Han Shizhong has now been promoted again.

After beating Zhang Guo, Zhao Ji promoted him once, and now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he will be promoted again immediately.

Now Han Shizhong has been appointed as the envoy of the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, and Hangzhou are all under his control.

Hangzhou was also beaten down at this time. But it's not so much a knock-down as a pick-up. The defenders of the Heavenly Division Army in Hangzhou ran away when the city of Jinling was broken. Han Shizhong got a credit for it.

Only being promoted is a fly in the ointment. What satisfied Han Shizhong was that he had made a fortune.

Qin Mu said before that he would hire Han Shizhong's people. Liang Hongyu has always been worried that Qin Mu will not admit it, or forget about this stubble. Unexpectedly, Qin Mu was true to his words, saying that he would give money if he gave it.

The safety of the Jiangnan Canal is of great importance, and when Gao Yu returned to Beijing, according to the will of the imperial court, he left a large number of men and horses to garrison Jiangnan.

Now these people are all under the command of Han Shizhong.

Liang Hongyu scraped together some strong men and gathered an army of 100,000. After the endless war back and forth in Jiangnan, many people can't eat. Joining the forbidden army, you can eat more or less.

Now the two of them are in charge of nearly 100,000 people. This is all money, Qin Mu gives money according to the head.

Han Shizhong can be said to be middle-aged. In just a few years, he had gone from a poor jingle junior officer to a rich man.

He is based in the city of Suzhou, which has the best infrastructure and the people have not suffered much.

Every day, his main business is to drink and have fun, and as for the work of the soldiers, Liang Hongyu arranges it.

Qin Mu didn't spend money for nothing to raise an army of 100,000. What's of any use to him?

Although he has a lot of money, every penny spent has value. Before, many people didn't understand why Qin Mu gave Han Shizhong so much money, but after Qin Mu's operation, they understood.

This is the ready-made labor force, and it is better than the common people. Because the people lack organization, and the forbidden army still has an organization even if the military discipline is bad.

These 100,000 troops are all Qin Mu's infrastructure brigade. Of course, not the city walls, but the roads.

Qin Mu needs a lot of roads.

This world is actually owned by the New World Group, but everyone doesn't realize it. They have not yet regarded the world as their own domination, and are still waiting for victory in the war.

Qin Mu couldn't wait. Time is too precious for him. Therefore, he used all the means at his disposal to build the world.

Jiangnan will be the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty in the future, and it will be the world of Zhao Gou, but Qin Mu has long had an overall plan for the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, and Jiangnan will be his own place sooner or later.

Infrastructure construction can start as soon as possible. In the name of the imperial court, doing his own thing has always been Qin Mu's style of action.

Now Han Shizhong's army is constantly building roads all over the south of the Yangtze River. With the canal as the center, they made the improvised highway continue to expand in all directions.

From big cities to county seats, from county towns to rural areas. Under the command of the technical arms of the Guards, the total length of the highway is expanding day by day.

Han Shizhong and his wife, including these officers and soldiers who built the road, did not know. What they built was not a road, but an epitaph of the Great Song Dynasty.

When all the villages were connected by road, the mechanized units of the Guards rushed in like a tidal wave.

But that's an afterthought, and at present, Han Shizhong is very satisfied with the current state.

Qin Mu gave money and asked the forbidden army to build roads. Building bridges and roads is a good deed, and it is good for the people and the court. Others pay money, and they gain both fame and fortune, where can such a good thing be found in the world!

Sometimes when Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu chatted in private, they both felt that Qin Mu was a bit stupid. Be stupid all day long. This kind of thing, no matter how you look at it, can only be done by the wronged boss.

We want ten!

Liang Hongyu is also very satisfied with the current state, but satisfaction is satisfaction, but she is not very satisfied.

She's a little undecided right now. Qin Mu let her choose the currency of payment. If you want the money of the Great Song Dynasty, or the banknotes of Weishan Lake - in Liang Hongyu's opinion, this is another kind of Jiaozi.

If it was the son of the Great Song Dynasty, of course Liang Hongyu would not want it. But Qin Mu's friends are different, and these colorful banknotes have now become the most valuable currency along the canal - more valuable than copper coins.

Copper money to buy things, it is expensive for a while and cheap for a while, but it will not be used in Joaquin.

Joaquin in Suzhou is particularly popular. Because Suzhou is adjacent to Taihu Lake, and Taihu Lake is another base of Qin Mu.

The slender Peach Blossom Island is full of goods every day.

Industrial products from Weishan Lake are transported here, and from here they flow into Suzhou and other places along the canal, such as Hangzhou.

The materials along the canal also converged on Taohua Island and were transported to Weishan Lake.

In this commercial process, the currency of the Great Song Dynasty has been completely abandoned.

Any commodity transaction, unless bartered, is settled in Joaquin.

In this way, Liang Hongyu has to think about what kind of money she wants. In addition to saving, the biggest function of money is to buy things. The commodities on the market in Suzhou are basically replaced by industrial products from Weishan Lake.

All household items, clothing, food, housing, transportation, and various department stores are all from Weishan Lake, and they must be bought with Joaquin. The forbidden army does such hard work every day, so naturally it is necessary to have a relatively generous salary to balance their hearts.

They don't think so far ahead, they only look at what is in front of them. I'm tired from a day and want to take a sip of wine. The best wine in Suzhou today is Erguotou, and Erguotou can only be bought with Joaquin. So, of course, all they need is Joaquin - the money buys everything.

The diet is already like this, not to mention the rest. Except for some specific commodities, most of the old commodities have been replaced by industrial products from Weishan Lake.

At present, the only things that can survive are silk and porcelain. The rest are more or less affected. Some workshops have even closed down – such as the Barrel Workshop.

Who still uses wooden basins now, the poorest families have an enamel basin.

Liang Hongyu finally chose to receive half of the gold and half of the copper coins. She kept the copper coins, and Joaquin paid them to the forbidden army. So everyone is happy.

There is no such thing as the best of both worlds. Han Shizhong's military system was happy, but the civil affairs system was uncomfortable.

Zong Ze is the governor of Suzhou and the leader of Suzhou City. He must take responsibility for Suzhou's security and defense work.

So at that time, he first looked for Yue Fei, who wanted to use the power of Yue's army to pacify local security, and to organize production. As a result, Yue Jiajun was quickly transferred, and he had no obedient subordinates.

In Zong Ze's view, the first thing Suzhou should do is to repair the city wall.

Of course, the city wall was blown up by the Guards Regiment and the Song Army, and it was already in tatters. How can such a wall protect the people of the city?

The city wall must be repaired, and the construction of the city wall requires manpower, material and financial resources, and he does not have any of them.

Zong Ze is a capable minister, if he doesn't have it, he won't cultivate? That doesn't work, you have to fix it. The wages can be owed first, and I will give the grain - the regular liquidation is under his control. He asked Han Shizhong's forbidden army to build the city wall of Suzhou first.

This was decisively rejected by Han Shizhong. There is no money to be made by building city walls, but there is money to be made by building roads. The money given by Qin Mu can be said to be earmarked, and there is no money to take if the road is not repaired.

The Forbidden Army has changed its flavor for a long time, and their main attribute is not the army, but the labor force.

Therefore, they themselves also have a clear understanding that I am here to work, not to fight. Work, always make money. If you don't pay for building the city wall, you just take care of the food, then who will go.

At this time, they all remembered their military attributes: we just don't work, and you have to take care of the food! It is natural for a soldier to eat food. Additional money to be paid for the officer.

Zong Ze was helpless in the face of such a situation.

And the situation is getting worse and worse for him.

A place has a local economic characteristic. Suzhou, as a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River, in addition to sending grain to the capital every year, also has a large number of local products and handicrafts to be sent to Bianliang.

The most important of these is silk. When today's three most famous brocade courtyards, one of them is in Suzhou. The other two are in Hangzhou and Chengdu.

Su Jin is an indispensable tribute every year, and Zong Ze, as the governor of Suzhou, must not only appease the people, but also be responsible for the imperial court.

It is his duty to buy Su Jin. But now he found himself facing great difficulties. Suzhou silk is becoming more and more difficult to buy.

This was not only because the silk merchants were reluctant to ask for the court's handico, but also because there was a larger buyer in the market.

The silk merchants of Suzhou sold their goods to Yu Miao in order to buy back industrial goods at favorable prices.

The money given by the imperial court was not looked down upon by Suzhou merchants.

Zong Zeda is strange. Fish slender man, he knows. This beautiful little lady is the largest businessman in Taihu Lake, the world's department store, all out of her home. But why did she want so much silk.

The imperial court wanted silk, except for a part of it for its own use, and the rest was mainly for foreign trade.

There are a large number of foreigners in Bianliang City - now called Hu people, Fan people, Yi people, etc.

The imperial court used silk, porcelain, tea, and did business with them.

Could it be that Yumiao has to do business with foreigners? Otherwise, why would she want so much silk?

This is why Zong Ze does not understand the technology of later generations.

Yu Miao bought so much silk, naturally not for herself. These are all Qin Mu's requirements.

Silk, good thing!

Qin Mu is now in the workshop, looking at a seamless steel pipe, thinking about it.

"Commander, this cannon tube is really thick. Now Deng Cheng was happy. Shi Yi followed Qin Mu's side, saw this steel pipe, and knew that this was the latest cannon barrel, and couldn't help but be overjoyed - this was too thick.

This is much thicker than the barrel of a mortar, not only with a large aperture, but also with a much thicker wall. I heard that the latest technology is also used, which is called body tube self-tightening technology.

Self-tightening of the body tube is to use mechanical, hydraulic and other methods to apply pressure to the inner wall of the body tube to make it plastically deformed, while the outer layer retains elasticity. This will produce residual compressive stress, which can offset the tensile stress of ** gas, thereby enhancing the pressure-bearing capacity of the gun barrel. It can also delay crack propagation and improve the fatigue resistance of the body.

Although this technology is a high-end technology for the manufacture of cannon barrels, it is not unique to the 21st century.

In the twenties of the nineteenth century, there was the technology of winding wire, and in the fifties, the self-tightening technology of the body tube appeared.

It's just that this process is high and low, and of course the highest-level Qin Mu can't get it back, but there is no difficulty in introducing the technology in the seventies and eighties.

And he won't make such an exaggerated battle gun with a caliber of 400 mm, it's really unnecessary, who will use it? And there is no platform to carry it. Qin Mu would not build a battleship in this time and space, and he really couldn't find an opponent.

What Qin Mu wants to make is a 155-caliber artillery. This is the mainstream caliber of artillery in later generations, and the technology is the most popular.

The most popular, Weishan Lake is the easiest to imitate.

This 155 gun was not intended for the army, but for the future navy. So at the moment who is happy is not yet known. Who is the future commander of the navy, Qin Mu has no choice at present.

Weishan Lake is a copycat of the 21st century industrial empire, where the variety of industries is already very complete, but there is a great lack in all aspects - completely incomparable to later generations.

At present, the arsenal has difficulties in making shells for the whole 155 guns, one is in terms of material, and the other is in terms of processing.

After consideration, Qin Mu decided to adopt a split charging method. That is, the warhead and the medicine bag are separated into two parts.

Medicine bags require a lot of silk, or the highest grade silk. That's why he ordered Yu Miao to buy silk from Jiangnan.

But even so, it is far from enough for military purposes. The way the Guards fought was to burn money, materials, everything.

The silk needed by the arsenal is not an order of magnitude higher than Bianliang's purchases in previous years.

This suddenly led to a shortage of silk in Jiangnan - it was impossible to buy it, and there was no stock.

Qin Mu thought about it, and he had to go to Jiangnan by himself.

This time he brought Zhi Meifeng.

The second princess of the folded family has been fighting on the logistics front, raising ducks, chickens, pigs, cattle and sheep. Raise everything.

Now Qin Mu is ready to take her to Jiangnan to raise silkworms.

"Meifeng, you will be the captain of the artillery brigade of the Guards in the future." Qin Mu and Zhe Meifeng were joking.

Zhi Meifeng knew that her brother-in-law was teasing herself. What kind of artillery captain is he, he is just raising silkworms and spinning silk and making a ** bag.

She doesn't want this false name, she wants to be real.

"Brother-in-law, I don't want to be the captain of the artillery group, I want to be the commander-in-chief of the navy!"