Before Li Guodong left the Touhu City, he first explained four things to Wang Quan and Zhao Feng. The first thing was to ask them to pay attention to cultivating sweet potatoes; the second thing was to go to the south to find a group of craftsmen who made looms, and to quickly weave Li Guodong on the drawings into products, and then send the looms to the south to sell them in the form of shareholding; the third thing was to train the navy; the fourth thing was to form a troupe as soon as possible, and through drama performances, expose the numerous crimes committed by Jiannu and stimulate the people's national consciousness.

The script has been written. Li Guodong plans to let Liu Rushi play a woman in the capital. The Jin army invaded and robbed, the heroine's fiancé was killed, and the woman was snatched away by Jiannu. In order not to be humiliated by Jiannu, the heroine committed suicide with scissors.

"As long as the opera troupe can perform successfully, the people will know the sins of Jiannu and can inspire their fighting spirit. One thing to note is that when you want actors who play Jiannu, you must find guys with evil looks; when you play actors like Fan Wencheng, you can find some guys with despicable looks."

After explaining the matter, Li Guodong took Han Dashan, He Xing and fifty people to leave by boat without taking them at night.

When Li Guodong returned to Xuanfu, the first thing he did was to bring gifts to visit the eunuch Wang Kun, the governor of Xuanda.

"Eunuch Wang, I went to the south and made some money. Thinking of Eunuch Wang's favor, I will give you a small gift." Li Guodong handed over the gift box.

Wang Kun pretended to refuse a few times and took the exquisitely crafted sandalwood gift box. A light fragrance came to his face. The box was extremely exquisitely crafted. Although it was not very heavy in his hand, it was certain that it was a really expensive item, otherwise it would not have been packed in such a valuable gift box.

"There is another gift here for the prince and the court." Li Guodong took out another sandalwood gift box and presented it with both hands.

"Since it's a gift to my godfather, we must bring it to you." Wang Kun smiled very well.

"Thank you for your care and good-grandson in the court, so I can go to the south. The kindness of the two good-grandsons will always be remembered in my heart."

Wang Kun nodded: "General Li, do you know that after you ran this trip, how many censors in the court impeached him?"

"Why does the censor want to impeach a low-level position?"

"Are you still jealous? Those censors don't do good things and only know how to catch the wind and shadow all day long. They impeached the general and said that you were originally a horse thief outside the border. The court gave you kindness and gave you the identity, but they didn't know how to repay the kindness. They left the base without permission and went to the south to go to business. Fortunately, their godfather suppressed the group of censors."

Li Guodong's back was soaked with cold sweat when he heard this. He didn't expect that the censors were so shameless. Who did not accept the merchants as much benefit? But they did not allow others to go to business. When they have the strength in the future, they must kill those censors! However, censors would suddenly impeach him, and I'm afraid someone would support him later.

Thinking of this, Li Guodong said: "Thank you, Eunuch Wang, for reminding me that I will not dare to enter the pass again in the future to go to business."

Wang Kun snorted coldly: "General Li, don't worry. Those censors want to cut off our family's wealth, and our family's first one will not allow it!"

"Thank you, Eunuch Wang, for your love." Li Guodong quickly saluted. Although Wang Kun and Wang Chengen were supporting him, Li Guodong also decided to not go to the market for a while to do business, so as not to leave any politeness to the censor. All the business matters should be handed over to Wang Quan and Zhao Feng and others. No matter what, if you were bitten by a mad dog, you should still be careful in the future and not make Wang Kun and Wang Chengen difficult to behave.

When Li Guodong left, Wang Kun opened the gift box for himself and saw that it was filled with a wide range of pearls and gems, each of which was a great item. He also opened the gift box for Wang Chengen, which was also full of pearls and gems, but the portion was more than the one given to him.

Li Guodong left the west entrance and took his people back to his Shabeigou Village. Before he could reach the gate of the village, he saw from a distance that he had been away for almost a year and had changed a lot.

The earthen cities around the hamlet have been completed, and brick houses have been built in the hamlet, all of which are new houses made of bricks and tiles that have been burned this year. The officers and soldiers were training on the empty playground, and thick smoke was emitting the chimneys around the canteen, and the smell of food came from the air.

What Li Guodong is most concerned about is his blacksmith shop. There are now 104 craftsmen, and the main weapon he produces is bird guns. It has been eleven months since he left, and he has produced more than 1,800 bird guns, made more than 1,800 machetes, more than 2,000 spearheads, created two hundred pairs of armor, and repaired more than 1,000 damaged armor.

At present, the armor made by Li Guodong's own blacksmith shop is chain mail. Li Guodong has tried to make plate armor with better protection capabilities, but without a hydraulic forging machine, it is extremely difficult to build plate armor by hand by humans. It is too low efficiency and takes a lot of time to create a set of plate armor. It is not worth the cost, so I won't consider that thing for the time being.

However, among the products produced by the Blacksmith Store, what excited Li Guodong the most was that the blacksmiths created twenty rifled convex guns, which are called poison guns.

The effort to imitate the flintlock rifle was declared a failure. The craftsmen tried to build spring steel strips. The steel strips were made, but the steel strips were either too hard and inelastic, or too soft, and the elasticity was not enough. Finally, one or two steel strips were easily made to meet the requirements, but that weapon that could not be produced in large quantities was not a good weapon. Instead of producing flintlock rifles at the speed of a snail, it was better to produce a few rifled rifles at the speed of a snail, which could be specially used to snipe the Later Jin generals. As long as you can equip dozens of them, it would be enough.

The climate outside the border is cold, and the land is frozen and cannot be cultivated at all, so Li Guodong sent people to collect all the sweet potatoes into the cellar. Standing on the arrow tower in the city, looking around, the ground has not seen even a piece of snow, which means that there will be a severe drought this year. The winter wheat planted in autumn is probably worrying next year's winter wheat harvest.

There are two benefits for winter wheat. First, the ice and snow melt in the coming year, providing sufficient moisture to the wheat; second, the most important thing is that a thick layer of snow covers the wheat. No matter how cold the temperature is under the snow layer, it will not be colder. It may be more than ten degrees below zero. The temperature under the snow layer is much higher than that, which can protect the winter wheat from freezing to death. This year, there is no snowfall. When the spring of the next year begins, I don’t know how much winter wheat planted can survive.

"God, why isn't it snowing yet! Winter is almost over!" A farmer raised his head and looked at the sky with empty and unconscious eyes in despair.

All the farmers in the city were worried, worried about the winter wheat harvest next year.
Chapter completed!