The major forces in the Central Plains have begun to treat the people well and buy people's hearts, so the population growth in the Nanling area has slowed down rapidly, while the construction of various infrastructure in the area and the rapid development of all walks of life require a large number of people.

Most of the locals will go to work in factories everywhere, and they have quite formal and stable jobs, but the shortage of servants and maids is very large, and it can be said that there is a rigid demand in the market, so Zhang Tiancheng can only relax about the human trafficking.

However, it has been repeatedly ordered to treat servants and maids well, and the servants are no longer untouchable, and they are not allowed to be corporal punishment without reason, and even a special regulatory agency has been established, which can be regarded as abolishing the lifelong lowly status system in disguise.

As soon as the law restricting the purchase of population was relaxed, the market was activated almost instantly, and in fact, it was not Zhang Tiancheng's money to buy the population on the Korean Peninsula at all, but some large households that took the lead in getting rich raised funds.

These guys are really keen on buying slaves, especially those who like Silla maids and are gunslingers.

Speaking of which, Zhang Tiancheng is also to blame, once when he was drinking and eating hot pot with a few of his closest subordinates, he was a little drunk and forgot his identity and leaked his mouth.

"In this era, a local tyrant who does not have a Silla maid Kunlun slave is not a real tyrant."

just said this casually after drinking, and then Silla and Kunlun Nu became completely famous in Nanling, and the fire was a mess.

……

At the year-end summary meeting, the heads of various departments gathered together, and the atmosphere was quite warm.

It's not because the lord issued a big year-end bonus, but because the Nanling power group finally has its own official country name, called: China ......

With a country, there is a king, and originally a large group of subordinates still wanted to surround Zhang Tiancheng and directly claim the emperor, but in Zhang Tiancheng's opinion, it is only a million kilometers of land, and it is really a little embarrassing to be called the emperor.

Although Wang Shichong's territory is smaller than his own, Lin Shihong is about to be destroyed, and he dares to call himself the emperor, then Li Yuan has even been crowned the prince.

But no matter what others do, Zhang Tiancheng is not in a hurry to be the emperor anyway, but the title of overlord that was originally only circulated among the people was directly turned positive, but the word was slightly changed to King Wu.

Although this title is actually not very suitable, the lord is not in a hurry to call the king the emperor, and has always regarded himself as the lord of the city.

“…… That's all for today's meeting, tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve, and I wish you all a happy new year. After speaking, he stood up directly, and everyone also stood up and saluted, wishing the New Year in unison, and said polite words.

It wasn't until Zhang Tiancheng and Kou Zhong left the conference hall that many officials left the conference room in groups, and the most discussed was why the lord wanted to build a huge East China Sea Fleet to attack overseas island countries, but he was unwilling to go north to compete in the Central Plains.

The current state of China, in fact, has much stronger war potential than Li Tang, and the Yangzhou generation north of the Yangtze River and the abyss of Li Tang's base camp, if he wants to attack, Li Tang can't stop it at all.

As long as you gain a firm foothold in Yangzhou and use the heavy crossbow array of the Chinese Legion to stand alone in the world, there is no strength to stop it, especially the kind of war with the Central Plains.

Everyone was very puzzled, and Kou Zhong was also puzzled, so he followed Zhang Tiancheng back to the City Lord's Mansion together.

"Zhong Shao, is this something on your mind?"

“…… Ling Shao, what do you think? Kou Zhong asked thoughtlessly.

"What do you think?"

"That's why do you want to build the East China Sea Fleet and go all the way to capture the Wa country, then it's completely thankless to do, it's far better to take Yangzhou first...... I can guarantee that a very small sacrifice of soldiers will be able to take Yangzhou. ”

"It's better for the island country to be included in the territory as soon as possible, and as for attacking the north, there is no need to rush."

"But after a long time, maybe Li Tang can also make a large steel repeater, once they also popularize the repeater, our advantage will be greatly reduced."

"Calm, if you want to say that you are good at leading troops to fight and charge, but when it comes to operating farming, I dare to call myself second, no one dares to call it first, as time goes by, the gap between Li Tang and us will only get bigger and bigger."

"But I only see that his territory is expanding rapidly, and he has already taken Jiayuguan, the gateway to the northwest, and in terms of territory area alone, it is twice as large as ours."

"Only the territory is useless, population, financial resources, material resources, and most importantly, why do we already have a certain industrial system, with industrial civilization to deal with the civilization of agricultural nomadism, there is no suspense in the war!"

"You mean we're winning?"

"Of course...... Do you know how many times our steel production is that of Li Tang? ”

"It's more than a hundred times worse, but steel is that important?"

"Of course, it's not just steel, let me tell you, they can produce hundreds of steel crossbows in the time it takes us to produce them."

Zhang Tiancheng didn't say that in fact, the steel repeater was just a weapon used in the transitional period, and it was really powerful that the musket cannon was being secretly developed, but those things were still in a state of high secrecy for the time being.

"We're producing so fast? It seems that there are not many workers either. ”

"You haven't been to the new factory yet, it's also equipped with a steam engine."

"Well, I've been a little busy lately."

"I'm busy with that Shang Xiufang, I'm going to talk to me."

"Why, I'm just going to listen to the music."

"Brother, what are you pretending to be in front of me, but I really don't understand, why can't you be nice to Miss Song?"

“…… She likes you......" After hesitating and finally saying it, Zhang Tiancheng was surprised and even dropped the teacup.

"Zhong Shao, are you in the water in your brain?"

"She always compliments you in front of me."

"I'll go, you two are really stupid and stupid, it's a perfect match. Let's go, don't stay with me, hurry back to your general's mansion, and buy some gifts to coax her. ”

"What to buy?"

"How do I know, if I want to go, I also have to go and prepare some gifts for Sister Qingxuan, don't bother me."

said that he directly blasted Kou Zhong out, of course, the main reason was that Zhang Tiancheng wanted to go back to the backyard early and spend more time with Sister Qingxuan, no matter how tired of being with Sister Qingxuan, it was much more comfortable than being with a big man.

However, as soon as I entered the backyard, I not only saw Shi Qingxuan and Shan Wanjing, but also saw Fu Junwu and Fu Junyu, and I also felt an indescribable apprehension in my heart.

“…… That, Jun Wu Jun Yu girl, I haven't seen you for a long time, can you two come in? Although he was a little apprehensive, he took the initiative to walk over and say hello, and he could vaguely feel the sword-like gaze cast by Shi Qingxuan and Shan Wanjing.