What Huayan means Pang Gang has already understood, that is, let Pang Gang go to Qingzhou Mansion to find a backer, and which backer in Qingzhou Mansion is the biggest? Naturally, it was the Qingzhou prefect Wei Tongnian and the Qingzhou Mansion who commanded Song Xinghe.

The two of them are the top military and political officials of Qingzhou Mansion, as long as they have their support, then naturally no one in the territory of Qingzhou will dare to ask for his trouble.

"Hmm!" Pang Gang frowned, thought about it and said, "If that's the case, it's going to pay a lot of price!" ”

"This price must be paid, otherwise it will be difficult for us to keep the mine when other people who smell something fishy arrive!" Hua Yan's attitude is very resolute.

Li Xian on the side also sighed: "It would be great if the adults could sit on the post of Lingshan Wei Qianhu, and then we will occupy that mine, and who else would dare to crook their mouths." ”

Hua Yan's words attracted a burst of white eyes from everyone, if Pang Gang is a thousand households, where can he still act cautiously looking at other people's faces, there are more than 1,000 households in the guard office where the Ming Dynasty holds military power, but the emperor must be personally sealed, and even the commander cannot revoke his position casually, and the power is naturally not too small. But the problem is that Pang has just been named a hundred households not long ago, and it is impossible for him to be promoted so quickly.

Pang Gang pondered for a while before he said: "This official is too short when he is now in charge of 100 households, and it is impossible to be promoted again without great merit, and the only way to be advanced is to turn to the prefect and the commander." Taking this opportunity, the official also wants to open a cement factory in Wangjiatun. ”

"Cement plant?"

Hua Yan first asked, "My lord, what is this cement factory?" ”

Pang Gang smiled slightly and asked: "Hua Zhudian, dare to ask what kind of things are used to bond green bricks and even boulders in today's private houses, houses and even city walls?" ”

Although Hua Yan did not know the meaning of Pang Gang's words, he still replied honestly: "Rich families build houses with green bricks with lime, tung oil, glutinous rice juice, etc., this method of building houses is not only very expensive, so the common people are limited to financial resources and generally use rammed earth to build or ram the building. ”

"Hua Zhudian is extremely good." Pang Gang smiled and said, "This official has researched a kind of adhesive today, which can firmly bond blue bricks, boulders and other materials in one place, and it is extremely hard after drying. The most important thing is that it is very cheap, even the poor can afford it. You say, "If we make this thing, won't the wealth come in coming?" ”

"Your Excellency is true!" Everyone was shocked.

"Of course!" Pang Gang said with certainty: "This thing is made of stone and clay, which is naturally very cheap, and this thing has a wide range of uses, whether it is to build houses, build walls or build roads, so this official concludes that this thing will definitely bring rich benefits to my Wanghai Fort, and we don't have to worry about running out of money anymore!" ”

The people in the room were shocked by this news, and it took a long time for Hua Yan to react, "My lord, if you really know how to make this thing, this water cement will inevitably cause a deliberate peep, we must be cautious!" ”

"Hmm!" Pang Gang sighed and nodded: "So the official of Qingzhou Mansion on this trip must go, and he must be prepared for heavy bleeding!" ”

"Alas!"

Everyone sighed in unison, whether it was a cement factory or a mine, it was a golden nest, if they didn't give Wei Tongnian and Song Xinghe enough sweetness, how could they go to the bottom to protect it?

Hua Yan also sighed slightly, then cheered up and said: "My lord, I want to tell you a good news, the three friends invited by the humble position have all come to Wanghai Castle and are waiting for the adults to summon them!" ”

"Oh?" Pang Gang's spirits lifted when he heard this, "Then Hua Zandian, what are you waiting for, invite them in." ”

"Yes, the lowly will call them in!" After Hua Yan finished speaking, he got up and went out.

Looking at Hua Yan's figure, Pang Gang sighed softly.

As Wanghaibao gradually got on the right track and the workload became more and more, Pang Gang felt more and more that there was a shortage of manpower, especially the lack of officials at the grassroots level. They are not like those Qiu Ba who fight, as long as they are given a large blade for each person, and after a few months of training, they can go to the battlefield to cut people with a single strength, and the inheritance of culture takes time.

He finally understood why the Emperor Yanjing of all dynasties since ancient times had relied so much on the class of scholars. There is no other reason, there is really no reader, this country can't play! Can you imagine what would happen to a group of illiterate people who couldn't read enough to govern a huge country? Now Wanghai Fort is just a small tun fort with a thousand people, and if you govern a larger place such as Qingzhou Mansion, the officials you need will be even more sea. After all, this is not the era of "college students are not as good as dogs, and doctoral students are all over the place", and at this stage, reading is only the patent of a few people.

Soon Hua Yan led three scholars in long robes to walk in, and when they saw Pang Gang, they saluted Pang Gang and said in unison, "After the end of the school, Meng Qing, Lin Feng, and Zheng Mengcheng have seen a hundred households!" ”

Pang Gang saw that they didn't kneel down but just bowed their hands and knew that they were people with meritorious reputation, so he stood up with a smile and said, "You don't need to be polite, you can come to Wanghai Fort to help this official, and this official is very happy." ”

"Willing to serve your lordship!"

"Come, come, please be seated!"

Pang Gang politely invited them to sit down and looked at a few people carefully, Meng Qing was tall and thin, with a kind smile on his face, Lin Feng was the opposite, his fat body set off the already not tall figure even shorter, but from his small eyes flashed a trace of shrewdness from time to time, as for Zheng Mengcheng, it can only be described in two words, that is, "ordinary", ordinary can no longer be ordinary, it belongs to the kind that you can't find immediately when you throw it into the crowd.

Although the robes on these people are quite clean, they are all a little old, and it is obvious that these people are not very happy. But then again, if they were happy, they wouldn't have come to Wanghai Fort, a place where birds don't, but Pang Gang didn't care, he didn't need them to have the talent to govern the country, as long as they could be a few small officials, if they were really talented, Pang Gang would have to worry about whether his small temple could accommodate these big Buddhas.

At the same time that Pang Gang was looking at them, these people were also secretly looking at Pang Gang, the tall figure, fair skin and somewhat delicate face really made people associate him with the decisive Baihu described by his friend Hua Yan.

Originally, they had the fame of showing their talents, and they disdained to come to a small Tunpu to work as an errand under a hundred households, but they were quite disheartened when they failed in the township test for many years, and life became more and more difficult in this year when the landlord's family had no surplus food, so after receiving a letter from their friend Huayan, they thought about it for a few days and came over with their burdens.

After all, although the official positions such as the bookkeeper and the secretary are not large, the power is not small, and those who have done it well can be regarded as a real power figure.

After glancing at a few people, Pang Gang, as the master, took the lead in speaking

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