Winter snow is falling, and this is the most difficult time of the year.

The faces of the people of Lanling County were filled with happy smiles.

Hundreds of particularly poor families were given a set of winter clothes.

The people of the county, along with hundreds of surrounding restaurants, received the winter money promised by Liang Xiao.

In addition to being grateful, the people took advantage of the winter leisure to actively join the various industries and official construction arranged by Liang Xiao, especially the repair of bridges and roads.

Long before Liang Xiao left, Lanling accepted the central government's emergency mining notice, and when Liang Xiao came, the government did find several small iron mines.

But this iron ore alone cannot meet Liang Xiao's needs.

Thousands of workers responded to Liang Xiao's call, took the tools provided by the government, and followed the officials to find mines.

After observing the topography of Lanling, Liang Xiao decided to open two paper mills west of Lanling, near the official road, to facilitate the transportation of ink and paper to Yanzhou.

The capital has surrounding states and counties to transport printing materials, and it is barely self-sufficient.

Gongsun Yue returned to the inn after a busy day, so tired that she frowned and didn't say a word.

She has always been pampered, and it is the first time that she has personally opened an industry and helped the people.

In the past, in Bashu, her family also asked her to come forward to help the people, but in fact, it was just a political show to accumulate a little reputation for her.

Originally, she just wanted to sit in the inn and let her subordinates go out to make arrangements, but when she saw Mu Qinxue leading the convoy of the Dingguo Marquis Mansion on the second floor and running around in Lanling, she was also energetic.

Whoever loses to it can't lose to this man!

Because of her anger with Mu Qinxue, her investment in Lanling exceeded twice as much, and she didn't expect to be able to recover this capital.

In the carriage, Liang Xiao hugged Mu Qinxue and said, "Qinxue, in fact, you can tell her directly, we have already made a relationship." ”

Mu Qinxue shook her head and said, "No!" I just have the home advantage, and Sister Yunsleeve helps me, she will definitely not accept it! Don't tell her yet, I'm going to have a fair fight with her! She can run around here with the three young ladies of her grandson's family, how can I lose to her? ”

Feeling Mu Qinxue's burst desire to win, Liang Xiao smiled dumbly, and he could only let it go.

Mu Qinxue snuggled in Liang Xiao's arms, with a smile on her face.

She didn't tell Liang Xiao that she had conspired with Jiang Fuxue: to turn this little vixen over to Liang Xiao as a concubine, train her, tame her, and let her be obedient!

The simple third lady didn't realize that she had been targeted by two big and small devils, and she was still writing in her room at this time.

In the capital, after receiving Bai Qin's notice, Pu Yuan handed over fifteen sets of iron armor that he had temporarily built, and turned to the forging of weapons.

Crafting weapons is his main business.

After learning about the feat of Yan Yun's eighteen horsemen, Pu Yuan was even more firm in his belief that he wanted to build a good enough long and short weapon for Liang Xiao and Yan Yun's eighteen horsemen.

The Tuoba clan in the capital has been dismissed one after another, and he is always under supervision and is not allowed to leave the capital.

The Criminal Department issued the verdict against Tuoba Jie as quickly as possible, and launched the noon gate to behead the public.

Tuoba Lie endured the pain of losing his son, tearfully sold his property, and was disheartened.

Because of the eagerness to raise money, the fields and properties of the Tuoba clan were put on the market for sale.

Buyers have taken advantage of Tuoba's eagerness, and the once sought-after properties are almost unwanted.

Tuoba Lie could only apply to Duan Yunyi, and those farmhouses were mortgaged to the treasury at the lowest price in peacetime.

After Duan Yunyi let the ministers discuss, he agreed to Tuoba Lie's request.

In particular, some of the fields in Yanzhou, according to Zhuge Hui's proposal, can be appropriately reduced in price in the future and transferred to Liang Xiao to facilitate him to start a factory.

As for those fields, Liang Xiao is also of great use.

At this time, the Tuoba clan became a water dog in the capital, and even the Duanmu family, the Ram family, and the Dugu family couldn't sit still, and bought part of their property at a low price.

After Zhuge Hui understood the situation, he couldn't help but sneer.

These families huddle together for warmth, but in the end, they still put their own interests first.

It is precisely because of this that he, Gaozu and Shizu have a way to check and balance all parties and avoid one dominance.

After the death of the ancestor, these families became more and more united, and Zhuge Hui vaguely felt that they seemed to have reached some kind of consensus, and perhaps they would launch a representative to seek the dynasty and usurp the throne and share the world.

And the Tuoba clan is from Beihu, if they can replace the Great Zhou, it is in the best interests of them and Beihu.

Because there is no ironclad evidence, Zhuge Hui did not break the matter, and secretly guarded.

"The world is unpredictable, Yanyun Eighteen Riding is really an unexpected joy."

Zhuge Hui sat in the courtyard, stroking his beard and sighing.

Originally, when he heard that Liang Xiao had taken Lei Hong and others under his command, he only praised Liang Xiao for his insight and personality, and his ability to convince Lei Hong as an upright and heroic warrior.

But Yan Yun's eighteen-riding performance this time surprised even him, an old prime minister who was accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves.

If it weren't for Liang Xiao, they might still be sitting at home borrowing wine to drown their sorrows, and end up depressed......

In front of Zhuge Hui, there were also two special crossbows.

One was originally designed by him, and the other was improved by Liang Xiao's details.

The structure of the two repeaters seems to be almost the same, but the one improved by Liang Xiao is slightly more powerful.

"Who the hell did this kid learn from, and how could he understand such a detailed mechanical principle? Or is it self-taught? ”

Zhuge Hui looked at the repeater and muttered to himself.

In any case, the repeater can be officially put into production and take the lead in arming the northern region, Zhuge Hui immediately asked the ordnance supervisor to arrange this matter.

The treasury suddenly increased its income by millions of taels of silver, and Duan Yunyi was also relieved to recruit craftsmen from all over the country and send them to the ordnance prison.

The craftsmen in the northern area temporarily gather in Yanzhou, and they can usually build some ordinary weapons.

"Grandpa, in fact, he doesn't have to inspect the fiefdom in person, let Mr. Bai and them do it......" Zhuge Cheng said helplessly.

"The Lanling fief is of great significance to his Liang family, and he also wants to personally survey the iron ore and expand the harvest." After Zhuge Hui explained, he looked at Zhuge Cheng with a sad face and smiled, "Are you also worried about his untimely death?" ”

Zhuge Cheng nodded, with a serious face: "How many geniuses are there, after all, it is a day and a holiday, our Great Zhou finally has such a one, alas, ......"

Zhuge Hui fell into deep thought.

That's what worries him the most right now.

Liang Xiao's survival is more important than anything else.

According to his understanding of Duan Yunyi and Duan Yunsleeve, if Liang Xiao really died young......

It's time for me to learn to be a marquis.

As materials from the surrounding counties were shipped to the capital in large quantities, Liang Xiao's bookstore and newspaper office continued to work.

Previous issues of the newspaper were sold all over the country, and several other custom-made newspapers were completed.

The representatives of the Gongsun family and the Dachu family were overjoyed when they saw the newspapers.

Especially the families of Dachu sent people back to China one after another, proposing to thank Xing Feng.

Lanling, on Liang Xiao's mansion, a Xuanwei ran back excitedly to report the news.

"As Hou Ye expected, the miners found an iron mine in the northwest mountain, which is not small in scale and of high quality!"