Hua Xiong was walking on the road, thinking about how to speak later. As he was thinking, he walked. When he raised his head, he had already arrived at Jiangzuofu. He went up and knocked on the door. Not long after, a craftsman opened the door.
He walked out of the door and looked at Hua Xiong outside. Hua Xiong was not angry because of his rudeness. Hua Xiong was not from a high background. For some reason, he felt a special affinity with these craftsmen. He smiled and said: "
Could you please tell me that Captain Hua Xiong of Sili School is here to visit?"
The craftsman was a little frightened by his kindness. He hurriedly paid his respects and hurried back to report. Not long after, he ran out and said, "Master, Mr. Ma... is ill again... I can't wake him up...
." The craftsman thought for a moment, then opened the door and let Hua Xiong in. Hua Xiong was naturally a little worried when he heard that Ma Jun was ill. He frowned, followed the craftsman into the inner palace, and asked: "What's going on?
Illness? Is it still serious??”
The craftsman led him into the inner palace and came to a house. The craftsman motioned Hua Xiong to come and looked inside the house from the window. Hua Xiong walked over and was still a little confused. Could it be a contagious disease? What if?
So, I have to take care of this matter, Hua Xiong was thinking. When he looked out the window, he saw Ma Jun sitting in the room, anxiously walking back and forth, constantly flipping through various items on the papers, laughing sometimes.
Sometimes he would get angry, and Hua Xiong looked a little creepy.
"It's a brain disease..."
"Brain disease???" Hua Xiong was startled, his eyes widened, and he asked blankly: "I, the great man who will be the master craftsman, have a brain disease??"
The craftsman didn't know what to say. He thought for a long time and then said: "We don't know either. Just recently, Mr. Ma suddenly locked himself in the house and became like this. We went in several times and were scolded by him.
When I got out, I don’t know why a very gentle person turned into like this. Oh, what a good person..." Listening to the craftsman’s words, Hua Xiong was also stunned.
"They said that Mr. Ma might be attracting ghosts... Previously, Mr. Liu made a seal for him, with the word "general" engraved on it, and then he looked like this. We also asked him, and the stone used for the seal must be obscene.
It's yours!" The craftsman whispered, and Hua Xiong quickly fled the mansion and took a few steps back, muttering from time to time: "No intention to disturb, no intention to disturb, no intention to disturb..."
The craftsman was stunned and asked with some confusion: "Is the captain from Liangzhou?"
"Exactly."
The craftsman suddenly understood and nodded without saying anything. Hua Xiong glanced at Ma Jun's mansion with some fear. Then he looked at the craftsman and said, "Can you make a repeating crossbow?" After hearing this, the craftsman nodded and said.
: "I can do it. Does the captain need a repeating crossbow? You don't need me to do it. We have the finished product here. The captain can just leave his name and take it away..."
Hearing the craftsman's words, Hua Xiong just nodded and said: "Hurry up then... I have something urgent." The craftsman saw his uneasiness, but did not mind. Liangzhou people were in awe of ghosts and gods.
, he had heard about it, Hua Xiong signed the paper, and the craftsman took him to get the repeating crossbow. On the way, the craftsman asked: "Where is the captain in Liangzhou from? When I was young
, also built a city in Liangzhou..."
"Fufeng people... you were going to build Guzang County at that time... I know that that year, the Xianbei people invaded in large numbers, and the bandit chiefs burned, killed and looted. There was no one in Liangzhou who could avoid the disaster... Gu
Zang Yin's battle is gone... Fortunately, the Northern Army is here, Duke Zhang, Duke Zheng, and Lieutenant Bao... If it weren't for them, Liangzhou would have fallen long ago..." Hua Xiong said with some emotion.
He said with admiration: "You don't know, I heard that when Duke Zhang died in battle, there were only three thousand Han soldiers in Guzang, but he had to hold off one hundred thousand Xianbei people and couldn't let them break the city!"
The craftsman also nodded, but since he was not from Liangzhou, he could not empathize with what Hua Xiong said.
"I have three brothers who also went to repair Guzang County..." Hua Xiong said with a smile.
The craftsman was stunned and asked his name. He nodded thoughtfully and said, "There seem to be three people..." Hua Xiong seemed very happy and excited that this craftsman might be acquainted with his brother.
They started chatting, and the craftsman took the repeating crossbow, handed it to Hua Xiong, and asked: "The captain is still much luckier than me. I am the only son in the family, and the salary I receive can barely support my parents... Shang
I can’t get married to the Cheng family..."
"That's not necessarily true. I have nine children in my family. I have six brothers and two sisters..." Hua Xiong said, and the craftsmen were a little surprised. Nine children? Your father is amazing!!
"But look, I'm still alone now. All my brothers and sisters are dead, my parents are gone, and I'm all alone!" Hua Xiong said with a smile, without any sadness in his words. He picked up the repeating crossbow and played with it.
After a while, Hua Xiong said goodbye to the craftsman and was about to leave. At this moment, he heard a loud laugh. Ma Jun kicked the room open and walked out. The sun was a bit dazzling. He covered his eyes and still held the hand.
That seal.
Hua Xiong was frightened and quickly took a few steps back. Ma Jun turned his head and saw Hua Xiong in the distance. He was a little surprised when Hua Xiong arrived. His achievements in these days made him very happy. He smiled.
He waved his hand and shouted: "Captain Hua!!" Hua Xiong was still a little panicked and did not dare to get too close to Ma Jun. He asked: "Ma Jun, are you healed of your illness?"
Ma Jun was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "I'm not sick, I just have some thoughts, so I was wondering in the room, why is the captain here?"
"I'm here to get the repeating crossbow...I left my name...I'm leaving first, leaving..." Hua Xiong left here in a hurry, looking at Hua Xiong and Ma Jun who were fleeing quickly.
Still a little strange, he called the craftsman to him and asked him about his affairs. The craftsman also told him one by one. Ma Jun nodded, and then the craftsman asked: "Mr. Ma, what have you been thinking about these days?"
"I'm still thinking about it. I'll let you know when it's done. By the way, find me some master craftsmen who are good at carving. They need exquisite workmanship..."
"good."
Ma Jun went to deal with other matters in the general's house. When the craftsman sent Hua Xiong's name, Ma Jun was a little stunned.
"Borrow me a repeating crossbow and sign it as: Captain Guan Yu of the Northern Military Academy."
"Um???"
Hua Xiong rushed directly to General Huangfu's mansion and walked into the mansion. The person who came out was naturally Huangfu Gushou. He led Hua Xiong into the house and looked at Huangfu Song on the hospital bed. Hua Xiong smiled.
, stepped forward and shook him awake. Huangfu Song opened his eyes with some difficulty. When he saw Hua Xiong in front of him, it still took him a long time to recognize him. Hua Xiong picked up the repeating crossbow and put it on the
Huangfu Song's side.
Huangfusong's eyes widened and he shouted in a low voice. He stretched out his hand and held the repeating crossbow with difficulty. Tears came out of his eyes. He kept fumbling with the repeating crossbow with a smile on his face.
Smiling from time to time, mixed with tears.
"Okay, I've solved your father's problem... I'm leaving. I still have a lot of things to deal with. I need to do the human affairs policy, the three economic policies, and the appraisal policy. I
I'm a little too busy, so if nothing happens, don't bother me!"
Hua Xiong waved his hand, turned and left the mansion.
In the first month of the twenty-second year of Xiping.
Liangzhou was peaceful, and some people saw a yellow dragon emerging from a well.
The entire temple is still immersed in an extremely busy atmosphere. From the three princes to the officials, there is no leisure time. The same is true at the local level. The officials are worrying about implementing the temple's decrees, and the Southern Army is here
One year, he also moved from Liangzhou to Xizhou, without stopping all the way, and rushed directly towards Xiting County. With the loneliness of the bandits outside the Great Wall, the Liangzhou issue that had troubled the temple for nearly a hundred years was finally over.
Today, Xizhou has become the most important state of the Han Dynasty. Xiting County creates a lot of wealth for the Han Dynasty every year, and the Southern Army is ordered to protect this source of wealth.
As Yuan Shao minted a large number of copper coins and issued them to the people, the people ushered in the first prosperity. Yuan Shao was still very worried. He knew that as time went by and prices continued to rise, it might lead to bad results.
However, the people are still very happy. The people don't think about prices. They only know that they have more and more money and can buy more things.
After the people had money in their hands, they really bought a lot of goods, which made the supply of many goods exceed the demand. The producers were also very happy and began to invest in production in large quantities to produce more goods. At this time, the temples were also completed
In order to prepare for unified prices, relatively fair unified prices have been made across the country for many items such as farm tools, tea, salt, cloth, etc., and it has been repeatedly stipulated that only temples can raise this price, and merchants are not allowed to
promote!!!
In this way, prices can be suppressed in a short period of time and prevent prices from rising too quickly. However, rising prices are inevitable, because if restrictions continue and producers lose money, they will no longer continue to produce. These will
They all require Yuan Shaolai to pay close attention and be prepared for improvement and reduction. He needs to control the world's market by himself. He is obviously extremely busy. Yuan Shao is always working hard and does not dare to relax.
Emperor Xiaokang spent all his energy in order to make the people rich. He did not expect that today, he would achieve this goal so quickly. Although this wealth was somewhat illusory, it still had a great effect. He could make great changes.
The situation of the common people, at least when prices are under control, the common people will not only be self-sufficient in farming and spinning and wearing their own clothes as before, but they will occasionally go out to buy some beautiful clothes and buy a silk weaving machine.
It is indeed conducive to improving people's livelihood.
Although the profits that producers can obtain are reduced, they can still make up for it due to the large sales volume, and they will not suffer losses.
There were no problems in the short term, and Yuan Shao felt more at ease.
As long as the current situation can be maintained, there is no problem if the economy is prosperous and the national treasury is replenished. This policy not only affects the people, but also affects the local powerful people. These powerful people originally
The family has countless cultivated land and countless slaves, but after endless restrictions, they cannot own a large amount of cultivated land, and they cannot even keep slaves. The small amount of cultivated land does not require so many tenants.
The tycoons could not keep them in vain, and when they saw the prosperous market, they turned around and joined the ranks of producers. They had a lot of money to purchase raw materials and process them. They had many slaves who could serve as laborers.
All they needed was to provide them with a small amount of food and money. Under such circumstances, the powerful people gradually began to abandon their original methods of getting rich through farming and began to pursue the path of becoming rich through production.