The big man has a living father

Chapter 258 (Big Chapter) Guess Again

Le Lusao looked down at the structure of the Fire Tricycle and scratched his head: "It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense at all!"

His hair was messy, and he was holding a wrench in his hand, looking left and right.

Wearing a white coat, Le Lusao looks like a mad scientist.

……

To be precise, he is a mad scientist.

Le Luqi followed Huo Hai directly on his trip.

Huo Hai set up a fleet of internal combustion engine vehicles to conduct long-term road tests.

For other people in the Han Dynasty, it is difficult for them to have the money to afford such a large-scale internal combustion engine vehicle.

Even if they were to burn gasoline, they couldn't afford it.

If they want to use cars, they either have to wait for the cars to become productive, or for the cars to be used with minimal problems or without any issues, so that they can save face.

But Huo Hai is different. For this trip, Huo Hai organized a super large convoy.

There were hundreds of vehicles, including forty trucks, twenty of which were for the accompanying soldiers, and twenty were for transporting various supplies.

Every time we arrived at a river or a train station, new fuel would be delivered.

The horsepower of these three-wheeled vehicles is about 40 to 50, while the horsepower of trucks is much stronger.

Along the way, if any problem arises, Le Lushao will step forward to solve it.

After a long time, Le Lushao scratched his head until it became bald.

Huo Hai was still eating melons nearby, and he made a noise while eating: "The prince's people are intensively researching electric cars in Chang'an. If the prince succeeds first, all your achievements will be equal to zero."

Le Luqi gritted his teeth and said, "It's just a small problem. I have already checked the problem. There is air in the brake oil pipe. It seems that I need to install a bleed valve here to bleed air after refueling."

Huo Hai's mouth curled up.

Huo Hai actually knows the answer to this question.

Huo Hai has watched many videos, including some videos on replacing brake calipers, which include this segment.

If it was a real complex car like the ones in later generations, Huo Hai might not be able to understand it. He would see a problem but not know what exactly went wrong.

But this car only has so many parts, and this is the only possible problem. Couldn’t Huo Hai think of it?

The caliper structure was invented by Le Lu and his team after Huo Hai deliberately suggested it to them.

"It's OK as long as it's checked out, let's keep going."

This convoy is so grand that many people can see it.

Along the way, those people with problems were extremely anxious when they saw the convoy coming.

When most people saw the convoy, they knew that the legendary Minister of Agriculture, Lord Wu Hou, was coming.

Huo Hai started from the foot of Mount Tai, and no one could guess where he would go.

Huo Hai did not go east to Qiancheng, but to Qi and Lu.

Didn't go north to Hebei.

Didn't go south to the Huai River.

Didn't even go to Wancheng.

Huo Hai took a train, passed Wancheng, then joined the fleet, went upstream along the Yangtze River, and arrived at the port of Shu County.

Huo Hai, you are going to Chengdu.

In fact, since the new commercial reform began, apart from Chang'an, Chengdu was the first to develop, even earlier than Luoyang.

However, neither Huo Hai nor Liu Che had ever been to Chengdu.

In the entire Chang'an, apart from Zhang Qian who was in charge of India and lived in Chengdu, only Wei Qing's younger brother came to Shu County when he was preparing to attack the Kingdom of Dian. However, no fighting broke out and he returned soon.

Therefore, Chengdu has been developing according to the preset goals. It looks perfect on the financial statements, but no one knows what the actual situation is.

The current development of Chengdu is very necessary, mainly targeting Tianzhu.

It is true that it is possible to reach the southern coast of India by sea, but the population of India all lives in the north.

To utilize the population of India, we need to make them work and create various values.

At present, it would be a big problem for them to go south for sea transportation.

Such a large population, without the ability to prevent infectious diseases, went to the southern waters of India, which was even hotter than in later generations, to perform high-intensity labor.

That is to spread the infectious disease to the Han headquarters.

Therefore, the best way out for the goods produced in Tianzhu at present is to send them to Chengdu by land.

Industrial production is carried out in Chengdu, and then blood transfusion is sent from Chengdu to the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River is not the Yangtze River of later generations. No matter how much economic policy support the coastal areas have, they cannot catch up with 1% or 2% of the development speed of the north, let alone 10% or 20% or even a cyclical take-off.

The only way is to frantically pump cheap industrial products from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to the lower reaches, reduce living needs, increase the wages of various jobs downstream, allow them to quickly complete primitive accumulation, and create a large number of businessmen.

Create small capital.

In the past, Chengdu had abundant resources but no way to use them, but now we have them.

Support the development of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The economic context of the previous life was completely the opposite.

But there is no way, this is in the Han Dynasty, not in the era of shipping.

Land transportation and population combined are still not comparable to sea transportation.

After Huo Hai's convoy landed at Hejiangting in Jianwei County, they headed all the way to Chengdu by road.

Just a short distance up from Hejiangting is the current Dahan wine production base.

Currently, grain production in Shu County has exploded, and rice planting has already begun.

But in addition to producing rice, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and wheat, the output here is still among the highest in the entire Han Dynasty.

Before the advent of industrialized agriculture and industrial-level agricultural planting, this land was an absolute grain production base.

The grain produced not only supplies food for the entire Yangtze River coast, but also supports a huge pig farming industry.

In addition, there is a large amount of surplus grain for wine production.

At present, these industries are the basic industries of Shu County.

Huo Hai and Liu Che own 70% of the wine production here.

This is a truly lucrative industry.

Huo Hai did not stay here for too long and immediately went up to the salt producing area.

Ten years ago, Huo Hai suggested that Zhang Qian go to Qionglai to look for natural gas and then use it to boil salt.

This move immediately helped Chengdu open up to all the surrounding tribes.

No matter how tough a tribe is, they will become weak and limp if they don't eat salt.

The salt production in Qionglai was huge, which helped Chengdu complete the primitive accumulation.

But then, salt production there faltered.

Huo Hai originally watched a CCTV program and saw Zhuge Wuhou making salt in this place. He also saw the brick carvings in an Eastern Han Dynasty tomb and learned about the natural gas here.

But as production decreased, the demand for salt increased.

Then the only options are Ziliujing and Gongjing, and the northern part of Qianwei County is now the production base.

In order to be able to coordinate, two years ago when it was decided to establish an agricultural product base in Shu County to boost the development of the entire south, Emperor Liu Che made special arrangements and gave Zhang Qian the official position of Governor of Yizhou.

At the same time, the jurisdiction of Yizhou Mu was strengthened, and the economies of Shu County, Qianwei County, and Ba County were coordinated in Yizhou.

The seat of government of Yizhou was still chosen as Chengdu.

So in fact, although Zhang Qian had been running this place for so many years, his official position was still greatly promoted.

After the overall planning, the salt workers from Qionglai began to search here and eventually located Fushijing and Shunshijing.

It is currently in mass production.

Because we are currently making bacon here, the demand for salt is particularly high in the second half of each year, so the salt production is still increasing.

In the past two years, the original salt production base in the north has begun to produce industrial sea salt on a large scale for use in the chemical industry.

In order to supply the salt needs of the entire south, as well as Wancheng and Luoyang, the pressure on Fushijing increased further.

The output has increased significantly again.

With the addition of shipping, the wealth of Qianwei County is increasing rapidly.

This improvement was so rapid that this county, which was originally established with great political significance and was not worthy of its name, began to progress towards becoming a truly powerful county.

There are so many counties under the jurisdiction of Yizhou now. In addition to Shu County, there is also Jianwei County. As for Ba County... Huo Hai has no choice now. Let's see whether Liu Che will leave Chaotianmen behind when he is really excited and wants to travel around the world.

This salt production base and wine production base were both established in recent years, and Huo Hai and Liu Che's people contributed throughout the entire process.

So there is no loophole to exploit.

Although this place is slightly closed, Huo Hai found that there is no problem after inspecting it.

Huo Hai immediately turned up and headed towards Jiazhou.

Jiazhou was the fief of Su Wu's brother.

Su Wu's brother has been sent to serve as a military officer and is already in Dayuan.

If all goes well, his fiefdom will definitely be expanded to other places in a few years.

And Huo Hai met Su Wu here.

Huo Hai had only met Su Wu once.

I didn't expect that when we met again after we parted, I would already be thirty years old.

I haven't seen him for almost half of my life.

Su Wu held a banquet in the pavilion by the river.

Huo Hai sat by the river, always feeling that something was wrong.

Su Wu saw Huo Hai looking at the river, so he said, "Grand Minister of Agriculture, the river here often overflows. Is there any way to deal with it?"

Huo Hai turned around and looked at Su Wu: "The Minjiang River is flooding..."

Leshan Giant Buddha?

Legend has it that after a giant Buddha was carved here, it has never been flooded since.

In fact, it is definitely not true.

It should be that after the giant Buddha was carved, the extra stones were thrown into the river, which changed the water flow at the bottom of the river and made it less likely for the river water to gather turbulent currents here.

It was Chengdu that truly solved the flooding of the Minjiang River.

All the water in Chengdu has been used up, so why is there flooding downstream?
However, the current here can easily cause the boat to capsize, so Huo Hai talked about the idea of ​​the big Buddha.

If this place is not built well, how can we give up our seats to others in the future?
The banquet hosted by Su Wu was also quite good.

The most eye-catching is the ham produced in Dianchi Lake.

After Dian was returned to the Han Dynasty, Dianchi County was established near Kunming, and Yizhou County was established here.

However, the establishment of Yizhou County lasted less than two years.

Two years later, it was changed to Jianning County and the name of Yizhou was taken back.

The establishment of Yizhou County was originally intended to have the same name as Yizhou, giving people in the Dianchi Lake area a feeling that they are in the core area of ​​the Thirteen States, not forgotten, and are valued.

But just two years later, seven people in Yizhou County passed the imperial examination and became officials!
The emergence of such a large number of scribes means that those redundant policies are no longer useful.

So, it was changed to Jianning County.

The meaning of the name is to build peace. The next step is to build roads on a large scale.

After a huge amount of money was invested in road construction and the locals made money, it became more useful than any other name.

Not to mention them, even the former King of Dian had fully accepted becoming a part of the Han Dynasty.

Two years ago, a tribe emerged from some valley and wanted to unite with the old King of Dian to rebel against the Han Dynasty. The old King of Dian arrested them on the spot and reported them directly.

People from the other tribe came to attack and besiege the city, and it was Su Wu who finally resolved the situation.

Su Wu's title has now been changed to General of Burma and Yunnan, and he cooperates with the people of the Tianzhu Company on the entire trade route.

While eating the ham, Huo Hai was still amazed. He had only seen how to make it through short videos, but had never eaten it alone in his previous life. He only sometimes ate dishes with a little bit of ham when eating out.

Now, by eating it slice by slice, I finally know what the real taste of ham is.

Su Wu chuckled: "This thing is of the best quality. In Chang'an, it would cost the price of ten pigs, but here, it only costs the price of half a pig."

Huo Hai: "The price of ten pigs is not high. If this thing can be sold for the price of thirty pigs, it means that it is of high quality."

Su Wu scratched his head. It was too much to sell one pig thigh for the price of thirty pigs.

So he pointed to another dish and whispered, "Tiger and tiger."

Huo Hai looked around: "Tiger whip?"

Su Wu: "There were so many of these on the way to India that they were flooding the country. When we were building the road, we were often attacked by tigers. Many of them were sent back alive to His Majesty's Shanglinyuan Zoo in Chang'an. Only here can we eat tiger penises."

"A lot of skins were sent to Chang'an. You should have seen the Grand Minister of Agriculture, right?"

Huo Hai nodded: "But, you should be more restrained and don't go hunting tigers specifically. With your fighting power, if you accidentally exterminate this kind of tiger, it will be a pity in the future."

Su Wu: "If they are extinct, then they are extinct. What's the problem?"

Huo Hai pointed to the base at the foot of the hill and said, "Have you not read Princess Wei Chang's research report?"

Su Wu shook his head.

Huo Hai: "Tigers eat deer, sheep and other animals. They are part of the ecosystem."

"If the ecological chain is broken, it's like an iron chain is broken."

"Without tigers to control it, sheep will overpopulate the area, and the sheep will soon eat all the grass to extinction, and the ecology will collapse."

"Perhaps this area originally had many plants that could boost the economy and many wild animals that could produce products, but because the ecological chain was broken, they were all destroyed."

“So, we need to study the rules clearly and develop it slowly.”

Su Wu understood: "So the tigers are gone, and there are no more sheep to eat, so the sheep will over-breed and eat up all the grass? Oh, it's okay, the old forest is full of carnivores, there are also snakes as thick as thighs, etc. ..."

"If it's not unsightly, I'll roast a python. If you coil it up, it can fill up a large round table with a diameter of 1.5 meters."

Huo Hai smiled and said, "There are many animals now, and it looks like everything is fine. By the time it looks like something is wrong, it will be too late."

Su Wu pinched his chin and said, "Well, I can catch a few hundred tigers and raise them. Even if they become extinct outside, I still have them in my hands. That way, everything will be fine."

Huo Hai gave Su Wu a thumbs up.

When Su Wu was in Chang'an, he was also a progressive young man and an educated young man.

Now that the times have developed for a long time, Su Wu has become a backward youth.

Huo Hai couldn't explain the things inside to him slowly and clearly.

Huo Hai planned to ask Princess Wei Chang to leave her assistant here to investigate and give some scientific knowledge to a rough guy like Su Wu.

Su Wu was still introducing various kinds of food.

Huo Hai also accepted it all.

At present, Sichuan cuisine has been developed for several years. Sichuan cuisine plus game is a combination that could only be achieved before the 1980s.

People here know how to eat the whole thing.

During the meal, Su Wu talked about the situation in India.

Over the past year, Han merchants have continued to corrupt eastern India.

Merchants in eastern India were extremely willing to do business with the Han.

And ordinary people are also working for the Han people.

Especially the Burmese banyan.

Currently, the first batch of rubber trees in Jiaozhou can be tapped, but the yield is still not high and large-scale production is needed to be sufficient for use.

The wild asam rubber in India can solve this problem.

Here, it only costs twenty dollars a month and there are countless people willing to do the job.

Currently in Dahan, a worker can actually create an output of between 15,000 and 20,000 per month, and their salary is between 3,000 and 5,000.

The remaining part is the so-called surplus labor value.

But it is also the remaining space for social and economic progress.

When merchants came to India and used these Indian products to do business, their output was still between 15,000 and 20,000. In fact, due to transportation reasons, the value of these products would be magnified after they returned to the Han Dynasty.

But you only have to pay twenty labor costs.

Twenty? But the merchants who turned around and made money for him.

A huge profit!
If tens of millions of people in India could be included in the raw material supply system, it would generate hundreds of billions of wealth and a market worth tens of billions of dollars for the Han Dynasty.

Of course, the market worth tens of billions is mainly provided by the first three levels of castes here, while the labor force is mainly provided by the last level.

This is just the beginning.

As long as there is enough food here, we can produce a large population.

These people are the market for the future Han people.

Huo Hai thought for a moment and said, "Twenty is too low. Let's raise the labor price a little bit."

"Their market is too small, which will discourage merchants from coming here to make money. At that time, big merchants will no longer go out to trade, but will focus on finding ways to get land in Tianzhu to build their own plantations."

"Currently, only Tianzhu Company is allowed to operate the plantation."

Su Wu nodded: "I see, what is the appropriate level to increase to? Or should we study it ourselves?"

Huo Hai: "Study it yourself."

Su Wu: "Is there anything else you need to pay attention to in Tianzhu at the moment?"

Huo Hai: "Currently, botanists in America have discovered a tree that can treat malaria... It's the tree that causes the southern plague, the cinchona tree, and it's being planted on a large scale in India."

Su Wu hit them one by one: "Anything else!?"

"The rest is up to you guys to do." Huo Hai took a sip of wine and looked at Jiang Jing: "Do you still want to go back to Chang'an?"

Su Wu was stunned for a moment.

Life in Chengdu was so good that although he spent half of the year in various places south of Chengdu, he spent the other half of the year enjoying life in Chengdu.

I feel a little reluctant to go back to Chang'an.

But Su Wu knew that if he didn't go back, it would be difficult for him to climb up.

Now that Zhang Qian is sitting in that position, his replacement will definitely not be me, but someone new.

Otherwise, if it continues to operate, wouldn't this independent kingdom become the property of one family?

Although it was surprising that Su Wu married Zhang Qian's niece, it was not surprising at all when you think about it carefully.

Only someone like Wen Weng would be allowed by the Han royal family to run Shu County for a long time.

It is obvious that Zhang Qian and Su Wu are not people like Wen Weng. They both know that they are ambitious.

However, the roaring thunder and exploding shells on Mount Qingcheng suppressed their thoughts.

As soon as a general enters Shu, his loyalty value starts to drop rapidly. It's no joke.

At the beginning, King Hanzhong Liu Bang's capital was set in Chengdu. He had not yet entered Shu. As soon as he arrived in Hanzhong, he decided to turn around and leave Guanzhong to rebel. This was no joke.

Liu Che placed the weapons research institute in Chengdu as a sting operation.

Because to protect this place, a large number of troops are needed. Anyone who wants to rebel must first defeat the army protecting the weapons research institute and at the same time obtain the new weapons developed by the weapons research institute before they can rebel.

Therefore, anyone who wants to rebel must find out the internal situation of the weapons research institute.

Anyone who investigates this will have his head separated from his neck the next day.

But if anyone rebels without investigating this, what is the point of rebelling?

The only question is whether Zhang Tianshi himself will rebel.

Zhang Tianshi will not rebel, Zhang Tianshi has already been framed.

Huo Hai saw Su Wu's dilemma and said, "If you don't want to leave, then don't leave."

If Su Wu left, how could Su Shi and his family be born here?

Of course, seeing how Su Wu was so conflicted, even if he left, he couldn't really let go. Perhaps it was inevitable that Su Shi and his family were born in Shu County.

Su Wu whispered: "Is that what your majesty meant?"

Huo Hai shook his head: "If you return to the court now, it will take several years before you can participate in the Northern Expedition. By then you will be forty years old, and the North is unknown to you."

"And if you continue to manage the South, perhaps you can achieve something in Tianzhu by then, which will be enough to support you for the rest of your life."

As for bigger ambitions, don't have them.

Su Wu finally understood why Huo Hai, the Imperial Censor, came to Chengdu as his first step after taking charge of inspecting the country.

What's the point of monitoring the world? There is nothing to monitor in the world.

The only place in the world that is likely to rebel is Chengdu.

The Grand Minister of Agriculture came to warn himself and Zhang Qian.

Su Wu couldn't help but shook his head secretly.

Staying in this place, the illusion that I can become a local emperor at any time is too strong.

However, Su Wu was still very righteous and asked: "Is it that... there is something wrong with Marquis Bowang? Has he committed a crime?"

Huo Hai: "Don't think too much, Marquis Bowang is destined to be rich and noble."

If Huo Hai came here to do his job, Su Wu would have ruined his own future.

If Huo Hai was not here on business, Su Wu's question would have been very humane.

But in the end, Su Wu was able to stay there safely, while Huo Hai's caravan continued to head north to Chengdu.

What the outside world did not expect was that the convoy did not stop in Chengdu, but continued to turn east and went to Langzhong!
Even the Dahan Daily was following and reporting on the movements of Huo Hai's motorcade.

"It seems that the court trusts Marquis Bowang too much."

Only Zhang Qian knew...it was too outrageous.

Huo Hai, his wives and concubines, settled down by the Huanhua Creek in the west of Chengdu.

Zhang Qian asked Huo Hai how long he would stay.

Huo Hai said: "You will return to Chang'an before me."

Zhang Qian was excited: "Can I go back? In the second half of the year? Next year?"

Huo Hai didn't respond.

Zhang Qian's mood suddenly dropped: "The year after next?"

Huo Hai: "Guess again."

Zhang Qian: "The year after next?"

Huo Hai: "You're still guessing."

Zhang Qian: “…”

(End of this chapter)