Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 52
No one is surprised that Cao Cao would come to Youzhou. Who allowed Yuyang County to appear in Youzhou?

After several years of development, Yuyang County now has a population of 150 million. Yuyang City alone currently has a population of more than 70. The area is larger than Yecheng, and the population is larger than Yecheng.

In the whole world, Luoyang is probably the only city with a larger population than Yuyang at this stage.

At present, the tax revenue of Yuyang City has exceeded 15 billion, which is why Cao Cao must come and see.

However, compared to Youzhou's economic development, Cao Cao was more concerned about the military factory outside Yuyang City.

[-] sets of plate armor Li Bai had been delivered to Yecheng, and Cao Cao used these plate armors to form a heavy armor battalion.

The fighting power of this heavy armor battalion is quite strong, and the sword is hard to hurt.

He had already imagined that when he marched south again, this heavy armored battalion would be the enemy's nightmare.

The more he valued the heavy armor battalion, the higher the status of Yuyang Military Factory in his heart.

Such a sharp weapon of the country, Cao Cao will definitely hold it in his own hands, so he has this trip to Youzhou.

He has even considered moving the entire military factory to Yecheng.

As for the military factory belonging to someone else, he didn't care at all.

After the fleet arrived in Youzhou, Li Bai led Youzhou officials twenty miles out of the city to meet them.

"We haven't seen each other for a few years. Youzhou has changed completely. You have contributed a lot to it, Governor Li." On a large boat, Cao Cao looked at the prosperous scenery on both sides of the canal and couldn't help but praise Li Bai who was accompanying him.

"The prime minister is overwhelmed. My teacher helped me. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to manage such a big place." Li Bai said modestly.

"I have long heard that Mr. Ruixiang has only learned a lot, and I have never had the chance to meet him. This time I come to Youzhou, I will definitely pay him a visit." Cao Cao said.

What Cao Cao said was quite sincere. At the beginning, Xun Yu recommended Zhang Qingfeng to him many times, but Cao Cao's self-confidence was inflated at that time, and his first impression of Zhang Qingfeng was not very good, so he did not personally invite Zhang Qingfeng to become an official.

This time he came to Youzhou, besides visiting Youzhou, he also had the idea of ​​inviting Zhang Qingfeng to become an official.

Now, he has some gaps with some of his advisers, especially his main advisers, such as Xun Yu and Xun You, who seem to be at odds with him.

That's why he needs the help of a talented person like Zhang Qingfeng.

At least from the political standpoint of Zhang Qingfeng's students, they are not close to the Han family, although they are not close to him, Cao Cao, but that's what he needs.

"Prime Minister, we are almost in Jicheng."

Soon, the fleet approached the political center of Youzhou, Jicheng.

Li Bai was governor of Youzhou for a few months, and guided and transformed Jicheng. With the promotion of the local gentry, Youzhou City has now become a large construction site, and people are building houses and repairing roads everywhere.

Not long after, the fleet docked at Jicheng Wharf, and countless soldiers disembarked to guard. Finally, Cao Cao disembarked with a group of civil and military officials.

"Prime Minister, do you want to visit Jicheng, or go directly to Yuyang City?" Li Bai asked Cao Cao.

"Let's go to Jicheng first, and then go to Yuyang." Cao Cao thought for a while and said.

Later, under the arrangement of Li Bai, Cao Cao entered Jicheng.

Jicheng is now full of construction projects everywhere, and the whole city feels lively and energetic.

Li Bai took Cao Cao and introduced him while walking.

"This is a large restaurant built by the Li family in Youzhou. It is expected to have nine floors." Li Bai introduced to Cao Cao, pointing to a construction site where a base was being built.

"Nine floors, the Li family is so rich?" Cao Cao was very surprised.

In fact, not only Cao Cao was surprised, but Li Bai was also surprised. The big restaurants in Yuyang City only built seven floors, but the Li family actually wanted to build nine floors in Jicheng.

"This Li family is a well-known powerful family in Youzhou. They have a lot of fields. They can earn hundreds of millions of dollars by selling grain and cotton every year."

Li Bai explained: "The Li family has developed in Youzhou for hundreds of years, and there is no problem in building such a building."

In fact, the Li family also saw that the business of the Yuyang City Restaurant was booming, and it was full of customers almost every day. If this continued, it would only take six or seven years to recover the cost.

Moreover, Jicheng, as the political center of Youzhou, will definitely not be worse than Yuyang City in its future development.

You will definitely not lose money by doing such a business in Jicheng, so after some discussion, the Li family decided to use decades of family accumulation to build this nine-story Jicheng restaurant.

Most importantly, with the development of the past two years, the prices of various building materials have more than doubled.

If Zhang Qingfeng spent [-] million to build Yuyang Restaurant, then if he rebuilds it now, it will only cost [-] to [-] million to complete it.

The main reason why building materials are so cheap is that more and more people are setting up building materials factories.

According to statistics, there are eighteen large cement factories in the entire Youzhou, and there are countless small cement workshops, almost every town has one.

There are also porcelain and colored glaze techniques, which have long been spread throughout Youzhou, and there are currently workshops in various places.

Only the glazed mirror was kept secret by Zhang Qingfeng because of its huge profits, and it was impossible for ordinary people to imitate it in a short time.

Steel is the most important steel for reinforced concrete buildings. With the extensive use of machinery in the Gangping Steelworks, a blast furnace and several open hearth furnaces have been built.

Now, the price of steel has dropped from tens to hundreds of cents per catty a few years ago to the current price of fifteen cents per catty for pig iron, and the price of ordinary steel is only thirty cents per catty.

The reduction in the cost of raw materials has led to a boom in housing construction among the people. Workers who work in factories or workshops can build a cement brick house in their hometown as long as they work for a few years.

So when Cao Cao came to Youzhou, he could see the prosperous scenes of people building new houses everywhere.

Cao Cao stayed in Youzhou for two days and saw the vitality of Jicheng.

Two days later, Li Bai arranged hundreds of four-wheeled carriages, and Cao Cao's team will ride on the four-wheeled carriages to Yuyang City.

"This carriage is not bumpy at all on the concrete road. It would be great if all the official roads were cement roads, so that whether it is marching or transporting grain and grass, it can get twice the result with half the effort." Looking at the scenery outside the window on the carriage, Cao Cao couldn't help feeling emotional Said.

He had seen a four-wheeled carriage before in Yecheng, but this was the first time he experienced a carriage driving on a smooth cement road.

First of all, it is smooth and not bumpy at all.Then it was so fast that riding in a carriage could almost keep up with marching on horseback.

Most importantly, riding in such a carriage is much more comfortable than riding a horse.

"Hey, what are you doing over there? Building roads?"

Suddenly, Cao Cao, who was sitting in the carriage, found that there were countless people working not far from the road.

It looked like a road was being built, but it was different from the road he imagined.

He saw two parallel roads over there, and countless square logs were laid across each road.

On the top of the wood, there are four black things, very long, I don't know what they are.

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