Beining County is stillborn, it has no practical impact on Yang Chong, what Yang Chong needs is public opinion support and food, Li Jing's behavior is difficult for a strong man in Yang Chong's eyes, and whoever is not short of food in the counties of the Western Regions is counting on others, what do you want to do as a county guard. But there is no way, Li Jing's waist is hard, and the center's support for Li Jing is sparing no effort, insisting on transferring grain from Liu Quan's Qinghai County first, and then sending grain from Liangzhou to supplement Qinghai County.

Yang Chong is not blushing, the Central Plains will continue to suffer from a major drought this year, and the actual situation in Gaochang is much better than that in the Central Plains. The nobles of Qiuzi, Shule, Yanqi and other countries were constantly selling grain to Gaochang in order to obtain luxury goods and general store tea from Gaochang and the Central Plains; Li Liang and Yu Qintao also sent a large amount of rice millet from Liangzhou in exchange for horses in Yang Chong's hands. With the help of ploughing oxen and crank ploughs, the number of fields actually cultivated by the Tuntian army was 60 percent more than the reported figures, and the granaries of Tiandi County were full of grain.

About 40 percent of the figures were not truthfully reported to the county, and Sikong Xing and Shan Xiongxin's task was to keep the grain in order to cope with the difficulties that followed. Yuwen Rutong naturally didn't care, and even took the initiative to help the two cover up, one is because of the relationship between Yang Chongshang's junior uncle, and the base camp of the Tuntian Army is in Tiandi County, and Yuwen Rutong is close to the water and the building is the first to get the moon; Not to mention anything else, the population of Tiandi County has exceeded more than 13,000 people, surpassing Jiaohe and becoming the second largest county in Gaochang County.

The three cities of Xunlin, Ningrong and Weishen have all expanded their cities, and the city of Xunlin is an important granary, and the original people have moved to Weishen City forty miles away; Ningrong City has become the largest, and the five hundred iron-striking stoves of the Tuntian Army are all in the city, and now walking on the streets, the ears are full of the sound of iron-striking. This is thanks to Sikong Xing, as long as there are seedlings of ironsmithing found in the army and slaves, they will be arranged by Sikong Xing to go to the blacksmith shop, and thousands of blacksmiths will be trained in a year.

Yang Chong looked at the infantry heavy armor made out of the blacksmith shop, and said to Sikong Xing, who was accompanying him: "Five hundred knives and one thousand sets of infantry heavy armor are the limit of our Gaochang County." You don't rush them to progress, if it doesn't work in one year, it will take two years, anyway, before the army, I won't pull out the thousand people of Shan Xiongxin; On the contrary, the giant crossbows used by the infantry and the repeating crossbows of the cavalry are as many as possible, and they will become the standard equipment of our army as much as possible in the future. ”

The infantry heavy armor was designed by Yang Chong according to his memory, and it was specially worn by the Bai Dao hand, and the army tried the effect, which was much better than the Mingguang armor, and Shan Xiongxin is now obsessed with it. Sikong Xing said with a smile: "I know in my heart, in addition to the Bai Dao, there are five hundred axes designed by you, Zhang Guolao sent the axe method, and Bai Litao is familiar with it." You gave the Confucian boy an idea of how to expand the Tiandi City. ”

Yuwen Rutong is still one year older than Yang Chong, elegant and free, and said with a smile: "I'm not worried, all the looms of the Turpan Commercial Bank are in Tiandi County, which is the industrial pillar of the county." But Uncle Xiao, I feel that Yu Qintao is right, we should open all the glass workshops in Gaochang, and let all the countries in the Western Regions exchange grain and horses. ”

Yang Chong smiled reservedly and said: "We are always facing war, there is no way to develop steel, if you really do it as you said, it can increase wealth, but I guarantee that it will not be long before the surrounding counties and Chang'an and other places will want to come to eat big households." You forgot about Li Jing's request for food, in their minds, the county guard and county order are the official masters, covered by the imperial court, and blackmailed by the people of Limin, so they don't need to do more things; Unlike them, we can't even leave porridge for the people for our own sake. ”

Although Yang Chong's words were harsh, he described them well, Yuwen Rutong knew that Yang Chong and Li Jing had a good relationship, and for the sake of food, Yang Chong did not hesitate to offend this person who might help him. Yuwen Rutong said proudly: "I understand, I will send someone to invite local people from Gaochang to start the workshop." ”

The three of them walked to the street, all of them were soldiers and people, Yang Chong sighed for no reason and said: "According to my estimate, this year is still a big drought, and the surplus grain of ordinary people in Hebei and other places is exhausted, and at most in April and May, there will be thieves, which is more fierce than last year." At present, we can only hope that the Sui army can win the battle in Goguryeo, otherwise the Central Plains will be in chaos and the people will be displaced. In another two or three years, even if we are in Gaochang, we will not be spared. ”

Sikong Xing sneered: "It doesn't take a year or two, now the fine works caught every month are really varied, from the Central Plains to Saibei and Zhaowu, by the way, a few days ago, we also caught three people sent by the Quentian Pavilion and mixed into the army, if it wasn't for Kou Jiuheng passing by, we really wouldn't have found out." ”

Kou Jiuhui sent steel over that day, and by the way, he brought some armor back to Yinshan Copper Mine to arm the guards; Kou Jiuhui found more than a dozen good seedlings in the army, and according to the previous practice, he colluded with Shan Xiongxin to turn these dozen people into Yang Chong's private soldiers, but he didn't expect three of them to refuse. This is not normal, who doesn't know that Yang Chong's private soldiers can not only be named in the army, but also eat a salary from the Turpan Commercial Bank, not to mention, it will be easy to be promoted in the hands of Sikong Xing and Shan Xiongxin in the future.

Kou Jiuhui was very curious, and went to meet the three people, and unexpectedly found that the three of them were all good, and their current positions were all guarding different armories; I also heard in front of the three commanders that the three of them did not seem to be short of money in the army on weekdays, and often asked their colleagues to make a meal. Kou Jiuhui designed a bureau, saying that he would send Qi Zijia to the warehouse, and sure enough, he found that the three of them were inquiring, Shan Xiongxin led people to arrest the three for the first trial, and under torture, finally one of them couldn't hold on, and said that the three were from the Quentian Pavilion.

When I asked them why they didn't want to be private soldiers, it turned out that it was because the mission they came to was to steal armor; The three of them knew that most of Yang Chong's private soldiers were experienced veterans, and once they were transferred to the private soldiers' dormitory, it would be inconvenient to move, and it would be difficult to find an opportunity to slip away alone after they succeeded. This incident made Sikong Xing and the others sweat in fright, and Quentian Pavilion guessed correctly, five of Yang Chong's cronies and generals were wearing scabies, namely Sikong Xing, Shan Xiongxin, Xie Yingdeng, Liu Hongji, and Yuwen Chengdu.

Yang Chong looked up at the sky, it was blue; Then Yang Chong retracted his gaze and said: "What I'm most worried about is Zhen Xueqing, Jiang Fei is right, that is a woman with great powers, good martial arts, and witty enough, but it's a pity that even Lou Guandao, an ally, can't find out where she is." Zhang Guolao and Meng Chuan had an opinion, after Li Yuan left, the rudder of Quentian Pavilion in Yiwu was not removed, and there must be a mystery behind it; We look a lot stronger than in the past, but compared to the Jianghu sect and the first-class family, our strength is too weak. ”

Yuwen valve is also a first-class family, which once established the Northern Zhou Dynasty; Yuwen Rutong had an arrogance in his bones, and said to Yang Chong: "Uncle Xiao, people are bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, the harder you beat them, the more respect they have for you." From the small market to the country, this is not the case. ”

Yuwen seized the world from the Yuan family and turned Wei into Zhou; Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian usurped the country from the Northern Zhou Dynasty and established the Great Sui State, relying on who was more ruthless than whom, and the feelings of monarchs and ministers and relatives were all thrown aside. If the five surnames and seven hopes don't despise the imperial power again and again, and let the world change the dynasty, where will the transcendent status come from, even Emperor Yang of Sui will have to give up three points.

Yang Chong and Sikong Xing couldn't help but smile with relief when they discovered that Yuwen Rutong still had such a cold side.

(End of chapter)