How the magnates of the Later Jin Dynasty fought for power and profit, and how Huang Taiji was troubled by the harassment of Amin and Hai Dongqing and others in the northern part of the Jin Kingdom, and said that after Zhiwen left some mercenaries and the Han people with the old blue flag to build a dock fort in the Hanhai, he took the rest of the men all the way west and arrived safely at the Sunit Left Banner, near Erren Zhuoer Lake.

Sunit Right Banner has been under the leadership of its prime minister Su De, south to the Han grassland, the territory of the left banner is suddenly much larger, Zhuoer Lake is about to dry salt for the first time, and it is not a problem to settle these people.

Zhou Chengyun presided over the freezing nitrate affairs for a winter, Zhuoer Lake was more bitter and cold than Dalintai, and the eldest prince of Zhou naturally had a little more wind and frost on his face.

He already knew about Zhangjiakou's extermination of the Fan family and other eight families, because in the end, Governor Geng and He Zhizhou intervened, and Zhou Chengyun did not blame Zhiwen for their recklessness, but only told him to be more cautious in his actions in the future.

The old acquaintance Sulut gained a lot of weight, and when he saw Zhiwen, the smile on his face was squeezed into a chrysanthemum, he knew where his current status and wealth came from, and he dragged Zhiwen to eat several meals before stopping.

Muren does not worry about eating and drinking, he is taller and stronger, and the skills he learned from Qian Guan have come in handy, and he is helping Surut to take care of tribal affairs, and his younger brother Hasen's illness has been cured early, and now he is alive and well, and he can herd sheep and horses for the family.

After spending a few days reminiscing, Zhiwen did not rush south to Lintai, and took advantage of the fact that the wool had not been sheared and the salt was still some time away, and recruited people in the name of the Zhuolu Trade Union, and he wanted to build another dock fort on the shore of Zhuoer Lake.

Zhuoer Lake covers a vast area, in the sphere of influence of the Sunit Left Banner, since the Han people of the Han Department were attached, there are quite a few people, there are already tens of thousands of people, Zhou Chengyun chose his youth and strength, and formed a guard team of thousands of people, which generally followed the rules of Dalintai to implement management.

There are many poor Han people in the Han Department, and there are some Mongolian herdsmen who did not have a single sheep, and the personnel are not as complex as Dalintai, but they are much easier to manage.

With the deterrence of the Sunit Ministry and its own escort force, no one around dared to come to pick up the tiger's whiskers, so Zhou Chengyun did not build the city wall like Xie Zhou, and only built some houses for living and storing goods.

The reason why Zhiwen wanted to build the dock fort was not for the purpose of protection, there was no need for that, but to prevent leakage.

That's right, Zhiwen wants to put the process of washing wool in the dock fort after completion, next to Zhuoer Lake there is no need to worry about the source of manganese, there is a city wall to block, which is not only convenient to manage those who wash wool, but also less likely to leak secrets than on the mountain.

The people of Zhuolu Mountain have already gone north at this moment, and when they arrive, they should be just in need.

This period of time is neither hot nor cold, neither freezing nitrate, nor salt, the people around Zhuoer Lake are idle, except for a few people there are some sheep and horses, most of the people eat all rely on the winter helpers to get the stock support, as soon as I hear that there is work to do, very enthusiastic, look at this, it is possible to finish ahead of schedule.

"It's okay now, Xiao Zhi." Zhou Chengyun went to heart disease and praised from the bottom of his heart.

In Jinnan, whether it is salt or frozen salt, it is the slack season, and the rest of the time the helpers go home to farm, without worrying about their livelihood, and the situation of Zhuoer Lake and Jiezhou is different.

Not only is the climate here very cold, but also because the salt lake is too large, resulting in the salinization of the surrounding land, can not be cultivated, gathered here are poor people, there is no own flock, can not dry salt and freeze nitrate, they are all idlers, life is tight, people are idle, people are idle, but also easy to get into trouble.

Zhiwen's construction of the dock fort just solved the livelihood problem that gave Zhou Chengyun a headache.

"It's just ten days and a half months, and I still can't help it in the future." Thinking that this dock fort will not take long to be built, and in the future, the people by Zhuoer Lake, except for drying salt and freezing nitrate, still have no work to do, Zhou Chengyun was worried again, he knew that Zhiwen washed wool, and always used prisoners of war who should have been executed, except for food and clothing, these people are really no different from prisoners, this kind of treatment, few ordinary people are willing to do it.

"With more money and food, there will always be people willing to wash the wool." Zhiwen said that these people are no better than those refugees who have escaped poverty with him, and no matter how bad the environment is, as long as there is money and food to earn, they should not refuse.

"Oh, Xiao Zhi, are you planning to let ordinary people come and wash wool too?" Zhou Chengyun asked.

Zhiwen nodded helplessly, sweaters are extremely popular in the Jiangnan area, and some people in the Jingshi area have begun to wear them, the biggest opponent Fan has been extinguished, and the next thing to do is to expand production capacity, not only to weave a large number of sweaters, Zhiwen also plans to push out woolen cloth.

This means that at present, these bandit captives, who are mainly bandit captives, have enough manpower to wash wool for free, and they must spend money to hire people, and they can slowly reduce the number of hired people after the two mercenary groups of Yehe Heishui send the Jin prisoners over in batches.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Chengyun shook his head, "No, even if you recruit someone to wash wool, it will be a drop in the bucket and will not have much effect." ”

"And what if I let them weave wool again?" Zhiwen asked.

"Xiao Zhi, are you planning to do a big job?" Zhou Chengyun was a little surprised, whether it was a sweater or woolen cloth, the underwriting method between the trade union and the trading company was similar to that of later generations, and it was not worrying about selling at present, so naturally the more products of the trade union, the greater the profit of the trading company.

"That's right, Brother Zhou, now that you don't have any worries, you naturally have to do a big job." Zhiwen said, the family has arrived outside the Saiwai, and there is no need to worry about anything.

"It's still thoughtful." Zhou Chengyun had to admit that if he didn't want to rebel, then moving his family to outside the Saiwai was the most feasible way.

When Zhiwen spoke to him, Zhou Chengyun agreed, and now that the steppe was removed from Houjin, there was nothing that could threaten them, and although the left-wing Mongolia had not yet fallen under their money offensive, it could not pose a threat.

"Don't worry, Brother Zhou, I have already arranged for Song Xiance to go to Jiezhou to pick up your family, and they will be able to arrive in Lintai later." When Zhiwen saw Zhou Chengyun's appearance, he thought that he was worried about his family, so he hurriedly told him about his arrangements.

"Oh, I'm not worried about this, you kid won't mess up this kind of thing." Zhou Chengyun said, "I'm thinking about what you just said, weaving wool here, you won't fool me, right?" ”

In Zhou Chengyun's view, although weaving wool is not the core secret of the Zhuolu Trade Union, their control in Zhuoer Lake is not enough, the closeness of the Sunit Department is not as close as that of Dalintai, and the manpower of the Han Department that has migrated over is not completely centered.

"I'm worried about it, Brother Zhou." Zhiwen's idea is to make full use of the manpower of Zhuoer Lake, not only to build it into a base for washing wool, but also to weave wool and even wool cloth here, these things are actually not technical, and people here in Zhuoer Lake believe that they will soon be able to learn.

Of course, out of the consideration that all the eggs could not be put in one basket, knitting sweaters, and cutting clothes from woolen cloth, these later affairs, were placed in Dalintai, which was not only closer to the border plug and conducive to transportation, but also had a closer relationship with Dalintai, and was already like a family.

"If these people in Zhuoer Lake had more work to do and more money to earn, they would return to their hearts faster, wouldn't they, Brother Zhou?" Zhiwen finally asked.

Zhou Chengyun nodded in acknowledgement.