Chapter 1034

Over the past year, after Wang Yang's hard work, Shaanxi North Road has finally been no longer as sparsely populated as before, and all industries have withered.

The population of the six prefectures in Shaanxi North Road is still in a period of rapid growth. Take Yanzhou and Hongzhou, two emerging commercial cities in Shaanxi North Road, as examples.

The permanent population of Yanzhou has reached 380,000, while Hongzhou is slightly lower, with nearly 350,000 people. With the cotton cloth and various cotton products on Shaanxi North Road, the best-selling of green salt, and the trade and trade with the Western Regions, the number of outsiders who are permanently stationed on Shaanxi North Road is almost 70,000, and in Hongzhou, there are nearly 50,000.

In Hongzhou, there are two auctions every month, and ten Yuanyou self-sounding bells are auctioned each time. The transaction price of a single Yuanyou self-sounding bell is about 1,500 to 3,000 guan.

Whenever a large, precious and luxurious self-tone bell is released, it will be snatched away. Many big food merchants brought a large amount of gold and silver, as well as specialties in the Western Regions, just to be able to exchange such a self-tone bell and transported back to the Western Regions or even further away to the West for sale.

The commerce and trade in the northern part of Shaanxi Road was prosperous, and whether it was the Liao Kingdom, Xixia, or Liu Zhi, who was in charge of Shaanxi Road in the south, was full of jealousy.

But they all had no choice. After all, Yanchi is in Yanzhou, and Yuanyou’s self-sounding clock is exclusively patented. If you want to imitate it, haha, with the level of craftsmen of this era, it is impossible to imitate it in a short time.

As for cotton products, Wang Yang made great statements to the emperor. Therefore, the emperor also issued a special edict, strictly prohibiting local areas from changing to cotton by planting grain fields. If any problems arise, you officials will bear the main responsibility.

He even issued an order to deal with two prefectures and seven magistrates, all dismissed from office and never mentioned it, and all fields that changed to cotton were cut off...

The emperor's method of cutting the mess with quick sword made the local officials in the northwest understand that the emperor was not just talking, but the originally floating people's hearts fell directly to the cold with the fall of the nine officials.

This made the surrounding officials red with jealousy, but they could only watch the wealth of Shaanxi North Road.

Fortunately, there are also smart characters, such as the several states and counties in the west, which are not suitable for all kinds of food, but there is no problem in growing cotton.

Therefore, the prefectures and counties bordering the Western Regions have already begun to plant cotton, but at least they are still careful and use wastelands that are not suitable for all kinds of food.

Most of the cotton they harvest will be transported to Shaanxi North Road for sale, because they do not have as convenient and abundant hydraulic power as Wuding River on Shaanxi North Road, and can only rely on human resources purchased from Shaanxi North Road for small-scale workshop-style production.

In short, everything on Shaanxi North Road is developing towards a good direction, and the efforts of Wang Daguanren and a group of Shaanxi North Road officials have finally not been in vain.

In addition, the deposits obtained by Chang'an Bank on North Road in Shaanxi reached nearly three million trump cards last year, and the loans were 1.8 million trump cards, which made countless people jealous. At present, several more businessmen are secretly discussing the establishment of a new bank.

The students are being recruited from that technical school. I am afraid that the application will be submitted to the Shaanxi North Road China Banking Regulatory Commission at the latest in the middle of this year.

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Manager Liu from the Yuzhou branch of the Zhao family shop was sitting on a big cart and staggered out of the Yuzhou city gate. Six big carts followed behind him, and each cart was also supported by four strong men.

There is also an escort flag on each cart, which is a convoy escorted by the Yongsheng Escort Agency of Youzhou. The six prefectures on the north road of Shaanxi bordered the Northern Liao and Xixia, and there were often bandits and thieves robbed.

Although the Northern Song army was often wiped out and was much more peaceful, there were still some people who were blind to the eye and wanted to do a business that was incompetent, and the escort agency naturally came into being.

Today, Manager Liu was going to send a relatively expensive goods to Xinyanzhou. For safety reasons, he specially found the more famous Yongsheng Escort Agency in Youzhou to escort. The bodyguards of the Yongsheng Escort Agency were all elites in the wing army, and most of them were strong men who had been on the battlefield and had seen blood.

Looking at the more than 20 people carrying knives on their backs, they looked around with vigilant eyes, and two of them were horse-riding leaders. Seeing this formation, although they felt sorry for the 200-yuan escort fee, when they thought of the value of the six trucks of goods behind them, Manager Zhao finally felt a little relieved.

No matter what, it is always good to be able to buy a safe place. If there are really little thieves and robbers who are not open to the eyes, they will only have to deliver food with those shopkeepers. If these goods worth nearly 10,000 yuan are lost, I am afraid that the shopkeeper will end up doing it.

However, Manager Zhao didn't notice that his team had just left Youzhou City. Not long after, two more cavalry rode out, one was far behind the convoy, and the other cavalry first walked north and then galloped eastward...

In Anding Fort in Xiazhou, Ye Bosheng, the guardian of Anding Fort, was now bare-chested and practicing arrows in front of the martial arts training ground in the fort. Every time an arrow was shot, he would hit the bull's eye, causing the soldiers around him to cheer warmly.

More than ten arrows were in a row, and almost the arrow hit the bull's eye, which made Ye Bosheng feel more and more proud. However, at this moment, he saw his confidant Yelu Yong rushing towards this side, and threw the hard bow in his hand into the hands of the guard beside him.

"General... there is one important thing to report to you." After Yelu Yong came to the front, he glanced at the soldiers and guards around him.

"Well, follow me, you don't have to follow me." Ye Bosheng waved his hand to his side, stopped the guards from following him, and stood there with Yelu Yong and then raised his chin and signaled the guy to continue.

"The news just came back from the person sent by the Zhao family business today is transporting a batch of Shanghao silk that has just been transported to Yuzhou to Yanzhou. I am afraid that the value is at least this number..."

Ye Bosheng saw Yelu Yong's shaking gesture and couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly. "Are you going to Yanzhou? How many people..."

"The Yongsheng Escort Agency sent more than 20 soldiers, together with Ma Yi, Zhao Family Trading Company's own escort, and the shopkeeper of the shop, that is, forty-two. It is precisely because the goods are of great value that the shopkeeper of the Zhao Family Trading Company personally led the team..."

"The subordinates of the last general and others have been dotted, leaving marks along the way."

"Can we be sure that we won't be able to go empty like the one before?" Ye Bosheng rubbed his fingers, glanced at the soldiers who were practicing riding and shooting in the distance, and lowered his voice.

"Don't worry, General, this time I'm sure. Last time, we didn't expect that we would meet the patrol of the Song army."
Chapter completed!