The Chu State was in chaos, and the Shangjing City was in a state of depression. Chang'an was in chaos, and blood was bleed. Among the three major countries on the mainland, only Yuejing City was still a prosperous and prosperous scene. As the weather warmed up, the people in Yuejing City once again filled the streets of all sizes. Now, the old city of Yuejing City is worth every inch of land. The residents of the old city can live a life of food and clothing without worries by collecting rent every month. The city is expanding outward every day, and the farmland is disappearing, replaced by tall buildings.

The building technology of steel and cement structures has finally produced fruitful results under the persistent research of the Ministry of Industry. In the newly emerging outer city, there are more and more tall buildings.

The higher the houses are, naturally, because the more expensive the land in the capital city is, the more difficult the land is, and in order to make as much money as possible, people can only build houses on a limited land.

This also made the Ministry of Works a lot of money, because only the Construction Department under the Ministry of Works has this kind of construction technology. Now, six of the eight engineering teams under the Construction Department have built houses in Yuejing City, and the other two are responsible for various bridge buildings outside. Things like cement and steel bars are controlled materials, and ordinary private construction teams are simply impossible to obtain in large quantities.

Of course, compared with the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Works earned only a little hard money. Geng Jingming deserves his name as smart. He first requisitioned a large amount of land in the name of the country, and then cut the land into small pieces for public auction. The price of the land reached a new high almost every day, and countless wealth concentrated in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, with the divine nature of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how much money you make, it is impossible to put it in the treasury and make it moldy. If you make money with your left hand, you will invest a lot with your right hand. Especially in the western area in the center of Yongjun, it is the top priority of the imperial court's investment. The western area in the past was too poor, and infrastructure was basically zero. Whether it was building roads and bridges or building water conservancy facilities, these were long-term investments that saw investment but could not see output in a short period of time.

But the Ming Dynasty court would not stop investing in the west because of this. The experience of the Ming Dynasty has fully proved that only when these infrastructures come up can people's livelihood develop further. The Ming Dynasty needs a stable western region, a western region that provides a steady source of troops for the future Ming Dynasty.

The personal qualities of the Western Bingyuan have always been Qin Feng’s salivation. The courageous and cruelty they immersed in their bones have left a profound impression on Qin Feng when he was a small captain.

However, when the West Land first returns, people's hearts are still unstable. If they want them to fight for the Ming Dynasty sincerely and have a heartfelt sense of belonging to the Ming Dynasty, then they must first make the West Land rich, even if they just let them have no worries about food and clothing and no longer hungry, it will be a huge achievement for the Ming Dynasty.

There are not many places suitable for growing grain in the western region, and most of them are concentrated in several county governments around Yong County. In view of the actual situation in the western region, the cotton that the Ming Dynasty will cultivate began to be planted on a large scale in the western region. This year, they will usher in their first harvest season.

The bright yellow rock produced in the desert in the west is now the top building material of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, under the rule of the Qin State, this bright yellow rock with distinctive characteristics has always been the exclusive product of the royal family, and no one dared to overthrow it. However, the Ming Emperor Qin Feng did not care about these at all. In his opinion, the rich bright yellow rock in the west is deserted in the mines, which is simply a huge waste.

The result of the relaxation is that the excavation, material production, transportation and sales of Minghuangyan formed a huge industrial chain. Smart merchants are no longer satisfied with simply cutting and selling Minghuangyan. Now they have cut them into pieces, made them into floors, and processed corner waste into small items with distinctive features. Once each is launched, the supply is immediately in short supply.

A bright yellow rock alone solves the work problems of hundreds of thousands of people. If we count the families behind these people, it would be even more terrifying.

The current western region has formed three pillar economy: Xintong's steel industry, Shazhou's Minghuangyan industry, and cotton industry. In the short term, the grain in the western region will still rely on the input from the Ming country. According to the Ming Dynasty's expectations, one to two years later, when the water conservancy facilities built in the western region will initially take shape, it may meet two-thirds of the grain supply, thereby reducing the input from the Ming country.

When the Ming Dynasty took over the entire territory of Chu, food was even more unproblematic. The fertile land in Jiangnan and the land were mostly fertile. As long as it was well managed, the Chu would become another source of motivation for the Ming Dynasty to take off.

The Ming army was being mobilized frequently, but Yuejing City could not feel the atmosphere of war. The news of continuous changes in flags and flags in the six counties in the eastern region, four counties in the south of the Yangtze River and other places made all the Ming people informed that it would not take too much effort to win the Ming Dynasty. This was a matter of being captured.

Now everyone is more concerned about how to make more money. After more than ten years of development, the local business structure of the Ming Dynasty has basically formed some fixed pattern. More people who want to change their destiny through business have turned their attention to the western region and the Chu State, which is about to become the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Look, just after the Chinese New Year, countless small merchants began to head towards the Chu Domain in groups.

The small merchants who could not compete with the big merchants began to connect, each of them spent some money to form chambers of commerce, trying to get a piece of the pie from the big merchants. The court also encouraged the emergence of such chambers of commerce. For the court, these chambers of commerce, which were combined by countless merchants, were easier to control than those large familial chambers of commerce. Once something happened, they could easily find flaws and divide them. However, that kind of family-type chambers of commerce would not work, they had more strict organization and control.

Qin Feng, who smelled some smell from Ruan Fu's incident, instructed Wang Yueyao's Business Department to intentionally or unintentionally start suppressing the family-oriented businessmen and give more opportunities to these newly emerging new business models.

March will be the day of the Spring Examination of the Morning Day. In order to alleviate the serious shortage of Ming officials today, the Jingshi University Hall held two selection exams a year, divided into spring and autumn exams. Although each county has started its own university, the Jingshi University Hall is still the first choice for scholars.

Because as long as you are admitted to the Beijing University, it is basically equivalent to getting a black hat in advance. The starting point of the students who go out of the Beijing University is much higher than that of those who go out of other schools. Every year, those who graduate from the Beijing University of Science and Technology and those who can get the top ten in various assessments usually stay in Beijing to serve. If you are sent out, you will at least be a magistrate and take charge of the government.

Learning literature and martial arts and selling it to the imperial family and the Beijing University of the Capital has naturally become a place for scholars to visit. A large number of scholars from all over the country flocked to Yuejing to participate in the spring and autumn tests, which also made the admission threshold for the Beijing University of the Capital University of the Capital Higher and higher.

In addition to the Jingshi University, there is another university in Yuejing, that is, the Ming Medical College. In this era, the average life expectancy was still extremely low, and the biggest problem was the lack of doctors.

Shu Chang's ambition is that every village in the Ming Dynasty must have a student who has gone from the medical school to take charge. Every county must have a doctor with a level of no lower than the imperial physician to preside over the medical work in the county.

Affordable medical care allows everyone to treat doctors and afford medical treatment, thereby increasing the average life expectancy of the Ming people and increasing the population of the Ming Dynasty. This policy of the Imperial Medical Office also complements the national policy of the Ming Dynasty. Now many places in the Ming Dynasty are still vast and sparsely populated. After a period of rapid population growth, places like Taoyuan County have now shown a downward trend. Imagine that those who used to recruit people everywhere are no longer realistic, and the court no longer allows them to poach people from the west.

Doctors are respected no matter where they are, and they have a lot of income. In the past, if they want to become a doctor, they didn’t know how many years they had to work with their masters to learn some real skills. Now, in the Ming Medical College, famous medical experts from Ming and Qin have gathered together to compile their lifelong experience into books and teach them free of charge. After three years of junior class, they can become village doctors, and five years of intermediate class can get a position in the county's National Medical Center. In the future, the senior class will be trained by the Ming Dynasty who can compare with the past imperial physicians. Of course, even the intermediate class has just opened until now. The senior class is still a matter of no loss.

But this does not prevent Shu Chang from investing great enthusiasm in doing this. The first medical school branch has been established in Yong County by Shu Chang's favorite disciple Wang Lingbo, mainly to train junior class members. Shu Chang plans to strive for every county to open a medical school in the next five years. Of course, this also requires a lot of money to support.

A large number of students preparing to apply for these two schools flocked to Yuejing City, which further pushed up the housing prices in Yuejing City.

It is difficult for everyone to live in the capital to stay in the capital, and it has become a sigh for everyone.

But for Qin Feng, this was one of the manifestations of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. Bian Wushuang of the six eastern counties was finally completely resolved. With the joint efforts of Yang Zhi and Zeng Lin, the integration of the six eastern counties was in an orderly manner. The four counties in Jiangnan reopened their silk trade and the Ming Dynasty's grain was imported again, and more importantly, the deployment of the military force of the two attacks on Chu State was basically in place. Next, they began to attack Chu State on a large scale.

Qin Feng, who had been free for half a day of leisure, decided to go to Yuejing to experience the prosperity of the prosperous times he ruled.

Because this is his proud work.
Chapter completed!