Jiang Feng lit the first fire for the reopening of the Shouzhou kiln. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As the flames rose, the blazing firelight reflected on Jiang Feng's red face and satisfied smile, which seemed to confirm that the Shouzhou porcelain kiln was about to enter the stage of revival again.

For Jiang Feng, the reconstruction and resumption of work of Shouzhou porcelain kiln is too important, it will become one of the two pillars of the future development and growth of the Huaiyou Army, in addition to building the two states of Shouzhou into the granary of Huaishang, Shouzhou porcelain kiln will also take on the important task of earning back a large amount of military funds for Huaiyou in the future.

The news that Wang Miao came back from Heshuo startled Jiang Feng.

Wang Miao said in the letter that although it had not yet been completely finalized, the Heshuo armies that could confidently persuade the south to Huaiyou already had five or six thousand men and horses, of which the number of cavalry troops accounted for more than half.

It's just that the equipment of these cavalry is relatively pitiful, not only only has only one war horse per capita, but also the necessary equipment such as horse lance, horizontal knife, and war armor is basically incomplete, and it costs a lot to make up for these war horses and weapons and armor equipment.

As for the remaining thousands of infantry troops, Jiang Feng welcomes them as well, Heshuo has always produced male soldiers, but the Heshuo army has always been a problem in terms of military discipline, but to a large extent it is due to the problem of the management and training of the three towns of Heshuo.

As long as Huaiyou comes, Jiang Feng is sure that these Heshuo soldiers will keep their original unruly and bloody nature, and let them temper them into an elite soldier who is forbidden by order.

Wang Miao is still active in Heshuo, according to his own prediction, he will try to persuade two or three thousand troops to come south, the current situation in Heshuo is very bad, and for Huaiyou, this is the best opportunity.

Most of these armies are soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles against the Hedong Great Jin or the Khitan and Tuyuhun people, even if they are declining day by day because of the poor situation in the past few years, but they are still bloody, as long as they are slightly replenished, these armies can quickly recover to the best state if they are retrained again.

In the letter, Wang Miao also talked about some of the troubles that might arise from the southward movement of these troops.

First, such a large group of troops going south, even if the branch goes south, they need to consider how to pass through, maybe Heshuo can communicate and coordinate through the Daliang side, but it also needs to pass through Caizhou or Huaibei, which is also a problem.

The second is the family members involved in these armies, most of them are still in the northern states of Lulong, and a considerable part of them may go south to Huaiyou, and some will stay in the local area, which also needs to be coordinated with Lulong's side through the Great Liang.

Third, the arrival of these troops in Huaiyou will greatly increase the financial pressure on Huaiyou, which is already very tight.

At present, it is no longer possible for Huaiyou to get money and grain support from Daliang, Nanyang and Hubei as it did more than a year ago.

Nanyang has become an enemy, and Ehuang's attitude towards Huaiyou is also changing, from the original ally to the current doubts, as for Daliang, although he still maintains an ally, but with the close relationship between Huaiyou and Guanzhong, Daliang's attitude towards Huaiyou is also a little unpredictable.

Without external support, you can only rely on yourself, and fortunately there is the support of Persian Hu businessmen, but this support is based on the premise that the situation of Huaiyou should be good, and at the same time, there must be enough resources to make Hu businessmen tempted.

For the Hu merchants, the rebuilt Shouzhou porcelain kiln is undoubtedly the most important collateral.

As long as the Shouzhou porcelain kiln continues to burn Shouzhou porcelain, then the Hu merchants are willing to provide a steady stream of military funds for the Huaiyou Army, whether it is war horses or money and silver.

Jiang Feng, who came from that time and space, knew very well the relationship between good finance and military strength, even in the era of cold weapons, the farming dynasty with strong financial strength could compete with the nomadic army with super mobility from the northern grasslands.

He also realized that the era he was facing now was different from any era in his original time and space, the rise and even prosperity of the magic group was already subtly changing the laws of war, and the development of the magic group was particularly important to the demand for funds.

The current Shouzhou, if it is just a simple granary, even if it wants to support a complete one-box army, it is impossible, and if the Shouzhou kiln can be completely rejuvenated and let it return to the glorious era, then it is not impossible to support the one-box army, even the two-box army.

If the commercial port of Shouchun can be brought into full play and become a real material distribution center in the Huaishui Basin, then everything will not be a problem.

Zheng Ju's eyes were also jumping, and he didn't have the slightest look of illness in the past.

The return of the housekeeper and the reconstruction of the Shouzhou kiln undoubtedly made the weight of the Zheng family much heavier in front of the defense guard in front of him, and it can be seen from the posture of the defense guard that the master personally participated in the ignition of the kiln.

At present, Shouzhou is still under military control, but it is said that the defense envoy has written to Guanzhong, asking the imperial court to adjust the appointment and dismissal of Shouzhou officials.

Shi Chenwei, the head of the defense and arrest envoy, went to Chang'an, and he should have consulted with the imperial court on the personnel of Shouzhou Assassin Shi, Changshi, Sima and Liucao Judge.

If there is no accident, Zheng Ju knew that he might be the governor of Shouzhou, and Zheng Ju originally intended to let Zheng Hong serve as him, but Jiang Feng vetoed this opinion, and let Zheng Hong take the post of inspector of the defense and capture embassy, which made the Zheng family inexplicably excited.

According to the system since the late Tang Dynasty, the defense and capture envoys set up one defense and capture envoy, one deputy envoy, one judge, one magistrate, and one inspector, but with the expansion of the power of the feudal town, the system collapsed, whether it was the festival envoy, the observation envoy, the branch envoy, the regimental training envoy or the defense envoy, they all quickly kept up with the festival envoy.

The subordinate officials set up by the Jiedu Envoy were also used in the Observation Envoy, the Branch Envoy, the Regiment Training Envoy, and the Defense Envoy according to the gourd painting scoop, and also derived many official positions that were not in the original Tang system of defense and capture.

Positions such as Changshi, Sima, and Yatui were originally not available in the defense and capture of the envoys, but they have long become a common practice in various places, but even so, the position of inspector is still an important position that cannot be ignored in the palace of the Jiedu Envoy.

There is no doubt that this is a reward from Jiang Feng to the Zheng family, and this reward is also meaningful, which means that the children of the Zheng family have entered the core layer of defending and guarding the envoy's mansion.

You must know that the children of the local big clans who are currently holding important positions in the defense and capture envoy's mansion, except for Chen Wei, who has been following Jiang Feng since the beginning, there is no one else, even if it is Huang, Ju, Xu and other families, no one is in charge, and Zheng Hong is the second person.

"My lord, if the twelve kilns can be built within this year, then Shouzhou porcelain can not only recover to the output of the heyday of the past, but also surpass that time, and it is not impossible for the output of Shouzhou porcelain to reach twice or even three times the heyday of the past next year. ”

Zheng Ju's words made Jiang Feng feel better.

"Hehe, Lord Zheng, this Shouzhou porcelain kiln will have you in the future, you can clearly tell the head of the Guan family, my Jiang Feng's promise will not change, and the housekeeper's share in it will not change because of the expansion of the scale of the kiln, but the housekeeper must pass on this firing technology, I don't need him to teach outsiders, whether it is the housekeeper's children, the Zheng family's children, it doesn't matter to me, as long as they can burn the best porcelain for my Huaiyou, but remember one thing, this Shouzhou porcelain firing technology can not be passed on, it can only be fired in our Shouzhou。 ”

Zheng Ju made a sudden break in his heart, and said hesitantly: "My lord, it's just that the housekeeper is over there in Tanzhou......"

Jiang Feng laughed, "Master Zheng, I don't believe that the housekeeper can completely teach the firing technique to others in a foreign country?

Zheng Ju smiled bitterly, this defensive guard is also so shrewd in these aspects, it is hard to imagine that this guy is still a young man in his early twenties, this pair of people's considerations and cautious thinking, ordinary people are afraid that it is difficult to meet in case, no wonder this person can come to such a position in the past two years.

While the two were talking, two bearded bearded men had already walked over with their eyebrows fluttering.

"Lord Jiang, Lord Zheng. ”

"Karim, Nashin, how is it? ”

These two are now the big financiers of Huaiyou, and the Persian Hu merchants they represent behind them are now the largest source of funds for Huaiyou.

The tea of Huainan, before the Middle Tang Dynasty, took Guangzhou as the top, followed by Shenzhou and Shuzhou, the two counties of Shengtang and Huoshan in Laoshou Prefecture again, and Qizhou and Huangzhou were the second, which was recorded in Lu Yu's "Book of Tea".

But in fact, with the passage of time, tea plantations around the country because of the impact of population flow and war, there are ups and downs, the tea produced in Shenzhou is good, but Shouzhou, that is, the tea produced in the Tang Dynasty and Huoshan is not bad, but the scale is not large.

With Huoqiu, Anfeng and Shouchun counties under the control of Huaiyou, especially Anfeng and Huoqiu have made it clear that they will be built into the future Huaiyou granary base, so for Shengtang and Huoshan, the pressure on their grain production is not so great, and the development of tea gardens and the export of tea have become possible.

This time, Karim and Nashin came to Suju, not only for Shouju porcelain, but also for the export of tea in Gwangju and Huju.

"Master Jiang, Shouzhou porcelain is of course urgently needed by us, but you also know that the northwest is bitter and cold, and the countries of the Western Regions are even more unhappy without tea, and the demand for tea is huge, and tea is not like porcelain, it is a daily necessity, and the annual consumption is huge, so if this Guanghu Erzhou can do something in this matter, it will naturally be a great thing. ”

In the face of the infiltration of Sogdian merchants in the Heshuo region, as well as the Tuyuhun and Khitan regions, and the expansion of the Great Food Merchants in Yangzhou, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Tanzhou, Jiangling and other places, the Persian Hu merchants had already felt great pressure, and now the emergence of the new Huaiyou feudal lord is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity.