Jingtai Fenghua

Chapter 472 Arriving in Luanzhou
After Zhu Qiyu left the capital, he began to conduct inspections. He did not go through the motions or listen to the officials' arrangements. Instead, he went directly to people's homes to see their living conditions. You can't deceive anyone!

In the evening, Zhu Qiyu returned to the county seat and went to see the warehouse!
The next day, Zhu Qiyu began to inspect the roads, reservoirs, bridges, river embankments, etc. in the county. When passing by people's homes, Zhu Qiyu would also visit people's homes!

Zhu Qiyu found that almost every family would put up a longevity plaque for him, and he was very moved in his heart. In fact, he had done nothing for the people!
It was nothing more than cleaning up those corrupt officials, implementing administration, and allocating land to the people for planting without giving them money. Although they were exempted from tax exemptions, it was because of the disaster. However, in the past two years, more and more areas have been affected by the disaster. The less, even though there were floods last year, it was not a big problem!

After the inspection, Zhu Qiyu returned to the county office to repair, and then prepared to go to the next county!
In the next half month, Zhu Qiyu was inspecting in Beizhili. The officials also saw Zhu Qiyu's pragmatic attitude. He would also listen to and ask questions about the officials' reports, but he still had to go to the actual place to see it. !

The journey to Luanzhou could have been covered in one day, but Zhu Qiyu took more than half a month!

At this time, the army of the Ming Dynasty had already come into contact with the army of Oara. They fought two small-scale battles and completely annihilated the enemy troops of Oara. At the same time, the army of the Ming Dynasty began to drive away the people of Oara. Those who did not want to leave would be killed by the army. Kill them, or be taken back to the Ming Dynasty by the army, and start to be assigned to areas where there are no people, and let them farm!
However, not many were escorted back. Those soldiers found it troublesome and killed them directly!
After all, Ming Dynasty had killed many soldiers in Tumu Fort before, and the hatred was still there!
Some generals knew that the soldiers below were doing this, but they had no choice but to emphasize that they were not allowed to massacre the people!

But those soldiers hated Wala to their core!

In fact, some of the families of those soldiers died in the war in Oala. Starting from Emperor Taizong, the Ming army has been fighting against the troops in Oala. Although there were peace incidents in the middle, they were the majority during the fighting, and those soldiers were originally military members and have been fighting for generations. They are all members of the military, so the soldiers who died before are all their family members!
Therefore, when they face the Oara soldiers and people now, they will not show any mercy, they will just kill them!

Anyway, those Oara people dismounted to serve the people, and mounted to become soldiers. They grew up on horses since childhood, and were very skilled in bows and arrows. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were never merciful to them!

The battle report was sent to Zhu Qiyu. Zhu Qiyu saw that there was no big problem, so he did not interfere with the command of the frontline soldiers. Since all three armies had reached Oara, Zhu Qiyu would not interfere as long as they were not defeated! Zhu Qiyu knew that he actually couldn't command the war. Especially like this, he might as well trust the generals who led the battle, trust the Ministry of War and the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, and let them take command!

I just need to do a good job in logistics. Otherwise, I don't want to cause trouble to the frontline soldiers!
On this day, Zhu Qiyu had arrived at Luanzhou Prefecture. At this moment, Lin Cunde and the officials in Luanzhou were all waiting at the Yamen of Luanzhou Prefecture to greet him!
Zhu Qiyu issued an imperial edict and was not allowed to go out of the city to greet him. He could only greet him at the Yamen. Lin Cunde and the others could only obey the imperial edict!
However, Zhu Qiyu opened the curtain of the dragon chariot at this moment and looked at the houses everywhere outside Luanzhou City. Moreover, those houses had carriages coming in and out, and when the carriages came out, they were full of goods!

And at some forks in the road, looking carriages are waiting, waiting for Zhu Qiyu's carriage to pass!

All those goods were transported to the north by horse-drawn carriages, while basically everything in the south was transported by ship! They were all sent to Tongzhou first, then shipped from Tongzhou, and sent to the south through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Therefore, there was an endless stream of carriages on the road from Luanzhou to Tongzhou. Zhu Qiyu also discovered this in the past two days. There are a lot of carriages on the road. Not to mention other things, just the horsemen, there are probably tens of thousands of them!
There are people who specialize in this kind of thing, buying their own horses and making carriages, and helping those workshops transport goods to make money!

After one trip, there is still a lot leftover!

"It's really good!" Zhu Qiyu looked at so many workshops in the distance and so many carriages gathering at the fork in the road. Zhu Qiyu was very satisfied. So many carriages were loaded with money. The Ming Dynasty would tax those goods!
And those civil servants were also very shocked, especially Chen Xun, Shangluo and the others! They had heard before that Luanzhou's business was extremely developed, and now they were shocked to see so many carriages on the road!
Although they thought about being developed, they did not expect to be so developed. On the road, they could not only see horse-drawn carriages, but also a large number of bicycles. Many people used bicycles to carry goods. Bicycles were faster than horse-drawn carriages, but they could not carry as much as horse-drawn carriages. , but some who are good at loading can carry hundreds of kilograms in one trip, but it is laborious after all. However, those who ride bicycles to carry goods are a group of people. When going uphill, everyone works together to push each other's bicycles up!
Bicycles are faster than horse-drawn carriages, which is why many workshop owners like to use bicycles to deliver goods. If the goods are urgent, they will call the riders on the bicycles, let them load the goods, and send them to the destination!

For these riders, after all the expenses are calculated, they can still have almost eighty cents left. After a month, they can earn back their bicycles with almost two taels of silver in about half a year. The key is that here in Luanzhou, there are people who specialize in carrying goods. There are more than 10,000 bicycles, but even so, those cyclists still have enough work!

To this end, Lin Cunde has asked the bicycle workshop to start developing three-wheeled bicycles!

Although a three-wheeled bicycle may not be as fast as a bicycle, it can still hold a lot!
Of course, it is definitely far worse than a carriage, but a carriage needs horses, and the horses also need food. Moreover, the carriage moves very slowly, which is far inferior to a tricycle! "Master Chief Assistant, look at it, it seems that everything here is a workshop, all of them!" Shangluo pointed to the houses in the distance. These houses are obviously not for people to live in, but factories, and there are many carriages coming in and out!
"Well, how many workshops do you think there are here?" Chen Xun asked, frowning and looking at the houses in the distance!
"I guess there are no less than a hundred families, right?" Shangluo counted silently and said!
Chen Xun shook his head and said: "There are more than 1,300 workshops around Luanzhou City, and now there are forty or fifty more opening every month. In addition, there are more than 800 workshops of various types in the counties below Luanzhou. There are still thirty or forty openings every month. In Luanzhou, almost forty thousand people will flow in every month. At first, it was people from surrounding areas, and now people from Shanxi and Shandong provinces come here to look for them. Job done!

Now there are almost three million people under the management of Luanzhou. Before Lin Cunde came, the number here was less than half a million. Now it has increased five times, and it is still increasing rapidly! "

"So many?" Shangluo and other ministers looked at Chen Xun in shock!

They all knew before that the business here was developed, but they didn't expect it to be so developed!

"Well, the land here in Luanzhou is getting more and more expensive. Lin Cunde issued an order that arable land is not allowed to be used for building workshops. Therefore, all the mountainous land and wasteland in the ledger have been developed. Now almost all It was sold, so now there are many workshops built in the counties around Luanzhou! Because there is not enough land around Luanzhou City!" Chen Xun said with a frown as he looked outside!

He didn't know whether Lin Cunde was right to do this, but he knew that Lin Cunde made money from Luanzhou and the surrounding people, and it could also be used to make money for people in several surrounding provinces!

Many people walked hundreds of miles to Luanzhou to work!
Skilled workers here in Luanzhou earn fifty or sixty cents a day, while manual workers earn almost forty cents a day. Many workers also choose to work overtime, and Luanzhou also stipulates that the daily working hours cannot exceed four hours, if it exceeds four hours, workers need to be paid overtime pay, which is 1.5 times the normal working hours!
Therefore, many workers here can earn one hundred cents per day. After working hard for a month, they can get more than two taels of silver. This is a lot!

"With so many people, just eating this one item can bring a lot of business to this place!" Shang Ren said with emotion!

It can be said that the people in Luanzhou City may now exceed the people in the capital city!
With doubts, Shang Ren and the others followed the carriage to Luanzhou City!
The city gate of Luanzhou is wide open, and there are a large number of carriages and bicycles waiting in the open space not far from the city gate. They also need to enter the city, but now the emperor is here!
The people were also looking forward to it, so they were waiting on the roadside!

When they saw Zhu Qiyu's dragon chariot approaching, all the people and workers knelt down, shouting "Holy Lord!"

Zhu Qiyu was a little excited when he saw so many people kneeling outside. In the past half month, Zhu Qiyu inspected many people's homes and knew that the people did respect him!
Now, I see so many people kneeling to me outside, some kowtow, and some first put their hands together and then kowtow, praying!

As the carriage entered Luanzhou City, Zhu Qiyu discovered that all the people on Luanzhou's side were civilians. If the Jin Yiwei were not separated from the accompanying troops, I am afraid that even the carriage would not be able to pass!

And the small alleys leading to the main thoroughfares are all crowded with carriages, and those carriages are full of goods, waiting to leave the city!

"There are so many people in Luanzhou City?" Zhu Qiyu said a little surprised. Despite the previous report from the Luanzhou prefect, he was still surprised to see so many people!

Although there are many people in the capital, the capital is big, and Luanzhou City is much smaller than the capital. It can be said that there are at least one million people living in Luanzhou City, so it is very crowded.

(End of this chapter)