Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

Chapter 216 Recruiting northern students and building a large-scale steel plant

When they heard that the future King of Guanzhong would continue to play these videos here, the students from the north all cheered loudly!

A super happy, I'm very happy, super refreshing expression. After all, they have been disgusted by the Southern Song Dynasty's regime in recent years.

Their ancestors have been waiting for generations, waiting for the Southern Song Dynasty to launch troops in the Northern Expedition and to liberate the Han people in the Central Plains.

But the Northern Expedition failed again and again, the blame was passed on again and again, and the inaction was made again and again.

The northern Han people completely lost all patience and confidence in Zhao Song.

Especially after the Southern Song Dynasty called the northerners "reformed people" and said that there were no heroes in the north, the Han people in the north had completely given up on the Zhao and Song regime.

No matter who becomes the emperor, as long as it is not his Zhao family, the northern Han people will support him.

But the students of the Southern Song Dynasty turned pale when they heard this. Did you make a mistake? You can still play it continuously in the next few months.

Originally, these southern students were still thinking about it, but when they returned to the south, they gritted their teeth, gritted their teeth, and said in unison that the King of Guanzhong was just pretending to be a ghost.

I performed some shadow puppet shows for them, but they exposed me in public, and I was extremely ashamed and embarrassed.

But now, they don't dare.

In this situation, this thing that can leave behind images of the past makes it impossible for them to tell lies when they go back.

Because who knows whether the scene today of myself and others will be recorded by the King of Guanzhong? If he and others told lies after returning to the south.

Then the King of Guanzhong will play the video of himself and others today to let everyone in the world know that these Song students who came to Guanzhong will be ruined.

This artifact is really heart-breaking! It even plays for months on end. If all those storytellers know this, the matter will spread faster, and there may be multiple versions spread.

But no matter what, this incident will hit them hard in the south.

"Okay everyone, I have finished reading the content for you. I will continue to play it next. If you want to see it, please stay here and continue to watch it. If you don't want to see it, please stay here.

I have prepared good mutton soup and a place to stay so that everyone can rest after eating. "Zhang Yong said.

"King Hou of Guanzhong is here. Please wait for me to have mutton soup."

"Thank you King Guanzhong for the reward."

"King of Guanzhong! Now that Guanzhong has been decided, the king still has the land of Xixia. Why not recruit my northern students to help the king of Guanzhong solve his problems." A northern student shouted loudly.

"Yes, the prince is a Han from the north, so why don't I, a Han from the north, rule the country?"

The atmosphere was heightened, and now these northern students also revealed that the real purpose of coming to Zhang Yong this time was to seek an official position.

Most of these northern students were scholars, but none of them had any honors, because the Kingdom of Jin and Mongolia had not held any decent imperial examinations at all.

Scholars like them are treated very poorly. Now that a Han king has finally emerged, they naturally hope that this person can give northern scholars like them a chance.

Otherwise, there would not have been so many northern students traveling through the stars and nights to Guanzhong within a month.

"Hahaha! If you want to serve me, you are most welcome, but you need to go through an assessment to see if you have real talent and learning. If you have real talent and learning, I will hire you. "Zhang Yong said with a smile.

After this group of northern students came to Guanzhong, Zhang Yong certainly couldn't let them go. After all, he was very short of people under his command. Previously, he only occupied the two lands of Xixia. Zhang Yong himself and his men still had I can keep busy.

But since he and Wokuotai conquered the entire Guanzhong area, his manpower is not enough.

He is really short of people right now, so this group of northern students coming here can be said to be a lifeline for him.

Give these people a little training and let them learn some modern management systems, and then they can be distributed to the grassroots.

As a junior official, he supervises farming, taxation, and reconstruction work in various places.

If I were to train myself from scratch, it would take at least ten or even twenty years, but after this group of northern students came.

You just need to give them some simple training.

"King Guanzhong, you mean you, do you want to reopen Enke?" Some northern students asked excitedly.

Enko, Enko, they have been waiting for too long. Even some scholars no longer read books from the Confucian school, but have begun to read books from hundreds of schools of thought.

"It's not Enke! I don't test anything, poetry, songs, or the Four Books and Five Classics. I just ask you the simplest question, how to govern a country, how to govern a city?

How to govern a county? How to double the tax revenue of this county, double the food of the people, double the livestock, and make the Guanzhong land richer within a few years.

These are the tests I'm taking on you. What's your name? "Zhang Yong said.

"Sir, my name is Hu Debang, and I am from Bianliang Mansion in the north."

"Well! I hope you can pass the exam I set." Zhang Yong nodded and said.

First, I am not qualified to hold an encore. If you hold an enke secondly, you will be given a copy by someone who is interested.

Moreover, even if there is an Enke exam, I won’t take the test on anything like the Four Books and Five Classics, poems and songs.

"It's natural. If you want to take the exam, you can't take a test on poetry, poetry, and poetry. Of course, you have to take a test on history, policy, poetry, and how to govern the country." A group of students said very happily.

Although it is not the Enke exam and they will not have any fame, what they care about is the opportunity to become an official! Who cares about fame? How can fame be as good as the opportunity to become an official?

And it’s okay not to take a test on poetry and poetry! Things like poetry and songs still depend on talent. Some people have a lot of ideas for governing the country, or have exquisite strategies, but their poetry and songs are not good.

Amid the cheers and cheers of the northern students, the southern students had sadly left the venue, but some still stayed.

"King of Guanzhong! If you recruit northern students as officials? Can you also recruit my southern students as officials?" A southern student asked.

In fact, most of the southern students who came to Guanzhong this time did not have any honors. After all, there had been no war in the south in the past few years, and the people were living and working in peace and contentment.

The number of scholars increased dramatically, and only a few people were admitted to the imperial examinations. Most of the remaining people were still in the dust.

Although they are rich in economics, they also long for an opportunity to be an official. Since ancient times, the appearance of any wise king or monarch is often accompanied by various visions. The ancients said that when a sage is born, there must be a vision of heaven and earth.

The emergence of Zhang Yong, the King of Guanzhong, is accompanied by all kinds of magical things that seem to be impossible to explain with common sense, and he carries so many things with him. It is an artifact that cannot be explained by common sense at all, and my experience is also extremely fantasy.

Therefore, a small number of southern scholars also have some new plans, that is, to see if they can do anything with the King of Guanzhong in the north.

If this King of Guanzhong is really the person chosen by God, then he will definitely be able to overthrow the Southern Dynasty in the future, and then they will be regarded as ministers of the Dragon.

But there are really not many people who have this kind of vision. Most of the southern scholars chose to leave, and Zhang Yong himself did not expect to stay much.

After all, his base is still in the north.

"As long as you have real talent, can pass the exam, and serve the king loyally, you should be hired." Zhang Yong said.

After all, we will still fight against the south in the future. I will fight against Zhao and Song, not all the southerners. These people will also be my own people in the future.

"Thank you, King of Guanzhong!" The more than a hundred southern scholars who were left bowed to Zhang Yong and said.

Let us see if this King of Guanzhong has the momentum to settle in the Central Plains and dominate the world!

In the next period of time, Zhang Yong was extremely busy. He was busy with spring plowing, while correcting the test papers submitted by these northern scholars. After returning home in the evening, he had to do homework and copy his own e-books.

From among these thousands of scholars, Zhang Yong spent nearly half a month selecting more than 800 people through preliminary screening and assessment, and then began to train them in some professional knowledge.

They are knowledge on planting, animal husbandry, crop management, etc. These are things that have been presented before, and Zhang Yong is not afraid to spread them.

Because there are some things that you can only keep in the early stages, and it will be difficult not to spread the word in the later stage. Keep it strictly confidential, even if you don’t use it yourself. As long as you use it, it will be easy for others to learn from it.

After more than a month of training. These hundreds of northern scholars who had taken refuge with Zhang Yong were all assigned to grassroots officials and sent to Guanzhong and even the Xixia area. Now the more than 200,000 Xixia people who the Xixia side had promised to hand over to Wokuotai have been taken away.

The two prefectures of Xining and Xiliang in Xixia have been vacant. Zhang Yong has settled a large number of Han people here. Now the Han people in the two places combined total 300,000, and some officials are needed to come there. .

Some people have also been arranged to live in some of the surrounding vacant villages and counties, and some abandoned land and farmland also need to be reclaimed and cultivated.

The land of Guanzhong, plus some areas of Xixia, began a huge reform and busyness.

Now is a critical period for the use of some technologies in Friends of Military and Civilian Talents.

The most critical one was the establishment of the steel factory. Zhang Yong mobilized a large number of craftsmen and trained them from scratch.

Teach them how to cast good steel and perfect steel casting methods.

Because of the mineral distribution map, it is not too difficult for Zhang Yong to find iron ore or coal mines.

The area he now rules is Gansu and Shaanxi. According to the comparison table, there are several large iron mines in this area, and Zhang Yong found all of them.

As long as people are sent to these areas, they can mine high-quality iron ore and then continuously transport it to their own steel plants.

After all the preparations were completed, Zhang Yong began to build a giant steel plant.

The location of this steel plant is also very important. It must be close to several iron mines to facilitate transportation.

Otherwise, the transportation cost alone is a huge expense, and these expenses can consume yourself.

Therefore, a complete transportation chain must be established. Fortunately, we are backed by the Mongolian Empire and have a lot of horses, camels and the like, which also greatly saves some transportation costs.

Zhang Yong built it near the Weishui River, because the water flow here could build a huge waterwheel to provide steel casting help to the steelmaking plant.

And with its backing to waterways, some transportation can also be carried out by boat. After all, shipping is much more convenient and faster than land transportation.

As for Xixia, Zhang Yong plans to supply all the coal from Xiliao to the breeding farms. It is not realistic to transport the coal from Xiliao all the way.

Some coal mines near Gansu and Qinghai can also be mined and coal can be transported continuously.

This steelmaking plant will be its own weapons production center in the future, and will create various weapons, armors, and shields for its own army.

Zhang Yong estimates that it will take more than a year to completely build the steel plant, and preliminary calculations require at least 1,500 workers to work here.

Because there are too many secrets here, Zhang Yong has implemented some strict confidentiality systems, and every worker in the steelmaking plant must go through strict screening.

They and their families, about thirty to forty thousand people, will live in a small town near this steel plant.

They must live locally for generations, and after their children reach adulthood, they must join a steel factory to cast iron, or engage in some farming work nearby.

Without your own orders, you are not allowed to contact outsiders or leave.

Strict confidentiality measures have been taken. Zhang Yong learned this from Genghis Khan. After all, it comes from some modern casting methods.

It is too advanced in this era. The weapons forged are absolutely crushing level and must not be leaked.

Even if the output is lower, Zhang Yong doesn't mind, but confidentiality must be maintained.

Zhang Yong also established corresponding gunpowder factories. The detailed proportions and formulas of black gunpowder were only known to some core craftsmen.

The black gunpowder powder prepared according to its own formula can be said to be the best in this era.

Some of the gunpowder masters who knew this formula were taken away by Genghis Khan, while some stayed with Zhang Yong and entered the gunpowder factory.

As for the formula for crystallized black powder.

Zhang Yong still doesn't plan to get him out, now is not the time.

At least we have to wait until a real steel cannon is cast before we can get the crystal black powder and make the corresponding cannonballs.

After the steel plant is completely seated, Zhang Yong will start his own cannon-casting plan.

What was forged this time was not some earthen cannon, but a real steel cannon with a range of four to five hundred meters, the kind that could destroy an enemy's city wall with one shot.

This kind of cannon is a real siege weapon. Although it can't destroy your slope-shaped city wall, I can bombard your city gate or the soldiers on your tower.

And only some super big cities and Xiongguan city walls are of this slope type, more than ten meters thick.

The walls of some small towns are still earthen walls that are only a few meters long and can be destroyed by one cannon. Cannons are still the best siege weapon.

In terms of spring plowing, Zhang Yong also took charge of it, distributing all kinds of soil-based fertilizers and allowing things like tomatoes to be planted on a large scale.

The huge yield and extremely high vitamin nutritional value of tomatoes are very helpful to you.

The cattle from Xining Prefecture were also pulled out. The grassland cattle plowed the land. Although they were not as good as the yellow cattle and black cattle from the Central Plains, they were still barely usable. They just needed some training.

While Zhang Yong was busy managing and developing the entire Guanzhong land, Song Bo in the south also caused an uproar, or a super earthquake.

For several months, Zhang Yong continued to use the projector to play the videos, which also allowed some students who came to watch to see these things.

Although it was unbelievable, these later southern students were speechless when the facts were in front of them.

Even Zhang Yong's discussion scene with students from the north and south using a drone on his first day was added to the video and played. This miraculous flying artifact was played in the video. Able to speak on his own.

Even recording scenes from the past and things that happened in the past did have a huge psychological impact on these students.

Under Zhang Yong's deliberate arrangements and the encouragement of countless storytellers, this incident quickly spread throughout the country.

The deeds of the Southern Song Dynasty mission were also spread to the streets.

The degree of fermentation of this incident far exceeded Zhang Yong's imagination, and the impact on the Southern Song Dynasty also exceeded Zhang Yong's imagination.

In this era, no one has used public opinion warfare, and no one has used counter-public opinion warfare, even the kind where you can't tell lies.

Under Zhang Yong's operation, several groups of southern scholars and storytellers who came back one after another told everyone the truth of the matter.

Coupled with the wonderful speeches of some storytellers, some traders and pawns in the market knew the ins and outs of this matter.

"My darling, these adults are really embarrassed. They are really thrown into grandma's house. I, Lao Zhu, even despise them!" said a butcher selling meat on the streets of Lin'an Prefecture.

As ordinary people, after finishing their work every day, their entertainment after dinner is to go to some restaurants and teahouses to listen to books.

The gathering of the King of Guanzhong, the royal envoys of the Song Dynasty, and students from the north and south was also the focus of their discussion.

"Isn't that true? I heard that our envoys from the Song Dynasty threw everyone home this time. They are a bunch of dog officials who are greedy for life and afraid of death."

"I was so frightened by Genghis Khan that I almost didn't reveal my parents' surnames."

"Alas! In the hands of the king of Guanzhong, there really is a magical weapon that can change one's destiny! Has my strength, the Great Song Dynasty, been exhausted?"

"You bastard, don't talk nonsense. We can just talk and laugh here. There are some things you don't dare to say nonsense." A group of people said in a hurry.

You can talk about the emperor's affairs, but we are talking about the envoys' affairs.

(End of this chapter)