Jingtai Fenghua

Chapter 473 The prosperity of Luanzhou

After Zhu Qiyu entered the city, he discovered that the city was actually very crowded. A large number of carriages were waiting to leave the city. If he hadn't come here by himself, they would probably have to leave the city through these gates, right?
However, when Zhu Qiyu saw the people all kneeling down and kowtowing to him, Zhu Qiyu still felt that it was worthwhile for him to let Lin Cunde come here!
During previous inspections in other places, Zhu Qiyu also learned that many people's families have people working here in Luanzhou, and they all say that it is good here! They took all the money they earned in Luanzhou back to build houses, buy land, etc.!

Luanzhou can make money for the people, this is what Zhu Qiyu wants to see!

The carriage soon arrived at the Yamen of Luanzhou Prefecture. Lin Cunde took the lead, and there were several commanders. In addition, local officials in Luanzhou and officials from the Ministry of Industry were all waiting for Zhu Qiyu to come!
Zhu Qiyu's carriage arrived at the square in front of the Yamen and stopped!
The father-in-law brought the stool and opened the curtain!
Zhu Qiyu got off the dragon chariot!
"See Your Majesty!" Lin Cunde led the ministers to salute Zhu Qiyu!
"No courtesy!" Zhu Qiyu said with a smile and waved his hand, and then walked towards Lin Cunde!
"Shou Ming, congratulations. I learned that you are a father. I thought that I would come over and say congratulations to you in person!" Zhu Qiyu said to Lin Cunde with a smile!
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Lin Cunde immediately responded with his hands in hand!

"It seems that Luanzhou has indeed brought me a lot of surprises along the way, a lot of surprises, Shouming, thank you!" Zhu Qiyu said, patting Lin Cunde on the shoulder!

"This is what I should do!" Lin Cunde said again with his hands in hand!

Then Zhu Qiyu continued to meet with the civil servants and generals. Lin Cunde also stood beside him and introduced the ministers to Zhu Qiyu!
Some of the ministers Zhu Qiyu knew each other, and some did not know him at all!
After meeting the officials, Lin Cunde led Zhu Qiyu to the government hall. When they arrived at the government hall, Zhu Qiyu sat down on the main seat, Lin Cunde stood and dismounted, and all the accompanying officials were also below!
This time there were more than a hundred civil and military ministers accompanying them, all important officials of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, there were more than fifty military generals, including some nobles!
Zhu Qiyu sat here, listening to the report from the local magistrate, reporting on the situation in Luanzhou. Lin Cunde remained silent. Lin Cunde mainly wanted to report on the situation of the Ming Dynasty Navy!
Including the construction of warships and the construction of the navy!
The construction of warships also includes many supporting workshops, including steel workshops, bearing workshops, engine workshops, etc.!
When the prefect's report is completed, it will be Lin Cunde's report!

Originally, the prefect's report shocked the ministers. There were so many workshops and so many people here, and they received a lot of business taxes every month!
When Lin Cunde came to report, they were even more surprised, including how many warships the Navy has built now, how many warships will be launched this year, and how many people are working to build warships. In addition, the Navy is currently training How's it going!

There are also the supporting workshops now. In addition to supplying the army every month, some of them can also make a profit. For example, the steel workshops, this is very obvious. Now 90% of the steel in the Ming Dynasty comes from here. , and steel is still being transported out from far away!
After Zhu Qiyu finished his report, it was time for lunch!
Nowadays, the Luanzhou government office has been requisitioned by Zhu Qiyu. This is where Zhu Qiyu temporarily lives, and the people in the government office can only rent houses in the homes of some common people nearby!
Fortunately, Zhu Qiyu will not stay here for too long, otherwise, the people would not know what was going on when they went to the government!
At noon, Zhu Qiyu hosted a banquet to entertain the ministers, especially the officials working here. Zhu Qiyu even raised a glass of wine alone and toasted to them!

After lunch was finished, Zhu Qiyu called Lin Cunde, Chen Xun, Shi Heng and others, and they went to a teahouse together. Now that the weather was warm, flowers were blooming outside the teahouse!
"Shou Ming, there are so many workshops here, are they too crowded?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Lin Cunde and asked.

"Hey, Your Majesty, I was planning to report the matter to Your Majesty this time. I thought I would tell Him after His Majesty's inspection was completed, but I didn't expect Your Majesty to find out first!" Lin Cunde said with a smile after hearing this!

"Oh, I just said that when I entered the city, I found that there were carriages everywhere inside and outside the city. When I entered the city, I delayed a lot of carriages. I was wondering if Luanzhou City is a little smaller! What do you think? Talk to me about the plan. I am very happy that Luanzhou can be so good. Haha, they say that I have spent tens of millions of taels of silver here, but I have spent more than tens of millions of taels in other places. "Zhu Qiyu? I am very satisfied with Luanzhou’s current scale!

"Your Majesty spent tens of millions of taels of silver here, but the output here and the value of the workshops are estimated to be no less than 30 million taels!" Lin Cunde stood up and raised his hands to Zhu Qiyu!
"How much?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Lin Cunde in shock and asked.

Chen Xun looked at Lin Cunde with a smile at this moment and said: "When I say Luling Marquis, I am exaggerating, right? Thirty million taels, do you know how much it is? Is it worth thirty million taels here?"

Lin Cunde ignored Chen Xun, but raised his hands to Zhu Qiyu and said, "I didn't exaggerate. I just said the steel workshop. This is what I gave to the court. The value here is more than tens of millions of taels every year. There are also bicycles." The workshops cost tens of millions of taels every year, the cement workshops also cost tens of millions of taels, and there are other supporting workshops worth more than tens of millions of taels!
The key is the private workshops. Now in Luanzhou, there are more than 3,000 registered workshops. Among them, almost 150 have an output value of more than one million taels. This is a value of 150 million taels. , those with an output value of more than 500,000 taels, more than 400, here are 20,000 taels, those with an output value of more than 100,000 taels, more than 1,000 taels, are also 10,000,000 taels, and the rest have an output value of less than 100,000 taels. of!
Now these are far more than 30,000 taels. I said 30,000 taels is a conservative estimate!

Your Majesty, the commercial tax that Luanzhou will receive this year is expected to exceed 9 million taels!

Your Majesty, the commercial tax can make up for the tens of millions of taels invested by Your Majesty, and if there are no major changes here in the future, it will be able to provide the Ming Dynasty with at least tens of millions of taels of commercial tax every year!
Moreover, this place also provides Ming Dynasty with its shipbuilding industry, steel industry, etc. These are our strategic materials for Ming Dynasty!
Starting from here, our roads in the Ming Dynasty began to be built with cement, bridges were built with steel, and river embankments were also built with cement. These can bring huge changes to the Ming Dynasty. These benefits can be truly seen! "Lin Cunde kept holding his hands and said to Zhu Qiyu!

Zhu Qiyu was very excited at the moment. The business tax here could collect tens of millions of taels a year, which he had never dared to think about before. Chen Xun and Shi Heng both looked at Lin Cunde in shock!
The numbers Lin Cunde just mentioned made their brains shut down!

No one thought that Luanzhou had developed like this.

Lin Cunde then handed over his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I want to discuss a policy for you. This policy was included in the five-year plan for Beizhili last year. However, the chief envoy of Beizhili disagreed and said that it would cost more to rebuild a city. It was too big, and I thought it was too expensive, so I agreed. However, now I have another idea, which is to build a workshop area. Otherwise, it would be impossible to walk in the city, and the shops in the city would be full!

The key is that the people in the city are a little dissatisfied with such prosperity. Luanzhou City is so big and so many people have been squeezed in. Moreover, in Luanzhou City, in order to ensure food, there is no place to build warehouses in the city. , this won’t work, so Zhang Lirong, the prefect here, is also very anxious. Once the Ministry of Household Affairs comes to inspect, it will be Zhang Lirong who has neglected his duty!

Zhang Lirong submitted several memorials, but there has been no reply!
Therefore, I hope that your majesty will agree to choose an area near Luanzhou City to build a workshop area in Luanzhou, which may occupy some fertile land. However, there is no way, there is no land available, and the wasteland has been used up. We can only Can occupy fertile land! "

"Well!" Zhu Qiyu heard that Zhang Lirong had written several memorials, but he didn't see them, so he looked at Chen Xun!

"Back to Your Majesty, we have all been beaten back. At the beginning, I did not know the situation in Luanzhou. Your Majesty had an imperial edict before that you were not allowed to occupy fertile land. If you need to occupy fertile land, your Majesty must approve it. Moreover, it was not included in the five-year plan. Therefore, I will discuss it, call him back, and let him think of other ways!" Chen Xun stood up, raised his hands to Zhu Qiyu and said!
Zhu Qiyu nodded and stood there thinking!

"How about asking Zhang Lirong to come over and report to His Majesty?" Lin Cunde stood there, looking at Zhu Qiyu and asked!
"Okay, let Zhang Lirong come over!" Zhu Qiyu nodded and said!

"Yes!" Cheng Jing next to him immediately went out, and after a while, Zhang Lirong came in!

Zhang Lirong has been very happy in the past few years, mainly because he was supported by Lin Cunde, who was transferred from the prefect of Ji'an to Luanzhou as the prefect. Now he is also a councilor of Beizhili, and his rank has been improved a lot!

Zhu Qiyu wanted to transfer him to the Ministry of Household Affairs several times to serve as the right minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but Zhang Lirong refused to go. He wanted to build Luanzhou well!
Zhang Lirong is ambitious. His ambition is that he hopes that when he leaves, all the plans for Luanzhou will be completed, and he can fulfill his dreams in Luanzhou, which is to build Luanzhou into the most powerful workshop area in the Ming Dynasty. Today, this is the largest workshop area in Ming Dynasty!

When Zhang Lirong came in, he first saluted Zhu Qiyu, then Lin Cunde, Shi Heng and others!
"Sit down, sit down and talk!" Zhu Qiyu asked Zhang Lirong to sit down and poured tea for Zhang Lirong. Zhang Lirong stood up immediately.

"You sit down, I don't believe it. When I usually drink tea, Shouming doesn't pour you tea, and you stand up like this? Don't you understand the rules?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Zhang Lirong with a smile and asked!
"Yes, Your Majesty, Your Majesty poured me tea for the first time, and I would like to express my gratitude!" Zhang Lirong answered with his hands raised to Zhu Qiyu!

(End of this chapter)