Three days passed in a flash.

Because Zhang Yuanzhong and Zhang Yuanyi and his wife were hired by Zhao Qi for a long time, they worked very hard and got up early and worked hard all the time. On the afternoon of the third day, all the more than ten acres of rice left by A'an were harvested, and they also helped transport them back to A'an's house by cart to help dry them.

After harvesting the rice, Zhao Qi not only paid three guan of salary and 30 kilograms of rice, but also borrowed ten guan of money to the two brothers, so that they could find a wasteland nearby to build two thatched huts for temporary settlement. After the autumn begins, their house will be repaired and they can give A'an's house to them. As for their future life, they can only rely on their own efforts.

The emergence of the threshing machine has also made the early rice harvesting in Maowan Village this year different from previous years.

The most lively discussion in the village these two days is not how many stones the family has collected from the grain, but the threshing machine.

As a carriage factory that builds threshers, the carriage construction has been completely stopped in the past few days. Several carpenters and more than a dozen apprentice helpers are working hard to build threshers. After getting rich, almost every household in Maowan Village was striving to create a speed of speed to speed up harvesting.

Especially Yang Dayuan, Yang Dahu, Ermazi and others were even more jealous after seeing the threshing machine. They stopped working on the construction site and waited directly in the carriage factory until the threshing machine was built and asked the hired workers to quickly carry it to their own rice fields and snatch it to collect it.

As the novelty of Maowan Village was spread, people from all over Yanggong Town came to watch the fun and place orders. In order not to delay the production of the carriage, Zhao Qi simply asked the carriage factory to spread the production method and asked the people who wanted to buy threshers to find carpenters to make it themselves. Therefore, in just three days, many threshers appeared in several villages near Yanggong Town. Although the quantity was far from keeping up with the market demand, I thought that by the time of late rice harvesting in October, threshers would appear in the entire Qingyuan Prefecture and even in many places in Jiangnan.

Although this agricultural machinery is not an epoch-making product, it will inevitably help more for the Song Dynasty, which is already in chaos, and even increase a lot of grain income.

The food that was dried in the warehouse was counted because it was taken home and dried. The food that was soaked in the fields in the rain will always be the biggest pain for all farmers.

After collecting the food, Zhao Qi began to focus on the construction of his own house and the harbor.

After July, although it gradually became cooler in the morning and evening, the autumn tiger was still fierce, and the temperature during the day did not change at all. A crop of green seedlings grew in the harvested rice fields, striving to race against time and to produce another round of rice before winter came.

News of the Mongol invasion is still coming, but overall it is relatively stable.

The Song Dynasty, which had weak and ills, still seemed to have no hope of a prosperous future. The casualties on the front line were very heavy. Sichuan lost more than ten prefectures and counties in succession, but the resistance on the front line was still very fierce. The corrupt court of the Southern Song Dynasty probably knew that this was a desperate juncture, so a large amount of food and military pay was continuously collected and sent to the front line.

As the most prosperous and prosperous area of ​​the Song Dynasty, Fujian and Liangzhe Road have always been the main tax collection place for the imperial court. This year, the commercial tax and field tax have increased a lot. However, under the strong pressure of the government, under the various threats and persuasion of tax collectors and the elders of Lizheng Township, and the foundation is relatively good, the land tax collection in Qingyuan Prefecture is relatively smooth, and there is basically no problem.

The collection in Maowan Village was even smoother. At present, almost every household did not rely on these acres of land to make a living. Moreover, the weather was good this year and it was a good harvest year. After talking about it, the village chief Yang Sanye also announced in the whole village that the land tax was paid soon, which surprised the tax collectors in the town. After reporting it to the county government, the county magistrate Cui Zhishou also reported to the new prefecture Zhao Kui as a good political achievement under his rule.

After Zhao Kui asked a few questions and learned that it was inventing the threshing machine and Maowan Village, which was building Xiaolongwan Harbor, he specially arranged for officials to come to Maowan Village to praise Yang Anping, the village chief, and also rewarded him with ten taels of silver, which only made Yang Anping happy and almost turned a blind eye.

Although Zhao Kui is not familiar with Zhao Qi, he is not unfamiliar with him. The main reason is that this person is a firm pro-war faction, and he is very active in fighting against Jin and Mongolia. He is considered to be the young military commander at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. He is older than Wu Qian and is at least seventy years old now.

Although Zhao Kui was a military general and had never passed the imperial examination, he was knowledgeable and well-managed. He was a genuine Confucian general, and his poetry and calligraphy were very powerful. However, after the failure of Duanping to Luoyang, Zhao Kui and Quan Zicai took the blame as the commander of the army. Zhao Kui was impeached and demoted to the official position, but was soon appointed by Song Lizong. He even wanted him to be the prime minister and Privy Councilor to control the military and political power of the court, but he was rejected four times by Zhao Kui because he was not a Jinshi. Many people in the court were dissatisfied. As a general, he naturally had a very strong temper and was too lazy to be cowardly from the civil servants of the court, so he did not accept the edict at all.

If anyone likes the story of the Romance of the Song Dynasty, it may be more familiar with Zhao Kui. The famous Red Coat Army Uprising was suppressed by Zhao Kui. Therefore, Zhao Kui is also described by the people as an accomplice and a bad guy in the Southern Song Dynasty court. There is also a legendary woman in the Red Coat Army, which is Yang Miaozhen, the wife of the leader of the Red Coat Army. She has a face like a peach blossom and a figure like a willow, and she is unbeatable for a set of pear blossom guns. She once killed the Jin army on the battlefield against the Jin Dynasty.

Zhao Kui's current identity and status are even stronger than Wu Qian. Not only is he the governor of Ningyuan Army, but he also has two titles of Duke of Wei and Shaobao. The title of the Three Dukes, Three Shaos and Three Divisions must be made great contributions, but also must be liked by the emperor. This shows that Zhao Kui's status in the hearts of Emperor Zhao Yun can be said to be like a pillar country in the current dynasty.

When Wu Qian left, the court immediately sent a more awesome person, which also shows the important position of Qingyuan Mansion in the court's mind.

In fact, in the late Southern Song Dynasty, there were still many anti-Japanese war factions in the court. Wu Qian, Zhao Kui, Cheng Yuanfeng, Jiang Wanli, and Ye Mengding were all determined pro-war factions, and these people were all generals and prime ministers.

Therefore, although Song Lizong seemed old and stupid, there was actually no big problem in employing people. The prime ministers and generals selected were still very reliable and upright people. However, the shortcomings of the official system of the Song Dynasty were too obvious and the court struggles were too strong. If they were blindly upright, they would not be able to get it at all. Once they were impeached, they would be investigated. If some people were encouraged, they would be kicked out of office if they were not in a good position. Only those who were more cunning could be like fish in water.

The news about Zhao Kui's Qingyuan Mansion spread in Yanggong Town less than ten days after Wu Qian left, and the news from the capital court had also been published in the newspaper.

However, Zhao Qi did not plan to join in the fun and make a fuss, because Xiaolongwan Harbor is on the right track and he no longer needs to find another backer.

Now Wu Qian has put his head on his belt and went to Ezhou to take office under his inspiration. With his advance instructions, he reminded him that as a scheming first-class official, Zhao Qi believes that Wu Qian can make enough preparations.

Moreover, along with the news that Wu Qian was in charge of Ezhou, the court had another inconspicuous order, which was to be transferred to the position of governor of Haozhou Li Tingzhi, governor of Huangzhou.

This news made Zhao Qi feel much more at ease.

Wu Qian was not a real military general, but Li Tingzhi was a general. He performed very well in the history of the Anti-Mongol War. In the end, he was betrayed by a traitor and refused to surrender and was killed by the Mongols.

With Li Tingzhi supporting each other in Huangzhou, I think even if Ezhou is besieged by the Mongols in the future, it will definitely be much easier than the Ezhou battle that once occurred.

In fact, Zhao Qi wanted to know the news about another human Wen Tianxiang he recommended, but he couldn't find it. It might be that Wen Tianxiang is too famous now and is not worthy of the court listing it separately in the court's newspaper.

As long as Wu Qian resists Kublai Khan in Ezhou this time, he will become a great hero in the resistance to the Mongolian army, and then be promoted to prime minister, he will definitely be smooth sailing. Ding Daquan, a celebrity in the court, will step down.

Once Wu Qian's support was in the court, Zhao Qi believed that many things that followed would be much smoother.

However, he was also a little nervous. After he, the shit-stumbling stick who had traveled through time, would the Mongols' attack become different from history?

After all, I am a cheat for Da Song.

If God feels that it is necessary to upgrade and refresh the difficulty of the task...

Zhao Qi grinned and felt his cheeks hurt a little.
Chapter completed!