On the day he arrived in Huining, Zhang Yue officially announced that Wen Yuankai would temporarily take charge of the state affairs, Li Liangbi would be promoted to the state government, Han Sheng would be promoted to the state Sima, and Li Duojin would be in the military. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info In this way, Huizhou is still under its control, and even if the court sets up an observation office, there will not be many people in it.

In order to avoid the army staying here and emptying grain and grass, Zhang Yue asked Shi Deyuan and Shi Chenghong to lead the Changyi army back to the town, leaving only Yang Xuanli and other soldiers to escort the Ya. Called Wen Yuankai and Li Liangbi to go along, first looked at the cotton fields, weaving mills, and dyeing workshops in the suburbs of the city, and they were doing well, and then went to the blacksmith workshop.

This is like a large manor covering an area of thirty acres and built high walls, Zhang Yue frowned, the scale is too small, no wonder it has not been able to supply army equipment so far. After going in and taking a turn, there were two or three hundred blacksmiths and carpenter apprentices who worked, that is, the craftsman battalion when Qin Feng was conquered, and the management was loose, and the enthusiasm and efficiency were not high.

Returning to the front of the steward's detention room, Zhang Yue frowned, and said very dissatisfied: "Tomorrow I will go to the Quwushan Iron Mine to have a look, and choose another hidden place there to build a military city, specializing in making ordnance and armor, and this workshop will be converted to civilian use in the future." ”

"Then the iron ore will also be mined, and it will cost a lot of money to rebuild the workshop, how much money can the comptoir spend?" Wen Yuankai said angrily.

"Bian Ji should be coming over soon, I can always find a way, right...... The Han family will pay us 150,000 stone of grain and 100,000 horses of Shu brocade, which should be able to be shipped before May, and there is no problem at all with this money as the start-up capital for the second phase. Zhang Yue thought about it and said.

Manpower is not very short for the time being, and after the problem of money is solved, Zhang Yue went to Hechi. It was originally a desolate place, but a county town with a circumference of twelve miles was slowly built on the basis of the military fort, and the city wall has been completed, and defense facilities such as city towers, corner towers, and arrow towers are being built.

Zhang Yue entered the county government in the city and sat for an hour, and after lunch, he went south to Quwu Township, thirty miles south, and the old villager was Liang Benji. According to this era, the administrative units below the county level are four households as neighbors, four neighbors as guarantees, 100 households as li, and five li as townships.

However, Zhang Yue's setting of the rural grassroots is different, and it adopts the decimal system. That is, ten households are guaranteed, and there are two chief and deputy security chiefs; Five guarantees and fifty households are the li, with one person each in the main and deputy lizheng, and two in the lizuo; One hundred households in two miles are townships, and one person is in charge of each of the township chiefs, two township assistants are regular accounts and tax cashiers, and two people are responsible for public security.

Liang Benji's tribe originally had 50,000 or 60,000 people, and after they were dispersed into Hechi County, he only had a population of 100 households left here, and settled here in half agriculture and half herding. Quwu Township is located in a small hill depression near the river, and the terrain is quite good.

When Liang Benji heard that Zhang Yue was coming, he hurriedly went to the entrance of the village to greet him, and he happily greeted him from afar. Zhang Yue smiled and saluted: "Township Chief Liang doesn't need to be polite, take us to see the iron mine, where mining will start soon." ”

"Then dare to be kind, please come with me!" Liang Benji asked the servant to lead the horse and lead the way himself.

They went more than twenty miles south to a small river, followed the slope of the river into the mountain, and turned over two mountain beams, and below them was a ravine, and there was a dark brown cliff. Liang Benji led everyone down the mountain and found two pieces of dark brown ore in front of the cliff for Zhang Yue to see.

Zhang Yue took it and put it on the ground, and hit it with two pieces of ore, causing sparks to splash everywhere, and the hardness was so strong that it couldn't be broken. I went to the broken shore to look at it again, and it is estimated that the reserves are very rich, and it is open-pit here, and it is very easy to mine.

Immediately wandered around the mining area for a long time, estimated with Wen Yuankai, Li Liangbi and others, basically determined the mining site and smelting site, and planned to set up the ordnance workshop as the "Jingyuan Armor Preparation Institute", and build a new small city outside the iron ore site to build armor. There are raw hides in Huizhou, and there are a large number of high-quality timber in Quwu Mountain, which is nearby for mining, and the terrain is very convenient.

Looking at the open field, there was no problem in building the city, Zhang Yue smiled wistfully: "We must learn the cold forging technology of the Hehuangqiang people, and master it, and create a unique ordnance belonging to our Jingyuan Army." Do you calculate, when will the sample be available? ”

"Two months to start the city and mine, two months to control iron, about eight or nine can produce a batch of samples." Wen Yuankai thought for a while and said.

"It's too slow, you have to smelt the iron first, and if you have the iron materials, you can transport it to the workshop outside Huining City to build it, and then move it over when it's all built. At your pace, the army will not be able to change its outfits next spring. ”

Zhang Yue stayed in Quwu Township for one night, drew a plan for the mining field, smelter, and armor preparation of the military city, and handed it to Wen Yuankai to make according to it. He also instructed Zong Jingcheng to expand the army again, including the second regiment stationed in Liangzhou, to organize the Zhenyuan army into six infantry regiments, two horse regiments, and a new army with 5,000 people in the Tunxiang Brigade.

"Is there too much army in this way, what does the state government take to raise soldiers?" Wen Yuankai suddenly became a little anxious.

"Not much! The township soldiers are military tuns, except for the training when they are not farming, and they usually farm at home, but the town army is actually too, how can they not afford it? Of the six infantry regiments in Huizhou, there are only five regiments, the first, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth, plus two horse regiments with 7,000 soldiers, and 5,000 township soldiers as reserves, which are not included in the establishment. The number of the Seventh Regiment was revoked and it was turned into a township soldier. ”

In this way, the main soldiers of the Zhenyuan army are still 8,000 people, and the township soldiers can be transferred as auxiliary soldiers in wartime, with a total strength of 13,000 people, which is actually a lot, but it can not be registered. Anyway, Zhang Yue will pay for the soldiers out of his own pocket, although Wen Yuankai is a little dissatisfied, he has nothing to say.

stayed in Huizhou for a few days, no matter how big or small, Zhang Yue combed through it and explained a lot of tasks to Wen Yuankai and Zong Jingcheng, but Zong Jingcheng only took the task, actually recruited the township soldiers, and organized the training, Xue Wenqian was in charge.

On this day, Zhang Yue was about to leave Huizhou, and the brothers Dang Jinwu and Dang Jinfu rushed over when they heard the news, bringing more than a dozen young talented children of the clan, just to find an official and a half-job, Zhang Yue reluctantly agreed, and put Dang Jinfu into the Zhenyuan Army, and used it as the deputy head of the newly formed horse army, and the other dozen young people were used as the guards and soldiers.

At the end of March, Zhang Yue left Huizhou and returned to Jingzhou after a five-day fast horse, preparing to start rectifying the administration of the four prefectures.

It happened that in the evening of that day, Bian Ji and Han Fu arrived with two hundred carts and a caravan of five hundred people. As soon as Han Fu came, Zhang Yue understood that the grain and Shu brocade delivered in Shuzhong had arrived, but two hundred carts could not be transported, and there might be two batches. (To be continued.) )