Chapter 42: Great Development (1)
Cheng Cheng was silent, raised one of his hands and looked at it, as if he really saw countless blood and countless wails on these hands, and finally sighed heavily and closed his eyes again.
After a while, Cheng Cheng asked out loud: "Lord Wang, the family of the last general?" ”
Zhao Jun turned around and strode out of the cell, "You should have been prepared." ”
The cold words came from outside the cell, and Cheng Cheng closed his eyes again.
……
"Let's go, let's go back."
Walking out of Cheng Cheng's cell, Zhao Jun was about to go back, and when he passed by the cell of the three family heads, Chen Lixin, who was still shrunk in the corner just now, suddenly asked:
"Lord Wang, where is Li Xuanji?"
Zhao Jun's footsteps stopped, and then answered him truthfully: "It should be rectifying the rest of his own industry." ”
With this sentence, Chen Lixin already understood what was going on, closed his eyes sadly, staggered and sat on the ground.
No wonder! No wonder!
It's no wonder that the Li family, who was obviously about to be crushed to death by the dragon crossing the river of Feiyun Commercial Bank, was able to escape, no wonder the place where they traded would be known to King Yun, and no wonder they and others lost so badly!
Originally! It turns out that Li Xuanji is actually an inner ghost!
He betrayed them all in exchange for the survival of his Li family, and he was really a good teammate... What a teammate!
"No wonder others, you gave up on him first, and he has no other way to choose except to take refuge in this king."
After speaking, Zhao Jun continued to walk outside the cell, out of the dungeon, Zhao Jun finally looked back at this dungeon, this represents all the past places of Yunzhou County, let him bury everything in Yunzhou County together.
Soon, what happened in Yunzhou County was written by Li Yi and handed it to Beijing, which also set off a lot of waves in the capital, but because the evidence provided by Zhao Jun also did show that the four families also had the evidence of Liu Xishan and Cheng Cheng's crimes, gradually everything was settled.
Liu Xishan, the county minister, Cheng Cheng, the defense envoy, and the two were officials of the imperial court, but they knew the law and broke the law to discredit the imperial court, and ended up with a happy end of the nine clans.
However, on the issue of new official supplements, after some debate, the important ministers of the imperial court finally decided that the candidates for these supplements should be decided by Zhao Jun, the king of Yun.
After all, from today onwards, all the salaries of these officials will be issued by King Yun, plus the financial and military rights of Yunzhou County have also been owned by King Yun, after discussion, the imperial court will no longer interfere in the appointment and dismissal of personnel in Yunzhou County, and everything will be solved by Zhao Jun, the King of Yun, on his own.
In this way, Zhao Jun successfully won the real control of Yunzhou County.
And began to reform the entire Yunzhou County drastically according to his own ideas!
Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle.
In the blink of an eye, five years passed quietly.
Zhao Jun is also in his twenties, and Yunzhou City, a city that was humble five years ago, has also undergone earth-shaking changes!
The rudimentary earthen walls are gone, replaced by tall and majestic gray-white walls!
The four-foot-high walls towered over the grasslands, giving the people of the city a strong sense of security and the deep despair and powerlessness of the city's enemies.
Walking into the city, the original narrow and dilapidated dirt road and main road are gone.
Smooth bricks paved a wide main road four feet wide enough to allow three carriages to run side by side, and the houses beside the road were no longer five-year mud houses or thatched houses, but were replaced by small cement bungalows of the same shape.
On both sides of the street, pedestrians are weaving, people on the right enter and people leave on the left, everyone actively avoids the middle, and horse-drawn carriages come and go on the road in an orderly manner.
This is just the most ordinary street, if you walk into the city, you can see the most prosperous scene in Yunzhou County when you come to the most lively east and west cities in Yunzhou City.
On both sides of the wide, straight road, shops of all kinds are lined up, and various guigns flutter in the wind, reminding people of the things they represent.
Horse-drawn carriages and people flow along the streets, people entering the city are shopping for all kinds of supplies they need, and vendors set up their stalls in planned places to sell some of their own special output.
From time to time, a team patrols the streets, and Wuhou shuttles through the crowd, dealing with various disputes that occur in the two cities, and ensuring order on the streets.
Walking through the streets, surrounded by the haggling sounds of customers and merchants, inhaling slightly, the enticing smell of the various snacks on the street is mouth-watering.
Everything in Yunzhou City today is very different from what it was five years ago.
And the changes that have occurred in this, as long as the locals of Yunzhou County know why.
Five years ago, His Royal Highness King Yun conquered Yunzhou County, eliminated the four masters, cleaned up the corrupt officials in the yamen who did not do personnel, and gathered all the green-skinned hooligans in the city who had nothing to do and fought all day long into the Yunzhou army.
Since then, His Royal Highness King Yun, who holds the power of the entire Yunzhou County, has led nearly 100,000 people in Yunzhou County to run desperately on the prosperous road!
In the first year, Feiyun Commercial Bank entered Yunzhou County in a big way to invest, and various industries came into being under the huge capital investment, and the people in the county were thrilled by the rich salaries, and they all entered it to earn rich rewards that they could not have imagined before.
Compared with other Great Song Dynasty boundaries, Yunzhou County has an advantage that can not be compared with other places, after the expert survey of Feiyun Commercial Bank, the entire Yunzhou County has a variety of rich minerals, or the grassland has rich mineral resources.
It's just that no one cared about it before, or the tribes on the grassland didn't have smelting technology at all, and even if they found it, they could only watch.
In this way, large mines were officially mined one after another, including copper, iron, silver, coal, and even a small amount of gold.
Coupled with the iron-striking workshops that have blossomed all over Yunzhou County, the amount of iron smelting in Yunzhou County has increased significantly, not to mention anything else this year.
Feiyun Commercial Bank transformed the iron smelting technology, and one blast furnace after another was erected, and thick black smoke rose outside the northern city all day long, but then a large amount of iron was produced.
The original Yunzhou County's annual iron production will not exceed 5,000 catties, most of it is still imported from the customs, with the mining of ore, the iteration of iron-smelting technology, and now the iron production of the entire Yunzhou County has reached a terrifying 18,250 tons a year!
The ten blast furnaces in the entire Yunzhou County produce as much as 100,000 catties of iron every day!
Iron from Unju County began to be sold in large quantities to Kannai through the channels of the Feiyun Trading Company.
But then there is a problem, there is not enough ore!
It's not that there is no iron ore in the mine, on the contrary, the iron ore reserves in the entire Yunzhou County are incredibly rich, at least according to the amount of iron smelting in Yunzhou County today, it will not be used up in hundreds of years.
But the problem now is that there are not enough people to mine iron ore.
Yunzhou County is a sparsely populated place, the entire county population together does not exceed 100,000, now excluding those necessary to graze the grain population, a large number of labor force has long been poured into the iron mine and iron smelting mills, the entire Yunzhou County has no surplus labor.
What should I do?
Zhao Jun looked to the north.
In the second year, a reward was passed out in the county guard's mansion, and every time a prisoner returned to Yunzhou County, he could sell it to the county guard yamen in exchange for ten taels of silver!
At that time, a herdsman's annual income was less than 20 taels.
Rich profits drive people's hearts.
Especially the tribal leaders in Yunzhou County, who already have people under their hands, are even more drooling at this bounty!
After the bounty came out, the major iron-making workshops in Yunzhou County received large orders.
In addition to the iron armor that is forbidden to be built due to the ban, the major tribes have placed orders.
Arrows, scimitars, and other weapons were ordered in large quantities.
After paying a certain price to replace the tribal weapons, the tribal leaders led their tribesmen to roar across the border and rushed to the grasslands to the north!