After finalizing the candidates for county chiefs and staff members of the government, Li Su spent several days focusing on the follow-up personnel work, calling the officials he wanted to mobilize to have heart-to-heart talks, understanding the current situation and interests of the other party in person, understanding the other party's communication characteristics, and resettling them in different categories.

Sharpening a knife will not delay the chopping of wood. If you do the personnel work in a solid manner, the team around you will be more fulfilling and more running-in, and in the future, more daily work can be handed over to the tools to people in an orderly manner.

Li Su can free up his hands to only deal with big strategies and those work that require new ideas and creative ideas, and find out the gaps and fill in the gaps.

After finishing all this, it was early December. Li Su thought that he had almost sorted out his daily money, grain and civil affairs work, so he planned to go out for a walk and inspect Dujiangyan and Jianwei County to see how high-tech farming projects have developed in the past two years and whether there is anything to strengthen.

Zhuge Jin had told Li Su before that this year, because the capital of the textile and porcelain industry that was originally going to invest in "expand reproduction", was used to provide relief to Guanzhong for disaster relief, and many of the production capacity was overcapacity. Although these overcapacity is not important in the long run, if you can find more work for the craftsmen in a short time, you can get some milk and get some blood back.

I went out for inspection and also traveled a little while. This is how people are. After running outside for a long time, I wanted to stay at home and stayed with my wife for a month and a half, and then I wanted to go out for a while.

On the second day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Su ordered Deng Zhi to help him prepare a carriage and horse guard to go to Dujiangyan first. There are not too many guards, just be able to be capable. Anyway, it is in his own jurisdiction, so he is not afraid of having Dian Wei by his side.

Deng Zhi was used to being a secretary for Li Su, so he quickly stopped working, and was ready to put down his work and go with Li Su.

However, Li Su stopped him: "Bomiao, you have to get used to your new identity. You are the first batch of my staff. Wang Fu and Wang have been tired for less than ten days, and you just need to take them to familiarize yourself with the situation. You stay in Chengdu and reply on my behalf when I am not here."

Deng Zhi then changed his role and asked, "Who will the envoy lead to run around?"

Li Su thought for a while: "I can just take Zhen Yao. He doesn't know anything else. It's good to arrange some food, drink, entertainment and schedule itineraries, so you can make the best use of it."

"..." Deng Zhi was speechless for a moment, thinking to himself, would it be really good to describe his staff and subordinates like this?

But let alone, this kind of idle talent has been needed throughout the years, just like the work done by Gao Qiu and Heshen in the TV series.

In history, Liu Bei was not short of such talents. For example, Liu Yan, the Lu County, came to serve when Liu Bei was the governor of Yuzhou. Liu Bei nominally appointed him as a literary career, but in fact he was just a matter of eating, drinking, and having fun. He was responsible for helping Liu Bei arrange to continue playing music and dancing.

However, Liu Yan cannot be considered to have no literary talent at all. He has a specialty, and is good at organizing and dancing Han Fu without music. Wang Yanshou, a famous Han Fu master of Emperor Huan, gave it a musical dance, taught his maids, and then sang and danced for Liu Bei.

It was also helpful to national politics to make the leader have fun. Liu Yan relied on these helpers to have fun and became the prefect of a county and the marquis of Duxiang when Liu Bei was elected as emperor. Later, he had another high position during the period of Liu Chan, and was the highest general of the chariot and cavalry. Finally, because of random suspicion and beating his wife (doubting his newly married young wife in his later years had an affair with Liu Chan), he was decisively beheaded (abandoned from the market) by Liu Chan, and he was in charge of the court.

Of course, Liu Bei did not need subordinates like Liu Yan who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, because Liu Bei has seen more and more luxurious enjoyment. I guess Liu Yan is helping Yuan Shu now, who made him a native of Yuzhou?

...

Less nonsense, Li Suren took Zhen Yao, who was a professional food, drinking and entertainment, and patrolled the territory all the way and went to Dujiangyan first. Li Su had not visited Shu County for more than a year to understand the people's conditions, and he also thought it was quite fresh.

In order to understand the overcapacity of private enterprises, Li Su deliberately brought less entourage and did not notify officials in Du'an County in advance. He did not want to see the political achievements project of fake big vacant ones.

Li Su was walking outside Du'an County with his entourage in a low dress. The results of the preliminary visit were quite satisfying.

Du'an County was a small county a few years ago. Now, because it is the location of Dujiangyan, the hills outside the city have opened factories as long as the terrain is not very rugged. Especially those with high terrain, which are inconvenient to draw water and irrigation and cannot farm, or the slopes at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain have become industrial land.

The city wall obviously has no time to expand, so it is impossible to include both industrial and commercial areas in the city, but it is the hinterland of the Chengdu Plain, which is very peaceful and there is no need to expand the city wall.

The workshop itself has formed new villages. Teahouses and bathhouses that Li Su encouraged private self-operated by the people can also be seen everywhere. Almost every large workshop with more than 500 looms will have its own supporting teahouses and bathhouses.

Seeing that the people under his rule have finally participated in the commercial society after several years of training, Li Su was also very pleased. This is also a release of productivity.

"There is a brocade weaving workshop in Yang's family, right? Let's go and take a look, go to the teahouse to have a cup of tea, and ask the people if it's difficult to find work this year."

Li Su pointed to the folding fan, and Zhen Yao said he would make arrangements immediately. Zhen Yao was very good, and he didn't even clear the scene and disturb the people. He just asked the guard to play the role of an ordinary businessman, first occupying the table, at least occupying a whole circle of nine tables, and then he asked Li Su to come in. It was clean and safe and did not disturb the people.

It seems that Zhen Yao has often cultivated the ability to "pollide men and dominate women in confinement" and is a good helper.

When Li Su walked into the teahouse, Zhen Yao had already ordered good tea for each table, as well as the newly popular soup buns and steamed dishes. Because of his generous work, the teahouse was of course happy to serve these foreign wealthy businessmen.

"Are you here to buy Shu brocade or cotton cloth? If you do this, your business will be prosperous." The owner of the teahouse came here to make tea for Li Su and others, and was also laughing and flattering.

Li Su was very low-key. Today he specially took an ordinary white paper folding fan without any decoration, which occasionally made it easier to cover his face, so he didn't think anyone knew him. After hearing this, he asked casually: "Oh? All the rich people who come here buy Shu brocade and cotton?"

The boss's wife wiped the water stains on the table and said quickly: "It's probably the case. These steamed dishes are not cheap. They are all "warm fire banquets" that only flowed out a few months ago at the Marquis's mansion. If a large shop owner comes to eat by himself, he will order some rabbit meat, braised chicken cold cuts and soak the rice with hot soup.

These steamed dishes that you order immediately were eaten after discussing with foreign goods. We didn’t make many. The ones you ordered today almost finished the warm-fired dishes we prepared in the morning.”

Li Su smiled slightly, and did not take this invisible praise to heart.

The steamed dishes Zhen Yao ordered today are not unusual except for soup buns. They are nothing more than fermented black beans, steamed pork ribs from fermented black beans, and steamed lamb with soy sauce. The characteristics of these dishes are the same as the snacks of the later Guangzhou morning tea Yangzhou morning tea, which can always be hot in the steamer, even if it is steamed on low heat for a whole morning, or the crisper and worse the taste, the better.

One of the biggest benefits of producing these snacks in a teahouse is that they save customers time. Unlike other hot dishes that have to be ordered at any time before cooking, they are faster than later takeaway dishes, and they can be served directly after ordering. This is something that anyone who has eaten Cantonese morning tea is familiar with.

Don’t underestimate the word “fast”. In the late Han Dynasty and even the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties, “fast” is also a selling point for the ultimate enjoyment of luxury and enjoyment in life. For those who are talking about business, they can also be proud of the show and face.

Haven't you seen Shi Chong, the winner of Shi Chong, who fought for wealth in the Western Jin Dynasty, who had a dish of mung bean noodles, gained the reputation of luxury for Shi Chong and wrote it in "New Words of the World". Because other people's mung bean porridge takes a long time to serve, it often takes half an hour to sit when guests visit before they can serve mung bean porridge.

Shi Chong's family could sit down for less than five minutes, and the maid would serve mung bean porridge. This made people think that "Is Shi Chong's show off for the banquet? So I made sure that the family always cooked a pot of mung bean porridge. If no one came to overcook it, I would give it to the servants and then cook it again." Then he became Shi Chong's name as a super rich man.

But to put it bluntly, because the demand is too small, the enjoyment of "ensure that you have time to warm up anytime and anywhere" has become a decent only for the rich. But as long as the commercial society is developed and everyone has staggered demand, merchants can steam in advance in a planned manner, and they are not afraid of losing money for too much fuel. Anyway, teahouses and bathhouses in various parts of Shu County are now cooperative models for local people to raise funds to pay firewood. Each person can enjoy the efficiency of at least three ducts of firewood.

The larger the industry, the more material resources everyone needs to invest in per capita enjoyment will be greatly reduced. From this perspective, Li Su is not only enjoying a luxurious life by himself, but also helping future generations to explore how to allow the exquisite life he enjoys. Later generations only need a much lower cost to enjoy it.

"The merchants who come to buy Shujin can eat Cantonese breakfast snacks every meal. The business in Duan County is indeed much more prosperous than two years ago. If there is not enough demand, they will definitely not have thought of providing such services."

Li Su thought to himself, and suddenly thought of several questions, and asked casually: "What proportion do people are willing to participate in teahouses and bathhouses to raise firewood? "

The teahouse owner said proudly: "Don't look at the fact that we are not the envoy's fiefdom, I heard from the villagers that the villagers participated in the financing of firewood and hot water, which was higher than the Pi County next door. Almost 90% of the families joined, and only 70% of the Pi County were there."

This number surprised Li Su slightly: "So high? Is Pi County doing poorly?"

The teahouse owner: "I don't know, but when Yang County Magistrate was there, he said that he had read the private household registration files from the previous two years and found that since the envoy's encouragement to pay attention to business and governance, the population of Du'an County has increased by a little more than in previous years. During Liu Yan's time, there were 150,000 people in our county. Even if there is no disaster or epidemic every year, at most, there will be three or four thousand more births than old age and death. When it comes to disaster, it will go back.

After encouraging everyone to hand over firewood and drink hot water to take a bath, 7,000 more people were born last year than old age and died! All of them doubled. County Magistrate Yang didn't understand why, and he even reported his achievements. It is said that the envoy replied to him and taught him what hygiene improvement was caused. This item alone could make the people live five more years more than they could live. It was amazing.

Later, the Yang County Magistrate asked the senior officials from all townships to go to the countryside and villages to declare this matter every day, emphasizing that the less water they had drunk, they became sick, and the business of our teahouses and bathhouses became better and better. Later, the Yang County Magistrate was promoted again, and one of his fellow ministers was appointed as the county magistrate. He didn't know where he was promoted now."

Li Su thought to himself: When we were looking at local officials' achievements last month, Yang Hong's political achievements were indeed very outstanding. It was because he took into account these data that he promoted Yang Hong to the magistrate of Wenshan County.

After visiting on the spot, I found that Yang Hong was indeed very good at educating the people to improve their lifestyles. He almost gave him a sense of time travel - until later generations, when the Republic of China moved to Sichuan to promote the "New Life Movement", they still emphasized that civilians should not drink raw water and pay attention to hygiene.

Li Su provided teahouses that provide hot water at any time to the people, and built public toilets in bathhouses, which was indeed quite advanced. In the future, if you have spare money, you can even improve the sewer if you have spare money.

However, Li Su was not a person who was complacent on the credit book. He was keenly aware that because of his mercantilism, another problem in Shu was temporarily leading to faster population growth.

In troubled times, population is competitiveness, and there is no fear of being large in itself. Even if the newly born people cannot use it now, if the world is not completely unified within fifteen years, these newborns can be transformed into productivity by then.

But the problem is that Li Su experienced an era of population explosion in his previous life, and he was deeply alert to the Malthus trap. He knew that relying on the agricultural carrying capacity of the Chengdu Plain alone would sooner or later problems would arise, especially in peacetime people. The population will grow at a geometric scale.

Nowadays, the population of various states has dropped sharply, but Yizhou was completely taken over by Liu Bei without much war. Except for Nanzhong, the population of more than 5 million Han people in northern Sichuan was almost saturated according to the old-style production method.

"This reminds me that after the Chinese New Year, we must consider gradually collecting local farmers who are extremely poor and landless. The government will pay for settlement and migrate some to Xiliang to settle down. Xiliang has been harmed for many years and has a small population. If the cotton planting industry is expanded, the labor force will be much more than grazing cattle and sheep, and Liangzhou will not only support hundreds of thousands of herders." Li Su quickly thought of this solution, temporarily delaying the local population conflict in the Chengdu Plain for several years.

If there are people in the future, they have to encourage immigrants to expand the Nujiang Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia. Anyway, there are only so many fields in Sichuan, and there is no way to do this upper limit.

The best state is to raise more workers, use industry to drive Shu, and then ensure that the grain produced in Shu is just enough for everyone in Shu, and the surplus grain of farmers is enough to feed local workers. In this way, there is no need to transport grain from outside or transport outside grain in the internal circulation. The loss of Shu road is minimized. As long as Yizhou continuously provides the court with industrial products as local taxes to pay tribute, the added value of industrial products is much higher than that of grain, so the transportation cost is no longer concerned.

After thinking about this problem, Li Su remembered that there was still some serious matters today and didn't have time to inquire. However, when he looked up, he found that the teahouse owner had already served other guests. Li Su glanced around and asked Zhen Yao to invite other tables of guests who looked like factory owners to come and chat. Those people were happy to eat for free when they saw someone treating them.

Li Su asked them whether the brocade weaving workshops and waterwheel workshops in Du'an County can be more saturated to receive work. How was the craftsmen who built weaving waterwheels a few years ago were idle this year? Is there any new order to expand production capacity in the workshop?

Those people who were asked were indeed local factory owners. They didn’t think there was any commercial secrets here, so they showed off their heartily:

"The loom has not purchased much, so the weaving workshop has certainly made a good business. On the contrary, in the past two years, more and more workers have entered the city to make extra money while the winter is slack. The machines have not increased, and they have to work hard, and the wages are lower and more profitable.

Last year, everyone targeted Zhuge's family. They gave five five zhu coins in five hours a day. Now the workshops next to them have been reduced to only four zhu coins. Zhuge's family is tough and still gives five zhu coins, but in this way, everyone is rushing to weave brocades for the Zhuge's family, and the Zhuge's family's working opportunities are even more cherished. Many weavers spontaneously weaving one more hour a day, but in fact, they only earn five zhu coins in almost six hours.

As for the waterwheel workshop, the business is very good and the work has never stopped. The carpenters who make waterwheels are not idle either. Whether we are here or in Nan'an County, there seems to be some new demand this year. I heard that it was created by Zhuge's family again."

When these factory owners or "workshopkeepers" who regard themselves as management, they do not feel ashamed of exploiting and exploiting workers at all when they talk about this. Instead, they are complacent about the few machines this year.

Finally it was the worker's turn to bite the dog and roll it inward.

Li Su was a little reluctant, but he also knew that this was the law of the market economy and would not criticize him. The supply and demand relationship is always like this.

However, Li Su was relieved that the owners of the workshop said that the carpenters who made water trucks and machines were not too idle, and the water truck workshop had not stopped working.

Because he remembered that the construction progress of the water truck should be ahead of the loom, and the bottleneck mainly lies in the supporting water conservancy facilities, not the water truck itself. Therefore, as long as the Leshanyan in Nan'an County is completely completed, the water trucks will be scattered in this year. If the loom does not change, the silk reeling capacity will definitely overflow the brocade products, and the problem of "too much silk, the loom cannot digest it."

It has been relieved now. It seems that someone has put in the effort and deserves encouragement.

While they were chatting, another foreigner came in outside the teahouse, but he didn't look like a businessman, but a scholar and a swordsman. He should be traveling around. It seemed that he had not been here for the first day, but for a few days, the boss lady went over to greet him as soon as she saw it.

The scholar and swordsman didn't seem to have much money. He didn't order the hot steamed morning tea, but instead ordered the rabbit meat cold cuts and low-end big-leaf bitter tea. Not long after he sat down, he heard Li Su's table talking about the national economy and people's livelihood, and the scholar couldn't help but come over to listen to the fun.

This kind of scene is really common in teahouses. Haven’t you seen that some teahouses in Chengdu in the 21st century later have some remote locations, and signs such as “Please go to the second floor when talking about the international situation”. In teahouses, they are all talking about the mountains. Even if they have a monthly salary of three to five thousand, they still have to talk about the situation in Syria and Ukraine.

The scholar heard the factory owners introduce Li Su a few words, and Li Su nodded and admired, and couldn't help but interrupt: "Brother, don't you think this is very difficult to do? I traveled to Shuzhong, which has been in the area of ​​Pi County, Du'an for several days. I have been observing. I have never seen a water truck with silk reels, and I can still have a job to drive in winter."

Li Su originally wanted to learn more about the situation, so he casually signaled the other party to sit down and taste the steamed morning tea dishes together, and asked about the other party's identity by the way.
Chapter completed!