Tomorrow

Chapter One and Three Zero The Beginning of the Great Railway Era

After sending away Master Liu, Sun Yuanda's spirit relaxed, and he was sweating in a moment!

Slowly paced back to the hall, which was filled with people again.

Sun Yuanda sat in a chair wearily, took a sip of herbal tea and said to the people present: "Did you hear clearly?"

Yang Wenhu took the lead to stand up and salute Sun Yuanda deeply: "If Sun Gong has sent him, Yang Wenhu will follow him."

Feng Tong also stood up tremblingly and greeted Sun Yuanda: "Gong Sun is the first to protect Yangzhou's salt merchant industry!"

Immediately more people stood up and saluted Sun Yuanda. Not only did they have no dissatisfaction with Sun Yuanda's spending their money, but they were grateful to the Qin Shang who was not a big deal in the day.

Sun Yuanda untied his Gebu Qingyi and twisted it casually. Everyone saw that sweat was twisted out, splashing the ground.

"The officials dispatched by Lantian to Yangzhou are all elite, and the officials in Lantian who stayed in Yushan are also sophisticated. Just as Master Liu said, none of the official officials who came out of Yushan Academy are easy to deal with.

What they did, seemingly unreasonable, is very effective and has their own rules.

The new dynasty has new rules, which is almost certain, and Lantian officials generally show disdain for money, which we have never encountered before.

It is said that thousands of miles are officials only for money, but these Lantian officials are not like that.

It's not that they don't value money, but in their eyes, money is a tool for arranging the yin and yang of the world!

And this, for our merchants, is precisely the most terrifying thing.

When money becomes a tool... Then, many of the meanings given by money no longer exist, and can be used for risk, consumption, or even sacrifice when necessary.

In Yuanzhou, there has been an incident where Lantian officials spared no expense to continue the lives of sixteen craftsmen.

Three thousand civilians were dispatched to excavate day and night, just to rescue the 16 craftsmen buried in the underground mine.

For these sixteen craftsmen, they did not hesitate to pierce the good mine next to the mine, let the water in the accident mine flow into the good mine, and drown the good mine alive.

The value of this mine-three hundred thousand taels of silver.

In the end, they only rescued four people, and all the other twelve were killed.

They seem to have spent more than four hundred thousand taels of silver, but with these four hundred thousand taels, they bought the hearts of all the artisans in Yangzhou Prefecture and the people.

Those craftsmen who died received a lot of compensation. Throughout the whole thing, the government and the people were the beneficiaries. The only ones who suffered were those of us...we lost money, were warned, and were fined and confiscated in the end. .

From this incident, it can be seen that the Lantian official treats the people better than it treats us.

Dear shopkeepers, this is an extremely dangerous warning sign. If those of us cannot prove to the Lantian imperial court that we are still useful, then it will not take long for our good days to come to an end.

This is why the old man spent one hundred thousand taels of silver and spent more than half a year doing nothing, not going anywhere, and just staying in Lantian, hoping that these crops can help the old man listen to our thoughts.

This is our only opportunity. Master Liu is also the only middleman among Lantian officials who can let us communicate with the imperial court, and his middleman is just relatively mediocre.

Just like Master Liu himself said-changing to a main hall official from Yushan Academy, we can't achieve the current results.

God bless I shouldn't be able to wait for my life!

It's totally right to spend some money. "

Yang Wenhu laughed and said, "I can't pay, I can't pay. If your majesty allows us to operate these railways, I can guarantee that within three years, we will be able to recover the money invested.

Even if your majesty does not give us the right to operate, building a two hundred-mile-long railway will surely collect a large number of fields. We can use this to seek some industries for everyone here in the most central area of ​​Guanzhong.

And Sun Gong told Master Liu that the proposal to build a few railway stations was simply a magic touch, which would allow us to easily obtain several important railway commercial ports.

Great, Yang recognizes 800,000 taels for the cost of building the railway. If any shopkeeper has a tight hand and insufficient funds, Yang is willing to recognize one million. "

Feng Tong held down Yang Wenhu's hand and said: "Treasurer Yang, Qin merchants and Hui merchants have fought for many years. At this time, everyone is sitting in the same boat. The old man thinks that the interests should be shared.

There are hundreds of salt merchants here, and your family occupies a million. How can you make the rest of the people feel unworthy?

Everyone wants to take this opportunity to move to Lantian. This is related to your wealth and life, so don't overdo it..."

Yang Wenhu laughed and said, "Everyone, don't we have no livelihood? Since your Majesty has allowed us to build the railway from Yushan City to Phoenix Mountain City and Chang'an, why can't we just build the railway as a new livelihood?

Shopkeeper Feng, we shouldn’t fight for a little bit of interest on the 200-mile railway.

Think about it, what do you think if we build a railway from Chang'an to Luoyang? "

As soon as Yang Wenhu's words fell, someone yelled: "Luoyang to Kaifeng, Kaifeng to Yingtian, Kaifeng to Shuntian...Oh my god, as long as we start working, at least three or five generations of business will be settled... "

Sun Yuanda unbuttoned his sweatshirt and shook a huge black lacquer folding fan. At this moment, he was hot all over, and he felt that the burning heart was about to jump out of his throat with fire.

"It is impossible to give them the right to operate the railway."

Zhang Guozhu frowned deeply.

"I would rather buy shares with land than allow the railway to be controlled by a group of merchants."

"Since they are willing to build railways, they can give them some benefits, but after they get these benefits, they can't just build some railways that can make money at a glance, and they must also participate in some railways that are related to military affairs."

"If this is not possible, do you want to make this group of merchants stay with the country? My opinion is that they are worthy of their money. As long as they do not lose money, they can make a little profit. The main force in building the railway must It's the country!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Nowadays, Daming just got so angry. It is very inappropriate to empty the treasury. You can only use the money in these people to do big things.

Building a railway is a very large project. It will consume a lot of materials such as wood, steel, ballast, etc. At the same time, the manpower required is also a very large number.

My Da Ming is now dying, and I just need this kind of big project to turn Da Ming's money into living money. As long as the money flows into the hands of ordinary people, it is great news for civil servants everywhere.

People in poverty-stricken areas can earn rations and money by working on railway construction sites. As long as the railway continues to be built, a large group of people will always have work.

Conversely, the consumption of such a large group of people on the construction site can also provide great benefits to the people along the railway. Your Majesty and the minister think that, taking advantage of the low demand of the people in Ming Dynasty, we should vigorously build the railway..."

"Weichen also believes that building a railway is a great thing at this time. Yushan Academy has established a discipline dedicated to solving railway problems, allowing these people to gradually mature in the process of building railways and accumulate a lot of experience.

In the future, our railway will be just like what His Majesty once said. To open up roads in the mountains and build bridges in the water, the ministers can guarantee that within 20 years, we will be able to cultivate a capable railway team..."

Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu and officials from various ministries discussed the construction of the railway in the large study room for a day.

In the end, we came up with a result—the power of heavy salt merchants can be used to build railways. However, salt merchants can only invest in the form of money and earn 20% of the railway profits.

At the same time, it is possible to invest fully in the stations along the railway, obtain the right to operate the shops of the station, and obtain the right to maintain the railway. These powers will be written into the formal document. After the Lantian Congress Committee deliberates and votes, Write the official text.

In Yun Zhao's view, this text is too generous for businessmen, but Zhang Guozhu and others believe that in order to stimulate businessmen's enthusiasm for investing in railways, it is something that the state minister's office can bear in the early stage.

In Zhang Guozhu's eyes, nothing is more important than quickly making the lives of the people of Ming Dynasty better.

The population of the Central Plains is declining. It is necessary to lead the people hiding in the deep mountains and old forests to live in the Central Plains, and it is necessary to let the people whose production materials have been completely lost and destroyed to leave their original hometowns and continue to live on the fertile land of the Central Plains.

Lantian officials are very suitable for this kind of large-scale corps-scale poverty alleviation and rescue. Doing this can easily improve Daming's national strength quickly. As for those piecemeal poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation matters, we need to work slowly in the future.

After the other officials left, Yun Zhao and Zhang Guozhu were left in the room.

Zhang Guozhu saw that Yun Zhao was looking at him with one eye open and one eye closed, and said dissatisfied: "Why do you look at me like this?"

Yun Zhao smiled and said, "I usually look at stupid pens like this, and I'm afraid that if I look at both eyes together, I will be infected into stupid pens!"

Zhang Guozhu said angrily: "What is a stupid pen?"

Yun Zhao said: "The stupid pen is the second idiot showing the contents of the brush to others. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com"

Zhang Guozhu sighed and said, "It is a mistake, it should be inserted into the pen holder."

Yun Zhao smiled and said: "If you don't want to be such a second fool, it's better to allow me to continue to make telegrams!"

Zhang Guozhu sneered: "Now, our army is invincible, our officials are managing localities, and Quan Daming is gradually freed from the disaster because of us.

The moment of prosperity of Ming Dynasty is coming, and we are already on the right path.

At this moment, you, as the emperor, are stupid to get some telegram by yourself! "

Chapter One, Chapter Two is coming soon,

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