"The Empress Dowager may be leaving."

Zuo Rou sat there holding Jin Ling'er's letter and said to Xiao Song, "Jin Ling'er asked me to go back and help, saying that she could not take care of the affairs of her family alone."

"Then go back and come together when the other end is finished." Xiao Song leaned over and looked at the letter together: "There are so many things to deal with. Some things are not assured to ask others to help you. Although you are a little stupid, you are still obedient. Go and help her."

"Ye... I don't know how smart I am, so you say I am stupid. But I am indeed stupid compared to you, but I am smarter than them."

Zuo Rou was a little unwilling to accept it, but Xiao Song didn't say anything. After all, Zuo Rou, she didn't know where she got her confidence these days, and she felt that she had become smart anyway.

"Then when will I leave?" Zuo Rou turned her head and looked at the people around her: "I'll keep Qiaoyun. There is no one around you to take care of you, that won't be possible."

"No, I'm more than two thousand miles apart, and Sister Qiaoyun is more at ease with you. I have no problem with this. Anyway, it's not a separation from life or death. Spring will come next year." Xiao Song held Qiaoyun's hand and said, "Do you go? I think you'll leave these days. If it's cold in the morning and evening after the Double Ninth Festival, it will be cold, and it's not easy to walk on the road, as autumn rain delays things."

Zuo Rou thought about it and discussed it with Qiaoyun, thinking that this was also a matter, so the three of them briefly discussed it and decided to set off early the morning after tomorrow.

When this person was leaving, he was always reluctant to leave, so Zuo Rou gestured five fingers at Song Gou.

"How many meanings do this?"

"In the past two days, five times a day!" Zuo Rou said firmly: "Go over and leave."

Song Gou's expression at that time was that the old man looked at his phone, and Qiao Yun was not as domineering as Zuo Rou. She looked to the side shyly, but her hand was also behind Zuo Rou and secretly gestured at Song Beiyun.

Oh... simple mathematics is just eight.

Xiao Song pondered for a while, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and shouted outside: "Come on, let me stew all the wolfberry sent by the Xixia envoy a few days ago to the master, and I'll stew mutton!"

The personal soldiers outside scratched their heads and walked into the yard: "Mr. Song... has ten kilograms."

“It’s stewed!”

After that, until Zuo Rou and the others left, Song Beiyun's spirit always seemed very bad. Even when he sat there during the day, he could talk and fall asleep while the officials were in a meeting. When people asked him if he had a disease, he usually answered that he was not accustomed to the local environment.

After two days of experience with Tulupi, Xiao Song finally sent the red-faced Zuo Rou and Qiaoyun onto the carriage one morning. After repeated instructions, he watched them leave.

Xiao Song finally breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time the big black bull behind him finally dared to walk a few steps up. He sneakily touched Song Beiyun's shoulder.

"What are you doing?"

"Masterman." The big black bull looked around and carefully took out something wrapped in cloth from his arms: "Good thing."

"What's the matter?"

"I have seen Da Zheng's posture these days, so I felt sorry for Da Zheng, so I secretly got a big black donkey cow from my fellow villager's house, and Da Zheng went back to make up for it."

Xiao Song frowned and looked at the cloth bag with disgust: "You eat it yourself."

"Master, it works! It works!"

"Really?" Xiao Song asked in a low voice, "Don't lie to me, this thing is so disgusting."

"You'll know if you try it. If you eat this thing, you can kill a cow."

Xiao Song pondered for a moment, took the cloth bag and put it into the small bag he carried with him, patted the big black bull on the shoulder: "It's done well."

In the following days, Xiao Song had no worries around him. He devoted all his attention to the construction of the Jinghe River, almost doing it day and night.

He turned himself into a black-faced evil spirit with a white-faced scholar. He became dark for several degrees and became stronger.

The biggest problem in Jinghe County is the manpower problem. Because there are few people, I can only borrow people from Chang'an, but this borrowing is not a long-term solution.

So Xiao Song buried his head in the development of a new temporary recruitment system, which is the Five Elements System. The so-called Five Elements Army is to recruit personnel from the people to give military treatment, but they do not participate in the battle. Mu Zhenjun is responsible for pioneering the mountains and forests, water marching is responsible for preparing river embankments, earth marching is responsible for reclaiming farmland, Jin marching is responsible for mining and alchemy, and fire marching is responsible for preparing constitutional governance.

This system does not conflict with the current military system, and it can greatly increase the flexibility of personnel. In addition, the military system is equivalent to giving the recruited people a living guarantee. After all, the Song Dynasty was a regular military system, and under such a premise, there was always a job to ensure income from drought and flood.

This kind of work is extremely precious to the people in the northwest, so nearly a thousand people signed up on the day of implementation, and there should be only more in the future. The number of people in the entire team can reach 10,000 or even tens of thousands.

On the tenth day after Zuo Rou left, Xu Li appeared in front of Song Beiyun again, this time he was holding roast chicken, good wine and a guaranteed contract.

Xu Li was unwilling to settle accounts with his own brothers. In the more than ten days before signing the contract, he first investigated the situation here, including various cost reviews and sales issues, etc., and then drafted a guaranteed contract.

"Xu Li, you're a little cruel." Xiao Song shook his head after reading the contract: "There is no reason why the government has taken all your unsold goods. You can purchase them first at most."

"What if it's unsold?"

"Then you think of a way. First of all, your workshop is a private industry. If you have to go online with the official service, you can only carry out the underwriting model in a cooperative manner. This underwriting model will not go long. And you have to know that the government's own workshop will participate in competition. If it is underwriting, the quality will never be improved." Xiao Song shook his head and said, "I can't sign this contract."

"You mean you want me to compete with the government's workshop?"

Xiao Song leaned on that and was silent for a long time: "Although there is a risk of leaking core technology, it doesn't matter. What I need is the stable development of the entire industry. I will transfer part of the first generation of technology to you. Your subsequent R&D work depends on you. The two parties will not interfere with each other in parallel, but the final product will compete."

"What if it leaks out?"

"Overall, not to mention anything else, just for special steel, I give you the formula, and you may not be able to bring out something. The Academy of Sciences in the Song Dynasty is not a vegetarian, and it is never possible to release it into private ownership in three aspects, one is energy, one is materials, and the other is transportation. These three aspects are always controlled by the state, so you can only become a dealer or buyer here."

Xu Li thought for a while and nodded slightly: "Where is the salt soil?"

"That thing is a traditional industry, you'd better not touch it. That piece of cake belongs to someone else, and you'll have problems when you touch it randomly." Xiao Song waved his hand and said, "Don't touch the traditional industry. The power of private sector is not enough to shake these things now."

Xu Li was silent for a while, then pointed to the contract and said, "So you don't sign this contract, right?"

"Yes." Xiao Song nodded and said, "Underwriting is not feasible, and the entire industry will choose the bidding system in the future."

“Bidding?”

Xiao Song told Xu Li in detail the bidding process. Simply put, no matter what department purchases, it is necessary to choose better quality, lower cost and better after-sales service. This is the fundamental reason for social competition and the driving force that stimulates the overall running of technology.

"I understand." Xu Li nodded and said, "That means that no matter whether it is public or private, as long as it does not meet the standards, don't, right?"

"Yes." Xiao Song said firmly: "This is the foundation of the country in the future. Whether Song Dynasty can truly become the father of East Asia depends on this plan. Even the future supporting products such as the army, palace, government, etc. will adopt a bidding system."

"Will that breed corruption?"

"You don't know how thick the cage I added to it is, and it is difficult to eliminate corruption under any circumstances. So since this is the case, we naturally have to choose a better method. Just like the imperial examination, everyone understands that it is difficult for poor families to have noble children, but it is only difficult but must be." Xiao Song stood up with his palm: "As long as you open a door, someone will naturally do what comes next."

Xu Li didn't say anything more. There is no way to verify whether this road is easy to follow or even right or wrong, but he has to try and make mistakes in the end. He has missed countless times over the years, but if he doesn't try it, who knows right or wrong?

"If I invest ten million yuan, I will make a profit in a few years."

"It depends on your business situation." Xiao Song spread his hands and did not give a reply: "Good luck, three years. Bad luck, you will lose all your money. Isn't this business, Xu Li."

Xu Li thought about it and then filled himself with a glass of wine: "Maybe."

The two chatted late at night, but Xu Li did not leave and stayed in the county government for a night. The next morning, they wandered together on the desolate streets of the Jinghe River.

Look here and there, there are no hawkers or people coming and going, there are only hurried figures of farmers working in and out of the fields with tools on their way down the fields.

After all, it was a border area. The former Longxing land around Chang'an is now so dilapidated and decadent, and Xiao Song felt that he was under great pressure.

But it’s good that here is like a young girl who is just a young girl who doesn’t dress up with makeup, but can show off her skills.

“Is the second part of your five-year plan going to begin here?”

"Otherwise?" Xiao Song laughed: "I want to be in Jinling too, will they let me?"

"Hahaha, that's true."

"Chang'an is divided into two. Liao Kingdom has eaten Wannian and Luoyang, and I have eaten Chang'an and Xianyang. In comparison, do you think Liao Kingdom has the win?"

"That's more important than that? How does Xianyang compare with Luoyang?"

"Hahahaha, Xu Li, Xu Li, you're also confused." Xiao Song shook his head and said, "You will know in a few years. At that time, I will open this tree and plant it. I can't help but their comments are good or bad."
Chapter completed!