After Hua'an returned to the Thorn Mansion with a group of people, Madang made a detailed report to Hua'an on all the important events that had occurred in Liangzhou in the past two months, and marked the silver taels spent on various constructions and the remaining funds in the treasury.

Seeing Ma Dang's dedication and dedication, Hua Anxin was very happy, and in front of many generals, he greatly praised Ma Dang.

Subsequently, Hua'an told Ma Dang about the plan to build an armory hall outside the west gate, and asked Ma Dang to recruit enough craftsmen to ensure that the armory hall could be built quickly, so that it could continuously provide excellent weapons and armor for the main army.

Ma Dang expressed his full support for Hua'an's request for the immediate construction of a large-scale armory hall, and said that he would do his best to requisition the idle people of Liangzhou to complete the construction of the first phase of the armory, medicine, and literature halls before the autumn harvest, so that they could be used normally, and finally complete the construction of them in three years.

With Ma Dang's sworn guarantee, Hua'an was relieved a lot, and handed over all the construction tasks inside and outside Nanzheng City to Ma Dang.

Zhang Yu, Xie Siming and others stayed in the Thorn History Mansion to help Ma Dang deal with various other things, so as to share the pressure on Ma Dang's shoulders.

At this time, except for the fact that the southeast of Yizhou was occupied by the rebels, and the shape was not yet stable, the overall situation of Liangzhou and Yizhou was basically stable, and there was no trend of major war for the time being.

In this relatively stable environment, Huaan decided to speed up the development of production to improve the comprehensive strength of Liangzhou. and train your army more rigorously so that when war comes, you can defeat the enemy.

In this era, the so-called development of production is mainly based on planting crops, and the grain and other crops produced by the crops are the guarantee of the people's livelihood, but the main crops are only two crops a year, and during the period when the crops are growing, the people who live by farming are idle, and this leisure is several months. Arguably. In this era, the common people spend most of their time idle in the year, except for farming. And this is a strict waste of human resources.

In order to change this backward appearance. On the one hand, Hua'an asked Chen Ting to lead the army. Travel to various places in Liangzhou to train young men in order to improve their military qualities at the same time. Encourage the common people to raise livestock and poultry.

In this way, young men can develop in the military field and can serve as reserve soldiers, while the rest of the people take advantage of the beautiful mountains and rivers of Liangzhou to raise all kinds of livestock and poultry, so that the productivity of the people of Liangzhou can be greatly mobilized.

Of course, these alone are far from enough, in order to improve the comprehensive strength of the people of Liangzhou, handicrafts, mining and other important industries must also be vigorously developed.

Especially for a closed place like Liangzhou, it is difficult to sell the agricultural products produced, and the products such as greens and radishes are transported to other states and counties, but they are afraid that they will rot on the way, while the various products of the handicraft industry have no worries.

Goldsmiths, in particular, create a variety of beautiful jewelry that must be very popular with noble ladies and do not have to worry about rotting along the way.

In addition, various handicraft products such as jade, Shu brocade, rouge and so on will surely be very popular.

However, these products are generally more expensive, and the production technology is also in the hands of a few people, and at present, most of them are produced and sold in small workshops of families and individuals.

These small-scale workshops produce relatively few products, and the profits from selling them are limited, so the taxes paid to the government treasury are not very large.

In order to vigorously develop these handicraft industries, Hua'an first conducted various visits and inquiries in Nanzheng City, and finally found out the reasons for this situation, mainly because many craftsmen and masters who have mastered the skills are unwilling to hand over the ancestral skills to outsiders, and even, set the ancestral precept of passing on the inside and not outside, and the men and women are not passed, and these people are not greedy, and after producing enough products to feed a large family, they will no longer continue to produce, so as to keep a low profile and not get rich.

This kind of golden mean, which is safe when you are rich, is indeed the best means to avoid disasters, and it can make your children and grandchildren indispensable for a bowl of rice.

However, if Hua'an wants to vigorously develop the economy of Liangzhou, it naturally cannot sit idly by and watch this situation continue, and must find a way to let these talents who have mastered the skills teach their skills to more people, so as to manufacture various products on a large scale.

In order to break the status quo of Liangzhou's handicraft industry, Hua'an decided to adopt a strategy of semi-coercion and half-persuasion, using both soft and hard, and trying to make these handicraft talents obey their own requirements and expand the scale of production.

In order to break the idea that these people are safe when they are rich, Hua'an intimidated these talents under the pretext that the Zhao army was about to invade Liangzhou, and said that he would recruit all of them into the army to resist the attack of the Zhao army.

But if they were able to expand their production and teach more apprentices as they wished, their families would be granted amnesty and they would be exempted from military service altogether, so that they could devote themselves to productive activities.

Under Hua'an's enwei measures, most of the handicraft practitioners in Liangzhou have succumbed, after all, according to what Hua'an said, they will not suffer, and they will become richer, but some violate their ancestral teachings, making their hearts somewhat uncomfortable.

The land area of Nanzheng City is limited, and if all the small workshops in the city are expanded, the existing land in the city will definitely not be enough.

In order to change this situation, Huaan decided to move some of the workshops with a large demand for land area to the outside of the city, so as to solve the problem of land shortage in the city.

After all, the reason why the city is to be built is for defense, and to put these workshops that produce valuables outside the city, once a large number of thieves loot, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In order to solve this problem, Hua'an deliberately discussed with Ma Dang, Xie Siming and others, and after a heated discussion, Hua'an finally decided to expand the city wall of Nanzheng City, and push the city to the north and west for five miles, so as to circle a large piece of vacant land, so as to build various workshops.

According to the scale of Hua'an's enclosure, the area of the city has increased several times, and even if the original city wall is demolished, it is necessary to build an additional brick wall and earth for twenty miles of the city wall.

In order to speed up the construction and save manpower and material resources at the same time, Hua'an made a bold decision to first demolish the west and north walls of Nanzheng, and then use these only materials to quickly build a new city wall.

However, Hua'an's goal was to build an offensive army, so as to recover the lost territory in the north, not to stick to the city to survive, if his army could not stop the enemy, let the enemy soldiers under the south of Zhengcheng, then it was not far from his own defeat, and the taller city walls could not save the fate of defeat.

After all, the most effective defense is to attack, relying on the construction of fortified cities to resist the enemy's army, is not enterprising, Hua'an will focus the construction of the army closer to the attack, the purpose of expanding the city, is only to prevent thieves and bandits from attacking, not to use it to resist the main army of a powerful country.

In order to prevent the lawbreakers from taking advantage of this favorable opportunity to do evil, Hua'an transferred 5,000 troops from Zhao Wu to disperse and garrison between the new city wall and the old city wall, and inserted a fence in the old city wall that has been demolished, so as to completely put an end to the bad intentions of all kinds of lawbreakers and ensure the normal life and production of the people of Nanzheng.

During the construction of the city wall, the construction of various workshops was temporarily suspended in order to concentrate more manpower and quickly expand the city, and then build these workshops to develop the handicraft industry in Liangzhou at full speed.

Due to the shortage of funds, all of Hua'an's current plans can only be implemented in Nanzheng City, after all, if hundreds of cities in Liangzhou are expanding and building various workshops in this way, the funds will definitely not be enough.

As for the construction of other cities, they can only start to build when they have sufficient funds in the future, and they cannot be built on such a large scale as Nanzheng, so as to prevent excessive handicraft development and cause a backlog of products, and at the same time, it will also greatly reduce the agricultural population, and the output of agriculture is a strategic resource, after all, even if you have money, the hostile forces will not sell you grain, and no matter how important the handicraft industry is, it cannot replace the position of agriculture.

Under the unified deployment of Hua'an, a large-scale construction wave began inside and outside Nanzheng City, and Ma Dang, Xie Siming and others were very busy.

On the construction of a variety of specific problems, are dealt with by Ma Dang and others, which greatly reduces the pressure on Hua'an, in his free time, Hua'an will go to the construction site to personally guide and inspect, more often, Hua'an will stay in the mansion, secretly with Zhuge Qi to learn sign language.

After all, only sign language can communicate directly with Congshi, and direct communication with Congshi is very important to Hua'an, and many important secret investigation missions that cannot be leaked in the future must be completed by Congshi, and only they can complete these tasks well.

But there are some things that Hua'an can't let anyone know, including his wife Zhuge Qi, so Hua'an must learn sign language, so that he can personally give orders to Congshi and obtain the core information that Congshi has explored. (To be continued......)