Gong Ziguang had a good night's sleep, and when he woke up the next day, his body had recovered most of the time, and he had gained an appetite. He ate a lot of breakfast that day, and he was particularly fond of a kind of food called bread coated with maple syrup.
Nambu governor's mansion room layout is very simple, the courtyard layout is very exquisite, but also very different. The passageway in the center of the courtyard was paved with river pebbles, with several strange stones standing, and several fruit tree seedlings were planted in the courtyard, which were grafted with the branches of the fruit trees in the villa's courtyard. Villa greenhouse in many of the 21st century rare flowers and trees after the blue light irradiation, genetic mutation, more adaptable to changes in the external environment, by Zheng Yuming randomly planted in the forest next to the winter is still strong and survived.
After the completion of the Nambu Governor's Mansion, these flowers and trees were transplanted into the courtyard by Zheng Yuming. There are monarch orchids, a variety of chrysanthemums, tulips of all colors, a variety of roses, the most special is genetically modified blue roses, this blue roses are not imagined to be as bewitching as gorgeous, its blue close to the color of lotus root lotus, more pure and delicate.
Gongzi Guang ate breakfast, people spirit a lot, he moved to the courtyard to appreciate the flowers and trees, see the colorful variety of chrysanthemums and roses, can't help but be happy, pure and delicate blue roses even more so that he can't move his eyes.
"Zheng Qing, Guang has never seen such a large and beautiful blue flower." Gong Zi Guang stared at the blue roses in disbelief. "This flower is most suitable for Zheng Qing." Gong Ziguang reached out and picked one of the best blooming blue roses and handed it to Zheng Yuming.
"Eh, thank you gongzi." Zheng Yuming received the blue roses, and for the first time in his life, he was given flowers, only to feel three black lines drawn on his forehead.
Chu Chao Hui is one step behind the two, and he is very angry in his heart that Gong Ziguang s body has recovered and does not immediately roll back to Dacheng. See Gong Ziguang sent blue roses to Zheng Yuming, can not help but the corner of the mouth, it seems that a lot of things are God's will, blue roses in Japan did not cultivate before, is considered impossible, and thus the English bluerose (blue roses) have "impossible" meaning. Gong Ziguang's love for Zheng Yuming is destined to have no result.
After Gong Ziguang disembarked from the ship, he didn't even bother to take a look at Nambu village because he was so dizzy, now that he had the spirit, Gong Ziguang wanted to take a look around Nambu. Just as Zheng Yuming with his guards was preparing to leave the governor's residence, Wei Ren, Gong Ziguang's great-uncle, sent a fast horse to deliver a letter asking Gong Ziguang to return to Ulsanjun's residence as soon as possible because the King of Wu had sent a messenger to the city.
Upon hearing this, Wei Shen hurriedly asked Zheng Yuming to arrange for them to return to Dacheng. The four-wheeled carriages of the nobles of Dacheng were all consigned in the villages near the royal capital, and as the nobles went back without a ride, all the ordinary carriages and mule carts in Nambu were requisitioned and used to send Gong Ziguang and the nobles back to Dacheng. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui also followed the mission to Dacheng because they were worried that the King of Wu would send a messenger against Gong Ziguang.
Duke Ziguang's two full-blooded uncles, one guarding Dacheng and the other leading the Huben army of the fiefdom, were waiting for the return of the delegation at the edge of the fiefdom. After the delegation disembarked at Nanbu, Wei Shen sent a message to Gong Ziguang's uncle, telling him that Gong Ziguang had already returned to the fiefdom, and because of his physical discomfort, he had to rest for one night at Nanbu before returning to Dacheng.
Wei Ren received the news, a has been hanging on the heart fell to the ground, it is the public light, only his Wei family's existence, Wei family has today's glory and wealth. Nephew safety, is Wei's backbone safety. Wei Ren that night, a good night's sleep.
A good night's sleep was interrupted early the next morning by a messenger from the King of Wu. It turned out that the news that Jiang Dafu's private soldiers had ambushed the mountainside and robbed and killed the passing merchants had reached the king's capital two days later. The king of Wu was shocked when he received the news, because his second son was going back to Dacheng from that road, and now there were bandits on that road, the king was worried about his son's life and safety, so he sent Huben to fight against the bandits on the one hand, and sent a messenger to Dacheng on the other hand, to see if Duke Guang had met with any accidents, and whether he had returned safely or not.
The messenger arrived at the edge of the fiefdom of the Ulsan King in two days, and met Wei Ci, who was stationed there, because Wei Shen hadn't had the time to notify him, and Wei Ci almost fainted on the spot when he heard what the messenger had to say. From the royal capital to the city of Dacheng, there is only this one avenue, the messenger all the way did not see any trace of the delegation, does not that mean that Gongzi Guang and his entourage has been met with misfortune?
Before there is no definite news, Wei Ci's stationed men and horses dare not move, he can only send people to follow the messenger first back to Dacheng, to see if the mission has crossed the mountains back to Dacheng. When the messenger arrived at Dacheng, he heard Wei Ren's report that Gong Ziguang had safely returned to his fiefdom, but he still insisted that Wei Ren send his attendants to call Gong Ziguang back, and the messenger didn't dare to go back to deliver his message without seeing Gong Ziguang with his own eyes. The older the king of Wu, the older he gets, the more brutal he is to his attendants, so if Gong Ziguang really suffered any misfortune, it would be difficult for the attendants who went back to report the news to save their lives, and they would be given to death by the angered king of Wu.
After seeing the unharmed Gong Zi Guang with his own eyes, and hearing Wei Shen say that they had taken the waterway of the inner river and happened to avoid the bandits, the messenger was satisfied and rode back to the king's capital to deliver his message to the king of Wu.
King Wu's care for Gong Ziguang moved Gong Ziguang to tears. While being moved, he was even more grateful to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui. To Zheng Chu two grateful in addition to Gong Ziguang, there are other nobles in Da Cheng, these nobles were ordered to work hard non-stop hoofing the road to the Tang Dynasty, from the Tang Dynasty to transfer to the big ship and dizzy, the heart of the Zheng Chu two hidden a little bit of grudges, and now on the way back to the road there is a real ambush, and ambush is very ferocious, that day as long as the pedestrians who passed through the vendors of the fact that one did not survive, so that the nobles awakened to the fact that, without the Zheng Chu The nobles realized that without Zheng Chu's arrangement of the return journey, they might have been killed under the hillside just like those pedestrians.
The day after Gong Ziguang returned to Dacheng, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were both promoted. Zheng Yuming was appointed as the director of Ulsan, and Chu Chaohui was promoted to the position of Ulsan Secretary. In addition to the two men's euphony of Nambu, in the future, as long as Zheng Yuming sends people to reclaim the wasteland north and east of Nambu, the reclaimed land will become the two men's euphony.
Zheng Yuming got the partition order is very satisfied, Nambu to the north there to the mountains have thirty kilometers, fifteen kilometers to the east, so many places, as long as the repair of water conservancy, at least can be reclaimed into 100,000 acres of good land, can be settled about 10,000 households of the population.
Chu Chao Hui is also very satisfied with being the Secretary, this is Wei Shen so that he can recruit soldiers and horses in a fair and open manner, an Ulsan Secretary can have a thousand Huben under his command, and Chu Chao Hui can openly recruit three thousand soldiers and horses by using the auxiliary soldiers as a rubbing ball.
Wei Shen returned to Dacheng for a week, and after discussing in detail with Zheng Yuming for a few days, he convened a meeting of the nobles, in which Wei Shen put forward the slogan of vigorously developing Ulsan, and in addition to introducing high-yield grain crops to Nambu, and vigorously developing water conservancy, he also asked the nobles to open workshops, or what Zheng Yuming called factories, where the products and technology would be supplied by Nambu and the technology could be purchased in a one-time payment of coins or through cooperative endeavor. The technology could be bought out with a lump sum of money or cooperated with, and those who did not have enough money could use their fiefdom as collateral to borrow money from Nambu and the Ulsan government. All the nobles who participated in the cooperation had to make an offensive and defensive alliance, and they had to abide by the rules of the alliance to open their factories. One of the rules of the alliance that the nobles didn't understand, but it was the one that Jung insisted on the most, that is, the craftsmen and the workers had to be paid every month, and the payment had to be limited to a minimum amount, and in addition to the payment there were also some other protective working terms for the craftsmen and the workers.
The artisans on the fiefdoms of the nobles were their unpaid house slaves, they only needed to provide them with food and lodging, and now that the opening of the factory was going to give the house slaves such a good deal, the nobles couldn't figure it out, and they began to hesitate.
Chen Meng was the first noble to sign the alliance contract, the four-wheeled carriage had already tasted the sweetness, the large order brought back from the capital of the king of Wu had forced him to look for craftsmen everywhere, he understood more than other nobles that the craftsmen were the creators of profits. Wei family is the second to sign, has always been the only Wei family head of the Guo family also followed the signing, many nobles a look, three big families have signed, should not be no harm, one by one with the mentality of following the crowd went up to sign the alliance contract.
Most of the nobles in Ulsan wrote their names on the contract, but there were still some small nobles who didn't join in, they had a kind of resistance to new things, they were afraid that this kind of thing would change their superior life, these small nobles didn't have the ability to resist, so they took a wait-and-see attitude. Wei Shen did not force these small nobles to join the alliance, and let them enjoy the treatment of getting high-yield grain seeds as usual. Of course, these small nobles who did not participate in the alliance, a few years later, chagrined to go to the river.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui development of their own strength depends on the textile factories in Nambu, porcelain kilns earned profits, these profits in addition to the construction of Nambu, half of which is used to maintain Chu Chao Hui's army. A soldier's monthly salary and daily food consumption is not the big head, the army consumption focus on equipment. A good weapon costs thousands of gold in Qin, while the weapons used by Chu Chao Hui to equip his soldiers are all of good quality, because they are made by the Valley Iron Factory, they don't need to spend thousands of gold, but the cost of a weapon is more than 50 gold, together with bows and arrows and arrows, it's a big expense. Weapons and arrows would be consumed non-stop during training, and armor would need to be built on the soldiers. Rattan armor equipment was less costly than metal armor, but the army couldn't keep using this kind of equipment that could be burned by fire, and the metal protection of the soldiers' battle clothes would always be there before the invention of heat weapons. This metal equipment again consumed a lot of money.
Zheng Yuming calculated a detailed account, equipment for a soldier, including the cost of training this soldier for a year, about 250 gold to maintain, a thousand soldiers is 250,000 gold, not counting the soldiers on the battlefield death pension, the treatment of injuries, disability grants. This is not counting the pension for soldiers who died in battle, the treatment of injuries, and the disability benefits. This calculation, a thousand soldiers will have to have three hundred and fifty thousand gold to support the money and silk.
If Chu Chao Hui wants to expand his army, Zheng Yuming here will have to prepare money to support it. Now in the valley of seven or eight hundred soldiers, plus more than one hundred people in the south port of the escort, plus after a simple training of two hundred valley patrols, Chu Chao Hui can only make up the number of one thousand troops, expanding the army to three thousand, must be recruited two thousand strong, not to mention the two thousand strong from where to recruit, just an extra seventy thousand gold per year budget, so that Zheng Yuming head very painful. The total profit of the textile and porcelain factories is about nine hundred thousand gold, this is already the two factories expanded to the limit, and then expand down there is no skilled craftsmen to use.
Just as Zheng Yuming was having a headache, the craftsmen who developed glass in the valley finally stabilized the glass making process, and were able to make transparent glass without air bubbles. This technical improvement, half of the credit is attributed to the discovery of coke, with coke, whether it is the ironworks, or porcelain factory, product quality has made a leap, the glass is also in the temperature has increased under the sky.
With glass came mirrors, for the Great Qin artisans had long been able to refine the metals mercury and tin, simply by applying shiny tin foil to the glass surface and pouring on the mercury. Mercury is a liquid metal that dissolves tin and turns it into a viscous, silvery-white liquid that clings to the glass plate, and a mirror is created.
The appearance of glass utensils and mirrors allowed Zheng Yuming to have an extra million gold on hand at once every year. These rare and precious things, when exported, like porcelain, were secretly sold abroad by merchants. When the glassware and mirrors in the vassal king's palace and the nobleman's home, these two things of the production of the Ulsan region, but the strange lack of sales, the Duke Guang in the end of the year after the great festival, but also a mirror purchased from the State of Chu as a treasure given to the Zheng Yuming.
Into the month of November, South Port to go abroad to buy labor has become very easy, the initiative to defect to the South Port more and more people, which surprisingly there are some down-and-out nobles, such a situation, all because of Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui reputation outside the cause. Zheng Yuming's falling geese name and Chu Chao Hui's one finger of divine power is traveling around the merchants everywhere, the famous Wang Jie every country, have to talk about Zheng and Chu two people, especially Zheng Yuming's sentence stolen from Mengzi's 'old people have to be supported, young people have to be taught, poor people have to rely on, difficult to help, widows and widowers, orphans, invalids and the sick have to be supported' famous sentence, follow Wang Jie resound through every ????????
When the ships of Nanbu went abroad to recruit strong soldiers, as long as the commoners heard the word Nanbu, they would willingly stick to it, who wouldn't want to go to the paradise where the old are fed, the young are taught, the poor are cared for, the poor are helped, and the widowers, widows, orphans, orphans, invalids, and the sick are all supported? This kind of life attracts people, Nambu is now the legendary paradise, some heard the legend of the common people began to take the initiative to join, some downtrodden nobleman's son, then up to the heart.
Because of the celebrity effect, there are more and more outsiders in Nambu, and security has become a top priority. Zheng Yuming set up a security bureau for this purpose, the function is similar to the police station in the twenty-first century, the chief of the public security bureau is temporarily replaced by Wu Da, the captain is a slave soldier in the valley, the captain is a villager in the back of the slope, Tian Hu, Tian Bao, and the two villagers in Nambu village. Nambu two hundred guards in the defense force extracted a hundred people into the security team, the security team is responsible for dealing with the security of the village of Nambu, the registration of outsiders, pay attention to foreign suspicious characters.
Ten miles north of Nambu, built a row of barracks, there is the Chu Chao Hui's apparent barracks, the number of soldiers in the barracks until the number of recruited 1,000 people, responsible for the training of these soldiers are the valley slave officers, Chu Chao Hui himself in the valley to continue to train from all over the use of gold coins recruited by the strong soldiers, the number of soldiers in the valley will be expanded to 2,000 people.
Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming in the South Port and the valley to let go of the big job, Wei Shen in the city of Dacheng also began his reforms, the slave market was canceled, all the civilians to the city of Dacheng looking for a livelihood are Wei Shen set up the centralized management of the Authority, there are crafts will be employed by the nobles as employees, physical fitness will be recruited to the barracks as auxiliary soldiers, recruiting auxiliary soldiers is a cover for the outside world, in fact, it is the training of Huben, the other body fitness But not pass, will be distributed to the nobles on the fiefdom to reclaim the wasteland, reclamation farming tools and seeds provided by the fiefdom nobles, some even can not plant the old and weak, Wei Shen would have liked to drive away, but think of the elderly cleaners in Nambu, Wei Shen will drive these people to clean up the city of Dacheng, no pay, only two meals a day and a straw hut to avoid the wind and rain, there will be some micro-benefits for Chinese New Year and festivals.
Wei Shen to take these measures, but also need a lot of money to support, in the paper mill does not have a lot of profit before, Wei Shen is to use their own family property to maintain, Gong Ziguang later know, crying their own mansion treasury key to Wei Shen. Gong Ziguang two uncles heard also offered most of the family property. However, at that time, the paper mill has begun to make money, Gong Ziguang and his two uncles of the money are not used.
Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming in Wu Wangdu deeper feelings, in the return of the ship, one step short of a deep sub-communication, but back to the South Port, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming has become a close at hand not to see the situation, because the two are too busy, busy to meet the sweet words can not say.