"This horse, that horse," Wang Ju looked at the dozens of war horses and picked out some of the war horses.

Ren Duola E finally realized that Wang Ju's so-called good horse was selected according to the specifications of the first-class horses in the Song Dynasty. The height, strength, mouth age, bones, actual horse quality, and many experts' knowledge. However, this civil servant does not understand it. Anyway, the mouth age is moderate, tall and strong, and there are no obvious scars. That is a good horse.

It seemed that Wang Ju really didn't make things difficult for him. He reached the specifications of a first-class horse. Wang Ju did not pick it up, but only picked out nine horses, and then said: "Ren Duola E, bring these nine horses back and exchange for nine real good horses. And I only need good horses. If you want a thousand-mile horse, then you can bring the prisoners of war back."

Ren Duola Eu took nine horses back with him without any energy.

Ye Fengma was so angry that he was very angry, but it would be better to resolve this matter early. After all, compared to horses, people are more important, and they will only be one or two thousand soldiers when they are replaced.

So someone chose nine more horses, and was afraid that Wang Ju would cause trouble. These nine horses could be considered real good horses, no less than the horses Wang Ju chose and gave to Zhao Xu and Zhao Niannu.

Renduolae led nine good horses to Huachi County.

This time, Wang Ju finally replied: "Ten days later, you will send someone to Liyuan Castle to pick up people."

"Why have to delay it for another ten days?"

"Some of them are in Zhiluo County, some are in Huachi County, and some are digging carbonite in Huanzhou. How can I gather them together immediately? Can't I wait for ten days?"

In fact, there were no prisoners of war in Huanzhou coal mines. It turned out that there were some, but after transporting the coal from the two major workshops on Huachi Waterside and Qingzhou City, all the prisoners of war were transferred back to Huachi. However, what Wang Ju said was not entirely false. Most were building roads. There were still a few who continued to improve some water conservancy projects before the spring flood came. They were scattered everywhere under the supervision of officers and soldiers. It may not take ten days to assemble, but it will take several days to assemble.

In addition, Rendolae believed that Wang Ju was a war madman and could not afford to offend him for the time being, so he had to pinch his nose and go back.

"Brother Zishen. How many days will the road for Zhiluo be repaired?" Wang Ju asked Ge Shaohua after he left.

"Just in the past few days, the main thing is that the five stone bridges have not been smoothed out and the road surface has been repaired."

Wang Ju nodded. In this era, there was no cement as a coagulant, and the coagulant used was nothing more than lime or glutinous rice flour, which had poor adhesion. Therefore, when building a stone bridge, it is necessary to pay attention to reasonable design. Second, the stone and bricks must be flat. Only in this way can it be integrated. Therefore, after the stone is mined, it must be ground and transported to the river to build a bridge.

There are no big rivers from Fengchuan Town to Zhiluo County, but there are many mountain streams and small rivers. There are also some small bridges, but these bridges are not solid. This time, with the road construction, all these dangerous bridges were rebuilt, which delayed the completion time of the project.

The grinding of this stone is a waste of labor. As long as the stone is polished, the remaining engineering problems will not be too big. Even if it is handed over to the soldiers of the Zhiluo County, it can be easily completed. Moreover, it is not a large bridge, but just a few small stone bridges.

After Wang Ju finished speaking, he left Huachi Town again.

The earth is fragrant and spring officially arrives, but soon spring floods will come one by one as the glaciers melt.

Therefore, some small water conservancy projects must be completed as soon as possible.

Wang Ju walked downstairs for many days and began to hand over the prisoners of war.

Rendolae brought a team of Xixia soldiers to Liyuan Fort. There were also many Song Dynasty soldiers standing in front of Liyuan Fort, including Wang Ju himself. Rendolae came, but no one greeted him.

Anyway, everyone knows that the two countries are friendly? Whoever believes that, the soldiers in Huachi Town are not masochists. They are slapped in the face again and again, and can continue to shout that the two countries are friendly, and harmony is the most important thing.

However, Wang Ju said suddenly: "Ren Duola, remember, I forgive you once. If you want someone next time, it will be impossible."

Ren Duola E didn't say anything, thinking, you still hope to see next time. A few months later, when our army arrives, it will be clear if you have a next time.

Wang Ju looked at the soldiers behind him again and asked, "Inspector Yao, everyone, how much is it worth for a person?"

Yao Yi said strangely: "Human life is at stake and priceless."

"Inspector Yao, why did I hear that life is not as valuable as a mule when I was a teenager?"

"This, this..." Yao Yi didn't know how to answer.

"Human life is also valuable, including these prisoners of war. I still don't want to cause trouble, but have you ever thought about how many pit mines in my dynasty lack mine slaves?"

"Mining slave?" Yao Yi asked strangely again.

In the Tang Dynasty, prisoners were often used to mine, and Zhao Kuangyin wanted to be kind and govern, so he banned this system. The main pit mining business model was changed to the service system, giving some money to make living expenses and mining costs, giving some rewards to give more work and gains, and using ordinary people to mine. The second was changed to the contracting system, allowing the wealthy families to pay a certain amount of minerals, and the wealthy families were responsible for the profit and loss. But in fact, this pit mining system was also harmful to everyone.

The servicing and the clerks are greedy for ink and harsh miners and greedy for ink minerals, which makes many mine pits in a loss state. The contracted large households will be even worse. They can often produce 100,000 kilograms of pig iron, which can force large households to pay 200,000 pig iron courses. The large households are forced to be even more harsh for miners. In this way, many large households are often forced to destroy their families.

However, due to the economic development, the mining industry in the Song Dynasty was very developed and was one of the huge incomes of the Song Dynasty. To some extent, it was no less than two taxes. But no matter how dark the mining industry was, there was no saying that mining slaves were in the Song Dynasty.

Wang Ju said again: "Sold these prisoners of war to those mine owners through disguised means. These prisoners of war are the ones that should be killed and transported to the mine pit. No one asked about their life or death, let alone pay for their salary. And they were Ding Zhuang and inspector Yao, how much money would those mine owners buy a mine slave back?"

Ren Duola's sweat was covered in cold sweat, and Yao Yi was also sweating a little.

Wang Ju continued: "Use this money to reward the soldiers who have made meritorious service in the three armies. Do you think the morale of the soldiers when fighting will be higher?"

"This is really, oh, how much does it cost?" Jiang Du slapped his head and said in annoyance.

The law of the Song Dynasty also prohibited human trafficking, but it has not been banned repeatedly. The people still sell women's hands in large quantities, that is, slaves, and some officials, among them. For example, when Xiao Gu was in charge of Guizhou, he asked his subordinates to do business for him and sell women's hands. This happened. The price of women's hands depends on age and appearance. On average, it costs more than ten cents per ounce, but when you buy it and work as a prostitute, you have to slowly train it. Being a slave is just a bit rough work. How important is the mine slave as Wang Ju said?

The worst thing is that there are many pit mines in the Song Dynasty, including not only the common gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and lead mines, but also jade mines, porcelain clay and clay mines, lime mines, carbohydrate mines, well salt mines, alum mines... There are too many mining industries in Shaanxi.

If you use the female mouth as a comparison, how much does a mine slave cost and how much can these more than a thousand prisoners of war be sold?

Ren Duola almost burst his lungs with anger.

He endured the nonsense of Wang Ju and the soldiers, sarcastically continued to stare at the horizon in the distance.

The hour of suffering ended, and figures appeared on the horizon, and prisoners of war were escorted.

But Rendolae was stunned again. They were ragged, skinny, and dull. They were not like humans, and ghosts did not look like ghosts.

Ren Duoe Pang yelled: "Wang Ju, wait and see."

"Wait," Wang Ju stopped him and asked, "Ren Duola, what do you mean? Do you want to invade or plunder again?"

Rendolae knew that he was angry and lost his mouth, and said, "Magistrate Wang, why did he abuse this way?"

"They came to the border to burn, kill, plunder, do they still want to worship them as ancestors?"

"you!"

"Here, all the soldiers, in order to give these robbers a profound lesson, even if they are released, each person must whip out ten whips before they can be released. They must whip out blood. If the whip does not see blood, I will whip out that person."

"you!"

"What are you? Do you think I am joking? The next time they invade again, they can't even go back."

The three armies rushed up and began to whip hard. Some prisoners of war were fainted, and then they were handed over to Rendollae one by one.

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"Get out, get out!" Ye Fengma overturned the table in anger.

"General Ye Bi, have you forgotten the story of sleeping on firewood and tasting gall?" Song Ji advised from the side. But he was saying in his heart that Wang Ju was too cruel. More than 2,000 prisoners of war came back alive, and only these 1,500 people were tortured like unparalleled. Before he was repatriated, many people had nightmares in the Xinjiang Basin Fort camp at night and suddenly got up and shouted.

Ye Fengma was breathing heavily and finally calmed down.

Song Ji said again: "General Ye Bi, and there is also good news that the new magistrate of Qingzhou has been selected."

"who?"

"Cai Ting."

"Cai Ting? Is this another official like Sun Mian?"

"This may not be true. I am not very familiar with this person, but I heard about him. He is good friends with former prime minister Fu Bi of the Song Dynasty."

"What good news?"

"Good news, he is Fu Bi's friend, but Fu Bi has a bad relationship with the current Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, Han Qi. Cai Ting came to Qingzhou. Will the Song Dynasty support him and believe him?"

"This is good news."

"So General Ye Bi cannot be anxious. If you bear it for a few more months, if Your Majesty personally conquers Qingzhou, General Ye Bi can take the initiative to plead to attack Liyuan Fort. Once Liyuan Fort is broken, Huachi Town will be broken. The small magistrate will be captured alive. General Ye Bi can vent his anger."

"Ye Wuma" Ye Fengma breathed again, and the suffocation gradually subsided after Song Ji was persuaded by Qi and Ba. Song Ji said again: "That wine can be banned."

"Send the order."

Wang Ju didn't know that Song Ji had his idea to hit his soju, but went to the workshop. Last year, this workshop could only be said to be researched and developed, but it was not officially put into production. This is inevitable. When all technologies are combined together, Wangjiazhai has no ability and financial resources, so it must be placed in this workshop to improve.

However, as soon as the spring flood this year comes, it can be officially put into production, mainly to produce new stone cannons. After the production of stone cannons is over, these official craftsmen will bring the technology back to the capital. How the capital uses this technology has nothing to do with Wang Ju. Moreover, Wang Ju also has a pessimistic attitude, and others don’t know much, but Wang Ju knows how nervous the court’s finances are. But that has nothing to do with Wang Ju.

However, the workshop will not be closed. There will be some officials from the Qingzhou Institute of Institution and the craftsmen invited by Zhu and Li families for Wang Ju. The apprentices invited by the Zhu and Li families some time ago, and they asked them to continue to produce, but they had nothing to do with stone cannons. Instead, they produced armor and weapons to change clothes for the soldiers in Huachi Town.

While watching, Wang Ju thought that the emergence of this new steel is also an innovation. If it is used well, it will play a very important role in the military.

Military is attack, and defense. Attack means arrows, weapons, and defense means armor.

But compared with attack, Wang Ju valued this defense more. The armor of the Song Dynasty was too heavy and the soldiers could not run. How to fight a good battle? Therefore, the emergence of new armor may be of milestone significance. What exactly can be found in the battle after the autumn.

However, steel is not the only material for making armor. This material also includes strength and toughness, which has nothing to do with leather, paper, armor, and rattan armor. At the same toughness strength, there is another material that can be competent and has a lighter weight, which is ceramic. However, that ceramic is not the ceramic of the Song Dynasty today, and its technology is more complicated. However, there is another way to replace it. Instead of using ceramics from the Song Dynasty today, bone porcelain is used instead. Several silks must be made of silk to make inner and outer armor. No kudzu can be used, but even silk is used, the cost is lower than steel. If you apply bone porcelain pieces to the silk armor, the weight will drop to more than ten pounds.

Think about how much mobility, how much speed will the army increase, how much combat effectiveness will it increase, and how much combat effectiveness will it increase?

Don't know if this method is feasible?

But it can also be developed. Although it will cost a lot of money, if the bone porcelain is made, it cannot be used in armor, and it will also generate economic benefits and will not waste R&D costs.
Chapter completed!