Hearing Zhang Shihua's words, Zhang Mingtong, Guo Yu and others, who failed to get their wish, couldn't help but show a look of disappointment on their faces, but after Bai Xi, who got his wish, heard Zhang Shihua's words, he couldn't help but bow to Zhang Shihua with a happy face: "The last general, Bai Xi, will live up to the trust of the general." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

When Zhang Shihua heard this, he nodded, and then continued: "Early tomorrow morning, except for Ah Jiu and his troops left behind, the rest of the people will gather their men and horses, assemble their troops at the south gate, and lead the army with me!" ”

"The last general obeys!" When the generals heard Zhang Shihua's words, they couldn't help but shout.

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After a while, after the discussion ended, all the generals dispersed, and after they all dispersed, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but think of what happened this morning, so he couldn't help but say to Li Wu who was standing next to him: "Ah Wu, go Wang Nineteen, he called me, I will have something to say to him." ”

When Li Wu heard Zhang Shihua's words, he said that he obeyed the order, and then went down to summon Zhang Shihua.

"Brother Wang, the general has an order, and he is looking for you if he has something, so let you go to the big tent of the Chinese army quickly." A personal guard under Zhang Shihua's command, who was born in the Inspection Division, couldn't help but say to him like this after finding Wang Nineteen under Li Wu's orders.

And Wang Shijiu, who was training his troops, heard the words of the pro-guard soldiers, and couldn't help but ask the pro-guard soldiers who came to summon him with some curiosity: "The general is looking for me, Lao Liu, do you know why the general is looking for me?" ”

When the guard surnamed Liu heard Wang Shijiu ask this, he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "I don't know about this, but the general is waiting for you in the big tent now, you better come with me, and let the general wait for a long time." ”

"Okay, I see." When Wang Nineteen heard this, he nodded and agreed, and then couldn't help but turn around and shouted at the soldiers under his command: "Don't give me a damn stare here, tomorrow we will go south to the city, and if anyone dares to drop the chain for me at that time, labor and management want you to look good." ”

After drinking and scolding like this, after making arrangements for the soldiers under his command, Wang Shijiu hurriedly followed the personal guard and rode towards the big tent of the Chinese army.

After a while, Wang 19 rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army, and after entering the big tent, Wang 19 saw Zhang Shihua who was sitting where he was dealing with affairs, and couldn't help but bow to Zhang Shihua for a while: "The last general, Wang 19, meet the general." ”

And Zhang Shihua, who was watching the various revenues and expenditures in the army in the past month, heard Wang Nineteen's shout, and couldn't help but raise his head, and waved his hand to Wang Nineteen, who was kneeling on the ground, with a smile on his face, and said: "Nineteen is here, they are all their own brothers, hurry up and excuse yourself, just get up and talk." ”

When Wang Shihua heard Zhang Shihua's words, he first shouted "General Xie" to Zhang Shihua, and then stood up slowly.

And after Zhang Shihua waited for Wang Nineteen to stand up, he couldn't help but say to Wang Nineteen: "Nineteen will be looking for you today not to talk about official business, but to talk to you about family affairs." ”

"The general is talking about Sister Ling?" Wang Shijiu is naturally not stupid, when he heard Zhang Shihua say this, he naturally guessed what Zhang Shihua said about family affairs at the first time. After all, he has no other family except for this sister.

And when Zhang Shihua heard Wang Shijiu say this, he couldn't help but smile and scolded him: "You bastard boy, you know that your sister is a maid in my house, and you don't come to my house to pick her up, I said how did you, the eldest brother, don't care about your sister at all." ”

When Wang Shihua heard Zhang Shihua's words, he couldn't help but touch his head and smirked, and then said to Zhang Shihua: "The lesson of the adults is that after returning from this campaign, the last general will take the girl away. ”

Seeing him like this, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but nodded. Originally, the elder brother in the world was willing to see his sister as a maid for others. Treat others with himself, Zhang Shihua himself would never want this kind of thing to happen to him anyway.

Therefore, Zhang Shihua is still very satisfied with Wang Shijiu's approach, because the more affectionate and righteous people are, the more Zhang Shihua can rest assured that he can lead troops under his own hands.

If Wang Shijiu is the kind of person who can use his sister's life happiness as a bargaining chip to tie up his own bastards, Zhang Shihua will definitely drive this goods out of Nanyang the next day. After all, a person who can even use his relatives as bargaining chips, and you expect him to be loyal to you, isn't that nonsense?

So after that, Zhang Shihua chatted with Wang Shijiu for a while, and after enhancing his relationship with his generals, Zhang Shihua waved his hand to let Wang Shijiu retreat.

And after Wang Shijiu left, Zhang Shihua, who was thinking about coal mines, iron mines and other affairs, couldn't help but let Li Wu prepare his horse and rush to the iron ore area twenty or thirty miles south of Wuyang City.

In fact, the two mining areas of Wuyang and Ye Xian had just been built, after all, twenty days ago, Zhang Shihua had just recruited enough young and strong people in the two places. Even though there were mining areas in the two places before, these two places have only been under construction for 20 days, and the facilities in them are naturally not too complete.

It is said that the mining areas of the two places are on the right track, but in fact, the so-called on the right track is just a prototype that has just appeared. At least now, today, Zhang Shihua has not seen the two mining areas of Wuyang and Ye Xian, producing a piece of coal and a pound of iron for himself.

But fortunately, things are not too bad, at least Ye Xian's side, according to Li Chongsan, they can already start mining coal mines next month. Zhang Shihua doesn't know how much coal can be mined in a month, but Zhang Shihua expects that it should not be too little, after all, the Pingdi Mountain area is a well-known Central Plains coal bunker. The others dare not say that Zhang Shihua is still confident of self-sufficiency.

And just when Zhang Shihua kept thinking about this question in his mind, almost half an hour later, Zhang Shihua and his party rode horses from the barracks to the mining area.

The Wuyang area is not a plain landform, because Wuyang is located in the junction of the eastern remnants of Funiu Mountain and the Huanghuai Plain, so the southern area of Wuyang Xain mostly belongs to the hilly and low mountain landforms, so when Bai Xi is competing for the position of the vanguard, he will say that the reason why the foot soldiers of the southward battle are the main force of the vanguard.

And since this is the case, then there is no need for Zhang Shihua to say more, everyone knows that the mining area on the side of Wuyang Xian is actually between the low mountains and hills, and this area is actually the Wugang area in later generations.

This place is now speaking, in fact, it is also the northern foot of Ma'anshan, in later generations this place is the country's famous steel city - Wugang Shi, but now, this place is still only an extremely simple iron mine.

Of course, because this place is garrisoned by hundreds of miners and hundreds of soldiers, it is actually almost forming a prototype of a town now. After all, the natural advantages of this place are really good, Zhang Shihua himself thinks that others dare not say that if they continue to develop at this rate, it will not take a few years for this place to form another county seat.

You must know that this place has 800 million tons of iron ore reserves, and because of the junction between the eastern remnants of Funiu Mountain and the Huanghuai Plain, the scenery of this place is actually very beautiful. And more importantly, the Pingdi Mountain area more than 100 miles northwest of him is a large coal mining area, so this place can completely form a one-stop industry of coal digging and iron smelting.

Besides, this place has more than just steel, not far from here, but there is still a large salt production area, with such rich mineral resources, if this place is not yet developed, then Zhang Shihua might as well die.

And to get back to the point, when Zhang Shihua and his party rushed to the mine on horseback, Yang Xitong, the person in charge of the mine here, also greeted him as soon as possible.

"Xiaguan Yang Xitong meets the general." In front of the gate of the mine, Yang Xitong saw Zhang Shihua coming on a horse, and couldn't help but bow to Zhang Shihua at the first time.

Seeing this, Zhang Shihua said to Yang Xitong with a kind face: "Master Yang doesn't need to be polite. ”

Then after Yang Xitong was exempted, Zhang Shihua glanced at the surrounding environment, and couldn't help but greet Yang Xitong again: "This place is poor and remote, and it really makes you suffer Master Yang." ”

However, when Yang Xitong heard Zhang Shihua's words, he said with a smile: "My lord's words are wrong, the scenery here is beautiful, the lower officials are well fed and clothed here, not to mention, there is no need to work every day, there is suffering." Don't hide it from the general, after staying here for more than 20 days, the lower official has gained two or three pounds. ”

When Zhang Shihua heard Yang Xitong's words, he couldn't help laughing, and after laughing, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but say to Yang Xitong: "Come on, come on, when you come to this master Yang, you can also take me around." ”

"The subordinate obeys." Hearing Zhang Shihua's words, Yang Xitong couldn't help but bow again.

Then, after Yang Xitong said "please" to Zhang Shihua, he took Zhang Shihua and them into the mine.

After walking into the mine here, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but notice for the first time, the more than 20 iron-making shaft furnaces in the mine, which are made of mountains and rivers, looking at the more than 20 iron-making shaft furnaces made of salt and mud, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but ask Yang Xitong: "Xitong, these furnaces may be used?" ”

Yang Xitong: "Returning to the general, most of these refining furnaces have just been built, and they are still unusable for a while, and it is estimated that it will take another twenty days to use them." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but nodded thoughtfully. Seeing Zhang Shihua like this, Yang Xitong couldn't help waving his hand to Zhang Shihua and said, "My lord, please rest assured, although this iron-making shaft furnace is difficult to use for a while, this mine has already begun to mine ore. ”

"Therefore, as long as the shaft furnaces are available, iron can be made at once, and as long as there is enough ore, twenty shaft furnaces can produce iron at six o'clock every day (Note 1)."

Hearing this, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but smile and said to Yang Xitong: "Master Yang, thank you for your hard work." ”

When Yang Xitong heard Zhang Shihua's words, he naturally said that he was not hard. And after that, Yang Xitong couldn't help but take Zhang Shihua to the mining area again.

The mining area is large and is divided into two parts, north and south, each of which is separated by a fence by Yang Xitong. And the difference between the two parts is also very large, the southern part, there are no soldiers to guard, and there are no fierce overseers, those 500 miners recruited by Zhang Shihua are all working freely here.

However, because Yang Xitong has set a certain number of mining numbers for these people every day, those who do not reach a certain number of mining will not be paid, so he is not worried that these miners will cheat and cheat.

However, compared to the miners in the south, who can work freely, the treatment of the miners in the north is somewhat miserable, and in the mining area in the north, not only are there two rows of sixty heavily armed soldiers, but in the mining area, the overseers with whips in their hands can be seen everywhere.

Seeing this scene, without Yang Xitong saying that Zhang Shihua would understand, those miners in the northern mining area must be those bandits and bandits who were defeated by Zhang Shihua not long ago.

And speaking of which, I don't want to explain how these so-called bandits and bandits came about.

As we all know, in the Yuan generation, the state taxes were heavy, especially in the south, which was the hardest hit area of imperial court exploitation. Therefore, in the Yuan Dynasty, in the area south of the Yellow River, almost as long as there are mountains, there will be bandits and bandits who fall into the grass.

This situation is naturally no exception in Wuyang, and because the mountainous area on Wuyang's side is just at the junction of Nanyang Mansion and Runing Mansion, it is equivalent to a two-way area. So in this place, there are quite a lot of bandits and bandits who have fallen into the grass.

For these guys, most of the Yuanmeng court turned a blind eye. After all, most of these bandits and bandits who fell into the grass were hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, not to mention, and they were ruthless one by one, and conscripting these people was a thing that outweighed the losses for the Yuanmeng court.

However, conscripting them outweighed the losses for the Yuanmeng court, but for Zhang Shihua, who was in dire need of labor, these people were equivalent to pieces of fat.

After all, ninety percent of these bandits and bandits are young and strong men. Arresting these people will not only establish their good reputation and stabilize the situation in the two counties, but they can also be used for military training, and even make up for their shortage of labor.

Therefore, as soon as he decided to open a mine, Zhang Shihua asked Zhao Jiu to set up a bandit suppression team to go into the mountains to suppress bandits.

As for the results of the subsequent suppression of bandits, it is naturally needless to say. In front of Zhang Shihua's powerful army, these so-called bandits and bandits are not enough to see at all, and in just half a month, the bandits and bandits on the Wuyang realm were wiped out by Zhang Shihua.

And Zhang Shihua also got nearly 1,000 laborers because of this. So after that, Zhang Shihua divided these people into two, 400 people were thrown to Yexian to dig coal, and 500 people were thrown to open a mine.

Of course, there are also some bandits who are more knowledgeable about current affairs who have become supervisors under Zhang Shihua, and they have obtained the generous treatment given to them by Zhang Shihua by bullying their former companions.

Now it seems that it is indeed a good thing to let these bandits and bandits carry out labor reform, at least it can be regarded as waste utilization.