Leaving the county office, Su Ziheng went to Zhao's temporary accommodation in Donghai County.

He left for more than ten days this time, and Zhao Wan'er was also very worried about him, and when he was chatting with Zhong Qinghan just now, Zhong Qinghan also persuaded him to visit Zhao Wan'er when he had time.

Since the transfer of Zhao's firm from Jiangning Prefecture to Donghai County, it has played a very important role in the development of Donghai County. Even Zhao Wan'er was hired by Zhong Qinghan as her female official and became her right-hand man.

Su Ziheng knew that Zhao Wan'er was extraordinary, but what he knew at that time was her ability to do business, but he didn't expect that she was still very good at governance.

went to Zhao's Mansion to accompany Zhao Wan'er to have dinner, and chatted with Zhao Chengwen a few more words before leaving.

Zhao Wan'er sent Su Ziheng out of the door, and asked with tenderness in her eyes: "Ziheng, will you go out when you come back this time?" ”

Su Ziheng shook his head when he heard this: "I shouldn't go out for the time being, I would have gone to the Eastern Wei Dynasty again after a while, but Qinghan said that she was going to go in person, so I had no choice but to go with her." ”

Zhao Wan'er was stunned and asked suspiciously, "What is Sister Qinghan doing in the Eastern Wei Dynasty?" ”

Zhao Wan'er just turned twenty this year, and Zhong Qinghan is the same age, and even a few days older than her, only because Zhong Qinghan and Su Ziheng visited the church first, Zhao Wan'er called her sister.

Su Ziheng told Zhao Wan'er about the upcoming war in Haizhou again, Zhao Wan'er suddenly stomped her feet in a hurry, and complained to him: "Since there is a melee between the three armies in Haizhou, such a dangerous place, how can you let Sister Qinghan take the risk?" ”

Su Ziheng smiled bitterly: "It's not that I want her to take risks, it's that she herself is forcefully asking to go over, and I can't persuade her at all." If you have a way to persuade her not to go, I can even promise you three conditions, how about it? ”

Zhao Wan'er shook her head when she heard this: "I don't want to go, I can't even persuade you, how can I persuade her." ”

Su Ziheng said with a smile: "Wan'er, I'm going to trouble you to make more money in the next period of time." ”

Zhao Wan'er asked in surprise, "What's wrong?" Are you short of money right now? Do you want me to fund you privately? ”

Su Ziheng said: "It's not that I'm short of money, it's that Donghai County is short of money. Qinghan decided to recruit and expand the army, and the number is expected to be around 10,000. There will soon be a lot more people who don't just eat and don't work, and if you don't work hard to make money, you can't afford to support them. ”

Zhao Wan'er's mouth opened slightly, and she said in surprise: "Expand the army by 10,000, so many people?" I remember that the Crow Army was only more than 3,000, but this time it has tripled. ”

Su Ziheng nodded and said, "Who said it wasn't, that's why you want to work hard to make money." Raising an army is not only enough to feed them, but also to pay them food, weapons and equipment, etc., which are extremely expensive. ”

Zhao Wan'er pondered for a moment, calculated the current public funds in Donghai County, and frowned: "Are you sure you need so many people?" The total population of Donghai County has not yet reached 40,000, which is almost equivalent to three people raising one, which is very difficult. ”

Su Ziheng held her hand and said, "Well, it's necessary." If it weren't for the fact that the total population of Donghai County is not enough now, I would even like to suggest that Qinghan recruit more soldiers. Now that the world has begun to become more and more peaceful, it is always right to have more soldiers. ”

Zhao Wan'er asked, "Ziheng, have you learned some news again?" ”

Su Ziheng said in a deep voice: "The battle between Mengyuan and Great Xia is becoming more and more intense, and now the Mengyuan army has not only occupied the entire territory of Xiliang, but also defeated the counterattacking Great Xia army, and even captured most of Yuzhou. It is foreseeable that a particularly fierce war will break out between Great Xia and Mengyuan in the future. ”

"In addition, the country of Great Xia has also begun to be unstable, and some cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods can't help but jump out. Last time in Jiangning Mansion, the assassination of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was obvious evidence, this is someone stirring up trouble in it, trying to make the Great Xia court unstable. Once civil strife breaks out in Great Xia, our Donghai County will inevitably be affected. Therefore, before this chaos happens, Donghai County must be built into an iron bucket. ”

Zhao Wan'er's face changed when she heard this, and she said, "Is it that serious?" ”

Su Ziheng let out a long sigh, "We can't have a fluke mentality, there is no best, but we must prepare for the worst." Because we have no way back, we have already run from Xining once, where can we run next time? Go to sea? ”

Zhao Wan'er was silent, nodded vigorously for a long time, and said, "I know, I will plan well from tomorrow and make new plans." ”

"You don't have to be too anxious, no matter whether civil strife will break out in Daxia, it will take at least three or five years to affect our Donghai County, we still have time for development, as long as we follow the plan, don't take detours, I believe that no matter what happens, we can deal with it smoothly." Su Ziheng saw that she was a little overly nervous, so he hurriedly comforted her softly.

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The next day, Su Ziheng gathered the 5,000 people who had returned from the Eastern Wei Dynasty some time ago and instructed them to start preparing for the wasteland.

To this end, he cleaned up the materials from several warehouses in Xining that he had collected in the space of his base, took out all the farm tools, and even made nearly 100 ploughing cattle.

I have to say that the base space is suitable for human and animal life, the livestock purchased in Xining, as well as the horses, cattle and sheep and other livestock collected from the hands of many herdsmen who rescued from the horse thieves, after a small half a year of production, and those herdsmen take care of it, and now the livestock population has expanded a lot.

This time, Su Ziheng issued a task in the Shenlong Hall through Cai'er, and after exchanging a hundred cultivating cattle, it did not have the slightest impact on the cattle herd in the base space.

Su Ziheng instructed the people to divide into two groups and go to two locations he designated to reclaim wasteland, an impact plain near the mouth of the river, which would be planned as paddy fields to grow rice and vegetables.

In the other area, near the foot of the mountain, sloping fields and terraced fields are cultivated to grow drought-tolerant crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. These are crops with high yields and little land picking, which can be used as both vegetables and food, which are very suitable for planting in Donghai County at present.

While the people who used it to cultivate the wasteland, Su Ziheng entered the base space and began to prepare the seeds needed for spring ploughing.

The seeds of these crops have been planted in the base space, and the warehouse of the Divine Dragon Hall is currently full of seeds, so there is no need to worry about not having so many seeds planted.

But Su Ziheng is also worried about one thing, that is, once the first batch of such high-yield crops is harvested, it will definitely attract the covetousness of all forces, if she is not prepared to deal with it, then it is likely that so many crops she has brought from the earth will be used as a wedding dress for her.

Su Ziheng naturally wouldn't do this kind of stupid thing, but he would strictly prevent searches, and it was impossible to eliminate the possibility that no seeds would leak out.

Therefore, Su Ziheng planned to use a plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, and he wanted to ask Pandora to make adjustments to the genes of these seeds, so that they did not have the function of reproduction and could only grow for one season.

In this way, even if someone else steals the crops, they cannot be used as seeds.