The investment order was issued, and the whole of Chang'an was shocked.
Li Er held a newspaper in one hand and a report about the outside of the palace in the other, smiling so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.
Li Er was thinking about how Chang'an City would react when the gold mining investment invitation order was published in tomorrow's newspaper. Chang'an City's reaction? Li Er was thinking about how Li Yuanxing would react.
Thinking of Li Yuanxing, Li Erxin's original enthusiasm suddenly disappeared.
It is estimated that Li Yuanxing would say with a smile, "Brother Huang is wise." Or maybe he would have no reaction!
"I wonder what King Qin is busy with these days?" Li Er asked casually.
Eunuch Gao responded in a low voice from the side: "Your Majesty, His Highness King Qin went east before dawn. Judging from the way the car was driven, it didn't look like he was traveling far."
Not far away, we will go there. Tianchi? Lintong? Or Huazhou!
At this time, Li Yuanxing was standing on a river embankment, looking at the large deserted beach from a distance.
Huazhou, later known as Weinan, is located on the lower reaches of the Wei River, 140 miles east of Chang'an City. It was originally a county under Jingzhao County, but was later upgraded to a state in the sixth year of Wude, but it was a lower-level state in the Tang Dynasty.
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"Your Majesty didn't know His Highness was coming and didn't go out to greet him. It's a sin, it's a sin!" A thin, middle-aged scribe was wearing a light crimson robe, but it was not an official uniform. On his head was a turban embroidered with gold threads.
, but did not wear a crown. When Li Yuanxing came forward, he bowed and said, "I dare not absolve myself of the crime, but I have been inspecting river affairs recently for fear of staining my official uniform!"
Li Yuanxing did not answer, but pointed to the distance.
"Huazhou, I thought it was a cornucopia. I wonder what happened to Pei as governor?"
The middle-aged man's surname is Pei, and he is a member of the four major Pei clans in Guanzhong. His name is Pei Yuanlang. He is actually an official. He was originally just a fifth-rank official. After being transferred to Hua County, Hua County was upgraded to a state in the first year.
In 2006, Huazhou was close to the standard of a medium-sized state, with an actual population of 18,600 households.
After hearing Li Yuanxing's words, Pei Yuanlang lowered his head and thought for a moment: "Your Highness, I think that Huazhou is a cornucopia, but there are only three difficulties. I even think that with His Highness personally here, even if there are all difficulties, they will no longer be difficult!"
Li Yuanxing laughed. The flattery was even louder.
But Li Yuanxing didn't know. This was Pei Yuanlang's heartfelt wish. As soon as he heard that King Qin had taken Huazhou, he was afraid of wasting time even going home to change clothes, so he rushed over immediately.
"Your Highness, the first difficulty is the washed out wasteland in the lower reaches of the Wei River. If it can be managed, it will bring 200,000 acres of fertile land!"
Li Yuanxing nodded slightly. This statement was serious and relatively conservative in terms of quantity. It was not an exaggeration.
Pei Yuanlang continued: "Your Highness, the second difficulty is still the river. I read your Highness's investment order last night. I thought that the fishery in Kunming Lake may not be as strong as that of Huazhou. But I don't know where to start. The more difficult problem is
Weishui!"
"You keep talking!"
"The third difficulty is the road. Your Highness, Huazhou is an important place, and it is flat and smooth. However, the water roads are merged, and the dry roads are poor. The merchants in the past complained a lot. If there are water roads, there will be great prosperity in Huazhou!" Pei Yuanlang bowed to the end again.
As soon as Li Yuanxing reached out, Yuan Chun, who was wearing a female official's uniform next to him, took out an envelope. Pei Yuanlang took it with both hands. Before opening it, Li Yuanxing asked: "How does Governor Pei understand the word Huaxia?"
Pei Yuanlang still held the envelope with both hands, and after pondering for a while, he replied loudly: "Back to Your Highness, the word Huaxia first appeared in "Shang Shu? Zhou Shu? Wucheng": "Chinese barbarians will not follow their lead." This refers to
My Chinese orthodoxy is different from the four barbarians (Eastern Yi, Nanman, Xirong, and Beidi)."
After finishing speaking, Pei Yuanlang thought for a while and continued: "Your Highness's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" mentioned Guan Yu. I remember "Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Chronicles of Shu? Biography of Guan Yu": "Yu was so powerful in China that Cao Gong proposed to move to the Xu capital to avoid his power.
"It was also mentioned that I think Huaxia refers to our Chinese orthodoxy!"
If you are really a well-read person, you can quote scriptures on any question.
Li Yuanxing couldn't help but say the word "convinced".
However, Li Yuanxing read more books than Pei Yuanlang, and the books Li Yuanxing read were based on the wisdom of countless sages over thousands of years.
Li Yuanxing said: "Hua" refers to "Hua", which is Huashan, and "Xia" refers to "Xia Yang". The land under our feet is the root of our Chinese civilization. But since this king, there is another saying. To dress with splendor
Its beauty is called "Hua"; its vast territory, prosperous culture, and prosperous civilization and morality are called "Xia"."
(In ancient Chinese, the word "Xia" has the meaning of grand.)
Pei Yuanlang said nothing and bowed to the end again.
"Chang'an is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and this place will be a pearl of the Tang Dynasty. Open the envelope and take a look. If there is anything that I am not saying, feel free to testify!"
"Your Majesty, please read it!" Pei Yuanlang respectfully raised the letter above his head, then took it down and opened the envelope.
Contained here is Li Yuanxing's plan for Huazhou.
The first sentence shocked Pei Yuanlang, because it said that the entire territory of Huazhou is fertile land. There are 8 million acres of fertile land, 60% of which are special paddy fields. The annual output is 5 million dans of refined grains, and only Huazhou can guarantee this.
The official warehouses of the Tang treasury were full every year.
Li Yuanxing's data is definitely not random. From the detailed planning of modern Weinan in later generations, this value Li Yuanxing said is quite conservative.
We must know that in later modern times, Weinan's annual grain output was more than two million tons.
If these more than two million tons are converted into the weight of the Tang Dynasty, it would be 40 million dan, so Li Yuanxing was afraid of scaring Pei Yuanlang about 5 million dan, so he wrote this.
Pei Yuanlang took a deep breath. He did not dare to refute, and he would not refute, because the number mentioned by His Highness King Qin, even if it was a number that made the world feel incredible, would definitely be proved in the future to be too conservative.
Just like Yaozhou's steel production, the value required by His Highness the King of Qin has been achieved long ago, and it is more than twice as high.
Then, Huazhou’s future grain supply should be 10 million tons.
Pei Yuanlang continued to look down. Next was the area of natural grassland, natural forest, and virgin forest.
Then, there are the available resources for fisheries and the amount of resources in mining areas.
Coal, 200 billion tons! This 200 billion made Pei Yuanlang shake his hands and almost dropped the pieces of paper in his hands to the ground. He really couldn't believe what this amount represented?
"Your Highness, 200 billion tons of coal?"
"Yes, you read that right. This is something that our Datang can dig out, but it cannot be dug out and buried too deep. The total sum is no less than 500 billion tons, which is nearly a hundred times that of my king's Yaozhou coal mine. But
This is not what I care about, what I really care about is this molybdenum mine!"
"Your Majesty, I don't understand! Please give me some advice, Your Highness!"
"It's too complicated for you to understand. This is the knowledge of craftsmen. With this molybdenum ore, fine steel can be made harder, sharper, less likely to break, and most importantly, less likely to rust.
It can be said that this is an excellent thing. In the entire Tang Dynasty, I only know a few molybdenum mines, and you only have one here!"
"Your Majesty, I understand!"
As Li Yuanxing said, Pei Yuanlang does not need to know too much professional knowledge, he only needs to know that this ore is very important, that is enough.
The last thing is a map with detailed river channels and fertile farmland distribution map.
"Prince Pei, in the first year, I will help you develop grain fields and increase fishery production. I do not require production, but in the second year, I will provide you with three million dan of grain, three million catties of fish, three million sheep, and oxen."
Three hundred thousand, three million pigs, and one million donkeys. If you can do it, I will give you an official position. If you can't do it, someone who can do it will be appointed as an official here!"
Li Yuanxing's tone was already very stern.
But to Pei Yuanlang, this was an opportunity. Officials in the early Tang Dynasty were not without corruption, but they cared more about the livelihood of the people first and then their own official career.
Pei Yuanlang thought about it and finally said: "Your Highness, please come into the palace. I have many things I would like to ask for advice."
"There's no rush. I'm going to a small place on the way. I want to earn money for a railway in Huazhou!"
Pei Yuanlang liked it very much and hurriedly followed behind.
Soon, Li Yuanxing came to a ravine, where hundreds of craftsmen were already working. Seeing Li Yuanxing's arrival, the leading craftsman came up to him and simply held his hand: "Your Highness is wise, here are the ones that Your Highness likes.
Planting stones seems better than those in Yaozhou!"
"Is there any trial production?" Li Yuanxing asked.
The craftsman carelessly led Li Yuanxing to a machine. This was a small animal-powered water mill. A one-foot-square plane had been ground out. The black and white and yellow texture was extremely beautiful.
"Hurry up, put some wax on and let His Highness see the effect!" the foreman shouted.
As a stonemason and a rough man, Li Yuanxing didn't mind and just watched from a distance.
Not long after, the stone was carried to Li Yuanxing. The mason foreman said: "Your Highness, someone also found red ones and light blue ones in the mountains over there. I think the effect will be better. If this thing is given to His Majesty
If it is laid in the study room, it will be more beautiful than our ceramic tiles!”
"Hahaha!" Li Yuanxing laughed: "You're very good. You've already started planning how to make money from this thing."
"Your Highness, we are rough people. It is Your Highness who allows us to have meat to eat every day. We have been thinking about how to make more money for Your Highness all day long. The manpower in Yaozhou is too tight. Even though we have this stone, we can't spare the manpower.
If we have it here, let’s cut stone and make slabs. In less than half a year, we can produce one million square feet of slabs per year!”
"Okay, very good. Arrange your manpower here. Work harder these days and grind out at least two hundred feet. Then follow the map I gave you and go have a look on the ground. I want to hear your good news!"
"I understand. Don't worry, Your Highness, I'll go right now!" After saying that, he held his hands and ran with great strides, while beckoning people to follow him into the mountain. He had a temper as eager as the wind.
Li Yuanxing was very satisfied when he saw the stonemason. Such a person should live a good life.
"Prince Pei, go to the state capital." Li Yuanxing motioned to take the stone with him.
Arriving at Huazhou Prefecture, Li Yuanxing had just entered the house when one sentence made all the officials in the room panic. Li Yuanxing said: "Huazhou, starting from this year, the grain tax will be increased by 10%!" (To be continued...)
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