If Wu Haogu's ability to show off in military studies can be slightly covered up, then the current prosperity of Jiehe Market has fully revealed his business capabilities.

If Wu Haogu could not fight, people might still believe it. If Wu Haogu wanted to say that he could not manage it, it would undoubtedly be a huge joke.

Moreover, through the business of Jiehe Market, Wu Haogu has also accumulated a group of talents who are good at business!

These are all talents who can do practical things, not those who can do a lot of big principles and only those who can only work hard can not.

Tong Guan, who knows Wu Haogu's abilities very well and the talents he has brought, now naturally wants to use Wu Haogu's abilities to manage Shuofang Road.

The Northern Song Dynasty court suppressed the local area quite strongly. It is said that "the money was collected, the soldiers were collected, and the punishment was also collected." However, there were still some special policies in the northwest, so some power was appropriately released, so that the local area could have some room for business. Therefore, Tong Guan also wanted to work hard to manage Shuofang Road.

To be honest, although Tong Guan was recognized by later generations, no one could deny that he was a very professional traitor and a model of labor among the traitors. He was not busy in order to conquer the great Song Dynasty. As for the failure of Xuanhe's northern expedition, the responsibility was not on him. If we really want to trace the root cause, the officials of the Song Dynasty were the greatest responsible person, right?

It was their kings who valued culture and neglected military affairs that made the Song Dynasty a country that was difficult to let go of their hands and feet to train an elite army.

Otherwise, it would be the signs of the "military revolution" that appeared in this Battle of Wudinghe. Take good care of it, water it and apply fertilizer. A semi-modern army was grown. Even without muskets and cannons, spears, bows, arrows and swords and shields, it could withstand the various "Gundam" in Liaodong outside the Frontier...

Wu Haogu looked at the model among the thieves who were determined to seek advice and sighed softly: "Daofu, Shuofang Road and Jiehe Market are different after all. The reason why Jiehe Market can flourish in such a short time is indeed a unique aspect. Although Shuofang Road is also a border area, it does not have the benefits of water transportation, and the transportation is too inconvenient."

Wu Haogu, who worked as a merchant for several years in the Northern Song Dynasty, certainly knew how scary the cost of land transportation was in this era. Therefore, it was impossible to develop into an industrial and commercial center far away from the ocean and without inland transportation.

Even capitalist agriculture and animal husbandry is difficult to develop, and the cost of on-land transportation of agricultural products is unbearable. Even if the land cost is zero, the transportation of agricultural products on Shuofang Road will probably not be any competitive when it is transported to Guanzhong area.

Tong Guan frowned and asked, "But there is green salt in Shuofang, and there are endless grasslands to raise horses."

Wu Haogu shook his head: "The green salt is only 200,000 to 300,000 yuan a year. If there are more, the transportation department elsewhere will probably jump up. As for raising horses, is it a mess for the herds prison. Will the Shuofang Luzhi Department intervene?"

"The herdsman's prison cannot raise horses well." Gao Qiu shook his head repeatedly, "Half of the imperial guards in Kaifeng Prefecture's horse soldiers have no horses, and the rest have no decent war horses... Isn't this all the fault of the herds prison?"

Wu Haogu smiled: "If the horses are not well raised, there is a lot of land! The herds and prisoners could collect 300,000 yuan a year during the reform of Xining. They were afraid that they would be twice as corrupt as officials at all levels!

Now that there is a good place for horse raising such as Hetao Grassland, the herdsmen’s prisons are not allowed to rent out all the horse farms in the Central Plains and raise the horses to Shuofang? It would be great if we could cut out millions of acres from it and then resettle some knights. It would be basically no chance to set up a horse farm on Shuofang Road."

Tong Guan nodded slightly. Wu Haogu's analysis was good. The horse farm on Shuofang Road was indeed impossible, and the group herders' supervisor would never give in. And Qingyan... There are indeed not many benefits that can be obtained.

Wu Haogu continued: "Besides, Shuofang Road will not take long to have a Transport Department or Transport Judgment lawsuit. Qingyan must be the financial way back to Transport Department."

Tong Guan held his beard and looked at Wu Haogu, as if he was waiting for his countermeasures.

Wuhao Ancient Road: "The only things that can be involved in Shuofang's division are camp fields and iron smelting. The former is the military military and military farming. It is unreasonable to hand it over to the transshipment commander. It should be controlled by the all-way division department. The latter is a major matter related to military and political diplomacy, and must be controlled by the division department!"

"Iron smelting is also related to diplomacy?" Tong Guan was a little puzzled.

It is a reason to say that iron smelting is to build weapons, but it is a bit far-fetched to say that iron smelting is related to diplomacy.

"Of course," Wuhao Ancient Road, "at least half of the Hetao grassland must belong to us, so we will be very close to the Zubu grassland.

The people of the various tribes of Zubu were extremely fierce and mostly had a feud with the Khitans, so they rose up from time to time to fight against Liao. However, they were trapped by the iron ban of the Khitans, which was difficult to deal with the Liao Kingdom. Now the Hetao grassland is half in my hands, and the conditions for smuggling iron tools to Zubu are ripe. How could you not know that such things can be done well? Even if they can do it well, they will inevitably leak out the news and cause unnecessary war disasters. Therefore, it should be directly controlled by the General Administration."

Wu Haogu actually didn't want to buy iron tools to stop the people... That was a Mongolian! It was super fierce. The Khitans were simply a little white rabbit on the grassland compared with them. But this was an opportunity to get involved in the iron smelting industry!

"Okay!" Tong Guan clapped his hands, "This reason is good! Tongwancheng is the iron smelting office of the Western Pirates. There are many blacksmiths in the city, which are just right to use."

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "I heard that the high-ranking official has detained many foreign blacksmiths in Qingtang City?"

"That's right!" Tong Guan said with a smile, "Everyone is in Yan'an!"

"Why don't you all arrest Tongwancheng." Wu Hao thought in ancient costume, "I'm sure the commander of a certain family is also good at iron smelting and mining. Why don't you let them manage the iron smelting affairs of Tongwancheng first. Xixia Sword and Qingtang Armor are all good things!"

It's really embarrassing to say that the iron smelting technology of the Song Dynasty was actually worse than that of barbarians like Xixia and Qingtang, at least in terms of quality.

So Wu Haogu cannot miss this opportunity to absorb advanced foreign technologies... He has to get all the skills of Xixia and Qingtang Iron! By the way, let Zhu Xingshu and Zhou Daxia practice in Tongwancheng.

"It's so good, I'll leave it to you Dalang." Tong Guan didn't know Wu Haogu's plan, and thought he was really helping, so he smiled and said, "By the way, there are not a shortage of hard-working coolies. There are tens of thousands of alive prisoners here!"

"These coolies must be used for military farming," Wu Haogu said again, "The military farming matters cannot be handed over to prefectures and counties. I originally thought that the military farming soldiers could not fight, but now it seems that as long as there are officers proficient in military training, the military soldiers can still fight. Then there is no reason to hand over the military soldiers to local prefectures and counties.

And if the farmland is done well, it will be of great benefit."

"How can we do a good job in military farming?" Tong Guan asked with a frown.

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "I have to go to the history books to find this."

"History Book?"

"Yes," Wuhao Ancient Road, "What happened to Qin Zhigeng War? Now Shuofang Road should follow it!

Shuofang Road is located in a remote place in the northwest, with an enemy on three sides, with a vast land and sparse population. Using the method of passing elsewhere, it is probably not good to manage Shuofang. In my opinion, in the next decade, Shuofang Road will not have many people, but will be dominated by the government troops. Since there are not many people, there will naturally be no prosperous industries. Therefore, Shuofang Road should be based on military farming and farming."

"Farming and fighting are the basis?" Tong Guan held his beard and narrowed his eyes, looking like a traitor.

After a while, he suddenly laughed: "Dalang, it's a blessing that our eunuch is the strategic appeasement commander of Shuofang Road. If it were someone else, who would dare to propose to farm and fight in Shuofang Road? This is to have troops!"

Military troops are also soldiers! And while using the military troops to prepare for war, a large number of "new-style officers" must be selected, so that it is easy to create another military system outside the original mercenary system of the Song army.

If Tong Guan was a dignified man with eggs, he would probably make Zhao Guan’s family unable to eat or sleep.

Wu Haogu shook his head and said, "In fact, it is not worthy of being a soldier. The military soldiers in the palace have been in military service for five years and cannot become Brother Daofu's private soldiers. Most of the future soldiers will be from the right-list Jinshi and will be rotated from time to time. Why don't you feel at ease with such soldiers?"

It seems quite reassuring... I just don't know why the monarchy countries that use this military system in the future always encounter revolutions?

"That's right!" Tong Guan, who didn't know the new army, smiled, "Since that's the case, I'll bother Lao Dalang to take a trip to Kaifeng Prefecture and move for our family."

Of course, Tong Guan is not suitable for himself to jump out and say that he should "hold troops and be respectful". Even if he has no eggs, others will suspect that he has strange ambitions.

So this matter must be raised by someone else, and the most appropriate one is undoubtedly the right prime minister Su Dongpo...

"Okay, let's go to Kaifeng Mansion!" Wu Haogu felt relieved and finally got out of the blame!

Gao Qiu has the greatest contribution, and Tong Guan is the one who has a strong military force. Wu Haogu is a businessman without strength, and he is definitely a fat sheep!

At this moment, a sudden sound of rapid footsteps came from outside the door, and then Brother Zhao Zhong heard the voice coming in: "Taiwei, the urgent report from the Amitabha Cave, the Khitans seemed to have had abnormal movements!"

"Khitan!?"

"What's going on?"

"Come in and talk!"

Wu Haogu, who were drinking and talking in the room, Gao Qiu and Tong Guan, became nervous all of a sudden.

The Western thief had not finished fighting, but the Khitan came. This was not a joke!

Brother Zhao Zhong pushed the door and held the military sent by Yang Keshi, the commander of the Imperial Dragon Inner Guard in the Amitabha Cave.
Chapter completed!