It's no wonder, because under the influence of a certain King Su, the Smelting Bureau's supervisory purpose is "big", "fierce", and "fine". It emphasizes excellence in everything and must reach the peak of Wei's technology.

As for how much money will be spent on this, the officials and craftsmen of the Metallurgical Bureau never consider this issue: we are not officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs, so we don’t care how much it costs!

As a result, after negotiations between the leaders of the Sichuan-Luo Alliance and Chen Dan, an official from the Smelting Bureau, the estimated area of ​​the new capital suddenly doubled several times, which frightened Cui Can, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and became dizzy on the spot:

Although the construction of the new city was funded by the Sichuan-Luo Alliance and did not need to deal with the national treasury, it was money after all! How could it be so wasted...

Well, it’s not actually a waste of time, but Cui Can can’t accept this kind of throwing away money.

Since the area of ​​​​the new capital has been doubled several times, the manpower required has naturally increased several times. This gave Xie Xian, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, a headache, because he found that even recruiting 100,000 civilians for this project would not be enough.

At this time, Lu Balong, the leader of the Lun tribe, said that there was no problem with manpower.

It turns out that at this time, the Sichuan-Luo Alliance had contact with the Jie people in Nanyang and Wandi areas.

The cause of this incident was that the Jie tribesmen of the Jie tribe and the Ling tribe asked for help from the Sichuan-Luo Alliance.

This happened before the "War of Wei and Han". They were defeated by Wei and fled to Nanyang. The Jie people in the Wandina area re-established their tribe there, and not surprisingly, they had conflicts with the Ba people in Bashu.

conflict.

In this conflict, it’s hard to say which side started the fight first. After all, Badi has always liked to plunder people as slaves, and the Jie people also need a large number of manpower in order to redevelop the tribe. Therefore, the two sides broke out unexpectedly.

war.

In the early stages of the war, the situation of the Jie people in Nanyang and Wandi was not optimistic, because they were beaten so badly by the Wei army that they almost lost the possibility of defeating the Ba people. In this case, the leader of the Jie people "

Acton", tried to send people to form an alliance with Chuanluo, hoping that the latter would help them out of the fact that they were as close as brothers in the past.

The Sichuan-Luo Alliance could not make the decision on its own in this matter. After all, the Jie people who fled to Nanyang and Wandi were considered enemies of their monarchy Wei State. Therefore, the Sichuan-Luo Alliance sought Daliang's opinion.

At that time, although the prince Zhao Run had gone to Song County, the late king Zhao Si had not passed away at that time. After learning about the matter, he allowed it. After all, the Ba people had always been the object of hatred of the Zhao family.

The hatred of the Ba people is no less than the mutual hatred between Chu and Qi.

After getting Daliang's approval, the Sichuan-Luo Alliance secretly funded the Jie people in Nanyang and Wandi and supported them in launching a war with the Ba people. As a price, these Jie people had to donate a large number of slaves to the Sichuan-Luo Alliance -

—This is the reason why the Lun tribe became the leader of the slave trade and continuously resold slaves to the Wei State.

Therefore, in the view of Lu Balong, the leader of the Lun tribe, manpower is not a problem at all, because they have a very useful slave catcher called the "Nanyang Jie tribe".

As a result, all the deficiencies were made up, and a large group of people began the huge project of building the new capital Luoyang on the north bank of the intersection of Luoshui River and Yishui River.

On the other side, Daliang sent officials such as "Deng Zhan, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry" and "Yu Fang, the director of the Ministry of War Driving Department" to discuss the matter of increasing the national road network and laying track carriages.

To be honest, the scale of this project is no smaller than the construction of the new capital Luoyang. If the Ministry of Household Affairs had not tasted the sweetness of buying and selling the land in Sanchuan County and saw some glimmers of hope, otherwise, these officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs would have

When I saw the report submitted by the Ministry of Works, I was probably going to faint.

Who said that the construction of the national road network and railway carriages should be directly funded by the national treasury controlled by the Ministry of Household Affairs?

In the blink of an eye, October came. As the Wei army gradually withdrew from Xihe, the Qin army took over the war with the Korean general Yanmen Shou Li Mu. Due to the geographical advantage of the Korean side, the Qin army's offensive failed to have any effect.

As a result, the wars in Xihe and Yanmen brought Qin and South Korea into a stalemate.

During this period, the Wei armies that retreated from the Xihe War Zone, such as the Hedong Army of Lintao Lord Wei Ji, the Hexi Army of Sima An in Hexi, and Shaohu, etc., followed the imperial court's orders and began to establish farming in their respective defense areas.

We must strive to be self-reliant and reduce the pressure on the court as much as possible.

It is worth mentioning that in order to increase the enthusiasm of the army to farm, the imperial court changed the original method of collecting grain. That is, the court no longer solicited the grain from each army for free, but adopted the method of acquisition, and the profits were owned by the respective armies.

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But correspondingly, the imperial court no longer provided free replacement of weapons and equipment for these armies. If these armies wanted to replace their equipment, they had to spend real money and place an order with the Military Casting Bureau.

In order to improve the enthusiasm and competitiveness of these armies, the Tiance Mansion has also decided to conduct surprise inspections of these armies at regular intervals. As long as the appearance and fighting spirit of the soldiers meet the standards, the Tiance Mansion will issue an extra military pay, etc.

All in all, it once again raised the treatment standards of the Wei army, and gradually transformed these armies from the original "directly under the central government" to "local garrisons". This has advantages and disadvantages, but in general the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. "

PS: It’s not the time to write this yet, I’ll mention it a little and talk about it later.』

In addition to Qin and South Korea, Wei is still attacking Qi's Dongjun, and Chu is still attacking Qi and Lu. In the entire Central Plains, Wei is the only overlord that has escaped the chaos of war and remained silent.

The country began to develop its internal national strength in a secretive manner - to be honest, this situation is indeed a bit incredible.

Thanks to the Wei State's all-out efforts in internal construction, Zhao Hongrun, the new king, is very busy these days. Not only does he have to deal with daily government affairs, but he also has to pay attention to the construction of the new capital and the progress of laying the national road network.

At this time, Zhao Hongrun finally realized for himself why his father Zhao Si turned gray at the temples when he was over fifty, while his second uncle Zhao Yuanyan was still energetic when he was over sixty. It was because he was too overworked in his position as king.

I don’t want to die young!

So the next day, the new king made himself sick. In order to recover as soon as possible, the new king supported his tired body and took Mi Jiang, Su Ran and other girls to play in the imperial garden while watching the crowd.

The girl was playing on the grass with Zhao Wei, Zhao Chuan and other little guys, while lying on a lazy chair and basking in the sun leisurely.

After learning about this incident, Du You, the Minister of Rites and the head of the hundred officials in the court, looked calm.

He believed that the young new monarch must have unfortunately contracted some disease, such as laziness, which must be incurable.

In response to this, Lin Yuyang, the Minister of Internal Affairs, said with a smile: "Forget it, after all, Your Majesty has survived for more than a month this time, let's just pretend that we didn't see it. Anyway, most of the domestic affairs have been implemented, so...

Let your majesty... well, rest in peace and recover from your illness."

After hearing this, all the other ministers in the court showed knowing smiles.

Sighing slightly, Du You, the Minister of Rites, said worriedly: "I'm afraid that if I keep taking care of myself, my condition will not improve but will gain weight..."

"That's better than Your Majesty sneaking out of the city." Li Liang, the former Minister of Household Affairs, said with a smile.

After thinking about it, Du You, the Minister of Rites, felt that Li Liang's words made sense: as long as His Majesty was still under their noses, it wouldn't be a big problem.

During this period, Zhang Qigong, the right captain of Tiance Mansion, personally sent a list, which probably recorded the names of those who were dissatisfied with the imperial court.

Seeing these ministers of the DPRK still talking and laughing even though the new emperor was being lazy, Zhang Qigong opened his eyes wide in surprise: What is going on? Did I miss something?

In his impression, Du You, the Minister of Rites, should have gone with all the ministers to advise him.

Incredible!
Chapter completed!