Iron Dynasty

The sunset glow hung in the sky like a beautiful neon dress. Eight? One? Chinese Network?

In the red brilliance, Qingzhou City has a strange beauty. After enjoying a sumptuous dinner in the palace, Xiao Ming returned to the sleeping hall and fell asleep.

He only got up lazily at noon the next day.

The days of struggle have to continue, but it is no longer as urgent as before, at least after there are no barbarians outside the city, Xiao Ming's mood relaxes a lot.

In the following days, he could finally build his own fief easily and comfortably. Of course, his current fief will also include Youzhou.

Except for the sleeping hall, Xiao Ming was told that Pang Yukun was already waiting for him in the main hall.

Xiao Ming was a little bit unbelievable. If this Pang Changshi had used to wake him up outside the door, it was really the sun coming out from the west.

"Your Highness."

With a faint smile on Pang Yukun's face in the main hall, he respectfully saluted when he saw Xiao Ming.

Today, he deliberately did not interrupt Xiao Ming's rest. The three months of war made Xiao Ming very tired from running around. He really couldn't bear it.

He followed Xiao Ming step by step to this day, and witnessed that Xiao Ming went from being a bohemian clan king to now being able to drive the barbarians out of the gate.

The changes in his mind during this period of time have long since convinced him of Xiao Ming, and the tempering of these days has gradually made him no longer be as cynical as before.

What he wanted is now becoming reality, and Xiao Ming is no longer a person who needs his supervision.

"Pang Changshi came by coincidence, and this king is also about to find you." Xiao Ming sat down in the chair, and the maid served a cup of tea.

"His Royal Highness is talking about Youzhou, the lower officials have already heard about it." Pang Yukun said, and he naturally knew that the merchants were making noise at the gate of the Qi Palace.

Xiao Ming nodded, "This time it was the battle of Jizhou, and then the recovery of Qingzhou. During this period, many merchants provided a lot of supplies for the Northern Expedition. Now it is time to repay them. Then, the next war In order to raise more money, people will not stand without faith, and the king cannot break his promise."

Pang Yukun didn’t sleep peacefully for a few days because of the recapture of the sixteen states of Yanyun. He said: "His Royal Highness, the next official was already thinking about this when he went to Shanhaiguan. This time the spoils cannot be given to these merchants. Whether it’s war horses, cattle, sheep, or wild bags, these things are useful to us, so the officials think that they will only be given pastures, and they must raise horses on the pastures.”

After a pause, Pang Yukun said: "The barbarians swept the world with cavalry. This is where the Great Yu country can't match. After losing the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Great Yu country is even more unscrupulous. This is because there is no high-quality pasture. , So your Highness, must take this opportunity to vigorously show horses in Youzhou, the barbarians have only been driven out of the barrier, but the barbarians are still strong in national power and must not be taken lightly."

Xiao Ming nodded slowly, and Pang Yukun's words came to Xiao Ming's heart.

He said: "You are right. The Silk Road is still under the control of the barbarians. We are now only huddled in the Great Wall. It is difficult to defeat the barbarians without enough cavalry. If the barbarians are not eliminated for one day, this is the northern one. Great trouble."

"This is the truth." Pang Yukun laughed. "In addition to the pastures, His Royal Highness can also transfer some of the victims to Youzhou to plant potatoes, peanuts, corn, and peppers. The people in Qingzhou are unwilling to plant potatoes. These victims have not. Land, in order to get land, they will not refuse."

"The people refuse to grow potatoes?"

Xiao Ming suddenly remembered that potatoes should be planted too.

Pang Yukun nodded, "The lower official was just about to tell his Highness about this. Originally, the lower official was going to force the people to take out a part of the land to grow potatoes. After all, if potatoes are so high-yielding, no matter how large the population can afford them, it's just that His Highness has gathered more than 500,000 disaster victims from Jizhou, and now you have a large area of ​​land in Youzhou. Isn’t it possible to distribute the land to the disaster victims for them to plant? Otherwise, it would be okay to force the people to plant it, but it will inevitably cause The people's gossip."

Xiao Ming smiled helplessly.

In fact, when potatoes were first introduced to Europe, they were disliked, and even considered to be an ominous thing. European farmers also refused to plant them. After all, no one would risk hungry to grow a kind that had never been seen before. Crops.

It was only later that there was a great famine in France. At this time, a pharmacist who liked potatoes took the opportunity to promote the high yield and deliciousness of potatoes in France, so the starving and crazy French began to rush to plant them, saving a large number of hungry people.

Since then, potatoes have been valued by European powers, and they have forced domestic farmers to plant some potatoes.

Now Xiao Ming obviously suffered from this kind of embarrassment, but he came from later generations and naturally firmly believed in the importance of potatoes to the fief.

He said: "In this case, we will select some of the victims to go to Youzhou to reclaim land, and Youzhou City itself has 200,000 people. This number is enough. When the potatoes are cooked in the first season, this king will make the people second. Vying to grow potatoes in the year."

"Youzhou still has 200,000 victims?" Pang Yukun was a little surprised.

"Exactly, so this king hopes that you will go to Youzhou, establish the government of Youzhou, and distribute the land to the people by the way."

Now Youzhou is already in his pocket, and he naturally wants to extend his rule there.

"Yes, Your Highness, this is what the lower officials do best." Pang Yukun smiled.

Now Xiao Ming's fiefdom has doubled, and there is no reason to be happy as a courtier.

"In that case, you are responsible for the disaster victims and Youzhou. The king will summon these businessmen to the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow to discuss the pasture."

Then he said: "By the way, the victims who are escorted back this time are all insurgents. How have you dealt with this time?

"All the crimes of breaking the law have been punished, and what remains is the innocent people who drag their families away." Pang Yukun said seriously ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ This matter is very serious, he should not be foolish.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ming said: "The Azure Dragon King still doesn't know where to flee, so these victims must be eliminated, lest some of them are loyal to the Azure Dragon King to disturb the situation."

It was not Xiao Ming's cold-bloodedness, after all, this matter involved the safety of the fief.

If someone with bad intentions takes the opportunity to cause trouble at this time, it will be his people who will be killed or injured at that time.

Pang Yukun nodded again.

The two talked about Youzhou and the victims, and also talked about the government affairs of the fief, and Pang Yukun left with satisfaction.

And Xiao Ming was preparing to talk to the merchants about this Youzhou.

This time, the Youzhou grassland is very large. Not only does it need to be sold to them, he is also going to sell some to them. He has a preliminary idea and plans to focus on building farming and pastoral industries in Youzhou.

He was thinking, when Aster suddenly walked in and said: "His Royal Highness, Bowen Academy has sent people, and they said they have created a hydrogen balloon." (To be continued.)