"When we returned to Xuzhou, we went to see the boss as soon as possible. The boss estimated that there were nearly 20,000 new residents in Xuzhou at this time..."
Yang Qin introduced the latest situation in Xuzhou.
Since the spread of rumors about the discovery of gold mines in Xuzhou in July and August last year, the relaxation of land restrictions to attract tourists to move in, and the deliberate efforts of boat gangs in various places, in nearly a year, new tourists have poured into Xuzhou.
There are nearly 20,000 people, which is almost the total number of guest people who have fled to Syria due to wars and natural disasters in the past 40 to 50 years.
Of course, this also includes a group of people that Tanzhou deliberately arranged to come in.
Han Qian had no hope of hiding such a big news from anyone, especially the fact that he encouraged his father to release the land ban. It might even be used as a basis for the four surnames to file a complaint to the court, but Han Qian had nothing to worry about.
For now, Xuzhou does not have much weight in the territory of Dachu, not to mention that it is isolated from Tanzhou.
Even if this new influx of people is included, the total population of Xuzhou is just over 100,000, which may not be as high as Runzhou, a county in Yangzhou.
What's more, there is a serious conflict between native and foreign residents in Xuzhou. Han Qian introduced new people, and the number of foreign residents was still slightly inferior to that of native residents.
Even if Emperor Tianyou no longer wants his father and son to gain power, he will not tolerate a little ambition from his father and son.
Just like Han Qian couldn't show too much resentment towards the current situation, but he didn't have any resentment at all. In the eyes of Emperor Tianyou, it was probably abnormal, right?
Thinking of this, Han Qian also lamented in his heart that it is difficult to be a human being and even more difficult to be a minister. As the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. It is true.
At this time, Han Qian didn't think much about weighing Jinling's reaction to this matter. He was more concerned about Xuzhou attracting so many people through rumors, and many conflicts would soon intensify one after another.
Without large-scale industries, mines and handicraft workshops, more than 100,000 acres of farmland would be needed to accommodate the 20,000 new people.
Along the Yuanshui River north of Qianyang City, it is possible to cultivate several times more new fields, but the problem is that if the new people are to do these things on their own initiative, it may take a long time.
Intensification of conflicts with the local area will be inevitable.
"The embankment built by Yang Tan Water Village to the north of Wufeng Mountain was closed before the river water rose. However, the newly encircled silt land was as thin as rice and was not conducive to planting. It needs further development before
Digging canals, building polder embankments, and raising the terrain of the polder fields..." Yang Qin also introduced the situation of Yangtan Water Village, which has been directly involved in reclaiming new fields in Xuzhou for the past six months.
The silt land on both sides of the Yuanshui River is lower than the Yuanshui River. Even if river embankments are used to block the water from the river, it is prone to waterlogging and is unfavorable for planting. The traditional method is to build polders, and a continuous improvement process is needed in the future.
, can it eventually become fertile farmland.
Yang Qin added: "The new embankment can encircle more than 20,000 acres of polder land, but what the boss wants is that there is not much official land in Xuzhou to reward military merit, and the state government wants to allocate 10,000 acres of new land for official use..."
Han Qian nodded, having already guessed that his father would have such an arrangement, and said: "There is no problem with this. I will write to my father to tell him about this, but I will try my best to ensure that the people of the Xi clan and the Yangtan Water Village respond accordingly."
The fields obtained as rewards for military merit are all gathered together. I do not plan to distribute these new fields to each household, but directly integrate them into the plantation for unified management, or it can be said to be a farm. Everyone is more familiar with the farm. On the one hand, the family members
If you have spare energy, you can work in the plantation and get paid, and the military guards of the boat gang don't have to worry about them being away from home and unable to take care of the fields. And each family's military merit reward fields will receive a proportion of the dividend at the end of the year..."
Although the vast majority of slave soldiers and ship gang guards can obtain hundreds of acres of polder land, if the land is directly allocated, there will not be enough cattle, and the scattered farmers will not be able to further improve the soil quality of the polder land.
, building water conservancy supporting facilities directly connected to the Yuanshui River. Even if a family of all ages puts all their energy into it, they may not be able to make ends meet in the end.
And more importantly, the vast majority of the Xi clan's slave soldiers and the boat gang's military guards will be tied up in the fields, and practical difficulties will no longer allow them to escape and continue to follow the boat gang around the world.
Han Qian used military merit rewards to disintegrate the four major clans, but he did not want the armed escorts of the boat gangs that had finally gathered together to be content with the existing military merit rewards, break up the gangs and go home to become yeoman farmers.
Han Qian considered setting up a plantation in Xuzhou and concentrating all the fields under the name of the plantation. In this way, he could hire manpower from the newly added guest population in Xuzhou to carry out more precise farming of the new fields, which would also alleviate the problem.
Conflicts on many fronts.
Apart from military camps, only plantations have the ability to cultivate new fields on a large scale.
More importantly, and only in this way, Han Qian could prevent the armed escort force of the boat gang that had finally gathered together from being dispersed; and in the name of the plantation, he came forward to redeem the Xi clan people, and changing the name was justifiable and more convenient.
Sitting on the bow, chatting about things, the fleet quickly circled around Chizhou City. It did not anchor in the middle of the river at night, but continued sailing. At dusk the next day, it could be seen from the looking glass
See a corner of the towering city wall of Jinling City.
Han Qian did not tell anyone about his trip back to Jinling, so naturally no one came out of the city to pick him up.
When the fleet arrived at Shuiguan, Beicheng, it was already dark, so Han Qian spent the night on the boat. He followed the boat into the city early the next morning and returned directly to the Han family's mansion in Lanting Lane.
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It was already very hot in Jinling in mid-June. When he got up early in the morning, Zhao Ting'er wore a half-sleeved skirt, revealing her arms like snow lotus roots, and ordered several servants in the yard to be busy.
The Dragon Bird Army made great achievements in battle, and the third prince was awarded the title of Linjiang County Prince, but Han Qian was not summoned twice. This made the status of Han Qian and Zuo Si in the new County Prince's Palace blurred, and various
There were more and more rumors.
The newly established Prince's Palace, the Guard Camp, the Longque Army and the five major military camps will all be brought under the jurisdiction of the Left and Right Guards Palace, the Marriage Affairs Palace, and the Ten Nei Palace system, and everyone will have to change their seals and ribbons.
Zheng Hui and the military attachés and subordinates he selected from the villages of Huangzhou and Junzhou brought their families and their families to Jinling to take up their posts, and settled down in Jinling. It was also a busy time.
Even though the third prince Yang Yuanpu had returned to Jinling nearly a month early, he did not have the energy to take care of Zuo Si until Han Qian came back.
There are all kinds of rumors and rumors. Although the previous depositors did not have the courage to run again after Shen He intervened, no new depositors dared to invest money for the time being.
However, in the past six months or so, Linjiang Money Shop has actually taken in the 30 million yuan in loans that Han Qian and the Third Prince agreed upon, and even slightly exceeded it. Before Han Qian comes back, it is time to suspend the loan solicitation.
of the mouth.
At present, Linjiang money shops and warehouses mainly use coal cakes, lime, polished rice, tea, cured duck, Shaodaozi wine and other products to maintain the interest supply to original savers.
Moreover, the property taken out every month has to be converted into interest of 1.23 million yuan, which is also extremely stressful.
The loan of more than 30 million yuan was either misappropriated by Han Qian to advance military supplies, or used by Han Qian to redeem the Xi clan members, or to maintain Zuosi's increasingly huge expenses, and could not be used to expand the production of the workshop.
Even the benefits generated by several shipping trades were not swallowed up by this huge bottomless pit.
However, fortunately, coal cakes, lime and even the Shaodaozi wine produced by the craftsman's shop are sold at high prices and have huge profit margins. At least the interest payment of the money shop can be sustained at present, and the reputation will not be completely ruined.
Especially for coal cakes, each truck of coal cakes sells for 400 yuan. However, in fact, the cost of transporting a truck of coal cakes from Qiuhushan Coal Mine into the city is less than 200 yuan. In the later period, the interest will mainly be paid with coal cakes. In fact,
It is to reduce the high interest rate promised earlier to half of the previous level.
But even so, using briquettes to boil water for cooking is still much cheaper and more convenient than using firewood. Savers not only accept the exchange of briquettes for interest, but also buy some extra from the warehouse to make up for the lack of firewood. This also provides opportunities for craftsmen.
The company provides an additional portion of the profit.
These matters are under the control of the engineers and shopkeepers below. No matter how ambiguous the status of Han Qian and Zuo Si is, the engineers and shopkeepers, as military households strictly managed by the military government, are working conscientiously at this time, and there is no fear that anything will go wrong.
At this time, Zhao Ting'er only needs to be responsible for checking the accounts, and does not need to keep an eye on the money shop or warehouse all day, so she seems to have nothing to do.
Following Han Qian, Zhao Ting'er has long been accustomed to the busy rhythm. Once she has nothing to do, she will become restless. She will not enrich herself by working as an embroidery worker, so she sends servants to plant flowers, plants, bamboos, and tidy up the yard to perfection.
Elegant.
These days, Zhao Ting'er was thinking about a kind of goat-horn lamp that Han Qian once talked about in general, but after trying many methods, he could not successfully soften the goat's horns.
However, thinking of the translucent horn lamp shades that Han Qian mentioned, like jade-white flakes of glass, Zhao Ting'er thought how beautiful it would be if there were a few such lanterns hanging in the yard.
Thinking of this, Zhao Ting'er followed the new idea and asked her servant to prepare vinegar and pickled radish water. Today she planned to use these two things to boil the lamb's horn to see if it was possible to boil the lamb's horn.
"You are a girl, you don't learn how to be an embroidery worker, you just work on these things that you have and don't have. The whole yard is filled with a sour and strange smell, and you don't know how much money you have wasted in vain. How are you going to do your job when the young master comes back?"
Although Han Qian made it clear that Zhao Ting'er was responsible for the affairs of the inner house, money shop, and warehouse, and Gao Shao and others followed Zhao Ting'er's instructions when they came back, Zhao Laoguo couldn't help but murmur, always feeling that Zhao Ting'er would be so messy.
Getting into trouble is not like a serious daughter's family.
"Why don't you wait for the young master to come back? Dad, why don't you run over and tell me that you will take charge of the back house?" Zhao Ting'er said angrily to her father.
"You're a little girl. My father's words to you are just for your own good. Will the young master like you when he sees you like this?" Old Man Zhao was so angry that his beard trembled. "You look like a very smart person. Why?"
I'm confused this time. You don't stay with the young master, but stay in Jinling to take charge of things. In the end, you can take charge of this matter? Did your mother have a good talk with you two days ago? In a few days, the young master
It's time to return to Aurous Hill, you have to put more thought into the young master."
"Dad, what are you talking about?"
Zhao Ting'er said with dissatisfaction and anger, and when she was about to drive her father out of the yard, she heard a voice behind her that she had missed for a long time and that made her emotional:
