At the end of December, the beginning of the first month, it is destined to be a day that is not shocking and endless, and there is no good news for the New Year, Xu Guo lost Ziyuan County, and the largest gold and silver mines in the Central Plains are in Ziyuan County.

In addition to the horse farms and population base of the southern grasslands, the gold mines of Ziyuan County provided it with a large amount of precious metal output and stabilized the market order, and the resulting shocks will soon be transmitted to the entire Central Plains.

And according to reliable sources, the Black Turban Army fighting in the south used a new type of blade and chain mail, the blade is extremely sharp, invincible, and can easily cut through the gap of ordinary iron swords, the chain mail texture is tough, and ordinary arrows are difficult to cause fatal damage.

The first thing that came to mind when Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) heard the news was Qin Han, it must have been Qin Han who stole the technology of adding lime and forging 100 steels from the Guangxin Mansion, otherwise the rebels would never have such sharp weapons and a large output of refined iron. The initiator who traced the origin was actually Bai Liyan himself, which undoubtedly made him a dumb loss, and he couldn't publicize it everywhere.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Bailiyan married Jiang Rong, the lord of Guangxin County, in the mansion of Chenling, and the wedding was extremely grand, which can be described as extremely luxurious, and almost all the powerful relatives of the city participated in the wedding.

The reward of the Xian king's gift was piled up all over the courtyard, and the first-class silk alone was rewarded with two hundred, eight horses, five thousand silver coins, one hundred gold collars, ten pairs of jade and jewelry, five hundred acres of fields, and other miscellaneous things that were innumerable. In view of the implementation of the new land policy after the year, 500 acres of land were later bulldozed by Bailiyan.

Since the defeat of Jiangdong, the king of Xian is rare and generous, a reward of five thousand inches of silver is also a precedent, due to the scarcity of precious metals at present, and the treasury of Xian has been emptied for many years of war, business decay, and the balance of precious metals in the treasury at the end of the Chengping period in previous years is actually quite small, so it is very rare to take out thousands of precious metal rewards.

And before that, the most reward was only 1,000 silver coins, which shows that the silver coins exchanged for pearls are enough for the salty king to squander for a while.

Jiang Rong was quite annoyed by the candle night in the cave room that night, and the reason was that her stomach was enlarged by Bailiyan in advance. For this reason, before getting married, the father-in-law Jiang Min found that his daughter was fat one day, and her lower abdomen was slightly bulging, and Jiang Rong herself was unaware, thinking that she was just fat, Jiang Min was shocked and suspected that her daughter was not chaste, and almost didn't do it.

But now it's difficult to do, Jiang Rong imagined that the sex life after marriage day and night was shattered because her belly was enlarged, so she tossed day and night for several nights before her belly was completely bulging.

And in this way, it is really cheaper for Bailiyan, who refuses to perform such a high-frequency married life in the name of raising a fetus, and often travels until late at night.

Soon after the Black Turban Army retreated to Xianxi County, the scout Xizuo found that the rebels entrenched in Xianxi County had transferred nearly 100,000 men and horses to Changsun State, and there was a great situation of launching a grand strategic detour from Changsun and Xu State, and the north and south wings at the same time, so Xianguo was relieved.

However, the good times did not last long, and the envoys of the Changsun State were ordered to lobby the Xian State to send troops to fight the rebels in order to alleviate the infantry army that the Changsun State was already a mess, but the Xian King ruthlessly refused. Obviously, what did the eldest grandson do earlier.

From January to March of 628 in Shengyuan, during the new tenure of Baili Yan, the princess Xihuan gave birth to a son, but the king of Xian was not happy, and the prince Jiang Yu was only sixteen, but he gave birth to a son with Xihuan, although it was not very rare, but it was not good news for the king of Xian.

Of course, on the surface, he still has to maintain the most basic posture of the elders, and gave his grandson one, "Jiang Tuo", which means that he is determined to open up, and the new policy will be successful, implying the meaning of opening up the territory and expanding the territory.

At the same time, Bai Liyan was busy doing eight things in three months. The first is to implement the cultivation of tuntian land in the capital area from the Yongxing River to the capital area of Chenling, the second is to give priority to the popularization of iron tools and cattle farming in the capital area, as well as the new method of raising seedlings and transplanting seedlings, the third is to popularize septic tanks and public testing and accumulation of fertilizer, and regularly arrange for people to collect them, and the fourth is to raise livestock.

The second and third of the above four things have been experienced in deserted villages before, and this time they are directly transferred from deserted villages to teach their experience, and they quickly blossom from point to surface.

However, there are also big problems, the emergence of new technologies and the process of transmission have a long-term run-in, and there are many resistors, all of whom are worried that the final harvest of the new seedling planting method will not be as good as the traditional farming method.

Therefore, Bailiyan let the expanded workers camp the fields, implement the new farming and fertilizer method, and concentrate livestock, open breeding farms, and concentrate resources to develop animal husbandry.

The fifth thing is to draft and revise the new law on acres of land to replace the existing system of acres of fields, and the sixth is to excavate the dry dock, and consult with Qi Mo and his sons, An Kong, Xiong Tuo, Lu Gao, Zhu Ming, Shangguan Zhao, Liu Dan and other masters of the Ligong Division, and finally finalize the construction method and water intake and drainage structure of the dry dock, and the headquarters of the Ligong School will send shipbuilding masters to Xianguo to study the shipbuilding plan.

The seventh is to expand the political propaganda work, to educate and educate the captured prisoners since the Battle of Beihai last year, and to stabilize the hearts and minds of the common people who have moved to Yongxing City one after another.

Throughout February, he married Xiao Chunyu and Xiao Er one after another. Of course, the concubine must not be too grandiose, and must be restrained, so it can be regarded as an internal wedding.

However, with Jiang Rong's main room, she was not happy with her big belly, and she didn't plan to let Bailiyan be more happy, so he didn't dare to accept Chunrou and Chunfang together, and in the short term, the impact was too bad, and it gave people a sense of getting carried away.

At the same time, two other things were being carried out: first, the various armies that needed to be reorganized and reorganized since the Battle of Beihai last year, as well as the rehabilitation and repatriation of wounded soldiers, and second, the lecture hall and the military battalion.

Since the beginning of the war, not counting the Qin Wang Army, more than half of the armies and battalions of the Xian Army have been reorganized and disabled, and eight or nine out of ten of them have been deficient, and the west bank of the Yongxing River has built an earthen fort to overhaul the beacon tower, and some men and horses have been able to take turns to reorganize and repair, and the rehabilitated wounded soldiers have been successively replenished into the various armies, and after the rectification, the Xian Army has eliminated some of the soldiers under the age of 17, and the weak soldiers over the age of 45 have been incorporated into the baggage battalion.

By mid-April, the number of troops in the Xian army had recovered to about 420,000, including the Qinwang Army, the Guangxin Army, the Xiaomin Army, and the rebel army, including the soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers of the counties and counties, including 230,000 soldiers.

This is also thanks to the contribution of Guangxin, as well as the replenishment of troops from foreign vassal states after the recovery of Xijun, but weapons and armor are still the main reasons for affecting combat effectiveness.

Although the lecture hall was barely opened, for the time being, only Bai Liyan held six classes a month, each class lasted for two hours.

In the first phase, 400 generals and officers at all levels were selected from various armies, and the selectors had no combat tasks during the enrollment period, and they all ate and lived in the martial arts hall, concentrating on comprehending the content of the lectures, including both the governor and the centurion, all of whom held any rank, and the content was mainly based on the art of war, occasionally mixed with some political and economic content, and the rest had no time or energy.

However, the problem is also very thorny, 400 people are Chinese blind, and some of the materials compiled are difficult to use.

The military battalion was also established together with the lecture hall, which was similar in nature to the training battalion, and the elite veterans and military attachés of each army were selected, and Sikong Nan was responsible for the assessment.

3,000 people with different skills were selected from the whole army to form an armed battalion, which was temporarily under the direct jurisdiction of Bailiyan. In the initial stage, basic subjects such as physical fitness, swordsmanship, marksmanship, archery, city defense, scout and reconnaissance, navigation, and sea tactics are provided, as well as appropriate general knowledge science.

In March and April, all localities were busy with spring ploughing, and after the lessons of last year's blue poisonous water, this year all localities strictly guarded the canals and embankments, and sent additional sentries to strictly investigate the poisoning of spies, and the spring ploughing was carried out relatively smoothly.

In late April, two masters, Lu Gao and Liu Dan, after tackling key problems in September, tried to produce a batch of hand crossbows with crossbow arrow boxes, and the arrow magazines adopted the magazine design provided by Bailiyan, and the crossbow part was made of bronze and solid wood mixed structure.

The supply of the hand crossbow is very technically difficult, and the crossbow arrows in the arrow magazine are fed into the arrow magazine by using the tension generated by the winding, so the matching tolerances are very high, and the arrow box must have the versatility of standard parts.

This kind of repeater can be loaded from the outside, and can also be loaded from below to feed the arrow magazine, the arrow magazine is made of solid wood, a single row of ammunition, there are five and ten two, the five is lightweight, and the size is appropriate, the ten is too large, and the magazine is slightly long, not easy to carry.

Although the thing is good, but the problem is also very big, the bomb feeding structure of the magazine uses folding steel leaf springs, not coil springs, in fact, there is no technical ability to produce coil springs at present, and can only produce folding iron leaf springs from ordinary steel.

The steel smelted in Yongxing City is mostly ordinary carbon steel, which is not suitable for use as spring steel, so the life of the steel spring of the arrow box is limited, and the spring force will decline significantly after repeated loading several times, and when not in use, try not to press the crossbow into the arrow box to protect the spring force of the spring.

Bailiyan does not have time to invest more energy in the study of high-carbon spring steel in a short period of time, or in other words, with the current technical accumulation, it is not enough to achieve the technical requirements, and it takes time to repeatedly demonstrate.

However, the manufacturing requirements of this kind of crossbow are high, and it is impossible to equip one person in batches in a short time.

The new repeater was distributed to the pioneer battalion for testing, so as to discover the performance defects and deficiencies of the new hand crossbow, modify and improve it, and then finalize the production, so as to prevent the performance defects of the hand crossbow from rashly equipping the soldier's life

At the end of April and the beginning of May, the rebels of Xianxi County were about to move, but it was really not the right time, and they happened to hit the muzzle of the reorganized Xian army.

Due to the large-scale construction of earthen forts on the west bank of the Yongxing River, and the 30,000 cavalry of Ye Xin's department trained and patrolled between Xiaocheng, Shaoping, Wuliao, and Weijin, more troops were transferred to Dujun on both sides of the Yongxing River, and the total strength of the garrison in the west of the county was as high as 150,000, and the county soldiers were 40,000.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, the Black Turban Army marched eastward to besiege Xiaqu, the city gate of Xiaqu was transformed, and the fire extinguishing measures of quicklime, fine sand, clay and dump trucks were used to effectively thwart the rebels' attempt to burn the door and break the city, and were attacked by the steel-bladed army of the defenders of Xiaqu, the rebels besieged the city on the 12th, the cavalry of the Xian army arrived at Xiaqu with the main infantry army, and the rebels retreated to Xianxi County.

At this point, there was no more fighting this year, and the Black Turban Army tended to be on the defensive in the war on the Eastern Front, and instead focused on the Northern Front and attacked Changsun Kingdom.

Bai Liyan's understanding was that the Black Turban Army mistakenly thought that Gongsun Yue had turned Xianguo into a soft persimmon, but as a result, he kicked and broke his leg, and had to stalemate for two years, so he could only adjust the initial strategic deployment and turn around and beat Changsun Guo.