Chapter 402 Four years
Time is like water, and time passes by. In the blink of an eye, the tenth year of Zhenguan has arrived. Qin Hao is already five years old when he stayed in Pyongyang City.
In four years, many things have happened.
First of all, the Anton Protectorate finally had money. Four years ago, Qin Hao promised Xue Wanche that after the situation on the peninsula stabilized, he would be responsible for generating income for the Protectorate and ensure that every soldier's pocket was filled with bulging.
This is more difficult for him, but it is not a difficult problem, especially after Qin Xiaohao also traveled over.
Qin Hao used to be a bureaucrat in the unit or in the radio and television department, so he had a clear understanding of some systems, culture, and so on. Qin Xiaohao was a science and engineering department, and he followed the technology flow.
So in the past four years, Qin Hao was in the front desk and Qin Xiaohao was in the back desk. In addition to the things in Pyongyang City, he focused on one thing: developing Anshan.
Anyone who has been to junior high school knows that the iron production in this place is quite high in quality and the sea transportation is convenient, so Qin Hao spent a full year to build small civil steelmaking furnaces. This technology is not difficult to industrially and the steel output is still reasonable. Even in the 21st century, many African countries can barely use it.
This time, the Andong Protectorate has become a big deal. The steelmaking technology of the Tang Dynasty was mainly steel-making method. Qin Xiaohao made this thing, which was definitely a black technology among black technology in the Tang Dynasty. This kid had no sense of environmental protection. In order to supply coke to Anshan, the trees on the mountain were almost cut down, and he was already making a decision to let Yuan Gai Suwen mobilize the Fuyu people to cut off Changbai Mountain, and Qin Hao quickly stopped it.
Are you kidding, if Yuan Gai Suwen takes the opportunity to station troops in the Changbai Mountain area, what is the puppet court?
To the west of Yalu River, there are more Han people in these places than Fuyu people, so they are directly under the jurisdiction of the Anton Protectorate and have nothing to do with the New Goryeo court of Yoon Gaisuwen, so this income is mainly about the Anton Protectorate.
The iron ore was distributed to the Han people's soldiers. They were very motivated to mine. Selling ore could make a lot of money, and the court could also draw a lot of taxes. Now they have no intention of bullying the people of Fuyu, and they are quite loyal to the Tang Dynasty. If there is really a war, these people may be more powerful than the Tang Dynasty's regular soldiers. How can they defend their country?
The small steel furnace and iron smelting plant are directly under the Andong Protectorate. The income is half of which is distributed to the genuine Tang Dynasty soldiers brought from Guanzhong by Xue Wanche. Although the number of people is small, the profits are more than those of the Han people who worked hard to mine. The court has no objection to this.
In addition to steelmaking, the iron production is not small. Naturally, these irons cannot be refined with precious coke, and can only be used with coal. Originally, Qin Hao planned to transport it from Guanzhong by water. There were some coal in the Tang Dynasty. However, the court told him that the Tang Dynasty's ships are busy now, and no one is willing to transport this thing by precious ships. After transporting two ships by administrative order, Qin Hao found that the idea of transporting coal with ships was really stupid.
Just in time, there are also Khitans in the Anton Protectorate. These ethnic minorities are crazy about iron deficiency. They just happened to have an open-pit coal mine, so the coal transportation work was handed over to the Khitan, and they exchanged coal for iron, and almost euthanized these Khitan soldiers.
Steel is naturally used to forge weapons, and the output is also good. No matter what age in this world, weapons are never short of buyers. Whether it is the imperial court or the military soldiers from Guanzhong, it is not impossible to sell them to foreign races.
The weapons of the Tang Dynasty were not strictly controlled by the court. On the contrary, they were all the private property of the soldiers of the government, so the court could not control the weapons transactions in Anshan at all. The soldiers of the Andong Protectorate's Office had to get the first month of the day. They had already changed all of them in less than four years, and the court could not say anything.
The people of Fuyu were responsible for cutting trees, the Han people were responsible for mining, the Tang people were responsible for steelmaking and post-production, and finally Sun Er and others were transported to Chang'an by sea, which was also a good way to make money.
Qin Hao knew that there were tens of millions of ways to make money, but Qin Xiaohao chose this one, and the purpose was not simple. In order to stabilize the precarious Baekje exiled court, their Anton Protectorate always transported some weapons to Black Teeth. After Qin Hao's calculations, about half of these weapons would eventually disappear and disappear.
Qin Hao was frightened to find that Qin Xiaohao, who was only five years old, was so stingy that he wanted to hold his beautiful sister at home every day, and actually had someone available in the Andong Protectorate!
Qin Hao carefully checked it and found that there was no big problem on the books and the probability of being discovered by the court was not high. After all, few people in the feudal society that modern people made fake accounts can see through. Moreover, the Protectorate's Mansion is now a solid piece, and he doesn't believe anyone will come to investigate.
What's even more incredible is that this kid seems to be learning from him and starts to accept his younger brother. Heige Changzhi, the son of Heige Changzhi, was sent to Pyongyang to go to school as a hostage, but since then, he has become the kid's loyal younger brother, although the only thing the two of them can do at the moment seems to be peeing and mud.
Qin Xiaohao was actually quite polite about this. Why can you accept Pei Xingjian? I can't accept Black Too Changzhi?
As for the places where those weapons were taken, Qin Xiaohao had a stutter on his neck and had nothing to do with him. Qin Hao had really couldn't find it, so he just agreed.
It’s the most ugly thing for people to see is himself. Qin Hao doesn’t know what he is thinking now. He seems to have an ostrich mentality. I haven’t found what Qin Xiaohao does. If I can’t find it, it has nothing to do with me. I am still loyal to the Tang Dynasty and have no insignificant thoughts.
In the past four years, although the entire Tang Dynasty has been booming, there has been a slight fluctuation in the political circles of the court, and Hou Junji has risen.
Li Chengqian had hardly left the East Palace in four years, but this does not mean that he really didn't care about the government. Before Qin Hao came to Pyongyang, Li Chengqian planned to let Qin Hao be the spokesperson of his power.
At that time, Qin Hao didn't want to agree. Although he did not refuse, he threw the blame on the grounds of seclusion. Later, he was sent to the Andong Protectorate, which naturally had nothing to do with him. After Qin Hao turned the blame on him, this character naturally fell on his father-in-law Hou Junji.
The thing that Hou Junji mentioned the most in the court in the past two years is not war or training troops, but to transfer Qin Hao back to Beijing. This is very interesting. What is Li Chengqian anxious about?
Everyone knows that Qin Hao must be one of the prime ministers when he returns to Beijing. Not to mention that the current prime minister team is relatively stable and has no position, who do you want to retire? Even if he has, is his qualifications really enough?
You, Li Chengqian, have Hou Junji as the Minister of War, which is not enough. You want to interfere with your own people in the prime minister. What a few meanings!
Qin Hao himself didn't know what he was thinking. Of course, this broken place in Pyongyang is not as good as Chang'an. He tried his best to build a children's playground for his son but it was still useless. It is said that they have been occupied by Li Xiaogong's grandson now. Well, although Qin Xiaohao is probably not interested in that thing.
But to be honest, he didn't want to go back to be prime minister. Li Chengqian's approach made him feel a little dangerous. Recently, the letters he wrote to Li Chengqian have become more and more formal, and there are few heart-to-heart contents, which makes him a little confused about Li Chengqian's pulse.
Chapter completed!