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As winter goes and spring comes, everything revives, peanuts and trees grow, grass grows and beetles fly, and there is a bright spring everywhere. After a hungry winter, taking advantage of the beautiful spring, the households in Lanzhou City began to be eager to dry the seeds, prepare the land, and prepare the seeds.

The Shili Pavilion outside Lanzhou City is chilly in spring and the morning breeze is fine. A caravan that sets off early is resting. Half of the hundreds of carts in the middle are filled with precious Middle-earth goods such as tea and silk, and the other half is carrying a large amount of food, jerky, drinking water and other supplies. Everyone in the caravan has all the Hu Han, all of them are windy and frosty. At first glance, they are experienced in long-distance traveling to the foreign trade routes. There are three hundred cavalry guards around the convoy, and hundreds of escorts in the middle, each of them is full of

The Uighur robe was covered with chain mail inside, with swords hanging on the waist, and the guards were loaded with strong crossbows and bundles of arrows. Unlike the previous nervous look before the caravan guards left the frontier, the caravan's guards joked with each other from time to time, as if what was about to begin was just a hunting. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, the country has been difficult, and the Tubo party has been launched and the roads are uneven. In the Central Plains Prefecture, there have been no caravans that have gone out on such a large scale in the frontier for more than a hundred years.

In the Shili Pavilion, Chen De, the lord of Lanzhou, was talking goodbye to the leader of the caravan.

"Kang Jun, Xin Zhengwei, Yu Fuxiaowei, let's drink this cup together, wishing you success." Chen De raised his wine glass and said with a smile. This time, Lanzhou sent a caravan to Yinshan Mountain and the northern foot of Helan, carrying a total of 300,000 yuan of goods. Kang Ketian estimated that if it could be transported to Dunhuang for sale, he would get nearly one million yuan of money. Then he bought some Western Regions strange objects, salt and horses in Dunhuang, and resold them to the mainland. After deducting the losses on the way, he would pay the grassland tribe expenses and go out to the blockage.

He could make hundreds of thousands of yuan. Lanzhou is more than half of the size of Shangjing, so the profits made by the caravan also increased greatly. Because of his first trip to the frontier, Chen De was particularly cautious. He not only sent a confidant general and was the leader of the cavalry camp who had been a horse thief in the north of the frontier, but also allowed Yu Furengui, the Baiyu camp who went out to the frontier many times to patrol the border. He was familiar with the commercial road, as his deputy. All the guards were elite soldiers selected from the four battalions of Yajun, Jinfan, Pika, and Baiyu. They were no problem of loyalty and bravery.

"Thank you, Lord Chen." The three of them drank a full drink together and walked out of the pavilion. Xin Gu flipped his saddle and got on the horse, gently lifted the reins of the horse, and the horse was so brisk that he walked forward. Kang Ketian rode his horse in the team, and Yu Furengui led the Baiyu light cavalry to arrest him. These three of them were both wise and brave, and they could stand alone. The three of them went out of the frontier together, which shows Chen De's importance to this trip.

Xin Gu walked on his horse and suddenly felt something in his heart. He turned to the hillside on the left side of the business road. Today, the weather was clear and the distance was bent over the hillside. Although the households who were preparing the land and sowing the seeds were as small as ants, they were clearly visible. A thin figure of a woman was looking at this side on the high slope. It was Zhu Huilan bit her lips tightly and watched the Lanzhou caravan leave. Since Xiaohan that day, Xin Gu came to the door and left again, there seemed to be some tacit understanding between the two. Xin Gu would come to visit him from time to time with some meat and food. Zhu Huilan sewed clothes for him and cooked meals for him. Although it had not happened yet, she had been uneasy, but Zhu Huilan had already regarded herself as Xin Gu's woman. The only thing that was unresolved was the Ming media's marriage or bend to the side room. The same was true in the eyes of other soldiers and civilians in Lanzhou City, and they all said that she had good luck.

Looking down on the high slope, the huge caravan seemed extremely small, slowly moving towards the north, winding and disappearing into the mountains in the distance, gradually disappearing. Zhu Huilan held back the tears in her eyes, bent down to pick up a handful of grass seeds. The small grass seeds were lighter than wheat seeds, overflowing from their fingers like fine sand, and they flew along the warm wind, flying in the rising sun, falling into the whole ridge of soil, sowing the hope of waiting.

At the foot of the mountain, Sun Gouzi carefully spread the wheat seeds in the bag on a small flat rock and stood up. The wheat seeds reflected a golden light in the sun, as if looking at a golden ground. Sun Gouzi took a deep breath of the smell brought from the soil, closed his eyes, and felt the rare leisure of the year. Others felt that the farmer was suffering from farming in the fields for a year, but for Sun Gouzi, who was familiar with the fields, even in the Khitan, as long as he stood on this sunny ridge and felt the earthly atmosphere rising from the land.

He felt his whole body was peaceful, and Li Shiba said contemptuously that he had become a demon and had a life of plowing the fields. Sun Gouzi also felt that the ridges of the fields seemed to be closely connected with him. Planting in spring, weeding in summer, and harvesting in autumn was the pulse of the earth's energy. He was a tenant for life, and finally had this good land under his feet. From the day the earth was thawed, Sun Gouzi spent twice the time in the field as many as other tenants. The blacksmith Li Shiba felt that fortunately there was no saying that farming was sacrificing himself in the swordsman, otherwise this doggy might be able to do it.

As he said, Li Shiba asked for a thin piece of land close to the city. Planting grass and fed sheep is too absurd for households like Sun Gouzi who have been farming in the mainland for many years, but it is very suitable for Li Shiba who have never planted crops for several generations. Anyway, it will not be the case. The Lanzhou government promised to purchase and produce a piece of grass at a price of 400 yuan per sheep and a bale of grass, and subsidize the households who plant grass and feed each liter of grain every day. The financial stimulus method makes households like Li Shiba and Zhu Huilan in Lanzhou who have not planted fields choose a risky and unpredictable future.

Li Shiba used his ironwork to conceal his ironwork and did not enter the craftsman camp. Except for identifying the craftsmanship when the households first came, Lanzhou never came again. The craftsman was very scheming. Li Shiba found that most of the masons, tailors, blacksmiths and carpenters who were incompetent were missing. He couldn't help but secretly thank him that every man was innocent and was guilty of possessing a treasure. These people were afraid that they would be caught in the dark place to do hard work. He also came to take care of his dozens of acres of land and planted grass on the ground according to the requirements of the Lanzhou government. He hoped that when the world would be better, he left the key to the north and south military battles and moved to a mainland prefecture to open his ironwork shop again. Craftsmen are not as dependent on land as farmers, and they are not strong in their craftsmanship. They can get food wherever they go.

Chen De watched the caravan go away and brought his guards back to the mansion. Li Jian, the captain of the marshal, reported that the yield rate of one kiln bone porcelain had increased to 10%. Chen De was overjoyed and ordered the kiln craftsmen to reward each household with ten sheep and write them to the baggage camp account to get it by themselves. He also asked the craftsmen to strictly classify the finished products of the Lanzhou porcelain kiln according to their quality from now on, just like diamonds in later generations. Strict ranks will make high-end products more expensive.

In addition to guiding daily construction, the craftsman also registered all the horses owned by Lanzhou and established a breeding lineage. Chen De had banned the horses riding on the military camp without authorization. This time the caravan went to the Western Regions and was preparing to spend huge sums of money to introduce purebred Arabian horses and Persian horses to improve the breeding of Lanzhou, and also hired several Persian horse-raising masters.

The blacksmith and carpenter are joining together to use the simplest cast iron transmission gears, pulleys, cams, connecting rods, shafts, ball bearings and other basic parts to prepare for the manufacturing of basic components such as gear sets, pulley sets, cam linkages, etc. It is still far from the end to trial-made hydraulic machinery based on traditional water trucks, but Chen De is not in a hurry.

The tailor was organized to record the degree and frequency of damage on all sergeants' armor. Chen De planned to add multi-layer armor to parts where the armor is likely to be damaged, while the parts that are often hit will be thickened directly to become part of the whole body armor. Although almost all the laborers in Lanzhou are currently invested in agriculture and animal husbandry, and lack the ability to produce standard armor on a large scale, it is impossible to make the protective power of Lanzhou armor exceed that of other troops. However, as long as the agricultural foundation is solid, the workshop will be launched on the Madachang workshop and introduce standard parts and assembly line operations. These pre-statutory data will allow Lanzhou soldiers to get the best protection. Similarly, the blacksmith is also counting the damage to the Lanzhou army's weapons, and at the same time, it is beginning to test the weapons with stronger lethality and more durable power.

According to Li Jian's suggestion, all the craftsmen in the craftsman camp have military status. All craftsmen who participate in confidential matters such as porcelain making and machinery are isolated and will not be allowed to contact outsiders for life. Although Chen De felt that this move was unkind, Li Jian advised that these craftsmen's living standards were far superior to ordinary soldiers, and even better than centurions. They had a happy life and had no objection to the restrictions on not being able to contact outsiders. Chen De temporarily allowed it, after all, there was no saying that patent protection was available in this era.

After Li Jian retreated, Chen De walked into the inner hall and saw a painting on Huang Wen's table that was not dry. It was a hidden dragon in the abyss. A red golden dragon was hidden in the rugged rocks. The water grass covered the scales and claws appeared faintly. Only a pair of eyes shone in the dark, as if it was about to roar up immediately.

Chen De hugged the graceful beauty from behind, took a deep breath, and praised: "My wife's painting skills are getting better and more fragrant."

Huang Wen's pretty face turned slightly red and she said angrily: "This painting is my sister's handwriting. She misses Your Majesty."

"Oh?" Chen De felt strange. He didn't expect that in the mind of Zhou Hou, he criticized it for his descendants as "It's really a peerless poet, and he was born in the imperial family." Li Yu, who was captured in Bianliang, was actually a hero like Long Qianyu. But when he thought about it, he felt relieved. Which woman didn't think that her husband was a great man who stood up to earth?

Author: This book will not have very extraordinary technology, because there is no industrial foundation and social demand, and research and development for at least decades or even hundreds of years. However, time travelers must start to do something, the so-called predecessors plant trees and then enjoy the cool air. The failure of the modern Westernization Movement also shows that the competition for civilization does not depend on several advanced technologies.

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