Huang Ping, the head of the Huang family, did not make a fuss when he heard Uncle Wang's description.

"I said how could a small farmer have such skills, but there was someone behind him to support him. Nine times out of ten, he is an agent supported by the Hu family, but even if it is the Hu family, he can't kill my Huang family, even if it's a slave. We don't directly turn against the Hu family, but Hu Kan has some work, I'm afraid we won't be able to make it smooth. ”

The Hu family and the Huang family, in the land of Exian, can be regarded as cooperation and competition, and they have been fighting secretly for decades, and they don't care about this time.

But when the Chenhe paper of two hundred dollars and a knife was transmitted to the Huang family, Huang Ping really couldn't sit still.

If it is wine alone, the sales volume is not large, it is considered a luxury product, and he is not worried about the Hu family becoming bigger. But if this Chenhe paper can be pushed out and reach Jiangxia, it will be a source of wealth, even if it is the real Jiangxia Huang family's side, it will definitely not be indifferent.

As a result, the struggle between the Huang family and the Hu family became more intense. But the Hu family was inexplicable.

In the Han Dynasty, the big county had 1 county order, 1,000 stones, and the small county had a county magistrate, 300 stones, and the salary was very low. The ministers of the Hou State, whose official ranks, such as county commanders or county magistrates, are in charge of governing their people, exhorting the good and punishing the evil, prosecuting the prison, and prohibiting thieves.

In autumn and winter, each counts his household registration, the entry and exit of the money valley, and the number of thieves, and then reports to the county to which he belongs. Under the county order and county magistrate, 1 county magistrate was placed; County lieutenant, 2 people in a large county, 1 person in a small county, Exian can only be regarded as a small county, but the county lieutenant is surnamed Huang, and he has less than 200 county soldiers in Exian County, but it is also very powerful.

The county chief clerk is in charge of the warehouse prison, but Hu Kan is the Hu family, and the county captain is the main soldier and thief, called Huang Qing and the Huang family, these two families have their own merits.

The main book, Gong Cao, Prison Peng, and the three elders of the county each have their own quotas, and the difference in strength is not too big.

A small county, with a population of less than 10,000 in the city, is only five or six thousand, and the relationship is complicated, but it is all controlled by the big family, because the officials at this time are all recommended or purchased.

Selling officials is not a new thing in ancient times, but as the king of a country, he is a dog and horse all day long, eating, drinking and having fun, and squandering the treasury, but he does not routinely thrift to tide over difficulties, but finds another way, treats official positions as commodities, clearly marks the price, sells them publicly, and bargains like buying and selling things, such an emperor is unprecedented in Chinese history, these are the "masterpieces" of Liu Hong, the Lingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

At this time, most of the officials were purchased by the family, and in such a small county as Exian, there were two families, and it was not that they had the money to allocate official positions.

After Emperor Ling ate up the already exhausted treasury, he began to sell his official positions publicly, first "selling the Guanneihou, fake gold seal purple ribbon, passing it on, and earning five million" ("Book of the Later Han").

After tasting the sweetness, he ingeniously set up an exchange for buying and selling officials.

"Kaixi Mansion sells officials, and the money is different" ("Tongjian"), the official price is determined by the size of the official and the quality of the place of office (in terms of selling officials alone, it is also a kind of fairness, after all, oil and water are different), and even important positions such as the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries are all clearly marked with prices and sold publicly, "private orders sell the ministers left and right, the public is 10 million, and the Qing is 5 million" ("Hou Han Shu").

At that time, the state pastor was 2,000 stones, and the Han Dynasty was divided into 13 prefectures, and the state pastor was the highest administrator of a state, and the county guard was also treated with 2,000 stones.

The post of county magistrate sells for five million dollars, which is equivalent to two or three million now, if it is put aside now, this money is not called anything at all, coaxing the position of county magistrate! However, under the conditions of economic underdevelopment at that time, it should be said that the official sale was indeed expensive enough, after all, the economy in ancient times could not be compared with the present. But then again, no matter how cheap it is, ordinary people can't afford it. In the end, due to the high official price, this transaction was not easy to do later, and the official price began to shrink a little.

Li Qi, the magistrate of Exian County, is an official position recommended by him, so he has no support from the family, and is basically in an empty position.

Exian County is in such a mess, Li Jue is anxious, but there is no way.

How did Yang Xi know that he had provoked the two families with these few knives.

The Huang family thinks that Yang Xi is a pawn of the Hu family, which is not wrong, after all, Yang Xi's agent is Luo Lan, and his brother-in-law Fan Ling is a relative of the Hu family, so he is naturally classified as a step in the Hu family.

The Hu family knew the whole story, and for the sake of face, they naturally didn't break it, and the matter was determined like this.

In June, Zhu Jun defeated the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan and immediately transferred to attack the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang County (now Nanyang, Henan). Nanyang guarded Chu Gong, and then the new Taishou Qin Jie killed Zhang Mancheng, and the righteous army reverted to Zhao Hong as the commander, and the number reached more than 100,000, and the city was based on Wancheng. Zhu Jun and Xu Xuan, the assassin of Jingzhou, and Qin Jie, together with 18,000 troops, besieged Wancheng, and carried out a fierce attack from June to August, but could not be defeated.

In a mountainous area in the south of Exian County, with a loud shout, seven eight-meter-long boats suddenly shook, loaded with coal, and sailed into the Caishi River.

Three days later, with a cheer and a rush of chaos, seven small boats, in the expectation of everyone, arrived at the Chenhe factory.

At this time, with the fame of the Chenhe factory, some farmers in the vicinity also heard the news, and the number increased to 274.

Yang Xi arranged for Cai Kao, and selected 15 of the newcomers for full-time combat training, while the others still carried out normal work in the form of cantonment.

As for the seven new boats, they were all allocated to Dong Cai, so that he could take a large amount of Chenhe wine and Chenhe paper, go to the bank of the Yangtze River to find a city for sale.

Due to the doubling of labor, after all kinds of things were arranged, the Chenhe factory had an overcapacity situation.

However, it is foreseeable that with Dong Cai's fight against Caishihe, this situation will soon be broken.

In the office of the Chenhe factory, Dong Cai and Yang Xi were making the final discussion before the expedition.

"Brother Chenhe, the magnet you asked me to find last time, I found it, but there are not many of them, do you see if there are enough." Dong Cai took out a palm-sized piece of black and gray iron.

"Enough! Totally enough! ”

Yang Xi took the magnet and was very satisfied. At this time, people had already discovered natural magnetite, and they also used this thing to make Sinan.

But Sinan is obviously not a compass in the real sense, and some people have made other changes, but they can't get rid of the shortcomings of being bulky and difficult to carry.

Yang Xi is different, just operate the operation, you can make a compass.

Since Dong Cai is going to go out by boat, although he will not get lost on the river, in case he encounters something and loses his way, it is always good to have a compass.

Moreover, their own military strength has gradually strengthened, and in the mountains, Cai Kao and they have this, which is like a tiger with wings, and they no longer need to do some tracking marks to determine the direction.

Yang Xi called Niu Han, as the head of the blacksmith department, Niu Han had a considerable status in the Chenhe factory. Craftsmen in the Chenhe factory belong to the advanced type of work, whether it is a carpenter or a blacksmith, the daily wage is 20 yuan higher than that of ordinary work, and it is 600 yuan a month. What is the concept of fifty dollars a day, one thousand and five dollars a month, and eighteen thousand dollars a year, which is converted into one hundred dollars and one stone of grain, there are one hundred and eighty stones. The annual income of Lord Sifu is only 100 stones, which is higher than the salary of two township chiefs.

Niu Han had great respect for Yang Xi, who gave him everything, but Yang Xi didn't think so and sat down directly.

"Old cow! What's going on, how much has Iron Arrow been made lately? ”

"At present, there are three hundred, and Gongzi has made fifty sets of copper machines, and he is still half away from completing the task. If the son is in a hurry, the old cow can be processed day and night for the child. Niu Han stood up and saluted Yang Xi, thinking that he was slow, and Yang Xi wanted to rush to work.

Yang Xi pressed Niu Han to the table, poured a bowl of wine and said, "That's not the case, I have something else to tell you." This iron arrow and machine bracket are done slowly first, and we are not in a hurry. There's something about eyeliner that needs to be done for me first. Yang Xi took out a piece of natural magnet and said: "This is a magnet, I want you to melt it at a high temperature, this is very simple, and then make it into a fine needle, the finer the better." ”

"Childe! At present, there are ways to make needles into iron, but they are not too fine, you can use mud fan to drill holes, pour iron juice into the holes, get needles, I don't know the needles that Gongzi needs, how long and thin. ”

Yang Xidao: "This needle only needs the length of the little finger, and as for the thickness, it must be two millimeters and smooth." ”

Niu Han has studied the book of heaven for so long, and naturally knows how thin a millimeter is, and a smooth two-millimeter needle, which is currently more difficult, but he has a way to make a rough and coarse needle, and then use someone to sharpen it on a whetstone.

After thinking about it for a while, Niu Han nodded, and Yang Xi naturally encouraged him.

Sure enough, the next day, Niu Han brought more than a dozen fine needles. In the morning class, Yang Xi decided to give a physics lesson to more than 50 children under the age of ten, including Guan Tian, the head of the teaching department.

Yang Xi prepared a wooden stick about the size of a magnetic needle, and then took out a wooden box the size of half a palm, the wooden box had a wooden lid, and it contained some water.

This is the real compass too.

Yang Xi explained and demonstrated at the same time, and everyone was already surprised.

Fill the water in a wooden box, and then cover it to prevent the water from overflowing, which is mainly to facilitate Cai Kao and others to go out in the mountains, and when they want to find directions, they can't find the water source, and the compass becomes waste.

This kind of primitive compass, Yang Xi handed over two to Dong Cai and seven to Cai Kao.

Because of Cai Kao's guard battalion, there are thirty people, six squads, one for each squad leader and Cai Kao, the battalion commander, seven are just right.

The development of the guard battalion has been normal, and now what remains is the special services battalion. Yang Xi decided to take the spy battalion to do one thing.

Nowadays, my own development and influence are getting bigger and bigger, and I also need to communicate with the outside world.

After all, although I can find out a lot of the status and general direction at this time through the keywords in the technology tree, I can't find many things.

For example, the specific details of the war and many local changes outside now.

"First stop! Exian! "Yang Xi decided to lead the special battalion to attack, and the special battalion will make history tremble.