Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 28 Yuyang City

"Okay." Li Bai agreed and said, "Since I became the governor of Yuyang County, I have followed the method you taught us, teacher, to develop local industry, agriculture and commerce."

"After I took office, at the beginning I mainly counted the population and farmland to collect taxes. This was thanks to my juniors, who worked hard for several months to complete it."

"Afterwards, the people are organized to reclaim the land, repair water conservancy, compost, grow food, and so on."

"Then it is to encourage the local wealthy families to do business, open mines, set up workshops, attract people, etc."

"After the rise of industry and commerce, I formulated a new commercial tax. Now the commercial tax in Yuyang County alone accounts for more than [-]% of all tax revenue in Youzhou."

"At present, the population of Yuyang County is about 64, of which 13 are Luping, 12 are Yuyang, [-] are Anle, [-] are Hunu, [-] are Huxi, [-] are Luxian, [-] are Yongnu, and [-] are Pinggu. [-], [-] in Quanzhou, etc."

"Currently, Gangping has the largest population, mainly because the Baihe section in Gunping is fast-flowing, which is suitable for the development of hydraulic workshops. There are tens of thousands of workers in the workshops alone."

"Two years ago, I sent people to Xiliang to buy some cotton seeds according to what you said, and started planting them in Yuyang on a large scale last year. The effect was very good."

"Last year, after the general captured western Liaoning, this year our Yuyang has signed a cotton and other purchase agreement with the local landowners and gentry in western Liaoning. After the textile workshop is completed, I believe it will not be long before our Yuyang can become the textile center of the entire Youzhou." center."

"In the past two years, the shipbuilding industry in Yuyang has been very developed, and there have been many shipbuilding workshops among the people, and there are almost 26 of them."

"This year I plan to build a large shipyard in Quanzhou (today's Tianjin area) to build large ships that can sail on the sea..."

"At the same time, we are also planning to build a large cement wharf at the mouth of the Quanzhou Canal, and strive to develop Quanzhou into the largest transportation port in the north..."

In the end, Li Bai said to Zhang Qingfeng: "In addition, I am planning to set up an academy in Yuyang, and I would like to invite you, teacher, to be the dean to train talents from all walks of life..."

Hearing Li Bai's words, Zhang Qingfeng didn't say anything, and Yang Shen said, "Brother Li Bai, the teacher wants to help me build a blast furnace to make iron. I'm afraid I don't have time to come and teach with you."

"It's okay, I can come back after your business is over." Li Bai didn't care.

Then he asked Zhang Qingfeng: "Teacher, what do you think?"

"It's very good to run a school. I won't be the dean, but you can ask Li Shishi and the others to teach here. In fact, they are in charge of Taihang Academy now. I haven't been a substitute teacher for a long time, but they are weak women. If You have to ensure their safety when you come here." Zhang Qingfeng thought for a while and said.

"It's fine for Li Shishi and junior sisters to come, but when the time comes, teacher, you have to persuade me, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to invite them." Li Bai said.

"Okay, we'll talk about it later." Zhang Qingfeng nodded.

"Teacher, you have been exhausted all the way, pay attention here for one night, and I will take you around tomorrow." Li Bai said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"Alright." Zhang Qingfeng nodded in agreement.

The next day, Li Bai did not break his promise, and he personally took Zhang Qingfeng to visit Yuyang County.

On this day, a group of people went to the oil extraction workshop, water mill, iron workshop, soap workshop, glass workshop, cement workshop, brush and ink workshop, paper workshop, printing workshop, and the textile workshop that is still under construction.

In addition, they also visited several chambers of commerce, commodity distribution centers outside Yuyang City, and large vegetable markets.

Because of these workshops, chambers of commerce, and distribution centers, the economy of Yuyang City is very developed, and the people here are relatively rich compared to other places.

The most important thing is that the infrastructure of Yuyang City is very good. The new city is full of concrete roads and houses, which look like two worlds from the wooden houses in the old city.

"Yuyang City was built like this, did it cost a lot of money?" Zhang Qingfeng asked Li Bai with emotion.

"Spend money into flowing water." Li Bai described it in five words.

Then he explained in detail: "In the past two years, in order to build infrastructure, more and more has been spent every year. In order to build Yuyang City like this, it has spent almost one billion yuan worth of food and materials and tens of thousands of labor. .”

(In the Han Dynasty, one qian was equal to one thousand qian, and one billion qian was a million guan, but for the convenience of everyone’s understanding, we will directly use how much money to calculate in the future, so the number is bigger, isn’t it, hehe.)
I just heard Li Bai continue to say: "But fortunately, after the development of Yuyang, our products radiated to the whole north. Even many merchants in the south came to Yuyang by sea to do business. Now it's just the annual business tax. There are about [-] million, plus the grain and cloth of the agricultural tax, it is worth about [-] million, which is barely enough."

In the end, Li Bai said: "But I still plan to continue to increase investment in infrastructure. Teacher, you once said that the more advanced the infrastructure of a place, the more developed the economy will be, and thus the tax revenue will increase. This is a virtuous circle. .”

"You are very good. If you can persist in developing industry, agriculture and commerce, I think Yuyang will become the economic center of the entire north within ten years." Zhang Qingfeng praised.

Li Bai is really a good student. He has ideals, ambitions, and vigor. In the past two years, he often sent people to the mountains to ask him about political measures.

"However, will the court allow you to spend so much money?" Zhang Qingfeng asked.

Zhang Qingfeng couldn't believe that the officials above were not jealous of the one billion yuan worth of food and supplies.

"This is no problem, because we have contributed to the construction of the steelmaking workshop, so we proposed to the general to exempt the tax paid to the court for five years for the construction of Yuyang. It has only been two years." Li Bai explained.

"Haha, if General Cao knew that Yuyang's tax revenue could reach over one billion in the past two years, he would regret it to death." Hearing Li Bai's words, Zhang Qingfeng laughed.

"Teacher, I want you to set up a machinery manufacturing factory in Yuyang County. What do you think, sir?" Li Bai changed the subject and asked Zhang Qingfeng.

"Set up a machinery manufacturing factory?" Zhang Qingfeng asked in surprise.

"Yes." Li Bai nodded without hesitation, and said, "The machinery factory you run in the mountains is very good and can manufacture a lot of machines. We in Yuyang are short of various machines now."

"If you can set up a factory in Yuyang, not only the supply of raw materials is convenient, but also large-scale production is possible. Not only can you make a lot of money, but it can also promote the development of local industry and commerce. I wonder what the teacher thinks?"

Hearing Li Bai's words, Zhang Qingfeng thought for a while, nodded and said: "That's true, since you want to do it, then make preparations first, and after I finish the blast furnace ironmaking, I will come here to set up a factory. "

Zhang Qingfeng said: "By the way, I have made a steam engine. I don't need to find a place with convenient hydraulic power. I just need a flat and convenient place for transportation. I will give you some drawings at that time. The factory was built."

"Teacher, I will do what you say." Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, Li Bai said happily.

"I estimate that the cost of building a machinery manufacturing factory is not small. It is expected to be at least no less than [-] million yuan. You must have an idea in mind." Zhang Qingfeng said.

"It doesn't matter, I want to build a machinery factory even if I sell everything." Li Bai said firmly.

Zhang Qingfeng lived in Yuyang City for a few days, and after a few days, after seeing off Li Bai and others, he followed Yang Shen by boat and continued to go to Junping.

"Teacher, this is the concrete official road from Youzhou to Luping. It is still under construction. It is estimated that it will not be completed until next year. Then we can ride in a more stable four-wheeled carriage." On the boat, Yang Shen looked at Yun Zhang Qingfeng introduced to Zhang Qingfeng the concrete road section that countless people were constructing by the river.

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