Xiong Kaiyuan finally chose a compromise between persistence and compromise, but fortunately, the businessman's resistance to the picket team to enforce the law was only known in a small area, and if he did it secretly, he might be able to hide it. After all, with the support of Shanxi's largest businessman, this kind of temptation is really irresistible to ordinary people, and it is difficult to be an exception if you are as shrewd as Xiong Kaiyuan.

After receiving Xiong Kaiyuan's reply, the merchant steward left the prefect's yamen satisfied. However, waiting for Xiong Kaiyuan, there is still a bad thing in his head, Zhou Jin just came to report, a large number of refugees came from the south, how should he deal with it?

As the prefect of Datong and the parent official of the first government, he has the responsibility to settle these Ming people who are homeless because of the plague. However, the reality is cruel, God knows how many plagues these people have brought over, in case their arrival makes the epidemic in Datong Mansion worsen, he, the prefect of Datong, will also come to an end.

On the side, Zhou Jin was still urging.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency..."

It took a few calls to pull Xiong Kaiyuan out of his contemplation.

"Let's go, go to the city, and make a decision!"

The two men left the prefect's yamen and rode straight to the south gate, where it was reported that the largest number of refugees had gathered. Xiong Kaiyuan climbed to the top of the city, looked down at the female wall, and saw that it was densely packed with people, and he couldn't help but gasp, so many people, if they all died in the boundary of his Datong Mansion City......

Zhou Jin was also shocked, but after all, he was a person killed in the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses, and after the initial shock, he had already begun to think about helping the victims.

Who knew that Xiong Kaiyuan's words surprised him, and he only heard a mysterious voice say calmly: "Come here, send a few loud voices to shout at the city, tell the people that the plague is rampant in Datong Mansion, and the northern Yang Hewei and Zhenyu Wei are no longer plague, let them take refuge there." ”

This was said to the picket officers under his command.

"What if the people don't listen?"

The officer asked with a sad face. Xiong Kaiyuan replied without hesitation: "If you don't listen to persuasion, then expel by force, before dark, I don't want to see these refugees outside the city!" ”

……

Li Xin sneezed twice, he rubbed his nose, and he didn't know who was muttering to him behind his back. He is also a lawsuit now, and in order to build a track between Zhenyuwei and Yang Hewei, he has been working hard for the past few days. The basic situation now is that there is no money for money, and there is no one for people.

He summoned all the merchants and stewards stationed in the Acropolis of Yang and the Acropolis for a meeting, and he hit them with his idea. The General Military Office of the Three Guards came forward to organize the construction of the railroad track between Zhenyuwei and Yanghewei, and then each merchant invested in the form of capital and shares, and after the construction was completed, they could use the railroad track free of charge outside of wartime.

The merchant was in charge of Shimen, and only then did he understand the purpose of Li Xin's summoning them here. It turned out that they still had the idea of their money bags, not to mention that the money was all decided by the head of the family, they were just the stewards of a permanent transit place. Even with Li Xin's reputation for stealing, they don't dare to take advantage of this stubble. If you really invest money in it, nine times out of ten, you have to let this Qiu Ba, who eats people and doesn't spit out bones, swallow it, and the fool will be fooled, and he will invest in the form of shares, and the meat buns will be similar to beating the dog.

Someone began to push back and talk about him.

"Such a good thing that Lord Commander said, all the stewards here must see something real before they can consider it, otherwise they will not be able to say that the sky will be broken with a pair of empty white teeth."

Someone picked the head, and someone immediately chimed in, "Yes, yes." You have to see something to convince the owner of the house......"

In fact, all they thought in their hearts was to use this as an excuse to push the matter off and block Li Xin's mouth to ask for money, this Qiu Ba definitely didn't have anything to show up. Who knew that Li Xin first whispered a few words to the red-haired ghost sitting beside him, and then turned to everyone.

"Everyone, please be quiet, a model of the track and rail car has been built in the open space in the backyard of the yamen, how can you please move and take a look."

The stewards were stunned, how could they really have something to come out, it seems that the chief soldier had already thought that they would have this excuse, and they had made sufficient preparations early in the morning. However, what he said, the water that was spilled out, he couldn't collect it if he wanted to, and he didn't dare to offend this powerful person who had a monopoly on power in Yanghe Weizhong, so he had to obediently follow him to the backyard of the Weisi Yamen.

The backyard was originally enclosed to build another three houses, but later the Mongols frequently violated the border, and the battles were endless, so they were put on hold. In the spacious yard, hundreds of steps of wooden rails are paved with processed wooden sticks as materials, and they are laid into an oval shape around the yard, end to end.

There was also a brand-new carriage parked on the wooden tracks, but this carriage was a little strangely made, and the front wheel and other places were no different from ordinary carriages, except for the carriage at the back.

Under the carriage were three pairs of iron wheels about 30 inches in diameter, and the chassis of the carriage was also made of cast iron, and the upper walls of the carriage were about 40 inches high, and the sturdy rivets formed a rectangular carriage without a roof.

Albert's assistant was also a Han Chinese rescued from the Mongols, who was once a blacksmith surnamed Yan, and survived because of his skill in blacksmithing. When he was also a slave, although he did not understand the language, he also took care of Albert. So when Li Xin asked Albert to find a candidate, he was the first to find Yan Blacksmith.

When the blacksmith saw Albert's nod signal, he himself boarded the carriage, shook the reins, and the two horses, Herod, screamed a few times, spread their hooves and galloped out, and the speed was quickly raised, and the six-wheeled carriage spun around the courtyard along the wooden tracks.

Some of the people in the courtyard watched the bustle, and some people looked at the six-wheeled carriage that was speeding and galloping.

Li Xin began to explain: "This kind of carriage because of the operation on the track, the resistance is much smaller than the general road, two crossbow horses pull two, or even three rail cars are no problem, from Yang Hewei to Zhenwei Baili, the material convoy is afraid that the mountain road is fast in one day and one night, and the rail car can only be used for four or five hours, which will save a lot of manpower and financial resources." There is a more important point, that is, once the town guard has police, Yang Hewei's reinforcements can board the car from here, and the morning and evening will come. ”

After saying so many benefits, they still hope to attract the merchants to pay with real temptation, and a few stewards were indeed moved by the beautiful blueprint planned by Li Xin, but as soon as they thought that this was presided over by the three guards who were known for their greed and ferocity, they always felt that no matter how many benefits there were, they would have to let him peel off a layer of skin in the end, and they would not spit out the bones and slag that they swallowed.

Now the mountain of looting goods from the merchants in the Acropolis is proof of this! Li Xin is greedy for money and fierce, and he must not be gullible!

Li Xin didn't know much about it at this time, and since he set up checkpoints specifically for merchants in Saibei, his reputation was spread throughout the Jin business district almost immediately.

"The rail car of the general soldier is good, but the checkpoint has long prevented us from transporting goods to Saibei, so what's the use of coming?"

The implication is that if you want to get everyone to pay, you have to open the checkpoints so that everyone can get some ready-made benefits.

Not to mention the opening of the checkpoints of Zhenyuwei, even in Yang and Wei he also plans to set up two more checkpoints, and now many merchants see that Zhenyuwei can't get through, so they go out of Yanghekou and Huyukou outside the border wall of Yanghewei.

This is the reason why Yang Hewei can still gather so many merchants until now.

Li Xin motioned to Albert to let the carriage listen, Albert rang the huge brass bell hanging on the pillar, and when the sound came out, I saw the blacksmith Yan strangled the reins fiercely, and at the same time skillfully pulled down the brake brake wheel with his left hand, and braked the body to prevent the body from continuing to move forward and injure the horse.

Li Xin saw these details in his eyes and felt that the affairs of the design institute could be put on the agenda, although Dr. Albert was not very good at medical skills, he still had some attainments in mechanical design. He was pondering how to convince the stewards who were not in charge of oil and salt, when a personal soldier hurried to his side and whispered a few words.

Although it was a whisper, the voice of the pro-soldier was not small, and Mao Weizhang on the side heard it clearly.

"What do you say, repeat it again?"

The soldier glanced at Li Xin, and Li Xin personally said to Mao Weizhang:

"A large number of displaced people from the north have been found at the two checkpoints of Baideng and the settlement, and if the refugees force their way through, our people may not be able to stop them."

Hearing this, Mao Weizhang's face changed drastically, this is not a joke. In addition to consuming a lot of food for the refugees to go north, there is even the danger of gathering into thieves, but now the above two points are already secondary issues, the most serious, I don't know how many of the refugees carry the plague, once they swarm into Yanghewei, the consequences are unimaginable, and the good situation that has just stabilized dìng will be ended in an instant.

"How, how is this good?"

He has no idea now, and there are only two ways in front of him, one is to drive the refugees away by force, and the other is to open the door to the people, and at the same time, it also includes endless hidden dangers and troubles.

Li Xin asked the soldier again:

"If you come back from Baiden and the settlement, how many refugees can you have?"

"There must be more than 20,000."

More than 10,000 people is by no means a decimal number, in the Ming Dynasty, the entire population of a small county was 350,000, and 20,000 people came at once, can Yang and Wei accept it? Mao Weizhang suddenly seemed to remember something.

"That's not right! It stands to reason that the refugees come from the south, and they should go to Datong Mansion City first. ”

There is another point he didn't say, the refugees went all the way north, and they must pass through the city of Datong Prefecture, and the Datong prefect let these people come to Yang and Wei, what kind of heart did they have?

Who knew that Li Xin pondered for a long time before he exhaled and said, "Get ready to accept refugees!" ”

Mao Weizhang was dumbfounded when he heard this, Yang Hewei couldn't support so many people even if he smashed the pot and sold iron, and besides, there were 10,000 people who couldn't tell how many people were infected with the plague......