"What did you say!"

When the two pro-soldiers heard this, they stood up and were about to go to him to theorize.

Bai Zhixin held them one in one hand and pressed them to a stool.

There's no need to worry about this little thing.

Zuo Zongtang raised his eyebrows and looked at it, only to realize that there were four young people sitting at the table next to him, all of whom were twenty-four or five years old.

They had all cut off their braids, and must have grown their hair for a long time, and their hair was tied up and dressed as scholars.

It was one of the scholars who spoke just now.

To be reasonable, there are more than 20 military men on his side.

Even if Zuo Zongtang was originally from a lifting background, he is no longer an ordinary scholar in the army all these years.

These scholars dare to speak disrespectfully to themselves, and I have to say that they are really a bit bold.

At best, this is called impatience and righteousness, and it is called that the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

To put it mildly, it is stunned.

But well, if you don't want to be angry, you still call it a young man?

Zuo Zongtang looked at them, as if he saw himself forty years ago, who was unparalleled in his eloquence in various parts of Hunan and looked down on the heroes of the world.

Zuo Zongtang asked with a smile: "Dare to ask who the little brothers are and where are they going?" ”

The scholar at the head asked rhetorically: "Uncle, look at your dress, are you from Xichu?" ”

Zuo Zongtang smiled: "Exactly." ”

"No wonder, I heard that the soldiers of Western Chu have 30% of the regular silver of the soldiers of the Ming Royal Army, of which 50,000 Ming armed troops are even more ...... according to the Ming Dynasty."

One of the chubby scholars sighed, "It's a pity that our four talented people in Bazhong were not born in Jiangnan, otherwise we would have to come to a pen from Rong, maybe now we are also a school captain!" ”

Zuo Zongtang looked at his ball-like belly and was noncommittal.

However, Bazhong ...... Did it turn out to be from Sichuan?

No wonder I listened to the accent just now, and it didn't look like a native of Longzhong.

In the process of recovering the Western Regions, Zuo Zongtang had been stationed and trained in Longzhong for nearly a year, and he still had a lot of feelings for this place.

"A few little brothers, Sichuan is the land of abundance, the climate is pleasant, and the products are abundant, why did you come to this bitter place to eat wind and drink sand?"

Zuo Zongtang asked this question, and he was also moved.

Historically, when Zuo Zongtang was stationed here, he once described it in a note to the Manchu court: "Longzhong is bitter and barren in the world."

As an old minister who has fought for half the world, Zuo Zongtang has seen countless homeless people, hungry people, and changed people.

He has been to many poor places in the red land.

Even he said that this "Longzhong is poor and poor in the world", then most of them are in the world.

It is reasonable to find it difficult to attract any outsiders in such a place, and even if there are businessmen who come and go, most of them are dusty and do not want to stay for a moment.

But along the way, Zuo Zongtang found that today's popularity in Longzhong seems to be much more prosperous.

Even not long ago, he met a group of young people admiring the snow.

Zuo Zongtang sat in the carriage and glanced at it hurriedly, in fact, he was not very sure whether those young people wearing uniform blue uniforms and orange and yellow round helmets were really admiring the snow.

The elegant thing of appreciating the snow has always been the exclusive property of rich and idle literati, which is really difficult to match with the impression of Longzhong.

Of course, whenever there is a snowy weather, the power people who are struggling on the front line of repair, knowing Zuo Zongtang's thoughts, will definitely vomit three liters of blood.

When the four great talents of Naba Middle School heard Zuo Zongtang's words, they all burst out laughing.

After laughing for a while, they said, "Uncle, you may have been away from the Central Plains for too long!" ”

"Since seven years ago, in the two major battles of Xi'an and Lanzhou, Prince Zuo and Governor Zhao have killed everyone in the Hu Dynasty, and they have also killed a peaceful and prosperous era in this land of Ganshan!"

"After that, the Ming Dynasty reopened the Ganxi Governor's Mansion here, and put Shaanxi and Gansu back under the rule of the Ming Dynasty......"

"This is a terrible thing, you must know that in the entire Shenzhou, if you don't count the Ming Lijian Concession in Shanghai, Ganshan is the first promised place to fly the Sun and Moon Flag again in the Eight Classics, nearly a year earlier than the Tianjin Ming Concession and Jinling Special Demonstration Zone, and six years earlier than other places!"

"Six years! Do you know that the Great Tomorrow Son has only taken six years since the Vacant Mountain Bone Dragon Incident to recover half of the country, and it took six years, with the power of the Ming Dynasty, how could he not build another plug in the south of the Yangtze River in Longzhong? ”

"As the so-called step first, step by step, today's Longzhong has already reproduced the grand scene of the Qin and Han dynasties!"

Listening to a few scholars, talking about the changes in Longzhong in the past few years, Zuo Zongtang just smiled at first.

After all, they are talking about things that they have experienced.

Especially when they talked about how the prince of Zuo was so powerful that he saved the western part of China from hanging upside down, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

After all, if a husband stands in the world, shouldn't he be an immortal man with a three-foot sword and be praised by all the people!

Zuo Zongtang didn't love money all his life, but he can't say that he doesn't love fame.

Of course, what he loves is not a false name, but a real name that can be remembered for centuries.

Now that the wish has been fulfilled, it should be a big white one!

Just listening and listening, Zuo Zongtang couldn't understand what the scholars said later.

It's not that Zuo Zongtang doesn't know how to govern places.

Judging by the standards of a Manchu feudal official, Zuo Zongtang's ability to govern the local area was by no means below his military ability.

But he couldn't figure it out anyway, how could Da Ming turn such a ghost place into a plugged Jiangnan?

"What, did Da Ming bring water from the south?" Zuo Zongtang said an idea that he had heard Zhao Xizhu mention.

"Uh...... Not really. ”

The scholar shook his head and said, "It is said that Dr. Sha Jingfang once personally came here to inspect in a fat-headed fish airship, and it is too difficult to cut through the mountains and lead the water from the south to the north, which is not something that our generation can do." ”

"The implication is that there is hope for the next generation?"

Zuo Zongtang was taken aback.

Many years ago, he heard Zhao Xizhu say that the Shengshang envisioned in the "Founding Strategy" that 100,000 reservoirs would be built in the whole of Shenzhou, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River would be cut off with dams, and the water from the south would be diverted to the north.

At that time, Zuo Zongtang listened to it completely as a book from heaven, or even a joke.

But now he knew that what the saint said was serious.

He even sent a doctor surnamed Sha to investigate!

Having said that, that Dr. Sha's name seems to be the same as Li Shaoquan's eldest son, and I don't know what happened to that kid.

Li Hongzhang's eldest son, Zuo Zongtang once instructed him in some poems.

It's a wooden boy, and I'm afraid I'm going to have something to do in literature in this life.

Now I'm afraid that I won't be abused by Li Shaoquan!

Shaking his head, Zuo Zongtang withdrew his thoughts from the old man, and asked, "A few little brothers, you haven't said it yet, why did you come to Longzhong?" Didn't you come to build roads? ”

The leading scholar replied: "Hey, old man, don't listen to the fat man's nonsense, we can't carry it on our shoulders and can't lift it in our hands, where is the material for being a soldier?" Not to mention being a soldier, even being a road construction worker is also the kind of ...... that eats a lot and does little work."

"And who are you?" Zuo Zongtang said curiously.

"Uncle, times have changed!"

The leading scholar said with a smile, "In the past, it didn't hurt to be a worker and farmer, and it didn't hurt to know a single big word, as long as you had the strength to do it, but now, working for the Long Live Lord, it is not okay to be illiterate, and the Long Live Lord said that it is necessary to improve the quality of the working population."

To put it simply, several large enterprises and factories and mines in Longzhong today all need workers who are out of blindness.

Workers are good at recruiting, with the treatment of emperor-run enterprises, from Xi'an to Jiayuguan, where are there no poor people who are willing to work hard?

But it is difficult to get rid of the illiteracy of workers.

Don't hide it from my father-in-law, where are the four of us who are the four great talents in Bazhong, in fact, they are four children who are enlightened to young children, and they didn't even get into Xiucai.

But because they all have their own abilities and have a high level of enlightenment, they were hired by the Changqing branch of Royal Petroleum as a teacher, responsible for opening a crash course in literacy for new employees. ”

"Royal Petroleum Changqing Branch?"

Zuo Zongtang also heard about this company.

A lot of gasoline and diesel ordered by Xichu seem to be this brand.

Even Zuo Zongtang himself has a blue umbrella with the words "Royal Petroleum Changqing Branch" written on it.

Because the quality is very good and it is not bad for a long time, Zuo Zongtang has been using it until now, and he is put on the carriage.

The leading scholar said with pride: "That's right, our Changqing Oilfield is the lifeblood of the Northwest." Zuo Wang Ye passed through Khorasan, fought with the Rakshasa Ghost and Yingyi, and used a lot of oil, many of which were produced by our company, which saved a lot of Pacific oil tanker carrying capacity for Long Live Lord.

Uncle, I see that you are taking a carriage all the way, it is really outdated, and in a few months, the Lanzhou Automobile Factory will be put into production, and you may be able to take our own pickup truck back to the mainland!

In short, Long Live Lord said that as long as the Western Regions are not lost for a day, and China does not retreat to the east of the Green Ridge for a day, then the Ganlong Land will not be weakened for a day.

Although the natural conditions here are a little worse, people will win the day, and the natural conditions can be transformed.

Longzhong is to the Western Regions, to Khorasan, and even to the important role of Xianbeilia, which no one can replace.

Lanzhou will become the hub and waist of the Ming Dynasty's transportation in the west, which is the pearl of the West, the waist of the Ming Dynasty, the cornerstone of the Western Regions and the Western Chu! ”

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