Chapter 210 Sending troops to the grassland
Jia Simin is responsible for the agriculture matter, each workshop has its head, and Wu Yong is responsible for the newly opened branch of Tongda Big Car Store. Wu Song is the one who can get away with it.
The next day, Wu Song held a welcome banquet for Ou Peng, Ma Lin, Tao Zongwang and Jiang Jing. That night, Wu Song returned to Qinghe County to go to the canned shop. This season, the canned shop mainly focuses on canned oranges and glass canned food. The cost of white porcelain canned bottles is still very high. Ordinary people bought a canned food and had water left after eating it. This is also due to the exquisiteness of Song porcelain.
"You have suffered during this period." Wu Song said to Pan Jinlian.
Pan Jinlian smiled and said, "Erlang is intent, and this sentence is enough for Erlang. These workers are really hard. Look, the wife Wang who peels oranges is eight months pregnant and is still working there. The one next to her has only been three months after giving birth to her baby and is brought to her mother-in-law and comes to work by herself."
"Why not stay at home for a year or two and wait until the child is grown up before work," said Wu Song.
Pan Jinlian said: "The maternity leave of our canned workshop is three months. If we don't work within three months, we will have a salary. If we exceed this time, we will not have a salary. People will have a difficult life. How can we give up with a stable job easily?"
Wu Song said: "Yes, life is not easy."
Wu Song went with Jinlian that night. After that, Pan Jinlian said, "You are going to go far."
Wu Song said: "How did you know I'm going to go far?"
"Because, hehe." Pan Jinlian stopped talking. She went to the canning workshop with a spring breeze. From a maid to a workshop owner, Pan Jinlian not only had a career, but also a man.
Wu Song decided to go to the grassland to help the Baicaogou tribe stand out, but it was not without conditions. In the future, Wuyunlei and Baicaogou tribes would join the Tongda Dacheshang. Like the Danluo people, Wu Song promised that Wuyunlei's position as chief could also allow the Baicaogou tribe to grow and grow. However, when needed, tribal warriors must go to war. Tongda Dacheshang enjoys the right to build cities and open up a small amount of land within the Baicaogou tribe territory. Of course, in order to maintain the grassland environment, Wu Song will not develop a large-scale planting industry on the grassland, but will only plant a small amount of grain and vegetables in appropriate places such as rivers.
The Ironware House supported the Wuyunlei tribe's five hundred gun heads, and Duan Jingzhu and Wuyunlei transported them back first through the caravan. Wu Song and others set off in a few days. In the past few days, Wu Song arranged a lot of things in Dongping Prefecture. First, the Dongping Prefecture Martial School had already started to be built outside the city. The huge school covering an area of 300 acres is one of the best in the entire Song Dynasty. Li Zhong, director of the Admissions Office, began to promote it. The second was that Wu Song hired his personal soldier Anthony to transfer to Cheng Wan'er's cosmetics store on duty. The cosmetics store was less than one thousand meters away from the prefect's mansion.
Anthony's Roman camp is a mercenary, with several expansions of 300 people. Of course, most of the time, these people assisted the cart shop to escort goods. There were only twenty people on duty in the cosmetics shop. These people were usually not seen. They didn't care about ordinary customers and gangsters. In other words, Wu Song gave Anthony the task to prevent emergencies. As for when there will be emergencies, Anthony didn't know. Anyway, he was happy to live like this, and he had money and was free.
There was no good job in going to the grassland to fight, Wu Song, Hu Sanniang, Jiao Ting, Luo Ping, Niu Gao, Guanghui, Ou Peng, Ma Lin, and then mobilized three hundred cavalry from Qinghe Island and Luda's great monk Tao Zongwang was responsible for civil engineering construction and led 50 bricklayers. He also drew fifty carpenters and blacksmiths from the machinery workshop, with a total of less than nine hundred people.
Some people say that when I go to the grassland to fight, why do I bring such a few people? And most of them are craftsmen such as bricklayers. In fact, it’s not that Wu Song doesn’t want to take them. Do you think the Liao Kingdom is a decoration? After taking thousands of troops and horses, three hundred cavalry must also be placed in installments, and it is easier to get through it in batches. I just thought of a lot of solutions to get through it in order to get through the big black eagle crossbow. Fortunately, the Liao people are not sensitive to firearms, and they don’t even look at the short dragon muskets carried by the caravan, thinking it was a toy.
After more than half a month, the group of people had been in the Heishishan Ranch in Baicaogou. Wuyun, who came back first, led the tribes to warmly welcome Wu Song and others to arrive.
Lu Da sighed: "When we came from Dongping Prefecture, we had already grown grass and birds flying. Why is it still covered with snow here and the wild grass withered and yellow? It seems that it will take some time to be cold."
Wu Song said: "Yes, the grass here will not turn green without a month."
The horse-headed fiddle sounded on the grassland, and the dark clouds and thunder ordered the herdsmen to come and flock for Wu Song and others to eat. The army stopped moving forward, set up camps, and raised flags to reach the carts.
Wu Song, Tao Zongwang, Luo Ping, Jiao Ting and other four people rode horses nearby to observe the terrain. When they arrived in an unfamiliar environment, they had to observe the terrain well before they could feel at ease.
The Black Stone Mountain is not high, but there are many black stones on the mountain. When you get close, Wu Song almost lost his teeth. Black Stone is iron ore. If you search carefully, there are open-pit coal mines. You can dig a coal mine with a hoe. Wu Song doesn’t have any expected storage capacity. You can tell from the naked eye that the current mining capacity will last for many years.
The group climbed the highest peak of Heishi Mountain to see the situation. Baicaogou is a Fengshui treasure land, with mountains on the east and west sides. There are two hundred miles between them, and there are long rivers between them. Occasionally, there are some small hills. Heishi Mountain is one of its hills. Although spring has not yet come, just looking at the withered weeds on the grassland, we know how much grass there is. In this season, the grass is kneeling, and horses, cows and sheep are leisurely waving their tails to eat grass.
Wu Song said: "Brother Tao, I plan to build a city nearby. Do you have any good suggestions?"
Tao Zongwang said: "Heishi Mountain is short and has many ores, so it is not suitable for building a city along the mountain. It is recommended to choose a place not far from the river in the south. After the small city is built, the river water will be used as the water for the moat. In order to defend and safely, it will solve the problem of drinking water for people and animals in the city."
"Okay, there is no need to build a big city. If you plan a small city with a circumference of six miles, you should focus on defending against cavalry attacks. In addition to a small number of residents, everything else in the city is workshops, merchants, and defensive barracks are also arranged in the city, and there should be more turrets on the city walls." Wu Song said.
Tao Zongwang said: "Does of designers need to work together to design a city. I will find some knowledgeable references from craftsmen. Five days later, I will give my brother a sketch. In the past few days, we will first mine stones, build brick kilns, lime kilns, and iron smelting workshops."
Wu Song returned to the military camp and began to announce the detailed reward and punishment rules. After the army sat down, Jiao Ting and Luoping stood beside him.
The generals were arranged on both sides, and the Duan Jing lived and the dark clouds and thunder were there.
Wu Song said: "After discussion, let's announce the personnel appointment now."
Chapter completed!