The era of all the princes

Chapter 125 Return.

Shizi?

Li Wenshan's heart skipped a beat. His good friend is a retainer of King Liang. He was transferred to Tianshui years ago. After Tang Guogong rebelled, he fled to his place to avoid disaster. Could it be that the son of the other party is
"I haven't seen you for a while, Qing Jin!"

The eyes of the young man who was called out turned red, and he immediately bowed down: "It's great that you are safe and sound, my lord. I heard that the city of Moyang was broken and the Tianlin army slaughtered the city the day before yesterday. I thought it was right. Where are the prince and miss?"

As soon as these two people were mentioned, the face of the smiling son suddenly froze, and then his face was full of depression. The young man named Qing Jin immediately understood, and quickly said: "As long as the master is safe, as long as you are safe, my subordinates wait Humans are useless, Tianshui is lost, and the King Liang army you entrusted to us is almost wiped out."

The prince smiled wryly and shook his head: "No one expected Tang Guogong's rebellion this time. It was not a crime of war, not to mention that Yu Wentai is a famous general in the world. If you have no intention of calculating, how can you be an opponent?"

Speaking of which, the prince looked at Li Wenshan: "Are you the county magistrate of the pass?"

"Your Majesty has seen your lord!" Li Wenshan hurriedly saluted.

Compared to his excited friend, Li Wenshan looked calm. He didn't have much interest in King Liang's lineage, and now he is in collusion with state officials and businessmen, which is inseparable from his indulgence of the four major commercial firms in King Liang.

"I heard from my subordinates, do you want to know where these people are?"

"Yes." Li Wenshan nodded: "I didn't know it was His Royal Highness before, but I'm still very curious. What does His Majesty want to gather these displaced people? To organize a counterattack?"

"The county magistrate was joking," the son shook his head: "The Tianlin army is the most powerful army in our Jin Dynasty. Now that Yuwentai has annexed Mobei, the power is so strong that even the imperial court may not be able to organize a counterattack, not to mention I am a prodigal. dog?"

"How can your lord belittle yourself so much?" Qing Jin immediately cast a reproachful glance at Li Wenshan.

Li Wenshan rubbed his nose, and also felt that he was a little mocking when he asked just now, so he quickly said: "It's the officials who speak freely, so don't blame me."

"It doesn't matter." The son shook his head and smiled, "You are a responsible parent official. This son should also tell the truth. My father organized people to develop some industries overseas last year. He originally planned to organize militias to go there. But I didn’t expect to encounter this, now that Bingzhou has been lost, there is no way to return to heaven, this son just escaped by chance, and there is nowhere to go, so I plan to go overseas to take refuge, and I saw many disaster victims along the way, but it was miserable."

After a pause, he continued: "I, the King of Liang, is incompetent. I have been favored by the country but I can't protect the people in the fief. Now I can't do much. There is a shortage of manpower on the island over there, so I want to bring a little bit over there. , not to mention how good they can live, at least they can guarantee food and clothing."

Hearing this, Li Wenshan also bowed immediately: "Your Majesty is benevolent, and I thank you on behalf of the people in the pass!"

"Where can I be worthy of the word benevolence and kindness." The prince smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's just that there is a shortage of people over there, so let's just let it go. For a useless prince like me, with these people, we can't talk about how we will live in the future."

"But at least there is something to look forward to, right?" Li Wenshan said with a smile. With thousands of people saved, the pressure on the county for food relief will be much less, and more people should be able to survive.

"I can only comfort myself like this." The son laughed: "I am bedridden all the year round, and my father said that the island is reported by my subordinates. It is the first time for this son to go there, and I can't bring too many people. Wait for me to go. I am familiar with it there, and I will send people back next year, if Bingzhou is still in such a mess at that time, you can organize more people, and I will take them there together, at least we can find a way to survive!"

"Your subordinate must do my best!" Li Wenshan bowed again upon hearing this!
"Your Highness!" Qing Jin hurriedly said: "Since the prince has property overseas, should I contact the old department and go together?"

Hearing this, the son frowned and considered for a while, then finally shook his head: "I still don't want it. The reason Tang Guogong was able to take Bingzhou so easily this time was not only unexpected, but also because he secretly bought a lot of our people. Don't expose it well, and I heard it on the way here, General Han and the others have already surrendered to Yu Wentai, the general situation is over, since they have surrendered, don't provoke them."

Qing Jin was anxious when he heard the words, and he said it again, but Shizi said first: "Why don't you stay here, continue to contact the old department, and help me investigate secretly. If anyone is willing to go overseas, I will come back next year." confluence."

"This..." Qing Jin became entangled when he heard the words, of course he didn't want to stay, but the prince has said so, it's not good if he doesn't stay.

Li Wenshan quickly cooperated and said: "Yes, Qing Jin, Mr. Shizi has gone overseas and has no eyes and ears in Bingzhou. It will be very troublesome if you come back at that time. You can help Shizi even more if you stay."

He agrees with the prince's current attitude very much. If it is a prince who is strong and wants to make a comeback, he will even consider reporting to Tang Guogong, because a guy who can't see the situation clearly and has charisma will only stop the war that has finally stopped If there is another wave, the people of Bingzhou can no longer stand such a toss.

"Since this is the case, please take care of yourself all the way, especially your body. When you go overseas, you must not be brave."

"I know." The prince smiled gently: "Now I am the only one left in the Xiao family, so I have to try my best to live for a while. Cough cough"

In this way, several people chatted about other things.

In the ship's warehouse, Liu Yan, with her excellent listening ability, heard the conversation between the prince and several people clearly, and recounted it verbatim to Jiang Sheng next to her.

Jiang Sheng listened to everything and nodded in satisfaction.

This real Xiao Heng abides by the contract very much, and tries his best to use his contacts to help him with affairs along the way, and because of him, the collection of materials and the recruitment of refugees have become very smooth in the past few days!
In terms of supplies, I bought a lot of grain this time, and it was all new grain with a long shelf life and good quality. The county head of Jiuqu County seemed to be very generous, and even sold a lot of old cloth to them at a low price.

The cloth is used to make clothes for the residents on the island. It doesn’t need to be expensive and delicate, as long as it can keep warm and cover the body.

As for the recruitment of refugees, it is also very smooth. In the past few days, nearly 2000 people have been recruited in Toshiba and Guankou counties, of which young and middle-aged people account for more than [-], and there are more than [-] young women. children.

The old man Jiang Sheng basically doesn't want it. This is not the time to respect the old and love the young. Resources are scarce. Unless the elderly population is a skilled craftsman or a educated teacher, otherwise Jiang Sheng will not take him in. .

The quality of the refugees this time is not bad, because there is no difference between man-made disasters, whether you are a farmer, a craftsman, or a master in the countryside, it is difficult to avoid the current turmoil, which makes this time different from the all-farming farmers on the road. .

Many of them are literate.

This is good news. Jiang Sheng now has fragment resources from the prehistoric era. He intends to train elite soldiers. Since he is an elite soldier, he must be able to follow military orders. Naturally, he wants to improve his cultural literacy, at least he must be able to read and write!

In the high-level barracks, there will be special instructors to teach courses such as geography, art of war, and astronomy, but there are no literacy at the grassroots level.

So Jiang Sheng needed scholars to come to the army to eradicate illiteracy.

And when there are too many people, the grassroots management also needs educated people to manage it. It is naturally good to have more scholars.

According to the basic system, among the 7000 people taken in, there are more than 200 who can read and write, but it is a pity that nearly half of them are women, and most of them are women who once had a scholarly family.

In fact, if you think about it, if you are a man, if you can read, you can become an accountant in the county if you can pass the test of a child student, and live a decent life in the city. If you can pass the test of a scholar, most of them can run a private school Only the bandana practitioner can live a well-off life, and they are all famous figures in the county. Even if Yu Wentai let the Mobei soldiers mess around, he should have warned the scholars not to touch them.

Basically, no one will become a refugee, but women, many brothel singing prostitutes, will be cultivated talents, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are sometimes better than serious scholars, and some officials and officials or some scholarly families will also teach women Studying, but the family is backward, or the house is ransacked and reduced to prostitution, or the merchant married by the concubine may become a refugee in this turmoil.

However, although these women are literate, most of them do not understand the meaning of scriptures, and teaching characters is okay. It may be difficult to train teachers to teach the culture of the island, but they have a good foundation, so they can consider a wave.

If it is a family girl who is in trouble, then she should have been trained how to manage money, and her arithmetic and account books should not be bad, but it can be used to popularize arithmetic and simple financial knowledge, so she must make good use of them.

The biggest harvest is the craftsmen this time. The system reminds that among the displaced refugees this time, there are not only enough blacksmiths, but also many carpenters, shipwrights, including doctors who understand medical science, women who know how to deliver babies, and women who know how to weave cloth. The embroiderers who dyed cloth, and even a few skillful craftsmen who knew how to make gunpowder. Although they were a minority, they all had some special talents. Compared with those who were all farmers in Xiazhuang Village, they were much better.

This time, as long as the operation is done properly, at least a town with a good scale can be developed!

Thinking of this, Jiang Sheng was exhausted for many days, and the smile on his face never stopped.

As a lord, there is nothing more gratifying than seeing a little bit of prospect in one's own power.

In the afternoon, after everything was settled, Han Wu got another batch of food, and Jiang Sheng and others set sail without trying to recruit people. Today's food resources have reached the limit of 8000 people. To continue to expand the scale, we must first open up the fields. There are many good lands at the foot of the mountain, and if all of them are developed, there will be at least 30 mu.

To turn a good land into a fertile land, you need to start cultivating the land. The normal process takes more than three years. I don’t need it here. I need a few off-the-shelf technologies and buy some special fungi for debugging. Next year’s spring plowing can be directly planted.

But even so, if you want to continue to expand the population, you have to wait for the autumn harvest next year, and you can expand the population on a large scale when you have food.

Just like that, without stopping any longer, the group set sail and returned directly. Halfway, Jiang Sheng sent Zhang Yuanshan and his group to buy cattle in Xuefeng, which Han Wu said, and he and Liu Yan led the large team back to the island directly.

Zhang Yuanshan is experienced in handling affairs, and he believes that buying a Niu Jiangsheng is not a big problem, and he can't afford it, so he has to go back to Huaguoshan to see if there is any way to restore his body.
(End of this chapter)