Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 116 Golden Waterway
This time the division lasted for two full days before it could be sorted out clearly on the books.There are a total of 270 five people in the sub-clan. Because Shen Zhezi gave generous gifts, the Shen family's clan property dropped by almost half.As a result, the land owned by Shen's Dongzong in Wukang decreased sharply, to less than [-] hectares.

Except for a few important industries such as Longxi and Qianxi, the rest of the land was divided into fragments.But as a result, a large number of people were mobilized and devoted to the renovation of the entire Wuxing Waterway.

But in the eyes of outsiders, Shen's farm has been lost, which can be said to be a great loss of vitality.It is impossible for such a big thing to have no bad influence.Earlier, the families in various parts of Wuxing who jointly repaired waterways with the Shen family were somewhat wavering, and they were no longer as straightforward as they were at the beginning.

Generally speaking, these negative impacts are still within the controllable range. It can even be said that after weighing the overall interests, it is the intentional decision of Shen Zhezi and Qian Feng.

To connect the entire county's waterways, and to complete it before the Spring Festival travel rush, even though the Shen family had enough financial resources, they still had far insufficient personnel.In order to create a sensational impact in a very short period of time and leverage the large amount of manpower accumulated by Wu Xing, Shen Zhezi can be said to have invested regardless of cost.

But this kind of investment is bound to not last for too long, so in the past less than a month, the power has been mainly concentrated on dredging the main waterway based on Wuxi.

These waterways used to be the main roads of Wuxing's water transportation, and the maintenance and maintenance were considered effective. The main thing Shen Zhezi did was to slightly repair these waterways, so as to control every transfer node.Although the transshipment volume of each node cannot exceed the north-south thoroughfare of Yuhang, the sum of many of them is far greater than that of a single Yuhang Zhoushi.

After the framework is set up, so much human input is no longer needed.Through the influence of the Shen family's division, some people can be eliminated at no cost.And some objects that need to be retained are retained through other means.

So after the division of the clan, Shen Chong continued to stay at home, and according to the list made by Shen Zhezi and Qian Feng, made appointments and visited some families who needed to deepen their ties.

After February, the supplies mobilized by Kuaiji and Yuhang arrived in Wuxing one after another.With sufficient supply of materials, Shen Zhezi was more confident, sitting in Longxi, and delivered these materials at precise and fixed points, instead of pouring them down indiscriminately like the first rain.Even so, these materials are still consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Shen Chong was originally a local tyrant who spent money like water, and he knew that his son spent money wisely, but he saw tens of thousands of grains and piles of wood being transported to nowhere in a very short period of time.Such a huge consumption, but there was no response at all, which made him feel overwhelmed and terrified.

Shen Chong does not have much confidence in the large amount of cost input, whether the cost can be recovered or even the basic operation can be maintained.Although Qian Feng knew Shen Zhezi's arrangement well, if he really had high expectations, it was not at all.The reason why the two of them strongly support it is because of their military role.

Shen Zhezi can understand this.

The current manor economy is all about self-sufficiency. The consumption needed for daily life can be fully satisfied by the output of the manor, without external demands.The more powerful the family is, the more this is the case. For example, the Longxi Village of the Shen family has enough grain to consume, mulberry and hemp can be self-produced, and there are a variety of sideline businesses. If we look at the basic survival standards, there is almost no need to communicate with the outside world. Trade in exchange for survival supplies.

The so-called hiding in a small building is unified, regardless of winter, summer and spring and autumn.Once the gate of the manor is closed, even if there is turmoil outside of the change of dynasty, it will hardly affect the production and life inside the manor.It is precisely because of such a strong self-sufficiency that the local tyrants have the strength and confidence to blatantly ignore the king's law.

But anyone with a modern education can understand that this seemingly sound way of doing business is actually extremely costly.It's not that the cost of manor owners is high, but that compared to the whole society, it will cause great waste.

For example, in Wucheng County, wine making is the biggest sideline business. In order to ensure the supply of raw materials, a large amount of sorghum rice must be planted.But Wucheng County has fertile land and convenient water conservancy, which is more suitable for growing rice.If more sorghum is planted, rice production will inevitably decline.

The significance of Shen Zhezi's water network transportation is that it can gather rice from the entire Wuxing territory to Wucheng at the lowest cost for them to use for wine making.So is there still a need to free up land for planting sorghum rice?

Changcheng County is rich in bamboo, but the cost of transporting bamboo by land is extremely high, and there is no value in trafficking at all. Therefore, bamboo in Changcheng County is used as firewood fuel.However, places near the sea like Yuhang have a huge demand for bamboo.After the waterway is connected, the bamboo will be bundled and flowed down the river, and can be transported to Yuhang at almost no cost.

The most notable example is of course sea salt. Salt in places near the sea is as cheap as soil. In Wuxing, salt is more expensive than rice. In Jingxiang, the price difference is ten times or even higher.

To bring individual manors into order, the cost of crushing by force is enormous, and the hidden danger of rebound is also great.Convenient water transportation can make them completely unnecessary to rely on self-sufficiency in everything, and increase the demand for transactions with the outside world.As long as the trading network is formed, no one can be independent from the market.

Shen Chong seldom took time out to stroll with Shen Zhezi on the warehouse construction site of Longxi Wharf, looking at the extremely large warehouse with the frame set up, he frowned and said: "If it is profitable to breed goods, the most important thing is the turnover of goods." Why do we need to build such a huge warehouse and waste labor and materials?"

Shen Zhezi said with a smile: "The things needed in various places may only be for a while, or they may only be quantified. If every item has to be ordered and shipped immediately, it is really cumbersome, and it is difficult to show the convenience of water transportation. For large quantities of needed goods, storage Available in stock, you can pick it up when you need it, which can be described as fast.”

"If all the goods are ready, how much money will it cost? If the goods are delayed for a day, it will be a day's loss. If the goods are delayed for years and there is no way to resell them, what good is it?" Shen Chong is still puzzled, even if his family There are Jinshan and silver mines, so I can't help hoarding goods in the whole Wuxing.

Shen Zhezi had thought about this issue a long time ago, and it has been put into practice. After hearing the words, he explained with a smile: "The hoarding of goods should be done according to local conditions, and we should cooperate with merchants from all over the world. Each store stores here, and my family only hires workers." .Or my family collects the goods first and pays later. Keeping the waterway unimpeded, we can just sit back and make profits. If we keep doing this, we can know the needs of goods everywhere, and stock up goods early, even if the water runs dry, it will not hurt our merits. "

No matter how convenient water transportation is, it is still not as good as logistics in later generations.Shen Zhezi dared to play like this and stock up a lot of goods because of the current low production capacity and lack of supplies. As long as there are goods, there is no need to worry about slow sales and no worries about profits.

After Shen Chong heard the words, he nodded slightly and said: "The parties who collect the goods are full of storage. This is not something that a few families can do. Work hard with this vision, and if you maintain it for a long time, you will eventually make achievements."

It must not be possible to make everyone trust the Shen family and rely on goods and resources in a short period of time.Now that he has approved the prospect Shen Zhezi described, he has made plans for a long-term struggle in his heart.

As for the withering of Wukang's agricultural capital and the disappearance of the fields, this is not a serious matter.Kuaiji has a large piece of wasteland for reclamation, and he supported the more than a thousand people rescued from Yan's Reed Pond, and offered thousands of dollars for their bones, just to show his goodwill to the overseas Chinese.With the closer alliance with Xu Mao, the overseas Chinese from Jingkou and Jinling can continue to travel south across the sea in the future.These are all homeless people, and it will be up to him to decide whether they will be incorporated into the county mansion or into the Shen family.

Hearing what his father said, Shen Zhezi smiled again: "Warehouses have been built in various places, and waterways have been dredged. If there is no goods to transport, it would be useless! If you want to make achievements and profit within a few years, you still have to rely on your father." All the best to help."

"Qing Que made plans for this family, and I am happy to see his father's success, so there is no reason not to help!" Shen Chong smiled and patted Shen Zhezi on the shoulder, waiting for him to make a request.

"Every village is self-closing, and it is difficult to have goods turnover. The local folk customs are like this, and it is difficult to change for a while. But the government offices of counties and counties in various places are not like this! Spring and Autumn taxation, Taiwanese capital donations, all of which require a lot of manpower to turn around and transport .Son, please entrust the property and tax transportation of Jiyi County to my family. With this benefit, it will not be difficult to maintain it in four seasons! If you are entrusted by Wuxing County Mansion again, you will be able to profit immediately!"

Shen Zhezi smiled and revealed his big weapon. Now that the Shen family is in the limelight, everything is on the fast track.

He gathered all his strength to dredge the river and build warehouses, which seemed to outsiders to be a desperate and aggressive move. However, under the current situation, there is no need for him to take any more risks!Even for such a big matter, it is planned before it is done.

Taxation and transportation have always been a big problem for officials.Many local counties and counties even use the excuse of difficult roads and unmanned transportation to stop importing taxed Taiwanese funds after years.Even if Sanwu can start the shipment on time, the loss of travel is almost half.

The imperial court itself did not have the ability to send capital and taxes to various places, so the government treasury was always short of money and food. Every time a major event happened, officials and people from all over the country would be mobilized to donate money and food to Jiankang.This is a waste of time and money, and little gain.

The Shen family occupies this golden waterway, and there are supplements along the way. They can directly talk to the government, start shipping tax-taxed Taiwanese funds, return the profits to the government according to the amount, and then deduct the amount proportionally before transporting it to Jiankang.Even if the other families wanted to compete, they did not have the consistent influence of the Shen family, and they definitely had no competitiveness.

Waterways are public facilities, and everyone can sail, but the problem is that the wharf has become private property.If the Yan family occupies a Yuhangzhou City, they can cause the Sanwu Salt City to wither.Now Shen Zhezi controls more than one boat market, if he can't set up his own rules, then he will go with the Yan brothers.

Hearing Shen Zhezi's words, Shen Chong's eyes lit up immediately, and then gradually became agitated. He patted Shen Zhezi's shoulder heavily with his palm, but didn't know what to say for a while.How much money and food are taxed in a place, and how much is consumed, he knows best that if he consigns it by himself, it can be called a true sharing of national luck!

Seeing the sparkling water and the increasingly widening river course, Shen Zhezi was also emotional.Dad is in the prime of his life, and his family is getting more and more powerful. It is not difficult to sit in Kuaiji for more than ten or twenty years.It should be noted that the Xie family of Chenjun, which originated in the late 20th century, has been able to live in Xifan for more than ten years.

Even if the shortest period is taken as a period of ten years, even if the development of the situation is not as expected by Shen Zhezi, a large Wuzhong market with mutual exchange and frequent transactions cannot be formed.But with this golden waterway, the Shen family has made a lot of profits, and it is not difficult to become the richest man in Jiangdong.At that time, he will be in his twenties, in his prime, and with such ample capital in hand, what can he do!
Listening to Shen Zhezi's detailed arrangement of many follow-up measures, Shen Chong had no doubts in his heart. He had been at home for more than a month, and he had done almost all the friendships he needed to contact. He was about to return to Kuaiji to take up his post, when suddenly an imperial edict calling him back to Beijing to report on his duties was issued. To Wukang, we can only temporarily give up and return to Kuaiji.

(End of this chapter)