Chapter 184: Craftsmanship

After the vegetables were planted, the enthusiasm of the people of Qinghe County for growing vegetables suddenly increased. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, in Chen Jing's view, growing vegetables can indeed make money, and even build Qinghe County into a big county that sells vegetables, so that the people of the surrounding states and counties can eat their vegetables in Qinghe County.

Chen Jing felt that in addition to growing vegetables, he should also discover some other skilled people, let them do their old jobs, and let the whole Qinghe County develop in an all-round way.

So, he sent someone to investigate to see who had the craft in Qinghe County, what kind of craft he had, why he didn't do it, and so on.

None of this was a difficult task, so two days later, the official inquired about everything Chen Jing wanted to know.

In this part of Qinghe County, many people still had crafts in the past, such as carpenters, butchers, and even people who planted flowers.

It's just that Qinghe County was not peaceful later, there was no market for doing this, and everyone couldn't make money, so they didn't do it.

Of course, there are still many people in Qinghe County who do business, but the business is not good and barely maintained, and it is impossible to say that the people of Qinghe County do nothing.

After understanding this, Chen Jing felt that these people mainly didn't do it, or because it didn't produce benefits that satisfied them, if they could make money, why didn't they do it?

Qinghe County is unstable, and other businessmen do not come, as far as these people in Qinghe County are concerned, except for food, clothing, housing and transportation, everyone is inseparable, and the business is not bad, the others are really a little reluctant.

After learning this, Chen Jing felt that he should find these people to encourage them and pay them to do these things again, if the employment problem of these people can be solved, then the stability of Qinghe County will be better.

Of course, no one consumes it, and it's a bit early to let them do it.

It is important for Qinghe County to attract merchants from other places to trade, and at that time he can open a bazaar in Qinghe County, but how to attract other merchants?

In the Song Dynasty, there was a rule that taxes should be collected when goods leave the city gate, which is similar to the customs in later generations, but in this way, many merchants will be reluctant to come because of the increased cost.

If there is no profit, what do they come to buy and sell?

So Chen Jing felt that these taxes could be abolished, at least temporarily.

With this plan, Chen Jing asked people to open a market not far from the city gate, and then talked to those people and asked them to do their old business again, and then it was propaganda.

And just as Chen Jing was working hard for these things, the first snow of the winter fell in Qinghe County.

The snow came urgently, the snow was falling, and many people were so cold that they didn't dare to go out, Chen Jing saw this, so he could only spend money again to buy some clothes for these people to come back, so that they could survive the cold winter.

Since coming to Qinghe County, Chen Jing has spent almost half of the money he brought.

Others are making money when they become officials, but he is good, and he loses all of them.

But despite this, Qin Wan doesn't care at all, after experiencing so many things, she has already seen it very openly, and it is naturally good to have more money, but she can't take money too seriously, life is impermanent, it is better to use money for something meaningful.

Chen Jing, as the county magistrate of Qinghe County, wants to revive Qinghe County, so naturally money is indispensable.

The heavy snow was falling, Chen Jing stayed in the county office and was busy, and at this time, Li Dongnan rushed to Qinghe County with three thousand soldiers and horses.

Some time ago, Li Dongnan planted a heel here, and after he went back, he recruited soldiers and horses, made up enough thousand, and then brought two good friends respectively: Nuer Si and Tang Buqing.

The two of them each brought 1,000 soldiers and horses to support Li Dongnan.

Of course, they are all given the trend by interests, and after the attack on Qinghe County, the valuable things and women in it will be divided equally.

But at this time, Li Dongnan didn't care about these anymore, he just needed to destroy that Chen Jing and get back face.

Nuer is a member of the party, and Tang Buqing is a Han.

Western Xia and Liao are almost the same, divided into the south and the north, respectively, by the party and the Han as officials, the party is in charge of the party, and the Han is in charge of the Han people, in fact, even so, the Western Xia has been almost assimilated by the Han people.

The soldiers and horses of the trio braved the heavy snow, but after coming, they were not in a hurry to attack the city, it snowed so much, the city was not easy to attack, they first set up camp outside Qinghe County, and waited for the snow to stop before attacking.

At the same time, Chen Jing also got the news of the return of the Western Xia soldiers.

After learning the news, Chen Jing frowned slightly, thinking that these Western Xia soldiers were endless, it was really troublesome, and no one could please them, but the Western Xia soldiers came with 3,000 soldiers and horses this time, obviously the people who came were not good, and Chen Jing could not be good with them.

In the evening, Chen Jing led people to carry water to the city tower, and then ordered people to pour water on the wall, and the water slowly turned into ice after splashing it, making the city wall very slippery.

When the people of Qinghe County saw that Chen Jing actually came up with this method, they couldn't help but admire it again.

The next day, the snow stopped.

Early in the morning, after the Western Xia soldiers had eaten, they came in a mighty way, they actually didn't dare to stay here for a long time, thinking about solving Qinghe County as soon as possible and then leaving, otherwise the Song army's large team would be attracted, and they couldn't leave if they wanted to.

When the Western Xia army attacked, Li Dongnan still didn't take Chen Jing in his eyes, and shouted: "Open the city gate and surrender, I may spare the people in your city, otherwise after the city is broken, I will slaughter the city." ”

Li Dongnan shouted, Chen Jing was a little impatient on the city tower, and said: "What nonsense, if you have the ability, you can attack, and if you can't do it, get out." ”

Li Dongnan frowned slightly, for fear of being looked down upon by Nuer Si and Tang Bu, so he shouted loudly and ordered someone to attack the city.

This time they prepared some siege tools, such as ladders and something.

After the ladder came, they set up on the city wall, and then the Western Xia soldiers climbed up, and these people in Qinghe County did not resist, so they let them climb.

Li Dongnan stood below, a little strange, but at this time, the person who climbed up suddenly shook his body, the more he leaned up, the more unstable the ladder became, and the wall was full of ice, and the ladder quickly slid to the side.

One ladder slipped and fell, and the others fell one after another, and those Western Xia who were thrown had blue noses and swollen faces, and some of them were even killed by falling.

Seeing this, Li Dongnan suddenly understood, there was ice on the wall, and they couldn't climb it, even if they climbed it, these people in Qinghe County could knock down the ladder again as long as they used a little force.

There was no choice but to bang on the door.

Soon, the Xixia soldiers found a big tree to use to knock on the door, Chen Jing saw that they were about to hit the door, his brows condensed slightly, and then he issued an order: "Archery ......"

Sharp arrows rained down, and the Western Xia soldiers fell a lot, but the Western Xia soldiers were not stupid, they immediately counterattacked, covering the soldiers who hit the door. (To be continued.) )