There is still a month before the autumn harvest, and there is not enough coal mine, well, these two things are not next to each other.

But on Zhang Xi's side, there is still a month before the autumn harvest, he has no important official business to deal with for the time being, and the coal mine is not enough, Zhang Xi also remembered that Zhang Wei, who was thrown to the mine by him to be responsible for organizing the miners to mine, thought that it was okay anyway, so he went around the mine and met Zhang Wei.

When he arrived near the mine, Zhang Xi did not find Zhang Wei's mansion, but found a military camp. Well?! Barrack?!

Although I know that Zhang Wei is managing these miners and mining refugees in a semi-military management way, isn't the barracks a bit too much?!

Anyway, I also reported it to myself, otherwise I would suddenly have thousands of more soldiers under my command but I didn't know, how could I explain myself in front of General Guan?!

Zhang Xi remained silent, took Deng Ai and more than a dozen guards, and slowly approached the barracks. Then he was stopped by the guards guarding the door.

"The mining area is important, and outsiders are not allowed to trespass!"

Yes, it really stopped.

Although these two gatekeepers are holding wooden sticks in their hands, not ordnance, they are especially soldiers if they change to Changge, right?!

And ah. What kind of "heavy land" is your coal mining camp?!

For a while, Zhang Xi didn't know whether to exaggerate and "govern the army in a good way", or whether to scold this product for "raising private soldiers".

Zhang Xi revealed his identity, asked the "soldier" guarding the door to report, and asked Zhang Wei to come to see him.

Soon, Zhang Wei hurriedly ran out of the camp and took Zhang Xi to the camp.

Zhang Xi took this opportunity to carefully observe the so-called "mining area" established by Zhang Wei.

It is even said that except for the lack of armor, it is no different from ordinary soldiers.

They don't need to issue weapons, these miners just come with iron hoes, and their combat effectiveness will not be much weaker than that of the bandits and barbarians.

It's a taboo. This Zhang Boqi!!

Fortunately, I saw it myself today, and this is a different person. Huh? No, the second master suddenly asked himself to urge Zhang Wei to do the iron ore, is it really that simple? !

Don't someone have already gone to the second master to sue Diao, the second master looks at Zhang Xi's face, let Zhang Xi deal with this matter, right?!

The more Zhang Xi thinks about it, the more likely it is.

Therefore, after arriving in the camp, Zhang Xi looked at Zhang Wei with a gloomy face and without saying a word.

Zhang Wei is also a little weak-hearted. Zhang Xi arrived suddenly, and Zhang Wei probably guessed a little reason.

Although the mines in these years are still nominally owned by the state, the families on the surface of Jingzhou have not been less secretly engaged in some mining work.

Of course, iron ore is a taboo thing, and the families don't have that much courage in the end, but coal mines, logging and burning charcoal, this kind of thing can still be mined secretly in a half-open manner.

And after Zhang Wei came, he didn't care what these Jingzhou families thought, anyway, Lao Tzu was from Yizhou.

So, after integrating the miners and training a little, Zhang Wei drove away all the "suspicious" people in this coal mine.

Then, there will be people who will keep coming to find trouble, including but not limited to local family slaves, local county orders, and the history of the ore in charge.

These people were all ignored by Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei also had to do this.

He is a native of Yizhou, in charge of mining, and has more than 3,000 miners under his command. If you are good friends with the local family, this matter is going to get out, what will Zhang Xi and Guan Yu think? !

Therefore, Zhang Wei can only completely offend these people and make himself a person who is isolated in the local area, so that people can rest assured.

But Zhang Wei can ignore those people, and he can't ignore Zhang Xi.

Zhang Xi is the one who promoted and reused him, and it is also the person who asked him to manage these miners, and now Zhang Wei is doing those things, if he causes trouble for Zhang Xi, Zhang Wei doesn't want to.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived at the Zhongjun account, Zhang Wei took the initiative to tell Zhang Xi everything about his work this year.

The more Zhang Xi listened, the more his face softened. Zhang Wei's approach is right, if he hadn't done this, probably Guan Yu would not have given himself face.

But Zhang Wei did something wrong, this kind of thing should be ventilated to himself in advance, otherwise even if he wants to protect Zhang Wei, he can't do anything without knowing it.

Zhang Xi estimates that those families have already sued Guan Yu, and even Guan Yu may have sent someone to investigate, and today to let Zhang Xi come over is probably to let Zhang Xi give him a reasonable explanation.

What can Zhang Xi do, except for telling Zhang Wei to increase mining efforts and supply coal mines, he didn't say anything else.

Back in Jiangling City, Zhang Xi went to Guan Yu's mansion and reported that he had recruited 3,000 Xiangyong and had no place to settle them for the time being, so he arranged for them to go to coal mining.

Guan Yu squinted at Zhang Xi and was silent for a while before telling Zhang Xi that it was not the three thousand Xiangyong, but the miners from the five thousand iron mines, and let that Zhang Wei take care of it.

Let this guy urge coal and iron ores, this thing only thinks of coal mines, right?!

Can't this thing even notice this little bit of caution?!

In the past half a year, there have been more and more coal mines, but less and less iron ore, does this guy think that he wants him to hold Zhang Wei accountable? !

That is to let Zhang Wei stop taking care of the coal mines, and organize the iron ore camp for me, these half-soldier miners can be a good source of soldiers when necessary.

Regarding the coal mine, there are still people who dare to find themselves to complain, but if Zhang Wei is also in charge of iron ore, Guan Yu will have to take a look, which fool who doesn't open his eyes dares to make irresponsible remarks.

Even iron ore dares to worry, are you planning to rebel?!

By the way, the second master said that this Zhang Wei, after he also established the iron mine camp, don't put it in the place, this kind of talent should be placed in the army, in order to reflect his value.

It just so happens that there is also a shortage of people on the second master's side, especially the generals who can take charge alone, and finally found a good seedling, and the second master doesn't want Zhang Xi to waste his value.

As for Zhang Wei's successor. Guan Yu asked Zhang Xi to watch it.

Zhang Xi didn't object to Guan Yu's appointment, but it was. Zhang Wei is now a county Sima, you can ask people to go over, but you can't give people the title of captain, and lead one or two thousand people to fool you

Guan Yu's eyes widened and his hand waved. Zhang Xi was once again kicked out of his mansion by Guan Yu.

Hawkers, second master. Never mind.

Anyway, after saying such a thing, the second master must not treat Zhang Wei badly.

After Zhang Xi returned to his mansion, he immediately asked Deng Ai to write and ordered Zhang Wei to take charge of the two mines and set up an iron mine camp as soon as possible.

As for the successor after Zhang Wei, Deng Ai is eager to try, and he wants to recommend himself.

Don't forget, Deng Ai's ambition is in the army, and he has a lot of interest in the art of war, and he is naturally very interested in leading troops to fight.

In terms of the art of war, Zhang Xidong has taught some with a hammer and a stick in the west, and Xu Shu has also helped Deng Ai find some systematic military books for Deng Ai to learn.

However, over the years, Deng Ai has been helping Zhang Xi deal with state and county documents, and he is becoming more and more like a civil official.

This made Deng Ai quite disappointed.

It's not that I don't want to deal with paperwork, it's mainly . I'm not here.

But Master's order is Master's order in the end, and Deng Ai will not disobey it. But if there is a chance to practice, Deng Ai still wants to give it a try.

So, Deng Ai begged Zhang Xi to let him go with Zhang Wei, he could be Zhang Wei's deputy and help him set up a mine camp.

On the one hand, I can accept practical training, and on the other hand, I can also learn the actual use of the art of war with Zhang Wei.

Because of Zhang Xi's ear and face, Deng Ai was somewhat tainted with some of his master's "caution", although he also consciously read military books, but in order not to become Zhao Kuo, Deng Ai was still very careful to seek various opportunities for practice, and did not ask to lead the troops to fight as soon as he came up.

However, Zhang Xi felt a little wrong.

Deng Ai in history, but he could even think of a risky strategy such as smuggling through Yinping, and his opponents were Liu Chan and Zhuge Zhan, so he made a miraculous achievement of destroying the country.

But whoever guards Mianzhu is Liu Xun, and Deng Ai has to suffocate to death in Shu.

Well, that's not the point, the point is - why is Deng Ai, who was bold and capable in history, so careful now, that he even has to ask himself so carefully to form a township brave volunteer camp? !

Well. Could it be my pot?!

Looking back, it seems that over the years, due to various reasons, I have been using Deng Ai as a civil official. It seems that this kid's growth has been delayed a bit

This kid is an adult, and he should marry the tiger girl of the Guan family next year, is it difficult for the second master to succeed because Deng Ai is a civil official, so he has always looked down on Deng Ai in every way? !

It's not impossible, the second master's character, the civil officials can get along well with him, probably Ma Liang, the qualifications of Iraq are so old, and the second master also loves to ignore them.

After thinking about it, Zhang Xi felt that it was better not to let Deng Ai get involved with Zhang Wei blindly.

Although Zhang Wei set up a camp in the mining area, in the final analysis, those were still miners, not regular soldiers.

Deng Ai is not without this relationship and opportunity, since he wants to go to the army for training, let Deng Ai go to Guan Yu's army.

No matter how much you can't look down on it, Deng Ai is always Guan Yu's future son-in-law, and Guan Yu takes care of it, isn't Deng Ai better than going to mess with Zhang Wei?!

Therefore, Zhang Xi suggested that Deng Ai should serve in Guan Yu's army.

But Xiao Deng Ai's face changed for a long time, and he still refused.

What else do you say about nonsense such as "the big husband is famous, he should take it for himself" Without me, the master, the boy is still in Runan as a Tuntian.

But Zhang Xi also understands Xiao Deng Ai.

The second master can't look down on Xiao Deng Ai, and with Xiao Deng Ai's strong self-esteem, he obviously won't be willing to rely on the second master's blessing to train in the army.

It will be said that it is a meritorious work that only has a relational household.

Since this is the case, Zhang Xi is not reluctant, so he wrote another document and a private letter to Zhang Wei, and sent Xiao Deng Ai to be Zhang Wei's companion.

After Zhang Wei was transferred to Guan Yu's army, the 5,000 miners were handed over to Xiao Deng Ai to take over.

This can be regarded as satisfying Xiao Deng Ai's wishes.

But there's a point. Zhang Xi has no master book again.

(End of chapter)