Cheng Cheng fell silent, raised his hands and looked at them, as if he really saw countless blood and wailings on these hands. Finally, he sighed heavily and closed his eyes again.
After a while, Cheng Cheng asked aloud: "Your Majesty, are you the general's family?"
Zhao Jun turned around and strode out of the cell, "You should have been mentally prepared."
Cold words came from outside the cell, and Cheng Cheng closed his eyes again.
…
"Let's go, go back."
After walking out of Cheng Cheng's cell, Zhao Jun prepared to go back. When passing by the cells of the three family heads, Chen Lixin, who had been huddled in the corner just now, suddenly asked:
"Your Majesty, where is Li Xuanji?"
Zhao Jun paused, and then answered him truthfully: "I should be rectifying the remaining property of my family."
With just this sentence, Chen Lixin already understood what happened. He closed his eyes in pain, staggered and fell to the ground.
No wonder! No wonder!
No wonder the Li family, who was obviously about to be crushed to death by the dragon crossing the river from Feiyun Trading Company, escaped. No wonder the place where they traded was known to King Yun. No wonder he and others lost so miserably!
turn out to be! It turns out that Li Xuanji is the mole!
He betrayed all of them in exchange for the survival of his Li family. He is really a good teammate... a good teammate!
"No wonder others, it was you who gave up on him first. He had no other choice but to seek refuge with me."
After saying that, Zhao Jun continued to walk out of the cell and walked out of the dungeon. Zhao Jun finally looked back at the dungeon. This place represented all the past of Yunzhou County. Let him remember everything in the past of Yunzhou County. Let's bury them together.
Soon what happened in Yunzhou County was written by Li Yi and handed over to the capital. It also caused quite a stir in the capital. However, because of the evidence provided by Zhao Jun, it was indeed shown that The four families also had evidence of Liu Xishan and Cheng Cheng's crimes, and gradually everything settled.
The county magistrate Liu Xishan and the defense envoy Cheng Cheng were officials of the imperial court, but they knew that they broke the law and discredited the imperial court, and they ended up being disgraced by the nine tribes.
However, after some debate among the important officials of the imperial court regarding the replacement of new officials, it was finally decided that the candidates for these additions would be decided by King Yun Zhao Jun himself.
After all, from today onwards, the salaries of these officials will all be paid by King Yun. In addition, the financial and military power of Yunzhou County have also been vested in King Yun. After discussion, the imperial court will no longer interfere in the personnel affairs of Yunzhou County. Appointment and dismissal, Zhao Jun, King Yun, can handle everything on his own.
In this way, Zhao Jun successfully took real control of Yunzhou County.
And began to radically reform the entire Yunzhou County according to his own ideas!
Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and moon fly like a shuttle.
Five years passed quietly in the blink of an eye.
Zhao Jun is already twenty-two, and Yunzhou City, a humble and unsightly city five years ago, has also undergone earth-shaking changes!
The simple earthen wall has disappeared, replaced by a tall and towering gray-white city wall!
The city wall, which is four feet high, stands intimidatingly on the grassland. It gives the people in the city a strong sense of security and gives the city's enemies a deep feeling of despair and helplessness.
Walking into the city, the original narrow and dilapidated main road of dirt road has disappeared.
Smooth green bricks paved a broad main road that was four feet wide, allowing three carriages to run side by side. The houses along the road were no longer mud houses or thatched houses that had been built for five years. , but were replaced by small cement bungalows of the same shape.
There were many pedestrians on both sides of the street, people coming in from the right and leaving from the left. Everyone took the initiative to avoid the middle. Carriages came and went in an orderly manner on the road.
This is just the most ordinary street. If you walk into the city and come to the busiest east and west cities in Yunzhou City, you can see the most prosperous scene in Yunzhou County.
On both sides of the wide and straight road, various shops are lined up one after another, and the various guises fluttering in the wind remind people of the things they represent.
Carriages and people flowed parallel to each other on the streets. People entering the city were purchasing various supplies they needed. Vendors set up stalls in planned places to sell some of their own specialties.
From time to time, teams of Wuhou patrolled the streets and shuttled among the crowd to deal with various disputes that occurred in the two cities and ensure order on the streets.
Walking through the streets, you are surrounded by the sounds of customers and merchants haggling. Inhale slightly, and the tempting smell of various snacks on the streets makes you salivate.
Everything in Yunzhou City today is very different from five years ago.
As for the changes that have occurred, any local in Yunzhou County will know the reason for them.
Five years ago, His Highness King Yun took control of Yunzhou County, eliminated the four masters, cleaned up the corrupt officials in the yamen, and gathered all the green-skinned gangsters who had nothing to do all day long into Yunzhou. In the army.
Since then, His Royal Highness King Yun, who holds the entire power of Yunzhou County, has led nearly 100,000 people in Yunzhou County to rush towards the prosperous road!
In the first year, Feiyun Commercial Bank entered Yunzhou County to invest heavily. With the huge capital investment, various industries came into being. The generous salaries made the people in the county excited, and they entered it one after another to earn money that they had never thought of before. Generous rewards.
Compared with other territories of the Song Dynasty, Yunzhou County has an advantage that cannot be compared with other places. After expert survey by Feiyun Trading Company, the entire Yunzhou County has various rich mineral resources, or in other words, there are rich mineral resources on the grassland. of mineral resources.
It's just that no one cared about it before, or maybe the tribes on the grassland didn't have the smelting technology at all. Even if they discovered it, they could only watch helplessly.
In this way, large almost open-pit mines were officially mined, including copper, iron, silver, coal and even a small amount of gold.
Coupled with the blacksmithing workshops that are popping up all over Yunzhou County, the amount of iron smelting in Yunzhou County has increased significantly this year.
Feiyun Trading Company improved its iron smelting technology, and blast furnaces were erected one after another. Thick black smoke was emitted outside Beicheng all day long, but what followed was a large output of iron materials.
Originally, Yunzhou County's annual iron production would not exceed 5,000 kilograms, and most of it was imported from within the customs. With the mining of ore and the iteration of iron smelting technology, the entire Yunzhou County's annual iron production is now impressive. Reaching a terrifying 18,250 tons!
The ten blast furnaces in Yunzhou County can produce up to 100,000 kilograms of iron every day!
Yunzhou County's iron began to be sold in large quantities to the customs through the channels of Feiyun Trading Company.
But then a problem arose, there was not enough ore!
It's not that there is no iron ore in the mine. On the contrary, the iron ore reserves in the entire Yunzhou County are incredibly rich. At least according to the amount of iron smelting in Yunzhou County today, they cannot be used up within hundreds of years.
But the problem now is that there are not enough manpower to mine iron ore.
Yunzhou County is originally a sparsely populated place. The total population of the entire county does not exceed one hundred thousand. Now, excluding the necessary grain-producing population who still need to graze, a large number of laborers have already poured into the iron industry. In the mines and iron smelting mills, the entire Yunzhou County has no redundant labor force.
What to do?
Zhao Jun looked towards the north.
The next year, there was a reward from the county governor's office. For every young Tatar captured back to Yunzhou County and sold to the county governor's Yamen, he could be exchanged for ten taels of silver!
At that time, a herdsman's annual income was less than 20 taels.
Huge benefits drive people's hearts.
Especially the tribal leaders in Yunzhou County who already have people under their command are drooling over this reward!
After the reward was announced, all the major iron-making workshops in Yunzhou County received large orders.
Except for the iron armor, which is prohibited from being made due to the ban, all major tribes have placed orders.
Weapons such as arrows and scimitars were ordered in large quantities.
After paying a certain price to replace the tribal weapons, a group of tribal leaders led their tribesmen across the border and rushed to the northern grasslands!
