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What these messengers brought back was an agreement.

The prices of sugarcane, pineapple, lychee, longan, tangerine, lemon and grapefruit are marked on it.The price is very reasonable, especially the lychee and longan which are not easy to preserve.

And there is a text below, you can use this price to sign an agreement with the states and counties, how much you will receive within three years, and use Wang Hua's porcelain kiln and Taiyuan Wang's industry as a guarantee.In fact, with the reputation of Wang Hua and the Taiyuan Wang family, there is no need to guarantee it, and it will be believed.

This is not an agreement, but merit and people's livelihood.Elephant fruit trees are hard to say, but sugar cane and pineapples are harvested in the same year. If this contract takes effect, it will immediately solve the local livelihood.Not only that, but there are many home-grown and wild ones like fruit trees in this area, but many fruits have a short shelf life and cannot be transported out, so they all fall to the ground and rot.If this problem is solved, the common people will have a better life, which also means that they have political achievements, and they can be promoted if they have political achievements.Who wants to stay in this area of ​​Lingnan?

One by one, they rode horses and sedan chairs to Qinzhou to discuss with Wang Hua.

But another bad news came out. Qinzhou recruited a large number of long-term workers, with a monthly salary of 15.00 to [-] yuan. They can have three days off in January during the busy season, and five days off every month when they are free. They also provide some simple housing for free. .Of course I want to live in a better place. There is a small western-style building with an area of ​​less than half an acre, and the price is only two hundred yuan.If there are many people, there is a larger house, covering an area of ​​one mu, and a small garden with wild peonies, camellia oleifera and other plants moved from the mountain, and a well.If you have no money, you can live there. As long as there are two people in the family working in this big workshop, you can get a loan. The interest on the two-year loan is only [-]%, and the interest on the three-year loan is only [-]%.Deducted from salary every month.If there are really two people working, the loan pressure will not be too great. It is like buying a small western-style house, with a three-year loan, and only need to pay six cents a month.There are two more coins, enough to solve life problems.

Elder Wang also asked this question, thinking that the pricing was low and the interest on the loan was low.

Wang Hua's answer is that these are ordinary people and cannot make black-hearted money.And now the problem is to live in the city with more people to form the city.Once it becomes a city, house prices will naturally rise several times.Only at that time can the money of the rich be earned, as well as the money of some prime locations after the formation of the city.This is the big head.

Even at the current price, excluding the land money, tax money and construction cost, the three families can earn about forty or fifty cents, and a large house can earn at least one hundred cents.

Of course, there is another problem that Wang Hua did not mention. Wang Hua’s area is not small, more than 20 square kilometers, which is nearly half the size of Luoyang.If it is full, even if the environment is more relaxed, it will accommodate [-] to [-] households.Now it is not a question of how to make money, but how to make people popular.

If the entire city can be filled, the profit of the three companies will be more than 500 million yuan. Of course, this is an idea. If Wang Hua can stay in Qinzhou for three years, he is confident enough to complete this task, but this is impossible. of.

Wang Hua needs this fruit because he wants to make sugar and canned food.

Sucrose was introduced to China from ancient India. Later, sugar refining techniques in India improved, and sugarcane juice was first smelted with fire, milk and lime were added, and after the process of removing impurities, it became light yellow granulated sugar.Tang Taizong deliberately sent envoys to India to obtain this technology, so it was also popularized in the Tang Dynasty.

But the granulated sugar made by Wang Hua is several times better than this sugar.Put the sugar juice into a vat and boil it into a yellow-black syrup, then pour it into another vat to condense into black sugar.Prepare another tank, put a tile funnel on it, plug the funnel with straw, pour black sugar into the tile funnel, wait until the black sand is solidified, pour it down with yellow mud water, the black residue flows from the funnel into the lower tank, and the funnel White frost is left in the middle, and the top layer is very white, which is white granulated sugar.This yellow mud decolorization method is a great invention of China.It's a pity that the instigator couldn't leave a reputation in history because of the craftsman.As a result, the Ming Dynasty began to export a large amount of white sugar.

Of course, it cannot be compared with the industrial white sugar of later generations, and the waste is relatively serious, but it is not known how advanced it is compared to the current Indian sugar refining method of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to white sugar, there is also rock sugar that is fried and melted, mixed with egg white to remove impurities, and when the heat is right, put it on the bamboo strips cut from new green bamboo, and it will condense overnight.It is also real rock candy, not the candy that Sanfeng Sifeng had when he was a child.

Wang Hua's idea of ​​making cans came to mind when he thought of Lingnan.Bananas are better, with thick skins that can be transported long distances, but when they arrive in Luoyang, Chang'an, most of the bananas are taken out with black skins, which makes them look bad.Tangerines are also transport resistant.But what about pineapples and lychees?Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty transported fresh lychees back to Chang'an on an eight-hundred-mile express horse in order to eat fresh lychees for Concubine Yang.Think about it, how many post horses and post envoys were used to bring so many catties of lychees?

For northerners, fresh lychee is a legendary thing.Or obediently eat dried lychees, as a great tonic, baby.

Although the canned food is not the original flavor yet, it looks better than dried lychees, and tastes better. Once it is shipped to the north, how much sensation will it cause?

If the history of the emergence of canned food is not Wang Hua, it will be more than 1000 years later, and it is mainly a preservation.

Wang Hua couldn't handle steam to kill microorganisms, but the original canned food was easy to handle.Process the food well, put it into a jar, put it all in a boiling water pot, heat it for half an hour, plug the cork tightly while it is hot, reinforce it with a thread or seal it with wax.This method cannot keep the canned food for ten or eight years, but there is no problem within one year. With this time, it is enough to make it popular in all parts of the Tang Dynasty.

But the glass bottle king painting is reluctant to use, and can't afford it.However, this problem is easy to replace, use ceramic jars instead, if it is more high-end, use porcelain jars.

It's just a pity that because no one pays attention to it, it is very difficult to get sugar cane now. It is either rotten or planted. Wang Hua managed to collect a few hundred of them, and they stayed to coax children, and more than half of them were broken. .There is another one, because the technology is simple and easy to be imitated, so the key points must be kept secret.

It won't be kept secret for long, but when it spreads, the three companies have already maximized its profits.

Moreover, conditions are provided for long-term workers. Now lychee and longan will be on the market. When the oranges are off the market, oranges will come one after another.

Dang Wang Hua talked about it with the elder of the Wang family, then took out the sample and gave him a taste.

The elder wept.

Good thing, even he thinks it is more profitable than the land operated by Wang Hua, but the question arises, where to get the money.The Wang family really can't afford any money now.This big workshop requires money to purchase fruits, to open workshops, to storehouses, to use equipment, to build simple houses for workers, and it’s not a small sum.

Seeing his anxious look, Wang Hua couldn't help laughing, and didn't whet his appetite any more, and said, "Uncle, I know that your Wang family has no money, and I have no money either."

If you have money, you can't move it. Don't look at the 51 yuan in the state government. Building the city wall requires money. It may not be as tall as Luoyang's city wall, but it must be built with bricks and stones. It is so large. Wang Hua calculated and used it. If it is really built, it will cost at least 15 yuan.There is also the state government that will also be relocated. Other expenses in the state, such as opening schools and helping the poor, have no taxes, and pay the salaries of civil servants, and tens of thousands of dollars have to be prepared.In this calculation, only 30 yuan will be left for road construction.

This is far from enough.

Therefore, it also counts on the taxes brought by various workshops and trade.

This money cannot be moved at all.

But the problem of money was easy to solve. Wang Hua said again: "I have already brought the samples to the capital and paid tribute to the emperor. At the same time, I have chosen more than [-] big cities from Suzhou to the north, and I have also brought samples. The subordinates released the news that there can only be one agent in a state to handle these few commodities. And the states cannot cross the border to operate.”

This agent means exclusive operation in one state, so the price is also under their control.These few commodities made the elder of the Wang family cry bitterly. How could other merchants not know about its business opportunities, and since Pangu created the world, it is a unique commodity, but there is only one agent in one state, so what kind of trouble will it cause? compete?
With competition, the three companies will have the right to speak, and they can offer to pay first for delivery.The reputation of Wang Hua and the Taiyuan Wang family will reassure all businessmen.At that time, any money will come.

Wang Hua didn't say anything later, but Wang's parents were not stupid, so they immediately thought of it.He hugged Wang Hua awkwardly, and said, "This method of borrowing chickens to lay eggs is great."

It turned out that because of Wang Han's unclear status among Wang painters, he was not very happy.Now he wants to marry his two granddaughters who have not left the court to Wang Hua as concubines.

Not only that, when Wang Huaxiu built the city, Wang's parents and elders began to build houses and workshops, which required a lot of bricks, tiles and lime, so dozens of brick kilns appeared outside the new city, and they started working day and night.Because of kiln firing, coal mining followed suit.At the same time, because of the cans, pottery kilns stood up again.

Workers are needed everywhere, and even the big businessmen and chieftains in the surrounding area have participated in the development of Qinzhou. This is the first batch of investment invitations.

Because of the lack of manpower, Wang Hua asked his subordinates to go to the surrounding counties to spread the word, come on, why don't you come to Qinzhou with such good conditions.

It is very tempting, as long as adults are fine, regardless of gender, which family does not have more than two laborers?Some have five or six.Even two laborers can earn an astonishing income, with an income of [-] yuan a year.What kind of income is this for ordinary people?
Even in Qinzhou, Wang Hua provided piglets, chickens, grain and cloth, and even half of the farming tools were given away. He was also exempted from tax for a year. Some people left the fields and went to the workshops to work as workers .Wang Hua had no choice but to confiscate the land of the common people who signed the contract with the workshop and distribute it to the common people who migrated from other states and counties.This finally dispelled the crazy thoughts of a group of people.After all, the field is fundamental.Otherwise, all agriculture in Qinzhou would be barren.

At least Wang Hua still counts on Qinzhou's local fruits and egg whites, as well as the breeding industry to contribute to Qinzhou.

And after more than two months, the climax was reached. The elders of Wang took contracts one after another and asked Wang Hua for goods.The contract is signed, the money is in hand, and a steady stream of merchants from various states are rushing here. They don't have to worry about sales and funds, but they need workers and fruits.

Wang Hua is the governor of Qinzhou, both public and private, so he wants Wang Hua to solve this problem for him.

Wang Hua urged him so hard that he had no choice but to sign agreements with farther states and counties, and then bring the flow of people to farther places.

But other states and counties are not happy either.With Wang Hua's agreement, I have the confidence in my heart, and I can even lower the price a little bit to gain some benefits for myself.But planting and picking also requires farmers. There are very few people in the first place, and some of them are running away. What should I do?So I also learned from Wang Hua, took in refugees and escaped households, and provided some encouraging policies for them to stay.

So the states began to argue, and even the subordinates sent by Wang Hua were discovered by other states and counties, and three people were arrested. Wang Hua spent a lot of saliva to release them on bail.

Three months later, when the craftsmen who could make explosives in Oceania arrived, the workshops and cave dwellings absorbed more than 1 people, which led to the emergence of restaurants, brothels and various shops.This made Qinzhou New City begin to look like a city.Although the unrepaired city wall was still empty, rows of beautiful and neat houses began to stand up.

But these 1 people were not from Qinzhou itself, but from other states and counties.

As a result, it is conceivable that the chaos in the states was caused, so they went to the Governor's Mansion in Rongzhou, Yongzhou.The governors of the two prefectures have no way to solve it. What Wang Hua came to Qinzhou to do is to do a pilot project. The more this consequence is caused, the more the court will like it.If others don't know, don't you know yourself?Although he is two ranks higher than himself, Wang Hua wants to be promoted, even higher than himself, as long as he says a word.Dare to stop it?

So when the lawsuit came to the capital, he still didn't dare to negotiate with Wang Hua face-to-face, and Wang Hua had to fulfill the contract repeatedly.

Li Xian looked at these memorials, a little happy and a little worried.

Happiness is Wang Hua's ability. The number of people in Qinzhou may add up to a densely populated workshop in Chang'an, Luoyang, which may have a larger population than Qinzhou.But Wang Hua has only been there for a long time, and there has been this earth-shaking change.The worry is that Wang Hua is really, really, really good at making troubles.When it came to Fanzheng, the shocking battle made Jiang Mochuo lose his temper in the slightest.When he arrived on the grassland and turned around, there was a battle of Yangchangling, and he was asked to drive back [-] Turkic cavalry alone.After running to the Western Regions for a while, Ge Luolu was torn apart.That's the enemy, it's okay to make trouble.But when he arrived in Bianzhou, Huazhou, countless officials made him lose his horse.This is going back to Lingnan and causing such a big disturbance, will it add trouble to Lingnan?

Not only these, salt also came out. Although Wang Hua was handed over to the court, it also increased employment opportunities and a business opportunity.At least ship it back to the Central Plains, right?Or use land to transport to the inland, which increases the flow of people and virtually brings vitality to the local inns and restaurants.

People's income has increased, and they are willing to spend money for consumption. Many businessmen value this, and transport goods into Qinzhou, and then transport goods from Qinzhou back to the Central Plains.The road has not yet been repaired, and it has already stimulated trade in other states.

And because of Wang Hua's encouragement and even subsidies, the local breeding industry has developed abnormally. Although it is not yet harvest time, these poultry and tens of thousands of pigs are still a big business.

As for some small measures of Xiang Wang Hua, such as the trial of artificial pearl breeding, no one paid attention to it.But the formal breeding will not be until next year, and Oceania is also piloting, but the shellfish is different.When it came to fruition, Wang Hua didn't know where to transfer it.

These businessmen are not stupid. Although they are dissatisfied with the collusion between the Wang family and Wang Hua in Taiyuan to hype up the house prices, they are protesting and muttering. Now that they are in business, they are all smart people. They know that the current housing prices are still very cheap. Once Qinzhou really develops Up, the price will be higher.

Moreover, it can be seen that this is a beginning, the road has not been repaired, once it is repaired, it will affect more than [-] states, and the specialties of the people in these states will be immediately transported to Qinzhou, and take advantage of the sea route to enter the Central Plains.And the goods from the Central Plains can also be sold to these states and counties.

That was the most prosperous time for Qinzhou City.Let's buy now when it's cheap.

The commercial houses of the three companies have finally been sold out in batches. Previously, they built bungalows, but this time they built small villas.And housing prices began to rise, these high-end housing is really profitable.This is good news.But building a house requires workers, burning bricks and tiles requires workers, and burning lime requires workers.The kilns are erected one by one. If anyone does not seize this opportunity, the market will digest as much as it burns.However, they are all run by businessmen from other places. The proportion of the three companies is not large, and they are not even enough for their own use.But what about manpower?
These kiln owners themselves are also powerful people in various states in all directions, so they smuggled people from the states and counties where they were located.However, due to the strict investigation by the states, even if they have power, they were blocked by local officials.It's okay to be afraid of offending, there is no difference between letting them take it and letting Wang Hua take it. Anyway, the same people have flowed to Qinzhou, and the manpower in the place I manage is getting tighter and tighter.So it's still understaffed.

Not only that, the number of people is increasing, which also stimulates the development of commerce.Some businessmen simply set up other workshops in Qinzhou to save costs.

There are countless ships moored outside Qinzhou Port every day for loading and unloading. Fortunately, Wang Hua built a new port in advance.With the prosperity of the port, more carriages must be built.But it's hard work again.

But what about people?The elders of Wang asked for someone from Wang Hua, and other workshop owners also asked for someone from Wang Hua.Not only Wang Hua, but also officials from other counties came out, many merchants followed behind.Wang Hua has no choice, although now because of the favorable conditions, the money he makes is hard to count.It is estimated that the elder of the Wang family dreams about this huge income every night when he sleeps.But the population shortage is too serious.As long as you slow down for a moment, even the official robe can be torn.These officials were both happy and worried, and finally found Wang Hua and groaned.Of course, if Qinzhou itself is an upper or middle state with a population of [-] to [-] people, it would be better.But these [-] people are not enough to fill the gaps between the teeth, and the agriculture itself is short of labor due to the development of the breeding industry.So I had to launch a shameless idea.For the development of brokers, every time a laborer is introduced to sign a contract with the workshop, the Qinzhou government will quietly give him one guan of money, useful people will give him two guan, and skilled craftsmen will give him five guan of money.As long as you see people, except for skilled craftsmen who want to try their hands in the workshop, you will pay immediately.

This made many clever people very tempted to hear it, what a good industry!There is no need for any capital, as long as you talk about it, even if you don't even talk about it, there are many people who want to come to Qinzhou.As long as you bring someone to Qinzhou, even the food on the way will be paid by the person who brought you here.You can get money right away, if you bring one guan, if you bring a hundred, you will get [-] guan. Think about the husband and wife working in such a good workshop in Qinzhou, and their annual income is only [-] guan.

Many ghosts flocked back to their hometowns and started their careers as brokers.Even some chieftains shamelessly asked Wang Hua for money from the people they brought over as brokers. Although the amount was not very large for them, it was meat if there were too many lice.

As a result, the flow of people from neighboring prefectures and counties is getting farther and farther away. Jiaozhou, Guizhou, Qiongzhou, and Gaozhou come from land and sea, and they are busier than the current Silk Road.

So a bigger flow of people is still behind.

There is such a thing?Or is it a profession ordered personally by state officials?Has anything like this happened since the beginning of the world?How is this different from buying and selling people?
Hearing this news, officials from almost all the states in south of the Five Ridges panicked, and memorials flew to the capital like snowflakes.

Therefore, what Li Xian saw at this time was just a serenade, followed by a fierce marching song, a symphony, each song was higher than the last, and the curtain has not yet begun.

The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty also heard about this, and they all showed surprise on their faces.

Even Zong Chuke found it unbelievable, it was amazing, could it be that the Lingnan area really became a cornucopia with a wave of Wang Hua's hand.

However, if Wang Hua knew his thoughts, he would never be proud. In his previous life, there was a place called Shenzhen. How many years did it take from a small fishing village of 5000 people to a big city of more than 1000 million people?For Wang Hua to manage, even if he has knowledge that is more than 1000 years ahead of the world, he cannot meet this requirement.Even in the same time, it is impossible to turn it into a million-population city.

Zhang Shuo opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, you have neglected one more thing."

"what's up?"

"I heard that Wang Hua is building a big city, which is close to half the size of Luoyang. If it is full, how many people will be needed. The [-] people are probably just a prelude."

This awakened everyone, even if it is half the size of Luoyang, how many people can it accommodate?
How many people will be accommodated, Wang Hua wrote a memorial and delivered it in time, it said.

Qinzhou is currently seriously short of labor. Even the city wall has to stop building due to labor shortage, and when the road is about to start construction, labor is even more needed.In the coming year, Qinzhou may lack [-] to [-] laborers.Because the expansion of Qinzhou has stimulated the surrounding states to also have an effect, there will also be a shortage of labor.

Therefore, I hope that Li Xian will issue an order to allow refugees and escaped households from all over the country to go to Qinzhou, otherwise it will cause serious consequences.

Wang Hua also realized that the situation was a little serious. It is estimated that the officials of the states were afraid of his force, otherwise they would all come to Qinzhou to fight him desperately.He said hello in advance, especially when he was forced to shamelessly come up with a brokerage method, which would cause a huge disturbance.

But everyone in the hall stared wide-eyed, and some officials were in a state of sluggishness.If it is placed in the Central Plains, this problem may be solved.But that is Lingnan, where did you get so many people?How many people are there in a Yongzhou governor's mansion?How many people are there in a state governor's mansion?
It is good news. If it is as Wang Hua said, not to mention the Shipping Department and the Salt Field, even Qinzhou has increased a lot of taxes for the court.But what about people?

This entangled issue caused headaches for the court and officials.

(End of this chapter)