The big man has a living father

Chapter 158 (Big Chapter) The train of the times, the driver is in place!

The good news about textile industrialization is really beneficial to Xiyu Company and Xiongnu Company.

The only problem is that neither company has been established yet.

Many people were heartbroken. If they already held shares in Xiyu Company at this time, the textile industrialization and the announcement of these fabrics alone would be enough to push up the stock price of Xiyu Company by more than ten times!
But unfortunately the company has not been established yet. Now that it is established, if I still want as many shares, I will need to invest ten times the amount.

This is really a headache!
Among them, Li Guang was the most confused.

At this time, Li Guang was calculating the impact of this incident on himself.

His grandson Li Ling whispered: "Cotton is valuable now. We should expand the scale of cotton cultivation in Longxi!"

Li Ling was quite smart and immediately figured out the key to the problem.

But this is how ordinary people view war, not how cunning old men view war.

Li Guang shook his head and taught his grandson in a voice that only Li Ling could hear: "We in Longxi should vigorously grow grain."

Li Ling was stunned: "Grandpa, the current grain production is five times higher than last year's average. If it weren't for the explosive population growth in Chang'an, the grain price should have dropped to at least one-third of last year's price."

“Why do we still grow so much food?”

"Although we can transport food to Chang'an by water, other directions are also transporting food to Chang'an, and we can only make money by vigorously planting cotton!"

Li Guang shook his head. Although his grandson was smart, he was still too young to see the essence of the world clearly.

"Grandson, the establishment of the Western Region Company is to conquer the Western Region, grow cotton, and make money."

"I don't know whether attacking the Western Regions makes money or not, but I know that it is definitely easy to make money by attacking people in the Western Regions."

"In order to control the Western Regions, more people will continue to move north, and these people need to eat."

"If cotton is planted in the Western Regions in the future, what will the locals eat? Even if the road is opened, cotton will be shipped back from the Western Regions, and food will be shipped there."

Li Guang was very aware of this and whispered, "There are few people in the Western Regions, and there is not enough water for them to drink. We can only support so few people, and now we have to grow cotton. Where can we get food for them?"

"If Xiyu Company wants to develop, it is not Xiyu Company that has the final say, but the transportation company that has the final say. Build the road first."

"We can't get involved in the road construction. Even if we do, it will only be a small stake at most."

"This grain will raise its price."

The Western Region Company would never buy grain from Chang'an at three times the price from other places and send it to the Western Region.

The current grain price in Longxi is one-third of that in Chang'an. Even if it is sold at two-thirds of the price, it will still be more popular, because Longxi is much closer to the Western Regions than Chang'an. As a result, even if the price doubles, it will still be more than half cheaper than transporting grain from Chang'an.

Now that the news has been released, many people in Longxi will surely start growing cotton. If the Li family grows grain at this time, who will make money next year?
In fact, Li Guang has realized a simple truth, that is, farmers will follow the trend and plant whatever is expensive, and whatever they plant will become cheap the next year.

Therefore, as the owner of a large piece of land, if you want to plant crops, you should do the opposite.

You must never think the same as ordinary people.

If what I grow is the same as that of ordinary people, then no matter how powerful the Li family is, how much money can they make by occupying a few tenths of the land in places like Longxi, Tianshui and Longnan?

But if there is not so much competition for what you produce, you have the power to set prices.

Li Ling seemed to understand but not quite.

However, Li Guang had a deep understanding of how to make money.

Everyone wants to pan for gold, but in fact, gold panning can never make everyone rich. Only the luckiest few among the gold diggers can get rich.

but!
Those who sell water to gold diggers, those who sell jeans to gold diggers, those who sell cowboy hats to gold diggers, and even those who sell shovels and sieves to gold diggers can all make a fortune.

Everyone wants to get rich by growing cotton, so providing food to those who grow cotton is the real way to get rich.

Li Guang looked at the crowd that had gone crazy and shook his head. These people really weren't sober enough.

……

Huo Hai had actually been waiting for this day for a long time.

Industrialization is a joke until the food problem is solved.

The population of the Han Dynasty was not as large as that of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. It would have been wiped out by any disturbance.

There was enough food, and even some left over.

But that has three huge prerequisites.

Premise 1: Everyone only eats two meals a day.

Premise 2: The frequency of war is not high.

Premise three: there should not be large-scale migration of people.

However, the advent of industrialization will inevitably lead to problems in all three of these aspects.

First, if you want to work, especially if you want to do heavy physical work for at least eight hours, you must eat three meals a day. Otherwise, even if you are born with supernatural strength and endurance, you can't bear it. Because under normal circumstances, even if a person has good strength and endurance, without training, he will only be 25% better than the worst person, which is considered heaven-defying. Therefore, no worker can bear not eating three meals a day.

Second, industrialization is a technological revolution, and a technological revolution is equal to the expansion of power. With the expansion of power, wealth is rapidly accumulated, which leads to a decrease in the proportion of wealth in the hands of most people, and ultimately inevitably leads to war. Because morality was originally designed by humans to "cheat" themselves, it has no ability to suppress the instinctive pursuit of profit.

Third, industrialization will lead to land concentration, which will result in a large number of landless people!

Therefore, before the grain production skyrocketed, Huo Hai did not dare to make any industrialization moves.

It has been a year since Huo Hai came to Chang'an last year. He has invented many things, but he has not invented anything truly industrialized.

Now, the entire Guan, Long, Guandong, including Shanxi and Henan, have all seen a surge in grain production.

At present, the amount of arable land in the entire northern country is comparable to that in the Ming Dynasty.

Grain production is comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty.

But the population was only one-third or even one-fifth of that of the Ming Dynasty.

This completely eliminated the food crisis in the Han Dynasty in a short period of time.

This means that not only will people in Guanzhong no longer go hungry, but also in most parts of the north, unless a major natural disaster occurs, the price of food has dropped to an outrageous level.

but!
Huo Hai certainly would not allow "low grain prices hurting farmers" to happen.

The so-called low grain prices hurting farmers is a joke. The people will not be fools.

The amount of food grown on a normal basis is three times more than what the family needs to eat.

After paying taxes, exchanging money to buy some daily necessities, or even leaving some money for house repairs, ordinary people's food is just used up.

Over the past hundred years, this self-sufficiency has formed a huge inertia in this agricultural society.

So what will people do after the price of food drops?
Because food prices are cheap, why not just have a big sale?

That is an outrageous answer that only the most stupid person can come up with.

In other words, even the most lazy and ignorant people in the court knew that this was impossible. They said this just to fool the emperor into believing this and thus retain high profits.

In fact, when grain production is high, farmers will raise livestock.

Because livestock can both consume excess food and serve as reserve food, and their prices are higher than grain.

Pigs and dogs are expensive, so why don’t people raise them?

That’s because the premise of raising pigs and dogs is that the whole family will not starve to death and there must be enough food!
Survival and profit.

Are two different things.

Any farmer knows the difference.

Once entering Guanzhong, even if everyone in the family raised pigs, dogs, or even ten chickens, it would still be impossible to consume all the food.

But Huo Hai had anticipated this in advance.

No worries either.

The reason is the rapid expansion of Chang'an's population in the past year, and the high-income group are all manual laborers who eat a lot.

Prices have been brought down here again.

Third, Liu Che had been harvesting grain and storing it.

This is because Liu Che had too much money, so he deliberately practiced in the market and deliberately used buying and selling to manipulate the rise and fall of prices.

Of course, the reason why food has always been used as a training subject is because food can be sent out for disaster relief when floods and droughts occur.

Because of these three reasons, grain production has increased fivefold, but prices have actually remained unchanged.

It seems that nothing has changed and the extra output has been eliminated.

But in fact, this is called moistening things silently.

The bumper grain harvest quickly and collectively improved the quality of life and material abundance of everyone.

This directly improves the physical and ideological quality of the entire population, which is the foundation of industrialization!

After Huo Hai released the things related to textile industrialization.

The public announcements of the Western Region Company and the Xiongnu Company have changed.

Because Wei Qing, who took the lead, knew that Liu Che was not someone who would suffer losses.

Therefore, the company re-announced the announcement.

Wei Qing and other major shareholders invested a total of 20 billion yuan, each holding 20% ​​of the shares of the two companies. Liu Che held 50% of the shares of the two companies.

The remaining 30% of the shares will be issued as original shares and allowed to be traded on the stock exchange center.

This price is more than five times higher than the original price!
But their total stake has shrunk further.

At the same time, the management rights have also changed.

The Western Region Company only held the operating rights of the Western Region for ten years, but at the same time gained the right to build roads leading to the Western Region.

It was also stipulated that after each region returned to the central government's jurisdiction had been operated by the Western Region Company for ten years, it would be put up for bidding again. If the bids were the same, the Western Region Company would have priority in obtaining the operating rights.

The operating rights have been reduced by ten years compared to before, but the road construction rights have been increased, and the right to match the auction of operating rights has been stipulated.

The reason for this regulation is that Wei Qing and others really cannot come up with 40 billion.

It’s not that they don’t have that much wealth, but they can’t raise that much cash.

Also, now that good news has come, the value of Western Region has risen sharply, so what should be done with the money raised at the beginning?
You know, 20% is 20 billion, and what about the 30% of stocks?
On the day of issuance, the stock price can only go up, not down, and the funds that can be raised in the end will exceed 70 billion.

What will the two companies do with the 70 billion? Just provide money and food to the court and support the war?
This is more than ten times more cash than expected!

In the end, the Western Region Company combined the practices of the transportation company and built roads!

After the road is built, it can not only be used internally by the company, but also be used to collect tolls for ten years, and eventually the right to road will be given to the imperial court.

Therefore, the Western Region Company and the Xiongnu Company planned a total of four routes.

One of them is the road from Longxi to Dunhuang, and the second is the road from Peking to Caoyuan Pass.

The third is the road north of Hetao connecting Chidao and the Yellow River ferry.

The fourth is the road that runs from Yunzhong to Tongguan.

These four routes are planned to be compatible with both cargo transportation and warfare.

The most important thing is that the construction of these four roads is not in Chang'an, so there is no need to charge as high wages as in Chang'an. Even if the wages are three or four hundred yuan a month, countless people can be mobilized.

After all, that is an area where border residents gather.

Moreover, the roads do not need to be as long as those inside Chang'an City, which are often twenty or seventy meters long.

Just build a six-meter-wide road. With this calculation, the two companies will still have a lot of money after these roads are built. If the plan is wrong, they can make adjustments.

In addition to this, there is a third purpose.

Because the investment is so huge, they dare not do anything that they are not sure of.

However, most of the nobles participated in the construction of Chang'an Avenue.

They know how great the economic boost will be after building the road.

Therefore, while they build roads, they are bringing wealth to these places, and the economies of these places will naturally develop.

They can first acquire land in these places and set up commercial activities.

Even if the roads are built by then, if there are problems in attacking the Huns and the Western Regions, there will still be a few roads left that can make money, right?
First of all, this type of project is a sure win.

As for how much Western Region Company will eventually earn, it is hard to say.

After all, this is a project that involves a huge amount of capital. If there is a loss, it will be a huge loss, and there is no way to stop it. It may last for a long time.

Therefore, the final announcement of the two companies was completely different from the first announcement.

But this time, Liu Che had doubts again.

Is it cost-effective to build roads in these places?
If railways are built in the future, wouldn’t these roads be duplicated?
Liu Che found Sang Hongyang to discuss this matter.

Finally, Sang Hongyang pointed out the key point: "Infrastructure itself can enhance economic vitality. If this road is built and can attract enough people to engage in business activities on this road, then it is naturally worth building."

"If by then there is enough commercial activity to consider a more advanced railway, then it will be time for a second round of development."

Liu Che: "What if after it is built, the road never reaches its carrying capacity?"

Sang Hongyang cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, if this place is not doing well commercially and cannot even reach the load limit of the concrete road, wouldn't it be a huge loss to build a more expensive railway here?"

Liu Che suddenly realized.

How could Liu Che not understand this truth? It was just that everything was developing positively, which gave Liu Che the illusion that as long as he wanted to develop, there was nothing that could not be developed.

For a moment, the issue of the upper limit of development was ignored.

Yes, if it can't even reach the highway ceiling, it shouldn't have built railways in the first place.

Liu Che initially thought that if the upper limit could not be reached, then building a railway would be a permanent solution.

But the question is, since railways are so expensive, why not build them to places where there is sufficient freight and passenger capacity?
After this problem was solved, Liu Che finally gave instructions to the two companies!

Western Region Company, Xiongnu Company, established!

As expected, funds rushed to the two companies.

……

In the Huo family courtyard.

Huo Hai is making something new with the carpenter.

Although Bowang Garden and the three palaces that guard it have been repaired, the Huo family is not in a hurry to move in.

It was the Gongsun family who moved first.

Compared with the Wei and Huo families, the Gongsun family was not as wealthy, so the old house was not renovated much.

Old houses that have not been renovated will be very cold in winter.

After enjoying the floor heating, going back to live in the old house? That's impossible!

Therefore, Wei Junru and Gongsun He strongly advocated moving there first, under the pretext that although the prince had not yet taken office in Bowang Garden, they should move there first to be on guard.

Recently, Huo Hai and Huo Qubing have been preparing for the war next year.

This departure will take a long time.

Huo Hai is fine. He will come back after he has accomplished enough military merits to be awarded the title of marquis.

But Huo Qubing was different.

After discussing some new tactics with Huo Hai, Huo Qubing felt that he had a chance to decide the outcome of the battle.

This battle may last for a year!
This means that the Xiongnu who want to flee north will have no peace in the most difficult winter of next year. If they don't surrender, they will die. The northern border will be completely cleared.

The reason was that after receiving official documents from Chengdu over the past year, Huo Qubing developed a strong interest in the south.

In the north, Huo Qubing prepared to fight, but ran away after the fight.

After the fight, the stall was left to Wei Qing.

Then he would turn his attention to the south.

Although the Dian Kingdom and the Qiang people were a bit troublesome for Zhang Qian and Su Wu, Huo Qubing did not take them seriously at all. Huo Qubing turned his attention to the Nanyue Kingdom.

Therefore, if you want to decide the outcome in one battle, you need to prepare a lot of things.

Huo Hai was also preparing, but not for himself or for the upcoming war.

Instead, I'm preparing some small toys.

Now the carpenter and Huo Hai are adjusting the walker.

This walker is prepared for Huo Shan. Huo Shan is only two months old now and is still holding it in his arms, but he will need it next year.

Another thing that surprised Huo Hai was that Wei Zifu was pregnant.

Huo Hai remembered that in history, Wei Zifu seemed to have only a pair of children, but he was not sure about the rest.

In fact, after the birth of the prince, Liu Che had no interest in beauty.

Plus, he is nearsighted, so he has even less interest in beautiful women.

After all, he doesn't have to turn off the lights, it doesn't matter who comes.

Therefore, Liu Che began to favor other wives instead of the queen.

Who would have known that after seeing clearly, Liu Che discovered that the empress, who was in her thirties, was still hanging up and beating his newly married wives.

This is one of them.

Second, it was the Queen’s birthday.

That day, when Liu Che was drinking, he and Wei Qing and Huo Qubing lamented that times had changed and that money would have to do the talking in the future.

Wei Qing said at the time that the Wei family’s property would first belong to the queen’s bloodline.

The crown prince will inherit the throne, and the eldest princess will marry Huo Hai, so that's fine.

But if the sister gives birth to another son, then when the Wei family divides the family property in the future, the bulk will go to the prince.

Huo Qubing also said that the princes held the majority of the Huo family's shares.

But he then smiled and said that it might not be good for Liu Ju for the prince to take so much, otherwise it would be better for His Majesty to have two more children.

So, for Liu Che, having children became the best investment in the world.

You know, although the Wei family is low-key and seems to have not been involved in anything in the past year, in fact, the wealth of the Wei family has increased the fastest among all the nobles.

First of all, in Pingyang County Transportation Company, because the Wei family owns the land, the Wei family holds a large portion of the profits and shares.

You have to know that although Huo Zhongru holds shares in the Huo family, he is actually just a figurehead and only takes a look from time to time, while Wei Guang is in charge of the Wei family himself.

In addition to Pingyang County, the Wei family also got involved in real estate.

Wei Qing had only one idea in his mind, which was to protect the emperor. This idea alone could help him reach the pinnacle.

Wei Qing purchased a large amount of land in the south and east of Chang'an.

Because Wei Qing felt that the north was too well developed and there were many mausoleums and counties in the west, so in order to protect the emperor, the south was bound to develop in the east.

Although the price of the land purchased by Wei Qing is not high so far, the price of those lands will surely soar after Chang'an Avenue is built into a ring road.

So he has a lot of high-quality assets in his hands.

Wei Qing doesn't know anything else and his son is stupid, so he is now investing crazily in real estate.

Now many nobles have built new houses in the North City and are selling their old houses at a discount.

Wei Qing has been acquiring these lands.

Therefore, the Wei family’s property is actually huge.

Because others don't know the development trajectory of Chang'an, Liu Che certainly knows it. Chang'an has been developing, and Wei Qing has done nothing, but the land in his hands has become more and more expensive.

If you give birth to another child, he will be the fifth child.

And Huo Qubing's words are even more important.

The Huo family has more shares than the Wei family.

Although Huo Hai alone holds shares in many of the Huo family's projects, how rich is the Huo family? Let alone the research institute's land, that is owned exclusively by the Huo family.

If I give birth to a sixth child, I can get some money from the Huo family.

Of course Liu Che chose to do it.

This must be done!

It's done!

So, Wei Zifu became pregnant again.

Although Huo Hai was not familiar with history, he attached great importance to the child in Wei Zifu's belly.

Because if the wheel of history cannot be changed, and Liu Ju does something stupid at that time! This child can keep Wei Zifu's position as queen!

Because Liu Ju was the only link between the Wei family and the royal family, it would be impossible for Liu Che to trust the queen after the link was broken.

But if the royal family had a second son, or even a third or fourth son besides Liu Ju, the eldest son, then princes like Liu Hong would never be able to touch the throne.

With this second son and even the future third son, the witchcraft disaster and the embroidered robe messenger named Jiang are no longer a problem.

Even if Liu Che becomes old and confused by then, it will not affect the succession of his second legitimate son to the throne.

Therefore, Huo Hai prepared some toys and baby supplies and sent them to the palace when the new prince was born.

It’s a pity that Huo Hai had to go on a campaign and might not be able to wait to deliver the things in person, so after the things were prepared, he gave them directly to Wei Zifu before he left.

After debugging for a long time, the walker was finally fixed and Huo Hai breathed a sigh of relief.

"That should make it almost ready."

Huo Qubing wiped the gun in his hand.

Huo Qubing's gun, like Huo Hai's gun, was of the most advanced type. Whether it was the short revolver he carried with him, or the long smoothbore rifle and quick-loading flintlock, they were all more advanced than those in the hands of the soldiers.

When providing military equipment, the inferior ones are provided to the front-line troops, while the best equipment is reserved for the Yulin Guards.

For the first battle, a team of Yulin Guards will follow Huo Hai for combat considerations.

The rest of the people were all led by Huo Qubing.

Huo Qubing would bring Lu Bode with him as his deputy general.

Cao Xiang would wait in the direction of Yunzhong County and then send troops to clean up the remnants.

After the plan was finalized, Huo Qubing had already begun training the soldiers selected to become the musketeers.

Huo Qubing was wiping his gun. Huo Hai yawned and asked the carpenter, "Old Huang, is there anything interesting or new in Chang'an recently?"

Lao Huang is Yang Liancheng's apprentice, although he is much older than Yang Liancheng.

Old Huang thought for a moment and said, "Yes, there is. Yesterday, a wealthy businessman from Chengdu and a wealthy businessman from Luoyang competed for wealth at the Grassland Farmhouse."

Huo Hai and Huo Qubing looked at each other.

This is quite new.

Competitions of wealth happen every day. After those people in Chang'an became rich, some of them had to show off in order to satisfy their psychological need to show off.

But if they meet each other, it is easy to compete for wealth.

But before, it was people from Chang'an fighting against each other.

At the very least, he is from the Sanfu area, and at the very least, he is a wealthy man from Xianyang.

As things develop, you will sometimes encounter wealthy people from other places competing with local people in wealth.

This time, there are two wealthy people from other places competing for wealth?

This shows that there are more and more wealthy people from outside Chang'an.

Old Huang: "Hey, that Chengdu tycoon is really rich and powerful, he has surpassed the Luoyang tycoon."

Huo Hai: "Oh? How rich are you?"

Lao Huang: "That rich man from Chengdu holds 600 shares of Tianzhu Company."

The shares of Tianzhu Company are also divided into one million shares.

Nowadays, in Chang'an, there are one hundred people who are called "having one hand", which means that this person is very powerful and has connections with many people.

Having six hands, that’s certainly awesome!
This is almost one ten-thousandth of Tianzhu Company's shares. Just 600 shares of Tianzhu Company, based on today's stock price estimate, would be worth 4.2 million dollars!

He has 4.2 million yuan in shares alone. Does he have any property in Chengdu? What about the cash on him? How much is Huo's IOU? If he didn't exchange the money, why did he travel all the way to Chang'an for business?
It is obvious that this guy's family assets are at least tens of millions.

If this had happened in the past, their wealth would have been comparable to that of the descendants of the founding marquises.

Huo Hai: "He is so rich, how could the rich man from Luoyang be suppressed?"

Old Huang: "The rich man from Luoyang is probably not worse than him, but he just lacks momentum and doesn't have as much cash as him."

"Yesterday, the rich man from Chengdu directly said that he would treat all the tables of roasted whole lamb in the Grassland Farmhouse Hall."

"The guy from Luoyang said that he had invested all his fortune in iron. He came to Chang'an to discuss business this time. He didn't bring that much cash, so he didn't dare to ask for such a high price. He was suppressed by the other person."

Huo Hai slapped his thigh and said, "Damn, I should have gone to eat roasted whole lamb yesterday."

Huo Qubing asked: "What did they fight about?"

Lao Huang: "Jealousy, for a girl."

This ma zi is not the ma zi in later generations, but... it seems to be the same thing.

In fact, "Ma Zi" is "Hu Zi", which means toilet. Because Huo Hai is used to calling it "Ma Zi", many servants in the Huo family like to learn it that way.

When people in Chang'an City heard the Huo family call him that, they started calling him that too, changing their previous practice of calling him Hu Zi.

Calling a woman a "mazi" is of course a derogatory term.

Such shouting shows that the economy is developing rapidly and many people have started to do this business. In addition, after men make money, many of them cannot control themselves and go there frequently.

This caused family conflicts, and thus the term "Ma Zi" came into being.

However, the reason why it is called "Ma Zi" is not a one-way insult, but a two-way insult, because Ma Zi and "搋子" are a match.

After the name "Ma Zi" became popular, it spread among the middle-income people in Chang'an City.

But over time, the term changed its meaning as it was passed around. It is no longer used to refer to prostitutes, but to refer to women who are in love but do not want to get married. Some people use this expression to indicate that they are dating someone just for fun and are not serious.

That's what it means.

The result is the same as that of Ma Zi in later generations.

So, these two wealthy businessmen fell in love with the same woman, and happened to bump into each other while having dinner at a farmhouse on the grassland. As soon as they had a disagreement, they started fighting over money.

After listening to this, Huo Qubing looked at Huo Hai and said, "Your house in Xincheng has been held for so long, now is the time to sell it."

Huo Hai was stunned: "Brother, how did you know that I kept the house in Xincheng and didn't sell it?"

Huo Qubing had already finished wiping his gun and put it away. "Nonsense! You invested all your money in it, but it still won't sell. There are many people in Chang'an who have money to buy houses. Can't they afford it?"

"This means you are waiting for house prices to rise so you can make some money."

"You are definitely not waiting for luxury homes to go up in price, because when the rich move to new cities, more people with middle wealth will move to new cities."

"And you are definitely not forcing the prices of houses in densely populated areas to increase. I see that the prices of houses there are not high to begin with. It can be said that for the first batch of workers, it is purely a welfare."

“So, you put all your hopes of making money on second-rate or third-rate luxury houses.”

"Now there are two wealthy men from other places fighting for the favor of someone in Chang'an City. This means that more and more wealth is gathering in Chang'an. So, it's time for you to reap the benefits."

Huo Hai laughed: "Yes, it's time for redistribution."

In fact, the reason is very simple.

Pingyang County Transportation Company and other companies opened up water routes to transport goods back and forth.

Then the rich everywhere will wait and see.

This transportation company has no problem transporting goods back and forth, and it seems that because the number of ships used has increased and the new ships are bigger than the last, then there is no problem transporting people.
Therefore, many people with adventurous spirit will come to Chang'an.

Because they have each reached the limit of their wealth accumulation in their small places.

With those great nobles around, it is incredible that they can have assets worth millions. If you are not careful, you may be swallowed up.

If the previous two emperors had not rested and recuperated, and if the great emperor of this dynasty, Liu Che, had not strictly enforced the laws and cracked down on nobles who broke the law, they might have been eaten up by the local people.

In addition, with the Huo Bank being able to exchange cash that was impossible to carry into IOUs, wealthy people from many places came out.

Only then will Chang'an have the possibility to go further.

To put it another way, even if I can't make further progress in Chang'an, it's better to settle down in Chang'an than to stay in my hometown.

After all, if you stay in your hometown, you will be a fat sheep.

This is a very important step in all of Huo Hai’s economic plans.

Attract all the local people who are good at business to Chang'an.

First, to make room for new developments in the local area and to create growth space for those who cling to the nobility and the newly emerging wealthy groups.

Second, let these hidden old rich people come to Chang'an to fight, giving birth to a new pure rich class or even super-rich people.

Third, recover ten times the money invested in the new city!
Do you really think that Huo Hai opened banks in various places just to facilitate the exchange of money with local nobles, and then opened steel mills and coal mines in various places?
To put it bluntly, how much money do these nobles have?

It would be better if Liu Che minted coins in various places and then secretly circulated them into the market.

Huo Hai was not stupid. Of course he knew that Liu Che was artificially adjusting the prices in the national market.

The reason for establishing banks is to make it easier for the rich to move around!
With the arrival of the industrial age, the first step is a large group of smart, wealthy and business-savvy people!

For the industrial vehicle, the driver is in place, the tolls are in place, the foundation for the driver's lunch is laid, and the chassis of the city is built.

Just waiting for the engine to roar.

Just drive.

September 30th is the day of seniority approaching.

“Woo~~~~~Boom~Woo~~~~~!!!!!!!!!”

It was like the roar of a giant beast, shaking half of Ling County.

It has been a year since Huo Hai truly entered the vision of the people of Chang'an.

The roar of the steam locomotive, with its billowing smoke and roar, continued to intensify.

The initial roar of the steam engine accelerating became louder and louder, and the sound of the whistle seemed like this era.

It started with a mournful wail, then grew louder, deeper, more intense, and longer, seemingly never stopping.

(End of this chapter)