At the end of the team was a Chery QQ, with two people in the car. The front was the guard Wang Cheng and Wen Shen behind. The car was driving very slowly. When he was driving in front of the magistrate Daolin, Wen Shen asked Wang Cheng to stop. He lowered the window. Wen Shen shouted to magistrate Lin outside the window: "Mr. Lin, it's so early."

County Magistrate Lin hurried to the car window, bowed to Wen Shen and said, "Mr. The national master has done everything arranged yesterday. The official briefly counted that there were 5,300 people who were willing to follow the national master to fight, 300 horse-drawn carts, 400 ox carts, and nearly 1,000 artificial carts."

Wenshen was shocked when he heard the report from County Magistrate Lin and thought to himself: "My goodness, these ordinary people are too crazy. Do they all think about money?" County Magistrate Lin was stunned when he saw Wenshen, thinking that Wenshen was not satisfied, so he said again: "National Master, this is just a preliminary statistics from yesterday. The actual situation may be more. Now they are on the avenue outside the west gate of the city."

Wenshen came to his senses and smiled and said, "Sir Laulin is here, let's go and have a look." As he said that, Wenshen asked the guard to open the front door and asked County Magistrate Lin to get in the car.

After Magistrate Lin got on the bus, the car slowly drove into Yizhou City under the gaze of everyone. Through the car window, Wen Shen was slightly excited. Yizhou City was not big, and a quarter of an hour later, the car drove out of the west gate.

On both sides of the cement avenue more than five meters wide in the west of Yizhou City, various ox, horse, and small carts stretched for miles. Wenshen sat in the car, and could not see at first sight. All kinds of small cars were filled with all kinds of things, from outside, from soap, matches, steel knives to various glass products, and then pots and pans. Wenshen smiled at Magistrate Lin and said, "This... these people are going to do business."

County Magistrate Lin smiled and said, "Because from now on, the journey to the northwest is long and passing through many prefectures and counties, these people may be planning to do some business by the way."

However, these people were also very tactful and all gathered on both sides of the road, not blocking the troops' path. The cars followed the team slowly. The people on both sides of the road were men and women, and some of them actually went out. Looking at the advancing army, they pointed and talked.

After Wenshen's car passed, the people on both sides drove their cars to the middle and followed slowly. The entire journey from Yizhou to Yanzhou was about 300 miles. Since most people were walking, the vanguard did not arrive in Yanzhou City until after four o'clock in the afternoon. After the vanguard arrived in Yanzhou, they set up tents on the outskirts of Yanzhou's perfect city and waited for the follow-up troops.

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, all 2,600 soldiers arrived in Yanzhou. Wenshen brought four battalion commanders and more than a dozen guards to Yanzhou City. The administrative level of Yanzhou is one level higher than that of Yizhou, and the city is much larger than the original Yizhou.

At this time, a group of officials stood at the east gate of Yanzhou. The head was Kong Ruomeng, the governor of Yanzhou. This person is said to be the 47th generation grandson of Confucius. Next to the governor were the chief judges, bureau officials, criminal officials, chief officials, and other civil and military officials from Yanzhou.

When Kong Zhizhou saw Wen Shen and others walking on the road in front of the east gate, he hurried forward and bowed and said, "Do you dare to ask if it is the national teacher?" Wen Shen looked at the middle-aged strong man wearing a silk official robe, a little hunched waist, a bearded face, and a genius voice, and said, "That's it."

Kong Zhizhou laughed and said, "Associate the national commander, he is the governor of Yanzhou."

Wen Shen bowed and said, "It's a blessing to Lord Kong."

Kong Zhizhou bowed and smiled and said, "There is the national teacher who works hard for the country. It is appropriate for the officials here to welcome the national teacher." Wenshen looked at the officials behind the magistrate. Seeing this, Kong Zhizhou hurriedly introduced one by one: "This is the judge Wang Tong..."

Wenshen watched Wang Tong bow and shook his hands. After a while of greetings, Wenshen led him to the Xinghua Building, the largest restaurant in Yanzhou, in the prime minister. The Xinghua Building has three floors, and the third floor is the private room. At this time, the private room was full of officials from Yanzhou, and Wenshen was sitting on his post, and Kong Chaozhou was sitting on the left of Wenshen.

Confucius picked up the wine glass and said loudly: "I wish the national commander a victory in the Northwest Flag this time. I respect the national commander a cup." Wenshen picked up the wine glass and smiled: "I will lend you auspicious words. This time, the northwest flag will be able to win in the Northwest Flag this time." After that, the officials picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

After toasting each other for a while, Kong Zhizhou asked: "Yizhou was originally a small city, but since the national teacher went to Yizhou, Yizhou has undergone earth-shaking changes in just one year. The population has more than doubled, and the taxes paid have increased by more than three times. Even Yanzhou has benefited a lot from the coal mines."

The Yanzhou Bureau official smiled and said, "Yes, Yanzhou's tax revenue in the first half of the year was almost the same as that of the whole year last year."

Wen Shen laughed and said, "There are the result of everyone working together." Kong Zhizhou smiled and said, "I heard that the national teacher has set up many factories in Yizhou, but I wonder if the national teacher is interested in coming to our Yanzhou to open a factory."

Wenshen looked at the eager eyes of Kong Zhizhou and smiled, "It's not impossible to open a factory, but now I'm going to the northwest, I'm afraid I don't have time." After that, Wenshen tapped the table with his middle finger.

When Kong Zhizhou heard that there was a show, he hurriedly said, "There is no hurry to be the official. After the national teacher wins and triumphs, he can come to Yanzhou to open a factory. Come on, let's have a drink."

Wen Shen smiled and said, "I can also ask Manager Li from Yizhou Cement Factory to open a cement factory in Yanzhou. I can open it if I am here or not."

Kong Zhizhou smiled and said, "It's good. The subordinates will definitely send someone to cooperate with Manager Li."

...

After drinking, Wenshen rested early in the restaurant. The next day, under the attention of officials from all over the Yanzhou, the team embarked on a journey again. On the way, Wenshen sent a telegram to Manager Li about opening a cement factory in Yanzhou.

After leaving Yanzhou's territory, the cement road turned into a loess road, and the team slowed down. After a day, they rushed to the Jeju territory and walked forward for more than ten miles to reach Jeju. This time, Wenshen did not enter the city, but lived in the camp outside with the officers.

The next morning, the troops continued to march after breakfast. After passing through Dingtao, the troops arrived at Kaifeng at night. They rested for another night. At noon the next day, the troops arrived at five miles east of the capital and stationed.

...

In Yanfu Palace, Liang Shicheng hurriedly walked around Song Huizong and said sharply: "Your Majesty, the national rank has arrived five miles east of the capital at noon today, and the troops under his command are also camping there."

Song Huizong put down the brush in his hand and said, "Oh, so soon. Master Xuan entered Beijing."

An hour later, Wenshen rushed to Yanfu Palace. At this time, in Yanfu Palace, Song Huizong, Tong Guan, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu were talking about something.

After Wen Shen came in, he looked around and bowed to Song Huizong, "I am going to see the emperor." Song Huizong smiled and said, "The national teacher is exempt from gifts." Wen Shen had seen all the humans in the hall, but only one of them had never seen them. This person looked over thirties but handsome. Wen Shen thought that this person looked like a character.

Seeing that Wen Shen didn't know Wang Fu, Tong Guan introduced, "This is the new Shaozhan Wang Fu, Wang Shaozhan." Wang Fu stood up and bowed, "Looking at the heroic and heroic national teacher, I think this time the northwest sent troops will definitely win a great victory and return in triumph." Wen Shen was happy. This person looked good, so he flattered me when he came up.

Wenshen suddenly remembered that Wang Fu was one of the six thieves in the legend. Historical books say that Wang Fu was promoted from a Tongjian doctor to a junior priest in a row in a row to the right prime minister in one year. It is said that he has a very strong ability to flatter and is not a good thing.

Liang Shicheng gave Tong Guan a wink, and Tong Guan understood and said, "Your Majesty, today's July 24th, we will set off from the capital on August 1st as planned. In the past few days, the national teacher has had some rest in the capital. By the way, I heard that the national teacher has made many new types of muskets. Can the emperor meet?"

Wen Shen bowed to Song Huizong and said, "The emperor will go to the camp for inspection tomorrow."

Song Huizong smiled and said, "Okay. National Master, I heard that you have made many new objects in Yizhou. Look, the window paper of Yanfu Palace has been replaced with glass made in Yizhou. Now the entire hall is much brighter."

Wen Shen looked around and found that the doors and windows were really replaced with glass, so he smiled and said, "Back to the emperor, I did invent a lot of things in Yizhou."

Song Huizong said: "National Master, the telegraph machine you made is very magical. I wonder if it can be promoted in all prefectures and counties in the Song Dynasty?"

Wenshen replied: "This telegraph machine is expensive to make, and requires a lot of fine copper. Using this telegraph machine requires mastery of arithmetic."

Song Huizong was very good at calligraphy and painting, but he knew nothing about arithmetic, so he asked, "What should we do?" Wen Shen laughed and said, "That's very simple, just learn it."

"What the national master said is very much." Song Huizong smiled and said, "I heard that the national master is a good person to make money. I feel that my money has not been enough. I wonder what good way does the national master have?"

Wen Shen thought for a while and smiled, "What does the emperor think of money?"

Song Huizong was stunned and couldn't answer. At this time, Gao Qiu smiled and said, "This question is not simple, money is silver." Wen Shen asked again, "Okay, what is silver?"

"Silver is silver, what else can it be?" Gao Qiu couldn't answer, so he could only fool him. Liang Shicheng, who was beside Song Huizong, said: "Silver was dug out of the silver mine."

Wenshen said, "Then what do you want silver?" Tong Guan smiled and said, "Of course you can buy things." Wenshen said, "Okay, if you are alone on an island, there is nothing on the island, and there is only silver. Will you still laugh?"

When everyone heard this, they were speechless. Wen Shen looked around and said to Song Huizong: "For the emperor, money is not a problem. The problem is what money can buy. Without money, the emperor can cast copper coins, but he is afraid that he has money but cannot buy things. Therefore, the empress thinks that the emperor does not have to worry about money, but should pay attention to population, food, iron tools, cloth, etc. Of course, there is more important thing, that is technology."

"Technology? What is technology?" everyone asked in confusion.

"Tomorrow, I will let everyone see the power of technology!" Wen Shen said sternly.
Chapter completed!