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Liu Peng also smiled and said, "The key is that if we are preparing to build roads, both prefectures and counties and localities should welcome us over!"

If you want to be rich, you must first build a road. Although this sentence has been said countless times, it is a true and eternal truth.

With a straight road, many problems that could not be solved are no longer problems. Even the ignorant Murano people know this truth. Even without specific actions, Yang Guangwen can take the opportunity to raise the banner to win people's hearts.

Yang Guangwen naturally understood this truth: "Mr. Liu, I don't have high requirements. The road is being built here. If this road really has nothing to do with Qingzhou Prefecture, can I rush some manpower and rice beans to let me repair the official road between Juzhou and Zhucheng? You can transfer one thousand people at will, and I only need three hundred people. If money, grain and utensils can help me solve half of the money, grain and utensils. If half of it is not possible, one-third will be fine!"

Liu Peng told Yang Guangwen: "Don't be anxious first. It's not too late to take action when the research institute has a specific result, otherwise it will be wasted if so much manpower, money and food are spent! Since we have to spend so much money and food, we have to plan for a long time. Even if it is not a century-old plan, it will take at least ten or eight years. Even if it cannot support ten or eight years, it will take three or five years. We can't rework in three or five months!"

Yang Guangwen suddenly understood: "It is because of this that Mr. Liu asked me not to pour the ashes into the river?"

Liu Peng nodded and said, "If everything goes well in the study institute, Longkou and Zhucheng will not be isolated from things, but will be echoing things, and it will be a family!"

Zhuang Diaozhi was both excited and a little uneasy about his new mission. After leaving the General Affairs Office, he was obviously ready to sigh again. Yang Guangwen next to him patted his shoulder and said, "Diaozhi, what's the point of sighing! You are now showing your great success! After the team is set up in a few days, we will come to our Zhucheng. I'll greet you well!"

Zhuang Tizhi ​​smiled bitterly and said, "I am not sure. Since I was a child, I just followed my parents to build a stone road at the entrance. Now I am asking me to preside over such a big project, I really don't feel at ease."

Yang Guangwen comforted him and said, "What's the matter? When you arrived at the Locust Elimination Institute last year, you didn't have any experience. Now, no one in the three eastern prefectures knows that to cure locusts, you have to find a village to adjust it. Whoever has a reputation for you, it doesn't matter if you don't understand. Just do it while learning. Anyway, there is support from the study institute!"

Zhuang Tiaozhi finally relaxed: "I didn't expect that Mr. Liu would do such a big deal!"

Yang Guangwen took big steps out: "Turn it, this shows that I, Yang, have a unique vision. At that time, Mr. Liu was just a minor official, and I was already the postmaster. However, when Mr. Liu and I were the ones who came to see him, they brought the entire Huangshan Pavilion to join us. Others have never understood me. I believe you can understand my thoughts!"

"Brother Yang really has a keen eye for people!" Zhuang Tizhi ​​laughed: "I'll put the team up first and go to you!"

The news that Liu Peng was preparing to build the road spread very quickly, and the sensation caused by this incident even exceeded Liu Peng's expectations.

Any famous gentry in the three eastern prefectures soon knew that something happened. Even if they didn't know, someone would remind them that something happened immediately.

Of course, these gentry did not know Liu Peng’s specific plan, but they were very clear that Liu Peng had a mobility fund to be used to build roads in the East Three Prefectures.

Everyone is not sure how much money this maneuver is, but it is certainly not a small amount. It can at least repair the official road that has been disrepaired for 35 miles, so everyone's enthusiasm suddenly burst out.

The transportation in the three east governments is really difficult, especially after the ban on the sea, there are only a few small paths left besides the East-West Guanma Avenue. Although it can barely pass by, it is extremely difficult to transport any bulk goods to the outside world.

Although with Liu Peng's efforts, Longkou reopened the sea channel, the sea channel could only solve at most half of the problem, and land transportation is still an unsolvable problem, so the mobility fee in Liu Peng's hand became a real timely rain in everyone's eyes.

In the past, many officials in prefectures and counties were very exaggerated by Longkou, but in order to obtain the funds for mobile road repairs from Liu Peng, they gave up their long-term hostile stance and hoped to carry out long-term good cooperation with Liu Peng and Longkou.

Therefore, no matter where Liu Peng went, the gentry who sought to see him was always full of traffic. However, Liu Peng also told the truth: "The right to decide on this matter is not on my side, and it is not the only way to build roads this year and next year!"

But everyone heard what Liu Peng said. Liu Peng said, "It's not going to happen this year and next two years." That's just that everything needs to be prepared carefully before it can start.

Although Longkou is a relative system, these gentry and powerful people have many ways to find out more details soon, including the general source of this mobile fund, Liu Peng's plan to "take it from the people and use it for the people", and even the patrol engineer team that Zhuang Dianzhi had just formed.

That's right, Zhuang Diaozhi's team is now under the name of the patrol team. Militarized management not only brings higher efficiency, but also Liu Peng and Zhuang Diaozhi feel that it is more convenient to do things outside in the name of the patrol team.

But the facts have proved that Liu Peng and Zhuang Dianzhi don’t have to worry so much. There are local people everywhere who hope Zhuang Dianzhi will go to their hometown. Even if there is no plan to build the road this year and next year, it will be great to help them repair the road within three to five years.

This result made Liu Peng a little amused. He originally thought that the gentry of the Ming Dynasty would regard the construction of roads as a disaster, but he did not expect that these gentry were so enlightened.

But after thinking about it carefully, you will understand that the reason why the late Qing gentry opposed the entry of railways and telegraphs was that the complete modernization and the generational differences of hundreds of years brought about the disintegration and separation of the entire social order. Everything in traditional China no longer existed under the whistle.

The most drastic change now is just the construction of a new road to official horses. In addition to the hometown and self-reliance, the entire society still operates as usual. The gentry and the powerful are still gentry and the powerful are still gentry and the powerful are the sun.

The sun will still rise as usual, but when this road is built, the entire East Three Prefectures should have extremely amazing changes. Of course, this may not be a completely positive change. Social progress cannot benefit everyone.

Although Liu Peng thought so, the gentry and powerful people in the East Three Prefectures did not think so. They still used various relationships to find Liu Peng to hope to start further cooperation. Jiang Haotian was in Changyi, and Yang Guangwen was not only not squeezed out in Zhucheng, but also had already gained a foothold. One of the main reasons was that Zhuang Diaozhi had already been in Zhucheng, and Juzhou began to survey and map.

For Yang Guangwen and Jiang Haotian, this patrol engineer team with dozens of people has definitely played a role in strengthening the tiger. Throughout the summer, where to build roads has become the hottest topic in the entire East Three Palaces. Everyone fantasized about a straight Guanma Avenue at the door, and then they could live a happy life by themselves.

The harvest in the autumn of the 44th year of Wanli made their hope for a happy life reach its limit.

Although the maritime ban has been "reopened" in theory, and there are still many people in the East Three Prefectures who can't even pay back the interest, and there are still many people who have food and clothing that don't know where the winter clothes are, but everyone still feels that life is full of hope.

Everything was full of hope. The silver that had almost disappeared completely on the market suddenly appeared again. Although I don’t know where the silver flowed into the three eastern governments, everyone is very clear that this means that the credit of the banknote has reached another level.

This severe drought once plundered almost all the silver in the market of the East Three Prefectures, and even copper coins were almost found. However, now silver is circulating in the market again. However, the people of the East Three Prefectures do not care whether they are silver or banknotes.

In other words, the influence of banknotes is no longer much different from that of silver, and the circulation scope is no longer limited to Dengzhou Prefecture. Even Qingzhou Prefecture, which has the greatest influence in Hengwang Mansion, Juzhou and Zhucheng, has money bank branches, and there are more than one.

The circulation scope of bank tickets in other places is even wider. No matter where you go in Laizhou Prefecture, you can spend bank tickets everywhere. However, within the entire Dengzhou Prefecture, the bank tickets have been completely accepted by the government. Every prefecture and county in Dengzhou Prefecture has a bank branch code, and you can pay taxes wherever you go with the bank tickets.

The banknotes can even be used in Liaodong and Yuguan, but only a very small number of people know that the source of these silver is not from the Ming Dynasty, but from Tsushima Island in Japan. The three east governments can support the past from this disaster. The key is that these inflows from Japan provide credit support for the banknotes.

Not only silver is flowing in, but also various cargoes. Now foreign merchants in the Far East know that there is such a free port in Shandong, China. Although Longkou Port has various shortcomings and defects, it is still a paradise for adventurers.

Now Longkou has developed from a fishing village and a fishing port to a truly international port. Here you can see Koreans, Ryukyu people, Vietnamese, Spanish, Dutch, French people, and even the Ma Zong family is considering whether to enter Longkou directly. After all, although Longkou has brought them a large amount of rare goods, it has also taken away too much of their profits.

However, the prosperity of the port does not only bring about a completely positive impact. Xiao Maxiong, who is responsible for Longkou security, has been busy for several months. The continuous influx of the population during this period makes him feel a little tired... Friends reading books, you can search for "" and find this site as soon as possible.
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