Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 272 Niu Xiu Niu Jinda

"Goguryeo is just a dead bone in the grave. With the development of our Tang Dynasty, the gap will become wider and wider. Slowly, the knife will cut the flesh." Feng Daiwen said with a smile.

"Hehe! That's right. After porcelain and glaze come out, increase sales and let them exchange food. They are supporting Baekje and making trouble in Silla. It won't be long before there will be civil turmoil. I'll just wait and see." Ma Zhou He said with a calm expression.

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There are many craftsmen in the west of Liaoning. Feng Daiwen convened and took the lead in building coking and steel-making kilns. Everyone knows the truth that if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. Tens of thousands of miners need tools, which is not a small number. .

Now because it is slack, many tools are borrowed from ordinary people, which not only seriously affects efficiency, but also delays spring plowing.

With good tools, mines can be mined better. Feng Daiwen is not worried about the captives making trouble with tools. Firstly, all the prisoners are counted after work every day. Second, the captives do not have any armor. Datang was not harsh on them, and there was no shortage of food or shelter. Compared with many captives, the life of the miners was much better than before, but they did not have much freedom.

As a soul of later generations, although Feng Daiwen has been battle-tested and killed a lot, he is still very humane to the miners. He not only organizes them to watch soldiers' performances and military training, but also has two days off every month.

There are a lot of people and strength. More than [-] people work in a radius of more than ten miles. This place changes every day. Tents are continuously removed and turned into brick houses. Dense villages appear on the ground. The only difference is that all the villages There are not only walls, but also a circle of wooden stakes, which is also like a prison.

Dozens of kilns were dug out, and the fires of the kilns every day made the sky red all over, and the huge black smoke over more than a dozen large steelmaking kilns continued all day long.

10 people are constantly digging around the earth, the hills are dug up and continue to extend downwards, the dug up soil is used to burn bricks, the used coal dregs are paved into roads, ores are sorted and refined, even useless Stones from all over the world were also transported out to build the walls, and nothing was wasted, and everything was used to the extreme.

The ore was dug out, refined to make tools, and more ore was dug out. I have to sigh that Qian'an iron ore mining is really convenient, rich in mineral deposits, and the iron content is particularly high, and there are few useless stones.

The Khitan and Turkic tribes requisitioned a large number of their horses for running. Fortunately, the Xi people are very good at making carriages, and there is no shortage of wood in western Liaoning. It took a month to make them continuously. Tens of thousands of carriages appeared on the huge construction site. It is the perfect explanation for the busy traffic.

It didn't take long for the warehouse to be full of steel ingots and iron ingots. There really wasn't enough manpower to forge them. A hydraulic forge was being built by the river. The levers were driven by water to hammer the iron ingots, which could save a lot of manpower and material resources.

What the skilled craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty lacked was not technology, but a direction. When Feng Daiwen pointed out a direction, they could apply it to every aspect. There is no doubt about it. They didn’t make it before. Things are not always easy to use in reality, and what Feng Dawen pointed out is the core motivation, which is a mature direction, and the rest is just assembled with various parts, which is what they are good at.

Western Liaoning has fully adapted to the new farming methods, including plowing, fertilizing, seed selection, seedling raising, top dressing, and the experimental field will also carry out pollination, cross-pollination and other processes.

Seeing that everything was on the right track, Feng Daiwen returned to Chang'an with peace of mind, because a group of young generals in Chang'an couldn't wait to go out and sent people to Liaoxi many times to urge them.

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Ten thousand Tengjia soldiers, [-] personal guards of each family, family members, etc., entered Shuzhong from Hanzhong along the Shu Road, and it was already early April when they entered Shuzhong.

This time Feng Daiwen left Xi Junmai in Liaoxi, just in case, and brought Feng Daihuo, Cheng Chubi, Yuchi Baoqing, Li Deju, Li Chongyi, Li Tian, ​​Du He, etc. to Chang'an for leisure The second generation of officials went.

As for Liu Dewei, he will bring Chang Sun Chong and a group of civil officials to enter after Feng Daiwen quells Nanzhao.

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In Xichang, Feng Daiwen met Niu Jinda who had been leading the army guarding this place, was also monitoring the family, and was in charge of logistical support.

"I've seen Duke Niu!" Feng Daiwen saw that Niu Jinda went out of the city to greet him in person, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him. After all, Niu Jinda belonged to the family of generals, and he had a good relationship with Yu Chigong, Cheng Yaojin and others, and they were all from Wagang.

"Welcome Chief Manager!" Niu Jinda smiled and bowed his hands in return.

"Uncle Niu was joking. Before my nephew left, Jiayue told me that Uncle is a close friend, so if you need help, please ask Uncle for help." Feng Daiwen hurriedly said humbly.

This time Feng Daiwen was given the position of chief commander of the Nanzhao Road Marching by Li Shimin. It was just a name to facilitate management. It was said that he was the chief commander, and the regular army was only [-] to [-], and the rest were all mobs.

"Haha! If that's the case, I'll call you a good nephew." Niu Jinda smiled heartily, and smiling at Feng Daiwen on his ugly face actually made him feel very warm.

"That should be the case. My nephew is just here, so I would like to ask uncle to introduce the form of Nanzhao." Feng Daiwen thought that he was so friendly to him for the sake of Yu Chigong and others, so he hurriedly asked for advice.

"Let the army be stationed, and you go to the city with the old man and explain in detail." Niu Jinda did not refuse, and invited him.

"I've met Uncle Niu, Lord Niujun!" A group of second-generation officials who have seen Niu Jinda, even if they haven't, have heard of it, and those who have been told by their family, when Feng Daiwen said stop, they all stepped forward to salute. Introduce yourself.

Like Yuchi Baoqing, Cheng Chubi were very familiar with each other, so naturally they didn't dare to neglect, they respectfully greeted them as juniors, waited for a large group of people to greet them, left Chen Xiong brothers to set up camp, and then followed them into the city.

"My nephew was an accident. Why was this old man so enthusiastic when we met for the first time?" Niu Jinda, who was walking in front, asked Feng Daiwen, who was a step behind.

"I'm really puzzled, please ask Uncle to clarify." Feng Daiwen was taken aback for a moment, thinking it was because of Yu Chigong, only then did he realize that there was another reason, and asked quickly.

"My nephew brought three crops of rice, improved grain seeds, promoted advanced agricultural tools, so that the people of the world will not have to worry about hunger, and promote business, so that the people will become rich. This old man really admires me." Niu Jinda did not answer, but talked about something irrelevant things.

"Uncle, I'm sorry. It's because the Holy One is open-minded, so my nephew is allowed to mess around, and it's my nephew's honor to be able to use what I have learned to contribute to the Tang Dynasty and benefit the people of the world." Feng Daiwen although I don't understand why he mentioned it, but I replied modestly.

(End of this chapter)