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Section 767: A City of One Million Population

The people on the boat shouted:

"Brother, help me and go to Bianliang City to ask how many women who can spin threads are there, and we will bring us two thousand people to move goods. We won't let the brothers work hard in vain and have money to get it."

With the words "wealthy" and many soldiers basking in the sun jumped up immediately.

Someone ran over immediately: "The healthy women in our camp can spin threads. How many people do they need and how much money do they give every day?"

"Is there a ten thousand?"

"five hundred."

The people on the boat sighed heavily, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

But no matter what, I still found someone who can work.

The ships began to line up to the North Pier of Bianliang in sequence. Because there were too many ships, some ships were pulled onto the shallows by cables and directly on board the ship to carry cargo.

You are polite to the people of the Huainan West Route Army, after all, everyone was once the Song army.

The Huainan West Route Army arranged for the team to cook rice.

The soldiers on the boat threw the meat down, throwing it into packs, all marinated with large salt particles. The salt fell out of the cloth bag was more than five kilograms, and the meat was only fifty kilograms.

"If you have chicken or not, just give me some pots of vegetable porridge and wild vegetable porridge. We have mutton here for the brothers to eat."

Someone from the Huainan West Route Army asked: "Brother, you have a great meal."

"Don't mention it, our general beat up some king of Xixia. As a result, the Xixia people sent 200,000 sheep without saying a word, saying that this was a labor force and we would not let us go north. There were too many sheep and they could not finish it. They also brought dozens of big green salt from carriages. The brothers had eaten mutton that had been salty for more than ten days."

Huainan West Route Army was stunned when he heard this.

Those who have served as soldiers in the ancestors know how many wars the Song Dynasty and Xixia fought, but never won, and even ceded many cities to Xixia.

What's the result.

Now look at others. Once the troops are sent, Xixia will send sheep.

I'm tired of eating mutton.

Is this still the Song army?

That's right, in order to ensure that the mutton will not be damaged, it is really a salty cured meat.

The people from Huainan West Route Army eat very deliciously.

And the people who came back from Jinning Army licked the burden of wild vegetable porridge and the bowl.

After eating and chatting, the Huainan West Route Army on Bianliang only realized what had happened.

Insufficient staff.

At present, hundreds of thousands of skins need to be slurried, and hundreds of ships of wool need to be combed out, and then selected and spinned into threads.

As we descend along the Yellow River, there is no big city with so many people.

The original plan was to sail to Bianliang and then transfer to Jiankang Mansion. There must be enough manpower there to work.

Since there is Bianliang City, the fleet does not want to leave anymore.

They also need some rest, people need to rest, and boats also need to be repaired.

After the goods are ready, then head north to Jinning Prefecture.

Bianliang, the Jin people changed their name to Bianjing, and now they are renamed back to Bianliang City.

The city had the largest population at 1.5 million, and it is still a top city now, with an outer city of 120 miles in circumference.

At this time in Bianliang, many low-level people from the Jin Dynasty changed their Han surnames and did not leave. In addition, the original Song people also had a population of nearly one million.

Recruiting workers.

Countless people gathered in the north of Bianliang City and divided into three piles.

One of them is women, one of them is young and strong, and one of them is knowledgeable and skilled.

When the general of the fleet saw that there were so many people in Bianliang, he immediately sent people south to mobilize cloth to bring it to make clothes and shoes here.

Qiu Jun and Xu Kan stood on the wall of Bianliang, looking from a distance at the crowded north of the city to this area by the Yellow River.

Xu Kan said to Qiu Jun: "I know why Han Jiang can get so many support?"

"Why?"

Xu Kan replied: "He did not rely on the fields. He turned the farmers who lost the fields into craftsmen. There is a saying that his craftsmen will never be enough. In addition to training, his soldiers have to work at least five days every ten days. They don't know where the goods they manufacture will flow. In short, they will never be enough."

Qiu Jun nodded: "So, he dares to spread his resident into acres, and he dares to collect taxes from the gentry. Nine out of ten of our farmers in the Song Dynasty did not have their own fields, and these people did not have to pay the land tax or the tax of the people."

"Yes, this is why the Wancheng Army had a slogan before: fighting for others is not to fight for others, but to fight for oneself, guarding one's own home, and becoming a rich home."

Qiu Gu asked again: "What about now?"

Xu Kan pointed to the distance: "Now it is in front of you. Look at the spirit of the soldiers. They are soldiers, but they are also caravans. They use swords to conduct business! When they encounter reasonable people, they use business discussions. When they encounter unreasonable people, they fight. If they cannot defeat them, they will be transferred to the Imperial Army to flatten the other party's city, and then sit down and talk."

Qiu Jun sighed: "According to what the soldiers said, I feel that Xixia may have to pay annual monies to ensure safety, because the people of Xixia are afraid of Han Jiang's subordinates. I don't know what the Fire Imperial Army is, and I can't think of it. Our Song Dynasty also has a firearm camp, and no one takes the firearm camp of the Song Dynasty seriously."

Xu Kan thought for a while: "There is a rumor from the north that the firearm used by the troops attacking Jin Zhongdu was to hit the enemy's array at a speed faster than an arrow. An iron ball would be injured when it was rubbed, and it would be killed when it hit. Even the city wall would be broken, and there were four very huge gates. The outer city of Jin Zhongdu was collapsed by the giant firearm."

City wall.

Qiu Gu looked at the Bianliang city wall under his feet.

I think the city walls of Jin Zhongdu are not much worse than this one.

Can be broken.

This is many times stronger than a catapult.

Qiu Jun asked: "The officials do not want to return to Bianliang, and the royal family only seeks to save their lives and be rich. What should we do?"

Xu Kan replied: "I don't know."

After saying this, Xu Kan stopped talking.

Qiu Gu looked at Xu Kan for a long time, and finally sighed and stopped talking.

The two of them looked outside the city side by side.

Until night, the fire was set up outside the city and the two of them did not leave, just watched.

It seems that many people outside the city were laughing.

At this time, someone came behind Qiu Jun: "The pacifier, I have a letter."

Qiu Jun did not look back and just asked: "Whose?"

"The Privy Council is now signing the signature."

Stay the right one.

Qiu Jun turned around and took the letter, but when he looked at the words on the letter, he knew that this was not Liu Zheng's handwriting. This was Xie Shenfu's handwriting. Qiu Jun was a little curious about why Xie Shenfu wrote for Liu Zheng.

Qiu Jun read the letter three times before handing it over to Xu Kan.

After Xu Kan saw it, his eyebrows frowned.

Qiu Gu asked, "Donald Liu asked me to come out to govern Lanzhou and take charge of Lintao City and Yan'an Prefecture. The real owner of this letter should be Han Jiefu, but I am sure that I am not the first person he chose. I don't know who recommended me. If I agree, I will go back to Lin'an. Mr. Qian wants to see me, but I am afraid that some secrets will be told to me."

"After hearing this secret, whether I accept this official position or not, I am..." Qiu Jun stopped and suddenly smiled: "Loyal minister, another loyal minister."

The word loyal minister is really ironic.
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