Chapter six hundred and sixty-eight of public morality
On the sixth day of June, Yuan Jixian, the head of the Yuan family in Zunhua, took his two sons and went to Fanjiazhuang with company commander Zhang Yu, the receptionist sent by Li Zhi.
This time, Li Zhi built a steelmaking converter in Fanjiazhuang, which required a large amount of pig iron raw materials. The freight cost of purchasing from other places was too high and was not economically worthwhile. In order to reduce the cost of the steel produced, Li Zhi directly contacted Yuan Jixian, the owner of the largest iron factory in Beizhili
, and asked him to bring hundreds of people to open an iron factory east of Fanjiazhuang.
The newly built iron factory will be run by the Yuan family. Li Zhi transports high-quality iron ore from Qiongzhou Prefecture, that is, Hainan, to the iron factory every month. The iron factory smelt pig iron and sells the pig iron to Li Zhi's smelting company at a low price.
Steel converter.
Li Zhi's steelmaking blast furnace is located next to the Yuanjia Iron Works, and a steel town where hundreds of people work has been built between Fanjiazhuang and Tianjin. This steel town is now under intensive construction and was named Xingang by Li Zhi
Town. Li Zhi also plans to build a railway from Dagu Port directly to this new steel town to minimize transportation costs.
There is no doubt that Xingang Town will become the steel center of Tianjin, Shandong and Liaodong in the future. With the increase in steel production, Xingang Town will even become the steel center of the entire north in the future.
Therefore, Yuan Jixian brought his son and family to Fanjiazhuang. As a "friend businessman" specially found by Li Zhi, Yuan Jixian and his workers were entertained all the way and lived very comfortably in Tianjin. Today, the iron factory in Xingang Town has already
When the iron-making blast furnace was built, Yuan Jixian originally wanted to supervise on site, but the company commander Zhang Yu who received him said that he would lead a team to visit Fanjiazhuang today, so Yuan Jixian took his son to visit this most famous city in the world.
Today, Yuan Jixian was not the only one who visited Fanjiazhuang with the group. He was also followed by more than a dozen big businessmen from the south. Yuan Jixian did not know these businessmen, but it was said that they were all businessmen who were planning to come to Tianjin to start businesses.
Gentlemen who rely on government connections to do business will not come to Tianjin. These dozen big southern merchants are different. They are all businessmen who do clean business. They are rare exceptions in the Ming Dynasty. Most of them are production-oriented businessmen.
In other words, they are not traders but factory owners.
For these aliens, Li Zhi's territory, which the gentry regarded as a hell, was an ideal paradise for them to do business. Business in other places was always blackmailed and made difficult by the government and powerful men, but Li Zhi's four provinces and one town had strict laws.
Just run a workshop or a factory honestly. There is no better place than this.
Li Zhi welcomed such a clean businessman. Not only did he welcome him, he also arranged for someone to receive him.
Before everyone entered Fanjiazhuang, they noticed the cement road on the ground. The cement road was very solid. The road was two feet wide, with the middle high and the sides low. It was very labor-saving to walk on the cement road, which was better than the bluestone pavement in Tianjin Acropolis.
The workshop owners were very surprised and jumped and stamped on the concrete floor as if they had discovered a new world.
Zhang Yu looked back and said with a smile: "This is a cement road. It is very convenient for driving or walking."
Only then did the businessmen realize that this was the legendary cement.
Entering Fanjiazhuang from the east gate, the neat white-walled and black-tiled villas stand on both sides of the road like groups of soldiers standing guard. The spacious and straight roads, the drains covered with cement covers on both sides of the road are very neat, and the whole city is clean.
It looked like it had just been cleaned, which made the businessmen look at it for a while.
The residents of Fanjiazhuang are very wealthy. Although many people wear simple brown shorts, there are no patches on the short browns. There are even citizens who are used to wearing short browns using silk and satin clothes to make short browns, which makes the first
The businessmen who came to Fanjiazhuang for the first time were wide-eyed.
There are many people on the road, but they all go their own way and it is not crowded.
Yuan Jixian looked around and asked curiously: "Captain Zhang, why is there no cow and horse dung on the road in Fanjiazhuang?"
Zhang Yu smiled, pointed to a carriage next to him and said: "Fanjiazhuang is a place of public morality. How can we let cows and horses pollute the streets? Look at what is hanging on the horse's butt. It's called a horse manure bag. There's something in this bag.
Once the wire is hung on the horse's butt, it will be fixed there. When the horse defecates, the dung balls will be put into the horse dung bag and will not fall on the road."
Yuan Jixian was stunned and said: "The people of Fanjiazhuang are so particular..."
"Why are there people queuing up everywhere?"
"The Duke of Guo praised the concept of public morality in Fanjiazhuang, and people despised those who lied, so the word-of-mouth passed among the people is very credible. As long as a small shop makes good bean curd, or which restaurant has delicious spicy chicken,
Immediately word spread throughout Fanjiazhuang, a city of more than 100,000 people, and the business was so good that we couldn't receive any visitors. So there were queues everywhere."
Zhang Yu paused and said: "But because of this, Fanjiazhuang's business level is very high. Take this pepper as an example. People in other places have not tasted it, but they can eat it in every restaurant in Fanjiazhuang."
The dishes are made with chili peppers. Stir-fried razor clams with chili peppers, fried sea bass with chili peppers, and chili fish fillets invented by the Duke of Guo. They are all side dishes commonly eaten by the people of Fanjiazhuang."
Hearing Zhang Yu's words, Yuan Jixian swallowed his saliva and asked: "Can ordinary people eat such a dish?"
Zhang Yu said with a smile: "With a strong sense of public morality and people telling the truth to each other, the result is full competition in the market. In the end, the restaurants that survive in the market are high-quality and low-priced. A big meal in Fanjiazhuang only costs two or three yuan."
Silver. If you eat the same food and wine in the capital, you won't be able to get out without five coins."
"If people don't respect public ethics and talk about the quality of the hotel just to save face, the medium of word-of-mouth will lose its role. The final result will be that good hotels cannot make small profits but quick sales and will close down one after another, while hotels that use inferior ingredients to deceive customers can
It’s so popular, come and kill one by one.”
Yuan Jixian took a breath and said: "There are such benefits to being ethical?"
After walking for a while, Yuan Jixian asked: "Why do so many people in Fanjiazhuang have things in their hands?"
Zhang Yu said with a smile: "That's the garbage of the common people. The wrapping paper peeled off when eating candy or buying cakes. The common people never throw it away. They have to take it to a special trash can before throwing it away. Every 100 people in the trash can
There is one zhang, so many people have all kinds of garbage in their hands."
Yuan Jixian asked: "No one littered?"
Zhang Yu said with a smile: "Everyone in Fanjiazhuang abides by and upholds public ethics. If you litter in Fanjiazhuang, you will be scolded by women, children and children. If you are interested, Yuan Yuan, you can give it a try, but you have to wait until I am far away."
Yuan Jixian took a breath and spat: "Why do I feel that this is not in the Ming Dynasty!"
The businessmen behind Yuan Jixian all shook their heads and sighed. All the little things in Fanjiazhuang were shocking.
The businessmen were shaking their heads when suddenly a middle-aged man on the road shouted at the businessmen: "Keep right! Don't you know you should keep on the right side of the road? Go to the left and block the road. No one can walk!"
The businessman then realized that people in Fanjiazhuang walked on the right side and quickly gave way to the left side of the road.
Yuan Jixian didn't wait for Zhang Yu to explain, and said: "If everyone keeps to the right, the flow of people in the two directions will not collide, and everyone can walk faster. If you walk faster on the road, you will have more time to work, and you will have more time to work."
Earn some money to support your family!”
When the businessmen saw that Yuan Jixian had figured out the reason for walking on the right so quickly, as if Yuan Jixian had proved that these businessmen could quickly adapt to life in Fanjiazhuang, they all praised him.
Zhang Yu smiled and said: "We finally went to Fanjiazhuang City Hall to see the efficient administration governed by the concept of public ethics."
The businessmen had heard before that the courts of the Duke of Jin were selfless and the social order in the territory was orderly. Now they saw the details of Fanjiazhuang. Because of their small knowledge, they had already admired the business environment and living environment under Li Zhi's rule. There was no need to go to Fanjiazhuang.
At the city hall, everyone has decided to move to Li Zhi's territory.
Who doesn’t want to live in a place where the law is strong and everyone is ethical?
One by one, they approached Zhang Yu and asked: "Captain Zhang, if we move our families to the area under the rule of the Duke, what kind of business can we make a living on?"
Zhang Yu looked at the eager businessmen and said with a smile: "If you bring money to invest in the territory of the Duke of Guo, it can stimulate the local economy. The Duke of Guo welcomes more businessmen with their responsibilities to come to the four areas."
When a town in a province develops, the lives of the people under the rule of the country will become richer."
In the expectant eyes of the businessmen, Zhang Yu finally said: "There is a business opportunity. The Duke of Guo will recently privatize cement production and sell the cement as a patent. The development of Liaodong requires the construction of a large number of cement roads. Do you have any idea?
If you are interested, you can go to Liaodong to open a cement factory."
