The Golden County Magistrate

"This road is not a stone road." Tang Yun said curiously as she walked. Luocheng was paved with stone roads, which were also very flat, but compared with here, it was obviously much worse.

"This is called cement road. Cement is a specialty of our county. It is not available in other places." Wang Dazhu followed behind and introduced it proudly.

"Cement?" Tang Yun pondered, "Well, this road surface is indeed good, better than stone slabs."

"That's right, the county magistrate said that if you want to be rich, you must first build roads. Only when the roads are built can the specialties of Qingshan County be exported."

"If you want to be rich, build roads first... The county magistrate has a set of words." Tang Yun said with a slightly disdainful tone, but he had to admit that this was still very reasonable.

But, what specialties can Qingshan County have?

If there are well-known specialties here, they will not be unknown.

As for cement?

Before this, I had never heard of it. It should be used to build roads.

But slabs can be used to build roads, and cement is not a specialty.

Just as he was thinking, he heard Qing Yuan beside him say: "Boss, look..."

Tang Yun looked up, looked over, and subconsciously stopped.

"How could the city wall be built so high, higher than the city wall of Luocheng?"

Tang Yun exclaimed in a rare surprise.

It was really that the city wall in front of him was too majestic, standing in the forest, giving people a feeling of a giant city supporting the sky.

Da Zhou did not have any provisions to stipulate the specifications of the city wall. In the wars in the past few years, the city walls in various places were built very solidly.

However, there is absolutely no city wall that is at least twice as high as that of Luocheng!

Building a city wall is originally a very labor-intensive project. Now the city wall of Luocheng was built in a short period of time three years ago with 100,000 corvee laborers.

This tall city wall in front of him, which is more than twice as high as the city wall of Luocheng, would not at least require a lot of corvee laborers and manpower?

It's just a county town. Is it worth using such a large number of manpower?

The county magistrate here is guilty of wasting the people's strength!

"Let's take a closer look!" Tang Yun said, quickening his pace.

This place is still some distance away from the actual location of Qingshan County. It took about two quarters of an hour to finally reach the city.

Tang Yun slightly raised his head and looked at the city wall that was as high as a four-story building. His face was red and his eyes were about to burst into fire.

"The people's strength is too much."

Qing Yuan and others spoke subconsciously. They had already felt the murderous intent on Tang Yun's body.

"Your Excellency is wrong. Three thousand people only took a year. It shouldn't be considered as using too much people's strength, right?"

There was a little dissatisfaction in Wang Dazhu's tone.

The amount of people's strength used is something that the county magistrate should consider. What does it have to do with you?

Qing Yuan was stunned and asked in disbelief: "What did you say? The city wall of this city was built in a year with only 3,000 people?"

Wang Dazhu nodded as a matter of course, "Yes, it happened the year before last. At that time, the county magistrate said that the rebels might attack Longzhou. Although Qingshan County was in the valley, it had to be guarded against. So 3,000 people were summoned and cement was used. It took a whole year to complete the construction."

At this point, Wang Dazhu laughed, "Guess what, the city wall was just built not long ago, and the rebels attacked Longzhou. Fortunately, the county magistrate had anticipated it. But maybe our Qingshan County is too remote, and the rebels didn't pay attention to Qingshan County."

Tang Yun was so surprised that she couldn't speak.

Only 3,000 people were used in less than a year to build such a magnificent city wall?

To be honest, she didn't dare to believe it.

But thinking about it carefully, she couldn't help but believe it.

How many people are there in Qingshan County? The county magistrate here can't mobilize much manpower.

In terms of manpower, there shouldn't be too much doubt.

"Did it really only take a year?" Tang Yun couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, only a year." Seeing that the other party seemed unconvinced, Wang Dazhu explained: "Your Excellency may not know that cement is time-saving, labor-saving and strong enough to build city walls, which is much better than bricks and rammed earth."

"Boss, you see that this wall is indeed smoother. Regardless of the height of the wall, such a smooth wall alone will be very difficult to attack." Qing Yuan pointed at the wall.

Tang Yun is even more knowledgeable about military affairs. In the past five years, she has led the army several times in person, so she naturally has this vision.

"It is indeed much better than bricks and rammed earth."

Suddenly, her eyes narrowed slightly.

"If the border town can use cement..."

Halfway through the words, she remembered that she had to hide her identity, so she stopped talking.

"Did your county magistrate also make cement?"

Wang Dazhu nodded repeatedly, "Of course, besides the county magistrate, who else has that ability?"Tang Yun smiled coldly: "You still believe in this county magistrate?"

Wang Dazhu curled his lips, "Of course, what kind of life did Qingshan County live in the past? What kind of life did Qingshan County live after Lord Chen Yan came?"

"It sounds like the people in Qingshan County are living a good life now?" Tang Yun was slightly surprised.

Logically speaking, it is difficult for the people in a place like Qingshan County to live a good life.

Without enough land, located in a valley, isolated from the world, it is not easy to have enough food.

However, these are not the main purpose of her coming today.

After a little hesitation, Tang Yun asked: "Iron mines seem to be discovered in Qingshan County?"

The sudden question stunned Wang Dazhu.

"Iron mines? No." Wang Dazhu had never heard of iron mines in the county. "Some blacksmith shops in the county need iron and have to buy it from other places."

Tang Yun frowned.

After multiple investigations, it can be confirmed.

Xun Yufei spent half a year recuperating here, and when he reappeared in everyone's sight, he appeared on the battlefield with a thousand remnants of soldiers wearing black iron armor, turning the tide of the battle in the east of Luocheng that lasted for nearly a year.

If the black iron armor was not made in Qingshan County, was it really seized from a bandit camp as Xun Yufei said?

Nonsense, how could a bandit camp make such strong armor?

"Okay, let's go into the city."

If you can't figure it out, don't think about it for now, go into the city and find out more.

As soon as everyone walked to the city gate, they saw a large caravan leaving the city.

The whole caravan had at least thirty carriages, all loaded with goods.

"Hey, Dazhuzi, you're making extra money again."

The man at the head of the caravan greeted Wang Dazhu.

Wang Dazhu smiled and replied: "Hello, Mr. Tian, ​​let's make a little money, a little money."

Qing Yuan's eyes fixed, and he leaned close to Tang Yun and whispered: "Boss, that is the eldest son of the Tian family in Beijing."

"The Tian family in Beijing?" Tang Yun was stunned, and then thought for a while, "The merchant family that claims to be worth a million?"

Qing Yuan nodded: "That's right."