Age of mythical princes

Chapter 233 Land reclamation and large projects
Western seven counties, a county seat

The Li family father and son went through untold hardships and spent nearly half a year before finally coming to Yancheng from Shu.This is because both the father and the son have cultivation bases, otherwise, if another person walks this far, he might be eaten by a monster halfway.

"It's selling newspapers, it's selling newspapers!"

"Yancheng's new newspaper, the first issue of Yancheng Bond Trading News, is officially released, and it only costs one penny, one penny!"

"The Yancheng Bond Exchange is about to undergo major changes. Do you want to know? Buy a copy for a penny!"

"Yancheng Bond Trading News, tentatively scheduled to be issued every ten days, within three months, all of them will be a penny, only a penny!"

"Brother, buy two." As he spoke, Li Erlang took out two Yancheng copper coins from his pocket.

This copper coin was exchanged by Li's father at the bank. One tael of gold sand can be directly exchanged for [-] coins.Now that I have come to Yancheng, I naturally have to go to the countryside to do as the Romans do.

However, the father and son had just arrived in the Western Seven Counties at this moment, and they had just entered the country not long ago, so they were unfamiliar with everything in Yancheng.

"These seven counties in the west should have been defeated in the autumn and winter of last year, right? But why does it look so peaceful? It doesn't look like the war has just ended less than a year ago, and they are still very energetic!" Li Erlang said directly.

Immediately, he handed a newspaper to the opposite father and read it himself.

At this moment, there are dozens of newspapers in front of Li Erlang, and Li's father is reading them slowly. Sometimes, Li father will read a newspaper several times.

"The prices here are very stable. Grain is stable at one penny per catty, pork is stable at fifteen pennies per catty, mutton is a bit more expensive at fifty pennies, and beef can be sold in a grand manner for only fifty pennies. " Li Erlang told his own experience, feeling that everything is new, puzzling and curious.

"It is said that every township has a grain store and meat store directly under the government of the monarch, and every county has a cold storage center, where there is a Taoist priest and dozens of warlocks sitting in the town. Their main task is to maintain the operation of the formation and freeze it. The meat inside."

"Every few days, a large number of live pigs, live cattle, and live sheep will be transported by rail car, sent to the slaughter center in the county for slaughter, and then transported to counties and even towns on the same day. It can ensure the supply of meat, It can also guarantee the price of meat."

"It's so extravagant. The people here are really enviable. The people in our fiefdom can't live such a good life, right?"

Father Li thought for a while, then nodded: "The people in our fiefdom are not short of food, so they won't starve to death, but there is a lot of shortage in terms of other meat and living supplies."

"For example, the clothes here, in addition to coarse cloth, have a lot of silk and satin, and there are also many kinds of clothes, many styles, and colors. Yancheng has probably solved the problem of large-scale and low-cost production of pigments. Just like purple, purple clothes were very expensive in the past, but here, purple clothes are not a rare item.”

"Moreover, this is called the equalization system. It was done in the past when Guanzi was reformed. Hanoi County, where Wei's son Si is located, has adopted a similar system in the past few years when Li Kui was in power. Basically, it is built all over the country. Warehouses, when grain prices are high, sell grain on a large scale to drive down the price of grain. When grain prices are low, they buy grain at a higher price and raise the price of grain, so as to keep the grain price down for a long time. Prices remain stable."

"As for Yancheng, rich and powerful, each county has built a large number of warehouses, some to store food, some to store meat. Moreover, I heard that Yancheng has also built a large number of wooden tracks, and a large amount of materials are passed along every day. These railcars go to the counties."

"Yancheng's material production capacity and transportation capacity are sufficient to ensure that most prices remain stable for a long time!"

"The national power contained in this is terrifying!" Father Li said calmly.

How much does this cost!

Thinking of this, Father Li looked at the Yancheng Bond Trading News that Li Erlang bought just now. After reading for a few breaths, Father Li subconsciously closed his eyes. After rubbing his eyes, he looked at it again, and then closed it again. Eye.

Li Erlang was very curious about Li's father's reaction, so he picked up the bond trading newspaper and read it. After a while, there was a gasping voice: hiss!
"Since the establishment of the Yancheng Bond Exchange, it has undertaken the development bonds of [-] counties. In the past three years, the total amount has been [-] trillion yuan. Different counties have different guarantee methods. They can be roughly divided into three categories. The first category is Taiping The county is typical, using exercises as a guarantee...the second type is typical of Wei's son Si, using family prestige as a guarantee...the third type is..."

"Nowadays, the daily trading volume of the exchange is as high as tens of billions. For a long time, a large number of people have sent letters saying that there are too few types of bonds, the total amount of bonds is too small, there are too few options to choose from, and there is nowhere to invest if you have money..."

"For this reason, we decided to start releasing new projects in half a month."

"This time there are hundreds of projects in total, ranging from one billion to as many as tens of billions. The total amount is about 3000 billion."

"The following is a brief description of hundreds of projects. You can go to the Yancheng Bond Exchange for details."

"Hey, the money in Yancheng is not money. If there is too much money, it is like flowing water. If you have too much money, you can't spend it all!"

After Li's father saw one of the items, he shook his head directly: "It's just messing around!"

Li Erlang glanced at it and asked, "Why did you mess up? I think the above said it was pretty good?"

"Look, it says that once this project is completed, it can transform 100 million acres of dry land into paddy fields. After the transformation, it is possible to produce ten stones per mu, and the grain harvested this year is one billion dollars. They raised 50 billion yuan this time. , use the future grain income as a guarantee, and it will be repaid. As long as the interest is not too outrageous, it will definitely be repaid.”

"Moreover, after raising 50 billion, the plan seems to be feasible to directly hire Taoists to cast spells to create rivers, sort out land veins and water veins. Although it is a bit difficult, Taoists can indeed find land veins and water veins. It is really impossible You can also cast spells to directly change the environment, what is this called? This is called conquering and transforming nature.”

Father Li didn't answer directly, but drew a map of the entire Chao country: "The most important thing in the Chao country is the Chao River, and the Chao River has transformed the entire Chao country."

"The water control of the Chaohe River should not simply look at a certain county, but should be considered as a whole. It should revolve around the Chaohe River and even the Yangtze River."

"If Lord Yan doesn't want to continue to expand in the future, but just wants to live his own life behind closed doors, then no matter how you build it. As long as Lord Yan will only occupy the territory of the Chao Kingdom in the future and does not continue to expand outward, then the problem will be Not big."

"And if Mr. Yan wants to open up to the outside world in the future, then this water control must have an overall concept, not limited to a certain county or county. You must see the Chaohe River, the Yangtze River, and the sea."

"Water control must understand the vitality of water and the changes of underground water veins, and must make good use of water power. A truly suitable water conservancy project should not only consider the current decades, but also consider the next few hundred or even thousands of years! "

"A good water conservancy project must fully take into account changes in terrain and terrain, and it must last at least three to five hundred years."

"As far as this county's approach is concerned, I'm not cursing maliciously, but I think such a construction method will have problems in 30 years, problems will become obvious in 50 years, and it will completely fail in 100 years."

Hearing this, Li Erlang rubbed his head and said helplessly, "Father, is there such a possibility: it's not that they didn't think so far, but that they don't need to think so far at all?"

"Moreover, it is normal for water conservancy projects to persist for decades. As you said, it is abnormal for a water conservancy project to persist for hundreds or even thousands of years!"

"Yancheng has a lot of money, and they have a lot of money. Now in order to control the water, hundreds of Taoist priests and thousands of warlocks can be directly mobilized to work together, just to build a water conservancy project in a certain county."

"After 30 years, Yancheng may be even richer. At that time, even if there is a problem, the big deal is to continue to spend money. This time, let the prime minister or Taoist be responsible. Anyway, 30 years later, the bond money of 50 billion has already been paid. Just return it, and the local people have enjoyed it for 30 years, so why not?"

Father Li thought for a while, then shook his head: "No, if I hadn't seen this, then I would have thought it was a good thing. But after I saw this, I just felt it was a waste. So much money To control the water and build water conservancy projects, the original intention is good, but it has caused a lot of waste, which is very inappropriate, I want to advise Lord Yan."

"Oh, father, it's inappropriate for us to advise Lord Yan when we first came to Yancheng? Let's learn more about it anyway, and we can talk about it after more visits?"

"Besides, it's all said above, and we won't start raising money until half a month later. We can do a field investigation first. Things like hundreds of years or thousands of years are too exaggerated. Who can decide the future How does it change..."

"Okay, let's go and investigate first, it's not far anyway!"

"By the way, you can also take the rail car, observe and observe, and have a deep understanding of Yancheng."

"Next, I will write my own water control experience for my father, and submit it to the journal of Controversy of Hundred Schools of Thought. See if it can be published, and then I will know the quality of Controversy of Hundred Schools of Thought."

"Father, don't worry, King Dayu succeeded in controlling the water and became the co-lord of the human race. For countless years, all the wise kings and ministers have never failed to control the water."

"First of all, water control is the cause of justice and the aspiration of the people."

"Taking the opportunity of water control, the monarch can justifiably infiltrate his power into the fiefdom of the lord. The lord can't say anything, but anyone who disagrees or publicly expresses his objection will be killed by the monarch on the spot. You can only say that you deserve to die!"

"Secondly, water control can gain great prestige. Don't care about your personal morality in other aspects. As long as you succeed in water control, you will be a wise emperor and minister. Naturally, someone will defend you and speak good things for you in other aspects."

"Finally, water control can actually increase the food production under the rule. Tyrants and foolish lords may not care about the life and death of the common people, but they definitely care about the total domestic food production."

"Moreover, in the process of water control, you can also kill demons and demons by the way, kill many water demons, and finally control the water veins. After controlling the water veins, there will be many benefits."

"In my opinion, after my father's article is submitted, if the King of Salt is half as obvious as the outside legend says, he will definitely invite my father to control the water."

"At that time, the entire Chaohe River, as well as many tributaries of the Chaohe River, can station troops or Taoist teams in the name of water control. At that time, the remaining 26 counties out of the [-] counties in the Chaohe River, It slowly fell into the hands of Yancheng."

"At the very least, in the name of water control, the common people and savages in the sixteen counties can be transported to other places."

"When the common people and savages are gone, and there are only a group of nobles and Chinese people left, hehe, this scene is funny when you think about it. At that time, it is estimated that these nobles will surrender themselves without Lord Yan's action. Nobles The most powerful thing is the ability to know the current affairs, the ability to follow the wind and make the rudder. At that time, they should betray Uncle Chao and welcome Lord Yan into Chao City."

Father Li shook his head slightly: "I didn't think so much about my father. I just think that Chao Country's topography is very typical. Everything surrounds the Chao River. If it is managed properly, it can make the whole Chao Country a higher level. Even , not only for water control, but a relatively mature land reclamation technology has been born on Dongning Island, and my father thinks that this technology can also be considered."

"For example, Dongning Island!"

At this moment, Father Li only felt that his mind was filled with infinite inspiration!
"Weifu has always said that water control should look at the overall situation, we must have a big vision, we must consider the overall situation, and we must consider the changes in terrain and terrain in the next hundreds or even thousands of years."

"A new idea suddenly came into my father's mind just now. This Dongning Island is only five hundred miles away from Yancheng."

"Moreover, today's Dongning Island has mastered relatively mature land reclamation technology. In this case, we can build two super dams, one starting from Huo County, the northernmost seaside of Chaoguo, to Dongning Island, and the other From Dongning Island to Yancheng, a super large lake with a width of [-] miles and a length of [-] miles can be formed in the middle."

"Then, the water flow from the Yangtze River estuary will be used to scour this large lake day after day. After several to decades, this large lake will change from a seawater lake to a freshwater lake."

"At the same time, the dam can be strengthened day after day, turning the dam into counties and counties. In the end, it will completely turn this big lake into an inner lake..."

"However, this is just an idea that has just been born. Whether it is actually feasible or not needs to be investigated on the spot, and it is not a day's work."

"However, if Mr. Yan really does this, he may not be able to continue to expand in a short time. I just don't know if Mr. Yan is willing..."

(End of this chapter)