When Liu Wei'er had initial contact with the old genus of Qiuhuodao, Zheng Sheng, who was in Qingzhuling, was explaining new things to the craftsmen, "making small wooden blocks word by word." Then, by comparing the words on the book and putting them together one by one, isn't it a complete engraving? Not only is it much more flexible, but it is also not like engraving, carving a word is equivalent to abandoning all previous efforts. ”

The craftsmen looked at each other, apparently they hadn't been able to keep up with Zheng Sheng's train of thought. They finally made a woodcut that satisfied Zheng Sheng, and Zheng Sheng immediately gave them a new topic.

Li Sansu thought for a while and said, "It's not difficult to carve it on a small wooden block, you can give it a try." ”

Zheng Sheng said with a smile, "For more than a year, everyone has worked very hard. I have already told Steward Wang that there will be no less rewards! And, as long as you make movable type, the reward will be doubled. ”

Several people had smiles on their faces.

After they left, Zheng Sheng suddenly figured out something.

In fact, he could exchange a set of movable type earlier and let the craftsmen carve new ones according to those characters, so he could skip the engraving technique and go to movable type?

Zheng Sheng felt remorseful. At the beginning, he felt that exchanging a few pairs of large carved plates would only be enough for a while. Instead of wasting the number of exchanges, it is better to let the carpenters delve into their own skills and make things.

He didn't think of exchanging movable type directly.

A year or two has passed, and now, the engravings made by the carpenters are good enough. Zheng Sheng was a little hesitant, did he still want to exchange movable type?

From engraving to movable type, there doesn't seem to be much of a gap in technology, just a more advanced concept. Zheng Sheng believes that as long as they are allowed to explore for a while, movable type will definitely be able to appear!

The things he exchanged always gave him a feeling of "castle in the sky", and he appeared in this world out of nowhere. Although, with the exchange, he gained so much, he also enjoyed the gaze of others when they saw those things.

However, when he saw the words on that thin book yesterday, he was even more excited. This is a big thing that he did without the help of exchange!

Because, this is printing.

Although he didn't put much effort into it, it was the task he gave the carpenters to make what should have appeared hundreds of years later.

He had a feeling that really changed history. Unfortunately, printing is not some kind of weapon, and it will not help Zheng Sheng's future situation.

It can't stand up to the fierce Hu people. And for a long time to come, the main theme of the Central Plains is Hu people and war.

October has arrived, and it is early winter.

The eastward relocation plan of the relatives of the Tiger Guard Camp can finally begin. His plan had already been reported to Sima Chang.

Because of Shunyangxing's auction, it brought him millions of money. In the past few months, Sima Chang's attitude towards Zheng Sheng has been too good to say. Don't say that more than 100 households were moved, that is, Zheng Sheng wanted to be the commander of Shunyang County, and Sima Chang dared to come down.

He Tao, the new Shunyang Neishi, is a microphone in front of Sima Chang, without the backbone of his predecessor, and he has a lot of contributions from these households.

Therefore, He Tao has never expressed any opinion on this matter.

Zheng Sheng and Wang Zhong returned to the racecourse and discussed the specific relocation with Zheng Wen who was waiting here again.

Zheng Sheng didn't want to move the family members of the Tiger Guard Camp to the vicinity of Jufangxi.

There are new villages and chrysanthemums on both sides of this small river, and if you fill in people here, I am afraid that in a dry year, they will fight because of the problem of water sources.

What's more, his "territory" is huge, so why bother focusing on this small area?

Some time ago, Zheng Sheng ran all over this place, and he found that there was quite a lot of land to be cultivated here.

Except for the mountains and hills in the north and west directions, the rest of the place is a plain with a soothing ground.

It's just that most of the place here is wilderness. The territory is enough, he just lacks manpower!

Zheng Sheng had already chosen a place for them to live.

In the middle of the "territory", a river called Debt Water also flows from west to east. Although it is also a tributary of the turbulent water, this river is larger than Jufang Creek, it has a lot of runoff, and the river is several feet wide.

The reason why the debt water is large is because it originated in a place called Wanquan Mountain. Wanquan Mountain, also within his territory, is located on the western edge of the middle.

This mountain is not very high, and it is too much to call it a hill. Zheng Sheng had been to the main peak, Qingliu Peak, and it took less than ten minutes to reach the top of the mountain. He felt that it was only two or three hundred meters from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and there was no dangerous high slope.

Wanquan Mountain is really a mountain without momentum.

But Wanquan Mountain, it is not unreasonable to call Wanquan, he only turned around there twice, and he saw no less than dozens of springs. Zheng Sheng estimated that tens of thousands must have been boasted, but there were at least hundreds of springs near here.

Then Zheng Sheng was overjoyed, the land he casually circled out was really a place full of aura, with Ju Valley, Ju Tan, Fangju Creek in the north, and Quanshan gushing with ten thousand springs in the south.

And when these springs converge on each other, they flow in all directions. Those who went east finally converged in the Debt River.

However, there are too many of these streams, and in the spring and summer, when there is more rain, it often floods, often submerging large areas of the area.

In the summer, after a rainstorm, Zheng Sheng ran to the north bank of the Nord Stream and looked south, where it really turned into an ocean!

Zheng Sheng carefully looked at the map, from the north stream to the south, Mingquan Creek, the north debt water, to the southernmost south debt water, these four rivers almost flow from west to east, is a place that is twenty miles long from north to south and about twenty miles from east to west, and it will be flooded every spring and summer. People who cultivate the land certainly don't want the fruits of their labor to be washed away by the river.

They can't fight against natural disasters, and this place has naturally become a forbidden area that they are afraid to touch.

But the relocation point decided by Zheng Sheng is here. It's just about water control, and he has seen a lot of stories about water control. As long as the river is well dredged, this is the best field!

However, after Zheng Sheng proposed to repair the canal, Zheng Wen and Wang Zhong both raised negative votes.

"Ke Wu, you also know that the construction of the Zhengguo Canal took ten years for the Qin people to raise the strength of the whole country. How can we afford to build canals? Zheng Wen smiled bitterly.

"Shizi, the manpower we can mobilize now only adds up to a few hundred, and we can't build too long a channel in one winter. The relatives of Huweiying can live in the north of Beixi and live next to Songzhuang. It's too dangerous for them to live south of Nord Stream! ”

Songzhuang, that is, the village that was closest to Jushui before.

Zheng Sheng was silent for a moment, "Or, let's go and ask the king for help?" ”

Wang Zhong thought for a while, and glanced at Zheng Wen, "Shizi, the person of the King of Shunyang, you know best, will he do this?" ”

Zheng Sheng, who had already understood the answer, shook his head, "It is his dead father who will do this, not him." Zheng Sheng understood that Sima Chang was a unprofitable guy who couldn't afford to be early, and he would never do such a thankless task as repairing canals.

His father, Sima Jun, is a model prince who loves the people, farmers and everyone, and has done a lot of great things to benefit the people in Fufeng. But Sima Chang is a man who only intends for his own interests. Zheng Sheng simply doubted whether he was born to Sima Jun after all. How can the gap between father and son be so big?

This concludes the first day of discussion.

Zheng Sheng crossed his fingers and calculated carefully. He really doesn't have enough manpower and money.

Especially after they "broke up" with the Nanyang Zheng family, the only funds he could use in his hands were the millions of dollars he got at the Luoyang auction.

The rest of the morning shop, drunken incense house, the cost money that Zheng Zizhi "sold" to Zheng's family, and the money obtained from the fireworks business almost offset his daily expenses.

The daily life of the Tiger Guard Camp, the expansion of Danyin Ju, the expansion of the early shop, and the purchase of various ores...... Zheng Sheng had rarely paid attention to how much money he had spent before.

After splitting up, he realized that the money he could make for the Zheng family and the money he spent might be really the same. It's no wonder that other people will be jealous of him, because he eats meat every day, and they drink thin soup all at once!

It's okay to make money, adding an auction in Xiangyang and making millions of dollars back can be said to be easy.

But with the problem of lack of manpower, he really has no choice.

Even if you add up all the people in the Tiger Guard Battalion, the Family Guard, and the Caravan Tiger Guard Battalion, there are less than a thousand people.

"No one!" Zheng Sheng couldn't help but sigh.

Liu Wei'er was also worried on the side, she had asked Zheng Sheng earlier, but she couldn't conjure someone for him!

The two of them were equally helpless.

Zheng Sheng was very frustrated, and if there was no way, he could only let them live on the north side of Nord Stream and be neighbors with the people of Songzhuang.

"Shizi, there are almost two hundred families in the Tiger Guard Camp who have moved here, and there are hundreds of men among them, right?" Liu Wen'er said softly.

Zheng Sheng nodded, "But it can't be counted like this." Many of them are people from the spring breeze, and most of these men are caravan guards and family members. Of these more than 100 households, the most men who can be drawn out are only two or three hundred! ”

Liu Wei'er continued: "But if we want to repair the canal, we don't repair it for ourselves?" ”

Zheng Sheng was stunned, what do you mean by this?

"Shizi, after the canal is repaired, the villagers near Songzhuang and Lishui will benefit, right? What's more, even if they don't want to, we can hire them! ”

Zheng Sheng's eyes widened, hire?

Zheng Sheng suddenly realized.

For this territory, he, Zheng Wen and the others all stared at the territory, but ignored the original people above.

That's more than 500 households!

Moreover, Zheng Sheng has already paid the taxes and miscellaneous labors for them. In other words, they have the same status as the people of Xincun, and they can also implement his set of "field taxes".

What's more, he can hire more than just these people. As long as you give enough money, Li County, Champion, Yin County, and even Nanyang County, Yiyang County, and Shunyang Country, 10,000 or tens of thousands of people can be hired!

Zheng Sheng jumped up excitedly, "Sniff, you're so smart!" It's just a female Zhuge ! ”

Liu Wei'er was overjoyed by his praise, but she still had some doubts, female Zhuge ? What kind of allusion is this?