Chapter 388: Preparing to Go South
In the spring of thirteen years before history, the sycamore trees on the street side of Wangcheng bloomed white flowers. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info look at the past at a glance, the streets are like snow and are extremely charming.
The royal city is prosperous. Shops selling furniture, food, alcohol, tofu, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, chicken, duck, fish, paper, pen, book and ink, cloth and clothing have opened in the shops facing the street. The vegetable market in the east and the mule and horse market in the west are constantly crowded, and a large number of goods and caravans are distributed here. The factories and workshops in the city expanded their production, recruiting more people and slaves. Various research institutes have also sprung up. The school enrollment is expanding, the official team is expanding, and the elders of the surrounding villages and towns have moved to the houses assigned to the villages and towns in the city in order to get close to Shenlong, and live a leisurely life in the city...... The inhabitants of the royal city have unknowingly numbered more than 20,000 people.
At noon on this day, a knight came from the northwest direction, and after entering the palace, Wang Chuan had just finished an analysis meeting of the research institute, and walked out of the Tianxuan Hall with the children who had just graduated from junior high school but had become researchers.
The knight said "no" in Wang Chuan's ear. Wang Chuan didn't look surprised, he just stopped, and then worked hard with the knight, and ordered that the time was almost up, and the team was withdrawn to Yunyun.
The other clever children, according to the season, probably knew what the knight said and couldn't help but be disappointed. It has been four years since the king's idol traveled south, and he has not returned. Every spring and autumn - now there is even a village built on the edge of the sparse forest pass, and basically every day there will be people guarding where to see if there is any trace of the gods - looking at the appearance of knights, this year obviously did not guard.
Wang Chuan couldn't see any emotions on the surface, so he returned to the Junhe Hall to deal with a few paperwork, and went to the Dihuang Hall to steam a fish for his mother. I put the newly made soy sauce, but I complained that I hadn't found the ginger yet, which was a pity, and I still put the shiso to remove the fishy smell.
After lunch, I rested for half an hour as usual, which was a daily routine, but in the afternoon, the king was absent from several meetings. Someone inquired that the king went to see the pandas, went to the west market to see the cattle and horses, went to the library to see the dinosaur skull, and went to the north of the city to see the seedlings in the experimental field...... In the end, it is said that he went to the palace of General Bihu to discuss important matters.
Bihu came back last fall. Before he returned, the entire Huaishui basin had been controlled by him. Last year he was forty-three years old, but just as the young man began to say that he was old and sick, Da Mao hurried back and took his place. The dynasty set up the Huaiya Department as Huaiya County, and Da Mao as the county magistrate, which is now almost the appearance of a special administrative region. Then Wang Yong was sent over to Da Mao as his deputy, and another 200 people were sent to them to use. In this way, it took two months for Bihu to hand over power, and he returned to Wangcheng for retirement.
After Bihu came back, he only showed his face at the military headquarters, and he didn't ask anything anymore. After that, he really hid at home and began to buy leather to make boots.
Wang Chuan is very contemptuous of Bihu's lazy behavior, in this era, if the nutrition can't keep up, it is common for forty years old to become old, but there has been no lack of meat in these years, and the youngest child of Bihu was born in Wangcheng last year, this kind of person is called old, it is too much.
Wang Chuan's so-called important matters for negotiation are troublemakers in Bihu's view. Good crocodile leather shoes, Wang Chuan drilled two holes in each shoe when he came, can this shoe be sold when it is taken out? Fortunately, even if the shoes made by General Bihu are only a piece of animal skin wrapped around his feet, outsiders are still rushing to ask for them, and they should not be sold. What's more, Wang Chuan used the method of pig manure to get nitrate to get saltpeter, and supplied a small amount to General Bihu. The tigers used are all nitrated skins, and these crocodile skins are similar to those seen in later generations. The guarantee of quality also makes these shoes expensive.
Wang Chuan put down the drill, picked out a suitable pair of them and put them on, and kept pulling in his mouth: "How many times have I told you, two holes are drilled here, which are breathable and anti-foot odor, suitable for spring and autumn wear...... If you don't like it, set a little eye buckle with the copper factory, and ensure that it is beautiful and high-grade after installation, and I will draw you the appearance of this button when you look back, and this pair of shoes will be considered a reward...... It's worth a pair of shoes for such an important piece of information, and I'm at a loss...... I'll pick another pair for my wife...... Well, you don't make women's shoes here either...... Women's shoes, ...... That's another important piece of information......"
In Bihu's opinion, Wang Chuan, this kid, was not a likable child when he was a child, and now he is even more annoying as he gets older.
As the successor cultivated by a large tribe, Bihu is still proud in his heart. Although he knew that Wang Chuan had the so-called Divine Dragon Instructions, in his mind, he was inferior to Wang Chuan in terms of knowledge, and there was always something comparable to other places, right? He fought hard in the north for six or seven years, conquered a large territory, ruled over no less than 50,000 people, thought that he had achieved something about it, and wanted to come back to see the gap with this side, but after coming back and making a comparison, he directly became disheartened.
The River tribe had the foundation of the original years, and the population was larger than he was accepted. But how much more should there be, right? When he returned, there were 50,000 people in the Huaiya Division, but the population under his rule had exceeded 150,000. It is said that Wang Chuan was also puzzled about where these people came from, and after some analysis, he found that these people were first captured from the surrounding expansion, and second, after the surrounding villages and towns were established, they were excavated from various ravines.
In prehistoric times, some small groups lived like a small wolf pack, huddled in some small ravines to become one with nature. Outside, it was dark, and they were unconscious. It wasn't until China kept burning the wasteland and expanding the land that these people were slowly forced out of the mountains and wilderness, and finally became slaves.
In addition to the population, the construction of the dynasty and the royal city also gave a big blow to Bihu. People have no way to imagine unknown things, many things are better than tigers before they come into contact with it, and he feels that no matter how powerful Wang Chuan is, that's it. When he saw the architecture of the royal city and the efficiency of the operation of the dynasty, the impact on his thinking was undoubtedly huge.
If only that's all. Give Bihu a confident blow and a child. Now that the junior high school students are beginning to graduate, these children have mastered a lot of dragon laws, and their style is the same as Wang Chuan's. In Bihu's view, this is a copy of Wang Chuan. Only went out of Dahei, such a kid, and as a result, Qin Zhong was said to have been unified in less than three years, and he all believed in Shenlong. On the grasslands to the north, savages were also captured to raise horses. In this way, the dynasty increased its population by no less than 100,000. Qin Zhong paid tribute to only 500 horses last year, and it is said that this year it will increase to 1,000.
The Yi people have been raising horses for six or seven years, and there are no 1,000 horses slaughtered in a year. This is equivalent to a big black plus Bang Bula, and the Bihu and Yiren are all compared.
In addition, the counting and writing that Bihu had spent a lot of effort learning in the previous years had now been reduced to the level of what all half-grown children would have done in the dynasty. The various laws of the dragon that have appeared now, the things in the various research institutes in the north of the city, and the minerals such as gold, silver, lead, coal, sulfur, and zinc developed by the newly established mining companies are dazzling and impossible to understand.
Intelligence is useless, bravery and marching combat are still very confident. But soon after he returned, that confidence was gone.
At that time, Wang Chuan took him and a few people to see an experiment. Wang Chuan took out several clay pots smaller than a human head from a research institute, which were said to contain some black powder, and after igniting the fire, Bihu heard the thunder and saw the mountain open and cracked! This kind of power, let alone him, even ten of them can't deal with it.
From this time he also knew that force was useless. Thinking about this, he simply said that he was always hiding, and he didn't think that he would be trampled by others if he made a good shoe, which still made people live?
Bihu dropped the things in his hand and scolded: "If you have something to say, get out of here." ”
Wang Chuan smiled and took another pair of shoes, handed them to the guards outside to take them back, and said slowly: "A few of our old fellows haven't seen each other for a few years, and as soon as you come back, you will hide from anyone, so you will really grow old quickly." I thought if everyone was idle, it would be better to go out and walk south. Of course, now that the barbarians are in the way, we will not go by land, we will go by boat. I'll tell you, the tropical atmosphere of the south, that's called a beauty. The seafood is fresh and delicious, the flowers of the four seasons are undefeated, the fruits are all-you-can-eat, lychee durian, banana, coconut chicken, and bikini...... Well, this one probably doesn't have ...... Without anti-oil, anyone who dares to wear a bikini will also become a black pig. ”
Bihu said: "Go to find the baby elephant? ”
Wang Chuan said: "Even if we don't look for this goods, let's go out for a walk, there are so many good things in the south, you can also get some back, such as ginger, spiced star anise cinnamon or something...... By the way, see where that foolish thing has died in the past few years, and if it's still alive, see how I clean it up. ”
The previous ones were still a little heartless, and when they got to the back, Wang Chuan gritted his teeth.
Bihu is not an emotionally impulsive person, and asked: "Now that the situation in the south is tense, and the whole dynasty is hurrying to build, what should you do if they leave at this time?" ”
Wang Chuan grinned and said, "It's almost time for me to rest for a few days." If they can solve the situation in the south, I won't fight with them. ”
Bihu thought for a while and said: "Yes, but there are only hundreds of thousands of barbarians, this can't resist, let them be destroyed." ”