Yuan Hao said: "The materials for party immigration are simple, whether there are or not, you can get any materials you want, but the materials of the three Tusi heads are a little more difficult, and you need to wait for the three departments to go down the mountain before you can start." ”

Zhao Ran nodded and said: "I have an idea, as a walking gate of the Zongsheng Pavilion, I want to understand the world and folk customs, so I entrust the White Horse Academy to publish a periodical......"

"Periodicals?"

"Well, it's a regular newspaper, in addition to announcing the decrees of the White Horse Academy, you can also usually publish some cases that the common people like to see, scripts, historical stories, Taoist scriptures, anecdotes, and so on. ”

Yuan Hao hesitated: "But...... There are not many literate people in Hongyuan, and there is no gentleman's family, last year's Sichuan Township Test, the entire Song Domain, not even a single one in the middle of the lift, I am afraid that no one will see it after it comes out. The abbot also knows that every time a decree is issued by our Taoist Academy, it is posted on the white wall at the door, and the Taoist priest of the Imperial Academy will explain it on the spot. ”

Zhao Ran said: "Therefore, this journal should be written in the vernacular, and it does not require much in-depth knowledge, as long as you have read the "Thousand Character Text" and "Three Character Classic", you can read it. Moreover, this is also a boost to cultivate my Hongyuan readers. In addition to the distribution to the Song Domain, it can also be issued to the whole province, the province is not enough, we can even send it to Xingqing, as far as I know, the Xixia people still love to read idle books. ”

"Sold to Western Xia?"

"That's right, in the legendary story, preach the prosperity and wealth of my Ming Central Plains!"

Yuan Hao's eyes immediately lit up: "Promote the scriptures and thoughts of my Daomen!"

Zhao Ran hurriedly shook his head: "You can't panic about this, if you are too eager, you will be banned, just take your time." ”

Yuan Hao nodded, and then pondered: "I'm afraid that the financial resources and manpower are not enough......

"You can rest assured about this, the compilation of this journal is hung in the number room, there are few people in the number room now, and the editorial department will compile it for five pyrotechnics, and I will figure out how to compile it. I'll go to Tianhe Palace to compile when I go back, our Hongyuan establishment is too small, but the White Horse Courtyard is the Taoist Academy and the official government are one, but the establishment is the same as the Guishou Yuan in Xiaohe County, there is one less person from the county government, is this like a word? This year we have to expand it!"

Yuan Hao was overjoyed: "It's all up to the abbot! The abbot will do his best to solve these big things, and leave the small things to me." By the way, what should be the name of this journal, please give it to the abbot. ”

It's called "Junshan Notes - Secular Edition". ”

Sending Yuan Hao out of the study, Zhao Ran picked and chose among a pile of black materials, and finally finalized a record of the Xia Army's military discussion in May of the 19th year of Jiajing, which said that the Xia Army guarding the Hulu Pass discussed compensation measures for the late arrival of military rations.

Li Guangxian was very distressed by the inspection of the chief general of Hulu Pass and the military supervisor of the southeast region, who presided over the military meeting, and the Baima Mountain camp was in great need of destroying grain, but there was not enough grain in the pass, and the military rations that should have been delivered seven days ago had not arrived for a long time, and how to deal with them was a big problem facing Li Guangxian.

The result of the military discussion was to send 100 sergeants, remove their military uniforms and armor, pretend to be bandits, and go to Qipoor Village to steal grain.

Zhao Ran heard that Li Guangxian successfully transferred to escape when the Hulu Pass was breached, and is still serving in the rebuilt Southeast Supervision and Military Division. This gentleman's surname is Li, and he is a member of the Tuoba family, but it is obvious that he has not entered the inner inner circle of the royal family, otherwise he would not be just a capital.

He was very polite to Zhao Ran, the owner of the Cheng family, and when Zhao Ran returned to Ming, he also treated him with courtesy and accompanied many smiling faces, and Zhao Ran had a good impression of him. But now, Zhao Ran can only silently apologize to this old man.

When Zhao Ran came back from Western Xia, he had reported to Dongfang Li that the Rou'an County Lord, the later party faction, had asked him for the internal materials of the White Horse Mountain War.

Dongfang Li replied after reading the materials he was going to send: "Yes." And asked Zhao Ran whether it will become the norm in the future, and how many materials will be sent over. After getting Zhao Ran's reply, Dongfang Li asked him to let himself look at it every time he sent materials. Zhao Ran has no doubt about this.

After sorting out this record, Zhao Ran sent it to Bai Geng with a flying talisman and told Bai Geng: "Sell the text to the owner of the Jinbo Club, and let them exchange two hundred Han slaves for it." ”

Bai Geng quickly replied: "Envoy Wei, isn't it okay to do this? Selling news, this is a big crime." ”

Zhao Ran replied: "Don't worry, I can still hurt you?"

Zhao Ran didn't know how many Han slaves there were in Western Xia, but he estimated that in the Battle of White Horse Mountain alone, the number of Han people, prisoners of war, etc. captured by the Western Xia people was no less than 100,000. After the Ming army won the victory of Baima Mountain, there was a large-scale prisoner exchange with the Western Xia, and the exchange of prisoners alone was exchanged for nearly 10,000 Ming troops, and the number of Ming people in the Western Xia is so large, which can be seen.

By the end of August, the western and northern routes had been completed, and the passage from Hongyuan to the Moon Ferry and the Chewa Valley had been opened, and the carts transporting supplies could travel between the two places efficiently.

The autumn harvest was the most important thing everywhere, and as the autumn harvest approached and the northern and western routes were completed, the people who had been recruited were dismissed by the White Horse Temple, and each rushed back to the fields to look after the crops that were almost ripe.

When Zhao Ran came to Hongyuan, he also brought over the rural mutual aid cooperation group that had been famous in Guyang County, and each of them formed a mutual aid group to ensure that they could concentrate on their work when the farm was busy. Last year, this measure played a great role in ensuring the smooth completion of the autumn harvest, so farmers are very confident in this year's autumn harvest.

Because the southern route project is long, and Zhao Ran deliberately did not use too much demon cultivation, so only one-fifth of it has been completed so far, but he is also facing the problem of labor being transferred to harvest crops.

On the one hand, they wanted to transfer the people back to the mountains to harvest crops, and on the other hand, they wanted to keep the posts that would continue to export labor after the autumn harvest, and they had a fierce bargain with Baozhong.

The White Horse Courtyard has already figured out the three existing systems in the past few months of contact, and for most of the low-level people, although they escaped the fate of being enslaved by the party members anyway, in fact, the way of life has not been substantially improved, and they are still enslaving the leaders.

Therefore, after receiving Bao Zhong's report, Yuan Hao and Lei Shan keenly felt that this might be an opportunity to meet Zhao Ran together.

They envisioned a simple solution and planned to test whether the months of effort had paid off.

Lei Shan said: "Anyway, after these tribesmen go back, the crops they harvest are not their own, maybe as long as we raise wages, we can attract some of them to stay, so maybe there will be rifts." ”

Yuan Hao sneered: "It's not maybe, but it has been produced a long time ago." The people on the western and northern fronts can get ten wen a day, and they can only get half of it, and they are not dissatisfied at first, after all, it is good to be able to get it, but after more than two months, many people have complained. In the restaurant on the small street, the people who drank too much and cursed their own heads abounded, and there were people scolding their mothers every day, and the heads didn't do any work, so they could scrape off everyone's heads, and no one felt comfortable. ”

Lei Shan sighed: "They used to work for the party members, and later worked for their own leaders, where is there a pay at all, I didn't hear them complain at that time, but now that they are paid, they can add things to their homes, but they start to complain, and people's hearts are ......."