Chapter 460: Five Surnames and Seven Hopes Are Frightened)
As a result, governors from various states came to visit him one after another with heavy gifts.
Li Min naturally refused to accept these gifts and severely criticized them.
Next, these governors requested to lay roads, build new cities, and open universities in their states.
Well, the governors of these states saw the King of Shu coming to Yizhou.
Roads were paved and construction was carried out, and Yizhou's economy and education improved slowly.
As for the economy, it may have changed several times since King Shu came.
Not to mention education, it can be said to be the best in the entire Tang Dynasty.
They looked eagerly at Yizhou's great achievements, and their hearts were full of envy, jealousy, and hatred.
But I can only watch helplessly.
And now, the King of Shu has become the governor of the entire Jiannan Road!
That's great. They all hope that their state can develop as fast as Yizhou.
In this way, they can get a perfect answer sheet, which will also help their promotion.
Upon hearing their request, Li Min couldn't help but have black lines on his head.
Huo, you only see Yizhou developing rapidly, but do you know how much money I have invested in Yizhou?
Do you think that a local economy can be boosted simply through large-scale construction?
This idea is too naive.
This wind cannot last long!
We cannot only focus on the development of jdp and ignore other things.
In ancient times, when agricultural output could not increase and people had to rely on labor-intensive planting, there was a reason to put agriculture first.
Therefore, at that time, the development of a place was inseparable from the support of agriculture.
Therefore, Li Min reprimanded them and told them to focus on agriculture in the next few years.
The local people must be able to solve their food and clothing problems, and there must be surplus food and personnel, so that industry and commerce can be developed and other things can be developed.
Next, Li Min assigned a task to all the governors, which was to promote winter wheat throughout Jiannan Road.
In fact, even if Li Min did not promote it, those farmers would plant it after hearing about the yield of winter wheat.
After all, the introduction of winter wheat increased the grain crop from once a year to three crops every two years.
It's equivalent to one more year's harvest in two years. How could the people refuse such a good thing?
But sowing winter wheat requires good seed grain.
Without the participation of the government, it would be difficult to promote it throughout Jiannan Road.
And now, Tuyuhun sent a large number of cattle and sheep.
Those sheep were all given to the army by Li Min to improve their food.
As for the cattle, they were distributed directly to each state and distributed equally to the people for farming.
By next year, sweet potatoes, peanuts and corn will be promoted throughout Jiannan Province.
In this way, Li Min is confident that Jiannan Road will completely solve the problem of food and clothing in the next three to five years.
After solving the problem of food and clothing, the next step is to develop industry and commerce.
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People from the five surnamed Qiwang families gathered together again.
The King of Shu became the governor of Jiannan Road, which made them panic.
Well, in fact, the reason why the King of Shu was able to go to Yizhou as the governor was that they were invincible.
But when the King of Shu actually arrived in Yizhou, they realized that they had underestimated the King of Shu.
To the King of Shu, their calculations seemed to be nothing more than a child's game of house.
The King of Shu not only cracked their plan, but also built Yizhou into the first city of the Tang Dynasty.
Well, except for the slightly smaller population in Yizhou now, compared to Chang'an City, I'm afraid it's not far behind.
The business of their Five Surnames and Seven Hopes in Yizhou and even in the entire Jiannan Road was hindered.
Why can the five surnames and Qiwang be passed on?
The first is land, and the second is business.
The Wang family of Taiyuan controlled the salt industry of the Tang Dynasty, and the Cui family of Boling and the Li family of Zhaojun joined forces to monopolize the iron industry.
Of course, these two items were official businesses in the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, they were the only ones doing it, and not even Li Shimin dared to take these two businesses from them.
The Lu family of Fan Yang traveled all over the world in boats and carriages, the Zheng family of Xingyang made silk tea bricks, and the Cui family of Qinghe intervened in everything related to people's livelihood.
What are people’s livelihood matters?
To put it bluntly, it’s just food, clothing, housing and transportation, people do everything.
Well, if you think about it this way, almost all business in the world is monopolized by these big families.
Moreover, these major aristocratic families have always married each other, and basically do not marry with people with other surnames.
Because of this, they can be passed down for so many years.
But now, a Shu king has almost destroyed the foundation of their family.
The Wang family relies on the salt industry, which is also a hugely profitable industry.
But now the refined salt produced by King Shu in Yizhou is several times better than them, but the price is very low.
Although the Wang family has been forced to lower the price of salt, it is much lower than the price of King Shu's refined salt.
But as a result, their profits have plummeted.
And the most terrible thing is that the King of Shu probably has not spared his time and has not found a large salt well to produce refined salt on a large scale.
Otherwise, I'm afraid the entire salt industry will be taken away by him.
The Cui family and the Li family controlled the iron industry, but now Yizhou's steelmaking capabilities are many times more advanced than theirs.
Now these two companies can no longer get involved in the entire iron industry in Jiannan Road.
The King of Shu has not expanded outwards yet, but isn't it a matter of time to expand outwards?
Well, only Lu's boat and car industry has not been greatly affected.
Not only was it not affected, but because of Yizhou's rapid development and more and more tourists, their business actually flourished.
Zheng's silk tea bricks were also affected.
Because starting from this year, Yizhou began to sell fairy tea to outsiders.
The taste of this fairy tea is countless times better than their tea bricks.
Even the prominent figures in the Zheng family began to drink this fairy tea.
And they are organizing manpower to investigate the method of making fairy tea, but they have not been able to crack it yet.
Although the fairy tea sold in Yizhou this year is very expensive and the quantity is not too large, it will have a certain impact on their tea brick business, but it is not too big.
But this scale can be expanded. It is foreseeable that the tea brick business will be replaced by fairy tea sooner or later.
The Cui family of Qinghe was also hit hard.
Their cosmetics and luxury goods such as bronze mirrors, tables, chairs and benches were so badly damaged that it was terrible to see.
Well, let’s not talk about it for others.
Now even the eldest daughter of the Cui family uses Zhenguan tables, Zhenguan chairs, glass mirrors, soaps, perfumes and shampoos produced by Zhonghua Trading Company, etc.
This is not the case for the Cui family, let alone others.
