Fu Song

Chapter 435 I Want to Save Face

On the top of the mountain, there is a small military stronghold, where soldiers from the capital are stationed.

Standing on a platform made of a huge stone outside the military village, one can clearly see the situation of the entire mining area.

From the mining of iron ore, to washing, to being sent to the iron factory for smelting, and finally turned into pig iron, it was sent to another factory area across the mountain along the only road.

This military stronghold is used to monitor the entire mining area.

Once there is chaos in the mining area, it can be noticed immediately here.

Next, the army will block the exits of the entire mining area so that the chaos will not extend beyond the mining area. Apart from this road, if you want to go out of this mining area, you can only climb over the mountains. It is not a big problem for a single person, but It is impossible to go out on a large scale.

The mining area is full of strong and strong guys, and the mining area has always been the most trouble-prone place. If you don't take corresponding precautions, no one will be at ease.

Sun Jing is not only the magistrate of Qiannan, he also has another position in the appeasement office, in charge of the entire steel industry.And Han Zhong is the chief technical officer of this iron and steel industry.

In fact, the technical officials of the iron and steel industry in southern Qiannan basically all come from the past Tiangong Iron Art.

Standing on the platform, looking down at the multi-layered factory buildings below, the workers who worked hard like ants, as well as the chimneys in the factory buildings that stretched high into the sky and the billowing smoke, Xiao Cheng said with emotion: " This is the foundation of our existence, and there must be no trouble."

Sun Jing nodded: "Don't worry, Futai. Over the years, although I dare not say that there are no disputes, overall, the mining area is still very peaceful. The systems you formulated at the beginning have been thoroughly implemented, and no one dares to be perfunctory. .Officials here are promoted much faster than officials elsewhere, and get paid more, but if something goes wrong, the punishment is much more severe."

"There will always be some people who want to pull out their teeth." Xiao Cheng said: "The supervision system must be done in a down-to-earth manner. Sometimes it seems like a small matter, but if it accumulates over time, it may become a major event."

"Yes." Sun Jing said: "No matter how busy they are, every quarter, the lower officials will come to the mining area to sit in office for a day. There are tens of thousands of miners in the entire mining area, hundreds of officials, and thousands of foremen at all levels. I dare not say that there is no harm, but They should all be within the tolerable range. Those who go out of line will be killed immediately as an example.”

Xiao Cheng smiled slightly. The Statistics Department had also deployed a lot of people in the entire mining area. If there was a slight disturbance, he might have known about it earlier than Sun Jing.

Judging from the current situation, the entire mining area is still thriving.

A miner who exchanges his strength for money can still support his family.

Injured, all kinds of pensions are still in place.

The production area on the other side of the mountain belongs to the refinery, and the pig iron is transported here. After further refining, it is then transported to various weapon workshops with different needs.

Here, it belongs to the core secrets of Guizhou Road. The people who can work in this factory area are basically technicians, and their salaries are much higher, and the upward path is completely open.

Therefore, the management in this factory area is much simpler than that in the mining area. It is not worried about any group incidents. The government is more concerned about keeping secrets.

On Guizhou Road, except for the weapon workshops for bows and crossbows such as the God Arm Bow, which are located in Guiyang Fucheng, the remaining swords, guns, swords, halberds and armor are all in Qiannan.

In the ordnance industry in Qiannan, apart from the miners in the mining area, there are tens of thousands of employees.

The reason why those elite soldiers on Guizhou Road can shock the southwest is that apart from their excellent quality, their sufficient supply of armor and weapons, as well as the quality of weapons, also have a great impact.

On today's platform, there is another person. At this moment, he is looking at the magnificent scene below the mountain, with his mouth slightly open, obviously a little shocked, and even a little depressed on his face.

This person, if you really want to say it, is not an outsider, he is also one of the permanent directors of the Federation, and now Cen Zhong is the pacifier of Guangnan West Road.

When Xiao Cheng came to Cen Nan, another important thing was to meet with Cen Zhong. Now it is even more difficult for the two of them to meet each other. After all, they are both high-ranking and powerful people. I don't know how many people are watching them.

"Why didn't senior brother speak?" Xiao Cheng asked Cen Zhong with a smile.

"Looking at your Qiannan, Cen's heart is depressed." Cen Zhong sighed: "You can know the autumn with one leaf. The area under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Road used to be much worse than that of Guangnan West Road, but now, it is Far away from Guangnan West Road."

"Is the land contracting on Guangnan West Road still unopened?" Xiao Cheng asked.

Cen nodded.

"After all, the actual situation in the two places is different. Our road in Guizhou is in Zunyi, and east and west are struggling as well!" Xiao Cheng smiled and invited Cen Zhong to sit down, and said.

"Junior brother, I'm not going to hide it from you. This time I heard that you came to Qiannan, so I came here specially. I have a few things to discuss with you!" Cen Zhong said.

"Brother, please speak, you and my brother, you are welcome."

Cen Zhong rolled his eyes: "The first thing is that your Guizhou Road must stop absorbing people from our Guangnan West Road. In the past year or so, tell yourself how many people from my Guangnan West Road have come to you. went there."

"Water flows to low places, and people go to high places." Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "It's really no wonder we, all right, now that the senior brothers have spoken, I will ask them to strengthen management, and if someone runs away Come here and send it back to you, okay?"

Only then did Cen Zhong nodded in satisfaction.

Guizhou Road is a better place to make a living, and almost all the people on Guangnan West Road in the two adjacent areas have run away.And because Guizhou Road encourages the free movement of people and does not require household registration, people on Guangnan West Road tried their best to run there, and criminals began to organize people from other places to sneak there. It's about to become an industry.

In the past one or two years, tens of thousands of people have flowed in from Guangnan West Road to Guizhou Road. This is still an official statistic. The actual number may be several generations behind this number.

In a bad year, a famine year, Cen Chong would like them to run away.

But it's different now. If these people run away, it means the barrenness of the fields, the loss of manpower, and the reduction of taxes.

More importantly, if this becomes a trend, what will happen in the future?

"The second thing, you know, I just formed the third new army, I need better weapons and armor, but I have no money!" Cen Zhong spread his hands, "I don't want to leave empty-handed this time." , you have to prepare equipment for [-] people and I will take it back."

Sun Jing pouted on one side, this is an empty-handed white wolf!
"Brother, these weapons also cost money." Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can exchange it with other things, such as pig iron, all kinds of ores we need, and other materials. , Anything is fine, Sun Zhifu, how about you give our senior brother a big discount?"

Sun Jing smiled and nodded.

Cen Chong sighed: "Aren't you going to attack Dali next? When the time comes, two of the three new armies will be handed over to you, Wei Wu, and brought to the border to cooperate with you. How about it?"

"You won Dali, senior brother, you also want to share the benefits, so Guangnan Xidao army can't be used as a condition of the transaction, this is what the senior brother promised in the federation!" Xiao Cheng said with some dissatisfaction.

"After taking Dali, all I need is money and supplies, and everything else belongs to you!" Cen Zhong waved his hand and said, "Such a large piece of land is a burden to me now."

"In this way, I can equip you with two new troops for free, senior brother!" Xiao Cheng was overjoyed: "Senior brother, do you want me to send some officials to your side to help you? , and there is no entanglement in Guangnan West Road, when the time comes to do things, without the scruples of those officials under your command, maybe you can open the situation."

Cen Zhong shook his head: "Don't think about it, kid. Although I am advancing slowly, I am advancing slowly. Your people are gone. Is Guangnan West Road still Cen's Guangnan West Road?"

Well, at this point, we can no longer discuss it further.

Seeing Xiao Cheng's hesitant to speak, Cen Chong sighed: "Little brother, I know what you want to say, and I know it too, but your senior brother still needs face, right? Just give me a little more time Well, after taking Dali, you have managed the boundaries of Dali, I haven't caught up with your Guizhou Road, then, I don't say anything, and you can do whatever you say, how about it?"

"Okay, it's a deal!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "Actually, I really hope that senior brother can quickly make Guangnan West Road flourish, so that we can have stronger strength to expand our territory to the south, Dali, Annan Besides, there are countless places waiting for us!"

Cen nodded.

"Since you are determined to take action against Dali, there must be some plans in Xuzhou?" Cen Zhong changed the subject.

"Three years later, Nanguang Shenglu and Mahu Maxie have become more and more dependent on us, and our infiltration of them has never stopped." Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "Now, apart from completely relying on Apart from us, we have no other choice. Otherwise, we will talk about it with another leader. After I go back, I will have a good talk with them about the next disposal of Syria and their future, and then I will The barbarian army in Syria is officially reorganized, and their cavalry is still very good."

"I'm afraid there will be some troubles on Zizhou Road. Anyway, Xuzhou is their territory!" Cen Zhong laughed and said, "How do you solve this problem?"

Xiao Cheng said disdainfully: "I don't bother to pay attention to them, if I want to talk, they come to talk to me!"

"What a tyrannical Xiao Futai!" Cen Zhong shook his head again and again: "I guess in the capital hall and even in the Long Live Palace, the piles of papers for you are higher than your height!"

Xiao Cheng laughed loudly: "Eldest brother, you and I are in cahoots, and you won't have fewer books than me, maybe more. Because they all know that it's useless to join me, but if you join you, maybe you will be taken down. Is the comfort envoy seat of Zheng Sanpin under your butt?"

Cen Zhong snorted and said, "If you really dare to take me, then I will resign from office and stay in Guizhou. I will see who dares to take up the post. There is a story about wolves in Hengshan, so I will do it too."

There are wolves in Hengshan!

Xiao Cheng laughed out loud, this is how his elder brother Xiao Ding dealt with the imperial court back then.

"Then you are almost rebellious in the eyes of the court."

"Since I've been in cahoots with you, I've already become a traitor in the eyes of the officials." Cen Zhong didn't care, "So, they didn't dare to do anything to me, for fear of making me anxious and rebelling with you Woolen cloth!"

"The two of us made a bad start." Xiao Cheng said: "At present, all appeasement envoys, but those who have some real skills, are quietly walking on our way! The imperial court's control over the local area is further increasing. slipped."

"Such an official family, such an imperial court, will naturally have such a result!" Cen Zhong said with a smile: "We are indeed pioneers, but we are not the same as those people. They are for their own power. In order to seek more wealth, we are really doing our best to keep China alive! So far, Cen has no money left, and asks himself to be worthy of the sky above, worthy of the earth below, and worthy of his fathers and folks in the middle!"

Xiao Cheng coughed dryly and said, "I'm not as good as you in this, I'm rich."

Cen Zhong smiled: "Who told you to have a wife who is a business genius? By the way, you and your younger siblings have been married for more than a year. Why haven't you heard the good news? Haven't there been any movement yet? It's agreed, you have a child, godfather But mine, if Luo Gang dares to fight with me, I will break his head."

Xiao Cheng spread his hands: "I have worked very hard, but there is still no movement, but this kind of thing must go with the flow."

After three years of mourning, Xiao Cheng married Jiang Yingxue last year.

However, no matter what the court of Bianliang thought, it still gave Jiang Yingxue the imperial seal of the third rank according to the rules.

As the concierge's wife, Jiang Yingxue can no longer spend money and contacts for Xiao Cheng as she used to. Now she can only stay in Guiyang Mansion.

However, His Excellency Tianxiang's huge business network is still controlled by Jiang Yingxue.It is not an exaggeration to describe today's Tianxiang Pavilion as making money every day.

So Xiao Cheng said that he has a lot of money.

"When it comes to having a son, I have a lot of secrets. Would you like me to teach you a thing or two?" Cen Zhong joked.

"Then I'll buy wine tonight, and you and I talk while drinking?" Xiao Cheng laughed.

After bantering for a while, both of them relaxed.

"Dali is a big country after all, are you sure about it?" Bringing the topic back, Cen Zhong asked seriously. "Little brother, we can't afford to fail."

"Speaking of which, it has been in operation for four years!" Xiao Cheng narrowed his eyes, "Inside and out, all kinds of conditions are almost the same. When the reorganization of the Syrian Prefecture Barbarian Army is completed, it will be officially launched. In the past few years Dali, which still looks extremely powerful, has long been riddled with holes, just like those big pillars with a bright appearance, the inside has long been emptied by termites, and it will collapse with a slight push. "

(End of this chapter)