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As the most remote prefecture in the Ming Dynasty, Cenzhou has a huge territory, but it is sparsely populated, with a drought and meager output. Since the Former Qin Dynasty, it was a place that was very poor. After Yue Kaishan became the governor of Cenzhou, he determined to turn it into the west of Jiangnan. Under his strong promotion, the Ming Dynasty court finally determined to excavate a Grand Canal that arrived in Cenzhou from Hulao through Yongjun and arrived in Cenzhou.

To dig such a large canal, of course, it is not a matter of excavation on flat ground. Most of the time, they still use some existing river channels to make diffuse. Only when they connect between two disconnected river channels will they cause great war.

Of course, even so, the project volume is terrifyingly large. The strength of the court alone is obviously not enough. When the Ming Dynasty was actively preparing for a war to unify the world, the money that could be invested was even limited. In many cases, the court provided more support for policies.

The Canal Corporation was born like this. In addition to presiding over the entire excavation work, his most important function was to find money.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, there are quite a few people who dare to take risks and invest. The first group of sailing people have become rich now, and the first group of people who invest in railways have finally seen the money back, especially the steam trains have been officially launched. The faster speed and greater power have increased the capacity exponentially, and the high returns are just around the corner.

Those who missed these two opportunities, while beating their chests and stamping their feet, could only look for the next opportunity to make a fortune while beating their chests and stamping their feet.

It is naturally difficult to get a piece of the pie in other people's fields. For example, navigation and railways have formed a roughly fixed circle in more than ten years. If you want to join at this time, you may not be welcomed by the price you pay.

In the eyes of these people, the newly dug canal is such an opportunity.

A Grand Canal connecting the entire western region, its bright future is almost clearly visible. If you don’t join in at this time, you will be afraid that there will be few such opportunities in the future.

In the eyes of these people who have a lot of spare money in their hands, as long as the canal can be dug and officially opened to navigation, then making money is a foregone conclusion. The only risk is that half of the canal canal can be completed and cannot be carried out for various reasons, so the money invested is wasted.

This possibility is not lacking, but in the eyes of merchants, it is almost slim. This is also the great reputation that the Ming court has slowly accumulated among the people over the past ten years. Emperor Qin Feng even said nothing and said that he would do the best. Since this canal was built by His Majesty himself, the last little doubts disappeared.

A large amount of hot money poured into the Canal Corporation. For them, what they considered was not the question of not having money, but how to use it rationally.

The Ming Dynasty's supervisory agency is quite powerful. How to use the money, where it is used, and whether it should be used like this? It can be found in detail and it will be investigated to the end. As long as you find a little loophole, these people can check you out.

The emperor had very strict requirements for the supervisory agency. His words about the supervisory agency have now become the motto of the Supervision Department: If you cannot find out the problem, it is the biggest problem.

For local officials, the supervisory officials who adhere to this concept, it is a sharp sword hanging above their heads, and may fall down at any time.

Putting aside the supervision of the supervisory agency, it is easy to do things for Canal Corporation to have money!

A group of experienced engineering teams from the Ming Dynasty and from Chu areas continued to join. The local governments along the canal also vigorously organized their people to join this great project, but it was just because the Canal Corporation paid. For local governments, organizing some spare labor to earn wages is also a great contribution to the local economy.

The people of Qi once thought that the construction of such a canal in the Ming Dynasty would inevitably be a waste of money and would definitely make the people resentment. However, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, such a large project is a great help to drive the local economy. Local officials of the Ming Dynasty regarded it as a great opportunity to increase local income.

Not to mention those young and strong laborers, even the old man and the old woman can make a day's money by wielding a small hammer and knocking a few baskets of small stone seeds to transport them to the construction site.

The Ming people regarded this as a carnival in the entire western region. Zhong Zhen, the governor of Yongjun County, believed that the construction of the Grand Canal had a great role in promoting the economic development of the entire western region.

It was also under such a situation of national mobilization that in two years, the main project of the Grand Canal has been basically dug up. The rest, such as building embankments, planting plants and maintaining water and soil, and building sluices, will of course take it slowly.

Since overcoming the last drought, the life of Yue Kaishan, the governor of Cenzhou County, has been getting better and better. After a heavy rain relieved the crisis in Meijie, Cenzhou began to build a large number of reservoirs. Seeing that the canal was getting closer and closer, the people of Cenzhou were also getting more and more motivated.

In the past, Cenzhou was vast and crowded, and the population was severely lost. This was once the biggest problem restricting the development of Cenzhou. However, now, the Ming Dynasty has helped it solve this problem. After the pustules that triggered the Jiangnan machinery and people's competition for job opportunities in advance, a large number of people were moved to Cenzhou.

Yue Kaishan was amazed at the iron bowl policy of the Prime Minister Jin Jingnan. Of course, there must be the strong support of the emperor here, but Yue Kaishan would never think deeply about it. It is enough to have the Prime Minister's Pin Tank, and Cenzhou is undoubtedly one of the biggest beneficiaries of this incident. The mobs exiled here, coupled with their families, exceeded 100,000, which alleviated Yue Kaishan's shortage of staff.

The people who participated in the Jiangnan riots are still in a state of being regulated for labor education. The farms in Cenzhou have become their place of labor. Not far from these farms, the government has built one village after another to resettle the families of these people.

The court also tried its best to deal with these mobs. If the family members were willing to immigrate to Cenzhou, their guilt would be greatly reduced. For example, if the family was sentenced to three years of labor camps and the family members were willing to follow them to settle in Cenzhou, the age would be reduced to one year. Under such a solution, most people chose to immigrate.

Of course, Yue Kaishan was not harsh on these people serving in the farm. In his opinion, these people were sacrifices for a certain period of time when the Ming Dynasty was about to develop. In itself, these people were not extremely vicious people. Therefore, in these farmers, except for their personal freedom, there was nothing different from ordinary people. If they performed well, they could even return to their own homes in those villages not far away after a day of work.

Yue Kaishan believed that these people would be the people of Cenzhou in the future, so of course they should not be treated harshly, but should make them think about the goodness of the government.

As for another group of people who moved here, Yue Kaishan didn't see this at all. This group of 50,000 people came from Pattaya. They were sold here by maritime merchants.

If you are not my race, your heart will be different. This is Yue Kaishan's deep understanding. The farms that place these people are high walls and deep, and are under heavy guard. The few troops in Cenzhou are stationed near these farms to prevent these people from doing anything.

In order to make up for the shortcomings of the troops stationed in Cenzhou, Yue Kaishan also vigorously trained militia reserves and prepared to suppress these guys from overseas at any time. Moreover, the setting of these farms is very skillful. They are surrounded by the army, government offices, villages of the Ming people, and farms intentionally or unintentionally.

Standing on a high ground, looking down at a farm not far away, Yue Kaishan Shen said to Ma Lei, the general of the Cenzhou garrison beside him, "I have worked hard for a few years and finally saw the results."

"The county magistrate has worked hard for the past few years, and he has seen it from the bottom of his heart!" Ma Lei said with a smile. This is not flattery, but Yue Kaishan is indeed a very outstanding official.

"Your Majesty is still wise!" Yue Kaishan sighed, "If I had no His Majesty's support, I would have vomited blood and would have been unable to do anything."

Ma Lei nodded repeatedly with deep feelings.

"The war is about to begin. Ma Lei, staying in Cenzhou is too far from the war. As a soldier, do you feel very sorry?" Yue Kaishan asked.

Ma Lei smiled and said, "I don't hide it from the county magistrate, I do have this idea. My former comrades can make achievements again in a short time, but I can only be a guard here."

Yue Kaishan laughed: "Although that's the case, for us, based on our own work and doing our own things well is to make our own contribution to the unification of the Ming Dynasty. Ma Lei, what is the greatest contribution we can make in the Ming Dynasty when the unification of the world?"

"Just asking the county magistrate," Ma Lei asked.

"The greatest contribution is of course to the stability of the land and allow the people of Cenzhou to live and work in peace and contentment. If they can do better, they can grow food as soon as possible. Not only does it not require the assistance of the court, but it can provide taxes, food, and help within our ability." Yue Kaishan said: "If every prefecture and county in the Ming Dynasty can do this, why worry about the Ming Dynasty and the world is not unified? It is not necessary to go to the battlefield to make achievements!"

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