Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 465
All the smelting mines in the Sui Dynasty were under the management of Taifu Temple, and the current Wenxi Smelting Kiln, the two young ministers of Taifu Temple are there, which shows how much the imperial court attaches importance to this place.

Not to mention Tai Fuqing Yan Pi, who was doing Chi Dao, when he heard about Wen Xi, he was completely relieved, knowing that the job entrusted to him by the emperor had been successfully taken over by the crown prince.

With no worries in the future, then concentrate on supervising and building Chidao.

After all, Shaoqing Yuanshou is a veteran official from a veteran family. Recently, after a thorough inspection of the training ground, he made a very pertinent suggestion to Yang Ming.

Build a fort around the refinery to avoid bandits.

In fact, what he said was very subtle, can bandits invade this place?What kind of bandit is that?

In the land of Hedong, there are quite a lot of rich and powerful families, all of which have their own private armed forces. In fact, Yuan Shou alluded to the embankment for these families.

In peacetime, these families would not mess around, but if there were civil uprisings or military disasters, the refinery in Tangying Township was undoubtedly the biggest piece of fat in everyone's eyes, and they would definitely try to take it for themselves.

Yang Ming agrees with this suggestion very much, it is very necessary.

Fortresses are especially common in the north, mainly due to the chaos at the end of the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. There were constant wars, so that all major families built fortresses to defend themselves against foreign enemies and seek self-protection.

This was also the heyday of the aristocratic families. The Xue, Pei, and Liu families were all heavily fortified and heavily guarded.

During Kaihuang's reign, Yang Jian ordered them to demolish some of them, but most of them remained.

The Ministry of Industry is not good at building camps and fortifications, but it is good at building temples.

The biggest officials in Jiangzuo Temple are the left and right school offices, the left school office is Pei Hongce, and the right school office is currently Yu Wenzhiji.

These two people are not suitable, first of all, they are not professional players, they are frankly related households, and secondly, if you let Pei Hongce build a fort here, the Pei family must know the defense structure, which is not suitable. There is a small official under the temple. Later, after Wang Yu of the right school office was killed by Yang Hao in Luoyang, he took over this position.

Can he take it?He couldn't take it, and there were a lot of people who didn't accept him.

"It will be a temple, who is good at building a fortress?" Yang Ming asked.

Yuan Shou said: "Among the craftsmen, Yuan Zhe, the doctor, can be a great craftsman."

See, Da Sui didn't employ others on the basis of others, as long as it was a recommendation, it was a recommendation of one of our own.

Yang Ming looked at Yun Dingxing at the side again, and asked, "What do you think?"

Yun Dingxing didn't deal with Yuanshou, you look down on me, and I look down on you, so he said:

"Su Hui, the Simu doctor, is proficient in camp stone construction. His grandfather participated in the defense supervision of Yecheng and Jinyang. I think this person is more suitable."

From this point of view, this person was originally from Qi, because Yecheng and Jinyang used to be the capital and other capitals of Northern Qi.

Yang Ming asked, "Is this person in the capital?"

"It's in the capital," Yun Dingxing nodded, ignoring the gloomy Yuanshou.

Yang Ming said: "Call this person quickly and ask him to recruit craftsmen to supervise the construction of the camp and fort."

A great craftsman like Su Hui has a group of capable men under him all the year round to assist him in handling engineering matters. In fact, it is a group, which can be called an engineering company by itself, and the internal division of labor is also very clear, and the experience and skills will not go outside. The vents are all passed down from generation to generation, so there are many relatives in it.

This phenomenon was most common in the Sui Dynasty, or in other words, it was very common in ancient China, even in later generations. Many of a contracting team were from the village.

The more outsiders there are in the contracting team, the lower the work efficiency, because the contractor can't command.

It was only five or six days' journey from the capital to Hedong, so after Su Hui received the order, he brought a direct line team of more than 300 people to Wenxi.

The first is to survey the terrain.

When Yang Ming chose the site, he had considered the defense system of the refinery. This place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it happens to be in a ditch. There are only two exits, the north and the south. As long as these two places are locked, the refinery will not be able to attack. Come in.

"The whole power is up to you. Just let go and do it. If you need materials, go to Yongfu County Duke (Dou Qing). If he can't provide you, you can come to me again."

Together with Su Hui and the others, Yang Ming climbed up a high mountain to the west of the training ground along the small path in the mountain.

To be precise, it is not a mountain, but a rolling mountain range, which is actually Tangwang Mountain.

It is said that going up the mountain is easy and going down the mountain is difficult. Yang Ming glanced at the steep path that only one person could pass when he went up the mountain, and his calf felt weak for a while.

Su Hui looked at the direction of the surrounding mountains, frowned and said: "The defense here is not easy."

Yuan Shou snorted coldly: "It's not easy? The east and west mountains are high and difficult to climb, leaving only the north and south gaps. How simple do you want?"

Su Hui said expressionlessly: "It's hard to climb, didn't we climb up too? If Yuan Shaoqing thinks that the defense of the training ground is just a show, then it is enough to build city gates in the north and south. If it is safe, then the surrounding mountains must be protected." Starting from the Great Wall, the north and south are the passes, connected by the Great Wall, and the fortress is built in the refinery, and the water is diverted to form a moat. It is also necessary to build a large warehouse in the camp to store grain, and dig a deep pool to store water. In case of accidents, you can stick to it."

Yuan Shou sneered and said, "Building the Great Wall? Do you think the imperial court has endless money to spend?"

Su Hui said indifferently: "The crown prince asked me to take charge of the construction of the camp. Naturally, I dare not be sloppy. Of course, it also depends on financial and material resources. What I just said is the best strategy. If the material resources are insufficient, there are medium and bad strategies."

"Tell me about your middle and worst strategies," Yuan Shou said.

Yang Ming frowned suddenly, turned his head and glared at the other party, causing Yuanshou to quickly lower his head in fright.

"Why do you use the middle and the bottom when you have the best strategy? Has Yuan Shaoqing always abandoned the best and the worst when doing things?"

Yuan Shou panicked for a while, and hurriedly said: "I don't dare, I just feel that the project is too big and I am afraid that the supply will not be enough."

Yang Ming asked, "Then what should you worry about?"

"I dare not," Yuan Shou bowed his head.

Yang Ming looked at Su Hui and said, "How much material will be used, how much manpower will be used, and how long will it take? You should think about it carefully and make a budget for Gu. Gu wants this place to be as solid as gold."

Su Hui nodded and said, "I take orders."

When going down the mountain, Yang Ming braced himself not to tremble. It was too terrifying. There was a cliff on the side of the path, and a wrong step would lead to an abyss.

Just like doing things, you must be careful. Since you have built fortifications, don't care about the cost. Losing the refinery or wasting some money, which is important?You can't do things that are left behind.

The Zhongtiao Mountain in Hedong, or all the mountains in Shanxi, are dominated by bluestone, that is, limestone.

It used to be very laborious to dig this thing, but now with the chisel made of refined steel, it is relatively easy.

Building the Great Wall along the mountain is similar to Yanmen Pass, and it is a top fortification.

Su Hui believes that the construction of the Great Wall should be a masonry and civil structure, but the current situation is obviously not allowed. How to go up the mountain with such a heavy material is a problem.

Therefore, the best way is to use local materials, replace the wall bricks with limestone, excavate the mountainside, and pile up the top of the mountain, which can save huge manpower and material resources. Although it is not beautiful, it is practical.

Excavating bluestone has never been an easy task. Either a thousand hammers and thousands of hammers can be used to carve out deep mountains. Later excavators equipped with drill bits cannot dig out a kind of limestone called donkey skin green. Move, you can see how tough this thing is.

Therefore, if future generations want to open a stone factory, they must first approve the detonator.

After summing up, Su Hui believed that the refinery's fortifications would take at least two years to complete.

Two years is two years. There is no such thing as an overnight project. Yang Guang's way of doing it is taking people's lives.

In November, the capital sent a letter.

Crown Princess Yang Yinjiang will give birth in two months, side concubine Pei Shuying in three months, and Chen Shuyi in four months.

It seems that the three children will be born next year.

The matter in the training field is not complete yet, and Yang Ming really can't leave, so he can only write letters to appease the three of them.

The capital, watching the king Yang Xiong, has been going to the East Palace to meet Yang Yinjiang during this time, because after Yang Ming left, he is the general manager of the capital, and he can take some ideas, but he has to ask Yang Yinjiang about others .

This is actually a matter of sophistication, people can completely decide, but in order to take care of Donggong's face, they will discuss with Yang Yinjiang, although in the end, Yang Yinjiang agreed to handle almost all official affairs according to Yang Xiong's method.

But in this way, a problem arose, and Yang Yinjiang gradually got used to being involved in politics.

Wei Zheng gave advice directly to Yang Yinjiang, meaning that you are the concubine of the crown prince and cannot participate in government affairs. The crown prince has already handed over the full power of Guanzhong affairs to the king, so you can no longer interfere.

Yang Yinjiang did not refute, because she also knew that her husband would be unhappy if she did this.

But Yang Xuanting and Yang Yuanqing, the uncle and nephew, couldn't hold back and beat Wei Zheng in private.

Wei Zheng married the daughter-in-law of the Pei family, so Pei Shuang, Xue Wanshu, Xue Shou and others from the Hedong Department of Donggong were not happy, and the two sides immediately quarreled.

They are all from top wealthy families, and the backstage is also a group of hard-working people, so no one cares about anyone else.

In desperation, Yang Yinjiang ordered Xuan Ting and Yuan Qing to be whipped to suppress the matter, but she also saw that factions had already appeared in the Eastern Palace, among which her natal family was the most powerful.

This was not what her husband wanted to see, and she and Pei Shuying had big bellies, and it was inconvenient to intervene in order not to upset the fetus due to trivial matters, so she asked Li Jing to return to the East Palace to deal with it.

Li Jing's prestige in the East Palace is extremely high, everyone knows that he is the crown prince's number one confidant, and no one else can compare to him, and Li Jing knows that most of the officials in the East Palace are newcomers, and there are many factions, the situation is more complicated.

Now that the main concubine and side concubines are all waiting to give birth, at this critical period, he can only shoulder this burden, although he also knows that this will offend many people.

So he was the first to approach Yang Xuanting, intending to do some ideological work for him. After all, Xuan Ting is currently the number one assassin in the Eastern Palace, with a title and military exploits, a group of arrogant people.

After the two met, Li Jing's first words were:

"You are causing trouble for the princess, do you know that?"

Xuan Ting, who had greeted him with a smile at first, suddenly became confused: "Pharmacist, we are our own people, don't scare me."

(End of this chapter)