Cui Zhou followed Zhou Chang out of the wine shop, only to see that Zhou Chang had already stood by the iron-smelting shop and leaned over to ask what was going on, the man who struck iron stood naked in front of a huge stove and leaned over to listen to Zhou Chang speak, leaning on the stove so close that the man's forehead was dripping with sweat, and Zhou Chang was muttering. The wrinkles on Zhou Chang's face stretched for a while, crowded for a while, and nodded again and again, as if he had finished asking, he gave the man a slight stroke, and turned to look at the pottery workshop next to him.

"Zhou Xiang—" Cui Zhou immediately followed. Zhou Chang turned his head in response and said with a smile, "Have you drunk enough sorghum for fifteen years?" Cui Zhou smiled lightly, "With only a couple of wine, the servant is a little drunk." Cui Zhou immediately stopped smiling and asked solemnly, "Does Zhou Xiang want to buy pottery and ironware?" Zhou Chang was slightly stunned and waved his hand with a smile, "If Guo Zong is still there, this street will be surnamed Guo, hehe." Pottery and ironware are all auxiliary industries of Zhao State, Zhao State's iron-smelting technology is well-known all over the world, a certain party asked the iron-smelting worker something, Cui Gong then listened to the set of '噌', '嚚', 'dong' 'da' sound, most of which is the sound of copper smelting and iron smelting. A certain party has only seen the agricultural tools they made, such as the ravine, which are well-made and simple and practical, and they are also very sophisticated to make the halberd, and Zhao Guo's weapons will never be worried. Cui Zhou smiled, and looked back to see that most of them were iron-smelting and copper smelting shops, and the men's 'yo hey' shouts from the shop echoed on this narrow set, a group of thriving, Cui Zhou smiled and secretly admired Zhou Chang for associating the small iron-smelting shop with the production of national weapons, and really admired Zhou Chang as a person.

Zhao's iron smelting and copper industry has long been famous in the Warring States Period, especially when King Zhao Wuling, the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period fought for years in order to annex small and weak countries, in order to compete for more living space and control over the subject countries, they have achieved the improvement of national strength through reform of the law, handicrafts, agriculture, iron smelting and copper smelting industry have been vigorously developed, and commerce has become more active. After King Wuling of Zhao passed through the Hufu cavalry shooting, the domestic industry was greatly enhanced, and the national strength increased rapidly, becoming the only country that could compete with the Qin State. Zhao's iron smelting and copper industry developed rapidly at this time, and iron ore and copper mines such as Wu'an Iron Mine, Hongshan Mine, Fenghuangshan Mine and other mines were excavated. In the late Warring States period, there were already iron smelting rich Jia Guo Zong, Zhuo Shi and other smelters and casters known as the "King of Fuqi". After the prosperity and development of the Warring States period, the iron smelting and copper industry of Zhao Guoye was inherited in the early Han Dynasty, and the iron smelting technology of the world was the first to recommend Zhao Guo.

After a cursory understanding of Zhao Guoji, Zhou Chang strode leisurely towards the entrance of the street. Cui Zhou said, "Zhou Xiang, are we going back?" Zhou Chang shook his head, then smiled mysteriously, and pointed to a gray cloth cattle driveway not far from the street, "Drive for me." Cui Zhoufang was puzzled and listened to Zhou Changdao again, "Have the previous two Zhao kings gone out of the city to inspect?" Cui Zhou said, "The two kings of Zhao love the people like sons, and if there is no major event every month, they will personally go out of the city to inspect the nearby cities and villages in order to draw a plan for the development of the country in the coming year. Zhou Chang slapped his hands and smiled, praised the achievements of the original Zhang Er Zhang Ao father and son to Zhao Guo, and stroked Cui Zhou and said, "So calling you out today is to guide me the way, and walk through the places where the two Zhao kings often visit, and also go through the villages that are infrequent and dilapidated and unable to pay the calculations, this is the task for you to come out with me." Cui Zhou immediately raised his eyebrows, and replied with both hands open and neat, "Listen to Zhou's dispatch." After saying that, he stretched out his hand and said, "Zhou Xiang, please first." Zhou Chang smiled and walked quickly to the ox cart, lifted the curtain and got into the car.

Cui Zhou drove around the village near Zhao Wangcheng, and Zhou Chang never lowered the curtain along the way, and saw everything on the road in his eyes. The car went a short distance on a rough road, and the sides of the road were full of summer flowers, dancing in the wind. A short distance later, I heard a man's masculine singing in the distance, "The bright flowers on the ridge are hey, the sorghum gills in the field are hey, and the red face is hey-" The song is majestic and masculine, Zhou Changgang felt that the song was thick and joyful as soon as he heard it, so he immediately sat up straight and looked for the source of the sound outside the car curtain, and sure enough, in the field not far in front of the road, there were three men, old, middle and young, and a middle-aged woman and a bright flower girl in the sorghum field hoeing, and the five people were wearing shabby clothes, Those five faces were all filled with joyful smiles. The middle-aged woman put down the hoe to a stone on the ridge, there was a cloth bag next to the stone, the middle-aged woman took out a yellow-faced nest from the cloth bag and smiled lovingly and gave it to the young boy to eat, and then took three of them to the elderly man and the middle-aged man and the young girl, she only drank saliva but kept smiling, the middle-aged man broke half of the nest in his hand, and the woman only smiled and waved her hand but never took it. The red sun was shining, and the middle-aged man was sweating on his forehead, and the middle-aged woman hurriedly took out the towel on her chest and stepped forward to wipe the sweat for the man.

Zhou Chang smiled at this scene, and felt that he was full of confidence and wanted to make a career for Zhao Guo and expand the happy life of these five people to all Zhao people. When the ox cart traveled to the edge of a village called Caisang Village, Zhou Chang immediately laughed, the name of Caisang Village is as it is, the village is surrounded by mulberry trees, dense mulberry leaves are green, like hiding the mulberry village makes the small and beautiful village look looming outside, from the outside only hear the woman's laughter and the sound of the loom of 'dangchang', the loom squeaks like weaving the joy of Caisang Village. Cui Zhou asked Zhou Chang if he went into the village to have a look, Zhou Chang shook his head and said that he knew the harmony of the village and the simplicity of the villagers when he heard the sound, so he asked Cui Zhou to continue walking, Zhou Chang really saw through the gap in the mulberry leaves that there were dozens of women gathered in a place with flowers and plants and laughing and weaving, which was extremely elegant. When Fang was in Zhou Chang's admiration of Caisang Village, a sound of horses' hooves came from the front of the ox cart, Zhou Chang raised his neck to look forward, only to see three or five weak-crowned young men galloping on horseback, the young man's eyebrows were clear and his horse skills were superb, and he seemed to have some sense of competition. Zhou Chang had time to look closer, and saw the teenagers pass by the ox cart like a gust of wind, Zhou Chang reversed the direction and continued to chase the back of the teenager, but those teenagers stopped at the entrance of Caisang Village, and then they dismounted with superb skills and neatness, and the teenagers led the horses into the village with a smile on their faces. The vigorous and neat dismounting movements of the teenagers made Zhou Chang marvel, "Zhao Guo still has such a good family, it is a pity that such a young man is not a soldier." ”

Cui Zhou said with a smile, "Zhou Xiang is all for the country." Nineteen miles ahead, there is a small collection called Handan Collection, and the main commodities on Handan Collection are ironware and silk cloth. Caisang Village, which we passed through was originally a dilapidated small village, with less than 50 villagers, and when King Zhang Er Zhao inspected this place, he admired the lush mulberry leaves and the population was not large, so he forcibly moved 100 households from Handan City to Caisang Village to develop the silk weaving industry here. In order to solve the sale of silk fabrics, it is connected with Handan set nineteen miles away, Zhou Xiang does not know, there is an open space called Pigeon Terrace not far from Handan Set, there is only grass and not crops within a radius of dozens of miles, so some people raise horses and graze in Pigeon Terrace. King Zhang Er Zhao rented the horses of Pigeon Tai to the three or five teenagers in the form of lease, and ordered them to go to Caisang Village in person every spring and summer to contact the sale of silk and satin cloth, and the price could be according to the price on the set. King Zhang Er Zhao wanted to connect the dilapidated Caisang Village with Handanji in order to develop the economy of the two places, and the result was really extraordinary, and the women of Caisang Village gathered in one place to raise silkworms and weave cloth after they were busy with farm work. This policy has been followed by Zhang Er, Zhang Ao, and Zhao Wang, so the young man Zhou Xiang saw just now was the one who went to Caisang Village to contact the people who sold silk and satin cloth. Zhou Xiang didn't know that the original 150 households in Caisang Village had increased to 390 households. ”

Zhou Chang opened his mouth in surprise after hearing what Cui Zhou said, his face was full of surprise, only knowing that Zhang Er died early and soon after, only knowing that Zhang Ao had committed the crime of assassinating the emperor, but he didn't know that Zhao Guo was so prosperous in his hands, and he nodded deeply and praised after a long time, "This is Ming Jun's statecraft." Then he immediately said, "Cui Gong has already said Handanji, so he won't go, I already understand." Go to the most dilapidated village to see, and I have to learn the strategy of the first two Ming kings. ”

"Okay." Cui Zhou whipped the back of the bull as soon as he answered, turned his head and smiled at Zhou Chang, "Zhou Xiang, sit down, let's go to Jiangyao Village." ”