After Qin Minping and Zhou Yijie contacted Ran Yuelong from Youyang, they agreed to jointly defend the She family, settle down, and train a strong army together. They allocated 2,000 acres of wild land in Youyang to build an artemisia annua plantation and herbal medicine grinding workshop with dozens of people.
Herb cultivation and grinding personnel are recruited from the Tujia and Miao ethnic groups in Youyang, and technical personnel are dispatched from Qixian and Kaifeng.
Wang Hongyu, Wei Zhongxian, the Youyang Ran family and the Shizhu Qin family will be divided into three-three-thirds ratios. In the future, the three families will invest in companies in Youyang and Shizhu.
Youyang has magnesium mines, lead-zinc mines, copper mines, manganese mines, pyrite mines, coal mines, and mercury mines. With so many mineral deposits and abundant water resources, it is suitable to build large-scale industrial and mining enterprises here, echoing the north and south of Yunyang.
coordinate with each other.
Youyang Peach Blossom Spring is a national 5A-level scenic spot in later generations. It has Tujia folk culture, natural ecological culture, underground river symbiosis in Tiankeng caves, and karst geological wonders. It is a natural tourist attraction with great development value.
Youyang Chieftain and Shizhu Chieftain are good partners for cooperation. Since they have become Wang Hongyu's right-hand man, Wang Hongyu should also vigorously support them. This bonus belongs to them, and it also lets the world know that the country will not forget its heroes.
Ran Yuelong sent his third son Ran Tianbiao, who was temporarily in charge of the family's business, to fully support Wang Hongyu. He set aside an artemisia annua plantation, prepared workshops, and recruited 1,600 soldiers from Youyang.
Wang Hongyu asked 800 soldiers from Youyang to join the Hunhe Army, and then sent 50 people from the Hunhe Army to Youyang to train with the remaining 800 people, draw maps, and reserve supplies. This army will become the key force to enter central Sichuan.
The artemisia annua industry is also used to prevent malaria in various places in autumn. Relying on the Ran family's connections, they also opened a shop in Chongqing.
In this way, there are shops in Xiangyang, Wuchang, and Chongqing, selling herbal medicines, sauces, books, furniture, tools, etc., each with its own division of labor.
This time the malaria in Yunyang was temporarily under control.
In the future, if we develop the artemisia annua herbal industry and enter Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, we will solve the problem of malaria.
As soon as this matter was dealt with, news came from Zhang Mingshi that there was a mysterious scribe who often went in and out of the mountains and forests near Yunyang. He got close to the mines and firearms workshops by mistake several times. He suspected that he might be sent by the scholar-bureaucrats.
Looking for trouble.
Wang Hongyu immediately became alert.
Workshops are actually easy to talk about, but farming and army expansion, as well as getting involved in schools and issuing teaching materials are all connected, and the civil servants will definitely react.
I want to attack the civilian monopoly in various fields such as economy, technology, military, culture and so on.
The literati and landlords have monopolized culture and technology for thousands of years. Even if some enlightened people can realize that this will help China, a considerable number of them will definitely try their best to prevent their own rise for the sake of profit and status.
No one caused trouble in the previous month because the news hadn't spread yet.
Even if the local wealthy people are tied up by him, there will still be some dissatisfied rotten scholars who will spread the news to the outside world.
"Check this person, but make little noise."
"yes!"
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September is fleeting.
On September 1st, Jingshi Mobile School Press officially released various books.
In addition to Yunyang, new book sales will be launched simultaneously in Baoding, Tianjin, Xiangyang, Wuchang and other places.
A one-stop cultural industry was also opened in Baoding, Xiangyang and Yunxian County. For a time, literati and poets paid great attention to it, and many literate people and soldiers came to support it.
Books rental, reading, calligraphy, painting, refreshments, storytelling, drama, catering and other industries have been opened.
Wang Hongyu is most concerned about "On Production: Preface".
This statement will definitely shock the world and conservative Confucian scholars will have a strong reaction.
But after all, it was published anonymously. Wang Hongyu used the pseudonym "Dong Ma". Who knows who this person is?
Even if you trace the source and find the Jingshi Mobile School Publishing House, there is no need to be afraid.
There are many literati, scholars, and readers coming and going here, and the mobility is not low. This can not only avoid trouble, but also avoid people coming to pursue you.
The society in the late Ming Dynasty was relatively prosperous. Under the background of the rapid rise of citizens and the breakup of the cultural monopoly of landlords and literati, the entire period showed a trend of frequent exchanges, active thinking, various speech styles, and increasing innovations.
Such novel remarks are not surprising in the eyes of some enlightened literati.
There are even more active schools whose views are even more astonishing than those of "On Production".
Such an anonymous statement by Wang Hongyu will definitely stir up a stir and drive many people in late Ming society to think divergently.
Yun County, with a population of less than 50,000, has gathered thousands of people to pay attention to its cultural industry. In one day, as many as 800 people bought, rented and read books.
Everyone is very active in exploring unknown things~
This mentality is very valuable.
From the prosperous Tang Dynasty to before modern times, there was hardly any period like the late Ming Dynasty when the people's mentality was so open and their ideas developed so rapidly.
While watching the endless stream of people participating in cultural exchanges, Zhang Mingshi, who was wearing casual clothes today, walked up to Wang Hongyu with serious eyes, leaned into his ear and reported:
"The scribe who went into the mountains and forests many times and discovered our diverse development is also here..."
"Oh? This person is quite brave?"
Wang Hongyu published a new book today, and various new and old books have been printed and sold, rented, and can be viewed for free in various cultural industry stores.
Among them, the books have been specially selected. There are few traditional Confucian books, and there are only a dozen or so books related to fame.
If you are looking for trouble, you can see the problem.
Especially the newly released books include "Production: Preface" and "Don Quixote". One is theory and history, the other is satire, and both express criticism of traditional Confucianism.
Combined with the signal released by Yang Lian before.
It looks like a war is about to begin~
Before the fight against the She'an family, these civil servants are going to stab them in the back?
With this idea in mind, Wang Hongyu changed his clothes and slightly changed his style, which was different from the opening of the cultural industry just now.
Zhang Mingshi, who was in casual clothes, and Wang Hongyu, who was in disguise, found the scribe who was "walking around".
I saw him sitting in front of the bookshelf with his legs crossed, reading several thick books with relish.
Although this person is dressed like a scholar, he does not put on any airs about his reading and looks very different from ordinary scribes.
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"Are you sure it's him?"
"I'm sure he has gone deep into Zhushan, Fangxian and Zhuxi several times. His legs and feet are very flexible. He is indeed not an ordinary person..."
Zhang Mingshi's Hunhe Army's Night Guard found that he had very good legs and feet, so they had to follow him with all their strength so as not to be thrown away.
It is reasonable for a scribe with such excellent legs and feet to be uninhibited when reading~
Now that the target was determined, Wang Hongyu pretended to discuss books with Zhang Mingshi and quietly walked to the man to observe.
I saw that he was about thirty or forty years old, with very healthy wheat-colored skin and many calluses on his hands and feet, but he was very serious when reading, and he could read quickly while taking notes.
After observing carefully for a moment, Wang Hongyu suddenly shrank.