There was heavy snow in Anlu County, and the snow was up to a foot thick, but Jiangxia County only had a light snowfall, and between the mountains and clear waters, it was like the hair temples of a half-old, only slightly stained with frost.

The 80,000-strong army evacuated Anlu County and rested in the Xiakou military camp, but Liu Jing did not rush back to Chengdu immediately, but took the opportunity to inspect Jiangxia.

Tao Zheng had already led a group of officials to welcome the arrival of the governor on the dock, Tao Zheng was originally the governor of Qi Chūn County, but three years ago, after Qi Chūn County officially belonged to Jingzhou, Tao Zheng was officially promoted from Changshi to Taishou, and he stayed in Qi Chūn County for four years.

He has a very good reputation in Qi Chūn County, and when he was about to be transferred to Nanjun Taishou last year, the elders of Qi Chūn County did not allow him to leave, and forced him to stay in Qi Chūn County, and his political achievements Liu Jing also saw very clearly, after his three years of governance, Qi Chūn County was actually a sparsely populated and dilapidated backward county, and gradually became the fifth largest grain-producing county in Jingzhou, second only to Xiangyang, Jiangxia, Nanjun and Changsha, and even surpassed Lingling County.

For this reason, the general's government specially sent people to Qi chūn county for an unannounced visit, only then did he know that the population of Qi chūn county has increased from 10,000 households to more than 30,000 households, nearly 200,000 people, the population mainly flows from Lujiang County and Yuzhang County, in Qi chūn county, the people who moved from Yangzhou have their fields, each household has more than 100 acres of fields, the government provides ploughing cattle free of charge, and can be exempted from labor, and children study by the government to provide food and lodging, so it has attracted a large number of Yangzhou people to move in, and the population has increased sharply.

At the same time, the Dow firm transferred all its warehouses to Qichūn County, and all the fleets docked in Qichūn County, so that the government could receive a large amount of income every year, and ordinary people could easily find jobs to earn money.

In fact, the rise of Qi Chūn County mainly relied on the financial resources of the Tao family to give Qi Chūn County great support, which was something that Jingzhou officialdom knew well, and Tao Zheng also got the performance that others could only do in ten years, but as long as Liu Jing acquiesced, no one said anything about this 'special performance', after all, Qi Chūn County did rise and did not falsify.

Liu Jing walked off the boat board quickly, and Tao Zheng led the officials to greet him, and bowed down together, "See the state pastor!" ”

At this time, several guards behind Liu Jing were 'poof! Liu Jing burst out laughing, and only then did Liu Jing realize that more than a dozen officials were wearing old white-washed official robes, some of which were still patched, apparently after discussion.

Liu Jing was angry and funny, and said to everyone: "You don't have to worry too much about how to greet me, I'm just here to visit my brother-in-law, please feel free." ”

Everyone looked at each other's official robes, which was indeed a bit excessive, and everyone laughed embarrassedly.

Liu Jing turned over his horse and walked towards the county seat surrounded by everyone, the last time he entered the county seat was many years ago, and Sun Quan signed an agreement here to jointly deal with Cao's army, and then the Battle of Chibi broke out, in Liu Jing's memory, the county was dilapidated and messy, and the ground was muddy, but at this time the county of Qi chūn made his eyes shine.

The rows of houses were neat and orderly, apparently newly built, with trees on both sides, bluestone slabs on the ground, wide and clean streets, and most of the children on both sides were white and fat, and every house had their doors open, and incense cases were placed at the doors, and they knelt down to welcome themselves into the city.

Tao Zheng saw the praise in Liu Jing's eyes, and he explained a little embarrassedly: "About four years ago, I gathered all the county citizens together to discuss, everyone set the rules, the houses are the same, trees and flowers must be planted in front of the house and behind the house, garbage is not allowed to be littered, and it is not allowed to defecate anywhere, the stone slabs in the streets and alleys are all paved by the people of the county together, and the stone does not cost much. ”

Liu Jing was really satisfied with the street scene in front of him, especially liked the cleanliness and tidiness, and he smiled and asked, "What if I break the rules?" I mean, you're getting rid of some of the people's bad habits? ”

"It's very simple, the rules are decided by everyone, every family has a handprint, if they don't obey it, they will be severely punished, the first time they are beaten in public with fifty sticks as a jǐng lawsuit, and the second time they commit it again, the whole family will be expelled from Qi Chūn County, and they will be rushed to live in the nearby township, and they are not allowed to enter the city again, but so far, only a dozen people have been beaten, and no family has been driven out of the city, everyone likes this kind of cleanliness and freshness, so they will consciously maintain it."

Liu Jing nodded, he still had to admit that Tao Zheng was indeed very capable, not just because he was his brother-in-law.

In fact, Liu Jing has always been very concerned about the development of the Tao family in the officialdom, and now the Tao family is not only a businessman, but also gradually has weight in the officialdom, in addition to Tao Zheng as the Taishou of Qi Chūn, Yang Liang is also Tao Sheng's brother-in-law, and there are four or five children of the Tao family as county officials, and even Tao Sheng himself was named a townsman for the Tao family's outstanding contribution to the Jingzhou army.

However, what satisfies Liu Jing the most is that the children of the Tao family are low-key and pragmatic, and have never had any bad deeds of oppressing the people, but are respected by the villagers, and they are also honest and self-disciplined in the officialdom.

Liu Jing walked into the county office, exchanged a few words with everyone, everyone retreated very interestingly, only Liu Jing and Tao Zheng were left in the room, Liu Jing smiled slightly: "This time I came to Qi Chūn County, mainly to discuss one thing with you, to be precise, I want you to do one thing." ”

Tao Zheng did not forget the etiquette because he was Liu Jing's brother-in-law, he bowed respectfully and said: "Please ask the state pastor to order, and the ministers should obey it." ”

Liu Jing nodded, and said in a deep voice: "That's the case, I plan to transfer you to Chang'an to serve as the Taishou of Jingzhao County and the commander of Chang'an, can you accept it?" ”

Rao is Tao Zheng was mentally prepared, but he was still shocked, as the chief official of Chang'an, he knew what this meant, in the past, Cai Yan served as the Taishou of Xiangyang and Xiangyang Order, and later it was Dong He who served as the Taishou of Shu County and the Order of Chengdu, but Dong He is now one of the five phases, and will move the capital to Chang'an in the future, he is the chief official of the capital, Tao Zheng did not feel happy, but felt a huge pressure, he knew the weight of this position.

After a while, he said in a low voice: "I'm worried that my ability is not enough, and I will disappoint the state pastor in the end." ”

Liu Jing got up and patted him on the shoulder, and said meaningfully: "You need to understand that if there is no high position in the Tao family, the future princess of Han will probably have an unstable status." ”

Tao Zheng was shocked, he suddenly understood that Liu Jing was going to establish the power of his relatives for his sister, and he was moved and frightened in his heart, "Thank you for the importance of the state pastor to the Tao family, I am worried that the lack of qualifications will make people criticize the Chang'an Order." ”

Liu Jing laughed, "Do you think there will be criticism?" ”

"Wechen understands, I will never let the state pastor down."

Liu Jing nodded, "That's right, Yi Ji will come to take over the post of Qi Chūn Taishou the day after tomorrow, and you will go directly to Chang'an after the handover, and Jia Xu will announce my appointment in public." ”

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Liu Jing only stayed in Qichūn County for two hours, and after lunch, he took a boat to the Jiangxia Copper Mine on the other side of the Yangtze River, which has always been the largest copper and gold mine in Jingzhou and even in the entire south, and is also the source of coinage and copper materials in Jingzhou, which has a pivotal role in the entire Jingshu regime.

At present, there are 6,000 troops stationed in the copper mine, about 100,000 people are engaged in mining and smelting here, except for more than 10,000 people who are locally recruited laborers, the remaining more than 80,000 people are criminals and prisoners of war in Jing and Yi Prefectures, the use of prisoners of war to mine has been the rule in Jingzhou for many years, whether Cao Jun or Jiangdong Army prisoners of war, if they do not want to join the Han army, then they need to serve in the mine for three years, and then they will be released and returned to their hometowns after the expiration of the period.

However, with the signing of a reconciliation armistice agreement between the Han army and the Cao army, the surge in prisoners of war will be reversed, and as prisoners of war continue to be released, the number of miners will decrease, and Liu Jing came to inspect the mine for this reason.

Compared with eight years ago, the current Green Copper Mountain has changed a lot, it used to use a small river to transport ore, at most it can only sail a tugboat of 100 stones, but now the river has been widened and deepened, and it has been able to sail 500 stone cargo ships, and the ability to transport ore out has also been greatly enhanced, and it does not even need to be transferred in Xisai Lake, and it can be transported directly to Xiakou.

However, instead of the ore, the blister copper billets and gold nuggets that have been smelted in the mine are now being shipped out, and Jiangxia County has built a smelter in the mine five years ago, where dozens of blast furnaces work around the clock to extract blister copper ingots from the ore, and then transfer them to Xiakou for further jīng smelting and minting.

Deng Zhi was appointed as a mine supervisor last year and was responsible for the mining and smelting of the entire copper mine, as well as the management of the miners, while Zhang Yi led a garrison of 6,000 troops to take charge of the safety of the copper mine and monitor the prisoners of war.

The miners' camp covers an area of thousands of acres, surrounded by a board wall, there is a guard tower every 100 steps, the security is tight, there are 5,000 large tents in the whole miners' camp, the camp tents are arranged neatly, the road is spacious and clean, it is divided into ten districts for management, and each district is separated by a one-person high wall.

Deng Zhi walked and introduced Liu Jing at the same time: "Qiyu Prefecture Mu, at present, there are 20 people living in each big tent, set up a chief, every day rì out and work, rì fall and rest, rest every ten years, work and rest is very regular, public security is also good, during the period when Weichen served as the mine supervisor, there was no riot, only two escapes, more than 300 people were arrested, and the service period was extended to five years in accordance with the punitive measures. ”

Liu Jing nodded, and asked again, "How is the food?" ”

"The food is similar to that of the army, they can eat enough, they can eat a meal of meat in three days, according to the rules, these prisoners of war also have a monthly payment, a hundred yuan a month, which is converted into gold and paid when they are released, and almost each person can earn a pound of gold to go home, and the same is true for criminals."

At this time, they came to the third eastern district, which was the release area, and all the prisoners of war who were to be released at the end of their term would have moved to live here a month before, consisting of a thousand camps, each with only ten people, most of the time only five or six, but this time they were all full.

This is the largest release since the establishment of the miners' battalion, and 14,000 people will be released at a time, because after the Han army occupied Guanlong, all the prisoners of war from Guanlong were released, and there were less than 3,000 prisoners of war who really completed the three-year period, and the rest were all prisoners of war from Guanzhong or Longyou.

As soon as Liu Jing walked into the East Third District, he heard a fierce commotion.

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