Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 311 Talent is Rare
Chapter 12 Talent is hard to come by
Xu Erniang slowly placed the food box on the counter, opened the food box, and took out the dishes inside.The damp log cabin had just been baked over charcoal and was steaming inside.Chen Ying rolled up his sleeves subconsciously, and Xu Erniang inadvertently spilled the soup from the plate on the thin down of Chen Ying's arms.

Seeing the soup dripping on Chen Ying's arm, Xu Erniang was taken aback, and quickly flicked her sleeve to wipe it for Chen Ying.Suddenly, Xu Erniang found that Xu Jingzong was staring at him in a daze. In the end, it was the shyness of a woman that prevailed. Xu Erniang stepped aside embarrassedly, and when she saw Chen Ying from the side, she didn't seem to feel anything, and her heart gradually calmed down.

Chen Ying didn't know the little thoughts in Xu Erniang's heart, but he did.In the ninth year of Wude, there will be bloody killings between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin's brothers.After a lot of fighting between dragons and tigers, Li Shimin finally became king and Li Jiancheng defeated the bandits. Datang created an unprecedented good situation in Li Shimin's hands.

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin commanded Li Jing, Su Dingfang, Cheng Zhijie, Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, Xu Shiji, etc. to destroy the Eastern Turks, and then wiped out the Western Turks and Gaochang one after another, and reoccupied the Western Regions.Datang will become more and more powerful, from Lake Baikal in the north, Lingnan in the south, and Caspian Sea in the west, all became the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Under such circumstances, Chen Ying naturally did not have such lofty names as "hiding in case of chaos" and "the turbid water of the Canglang can wash my feet". An obscure bystander.

When Li Yuan was obviously not as magnanimous as Li Shimin, Chen Ying felt that he would take advantage of this excellent opportunity to become an important person in Datang no matter what.

Chen Ying shook his head and said: "Without agriculture, there is no stability, without work, there is no wealth, and without business, there is no life. In fact, it doesn't matter what you do, the key is to live meaningfully."

Xu Jingzong couldn't understand Chen Ying more and more, but he knew that everyone has their own secrets.Even when he faced Yu Wenhuaji, who killed his father and enemy that day, he knelt in front of Yu Wenhuaji and danced naked. Ordinary people thought that Xu Jingzong was begging for a living, but no one knew that Xu Jingzong was just paralyzed at that time. Yu Wenhuaji, he thought that as long as Yu Wenhuaji was within five steps of him, Xu Jingzong would also let Yu Wenhuaji repay what a man's wrath was.

It's just a pity that Yu Wenhuaji didn't believe in Xu Jingzong at all, which made Xu Jingzong bear such a bad name.From Xu Jingzong's point of view, perhaps Chen Ying used the pastoral joy to dispel Li Yuan's suspicion of him. In any case, this was a good start.Once the emperor disarmed Chen Ying, Chen Ying's future would be limitless.

Xu Erniang suddenly remembered something and said, "Mr. Lang, is this place still called Qinglinli?"

At this moment, a loud dog sound suddenly came from outside the wooden house.

Chen Ying was secretly surprised, he didn't have a dog, and no one brought a dog to clear the forest.Chen Ying was about to get up, but heard Lan Er's crying voice: "Don't kill it, you can't eat it..."

When Chen Ying and Xu Jingzong walked out of the wooden house, they saw a dozen or so people falling heavily in the distance, and several of them were holding a khaki wild dog with a net bag.

Seeing Chen Ying appear, Lan'er seemed to see a savior, and hurriedly shouted: "Lang Jun, help me, Lang Jun help me..."

Chen Ying was quite speechless, he waved his hand and the crowd dispersed, the khaki wild dog was quite human, watching Chen Ying wave away the crowd, instead he leaned his back against Chen Ying and barked at the dozen or so people who had just captured it.

It made Laner burst into tears and laugh.

The puppy followed Lan'er back to the house, and Xu Erniang said again: "Is this place still called Qinglinli, sir?"

Chen Ying didn't answer, but Lan'er said: "How is this possible, this is the manor of Mr. Lang, it should be called Chenjiazhuang!"

"Alright!" Chen Yingzheng nodded.

But Xu Jingzong suddenly said: "It's quite inappropriate for Mr. Lang to recruit workers at this time!"

Chen Ying asked in surprise, "Why is it wrong?"

Xu Jingzong said: "Liang Zan selects refugees on the official road in front of Baqiao. It is said that he is looking for a farmer for the lord, rather he is looking for a warrior for the lord. The stone lock of [-] catties is placed on the side of the road, and he lifts it with both hands. I only walked a hundred steps without being out of breath, and I gave out a bucket of rice on the spot, and I was hired immediately..."

Chen Ying was shocked when he heard this.

Since Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, he has received the full support of the Guanlong nobles and the Shandong noble group, so he is very jealous of the powerful and the nobles, and has strict restrictions on the hereditary princes and marquises. It is strictly forbidden for the sons and grandchildren of the nobility to intervene. In addition, there are many restrictions.

Especially in Chang'an, there is a very strict limit on the number of shady households and farm guests owned by major families.Since the Tang Dynasty did not unify the world at this time, especially when Hedong was lost, this law was abolished, and very few people kept their duties.

Ordinarily, Chen Ying wanted to dispel Li Yuan's suspicion of him at this time, so he shouldn't specifically select young and strong farmers, preferably a group of old and weak women and children.In particular, Liang Zan's almost blatant method of recruiting soldiers, in the eyes of those with a heart, would definitely do more harm than good to Chen Ying.

However, when Chen Ying was going to build a workshop, he needed young and strong workers, not old and weak women and children. How to solve this problem was another headache.

Chen Yingdao: "How to solve this matter?"

Xu Jingzong said: "This is an unsolvable problem. There have been no natural or human disasters recently, and there were not many refugees. I am afraid that the ones recruited by Mr. Lang are not real refugees, but spies from major families."

"This..." Chen Ying changed his mind, what Xu Jingzong said was not unreasonable.At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Guanzhong area still had a lot of fertile land for reclamation, and the population of Guanzhong was not far from that of the Han Dynasty. In this era, refugees were very rare without natural disasters.

However, Chen Ying wants to build an iron workshop, which involves too many core secrets. If the iron workshop on his side has just been built and the core secrets are leaked, how can he make money?Chen Ying is unwilling to make wedding dresses for others.

Chen Ying didn't think of a solution for a short time. Every big family has shade households. Such shade households have been slaves for generations, and their loyalty is very high, but Chen Ying does not have this innate advantage.

However, Chen Ying changed his mind.Suddenly I had an idea.He decided to use all the tricks, first to use these "fake" refugees with ulterior motives, first to enclose the [-] acres of wasteland, to clean up the weeds and trees in the [-] acres of wasteland, and to build permanent houses for people to live in. Craftsmen live and live, and can also use the water sources needed for daily life and steelmaking. These things consume a lot of money and manpower, but they don't have core skills, and even if they learn them, they are useless.In this way, not only temporarily solve the problem of manpower shortage, but also avoid leakage of secrets.

Chen Yingdao: "For the time being, we will not recruit permanent workers, only temporary workers."

Xu Jingzong understood Chen Ying's intention after a little thought: "Your Excellency is wise!"

Outside the wooden house, hundreds of young and strong refugees recruited by Ryazan worked very hard. After dinner, they began to use wooden hammers to clean up the weeds in the open space outside the wooden house, and then lime and mud were mixed. Finally, spread it on the ground and tamp it into a flat ground with a wooden hammer.

In the middle of the night, a small courtyard made of rammed soil appeared in front of Chen Ying.

The retinues and craftsmen who followed Chen Ying, plus the recruited refugees, totaled 200 people.A small wooden house must not be able to accommodate so many people, the wooden house must belong to Chen Ying, Chen Ying's sixteen armed followers plus Chen Jinyong, they all pitched tents around the small wooden house, guarding the small wooden house.

Even Xu Jingzong lived in a marching tent.

As for the artisans and recruited helpers, they could only be wronged to lie on the ground around the campfire.Fortunately, it is not winter at this time, and the weather is slightly cold, which is not unbearable.

In the middle of the night, there was a sudden sound of dogs outside the wooden house.

Chen Ying wore a cloak and went to the small courtyard, only to find that Chen Jinyong was standing in front of the wooden house looking around with a bow in his right hand and three armor-piercing arrows in his left.

The sixteen personal guards also held weapons and divided them into three layers, inside, outside, and kept the cabin airtight.If it weren't for Liang Zan's poor performance before, Chen Ying wouldn't be able to see the difference, but compared with Chen Jinyong, Liang Zan was marginalized, which is not a loss at all.

(End of this chapter)