The head of the Zhou family is now Zhou Fashang's younger brother Zhou Faming, the general of Sui Wuwei, and the three sons Zhou Shaode, Zhou Xiaojie, and Zhou Shao are extremely heroic. This time, he defected to Li Yuan, attacked Xiao Miao's Anzhou, and captured Ma Guiqian, the governor of Liang State. Zhou Farshang's youngest son Zhou Shaofan is Li Tang's hardcore, but the eldest son Zhou Shaoji was originally the commander of Lingshou County, and after Lingshou was occupied by Dou Jiande, Zhou Shaoji went to Chang'an.

Yang Chong's heart is like a mirror, Zhou Shaoji has already arrived in Chang'an, if he just wants to settle down, why bother to tell himself, this is the price of the Zhou family to hand over the intelligence network, in order to bet on both sides of himself and Li Yuan, and in the end, no matter who wins the world, the Zhou family is the winner. However, the army must need the support of the Jiangzuo clan to go south, and Zhou Shaoji will be a useful figure in the future, and Yang Chong immediately ordered to summon him. However, Yang Chong didn't want the Zhou family to feel too good, and at the same time summoned two people recommended by the ministry, Yang Min and Wang Jia.

Yang Min is also a member of Hongnong Yang's family, the son of Yang Shangxi, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the former Anding County Cheng, this time Du Yan recommended Yang Min to take over as the county guard of Anding. Wang Jia, a martial artist from Hejian Zhang, won the trust of Yang Jian, Yang Guang and his son, and was originally the commander of Yongxian County, who once removed the shackles of more than 70 prisoners such as Li Shen, and did not escort the soldiers, so that Li Shen and others reported to Chang'an on their own, which was passed on as a good story in Guanzhong; Li Shen is now Tang Bi's general, Tang Bi accompanied Li to see Wang Jia a few times, and thought it was good, so he introduced him to Du Yan.

After Yang Chong talked with the three of them in the main hall, he approved Yang Min's appointment as a county guard; Wang Jia was arranged by Yang Chong to be a county governor in Hanoi County, and Zhou Shaoji went to the Ministry of Industry to serve as the Langzhong of the Ministry of Water, responsible for shipbuilding. Zhou Shaoji learned that the science and technology city next to Kunming Pool was building a ship's workshop, and said with a strange expression: "Prime Minister, the Yellow River in Guanzhong is narrow, and it is impossible to build a big ship, if you really want to build a ship, even if it is not by the sea, it should be in the lower reaches of the Yellow River." ”

Yang Chong said with a smile: "My idea is a little ahead, now that the coast and the Yangtze River are in the hands of the rebels, I want to give the students of Mozhuo Academy one more way out, Wang Bo and Zhuge Jiahui helped me find a group of shipbuilding craftsmen, anyway, I am idle, and I build a little more boat, even if I transport people and grain in the canal." You can write to your family, if you have a good shipbuilder, get Chang'an first, as many as you want, and I will take you to see the conditions of the workshop in two days. ”

Yang Chong did what he said, and only five days later, Yang Chong asked Duhu and Zhou Shaoji to go to the Science and Technology City to inspect it. Science and Technology City, Ranch, Chang'an University, and Mozhuang have all started construction, dozens of miles of land spread, there are about twenty or thirty thousand people working, Tianyu saw Yang Chong, came over and said a few words, and the two of them found a piece of sand on the side of the road, and compared it with branches.

Zhou Shaoji looked at the hot construction site and said worriedly: "If you continue to conscript, it will also harm the people." ”

Duhu smiled and said, "What do you think? Science and Technology City, Ranch, and Mozhuang are all Yang Chong's private assets, and the government wants to intervene, but Yang Chong doesn't do it. As soon as the news that Yang Chong was going to take in the wounded veterans in Kunming Pool spread, how many veterans were looking for their bosses to arrange, even Jiang Duo and Shi Daqian were full of lawsuits, and the old departments in the past came to find the old chief; In the end, Du Yan came up with an idea, asking Yang Chong to hand over the copper mines of Gaochang and Wuwei to the Ministry of Households, and let Chang'an University and Science and Technology City transfer a location, so that Yang Chong could connect the two river beaches and extend them to the side of Kunming Pond, enclosing tens of thousands of acres of land. ”

Zhou Shaoji shook his head and said: "The whole world is his, what do you want this land for." ”

Duhu Yu restrained his smile and said: "Actually, I can't understand it, but listening to my sister, Yang Chong believes that everyone's public property and private property should be clearly distinguished, others can't infringe on private property at will, and no matter how high the position is, people can't dig the foot of the public wall." Yang Chong often said that nominally he is the master of the Yang family, but in fact he is working for the whole family. ”

Zhou Shaoji's long beard fluttered, and he smiled: "It's an exaggeration." ”

"Not an exaggeration." Duhu looked at a flying egret and said: "In seven or eight years, Yang Chong has adopted more than two thousand boys and girls, and the oldest four or five hundred have all reached adulthood, and those who like martial arts have been incorporated into the Changjie camp, and most of them have become various craftsmen and students of Mozhuo Academy. There are at least 1,000 domestic slaves in Yang Chong's major workshops and the army, if there is no workshop, Yang Chong's tens of thousands of acres of fertile land will not be able to support them, and this is the base camp of Yang Chong's private property. ”

Zhou Shaoji's heart moved, and he asked, "What workshop is the prime minister going to open here?" ”

Duhu replied: "Ten industries, including coinage, ships, fireworks, horse-drawn carriages, printing, spices, soap, machinery, alcohol, and food. Sooner or later, the minting and shipping will be nationalized, but the profits of several other industries will be enormous, no less than steel, green salt, winemaking, porcelain; In particular, fireworks, horse-drawn carriages, printing, spices, and soap are the relocation of workshops from other places to Chang'an, and it can almost be said that as soon as the house is built, it can be put into production. ”

With the craftsmen of Louguandao and the Sui and Tang royal families scattered into the people, the crafts of soy sauce, tea, pickled vegetables, candied fruits, roasted goods, leather goods and other industries are no longer secrets, and all kinds of small workshops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the slightly powerful scholars are involved in it, Yang Chong decided to give up those industries after returning to Chang'an, leaving only the same kind of workshops in Jiuquan City, and the workshops of various commercial houses have taken the initiative to sell to partners or civil and military cronies around him.

At present, Yang Chong only has three chain industries in Chang'an City: Fengle Building, Xiaozhenzhai and Squirrel Garden, especially Squirrel Park, which is completely supported by biscuits, milk powder, and monopoly small packages of green salt. In the industry in Hexi, Duhu usurped that Yang Chong was not ready to expand in a short period of time, one reason was that things were scarce and expensive, and few goods could be sold at a high price; Another reason is that Yang Chong does not have so many craftsmen and managers, and is constrained by the lack of labor.

Zhou Shaoji asked seemingly casually: "I heard that the Guan Long clan and the Prime Minister's Mansion are talking about the iron factory?" ”

"It's an open secret. The household department got the shares of the inner library in the Wuchuan Iron Works, and now each family neither sells their own shares nor buys the shares of the inner library, but hopes to see Yang Chong's craftsmanship in the Wuchuan Iron Works and then use it in other places to make money for themselves. But Yang Chong has iron factories in Gaochang, Yiwu, and Jiuquan, and he doesn't care about the output of Guanzhong at all, so it's hard to talk about it; On the contrary, it is the shipyard, and it is estimated that when Du Fuwei occupied Jiangdu, Yang Chonghui would buy the shipyard on a large scale. ”

(End of chapter)