Chapter 276

The snow outside the attic is getting bigger and bigger, and the traces of people and carriages on the road will be covered in a short time.

A cold wind blows, and Xiao Ming tightens his tight tiger skin Cape. This tiger skin is the treasure of the Lufei family, but he lost the last bet.

However, he didn't make Lufei hurt too much. He gave him some silver, but made him happy for a long time. After all, he had to sell the tiger skin for a good price.

"Your Highness, it's snowing so hard. It seems that the barbarians will have a hard time this year." Pang Yukun looked at the silver city of Qingzhou, and he was worried.

Last time lvluo's words reminded Xiao Ming of the little ice age, and now the colder winter every year convinced him a little more.

He said: "Wang Xuan brings the news that, like last year, many cattle and sheep of the barbarians were frozen to death. Last year, in order to produce soap, I asked the Wangs to exchange grain for dead cattle and sheep. Now without the Wangs, the barbarians can suffer."

"No, the dead cattle and sheep are enough for the barbarians to eat for one winter at most. But in the early spring, the barbarians will be hungry. I have lived in the barbarians for several years. At this time, the barbarians will go deep into Dayu and plunder."

Lu Tong used to be a barbarian slave. He was bought by Liang Dahai when the barbarian cattle and sheep were frozen to death.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming said: "although the Wang family has been destroyed, the trade with the grassland can not be cut off, and we should take this opportunity to exchange more slaves back. In this way, the slave soldiers of the barbarians will be less and less, and the labor force of Qingzhou will be more and more."

Pang Yukun nodded. "Now the population of the fief is indeed a problem. The census register is re counted. It is really frightening."

last year, Pang Yukun only gave Xiao Ming a general data based on the past household registration records of Qingzhou. But after the new year, he let Pang Yukun re authorized the population of the fief, but found that the population of Qingzhou was actually only about six hundred thousand households.

This is because Pang Yukun only provided data many years ago. Since the fall of Youzhou and the massacre of barbarians, many people have been killed or fled from Qi.

He finally understood why the ministers didn't object when Xiao Wenxuan granted Qi land to him. After all, Qi land was not rich at that time, but it also had a population of one million households.

Now he understands that these officials have been concerned for a long time.

Earlier, when Pang Yukun gave him the re counted number of households, Xiao Ming's mood at that time almost collapsed, because 600000 households showed that the actual population of his fiefdom was only between 1.2 million and 2.5 million, which was also the reason why Xiao Ming always felt that the fiefdom was desolate.

He felt desolate everywhere he went except Qingzhou.

It was because of this that he made Pang Yukun launch the refugee policy and absorb refugees from Dayu state to settle in his fiefdom.

Although these refugees may be mixed, he can't hide his illness. After all, the real population data makes him cold.

Almost half of the population was lost. The seriousness of the incident was even greater than that of the barbarians' attack on Cangzhou. The lack of labor force was basically equal to the lack of industrial power.

For the sake of population, now Xiao Ming doesn't care about continuing to trade with barbarians, because for him, the purpose of all his actions is to strengthen himself.

Moreover, the new wall of Cangzhou City will be completed soon. At that time, Cangzhou is an insurmountable fortress for the barbarians. The only thing he needs to worry about is that the barbarians will attack Jizhou.

Because once Jizhou city was broken, the flank of his fiefdom would be exposed under the iron feet of the barbarians. At that time, the infantry could not be described as sour to the cavalry.

Even if he had a Musketeer team by then, once the barbarian cavalry was frustrated, they would run away, and he could not catch up with them. But once the Musketeer team was broken, it would be an all-round massacre.

But now Jizhou is king Yong's palace, and Xiao Ming has no way to interfere. He can only hope that King Yong will not be a pig teammate.

"Let Liang Dahai and Li Kaiyuan continue to go to the grassland and trade food for slaves."

Xiao Ming thought a lot in an instant, and became more firm in his mind.

One can stabilize the barbarians for a few years and prevent them from going south quickly. The other is to weaken the barbarians in disguise. This is his real goal.

The food was gone after eating, but the number of slaves continued to decrease, and the impact on the barbarians would be gradually reflected in the future.

Pang Yukun nodded, "I'll let Li Kaiyuan and Liang Dahai prepare for the caravan to go to the grassland."

After that, they went downstairs. In the yard, he saw the fireworks sent by Lu Tong.

"Your Highness, these fireworks are still made of bamboo tubes filled with gunpowder, copper powder, iron powder and other metal powder. The lower officer has experimented. The fireworks are really colorful." Lu Tong is smiling.

He had never seen such beautiful fireworks.

Xiao Ming smiles and nods. The carriers on the ground are bamboo tubes. One side of the bamboo tube is drilled, and there is a fire rope inside. As long as it is ignited, the gunpowder inside will come out from one end of the fireworks, forming a beautiful fireworks.However, unlike modern fireworks, there are no fireworks that are thrown into the air and then exploded. After all, this kind of fireworks is related to the principle of flowering bomb.

Although we can't let the people in the city see the effect of modern general fireworks, it's enough that these fireworks come from entertainment.

After all, there are very few entertainment projects in places like Dayu.

During the Spring Festival, he has to play enough.

Let aster take the fireworks, Lu Tong and Pang Yukun leave one after another. In addition to the normal people on duty, this new year's government also has a holiday. After a busy year, everyone can take seven days off.

This is also the regulation of rest in Dayu state.

After they left, aster and Green Rose came over and asked, "Your Highness, what can I do with the cotton padded jacket of the textile workshop? It's new year's day. With so many cotton padded jackets piled up, this year's maidservant has made a loss business. "

"This king has just solved it for you." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Perhaps because of the influence of modern Chinese new year, Xiao Ming's mentality will be relaxed during the new year.

"Solved? How did it work out? " Said the Aster in confusion.

Xiao Ming looked up at the flying snow and said with a smile, "if you let me take a bite of rouge, I will tell you."

Aster and green rose suddenly blushed.

Naturally, there is no such language as kissing in the state of Dayu. Euphemism is just to eat rouge, because women's lips contain rouge. To eat Rouge means to kiss.

PS: correct, Youzhou is the fiefdom of King Kang. Maybe the battle of Cangzhou was written as king Yong. King Yong is the vassal to the west of Xiao Ming.

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