion is obviously shocked...... Hundreds of people drove dozens of cattle, and stone rollers made more than 100 acres of wasteland near the river very ordinary, opened drainage ditches, leveled the foundation, and then bought a large number of bricks and tiles, and began to build serious houses.

With the support of hundreds of laborers, plus dozens of hired workers, the ground was leveled in a few days, and then the foundation was dug out, and the walls were built.

"It is expected to be completed in about ten days...... Fu Qian was sweaty, the weather was getting cold, he wore a short robe every day to run around the construction site, supervise the progress of the project, and also got a helper on the tax card, and together with Kong He, he donated the collected group exercises to the warehouse for accounting, which was indeed very busy.

Since Xu Zixian made it clear that night that those with outstanding performance could be promoted to officials, all the scribes, including Fu Qian, have been full of energy.

Xu Zixian said: "How much does it cost?" ”

"The wage is to replace the payment with service, which saves a lot of wage expenses." Fu Qian said with a smile: "A strong man earns forty yuan a day is the least, six hundred people earn dozens of yuan a day, and the salary of ten days will save hundreds of yuan...... Of course, their hard labor here is to be deducted from forty days. There are many masters who force Ding to serve for ten days and eight days, and everyone does not dare to speak, and the prince is not allowed to do so, so we still keep accounts, how many days, how many days. ”

"It's for the best." Xu Zixian nodded, it's not that he doesn't want to use free servitude, but if he wants to do a benign development here, really grasp the heart, and use the power of the place for his own use, then he has to restrain his desires.

Take advantage of the cheap, everyone else is a bastard, under this kind of thinking, it won't last long.

"The material money, we counted the material cost of every five rooms as 20 yuan, and built 125 rooms, plus the courtyard wall that was pulled, the arrow tower built, the wood money and carpenter's labor fee, a total of about 3,100 yuan."

Fu Qian said with a smile: "I have to add some beds, cabinets, tables, and purchase some application things, such as pots, basins, lunch boxes, spoons, etc., all of which have been explained by the prince, and the total price has to go up to 500 yuan." ”

"Count wider." Xu Zixian said: "The total price of four thousand is almost the same." ”

"Yes." Fu Qian nodded and didn't say anything.

The treatment of the regimental training soldiers is really nothing to say, there is a monthly salary and an analogy with the soldiers of the Xiang Army, which is quite a generous treatment. The general group training is to manage the full meal, the salary is very small, and the monthly salary of the Xiang army is always 500 yuan, which is already a very good income.

However, according to Fu Qian's understanding of the prince, it is estimated that the people who practice in the group can still get more, and it is obvious that the prince wants to take the path of training an elite team, if the salary is not in place, it will be difficult to achieve this goal.

Under extreme conditions, a person with great talent and charisma can train an elite soldier with a full meal, but it is clear that it is not under extreme conditions now.

Fu Qian continued: "The group training donations collected in ten days are more than 7,000 yuan, so half of them have been removed...... Still, it's very generous. ”

Xu Zixian smiled slightly, and said: "I came down to prepare to buy a workshop car, and the expenses are also a lot, I am afraid that I will not be able to save money for the time being, I plan to go to a few money houses in the town, take the group practice donation as collateral, borrow 30,000 yuan, Mu Zhi, you and Xuanping will hire a boat from Fuzhou Port to Jiangling, and buy a workshop car and come back quickly." ”

"Yes, rest assured."

In fact, after waiting for two months and 30,000 yuan, Fu Qian has a feeling that Xu Zi is not impatient or arbitrary, and many things will be discussed with others, but as long as the things are determined, he will do it vigorously, and the decision after discussion will not give people the opportunity to question and object, at this point, it can be regarded as a will like steel.

"If you don't advance, you will retreat...... Fu Qian did not doubt it, but Xu Zixian muttered to himself: "The current situation seems to be beautiful, the tax income of 200,000 yuan a year, even if it takes a lot of work, there will be tens of thousands of yuan of income from exemption from military service next year." But that's not enough, it's far from it! ”

According to the goal set by Xu Zixian, of course, it is still far from enough, at least from the perspective of territory, he can only be quite alienated from the invisible control of these nearby towns, and now it is difficult to even achieve invisible control, and it is necessary to wait for the regiment to train the soldiers and horses, and the financial resources are sufficient to earn hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, and then it is only then that we can talk about controlling several nearby towns, and then we can strengthen the control of the people through various means.

It's still too early to get out there and build a real foundation.

The chaos is coming, and the time left for Xu Zixian is not too abundant at all.

"Would you like to go and see the pig pen and the vegetable patch?" Chen Zuocai, a scribe, stepped over a half-high brick wall not far away and walked over with wide eyes.

The surrounding houses have basically had a rudimentary shape, the large thatched house and kitchen were built first, with the water source and drainage ditch, the sewage and dirt collection have a deep pit, regular cleaning, and the garbage is sent to the garbage dump outside the town.

You must know that at this time, the town is only built along the street, not to mention the planning, the houses are built crookedly, not to mention the villages, they are all random buildings, in fact, the patchwork is also a kind of beauty, the premise is to be hygienic, clean, tidy, and spend some thought on the color.

The barracks building in front of me is obviously unprecedentedly uniform, giving people the feeling that it is quite special, and it is naturally full of impact.

The road in the camp is also quite smooth, there is already a canteen area that has been built, tables and chairs for dining are built in tall buildings, and some areas have been opened, because there is not enough space in the Hou Mansion, after this side is built, Qin Dongyang can't wait to come here with all his teeth to eat.

The buildings and various plans here are obviously quite thoughtful, and they have also brought a lot of impact to the people in the nearby towns for several years.

Waiting for Qin Dongyang, Li Yi and others to select the regiment to practice martial arts, after posting the list in various places, the applicants flocked to the three nearby towns, and there were more than 10,000 Dingkou in the three nearby towns, plus a large number of manors and villages of nobles in Fuzhou City, Dingkou was estimated to be more than 100,000 people.

Fuzhou Mansion is the largest government on Fujian Road, although Quanzhou is prosperous, after all, it is not as long as Fuzhou, it has a long history of opening, and it is the military and political center of Fujian Road, there are dozens of towns with a population of more than 10,000 people around the city, plus several county seats, the population of the entire city is more than one million within 100 miles.

Xu Zixian's group training conditions are too generous, if it weren't for the proximity of the nearby places to the capital and transportation arteries, the industrial and commercial trade would have been very developed, and it is estimated that the applicants would be able to break the threshold of the enrollment points everywhere.

Even so, there are a lot of people, Li Yi and others spent a lot of energy screening the primary election, and later had to send a message to Zhang Tiansheng, the county governor of Houguan, Zhang Tiansheng sent the county lieutenant Han De to bring people to maintain order, Han De of course reluctantly, he was made quite embarrassed by Xiao Zan by the patrol last time, this year's evaluation is estimated to be the next evaluation, it is difficult to get promoted in this life, but he is on business, but he can't help but come, he can only take a few Yaqian officers to walk around a few times at will, but Han De soon found that the people in the Hou Mansion are quite capable, Li Yi and others used ropes to open the scope at the registration point, and people had to walk around within the constraints of the ropes, and finally everything was in order from registration to screening.

Although Han De was quite resentful of Xu Zixian, he had to admit that the people of the Hou Mansion were more shrewd and capable than one after another under Xu Zixian's conditioning.

"About 3,000 people passed the primary election." Fu Qian, Chen Zuocai and Xu Zi walked in the direction of the vegetable garden first, Fu Qian said as he walked: "They are all sturdy men with clean nets, and the bottom depends on whether they are new to writing and ink, whether they are literate, and they also depend on bows and arrows, equipment, strength, patience, and endurance." It is expected that within ten days, the barracks will be well lit up, and the beds will be built, and the soldiers can move in directly. ”

Xu Zixian nodded slightly, he was quite satisfied with the current progress and the progress of the selection of martial artists.

"The number of people is not necessarily limited to 1,000, and 1,000 regiments of martial arts training soldiers may not be enough." Xu Zixian said: "You can keep 1,500 people first, three battalions, or another 100, I want to set up a cavalry capital, and the rest will leave a roster as long as they are qualified, and be a candidate in the future." ”

"Yes, Shizi."

Twenty days have passed, and a large vegetable garden on the north side of the south wall of the annex has been opened up and planted with vegetables.

"It's still too slow to carry water." Xu Zixian frowned and said: "Two hundred acres of vegetable garden, it can be increased in the future, so to pick up water to water the garden, how many people have to make it, and the waste of manpower is the biggest waste." ”

The vegetable field was wet, Xu Zixian didn't care, and walked in the muddy vegetable field with his shoes on, and after a while, his feet were covered with fresh soil.

There are a lot of kinds in the vegetable field, the most green cabbage and cabbage, and the radish, which can be planted in autumn and harvested in winter, the most important thing is sunflower, which is the best planting in China's native vegetables, and the most cost-effective vegetables that can be harvested throughout the year, spring planting and summer harvest, and autumn planting and winter harvesting.

In addition, leeks, which should be covered with straw mats, are also vegetables that can be harvested in winter, and have long been introduced to China.

There are also green onions, garlic and so on.

There are not many species, some of which can no longer be planted in the north, but fortunately, the weather here in Fujian is relatively warm, and they can still be planted, and they can be eaten in the deep winter and Spring Festival.

Xu Zixian noticed that there were no vegetables such as tomatoes and sweet potatoes, indicating that South American vegetables such as Mexico had not yet been introduced to Dawei.

Chen Zuocai pointed to the vegetable field and said: "Two hundred acres, for one or two thousand people to eat, is almost enough." If you want to buy it is also very convenient, that is, as the prince said, after the winter, there will be fewer vegetables, we learned from the people in the north this time, bought dozens of large jars, and after a while, the vegetables were harvested to make sauerkraut, so that there are still vegetables to eat in the deep winter......"

"Good." Xu Zi first pointed to the distance and said to Fu Qian: "When Muzhi comes back from Jiangling, you can consider building a pit house over there, so that you can grow some vegetables for the winter." ”

"It's expensive." Fu Qian said: "There must be people to take care of and raise the fire all the time......"

"Cucumbers are very popular in Fuzhou in winter." Xu Zixian said: "Ordinary people will occasionally buy a few to satisfy their hunger, and we occasionally supply the soldiers to boost morale, and most of the time they can be sold, which can be regarded as a source of wealth." ”

"My subordinates understood."

Next to the vegetable garden is a pigpen, which is pulled open by a large area of bamboo poles, built of bricks and tiles, separated by bamboo, and more than 300 piglets have been placed in the pen and taken care of by five or six people.

"The swineherds are all picked, and the farms have raised pigs." Chen Zuocai, who is known as Chen Dayan, is good at farming, and may not read as many agricultural books as Fu Qian, but he has not a lot of actual experience. He pointed to the pig pen and said with a smile: "They know how much pigweed the pig eats a day, how much miscellaneous grains are matched, and then catch some small fish from the river, and screw the pig to fatten, so that the pig can be fattened with the most money, three hundred pigs, three stone grains a day, ten to pick pigweed, ten to pick small miscellaneous fish, screws, almost the fastest fattening, to the winter, you can slaughter a few a day for the warriors to eat." ”

Fu Qian said with a smile: "Six people raise pigs, the monthly salary is less than 20 yuan, the miscellaneous grains are always money, and it doesn't cost money to play pigweed and catch miscellaneous fish, but if you want to raise more, there will be more manpower, and the current scale and the surrounding rivers and wilderness are just enough." If you raise more, the cost of buying miscellaneous grains will increase, and it will not be cost-effective. ”

Chen Zuocai said: "Pork is thirty pounds a catty, a pig kills a hundred catties of meat and then sells it into the water, pork, pig blood, can be worth four dollars, three hundred pigs are worth more than a thousand, how can this account be counted and how to make people happy......

"Don't lose your money...... Xu Zixian laughed and said to him: "Only six people take care of hundreds of pigs, you want to save money and want to go crazy, and treat people as cattle and horses...... Double the manpower for me, and provide food for me, if I hear someone muttering that the Hou Mansion is not kind, it will be your sin. ”

Chen Zuocai is a rough and straight person, not like a scholar, this time he lifted the hem and tied it around his waist, and just like that, he also fell a lot of mud spots on his body, plus his face was yellow, and he looked like an old farmer. Listening to Xu Zixian's words, his face turned red, and then he said: "If there is such a thing, the prince will slaughter me, and the head will be hung on the flagpole of the regimental training envoy in front of him to show the public......"

"What ......do I want you to do," Xu Zixian joked: "Your eyes are even bigger, and you can't scare people to death." ”

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Today is still a big chapter.