Chapter 185 The person who gave money is here

Zhao Haoxin is already thirty years old, but he looks more like an old man in his twilight years. Of course, this does not mean that Zhao Haoxin looks old, but looks mature. His beard, which is more than a foot long, flutters in the wind, and his wide sleeves look graceful.

When Zhao Haoxin came to Miquan City with the elderly Zhao Boying and holding a brass seal, he even had the illusion that this was not a city at all, but a huge sheep pen. Even the so-called city wall was three meters high, but there was not even a single one in the entire city, let alone the houses, even the straw shed.

The three large official script characters "Miquan County" engraved with bluestone slabs show that this is a county town. Zhao Haoxin's face twitched unconsciously: "Is this Miquan County? Even our Zhaojiabao is better than one mile, Dad, is this your future for you to travel thousands of miles?"

"Bang!" Zhao Boying's strength came from somewhere, and suddenly raised the crutch in his hand and smacked heavily on Zhao Haoxin's forehead. Zhao Boying's beard was angry and roared in a stern voice: "Sad son, kneel down!"

The powerful landlords and aristocratic families are two completely different classes. The aristocratic families are also called "aristocratic families", "family surnames", "county surnames", "famous families", "famous families", "family families", "family readings", etc. This is a privileged class that takes family as a unit and family status as the standard, occupying a special position in social, political and economic life. In politics, the aristocratic families have a high status. They monopolize the career of the officialdom, control the central government, and become disguised class of nobles and nobles. In terms of economy, the aristocratic families annexed land, seal the mountains and lakes, occupy the population, govern the industry, and develop a pastoral villa-style self-sufficiency economy. In terms of social life, the aristocratic families are superior social classes and have a lofty social status.

However, powerful landlords are a new class among aristocratic families or common people. Although they have land and wealth like aristocratic families, they do not have the privilege of exempting from the aristocratic families and tax exemption, and they are also the key targets of the suppression of the aristocratic families.

Although the powerful have a lot of wealth, they suffer from lack of political power.

Human nature has always been greedy. Even a friend who runs a house in a hotel has his own ambitions and wishes. They also want to make money, marry the boss's daughter, and become the shopkeeper of the hotel. Of course, the same is true for the powerful landlords. They have amazing wealth. They practice martial arts and literature to gain a political status that matches their wealth.

Zhao Boying shouted coldly: "Do you know you are wrong?"

Zhao Haoxin naturally was unwilling to admit his mistakes. However, looking at Zhao Boying raised the crutches in his hand again. In the intention of a hero not to suffer losses, Zhao Haoxin murmured: "The child knows he is wrong!"

Zhao Boying was so angry that she trembled, raised her crutch and slammed heavily on the ground, pointing at Zhao Haoxin and said, "You know what's wrong!"

The main reason why Zhao Boying made up his mind to move to the Western Regions was because last year, Zhao Boying told Zhao Haoxin a marriage. The other party was from the Guo family of Fenyang. His clan was famous in the Jin Dynasty, Guo Pu. Although the Guo family of Fenyang has long been much worse than before, the most powerful official in the Guo family of Fenyang is Guo Yi, the Shangshu Provincial Department of the State Council. Ling Shi is a sixth-rank official, which is more special. Ling Shi is a low-ranking official and is disdained by scholars. However, in any case, the Guo family of Fenyang is still a clan.

Guo married Zhao Haoxin as a wife, which was considered a marriage. However, as mentioned above, who knew that when he was close to marrying, Guo's daughter married another family member of Li's family in Zhaozhou. Zhao Boying was so angry that she brought someone to argue, but was humiliated by others. Zhao Haoxin was so angry that she asked someone to argue, but she was beaten up by others...

Because the Guo family in Fenyang was a clan and had greedy for the 30,000 yuan bride price of the Zhao family in Shuozhou, Zhao Boying had no way to ask for advice. According to the etiquette and laws of the Tang Dynasty, Shishu did not get married, and the marriage itself had problems. On the contrary, the Zhao family was a toad and wanted to eat swan meat. Zhao Boying was so angry that he fell seriously ill and was bedridden for more than three months before he got better.

If the Zhao family was also a clan, even if they had lent the Guo family three courages, they would not dare to marry one daughter and the second one. The key is that this kind of loss is that Zhao family will definitely suffer, and even Chen Ying will not be able to intervene.

Zhao Boying pointed to the empty Miquan City and said, "What's wrong with Miquan? There are mountains and waters, land and fields here, and we have more than 8,000 oxen. This year, we missed the farming season, so we hurry up and build houses. Before the heavy snow comes, we can always have a nest to settle down. At most, this year is harder, and life will be much better next year. What's more, if we take over as the magistrate of Miquan County, we only need to fabricate 4,000 households in Miquan County, and as our father, we will be the seventh-rank official of the county government. After three generations, our Shuozhou Zhao family can be designated as the family."

It was not until this time that Zhao Haoxin understood Zhao Boying’s true intention.

Although Chen Ying only gave Zhao Boying a nameless county magistrate, this county magistrate is a rank official. After three generations, they can become a clan. Even the lowest aristocratic clan is an existence that powerful and common people need to look up to.

Zhao Haoxin lowered his head and said, "I understand!"

Zhao Boying roared in a low voice: "If you understand, hurry up and work. From now on, Miquan, Xizhou will be the starting place for our Zhao clan. There are abundant rivers, dense waters, and one person has a high weed. There is no reason not to plant crops. If you manage Miquan well, how many years can you do this old bone for your father? The Zhao clan will be handed over to your hands in the future. This Miquan Order is also yours!"

Zhao Boying knew how difficult it was to start a business from scratch. Since he took over the family business of his ancestors, he had been busy for decades, and even made his wife die early due to overwork. The family business was inherited from generation to generation, and then he contributed bricks and tiles to finally become a big family. Zhao Boying firmly believed that. At that time, the Zhao family of Shuozhou was a servant of the Zhao family in Tianshui. He was given the surname Zhao for his diligence. Then he followed the head of the family and stayed in Shuozhou for his injury. After the unremitting efforts of the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties for hundreds of years, the Wei and Jin Dynasties had thousands of rich land and thousands of tenants.

However, now that I have reached my own generation, I finally have the hope of breaking away from the shackles of the common people.

The hardworking Zhao family members began to work hard. Some of them dug soil and built brick kilns to prepare for burning bricks. Even women and children were not idle. They cut off weeds that were tall, some stayed to feed cattle and horses, and more dried them first. This thatch can replace tiles and make roofs.

As the six powerful men in Shuozhou and their tenants arrived in Xizhou, Chen Ying drew six cities on the map, then cast six major seals of the county, and then took over six cities.

The second big event was that the first cotton spinning mill in the Western Regions finally started production. As the autumn harvest of the sixth year of Wude approached, the cotton planting area in the Western Regions will exceed 20 million kilograms of cotton output this year. However, since cotton bedding is not a consumable item that is changed every year, cotton will be rich this year, which is not in the interests of the people of Xizhou Road. So Chen Ying decided to digest the production capacity on site, spin the excess cotton into thread, and then weave cloth.

Once the autumn harvest really comes, a large amount of cotton raw materials enter the factory, and the textile factory can weave 120,000 pieces of cotton cloth. These cotton cloths can not only be made into military uniforms, but also enter the market for sale, and can also become a fist commodity in the Western Regions.

Of course, Chen Ying can sell the cotton cloth that is digested internally with a cost price plus a meager profit, and then, for cotton cloth that is sold to the outside world, it will naturally make a big profit.

The third thing is that the families of soldiers are constantly moving from Guanzhong to join their sons and brothers who are in the Anxi Army. Each soldier can obtain 150 acres of fertile military fields, which is incomparable to the farmers. They are all moved by the whole family. Once the families moved here, Chen Ying is not stingy. With a wave of his hand, he will 100 acres of Dingkou Field.

The Anxi Army had more than 80,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of them poured out the fields. However, for the Western Regions, the cultivation of this little field was less than one-tenth of the cultivation of later generations.

As a result, the population of Xizhou Road has risen sharply, exceeding one million people at its peak, and is still growing steadily. In addition, the total population of Han slaves rescued from the Tubo Plateau is very easy to break through the 1.5 million mark.

In short, everything is developing in a good direction, and everyone works together, and it is not impossible for the Western Regions to become Xi Okura.

Chen Ying was even more excited and led the army to play long-distance marching, marching and training, and also inspecting the six counties of poplar, river besides, Jingjue, Hongta, Miquan, and Weihu. Seeing the houses rising from the ground and watching the new cities change from day to day, Chen Ying was overjoyed.

Just when Chen Ying inspected Miquan County, Miquan County had become bustling with endless people. Miquan water was abundant, so the grass was lush. The hardworking Zhao Boying took his tribe to build a new home with his skillful hands, but also used these worthless weeds to weave into straw hats, straw sandals, straw mats, straw raincoats, and wood to make tables, boxes, hu beds, and various work furniture. These handicrafts were used to exchange sheep and fur with the surrounding nomadic tribes...

Chen Ying was about to enter Miquan City accompanied by Zhao Boying. At this moment, Li Daozhen rode his horse and arrived within three steps of Chen Ying. Li Daozhen turned over and dismounted and said to Chen Ying: "Chen Lang, a big merchant is coming to you to buy cotton!"

Despite having a textile factory, the cotton still cannot be consumed. At this time, some merchants came to buy cotton, which was so sleepy that someone gave him a pillow.

This was a big deal, so Chen Ying naturally did not dare to neglect and hurriedly led his people toward Mulan City.

...

In Mulan City, in the headquarters of the Western Regions, a woman in white with long sleeves was sitting upright in the living room drinking tea. Behind her were several tall men in bare hands, with thick calluses on her palms, strong muscles and fierce eyes, and obviously her bodyguard.

The lady in white turned her back to Chen Ying. Even though she knew that Chen Ying had come to the hall, she still sat on the soft couch with a big thorn, motionless.

A merchant was so rude that Chen Ying was a little unhappy. If it weren't for the generous gift she placed on the table, Chen Ying would have really invited her out.

"The fragrance is refreshing, and it is refreshing. Before I can drink it, I feel comfortable all over. Good tea, it is so good tea." The woman in white finished drinking a cup of tea, put down the tea cup reluctantly, and said, "I really didn't expect that my cousin is so proficient in tea ceremony. She is such a wonderful person..."
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