Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

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"Haha, well, that's it for today. I'm also a little tired, so I'll go to rest first. You think about it tonight and tell me the result before I leave at noon tomorrow. It's to follow me to Luoyang to meet the big brother." General, try again alone."

"Son, I think your uncle is right in saying something, that is, sometimes, if you can't do something alone, you only need a little help from others, and it will no longer be a thing for you. It was as far out of reach as it used to be.”

"I'll leave first, and I won't take part in the reminiscences between your uncles and nephews. Don't forget what I just said!"

The man in black laughed loudly and waved his hands, then walked towards the distance.

He had just seen Zhou Yu's hesitant look just now, and he didn't say much, but gave the other party a space to think, and planned to leave here just like that.

He believed that according to the intelligence of the other party, he would not be able to figure out the joints involved, and the appearance of unwillingness to compromise now was nothing more than the so-called reservedness of these aristocratic families.

When he enters the officialdom, he will know that this so-called modesty and face... are the most worthless things.

If you are too obsessed with this, I am afraid that you will suffer a big loss.

Staggeringly, he walked towards the distance, and after a while, the man in black disappeared, completely blending into the distant night.

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"Antagonism?"

……

Under the silver-white moonlight, Zhou Yu was the only one left on the street, thinking about what the other party said just now, while bowing his head in thought.

Chapter 8 Slow Progress

"Oh? You said that Zhou Yu came back and was invited to Luoyang by He Jin?"

"This... well, this is also very good, I see, thank you."

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Zhou Yu finally chose to leave Lujiang and set foot on the road to Luoyang with He Jin's envoy.

What Zhou Yu didn't know was that not long after he left, a report recording what he had done in recent days was handed over to Zhang Yan's desk.

Since when he returned to Lujiang, stayed there, and who did he meet...

Even including the encounter between him and Qiao Ying, these things were recorded in detail by the Public Security Department of Wancheng, and Zhang Yan was silently flipping through them at the moment.

As for Zhou Zhong's original idea of ​​trying to hide it from others, it is even more nonsense.

You know, what is the Wancheng Police Department?

It is a government department in charge of household administration, public security, and criminal investigation. Thousands of former guards and current petty officials spread throughout Wancheng, controlling every move in Wancheng. Be able to know some wind and grass like the back of your hand.

In addition, Zhou Yu's identity is a bit special, and Zhang Yan once learned about the other party's movements from Qiao Ying's mouth, and specially instructed the person in charge of the Wancheng Public Security Department...

It can be said that as early as the moment Zhou Yu set foot on the land of Lujiang County, he had already lived under Zhang Yan's surveillance.

Special crisis elements, it is normal to focus on monitoring, not chilling.

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Leaving aside Zhang Yan's preparations to guard against Zhou Yu's irrational behavior, in short, after Zhou Yu left, a document recording his whereabouts was sent to Zhang Yan.

It's just that Zhang Yan didn't care much about the other party at the moment. After a rough look, he put away the file, and then asked several small officials from the Qiao family to continue to pay close attention to the follow-up of this matter.

At the same time, he himself got up from home and changed his clothes under the service of several maids, Meiji, as if he was planning to go out for something.

The current Qiao family no longer wants to be slightly weaker than the Zhou family as it was in Lu Kang's time.

Thanks to Zhang Yan's direct help and the advantage of being located close to the provincial capital, the Qiao family now has much stronger voice than before, and its influence among the entire family class is also much higher.

Zhang Yan gave the Qiao family the order to keep an eye on Zhou Yu at all times and monitor him as soon as he returned to Wancheng, so he can rest assured.

After all, in the Qin and Han dynasties, sometimes a relationship of in-laws was more reliable than that between brothers.

As long as the Qiao family still wants to get some convenience from him, as long as Qiao Xuan still cares about his little daughter's future life, then the Qiao family will definitely do their best to help him, and there will be no act of hiding anything.

"Okay, just this outfit is fine. I'm going out for errands and not for a reception. As long as it's clean and tidy, it needs to be dressed so dazzlingly."

Gently grasping the hands of the girl behind him, Zhang Yan sorted out all the documents on the table, took out some of the materials that will be used today and handed them to Ye'er behind him, and then he took the lead and walked out with great interest. outside the door.

These days, Zhang Yan is quite busy.

Since the arrival of the sixth year of Zhongping, especially in recent days when the temperature has warmed up, Zhang Yan found that many things he ordered to do before, but due to time and manpower, things that did not result in a short period of time began to gradually advance.

Among them, the progress of many things even exceeded his expectation, which made him need to consume a lot of experience to deal with these matters every day.

Things like the upgrading of the Lujiang smelting work, or the recruitment of new troops all suddenly made progress after the turn of the year.

At the same time, the people in charge of various aspects came to his house frequently, which made him feel as ridiculous as the dead government affairs suddenly got up and beat him up.

First of all, the most obvious is the casting results of the weapons equipped with that series of armies.

Even though the current Lujiang smelting method has not undergone large-scale innovation, even if the current Lujiang smelting blast furnace has not yet been built, but with the efforts of a large number of blacksmiths day and night, metal products such as spears and swords, Lujiang is still quickly. A huge batch was stockpiled.

Now the entire Lujiang army can not only be self-sufficient in weapons, but even the best blacksmiths have begun to think about how to mass-produce the low-cost armor with oriental characteristics.

As for the most powerful artillery among all metal weapons, it is naturally the top priority of Lujiang's current weapon casting.

Compared with the very mature sword manufacturing process, after the blacksmiths took over the production and casting of copper cannons from the Technology Division, the progress has actually been very slow.

Different from the production method that almost does not care about the cost in the laboratory, craftsmen not only have low efficiency in casting cannons, but also often encounter that the shells and the cannon body do not fit well enough to cause air leakage, or the finished product is easy to explode. things.

You know, Zhang Yan prepared according to the standard of ten artillery for each 1000-man camp.

That is to say, just to suppress the army with the [-] long-range firepower of the Lujiang Bingma Division, at least [-] or more artillery pieces are needed, which can fully meet their normal needs for weapon training and daily wear and tear of weapons.

But now, according to the low production rate of these craftsmen, counting from Zhang Yan's order in October last year, it took him more than two months to cast about ten bronze cannons, which was only enough for each The engineer battalion allocated two artillery pieces, barely satisfying the curiosity of these soldiers in training.

According to this speed, not to mention the two armies recruited behind Zhang Yan, even the artillery demand of the Lujiang Bingma Division, Zhang Yan had to wholeheartedly produce more than dozens of days.

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"Oh, that's all, the production of this artillery is not accomplished overnight."

"Before the blast furnace is built, it is not a very simple matter to use the scrap copper."

"Let's wait for the blast furnace to be built, so that we can ignore the waste of materials in the manufacture of the artillery, and relatively increase some production."

Gently shaking his head, Zhang Yan obviously felt that it was better not to get too entangled with the problems he encountered now.

"Oh, I just don't know when the deficit of this equipment will be filled."

Thinking that there is not even a cannon for defense on the walls of his entire Wancheng, Zhang Yan subconsciously felt that the production of this weapon would take a long time.

Chapter 9 Supply and Demand and Improved Fiscal Conditions

In addition to the production and assembly of military weapons, another thing that has been on Zhang Yan's mind recently is the housing prices in Lujiang.

After a long waiting period, the completion of the large library finally spread from the mouths of businessmen along the commercial road.

At the same time, a large number of scholars began to come here admiringly, and began to live or settle directly in Lujiang, just to get a Lujiang household registration, and to enter the big library to read books that they did not have at home. .

These people are different from those ordinary people, they don't care how magnificent or solemn this building is...

In their eyes, Zhang Yan's act of collecting the collections of these various families and opening them to outsiders is what really attracts them.

Knowledge is never too much.

If it is said that merchants' families compete for the quantity of materials in the home, and craftsmen's houses compete for the craftsmanship and works of the master, then there is no doubt that in the circle of aristocratic families, the status of a family often depends on this How much knowledge does the family have.

In modern terms, this is called the number of means of production, but in the Qin and Han dynasties, these things were collectively attributed to a family's family tradition.

As long as a family still regards itself as an aristocratic family, they have no possibility of refusing the "bait" thrown by Zhang Yan.

No aristocratic family would refuse this opportunity to improve their family's knowledge reserves to a higher level, just like a farmer cannot refuse a fertile field that can produce treasures, and a craftsman cannot refuse the materials that make magic weapons.

When they started to flock to the Lujiang River from all over China, Zhang Yan could harvest according to his plan.

Anyone who has studied basic economics knows that the minimum price of a commodity under production depends on the cost of production, while the maximum price is determined by the relationship between supply and demand in the market.

When the demand is less than the supply, the price of the commodity will move closer to the cost price.

On the contrary, when the demand is greater than the supply, the price of the commodity will rise infinitely.

As long as this demand really exists, the more urgent the demand is, the higher the price of the commodity will follow.

When the population of Lujiang was basically stable before, the houses in the whole Lujiang could actually fully meet the living needs of these people.

After all, houses in the Eastern Han Dynasty were used to live in, not for speculation. Even those relatively wealthy families often only purchased real estate according to their needs when buying real estate, and would not buy houses for investment for no reason. .

At this time, what replaces housing as an investment commodity is actually a large tract of land that can be used to grow food.

Under such an environment, Zhang Yanyi insisted that even if the expanded new city was more comfortable and the houses more beautiful, but at that time, no one cared about it, and the price was so low that it was infinitely close to the cost price.

And until now, when 188 AD came to an end and the new year officially arrived, a large number of scholars began to move from all over China to Lujiang County as mentioned before.

These people are different from those refugees who moved in last year. Those who can be called aristocratic families can more or less be regarded as having a small family background. It is naturally very easy to buy a property in Lujiang.

When the population of Lujiang gradually increased, and the demand for buying houses also gradually increased, the housing prices in several "directly governed urban areas" in Lujiang County headed by Wancheng began to rise like a rocket.

Want to enjoy the convenience of a large library?That's easy, as long as you become a registered resident of Lujiang.As long as they are local residents of Lujiang, they can freely enter the library for reading according to the stipulated time.

As for "settling" to Lujiang, or even "settling" to Wancheng, where the Great Library is located, before Zhang Yan introduced any talent introduction policies, the only way was naturally to buy a house in Lujiang.

Relying on sufficient jobs, well-developed urban facilities and convenient living facilities to attract foreign populations, and then through these populations to drive demand for housing and food, and to build cities along the way, forming a virtuous circle like snowballing——

Whether it is the magic capital, the dream capital of later generations, or the big cities that developed later, they all follow such an old road.

The current Wancheng is nothing more than replacing those things with the big library and the right to acquire knowledge that the big library symbolizes.

This is something that has been repeatedly emphasized before.

In Lujiang, where the population and housing are basically the same, every time a family moves in, it means that Zhang Yan has sold another property at a relatively high price.

After coming and going, working hard in the big library, and now that a large number of gentry have poured in from the outside, the entire Lujiang River finally no longer needs to be restricted by money in its development, and even just rely on the sale of real estate instead of land. Within a month, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars were slashed.

In other words, from this moment on, Zhang Yan finally doesn't need to be timid during construction as he was last year.

With money, all the dilapidated roads and bridges before Wancheng can be renovated. In this way, the life convenience of Lujiang residents can be improved, and the people around Lujiang can be further attracted to choose to settle in the city.

With the money, Zhang Yan can throw coins wantonly, build various convenience facilities in Lujiang, and at the same time increase the income level of the entire Lujiang official class.

In this way, while reducing the possibility of official corruption, it also improves the work efficiency of these people, makes their work more motivated, and gives the people of Lujiang a better service experience.

With the money, Zhang Yan even began to ponder whether to try to build his own official media in Lujiang.

Anyway, he has enough money now, and the paper and printing industry under that name can be expanded anytime and anywhere.