After breakfast, it was almost noon, Zhao Xin, accompanied by Miao Yuan, briefly visited the village, Miao Yuan also just came back, he went to Tianxiong Army early in the morning, he just came back, I heard that Zhao Xin wanted to visit, and immediately came over. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a very large village, and it is also the most ordinary village in the Northern Song Dynasty, with some messy folk decorations, peasants with tired expressions, and women who wash and sew and mend the pulp, which is very peaceful and life.

If it is reduced to forty or fifty households, or seventy or eighty households, it is the simplest unit in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and in most feudal societies, the decrees of the imperial court can only reach the county level at most, and some cannot even reach the county level, let alone villages and towns.

Villages and towns are still the old clan system, with the three elders and the village chief, as the basis for dealing with civil contradictions, sometimes, in order to compete for water resources, the two villages have fierce fights, it is also normal, the people do not sue the officials and do not hold them accountable, even if it is a lawsuit for human life, it is rare to make trouble in the county government.

Slightly different from other villages, Miao Jiazhuang as the emperor gave land as the core, from the initial more than 100 households, gradually developed in a few decades, the vast majority of them, are the servants of the Miao family, or sold into slavery, the Miao family has a strong control over such a village, there is no three elders, the chief, the village chief and the like, is a village belonging to the Miao family.

In addition to the similar functions of other villages, Miaojiazhuang has several additional functions, such as a market, a mill, a carpenter's workshop and a farm tool workshop.

These are all counties, or core townships only have the project, mainly to meet the needs of ten miles and eight items, the location of Miaojiazhuang is suitable, not far from Baozhou is not close, plus the status of the Miao family is respected, but there is no oppression of the township, in the ten miles and eight townships are very prestigious.

Zhao Xin simply looked at everything in his eyes, Miaojiazhuang was much better than he thought, there were enough personnel, this is the basis of everything, the personnel in Zhao Xin's mouth did not only refer to the middle-aged men who could be soldiers, but also to all the middle-aged labor, the identity of the traverser, so that he had no discrimination, both men and women could become laborers.

Especially in the case of a small population, there is a natural contradiction between soldiers and labor, and he can develop some suitable for women to do work, so that the whole Zhuangzi can achieve a balance between the army and the people, and further increase the ability to recruit soldiers.

In addition to the population of Miaojiazhuang itself, he attaches more importance to the influence of Miaojiazhuang, within the range of 30 miles, 17 villages, large and small, with a total population of about 12,000, among these people, most of them will come to Miaojiazhuang on the 5th to catch the market, and even for Miaojiazhuang quite convinced, it cannot be said that the head of the horse is looking at it, at least it has maintained considerable respect.

This is the most important point, there are only 2,400 people at present, and the future prospect can even affect 12,000 people, even if it is only a fraction of them, which will make future expansion much easier.

The rural areas of the Northern Song Dynasty are still quite poor, as long as they are tempted by money, they are invincible, and the effect in the army has become a common practice, but on the front line of the Liao State, it is not as obvious as the Western Army, the Western Army not only allocates more funds than the north, but also has relatively flexible policies.

Money is the basic monetary unit, not to mention its role in stabilizing a country's finance, just say its own role, money can make the ghost grind, money can pass through the gods, this sentence is not bad at all, maybe one or two times a month, can not attract people, but 3 runs, 5 runs, when the price of a cow, only 10 runs, when a pig, is only a little more, 5 runs is how terrible.

When the number of this army reaches 1,000 people, plus the equipment, salary, and even training costs, I am afraid that it will be more than double the cost of the forbidden army, and even the Northern Song Dynasty can't afford such a large investment, but Zhao Xin is confident that he can do it, not to mention the three major killing weapons of the traverser, even sea trade and logistics, these and that don't make money, there are soldiers if you have money, this is the right truth at all times.

After visiting Miaojiazhuang, Zhao Xin also knew in his heart, the recruitment effect, the matter of making money, you can put it aside first, and then talk about it, after looking at the current situation of Miaojiazhuang, especially knowing that there are at least about 50 hunters in the village, he has already had an opinion on the next team.

When the level 1 resident card was lit, his team had been narrowed down to a very small range, and now, just to see if the status quo was suitable, in fact, his previous belly case was already the easiest and least noticeable belly case, and now, Miao Jiazhuang has all the important factors of this belly case, of course, to continue.

After turning around for almost an hour and a half, and having a simple snack in the middle, Zhao Xin asked Miao Yuan to take him to the carpenter's workshop, that's right, the carpenter's workshop.

In the countryside, wooden items are used a lot, sometimes they are broken, or when they need to be added, they are far away from Baozhou, Miao Yuan saw that there was an opportunity, so he proposed to build a carpenter's workshop, with a carpenter sent by the capital, a locally recruited one, plus seven or eight apprentices, in 5 years, more than a dozen carpenters have been trained.

Sent by the capital, has already gone back, the local recruitment is considered to have joined the carpenter workshop, became the deputy owner, people also joined Miaojiazhuang, married a wife and had children here, the other dozen or so carpenters, also successfully out of the division, now the carpenter workshop has become the most important workshop in Miaojiazhuang, divided into four branches, the car workshop, the instrument workshop, the home workshop, the tool workshop, the daily output is huge.

Miao Yuan didn't know what Zhao Xin was going to do, and after getting the old man's order, Miao Yuan didn't dare to disobey Zhao Xin, although his face was a little ugly, the carpenter workshop was one of the cores of the Miao family, not only creating at least 12 benefits per month, but also an important support for several other workshops.

Miao Qi said very clearly, to treat Zhao Xin as a master, it is just a workshop to make money, if it is a master, it is a matter of one sentence to take away Miao Jiazhuang.

Even from a certain point of view, Zhao Xin may not want a workshop, according to the previous Miao Qi's statement, this is an unspeakably expensive nobleman, and may even have something to do with the royal family, how can he fall in love with this simple workshop, he may be dissatisfied with the furnishings in the room, and it is not the busy season for farming, and these carpenter masters are not busy, what can they help with.

The 12 carpenter masters of Miaojiazhuang called together, the oldest of them, almost 35 years old, this is very young in later generations, can be called the age of youth, in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it looks a little old, wrinkles have climbed on the forehead early, however, the muscles all over the body and the thick calluses on the hands prove his profession, a skilled carpenter, on the hands, there is a layer of scars.

Regardless of age, the youngest may be just over 17, but it is still the same hand, obviously, the minimum has at least 5 years of experience, all of them are masters, which makes Zhao Xin, who only wants to find two or three masters and a few helpers, feel very excited.

In the carpenter's workshop, there is a lot of wood, basically, it has been made into boards, which is the preliminary processing, and the simple treatment is carried out, and only after these treatments can be made into various furniture and tools, all kinds of semi-finished products.

Zhao Xin doesn't know much about the types of wood, looking at the piles, stacked together, they all look similar, he doesn't understand, someone understands, he just needs to say the requirements, if you want to come to such a big woodworking workshop, this material should be there, but I don't know how much.