Tingzhou and Jianzhou have large-scale iron plants, and iron-smelting blast furnaces are everywhere, and thick smoke covers the sky and the sun. Many literati of the Wei Dynasty have recorded such strange scenes.

Most of these Fujian iron iron plants are privately run, ranging from more than a hundred to thousands of miners. The Wei Dynasty has strong control over the local area, and iron tools are semi-monopoly. Most of the iron plants officially opened are overly erratic, with low quality and high cost. Therefore, the Dawei court no longer opened official iron plants more than a hundred years ago, and instead issued official licenses to private mine owners and iron farm owners. The owners used a certain amount of money to purchase licenses for official salt to obtain qualifications for mining and iron smelting, and then paid high taxes every year. In this way, the court has a stable source of income and does not have to interfere in mining and iron smelting by themselves. As long as public order is maintained, they can also regularly recover and issue licenses.

With such power in hand, King Yue of Jianzhou will definitely not let it go. Before that, with the King of Qi, he was there, and the demons and demons in the place where he could suppress them, as soon as the King of Qi left, he would find that he had no choice but to compromise and buy his loyalty to the powerful people in these places. He could only see many destructive behaviors in the place.

It is the obvious difference between the two royal princes, and the difference is too far.

Jianzhou has few or more iron yards, while Tingzhou produces large quantities of raw ore, with few iron yards, but large scale.

If something happens in Jianzhou, it is inevitable that many Tingzhou businessmen have some concerns.

"Wang Yue has stopped supplying our Marquis Mansion and Changwen Marquis Mansion." Xu Zixian said: "It doesn't matter. I have asked me to continue to buy fine iron in Jiangling. The price is four to six cents per pound, and the difference is not too big."

Zhang Mingliang said with gratitude: "If Wu hadn't driven the yamen runners from Jianzhou back in the Nan'an affairs, the villains and the young men would have been in danger."

"It's good if you have nothing to do."

Zhang Mingliang made up his mind and said, "If the king and the lord don't dislike it, the villain is willing to do something for the Nan'an Marquis Mansion in the Dongfan side. The villain can do some books and can't do it for many years. Now he has a prisoner document and cannot return to his hometown for a while. The villain does not want to abandon it. He wants to do something for the lord and the lord and the lord arranges it. The villain is irresistible."

"Since that's the case, I'll ask Mr. Li to arrange for Brother Zhan Guang to do some suitable things..." Xu Zixian said: "But there's no need to hurry for the time being, settle down before talking."

Compared to the cold Wu Shizhong, Zhang Mingliang's attitude is much more enthusiastic, after all, he really escapes from death.

If he and his family fell into Wang Yue's hands that day, it would be better than death.

Wang Yue's reputation has spread now, greedy, cruel, and without any scruples.

This is the constraints on local officials in the Great Wei Dynasty, such as high, salary, maintenance, and integrity. There is no systematic supervision and impeachment system. The supervision of a state is a patrol that observes the style. There is an patrol that has no system or system, which is too easy to be controlled by personal abilities and ethics.

Even if the impeachment is advanced, we must consider the stability and balance of the local area. The entire Wei Dynasty is already full of holes.

Wu Shizhong may have been touched by his heart. It was not the case in the Great Wei twenty years ago. Even if an official like Wang Yue is not arrested and imprisoned, he will at least lose his post because of impeachment.

Now it is rampant and no one can restrict it.

It is ridiculous and shameful to even openly threaten and hurt the lives of good and responsible businessmen, or even to seize the wealth of merchants.

King Zhao and Lin Douyao, these Fujian royal family members and local officials, were completely ineligible to be the masters of the country.

Wu Shi's central relationship became gloomy for a moment, and his face was not very good-looking.

But when he saw large storage areas, factory areas, and straight roads, his mood was slightly replied.

Wu Shizhong said to Xu Zixian: "Mingda, I have never been to the Dongfan, but I think I would not be like this before?"

"Yes," Xu Zixian said: "The houses and roads here are mostly newly built soon."

"Is it a lot of money?"

"The cost is quite large, but in order to make an immigrant live in, it is not difficult to travel, and it is worth it to spend some."

“How much does the house cost and what is the road?”

"The cost of houses is a factory building. The houses are three main houses and two side rooms, and the cost is about 65 kilns."

"Is this because everything is going on, so the cost is much more expensive than Fujian Road?"

“That’s exactly that.”

“Where is the road?”

"The roads are made of rammed earth, lime gravel and snail shells, and the cost per mile is about 40 knots."

"It's also a lot of money."

"It's almost 20,000 yuan, not that much."

"But there are not many local officials who are so thoughtful."

Wu Shizhong is not a corrupt scholar who does not understand the economy of the world. How could such a person who can impress a large number of smart people with his knowledge and be famous all over the country be a nerd who does not know the world?

After a little calculation, this large area of ​​factories, shipyards, roads that run through, plus a large area of ​​people's residences, the settlements with white walls and black tiles, and the farmlands that are all in full swing, no matter how you calculate, it costs a lot, at least more than one million chunks.

In fact, the money invested by Xu Zixian, plus the investment of Changwen Hou Mansion, is now 150 million yuan. After so much money, it is mainly due to the prosperity of the dock to the warehouse and factory areas, and the residential areas mainly composed of commercial areas and settlements formed by less than 100,000 people.

In addition to the military camp, there are also the school that is being built and the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, which are the most important investments.

These days, the brick factories and tiles have been completely uninterrupted, sparks have been constantly, and thick smoke and black fog have been constantly spitting out every day. The number of strong men who work is always more than 3,000. After a few months, it has been formed.

Before this, it was not that the Wei court did not have such strength. With the situation when the Wei Dynasty was still in its prime decades ago, it was not difficult to make the current scene.

"These things are not something that cannot be done." Wu Shizhong said with great emotion: "It's just that no one has really made such a decision... Mingda, you are really extraordinary."

"I was forced to do so too..."

Wu Shizhong glanced at Xu Zixian. Although he was riding a horse, his eyes were still clear and bright and profound. Later, Wu Shizhong said: "Mingda can coax others, but I don't believe it. Even if there is no change in Qifan in Fuzhou, you still have to manage it. However, if you still have Qizhou port in hand and have a show of your position, you will not be able to develop Dongfan so quickly and so anxious..."

"Maybe." Xu Zixian smiled bitterly, as there was no answer.

...

Dozens of cavalry rushed past the rammed earth official road, and went to the north for more than ten miles to the boundary of the Houfu Villa in the upper reaches of Nan'an River.

There were continuous settlements along the way, and these settlements covered a wide area. A hundred households usually ranged from about 120 to 150 households. Nowadays, hundreds of households are still being organized. It is expected that the number of households in the Nan'an Hou Mansion will be divided into several months. There will be immigrants one after another. A large number of homeless men will be assigned to hire workers or arranged to go to factories, officials, guards, sailors, and those who are bold and strong will join the army.

By the end of the year, there will be more than one hundred households, tens of thousands of official households and private households, and more than one hundred thousand people. The development of the Dongfan will be first completed.

Wu Shizhong kept admiring and exclaiming about the settlements along the official road. As a Confucian scholar, the situation in front of him was not very exciting to Wu Shizhong.

According to Xu Zixian's introduction, the official households are charged costs, including the grain, daily necessities, agricultural tools, and animal husbandry during the land reclamation. The official households use it for free during the land reclamation. In the future, they either buy or rent them on credit or rent them. The official households can enjoy it at their own convenience.

Every few hundred households, there will be offices, or case filing, or case filing, or case transfer, or tax transfer department. These branches are responsible for public security, punishment, case filing, tax collection, and storage of materials.

There are also health care homes, Salesian and medical insurance, etc.

Xu Zixian introduced to Wu Shizhong: "After Mr. Wu checked in, he should also be careful of the epidemic, whether it is infected with the epidemic, or mosquito bites. Before adapting to the water and soil environment, don't see more people at home, and there is no rush to open a school. Our overall plan is to start school in September, winter vacation in January, then school in March, and summer vacation in July. Before that, we should also build schools, recruit teachers, buy stationery, create tables and chairs, etc. The epidemic gas transmission is very important and must be careful. Also, due to the special situation on the island, immigrants trust Nan'an Hou Mansion and trust me, so the entire process of epidemic prevention, isolation, treatment, and rehabilitation, from medicine to some necessary nutritional products, are all expensed by the Hou Mansion. This is not something that the people do not have to pay back on credit, and there is no need to return it."

"Good." Wu Shizhong didn't say much, but just showed a look of praise.

Zhang Mingliang also rode a horse and followed him. He was a businessman, and he was obsessed with fatness and had difficulty riding. However, when he saw the scenery on both sides of the official road, he looked shocked.

The Wu family and Zhang family members, as well as some newly arrived immigrants, were covered with the entire official road, whether by car or by side, and almost everyone performed very differently.

Either looking around, looking at the situation on both sides of the official road, or looking at the beautiful settlements in a daze.

Almost everyone broke free from the panic of new immigrants. The situation on the Dongfan side had been described before they came, but most people did not believe it.

There is no such good thing. The beautiful courtyards and brick buildings, large areas of farmland, animal husbandry, tools, seeds, are provided first, and then slowly pay back the money based on the harvest.

The Nan'an Marquis' Mansion did not collect taxes for the first two years, but only closed the official households' service and had to serve forty days of labor. In addition, there were hundreds of miscellaneous taxes in the Great Wei Dynasty, and they would not take any money here.

If the shackles are broken, everyone's hope will be released.
Chapter completed!