All the smelting mines in the Great Sui are under the management of Taifu Temple, and the current Wenxi smelting kiln, the two Shaoqing of Taifu Temple are there, which shows how much the imperial court attaches importance to here.

Taifu Qing Yan Bi didn't say it, he was doing Chi Dao, when he heard about Wen Xi's matter, he was completely relieved, knowing that the errand given to him by the emperor had been successfully taken over by the crown prince.

There are no worries, so I will concentrate on supervising the construction of Chidao.

Shaoqing Yuanshou is a veteran official from an old family after all, and recently, after thoroughly inspecting the refining ground, he gave Yang Ming a very pertinent suggestion.

Build a fortress on the periphery of the refinery to protect it from bandits.

In fact, what he said was very subtle, can bandits intrude here? What kind of bandit does that have to be?

In the land east of the river, there are many wealthy families, all of which have their own private armed forces, in fact, Yuanshou alludes to these families.

In peacetime, these families will not mess around, but if there is a civil uprising or a military disaster, the Tangying Township Refining Field is undoubtedly the biggest piece of fat in the eyes of everyone, and they will inevitably find ways to take it for themselves.

Yang Ming agrees with this suggestion very much and is very necessary.

The fortress is particularly common in the north, mainly due to the rebellion at the end of the Jin Dynasty and the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

This is also the heyday of the gate valve family, Xue, Pei, and Liu, all of whom are heavily fortified and heavily guarded.

During the Kaihuang period, Yang Jian ordered them to demolish some of them, but most of them were retained.

To build the fortifications of the camp fortifications, the Ministry of Engineering is not good at it, but it is the temple that will be used.

The biggest official of the temple is the left and right school offices, the left school office is Pei Hongce, and the right school office is Yuwen Zhiji.

These two people are not suitable, first of all, they are not professional players, they are special related households, and secondly, if you let Pei Hongce build a fortress here, the Pei family must know the defense structure, which is not suitable, as for Yuwen Zhiji, he was originally a small official under the temple, and later after Wang Yu, the right school administrator, was killed by Yang Yun in Luoyang, he took over this position.

Will he be able to pick it up? He couldn't take it, and there were a lot of people below who didn't obey him.

"Will be a temple, who is good at building a fortress?" Yang Ming asked.

Yuan Shou said: "Yuan Zhe, the master of the craftsman, can be a master craftsman." ”

See, there is no time when Da Sui uses people only to be sparse, as long as it is recommended, it is to recommend its own people.

Yang Ming looked at Yun Dingxing on the side again and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Yun Dingxing and Yuanshou don't deal with each other, you look down on me, I still look down on you, so he said:

"Simu Dafu Su Hui, proficient in the construction of camp stones, his grandfather participated in the defense supervision of Yecheng and Jinyang, and the minister thought that this person was more suitable."

From this point of view, this person was originally a Qi person, because Yecheng and Jinyang had been the capital and other capitals of Northern Qi.

Yang Ming asked, "Is this person in Jingshi?" ”

"It's in Jingshi," Yun Dingxing nodded without paying attention to Yuan Shou, who had a gloomy face.

Yang Ming said: "Quickly summon this person, ask him to recruit craftsmen, and supervise the construction of the camp and fort in the refinery." ”

A master craftsman like Su Hui, who has a group of capable subordinates all the year round, who specialize in assisting him in handling engineering matters, is actually a group, which can be called an engineering company alone, and the internal division of labor is also very clear, and the experience and skills will not be leaked, they are all passed down from generation to generation, so there are a lot of relatives in it.

This phenomenon is the most common in the Great Sui, or in other words, it was very common in ancient China, even in later generations, a team of contractors, many of whom were villagers.

The more outsiders there are, the lower the work efficiency is, because the contractor cannot command.

It was only five or six days' journey from Jingshi to Hedong, so after Su Hui received the order, he soon came to Wenxi with a team of more than 300 descendants.

The first is to survey the terrain.

When Yang Ming chose the site, he took into account the defense system of the refining ground, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, just in a ditch, with only two exits in the north and south, as long as these two places are stuck, the refining ground will not be able to attack.

"Lone has full authority to you, just let it go, and go to Yongfu County Gong (Dou Qing) when the materials are needed, if he can't supply you, you will come to me again."

Together with Su Hui and the others, Yang Ming followed the mountain path and climbed a high mountain to the west of the refining field.

To be precise, it is not a mountain, but a rolling mountain range, which is actually Tangwang Mountain.

It is said that it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, Yang Ming glanced at the steep path that only allowed one person to pass through when he went up the mountain, and his legs and stomach were weak for a while.

Su Hui looked at the direction of the surrounding mountains and frowned, "The defense here is not simple. ”

Yuan Shou snorted coldly: "It's not simple? The east and west mountains are high and difficult to climb, leaving only the gap between the north and the south, how simple do you want? ”

Su Hui said expressionlessly: "It's hard to climb, aren't we also climbing?" If Yuan Shaoqing feels that the defense of the refining ground is just a show, then it is enough to build a city pass in the north and south, if it is foolproof, then the surrounding mountains must rise the Great Wall, the north and south are passes, and the Great Wall is connected as a whole, and the refining field is built to build a fortress, and the water is used as a moat. ”

Yuan Shou sneered: "Build the Great Wall? Do you think the court has endless money? ”

Su Hui said lightly: "The prince asked me to lead the structure of the camp fort, I naturally don't dare to be sloppy, of course, it also depends on financial and material resources, what I just said is the best policy, if the material resources are insufficient, there are also middle and lower strategies." ”

"Tell me about your middle plan," Yuan Shou said.

Yang Ming suddenly frowned, turned his head and glared at the other party, so frightened that Yuan Shou hurriedly lowered his head.

"If you have the best strategy, why use the middle and lower? Yuan Shaoqing has always abandoned the best and preferred the inferior in doing things? ”

Yuan Shou suddenly panicked, and hurriedly said: "The minister doesn't dare, but I just think that the project is too big, and I am afraid that the supply will be insufficient." ”

Yang Ming asked, "Then what should you worry about?" ”

"The minister doesn't dare," Yuan Shou bowed his head.

Yang Ming looked at Su Hui and said, "How much material, how much manpower, how long does it take, you think about it carefully, make a budget for Lone, Lone wants to be solid here." ”

Su Hui nodded and said, "The minister receives the order." ”

When going down the mountain, Yang Ming insisted on not trembling, it was too terrifying, there was a cliff on the side of the path, and one wrong step was an abyss.

Just like doing things, you have to be careful, since you build fortifications, don't care about the cost, which is more important, losing the refining ground or wasting some money? You can't do anything that is going to be done.

The Zhongtiao Mountains in the east of the river, or all the mountains in Shanxi, are dominated by bluestone, that is, limestone.

It used to be very laborious to excavate, but now it is easier to make a chisel made of refined steel.

The construction of the Great Wall along the mountain, which is similar to Yanmen Pass, belongs to the top fortifications.

Su Hui believes that the construction of the Great Wall should be a brick and stone civil engineering structure, but the current situation is obviously not allowed, and how to go up the mountain with such heavy materials is a difficult problem.

Therefore, the best way is to use local materials, use limestone instead of wall bricks, excavate on the mountainside, and pile up on the top of the mountain, which can save huge manpower and material resources, although it is not beautiful, but it is practical.

Digging bluestone, has never been an easy thing, or thousands of hammers chiseled out of the deep mountains, later excavators with drill bits, can not chisel a kind of limestone called donkey skin green, the drill bit fire, sparks, is chisel can not move, it can be seen how hard this thing is.

Therefore, if you want to open a stone factory in later generations, you must first approve detonators.

After the Su Hui summed it up, it was decided that the fortifications of the refinery would take at least two years to complete.

Two years is two years, how can there be a thing that can be done overnight, Yang Guang's dry method is to take people's lives.

In November, a letter came from Jingshi.

The crown princess Yang Yinjiang will give birth in two months, the side concubine Pei Shuying has three months, and Chen Shuyi has four months.

It seems that the three children will be born next year.

At present, the matter of the refining field has not yet been perfected, and Yang Ming really can't leave, so he can only write a letter to appease the three of them.

Jingshi, Guanwang Yang Xiong During this time, he has been going to the East Palace to meet Yang Yinjiang, because after Yang Ming left, he was the head of Jingshi, and he could take some ideas, but some, he had to ask Yang Yinjiang.

This is actually a matter of human sophistication, and people can be in charge of everything, but in order to take care of the face of the East Palace, they will discuss it with Yang Yinjiang, although in the end, almost all official duties, Yang Yinjiang agreed to deal with it according to Yang Xiong's method.

But in this way, there was a problem, and Yang Yinjiang gradually got used to interfering in politics.

Wei Zhengtoutie directly gave Yang Yinjiang advice, which means that you are the crown princess and cannot participate in government affairs, and the prince has already handed over the affairs of Guanzhong to King Guan, so you can no longer interfere.

Yang Yinjiang didn't refute, because she also knew that her husband would be unhappy if she did this.

But Yang Xuanting and Yang Yuanqing, the two uncles and nephews, couldn't hold back and beat Wei Zheng in private.

Wei Zheng married the daughter-in-law of the Pei family, so Pei Shuang, Xue Wanshu, Xue Shui and others from the Donggong Hedong Department were unhappy, and the two sides quarreled directly.

They are all from top wealthy families, and the backstage is also a hard batch, so no one is bird.

Yang Yinjiang had no choice but to whip Xuan Ting and Yuan Qing before she could suppress the matter, but she also saw that there were already factions in the East Palace, among which her own family faction was the most powerful.

This is not what her husband wants to see, and she and Pei Shuying have big bellies, and it is inconvenient to intervene, so as not to cause fetal gas due to trivial matters, so she asked Li Jing to return to the East Palace to deal with it.

Li Jing's prestige in the East Palace is extremely high, everyone knows that he is the prince's first confidant, and no one else can compare, and Li Jing knows that most of the subordinate officials in the East Palace are newcomers, there are many factions, and the situation is more complicated.

Now that the concubines and concubines are waiting to give birth, during this critical period, he can only bear this burden, although he also knows that this will offend many people.

So he was the first to find Yang Xuanting, planning to do ideological work for the other party, after all, Xuanting is the first thorn in the East Palace at the moment, with a knighthood and military exploits, a group of arrogant.

After the two met, Li Jing's first words were:

"You're causing trouble for the crown princess, you know?"

Xuan Ting, who was still smiling, was suddenly confused: "Pharmacist, we are our own people, don't scare me." ”

(End of chapter)