Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 544
"My lord, you will be the Ninth Five-Year Supreme in the future. It's okay for Hai Lanzhu to have no rules. You don't have to care about it, my lord, but Hai Lanzhu can't care less!" Seeing Zhao Wen like this, Bu He said earnestly.

Zhao Wen waved his hand indifferently, "The rules of the future are the rules of the future, it's too early to say this now, that's fine, let's talk first, I have something else to do!"

Zhao Wen put Zhao Mingjing on the ground, and then walked outside.

After Zhao Wen left the hall, he walked towards the study.

It has been several months since Zhao Wen left Xuanzhen, and there are a lot of documents accumulated. It is time to deal with all these documents.

Zhao Wen walked into the study, looked at the documents piled on the table, and sat down at the desk.

In addition to the desk, the ground next to the desk is also full.

Zhao Wen picked up the booklet on the top of the desk and flipped through it casually.

Time passed slowly, and the moon rose from the horizon.

Zhao Wen yawned and put down the booklet in his hand.

At this moment, a maid came to Zhao Wen's door.

The servant girl was holding a food box in her left hand and knocking on the door with her right hand.

Zhao Wen stood up, walked to the door, and opened it.

"My lord, this is a supper specially arranged for you by the eldest lady!" The maid raised the food box in her hand.

Zhao Wen took the food box from the servant girl, and said, "You step back and tell Madam, I will eat on time!"

After the maid left, Zhao Wen sat at the desk with a food box.

The meals in the food box are relatively light. There is a bowl of lean meat porridge covered with a lid, and several small dishes.

Zhao Wen tidied up the things on the table and put the food box on the table.

After Zhao Wen finished his supper, he started to get busy again.

Until the middle of the night, Zhao Wen rubbed his eyes, stood up, and walked out of the study with the food box.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Wen came to the study again after having breakfast. While going to the study, Zhao Wen asked Li Xiaosan to call Liu Wenzhong over at the same time.

Not long after, Liu Wenzhong came to the study.

"How is Xuanzhen recently?" Zhao Wen looked at Liu Wenzhong who was sitting opposite him, and asked.

"Everything in Xuanzhen has been fine in the past few months. Nothing special has happened, and it has been relatively stable. The work of the factory is also very stable, and the merchants are relatively calm. There is nothing special." Liu Wenzhong replied.

Zhao Wen nodded, and asked again, "How about Shanxi?"

"In Shanxi, there are no major incidents, and it is basically stable. The officials dispatched to Shanxi have also adapted to work. Now, Shanxi's government affairs have all started, and the situation in Shanxi has completely stabilized.

In the few months since your lord left, all the land in Shanxi has been checked, all the land owned by the evil gentry and bullies has been confiscated, and redistributed to the local people.As for the evil gentry and bullies, those who were arrested were also arrested, and those who were exiled were also exiled.

However, after the adults left, several waves of bandits appeared in Shanxi.These bandits specifically picked on the common people, and even massacred villages.

At the beginning, we thought that these bandits were just asking for money, but according to our investigation, behind these bandits stood some local gentry who had been deprived of their land.

Because these gentry were not convinced, they dispersed their wealth, recruited soldiers from military households who had escaped from the previous defeat, and then drove these people to take revenge. "

Zhao Wen's policy in Shanxi was to crack down on evil gentry and tyrants, and check the gentry's land.

In this process, it is inevitable that people will be offended.It's okay for evil gentry and bullies. After all, once these people are caught, they will basically be convicted of serious crimes. Even if they want to take revenge, they have no chance.

The most violent ones are those traditional gentry who mainly rely on land.

A large part of the land under the name of the traditional gentry was donated by the local people in order to avoid taxes, and there was not much land belonging to him.

Zhao Wen's land investigation in Shanxi was to confiscate all the donated land and distribute it to the local people.

As for these gentry, as long as it is found out that they have not done any bad things, Zhao Wen's soldiers will not do anything radical to them themselves.

Of course, as long as the wealth in their family is legal and reasonable, they will not touch it.If the origin is unknown and the explanation is not clear, it will be confiscated directly.

Although Zhao Wen's method is not the kind of extreme trick to dig someone's ancestral grave, in the eyes of these gentry, it is even more abominable than digging someone's grave.

These gentry are used to enjoying it, and have enjoyed it for more than 200 years without paying taxes or grains. Now Zhao Wen directly confiscates their land and distributes it to ordinary people. How can these gentry bear it?

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, although some gentry didn't say anything about it and chose to accept it.However, there were still some gentry who were unwilling to just watch the land in their hands being allocated, so these gentry spent money to recruit soldiers from military households who had lost the battle and hid in Tibet on the border of Shanxi.

They dare not move where there are garrisons, so they specifically pick some remote places to attack.

They are not doing it for money, but fanning the flames, trying to arouse public anger in this way.

At the beginning, Zhao Wen's local garrison in Shanxi sent troops to suppress them.

However, this group of people seemed to be able to pinch and count. The garrison set off from the garrison, and these people ran away and hid in the mountains to play hide-and-seek with the garrison.

The garrison suppressed and killed several times, but there was no substantial effect.

The places where the garrison was stationed were some cities, and the gentry basically lived in the city. Therefore, after the garrison took action, these gentry sent someone to pass the news of the garrison dispatch to the bandits composed of military households.

So that as soon as the garrison left, the bandits from the military households ran away on the back.

Later, Liu Wenzhong specially dispatched a commissioner to supervise the matter.

After a series of investigations, I finally figured out the ins and outs.

After grasping the details, the local garrison arrested all the gentry involved in the matter.

After arresting them, the garrison directly handed them over to the families of the victims, and their fate can be imagined.

After mastering the detailed information, add the gentry in the city who did not inform these bandits.

The bandits in Shanxi were quickly wiped out. In order to serve as an example to others, the local garrison hung the heads of these bandits on the city wall as a warning.

"Anyone else retaliates?" Zhao Wen sneered, his face turned gloomy.

"Huh, if we use the method of the later Taizu, all the gentry, good or bad, will be wiped out, and there will be revenge? I really don't know how to live or die!" Zhao Wen cursed a few times in his heart, thinking of the later Taizu The method used when dealing with gentry.

Although the later Taizu's methods of dealing with the gentry were cruel, the effect was remarkable.

Because of the different background of the times, Zhao Wen did not carry out the clean-up by cutting the weeds and eradicating the roots. Otherwise, the entire Ming Dynasty would have been killed countless times.

Zhao Wen just ordered the evil gentry and bullies to be thoroughly cleaned up. For those gentry who had done no crimes, Zhao Wen only confiscated the land and illegal money that did not belong to them. As for what they already had, Zhao Wen would not touch it.

"Not all the gentry in Shanxi are like this. There are only a few of them. The rest of the gentry are relatively enlightened. They did not choose to resist, but accepted the result and handed over the land that did not belong to them. .

Some of these gentry came to our Xuan Town to do business with money.It wasn't long after Shanxi was taken, and it was just a time when everything was waiting to be done, and these gentry could earn a lot of money by doing business. " Liu Wenzhong said.

Zhao Wen nodded, "As long as they don't break the law, pay taxes on time, and don't default on taxes, the money they earn legally and reasonably is their legal property."

"Among them, many gentry from Shanxi want to settle down in Xuanzhen, but now the population of Xuanzhen has tended to be saturated, and the current Xuanzhen can no longer accommodate so many people, so I did not release the household registration.

As for the university, the work of the university is relatively stable now, and nothing has happened.

The railway from Xuanzhen to Datong has been successfully built and is now open to traffic.The railway to Shanxi has now been built to Taiyuan Prefecture, and now you can go directly from Xuanzhen to Datong and Taiyuan Prefecture by train. The railway from Datong to Taiyuan Prefecture will take some time.I am afraid it will take some time for the whole of Shanxi.

After my lord left, I asked people to use Xuanzhen as the center to connect the various military settlements in Xuanzhen with railways. Within Xuanzhen, wherever you want to go in the future, you can take the railway.

After General Man Guiman occupied the whole territory of Datong, he did not continue to attack because he did not have an order from an adult, but kept training his troops.

Today's Datong has been taken over by officials sent out, and it has come under our rule.

We discovered coal mines in Datong, and now we have established coal mining plants, and the mined coal can be quickly transported to Xuanzhen by railway.

The coal produced in Datong can fully supply the steel plant's demand for coal.

......"

Liu Wenzhong sat in front of Zhao Wen and gave a general account of what happened after Zhao Wen left.

When Zhao Wen heard that the railway had been built to Taiyuan Mansion, his eyes lit up.

Once the railway is built to Taiyuan Prefecture, there is no need to worry about the weather, and the logistics supply does not need to be laborious and time-consuming for personnel to be transported.

"Not bad, not bad, not bad!" Zhao Wenlian said several good things.

"My lord, what are your plans next?" Liu Wenzhong looked at Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen's right hand was placed on the table, and his knuckles kept tapping on the table, making bang bang sounds.

"Now Liaodong has been taken, and the Nuer Gandu Division has been re-established, so now our main focus can be shifted.

From now on, send me supplies and personnel to Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi. After arriving in Taiyuan Prefecture, let the local garrison hire local people to transport these things to the Taihang Mountains of the Yellow River.After the spring of next year, we plan to attack Shaanxi and take the Central Plains. "

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After Liu Wenzhong left, Zhao Wen looked through the documents in the study again.

It took Zhao Wen more than two days to read all these documents.

After reading the documents, Zhao Wen also grasped the specific situation of Xuanzhen.

In the early morning of the third day, Zhao Wen got up early and took Li Xiaosan towards the ironworks.

On the way, Zhao Wen casually found a small stall selling wontons by the side of the street to have breakfast, and then headed towards the ironworks.

As the railways were built farther and farther, the demand for rails became greater and greater.The workers in the iron and steel plant hardly took a vacation, and they all stayed in the iron and steel plant for food and lodging.

Because there is no electric light, the steel factory has to shut down at night.

If there were electric lights, the production of iron and steel could increase again.

"I've seen adults!"

As soon as Zhao Wen walked to the gate of the ironworks, the guards standing at the gate rushed to greet him.

Zhao Wen nodded at them, then walked inside.

Zhao Wen walked into the ironworks and went directly to where Song Yingxing was staying.

At this time, Song Yingxing was standing in a huge factory building, and a tall machine was placed in the center of the factory building.

This machine is exactly the generator that Zhao Wen asked Song Yingxing to trial-produce.

During Zhao Wen's absence, Song Yingxing finally made the generator.

The generator in the factory building is the sixth generator manufactured by Song Yingxing. The generators manufactured before this generator were not successfully manufactured due to various reasons.

After summing up all the lessons, Song Yingxing finally manufactured the generator one by one according to the drawings drawn by Zhao Wen.

In the factory building, Song Yingxing's students climbed up and down the generator, constantly checking every link.

"Teacher, the main shaft of the generator has been connected to the connecting rod of the steam engine!"

A boy with a black face stood on a platform behind the generator. Holding a wrench in his hand, he tightened the last screw on the connecting rod between the generator and the steam engine, then jumped off the platform and walked out.

Because of the lathe, it is possible to produce screws.

The padded jacket on Song Yingxing's body was covered with dirt, and some places were even torn by the machine, and the cotton wadding was turned outside.

"Are you sure it's connected? We made it through a lot of hard work, and we can't be careless." Song Yingxing touched the sweat on his forehead without any image, and shouted loudly.

"Teacher, there is no problem, the connection has been successful!" The boy leaned over the table to check again, and when he finished checking, he shouted loudly.

"Now, everyone, check it again. If you confirm that there is no problem, please give me a shout. This time, you must make sure everything is safe!" Song Yingxing kept wandering around the generator, shouting loudly.

His students hastily began to check again.

After a quarter of an hour, all the students walked up to Song Yingxing.

"Teacher, confirm it is correct!"

"Teacher, confirm it is correct!"

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