【2nd Update】

The implementation of the postal service is proceeding in an orderly manner.

And because Han Gang took office as the governor, the progress was even faster.

At the local level, the immediate preparation is nothing more than to determine and then nail the house number to the residents in the city. As for the arrangements for post offices and postal offices, that will be placed later.

Such preparations are also helpful for tax collection, and there is no local opposition. Only a few state and county officials felt that it was disturbing the people, and wrote a chapter to petition for the people, but the Queen Mother ignored them, and Han Gang didn't care if they were really confused or lazy, so he directly issued a reprimand.

After a while, Han Gang is also ready to send postal inspection envoys to all walks of life, and they do not need to be of high status, as long as they supervise and inspect the preparation and promotion of postal services in various places. Just like when Wang Anshi sent people to the localities to supervise and inspect the implementation of the new law in order to implement the new law. As a political counselor, Han Gang found enough people to help him.

After talking a few nonsense words to Wang Juqing, Han Gang summoned Wang Juqing and Fang Xing to get into the car together and continue to walk to the firearms experimental base one mile ahead.

After a while, a group of chariots and horses passed through the gate and stopped at the school field behind the gate.

Wang Juqing was helped out of the car and looked around. In the southeast corner of the camp is the inner fort that you can see from the outside, and several buildings on the other side should be warehouses because of the piles of wood and masonry next to them. Other than that, there are no other buildings in the entire camp.

To the north, however, was a thick mound of earth—not even a mound of earth—but a slope of earth, which was piled up to the level of the wall three feet high. And in front of the dirt slope, there are wooden planks erected. There was a place for experimenting with artillery.

The soldiers who came up to lead the horses away all spoke with a thick Kansai accent, and looking at their appearance, they also looked like tall and rugged Kansai men.

After Wang Juqing was appointed as the Commander of Ordnance Prison, he learned the details here.

This outer courtyard of the Firearms Bureau was originally an old military camp. The army originally stationed here has long been moved to the west of Beijing, and the Privy Council has only arranged a small team of people to guard it - after the garrison system replaces the military change method, there are many old barracks in a similar situation in the Kaifeng Prefecture boundary - due to the danger and particularity of the artillery experiment, in order to give the Firearms Bureau a confidential test site, the imperial court specially allocated this military camp over, in order to prevent traitors from watching, these days also raided and repaired the damaged wall and barracks.

The guards here are all forbidden troops transferred from Kansai, hoping to reduce the communication between the defenders and the outside world, and on the other hand, to keep as many teams as possible with excellent records - this is of course Han Gang's proposal. And for the sake of secrecy, people within two miles of the surrounding area have been moved. Although Kaifeng Mansion deliberately chose a sparsely populated place in advance, there are also two small villages and more than 100 households in this old pasture.

However, Wang Juqing didn't know what means Lu Dao used to move the people here in Kaifeng Mansion, where every inch of land was valuable.

"The forbidden army stationed here in the past was a commander of the Guards Ma Military Division."

Han Gang's words made Wang Juqing suddenly understand, and suddenly said: "It turned out to be the land of the pastoral supervisor!" ”

"To be exact, it is a horse grazing land belonging to the Ma Army, and it is not under the control of the herdsmen."

Actually, it's all the same.

Because these official lands have been swallowed privately, and all of the people who eat most of them are powerful and powerful, and the difficulty can be imagined if they want to take food from their mouths.

Wang Juqing became more and more puzzled: "So how did you do it?" ”

"This is thanks to Shen Cunzhong."

During the time of Taejo Taizong, there were few people in the Gyeonggi area. In order to raise horses, twenty-four pastoral supervisors were directly divided, which is still a large one, and belongs to the herd pastoral department. The pastures assigned to the Ma army were the private lands of the various commanders, but over time, these pastures were basically encroached upon, and although it was sandy land suitable for pasture, it was no exception.

Originally, it was attached to the military land outside the barracks, and all of it belonged to the government, and it was only then that the army moved to occupy it. Although these lands have been cultivated for many years, they are the land of the government according to the title deed, and the imperial court has justified it. And a certain amount of compensation was given - one acre of consistent cash, or eight acres for one acre of Daizhou's ownerless land.

Such compensation, in the process of reclaiming, the government of course used some coercive means, but also of course caused some chaos, the same of course, the landlord here quite a few royal relatives, led the local villagers, the matter to Kaifeng Mansion. It is conceivable that if Kaifeng Mansion cannot meet their requirements, the next step will be the Queen Mother's side.

Under normal circumstances, the Kaifeng Mansion will never take care of the affairs of the ordnance superintendent, and the bureaucrats always push it out when they encounter trouble. But the newly appointed prefect of Kaifeng at that time had the surname Shen Mingkuo.

Shen Kuo had only taken office at that time, and he wanted to show his talents, also because of his relationship with the Firearms Bureau, but he didn't trouble Han Gang - in terms of talent, there are few people in the DPRK who can compare with Shen Kuo - but very smart to choose divide and conquer.

took out the predetermined compensation money, and built two rows of two-story storefront houses on the official land along the street near the West Taiyi Palace in Bajiao Town, not far away, where shops can be opened below and people can live above, so as to lure a dry demolition household.

Everyone knows how expensive the shops in the towns near the capital are. It is far more valuable than a hundred acres of land, especially in Bajiao Town, a large market town with post houses on the main road, and the number of shops built by Shen Kuo is only eleven or twelve, plus Shen Kuo also secretly bought the poorest two families to lead, and soon led a group of close neighbors, and the people were more porridge and less porridge, and they were immediately scrambled, so that those who did not grab it sighed. When this batch was finished, he built ten more houses in slightly more remote places and resettled ten more families.

After two times, most of the households who didn't get anything after the last one still accounted for most of them, but after the previous housing allocation, most of them stopped making trouble, waiting for the benefits of Kaifeng Mansion. The rest of the people who are still making trouble are the few imperial relatives who are proud of their status and look down on the benefits given by Kaifeng Mansion, as well as more than a dozen households who are looking at them as heads.

Among them, there is a landlord or a clan, and he is a county prince, a descendant of Taizong, and he is the uncle of today's son in terms of generation. Relying on his status as a relative of the emperor, he sent slaves to beat the officials sent by Kaifeng Mansion out of the country. After Shen Kuo learned about it, he didn't talk nonsense, and contacted Fang Xing to go directly to the Queen Mother. The next day, the county prince was cut down and directly demoted to the county magistrate - the Firearms Bureau is a major military matter, and whoever dares to obstruct it will hit the knife edge, and soon the land will not be theirs.

With this example, immediately no royal relatives dared to entangle more, and seeing the imperial relatives like this, the rest of the people did not dare to make trouble. However, at this time, the compensation money was used for the construction of the house, and there was no money to compensate for it. In desperation, they could only choose those ownerless fields in Daizhou. And with such an obvious contrast, the whole thing has become a typical example of greed and loss among the people, but no one is upset about it.

Wang Juqing knew that because of the Tingtui incident, Shen Kuo and Han Gang had some knots, but Han Gang could praise Shen Kuo so calmly, presumably only three points of those rumors could be believed.

"I see, Shen Fuyin is indeed rare in terms of governance." He nodded, "But if you occupy the official land, you can still have compensation, which is a little too lucky." ”

A few years ago, the Kaifeng city wall was repaired, and the demolished houses were not one or two, and the number of tombs cleaned up was more, and this time for Xizong to repair the mountain mausoleum, the households in the mausoleum area who moved out will never be less than the one in front of them. Those are still their own land, and this is even more official property, and the hands of the imperial court are too loose.

"Who let them occupy it for a long time?" This is actually Han Gang's proposition, and the poor should not be allowed to suffer. As for the rich people, especially the relatives of the emperor, they are all from the imperial court when they eat and drink, and they have taken advantage of it for so many years, and they should be content, "The land in the hands of some people has changed hands several times, although there is no red deed, but there are white deeds." The people who bought these lands spent real money, and they must not be allowed to suffer. ”

Whether it is a red deed stamped with an official seal or a white deed that has not changed the official seal, it has legal effect, but when the two conflict, the former shall prevail. However, there are many people in the world who are unwilling to pay the deed tax after making a sale, so they still use white deed.

"Don't talk about it, you can't delay any longer." Han Gang looked at the sky, he didn't come over to discuss how to demolish. He asked Fang Xing, "Are you all ready?" ”

"It's ready." Fang Xing nodded, and then led the way.

Han Gang and Wang Juqing came to inspect the operation of the new test site of the Firearms Bureau, and after killing the main hall of Guo Kui's house, the imperial court finally decided to completely move the artillery and all gunpowder weapons out of the capital.

Kaifeng Prefecture sent more than 1,000 additional Xiang troops, and it took two months to finally complete the repair here and hand it over to the Ordnance Superintendent.

The experimental unit of the Firearms Bureau has been living here for half a month, and the work should be on the right track, and it is time to come and take a look.

The target of the test site was set in front of the dirt slope.

This two-zhang high slope was completely made of sacks, and it took only ten days for more than 1,000 people to carry sacks to build it, and at the same time, a trench was added to the outside of the camp.

The Tiger Squat Cannon under the command of the infantry army has now been finalized and will soon start mass production. Large-scale, intensive testing is now being carried out here.

The structure of the Tiger Squat Cannon is very simple, and it can be cast directly. Coupled with the fixed installation of gunpowder and shells, the speed is increased, and it is a perfect infantry field weapon, making this ultra-light artillery start mass production one step earlier than the more famous field guns and urban defense guns.

Eighteen tiger squatting cannons were lined up on the ground, only about two zhang apart, and forty paces ahead were targets made of wooden planks.

Before Han Gang came over, these tiger squat cannons were being test-fired, and the target in front of them was already like a honeycomb, and after the target, it was full of lead. Han Gang and Wang Juqing walked slowly all the way, and at this time, they could still feel the residual warmth left by the previous artillery fire.