Li Qing'an has not returned to his home for three days, he is busy until late at night every day, and he sleeps in Beiting City, these months, immigrants, mines, workshops, schools, military training, new castles, craftsmen, a thousand things are coming to him together, not only him, all the officials of the Jiedu Embassy are busy with their feet, from morning to night, they can't even take care of saliva all day long, Beiting's government affairs were originally relatively simple, and they have hardly changed for decades, and the new officials and old officials have long been accustomed to a slow-paced life, but after Li Qingan took over, there were changes, Not only did the imperial court move more than 10,000 new military households and 1,000 artisan households, but also allowed Beiting to open mines and mint money, and Li Qing'an's many new measures, such as setting up workshops, running schools, and building new forts, almost everything that was a headache started at the same time within three months.

Thousands of trivial things almost crushed the waist of the officials in Beiting, but fortunately, after three months of tempering, the officials have gradually adapted to the vigorous and resolute style of the new festival and the efficient and fast-paced style of doing things.

In the past few days, the officials of the North Court are busy with a big thing, that is, the arrival of a thousand craftsmen, the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty are divided into two kinds of official craftsmen and private craftsmen, generally speaking, the level of official craftsmen is higher than that of private craftsmen, and the court selects craftsmen with high skills, like government soldiers, set up special household registration, and regularly enter Beijing to serve, such as 20,000 craftsmen in Shaofu Prison, and 15,000 craftsmen in the Craftsman Prison.

The arrival of this thousand craftsmen also means that the production capacity of the handicrafts in the North Court will be greatly improved, which means that many things are no longer dependent on the supply of the imperial court, and the ordnance tent can be made by itself, and the handicraft industries such as silk weaving, porcelain, winemaking, agricultural tools and other handicrafts are no longer lagging behind the Central Plains, and the most popular silk satin in Chang'an can be bought in the Beiting market. The officials of the North Courtyard are well aware of the fact that there will be the most advanced waterwheels and other agricultural tools in the Central Plains in the fields, so each of them will do their best to make all the arrangements for the arrival of the craftsmen.

In the official room, Li Qingan was thinking about the production of gunpowder, this time many craftsmen were from the ordnance superintendent, but Li Qingan found a strange thing, none of these craftsmen had heard of something that could burn and explode, that is to say, no one knew about gunpowder, could it be that the gunpowder formula he gave to Li Longji was still lying in the warehouse and sleeping?

Gunpowder is the secret weapon he relies on to make a fortune, so far only a few of his henchmen know the gunpowder formula, maybe others will also know about gunpowder through various channels, but it is not so easy for them to really develop a lethal gunpowder formula.

Based on this consideration, Li Qingan decided to keep the secret of the formula of gunpowder, or hand it over to his own soldiers to configure, and not let the craftsmen get involved for the time being.

"Envoy!" The door was pushed open, and Wang Changling walked in quickly, and said with a smile: "The Jinman Bridge connecting Wuting Town has been repaired, do you want to go and see it?" ”

Coming to Beiting for nearly half a year, Wang Changling was tanned like black charcoal, thin as skin and bones, he was known as the busiest person in Beiting, in charge of the two major events of Beiting and coinage for Li Qing'an, and at the same time concurrently served as Tingzhou Xuezheng, a thousand things made him so busy that he didn't have time to take a breath, although he was very busy, but he was in a very happy mood, he didn't have to think about the officialdom, he didn't have to please his boss, just bury his head and do things well, this simple life is what he dreams of, His current identity is still Li Qingan's staff, and he has won the title of Langzhong of the School Inspection Department.

"Let's go! Look at it. ”

Li Qingan cleaned up the paperwork on the table, walked to the door, and asked with a smile: "Did that Chen Zhonghe go to Xizhou to take up his post?" ”

"I went early this morning, with my wife, children and mother, and I also went to send it, alas! A tattered cart of things, I have never seen such a poor county order. Wang Changling said with great emotion.

Li Qingan also smiled and said: "Although this Chen Zhonghe is a little pedantic, but he is honest and honest as an official, and has an excellent reputation among the people, I have seen his qualifications, and he has been a county magistrate in Gaochang County and Jiaohe County for six years, and he has governed the two counties at night without closing their doors and leaving no roads behind, he is especially good at the contradictions between Hu and Han, and the Hu people in Xizhou mention him, and no one does not give him a thumbs up, so this time 8,000 military households immigrated to Xizhou, and only he can handle this important matter for me." ”

"This is to make Jun make good use of people's strengths, and the officials of Beiting all said that although he is tired and busy working under Jun, he is in a very comfortable mood and has a very fulfilling feeling."

The two walked and said, after a while, they came to Wuting Town in the south of Jinman County, which is less than ten miles away from Jinman County, separated by a Jinman River, there are more than 400 families from the Ordnance Supervision of the craftsman households were placed in Wuting Town, Wuting Town originally only had dozens of households, but there are large open spaces around, in order to welcome the arrival of craftsmen, Li Qingan ordered soldiers to ram mud and build houses on the vacant land of Wuting Town, in just two months, hundreds of houses were erected on the vacant land of Wuting Town, in order to facilitate the craftsmen to go to Jinman County, He also ordered the construction of a bridge over the Jinman River, and today is the official opening of the bridge.

When Li Qing'an and his entourage came to the Jinman Bridge, the brief opening ceremony had ended, and the bridge was full of people, many of whom were business vendors, carrying all kinds of local products from the North Garden, such as wine, pickled leg of mutton, red deer head, white folded cloth, ice mare's milk, etc., and went to sell them among the artisans who had just come to the North Garden, and at the same time purchased some cheap items they brought from the Central Plains, such as tea cakes, silk, porcelain, and so on.

The artisan households are different from the military households, the military households came spontaneously one after another, while the artisan households were led by the court officials and came unified, and it was precisely because of the presence of the court officials that the plan of Hexi Sishun to intercept a group of ordnance supervisors was not successful.

"Envoy, this bridge is very solid, and it can be used for at least a hundred years."

Wang Changling patted the stone pier engraved with the name of the bridge on the bridge and said with a smile: "The three words 'Jinmanqiao' are still inscribed by me!" ”

Li Qingan also smiled slightly: "Your calligraphy is the most profound in the entire North Court, who is not looking for you?" ”

He urged the horse to step forward, with a curtain to look at the south of the bridge, only to see hundreds of houses that were uniformly painted white neatly distributed on a vast flat land, some time ago he came to inspect, here is still a cold and lonely, but with the arrival of four hundred and thirty families from Chang'an to move from the ordnance supervisor craftsman, here began to become vibrant, on both sides of the road, more than a hundred men are digging pits and planting trees, a large group of children laughing and running to the Jinman River, one by one stripped naked and jumped into the river, there is a large group of women washing clothes by the river, laughter comes from afar.

At this time, an old Han man drove a carriage to the Jinman Bridge, the Jinman Bridge was a little sloped, he quickly jumped down and pushed the cart on the bridge, but the carriage was too heavy to push up for a while.

Li Qingan hurriedly stepped forward to help push the cart, the soldiers ran to help, and pushed the carriage onto the bridge in a moment, Li Qingan saw that the carriage was filled with black soil, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Uncle, what are you doing with so much soil?" ”

The old man smiled and said: "No, my family has just divided forty acres of land, and I am busy cultivating and dressing up, and I see that the soil dug up from the house is very fertile, and it is a pity to throw it away, so I plan to transport it to my field." ”

"Is my husband alone?"

"No! My two sons and daughter-in-law are working in the fields, and when they are free for these two days, they hurry to clear the land for me, otherwise they will not have time to get busy in the future. ”

Li Qingan nodded, and asked with a smile: "What does the old man think of Beiting?" ”

The old man took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat and smiled: "It's good, I have been building arrows in the ordnance supervision for thirty years, but I didn't expect to get forty acres of land when I was old, just by virtue of this, I don't regret coming to Beiting at all." ”

"Is there anything you don't like? For example, the officials are mean to you or something, is there any? ”

The old man shook his head, sighed and said: "What is not satisfied, give the land to the livestock, and give two hundred catties of grain, the son is not poorly paid as a craftsman, and the family is happy, if you must say that you are not satisfied, there is only one point, that is, I am not very accustomed to the climate here, it is too hot during the day, and it is cold at night, but it doesn't matter, I want to live for a few years and I will get used to it." ”

As he spoke, he jumped into the carriage and smiled at Li Qingan: "Young man, thank you for helping me push the cart, I'll go first." ”

"Walk slowly!" Li Qing'an arched his hand with a smile, and when the old man walked away, he turned back to Wang Changling and said: "You go to someone to count how many families need to reclaim the land, give me a detailed report, I will arrange for the sergeant to help, these craftsmen must start work immediately, and they can't be delayed any longer." ”

"The subordinates understand, so I will arrange for people to count and report to the envoy early tomorrow morning."

At this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and someone was shouting in the distance: "Envoy, there is urgent news!" ”

A soldier galloped over, turned over and dismounted, and gave a military salute: "Report to the envoy, Mr. Yan asks the envoy to go back immediately, saying that there is an important discovery." ”

"Got it, I'll go back."

Li Qingan turned over his horse, whipped his horse fiercely, and galloped towards Beiting City.

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"Envoy, Lingxi Tea House has taken the bait."

Yan Zhuang smiled and pushed a stack of information to Li Qing'an, "In just three months, they took advantage of the opportunity to send military supplies to the Wubao garrison, and developed nearly two thousand members of the Han and Tang Guild in the garrison, and the momentum is very rapid!" ”

Li Qingan took the information and flipped through it, couldn't help sneering, and asked an undercover Tang military captain next to him: "What is going on with the Han and Tang Congresses?" ”

The lieutenant hurriedly said: "Back to the envoy, the person who developed the humble position to join the Han and Tang Dynasty will be the big shopkeeper of the Lingxi Tea House, he just said that the Han and Tang Dynasty will take the restoration of the broken leaf military town as their own responsibility, just a voluntary organization, after joining the three hundred dollars per month, many soldiers are rushing to this point to join, but in fact, the organization of the Han and Tang Dynasty will be very strict, the four levels of the hall, rudder, bureau, and team, the north court is the hall, the court is the rudder, and there are several bureaus below, and there are teams under the bureau, thirty people are a team, there are hall masters, helmsmen, bureau orders, team members and other positions, He was appointed as the commander of the Three Castle Bureau, with twelve teams and three hundred and sixty brothers, and a monthly allowance of five cents. ”

Yan Zhuang said slowly next to him: "It is understandable if the Han and Tang Dynasties will only develop in Beiting, after all, the restoration of Broken Leaves will depend on the Beiting Army, but I heard that the Han and Tang Dynasties will have rudders all over the Tang Dynasty, even as far as Guangzhou, with nearly 10,000 members, this is not as simple as restoring Broken Leaves, if I guess correctly, the Han and Tang Societies are probably aiming at the world, and their leaders are all from Broken Leaves, so they chose Beiting as the new foundation of the Han and Tang Dynasties." ”

Li Qing'an snorted and said, "Sir, what I mean is that if I don't find out, a year later, the Beiting Festival Envoy will be that Li Huiju, right?" ”

"That's exactly what it means!"

Yan Zhuang nodded, "According to their current development momentum, a year later, the soldiers of the North Court will all be members of the Han and Tang Associations, and the matter will be known to the imperial court sooner or later, if the envoy does not make a tough stance as soon as possible, how can he explain to the saint?" At that time, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as negligence, hey! I'm worried that they will get some grip on you. ”

"I'll have my own measure."

Li Qingan said coldly: "I let them get in since I set up this bureau, I won't let them pinch my handle, come on!" ”

An officer immediately came in outside the door, and Li Qingan ordered: "Let Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun come to see me immediately." ”

After a while, Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun hurriedly ran over, bowed down and said, "Please give your command!" ”

Li Qingan took out a booklet and threw it to the two of them: "The two of you each lead a thousand people, according to the list on the booklet, all the shops will be sealed, all of them will be arrested, and they will be executed immediately!" ”

"Order!" Nan Lei and the others went down to order troops.

Li Qingan put on his helmet and said slowly: "As for the Lingxi Tea House, I will personally go to seal it up!" ”

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In the six months since Li Qing'an was in charge of Beiting, he has always strictly disciplined the military and never disturbed the people. But today, Beiting suddenly poured cold water into a hot oil pot, and the three counties of Tingzhou were boiling, especially Jinman County, where teams of heavily armed soldiers were running on the streets, sealing shops and arresting people according to the list.

The largest Atami Restaurant in Beiting rushed into more than 100 soldiers with murderous violation, and they shouted loudly: "Perform official duties!" All of them crouched on the ground with their hands on top of their heads. ”

The diners didn't know what was going on, so they were so frightened that they squatted on the ground, and the shopkeeper came over tremblingly and asked, "Master Jun, what's wrong?" ”

The leading officer grabbed him by the neck and turned around and ordered: "Search the store, take away all the shopkeepers and men, and those who dare to resist will be killed!" ”

The properties of the Han and Tang Dynasties, such as the Xiayechuan Inn, the Nanping Jewelry Shop, the Baiye Porcelain Shop, the He Hunting Gambling Hall, the Junguiyuan Qinglou, and so on, were all seized one by one, the merchants were taken away and detained, the goods and property were seized, and every household in Jinman County was closed.

A cavalry team of 500 people rushed to the front of the Lingxi Tea House at a gallop, Li Qingan took the lead, and with a wave of his sword, he ordered: "The front and rear side doors are all surrounded, and no one is allowed to leak, and all of them are arrested." ”

The cavalry divided into four directions, and dozens of cavalrymen rushed up the steps, smashed open the door and rushed in, and more than a hundred people in the spacious hall were buying and selling tea, 'Boom! The gate was slammed open, and dozens of cavalrymen rushed into the hall, and everyone present was stunned.

"Listen, all squat! Those who resist will be killed. ”

The cavalry shouted three times in Chinese and Turkic, urging the war horses, the long knives were unsheathed, and the front and rear generals surrounded the merchants present, and the merchants were pale with fright, and squatted down one after another, at this time, the big shopkeeper of the Lingxi Tea House hurriedly glanced at a fellow, and the guy was about to sneak away, when an arrow whistled, 'Do! With a sound, he brushed the man's nose and nailed it to the wall in front of him, half a foot into the wall, and the tail of the arrow was trembling.

Li Qingan rode in on horseback, he held a longbow in his hand, and said coldly to the guy: "If you dare to take another step, the next arrow will shoot through your head." ”

The man's nose was grazed and covered in blood, and he was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground.

"Li Yuanjun, what do you mean by this?"

The shopkeeper of Song took a step forward and said angrily: "Our tea house has always been law-abiding, and the tax money every month is a lot, you requisition our fleet, and we almost do not charge for it, today we come to the door to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, what reason do you have?" ”

Li Qing'an glanced at him and said with a faint smile: "What should I call you?" Song shopkeeper or Song hall master? ”

The shopkeeper Song's face turned pale in an instant, he took a step back and muttered, "Li Yuanjun, this is a misunderstanding!" ”

"Is there any misunderstanding, let your proprietor explain to me, but before explaining, the Han Tang Society will immediately disappear in my north courtyard."

Li Qingan waved his hand and ordered: "Take everyone in Lingxi Tea House away, search me carefully, and don't let go of any place." ”

The soldiers rushed up and escorted the guy and the shopkeeper out, and the shopkeeper Song desperately turned around and shouted, "Li Yuanjun, please don't kill people, our Hantang Society has no malice." ”

"Cooperate honestly, and I won't kill anyone."

Li Qingan said to more than a hundred trembling businessmen: "Please also go with you to be investigated, as long as you are really innocent, I will let you go." ”

Five hundred soldiers have rushed into the tea house and started a search, Lingxi Tea House is the largest shop in Beiting, covering a huge area, in addition to a huge number of warehouses, there are also people's houses, more than 200 soldiers rushed into the house, drove all the maids out, began to rummage through the cabinets, carefully searched.

A team of brothers was leading a dozen brothers all the way into the inner house when they came to a small courtyard and faintly heard laughter coming from the room.

They stepped forward and stomped open the door, only to see a young man in the room holding two women drinking with one left and one right, and the door was 'bang!' The ground was kicked away, and a group of soldiers rushed in, and the two women screamed in fright.

The man slapped the table, stood up and said angrily: "Who are you, you dare to trespass on the inner house, and there is still a royal law?" ”

The team didn't explain, and waved his hand, "Take him away!" ”

Several soldiers came forward to grab the man, and the young man suddenly shoved the woman in front of the soldiers, turned and fled to the back room.

"Catch him!"

The soldiers drew their swords and chased after him, and the man was so anxious that he had to jump out of the window and flee, but as soon as he jumped out of the window, several soldiers were already waiting outside the window, and the soldiers rushed up and pressed him to the ground.

The man struggled desperately, "You let go of me!" ”

'When! With a thud, something fell from him, glistening in the sun.

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(To be continued)