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Chapter 436 Basics
Under Wang Hua's stop, Zhou Rengui didn't kill innocent people indiscriminately.

This time Zhou Rengui led an army of [-], and the logistics alone was a huge expense, and Wang Hua, if it was someone else, couldn't stop Zhou Rengui.

However, under the [-]-strong army rounded up and hunted down, almost all the clansmen, soldiers and domestic slaves of the Ning family in Qinzhou were killed and looted.Even the officials and yamen servants in several counties were mostly killed by Zhou Rengui.Fortunately, Wang Hua's subordinates came to Qinzhou ahead of schedule, and learned that six officials and more than [-] yamen servants were of good conduct, and Wang Hua snatched them from Zhou Rengui's knife.The price is to acquiesce in Zhou Rengui's looting of the Ning family's property.

But what surprised everyone was that Zhou Rengui only wiped out the Ning family in Qinzhou, but did not move the branches of the Ning family in other areas.Even officials such as Ning Yuanti and Ning Daowu who served in other prefectures and counties were not deposed by the court.

Later, when the elder of the Wang family in Taiyuan asked about this matter, Wang Hua did not answer, but Zhu Dian explained his doubts for him: "Although the Ning family did whatever they wanted in the local area because of their power, they did not commit any major crimes of rebellion. We can only focus on appeasement. Otherwise, the chiefs of Xidong will be suspicious, and the whole Lingnan will be unstable. This consequence cannot be borne by the imperial court. Besides, the queen has also avenged her, so she will stop here."

It was revenge. Although Wang Hua tried his best to snatch people from Zhou Rengui's men, he still let Zhou Rengui kill nearly 2000 people.

The whole Qinzhou was shrouded in fear.

But in fact, many people also clapped their hands and applauded. If Zhou Rengui hadn't killed too many people, it would have been a blessing for Qinzhou.

It also brought huge benefits to Wang Hua.Once the Ning family in Qinzhou was eliminated, it became a vacuum. Wang Hua drew a square if he wanted to, and a circle if he wanted to. No force interfered with him.

On the first day, Wang Hua rode a horse and followed Zhou Rengui's army to monitor their actions. On the second day, Wang Hua handed over this task to Li Xuejun and Zhu Dian, and he ran to Qinzhou Bay to check the terrain.Because the fleet is about to arrive, other supplies are better.Those birds and little piggies should not be placed on the boat for too long.To check the terrain this time, the first is to look at the location of the new city, the second is to look at the docks of the Ning family, and the third is to look for the salt field!

These three items will be key to the development of Qinzhou in the future.

In the end, the location of the new city in his mind coincided with the later Qinzhou, and the main city site was placed on the west side of the Qinjiang River.It must be on both sides of the Qinjiang River, because considering the wharf, especially the current technology, the wharf can only be chosen at the mouth of the Qinjiang River.Fortunately, there are no [-]-ton ships or million-ton ships. The largest ship is probably in the Wang family, and it is only a little over [-] tons.That's it, wherever these ships passed, there was a sound of surprise and admiration.

Therefore, the location of the new city should not be too far from the wharf. It can only be chosen on both sides of the Qinjiang River. The east side of the Qinjiang River is low-lying, there are many swamps, and the saline-alkali land caused by the spread of sea water. If the water conservancy project is proper, it is a suitable place for planting and breeding area.But not suitable for building a city.On the contrary, the terrain on the west side is higher, and there are several hills. Because of the uneven terrain, there are few people living there, so it is suitable for demolition.And these hills can be used as scenic spots in the future.There are still some lakes in the northwestern region, and some dams can also be built as reservoirs, one is to regulate water conservancy, and the other is to breed and travel.

As for the pier, the location must be re-selected. The Ning family used to have a pier, but the boats were small, and the Ning family did not have Wang Hua's ambitious ideas. They only built a rough pier to be self-sufficient.The water level is very shallow. In the early hours of yesterday morning, Wang Hua's ten grain-loading ships could not reach the shore. They had to borrow small boats and use them as pontoons to transfer the goods to the shore.This is certainly not a long-term solution.Therefore a pier had to be rebuilt.

He was very satisfied with the salt field. On both sides of Qinzhou Bay, which is where the rhinoceros horn and Fangcheng were later, Wang Hua found a large area for drying salt.Now it is a large open tidal flat, and there will be no disputes with the people because of the fields.

Wang Hua rode a horse and walked around for a day. He also looked at the place where the coal mine was discovered. It was on both sides of the Qin River, but not too far from the site of the new city.

After reading the terrain, Wang Hua began to give orders.Now the government agencies of the five counties in Qinzhou are almost paralyzed, but this government is only the government of the Ning family, and it seems that it has little to do with the Tang Dynasty.Of course, it will also become Wang Hua's government now, but Wang Hua will hand it over to the court in a year or two.This is the difference between the two.

Therefore, Wang Hua called the six officials, including the county captain and master Bo Jiang Wanzuo and Miao Weimin of Qinjiang County, the county magistrate Zheng Yu of Anjing County, the county magistrate Cen Fuzhong of Neiting County, and Zunhua County. The county magistrate and master Bo Xingpi, Pu Mojiao, three Han people, and three Yi people. As for Lingshan County, because it is the headquarters of the Ning family, none of them escaped, even the original governor Yi Shiyuan Wang Hua wanted to intercede. Yes, Zhou Rengui produced a stack of evidence, Wang Hua was speechless, and Zhou Rengui ordered him to beheaded.There was no other way, Li Xian gave him the right to deal with matters urgently.So leaving Neiting County, Anjing County, and Zunhua County aside, Wang Hua asked Pu Shijiao to serve as the magistrate of Qinjiang County, Xing Pi to serve as the county magistrate of Lingshan County, and Zhu Dian to be the magistrate of Qinzhou. Xiao Weimin served as the temporary Sima of Qinzhou.As for the bosses of the counties, let the county magistrates find some well-educated and honest elders in the local area to act temporarily.

Putting up the temporary frame, Wang Hua began to order, and asked the county magistrates to send yamen servants and Wang Hua's subordinates to convey orders to all parts of Qinzhou.Immediately gather on both sides of the estuary of the Qinjiang River to participate in labor.Regardless of men, women, or children, as long as they are over ten years old and healthy, one day's work is one job, eight jobs are exchanged for one piglet, two jobs are exchanged for one chicken, or three jobs are exchanged for one piglet. Goose, of course, can also be exchanged for other living and farming tools, cotton cloth and grain, etc.That is to say, in exchange for money, one worker is about [-] yuan.It's a little low, but Wang Hua provides three meals a day, and regardless of men, women, children, or adults, what can the elderly and young people do?

This is distributing supplies to the people in a different direction, and Wang Hua doesn't want them to get something for nothing.So let them work, in fact Qinzhou also needs a lot of labor to build immediately.

Because not many people were literate, Wang Hua asked the county magistrates, yamen servants, and his own subordinates to go from village to village to shout out the news to let them know the news.The six officials did not understand what Wang Hua needed so much labor to do, but it was a good thing for the people.

From cloth to grain to daily farming utensils, to chickens, ducks, geese, and piglets, Wang Hua covered almost everything.It is also equivalent to covering all the things that the people need, and even contracting the sideline business. Isn't it a good thing.Several officials immediately went to execute it.

But at this time, Zhou Rengui's army still stayed in Qinzhou to continue the search, and the whole Qinzhou was still in turmoil. After hearing the order, the people were hesitant.Until the third day, thirty large ships docked with the original ten grain ships.Don't say that Mu Zili deliberately put supplies on the deck to attract the people, even these forty huge sea-going ships shocked the people of Qinzhou severely.

Finally, some people took simple accommodation items and set off for the assembly point.

Wang Hua still did not let them participate in labor, but went through a day of training.However, it was considered a job and provided meals. As a result, some people were lazy and deliberately participated in the training for several times. Wang Hua couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the news, and had to order everyone to only participate in the training once.

This is to impart interplanting knowledge.

In order to leave a deeper impression on the people, Wang Hua asked Zhu Dian to make some models with sea sand, and then found a few literate people to give lectures according to the pamphlet written by Wang Hua.Talk about pigs and poultry and rice, lotus root, fish and fruit trees, hemp, mulberry, sugar cane, a variety of nesting.

Although it is not difficult, not many people are aware of this problem.Even if some people do this, they just do it by instinct.

This will not bring wealth to Wang Hua, or even subsidize many economies, but it is the basis for the development of Qinzhou.Only when all the people in Qinzhou are rich will people from all directions flock here.Otherwise, there are now 1000 people in Qinzhou, and Zhou Rengui killed more than [-] people. It would be difficult to build roads, let alone create a city.

After one day of training, I will be notified of two more news. The first is that on New Year's Day this year, Qinzhou will select five champion households in poultry farming, pig farming, grain growing, fruit growing, and sugarcane growing. Each household will be rewarded with a hundred coins. The people couldn't figure out the value, so Wang Hua asked people to say it again, or 250 shi of grain.This is to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people to work.

The second is that this year, except for the gold, silver, emerald feathers, and galangal paid to the imperial court, the people of Qinzhou are exempted from all taxes.Even if the levy is only a few thousand dollars, it will not help what Wang Hua has to do. It is better to waive this tax and let them live with peace of mind.

Hearing these two news, thunderous cheers.

This brought them to the two sharp corners of Qinzhou Bay to build salt fields.This is not a small project, all tidal flats must be leveled and dams must be built.Fortunately, there were many people, and Wang Hua was not very demanding anyway. With tools, he worked when the sun came out in the morning, and announced a rest before the sun went down at night.There is hardly even a supervisor.And the three meals a day are mixed with meat from time to time.If you are not at ease, send out a sign at any time, how much work the family has done, and get on the boat to get what you need.It makes the people feel embarrassed.

In the end, people from all over Qinzhou flocked, and some women were still working with their children on their backs.

The results of the labor of nearly ten thousand people were quickly sorted out piece by piece of salt fields.

The elders of the Wang family are still baffled, because there is no such way of drying salt to get salt. Some in history say it was after the late Tang Dynasty, some say it was the Song Dynasty, and some say it was the Dynasty. The time of appearance cannot be verified, but Wang Hua I have never heard of anyone taking salt in this way.So he asked Wang Hua.

Wang Hua replied, "Get salt."

The elder was overjoyed when he heard this, and then his face darkened again.Touching a word of salt undoubtedly represents countless money, but the salt industry is managed by the state, unless it is smuggled.Given Wang Hua's virtue, it is impossible for him to let his family smuggle it.

Knowing what he was thinking, Wang Hua patted him on the shoulder and said, "Uncle, we can't ask for this money, it will be hot. But with the salt industry, how many workers and businessmen will come to purchase, so we need to settle down. Otherwise, a new city will be built, and that will come to buy a house, this is the right way for us to withdraw money.”

"I'm afraid that a single salt can't form the climate." The elder was a little worried. He had been here for several days, and the scenery was good. It wasn't too hot now, and he didn't even see the legendary miasma.Wang Hua smiled and said nothing when he heard it. It’s not that he didn’t see miasma. Qinzhou belongs to the seaside. Of course, he couldn’t find miasma. Go further inland and try?Although miasma is not as scary as described in previous life fantasy novels, because it contains a lot of poisonous and corrupt gases, some miasmas have serious poisonous gas content, and people will almost die if they encounter them.As long as the population increases and the corruption decreases, the miasma will disappear automatically.

And Qinzhou is not as backward as the elder imagined, but there are too few people.If the big Qinzhou has only [-] people in five counties, maybe a small market town on the edge of Taiyuan will have a larger population than the entire Qinzhou, not to mention Suchang and other states in the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, Wang Hua has always been skeptical about Wang Hua's theory of building a city.

Wang Hua smiled again and said, "If you rely on a salt industry, it won't work, and the salt workers are also by the sea. It is impossible to go to the salt field during the day and live in the city at night. But this is just the beginning."

Having said that, he is full of confidence.

Sun-drying salt is not what the elder of the Wang family thinks. Now sun-drying salt is still very clumsy. A large salt field cannot get much brine, and then the brine is introduced into the crystallization pool, slowly let the sun evaporate and the wind blows, and the result is crystals out.This is coarse salt. Strictly speaking, there is still follow-up work. It is a pity that Wang Hua can't do it anymore, but now the common people don't pay much attention to it.

It can only be said that it is more efficient than boiling salt, but it also requires a large number of workers and occupies an extremely large area.If Wang Hua was not in the name of the government, but a private person, it would cost a lot of money just to buy such a large place and level it out.Although it is a tidal flat, if it is an ordinary businessman, it is a tidal flat if he does not reach out, and the government will regard it as a treasure as soon as he reaches out.

Wang Hua's goal is to stimulate industry and commerce, increase the employment rate of the common people, and allow them to convert from farmers to workers, while also bringing taxes and wealth to Qinzhou.Of course, the big head will let the court go.

At the same time another project is underway.That is the artificial hatching, and later the kang house among the people.It had been many days at sea. Although these eggs were purchased from Quanzhou and Guangzhou, the weather was not too hot here, and a very small number of eggs began to spoil.

Therefore, it must be carried out immediately, and this kang house is placed within the scope of the new city.

With many people and strong strength, it was built in one day. Wang Hua took out a thermometer and handed it over to the recruited people to operate the technology.This still has little effect on the new city, and it will not get much wealth. It can only be said to be icing on the cake.The main purpose is to let the people in Qinzhou have more poultry in their homes. However, due to the inconvenience of transportation, artificial hatching has to be adopted.This is not the first time in Qinzhou, this method was adopted last year in Oceania to raise poultry.It also created conditions for the large-scale breeding industry in Qinzhou in the future.
Zhou Rengui also completed the sweep, anyway, not far from the word.

In addition to beheading many people, especially Ning Chengji's head, putting it in a box with lime and sending it to the capital, almost all the belongings of the Ning family were looted.As for how much will be handed over, Wang Hua didn't want to ask.Only a dozen or so luxurious mansions of the Ning family were left, but the houses were empty, with nothing left.

Wang Hua had no choice but to send the people to clean it up, and sell it at a reasonable price when Qinzhou develops in the future.

But it also brought a second benefit to Wang Hua, that is the fields of the Ning family. Zhou Rengui has no way to take these fields away, and the land in Qinzhou is not valuable, so he didn't ask.But he did have the idea of ​​taking the Ning family's trilogy away, but Wang Hua said with a sullen face, "Captain Zhou, don't go too far."

Only then did Zhou Rengui dismiss the idea embarrassingly.

Zhou Rengui left in the front, and Wang Hua used his power to classify all the tenants and tributaries of the Ning family as good citizens, and evenly distributed the land of the Ning family.But left some fertile land.This is to prepare for the relocation of the people in the new city.

The new city is along the Qinjiang River. Wang Hua planned an irregular rectangle, covering an area of ​​more than 4 mu, with a total of 32 workshops. The two largest workshops were set aside as market trading places, which also expressed Wang Hua's ambition. exuberant.

But there are still dozens of households on this land, Wang Hua promised to build new houses for them, and take out the original land of the Ning family as compensation, or work in the salt field to help them relocate.There is not much difficulty, but they have all been selected as fertile land for the Ning family, and no family is willing to go to the saltworks.

Wang Hua had no choice but to sigh, after all, it was.A social system that emphasizes agriculture over commerce cannot be reversed for a while.

After settling down these people, Wang Hua then issued an order that anyone who builds a new residence in Qinzhou must be approved by the state government. If there are too many people coming, building a house in the east and a house in the west is not only bad, but it will not make a city.Without a big city, Qinzhou still has no way to develop.Through this compulsory measure, the concentration of people in the new city is also for the sake of the future of Qinzhou.

After the order was issued, the elder of the Wang family was called to discuss the matter of selling the land. Although Wang Hua held a large stake in it, Wang Hua represented the government, and the elder of the Wang family represented the buyer.

Strange talks began, but the elder of the Wang family began to retreat, he was worried that the city would not be completed.

Wang Hua took out the map, pointed to the two roads and said, "Uncle, you see, after these two roads are completed, they will spread to more than [-] states and hundreds of counties. There are many specialties in this place. They couldn’t be transported because of the traffic before. Now that there are roads, they can transport these specialties to Qinzhou, and then bring back the goods they need from Qinzhou. Don’t let foreigners come after the port is repaired Based on this, the future of Qinzhou can also be imagined. Besides, I still have a lot of good things that I haven’t brought out, and once I do, it will require a lot of workers, and it can also become a market.”

"Then why don't you build roads?"

After coming for nearly ten days, Wang Hua didn't move at all.

"It's not that I don't want to repair it. I'm waiting for a few people. They will bring a good thing that will make road construction easier. And because of this thing, they will create a best-selling product, firecrackers and fireworks."

"Firecrackers and fireworks?" the elder asked blankly.

"Yes, not only these two things, but also many things you haven't seen before. They will appear in Qinzhou one by one in the next few months."

Others or this elder don't believe it much, but they believe in Wang Hua, who has created countless novel things.So they started negotiating with Wang Hua, but on the price of the land, the two stalemate again.Wang Hua asked for [-] cents per mu of land. Of course, Wang's parents were not happy about it. Even if the annexation of land in the Central Plains was serious, there was not even [-] cents per mu of high-quality fertile land.In this wilderness in the South of the Five Ridges, one mu of land costs forty yuan?Is Wang Hua's mind confused? You must know that there is nearly one-third of Wang Hua's money in it.

Wang Hua took out the order he issued and said: "Did you see that? After this order is issued, no matter what merchants come to build houses in the future, they can only follow my instructions. If I use these land as farming Even if I wipe my conscience, my descendants will scold me in the future."

The two argued for a long time, and in the end the elders of the Wang family pressed down to [-] coins, and it seemed that he lost a piece of meat.

Wang Hua is speechless, let's look at it in a year, for this price, is thirty cents still considered money?You must know that in his previous life, the average price per mu of land was 20 to [-] yuan, but it would be [-] to [-] yuan in the current copper coins.Not to mention those land price kings.Moreover, in order to become a city, at least one city wall must be built, which is a considerable expense.

The three families raised a total of 75 yuan.Wang Hua still borrowed money from his third father-in-law, but at this point, not only did Wang Hua borrow a whole lot of debt, but Li Xuejun's father also had no money left, and the Wang family in Taiyuan even wiped out their fortunes. Stay tight for the day.This is not an expression of sincerity to Wang Hua. No matter which of the two Wang Hua achieves, the funds can be recovered and there will be a surplus.That's why Wang Han's father agreed decisively.

But it can’t all be used to buy land. Selling land now, saying that this piece of wasteland in Qinzhou costs 1 yuan per mu, will make people scold the ancestors for [-] generations. You have to build a good house and sell the house. The land is sold implicitly. .Therefore, on behalf of Sanfang, the Wang family ate [-] mu of land.In fact, the bulk has already been eaten, of which more than [-] mu are reserved for public use, such as government offices, schools, markets, squares, roads, workshops, etc., and at most only a few thousand mu are reserved for resale in the future.This has to be included in the revenue of the state government.

Zhou Renqing's army left, and the people finally got rid of their worries. At this time, there was a good news.Seeing the prosperity of Qinzhou, refugees began to enter Qinzhou.

When the yamen servant reported the news, he asked Wang Hua if he wanted to drive them out of Qinzhou.

Wang Hua said happily: "No, they can't be kicked out, not only can't be kicked out, let them go to the yamen to register customers immediately and go to work."

Now I am worried that the population of Qinzhou will decrease, can we still expel it?You can't be stupid.

Of course, you can't say it publicly, otherwise the surrounding states and counties will bring the lawsuit to the capital.But after the news was released, more refugees flooded into Qinzhou.

Lianzhou, Luzhou, Luanzhou, Hengzhou, Yongzhou, and Changzhou, which are adjacent to Qinzhou, all sent envoys to Qinzhou to protest, but they were all confused, what did Wang Hua want so many people for?Relying on his labor, that is not income from hard work, but a prodigal. How much money does Wang Hua have to lose?
But the envoy came back with news, they didn't protest at first, instead they were all ready to do it themselves to curry favor with Wang Hua.

(End of this chapter)