Speaking of wooden tracks, the wooden track from Chang'an City to Luoyang has now been replaced with railway tracks.

It is not that the wood is wrapped in fine iron from the inside to the outside.

In recent months, the saints have been deploying troops to Goguryeo. The railway track from Chang'an to Luo has become particularly busy. Every day, there are some cars reposted very heavy goods, but the railway tracks are solid and there is no damage.

Iron prices are very expensive in this era. When the imperial court built these two railway tracks, it really cost a lot of money. Now it seems that it is very worth it.

Guo Xiaoke from Hexi also heard about the railway track and felt a little envious. When he opened an iron ore here, he might be able to repair those two railway tracks.

Although he, the Hexi Protector, could he move his family here and guard an iron ore, wouldn’t it be more promising than guarding those acres of land in the Central Plains?

In order to mine and sell mines, Guo Duhu has racked his brains recently. It is necessary to build roads. There are also documents sent by the imperial court in the past two days. Jiaodong is going to fight, and they should be vigilant in Hexi.

Other small countries are not bad. They are almost in the eyes of money. They are not interested in war, just afraid that the Turks will launch a surprise attack.

However, no matter how vigilant he is, he cannot block the business road. If he wants to start a mine, he must have some capital. He will block his wealth and ask him where to get money at that time.

Fortunately, his eldest son, Taezhao, is getting older this year and can do things. He is his right-hand man. He will leave it to him to organize mining.

Guo Xiaoke was guarding the city of Gaochang. He saw whether the Turks dared to come. It would be best if they dared to come. Not to mention chasing them all the way to their nests, they would at least have to grab some good horses and coolies. Then, there were a lot of horses that needed to be used to start or transport mines.

Guo Xiaoke spent a lot of money this time. When he said he wanted to build a road, the people from Jiuquan, Zhangye and Liangzhou were crying for him one by one.

It’s okay to forget Jiuquan, but it wasn’t very rich. The track ahead had just been paved, and they were indeed a little helpless. There were so many places in Liangzhou in Zhangye and Liangzhou, and they even called him poor and unwilling to use money to come out.

However, even though he was dissatisfied, the governors of the two places were both of them. Although Guo Xiaoke's official position was higher than theirs, he had a low background and had no connections in the court, so he didn't dare to offend these gentry-born people.

Besides, mining is important now, so it is best not to cause trouble. So Guo Duhu had to take out a lot of money this time. Just as the autumn tax was collected, and with the intensive traders, he did have a few money on hand. Before he could hold the money in his hand, he hit Liangzhou in Zhangye again.

Unlike Luo Yong's disciples who made profits through production and trading, Guo Xiaoke was short of money and hoped to fight. For this general who came from a turbulent family, there was no more convenient and quicker way to make money than fighting.

However, it was useless to look forward to it. It was useless. If others didn't fight him, he had to consider international public opinion and not send troops rashly. He didn't see the saint trying to fight Goguryeo this time, and it was also the reason why Goguryeo and Baekje jointly attacked Silla.

To build such a long wooden track, one of which would have to cross Yanzhi Mountain. It would not be enough to rely on the money and silk that Guo Xiaoke had at hand.

For this reason, he raised some money from local gentry and merchants in Hexi. Not to mention others in Changle County, Luo Erniang alone paid a lot.

Luo Erniang's two current workshops, one in Liangzhou and the other in Changle. This wooden track will be of great benefit to her.

Moreover, this money is not in vain. If you pay for road construction this time, they will have many conveniences when they walk on this wooden track in the future.

Luo Erniang was still looking forward to the fact that the wooden track from Liangzhou City to Chang'an could be built, and the goods on their side would be continuously transported to the Central Plains from source, and Luo would use them to open a branch of north and south groceries in Changle County, and the goods on the Central Plains would be transported in Changle County.

Although many workshops have been opened in Changle County, there are still too few types of goods compared to Chang'an City.

Luo Yong also wrote to Si Niang, seeing that there is still no extra staff in the shop, whether it is a food chef or a shop clerk, as long as they are willing to come to Changle County, they will definitely be promoted and raised.

After all, Chang'an City is prosperous, and it is much safer than the border area of ​​Changle County. Generally, Chang'an City, which is native to the country, does not want to go far away even if it faces the temptation of promotion and salary increase.

However, some of the children hired from Xing Er have grown up a lot in recent years, some of whom grow up fast and precocious, almost look like a young man.

The children in the past have now penetrated into all aspects of groceries in the north and south. Some are clerks in front, some are warehouse managers behind, some have learned to cook food, and some go out to buy freight.

Relatively speaking, these people do not have much nostalgia for Chang'an City. On the contrary, because they have lived at the bottom of society since childhood, their desire to make a name for themselves is more urgent than that of ordinary people.

I heard that I could get promoted and raise money by going to the branch in Changle County. Considering that Hexi has developed very rapidly in recent years, I discussed with each other that I would go to Changle County to have a chance to make a fortune.

Xing Er was very supportive of this matter. Year by year, the children in the past have all grown up one by one. Xing Er didn't look as young as before, and he lacked his former aura and his temper has been much better than before.

Because he has been adopting orphans in Chang'an City, he has gradually gained some reputation throughout Chang'an City over the years. Sometimes the kind-hearted rich people often send some food and cloth to him. Some people even wrote a few poems for him to praise his righteous deeds.

There are those one or two poems that are really numb, and they praise Xing Er as a Bodhisattva. The children who work in groceries in the north and south feel embarrassed when they hear it.

When I was sad before, Xing Erke often took them over the wall in the middle of the night to steal chickens and pick vegetables in the yards of wealthy families.

"Don't talk about these unlucky things. When he hears them later, you won't be more anxious when he sees them."

Xing Er, a character who used to be very tough and shameless, didn't expect that he really liked to listen to others and praise him. He wrote down the poems and posted them in the main hall. From time to time, he asked the children who had just learned to read them out and listen to them. It was very enjoyable and enjoyable.

"What are you afraid of? I'll leave in two days."

"Don't say that these useless things are, you have packed up your clothes."

"I should make two more winter clothes."

"What are you doing for that? Only these two pieces are worn in front of you. If you don't have enough, you will buy them at Longyou Road. The white buns are cheap."

"Don't wear it on the road? Winter will begin in a while. Don't prepare winter clothes yourself. Don't steal my clothes to wear it."

"Who wants to steal your torn clothes?"

"Last time, you put your inner clothes on the fire to roast them. Did you burn your collar? Did you take mine to wear them? You prepared one more on weekdays, why did you come and wear mine at that time?"

"Look at you, you are very verbose."

"You are just stingy and you can't afford to buy an extra piece of clothing."

"Hey, stop arguing."

"He just used to saving things in the past and couldn't change it for the time being."

“It’s been several years.”

"I think he can't change it in his whole life."

"What a big deal..."

"Do you need to buy some ointment for bruises and damage to bring it with you?"

As they were about to set off in a few days, all of them were preparing their luggage. After talking about their clothes, some people said they wanted to buy medicine.

"Hey, Sun Simiao's disciples have been measuring their blood pressure in the past few days. Why don't we take a look at it? If there is anything wrong, we can buy the medicine in advance." Someone suggested.

"I heard that is a problem that only older people have."

"That's not necessarily the case. Two days ago, I heard from someone in the shop that there was a young lady in Anyifang. She was only fifteen or sixteen years old and was still unmarried. After taking her blood pressure, she was getting higher than her mother-in-law."

"Really or not?"

"Really! I heard it really!"

"Tsk, I don't know what the problem of hypertension is. I haven't heard of it in the early years."

"Everyone says they are Sun Simiao's disciples, so they will never be fooled."

"And those who were subjected to high blood pressure, took their medicine and had a needle, and it turned out much better."

"Then we'll check it tomorrow?"

"Go, I don't have to work in the past two days. I just happened to go shopping on the street and buy some delicious food."

“…”

These young people were talking about blood pressure measurement here. In the palace, when the saint favored a concubine that night, the concubine told him that he had been dizzy these two days. Could it be that he had gotten hypertension as he grew older?

To be honest, the concubine is less than thirty years old this year. The reason for saying this is to have more common topics with the emperor. After all, Li Shimin is still forty-six or seven years this year.

On the second day, the saint indeed ordered the palace servants to go to the market to invite two of Sun Simiao's disciples into the palace, and helped the concubine check her blood pressure, and by the way, he followed her and checked it.

As a result, after this investigation, the concubine was fine, but the emperor was found to have high blood pressure!

"My blood pressure...is very high?"

The old emperor narrowed his eyes and looked at the blood pressure measuring instrument made by Sun Simiao and others, and he couldn't see any tricks.

I just felt that there was something red in the instrument covered with oil paper. When I was just measuring his concubine, the height of the thing was about half as high as he is now. He vaguely felt that his problem seemed to be very serious.

"It's true that it's high blood pressure, it's much higher than that of ordinary people." One of the disciples of Sun Simiao replied.
Chapter completed!