In the afternoon, in the backyard of the governor's mansion, a grass, flower, snake ran around in the garden. Wherever he went, the maids were so scared that their legs became weak and they ran away in scattered.

But there were several general horns who followed behind with tree branches and shouted loudly.

The oldest Li Ping'an rolled up his sleeves and took a tree branch to pick up the snake. He successfully picked it up and shouted excitedly, "Come on!"

Li Anning, who had been a few days old, also held a branch and fiddled with the snake on his sister's branch.

Next to him, Li Fang also held a tree branch, both afraid and excited. He and his sister Li Sanniang tried to use the tree branch to fiddle with the grass and flower snake.

The youngest "Li Sanlang" Li Qi was held by a maid and stood by and watched.

The maid saw the grass flower snake constantly twisting her body, and she felt a chill on her back, her legs trembled, and she almost couldn't stand steadily.

"Snake, snake!"

Li Qi was young and said unscrupulously. He pointed at the grass, flower and snake and danced excitedly.

The burly Liu Duzi stood beside him, staring at the snake with his eyes, guarding against an accident.

He caught the snake, and he was ordered to release it for girls and the men to play with it. Now he is so careful not because he is afraid that snakes will bite people, but because people will bite people.

After all, when the little girl is crazy, she can do everything.

A grass flower snake brought surprise and joy to the little guys, and the yard was filled with laughter.

Under the eaves, Huang Gui, with a big belly, sat on the "chair", watching his children making noise and smiling.

Next to him, Zhao Mengniang, who was also a big belly, also sat down, watching her children play together.

After finally reuniting with the whole family, the little guys are full of energy and play together all day long, so the mansion is very lively.

It’s just a little regretful that Li Li led his troops to the battle and is not in the mansion for the time being.

When the breeze blew, Zhao Mengniang felt a little cold, so she tightened her fur shawl on her body, drank a cup of tea to warm her body.

Huang Yan waited for her to put down the teacup and asked, "Have the machine been debugged?"

Zhao Mengniang quickly replied: "The debugging is done, the second batch has been done in total and ten Redics. It has been debugged and will be officially put into production the next day."

"Can the wire keep up?"

"You can barely keep up, otherwise the number of second batch of machines will be more than ten."

"It's good to have ten units put into production. When you start, you can pay back the principal and interest."

Huang Yan said, sighing: "We have borrowed so much money from the business, and the principal and interest are not a small amount. If we can't pay it back, the sky will collapse."

"How could it be? Nowadays, industries in various workshops are running. As long as the water flows continuously, income will continue to flow..."

The two discussed, talking about their own and everyone's "money prospects".

Li Li was the governor of Xuzhou, but there were only a few lonely cities in Xuzhou in Liang State. In order to defend against the enemy, he had to flood Pengcheng and turned the surrounding areas of Pengcheng into "Pengcheng Lake".

In this way, there is not much ready-made mature land to grow food, and so many soldiers, officials and people's food must be transported from Huainan.

Not only that, Xuzhou Prefecture Party has no land rent and household income is adjusted. Since there is no income, it is unable to bear all expenditures.

However, the expenditure will not be small. Raising troops, creating military wars, using troops, and rectifying defense all require a lot of investment.

It can be handled for a while by relying on the imperial court, but it is not a long-term solution.

Therefore, Li Li thought of many ways to "create income" for the state government, that is, to establish mining and industries, and make money and grain through business.

In short, we rely on coal, iron and Hanshanyan’s hydraulic resources to run an industry and develop an industry with a “industry development”.

These industries are divided into officials, civilians and government-run workshops, mainly producing iron pots (pig iron pots), agricultural tools and other pig iron products, as well as various bamboo and wood ware and wooden boards and boards to be sold to the public.

The products of private workshops are similar to those of official workshops, but they also include more detailed products such as iron needles.

Among them, iron pots and other iron tools are one of the "fist products".

To establish so many industries, mining was also necessary, and the expenses were huge and required a lot of capital. The court allocated part (about 35%) and the other part (65%) was raised by Xuzhou Prefecture Court itself.

So the state party borrowed money from the merchants (mainly those with Poyang background). The various measures were the same as those in Poyang back then.

Li Li, Liang Sen, Wu Xiang, Peng Jun and Huang?, and many Poyang villagers also set up industries in Hanshan.

The Huang family's business raised funds, and they borrowed money from other businesses. Now the workshop has started construction one after another. It is considered that the foundation is laid. It depends on whether the products produced can be sold.

The products here in Hanshan are sold in Huainan and the Liangguozhou County of Huainan, but in fact, they are inevitably sold to Huainan and Qiguozhou County of Henan.

Now Liang and Qi and Liang are fighting, and Qi are an enemy country. Iron pots, agricultural tools and other iron tools flow into the enemy country. Even pig iron tools can be regarded as capital enemy.

If you pursue such a crime, it is not a joke.

"This matter is quite a bit serious, so the emperor agrees. But just talking about reason and difficulties, the emperor may not understand it."

Huang Yan said, shook his head: "So the piano presented by Saburo is just right."

At the beginning of the year, Li Li guarded Pengcheng (Hanshan). Among the emperor's rewards, there was a propaganda, with ten people in Banjian, and the eldest son got a viscount.

Now Li Li offers piano and receives money and food rewards, as well as a female musician.

But the most important thing is that Li Li can "do things cheaply" and put what he wants to do.

"Isn't this just right? The pig iron pots sold by Guanye in Xuzhou and the products sold by the official workshops, 40% of the income belong to the provincial government and 30% to the Shaofu." Zhao Mengniang smiled.

"20% are used as the salary of Xuzhou officials, and 10% are used to maintain Hanshan Weir..."

Zhao Mengniang knew some inside story and continued: "Sanlang never eats alone in business. The income from the state government's official industrial sales can be 30% of the emperor's treasury. Who dares not be able to get along with the emperor?"

"So, the piano is just a medicine guide. 30% of Xuzhou's official business income is handed over to the internal treasury. This is the good medicine to cure the disease."

Of course Huang Yan understood this truth, so he just sighed.

What is the sales of Xuzhou iron pot? I don’t know, but she knows that there is definitely no problem with the sales of another ‘product’, that is, the white porcelain from Xinping, Poyang.

New Pingbai porcelain is now becoming whiter and whiter, with many types. The output of porcelain of different grades is significantly increasing every year and has a wide range of sales.

If Xuzhou is used as a residence, large-scale sales of white porcelain in Lianghuai, Henan and even Hebei should be no longer worried about selling it, so the income is amazing.

Therefore, the temptation of "30% of the income belongs to the internal treasury" is the biggest reason why the emperor allowed the Xuzhou Prefecture Party to operate the industry and would not be impeached for the capital and enemy.

Li Li opened up the "market" in Huaibei, Henan and even Hebei for the white porcelain in Xinping, Poyang, which was regarded as the driving force of the Poyang villagers to make a fortune together.

It is precisely such a wonderful "money prospect" that is why the business companies actively borrow money at low interest rates.

Li Li's actions and performance in the Poyang Inner Historian gave merchants sufficient confidence in their management capabilities. Therefore, when Li Li wanted to make a big contribution to his post in Xuzhou, merchants naturally came to hear about it.

Among them, there are all businesses that grew up in Poyang. They have already opened semicolons in Jiankang and absorbed a large amount of idle funds.

Now we lend money to Xuzhou Prefecture Party and to private individuals who run industries, and the income expectation is extremely good.

The return of borrowing money at low interest rates is of course a franchise. Taking iron pots and white porcelain as an example, in addition to the official business, if a private residence store wants to participate in the sales of iron pots and white porcelain, it must obtain a franchise from the state party.

Only with "franchise" can one have the "Qianquan" that spews money.

Li Li has been busy for more than half a year, and the stages here in Xuzhou have been set up, and the actors and musicians are ready.

As for whether the drama that will be staged next has attracted many praises, the audience is crowded with people, or no one watches it, and the ending is bleak, we can only wait and see.

Huang Gui is very confident that white porcelain is selling well. As for iron pots, a few years ago, Jiankang Dongye had already sold large-scale cast pig iron pots, and the sales are good. I think the iron pots in Xuzhou can also have good sales.

As for iron needles and bronze mirrors, they are their own industry. Judging from their sales in previous years, they will definitely make money.

Zhao Mengniang felt that if you want to make a lot of money by selling iron pots in Xuzhou, you have to check it out.

However, dishes cooked in iron pots, especially those fried, are really delicious.

......

In the morning, the second snow in winter dyed the earth white. The north bank of Hanshan Mountain and the outskirts of the north city, Pang Jing, who came from afar, was talking to the owner in a residence.

The owner is from Pengcheng, with his surname and name is Wu. He has had some contacts with the Pang family before, so he is acquaintance with Pang Jing, and some words are convenient to say in private.

"My land is all flooded, and so are the ancestral tombs. Now they are all soaked in the lake, and I don't know when I will see the light of day."

"They also said clearly that if they let the water go, they can't defend Pengcheng. So, it's not that they can't get along with everyone, there's nothing they can do."

"If you want to say hatred, of course it is hatred. If you don't talk about land, just talk about ancestral tombs. The ancestral tombs were flooded. Now you can't go to the sovereign tombs."

"Even if the water recedes in the future, the cemetery will not be like this. How can I not hate it?"

"Not only I hate it, many people hate it, hate the cruelty of the Liang thief and the incompetent court, but what can we do? Even the emperor could not conquer the emperor's personal expedition, and the official army suffered heavy casualties. What else can we do?"

During the conversation, Zheng Wu called the Qi army the "official army", and the so-called "morial court" was the court in Yecheng, and he still regarded himself as the people of the northern country.

The northern country is relative to the Liang Kingdom. After all, a few years ago, they were still people of Wei Kingdom, and later the country name became "Qi".

In fact, they don’t care about the country’s name or the emperor’s surname. They care about whether their own interests can be protected.

Although the Liang Kingdom captured Pengcheng, although it did not burn, kill and loot, the property of the people of Pengcheng had indeed disappeared, and the tombs and land of the ancestors were flooded, so of course there was resentment.

If you have resentment, of course you will hate it.

When the Liang army attacked Pengcheng, everyone who could leave at that time had left, but those who could not leave could only leave it to fate. No one was drowned by the flood, no one died in the chaos, and many people have moved back now.

But he could only live in the new city on both sides of Hanshan. As for Pengcheng, it has now become an island in the lake and a water village in Liangjun.

However, no matter how much resentment is, it has to succumb to reality. In order to survive, the people of Pengcheng who have moved back can only accept reality.

Depending on different choices, we started a new life that was similar but somewhat different.

Zheng Wu was a merchant before and often traveled to Henan and Huaibei, so he met the Pang family in Northern Xuzhou. After he "returned", he found an opportunity after careful inquiry.
To be continued...