In accordance with Cai Dao's methods and instructions, Zhang Shangying took his disciples and students to do a lot of work in Bianliang City, and faithfully recorded a lot of statistics on the birth rate, survival rate, and the relationship between the birth rate and the childbearing age of women.

Moreover, he also publicized the results of this statistic.

Originally, Cai Dao entrusted this matter to Su Zhe to do. It's a pity that Su Zhe went back to Shuzhong early to run a school.

Late marriage and late childbearing have slowly formed a good atmosphere in Bianliang City.

However, there is one thing that makes Zhang Shangying very depressed, because no matter how much he does, the final result is to promote Cai Dao's reputation again. After all, such an inference was first said by Cai Dao, and the statistical method was also from Cai Dao's hand.

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The third aspect is the piece-rate wage system.

As long as the hands and feet are nimble and the quality control of the things produced is good, even a junior apprentice may get more than a slow craftsman, and even a very few Kuaishou get more than some craftsmen plus the basic salary for a month.

This greatly encouraged the apprentices.

However, after Cai Dao discovered this phenomenon, he called all the craftsmen to talk, because during these three months, the task of the craftsmen is not to meet the deadline, but to hone their craft, and the new apprentices learn more skills, especially these new apprentices, they are still young and learn more knowledge, which is the foundation of their foothold.

You can't sacrifice money for the sake of money.

Of course, those apprentices whose families are poor and have no way to support their families, Cai Dao will not stop them, but everything is a degree, and within a month, the money needed by the family will be earned, and the next time will be to learn more crafts.

Therefore, Cai Dao also let one of his students teach these young and willing apprentices mathematics in their spare time, mathematics in calculating the daily living expenses of the family, and the allocation of time in the arms prison.

Three months later, the grading assessment of the craftsmen and apprentices officially began, but Cai Dao quietly left the capital at this time.

This time, Cai Dao did not take Hua Lanxi and Lu Mang with him.

In addition to Cai Bucket and Cai Ban, he was surrounded by the two owners of the original Taihang Village, Xie Feibao and Shi Ernai, as well as the weapons of the entire ten sea ships.

The conscription in Lingnan has long been completed, and now, Guo Zhongxiao is taking Dean and his two nephews to train in Tuntian, Leizhou.

Of course, Cai Dao has a more advanced method of military training, but he does not plan to spread this method, and moreover, the Great Song Dynasty Jiangmen has its own set of military training methods, which will not be much inferior to other countries.

In the past, the reason why the army of the Great Song Kingdom would win fewer and lose more was that the quality of the soldiers had little to do with it. Under the condition of such a low status and treatment, the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty dared to fight hard with tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of troops of the Western Xia Kingdom, even if the infant city defended itself, but the military numbers on both sides compared to the ratio of the ten encirclements in Sun Tzu's Art of War had already exceeded the proportion of the ten encirclements in Sun Tzu's Art of War.

There are many reasons for this.

However, in the process of conquering the Great Yue Kingdom, more than 100,000 troops died, and the fundamental reason was that Song Shenzong insisted on asking Guo Kui to pull the forbidden army in the north to the ghost place of the Great Yue Kingdom to fight.

At that time, the northerners were simply not adapted to the hot weather in the south, and there was a shortage of doctors and medicines in the army, and sick soldiers could not be treated in time. This led to Guo Kui's victory in the Battle of Fuliangjiang, but he had to give up his plan to return the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

And Cai Dao did not bring a single soldier of the Northern Forbidden Army this time, except for his own subordinates. The soldiers used to attack the Great Viet Kingdom were all recruited from the Quang Nam East Road and the Quang Nam West Road.

The southern people are fragile, which is also relative, compared to the stout Khitan and Dangxiang people, the soldiers in the south may not even have the courage to face each other after seeing such an opponent, but everyone is in the south, how can the Song people be afraid of the soldiers of the Great Yue Kingdom?

Previously, after making a plan and determining the general candidates for the expedition of the Great Yue Kingdom, Guo Zhongxiao immediately received the order and took a boat to Leizhou with Di'an.

Accompanying them were Di Yong's son Di Ding, Guo Zhongxiao's eldest son of two brothers who died early, Guo Shuyong and Guo Shukang, and the 'Yang family generals' Yang Jizhong and Yang Huaiwen father and son of this era.

Today's entire Yang family is not without real skilled generals, but the rest of the people are just a martial artist with the courage of a horseman, compared with the first three generations of the Yang family, it is really too far behind, and there is no courage and vision of the four or five generations of generals of the Yang family in the romance.

As for the legendary Mu Guiying, Cai Dao is now a little skeptical about whether he has become the wife of Hua Xuan. Although Cai Dao has not met the daughter of the old village owner, he has been fascinated for a long time.

You don't need a forbidden army to dare to conquer a country. In fact, not only the Yang family, but also many military generals in Bianliang City are not optimistic about Cai Dao's battle for the southern expedition. No matter how good the strategy is, if there is no corresponding strength, no matter how much effort and preparation you make, it will be in vain. Even most people believe that Cai Dao is likely to be defeated and die when he sends troops this time.

So, after the initial temptation and fanaticism, most of the families calmed down.

For example, this time, except for the Cao Pan family, the other military generals in the capital sent only a few shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and not even a single child of the Shu branch was sent.

The Cao family sent a grandson of Uncle Cao Guo to follow Cai Dao, and Cao Hu's house actually had a phobia. In his appearance, apart from defending the city, even on land, he didn't have much achievement.

However, the person from the Pan family is just an inconspicuous concubine among the concubines, and I heard that this concubine also invited him to come.

However, after Cai Dao's temptation, this young man named Pan Xiong was only one or two years older than Cai Dao. Far from being 'male', the body is thin like a chicken. It looked like a gust of sea breeze would blow him off the boat. He doesn't have the demeanor of an ancestor at all, he can't do anything, and he is still so rigid.

The only virtue in him is obedience.

In front of Cai Dao, he didn't have the shelf of a wealthy family or a top disciple at all. For this, Cai Dao is also ready to cultivate this Pan Xiong, but the premise is that he can withstand Cai Dao's very strict test during the journey.

Throughout the voyage, except for sleeping, Pan Xiong was firmly tied to the deck by heavy cables, and was baptized by the sea breeze and huge waves.

The children of the big families, even if they are concubines, have been clothed and fed since they were young, so there are few children who are determined and can endure hardships. Cai Dao did this to hone his willpower.

Obedience and rigidity are sometimes not disadvantages, but if used well, they can be a huge advantage.

At first, of course, Pan Xiong couldn't adapt to it, and he vomited so much that he almost vomited bile.

Cai Dao didn't deduct his diet, but when Pan Xiong started, did he have an appetite?

Even when others were watching, they all felt that it was beginning to affect their appetite.

Fortunately, there are many incumbent generals in the Western Army, and several more famous generals have sent their children to help him. It seems that he is ready to spare no effort to vigorously support Cai Dao's southern expedition.

Needless to say, the people sent to lead the army were actually Cai Dao's apprentice Zhi Keda and that aunt Zhi Wenfang.

The seed family and the Yao family sent it, Yao Pingzhong, a celebrity in later generations, and Chong Pu.

There is also a pair of young generals surnamed Liu, Cai Dao does not know, named Liu Daojing and Liu Daoyang. Cai Daoyi inquired, only then did he know that the young brothers actually had some relationship with him, his grandfather was Liu Changzuo, who was famous in the Wulu War, but the old general had passed away in the Yuanyou period, and the father of the two brothers was relatively mediocre. It is precisely because of the relationship between Cai Dao and the Liu family that Liu Changzuo's son sent his two sisters-in-law to Cai Dao's command.

Yao Pingzhong's name, Cai Dao has a vague impression in his memory, this one grew into a general in the last years of Huizong, but unfortunately, in the process of fighting against the Jin army, he seemed to lead the army to prepare for a sneak attack on the Jin army, but was ambushed by the Jin army. In the end, he escaped alone, but the generals and soldiers who went with him to steal the camp ended up with a whole army.

Later, it was rumored that this guy could still cultivate and become an immortal.

Therefore, in the myths and legends of ancient China, there are also many bizarre things, like Shen Gongbao, who can actually become the God of Wealth.

This kind of Pu is naturally not as famous as Chong Shiheng and Chong Shizhong, and Cai Dao didn't know that in the original time and space, Chong Pu would die heroically in the battle with the Tubo people in the second year of Shaosheng, and the person who caused this war was Wang Ji's father, Wang Gan. However, in this era, after Chong Pu was born, he already had his own halo, because he was the eldest son of Chong Ge!

Supposedly, with his rank, he should not have been sent to the south. It is very likely that Chong Pu is the supervising army that Zhao Xu put on the face to supervise Cai Dao and his party. For this, Cai Dao had already expected. He and Dean knew each other too well.

Nowadays, even the sea ships made by the Cai family of Longyou are very fast at sea.